The- Plattsmouth - Journal
(-3 Milled Seml-Weeklf it Plattsmautb. Kefiraski f " ")
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Postoffice; at Plattamouth, Nebraska, as second-claw
matter.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Now, let's all agree that no
matter how much rain we f."'t we
won't complain.
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Snow in Yellowstone park and
hz rains in Texas, Oklahoma and
Kansas are the latest reports.
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"liet together." should he Ihe
slogan of every democrat who de
sires to see his party succeed.
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Tuft's refusal to reply to Sen
ator La Follelte may he taken to
mean that there is nothing to be
paid.
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li works automatically. The
longer a rain is deferred the more
million dollars it is worth when
it finally arrives.
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"A house divided against itself
ran't slarid." The democrrat who
desire to see his parly succeed
should remember this.
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As a public servant of the peo
ple, and one who looks after the
Interests of his constituents, Con
gressman Macuirc is fillinpr the
bill to perfection.
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The farmers are yet very busy
threshing and hauling their
client to market, hut they can
spare Saturday afternoon to come
1o the convention.
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There is nothing to do in the
convention Saturday but select
dejegales to the slate convention
at Fremont and elect a new
central committee. He sure and
tome.
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If Paul Clark does consent to
become the republican candidate
for congress in the First district
lie will find John Magulre more
popular than ever and that the
people are very well satisfied with
him.
ing one another for thetr acts a
year ago. What has the issues
of a year ago got to do with the
issues of this year? If you arc
good democrats, gentlemen, you
will drop your ill-feelings against
each other and come together at
Fremont as one combination for
the success of the party this fall.
There is no use quarreling over
past differences. The democratic
parly is bigger than either one
or all of you.
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Federal control of the corpora
tions is just as good a thing as
the corporations want.
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o man has a mouth so hi?
thai he i.n t apt occasionally to
bite off more than ho can chew.
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II a boy pel thrown into jai!
for Hooking cigarettes he can get
oil by telling who sold him the
goods.
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Things continue to chance. It
used to be a 52,000 mortgage on
the old home, but now it's a
$2,0(10 automobile.
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A U'-vear-old girl is the cham
pion speller of Oklahoma. She
will recover from the habit when
she attends college.
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The lumber trust may be ex
pected, of course, to give the
recent forest fires as a pretext
for advancing prices.
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If congress adjourns I hi
month how can we keep the chil
dren iuie until school begins
without the Congreional Record
to amuse them ? .
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Aviator At wood has been living
from Itoslon to Washington, a I
IIioukIi he could no doubt have
got bis garden needs by simply
writing to his congressman.
on me county committee, as aii, uuiu ue iui .iiujuuh ouu nniuoj
to protect themselves against
each other's competition. It Is as
foolish as was the effort of New
Jersey to keep out New York
goods before the constitution was
adopted.
The pending treaty doesn't go
as far as it should. This was ad
mitted even by President Taft,
who said that his first purpose
had been to obtain free trade be
tween the two countries. Hut it
makes a material reduction in
duties that ought, to promote
commerce.
Its adoption will give a splen
did object lesson in the ad
vantages of unrestricted com
merce and will offer an incentive
for further reductions. The pro
tected industries always have had
a community of interest that has
helped keep duties up. Willi some
of these privileges removed it is
certain that others will not be left
undisturbed.
Reciprocity will mean not only
increased trade with Canada, but
further tariff revision as well. It
is an important step in carrying
out that policy for which the pro
gressives stand.
Incidentally, it is unfortunate
that in opposing the treaty Sen-
aior i, a follette suould nave
''ought a sweeping charge of
sellishness against all news
papers that favor it. This at
lilude of assuming thai all sup
port of reciprocity is dishonest
cannot fail to give comfort to
those reactionaries who are
'haiging that the senate progres
sives are organied as a purity
I rust, with the capture of the
presidency as a chief aim.
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The republicans of Cass coun
ty should give their united sup
port to Judge Jesse L. Root. He
has certainly made good as a
member of the supreme court,
and deserves to be renominated
by his party.
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A year ago, under (lie same
circumstances, Doctor Wiley
doubtless would have lost his job.
Hut the administration has learn
ed several things in the Inst
twelve months.
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According to a Washington
dispatch some of the president's
friends are saving that Attorney
Oeneral Wickershain tins a
peculiar faculty for making po
litical breaks at the wrong time.
Hut. isn't it Mr. Wickersham's
misfortune that the people are
so wide-awake in these days that
any time is the wrong time for
injury ing the public service?
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In his speech in the senate on
the Canadian reciprocity bill. Sen
nfor Clapp of Minnesota declared
his surprise at the election of a
republican in Iowa to succeed
Walter I. Smith. This surprise
was based, Mr. Clapp said, on
"the condition that grew out of
the situation two years ago,
which today hangs like a pall over
our party from one end of the
country to the other." Of course,
Senator Clapp had reference to
I he enactment of the Aldrich
'avnc tariff bill.
It is not very encouraging for
(be common rank and file of a
Jiarly to read the discourses ot
certain leaders of the party tirad-
lr. Wiley mav be arblfrary, but
he ha- slopped the food-makers
from turning the American peo
ple into a "poison squad," to use
up job lots of drug store leavings
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Well may it be said that re
publics are ungrateful, it thev
discharge hr. Wiley after hi
epocn-maKing work to give us
pil'ifieil mince pie for Tnunks
fciv ing.
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Next veur promises to be one ol
the greatext nnd most interesting
presidential campaigns ever
fought, and it behooves Ihe demo
crats to get themselves In readi
ness for Ihe fray.
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The way to secure harmony in
Ihe democratic ranks of Nebraska
is for every delegate to go to the
Fremont convention noxt Tues
day with (he determination of
having it that way.
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Secretary Wilson apparently
realizes, in his consideration of
the charges against Doctor Wiley,
that the chief of Ihe bureau of
chemistry is less on trial than the
secretary .himself.
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Congressman Norris is against
Canadian reciprocity, while Sen
ator Drown is in favor of it.
Norris wants to DM Drown placp
in the senate, but he will never
reach the coveted place by oppos
ing reciprocity.
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Don't fail to attend your ward
primaries tonight. Remember
that it is necessary for every
democrat to get out who can pos
sibly do so. He sure and select
someone to represent your ward
entire new committee is to be se
lected by the county convention.
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There is not very much differ
ence in the condition of the
democratic and republican parties
in Nebraska. Doth are pretty
badly wrecked, from the present
outlook. If anything, the repub
licans more so than the demo
crats. :o:
Governor Wilson is predicting
democratic success next year,
which is a fairly reasonable pre
diction providing the right man
is nominated such a man, for
instance, as the New Jersey gov
ernor's modesty forbids him to
mention.
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J. J. Hill has clapped a $000,
000,000 mortgage on the Great
Northern road, but where is the
rich uncle who will conveniently
die just when the hard-hearted
creditor is foreclosing, after the
manner of plays?
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If all the delegates will go to
the Fremont convention with the
give and take" plan in view, we.
iciieve enthusiasm would reign
supreme, but they who go there
with the view of the "rule or
mil idea in view will have a
great big row on their hands.
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When men talk earnestly and
honestly of "building" either the
democratic or republican party,
they seem to ignore the fact that
these are parties that were long
ago built by master builders, and
that all the modern follower can
do for his party is to keen its
tructure from falling down.
Lincoln Star.
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La Follette has hosts of friends
in Nebraska, and they sneak
right out in meeting" In his be
half, and at the proper time they
will be found "up and doing" for
him for the republican nomina
tion for president. Norris hopes
to ride into the senate by oppos
ing reciprocity, but at the same
time supporting Taft.
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".Misery loves company" is an
old saving, but it will hold good
wild those fellows who are en
deavoring to fight over the bat
tles of last year. They are not
content with simply discussing
the issues of last year, but are
attempting to array the rank and
file or neighbor against neighbor
in assisting them to widen the
breach. All should unite in peace
and harmony at Fremont next
Tuesday.
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The democratic party is the
peoples' party in every sense of
the term. It stands for every
thing that is for the best in
terests of the common people, and
deserves the support of every
voter who believes in good gov
eminent honestly adininstered for
the benefit of Ihe whole people
east, west, north and south. Then
why should it not succeed next
year with a good man to lead
them?
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RECIPROCITY.
In the speeches in the senate
estcrday Senator La Follette and
Senator Hristow both presented
strong criticisms of the pending
reciprocity bill. Nevertheless the
Star, believes they are mistaken
in opposing the measure and that
its adoption would promote ( lie
great square deal policies that
both have at heart.
I he reciprocity treaty is not
flawless, No tariff arrangement
is. Hut it does afford the best
chance in sight to make a breach
in the high tariff wall, says the
Kansas City Star.
Canada is not a manufacturing
country. Us trade affords litlb
opportunity for significant reduc
tions in the duties on inanu
faclured goods. It is primarily
a great agricultural state. To
cut off trado with this northern
neighbor is as short-sighted as it
ANSWER II HONESTLY
RAISES LIVE
STOmALUES
Equalization Board Finds They
lire Generally Low.
MEET NEXT AT BURLINGTON
State Makes Initial Payment on Home
for Indigent Consumptive Fire
Burnt Hole in Roof of Govtmor's
Mansion at Lincoln.
Lincoln, July 21. The state lioird
of assessment, sitting as the hoard o:
equalization, has adjusted the v.iii' ol
cuttle, hordes and mules over the vute
by imposing en increase upon many
the counties. An Increase or 2' :.?:
cent was ordered on the value of tht.
three kinds of live block in P.ox Rutm
Garden, Hooker and Kimball. .An in
crease of 25 per cent on horses was
ordered in Grant county, and In Me-
Pherson county an Inc rease of 3D per
cent. In Banner. Giant and Honker
counties, a 25 per cent raise was or
dered on mules; a 30 per cent raise on
mules in Merrick and McPherson
counties, and a 90 per cent Increase
In Perkins county. Forty per cent
raise In the valuation of cattle In Per
kins county was also ordered. An in
crease of 30 per cent on Garden coun
ty hogs was ordered, as well as 40
per cent Increase on the same kind of
animals in Hayes county.
Make Payment on Home.
The state of Nebraska, through And
itor Partou, made an initial payment
of $10,000 upon the Frank residence,
recently purchased by the state board
of public lands and buildings for use
as a hospital for indigent consump
tives. The institution was lately lo
cated at Kearney, in accordance with
the provisions of the Bushee act,
passed at the late session of the legis
lature, which appropriated $40,000 for
the establishment of the new hospital.
The building purchased by the state
board cost the state $24,000, and the
first warrant irt payment for the place
was directed to be delivered to E. D.
Gould, a former state Renntor, who
now resides 'n the Buffalo county seat.
Pumphrey's Case Comes Up.
The advisory board of pardons hard
the application of Charles Pumphrey
of Omaha for a pardon. Pumphrey
Is one of three young men who were
convicted of tne brutal murder of Ham
Pack, a Chlnnman of Omaha, for the
purpose of lebbery. Governor Shallen
berger corunuted Pumphrey's sen
tence to seven years on an application
made by John O. Yeiser. who is now a
member of the advisory board of par-
V W. Blackburn Elected President of
District Court Clerks,
Fort Doi'ge, la., July 21 The Asso
ciation of the Clerks of the District
3ourt of Iowa adjourned after choos
ing Burlington as the place for the
aext convention to be held during the
third week of July, 1912. Officers were
.lected as follows: President, A. VV.
Blackburn of Harrison county; first
ice president, C. D. Harrington of Du
juque county; second vice president,
M. J. Graham of Dallas county; secre
tary and treasurer, W. R. Ryerson of
Page county.
The sheriffs and recorders of the
itate, who held their convention Joint
ly ith the clerks, also adjourned after
'lecting ot3i.'frs. They will meet with
tne clerks in Burlington next year.
Vhe sheriffs elected the following:
President. W. B. Griffin of Monroe
rounty: vhe president, Thomas Me
thod of Ida county; secretary and
treasurer, U J Ness of P'lk county.
The ne' officers for th ' recorders'
issociation were chosen as follows:
President, U. L. Craw.onl of Keokuk
county;-first vice president, F. J.. An
derson of Fremont county; second vtr
president. F. J. Lundstrom of Be
Moines county; secretary ar.l treasur
er, W. F. Terry of Crawford county.
TO TRY CONSENT CASE
Attorneys to Subpoena All Sign
ers ot Petition as Witnesses.
Are the Statements of Platts
mouth Citizens Not More Re
liable Than Those of Utter
Strangers?
This is a vital question.
II is fraught with interest to
I 'I n H & mi mi I h
It permits' of onlv one answer. 'om- Ydser ha, furnished the
It cannot he evaded or increrj. j
A Plaltsrnouth citizen sneak
hen
Speaks for the welfare tf
'lilllnlliOUth.
A citizen's statement is re
iahle. An utter stranger's doubtful.
Home proof is the best proof.
Mrs. O. J. ililson, Lincoln Ave..
Plattsmouth, Neb., says: "We
have used Doan's Kidnev Pills in
our family for lame back and
other kidney disorders and they
nave liroupht ihe best of results.
My advice to anyone suffering'
from kidney conipalinl is to give
this remedy a trial."
For sale by all dealers. Price
50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Huffalo, New York, sole agents for
the United Slates.
Remember the name Doan's
and take no oilier.
For a goou oc smoKe. tell tne man
to give you a "Gut Hell."
Cull for llldn.
nids will be received bv tlm Cnnntv
jiihkr oi i as vouniy in iim onice at
i-iittiHmuutii, Nebraska, up to noon of
mommy, aukuxi hui, lsu, ror the fol.
lowlnif grading to le done out of the
inlifrllanre tax:
A Mil to he made on Hpctlnn linn he.
tween Sections 21 and 22. Tnwnxhln in
North Kanne 13 Kast. one and one-half
miien went anil one-lmlf mile north of
i num. lass l ountv. ISehraiiktt
l'lann and lf illU-atlotiK on Hie In the
omif or tne rounty t'lerk.
Allen J. Reeaon,
County Judge.
! board with all of the information he
used in the fcrmer hearing and will
not pnrticipxte in the hearing.
Governor's Mansion Ablaze.
Klre, supposed to have started be
cnuse of defective wires, burned a
hole about eight feet square in the
(roof of the governor's mansion. Be
fore the fire department succeeded In
extinguishing the flames, th govern
or, assisted by his office force, bad
carried most of the furniture from the
first and second floors to the porche..
EGG FAMINeTn CALLAWAY
Farmers Refuse to Bring Them to
Market Because of Inspection Rules.
Callaway, Neb., July 21. Fanneis
of this locality are refusing to lirinn
eg3s to the loial market nnd allow
them to be candled. Ka Inspector vis
ited Callaway and insisted that all
epgs placed upon the market must he
candled. As a result the farmers are
ielii?'iij to market their eggs and the
town Is now experiencing an em fain
ine. One merchant wiio has small
i'ock uf chickens saved the eg for
two days ami upon candling them
I on nd that but two out of the eight
eggs would pasa th.? Inspection.
CASTOR I A
For Infanta and Children.
Ilia Kind You Have Always Bo'ighl
Posie Kills Man Accused of Arson.
St. Joseph, Mo., July 21. Surround
ed by a pose of officers and farmers
eight miles north of town, l.ouls Ig
gata, Rought on charges of arson and
attempted murder, refused to surren
der and was riddled with bullets and
buckshot. Just as the volley crashed
out l.CRRiit discharged a shotgun
j which he carried, the load hitting V.
T. Klrtley, whose life ho had attempt
ed two nights in succession, in the
hack. His wounds are not dangerous
Bears the
Signature of
Do you want an
AUCTIONEER?
If you do, get one who has
Experience, Ability, Judgement.
Telegraph or write
ROBERT WIKINSON,
Dunbar, Neb.
Dates 'made at this office or the
Murray State Bank.
Good Service Reasonable Rale.
Is Believed to Be Insane Man.
St. Joseph, Mo., July 21. Believed
to be F. M. Floyd, who escaped from
an BHvlum for the Insane at Norfolk
Neb., some t'me ago, a man living fn
a tent at a summer resort near here
was arrested. Other campers at th
resort caused the suspect's arpvt
They complained that he kept then
awake at night, pounding on a trunk.
AH Wheat Records Broken.
Omaha. July 21. During the week
there was the heaviest movement o,'
grains through the Omaha exrhnnee
than during any week In the history
of the Omaha Grain exchange. There
were received I.H3 cars, the greater
part of whl'h were laden with new
wheat, against 473 cars lust your at
the corresponding time
Baptists to Meet In York,
lork, Neb., July 21. Official notice
has Just been given that the Nebraska
Haptlst state convention will he hold
at York the second week In October.
Des Moines, July 21. Arising from
the inability of the attorneys of the
opposing sides to agree upon any stlp
ulated facts, it now appears that near
ly a year will be spent on the saloon
petition hearing in Judge Hewitt's
court and that thousands of dollars
possibly $100,000 will be expended by
the losing forces iu paying the ex
penses resulting therefrom.
The matter resolved itself into a
serious one when H. M Havner, attor
ney for W. J. Pllklngton, appellant
from the decision of the county board
ot supervisors, which held the state
ment of consent sufficient, made it
known that 800 Des Molnea people,
whose names are contested by the
"drys" will be subpoenaed to testify
that they did not sign the petition and
that their names were placed there
unknown to them. 1
On the other hand, attorneys for I.
thA. saloon Interests,
say that If their opponents have tne
right to bring 800 witnesses Into court
that they can produce the 8,450 orig
inal signers to prove they knowingly
signed the petition and that the sig
natures are legitimate. H Is pointed
out that each and every witness Is en
titled to fees and mileage, amounting
to about an average of $1.25 apiece
per day. i
BARNEY STOPS BAD EGG SALE
Prosecuting Cases Throughout State
fof Offering Decayed Product.
Des Moines, July 21. Results are
being secured in the movement insti
tuted by Commissioner Barney of th
dairy and food department, through
his Inspectors, to prevent the sale of
bad eggs by farmers and merchants.
The department was notified by In
spector C. E. Henshaw that Fred
Wolf, M. Dorst and Henry Horrta, all
of Sheldon, Lad pleaied guilty to the.
charge of offering bad eggs for sale
and had paid a fine of $10 each and
court costs.
It Is as much of an offense In th
eyes of the law to offer bad eggs for
sale ns to actually sell them.
LONG SLEEP HELPS WOMAN
Mrs.' Charles Toms Will Be Better for
Three-Day Slumber.
Iowa City, la., July 21. Unconscious
for sixty-five hours, Mrs. Charles
Toms, the wife of a local laundryman,
will be the better for her extraordi
nary doze, physicians believe. She
has recovered, and the sleep of nearly
three days seems to have bettered her
nervous condition from which her
trance-like slumber came.
Her husband found her unconscious
in a chair, and in that state she re
mained for sixty five hours.
A Washless Waihbe.rd.
"Women daren't the artistic temper
ament," complained the orchestra mu
sician to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
That's wbj I am unmarried. Oh,
yes, I was married once. I thought to
acquire a woman who could take cars
of my borne, make a little domestic
place of refuge ror me and all that,
but the dream soon fled.
"A few days after I was married
my bride came to me and snld: 'Dear,
that new washboard you got for me Is
no good at all. I can't wnsb your,
socks ou It.'
-Washboard!' says 1. 'Why. I never
bought you n washboard.' But sbe led
me out Into the kitchen and showed
me what ahe'd been scrubbing sway
on all the morning Great heavens!
It was my new xylophone."
Rebuking an Empsror.
Once, so (be story goes. Emperor
Nicholas nf Russln asked IJsrt to play
In his preseuce. The musician com
piled, but during the performance the
czar slnrted a conversation with an
aid de-ramp, l.l-r.t stopped playing at
once. The cr.nr asked what was tbs
matter. "When the emperor sin'oks."
sald Liszt, "every one must be silent."
The czar smilingly took the hint, and
the nlavliitf uroceeded.