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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1911)
The- Plattsmouth - Journal t ublls&ed Serai-Weekly it R. A. BATES, Entered at the PostofficeJ at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, aa second-class matter. S 1.5 0 PER YEAR IN AD VANCE The monetary commission is being deserted hkc a .-inking ship. Well, why not? :o : And now Wiekersham is to. re tire because Taft refuses to re tire Dr. Wiley. :o: The war of words between Har rington and Harman is now over, thank the Lord. :os A good, soaking rain is what is needed in thin county. One of the "gully washer" stripe. :o: A prcsidc-iil iul veto of the tariff bills 'iieans that the tariff bog gels one more year in the trough. :o ; What about a fall entertain ment for I'laltsinouth? It is time to make a move in that direction. :o: The boom of Paul Clark for congress by a little gang of re publicans in Lincoln has evident fell with a heavy (hud. -:o: The, fight for Irish borne rule is like the contest for honest farifT revision in America: Each defeat brings it nearer to ultimate fulfillment. :o; It is fortunate that the Cana dian election coines as early as September 21, for soon after then the country roads in that latitude become blockaded by snow drifts. :o: A French army captain has climbed 11,330 feet in bis aero plane, but as it is no easier to get a living up there than down here, why take the trouble to go so far? :o: A Washington lad was sent to the reform school for seven years for stealing four newspapers from doorsteps. Wonder if this will have any effect upon the tariff for print paper? -:o:- . How things have changed. The other day a negro' was burned by a mob in Pennsylvania. Had this occurred south of the Mason and Dixon line what a bowl would have went up. . :o: Admiral Togo has placed roses on Washington's tomb and now if be will place some burdock leaves on Captain Hobson's fever ed brow his mission j,,, rm plele. The testimony in the Lorimer hearing has covered pretty well the reasons why Kve ate the ap ple, but it has failed to take up the question of Solomon and his many wives. :o: Admiral Togo visited congress the other day, but as they failed to give him a ride on the steam roller, ho did not really see the whole show. :o: President Taft having let it be known that November 30 will be Thanksgiving day, he evidently desires to give the farmers plenty of time to fatten their tur keys, if they have any. :o: . Can't the pure food law touch those metropolitan newspaper publishers who hash up for the suburbs evening editions marked 5:30 p. m. that actually go to press at about 10:30 a. m.? :o: The high prices the consumer has to pay for country produce is bringing back the old market house in many cities. Omaha and Dc? Moines papers think people can get things cheaper by the restoration of the old market PlatJsaouth, Nebraska Publisher. house than they can in the presT ent way of buying such articles. :o : JIow do u like primary elec tions? :o: After hearing those financiers talk it seems strange that the president doesn't hire desk room in Wall street and be close to ac curate information at head quarters. :o: President Taft asks the people to "use their moral influence to have the senate ratify the arbitra tion treaties." The trouble is that Hie people have mighty little moral influence with the senate. :o: It is going to cost $000,000 to send the king and queen of Eng land to India. We believe they could cut this a bit by joining th'e Woman's Rest Tour association and putting up at their recom mended boarding bouses. :o : The Weeping Water boosters done a great stunt Monday in the way of advertising their chaulau qua and fraternal picnic. The picnic occurs Wednesday, August 30, and a big time is expected. :o: Work in earnest began on the Platte river bridge Monday morn ing, and it is thought the whole business will be completed by the first of November. This will prove a great thing for Plattsmouth, and no mistake. -:o: The next events are the Louis ville street fair and the M. W. A. Log Rolling at Nehawka, both coming off this week. The latter events comes off on Saturday, August 19, and the citizens of Ne hawka are preparing to entertain a monster crowd. -:o:- We have every reason to believe that Judge Dean of Broken Bow would be a most acceptable per son to sit upon the supreme bench. He is a man of spotless character and of marked ability and his legal training and ex perience eminently lit him for this high ofllco. -:o: The Burlington band will play for the Louisville street fair three days this week, beginning Thurs day, consequently the band con cert will be given Wednesday night instead of Thursday night, ns usual. Why not continue to hold them the balance of the sea son on Wednesday night of each week? -:o:- The Old Settlers' reunion at Union Friday and Saturday was a big success, and now all should try to make the M. W. A. Log rtolling at Nehawka Saturday next a big success. Nehawka people are making a big effort to give the Woodmen boys the very best they have in the shop, and you will miss a grand treat if you' and yours fail to be present. :o: Victor Murdock, the Kansas j congressman, who has made a trip over the country, says the rank and -file of the democrats are for Woodlow Wilson for president, while the politicians and the "big business" are for Harmon. How a republican could learn so much from democrats wo aro unable to preceive. The republicans had better be look ing after presidential matters on their own shto of the house. The democrats will be able to select a candidate without any outside help. It isn't always the noisy fellows that come to the front in primary elections. :o : There is a growing demand to have the weather bureau muzzle its dug days. :o: Congress has fully determined to adjourn some time this month. We hope they will slick to this de termination. :o: The summer of 1911 will long be remembered as the lime when the maximum of 89 was regarded as a "cool spell." :o: . The vote throughout the coun ty was very light considering the hot canvass some of the can didates made to get out the vote. :o: The democrats of the house are pretty well organized and stick close together on those questions of which the common people are directly interested. :o: The "labor crisis" in England gives promise of being more ex citing, even if less important, than the crisis through which the peers recently passed. :o: Mrs. Itelmont has been enter taining her "farmerettes" at New port, but if a plain, ordinary agrl culturist went there the New porters could hardly tell him from a red Indian. Now that the scientists claim to have discovered the process of photographing the soul, some of the millionaires may get such photographs big enough for decorating shirt studs. :o : me insurgent senators are franking their anti-reciprocity speeches over the country. It is pleasant to reflect that the coun try's waste basket capacity is fully equal to the occasion. :o: As the bathing suit does not seem really to tit until it has shrunken considerably, ' it is strange that the makers of them do not cut them the popular length to start with. :o: It will hardly avail John Jacob Astor and Miss Force to seek refuge in London. King George and Queen Maty are as "un reasonable" on the subject of di vorce as some of the American bishops. :o: : The primary Tuesday was one of the most quiet elections, ever held in this city, and but little in terest seemed manifest. Wo be lieve the voters of Cass county are tired of the primary system, anyway. :o: Futile as it may appear to most of us who have observed the growth of the tobacco habit, an earnest effort is to be made to combat it, and it is receiving some show of welcome from the press. New York papers accord an open arms welcome to the recently in corporated Non-Smokers' Pro tective League of America, the principal aim of which appears to be to discourago smoking in places where women, and men to whom tobacco smoke is repulsive, congregate. :o: . "It was a badly mixed-up affair this time, sure. Democrats voted the straight republican ticket in order to nominate someoho they wanted on that ticket, while re publicans done the same with the democratic ticket. :o:- . When a man displays his sus penders, which are the means of keeping his trousers securely in place, it is called improper, but somo of thoso belted men, whose trousers arc apparently about to fall off, meet with society's full sanction. Hundreds of letters are being sent out from the White house asking politicians as to the "sentiment" for president in 1912. Here and there, at infrequent intervals, a politician may be found who - will answer frankly and candidly. Some people are now willing to acknowledge that the primary system is a grand farce. We have always thought so. The people won't even come out and vote when they have an opportunity to vote direct for their choice of candidates. :o: Elections every year are a big nuisance, and two-thirds of the voters of Nebraska will agree with us in this assertion. An election for state and oounty ofllcers should occur only every two years. Iowa, Missouri and Illinois used to have such an election law, but they saw the folly of holding elec tions so often and done away with it. -:o:- The agricultural department has at last reported the real con ditions of the crops. It reports the following crops to be from 11 to 22 per cent below the ten year average, namely: Corn, spring wheat, oats, barley, pota toes, tobacco, flax and hay. Fall wheat and rice are about up to the average. That is in accord ance with what the farmers them selves have been saying. :o:- DRUG FIENDS IN AMERICA.' There is a growing demand among American newspapers for firmer regulatory measures for the protection of the unsuspicious from the drug habits that have been growing among the people. Attention has frequently been called of late to the alleged fact that there are as many victims of the drug habit in this country, in proportion to population, as there are in China, over the degradation of which country through opium the missionaries have become at times hysterical. mi- t me saie or cocaine among school children in several eastern cities, notably Philadelphia and Pittsburg, has been the subject of comment in the eastern recently. fow comes the an nouncement of the Philadelphia authorities that an anti-opium crusade in that city is to be be gun and it is stated that it is not only in the tenderloin and among derelict men and abandoned wom en in vicious circles outside of the vice districts that considerable trade in deleterious drugs is .1..: t ..... . . .. unvrii. in nign society," say the police and detectives, there is n J I I . . punj ueai oi indulgence in drugs. According to a crusader cocaine and opium work in shifts to de stroy the constitutions; morals and finally the lives of Phila delphia victims. The two drugs are used alternately, one to les sen the depressing effects fol lowing stimulation by the other. The effect upon the health is, of course, rapid and far-reachintr. The investigator declares that it is surprising how many Phila- delphians of social prominence visit dives to secure drugs sold in violation of law, and he promises startling revelations." The announcement that the prominent and supposedly virtu ous are wicked or weak is custom ary when such crusades are made. It matters, very little insofar, as the drug habit is considered as a public menace whether the vic tims are month vt iiit families" or of the proletariat. We do not pity the Chinese upon the ground that the aristocrats use opium, but upon the theory that the social fabric is honey combed by opium smoking. The disclosures promised in Phila delphia may not prove as startling as first headlines indicate, but the conditions there and elsevhrn are bad. The consumption of drugs is an evil too little under stood by most of us whit mihi. campaigns are waged over the question of whether constitutions shall be abolished in order that the sale of beer and whisky shall become illegal, disreputable and untaxed, like -the sale of mind wrecking and body-wrecking drugs. Lincoln Star. '- :o : THE SUMMER SUNDAY. The intense feeling once exist ing among church people against Sunday excursions has been greatly modified today. It is gen erally recognized that men and women imprisoned all the week in cfices, stores and factories need a liberal installment of fresh air on the rest day. That is the gift of God to man for his best ad vancement It is not wise to com pel pnyone to sit down indoors in this day and generation and re quire hi mto read Baxter's "Saint's Rest" unless he feels thereto inclined. 'the people who make Sunday serve the widest range of pur poses get the best out of it. The silent quut 0f the sanctuary of a Sunday morning, the rhythm of scripture poetry, the cadence of noble song, has a good deal more refreshment for those who have learned to like it, than the clang of the trolley gong and the whiz and bump of the motor. For the rest of the day, the farther away one can get from the works of man, the closer he can get to Mother Nature, the more of healing the day has ior him. So far as possible, though, the man with a friendly feeling for his neighbor. will avoid those ave nues of activity that tend to make Sunday a work day for an in creasing part of the population. :o: However much one has admired Senator La Follette's career, to see him fighting for a high tariff on wool and woolen goods seems most astounding. The conditions at one time were so critical that it seemed that he might prevent any reduction in that schedule. How any man can come to the conclusion that there ought to be any tariff on wool is beyond comprehension, but knowing the condition in the senate th'e demo crats thought a reduclion of one half might be secured. But La Follette slopped that attempt. The shivering thousands who are forced to wear cotton instead of wool next winter, will have only La Follette to blame. :o: A King Who Left Home set the world to talking, but Paul Mathulka, of Buffalo, N. Y., says he always KEEPS AT HOME the King of all Laxatives Dr. King's New Life lillsand that the're a blessing to all his family. Cure constipation, headache, indiges tion, dyspepsia. Onlv 25c at F. G. Fricke & Co. A Trip to Germany. Mr. and Mrs. August Bach left this morning for Germanv. where they will visit relatives and friends at a number of places. It has been thirty-three years since Mr. Bach was in Germany and fourteen years since his wife was there. They will return in about three months. Miss Irene Jess went to Omaha this afternoon. HAYFEVER ELY'S CREAM BALM Appllad Into th nostrils la qulokly absorb. CIVEI RILIir AT Atirc. It cloans, soothes, heals and protects tha diOR'd llletlllirune rmnltimr from CSitarrh and drivp rwrv a Cold tu the Hvml quickly. jniore ma rnms or ls-ste and iSmell. It is eimjr to line. Contuins no injurious drtiirs. No mercury, no eocin nn mor phine. The household remedy. , Price, DO cents at DruuuiHts or by mail. 2f III m&m illif f ELY BROTHERS. 56 Warns St., Htm Yor 'SELLIFiG BIG TRACT : OF SANJ.U1S LAHD W. E. Rosencrans Tells Journal of the Famous Costilla Tract Now Being Sold. The success that V. E. Rosea crans is having in selling land in the Costilla estate in San Luis valley, Colorado, lead the Jour nal to talk with Mr. Rosencran.s about the land there. The Costil la estate consists of 540,000 acres of land, of which 440,000 acres is rough, mountainous land and the rest, 105,000 acres, very fertile, level land, susceptible to irriga tion. The estate lies in the center of the famed San Luis val ley, 230 miles southwest of Den ver. This valley lies in a strip 125 miles long and about 12 miles wide. The title to the Costilla estate goes back to an ancient Spanish grant, which was later confirmed by an act of congress. One of the largest and most extensive irrigation systems in the world is being put in through out the estate. The company owns the water sheds to the val ley, thereby assuring a perpetual supply, and means that settlers there will never have trouble over water rights. The largest private irrigation engineering project in the United States is the claim made by the owners of the estate. Mr. Rosen crans has actual panoramio photographs of some of the vast irrigation projects that are being built on this estate. One of them, the Sanchez reservoir, is five and a hatf miles long, two miles wide, a depth at the dam of 110-feet and a capacity of 104,000 acre feet, or 4,532,320,000 cubic feet. , The dam holding back this vast lake of water is 1,410 feet long at the top, 250 feet wide at the bottom 120 feet high. 20 feet wide at the top, 600 feet, wide at the bottom; and contains 525,000 cubic yards of material. An interesting feature of the project is the intake tower, situated in the reservoir. It is 150 feet high, with a 15-foot in side diameter. The water passes into this tower and out through the. arched tunnel built through, the dam. The water is conveyed through this tunnel to the canals and ditches to land where it is used. ....... A railroad has been built through the estate, with regular, trains daily. There are telephone lines in, and ditches constructed, through which water is now flow ing to the land in cultivation. Of the Costilla tract 2,000 acrc9 are now in cultivation. On January 1 not an acre was plowed. Mr. Ronencrans has taken a number of people out to view the' land, ami every one has returned a booster for his proposition. His next trip will start on August 22. He leaves here with a party of prospective buyers every Tuesday. They leave Tuesday afternoon at 3:30, connecting with Burlington tram No. 3 at Ashland, and arrive at Denver Wednesday morning. They spend the day seeing Den ver, visiting many points of in terest there, including the museum at the state capital, the United States mint, where Uncle Sam makes his monev: Eleotio park and other Denver narks. Leaving Denwer in the evening they cross the range of Rock mountains, arriving on th west slope of their destination at 8 a. m. Thursday. In automobiles the party spends the first day in in specting the water supply, which Is the first thing to be taken into consideration in all irrigation projects. The second day is spent in viewing the land for sale and seeing the crops that are grown. "If you will join my party," said. Mr. Rosencrans, "I will show you the crops now on the ground: wheat averaging from 45 to 65 bushels an acre, alfalfa, cow peas, oats, rye and barley such as you have never seen in Nebraska. The railroad fare will be $23.60 for the round trip. Your' hotel bill will be paid by the company while on the ranch." Mr. Rosencrnns said that if anyone was interested in the proposition he could show, at his office, specimens of the grain grown there and explain to them fully the irrigation features, which are not surpassed anywhere. Notice From District No. 2. Notice is hereby given that all weeds nlong the public highway in Road District No. 2 muust be cut by the 15th of August or the same will be cut by the road over seer and charged up to the prop erty. John Busche, Overseer.
