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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1912)
fho- Piattsmouth - Journal cr:?i Milled Semi-Weekly at R. A. BATC5, Entered at the 1'ostoflice at Piattsmouth, Nebrabka, as second-clans matter. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Dm y'iii know Micro's i lot of people Set I in' around in every town, tlrowin' like a broody chickens, Knock in' every Rood thing down ? Iion't yon he Mial. kind of cattle, 'Cause they ain't no use on earth; Yon just, lie a booster rooster, Crow and boosl fur all you're worth. Hadn't lr. Sun Yal Sen, the first president of China, the bright, perl'umy sort of name? :o: - Did you resolve on the llrst of January to "do unto others as you would have others do unlo you?" :o : The I'latlsmoulli Female Min- sin Is will be I lie atlraclion at the I'armele on Wednesday, January 2Uh. :o: The young ladies composing tin; Halt smooth Minslrels will give a certain portion of their proceeds to the Y. M. C. A. -:o: Congress will hooii get down to business again, and then look out for trouble for the fat man who sits in the presidential chair. :o: This is line ice weather, and if the ice men do not harvest a good supply for next Hummer's con sumption it will be their own fault. :o: "Taft peace policies again slap ped by Roosevelt." Who said that Teddy had wandered away and be come lost in the desert of the un noticed? :o: Kx-Congressman Calderhead of Kansas says that Tuff is the "greatest president since Lin coln." Wonder why he excepted Lincoln? Next season's straw hats are expected to cost more because the Chinese rebels have destroyed most of the material. It is feared they have also exhausted the bulk of the firecracker supply. :o : The statesmen in congress feel I hat I hey can afford to be abso lutely fearless in dealing with IliiHsia. There is very liltlo pro Husisan sentiment or iullunnee in America. -:o:- The week's most unimportant news is the announcement from Cincinnalj that Congressman Longworlh is "prepared lo go either to defeat or victory with President Taft." :o : Nat (loodwin says he will not marry again for a year. Since Nat had to pay $00,000 alimony to his last wife, he has decided to lessen greatly his matrimonial ad ventures in the future. :o: What has become of the soliciting committee of the Y. M. V.. A.? Itegin (he New Year right. Nothing has' been reported for several days, (let busy, gentle - men.- Always strike when the iron is hot. j This fellow Yeeder is certainly a prolillc feeder of fads about the beef trust lo the jury at Chicago trying the promoters of that famous combine, :o : America's total prison popula tion is HU,rf)7. This is a sur prising total -considering the vast number of highly trained attor neys whose favorite, sport is de feating justice by hook or crook. :o: General Royoa will not be pul to death for his attempt to load a Plans.Tiouiti, Nebraska Publisher. revolt against the Mexican gov- erninent. His uller failure in the attempt is warning enough that Mexico will entertain no more revolutions at present. :o : I'latlsmoiil h should do as much Improving in ti12 as in 1911, But it will have to hustle to" do so. I'lallsinoulli has done wonders in the past year. Spent more money for improvements than any other town of its sie in Nebraska. The Alaska products for the pasl year were worth :J8,0()(,00(). This one year's product ion is about live ami one-half limes what was paid for Alaska. Only, Ma: $7,lM)(l,()(ll) of purchase money was paid by the people collectively and I be :i8,(i()(),000 was made by a very few people. But that is the way it usually works. :o : What will Cass county do with its prisoners if the old shack call cd a jail has to be torn down, as directed by the deputy tire com missioner? Of course it will prove quite expensive to have some other county look after their welfare. But the people have to pay for all this, and a few years of this kind of work will convince them it is cheaper to have a jail of their own. -:o :- lligh lands are costing the American consumer hundreds of millions of dollars annually in in creased prices. But the "protect ed laboring man" doesn't get a penny of it. The census figures speak for themselves on that. Who does get it? The protected multi-millionaire manufacturers, perched high on their trust bul warks, know very well. But they won't tell. They're too busy de claiming about the "high cost of American labor." -:o :- Notwithstanding the setbacks occasioned by the frenzied acts of some of its advocates, the cause of woman's sulTrage con tinues to score advances. When it is not gaining actual victories at the polls it is adding to its lists of powerful-champions. Sen ator Robert M. La Follette is the latest acquisition, and, so far as we recall, is the first politician of national prominence to come out boldly in favor of voles for women. :o: Chris Guenther has many friends throughout the state who would like to have seen him come out for governor. Hut as Mr. (iuenther says, he has just been re-elected district clerk of his county for another term of four years, it would not be treating his friends fairly to resign this posi tion for that of governor. Chris is comparatively a young man and he has plenty of time lo serve as governor when his term as district clerk expires. Hon. John H. More head, serving now as lieutenant governor, is the most available 1 man for governor, and be is a man who makes friends wherever he goes. And the beauty of it, is he can be elected if nominated. That's the kind of a man we want The newly created commerce court and the interstate commerce commission have locked horns on Hie question of who has the authority. Progress in admin istering interstate regulations is therefore, at a standstill. That old adage, "Too many cooks spoi the broth," never loses its truth fulness. :o: ..- Have you ever noticed that in every town I hero are one or two ersons, and sometimes more, j ho know everybody's private af fairs, how much salary each ineni- jcr of I lie family gets and whether .ny bones are broken in the fa in ly skeleton? All of which has ii going on ever since Lot's , ife became over-curious. :o: Some lively scenes have been nactcd in congress, but they are not, very exciting compared with lie lifleen minutes before the last page of a newspaper goes to press. ' :o: While we doubt if the United plates army could lick Russia, we iae untold military resources in (he Daughters of the Revolution, be Colonial Dames and the Suf frage) les. :o : r If we felt lhat we were to be Iried by a jury composed of vvoin n wearing inverted wasle baskets m I heir beads we should take reat care lo keep out of the way if Ihe police. :o: Before the republican parly nakes a telling appeal to the na liou it must quit the rich man's dinner table and go down into Ihe every-day streets where the coni non people live and suffer and struggle. :o : It is time for the chairman of the democratic stale central commillee to be getting down to business. Why not call a caucus of the party workers at Omaha or Lincoln some time in Feb ruary? We believe this would be a good idea. :o: There should really be no op position to W. J. Bryan for dele gate to the national convention, and no matter who may oppose him, he will be selected just the same. Mr. Bryan is like every oilier democrat, he has a right to his opinion, and no one should object to him on this score. :o: About 5:30 this morning, as the writer came down town, some fellow passed us and asked: "Is it cold enough for you?" Now the next man who asks us such a question so early in the morning is liable to get hurt, unless it be in the. "good old summer-time" when the roses are in bloom. -:o: (iloom must be thick around sections of Missouri. In one sec tion a correspondent says: "The roads are almost impassable with mud; whooping cough and chick enpox are prevalent. The heavy weight snow has broken telephone wires in many places." However there's one scrap of silver lining for the Misourians rabbits arc more plentiful I his winter than ever before. -:o:- Some fellows have the ofllce- seeking itch, and Henry Richmond is one who is seriously afflicted with this disease. He has been a sucker of the public teat ever since the writer camo to the state and now he wants to run for slate auditor. What has he ever done for the democratic party that gives him the right to forever foist himself upon it for favors? Now, we want someone to tell us, and if they can point to one good deed thai he has done for the democratic parly without getting well paid for it, we are from Mis souri and will have to be shown. :o: The circulation of pel il ions for tieorge L. Loomis of Fremont as a candidate for delegate at large to I be democrat ie national conven tion, which is being done by friends or W. J. Ilryan, rather dis courages the boom that has been worked up for Stale Senator Fred Volpp of Scribner. The two men live in the same county, and it is conceded that two delegates at large will not be chosen from one county. The result, may be that Volpp will stay out of the contest for delegate at large and insist on running for governor, which he originally set out lo do. Both can feel good now the ice man and the coal man. :o: Seventeen degrees below zero Ibis morning, l'relly cool, thank you. :o:- While the rest or the world was having a Happy New Year China slarted on a Happy New Era. :o: The condition of the streets is such lhat it is hoped the water wagon is equipped with skid chairs. :o: That peace dinner was a suc cess after all. No one is disposed to raise a row after being feasted sumptuously. :o: ''Cold, but not much colder," is the forecast for today, and it ap pears lo be vague enough to be tolerably accurate. :o : Willi Ihe increasing emancipa tion of women, this leap year business is ceasing lo attract any unusual attention. :o : An ice manufacturing plant would pay largely in Piattsmouth. One thing certain, ice could be furnished much cheaper to the consumer. :o: Mr. Roosevelt believes there is a lime for all things, including a lime for making a noise like the popular shellfish for which his home town is named. - :o: The argument for preservation of our forests seems so reason able that it will probably be a long time before congress can be per suaded to take any action. :o: " President Taft kept, open house on New Year's day. He doesn't want the While house lo get into the habit of being" closed. It niighl be closed against him on March t, 11)13. :o: "Willi prayers and revelry the new year was gnt lcd." It takes all sorts-of doings lo make up a year, and the new one promises not to be very much unlike the others thai have preceded it. - mi President Taft has issued an onler lo Ihe rural carriers of the country forbidding Ihem lo be in any way pernicously active in politics. The order would seem lo be useless, for pernicious win ter weather and bad roads will give the carriers just about all the activity of any sort they will be able lo attend to for quite a time. :o: THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. The year past, taking the coun try as a whole, was not one of record trade or prosperity. Neith er was it ono of hard times. Bradst reel's annual summary shows that whilo the first eight months of tho year was a time of uncertainty, disturbance and re pression, tho last quarter was characterized by a lightening of the repression and the birth of a spirit, of "conservative cheerful ness." Crop conditions were satisfac tory and sound except in parts of the northwest, where there was shortage, and in the south, where an overplus of cot ton resulted in low prices. These two exceptions, together with the approaching presidential campaign, will be among the problems with which the busi ness of the new year will have to contend. The chief feature, however, of the yearly summaries is then ce ference to the fact that the business of the country is show ing less and less tendency to be alVectcd by polities and the ac tivity of politicians. ltnulslreet's calls attention lo it as follows: It is probably true that under existing conditions neither n presidential election nor a pros pect of taritT revision creates the feeling of unscttlenient that it formerly did. And the following is the opinion of another authority on the flnan- rial all'airs of the country: Not even a presidential election will be able to make business in J bad. I here may no ..times in Wall si reel. Speculation may be hampered and Wall street may- I)(,t enjoy the year as much as it might, but the real business of the country is on a linn basis, and is going to be good. Mere we discover the result of Ihe growing intelligence of the American people. They have come to realize that the ranting of the demagogue quickly de feats itself and that the out cry against the same regulation of business is likely to be the noise raised by the organizers and promoters of lavv-beraking schemes and nredalorv combina-1 liums. I. aw abiding business has nothing to fear at any lime. :o: From Nature to the Home. A beautiful picture representing Ihe gathering and shipping of herbs in one pari and of grapes in another part of the world, the! ,t.. ,.r il.... , i::...,i i i i mi ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 a ui iiiein nun inriiiiiii.il preparations and Ihe distributing of these preparations to the homes in different countries, will he mailed to you for 10c in coin or slamps, by Jos. Triner, i 333-1 330 i !t is pos.il.lo that other changes iu S. Ashland Ave., Chicago, III., thell, P"''"'! or the Denver and R.o manufacturer of the celebrated t(',:,mlt,m'?ll:,i;,,n,,'n,t T" f?" be Triner's American 7lixir of Riller Wine and Triner's Angelica Bitter Tonic. To this picture is altach- ed a calendar for 1912. Jesse Vallerv drove in from his home this morninir. accompanied bv L. W. Murphy, who departed for the south via the Rock Island. Mr. Vallery went with Mr. Mur phy as far as Omaha. OUDKIl TO SHOW CAISE. IN THE cluniv NeSbTraJkaT C.UUT P CSS in the Matter of the Estate of Lena Welslielt, Ueceased Tills cause came on for hearlnjr upon the petition of Herman Luetchens, ex- ec cnor oi me estate or i-ena vveimieu, deceased, praying for a license to sell the northeast quarter of Section 12, Township 10, Itange 10, Kast of the 6th I'. M., In Cass County, Nebraska, or a sufficient amount of the same to bring Ihe sum of $1 00.00, for the payments of debts allowed against said estate nml cost of administration and special clevises In the will of said deceased there not being sulllclent personal prop erty to pay such debts, expenses and ilevlses. It Is therefore ordered that all per sons Interested In said estate appear before me at my ottlee In the Court House at Piattsmouth, Nebraska, on the ;oth day of January, 1912, at 10 o'clock A. M to show cause why a license plioulil not be granted to said executor to rell snld real estate as above de scrlhnl of said deceased or as much thereof 'as may be necessary to pay suc h devises, debts and expenses. It Is directed that tills order be pub lished four weeks prior to said date In Ihe I'lnttsmouth Journal, a newspaper published semi-weekly at Piattsmouth, Vebrnska, and of general circulation In said Cass County. Dnted this fit l dav of December, 1911 11AHVKY D. TRAVIS, Judge of the District Court. D. O. DW'YKR Attorney. C. 8. ALDIIICH, Attorney. OHDKH TO SHOW CAl'SK. IN TI1K DISTRICT COURT OF CASS County, Nebraska: In the matter of the estate of Adam Ingrnm, deceased: This cause came on for bearing upon the petition of Kdward Ingram, admin istrator of the estate of Adam Ingram. deceased, praying for a license to sell the west half of the northwest quarter nnd the southeast quarter of the north west quarter In section 19, township 12, range 12, In Cass county, Nebraska, or a nufllclent amount of the same to bring the sum of 1250.00 for the pay ments of debts allowed against said estate and the cost of administration, and also to pay the expenses of these proceedings, there not being sufficient personal property to pay such debts and expenses. It Is therefore ordered that all per sons interested In said estate appear before me at my office In the court house, at Piattsmouth, Nebraska, on the 20th day of January, 1912, at 10 o'clock a. m., to show cause why a lic ense shsould not be granted to such ad ministrator to sell so much of the above described real estate, or all of the same of said deceased as shall be necessary to pay said debts and expenses. It is further directed that this order he published for four successive weeks prior to said dav In the Piattsmouth Semi-Weekly Journal, a newspaper published at Piattsmouth, Nebraska and of general circulation In said Cass countv. Dated this 4th dav of December. 1911. HARVEY D. TRAVIS. Judge of the District Court. D. O. DWYER. Attorney Ito. Baten, 8 Miles South of Piattsmouth (the Old Martin Farm) has installed a Saw Mill on his place, and is prepared to furnish hard luro ,ber of all kinds, posts and chunk wood . fctf'All orders promptly filled, and aleo solicited Herman Breeder, Graduate Vcfncary Surgeon (Formerly with U. S. Department Agriculture) Licensed by Nebraska State Board Calls Answered Promptly Telephone 378 White, Piattsmouth BUSH PRESIDENT OF RIO GRANDE l,'i3sou;i Faci.n Of.ioial Hails A.icther GduIJ Riil;;ay Syslem ELECTION FORCED BY BAKERS Ceorge J. Could Gives Up Chairman ship of Board of Directors and Is tucceecied by E. T. Jeffery, Former President of Road. New York. Jan. 5. The election of Ini;ii!i n V. Hush, president of the M;:-:.o.ii i Pacific' railway, to the presi dency of nnother CJoiild railroad, the l'L'"v''1 ul uio C.raiulc, marks the C 1 1 : 1 1 1 1 1 : ( mil CM Illinois lu ll K cuueiii ic- :kIi.i; the Kilter pioperly. It also ..oi is a closer consolidation i nd idea lity ul' m.UKK-i nient oi these lines. Mr iin.-ii succeeds E. T. Jefferjr, I'oi tuviiiy years the head of the Hon v. r ai:d Uio (irande, and in turn Mr. Jeffeiy sn cccus iUoikc J. liou.tf as rliuu mini of the Denver and Kio ('.; ande. tint iireouliiif; to a statement made hy Mr Co.ild, management of fie lincncer. ol that road will devolve ui en Mr JriTory. In onler to quality ns n director of the Denver and Rio (Irande. Mr. Rush succeeds .1. G Andrews in the board. noiinceil, but on that point no com lii mat ion was obtainable. The hauliers connected with the Gould propel ties declined to comment u;:on Mr. Hush's election to the execu tive heads of Its more Important lines. hut In financial circles It is believed that t,)0 change Is due to their initia ,tive' As head of the Missouri Paclflc, nil. nusii ins siicmvii muni rni-iRj, miu his management of that property has been commended on all sides. It is understood that the Gould estate, which re tains a large Interest In Mis souri Paclflc and Denver and Rie j Grande, will continue to give Mr Bush a free hand, and that plans now in contemplation, involving the expendi ture of many millions of dollars, have i . f,,rm!,iiv nrnrovurt : Deen Iormn"y Approved. LIVELY DEBATE IN SENATE Newlands Fails to Force Legislative Program on Body. Washington, Jan. 5. Senator New lands oi Nevada precipitated a lively debate when he attempted to force up on the senate his resolution providing . lor a legislative program. lie sought Ineffectually to have hia icro'ution made unfinished business, with the result that the ensuing dis cussion took a wide range, entering the complicated field of the tariff. The report of the tariff board and the board itself also figured The proceeding also Involved a spir ited discussion between Newlands and Senator Tlpiley of Texas. Replying to a charge by the Nevada senator that representative government had proved a failure, the Texan declared that co gress bad been especially responsive to the public during the last twenty years He added the opinion that but for some "demagogues" there would have been Rtill more effective response. When Senator Newlands manifested a disposition to construe the remark as a personal reflert.'on, Dalley disavowed any such intention. ABBOTT DISCUSSES COLONEL Roosevelt Asserted Not Candidate for , the Presidency. Cornwall-on Hudson, N. Y., Jan. 5. Co'onel Theodore Roosevelt is not a candidate for the presidency, accord ing to Lawrence P. Abbott, president of the Outlook company of New Tork, with which Mr. Roooevelt is actWeljr associated. If Mr. Roosevelt Is ever elected president a?ain, according to Mr. Ab bott. It will not be because he seeks or wants the office, but because the coun try wants him to perform a certain lob. Rellley Will Not Vacate Office. Kearney. Neb., Jan. 5. Police Judge Charles Rellley refused to vacate his position as municipal judge, to which he was elected last April for a period of two years, to W. L. Hand, police miRlstrnte elect under the new enact mcnt of the last legislature By this act the office of polire Judce was nn hulled nnd combined w'th that of Jus tice of the pence In cities whore the jurlsflirtion of the two olTiccrs covered Identical territory. Kansas Officials Must Pay Own Tips. Topeka. .Lin. 5 Through a state order forbidding the further cliai'sms to the state of tips given by state olfi rials while traveling, Kansas will, It Is said, nave $3,0"0 a year Tho or der came after the Rtate auditor had Investigated expense vouchers nnd found that out of $80,000 expended by traveling officials, $3,000 was assigned to tips. Broncho Bucks Robber Into Jail. Rlxby. Okln., .Tan. 6. Walking Into the Bank or lllxby, a man at the point of a run held up Cashier Ltpscnnd, so ared $700, rushed out of the bank, and mounted a broncho, which com menced bucking The cashier had given the alarm and the man wa pulled from the horse by the crowd and placed In jail.
