MOIY. FEBTUTARY
22. 191.1. tt i imcirATTKn bvhi i ?,iw v -rr-VT v r t? r
MmmmMimi raw
Copyright, 1814, by
CHAPTER XV.
The Starving Tribe.
?VrHi: way led steeply up through
deep, powdery snow th.it was
uumaried by sled track or
luoveas'n Impression. Smoke,
in t!te lead, pressed tlJe fragile crystals
down under Ins fat, short snowshoes.
The task required lunzs and muscle,
an he lid! g himself into it with a!l his
s-tl emrtll.
Hi hind, en the surface he packed.
M rained t!:e strin;.,' of six dogs, the
steal;! jets of their breathing attesting
:u;d t!ie 'owncss of the tetll-
er::tire. Between the wiieel dog and
the sled toiled S!:orty. his weight di
ri led between the guiding gee pole and
be haul, for he was pulling wi:h the
dors. livery half hour he and Smoke
exc.'ianged places, fur t.'ie snowsh:e
wrk was even more arduous than that
of the gee pole.
This wa their sixth day out from
the lively camp of Mndue. on the Yu
kon And l-o'.v they were breasting the
'ig divide p:-t the I laid bettes. where
tl;e way would le-ad them down Por
cupine creek to tlio n.i.l He reaches of
Milk river. Iii-!ier up Milk river. It
was f.i:i!y rumored, were dejosi;s of
t-o;ijitr. Ami this was their gofll a
hi;i of pure cop;xT ha'f a. mile t t!ie
ri'-ht ::i:d up t!i. t;rst creek after Milk
river issued from a deep e-r.se f flow
across a heavily timbered stretch of
bottom.
Smoke was in the lead, nnd the mall
scattered sv.ru-e trees were becoming
svarecr and smaller when he aw ore,
dead ami lne dry. that stood in their
path. There was no need for speech.
ITis glance ti Shorty was acknowl
edged t.y n stentorian 'Whon" The
dgs s-xd In the traces till they saw
Sli.'ily begin to undo the sled lashiujts
end Suioke attack the dead spruce wiih
uu ax. wiieieu;Nu the uniunds dropped
in the snow ahd curled into balls, the
bush of each tail curved to cover four
padded leet and an ice rimmed muzzle.
In twenty minutes fruui the time they
halted the meal was ready to eat.
"About forty below." Shorty mumbled
through a mouthful of leans. "Hope
it don't yet colder or warmer neither.
It's just right for trail breakiu'."
Smoke did not answer. His own
mouth full of beans, he had chanced to
fiance at the lead dog lying half a
t'ozen feet away. That gray, frosty
wolf was gazing at bini with the iu
iinite wist fulness and yearning that
glimmer ::n 1 haze so often in the eyes
of m rthland dogs. Smoke knew it
well, but liever got over the unfathom
able wonder of it.
As if to shake off the hypnotism he
set down his plate and coffee cup. went
to the sled and began opening the dried
hh sack.
lie;,:" Shorty expostulated. "What
'r' you doin";"
"Urea king all law. custom, precedent
and trail usage." Smoke replied. "I'm
going to feed the dogs in the middle of
the day just this once. Bright there
has been talking to me, telling me all
untenable things with those eyes of
him."
Shorty laughed skeptically. "Oh. if
it's a hunch, go to it. A man's always
got to follow his huuehes."
"It isn't a hunch. Shorty. Hright just
sort of got on my Imagination for a
couple of twists. He told me more in
one minute with those eyes of his than
I eould read in the books in a thousand
years. His eyes were a-crawl with the
secrets of life. They were just squirm
ing and wriggling there. The trouble
is I almost got them, and then I didn't.
I'm no wiser than I was before but I
was near them."
"Coiled down into simple American,
you g.t a hun h." Shorty insisted.
S.unetbin's goin to happen before
trie day is out. You'll see. An' them
dried fish'll have a bearin'."
"You've got to show me." said
Smoke.
"No, I ain't. The day'll take care of
Itself an show you. Now, listen to
what I'm tellin you. I pot a hunch
myself out of your hunch. I'll bet
eieven ounces onanist three ornery
toothpicks I'm right"
"You bet the toothpicks, and I'll bet
the ounces." Smoke returned.
"Nope. That'd be plain robbery. I
win. I know a luinrli when it tickles
UK. Ilefore the day's out somtthin 11
happen, an them fish'll have a luean
in" An hour later they cleared the divide.
d"p;ed down past the B.ild buttes
through a sharp elbow canyon and
took the st'-ep. open slope that droi--"
into porcupine creek. Shorty, in
the lea 1. stopped abruptly, and Smoke
whmied the dogs. IK-neath them, con
ing up. was a procession of humans,
scattered and draggled, a quarter of a
miie long.
"They move like it was a funeral,"
Shorty noted.
"They've no dogs." said. Smoke.
"Yep: there's a couple of mcu puUin
03 a sled."
"See that fellow fall down? There's
th Wheeler Syndicate.
something the matter. Shorty, and
there must be 200 of them."
"Look at 'em stagger as If they was
soused. There goes another."
"It's a whole tribe. There are chil
dren there."
"Smoke. I win," Shorty proclaimed.
"A hunch is a hunch, an you can't
beat it. There she comes. Look at
her surgin' up like a lot of corpses."
The mass of Indians at sight of the
two men had raised a weird cry of joy
and accelerated its pace.
"They're sure tolerable woozy," com
mented Shorty. "See 'em fallin" down
in lumps an" bunches."
"Look at the face of that first one,"
Smoke said. "It's starvation that's
what's the matter with them. They've
eaten their dogs."
"What'll we do? Run for it?"
"And leave the sled and dogs?"
Smoke demanded reproachfully.
"They'll sure eat ns if we don't.
They look hungry enough for it. Hello,
old skeeziks: What's wrong with yon?
Ion"t look at that dog that way. No
cookin' pot for him savvy?"
The forerunners were arriving and
crowding about them, moaning and
plaiuting in an unfamiliar Jargon. To
Smoke the picture was grotesque and
horrible. It was famine unmistakable.
Their faces, hollow cheeked and skin
stretched, were so many death's heads.
More and more arrived and crowded
about until Smoke and Shorty were
hemmed in by the wild crew." Their
ragged garment- of skin and fur were
cut and slashed away, and Smoke
knew the-reason for it when he saw a
wizened child on a squaw's back that
sucked and chewed a strip of filthy
fur.
"Keep off there keep back!" Shorty
yelled, falling back on English after
futile attempts with the little Indian
he did know.
Ducks and squaws and children tot
tered and swayed on shaking legs and
continued to urge in. their mad eyes
swimming with weakness and burning
with ravenous desire. A woman,
moaning, staggered past Shorty and
fell with spread and grasping arms on
the sled. An old man followed her,
panting and gasping, with trembling
hands striving to cast off the sled lash
ings and ret at the grnb sacks be
neath. A young man with a raked
back by Smoke. The whole mass
pressed in upon them, and the fight
was on.
At first Smoke and Shorty shoved
and thrust and threw back. Then they
used the butt of the dog whip and
their fists on the food maVl crowd. And
all this against a background of moan
ing nnd wailing women and children.
"Mo Carluk. Me good Siwash."
Here and there in a dozen places the
sled lashings were cut. Men crawled
in on their bellies, regardless of a rain
of kicks and blows, and tried to drag
out the grub. These had to be picked
up bodily and flung back. And such
was their weakness that they fell con
tinually under the slightest pressures
or shoves. Yet they made uo attempt
to injure the two men wlw defended
the sled.
It was the utter weakness of the In
dians that saved Smoke and Shorty
from lK?ing overborne. In five minutes
the wall of upstanding, on -struggling
Indians had been changed to heaps of
fallen ones, that moaned and gibbered
in the snow and cried and sniveled a
their staring, swimming eyes focused
oq the gruti that meant life to them
I I ' - M
and that brought the slaver to their
lips. And behind it all arose the wail
ing of the women and children.
"This is terrible," Smoke muttered.
' "I'm all net up," Shorty replied.
"I'm real sweaty. An' now what 'r
we goin to do with, this ambulance
outfit?"
Smoke shook his head, and then the
problem was solved for him. An In
dian crawled forward, his one eye fix
ed on Smoke instead of on the sled,
and in it Smoke could see the struggle
of sanity to assert itself. Shorty re
membered having punched the other
eye, which was already swollen shut.
The Indian raised himself on his elbow
and spoke:
"Me Carluk. Me good Siwash. Me
savvy Boston man plenty. Me plenty
hungry. AU people plenty hungry. All
people no savvy Boston man. Me sav
vy. Me eat grub now. All people eat
grub now. We buy 'm grub. Got 'm
plenty gold. Xo got 'm grub. Sum
mer salmon no come Milk river. Win
ter caribou no come. No grub. Me
make 'm talk all people. Me tell ni
plenty Boston man coma Yukon. Bos
ton man have plenty grub. Boston
man like 'm gold. We take 'm gold,
go Yukon. Boston man give 'in grub,
rienty gold. Me savvy Boston man
like 'm gold."
He began fumbling with wasted fin
gers at the drawstring of a pouch he
took from his belt.
"Too much make 'm noise." Shorty
broke in distractedly. "You tell 'm
squaw, you tell 'm papoose, shut 'm up
mouth."
Carluk turned and addressed the
wailing women. Other bucks, listen
ing, raised their voices authoritatively,
nnd slowly the squaws stilled and still
ed the children near to them. CarJuk
paused from fumbling the drawstrings
and held up his fingers many times.
"Him people make 'in die," he said.
And Smoke, following the count,
knew that seventy-five of the tribe had
starved to death.
"Me buy m grab." Carluk said as
he got the pouch open and drew out a
large chunk of heavy metal. Others
were following his example, and on
every side appeared similar chunks.
Shorty stared.
"Great jiminy!" he cried. "Copper!
Raw. red cop;er! An they think it's
gold.'"
"And the poor devils banked every
thing on it." Smoke muttered. "Look
at it. The chunk there weighs forty
pounds. They've got hundreds of
pounds of it. and they've carried it
when they didn't have strength enough
to drag themselves. Look here. Shorty.
We've got to feed them."
"Huh! Sounds easy. But how about
statistics? You an' me has a month's
grub, which is six meals times thirty
which is 1S meals. Here's 200 In
dians, with real, full grown appetites.
How can we give 'm cue meal even?
"There's the dog grub." Smoke an
swered. "A couple of hundred pounds
of dried salmon ought to help out
We've got to do It. Tliey've pinned
their faith on the white man. you
know."
"Sure, an' we can't throw rn down."
Shorty agreed. "An' we got two nasty
jobs cut out for us. each just about
twieet as nasty as the other. One of
us has got to make a run r.f it to Muc
in? an raise a relief. The other has to
stay here an run the hospital v.n' mr.st
likely be eaten. Don't l"t it slip yovr
noodle that we've beev -; d?ys gottin'
here, an, travelin light ?: played
out. it can't be made back in less "n
three days."
Fcr a minute Smoke pondered the
miles of the way they h;d come. v
sloning the mile in terms rf time
measured Ly his capacity for eiertion
"I can get there tomorrow night." he
announced.
"All right." Shorty acquiesced cheer
fully. "An. I'll stay au" be eaten"
"But I'm going to take one iish eacti
for the dogs." Smoke explained, "and
one meal lor myself."
"An you'll sine need it if you make
Mucluc tomorrow night."
Smoke, through the medium ot Car
Ink, sniTed the program. "Make lires.
long fires, plenty tires." tie concluded
"Plenty Boston man stop Mucluc. Bos
ton man icuc-h good. Boston man plcn
ty grub. Five sleeps I come back
plenty grub. This man. his name
Shorty, very pood friend of mine. lie
Stop here. He big boss sa v y ';"
Carluk nodded and interpreted.
"All grub stop here. Shorty, be give
"m grub. He boss savvy V"
CarlHk interpreted, and nods and gut
tnral cries of agreement proceeded
from the men.
Smoke remained and managed until
the full swing of the arrangement was
under way. Those who were able
crawled or staggered in the collecting
of hrewo'.nl Iyng In.Jiin tires were
built that accommodated all. Shorty,
aided by a iloy.cn assistants, with a
short club handy lor the rapping ot
hungry knuckles, plunged into the
cooking.
First, a tiny piece of bacon was dis
tributed all around and. nest. sjmmu
fu! of sugar to cloy the edge ol their
razor appetites. Soon on a circle of
tires drawn aoout Shorty many pots
of beans were iioiling, and he, with a
wrathful eye for what he called the
renigers, was frying aind apportioning
the thinnest of flapjacks.
"Me for the big cookin," was his
farewell to Smoke. "You just keep
a-hikin'. Trot all the way there an'
run all the way back. It'll take you
today au" tomorrow to get there, and
yon can't be back inside three days
more. Tomorrow they'll eat the last
of the dogfish, an" then there'll be
nary a scrap for three days. You
gotta keep a-comin. Smoke; you gotta
keep a-cutntn'."
(To De Continued.)
Sell your property by an ad in Tht
Journal.
4 IN PLATTSMOUTH 4.
4- FORTY YEARS AGO.
Mr.
town.
J. B. Ferree and wife are in
William Alstadt, better known as
"little Bismark," paid us a visit on
Tuesday. He is as Utile and as
sassy" and as full of vinegar as any
man we know of.
Mrs. F. M. Wollcott started for
Ohio yesterdaj". to join her husband,
who has been sick there for some
time and unable to return home. He
went east several monthsa go.
Rev. Mr. Orr leaves Plattsmouth
next week for Fairmount and Rev.
Mr. Hart of Falls City, takes his
place as pastor of the M. E. church
here. We are sorry to have to say
good-bye to Mr. Orr, but wish him
success wherever he may go.
Captain Bennett, our famous ex
pressman, and one of the oldest and
best known citizens of this city, has
gone to California to be gone some
weeks on an exploring tour. Wc
should be sorry to loose Cap. as a
resident here.
Mrs. Elster and Miss Short have
removed their dressmaking estab
lishment to the rooms in the second
story of Shryock's furniture store,
one door west of the Saunders House,
where they can be found ready to do
all kinds of work in their line.
Andy McLaughlin has just return
ed from the centennial, and the first
thing he did was to get dispatches
about the election from Indiana and
Ohio. Having been down there he
knows how it is himself. The ex
citement through those states ha3
been intense. No such campaign has
been known in years.
II. D. Hathaway, the founder of
the Herald, the proprietor of the Lin
coln Journal, and the greatest shoot
ist of the age, came down from Lin
coln Monday to accompany the Platts
mouth sporting gentlemen to Wa
bansey lake and show them how to
kill geese.
DrT Livingston. Sam Chapman
George Smith. Mart Cutler, Dr,
Schildknecht,-Vivian and some more
fellows have all gone down to Wa
bansey lake to hunt geese. My
gracious! our streets are full of
geese everv day. What's the use of
going so far?
We are in receipt of a fine trio o
game chickens from the Alderney
and Jersey Cattle Farm of J. B
Povntz & Son, Maysville, Ky. They
are also importers and dealers in fowl
We can recommend them as honora
ble and reliable dealers, having had
dealings with them before.
During a trip towards Mount
Pleasant last week we had the pleas
ure of stopping with our old farme:
friend, Mr. Linch, who sent-the Her
ald two of the largest and finest rosy
red ancles as you often see. One of
them is a new variety, and so far has
not been named. It is a delicious
eating apple.
Dr. Schildknecht removed a tape-
worm, something over iorty xeei
Ions, from Mr. Elas Miller on last
Monday. September 18. The doctor
has the worm, preserved in alcohol.
in his office, where anyone desiring to
see it may do so. The doctor seems
to have unusual good fortune in his
treatment of cases of this class.
When Uncle Schlegcl undertook to
heat the express train to Omaha the
other day he had a load of apples
p board for Phil Young. There was a
great fall of apples on lower Main
street, and the railroad company went
into .the cider business lively.
The Old Muddy is up and raging
still more. Here we live so supreme
ly above water that it makes no prac
tical difference whether she is up or
down. Neither has the river over
flowed on the Iowa side, but opposite
Nebraska City the banks are caving
badly, and they have moved the rail
road tracks back a quarter of a mile
cr more.
Wc learn from Messrs. McElwain
and .viatnews T,nat our sister town oi
Greenwood is on the onward march.
Among other improvements, a two
story frame about 4flx50 feet, divided
into two stores, one occupied by the
Tutt Brothers, -the other as a drug
store. Go on, sister, reform is the
order of the day.
The first day of November ushered
in the first snow storm of the season.
The last month of leap year. Girls,
what are you going to do about it?
Ben Hemple will open the bestest,
biggest, bustingest, four-horse eating
house soon that you ever saw. All
kinds of things to eat sheep or deer
as you like it.
Mr. D. G. Dovey, our county com
missioner, received a very bad fall
last week in walking over the rotten
pavement between Mathews' store and
Main street. He has suffered a great
deal in consequence.
Dr. John Black, the staunchest
democrat in Cass county, has return
ed home from the east and the cen
tennial. We have not seen the doctor,
but make no doubt he has, like all of
us, wonders to tell.
Mrs. Dr. Livinbston has returned
from a somewhat prolonged visit
cast, much improved in health and
and with lots of Christmas presents
for the folks.
One of the members of a colored
family living on W ashington avenue
met with quite an accident Sunday.
In trying some feats of strength with
a flatiron, one of the women let the
flatiron slip while extended over her
head and it mashed her skull badly.
Henry J. Streight, our "Hank," left
us for South Bend on Wednesday. We
shall miss Henry. He has been here
so long we had come to look upon him
as a fixture in Plattsmouth. We wish
him the greatest success wherever he
goes and in whatever he goes at.
The greenbackers held a convention
at Weeping Water Friday, October
13, and nominated the following
ticket: Senator L. G. Todd. Rep
lesentatives Mr. Laughlin, Salt
Creek; Jas. Clark. Stove Creek; Jos.
Gilmore, Eight Mile Grove. Commis
sioner W. B. Davis, Liberty.
Mr. Mertins tells us he had about
three acres of stubble where the hop
pers had laid eggs thicker than peas.
They fairly crack as he plows through
ihem. He has turned them all up
now, and will harrow the young eggs
to death in short metre. That's the
way to fix them.
We learn by private letter from
Weeping Water that a fire accidental
ly got away from a Mr. Johnson
and burnt a number of stacks for Mr.
Marshall, the cattle pen, 15 acres of
Fife wheat, oats and haystacks. The
stacks of Messrs. Allison, Wallon and
Allen Canady; the stable of Mr.
Chance. Ifr ran through Clizbe's tim
ber down to the falls near Hunter's
and has done a great deal of damage.
The firemen complain bitterly that
the tax-paying, property-holding resi
dents of the town do not sup-port
them in their endeavors to keep up a
fire department and that unless a
change is made, the boys in blue must
ab?ndon the effort to keep up said
fire brigade, and those who own
property must defend it the best they
can in case of conflagration, or else
help keep the engine and other fire
apparatus in order and help pay the
expense of keeping up an organized
fire force.
FOR SALE A registered Poland
China boar, weighs 450 pounds, in
good condition. John Gochenour,
three miles south of Plattsmouth.
FOR SALE The best of light
Brahma chickens, and eggs in sea
son. Mrs. Wm. Gilmour, Route
No. 1.
NOTICE.
J. W. Hamilton will take notice
that on the 11th day of January, 11)15,
M. Archer, a justice of the peace of
Cass County, Nebraska, issued an
order of attachment for the sum of
$95.75 in an action pending before
him, wherein John Cory is palintiff,
and J. W. Hamilton is defendant, and
that property of the defendant, con
sisting of money in the possession of
the C, B. & Q. R. R. Co., has been at
tached under said order. Said cause
was continued to February 27th, 1915.
JOHN CORY, PTaintiff.
Paints and Oils.
Gering & Co.
Phone 36.
L. J. Hal!
The Union Auctioneer
Union, Nebraska
All sale matters entrusted to my care
will receive prompt and care
ful attention.
Farm and Stock Sales
a Specialty!
Rates Reasonable!
as Address or phone me at Union
for open dates.
Local FJews
From Friday's Dally.
Harve Moore of La Platte was
in
the city for a few hours today.
Charles Barnard, from near My-
nard, transacted business in tnis city
toaay.
Will Seybert, from near Cullom,
was in the city a few hours today
visiting with county seat friends.
C. II. Vallery, from the precinct,
transacted business for a few hours
with the merchants in this citv ves-
terday.
Joe Zimmerer of La Platte was in
the city a few hours today doing some
trading with the Plattsmouth mer
chants.
J. D. Shrader and W. S. Scott of
Murray were visiting with county
seat friends for a few hours Thurs
day evening.
Mr. and Mrs. C. lyler were pas
sengers for Omaha this afternoon,
where they will make a brief visit
with relatives and friends.
Harry Horn and sister, Miss Helen,
came in from their home near Cedar
Creek this morning for a few hours'
visit with county seat friends.
Ed Tritsch and Carl Meisinger went
to Omaha this morning, where they
will look after some matters of busi-
ness and take in the auto show.
nr tj f ,!, f
mouth, came in this morning and took
the early Burlington train for Omaha,
where he will attend the auto show.
W. A. Fight, from near Mynard,
came in this morning, even though the
roads are almost impassable, and took
No. 23 for Omaha, where he will at
tend the auto show.
Although past c years ot age,
Grandma Goodwin of Mynard is very
spry, and at the present time is visit
ing in this city at the home of her
son, R. L. Prpost and family.
Ferdinand Hennings, jr., from near
Cedar Creek, came from his home this
morning for a few hours business and
pleasure trip to Plattsmouth, return
ing home this evening.
Eddie Wolff and sister, Miss Annie,
fiom Pierce county, Nebraska, arrived
in tne city tnis morning lor a tew
days' visit with friends and relatives
at the old home in Cass county.
John Carlson of Pacific Junction
came over this morning to see the
doctor in regard to a serious case of
blood poisoning from which he has
been suffering since the 12th of De
cember.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward Barr departed
this morning for Lyman, Colorado.
where they will make their future
home. Mr. Barr's mother owns a
farm near Lyons, and vard will
?ist in locking ai'ttr the same.
Mis3 Anna Steppat of Omaha, who
has been visiting at Cedar Creek for a
short time, came on down to this city
yesterday morning for a short visit
with relatives and friends, and wa
a paspenger to Omaha yesterday aft
ernoon.
Mrs. John Busche of the vicinity of
Cedar Creek came down to this city
this morning to have some dental
work dene and to meet her son, Clar-
ence. who came down to this city from
Omaha this morning, where he had
been Visiting since yesterday.
Mrs. L. W. Lorenz was a visitor in
Omaha yesterday, going up for a
short visit with her husband at th St.
Joseph's hospital, and she report5
that aside from suffering from a cold.
that he is getting along very satis
factorily and recovering nicely from
J .
tne enects ot tne operation ne uncer
went Monday, which will be pleasing
news to his large circle of friends.
From Saturday's Daily.
C. II. Rist, from south of Tlatts-
iiiouth, was in the city a few hours
today.
Samuel Kline of Cedar Creek waz
p. business visitor in the city this
morning.
C. B. Long, from near Murray, wa?
looking after some business matters
in the county seat today.
C. L. Creamer and daughter, Miss
Clara, were visiting with Plattsmouth
friends a few hour3 today.
Henry Likewise of Cedar Creek was
. , .
in the city a few hours today, coming
down on the Schuyler today.
.Tames Tinner from near Mnrrav
jamea limner, irom near murraj,
was looking after some business mat-
ai , ,
tcrs in Plattsmouth yesterday.
r T n .
lk. Li. 1 ropst and son, Dwight. were
passengers for Omaha this afternoon,
where they will attend the auto show.
Earl Terryberry and Miss Fearl
Gregory went to Omaha this after
noon," where they will attend the auto
show.
from his wecklv bank examining trin!aid-
- " 1
ast evening and will remain at home
over Sunday.
Frank Lillic from near Murray was
in the city a few hours yesterday aft-j
ernoon trading with the Plattsmouth
merchants.
George A. U. Hicks of Cuil )m whh
transacting business with our mer
chants today, coming down on th
train this morning.
Miss Margaret Giberson was a pas
senger to Weeping Water this morn
ing, where she will spend her vaca-
tion with her parents
Frank Moore, from cast of Murray,
was a business visitor in the city yts-
terday. The Journal acknowledges a
very pleasant call from him while in
I town.
Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Ramge, of the
vicinity of Murray, drove to this city
today, in spite of the bad ror.ds. to
do some shopping and visit relatives
and friends.
W. D. Jones, who has been very ill
for the past few weeks, has been
gaining in strength for the pa.t day
cr two, and is reported considerably
better this morning.
Jesse N. Elliott, who some tinr
ago bought a place near Cedar Cieek
and moved there, was looking after
some business matters in the cennty
seat this morning.
G. G. Meisinger, wife and daughter.
who have been visiting with friend
and relatives at and near Cedar
Creek for the past few days, returned
home this morning on the Burling
ton. Uncle Michael Meisinger and wife
wcre Passengers to Omaha this mom
inS where the' wi viil with fl itflti s
for the daY anJ also visit t:uir
nephew, who is in business at Benton,
one of Omaha's thriving suburbs.
Ivan Taylor and little son depart
ed on the Burlington train this morn
ing for Lincoln, where they will visit
friends during the day and will spen 1
Sunday with Mr. Taylor's mother at
Have-lock, returning home Sunday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Val.'ery of H-jve-
lock, both formerly of this city, came
in this morning and will visit with
j datives and friends in Plattsmouth
for a few days, at the hom. of the
parents of Mr. Vallery, our towns
man, Mr. Peter J. Vallery.
Ed Yolk, who has been visiting with
friends and relatives in this city for
the past week, at the home of Mr.
Jacob Treitch, departed for his homo
at McLean, thi3 state, and was ac
companied as far as Omaha by his
cousin, F. M. Hennings, of near
Louisville.
Connie Schlcter, from Osko-h, Nc-
braska, came down to Omaha a few
tlays ago to attend the auto show.
and took advantage of the opjKr-
tunity and came on to Plattsmouth
this morning, where he will make a
brief visit with relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Parker depart-
ed this morning for Lincoln, where
they will make an over Sunday visit
with relatives and friends, among
whom is Grandma Jean, whose health
has been quite pooriy since the injury
she received some time ago by a fall.
OT( i: ! 'IIOIITK OK Wil l.
! I be CniiiitT Court of tmm wual.
rkrmkil
In the Matter o! the t i I -1 1 .1 .
t'l'lll ,Itll'T. I M.fii.t.,t.
T- .Ul IVlM'ips Jiiter-tr.J
itate:
Y:.i are here'i-" notified th:it .- Dil
lon haw ticcn nirri s.icl 'ojrt i-
Kiizai rth stettior Hearted :if n
'.f1 ISVS' IV.C'M ul
""''J i'" i-"--.--i t an -.tat.- ..f
Ireal anil ncisonal hionertv iiri-l irairiir
!fr the piii.aie of c-rtain instrument
now o ii in, in mi mi i ouri purporurtK
to he the last will and t-Mam-nt
said ! ;i sol : mi'l tint a ix-aritiK will
he had on i-hhI petition l forx anl
("Mirt, in the fumv c-nit itri. at
1 Mat t smout h. in euid count t. on the " i; i
day of March. A. 1 . 1 J 1 nnd that if
you fail to appear at ah1 t'ourt on the
iht 1'nd d:iy of March. 1!1V at 1 rt
o'clock a. m. to contest the pro hate of
aid will, the Court may allow niol
probate aid win an.i I arrant B.immi.tra
tion of said cslilf to S. C. lloyle.
Home other pnitahle perxon. enter u
decree of lieiiHhin a lid proceed tu a.
settlement thereof.
WMrtcHM my hand nnd the cal of
said County Court of C;is Couritv. Ne
braska, tliis :U day of Kebruarv, A. It.
(Seal.) ALLIEN .T. HKICSO.V.
Count v J mi ye.
DALI S. UOVI.Kri, Attorney.
i tiii: insTiticT t in itr or is
ll VI'V. Kill! v.
In the Matter of the lt.:te of Jiitu -
M. Dyer Iecened, A ppl i.in of
tliiatdian of Minor to tell llt-ul
I-'st ate:
This caiiKe nunc on for heminc utmn
the petition of Kutli J. liter. Ciinlmii
of the person and otate of Clata.
Dyer and CharleH Der, minor, pray
intr for licence to sell the iindivi'h-d
4-7 of the following lands: Tie
enst one-liiilf of Hie t-outhwest 'inaitei
i: J4 of .-N' i ) HH't the nonhwe-r
quarter of the southeast quarter ( N VV
'4 ef the M: . ) of section t went v-t v. o
C'il. township twelve il-. tan it.- mi..
east of ;th J M.. jinJ ulso the
i wiui n nan or tic northeast ouatter
l s , of ti.e m;m and lot tiv ;,.
ll"..'1!'1, - lll'V, . ."'!"!
acres; a'v 11,1 ix ("' in nottl.Act
,., tatter of southeast nuai'cr NW '.
of tlie st con t a i mm .: r , mi
lin section thirtv-lhree ::.:), township
twelve 11:1, i.-.ne nine o. east r the
sixtti i ..I., all in Cass County. Ne-
Ibrasku, for the put pose of securing
proper" Iiukih lor the, maintenance.
support ami education of mmkI minor
and for the itnijse of better invest
ment Jl ii therefore ordered that ail per
sons Interested in sjitd estate appear
bclore me at the coi.rt ho-e In kh- I
County and Slate on the 'jt'.i ,la - of
March, 1915, at 9 o'c lock a. m. to show-
cause why a ItcensM- ..iM.i nt !
(granted to said tiiiiinli m to sill fl...
aio' Oesci I hecj ica 1 cs;i;; ticloimliir
said minors for the lvi!jos-s bloie-
lii.le.l t i ::.t .lv- of .-..1.ri--ir.- 111".
Uated this 2d day of KcLr-i;n rv,
Judge of Hie District Court
Hcgittcrcd Jersey Bull
for service. C. E. Babbitt, Platts-
mouth. l'-2-2mos-wkIy
-" 4;