April 2, bijb.
IRRIGATED NEBRASKA.
i THE DAWSON COUNTY SYSTEM A
1 PERFECT SUCCESS.
Wonderful Returns from Irrigated Lands,
Irrigation in Dawson county, though
(ttil! in its infancy is undoubtedly a
precious child with good prospects of
being an able bodied adult in a short
time.
Trust in providence is right and proper
but when providence puts the means in
our hands for helping ourselves, it is evi
dent that we are expected to use them.
Entering Dawson county near the north
west corner is a broad shallow stream
fed from the limitless mountain ranges
to the west of ns, with melting snow
which gives an inexhaustible supply of
water at the season when the agricultur
ist needs it the most. Spreading oat on
each side is a slightly undulating valley
varying from fourteen to eighteen miles
in width. This valley runs the whole
length of the county, being forty-two
miles long, and is composed of a series of
low ridges or undulations that run
nearly parallel to the river and the fall
or slope of these ridges is practically the
same as the fall of the river.
. The irrigation canals after leaving the
river follow a serpentiue course down
and over the ridges, up and across the
low hollows between, until the hills are
reached after which they follow the base
of these hills as far as it is deemed ex
pedient. Along the ridges, branches or
laterals arebuilt, from which the water is
taken and applied directly to the land
on either side and by this means nearly
all the land is available for water.
A dry water course is crossed by lay
ing vitrified sewer pipes under the canal
to dam off the semi-occasional flow of
water from some unusual rain fall.
In 1891 a few farmers living along and
near the Platte river, having but little
money and plenty of muscle, tapped the
river about six miles west of Lexington
and constructed a ditch about a mile
long to a dry water course running par
allel to the river. By means of dirt aud
wood dams the water level is raised to
the top of the banks, which are higher
than the adjoining land and in this way
the water is easily and cheaply distrib
uted. This is known as the farmers'
ditch. This ditch was in operation in
1895 and while principally from the lack
of knowledge of how to handle the water,
the distribution was not as extensive or
as effective as it promises to be iu 1896,
the results obtained were far beyond the
expectations of the most sanguine and
convinced the greatest skeptics that ir
rigation was a grand success.
I visited the orchard of M. Delahunty
in August and saw apple trees ten and
twelve years old that had never borne
before, weighed down to the ground with
the splendid fruit, and plums, apricots
and small fruits in abundance. The se
cret of it all was in those little ditches
that wound around among the trees. In
all the other orchards in this vicinity the
fruit was killed by late frosts which did
not seem to have any effect on this or
chard. Mr. Delahunty also raised 1,400 bush
els of wheat from sixty bushels of seed
and sold it (or three cents per bushel,
above the best price paid any dry farmer.
There were plenty of cases like this under
this ditch, but of this one I have person
al knowledge. About the time that
- work was commenced on the farmers'
ditch, some five or six of the business
men of Lexington and farmers living
near there, quietly got together and em
ployed an engineer to makesome prelim
inary surveys. An excellent route was
found and after agitating the subject for
some time, "The Farmers and Merchants
Irrigation Co.," was organized and duly
incorporated. Ground was broken on
the hanks of the Platte, south of the
town of Cozad. This was the start of
what is probably the largest, most com
plete, capacious and best constructed ir
rigation system in Nebraska.
On the 27th. day of June 1895 just
one year from the date of filing of the
appropriation, the head gates were
ooened bv Mrs. Geo. H Breyman of
Toledo. Ohio and Mrs. R. W. Barton of
Lexington, Neb. At that time there was
completed over forty miles of ditch. It
took nearly a month to get the numer
ous drops, checks and gates properly
packed and soaked. The dry dirt with
which they were filled seemed to melt like
sugar when the water struck it with any
great amount of force and by the time
these wash-outs were repaired and water
was ready for use. it was nearly the first
of August. By this time what little
grain crop there was, had been harvested
and corn was on its last legs. A great
many thought and said it was past re
demption, but the farmers went to work
with a will, and some worked night and
day, and notwithstanding the inexper
ience aud lack of preparation within the
next three weeks from 10,000 to 12,000
acres of corn had been thoroughly soaked
and the results were beyond comprehen
sion. Corn that stood from three to five
feet high, pale and sickly, with leaves
curled up like a long shaving, opened up,
spread out, turned a black green and put
out ears that were out of proportion to
the size of the stalk. The croakers said
it never, would mature, but it did, and
the yield! ranged from 30 to 75 bushels
per acre of good sound corn. This county
has now about fiftyfive miles of com
pleted ditch and will finish up the whole
system the coming spring. The whole
of the Platte valley in Dawson county,
having an average width of fifteen miles
and length of forty-two miles, is under
irrigation. Everything that has been,
is, or can be raised in the temperate zone,
will grow here and with the proper ubo of
water will yield with the greatest abun
dance. Below I give a table with the
name, length, capacity and cost of all
the ditches in the county
Length.
Capacity. Cost.
Farmers' Merit's
System: 115 miles
Cotnd Irr. Co.. AO miles
Goth W. P. it, I. Co.
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Goth Sooth Side 30 mile
00.000 acres
t 180,000
100,000
40,000 acres
12,000 acres
15,000 acres
16,000 acres
8,000 acres
5,000 acres
8,000 acres
1.600 acres
1.200 acre
8,000 acre
60,000
65,000
65,000
26,000
15.000
20,000
Orchard una
alfalfa
20 miles
18 miles
10 miles
10 mile
Platte river
Fanners
Elm Creek
Booker aud
Kalston
Bird and
Newman
Edmisten
6 miles
2.000
26,000
10.000
8 mile
fi miles
Lincoln and Daw
son Co.,
onder const 00 mile
Farmers and Mer
chants So Side
proposed 15 mile
80,000 acres 275,000
12.000 acre 40,000
Total S79 210.700 839,500
Now one word as to the water supply
and I am done. I will take the Farmers
aud Merchan ta as an example for th
reason that I have personal knowledge
of the circumstances. The head gats
consist of 17 gates each fourteen feet
wide. These are lift gate. Io front of
them is a series of crates called flush
gates, they consist of separate boards
12 inches wide, each board having a
handle and dropped in grooves so as to
be lifted out separately and independent
of each other. There are five of these
boards in each section, making a height
of five feet. The purpose of these is to
allow the water to now over the top of
these boards, thus in a great measure
keeping the sand out and the amount of
water in the ditch is regulated by the lift
gates beyond. In front of all and pro
jecting out into the river is a platform
or apron for convenience in cleaning off
the sand that may accumulate in low
water. As the water falls in the river
these flash boards are removed one at a
time. At no time from March 1895 to
August were any of these boards taken
out showing a depth of five feet of water
or more. During the month of August,
boards were removed as the water went
down till about September 1st when the
lowest point was reached and there were
still two boards in.
The state irrigation convention will be
held in Leximrton, October 7, 8, 9, 1896.
Those interested in irrigation shonld
attend and see the best irrigated county
in Nebraska.
WHO STRUCK PATTERSON?
An Old Greenback Gave him a Whick
Union, Neb., March, 22, '96.
Editor Independent: Mr. Patterson
lays down clearly the laws and the reason
why gold coin and gold bullion are ex
actly of equal value.
The reason: All persons having gold
can take it to a mint and have the same
coined into dollars (standard money.)
Then could it be expected that silver
could retain its old normal value with
the mints of all the principal nations
closed against its coinage?
The fact is admitted that about 1860
and many years previous silver was
equal to gold, when favored with the
same privleges.
The admitted fact brings out two
questions: first, would the opening of
the mint raise the commercial value of
silver to equal gold at 16 tol or second
ly, make any difference whatever?
It ought to be clear that if the United
States consumed its own silver the for
eign supply would consequently be les
sened one half or more.
I do not believe or desire that such
silver dollars when coined should ex
change for two bushels or more of wheat
or six bushels of corn nor twenty dollars
per horse. Yet-1 believe such coined
silver dollars would in five years or less
be equal over the world to the same num
ber of gold dollars.
If the principal nations of Europe have
by law, closed the mints and markets
against our silver money, it should not
affect contracts previously made pay
able in coin of a fixed weight. The
debtor has a just right to stand up
on the letter of the bond; besides which,
the fact remains that the silver bullion
or dollars by weight will purchase as
much of commodities of human or divine
creation as when the bond was given.
It is an unrighteous unholy presumption
to measure silver stripped and maimed
of legal recognition by gold, priced by
law, and doubly valued, because of the
discrediting of silver as standard money
of the commercial world.
The people of the United States cannot
afford, after being mulched in debt, to be
shuffled out "by tricks that are vain,"
of the means before provided by law to
liquidate their debts. The practice and
custom of thousands of years as well as
the specific pledges and promises of the
Government when these great debts were
being made, must not be brushed away.
America should stand by her money as
well as by her guns.
Our money is a& good as our credit and
our credit is as good as the nation can
make it. Increasing our bonded debt
cannot possibly make us a wealthy
nation. The more valuable the gold,
if we are required to pay it, the cheaper
must be the products and more pro
ducts will be required to settle the bill.
I think it would be a good plan to cut
down the fixed charges of every lawyer,
doctor, preacher, and all officers draw
ing balaries from president down to road
supervisor. In the military and civil
service, those who want a gold standard
ought to stand on this platform.
LG. Todd.
Their Power to Oppress.
The value, that is, the purchasing
power of money, is often said to depend
upon the material it is made of. This
is a fallacy that has wrought more evil
to mankind than all the heresies of the
early astronomers. . This has been the
means by which the money power of the
world has bound mankind to its chariot
wheels. The value of money depends not
upon what the several pieces of money
are made of, but upon the number in
circulation. The value of each dollar of
our money depends, not upon the metal
or the paper of which it may be made,
but upon the number of dollars in cir
culation. Thisfact once established,
and accepted by mankind, the money
power could no longer rule the na
tions of the world. Helena News"
Standard Oil Monopoly.
It could not stand a day without the
aid of railroads. Under a contract pro
duced by the railroad committee of the
New Jersey senate the Standard Oil com
pany not only receives a rebate on its
business over certain railroads but is
protected by them -against competition,
one of the considerations of the contract
being their obligation not to allow com
peting pipe-lines to crossover or under
their tracks.
It is estimated that under this agree
ment New Jersey alone pays the trust an
illegitimate profit of $750,000 a year.
The railroads are accustomed to deny
with all possible vigor that they are ac
complices in this monopoly. But it
could not exist without them. They
sustain it. It will fail finally and com
pletely as soon as they are forced to give
all who attempt to compete with the
Standard Oil company the same advan
tages which it now monopolizes. N. Y.
World.
Well Pleased.
Fullerton, Ned., March 21, 1896.
Editor Independent: Populists here
are very much pleased with the present
editorial work on the Independent. The
improvement is noted at a glance.
W. P. Hatten.
DUMPING SILVER
Will Rothschilds Scrape the World
to Find Silver and Bring
It Here?
WILL HE MAKE IT A PRESENT 7
Will he Buy Coined Silver at $1.32
and Sell it to us for $1.29 ?
Where is the Uncoined Silver to be
Found?
When other things fail, the advocates
of the gold standard and dear money
ask: "Do you want to make the United
States the dumping ground for all the
silver of the world?" Well, we let them
dump everything else here, why not
silver? Nobody is afraid of their dum
ping too much gold here, or too much
sugar, tea, coffee or anything else. Silver
seems to be the only thing we are afraid
of and, can any one tell why? We have
to pay for what gold we get. We get no
more goods than we are willing to pay
for in other goods or in money.
Are we likely to get more silver than
we are willing to pay for? Is anybody
really afraid other couutries will give us
silver forc6 it on us for nothing? Who
ever heard before of a country being
hurt by an overflow of the precious
metals? Such talk is foolish. The
simple truth is we would get, under free
coinage, as much as we are willing to
exchange goods for and no more. No
body will be compelled to exchange gold
for silver. If silver became abundant,
more of it would have to be given for
goods; fewer goods for the silver. Can't
our people be trusted any longer in such
a trade?
Let us inquire, however,, where all this
silver is that iscoiniug here. In the first
place the coined silver of Europe, or of
India, would not come here because it is
worth more in gold at home than it
would be under free coinage here. The
ratio of coined silver to gold in Europe
is 15 tol, and in India 15 to 1; while
our ratio is 16 to 1. Hence the loss, in
cluding loss in weight of coins, and cost
of sending coins here, would be not less
than 4 per cent, on European coins and
8 per cent, on Indian rupees. Instead,
therefore, of merchants sending foreign
silver coins here, if we had free coinage,
anyone havingsuch coins in this country
would make a saving by sending them
home rather than taking them to our
mint to be melted into bullion. More
over, it would be simply impossible to
withdraw these coins from the circula
tion of the countries where they are now
in use as the circulating medium. Their
withdrawal would so revolutionize prices
as to convulse all Europe.
We have only to consider, therefore,
silver in the form of bullion, and as there
is never any large amount of this metal
carried in stock as bullion, the question
is practically limited to the annual pro
duction. If we assume that the annua)
production will rise again to $160,
000,000, from this must first be deduct
ed what is consumed in the arts and for
subsidiary coinage, not leffs than $60,
000,000 lor both. Then there would be
left $100,000,000 for money, for the
United States and the silver countries of
the world with a population of 900,000,
000 of people, and with the trade (and
with the demand for silver) of South
America, Africa and Asia constantly in
creasing. Is this a threatening prospect?
The United States alone will soon need
an annual supply of $100,000,000 of
money, and is therefore in no danger of
a flood from silver, and without silver
where is the money supply to come from?
But if in any event there were danger of
an over supply of silver there is an easy
way to provide against it and at the
same time greatly improve our financial
system. Our money system is now con
stituted, in round numbers, as follows:
Gold, say $500,000,000
Silver, or silver certifi
cates 500,000,000
Paper 500,000.000
Total..... ..$1,500,000,000
Of this $1,000,000,000 are in the hands
of the people, doing the every work of
money; $500,000,000 are held as re
serves in the banks. Out of this, or on
this $500,000,000 as a foundation, the
banks erect a superstructure of credit
known as bank credits, of $4,500,000,
000. In other words, they add to the
$500,000,000 of actual money they hold,
$4,000,000,000 of credit money money
made with pen aud ink on books of de
positers and called deposits. Right here,
in this mass of credit money, lies the
storm center of every panic that has
ever taken place. When a scare begins
depositors of real money begin to draw
it out; then comes a collapse of the credit
bubble.
It is perfectly plain that if at any time
the entire $500,000,000 of actual money
should be drawn out of the banks the
entire mass of $4,500,000,000 of credit
would, for the time being, be absolutely
extinguished. Suppose now, instead of
only five hundred millions in actual
money in all the banks, they were re
quired to increase their reserves to a
thousand million dollars; in other words,
reduce the credit part of our present
financial system by five hundred million
and put in its place 500,000,000
dollars of solid money! Which would be
the best? All want "sound currency."
Which system would afford the soundest
currency? A foundation restricted to
gold with unrestricted bank currency
and bank credits for the superstructure,
or gold and silver for the foundation
with paper currency and bank credits so
restricted as to preserve stability in the
in the value of the whole? Is it not man
ifest then that there is plenty of room in
this country for all the gold and all the
silver we are likely to get; and if left to
automatic regulation through the
production of the mines there is uo dan
ger of the world ever having an over
supply of metallic money.
A. J. Warner.
Some time, ago the Dr. Miles Medical
Co., of Elkhart Indiana sentonta prize
rebus for which they offered a cash prize
of five dollars to the first correct solu
tion, and a one dollar prize for the next
five correct solutions received from each
state and territory. The following is a
list of winners from Nebraska: Miss Clara
Albee, 2714 Burt St., Omaha. - Chas. M.
Walters, Nebraska City. Mrs. Chas. B.
Jackson, 1305 E St., Lincoln. Mrs. Geo.
M. Shaver, Hastings. Amy Armstrong,
1519 Grant St, Beatrice. Clyde J.
Bullock. Norfolk.
II AHTINGS 1TKM8.
Hastings, Neb., March, 31, 1898.
Miss Mail Re Kuvano of Cliicugo will
have charge of the millinery department
of I'ickfii's & Sous store this spring aud
summer.
Winter wheat in this locality never
looked better or more promising than
now.
Huntings will have a chicory plant.
Mr. Levy says he now has secured con
tracts for 180 acres of the 200 acres re
quired to secure the plant and he feels
confident of the balance.
Mrs. Cordelia Forbes of this city has
been awarded a pension.
We are sorry to note the removal of
Mr. Crocker and family from Hastings to
their farm near Oxford this state. They
have resided iu Hastiugs some three
years and have by their good fellowship
and christian example won many friends.
The young ladies especially will be
missed by their co-workersiu the Baptist
circles.
Tuesday morning March, 24. Mr. W.
1). Willoughby'died at the residence of
his daughter Mrs. James P. Millimore.
Mr. Willougbby was suddenly taken
with lagrippe, rheumatism and paralysis
from which he died as above stated.
W. D. Willoughby was born at Newbury,
Giauga county, Ohio, October, 1832
came to Nebraska March, 1873, settled
on a homestead near LeUoy. Mr. Wil
loughby was well known all over this
county. He leaves a daughter and four
grandchildren to mourn his death. His
remains were buried in the cemetery at
LeUoy beside his wife, Thursday after
noon. The Ladies Circle of G. A. It. celebrated
the birth of that organization on Wed
nesday evening in a most entertaining
and interesting manner. The president
Mrs. Hiler in a few well chosen words ex
tended a cordial welcome to all, to which
Mr. Walkias on behalf of the guests res
ponded in his usual jovial manner. Mrs.
W. S. Winnie gave a short review of the
work from the organization of the circle
up to the present time. Miss Kittie
Hartigan, who has enjoyed an enviable
reputation in literary and musical ac
complishments bore a way the laurols on
this occassion amid repeated cheers.
Little Jennie Ellsworth deserves much
praise for her recitation which showed
much care and training. E'er long she
will win a place among Hastfng's many
good speakers. Those who heard the
closing address by Mr. Parmenter on this
occasion can well endorse the distinc
tion he won of being the "Boy Orator"
while in the state legislature of Wyom
ing, as speaker of the House. At the
conclusion of the program all partook
of the bountiful spread and returned
home to dream over all the good things
they had heard said and eaten.
The Central Nebraska Teacher's As
sociation will be held in Hastiugs be
ginning Thursday Aprfl 2, and continue
three",days. Arrangmentsjhave been made
for the exercises to be held in the court
house. Some two hundred or more
teachers from our state will be in at
tendance. It is rather encouraging now to see so
many prairie schooner's passing through
our city headed westward.
We are pleased to note the list made of
the sub soil plow made by Mr. A. S.
Arnold of this city. It can be seen now
at work most any day on the experi
mental farm near this city. It is very
simple and easily manipulated, plowing
the ground twelve inches deep. We hope
to see some of our capitalists take hold
and assist Mr. Arnold to manufacture
these plows ou an extensive scale,
Be it said to the credit of Hastings
that the city does not owe ah over due
dollar and has money in the treasury
with which to meet all coming due de
mands. .
The real estate agents feel hopeful now
business is looking up. There has been
several deals in farm property recently,
which goes to show that eastern people
really fancy Nebraska.
A Foregone Conclusion.
The republicans all lay, .
That on next election day,
They are sure to lead the way
For governor.
Bnt how sorry they will feel,
When they're all down at the heel,
And the place they cannot steal
' For governor.
And the democrats will fight
Working hard from morn 'till night
Bat they'll not be In It qaite
For governor.
Tbey will whine, and fret, and pout.
With their party pnt to root.
When they see they are knocked out
For governor.
The republicans won't grin
For they're goners finre as sin,
And no democrat could win
For governor.
On this scrap we have the drop
And we'll come out way on top
; With a good old honest "pop"
For governor.
DOC NIBS.
Another Pop. Paper.
Last week's Superior Sun came to us
with a new head, a new editor and a big
grist of local news. The new editor. A.
H. Hoskins, says he is a populist, which
ought to satisfy any reasonable person
that the wheels in his beadarenot stand
ing still. Peoples Champion.
Rothschild's Candidate.
Pulitzer, the publisher of the New York
World, is a newspaper representative of
Rothschild. He supports McKinley's
candidacy, which proves that the Ohio
ex-bankrupt is Rothschild's candidate.
Silver Knight.
No Honest Man Can do it.
No one can serve in either of Roths
child's political parties without leaving
country, home, liberty, prosperity and
happiness behind. It is only captains
and generals, the bosses and corrup
tionists of the two old parties, who live
upon the fat of the land and enjoy the
crumbs which fall from the table of gold
aristocracy who can. Silver Knight.
Our Pop. Missionary,
Brainahd, Neb., March, 26, 1896.
Special to the Independent: Your
missionary in the field reached the little
village of Bramard on the night of the
25 inst. It goes without saying that the
people in and aronnd Bramard are an
industrious, frugal and patrotic people,
and know a good thing when they see
it, and the proof of this lies in the fact
that the Nebraska Independent, has
the largest circulation of any weekly
paper in the state. The mechanics and
farmers, in thin vicinity are very busy
Alliance
1008P STREET,
50c per bushel, Amber Cane seed 60c per bushel.
. Seed Potatoes at 50 and GO per buehel.
Flour, DO, CO, 65, 75, 80, 85, 90c and $1 per sack.
OatMeP.1 15 lbs 25c'.
White Beans, 10 lbs 25c.
Syrup 25, 80, 40, aad 50c per gallon
4 Cans of Tomatoes 25c.
5 Cans of Corn 25c.
5 Cans of Peas 25c.
3 Cans of Pears 25c.
1 Gallon Can of Apples 20c.
ALLIANCE STORE.
Lincoln, Neb.
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chine seands so nigh in the estimation of cyclists, because VVaverley's are built on
honest value lines, and purchasers receive full value for the investment. Buy
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Who WIH 'e Net.
The followeng letter was received .by
the chairman of the state comuittee. The
proposition meets with his hearty ap
proval. If a few hundred farmers would
adopt that plan, they would in the end
get more money out of that one acre of
corn than they ever raceived for any hun
dred acreB they ever raised in all their
lives.
There are constantly coming to this
office letters from Sweeds, Bohemians,
Germans asking if we cannot print some
thing in those languages on the money
question. They say that the money
power has control ol tne papers printea
in those languages and therefore they
get most of the foreign vote. It is only
those among them who can read and
understand English who have fonnd out
what is the matter. But we have no
money to do anything with, and no way
to cet anv.
Read the following letter and let us
know who will be next:
Precept, NEB.,March 13, '96
,T. A. Edokbton:
Lincoln, Nebraska,
Dear Sir: It is my intention to put in
one acre of ground to corn and give the
proceeds to the campaign fund of 1896.
Who will be next? Yours truly,
C. F. Wheeler.
WANTED.
Lady or gentleman to take charge of
Installment Business, and collect in every
County. Salary $ 10 per week to begin
with. Address inclosing stamp for re
ply.
J. E. Campbell. & Co.,
42-2t Kansas City, Mo,
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every instinct of
reason and equi
ty. Men and
nations rebel
against it The
man who buys
"cheap" harvesting machinery is
doomed to pay tribute to the man
ufacturer for replacing parts that
break parts that wear out too
soon. This is unjust taxation.
McCORMICK. HarvestingMa
chines are built upon honor. They
insure the purchaser against extor
tion for repairs; parts that should
not break do not break, because
scientific figuring enters into their
construction; parts that wear do
not show wear, and need not be re
placed until after long, hard ser
vice. The first cost of a McCor
mick is a little more than the first
cost of other machines, but with
the McCormick you get more than
you pay for, while with the others
you pay for more than you get.
The new McCormick Light-Running
Open Klcvator Harvester and Binder,
the McCormick No. 4 Steel Mower
ud the McCormick Coru Harvester
are uuejualled for capacity, light
draft, efficiency of service and long
life Built, sold and guaranteed by the
McCormick Harvesting Machine Co.,
Chicago
Agents Everywhere.
ivy
Store,
SELLS MILLET AT
ARE BUILT IN
THE LARGEST
IGYGLES. AND BEsT
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FAOOTORY IN
THE WORLD
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than any wheels made. No other ma
N. P. CURTIS CO., Agents.
Lincoln, Neb.
CONSUMERS' PUR0HA8ING AGENCY
Buy Yonr Goods Direct From the Manufacturers-
These hard times compel many to
economize, and if you want to make
what money you have go as far ar possi
ble, I believe I can help you. Since com
ing to Omaha I have had many of my
friends throughout the state write to ma
to make purchases for them, which I have
always freely done and such splendid sat
isfaction has resulted that I have conclu
ded to establish a Consumers Purchasing
Agency. Knowing Inside prices of whole
salers and manufacturers, and buying in
large quantities, I can undoubtedly buy
goods for you cheaper than you could
buy them yourself and if you are in need
of any kind of merchandise, dry goods,
groceries, clothing, farm implements,
buggy, bicycle, any make, or in fact any
thing, I am satisfied I can save you mon
ey by getting you iuside wholesale prices.
If you will write me, giving full par
ticulars about whatyou need, I will quote
you prices on anything you want, and
give you my terms which are very reason
able. This" will be much cheaper than
for you to come to Omaha yourself and
I will be as careful in making a purchase
for you as if I were buying for myself and
I believe I can please any reasonable per-'
son. For further information, terms,
samples, prices etc. write me.
Few Prioee.
Listers, plows, cultivators at wholesale
prices, from $4 to $6, less than you have
to pay at borne. Bicycle entirely com
plete, M & W quick repair or Vim tires,
a perfect beauty lor 55. Write for
Bicycle circular. Good buggy $55.
Farmers two seated spring wagon good
and strong f 52. Mens suits, $4 to $7.50;
boys suits, $1.25 to $3.50; overalls with
or without bib, 45 cents; jumpers, 40
cents; jeans pants, 75 cents to $2; 5 gal.
keg syrup, wo cents to f 1.45; prime Caro
lina rice, 5 cents per lb.; 2 lb. cans corn,
60 and 75 cents per dozen; all kinds of
dried fruits from 5 to 9 cents per lb.; all
kin Is of teas from 19 to 40 cents per lb.;
all k inds of coffee from 22 to 30 centc
per lb.; family mackerel, 10 lb. pails, $1;
imported Holland hering, 10 lb. pails,
85 cents; round shore herring, 10 lb.
pails, 55 cents; decorated dinner sets,
100 pieces, $6.95 and $8.78,
D. Clkm Deaver,
Room 9 Granite block Omaha, Neb.
Business Directory.
lien whoM advertisements appear In this col
oma are thoroughly reliable, and easiness en
trssted to them will receive pro root and carafml
attention.
MCNERNEY & EAGER. Attorneys-at-law,
O Street, Lincoln, Neb. Telephoas 660.
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L. STARK, Attorney-at-Law, Aurora. Ks
braska. I ONQ 4k MATBEW,
L City, Nebraska.
Attooneys-at-Law, Loop
H. B. LOWRT, 1 North 11th 8trt U-
coin, Nebraska.
pH ARLES A. HCNN. Attornsy-at-Law. Or. Ha.
braaka.
DR;
J. M. LDCAS, Dsntlst, Braes Block, Lin
coln, Nebraska. ?
J8HAMP IMPLEMENT CO.. Bohanan Block.
. Lincoln. Neb. Farm Machinery a specialty.
Machines shipped to all part ol the state.
JT. M. 8 WIG ART, Mutual Fir and Cyclone
Insurance, Lincoln, Neb. Agents wanted.
WHEN In Lincoln, Populists should stop at tha
Llndell Hotel. It Is Populist headquarter.
O. WILSON,
eoln, Nebraska.
Attorney -a t-Law. Booms
M and L Burr Block, Lin-
U A
EDWARDS, Attorney-at-Law. Grand
11 land
Neb. Office over First Nat l nans.
BERDROW 4 THOMPSON. Attorneys anl
Counselnrs-at-law, Room 4, over Cent. Neb.
Nat'l Bank, David City, Neb.
WMsi
l.EKSE. Lawyer, m South Eleventh
Street. Lincoln, Neb,, Will personally attend
to all business with care and promptness.
H. D. RHEA,
Attorijey-al-Latf,
Offioe-Sd Floor, Brownell Bleek,
Telephone 108.
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