GOOD OLD SHERIDAN COUNTY.
Just because Sheridan county is away up yonder in the north
west part of the state, 'don't get the idea into your heads that it is
a vast stretch of sand hills. Sand hills there are, to be sure, but!
not so obtrusive as they used to be. The sand hill region is growing
smaller every year as the settler with his herds and flocks and plows
comes along and does things. Time was when the pioneer looking
for a homestead would have turned up his nose at Sheridan county
but that was because the early pioneer had his "picks." Today
Sheridan county is right in the game when it comes to producing
agricultural and live stock wealth.
You must bear in mind that Sheridan is comparatively new.
Counties as far east as Merrick and Tork and Clay are looking old
and sedate when Sheridan was yet a wild waste. And Sheridan
county today is vastly better fixed than York or Clay or Merrick
when those counties were Sheridan's age. Lest you get the mistaken
idea in your head that Sheridan county is devoted almost wholly to
grazing we stop the press long enough to remark that in 1910 that
county produced $1,500,000 of agricultural wealth. Corn, she pro
duced 495,555 bushels ! Wheat, she produced 291,000 bushels. Oats,
she produced 223,000 bushels. Hay, she produced 27,000 tons of
wild hay and 11,000 tons of alfalfa. She produced 336,000 bushels of
potatoes. Bless you, Sheridan is going to be the greatest "spud"
producing section of the great west. And cattle ! Say, believe us,
Sheridan county is some producer of the grass fattened steer. She
is sending an average of 35,000 head of fat steers to market every
year, to say nothing of hogs and sheep and horses and mules. And
mind you, Sheridan county hasn't got a really good start yet. She
has just begun the task of finding herself. She has just started out
to tell folks about what' she has and is and is yet to be. And when
Sheridan county fairly gets into her stride she is going to make
some of the eastern Nebraska counties go some to keep in sight.
THE BINDER TWINE SHORTAGE.
If there is really a shortage in the supply of binding twine in
Nebraska, the fault is that of the dealers in twine. Will Maupin's
Weekly has been telling them all along that the small grain crop
was going to be a record breaker. While the pessimists were whin
ing, and the so-called experts were telling you that the small grain
crop was away below the average, Will Maupin's Weekly kept tell
ing you that the yield would be up to the average and the acreage
vastly increased. And you can always depend upon what Will
Maupin's Weekly says about Nebraska and her crops and her re
sources. It hasn't any axes to grind. It is not engaged in either
bulling or bearing the markets. It hasn't anything to sell except its
subscription and advertising space. And when you want to know
real facts and figures about Nebraska, unbiased by selfish motives,
just ask this newspaper. Will Maupin's Weekly could have told the
binder twine people what to' do had they seen fit to ask.
NEBRASKA DIRT IS VALUABLE.
John Morbach recently purchased 80 acres of unimproved land
near Bellwood, Butler county. He paid $190 an acre for the 80-
acre tract. That establishes a record for unimproved farm land in
Nebraska but it is a record that will be shattered to fragments
inside of the next two or three years. Nearly two hundred dollars
an acre for unimproved farm land right in the middle of what was
pointed to as the Great American Desert less than fifty years ago,
Wouldn't that jar yout The editor of Will Maupin's Weekly has
been in Nebraska less than a quarter of a century, but he can remem
ber the time when he could have bought the best farm in Butler
county for $50 an acre, improvements and all. Yet here comes a
man who gladly parts with. $1UU an acre tor land that nasn t a
building on it. It costs a lot more money to get land now than it
did a quarter of a century ago, but there is just as much profit to
be made on land deals during the next twenty-five years as there
has been during the last twenty-five years.
THE EPWORTH ASSEMBLY.
One of the big assets of Lincoln is the Epworth assembly, soon
to be opened. It annually brings thousands of people to Lincoln,
which means a handsome increase in the volume of business. More
than than, it affords our own people an opportunity for moral and
intellectual uplift. With possibly one exception the Epworth assem
bly is the largest Chautauqua meeting in the United States.
Monday, July 8, two car loads of Nebraska cattle sold on the
South Omaha market at $9.50 per hundredweight the highest price
ever paid for cattle on that market, and higher than any price
paid since the civil war. These steers were fattened by Ed Graham
of Creston. We've about made up our mind that the days of cheap
beef are over.
Tt. lnnlrn n Kit nnr1tr mnat rf tliA timn in MaVi.nelra Yioba Intra
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but that is because so many steam threshers are pouring their smoke
Heavenward.
William Howard Taft seems content to sit tight while his
former godfather and present detractor butts his head off against
the stone wall.
Professor Woodrow Wilson, educator and publicist, is daily
giving evidence of knowing a bit more than a thing or two about
practical politics.
The "spud" crop in Nebraska will be something immense, but
we greatly fear that the price per bushel is going to compel us to
list them under the title of "dessert."
Merely to evidence our friendship for Omaha we desire to call
attention to the fact that just now the metropolis is worrying about
her water supply.
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David Karum ' Out Hammed" in Chicago
CHICAGO. When Samuel Baker.
1106 South Wood street, had to
knock down part of his barn and re
build it to get back on its feet a
horse which be had recently pur
chased he decided that be had been
swindled by one Harry Goldstein, 1024
South Robey street, and brought suit
against him.
How David Harum was out-Ha-rumed
was shown at the hearing be
for Municipal Judge Dolan. The horse
had been guaranteed to be able "to
lie down and get up." According to
Baker, the animal could lie down, all
right, but getting it back on its feet
again was like moving the Alps.
Baker testified that he had tried
the horse for one day, but had neg
lected to test it on the "lying down"
proposition. He said he returned the
horse to Goldstein and, after some
dickering, in which the purchase price
was reduced from $125 to $80, the deal
was closed.
When he placed the animal in his
stable for the night, the horse lay
down. It still was lying down when
Baker went to the stable the next
morning. Baker pulled and tugged
and tugged and pulled at the halter,
but in vain. Assistance was sum
moned, props were placed under the
prostrate animal and impromptu der
ricks were tried. It was of no use
Every time the horse was raised a
few inches it fell back harder and was
imbedded deeper in the straw. ,
"1 couldn't budge him," Baker told
the court. "The horse lay there son
of helpless. Finally we had to knock
out part of the barn and drag him
out."
Baker said he then returned the
borse to Goldstein and demanded his
money back. Goldstein testified that
be bought back the horse from Bakei
for $20. This was denied by the
complainant, who alleged that Gold
stein sold the horse to another pur
chaser for $55. Goldstein said thai
when the horse was returned it
showed signs of ill treatment, and he
offered to prove to Judge Dolan that
it could both lie down and get up "as
advertised." The court declined tc
witness the exhibition.
Sells Flies, Dodges Boxcar for a Bed
CLEVELAND, O. The 10 cents a
hundred that the city pays for
dead flies enabled Harry Carmine, a
Chicago tinner, to pay for a bed in a
"flop house" the other night. Instead
of sleeping In a box car, as he had
done the night before.
Carmine called at the municipal fly
bureau at the city hall shortly before
it closed and Inquired If it were true
that the city paid 10 cents a hundred
for dead flies. Being assured that
was the truth, he departed and re
turned In a short time.
"This Isn't any kid. Is It?" he In
quired. "We pay 10 cents a hundred tor the
bodies of flies," Miss Florence Due
rlnger, In charge of the bureau, re
plied. "Well, here la a bunch then," said
Carmine. "I'll be - back tomorrow
with a cigar box full."
"I got in here from Chicago Wed
nesday night in a box car. It was
mighty cold, too.
"I came down town early and start
ed out in hunt of work. There was
nothing doing, and at noon I sat down
to rest in one of the shelter houses
on the square. I picked up a paper
and read where they was paying 10
cents a hundred for dead flies.
"I said to myself. 'Here is where
Harry sleeps between the sheets this
evening.'
"I went to a - saloon and asked if
they would allow me to catch flies in
the front window. They told me to
get out, and I tried a butcher shop
with the same result.
"I then went to two or three of th
market houses. Luck was better, and
I had a whole handful of flies when
I hunted up' the city ball. It was
hard work, though.
"I stilt thought It might be a joke,
or that perhaps the offer was good
only for children, so I decided to ask
a few questions before I made a com
plete fool of myself.
rhe t-argest Candle.
; The making of an ordinary domestlo
wax or tallow candle is sufficiently
wonderful to the lay mind to excite
comment, but a candle has lately been
lighted In Rome that is 11 feet 3
inches in height, and will burn for six
years.
In various places of worship candle
are used in their symbolic sense, can
dles of vast proportions, but the one
in question is a giant of Its clan. The
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moth candle was to construct the wick,
a wick that would burn clearly and
cleanly, and need no snuffing. -
Suspended by a derrick over a rat
of boiling wax, the wick was dipped
no fewer than 200 times, till the re
quired quantity of wax adhered to it
and between each dip the wax picked
up had to dry off.
Thought She Was Poisoned.
Eugene H. Garnett of Chicago was
called upon at a banquet given by the
Chicago Bar association recently.
He said: A lady who lives on
Greenwood avenue not more than a
mile from the corner of Fifty-first
street, gave a dinner recently. There
were twelve fct the table. One of the
courses consisted of soft-shell crabs.
A guest who was fond of this delicacy
and who allowed his appetite to get
the better of his breeding, asked for a
second crab. Now it happened that
the market man had delivered only
thirteen crabs, and on the evening of
the dinner there was a nurse in the
house who was being served upstairs.
The thirteenth crab had gone to her.
"The butler, though much aston
ished at the request of the guest for
a second crab, walked apparently un
perturbed out of the dining-room, then
bolted up the back stairs to the room
occupied by the nurse, gave a hasty
glance at the tray, shouted, 'Thunder
ation, she has eaten the crab,' and
rushed downstairs again. Not more
than a minute later the frightened
inurse burst into the dining-room, cry
ing, "What was the matter with it?"
To Succeed Foraker.
Washington. President Taft sent
to the senate Tuesday the nomination
of Secundino Romero to be United
States marshal for New'Mexico to sue
ceed Creighton Foraker, a brother of
former Senator Joseph B. Foraker of
Ohio. Published reports have de
clared that Foraker resigned for po
litical reasons.
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W. C. HOWtY
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day passed the bill to create a depart
ment of labor, the secretary of which,
shall have a place in the cabinet. The
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Notice of Petition.
Estate No. 3091, of Emma Cloyd, de
ceased, in County Court of Lancaster
County, Nebraska,,
The State of Nebraska, To all per
sons interested in said estate, take
notice, that a petition has been filed
for the appointment of Margaret L.
Nelson as administratrix of said
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