Nebraska Newspapers

    Lioaal I7sws.
Alfalfa seed at Watklnson's.
Jas. Johansen Is papering the post
office.
Good work harness for *14.00 at T.
M. Read's.
Mr. and Mrs. Sutton are visiting
In Illinois.
Miss Kate Moon is visiting at Greeley
Center this week.
Miss Nellie Ainger received a piano
from Omaha Wednesday.
Foster Bnehner. of Ravenna spent
Sunday at the county seat.
T. L. Pllgar has reduced the price of
Kerosene Oil to 12 cents a gallon.
Garden seed; new stock Just In at the
old reliable Seed store, Watkinson.
Dr.Chase and wife of Custer county
were visiting in Loup City this week.
Mrs. Ramey and sister reurned from
a visit to Grand Island Friday evening.
Photographs 7o cents per doz.
at Leschinsky’s gallery.
John Wall, attorney from Arcadia was
In town yesterday afternoon on busi
ness.
J. T. Hale returned fiom Battle ('reek
Heturday where he has been on busi
ness.
T. L l’llger Is selling all goods for
cash or preduce only. Positively no
credit.
Carpet* a full line of samples carpet
rugs, lace and chenille curtains at VVat
kinson.
H Hancock and wife uro recievmg
a visit from bis daughter Mrs. Brooks
of Denver.
Mrs. Slillmacher has moved her res
staurent into the building recently
vacated by G. II. Gibeon.
Mr Willits. of I’ennsylvanlu and
lather of Mrs. E. 8. lisyburst arrived
here last Saturday evening.
One of St. Paul's leading attorney s,
J.N. Paul was doing business at the
court house In this city yesterday.
West Pedler returned to Caro Mon
day morning after visiting over Sunday
with his brother J. S. and famely,
Mrs. Tbrasber returned from Montana
last Monday and, we understand will
visit her mother for a few weeks.
Engineer Morris of Grand Island made
the Saturday run for J. O’Bryan while
the latter was doing business at Boelus.
Rev. Sutherland, of Grand Island
occupied tbe pulpit at the Baptist
church last Sunday morning and even
ing.
M. Leschinsky is materially improv
ing bis photograph gailary by putting
in a glass front and re-arranging tbe in
terior.
Do you need a washing machine,
clothes wringer, wash boiler, tinware,
or anything in that line. If so call on
T, M. Reed.
F. Eberman, the St. Elmo clerk has
been on tbs sick list the psst week but
was able to make bis usual run to the
train yesterday.
E Holcomb and wife are rejoicing
over the arrival of a 13 pound baby boy
which came te make its home with them
Thursday morning
Quite a distructive wind storm pre
vailed last Tuesday, six mites west of
Loup City. Several wind mill and out
buildings were levied to the ground.
All the different formsof skin troubles
from chapped bands to eczema and in
dolent ulxers can v«e readily cured by
l)e Witts Witch Hazel Salve, the great
pile cure. Odendahl Bros.
J. B. O’Bryan has two excellent var
ieties ot seed potatoes which he is sel
ling reasonable. One variety In parti
cular will make In sixty days after
planting aud is ot a superior (juallty.
Jas. Conley and daughter Minnie of
Custer county drove over to Loup < 'ity
last Saturday afternoon. Mr, Oouley
returned home .Sunday ami Mias Minnie
will attend tbs remaining eight week*
ot the Loup City school.
The ladles of the Baptist church ami
Society will hold an K*»teru Bazar
on April 17th, lu the building one door
cast of Odendahl Bros drug store for
the purpose of paying church indebted
ness. There will he many u-efol arti
cles and Kastern tokens ottered for sale.
Supper will he served at six p in. aud
through the evening. The oltlciaU aud
business nu ll of the city aud friends In
the country are curdlally Invited to
attend and aid the ladies in this work.
The village electlou will be held next
Tuesday The otllcial aud sample bal
lot have been printed with only one set
of uowlttees, and that by petlttou Tire
names ot the candidates are W f. Oik
assn, C. Ilauck. & a llayburst, Vt II
Morris and Ueo, W Hunter, A wove
was m ade to get two uther tickets in
ike gald, owe by the prokl hit low
people, wko also tiled to woiwiuslo by
paltliaai, but talked In gelling *u««*U
signara. Ik* otfcer ticket was oomi
wnlad at a tegnUr and well raprea*oi*d
clliseus earner I hi# l*»t meottonad
Itckal was WMMinsled l» late •» the
law rs»|iitraa tka castrk. «io* ot aorwlna
Hast to b# flled Witk Ik* sillsga atom
ifiaan days letups *kiHue, If a»«wiwa
lod bf caucus. If ki-wiMlsd by petition
only law days fk# ♦a nans tellers die
cut arid than artor t» Uia #»•'« to
amewd ky petition.
UNCLE SAM’S AUCTION SALE.
Annual Dlipoul of the Accumulations of
the n.-a.l letter Office.
One of the queerest “institutions”
of the national capital is the annual
clearance sale of the (lead letter office,
in which avast accumulation of articles
gone astray in the mails is sold to the
highest bidders. The auction house
where it is held is continually crowdod
with excited men, women and children,
and beside it the bargain counters dur
ing the holidays are as havens of rest,
for when Uncle Ham goc* into the junk
shop business great things are expect
ed. As in the church fair raffle, you
pay a small umount of money and trnst
to luck to get bock more than its value.
The articles, previously listed in a
wholesale sort of way, aro tied np in
bundles of from three to a half dozen
and “auctioned” for what they will
bring, the average bids ranging between
10 cents and a dollar.
Nobody is permitted to examine the
goods before pnrehasing, and no money
is refunded to the dissatisfied. Every
body hope* to pnil a genuine plum from
the pie in the shape of a diamond ring,
a silk dress pattern or a silver teapot,
and although comparative blanks are
the rule, there is always the possibility
of a prize. For example, the auctioneer
bolds up one of these odd shuped bun
dles, listed* "pictures, underwear, mu
sic, cigars.” Going—going—gone'—for
00 cents to a dapper young gentleman
who was caught by the word “cigar. ”
He opens it on the sport—an unwise
thing to do if one objects to good Matured
ridicule—and this is what he finds: Hix
cigars, broken into bits with so strong
a»> odor that one wonders how a sledge
hammer could have (lone it; underwear
—a female 10 cent “Jersey;” pictures—
a collection of newspaper cuts designed
for amusement of somo small child.
The lot would be dear at a quarter and
is of no nse to the buyer.
In the dead letter office projier—that
charnel house which swallows nearly
half a million missives every month—it
is positively harrowing. More than 40
bushels of photograph* have accumu
lated there, awaiting the annual crcmu
tion. There are tresses of hair enough
to stuff a dozen mattresses, grandmoth
ers’ silver locks and babies’ golden eurls,
many no doubt cut from dead brows,
and small sums of money which poor
workmen send homo to feed their wives
and little ones, aud servant girls save
from tboir scanty wages for needy i>ar
euts—gone to Uncle Ham’s rich purse,
not because the United Htates wants it,
but because the senders’ writing or or
thography was beyond mortal ken. It is
hard to realize that in this land of
schools, at the closo of the nineteenth
century, there are so many people so
ignorant or so careless as to send several
millions of letters a year without stamp*
or addresses or with addresses which no
man can make out. People seem to be
so intent on what goes into the letters
that they forget all about the superscrip
tion. It is estimated that $4,500,030 in
drafts and $80,000,000 in cash is receiv
ed every year through dead letters.—In
dianapolis Journal.
COST OF A TRAIN.
The Expen*e end Profit* of Travel on
English Hallway Line*.
How many people who travel in trains
ever think of the cost of running them?
It will probably surprise most people
who have traveled from London to Ed
inburgh to know that every mile of the
journey costs the railway company over
half a crown. The cost of the whole
journey from the English to the Scotch
capital is £50.
The averago cost of running a train
in England is 2a ?d. per mile, so that,
the fare being reckoned at Id. per mile,
a train with less than 31 passengers for
each mile is run at a loss. There are
few trains, however, that do not carry
more than this number of passengers,
and many of them carry the number
doubled many times over. It is neces- .
sary frequently to run trains that do not
pay—usually in thinly inhabited coun
try districts—but for every train ruu at
a loss probably 100 are run at an enor
luouil profit.
Take, for instance, the journey from
London to Edinburgh, which costs the
ruilwny company £60. The average
number of "through” passengers in
these trains is probubly 00, in which
case the total fares would bo nearly
£100—a clear gain of nearly £50. Wlw n
it is remembered that these trains ruu
seveml times a day, and every day in
the year, it will lie understood what an
enormous revenue u single line yields in
the course of 12 months. Supposing the
average nuuiU<r of passenger* to lie DO,
the midnight train from Loudou to Kd
i inburgh yields o\rr £20,000 fur diri
1 <lend in a w ill!
The longest railway journey in th»
United Kingdom would probably Isi
from lYuaaucc, in (Van a all. to Thurso,
m the north of toot land, a distance of
over 1,000 Utiles. A train ruuuuig t«<
: tween these two plains would eshaust
; an ordinary clerk’s salary (or a w hole
j year, tint cost Wing uti ha* than hi as.
i —London Tit Htu
Ta (Ins twill.
A Moscow dentist has solved the
pmtdem of supplying the human month
1 With false teeth W hh h Will grow into
the gums as dimly as natural oma Hr
Kamensky h •» |*>«t>u.u.4 ae>«l tie
i earful 11* rations uu dog* as well as
human beings, lies tooth are made of
gutla j*n ha p m Uiu nr Metal, as ito
cans may to
At the b« l of the fats* tiadh ton
M« Made. Ikitrs Me a la* mate upward
into the jaw The t««4h is thru pia<«d
in Ih* isvity. In a stoat time a soft,
granulated growth dials its way fuss
llto patient s jaw into tto hohs in ths
tenth Thu grow Ik gradually hardens
and to oils ths tooth in |»siwa
It to stated ltd it dene us4 matter
wtottor the vavity In wbuh tto hsdk
is to to |il«wl is uns tivw w h to h a net •
oral ii> tb has to>u »»»■*ntly drawa i«
• whether it bsa tom to and fur wane
years • Miasvw L tt. r
FACTS CONCERNING
THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF SHERMAN COHNTY
Continued from last w*H»k.
A poe.n giving an account of the episode at tbe bridge was ale
published in tbe Sherman County Times. It was doubtless written b
C. H. E. Heath although “Comltial Cut" is credited with the produci
ion. Tbe following is the poem with the preface as it then appeared:
AN OLD LAY HKI.AH>.
The following Is a fragments fram a raunu
script found In an ancient Koman vault recently
discovered by Comical Cum' while excavating
for a foundation on which to set bis cabbage
plants. It I* supposed to refer to a contemplat'
ed raid of horse thieves on a place called Op
pldum Lupl some 'Mm year* ago. The bad
condition of the whole of tbe outside and a part
of tbe Inside pages of the manuscript renders
the deciphering of a large portion of It 1m
possible, but I forward the fragments to the
editor, thinking they may possibly prove of
Interest. Comical Cue.
f*. H. • Parts lost or uaintelHglble are denot
ed by asterisks.
Just then a scout came rushing
All pale with fright and fear,
To arms, to arms. Hill Henschoter.
Tbe horse thieves Urey are near.
And new hath every building
Kent up Its tale of mes,
The click of arms Is ringing.
The ring of feet as when
l.avalor led forth armed hosts
To test In deadly strife
Proud Hrlttttmlu's right to quench
Hoth Liberty and Life.
Nox Veuto came from Kearney.
Prince of the rules of law,
f.ulkus too from Hurllngtou
Amid tbe crowd one saw;
JutP-x Mums led tbe host.
With Valeo at bis side.
ril Ml" I'" I' *
To mingle with the tide,
Oden Du ulus from the vale
Where shines Oq lawuka’s towers.
Henna who so lately loft
Iowa’s leafy bower*.
They held a council, standing
lief ore the river gate,
No time there wa* you well may guess
For musing or debate;
Out spoke the mayor roundly,
Upon his face a frown,
If one* the thieve* can cress th« bridge,
Then uuugbt can save the town,
Then out spoke Jude* Murus
In the Judges seat who sate.
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late;
In you straight path a thousand
May well be stopped by thee,
Sow who will stand at my right hand
And keep the bridge with met
Then out spoke brave No* Vento,
ICrlca out spoke he
We each will stand with Colt in band
And guafd the bridge with thee.
Then cross tbe creaking tl in tiers
Out marched tbe gallant three.
One other follow In tbelr path.
A man unknown to me.
* • ♦ • • *
Reclining upon a grassy bed
Now lie the gallant four;
Tobbnco Oder stents the air,
Of stories a full store
Seem piled In each one’s memory
And, woDderous to relate
All seemed entirely to forget,
’Tls their’* to save the gate.
■They come, they come." No* Vento
Now cries with feblc cry,
And quick beneath the bridge's piles
The gallant four to fly,
Murus leaves bla Colt’s behind
Upon that grassy bed,
As that great host with measured tread,
Came slowly toward* the bridges head,
A passage safe to llnd,
Now clearly and more clearly
Amid the gloom appears
Two tall and well proportioned mules.
Four perfect donkeys ears;
A lumber wagon crowds the rear,
With verlous sundry* tilled,
The * polls of many eastern stores,
To Calk Si Kreicbbaum billed.
Then out spake Jude* Murus.
A smile on his proud face,
f now will see If chance It tic.
Of thievish wanderers who propose
This night to sack our place,
Then out beyond the piling
The gallant Muru* sprang
Aud soon the bridge * timbers
With sounding footsteps rang
Then spoke he to the teamster.
The teamster nought heard he,
What do you say." the teamster said.
And added, yes It be
l.uuie very lame tls fur to drive
Within a single day,
Sena thrives not t nor no onu else,"
Thi n added What do you suyf"
The pipes are once more lighted,
Two others join the four.
Aud if the loose thieves hud been near
They would have thought that more
Than slaty and aot sit ware there.
ho pealed the laughter wild
W hen each wltn eager lips would tell
Kvta a story mild
S»t Vauto guyed upon the sky.
And wl|!spared the word rata
I'proae tha sit and cut their stleh*
With all their might aud mala
• • t • • •
They gate them of the glory
To each so wry dear
Not sen »• in u* h a* would suIRge
To gal a glass ■ ■! hear
Hut It the Might at trialar
Whoa tha t.| moth wtada htua
You II hear a n-.wtag tow s tate.
That II tall t <■ suaads#
W tth auagat* of rag Mad taaghtaf
tha story atti hat taht.
Ha* Judas Marwa held the bridge
tM the g.«*» #MI days at Mid
R.igM H p-, ,s the |t»st stthough an
Max • th »>'> at t> v'souwai t'us hatiag am
tatawd tt out „l the sahtraiflw had We ttmaglag
M thtahs a* ar* « * • a eaaueh ta Sara his artta
raw It appear* i . that Sol «ata la IsettR
tor Myhttaga.il Js up Itoru* I* Jwdgg Wall
Manat a*a ss i It-.1' a I* * Ws tt Rrk a sea tarts
tala M> «ih but ee t*« If.- 4* paatteg ut the
aststsiy v» vu* neats t It R Usath ta tba
RReriMaiMuatt t'» ss P»*» t»e»
KARI.V txriHIIMI ok JOHN M HAkKM
iVilrap* Ik" at*«»| l< tt i|« i. n* »1 pi ■ ms 1 ilfe. t'‘nRe«lgs| wllk ikd RRf
nwlllgRigRl Hi hltartuau yvuilf to tba rtpgilggtd of Juba H Hakd
Mi Naknf til iMugg lb* #i*l wllbtr hi U tl* IR lb rfthll >uti»lt, kl
iDg selected his claim on Oak Creek in October, 181‘J. He >• P'1 ^aPs
the oldest man of the early settlers now residing here, if not tbe oldest
, man in the county. A few weeks ago w* received a letter from Mr.
Baker, dated February 26th, 18»7, from which we extract the following:
“1 am eigbty-fiva years old to day and I have lived in Nebraska 20
years, and l propose to add another link to your chain of events in the
t Early History of Sherman County. I came to Sherman county in 18 12
f and picked out my homestead on Oak Creek. I first came from Illinois
' with my family and stopped at Omaha, Nebraska for some weeks. At
Omaha a gentleman told me that he had a squad of meu between the
Middle and North Loup valleys surveying every alternate section for the
B. <& M. R. R. Co., and be was of the opinion that no better land could
bo found in Nebraska than on those streams. This gentleman invited
me to go and stop with the eurveyorefor a few days and see the country,
and learn from them the beet location to secure a homestead that would
suit my fancy. I wanted a farm with timbor and a stream of spring water.
After considering the matter 1 concluded to accept the gentleman s in
vitation, and so came on to Grand Island, which place, I was informed
would be my stopping etatieD. On my arrival at Graud Island I put
up at the Franklin Hotel, of which Cyrus E. Rossetci was then proprietor.
All the boarding houses ia Grand Island were crowded with people,
many of whom, like myself were looking for homes in the west. At the
Franklin Hotel I met Martin Benschoter and told him that I intended to
go up into the Loup country, and also about the party of surveyor*. Mr.
Benseboter also desired to see the Leup Country and so we made necess
ary arrangement* for the trip. We hired a union solder at $t. per day
to take us not to exceed one hundred miles the round trip. This was
the last ot October, and we went in persuit of tbe Taylor out tit of
surveyors. We fouod them on Davis Creek near the Hberman county
line. They gave us a friendly welcome and treated us to venison and
the best comforts their eamp afforded. The next morning they movid
to Oak Creek, where 1 have always lived since coming to Nebraska
We went from Oak Creek to the Middle Loup valley and then returned to
Grand Island. Mr. Benschoter was favorably impressed with the Loup val
ley but did not fully decide where to locate. I had concluded to take tny
homestead on Oak Creek and at once net about to build a small house
As Mr. Benschoter was deeireous of seeing more of the country so he pro
posed to build my house for me if he might be allowed to occupy it un
til I would need it for my family. I bought a heavy load of lumber
in Grand Island, hired a livery team with Frank Hicks as driver and
with Mr. Benschoter started again for Oak Creek. We had borrowed
a set of carpenter tools from Mr. Kosseter and had with us a good sup
ply of provisions and blankets. The weather was nice and warm when
we started out but we experienced a very sudden change towards even
ing. When we got into the sand bills about ten miles out from Grand
Island one of the horses balked and we sent Mr. Hicks back after another.
It was Dearly night when Mr. Hicks started back and he did not return
until the next morning. During the night a fearful wind storm set in,
and in two houis the mercury dropped »0 degrees, and to 10 below zero.
Mr. Benschoter bad taken the preeaution to take a spade along. Bo
commenced building what was afterwords called Fort Baker, a small pea
about 4x0 feet in size aDd eighteen inches high. This was done
for our prelection. We turned the wagon box over the structure to
serve aa a roof. We entered the fort about an hour after sun dewn end
laid on the prairie grass, side by side, with three double Indian blankets
over us. We covered onr heads to protect our eyes from the driftiug
■and. My feet began to get cold but soon got so benumbed that I per
eieved it not. My companion said that we had better get up and go
to the houee of Mr. Annone, a blacksmith who lived about three miles
and a half miles to the northeast. I told him that 1 dare not attempt it
as I was near sixty years old. Frank bad left one horse tied to the
wagon and it was constantly whinnering for its mate. The full moon
was shining brightly, and we were afraid that the wolves, which could
be heard not far away, would come and ham string the horse; in fact
l was afraid that they would attempt to ham string us. Mr. Benschoter
thought his feet would freeze if he remained there all night, so after care
fully wraping a blanket around my feet he started for the Annons place.
m.„ _A r. i.ui, nn/l fUo letvwl nraa Hvittff irw>lnnda W hf»n ha raa.f«hari
Annons at 1 o’cloek in the morsing he was completely exhausted. He
said to me the next morning that be could not have walked forty rods
farther to have saved his life. The timely arrival ot Mr.* Benscboter
and Mr. Hicks the next morning saved me from being a helpless
cripple for life. I went t* Mr. Annons where I temained for two days
when I returned to Grand Island. I paid Peter Ksitges *10. to haul
my lumber from the sand hills on to Oak Creek and to Peter Uetliefs
house, a distance of some 20 miles.
Soon afterwords 1 had another load of lumber taken to Oak Greek,
where on my arrival I expected to find Mr. Benschoter and Mr. Hicks
but they had gone to the Middle Loup, and preferring that part of Sher
man county, they afterwords located at what is now known as tke county
seat. At that time there were only three families living in the
Middle Loup valley betweeu the two towns sow known at Loup City ami
Dcnnebrog. These famelies wore Stephens. Webster, and Johnson.
Peter Hetlieft and Kd Nelson were about the only settlers on Oak. They
had just buit their dug-out.”
Mr. Baker bis always bees an active ami enterprising citizen and
bus done much towards the development ot Shermua county. He was
elected county commissioner in 187 1 and served the people in that eapu
city with perfect satisfaction. Ho ami his aged wife still occupy the old
homestead ou Oak Greek. Sow# ten years ago, ami on the 8th day of
Noveober, Ihmo, they eelebrxtsd their golden wedding aunevereery i<>
which an invitation was generally extended to alt the old settlers They
are now liviug iu their sixty-first year of married life.
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t'uahiiued ueit week.
l». 0. INilC. A. r. Ct'U.KY,
Vice I*re*11leul 1 Miner.
FIRST BANK OF LOUP CITY.
General Banking Business Transacted.
Oapttal Sleek. MO .000.