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Loup City Northwestern. I VOLUME XXI. LOUT CITY, NEBRASKA. FRIDAY JANUARY 8. 1904 NUMBER 8 H OFFICIAL DIRECTORY- j SHERMAN COUNTY, NEB. (i. H. Gibson, Clerk. 8. N. swkbtland. Treasurer. J. A. Anouk, Judge. J. 8. Pkih.br, Attorney, L. A. Williams. Sheriff. K. D. Ukndkicason, Supt. Public Inst. E B Ookking, Surveyor, t'. E, Bkbwbh, Coroner. SUPERVISORS : D C grow. Dlst No. 4., Chairman., P O address, Loup Citv, Neb. Andrew Gorstka, Dlst. No 1„ Ashton P O Peter Thode, Di t. No. 2 Loupi ity, •• •• W O Brown, Dlst. No. 3, Loup City, •' •• John Maibpski, Dlst. No. 5, Ashton, “ •• WM Jak .h, Dlst. No 8, Uockville, •• W H. chapman, Dlst. No. 7, Litehtleld “ “ LOCAL LODGE DIRECTORY. Loup City Lodge No. 33, A O U W.—Meets 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month. Friendship Lodge No. 19. D of H.—1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. Loup City Council No 138, L M L A—1st and 3rd Monday ot each month Matcland Castle, No. 182. Royal Highlanders. 2nd and 4th Monday of each month. Exce»sior Lodge. No. 186. I O O F— 1st and 3nd Saturday of each month. Murimon Lodge, No. Ill, K of P—2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month. Loup City Camp, No. 636. M VV A—1st and 3rd. Tuesday of each month. Loup City Camp No. 827. U N A—2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month. Porter Lodge, No. 106, A F & A M—Tuesday on or before full moon and 2nd Tuesday thereafter. Joppa Chapter No. 52, It A M—1st Monday of each month. Orental Chapter. No. 78—1st and 3rd Sat urday of cash month. L of G A R—2nd and 4 th Saturday of each month, at 2 o'clock p. m. F. S. ROBBINS LOUP CITY’S U P-TO-DATE BARBER. FIRST-CLASS WORK SATISFACTION GtJAKANTEED. Agent for Aurora Steam Laundry. . ■ PHOTOGRAPHER, LOUP CITY, NEB. Photographs, Farm views, stock pictures, •tc. Fiuest instrument west of the Missouri river. All work stricly guaranteed. Rnheri- P, Starr. Attorney-at-Law. LOUP CITY. NEBRSSKS. JACOB ALBERS. AUCTIONEER, Loup City. Neb I have had twenty years of Ex perience and I am sure that I can give vou satisfaction. Try me. S A. ALLEN, DEJVTIST, LOUP CITY, • • NEB, OFFICE —One door east of St. Elmo Hotel. Mv equlppment Is modern and my prices will be as low as can be ex. pected for «*ood work. I would be pleased to have you call. Open tvemngs. In a dental operation the main consider, atlon Is the result. The pain la greatly modllled by modern equlppment. Dr. a. R NORTON, Veterinary Surgeon and HORSE DENTIST. OFFICE. —At my new residence second door east of opera house. LOUP CITY. : . NEBRASKA * City Dray AND Transfer Line. J. W. & A. T. Conger, Props All kinds of hauling W’lll be given prompt attention and will make a specialty of moving household good. We solicit your patronage. LOUP CITY. - - - NEBRASKA. W J. FISHER, Attorney at Law and Notary Public. Will Dafand la Foreclosure Cases also oo ▲ General Real Estate Business. I LOW CITY. MtOBlULi. \ -- jC7.it £ .a-■*, . * > HONOLULU^ LETTER An Interesting Letter From C. E- Gibson on Return Trip From Japan. Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, December 20th, 1903. Mr. Editor:—! thought I would drop you a few lines today as 1 have time. I am as well as usual and hope my friends are all the same. On November 5th, 1903 we went to Yokosko, Japan to go into dry dock, going in the same day. It is a very hard place to enter especial ly at the entrance of the dry dock but we got there just the same and as the ship settled on her hulks the work of scraping her sides and bottom began. Jaj lanese men do ing the work. On Monday next we came out at 7:30 o’clock in the morning and proceeded to the same old place, Yokohama, where we rigged ship for coaliiig and the next morning the crew commenced handling the black diamonds, we got through coaling the same day and proceeded to clean up our home. On November 13th, 1903 we se cured everything for sea to leave next morning for Kobe, Japan. On the evening before we left, (the 13th) the apprentices of the 1\ S. S. Oregon and New Orleans gave a banquet for all apprentices of the Asiatic fleet. We gathered at the Yokohama City Hall at 8:00 o’clock in the evening and the ball started rolling with a two-step played by the Wisconsin’s band. At 10:00 o’clock wre had supper which was served by the Japanese. It was something grand. Every body ate a hearty meal and after ward we continued dancing. At eleven o’clock the “Home Sweet Home,” waltz was played after which that old, but well known piece, the “Star Spangled Hanner,” was played and all the Jackies took off their hats to that grand, old flag, “The Stats and Stripes,” and then three hearty cheers rang out for the Ensign which was spread from one side of the stage to the other and then we all proceeded to our different ships. □ The next morning, the 14th of November, 1903, we made a fleet sweep and was on our way to Kobe. We arrived there at 2 bells or 1 o’clock and dropped our anchor just astern of the “Kentucky.” We lay there until the 24th of November, while there we played the Kentucky boys a game of football, which was a very exciting game. Hut we lost by a score of 12 to 0. On the 24th we pulled up our anchor at ten o’clock and proceeded to Yokohama. It took us two days this time be cause we encountered some very rough weather and it took us much longer. We arrived in Yokohama the 20th or Thanksgiving day and had a very nice dinner. Then we got hurry-up orders, as we called them, to coal and proceed to Honolulu, thence to Panama but afterward we found it was only to Honolulu. We commenced handling the black diamonds on the morning of the 2d of December and got tlifough coaling the next morning. We then cleaned up and stood ready for starting. On Saturday, December 5th we started for Honolulu with the Kentucky first, Wisconsin sec ond, and Oregon third. The cruiser squadron under com mand of Admiral Cooper on the U. S. S. New Orleans, left on the :5rd two days ahead of the battleship squadron. The cruiser squadron consists of the l'. S. Ships, “New Orleans” as Flagship, “Raliegh,” “Albany” and “Cincinnati” and the collier, “Pompey.” The battleship squadron consists of the U. S. Ships “Wisconsin,” “Oregon” and “Ken tucky” and the collier, “Na.shau.” Admiral Cooper transferred liis Flag from the l\ S. F. S., “Wiscon sin” to the 1'. S. Cruiser, “New Or leans” on November 4th, 1903 and as he left the “Wisconsin” her crew gave him three hearty cheers to show the appreciation of many kind tilings he had done for us. We cer tainly hated to loose our Admiral and also our “F.” While in Yokohama we pulled a boat race with the “New Orleans” and lost by a second in time. We are going to give the “Kentucky” boys another football game in Hono lulu. We had a very nice trip all the way, being out of the typhoon belt, but it was very cold coming across. We took a course nearlv straight south to keep out of the typhoon belt, which is lrotn four to six days out of Yokohama, Japan, It’s no pleasant thing to lie in a typhoon and when you do get into one you cannot tell how it is going to aet. You may come out all right and again you may not. It is just a little over a year since the “Oregon” struck a typhoon between Honolulu and Yokohama. The crew of the ship say now, that they neyer ex pected to see land again. Since this ship has been in commission she has traveled about 32,000 miles being in commission about three years, and being either in dry dock or tied up along side the dock 1 s months out of that time. She went in commission February 1901. The “Wisconsin” is a first class battle ship built by “Union Iron hoiks, .-sail i rancisco, vain., Keel laid in 1809. Her speed set at building for government acceptance was 10 f knots but she made 18.8 knots at her main trial trip. She has a battery of four thirteen inch, fourteen six inch, main battery and sixteen six pounders, six one pound ers, four being automatic, two Colts automatic which is her secondary battery and four torpedo tubes. Iler coal capacity is 1350 tons, her tonnage is about 11,500 tons, she is 302 feet long and lias a beam of 72$ feet, she has held the world's record in target practice with 13 inch guns, making 23 out of 32 but was beat lr, the “Alabama,” her sister ship, by 30 out of 32. We will have target practice in Manilla, I*. I., when we go down there and we are going to try t > make 32 out of 32 or perfect. On December 13th, 1903 we crossed the 180 meridian at 5:30 in the morning giving us two Sunday's. So you see we beat you folks in the states by having an extra Sunday. At noon on the lG'h we sighted a place much nearer to our dear be loved homes than Yokohama which was Honolulu, and at 2:30 we drop ped our anchor and our propellors stopped turning for awhile. About supper time the cry of “Mailo, Mailo,” was heard and we certainly did muster around for our mail. We passed just 200 miles south of Midway Isle. Well I must close, hoping this will find you well as it leaves me, I remain as ever your friend, 0. K. (illJHON, App. 2nd Class. C. S. S. Wisconsin. I‘. S.—At 11:15, on the night of December 13, Fireman McAllister died of heart trouble, lie was 35 years old. At. 10 o’clock a. in. Dec. 14, the flagship, “Kentucky” signaled for squadron to stop and the sermon was preached by Lieut. Commander II. T. Mato. At 9:40 we were called to our quarters and marched aft on the quarter deck. Then the word was piped, ‘mil hands bury the dead.” After the sermon, the body, which was sew ed up in a canvas with two six inch ■ shells made fast to sink it, was dropped over the starboard sid<> of the deck. A salute of three volley s was then fired by the Marine guard after which taps was sounded by our ship’s bugler. Our band played a funeral march and we were march ed aft, then they played “Nearer My God To Thee,” and the body was sent to its watery grave We then proceeded under our previous order to Honolulu. -♦ - LOUP CITY ENTERPRISE 'Thinking that the readers of the Northwestern might be inter ested in knowing the large amount of business that has been done at the Loup City brick yard we asked Mr. Henry Olilseu one of the pro prietors, to furnish us with a com plete statement of the past year's work which he kindly consented to do and the following is his report: Ki>. Northwestern.—Jan. 2nd, I no:;.- By your request this morn ing 1 have prepared a statement of the volume of business done at our yards during the year 1003: We have made 850,000 brick during the last season and have worked on an average of ten men at the yard and have employed an average of six men on buildings out side the brick yard. We have sold brick on car since January 1st. 1 i,000 brick for Sargent 40,000 for Comstock, 135,000 for Arcadia 50, 000 for FarweJl, 70,000 for Ashton and 48,000 for Rockville. In ad- j dition to these amounts we have received orders from other places but the demand was so great that we could not (ill them. Since January 1st, 1903 we have built the following brick houses: One for Ileury Hines, near Ashton 22 by 32, a story anil a half high, at a cost of $865.; one for E. Shu mann, main part 28 by 32 anil a kitchen 14 by 14, cost $1,100.; one for 11. D. Hendrickson, a T house, 10 by 24 and 16 by 24, cost $900.; Chris Zwink, chicken house, 14 by 24, cost $150; Chas. Conhiser, ware house, 20 by 40, cost $450; Chas. Swaderer, brick house, 26 by 30, contract price $660; Sherman coun ty poor farm, 28 by 28 and kitchen 16 by 20, contract price $1,425; Ed. Kilpatrick, brick house, 26 hv 28, contract price $650; John Wall, brick store in Arcadia; Hans Ober millcr, story and a half, 26 by 28 contract price, $1,040; E. A. Draper, Loup City, 26 by 28, kitchen 16 by 16, cost $1,200; Carl Kash, Divide, brick house 2 2 by 2 4, contract price $540; Walter Smith, Loup City, brick house 24 by 26. These are all the houses we have built in the past year, hut a large amount of brick has been used for cellars and foundations. The basement and foundation under the new flour ing mill took 25,000 brick; W. O. Brown had foundation under house and barn with 12,000. We used 10,000 brick in the cellar and found ation for J. Pedler; 11,000 for the foundation of the C. Biemond resi dence, 9,700 for the foundation of the new house of (i. S Leininger, now being built. 15,000 brick has also been used in the foundation of lilt; u. i . rirvJiLur. We are figuring on several more brick houses that arc quite likely to go up in early spring. Among them are houses lor Geo. Lee, W. T. Draper, Will Engle, August Rei man ami a parsonage to the German church, also a brick residence at Earwell for Mr. Ganditz, mail j clerk on the l>. it M. The above is a brief statement of what we have been doing the past year but we hope to do even more the coming season. Thanking you for so much valu able space I am Yours respectfully, IIenry Oulsen m m* I LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA. H BUYS, SELLS MD REHTS I REAL ESTATE I RESIDENT AGENT FOR B. & M. LANDS I AND LINCOLN LAND CO. TOWN LOTS. ■ JOHN J. CZAPLEWBEI’i I Polish Grocery and Shoe Store I West side Public Square, I I Fine, large 9toek of groceries on hand at the open- | ■-> ing and more goods coming. I handle everything in H the grocery line and will sell on close margins. fl I will pay highest market price for ■ butter and eggs. I 1 have a line stock of Shoes, all new Goods and n l invite the public to call, get acquainted and learn my jfl prices. I .Mrmra.v i i . —— i j A Model Lunch Room. ; m&RUS RW RULx HOURS. j ■ • OPE2 FROM 6:30 A- M- TO 11=30 P, M, *- ! ^ OYSTERS ANY STYLE ; FRESH BREED END BUNS FROM THE j CELEBRETED CESS BROS BEKERY OF EURORE. \ Also Pies and Cakes for sale bere. I Two Doors West of Post Office. \ BAYNE & JONES, Loi i> City, Nebraska. Q § . i wigaggEsoaDcgnoaoacgcioianraiianonncianananaoay IBKHBraaBnBBBBBBBBHBBBaBHMBBBBHHHMHHHHMHH •*38J. I. DEPEWS^* Blacksmith 9 Wagon Maker, $«0< >000009^ My shop is the largest and best equipped north of th.' Platte River I have a four horse engine and a complete line of the latest Improved, ma chtuery, also a force of experienced men who know how to operate It and j turn out a Job with neatness and dispatch. MY PRICES ARE REASONABLE AND PROMPT! ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL CUSTOMERS, g | Soliciting your patronage 1 am g Yours respectfully, p J. I. DEPEW, Loup City, Neb. 8 mbsssssih tn»iin t.rsM Tfii-.r9^n:,v-i^inraw«iw,v«w»w«—■ I GRAIN, GOAL. AND HOGS. BOUGHT AT THE B & M. ELEVATORS MCALPINE, LOUP CITY, SCHAUPP SIDING, ASHTON AND FARWELL. Coal for Sale at Loop City and AsBton. Will Bay . ’■ ■ HOGS AT SCHAUPP SIDING AND FARWELL . Call and see our coal and get prices on grain. 1 E. G- TAYLOR.
