The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917, January 05, 1905, Image 1
; v;*i. . 1**^ , k jr Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXII. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 11)05. NUMBER 8 Professional Cards R. J. NIGHTINGALE Attorney and Conuelcr>at>Lav LOUP SITY. NEB AARON WALL j Lawyer Practices in all Courts Loup City, Neb. ROBT.P. STARR Attorney-at-Law. LOUP CITY, NEBRSSKS. •?/. //. .TI/J./D Bonded Abstracter Loup City, - Nebraska. Ouly set of Abstract books in county aTs.main, Physician and Surgeon Office at Telephone Residence Connection LOUP CITY, - - NEBR. J. H. LONG PI7SIGIIN art SURGEON Office Opposite St- Elmo TELEPHONE CONNECTION W. L. MARCY. BB Office, West Side of Square. Your Dental woik solicited, CO^GEP’S Clip Gray aal War Gat J. W. & A. T. Coxger, Props. All kinds of hauling will be given prompt Attention and will make a specially ot moving household good. Ice delivered in Any part of town. Your patronage solicited, LOUP CITY, . . NEBRASKA. P. Hoogenboezem CONTRACTOR Loup City, - Neb. Sign Work and Graining a Spe cialty. Wall Paper and Mouldings. Open Day and Night • ^ Meals AM Hours Gant, Oyatars aal M in Season. » i I Constantly on hand. •W. J.jvTulick, Loup City, Nebr. SI Eta Ban A. L. GILBERT. Prop. Fine Livery Turnouts IN CONNECTION. Having recently purchased this well known stable and added to it m many ways, I am bet'er prepared than ever to serve you right. Give Us a Trial THE NORTHWESTERN TERMS:—91.00 PER TEAR. IP PAID IE ADVAHCl Entered at the Loup City Postofflce (or tram mission through the mails as second class matter. Office’Phone, - - • Rll Residence ’Phone, - - H12 J. W. BURLEIGH. Ed. and Pub. A new disease differing in symp toms from the cornstalk disease of the las' few years is causing con sternation among the farmers of neighboring counties. The governmant crop report shows the corn crop to be nearly two billion and five hundred millions of bushels. These figures are nearly up to the 1902 figures od the coru crop, which was ihe largest ever grown. The hearing of the injunction asked by the B. & M. and U. P., to restrain county trersurers and tux commissioners of various counties through which the roads pass in this state from enforcing the collec tion of delinquent taxes will be heard Jan. 16, the first day of the federal court term at Lincoln. A man told us the other day that we didn’t publish all the things that happened, say; an exchange. We should say we don’t. In the first place place we have others who depend on us for a living. If we published all that happened we should soon be with the angels. In order to please the people we must print only the good things about them and leave the rest t > go°sip. Ye-*, its a fact, we don’t print all the news. It we did wouldn’t it- make spicy reading. But this would be for one day only, The next day you would read our obituary, and there would be a new face in heaven. “All the news” is all right when it is about the other fellows. A member of the legislature from Sherman couuty in a speculative mood predicted that in a few years the great mail order stores of Chi cago and other eastern cities would establish other county agencies in many states of the middle west, with the result that other dealers would be driven out of business. Merchants from all sections of the state report that the farmers are purchasing more and more each year through the medium of the bulky catalogues which are sent out. The result of the transfer of traffic to the mail order houses has been gradually reducing the busi ness of merchants, especially in the hardware lines: Should branch houses be established as predicted the farmers would eventually find themselves trading with a single dealer unhampered by competition and for that reason their course appears shortsighted.—Daily News. Reports from several sections of the state to the Lincoln Mews indi cate that the dry weather of the past two months has resulted in much cornstalk disease. Custer and many adjoining cattle counties seem to have been hit the hardest and the loss has been especially great dur ing the cold weather of the paft week. A prominent stockman, of that section says the trouble seems to be due to the fact that the cattle eat the dry stalks and do not drink enough water to aid in the diges tion of the woody matter. Animals which have been subjected to post mortems have been fouud to have solid lumps of woody matter in their s'omachs. In many instances cat’le die in fields adjoining those of another farmer whose cattle thrive and are healthy. It is said the cause of the difference is the fact that the diseased cattle do not have green forage, which serves to keep the woody matter from be coming hard in their stomachs. The theory among the farmers who are losing cattle is that the cold weath er causes the animals to drink less water than they need to keep the solids in condition for digestion The lack of rainfall recently has caused the stalks to become very dry. When the season is wet the stalks absorb the moisture and are in a much more digestible condition. An erroneous impression seems to prevail in certain quarters over the intents and purposes of the newly organized Comuercial Club in this city. It has been circulated that the club has been formed for the purpose of controlling the ac tion of the board in the matter of roads and against the interests oi farmers, etc. Such is not the case. Toe organization is formed to aid the farmers adjacent to Loup City to secure better roads into the city, from all directions, and for the bet terment of all existing conditions of both farmers and business men. We are sorry so wrong an idea lias gone forth and trust it may quickly disappear. While good roads is one of the great incentives for organiza tion, it is only one of many. The light, water, drainage, and the bet terment of the business and sani tary conditions of the city will come in for just consideration, and in fact all questions of local business import will receive the best care of the club. Kvery business man and every farmer in this adjacent terri tory are earnestly solicited to be come members and lieip carry for ward their best commercial interests The Chicago boodling of a few years ago and the immense alder manic rascality at St. Louis last year pale into insignificance by the the side of the g'gantic election frauds and ballot-box stuffing by the democrats of Denver and Colo rado in general at last fall’s elec tion, as being now brought to light. So great are the frauds that the supreme court of that state has or dered an investigation of ever-, vot ing precinct in Denver, and the in vestigation may extend over the whole state. Already enough fraud has been unearthed to show up some 20,000 fraudulent registra tions in Denver alone, and it is con fidently expected the result will show Peabody elected by a hand some maiority, and will also resu+t in the defeat of Henry M. Teller to a seat in the U. S. senate. We understand that a number of young people from this county ex pect to attend the Grand Island Business and Normal College at Grand Island, Neb. There is no doubt about the high standing of this school as it has been twenty years under the management of President Hargis, one of the best kuown educators in the West, and has a -yearly enrollment of one thousand students. Those wrho have not the ready money for ex penses and who want to be inde pendent, are allowed to pay after they graduate and have been placed in positions. We advise all who are interested to send for their free catalogue. Clear Creek Chat The M. W. A. are hustling new members. , Weather warm and favorable for corn husking. Henry Beck has material on hand for a new barn. He is also feed ing two cars of cattle. The U B. people have secured a new preacher and will hold services at the Grey school house a week from Sunday at 2 p m. Farms are changing hands. John Minchell and Mrs. Sorensen have sold their farms, and Mr. Thrallkill has bought back eighty acses af his «Id farm. Auction Sale. The undersigned will sell at Public Auction on farm three miles south of Loup City, on Tuesday, January 17th, 1905, commencing at 10 o'clock a. m. In case of storm sale will be one week later. The following property, to-wit Eleven head of horses; 41 head of cat tle, 17 head of calves; 20 head of shoats: hay and millet; farm machin ery and household goods. Free lunch at noon. Terms of sale—All sums of $10 and under cash, on sums over $10 ten months time will be given, purchaser giving bankable note draw ing ten per cent interest; 5 per cent off for cash on sums over $10. Mrs. S. C. Cording, Owner— Jacob Albers, Auctioneer, J, S. Pedler, Clerk; For Sale .—Eight pedigreed Shorthorn bail calves and one 4-year-cid jegis tared Shorthorn bull, Truelsen & Johansen, 47 Half mile east of Loup City. Commercial Club. Mi nines of the meeting of Com mercial Club, held Jan. 3, I‘J05: In the absence of the secretary, •i YV. D. Hover was appointed secre tary pro tern. Report of committee on constitu tion and by-laws read, amended and approved and committee discharged. Report of committee « n rools submitted, approved and committee continued. Committee on legislaiion report ed it had not yet formulated a bill for presentation to the legislature, but reported in favor of a bill au thorizing the townships to make a levy on all property not to exceed ten mills for road purposes, and also recommended an amendment to the statute so as to grant the right of appeal from decisions of the county boards in road cases. On motion of H. W. Mathew, Mr. E. G. Taylor was elected vice pres ident of the club. On motion the following execu i tive committee was appointed by the chair: E. S. Hay hurst, \V. F. Mason, W. R. Mellor, J. W. Bur leigh and C. C. Cooper. On motion the treasurer was in jStructed to purchase necessary rec ords and 100 copies of constitution and by-laws ordered printed. The meeting then adjourned till the first Tuesday in February. The disagreeable task of picking chickens may soou become a thing of the past. A country editor who is a poultry fancier last winter let his incubator get too hot and singed all the feathers off a lot of young chicks. Since that time they have become fully developed and per fectly’ healthy fowls, so he declares, but never a feather has appeard on any one of them. _t I - GOT OUT OF TIGHT PLACES. ——— Two Incidents ohow Value of Preacnc«) of Mind. During the Franco-Prussian war an Englishman was arrested as a Ger man spy in Paris and condemned to be shot However, he seriously in sisted that he must return to his quar ters. This, his guards replied, was impossible. “You are about to be shot,” they said, consolingly. “Yes, 1 know,” he replied, “but I must go back and fetch my umbrella.” His guards looked at him for a moment, then forthwith liberated him. None but an Englishman could be such a hopeless fool, they said. Lord Play fair was once in a similar predica ment. As a proof of his identity he handed over a letter from Lord Pal merston. The guard could not read it, but accepted it as good enough. As a matter of fact it contained Palmer ston’s instruction to Playfair to ascer tain all he could about the French mil itary forces and intentions. THE ANT'QUITY OF CHESS. Game Played for More Than Five Thousand Years. Chess, now being played between ocean steamers by means of wireless telegraphy, is the oldest of games, and it is a striking contrast that it offers itself for easy operation t& the latest triumph of modern science. It was generally assured until now that the ancient Indians Lad invented chess, that it was introduced from India to Persia in the sixth century by the Ar abs, and that la consequence of the crusades ii spread from East to West. It is true the Chinese—who invented many things in time long gone, but which had to he re-invented in Eu rope—assert that they can trace chess in their own courttv to about two hundred, years before jur era. Now there can certainly be no doubt in the character of the figures at present used, and in some of the words con nected with the game, an Indian, Per sian and Arabic influence is trace able. Excavations on the pyramid field of Sakkara some time ago brought to light a wall painting, on which a high official is represented as playing chess with a partner, at the time of the government of King Teta, who belonged to the sixth dynasty. Prof. Lepsius formerly assigned the reign of that monarch to about the year 2700 B. C. Prof. Brugsch, cor recting this chronology, *uts it back to still greater antiquity to the year 3300 B. C., so that chess would have been known in the once mysterious land of Mizraim something like 5,200 years ago. ACT MUCH LUCE MEN. Hermit Crabs in Fierce Fight After Spoil Is Carried Off. A writer in a British periodical de scribes an encounter he saw in a large aquarium at Brighton. He was watching some young herrings swim ming about close to the bottom of the tank, when the claw of a hermit crab suddenly shot out and caught one. The capture had, however, been seen by another hermit crab, which at once claimed a share, and a most amusing chase began. Unable alone to achieve his object, No. 2 went off, but present ly returned with a friend, with w'hose heip it succeeded Tn^eifecting a cap ture. But rhe chase had aroused the interest of the hermit-crab colony, and presently from fifteen to twenty of them were engaged in a furious battle for the herring. Then occurred the most amusing episode of all. Out of the struggling mass there crawled a hermit crab, dragging the body, some what dilapidated by now, of the her ring, with which it quietly retired L? hind a rock out of sight of its com panions and proceeded to make a meal, while all the others continued to fight. • "" 11 - 'I I * Rubber Production. The world’s production of rubber was two years ago almost equally divided between Africa and South America. Now' the Amazon region produces three-fiff> of it. Chinese Like Swiss Watches. Swiss w'atches, according to a re port just published, are becoming pop ular in Chiua. Those with fantastic designs on the faee find the most ready sale. A. P. OULLEY, President. W. F. MASON, Cashier. first nFtIIal : of Loup city. General Banking Business Transacted. PAID UP CAPITAL STOCK, $25,000.00. CORRESPONDENTS: Seaboard National Bank, New York City, N. Y. Omaha National Bank, Omaha, Nebraska. Loup City, Nebraska, L ' MB E R Of all kinds. Also Posts, Shingles, Lime and Cement Hard and Soft Coal Always on Hand. Orders Taken for Storm Sash. Edgar Draper, Sp"ci"“ns Loup City, Portraiture, mT , , _ JNebraska. I have a good, gently rolling, 160-acre farm, about all under cultivation, with some cheap im provements, within three miles of a shipping station, for $2600. This is a fine bargain. W. R. MELLOR. mm, «DM m mu BOUGHT AT THE B. & M. Elevators MCALPINE, LOUP CITY, 8CHAUPP SIDING, ASHTON AND PARWELL. Coal for Sale al Loop City eod AsMoo. Will Boy HOGS AT 8CHAUPP SIDING AND FARWELL Call and see our coal and get prices on grain. E. G- TAYLOR. John Solmes * ^DEALER IN** HARDWARE IFTTIRXTITTTXiE Steel Ranges, Cook Stoves, Tinware, Screen Doors, Hammocks, Lawn Mowers Guns and Ammunition. Carry a full line of guaranteed Paints, Linseed and Machine Oils. Loup City, - Nebraska rOall and See W ,T. CHASE 1 —THE— Popular Druggist FOR THE PUREST AND BEST Drugs, Paipts, Oils, CIGARS, FRUITS IN SEASON, ETC. H LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA^* I. DEPEW®3* Blacksmith $ Wagon Maker! My shoo la the largest and beat equipped north of the Platte Klver I have a four horse engine and a complete lfne of the latest Improved, ma chtuery, also a force of experienced men who know how to operate It ana turn out a job with neatness and dispatch. MY PRICES ARE REASONABLE AND PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL CUSTOMERS.