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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.
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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.
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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
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Meals AM Hours
Gant, Oyatars aal M
in Season.
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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,
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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.
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GOT OUT OF TIGHT PLACES.
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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.
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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 , ,
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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
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MY PRICES ARE REASONABLE AND PROMPT
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