Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXIV. LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 5. 1007. NUMBER 43 Professions cards A. P. CUIiLEY, Attorney & Gonnselor-at-Lav (Office: First National Bank) Loup City, Nebr. ROBT.P. STARR Attorney-at-Law, LOUP CITY. NEBRRSKR. AARON WALL Lawyer Practices in all Courts Loup City, Neb. R. J. NIGHTINGALE Attorney nniC«lcr>it>Lav LOUP CITY. NEB R. H. MATHEW, Anorney-at-Law, And Bonded Abstractor. Loup City, Nebraska O. E. LONGACRE PHYSICIAN anil SURGEON Office, Over New Bank. TELEPHONE CALL, NO. 39 A. J. KEAltNS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Phone. 30. Office at Residence Lnnp Eity, - Nebraska S. A. ALLEN. ^ OEJYT1ST, I.OUP CITY, • - NEB. Office tip stairs in the new State Hank buiMinsr. wTl. marcy. sunrasTt LOUP CITY, NEP OFFICE: East Side Public Souaie Phone, 10 on 36 ,Tf. H. .TIE.ID Bonded Abstracter Loup City, - Nebraska. Only set of Abstract bookBin county Try the f. F. F- Bray F. F. Foster, Prop. Office; Foster’s Barber Shop L. A. BANGS The Drayman Phone 7 on 60 Asks Your Patronage FOR A Pleasant Evenir g Call on Pratt at South Side Pool aid Billiard Parlors Fixtures New and Up-to-Date S'A- PRATT. - Proprietor I.W.KARPER KENTUCKY * WHISKEY C-fig For Sale by T.H. Eisner Give Us a Trial * Round Front Barn, J. H. MINER. Props. Loup City, - Nebr. 1 Finest Livery Rigs, careful drivers. Headquarters ior farmers’ teams • 'nm* m*r-iil men’s trade given especial at te tHHi. Yimrpatro ap* wilicital If you want a sewing machine, cal] a^l see ^Improved New Home at THE NORTHWESTERN TCRMS:—*1.00 PKB TIAB IV PAID OK ADTAHCI ..___ Entered at the Loup City PostotSoe tor trant mission through the malls as second — class matter. Office ’Phone, - - - 6 on 106 Residence ’Phone, - 2 on 108 J. W. BURLEIGH. Ed. and Pnb. No Primary News. The Northwestern is unable to give any results of the primaries this week as the canvass of the vote will not be made till tomorrow (Friday) and those bringing in the poll books did not take a memorandum of the vote. The vote, however, was very light, proba bly less than 25 per cent. Also noth ing definite is received from over the state. Some few weeks since, Mr. Gibson, who purport* to publish a news(?) paper in a little back room near the St. Elmo hotel, enclosed in the coun ty issue of his screed a poster of a business house, without first con forming with the postal laws govern ing such matter. Postmaster Owens submitted the paper with enclosed supplement to the postollice depart ment at Washington and in due time received instructions from the third assistant postmaster general that the enclosure of the supplement did not conform to the postal laws governing sucli and the edition was liable for the payment of postage at the first class rate of two cents per ounce or fraction thereof, but at the same time stating that consideration would be given to any statement from the pub lisher as to his violation of the plain letter of the la w. Here was a splendid chance for Mr. Gibson to write the department, pleading ignorance and asking the leniercy of the officials. But what did he do? He caiue out last week with a volume of his usual ly bad English accusing the editor of this paper with working Postmaster Owens, in behalf of what Gibson calls “the plunderbund,” (not “blunder bund." of which he is the chief) to down him and his little sheet, and trying to get the aid of the postoftice department in their behalf. In an other column, Postmaster Owens effectually squelches the squeal and shows the matter up in its proper light. The Northwestern editor is not responsible for the gross ignorance of Mr. Gibson in regard to the postal laws, nor is he losing any sleep over it. A banker, for instance, would be an intelligent being to run a tank if lie were ignorant of the banking laws, would he not? And is a person who i undertakes to run a newspaper plant, and at the time ignorant of the laws governing the same, any the less an ignoramus? Perhaps xMr. Gibson in publishing a paper is of the same frame of mind as when in the clerk’s office he believed in following the law only when it seemed to apjteal to his common sense, and when wrong try to attach the blame to others, and in this instance the laws govern ing the insertion of the supplement did not so appeal to the haired-over upper section of his dwarfed little body. We received by mail last Saturday evening a pamphlet of about 500 pages of the July, 1901, Summary of Commerce and Finance of the United States. 1116 voluminous document is franked through to us by the eitreme kindness of U. S. Senator Burkett, and fills a long-felt want of oui mail ing clerk for sheets of proper size in which to mail our single list. Our time is a little too valuable to wade through the musty pages of a docu ment of statistics dated back so near the time of the great deluge in which Noah and his sons took so prominent a part, yet speaks volumes for the kindness and thoughtfullness of our senior senator to our mailing clerk. But seriously, is it not a ridiculous emphasis on the practice of the gov ernment in allowing such worthless and bewhiskered old stuff to burden the mails of the country years after they might possibly l)e of some in terest to the pnblic, simply to help the tonnage of mail matter trans ported for the benefit of the great railroad mail carriers? Cleoria Items. Mr. de Maranderville was so badly hurt by a hog last week that medical aid had to be called to dress the hand, which was torn .and crushed, but- at this writing is getting along nicely. Mrs. Ed. Shipley’s father and sister took them by surprise Sunday morn ing and Monday the sister went to Grand Island to attend school. We understand Harry Shipley has rented the Sorensen place for another year. About twenty of the young ]>eople took dinner last Sunday with Mrs. Clark in honor of her two sons. A very nice time was had. Sunday school and perhaps church services will be held next Sunday morning at Cleoria. W. S. Waite and the Inspector were out on line 38 fixing the telephones. Miss Emma Bell commenced her school Monday. Mr. John Warrick lost a very valuable cow last week, and H. Bell lost one Sunday. Christ Zwink’s two smallest boys are on the sick list. I Charles Barnes and familv visited Sunday with Ed. Shipley’s. Messrs. McLaughlin and McMullen drove some cattle bought by as east ern man to town. i A Miss Day of Aurora is teaching | in the Shipley district. ! Frank Zwink says, “Who said it ■ never rained?” as we hear he got ; pretty well soaked Sunday evening. 1 Mr. Ezra Slocum and daughte r were here last week looking after his farm. ^^ChaRjSunfonl and famHjr^lirned “The Machine At Work.” Editor Northwestern: Allow me a little space in your paper to correct an article that came out in the last issue of the Standard Gauge, Aug. 30, under the heading of “The Machine at Work.” Mr. Gibson says that on July 26th he was called upon to issue a full page adv. for the Loup City Mer cantile Co. and unthinkingly made that a supplement, etc. Mr. Gibson seems to think that Mr. J. W. Bur feigh set me to work to make him trouble. I wish to inform Mr. Gibson that what was done by me was of my own free will and accord, all of which 1 considered my duty to report to the proper authorities any violation of the postal laws and ask for in struction, which I did in this case. I know (and Mr. Gibson ought to know) that what he did was a viola tion of the law, but what to do at the time I discovered it, I did not know, as nearly all the bundles of his paper for other offices had gone out the day before his papers for local distribution had come in, but if I had known J uly 25th what was in the paper I should have known what to do, so under the circum stances my only recourse was to get a' copy of the paper (and a sukscriber was kind enough to give me his) and send it to the proper authorities at Washington, writing a few lines to send with it, asking for instructions. The answer came from the third assistant postmaster general, and I called Mr. Gibson into the office and read it to him. In his version of the the answer I received, he quotes the third assistant postmaster general as saying that it iooked to him as if he (Gibson) had cut a little over the line and said he was ready to hear any ex planation from him. Here is the letter I received from the Department and want the public to be the judge whether Mr. Gibson violated the law or not. He says he don’t think he did: “Washington, D. C., Aug. 22, 1907— Postmaster, Loup City, Neb.—Sir: Receipt is acknowledged of your letter, with which was transmitted a copy of the Standard Gauge contain ing an alleged supplement. (See Sec. 459 Postal Laws and Regulation.) This advertising poster properly sub jects all copies of the publication with which it is mailed to postage at the first-class rate, two cents for each ounce or a fraction thereof. (See Sec. 484 Postal Laws and Regulation.)” Then the letter goes on to define the difference between a legal and an illegal supplement to a paper, the letGer winding up by saying: "Please inform the publisher that consideration will be given any state ment he may desire to submit in t^ie matter. Respectfully, A. M. Fravsrs, Acting Third Assistant Postmateter General.” Comment on Mr. Gibson’s version or the matter is not necessary, and any who may doubt the correctness of what ] have written are at liberty to call and read the letter for tire ni sei ves. In conclusion, I wish to inform Mr. Gibson that neither J. W. Burleigh nor any other person had anything to do with my sending that paper to Washington. It was what I con sidered my duty and I did it regard less of frowns or favors; and will say further that since I have been post master no one has ever presumed to dictate to me what I should do. Thanking you for the space accord ed this in your paper, I am very re spectfully. W. T. Owens, P. M. --- J. F. Kieffer in Texas. McLean, Texas, August 26th, 1907. —Editor Northwestern:—As I prom ised yourself and others a few lines on this country as soon as 1 felt com petent to judge of its merits or de merits, I will give it as I see- it. When we left Nebraska on the 9th of March it was cold and wet, arriving here it was very hot and dry for a week or two followed by a very cold dry spring and several frosts that killed all the fruit which was far advanced by extremely warm weather in March. About the first of May we had our first rain to speak of. and it was rather dry up till about June 10, when we got “rain you read about.” Since that time rain has been season able enough, coming just as we needed it, as Owe a season as I ever saw anywhere. The summers are surely fine—pleasant in day time and the nights more so, the best place to sleep ever, (anyone personally ac quainted with us know we are pretty good at that). We lave all had the best of health, mgself having gained about 15 pounds. The crops cane, kaffir corn and mito maze are the staples, and all are looking fine. Corn will be a bumper crop again, as good or better than last jeer. We had a big rain last Tuesday and Wednesday nights, which puts the finishing touch on the late com. We have nothing to do now but sit in the shade and eat watermelons which we have in abundance. We had our Nebraska friends here yesterday, including, Mr. R. H. Gibson and family, C. Kalka and family, and Fred O’Dell and fami ly. We have a gathering every few weeks for a good time. Land is going up again, also quite a little changing hands. I will say for the benefit of A. P. Culley and Geo. Truelsen, who know the land, that tine Sims’ section sold for $8.50 per acre, and the Reeves section on the west of my land for $15,000 or nearly 824 per acre. Thev are asking all the way from $5 to $40 per acre close to town. The cheap land of course is prairie land out from town ten miles or more. I con sider good farming Hand or what I call first class com land very limited around McLean and think it will be a good price in a very short time. I I think this an ideal cattle country, '■ but ill have to get back from town I several miles. I have given the gnod side and will . tell you a few things we do not like. Nearly all the people are Texas people I and don’t seem to know the war is 'over and still have it in for the ■ Yankees. Another is, there are prac tically no schools in the country, but 1 have a fair school in town. As this ; is getting lengthy, I will say to any ! of my friends who want further par ticulars and to whom 1 can be of any service, I will try and write them my candid opinion of any particular question they may ask. With kindest regards, as ever, J. F. Sunn. - ‘Hi Special Sale OUST GUNS AMMUNITION Saturday, Sept. 7 FREE with each Gun sold, a Gun Case FREE FREE with each Case of Shells, a Recoil Fad FREE FREE with each 6 Boxes Shells, a Cleaning Rod FREE FREE with each 4 Boxes Shells, a Bottle Gun Oil FREE FREE with the largest purchase, one Hnnting Coat FREE Where? P. O. 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