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
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I.OUP CITY, • - NEB.
Office tip stairs in the new State
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LOUP CITY, NEP
OFFICE: East Side Public Souaie
Phone, 10 on 36
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Bonded Abstracter
Loup City, - Nebraska.
Only set of Abstract bookBin county
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F. F. Foster, Prop.
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The Drayman
Phone 7 on 60
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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.
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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.
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