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Profession1 Cards a. p. culLey Attorney-at-Law, LOUP PITY. NEBRRSKE. AARON AVALL Lawyer • Practices in all Courts Loup City, _Neb. R. J. NIGHTINGALE Attorney and talcr'it'Law LOUP CITY, NEB R. H. MATHEW, Attorney-ai-Law, And Bonded Abstractor, Loup City, Nebraska O. E. LOXGACRE Office, Over New Bank. TELEPHONE CALL, NO. 39 A. J. KEARNS PHYSICIAN AND SDRGEON Phone, 30. Office «I Residence Lnup City. - Nebraska S. A. ALLEN. DE.YTSST LOUP CITY, - - NEB. Office up stairs n: the new State Bank bmldimr. w. l. marcyT DENTIST, LOUP SITY, NEE OFFICE: East Side Public Snuaie Phone. 10 on 3H • ?/. //. «FI E* if i) Bonded Abstracter Loup City, • Nebraska. Ouly set of Abstract hooks in count y Try the f. F- F- E»ray F. F. Foster, Prop. Office; Foster's Barber Shop Make That California Trip Now Low one way Colonist rates daily until April 30th to Utah, California, Oregon, Washington and Montana. Winter Tours: To the South and Gulf resorts until Aprii 30th. Homeseekers’ Kates: 1st and 3rd Tuesdays to Colorado, Big Horn Basin, Montana and Northwest. The Big Horn Basin: Mr. 1). Clem Deaver, Land seekers’ Information Bureau, Omaha, will personally con duct landseekers to this coun try the first and third Tues days in April. Write Mr. Deaver for information about very desirable irrigated lands in the Basin, subject to home stead under the big Govern ment ditches 100,000 acres of new Basin land will come under water in 1908. Business Openings: We have a list of excellent business chances in new grow ing towns on Burlington ex tensions: get established early, —ahead of the coining popu lation. Write the under signed. It. L. ARTHUR, Ticket Agent, Loup City, Neb. L. W. Wakklky, G. 1>. A. Omaha, Nebraska. Another murder was recorded at Broken Bow a few days ago. Two farmers, John Sanderson and James Carlan, both under the influence of liquor, met on one of the principal streets, Carlan emptying his revolver into Sanderson, the latter surviving but a few seconds. Both men are re ported as having bad records The National convention of the few remaining populists met at St. Louis a few days since and nominated Wat son for the presidency. Bryan was turned down hard and tlie Nebraska delegation bolted the convention. Farms for Sale in Nebraska and Virginia. For full information see or write A. O. Zim merman, Hallboro, \ lrgnuu. or A. L. Zimmerman, Loup City, Neb. EMBROIDERY .A. IT ID I LACE SALE! 2000 Yards of Embroidery -A.XjL WIDTHS At fOc Per vd. while they last These Are Fine Embroideries. He Sure and See Them. 2500 «soiLace 2500 Fine Normandy Valencienes. Be Sure and Get a 12-yard piece of them. We also have a fine line of Embroidery flouncing and binding to match. Don't Fail to See Them. CONHISER’s T11E NORTHWESTERN PSUMS:—fl.00 PEK TEAK. Ir PAID IN ADVANC1. Entered at the Loup City Postofflce for trans mission through the mails as second class matter. Office’Phone. - - - 6 on 108 Residence ’Phone. - 2 on 108 J. \V. IUKLKIGH. Kd. ttnd Pub. Loup City Goes “Wet” Six More Voters Want Saloons Than Are Recorded to the Contrary. The city election Tuesday was one of the most hotly contested of any held here in years. The "wets" and "drys" were lined up to a man and every vote possible was out on l>oth sides. The election, while being a victory for the "wets.” yet was not sufficient to allow of any special jollification for that side, as on the question at issue they only won out by six votes. Still it was a pro nounced victory in that the "wets" won every man on their side, from mayor down to the tail of the ticket, by from 4 to 7'.* majorities. The Northwestern believes in the majority ruling, hence has no hurts or wounds to expose. But that is by no means saying it believes the majority right in the premises and still contends for the temperance side of the issue. That we w ill have saloons the coming year goes without saying, but that they will continue after this year we opine to the contrary. as undoubtedly this winter the Nebraska legislature will either pass the county option law or give the voters a chance to vote on state-wide prohibition, in either of w hich we shall continue to believe the temperance element will win. In such belief we are fortified by the wave of public sentiment that is sweeping over the country from o can to ocean and from the lakes to the gulf. We do not believe, how ever, that public sentiment in Loup City alone will ever carry tiie city against the believers of high license, and the town can only l>e freed from that influence by a county vote on the question or a state-wide vote, in this we are well aware that we take issue w ith a large number of voters on both sides and we only give it as our opinion, giving to every one the right to differ with us as they see best. Below we give the vote of Loup City as recorded yesterday in the different wards and the total vote of the entire city: Total Vote of Both Wards For Mayor: O. F. Peterson.120— 16 J. I. Depew.110 For City Clerk: W. .1. Fisher ... .121— 8 G. S. Leininger.113 For City Treasurer: S. E. Callaway.. 205 For Police .1 udge: Geo. W. Hunter.155— 79 \V. II. Hughes.76 For City Engineer Henry Olilsen.117— 4 E. B. Corning.113 For Couneilmen: I). C. Grow, 1st ward. 69— 14 H. W. Pedler, 1st ward.61— 6 W. T. Draper, 1st ward.55 A. S. Main, 1st ward. 53 W T. Chase, 2nd ward. 69— 29 A. B. Outhouse, 2nd ward.... 68— 24 | C. C. Cooper, 2nd ward.40 C. J. Tracy, 2nd ward.36 , For Saloon License.120— 6 Against Saloon License.114 Majorities by Wards. FIRST ward: For Mayor: J. I. Depew. 10 For Clerk: G. S. Leininger. 6 For Treasurer: : S. E. Callaway. 105 For Police J udge: G. W. Hunter. .36 For City Engineer: E. B. Corning. 7 For Couneilmen: I). C. Grow. 14 H. W. Pedler. 6 Against Saloon License. 11 second ward: : For Mayor: O. F. Petersen. 20 For Clerk: W. J. Fisher. 14 For Treasurer: S. E. Callaway.100 For Police Judge: G. VV. Hunter. 43 For City Engineer: Henry Ohlsen. 11 For Councilmen: W. T. Chase. 29 A. B. Outhouse. 28 For Saloon License. 17 Ansley went “dry.” Shelton went “dry.” ~ Alliance went "wet.” Ord went "wet” by 48. Hastings went "wet.” Sargent went “dry" by 13. Mason City is “dry" by 30. Arcadia went “dry" by 31. MMMM. Kearney went “dry” by 70. St. Paul went “dry” by 13. Comstock went “dry” by 9. Lincoln welit "wet” by 250. Ravenna went “wet” by 96. Ashton went 37 "wet” to 23 “drv.” I A-!—JLJ=_=2= i Roelus and Dannebrog went "dry.” ! Litchfield was a tie between the ’ “wets” and "drys.” Wood River, one of the strongest “wet” goods towns in the state, went “dry.” Banker Kinsey will be a candidate from Valley county for senator from the Fifteenth senatorial district. As one adherent of the saloons said the morning after election, “It was too close for comfort.” Correct all around. Arcadia people are trying to raise money to help Murray Haywood to re-build his flouring mill, recently destroyed by fire. There is very little jubilating in Loup City by either side over the result. It was not “wet” enough to satisfy one side and too “wet” to please the other. Among the towns in Nebraska which Tuesday went “dry” for the first time were Falls City. David City, Homer. Tekamah. Arlington, Herman and Blair, so far reported. Last year when Mason City went “dry” the adherents of the saloon assured the people that the town would be ruined. This year the people were so well satisfied with ex isting conditions that they agian voted “dry” by a greatly increased majority. Taken to the Asylum. Last Saturday, Sheriff Williams brought from Ashton one Alfred Dowding, an alleged insane person, aged some 37 yeaas. and placed him for safe keeping in the county bastile till the commissioners of insanity passed upon iiis condition. Monday the commissioners passed upon the case and Tuesday morning Sheriff Williams took the patient to the asy lum. ft is claimed that he has been growing worse mentally for a period of years till at the present his mind is completely unbalanced. Robbery That Wasn’t Robbery C. W. Fredrick forgot to lock his frontdoor Friday night and thereby hangs a tale. About midnight, while Night Watch IIigley was making the rounds, he spied a light in Fredrick’s store. lie at once went and tried the door and found it unlocked. He went in, and passing through the store found that the back door was open, but could see no one. lie lighted the place up and 'phoned to Mr. Fredrick who at once came down. Nothing in the store had been disturbed. The theory is that someone found the door unlocked and went in. They at once went to the back door and unlocked j that so that they might have an exit i either way. Then they struck a ] light and then before any chance was . given to relieve the store of any of ! its valuable stock, Night Watch i Iligley appeared and frightened them , away." The store deals in jewelry, < cut glass, fancy chinaware, etc., and ' a theft would" be costly. It was a ' lucky ending.—St. Paul Republican. COUNTERFEITERS Two Men Arrested in Ravenna Charged with the Crime. Andrew E. ISeers of Ravenna, was placed under arrest by a government secret service man named Mills. Mon day of this week, on a charge of mak ing counterfeit silverdollars. He was taken to Grand Island Monday morn ing, and the next day an otlicer came up and took Charles Ferguson, a horse doctor, into custody on a similar charge. Beers came here from Grand Island about six months ago and has been i working at his trade, that of a house painter and paper hanger. He was a man of rather quiet habits, and some what dissipated at times. Ferguson is a horse doctor who came here from Cairo during the winter, and has been a resident of Ravenna but a few months. Soon after Beers came here a small amount of counterfeit coin show ed up in this community, and Rudolph Finder and A. Shallenbarger dropped onto evidence which led to a suspicion that Beers was the man who was doing the work. Watch has been kept on him for two or three months in an effort to secure evidence. Mr. Shell enbarger notified the authorities at Omaha regarding the matter several weeks ago, and a secret service man was sent here who worked on the case for a few days, but he was so in discreet in his work that Beers took alarm and destroyed all of his moulds. After the secret service men left, however, Beers seemed to conclude that he had been unnecessarily alarm ed and he made an entire new set of moulds, and had four sets for mould ing silver dollars in his possession when he was taken into custody. The case has been almost wholly worked up by local men, and when they finally secured all the evidence they wanted the secret service de partment was notified to come and get their man which they did. Reers was taken to Grand Island, where it is said he made a full and complete confession which implicated the man Ferguson, which accounts for his subsequent arrest. Beers and Ferguson both have wives and families living in Ravenna, and both families it is said, are in very straitened circumstances. Beers seems to have been a confid ing mortal, for he took the man who secured the evidence against him to his home and not only showed him how he made the moulds but also [ cast one or two coins with babittj metal secured at a local hardware I store. Beers and Ferguson attempted to pass some of the bogus money at the Ravenna Mercantile Co.'s store, but Mr. Baumann, to whom the tender was made, detected the countereit coin and refused to accept. The same dav Beers and Ferguson passed a counterfeit dollar on Miss Edith Petrick at Immel’s grocery store. It is probable that they succeeded in putting more of the bogus coin into circulation, but it is thought the amount was limited. Mr. Shellenbarger. Mr. Finder, Mr. Baumann and Miss Petrick have been notified that they will be required to go to Omaha within a few days to ap pear as witnesses in the case in the federal court. Beers and Ferguson were given a preliminary hearing at Grand Island, before United States Commissioner Cleary on Tuesday. Both prisoners waived examination and were held to appear for trial in the federal court, Beers' bond being fixed in tne sum of $1,000 and Ferguson’s at $2,000. Those who have been working on the case believe that Sanderson, the Anslev man who was shot and killed on the streets of Broken Bow, last Saturday night, was associated with Beers and Ferguson, for he has been in Ravenna frequently of late, and it is said that there are circumstances which warrant a strong suspicion that he was a member of the gang. Ferguson put in a great deal of his time at Cairo, and it is thought that the three men distributed the counter feit money as best they could at all the towns between Cairo and Broken Bow. rue urana isiana independent, speaking of Beers’ past record in that sifcy, says: "Beers’ brotiiers, while in this city were painters, and the man arrested followed the same work at Ravenna, while his brother is working at Shelton Dr near here. From reports the one residing at Ravenna made counter feiting a side issue and put some of liis bogus money into circulation oc casionally. The case is not one which will run in large figures, unless it develops that Beers has conducted iliis work for many years. There were never many dollars of this kind aut out at one time. The attention jf the secret service men was called jo the case as these bogus dollars were being “spilled" at Ravenna for some time. The detectives were not ong in locating the guilty one. Beers does not deny counterfeiting, ind four sets of moulds for silrer dol afs were found in his possession. It will be remembered that a number of aogus dollars were in circulation in ibis city in the past and about the :ime Beers resided here.’’—Ravenna Sews. Notice For Publication Department of the Interior. Land office at Ldncoln. Nebraska. March 18. 1908. Notice is hereby given that Samuel S. Chilson if Ravenna. Neb . has Hied notice of his inten ion to make final five year proof in support of its claim, viz: Homestead Entry. No. 1784B, nade March 13, 1903. for the SE ig. Section 30. Pownsbip 14 N, Range 14 W, and that said iroof will be made before the County Judge of Sherman county, at Loup City, Neb., on May 2, 908. i He names tbe following witnesses to prove ds continuous residence upon, and cultivation 1 if. the land, viz: John F. Vandrala, George i lolmes. H. A. Wilkinson all of Ravenna. Neb., * ,nd Albert Snyder of Loup City. Neb. J Chab. F. Shbdd, Register. 'Last pub. April 30) I SPRING IS Get ready to ttiMp Go to Work. The Best Tools you can buy are al ways the least ex pensive tools to buy. You can Always Find Such Tools in Our Stock. WV!SsP»BS«,L,:s Local Notes. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Shipley of Grand Island have a ffne baby boy. Mr. August Johnson and family. S. Foss and family and Frank Weedin and Miss Craft took dinner with Jas. Ling and family Sunday in honor of their lltli wedding anniversary. Mr. Henthorn from Aurora is here visiting the Squiers and McLaughlin families. Miss Craft closed her school Friday with a fine program and dinner, and left Monday for Aurora. A party was given at Zwink's last Saturday night for Miss Lena, who had just returned from Ashton. A fine time is'reported. Minnie Johnson has the chicken pox. I)r. Jones was out to Chas. Barnes’ last Sunday. The Olson girls gave a dance Mon day night in honor of some girl friends visiting them from Litchfield. Frank Foss and his mother had quite an upset Monday evening while coming from town. Their horses got scared at some paper by the roadside and ran off the culvert, throwing them both out. Frank was not hurt much but Mrs. Foss was pretty badly bruised up. Mr. Clark and family have a friend from Hamilton county here visiting them. Jas. Bone and family visited their laughter, Mrs. Wra. Engle, Sunday ind report all parties doing fine. School Notes. Susie Davenport is a new’ pupil in Mr. Young’s room. May Bock is again at school after in absence of two weeks. Helma Froehlich was a high school visitor Monday afternoon. Frances Sweetland visited in the nigh school and Miss Naumann's room Thursday morning. The school children expected a holi lay Tuesday, but were disappointed vhen they were told Monday that .here would be school as usual. The Seniors can now be distinguish id from the other High School pupils is they are wearing their “mortar >oards”, which they received one day ast week. Leslie Sweetland was a visitor in ,he high school and Miss Naumann’s oom Friday afternoon. Iva Henry has been compelled to five up her work in the high school , in account of sickness at home. i i Following is the number from the j lifferent rooms who received a one- i ourth day holiday Friday, having ' ieen neither absent nor tardy during f he past month: Miss Conger’s, 28; c llss Young’s, 3(1: Miss Naumann’s, | 2; Mr. Young’s, 20; Miss Crews’, II, i nd the High School, 19. ftWWWWWWiiWWWWWWJ ^ Come in and Look Over Our Line of S (Rugs, Art Squares, Lin- t eoliums, Lace Cur- < taius and Portieres. r S Don't Fail to Get Our Prices on r jfurniture; I Christensen & Ferdinandt | Furniture Company. | Christensen & Ferdinandt, J Undertakers and Embalmers r %VVVVVVV'V*'VV§<VVVVWVVV%%%>-S I Cure Nerve-Vital Debility, Weak ness, Drains, Rupture, Stricture. 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CDPrri POSITIVELY FREE! i IX Elk.. No charge whatever to any man. woman or child living in LOUP 05ITY or vicinity, suffering from any CHRONIC DISK ASK. a 110 "0 X-RAY EXAMINA TION Come and let me look inside of you absolutely free of charge. D;~U SPECIALIST. GRAND LIr. ixICll, ISLAND. NEB. Office op posite City Hall. 103 YV. Second Street. Notice for Publication Department of the Interior. Land Office at .incoln. Neb.. February 2T. 1908. Notice is hereby Riven that Waller M. ihetler of l.oup City. Nebraska, has tiled ictlce of his intention to make final eomiuuia ion proof in support of his claim, viz: llome lead Entry No. 18005 made Nov. 22. 1900. for he SK sVV s. Section 20. Township 15 N. Cange 16 W, and that skill proof will bo made efore J. A. Angier. County Judge, at Loop lit v. Nebraska, on April 18. 1908. He names the following witnesses to prove is contlnuons residence upon and cultivation f, the land, viz: W. H. Hill of Litchfield, reb.. Thomas Parsley of l.oup City. 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