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Red Cloud,
MERCANTILE ASSIirJATIIlN
Have Bargains for you in
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Felt Boots,
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Arctics. Over Shoes, Sandals,
(Ladies' Gossamers,
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Cloaks and Shawls,
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CARNEGIE'S FORTUNE.
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Teatw Ib OIL
It Is un interesting fact not general
ly known that Mr. Andrew Carnegie,
the big iron manufacturer, whose in
come wm the subject of bo much new
paper comment during tho campaign,
made his first big money in the oil
bosinesa. The death, in Pittsburgh,
of Darid A. Stewart, chairman of Car
negie Bros. & Co., euggests reference
to the Columbus Oil Company, of
which Mr. Stewart was treasurer and
the active manager, and Mr. Carnegie
one of the several stockholders. This
company bought and operated the
Story farm on Oil creek, between
Titusville and Oil City, a history of
which reads like a story of the ArabUa
Nights. It was the richest farm ever
developed in the oil country, and from
his interest in this farm Mr. Carnegie
became comparatively a rich man. The
farm was originally owned by William
Story, who barely made a living from
it prior to the discovery of petroleum.
It consisted of 400 acres, and Mr.
Story offered the place for $4,600, one
third of which was to be in .cash and
the balance in three annual paymeata.
He could find no purchaser ' until oil
was struck on tho creek, and then he
old it to Mr. Carnegie and his friends
for 135.000 cash. The Columbia Oil
Company was organized to develop it
May 1, 1861. Mr. Stewart was made
treasurer and Mr. Carnegio one of the
directors. The capital stock was 350,
000, divided into 10,000 sharesvof
f 25 each. The form proved to be
productive beyond all expectation,
and in tho entire history of the
petroleum industry no other farm
has approached it as an oil bonanza.
The first year's output was 20,800
barrels, and the following year it was
increased to 89,600. In two and a half
years after tho incorporation of tho
company dividends had been declared
amounting to 130 per cent on tho cap
ital stock. In 18G-L tho production of
the farm increased to 141,508 barrels.
During this year tho average price of
oil was f9.87 per barrel. During tho
first six months of this year four divi
dends were declared, amounting to luo
per cont. on the capital stock. A month
later the capital stock was incrutvud
to 12,500,000, and a dividend of 5 por
oenU on this amount was at once de
clared from the earnings of the farm.
Before tho closo of tho year five divi
dends wcro declared, making in all 25
per cent, on tho increased stock. Ten
years after tho first well was struck
on the property the production of tho
farm was 142,034 barrels for that year.
In those ten years 1,715,972 barrels
were produced, and the whole amount
of its dividends wcro 401 per cent, on
ltd capital .stock. In a law suit in
Erie in 1885, Mr. Stewart, treasurer of
the company, testified that tho Colum
bia Oil Company had sold oil from tho
farm to the valuo of botween $6,000,
000 and $7,000,000. Estimating the
amount of oil produced by tho farm
since that time, tho total output is
placed by pnvctlcal oil men between
$9,000,000 and $10,000,000. Although
the Story form has been constantly
operated for twenty-seven jK.ro it is
still producing about lUU barrels a
month. All the old original wells
havo been drained and abandoned some
years ago. and the present production
Is from new wells drilled within the '
past few years. Hundreds of farms in '
the oil regions have yielded vast for
tunes to their owners, but none of
m mm fcfc & m ii m i W h a m A l m hl 1
S thi; farm Mn 83o VeSivS
& efnrf Ihnt lino nnAi him nn, nf ,
money princes of the world. Titusville
(Pa.) Letter.
TREATMENT OF CLERKS.
Hw 9trKerr Can
plTM to Xr Maehta.
With the trapper, the fincrtbo. fu
the more enticing the bait, and the
lighter will the dead-fall come upon it;
in this respect must tho employer fol
low his example: The more useful you
think the young man will be to yon,
the more fascinating must bo your in
tfnotmeats to procure his service.
When he is once in your trap, rule
him down, so that having performed
all your reouircments. his bodily
strength will be exhausted, and his
brain intoxicated by business, so as to
muddy the channel of thought, that to
gather one Clear idea would simply bo
impossible,
Hero and now you will ind to bo tho
most convenient time and place to re
late to him how many gratrta eJorks
yon could hare hired for much
wngso than what you are to pay
Hover Introduce himttfa
Ib afoakMe of the clerk, fire him n
title, w tho man. the hoy. or the ki
an tho case- may be. r
When fou enter the store in tho
anorninjr. never speak or rocornisetho i
clerks to act otherwi, wooM ho,
what some people would call being too
sociable with the clerks. ,
Whoa you reprove the clerk hsdn
to bombard him with, hard
fkrksayincs. IM this all m tho
mm of a roomful of
ami not feel afraid of
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moko one hundred per cent., and do
this especially if hr is working at panic
wanes.
- N. 12. The main point in dealing
with u clerk is to keep him humble.
Never treat him as a man, as it is not
wholesome for a clerk.
Do not allow your clerk to have ono
evening during the week ,Ut inform
himself; no. not two hours Mix day,
lost ho make a man of himsln; but
take every momont of hitttee, and
when ho grows older you wPhave a
grand piece of machinery, yea, a self
working tool. Texas Sittings.
THE LATE COLOROW.
Cfcarmetorlatlra f the Keceatly Dmm4
Cklerer the Wtilt Kvr Utw.
Since tho "Uie war" Iibsco of Au
gust. 1887, Colorovr had been under
military surveillance which chafed
him, and added to his usual surliness,
but, undoubtedly, restrained him from
annoying the people in the White
River country. He was sevonty-five
years old.
Colorow would nover scare. Many
times his camp has been approached by
cowboys, and ho has listened to their,
threats without moving. Some two
years ago he was camped near Elk
Springs, and one ovening a party of
eleven armed men rodo un to his canm
and told tho old chief he would have to I
novo on. He listened to them in si-
lenco, and when they got through and ' fera series of Toyages round the world,
waited for him to reply ho deliber- The highway which it at first pursued
atoly Btcpped into his tepee, appeared ' anay, for our present purpose, bo suffi
again with a Winchester, and said he ciently defined by the tropic of Cancer
was ready to be moved. It is needles , nd tho tropic of Capricorn, though it
to sny ho was not moved. hardly approached these margins at
Whcnevor in council with other first Westward tho dust of Krakatoa
chiefs ho was nlwnvs naming on th i
loss of his country, and tho treachery
of tho other White River chiefs. Col
orow was a good rifle shot. In fact
all of tho old Indians arc, as a rule,
better shots than tho younger ones.
Ono time, while sponding a few days at
Ouray agency, tho chief and head men
had a littlo council. All, tho
othor Indians' hud' ""secured" their
rations, and ono laro steer remained
in the corral for distribution
among tho chiefs. Tho question
of who should do tho shooting camo
up. and it wns left to Colorow, bo
j being tho oldest one present Tho
I chiefs went to tho corral in a body.
and Colorow, studying tho position of
tho steer, which was seventy-five
yards distant, took a rifle from tho
hands of a bystander, and quicker
than a flash, threw tho gun into posi
tion, fired, and the animal dropped
dead, struck !quarcly between tho
eyes.
His trade in pelts and furs amounted
to thousands of dollurs a year. Tho
country was overrun with outlaws
and outcasts of every description, and
every depredation committed in the
way of killing stock or stealing was
laid to Colorow und his followers. Tho
old chiof actually thought ho was
looked upon by tho settlers as tho
rightful owner of the country as ho
wns humored in this whim by many to
avoid tiresome talk.
Ho will probably be succeeded as
chief by his con Gns. who possesses
all tho old man's daring, but lacks the
lawless characteristics of hiB father.
; A GoTornincnt 6Cout said
"Colorow was cross, crabbed,
mean, and always had a tremendous
appetite. He was always hungry. He
drank his share of firewater, tea Now
that he has gone no one but bis
squaws and his tribe will mourn, and
the Indian problem becomes a Tory
simplo one. If he were still alire and
' J younger man the Government would
i haVO gTCat trOUDIC. aS LOIOrOWS eX-
treme ago was all that prevented the
Utes from committing many serious
depredations in recent years." K T.
Sun.
SUNSHINE
VALLEY.
AG!
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On the western slope of tho contin
ent tho prevailing winds are from tho
west. These winds del ae and ix
climatic conditions. They are freight
ed with moisture as they leave the sur
face of the Paciic Ocean aadar
wrung nearly dry by tho rough grip of
' the Cascade summits. By
tho Blue Mountains have
the time
wrenched
them there is very little mobture loft
to fall on the great valley of Snake
river. Hence the moisture precipiUtoa
between the Blue and Rocky Mountains
is remarkably little. There are -no
great bodies of water east of tho Cmv
to supply by evaporation what
havo lost Of tho
Bonce, so far aa
days and months are cowoernoC M
donbtrml If there ie a region tx I mar
lea that can count more of them to
year than thl. It is almost
sunshine.
But thl is only one of
of climate. The altitude
of thie valley are both factors
nay not b for-oilcr- Thy cent
the valley is .ttJ0 feet above tho
I asd it is under the forty-f tth
in: aorta iatKado. Tneso mem. wnn-
OWa moauiriag cwaaiutraav
this ration a
wosjht he irifforonslj aM hi
hot ia rvmmoi
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ders midway of the valley for 500 miles,
and large tributaries fresh from these
icy fountains in the mountains pour
erystaline floods athwart the plains
into the greater river. Mountain
ranges, whose summits are a hundred
miles apart, enframe the valley on
either hand, and their icy glaciers
breathe coolness into the skies of Au-'
gust and temper the nights of sum
mer into the most restful slumber.
They also hold back tho borcan bloats
of winter, and give it a strange quiet
ude and calmness. Rarely is the hoat
oppressive or injurious. So dry and
so much rarer is tho atmosphere than
it is at the sea level or in tho Willa
mette valley that a registry of 100 de
grees here does aot mean more op
pressive heat than 80 degrees iaPorV,
land, or 20 degrees below zero more
trying cold than aero here. To these
marks the mercury very seldom rises
or falls. So, talcing it all in all, it
doss not appear strango that the peo-l
pleof this valley boast of nearly as;
avsch "climate to the. square milu as;
those of Southern California. BcW
Qty (Idaho) Latter.
VOLCANIC DUST
CLOUDS.
Tky Ttmvcl
Kma the
Kmttn a
It appears that this cloud of
dust
started immediately from
'takes its way. In throe days it baa
.crossed tho Indian Ocean, and was
rapidly flying over tho heart of Equa
torial Africa; for another couple of days
it was making a transatlantic journey,
nod then it might bo found for still a
couple of days mora over the forests of
Brazil era it commenced tho groat Pa
cific voyage, which brought it back to
tho East Indies. The dust of Krakatoa
had put a girdle round the earth in
thirteen days. Tho shape of the cloud
appears to havo been elongated, so
that it took two or threo days to com
pleto tho passage over any stated
place. When tho dust cloud hud re
gained tho Straits of Sunda the erup
tion was all over, but thi wind were
still the samo as before, and again the
comminuted pumice sped on it- impet
uous caroor. The density of the cloud
! had, however, lessened. Doubtless
much of the material was subsiding,
and tho remr.indcr was becoming dif
fused over a wider area. Accord
ingly, wo find that the track of
tho stream during this second revolu
tion is sotnowhat wider than it was on
tho first, though mainly confined be
tween the tropic. Tho speed with
which tho dust revolved was, howover,
unabated. Coutinonts und oceans were
again swept over with a velocity dou
ble that of on express train, and again
the earth was surrounded within the
fortnight. The dust cloud had now
further widened its limits, but was still
distinguishable, and with unlesscned
speed commenced for a third time to
encirclo the earth. The limit of the
stream had spread themselves outside
the tropica, though siill fulling short
of Europe There is no reason to think
that there was any decline in the ve
locity of seveaty-tix miles per how,
but tho gradual diffusion of tho dust
began to obliterate the indications by
which its movements could bo per
ceived, so that during and after tho
third circuit the phenomena became so
confused that while their glory covered
the earth the distinction between the
successive returns had vanished. In No
vember the area which contained the
Krakatoa. dust had sufficiently ex
panded from its original tropical limtta
toindndo Europe and tho greater part
of North 'America. During the winter
months the suspended material gradu
ally subsided, or. at nil events, became
leaser ft ami in the f el lowing aria
the earth regaisnoUe normal rtase In
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Ka-ritw.
Notice is Bereft- given that I will
eiamiaeall oeraoBt who may stair
to offer thetnwlres a ean,ie'ate for
teachers of the public schools of this
countr, at tw Cload, n the thiri
SataHay of each month.
Bra J. Kt5o.
Casmty Swf 't.
TirmCirrtr has decided t extend
the time M dirt farther kef arc raltiir
tltaatie to $1.5. Thrrtfsf. ill
those who wirh U get the faoer fat
llawonVioalliahTthclkhofMavrhi
at the latest, at which time we thai
peivtrely nSe the ariee to tl fit.
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GREAT BARGAINS !
GOODS SOLD CHEAPER
THAN EVER AT
Mra. F Newbouaoe
I have a choice line of Dress GockIp vitfi trimming to
match, Buttons, Velvets, Flannel, Howls, Toboggans, Ham
burgt, Lac, all kinds of White rrinnnnigti, HoHiery, Glovea
Mittens, Ladie Underwear, Yarns, Silk Hnndkerohitsfr, Lace
Curtain. All of the alvu will be sold out at tho very
Lowest Figure.
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NOTARY PUBLIC,
PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Collections, Taxes Paid, &c.
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Office with the County lude, Moon
Red Cloud, Nebraska.
GUMP & WARNER,
REAL ESTATE&L0AN BROKERS
Call and examine our bargains. Correspond
ence solicits i,
GUIP & WARNER.
Op?.ra House Block Red Cloud ?
HACKER & PARKER,
THEGROCERS
Keep the finest line ol
Teas iMMl Coffees
In the city of Red Cloud.
fHE TRAiERS LUMBER CO.
WILL
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POSITIVELY
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