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VOLUME XXXV L.
RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, ,IA."N"UAirV 3, li08.
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The Best Land Proposition
on the American Continent today. Healthiest climate in Old Mexico where you will get
well on the climate, not medicine. Where we have plenty of rainfall and heavy dews.
Wboi the oool air from tho mountains causes rainfall every mouth in tho year. Whero
you are only a few miles from the roast. Whoro you do not need to irrigate. Whoro you aro ucar
the largest deep water port of Mexico. Where you have 12 miles of river frontage, and on tlio
main Hue of tho Mexican Central Hallway west of Tnmpico. Where tho constant sua breezes mako
Hummer time worth living. Whore it never freezes. Whoro there aro no winters, cyclones, bliz
zards, tornadoes. Whoro the Mowers bloom twelve months every year. Whoro you can woar tho
hame clothes every mouth in t lit year, comfortably. Whoro tho winter months aro only twelve to
lifteon degrees colder than tho summer. Whoro you can oat oranges, bananas, pineapples, lorn
,iss limes pomegranates, ligs, cocoauuts, mangoes, tomatoes, melons, and all garden products all
tho year Whore you raise two and three crops of corn ovory year. Whoro cotton, potatoes,
sugar cane, rice, tobacco, dates, rubber, cotfeo, Mbor, castor beans, corkwood, peaches, chicory,
sago, indigo, popper, yuou, sarsapurilla, chincona bark, al os. camphor, almonds, tangerines, win
ner, tiara grass, rye, barley, broomooru, ramie, hemp, alfalfa tho Mnest ou earth and thousands
.01 otner products are raided on tho same farm. Where there is cheap labir. Whoro all tho prod
ucts of tho earth aro raided. Whoro you sloop with your doors and windows open in Dcoomlu r
and January, in place of feeding your stock and freezing to death. Whoro you farm every month
of tho year. Whoro you save more than you make in tin north. Whoro tho tide of immigration in
rapidly turning, and land values aro rapidly increasing. Where your stock will g"t fatter on the
native grasses than if fed on corn. Whoro tho same land yields everything that is raised in Mi
tropics, and in tho north. Whoro you do not, work si.v months of tho year to keep from starving
and freezing tho other si. Whore tho winter does not consume all that, you pioduco. Whore five
or ton n tiros of oranges or bananas or any other fruit will mako you n fortune. Whoro the water
comes from the mountain springs, and is soft, pure and plentiful.' Where tho avetago rainfall
exceeds CO inches. Where you live in a healthy summer house, surrounded by fhvvors, fruits uml
palms the year round. Whoro taxos are practically '"Nit." Whore you can buy this land in tract -of
oO to 10,000 acres at S7.r0 per acre, and in a few years it will bring you $150 t ) 800 Whoro th
man or woman of small means can tiny a "() to 100 acre tract, and mako more money than any
Webster county farmer makes on tho best '.V20 farm and with loss labor.
Excursion Rates Every First and Third Tuesday
Will be in Red Cloud Thursdays to Saturday noon at Royai
Hotel, or call or write me at BLADEN, NEB.
CHARLES 8PENCE
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E4GLES FLY HIGH.
Installation of Officers, Banquet' and
Dance a Grand Success.
-Ued Cloud Aerie No. l!iH7. Fraternal
Order of Eagles, had a "high My" Wed
nesday nitrht. Resides the public in
stallation of officers, there was a bas
ket supper, dance and specchmaking.
Tho installation was conducted by I'.
.1. Harrett of South Omaha, deputy
grand worthy president, and the olll-
LHyrs installed for the ensuing term
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Wist Worthy President William ('.
ihrn.
Worthy President Kd Amuck.
Worthy Viee President George Pay-
lor.
Chaplain Father Fitzgerald.
Secretary C. I). Robinson.
Treasurer F. It. Mandevillc.
Conductor - Dan (J.irbcr.
Physician Henry Cook.
Trustees C. R. Posse, 0. I). Hedge
,lohn Polnicky.
Following the installation of oflioers
came the toasts and responses. Dan
(arbor acted astoastmaster. and toasts
were responded to by Father Fitzger
ald, B. I'. Overtiian, Leslie Graves.
Mayor Caldwell and Installing Ollicer
Iktarrett. Then came the sale of the
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lj;eK"ls wnien M.iu iii'i-ii ii i-jiiiii-ii imv
the Ij'Xk's. (lidding was spirited and
the siile netted S7S.10. The Kaglcs
and their mates then adjourned to the
kfc.inquet room, where they enjoyed a
Vnteos ieat. After supper dancing
indnejvd in until nearly 3 e. in.
ie handsome oak leather rocker to
voted to the most popular couple
lnv.se nt went to Mr. ai.d .Mrs. W. C.
Kralim.
The program was interspersed with
nnsic by an orchestra eomposeil of
vliss Mvra Griffoth. pianist: Adolph
Joth. violinist; Roy Kobinson, troiu-
one, and Howard Foe, clarinet.
The hall was hadsomely decorated
.y John Tomlinson and corps of able
tssistants. Flags and bunting were
sod in profusion, and the two hand-
We specimens of the American eagle
fhich were recently mounted and
tv.souted to the lodge formed an up-
ropriatc feature of the decorations.
Burlington's Exhibit Car.
ln order no show the fine crops of
Iain, vegetables, grasses, etc., raised
trritrntion in what is called the
IAi .S)-U nortlons of this state, as well
fcin tho Hig Horn Itasin. the Pur-
' -ion has tltted up a car exhibiting
,A products of those sections. The
i ..in he in Red Cloud .lanuary .to
id 31 and February I. Kver.vone is
'-.Hnllv invited to visit the car and
speet the products. This car has
ivele.d thousands oi nines ami nus
.. ..vlitliited at scores of state and
mity fai. I ' who are inter-
ted in "dry farming ami irrigation
onhl take advantage of this oppor-
Jdty to s' wnut cim ' ' v
Ise processes.
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lllIEUMATISM L-'l'HBD 'N A DAY.
Butehoas Keller" forRhfiimatlhiii mid Neural
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HcGINNIS STORY A FAHE.
No Truth in the Report That He Had
Broken Jail-
When Vaner McGinnis was arrested
three weeks ago on a charge of horse
stealing he was taken to Pelloville,
Ivan., and lodged in jail. A few days
later a report was in circulation to
the effect that he had pleaded guilty
anil been sentenced to an indeterminate
term in the Kansas penitentiary.
Last Thursday morning Marshal
Bthcrton of Itloomington was in Itcd
Cloud looking for Vaner, and sheriffs
and marshals up and down the line
were doing the same. Their ao
tiin was based on a telephone
niessege sent out. by some practical
joker in Superior, to the effect that
Vaner had either shot or slugged his
jailer and escaped in company wiUi
another prisoner who was suspected of
murder. Wliat made the report look
suspicious was that he was supposed
to have broken jail in two tewns wide
ly separated Alma, Neb., and Scandia,
Kan. As a matter of fact, Itolleville
is the county scat of Republic county,
Kansas, in which county Vaner stole
the team, and when Harlan county.
Nebraska, lias any criminals worth
holding she sends them to Hod Cloud
for .sale-keeping, as the jail at Alma is
like ourcourt house won't hold water,
even. Vaner's trial will come up in
March.
Lillian Vance Maxwell,
Mrs. A. S. Maxwell died last Thurs
day morning at 1 1 o'clock, at her home
in Lincoln Neb., from an abscess on
the brain. Funeral services were held
in Lincoln and interment was at her
former home in Kearney, Saturday
evening. December L'8. Deceased was
born April :., 1808. She will be re
membered by many of the older resi
dents of this vicinity as Lillian Vance,
and with her parents, brothers and
sisters, lived in Ked Cloud in the early
Sos. She was a sister of L. M. Vance,
the Hastings jeweler, who is well
known in tills vicinity.
Hummel Family Reunion.
There was a happy reunion at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Pierce,
New Year day. when Mrs. Pierce's
brothers and sisters gathered there
ior a family dinner and reunion, which
was followed by a wedding, as told of
elsewhere in tills paper. It was the
llrst time in thirty-sixyearsthutull the
Hummel children had boon together
at one time. Those present were: Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Hummel of Hot Springs,
S. 1).: Lewis P. Hummel of Percivale.
la.; Mr. and Mrs. It. T. Hummel of
Fruitland, la.; Miss Sarah Hummel of
Grand View, Ja.j Rev. and Mrs. George
Hummel of Red Cloud, and Mr. Wil
liam Walker of Grand View, la.
Gas Well a Sure Thin.
Guide Uoek Signal.
Tho promoters of the gas well, of
which we made mention a few weeks
ago. are nearly ready to begin work
on the well. A few more laud leases
are all that is lacking, and the.su will
not be lacking long. It would be
a jolly nice thing if we had some of
that gas to burn now, wouldn't it?
EXPRESS THIEF ARRESTED
Brakcman Sprachcrof Wymore Division
Stole Jewelry at Chester.
ltrakemau Philip Sprachor, of the
Wymore division, got himself in the
toils of the law Tuesday, night. Spra
chor was on his way to Orleans to
spend Christinas with his wir" who
was visiting there. When No. l." pull
ed into Chester he got off the train
and went into the express. While the
agent was busy, Sprachor "nipped"
two packages of express, one 'contain
ing a k-ol id gold watch that had been
presented by the II. of L. B. to an
englceer residing in Chester. The
other package contained six pair of
solid gold bracelets. The goods were
missed shortly after the train left
Chester, and word was sent dow n the
Hifu to watch for the thief It is
possible that Sprachor would not have
been detected had he not tried to
dispose of the bracelets to passengers
on the trabi. He succeeded in dispos
ing of two puir of bracelets, but when
the train reached Red Cloud Marshal
Gccr and Night Watch Kinsel placed
him under arrest and ho was lodged in
the Hed Cloud jail. The balance of
the stolen property was recovered.
Sherlll' Townscnd of Thayer county
came up to Hed Cloud and tool; Spra
clicr to Hebron Thursday morning.
After Sheriff Townscnd had taken
his prisoner away, Sheriff Hedge dis
covered in his bed papers showing that
lie was a deserter from the Fluted
States army, and that his name is
Philip A. Spickard, of Spickard, Mo
However, he was immune from arrest
upon the latter charge, as he was pro
vided with a "deserter's release,"
issued by the war department.
CAPTURED THE "C00N."
Robert Richardson, of Unsavory Repu
tation. Aftaln In the Tolls.
Itobcrt. alias .iim. alias "Si" Itieh
ardson, who has a S'.'.OOO damage suit
against the city for false 'arrest, or
something of that nature, was again
arrested by Sheriff Hedge last evening
upon the charge of having slugged
and robbed one S. M. Love, a fugitive
bootlegger from Kansas. The assault
and robbery are alleged to have oc
curred Wednesday night at the rooms
occupied by Hichardson and his wife.
in the second story of tho old post
otlice building. The amount of money
alleged to have been secured ranges
from S7 to S1I0. A few minutes after
llicliardson's arrest, Love was picked
up by Marshal Gccr and lodged in jail
on a charge of being drunk.
This man Hichardson and wife have
been an eyesore to Clio community ever
since their lirst appearance here. The
city and county authorities are now
determined to be rid of tliein. Unless
they agree to leave town immediately
and carry out ftheir agreement they
will both be locked up and their two
little children sent to the poor farm.
It is doubtful if the charge of robbery
. can be made to stick, hut there seems
to be sufficient grounds to warrant the
action taken by the authorities.
Real Estate Transfers.
For tho week ending Tuesday, Dec.
Ill, furnished by the Fort Abstract Co..
L. H. Fort, Manager.
) It Wright ct al to Frank Who
Ian et al, lots 10 and 11, blk
10, and lot 1, blk U, J!hidcu,wd I KOI)
Jennie S Ewalt to M B Schar
ble, undv 1-8 set nel and set
n w I ','8-1-13, wd i
t'nited States to Gottlieb Herz.
n w ,10-a-y, patent
Frank Wliclan et al to Ole Jvci
son, lots 10 and 11, blk 10, aiid
lot 1, blk 9, Illaden, wd. . ..... tu'M)
Frank U Wolf to Win S Hense,
w t 8-2-10, wd iir.oo
Guide Hock Cemetery to William
Wilson, pt ne.4 se4 3-1. 1), wd. . . Yi,
Lincoln Land Co to Win Mont
gomery, lot 0 blk 5, Guide
Hock, wd jot)
Susanna Ueigle to Jacob S Kei
gle et al, lots 1 and , blk !).
Ued Cloud, wd i
Chany C Miller to Bdith D Mil- ,
ler, lots IS and 1, blk 7. Inn
vale, wd
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Itcmi from "The Chief of January 3, 1878
Total SlAlOTi
Mortgages filed, S3800.
Mortgages released, gl-HM).
Our next excursion for the Pan
handle will start on January, 7, l'JOB,
and the opportunity is yours to see
this wonderful country nt a small
cost. Sellars fc Holmes.'
M. L, Thomas left for Louisville.
Neb., yesterday morning.
Mr. Jones' team collided with the
lamp post of the Ued Cloud hotel the
other morning, doing it considerable
damage.
W. .1. Vance, who has been residing
in Colorado, is here on a visit and
thinks of returning here soon to live.
M. L. G arbor left ou Tuesday for his
old home in Iowa.
Those parties who were talking
about rushing in wood on subscription
have evidently forgotten all about it.
Bugene Audrus, who lived across the
line in Kansas, was almost instantly
killed last Tuesday. He was rolling a
log, and in some manner the crooked
end struck him ou the side of the
head, crushing his head and breaking
his neck at the same time.
Jly ti private letter from Congress
man W. A. Phillips we. arc ir. formed
that he has finally succeeded in secur
ing daily mail service ou the route
from Russell, Kan., via Smith Center
to Red Cloud.
Thirty years ago grain and cattle
were hauled from here to Hastings by
wagon. Tho Hastings market quota
tions in The Chief showed the follow
ing prices: No. 1 spring wheat, SIlc:
No. !, 81 and Hiiw, ear corn, new, HJc:
oats, lflc; rye, .'tlic; barley, l.l to It.'e:
live hogs, per 100 lbs, $3: dressed, SI.
Married, at Stillwater postotllee,
Sunday, December :.,:t. by I). M. Fran
cis, justice of the peace, Mr. J. Ran
dolph to Miss Rebecca Ann Mead.
LANCASTER MUST PAY.
Expenses of Barker Insanity Trials Will
Not Fall Upon Webster County.
Late Monday afternoon .lodge Fro-t
of the Lancaster county district court
overruled the demurrer of the county
of Lancaster to the payment of SIS t
Jesse Chappcll, one of the llrst. panel
if jurymen who were called in th
district court to inquire into the in
sanity of Frank Parker, the Web
ster county murderer. Mr. Chappcll
presented his claim of $1" for payment
and it was refused, lie than appealed
to tho district court.
While the overruling of the demur'
rer by the court indicates on the face
of the decision that but a small
amount is involved in the claim of
Mr. Chappcll. it means further that
the other eleven men who served on
the panel, and every witness who tes
tified in the hearing, will now be
entitled to pay for services. The first
jury disagreed and a second panel
called found that Harkor was sane.
It is ctimutcd that if the decision of
Judge Frost stands Lancaster county
will be put to the expense of at least
1,000 for juror and witness fees.
County Attorney Tyrcll has indicated
that he will take an appeal at once to
the supreme court. During the
arguments over tho payment of the
jurors and witnesses before Judge
Frost it was contended by this county
that cihtcr Webster county or the
state ought to be held responsible for
the costs in the Parker hearing. Lan
caster declared that there was no
statutory provision to force it to pay
those expenses and the case being a
special one, a panel could not be se
lected the same as grand and petit
jurors, who are to receive a certain
sum per day for their services. Judge
Frost, is quoted an saying that his de
cision was based on his opinion that
the Parker jury were the same as that
of any regular petit jury called.
Primary for Delegates to National Re
publican Convention.
This paper is in receipt of a. circular
letter signed by Charles (). Whcdon, a
Lincoln attorney, in which he. urges
that all the Hepiibheaus in the state
be given an opportunity to express
their preference in the matter of a
presidential candidate, by calling a
primary wlection to elect delegates to
the national convention. Hacu mem
hri' of the Republican .state central
committee has been requested to advo
cate Mich a primary. If tho com
mittee calls the primary and submits
the question, it expresses a desire to
know who the Republicans of the
state want. If it refuses, it suys it
docs not care to permit the Hepubli
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our own part, we are more than par-
tial to tlie primary election plan, and
t believe every voter should have :i
voice in naming his party candidates.
N.ewhouse Pros, carry the complete
list of Edison Phonograph records.
Any 12-Year-Olil lrl
can make those delicious Lemon, Choc-
i olate and Custard pies as well as the
more experienced cook ifsho uses"OUK
P1B" preparation, which Is now sold
by nearly all grocers at 10 cents per
package. Just the proper Ingredients
In each package. t
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