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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1915)
m iurv. . &'' r -'i , , r. r ! ' -'"- j jf" -j- i i - - ; .1. JkuL.k..:i. .. n, -' r - "-i --t -: ti.rf - v'.'mi. ? . . . i. r . '.".. - : . Mt. h ., u-j -. .t tvjir. JuiKl -rsi . - - --i w . Lr w " ll11" iv..r !.'.' ,rti-t v: -- . ;: ,:- ,'r ",t xz'& tt j. t. wj i?fts'E v5r!,wfwin'W'-'ii -. -. -,- - -, -..--. v - i'1 " -n wr-v-.ii-1 .-..tcvv .- -.r- - - -....- -- . , . .,. ..... . .,t.. ,... ,,,..,. ., . ., --. , . . , , ,. ., jvw.v.r..MMi I RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF rulWlll'L.w5Il.llV't,atJJJyMlfrJjJflalWJeJX,'TJffll Railroads of Nebraska Losing Thousands Pay. Millions To People in Wages, Taxes And For Supplies g5S&tiD&S'-v -sSSs- M8SSEES$ QUAL1T Y Announcement On account of ill health Mr. B. F. Perry will retire from the firm of Weesner, Perry & Co., on February 1st. The new firm will be Roscoe P. Weesner & Co. All parties owing us please call and settle on or before February 1st. Weesner, Perry & Co. r Every Year ITI It In a Htnttitft) fart, but nevertheless tlio ntnher lines of tlie Htate, bus l.OIW V 1 We shall appfBciate a share of your coal orders PMTT I FREES f f MOVED TO THE McFarland Building Where I will conduct an exclusive undertaking business, piano and musical merchandise. Some Furniture Left Going at Cost ED. AMACK It IK', lllllt III lillD'i pllit tllH leoplu of tlio iiveniue nlMte liavo not r i.iiil"1 flieir lalliouilrt iih lit) "Iniltntiy" titnl yfl, next to HKili'iiltmv, tluiif Is not it mIuuIm (Vntnil or Western Htiito In which tlio niiliimils ilouot pay nut mole tunney for labor anil Htippllt-M tlnin il'it-i any other hIiiu'Ii' tMitTpi !. however lurKi" Wo biair ttliout our fell lie farm lutein and lejoleo that our oitlen are lllled with bltf f ctorics with bl pay rolln which eiente it iimtket for faun, pioiluets- but wo fin not that moiH workin'men' faiiiUlexilepohil upon tlio rallroails for a living than upon any other ono In dUMtry in either tlio average Htate or the nation anil that their welfare is there fore clonely linked to that of the farmer and tlio merchant not merely beeiiuso they furnish him height and passenger HTvice, but because the millions they disburse in one way and another con tribute tremendously to the prosperity of the Htate in which wo live. miles of toad in Nebiaska upon wbiel during the calendar year ending De cember ill, l!ll:i, it earned $1,1:10 per mile The pliy.lcnl valuation placed upon the Northwestern is $:.i I'l(!.:i9 per t illc, which til' litis (but on tbli lm.su It e. it mil only a little better than !! pt r ei-nt on It investment In a greater or 1 s degree the siini" coiidiib'tm pievull with refeicuce to trnverul other lines. Since the above figures wereconiiiled and they aie taken from tlio tepitt of the Nebiaska Hallway (.'ommission and thetefore t-huulil bo entitled to tbe highest public coiilideiico as to their conservatism u reduction of !?0 per c nt in iiitiutiite freight, known as O.der No . II), his toio into effect and this means, therefoie, that from this time forward the showing of the various roads will be much lower than tbe figures cited above which were based upon ra lroad incomes before tbe '21) per cent freight reduction went into effect. Thus, for instance, the railroads aro, While both freight and passenger rates tbe largest taxpayers in the state of , have been iiiH(1n,iMtH for a number of Nebraska, their taxes for the calendar years in Nebraska and adjoining states year of 1011J having muoiiiit-d to over yet in the passenger department they fS,fj.1U,000 niul this tidy sum contrib-' are nothing short of confiscatory and iiImiI Itu full hIiiith truviml tliu -iiiimnrt if hence the idea of tbe railroads that Dim every public school, public highway and ' three cent passenger rates be restored ALL THE fHONEB Mel ID BUILDING -T 51 GOVERNMENT IRRIGATED FARMS Will You Be One Of The Fortunate Owners? The Government has just finished a survey aud eclentlllo soil ex HmUmtion of the remaining irrigated lands lu the Government Pro ject nt l'owell, Wyo., Ulg Horn llasln. Of tho small remaining urea under that unit already Irrigated tho agricultural and irrigiitiou experts report fit farms ranging from 40 to 120 acres each, now available for homesteadlng very choice aud desirable as to quality of soil, reliable water bupply aud suc cessful drainage, In fact the Otllcials pronounce these fifty farms of tho high est grade aud equal to any so far bettled lu that Project. Twenty years with no Interest to cotnploto your water right payments. Land ready to prepare for seeding, no clearing, and your crop the first year. 4.10 prosperous farmers will be your neighbors and urouud you arc excellent gralu crops, a tremonodiih tonnage of alfalfa, schools, churches, fraternities, with Uncle Sam and his farm experts near you, No commissions to anybody nnd I, acting for the Burliugton Road, offer my services free to locato you; noto the map of the Burlington's now mainlluo through Central Wyoming and guess for yourself tho coming increaso in the population and laud values lu tho Big Horn Basin, traversed by this Hue, Write mo toduy for foldor and map. B9 S.B. Howard, Ass't. Immigration Agent 1004 Far nam St., Omaha, Nebraska other revenue expense of tho state. In round figures, the railroads of Ne braska aro valued at approximately 1275.000,000 money, which In years gone by, was Invested In these great arteries of commerce by thousands of men and women who live all over tho UV'S. and in Europe and without whoso financial aid tho woudei fill progress of our great commonwealth would have been impossible. During the last year tbe railroads of Nebraska employed 30,0:tt men and women in this state, and paid to them over $20,000,000 in salaries and these millions did their full share to create a profitable market for Nebraska farm products and to uphold the volume of business of Nebraska grocers, clothiers, (Irygoodsmeu aud others who depend upon public patronage. ' In otiier woMs, when the people of Nebraska look at their railroads in tbe light of an industry wheti they look itt the flguies on the other side of the ledger they will find that not only do the rallioadH return to them in one way and another piactlcally every dollar they collect within the state for freight and passenger service, but that a num ber of Hues are actually doing this busi ness at a loss, while with others the margin of profit is bo small that it doesn't begin to pay a fair return upon the capital invested. lu this counectiou we wish to digress for a moment to quote some statistics which should have had a placo in a former article. It costs an average of 7 mills per wile to haul a ton of freight in the United States, whereas in Englaud It costs 2.83 cents, in Germany 1 42 cents, and in France 1.41 cents. In tbe United States the average wages paid to railroad employees are $2 23 per day, in England $1 15 and iu Germany and France not over $1 per day. The Eng lish railroads are capitalized at $265,000 per mile, in France at $137,000 per mile, in Germany at $114,185 while in the United States the stock and bond cap! talizatlou averages only $03,000 per mile. In view of this remarkable com parison, do Americau railroads deserve the wholesale denunciation which has been heaped upon them? liosaoi Under Present Bates. As evidence of the justice of the plea of the Nebraska lines that three-cent pas senger rates should be restored, duriug the fiscal year ending Juue 30, 1013, the Missouri Pacific lost $153,500 on the total volume of its Nebraska business both state and interstate included. The Missouri Pacific has 871 miles of rail road in the state and the above deficit means that it sustained an actual oper ating loss of $100 per mile upon proper ties valued by the engineer of the State Railway Commission at $32,033.00 per mile. During this time it paid $1,207, 200.04 in salaries to its Nebraska em ployees and over $105,000 In taxes. During the calendar year ending December 31, 1013, the St. Joseph and Grand Island Hallway sustained an actual operating loss of $80,494 or a deficit of $708 per mile on properties valued by the engineer of the State Rail way Commission at $22,500.40 per mile. During tbe same period, the Rock Island, which has 240 miles of road within the state, showed net earnings of only $191 per mile upon properties valued by the State Railway Com mission at $43,013 92 per mile. During the year 1914, the Rock Island earned only a little more than $10,000 on all its Nebraska business, while lu the mean time it paid out more than $1,500,000 in salaries, taxes, for ties, fuel aud other supplies and tnntoilals. The NoithwesU'inr which Is one of ON THIS WE HAVE BUILT OUR PRESENT BUSINESS In view of the facts and figures quoted above, is there a single fair-minded citizen In the state of Nebraska who will contend that the nil roads aro not entitled to help? Is uot tho present situation an impossible one and does it nut mean inevitable wreck aud ruin to several thousand miles of railroad which aro Intensely essential to the well-being 6f hundreds of towns aud farming com mnnitles throughout the state? ( mosses urowing continually. Fioui these figures, which aro open to absolute proof, it can be seen that the Nebraska Hues aro not only sustaining a loss amounting to thousands of dollars annually on their traffic, but that with an ever increasing cost of operation these losses are constantly growing heavier and if the service to the public is, to remain efficient aud adequate, aud if the railroad .investments of the state ar,e uot to be driven to the point of con fiscation, tbe people of Nebraska must, tirough their late-making authonties, CQiiseut to a return to the three-cent passenger fine which was abolished without a due regard for increasing labor aud supply cost or an adequate interest return upou the millions in vested in Nebraska railroad properties. What industry is there iu the nation which could have tolerated a reduction of one third iu its income ou a large vol ume of its business during the last few years without coming to grief? Four years ego as governor of New York, Justice Hughes of the Uulted States Supreme Court, vetoed a two cent passenger law enacted by the legis lature on the ground that it was an arbitrary procedure which did not take into consideration a fair return npou tho railroad properties of that state and few men etand higher in the esteem of tbe American people than this great jurist, who did perhaps as much as any other man in the country to break np illegal and unfair practices on the part of large corporations. So, too, the Supreme Court of Penn sylvania held that a two.ceut passenger fare was unconstitutional in that state because it was essentially confiscatory. This high court took the position that capital invested in railroads, as well as in other lines of private property, is en titled to earu 0 per cent on a fair capi talization and that the arbitrary enact ment of a two-cent fare rendered such a returu upou the lines in Pennsylvania impossible. It also took the position that railroads uot only have the right to insist upon a fair return upon both freight and passenger business, but that it is their duty to do so in order that one class of patrons may not be compelled to pay an inequitable rate to make up the losses sustained iu another depart ment. If the arbitrary enactment of a two ceut passenger rate is unfair to the rail-' roads of New York and Pennsylvania, where thero are large centers of popu lation and where the natiou's greatest density of freight tonnage naturally exists, how much more unfair is such a rate in a purely agricultural state like Nebraska, which has a total population of only a million and a quarter with no large manufacturing centors? The reader is familiar with the recent 5 per ceut increase iu freight rates granted by the Interstate Commerce Commission to Eastern lines and again, as the commission wisely says, if the precarious financial condition created by the European war renders this in crease necessary, how much more are the weaker Western lines, widely are compelled to exist almost altogether upon an agricultural patronage, entitled (Continued on pago 5) Y7lIEN we began our vv business career in in Red Cloud we look as (Air motto the one word Quality and we believe all our'patrons will agree with us that it has truly been our slogan all this time. Our reputation for high-grade Groceries is well known. We arc fully prepared o supply all your wants in our line P. A. WuIIbrandt THE HOME GROCERY T m-sm 33 -mmm- 'Ssss-o LEGiL NOTICE. In The District Court of Webster County. Nebraska. laiey M. Stonebrcakcr, lMulntlir, vs. Sntnuul C.Hliurk, 1.1zlu A. Sluirslitl, . .1. V. Sluir.sliel, tier husband, llrst untile un known, I'lysses (J. Martin, Nellie Martin, Ills wife, Oni-nr ('. Teel, David P. Mctnlnch, Cora A. MeluliiL'li, bis wile, (Iran M. Iledtjp, aud l-'lorince II. lk'ctue, lits wife, William A. Kent and Addle Kent IiIhwKc. Dl'fClldiUltM. The above-named non-resident defendants, UteA.Mliarslicl, J. V. Hharxliel, her hus band, whoso lint nnnie U unknown, UIvkhch (1. Martin, and Nellie Martin, bin wife, will take notice that on the 2ml dnv of .lannary nil!, I.uey M Stonebreaker, plalntlll' herein, tiled bur petition In the IUatrlct Court of Webster County, NcbniHka. ni;alnst until de fendnuts, the object nnd prayer of which aro to foreclose a certain mortgage executed by the defendant Samuel '..Shuck to the plain' tlir upon the following described premises, to-wlt: roiiimeiicliitr "iS feet north of tho south cast corner of tlio south west quarter of tho south east quarter of section Itt. In town 2 north, of rniiKe II, west, of the 0th 1. M. lu WobHter County, Nebraska; thence north to tho north east cornerof the north wcstiiunrt er of the smith east quarter of section Itt, town 2 north of range 11, west; running west 3K0 feet; thence houth ndlslancecqual to tho cast line of unld land In question; thence east littu feet to tho point of departure; containing II 1-2 acres moreor less, all In theuorth west quart erof the south cast quarter-ot section itt, town 2, north of range It, west of the'iGtli V M. In Webster County, Nebraska, (now known ns lots. 1 to Win Shuck's Sub-Dlvlslou of Annex 1 to Hcd Cloud) to secure the pay ment of a certain promissory note dated March 'J, l'JOS for the sum of 31C00.C0 and due and payable March U, 1'JIO; that there Is now due upon said noto nnd mortgage tho sum of SimKI for which sum with Interest from this date plnlntltl' prays foradecree; that defend ants be required to pay tho samo or that snld premises may bo sold to satisfy tho nmount found due. You aro required to answer said petition on or boforo the 2iA dny ol Kobruary, 11)15. Dated January 'J, lUir. I.ucy M. Htonkiihkakbk, By llernard McNcny, Her Attorney. Order t Shtw Came State ol Nebraska, I in Tho County Court. Webster County, f At a County Court held at the County Courtroom tn and tor said county December 30th A. I)., 19M. In the matter ot the estate of Frederick Wlttwor, Deceased. On reading and tiling the petition ot John Wlttwer and Ueorge Wlttwer praying that administration ot said estate may bo granted to them as Kzecutors. OHDEHKD, that Saturday the 90th day of January, A. D. 11)16, at ten o'clock a. in., Is assigned for hearing said petition, when all persons Interested In said matter may ap pear at a County Court to bo held tn and for said County and show cauRO why prayer of petitioner should not be granted; nnd that notlco of the pendency of said petition and tho hearing thereof bo given to all persons Interested In said matter, by publishing a copy of this order In tho Hed Cloud Chlof, a weekly newspaper printed In said county, for three consecutive weeks prior to said day of hearing. A D. Hannkv, (Seal) ' County Judge. "" " . unrnv?. Sfi F RE THE ALARM Is u rlreuriritl thing OF" FIRE for the man without insurance. Every time he sees the engines racing along his heart comes up iu his throat if the fire is anywhere near his place. What folly, what mis taken economy. THE COBT OF is so small that It INSURANCE need hardly be onsldcred. Tho freedom from worry alone is worth it many times over Have us Insure yon to-day. O. C. TEEL, Reliable Insurance. BE5T REPAIRING? UNDER THE SON l-J EmHBm Invisible Patches Neat workmanlike repairing is a branch of our business which is given especial atten tion. Sand Your Torn GarmonU To Us We wil clean press and re pair them so that they will give you much satisfactory wear. You are accustomed to having your shoes and watch repaired. Why not your clothes? Order To Shew Cause. StVterNCourntv.a InTho CoUDty Court At a County Court hold itt tho County Court room In and for Bald county January 3th, A. I. 11)16. In tho matter of tho cstato ol Weasel Wcssels Sr., Deceased. UN reading and llllng tho petition of Joseph I.. Watson praying that administra tion ot said estate may bo granted to Joseph h. Watson, as Administrator. Oudkuki), That Friday tho 29th day ot January, A. 1)., 1015, at 11 o'clock a. in., Is assigned for hearing said petition, when all persons Interested In said matter may appear at a County court to bo held In and for Bald county and show causo why prayer ot peti tioner should uot bo granted; and that notlco of tho pendency of snld potltlon and tho henr- Ing thereof bo given to all persons Interested In Bnld mnttcr, by publishing a copy of this order In tho Itcd Cloud Chief, a weekly nows paper printed In said county, for threo con sccutlvo weeks prior to said day of. hearing. SBAI.1 A. D. IlANNKY, County Judge. C. It. Stasknka, Attorney. G. Hassingep Cleaner and Dyer Both Phones Dr. Nicholson DENTIST OFFICE OVKH AMIIUQIIT'S STORE IN RIVERTON O.N MONDAY Red Cloud. Nebraska Do Not Gripe Wo liavo r pleasant laxativo that will do put what you want it to do. Wo sell thousando of tlicin and wo liavo never ictn u Lt ttcr remedy lor tho bowels, f'otil only by us, 10 ecnU. H. E. Grice Drug Co, CAMP ;i THE ' ' CHIROPRACTOR Red Cloud, -:- Nebraska Second House North ol I. O. O. F. Hall . i Graduate Palmer School of Chiropractic, Davenport Iowa. r Consultation and Spinal Analysis Free At Office Phone lnd.212 -. i t j - a x.? .