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IT 13 now quite apparent that
the only opposition to the five
mill levy to rebuild the court
house comes from those who are
in favor of county division , Yet
we know of some who favor the
levy who also favor division.
I'HB way prices on hogs and
cattle keep up in the larce of
the generally boycott in the east
against them' makes it appear
that they are scarce. If general
reports are true hogs are liable
to be fewer instead of more
before another crop is realized
upon ,
'SoMKof the Lincoln insurgents
stopped insurging long enough
he other day to banquet with
the high brows of the Burlington
railroad. The Star would turn
several kinds of mental hand
springs if Senator Burkett were
caught in such an act. The re
port did not say whether or not
Bud Lindsey was present.
W. J. I--HYAN has finally de
clared for county option and the
initiative and referendum in sub
mitting the questions of saloon
license for the state , Had he
taken that stand last winter
when the democratic state legis
lature was in session he might
have been able to have accom
plished something along that
line.
.MAYOR JIM PAHI.MAN and Goy ,
Shalleuberger will not appreciate
to any great extent the attitude
of the Peerless W , J. on the
question of county option. 'For
it makes no difference which one
secures the democratic nomina
tion for governor he must realize
his hope of success depends upon
th support of the saloon element
of the state.
TUB effort of Congress at the
present time to legislate against
high prices of food stuff reminds
us of tbe contrast since the good
old democratic days when Qrovcr
Cleveland was our Chief .execu
live. Then food stuff was , not
only low , but still worse we were
not able to earn a dollar to buy
the actual necessaries of life.
Worse calamity could strike us
than high prices.
Now the electric light proposi
tion is apparently an assumed
fact the commercial club and
city council have an open field
and should not let up until a
public sewerage and a city hall
has been provided. These are
improvements greatly needed.
With the proper energy and
j-.uBh both of these may be reach
ed this season.
Tun CITY of Lincon has the
hardest fight of its life this
spring to maintain its present
nMitude against siloou license.
No community can effectually .in
one year fully prohibit the sale of
intoxicants. Because there has
been more or less violation of the
IAW in the past year with the
saloons shut out the friends
of the open saloon will endeavor
to make much of it and doubtless
will be able to gain back some of
the luke warm advocates who
helped to vote out the saloon last
year. It was two or three years
after Broken Bow voted out the
saloons before some' of the busi
ness men were convinced that
the town could grow and pros
per without saloons , But after a
dozen years without saloons
there is scarcely a business man
in Broken Bow that would vote
in favor of a saloon.
TUB showing made by a cor
respondent that the coat of food
is relatively about the same in
Germany as in the United States
helps to substantiate the claim
that it is all due to tbe cheapness
of money' The reversal since
1896 of many things upon which
financial and economic discus
sions arc based is one of the won
ders of modern times. State
Journal.
TUB President has been at
tacked by radicals for hia con
servatism and by conaervativea
for his radicalism , That is the
common experience of levelhead
ed and strong-hearted public
men. It was the experience of
Washington and Lincoln in the
great crises of .cur history.
Heated and hasty judgment
based on inadequate knowledge
of affairs is not the verdict which
is to be finally acoepted.
Rochester Democrat and Chron
iclc.
TUB people get many wrong
ideas from the newspapers
They are made to think by the
Democratic newspapers that the
tariff makes the trusts , and that
because the Republican Presi
dent and the majority of Repub
licans favor the tariff , that must
mean that they also favor trusts
and corporations. The truth is
the Republican party is the only *
party that ever prosecuted a
trust or corporation , and every
Republican believes in punish
ing every trust and corporation
that does wrong. Hiawatha
( Kan. ) World.
What nearly every town needs
is a more pronounced public
spirit. Civic stagnation is the
result of indifference and that
indifference has its root in a
selfishness that considers nothing
but private gain , Take any
community whose citizens are
intent only on their private
affairs and you find a community
destitute of progress and public
spirit. It is a short sighted
policy based upon the wrong idea
that it does not pay individually
to spare even a fraction of time
to devote to the general good.
In truth it does not pay not to
do it for in these pushing days
the town destitute of that whole
some , widewake spirit which
makes for the public welfare falls
behind. Other towns pass it by ,
draw away its trade , and leave it
hopelessly in the rear as a fossi
lized specimen of antiquity pet
rified through clinging to a dead
selfishness and obsolete methods.
Exchange.
Postal Savings Bank.
President Taft's Democratic
critics will have another oppor
tunity to eat crow. They have
contended all along that the
party pledges on which the pres
ent Chief Executive of the na
tion was elected were intended to
catch votes. They especially
insisted that there would be no
effort to pass a measure to es
tablish postal tavings banks ,
Piedictions of these self-con
stituted prophets of evil have
failed in many instances and
there is abundant evidence that
in regard to this particular
matter they have fallen far short
of the mark , The postal savings
bank bill not only has reached
the Senate , but carries with it
the indorsement of the com
mittee which considered it
and goes before the members
of Congress carrying all the in
fluence of the administration.
Few Presidents have given
more attention to the needs of
the people at large and played
peanut politics leas thau Presi
dent Taft.
If his Democratic critics are
sincere in their desire to estab
lish a postal savings .bank sys
tern they easily can assist in
bringing to a successful issue a
project which is devoid of politics
and which should have been in
augrated half a century ago.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Warrn ! ton Hits the Nail on the Head.
Editor Warrington of Mason
"City Transcript pays his compli
ments to the Ansley Argosy :
Our esteemed friend Barks of
the Ansley Argosy nearly threw
a fit last week over our hundred
thousand dollar court house pro
position , and got off the usual
twaddle about the farmers taxes.
Brother Barks is a particular
champion of the farmers on the
tax deal. He fought , bled and
( nearly ) died for them last fallen
on the county division question
and nearly howled his head off
in the bargain to talk them into
a scheme of building four new
court houses and maintaining
four county governments in place
of one , all done no doubt with
the object in vjew of decreasing
the farmers taxes. Barks , you
are a foxy lad ; but not so foxy as
"Foxy Grandpa. " Even the moat
rampant advocate of county
division knows that a court house
for housing of the county officers
and the safe keeping of the
county officers and the safe keep
ing of the county records is an
absolute necessity. Custer coun
ty has outgrown the day and age
when all the pounty business can
be done in a single room and
when about the only place nee
essary to store the records in the
officers , pockets or some conveni
ent soapbox. Such accommoda
tions might be ample and suffici
ent for one ot Bro' Barks' little
dinky five counties he will have
to champion this year in order to
save a whole lot more money to
the farmers in taxes , but will
not do for Custer county , which
is still on the map with all its
48x54 miles in tact. A court
house , then , being a necessity we
avored building one of such
roportions as would accommo
date the growing business of the
ounty and of such material as
would insure and guarantee tbe
afty of the valuable records of
he county. | We favor building
i court house not fur Broken
Bow's benefit but for the benefit
f all the people in Custer county ,
ven including Bro. Barks. The
iroposition now before the pleople
o tax the county 5 mills for the
year 1910vto build a court house
nd jail will be no particular bur
den to any taxpayer. Barks'
attempt to magnify it into a
& 100.000 or $150,000 for the ex
clusive benefit of Broken Bow is
imply the uieerest twaddle and
moonshine.
Burkett , The Man And His Work.
The Insurgents , root , branch
and blosssm , are peculiarly ad
opted to a Democratic Atmos
phere. The Anti-Burkett follow-
ng is not large. Why ? Because
ts a "Made in Lincoln" product
and the demand for Lincoln pro
ducts , throughout the state , is
not great.
Lincoln first went dry , then it
went morbid , Then a lot of people
ple j.a Lincoln , disgusted , dis-
grunted and disloyal , to them
selves and to their party. They
wanted Burkett to buy up Wash
ington , cut it up in big slices and
dish it out to them. Burkett
didn't do it , so now , they're try
ing to run the good Republican
ship with a Democratic side
wheel.
That Lincoln , of all places ,
should nurse a grudge against
Burkett , is almost pathetic. Now
what has he done for that City ?
He gave 'em the new Post Office
and enlarged the Postal Service.
He made that little town the
seat of the Federal Court , and
at every turn of the Congress
ional fly wheel , has copped ou
something choice for Lincoln and
yet some of these Incubator Re
publicans , ( commonly called In
surgents ) are howling , "A new
man for the Senate ! " In Lincoln
the Insurgent Depository , con
tains men in general who have
been disappointed in their efforts
to land a Government job through
Senator Burkett , and they an
sore , downright sore , Outside p.
Lincoln , the Pr ss is justified in
taking its own stand , either for
or against Burkett , but the Cap
ital City , should to a man , stand
back of the man who has done
so much for them ,
Senator Burkett is a young
man. who has made good in every
undertaking , both as a Congress-
The "Stay Satisfactory'Rarge
Jf T i ;
Furniture , Carpets , Rag
Hardware , Stoves , Tinware.
Silverware , Cutlery , China
Largest Assortment and Lowest Prices
Custer County
Land Man
If you have a snap in a
farm , or ranch for sale list
with me. If you want to
buy a snap in a farm or
ranch , come and see me.
Phones , office 42 , resi
dence 129.
CHAS. W. BOWMAN
BROKEN Bow , NEB.
g cccoo. COAL .
fl No Dirt. No Clinkersr-All , S
I Cnnl The Good Kind. O
FEED
For Salo. Both Wholesale ®
S
and Retail. Highest Market
Price for All Kinds of Grain
f West Elevator
& F. J. BAIiR , Prop. Phone 62
COME SEND or
TELEPHONE
To the New Store just East
of Taylors Art Gallery For
all kinds of Flour and Feed
Gash Paid For Cream.
FREE DELIVERY.
W. H , O'HOBKE '
man and a Senator. He is not a
follower among men he is a lead
er ; strong , firm untiring in the
exercise of the stronger priuci
pies of life , and life's work.
In Washington , on the lloorof
the Senate , Burkelt is both fear
ed and respected. II is Colleagues
no longer try to buy bin favors ,
neither do they offer theirs in
exchange. They know its useless.
He is not a man to sit back in a
corner , and let destiny do it all ,
he makes events , gets results , he
is not a time killer , nor a money
getter , but a hard worker , with
heart , soul , concience and mind
in his work.
The Democrats are afraid of
Burkett. They think Bryan
could beat most any man in the
scate , but they dor't think he
can beat Burkett that's why they
want Burkett out i f the race.
There's one significent point
about that Lincoln Insurgent
meeting ; not one old soldier was
present. Now what has the
Grand Army done ? They've pass
ed strong resolutions endorsing
Burkett and they're for him to a
man. This then , should make
the heart of the Senator feel
warm and glad , Blaine County
Booster.
That's not the Question. If you
do not , you ought buy your
Furniture and Floor
i _ _
Coverings.
OF
The Furniture Man
DR. GEO. F. BARTHOLOMEW |
Physician , Surgeon
and Occulist
Prices as reasonable as are consis
tent with good work. Phone 61.
Office at Hospital.
Send Your Abstract Orders to
J. G. Leonard , Bonded Abstractor
Office In Security State Bank Building
G. L. Turner
. . Lbr.
Lumber , Posts , Shingles
General Building Supplies
Phone 79
February
of
Homesookors' Excursions : February ist nnd Islh , nnd the first and
third Tuesdays of each subsequent month , to the West Northwest nnd Southwest ,
new farm regions. A chance for a splendid tour of the West nt very low rntes.
winter Tourist Rates : Daily through February nnd March to all South
ern , Quit , Cuban and California resorts.
Very Cheap One Way Rates
To Puget Sound and Pacific Coast
Only $25 oo from eastern nnd central Nebraska to Seattle , Portland , Spokane
Ilutte , Helena , San Francisco , I.o * Angeles and other far western destinations.
Tickets sold from March 1st to April isth.
Through Service : These ticket holored in chair cars and tourist sleep
ers , daily through tourist sleepers via Northern Pacific Express , daily through
tourist sleepers via Great Northern Express , through upper Northwest ; daily \
through tourist sleepers to California , via Denver scenic Colorado , Salt Lake City ,
and Southern Pacific.
Get in touch with me , and let me give you descriptive literature , arrange
or your berths and nssist you in every way.
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II. L. ORMSBY , Ticket Agent , Broken Bow
L. \VAKELEY , G. P. A. , Omaha , Neb