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' t - - ' , . * ? . ' * * . - . * . * McOooK WEEKLY TRIBUNE VOLUME III. McCOOK , RED WILLOW COUNTY , NEBRASKA , THURSDAY , AUG. 14 , 1884. NUMBER11. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE McCook , Nebraska. 0. L LAWJ , Beeittcr. C. P. BABCOCZ , Bcecher. OFFICK HOUIIK : From I ) . A. 31. to 12 M. , and 1 to 1 P. M. , mountain time. J. E. COCmiAN , ATTORNEY AT LAW , UeCOOE , BED WILLOW COTOT7 , WES. Practice In any Courts of the sttitc and Kan sas , and the government Land Oflioo of this Ulstrlct , and before the Lund Department ut Washington. Satisfaction guaranteed , and tcrmB reasonable. Ollicolstdoorbwuthof the U. S. Land Olllco. 2-28 JENNINGS & STAHBUCK , ATTORNEYS AT LAW , MCCOOK , - - NEBRASKA. Will give ( special attention to the pracllce of law , ana making collections. j2T ° OIIlce Secondbl ckm > rth of depot , 2 doors nortli Green's drug store. 2-"S , PAGE T. FllANCIS , COUNTY SURVEYOR , Red Willow County. Keeps certified pints of all Inmls In the Hitchcock land district. Speeinl attention Kivcn to all such business. Correspondence solicited. --S3. L. LEE JOHNSON , M. D. , PHYSICIAN & SURGEON , Graduate Medical Department University Wooter. OFFICE : Two doors cast of the Tribune Oflice , where he can be found when not pro fessionally engaged. Kcsidcncc , corner of Jefferson und Jliulison streets DR. Z. L. KAY , PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON , McCOOK , ' - - XEBBASKA. 1 will be found at S. L. Green's Drug Store for the present. All orders left there will re ceive prompt attention. T. B. STUTZMAN , M. D. , PHYSICIAN & SURGEON , McCOOK , - XEBBASKA. Office one door cast of THE TRIIIUXE oflice , where all calls will receive prompt attention , day or night. DR. A. J. WILLED , SURGEON B. & M. Railroad.V [ OFFICE AT B. & M. PHARMACY , ] McCOOK , - - NEBRASKA. A. T. GATEWOOD , SURGEON DENTIST.o [ OFFICE AT McCOOK HOTEL. ] JSTTrcscrvatien of the teeth a specialty. JOHN F. COLLINS , CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER , McCOOK. - - NEBRASKA. Jobbing will receive prompt attention at my shop on Dcnnlson St. , opposite ilcCook Mouse. Plans and specifications furnished If desired. CONGDON & CLIFF , h BRICKLAYERS & PLASTERERS McCOOK , - NEBRASKA , promptly attended to. C. L. NETTLETON , Superintendent Public Instruction Teachers' Examinations at Indianola on the third Saturday of every month , commencing at 9 o'clock. A. M. 25-tf. W. M..SANDERSON , HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER , v * McCooK , - NEBRASKA. All work guaranteed. Give me si call. , WILLIAM McINTYEE , S CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER V VP OF LONG EXPERIENCE. P a All work warranted. All material furnished if desired. Work done on short notice. r UINMAN & CO. , Painters , Cramers , Paper Hangers McCOOK , 2-36. NEBRASKA. a Si Jg"lesgns ! furnUhcd for Celling Decorations , cither In paper or Fresco Tainting. P JSTEW BARBER SHOP. J1 JACKSON TUBES } j IIa opened up a Barber Shop on West Dennlson Street , McCook , Xeb. , iv here he Is able to do Sim ing , llnlr Dressing , etc. , at all times. Ladles and childu rcn's hair dressing a specialty. Call nnd become acquainted. JACKSON TUBBS. Ci * A. C. TOWNE , ' REAL ESTATE AGENT. OJcCOOK , - NEBRASKA. Has for sale Deeded Lands , Timber Claims and tl Homesteads. Also , -will locate parties on Govern- _ mcnt Land. a DYSPEPSIA Can be cured by the use of Beggs' Dandelion Bit ters. It will at once restore action to the liver and kidneys , and tone up and regulate the stomach , so that food will be digested. For sale by S. L. Green. The call for Bpggs' Blood Purlflcr is daily incrcas- ing. S. L. Green Is famishing sample bottles free. of It is an excellent medicine for the Liver , Kidneys and Blood. Warranted. * WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington , D. C. , August 11 , ' 84. While Washington has never been particularly proud of her hostclries , she never aupposed that any of them were so depraved as to tumble down upon the heads of guests without a moment's warning. Yet suoh was thu case with the United States Hotel last Sunday , whose walls slew five persons outright and maimed a score more. A kind Providence postponed for an hour the casualty that , would have overwhelmed sixty guests who were at the table in in the dining-room. How many more of these ramshackle man-traps there are in the city , no one knows but the Build ing Inspector , and he won't tell. While Yankee ingenuity is being put to its best to devise fire-escapes , a new kind of horror presents itself , against which there can he no protection save the faithful discharge of the duty of those assigned to look after just such speci mens of rottenness as this. By the second volume of the "Blue Book , " which has just made its appearance , we arc made acquainted with a good many of the minor details of office-holding which fail to reach us through the ordi nary channels. The ' 'Blue Book" no longer ago than the reiim of Mr. Buchanan - chanan , was a volume containing not more than one hundred and sixty pages. The enormous multiplication of offices necessitates now two volumes of a thou sand pages and more each , which are published every two years for the use of Congress. ( The second volume which pertains distinctively to the Post Office Department , informs us that there are upwards of 50 , OOQ postmasters in the country , who receive salaries ranging from nine cents , received by the post master at Eedalia , N. C. , to $8,000 , re ceived by the postmaster at New York City. There are 2,400 of these post masters who receive a salary of less than $10 per annum , and yet not one of the 2,400 would resign except under the weightiest kind of a consideration. When postmasters were paid salaries in pro portion to the number of stamps sold , there was a lively interest in being post master even at the smallest cross-roads office , and the demand for stamps from all these small offices became so great that Uncle Sam began an investigation , only to find that postage stamps had be come the staple currency of the realm and entered into all sorts of trade , com merce and barter. Then Congress step ped in and said that salaries should be paid in accordance with the number of stamps canceled at the office , and this has canceled much of the desire to be a country postmaster. Beside the nine cent postmaster in North Carolina there .1 are thirty-four others in the country whose salary does not reach $1 per year , and a dozen of these are in North Caroli- na which State contributes just one- s ninth as much postal revenue as the cost of transporting her mails. Ordinarily the work of making up a quarterly re port in a country post office , requires a well-balanced mind , a patience beyond that of Job , and a full week of time. P In ninety-seven cases out of one huu- n dred , the work is not then done to the , b satisfaction : of the department , and the si whole business is returned to the exas perated postmaster to be done all over again , and that postmaster does not live in i the United States who sends in his report < to Washington without serious misgivings , and , I might say , absolute certainty that it will come back for re adjustment. A hundred years of postal service in which the methods of keeping postal accounts have not received the slightest simplification , have furnished our inad-houscs with most of the inmates a that politics and religion have to answer for. Ex-Speaker Kiefer having defied the newspaper men to do their worst , has re ceived the full benefit of their attentions , and his political cadaver is now lying in ] < state at Springfield , Ohio. Not a news paper in his district could be cajoled into his support for a renoinination3and there fore Kiefer started one of his own , with the usal disastrous results that come of s bad politician blowing his own horn. The defeat of Kiefer puts an end to a man whose public life has been nothing but a continued public calamity , and the S' country owes a debt of gratitude to the newspaper correspondents of Washing ton who have compassed the abolition one of the worst of our political pests. DOM PEDRO. { a Progress of the Panama Canal. The sanguine friends of the Pana ma canal project have evidently un derrated the expense of the enterprise and the difficulties to be surmounted On paper it is easy to show that a waterway , 44 miles long , 25 feet deep and from 84 to 102 feet wide , can be completed and opened for traffic in the latter part of 1888 ; but these moderate figures do not bring befoie the eye -with sufficient vividness the great masses of solid rock to be cul away. In some places it has been found necessary to make cuts nearly a thousand feet in width. Even in districts where no such mineral bar riers exist the ground is uneven , and frequently so high that the levelling process will be long and tedious. Ac cording to the reckoning of the engi neers 75,000,000 cubic meters of mud , earth and rock must be disposed of , and it is needless to say that even a great army of laborers will find this task a serious drain upon their capac ities. By the terms of the contract the company is allowed until 1893 to finish the work , and an esteemed con temporary is of opinion that M. De Lesseps may congratulate himself if liis work has been accomplished by 1891. Original estimates placed the cost of construction at 600,000,000 francs , but one-third of this amount has already been paid out and much more than two-thirds of the labor re mains to be performed. The total cost of the Suez canal was double the sum stated in the .prospectus , and the Mount Cenis , St. Gothard and Hoosac tunnels consumed a greater outlay than their promoters anticipated. Mi nor works , such as hospitals , dams , short branch railways , docks , piers and harbors swallow up a large part of the money intended for the canal , and rolling stock , dredges , tools , ves sels , houses for laborers and other ar ticles materially swell the expense account. This is the dark side of the picture , but the bright side should not be forgotten. Great industry and skill have been displayed , and there is lit- ' tie reason to doubt that the work will eventually be an important accession to the world's commercial factors. By lessening the time spent in many voy ages and obviating- the necessity of the dangerous trip around the Horn , it will redound to the benefit of ship owners and reduce the cost of many South American and Pacific products. There will be business enough for the canal and for the Panama railroad also , but while it is unquestionable that the water way will be a boon to shipping interests , it is not so clear that it will prove a bonanza to its stockholders. R ail way Worl d. THE total number of B. & M. en gines now number 117 , and ten more are ordered and are to arrive this fall. Several yeara ago the B. & M. had 26 V O locomotives and other rolling stock in proportion , and when the new loco motives arrive the increase in the num ber of new locomotives on the road in seven years will be just an even hun dred. Plattsmouth Journal. OWEX ELIZABETH of Roumania , one of the foremost literary ladies of all Europe , is responsible for the statement that "The virtue of a wife must often be great , for uufrequently she must ha ve sufficient for both her self and her husband. " "Wonder if Elizabeth intended to make a local application ? "NYa : have it that a black eye is sim ply this and nothing more : "A black eye is simply a severe contus ion of the integuments under the or \ bit , with great extravasation of blood , and ecchymosis in the surrounding celular tissue , which is in a tumified state. " If that's all the worse , we can stand it. "A 3Lor who is so mean as to thus sue a widow woman ought to be kicked - * ) * ed to death by a jackass , " said a Te- cutnseh attorney at a recent justice court , "and I wish the court would appoint ine to do it. " The Cost of Some Statues. Chief Justice Marshall's bron/e statue , which was dedicated recently , cost § 40,000 , and it is a valuable ad dition to the art works of the capital. Washington city has several very large fortunes represented by its art works. Greenough's naked Washing ton at the front of the capitol cost § 43,000 , and the two statues facing it on the portico represent in hard cash $24,000 each. The ridiculously placed naval monument at the foot of Pennsylvania avenue cost $25,000 ; the bronze statue of Freedom on the dome , § 23,000 , and the group of the emancipation , in Lincoln park , $17- 000. For the pedestal of Gen. Mc- Pherson's statue which stands oppo site the Arlington hotel , the govern ment paid $15,000 , and for Vinnie Ream's bronze Farragut , $20,000. The equestrian statue of Gen. Scott , in front of Don Cameron's residence , cost $73,000 , that of Gen. Thomas , $65,000 , that of Andrew Jackson rearing up in front of the white house $50,000 and the equestrian statue of Washington on the edge of George town a like sum. There is a statue of Gen. Rawlins beyond the white house that cost $10,000 , a statue at the soldiers' home of Gen. Scott that cost $18,000 , and a statue of Gen. Greene in East Washington which represents a money outlay of $50,000. For the Bartholdi fountain in the Bo tanical gardens the government paid $6,000 , and the capitol itself had cost three years ago about $13,000,000. The Washington monument will cost $1,000,000. The state , war and the lavy building has already cost $7- 000,000. A VEUV fishy story comes from Philadelphia to the effect that a citi- /eii of that city claims to have discov ered a fleet of sunken Spanish gal- eons in Vigo bay , Spain. His claim s that the galleons were sunk early n the eighteenth century and that hey contained bullion to the amount of $20,000,000. He has made some observations on the scene of "the vreck , " and has the permission of the Spanish government to proceed in his vork of fishing up the wealth which ic says is so easy obtainable there. Hie next step in the scheme will > robably be the formation of a stock C company of gullibles who will live in lope for a few years while the origi- later of the scheme will be living on I hem. Republican. GOVERNOR ABUETT , of New Jersey , ms just now secured a plume by sav- ng a young lady from drowning who vas swimming at Long Branch. Should the Governor run for office ] again he can depend on the young ady's brothers and cousins as Abbett ne.'i. A LOXPON paper has discovered hat in the cholera epidemic of 1832 lot one tobacconist died from the dis ease. This is a neat way of starting a boom in the tobacco business. We uppose everybody will take to smok- ng now. A WELL-KNOWN publisher of New York is now lying seriously ill from F he effects of arsenical poisoning caused by contact with the new postal notes. Heaven only knows where the adulteration of this age is going to top. Miss LULA HURST , who has been 'downing" AmericansIrishmen , , Ger- nans and in fact representatives of nearly all nationshas at last found her natch in a Japanese student. The % \Ton < rolian wouldn't ffo. I STOKES , the red-handed murderer , vas present at the recent "indepen- lent" meeting in New York City. Curtis is getting into refined and noral society out of the frying pan nto the fire. THE Omaha Republican states that 1 'Mother Hubbard" came out of her ussle versus the state of Nebraska , vith flying colors. W. C. LaTOURETTE , II DEALER IN | | - HARDWARE , STOVES , QUEENSWARE , AGRICUTURAL IMPLEMENTS , BARBED WIRE. The Largest Stock and Lowest Prices in Red yillow County. CALL AND BE CONVINCED , Sign of BIG AX. Three Doors South P. 0. McCOOK NEBRASKA. LYTLE BROS. , -GENERAL DEALERS LV- HARDWARE STOVES AND TINWARE , , Agricultural Implements and Barb Wire , HEADQUARTERS FOR The Celebrated Bain Wagon Tlie Best Wagon in the Market MANUFACTURING AND REPAIRING OF Tin , Sheet-Iron & Copperware By Practical and Experienced Workmen , Promptly and Neatly Executed. Corner Store , Opposite Citizen's Bank , McCOOK , NEBRASKA. B. X M. PHARMACY. HAVE IN STOCK A LINE OF FINE TOILET ARTICLES , Combs , Brushes , Perfumery , Extracts , Etc. WINES AND LIQUORS Will be sold only in cases of sickness , and then only on Physician's Prescription. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded , Day or Night , Doctor's Choice , America's Finest Five Cent Cigar. McCOOK , - - NEBRASKA , THE CITIZEN'S BANK OF McCOOK DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS Collections made on all accessible point * . Drafts drawn directly on the principal cities of Europe. Taxes paid for Non-Eesidents. Money to loan on Fanning Lands , Village and personal property. * Fire Insurance a specialty. Tickets for Sale to and from Europe- . . . . C022SSPON2EHT3 : ! J. W. DOLAX. President. First National Bank , Lincoln , Neb. V. FBANKLIN , Vice Presidont. Chase National Bank , New York. | W. F. WALLACE , Cashier.
