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VOLUME IV MeCOOK , RED WILLOW COUNTY , NEBRASKA , THURSDAY , DECEMBER 17 , 188S. NUMBER 29.
WEET MUS ! iGONOMICAL !
DOT ! ARS SAVFDI !
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[ [ U > ' y McCracken , Jeweler !
NOW OFFERING n
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Watches ,
My Stock is Full and Complete , Embracing
Everything New and Novel in
AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF
SILVER AND PLATED WARE
The Finest in the West , and at Prices
that Can't be Beat in this Country.
I ALSO HAVE A FINE LINE OF
BOOKS AtHalf Price !
Well Bound , Finely Printed and Make Handsome Gifts.
Dickens , 15 Vol. , $9.75. Irving's Works. 10 Vol. , $0.50. Eliot's Works.
8 Vol. , less than $ G. Hundreds of others in proportion. Single
books , 45u , to G5c. These prices can't be beat.
I AM ALSO WESTERN AGENT FOR
Ti
POSSESSING ALL THE NEWEST AND MOST
VALUABLE IMPROVEMENTS , THE
ROYAL ST. JOHN !
IS THE PERFECTION OF SEWING MACHINES.
And i ! is ie Verv IHIacliine You Want ,
BE SURE TO SECURE A CHANCE IN THE
Lin THEDAI T
FREE GIFT DISTRIBUTION. '
Paintings are Worth $25. Remember the Place.
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MeCOOK , NEBRASKA.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE
McCOOK , NEBRASKA.
0. L. LAWS , Begfctjr. C. T. BABCOC2 , 2echer.
OFFICC Houns : From 0 A. M. to 12 M. , and
1 to 1 P. 51. , mountain time.
COCHRAN & HELM ,
Attorneys-at-Law ® Gen'l Agents ,
McCOOK , : NEBRASKA.
Prompt and careful attention given to Law Cases In
all tlie Courts of the State and all classes of U. S.
Land Business transacted licforc the local office at
McCook. Nebraska , and the Interior Department at
Washington , I ) . C. Contests a specialty. Will pros
ecute claims for Pensions and claims for Increase of
Pension' . Notarial business done and lauds bought
and sold on reasonable terms. fSfOftlce. 3d door
south of the U. S. Land Otllco. 3.39
THOS. GOLFER ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
- : - - : ,
AND NOTAHY PUBLIC.
-Agent for the Lincoln Land Company. Heal
Ehtate Bought and Sold utul Collections Muclc.
B " Office. Opposite Chicago Lumber Yard ,
McCook , Nebraska.
SNAVELY & STARR ,
ATTORNEYS - 'AT - LAW ,
AND NOTARIES PUBLIC , .
, - - "NEBKASKA.
Will practice in the County and Distri6t
Courts of lied Willow , Hitchcock and Furnas
counties. Commercial collections a specialty.
Taxes paid. Conveyances can-fully drawn
and a general land business transacted. Office
1st door south of McCartney's brick store.
WM. A. HYAJf , B. J. KYAN.
Atfy-at-Law.
RYAN BROS. ,
L ! , LMD MD LOAN OFFICE
SXTMoney to loan on Chattels. Legal busi
ness will receive prompt attention. Office ,
2d door south of U. S. Land Office , McCook.
PAGE T. FRANCIS ,
COUNTY SURVEYOR ,
RED WILLOW COUNTY.
Keeps certified plats of all lands in the
Hitchcock laud district. Special attention
given to all such business. Correspondence
solicited. : iJ. .
a. W. MINKLER ,
Surveyor and Civil Engineer.
do all kindsof Surveying , Grading ,
Leveling , etc. Will establish regular sub
division corners , and re-establish lost corners ,
and give certified PLATS ot surveys ; the plats
being as good as the County Kecords.
Residence at McCook , the first dwelling N.
W. oi the school house.
Du. A. J. SHAW ,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ,
McCOOK , - NEIIKASKA.
ES Oflice in the JlcCook Banking Co.'s
Building- .
DR. Z. L. KAY ,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ,
McCOOK. - - NCBKASKA.
-Office : Itoom No. 1 , McCook Banking
Company's Building' .
Dn. A. J. WILLEY ,
SURGEONB.&M. RAILROAD ! .
[ OFFICE AT B. & M. rilAUMACT , ]
McCOOK , . . NEBRASKA.
T. B. STUTZMAN , M. D. ,
Eclectic Physician and Surgeon ,
OCULIST AND AURIST.
McCOOK NEBUASKA.
in Pate's Brick , Main St.
B. B. DAYIS , M. D. ,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ,
McCOOK NEBRASKA.
J5 ? OU3ce ut George Chenery's room.
JOHN R COLLINS ,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER ,
McCOOK. - - NEBRASKA.
Jobbing will recehe prompt attention at my shop [
ou Deunlson St. , opposite McCook House. Plans and
specifications furnished If desired.
WILLIAM McINTYKE ,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER ,
CULBERTSON. NEBRASKA.
All work warranted. All material f urnishvd
if desired. Work done on short notice.
W. AI. SANDERSON ,
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER ,
McCooic , - NEBRASKA.
3S A11 work suaranteed. Giro men call. '
ROBERT DHYSDALE ,
MERCHANT TAILOR ,
STREET ,
McCOOK . NEBRASKA.
W. W. PALMER ,
Successor to S. 3. HAJHWOIT.
Has opened a full and complete line of
HARNESS AND SADDLERY GOODS ,
2 Bes ITcrti ci Pcsttffic , MCOOr , 1TEB.
Prompt attention pivcn to repairing. Your
patronage is'solicited.
SPOTTS & STIMSON ,
FASHIONABLE
BARBERS & HAIR CU1TERS.
Opposite Chicago Lumber Yard ,
MAIN STP.EET , - JtcCOOK. NEBRASKA.
"I WAUT A GOOD COUGH SYRTJP"
Is a very frequent request in our trade and tre
invariably tfive the person making : it BEr.a's
CHEUUY counii SYIIDP. aspre know it to be the
.best and most reliable on tho market. For |
sale by M. A. Bpalding and 8. L. Green. i t
PHILADELPHIA hits 25,000 more wo
men than men. Too much brotherly
love.
PARALYSIS of the brain killed Van-
derbilt. Paralysis of the pocketbook
killed many of his victims.
A LAKOE'sum of money , amounting1
to nearly $3,000,000 , has been given
to the city of Chicago for the endow
ment of a free public library. The do
nor is a lady.
IT is said that Jay Gould's father ,
an honest old Delaware farmer , start
ed him out with a kick and half a dol
lar and told him to "go to the devil. "
Jay is a dutiful and obedient boy.
ACCORDING to the Desert News
( Mormon ) of Salt Lake , Miss Kate
Field "is a hypocrite , a spotter and a
sneak. " This is the same Kate that
the Mormon elders all wanted to be
sealed to when she was'their honored
guest a year or more ago. Times
change and women change with them.
IT was a coincidence that when
Vanderbilfwas stricken with paraly
sis that carried him off in a few min
utes , the only person with him was
Garrett of the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road , next to him the greatest railroad
magnate in the country.Ir. \ . Garrett
caught him as he was about to fall and
ministered to him during his last mo
ments.
Wr notice an item going the rounds
of the press showing Jeff Davis' won
derful equipoise and presence of mind.
The writer remembers once to have
seen Mr. Davis coolly and quietly
stand within three feet of a kicking
army mule. The incident gave him
a great deal of respect for Mr. Davis
personal courage , until he learned
that the mule was on the side of Mr.
Davis that was inhabited by his blind
eye , and he didn't know the mule was
there. Ex.
NOKTH CAROLINA girl , who had
jeen supplanted in "the heart of an
idorer by a younger and handsomer
sister , put an end to the unpleasant-
less by protruding a shotgun through
a window and filling the devoted coup-
ale with buckshot , the effectbeing fa
tal on both. She then mounted a
lorse she had in waiting and rode
away , making at least a temporary
escape. The affair is of a kind that
s possible only among such a people
as the North Carolina mountaineers.
Topics.
IF the baker's dozen of hostile
Apaches in Ari/ona don't succeed in
killing off the entire population of
that Territory first and tho United
States army in the bargain , there is
good reason to hope that the pestifer
ous little band of savages will be an
nihilated. So far , however , this in
significant band has managed to do all
the killing and it is about time for the
government troops to quit promising
and go killing too. It is reported that
forty-two persons , mostly friendly In
dians , have been killed within a few
days. These stories of killing are get
ting monotonous.
VANDEUIULT is a very poor man
now. He had no trejisures laid up
above , though probably he would
never have seen them again if he had.
He wasn't a specially bad or wicked
man , but was simply a gilded icicle ,
so to speak. Nobody cried , nobody
cared when ho died , and more tears
would be dropped for the poorest col
ored man in Lincoln , should he die
to-day , than were shed over Yander-
bilt. There is not a hadow of a les
son to be learned from his life , unless
he taught that we should not do as he
did. The dead chamber in the grand
mausoleum on Staten Island has no
advantage over a hole in the potter's
field. Topics.
For seveivvyears Chamberlain's Cough
Jtemedy has Sfeen prized for its hpeedy and
certain cures of croup. It Is the favorite and
main reliance with thousands of mothers. It
will not only cure croup but if freely used as
soon as the first indication of the disease ap
pears , that is as soon as thechildbecomes the
least hoarse , it will prevent it , doing away
with all danger and anxiety. There is not
the least danger in Riving the remedy freely ,
as it contains no injurious substance. Sold
by if. A. Spatting and Willey & Walker.
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BARBED WIR H
j Stoves
Bain Wagons and Spring Wagons ,
Iron and Wood Pumps ,
SCSEEIT DOOE8 AND WINDOWS , WHEEL BAB.EOWS ,
MANUFACTURING AND REPAIRING OF
Tin , Sheet iron and Copper Ware a Specialty ,
McCOOK , Opp. Citizens Bank. NEBRASKA.
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IMMENSE STOCK OF
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BOOTS AND SHOES ,
CL 2.O in H
US ALL THE LATEST DESIGNS.
HouseFurnishing Goods.
LOOK
CALL EARLY IN THE DAY AND
AVOID THE RUSH.
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LOCK ,
MAIN STREET McCOOK , NEB.