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5. Manual of IlllqiiriU ) for Llic .aml CcuU-mcn , n M. Ilcd Court Kurm. A Vovel. By Mrs. Henry
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V. 1'nrlar Jtus'c ' nnd Chomlpul Experiment * , AKoTCl. I
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cntbracin lure. Imnioroiif aod detcctlre atoriei. ( torle of
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tereiiinx.
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book of u rful infi rmailon for all , upon manj aud various 40. Amo Uartoti. A Norel. By George Eliot , auttor
of "A Jam Bedc , " " The Mill on ihe Flo , ' '
lr > . Oullnd Deck. A Novel , By Hugh Conway , author
of "l ) rLI ) yi. " cW.
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- FREES & HOCKNELL ,
PROPRIETORS OF THE
DEALERS IN
Lumber , Lime5 Senjent , Sasl ] , Doors , Blinds ,
HARD AND SOFT COAL.
YARDs AT HRCOOK , INDMOLA , CAMBRIDGE , ARAPAHOE , AUD OXFORD.
Superior to any on the imirkct , ILVHK ! Homier. Stronger Built ,
.and thurefuic a more Durable Mill. It is the only
a.ileMill built ; mid out. of
Thousands Erected During 12
Years past , not urn1 IIIIK ui'er blvn nwny and left the Tower
standing. A i ccord no other Mill can hlio-.v. MV offer
to put up sny of our PUMPING MILLS
ON THIRTY DAYS TRIAL
,
And if they don't Klve i-atis'autlon. will ICMOTC Mill Ht our
own cxpcnsiAlso Manufacturers of the Celebrated
Challenge Feed Mills. Com Shyllcrs. Iron I'mnps
Tilth bniss cylindert , Iron I'Ipc , Tanks.
For VEttmates. cntaloguet and prices , apply to
. B. NETTLETOX , HicCook , Neb. ,
Apentfor Southwestern Xcbraska and Northwestern Kansas.
iimi baii-sroom in tlie Wind Power Grist Mill , east of Russell's Jlurn.
MeCOOK
N AND TRUST CO.
OF MeCOOK , NEBRASKA.
Maker. First Mortgage Loans on Farm Property.
OFFICE IN FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING.
A. CAMPSZLl. . PRESIDENT. B. M. FREES , 1ST VICE PRESIDENT.
GEO. HOCK..NELL , SECRETARY. R. O. PHILLIPS , 2ND VICE PRESIDENT.
F. L. BROWN , TREASURER.
0HEAPEST AND BEST
UNEQUALLED FOR
Power , Simplicity , Durability.
Estimates made of Mill and Pump complete upon application.
Every Mill Warranted. Send for Catalogue.
THE WOODMANSE
This , mlllis a "solid wheel" and the lif f self-regulator made. The
AVoodmanie Xo. fi. Finnp it. the tiest binplc nctir.f ; force pump in the
iimrket. Will work 4n wells from 10 u > 20i ) feet in depth , nnd has hack
attachments to force water into elevated tinkf. Can he used by hand
or windmill. Parties contemplating the erection of a Windmill will
consult tln'ir licst interests l > y callinc nt my Homestead , 1 } mllos 3f. W.
of McCook , or at 11. Jnlmston'fc , 5 nillcs S. E. . and at Hewitt Market
Harden , S. E. of Mcf'oolc. nnd examine the working of the AVoodm.inse.
W. M. IRWIN , Agent ,
"Woodmanse "Windmill Co. , Ereeport , 111.
G. A. NETTLETON , Prop.
CORN 8HKLLED AND GROUND , BOLTED , ETC.
2 BLOCKS EAST OF RUSSELL'S BARN ,
McGOOK NEBRASKA.
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< OL DRUG STORED
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I MeCOOK , NEBRASKA. n
( / ) " M. A. SPALDING , PROPRIETOR , } 2
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< 0) I Pianos and
? SEWING MACHINES.
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j J. A. TAYLOR , Druggist.
HALLA0K & HOWARD ,
WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALERS IN
DOORS , BLINDS. MOULDINGS ,
b , Ccba 2oAb ! , Stme , cJ-Cat-r- ,
ctu
i MeCOOK , NEBRASKA.
STOCK DIRECTORY.
is - * + s * * sS r < * s-s-s * s s *
KILPATEICK BROTHERS.
( Successors to E. D. Webster. )
Horses branded on left hip or left shoulder.
P. O. address. Estelle ,
Hayes county , and Heat-
rice , Nob. llangr. Stink-
Jintr Water and French-
Email creeks , Chase Co. ,
I Nebraska.
Brand as cut on side of
| BOIIIU aiiimalB , on hip and
sides of some , or any-
wlit're on the animal.
STOKES & TROTH.
P.O. address. Carrico ,
Hayes county. Neb.
Kauge : Ked Willow
creelc , above Carrico.
Stock branded a ?
above Also rtm the
lazy CM brand.
EATON BROS. & CO.
P. O. address. McCook ,
JCcbraakiu ttangesouth
McCook.
Cattle branded on left
hip. Also , JO. 5. A aurt
" /1
x"1
11 brands on left hip.
Horses branded the
8amo on left bhoulder.
PAXTON CATTLE CO.
J. B. Mr.sKiivu , General Manager.
Postoflice address , i-fe-
Cook. Neb. Kaneh : At
iSprinfr Canyon on the
Frenchman Kiver , Chase
county. Nebraska.
Stock branded as above :
aso 717 on left sido : 7
_ _ 3 _ _ _ oil the right hij ) and L ° n
the rijiflJt VhouUicr ; L on Jcft shoal.ler and X
on left jaxv. Halt'undererop lel't ear , and
square-cuip rirlit car
HEN11Y T. CHURCH.
Postofiice.Osnorn. Jfeb.
K u n K e : Heel Wi 1 ! on-
creek , in S. W. corner of
Frontier county.
Cattle branded OLD
on right side. Also , an
over crop on rurht car
and uiidT crop on left.
Horses branded Q on right shoulder.
SPRING CHEEK CATTLE CO.
J. D. Wnrno .v , Vice President and Supt.
P. O. address. Indiano-
; hi. Nebraska.
Itanjre : Hepublicau
Valley , east of Cry
Creek , and near head of
Spring1 Creek , in Chafe
county , Nebraska.
JOSEPH ALLEN.
Postofnce address , Os-
born , Nebraska.
Ranch on lied Willow
creek. } 1 mile above Os-
born postollico.
Cattle branded on riprht
side and hip as above.
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GEORGE J. FREDERICK
PostolBce address , Mc
Cook , Nebraska.
, Ranch : Four miles
southwest of McCook ,
on the Driftwood.
Stock branded AJ on
the left hip.
JOHN F. BLACK.
Breeder of IMPKOVED SHEUI- .
Delanc , Meri
no aud South
down. Person-
ill inspection
and corres
pondence so
licited.
Address him
at Red Willow-
Nebraska.
CATTLE !
Rain Does Not Affect It.
FOR SALE BY
FREES & HOCKNELL ,
. SOLE AGENTS.
CITY - BAKERY.
V/K KEEP ON HAjS'D
iAD , PIES SL CAKES ,
i
j
GRAHAM BREAD.
Cakes Made on Order ,
R.OOM
In connection where you can pet coffee , sand.
wiclics. jiies , etc. , at all hours.
Vf * Send 10 cents postag-c. and we
H ,
a
Sa a ? I H B liable , sample box of poods
flfl W U U H that will put you in the way ot
making more money at once , than anything
else in America. Both sexes of all npes can
live r.t home andwork in spare time , or all the
time. Capital not required. We will start you. .
Immense pay sure for those who start atonce. I
4-iVlyr. STISSOS & Co. , Portland , Maine.
THE LAPLANDER'S SNOWSHOES.n
PecnliarUles ct Tlveir Congtructlort How
the Ijtpp I Inl ° s Hecdway Upon Them.
[ Chu go Times. ]
Says an observer in these regions" de-
scribing the Lapp snow-shoo , or "ski , "
or "skidor : " "There are two ribs of
birch or iir , six feet long , four to five
inches broad , and about ; a half an inch
thick. In the middle , on the nppor
side , is a hollowed , smooth spot for tho
foot , above which there is a strap , tho
space allowing tho insertion of the point
of tho shoe. On the other sido a groove
runs along the entire center. The ski
is pointed and slightly curved at one
end , and tho edges rounded. " It might
be added that tho "skidor" is a solid
pieco of wood , liko a weatherboard or
b.ittan , turned up in front , and de
pends for its bearing surface on tho
snow on its extreme length five or six
feet rather than by a wide spread , as
in tho common snow-shoo of bent form
and cross-weaving of thongs Tho
common snow-shoes , liko those used by
somo of our mountain Indians , are ,
however , used in a few parts of arctic
Europe , but mostly among tho J'or-
weKians and Finns.
Tho i.app runs on these "scidor.V ! as
the snow-shoes arc used , l > ut mostly
assisting him are two short birch poles
or strt\es with which ho shove ? himself
along , liko an Indian poling his catioo
through shallow water , but the Lapp
has one polo in each hand. When a
Lapp goes down-hill- his skidors ho
uses one as a sledge on which to slido
and steer , while with the other he turns
his foot and scrapes tho skidor , thus
regulating his gait. Says the same au
thority 1 quoted once above : "Iho
Lapp begins to run on ski when : i inero
child , and attains great skill in this
aport. Ho runs with the greatest ease
np or down hill , jumps tho steepest in
clines , and speeds across lakes and
marshes , through forest and ( U'ld ;
hunts the wolf and the bear , or follows
tho runaway reindeer , and undertakes
extremely long . .ourneys , .ollowing his
herd cr visiting distant parts. "
Mr. Oscar Dickson , one of Nordenak-
jold's patrons , being in Lapland at
Quickok , thought he would gut up a
'
aeries of races among the Lapps' on
skidors to tost their capabilities of mak
ing the speed they claimed. Tho dis
tances which they thought they had
traveled over the interior ico or mor do
glace of Greenland was * 14-5 miles in
fifty-seven hours ( two days nino hours )
going and coming. Mr. Dick'sou planned
his races so as to have about an equal
length of course , ami it really was 1 U
miles long. Tho competition for tho
high pri es oTcro 1 ' took placo
last April , and o cupied a whole
week. Three hundre.l aud fifty francs
was the highest , or t.nst prize , and was
won by a Lapp who had baen with Nor-
denskjold on his Greenland inland ex
pedition. He got over his I ! 1 miles in
21 hours and 22 minutes , inuliuHnall ;
his rests and stoppages , or ai > out " . milos
an hour kept up steadily for nearly a
whole day.
The f.coud prie was secured by a
Lapp who goot in only half a minute
after tho first. Two others got . in
within 22 hours , mid four more within
a day. All of them were apparently
unexhausted , and joined heartily in tho
festhities that ended this singular con
test , many of tho contestants returning
at once to their homes , fifty to seventy-
five miles distant , from which they had
come to join in the races.
O rJc'ivs Cli.xractorlitici.
fAimht-im d'nl. ) lt l > r. ]
Tho sight of a dog is sufficient to
frighten an ostrich badly. At sstich
vision , if permitted , the ostriches in tho
corrals would immediately be speeding
over tho sandy plain , through a waatcof
tall , wild , siinriowt-rd , at a gait which
would astonish a horse-trainer. Dr.
Sketehlcy has throe dogs on his fnrm ,
but they aro all kept behind the build
ings out of sight of the ostriches '
When a keeper approaches them to j
annoy them , they emit n hissing sound ,
liko a goose , and try to bite the intru
der. They have no strength in their
bills , however , and are harmless unless ' j
they get a chance to kick. Unlike the !
emu. hich is exhibited often as an [ j
African ostrich , they have but one too
on each foot. This is a terrible weapon.
The bird kicks fonvard. The force is
shown in the exploit of one bird ,
which kicked a stout board on the sido
of its corral , and broke it in two at ono
blow. Tho too is pointed , aud will cut 11 |
like a knife. The bird which was killed j !
at one kick had its breast laid open i
with an ugly wound. Of the young i'
birds all are perfectly shaped except j'
one , which has a club-foot , and which I
walks on the back of the clubbed foot ,
tho toe turning up. The gait of even
this bird is elastic. All the birds walk
precisely after the fashion adopted by
many young ladiea is San Frsnsisco or i
lalw , whoso gaic may , therefore , per- |
haps , be correctly described in the 'J
future as the "ostrich walk. " It is as ;
if the birds stepped on hot griiliiror- . '
The feet are taken briskly up and raised !
high , and the body and head oscillate. !
This style was learned in touth Africa
and not in San Francisco , and is as old
as the race of desert
n J.n u n > nlMli . I
"I/r cl vi < or. Hj > " ! iiro Ar on tif ] [
I often observe thar Knslishiucn truv- i
eliuij iniincricv rtul accfj.itin enter- . '
tainliients of all kinds from the best puos :
plii arc described sisr. " . ro-and- . of ,
i o.Iou , " or "England. " An > ngHsh c
fientieman of any position nt all will ! i
hav sor-e certain der.nitu awde. If ht :
is worth feting and t'i5fi lie will be ;
"iiiMitith , ( jf aouprt houspark or j
manor in ihc coanti-y. or som : ; respectt '
able street , pjc : or s j'iaie in London , " a
and he will have it so pnr.ro.i uri his
visiting cards Thesthings n'--iy seera '
sniisil , hnt. tlicy uiear. : i grmit dea" . and [
if American society attended to them
more there would i < o iess imboaters , '
intuiitionai and tactic , eating its dinners , c
Bpooniug with its dan liters and a cept- }
ing attentions and Javors at its hands
which they have neither the intention
nor the means to retun. .
osing tli I i > r.try liliuct. .
. ,
People read so much in these days of '
multiplied presso. > that they are in < ]
great danger of losing the literary in
stinct entirely : the sense of * tyle bo- r
comes dulled to a degree which "makes
ic incapable of discerning what is htera- !
turo and what is mere reading matter.
good for the moment perhaps , butgcod „ i
for the amount only. *
!
j I SUPPLEMENT.
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.THURSDAY ! . , DECEMBER 31.
!
ADDITIONAL LOCAL
Violins and accordeons , McCrackcn's.
Buy your overcoat of E. M. Brickcy
& Co.
Fresh and salt meats of the choicest
quality at Brewer Bros.
BSPAbstract linen legal cap with
numbered lines at this office.
A number of Indianola people attend
ed the Masonic bulIMonduy evening.
An unusually line display of hanging
lamps at the .Metropolitan drug store.
Bailey Parmlcy of Imperial , Chase
county.speut Saturday in the metropolis.
Novelties of the season in all depart
ments , at Lowmau & Son'sPate Block.
The various Holiday entertainments
by the Sunday Schools were largely
attended.
To THK LADIES We have a nice as- .
sortment of calling cards of latest style
and best quality.
Blood tells , and that's the reason the
Commercial House continues to be the
4
popular hotel of the city.
Gazette-Journal : 31. Erman.a prom
inent horse dealer of McCook is in the
city visiting relatives.
FARM LOANS Col. Suavely informs
us that he is now procuring farm loans
quite easily at 10 per cent.
The finest line of cigars in the city
at Chcnery & Stiles' new drug store.
Their "Extras" 5 ct. cigar has no equal.
The local and imported crooks of this
city keep a Deputy [ ] . S. Marshal pretty
well engaged. We ought to have one of
our own.
Don't fail to see R. M. Brickey &
Co.'s fine assortment of suits and over
coats , which they are selling at such
low prices ) .
The McCook , Nek , TIUIIU.VE is truly
an example of western enterprise. Its
number of last week consisted of |
eighteen pages. Oilman ( III. ) Star. jl
FOR SALK Lindner & Erman have i
work oxen , steers , cows and heii'ers for
for sale at their barnone , block west of
the Commercial House , McCook , Neb. ,
Quite a number of cases of potty theft
are occurring in this city. "Eternal
vigilance is the price ofliberty , " and it
may be the salvation of some of your
portable ] appurtenances.
THE Tin BUN E lias the very best facil
ities and workmen lor doing Job Work
in Southwestern Nebraska. We guar-
antce neat and tasty work , and entire
satisfaction in execution.
Oilman (111. ( ) Star : C. A. Clark took
his 1 departure from Onanja , last week ,
with his family , for McCook , Neb. lie
.
is a brother-in-law of J. II. Ludwick ,
who located at McCook , something over
a year ago.
The Harvard Courier is led to remark
that the Sloeum law is .so vigorously en-
forced J in that town that it is dangerous
for , tight boots to appear on the streets.
The like course would prove u great
blessing for this city.
It would be more nearly in accord
ance with the dignity of the law , to have
the j demi-momie appear in court , when
arrested , to make their pica. Any other
course lacks the sanction of law. the
spirit of law at les t , and leaves too
much room for conjecture.
Obcrlin Herald : J'at IJoiies ad : Miss
Inez Bartlett were united in marriage at
McCook. I Neb..on Wpdnes-day.Dec. IGth ,
] S8f > . At present the young couple are
stopping at E. E. Stewarts , hut expect
soon to occupy a cosy house of their
own. The Herald wishes them happi
ness an * ! prosperity.
We arc plca t-d to note the fast that
theyouig uicn of our city.\vlio.-c houses
are in far-oF { eastern state.were re-
iitumbcrcd on Christinas day , by a num
ber of our citizenswho are the fortu
nate possessors of homos ar.d the in
clination to share it betimes with those
less favored.
Land and Legal Blanks.
0 i
We have now in stock a full line of
land aim legal iank < . Orders from a
distance will receive prompt attention.
ANY OKE
In necl of : x > roo < l liniment. plea o cill at our
toieand irot a bottle of 5JE < : fi * > Tuoric.u.Ult. .
one of the most perfect medicine * ever pro
duced , and warranted to cure scald' , hums ,
bruises , etc. . and relievo p'tinof nil kinds. For
sae by M. A. Spaldin.y and S. L. Green.