TREASURER'S STATEMENT. Tax Collections from July 1, 1892, to Decem ber 31, 1892, both inclusive. BALANCE KKCEIPT8 TOTAL ON HAND SINCE RECEIPTS BALANCE KIND OF FUND. AT LAST LAST PROM nig SETTLE- SETTLE- ALL ,HI>M ALL _AN MENT. MENT. SOURCES. HOUKCIt8 State General Fund. *40)8 49 *2579 33 *6677 82 *4098 49 **579 38 State Slnkina Fund. 180 85 107 75 288 60 180 85 107 75 State School Fund. 816 77 513 69 1330 46 816 77 513 69 State University Fund. 407 37 183 33 600 70 107 37 183 33 State Capitol Fund. 5 82 6 19 12 01 6 82 6 19 8tale Reform School Fund. 13 84 12 19 28 03 13 84 12 19 state Relief Fund. 90 19 53 63 143 82 90 19 53 63 State Insane Fund. 188 24 102 82 289 06 186 24 102 82 State Inst. F'enble Minded Fund- 102 64 64 44 167 08 102 64 04 44 Stale Live Stock Indemnity Fund.. 1 95 2 07 4 tr> 1 2 07 State School Land Lease. 1093 01 1418 53 2511 54 1(8 3 0 1418 53 State School Land Principal. 886 00 811 3.) 1697 33 8:6 0J 81133 State School Land Interest. 1071 62 1873 84 2945 4b 1071 62 1873 84 State School Land Premium. 711 80 711 80 711 80 County General Fund. 1706 78 *7756 14 9522 92 7602 77 1920 15 County Brldae Fund. 2020 35 1847 04 3867 39 1114 11 2753 28 County Road Fund . 1303 27 328 72 1631 99 815 69 816 30 Connlv flood Interest Fund. 605 39 5«7 35 1112 74 275 00 837 74 County Sinking Fund . 2 79 2 57 5 36 5 36 County School F'urid. 29 68 2914 73 2944 41 2944 37 04 County District School H'und. ... 5436 07 11681 87 17117 94 11473 46 5644 48 County District School Bond Fund. 5972 74 ' 2816 73 8789 47 1641 84 7147 63 County District Hoad Fund. 636 44 793 78 1430 22 849 55 680 67 Counly Receipt Road F’und. 1029 82 1029 82 1029 82 County Soldiers Belief F'lind. 238 94 144 18 382 22 382 22 County Advertising Fund . 94 30 317 52 411 82 411 82 County Interest Fund . 627 34 1698 58 2325 92 2325 92 County Redemption Tux Sale. 1439 81 6735 79 8175 60 5727 52 2448 08 Countv McCook City. 778 05 2022 76 2800 81 1918 30 882 51 County Indinnolu City.. . . 58 14 193 68 251 82 157 00 94 82 County Bartley City . 53 62 27 20 80 82 71 66 9 26 County Hartley ll’nd Overdr’n 1892 . 53 66 53 66 13 02 40 64 County Willow Grove Precinct_ 587 02 518 31 1105 33 485 17 620 16 County North Valley Precinct. 1618 72 334 04 1952 76 350 54 1302 22 Countv Fast VHiley Precinct. 161 46 167 47 328 Oil 328 93 County lndlanola Precinct. 573 28 200 37 773 65 52 50 721 15 County McCook Sidewalk. 7 60 7 50 7 60 TOTAL. 32958 08 50550 75 83508 83 482ft 75 35294 08 • Fiom Conscience Fund *88.80; Advertising- Fund $411.82; Interest Fund $2325.92; Interest County D**p. Fund $246.32: Trial Fees Fund $96. KALSTEDT, THE LEADING TAILOR, Has just received a fine stock of FALL AND WINTER SUIT INGS. Call and see him, two doors south of the Famous, while the assortment is com plete. - 24 Fine Stock Engravings and hundreds of testimoc tals Free ii, at—Druggists. Grocers, General Dealers, etc., or direct from us. » veer: *1.50 six months. Address M.uNN A CO. PobLisueks, 361 Broadway, New York City. We are printing the date to which each subscriber has paid bis subscrip tion to The Tribune along with the address. Watch tho date and you will know it you are in arrears. Jf you arc please couic and sec us. ■W- T03STES, Livery, Feed & Boarding STABLE. Lindner Barn, McCook, Neb. Good Rigs and Reasonable Prices. ^^"First-class care given boarding horses, and charges fair. Call and give ine a trial. EDWARD B. SHAW, Regimental Blacksmith, HAS OPENED A BLACKSMITH SHOP ON MARSHALL STREET, Opposite Bullard’s lumber vard and in O’Neil’s carpenter shop. / Will Cure Interfering Horss & Contracted Hoofs or no Pay. I ALSO HAVE A FIRST-CLASS WAGON MAKER. will give you value received or no pay. Prices reasonable. It Is an agreeable Laxative for the Bowels; can be made into a Tea for use In one minute. Price 25c., SOc. and S1.U0 per package. If A Ua An Elegant Toilet Powder JPW HU for the Teeth and Breath—25o. CANCER Subjects need fear no longer from this King of Terrors, for by a most wonderful discovery in medicine, cancer on any part of the body can be pernsauentljr cored without the uue of the knife. _ MRS. II. D. Cor.BT. 3307 Indiana Ave., Chicago. says “ Was cared of cancer of the breast In six weeks by your method of treatment." Fend for treatise. Dr. if. C. Dale, 365 3ttb SL. Chicago. INPIANOLA ITEMS. J. A. Cordeal was down, Wednesday. C. D. Cramer went to Omaha, Tues day. John F. Shaffer is in Omaha, this week Wm. Smith was up from Bartley, Tuesday. J. D. Horrell was seen in our streets, Wednesday. Senator Elect Allen comes from good Republican stock. Miss Tena Thompson of Cambridge is visiting in our city. Some of the voung people of our city are down with the mumps. H. W. Keyes went to Danbury to try a suit on Monday last. Miss Cora Russell accompanied her father to Arapahoe this week. Frank C. Unteidt has sold his hard ware stock to Lerch and Wadsworth. Rev. W. M. Taylor of Bartley at tended the I. O. O. F., Tuesday night. A letter from Rev. Lisle says that his father died soon after lie got to la. Uncle Gerver came over fromGerver precinct, Tuesday, and stayed all night. Rev. J. M. Mann and Rev. E. S. Dutcher filled Rev. Lisle’s pulpit, Sun pay Geo. J. Kelley, Ex-County Clerk of Frontier county, was in our city on Sat urday last. Allen Young road the goat in the first degree of Odd Fellowship on Tues day evening. TheWorld Herald is in ecstasies over the election of Senator Allen. The W. H. is anything and nothing. C. H. Crocker came in from York on Tuesday evening, and will make proof on his timber claim on Friday. Daniel Reeves was over lrom Leba non, Wednesday, on business pertaining to the estate of George B. Ray. Lic^ise was issued on February 3d for the marriage of John W. Forney and Miss Anna K. Stadler, both of Bartley. James Kelley by his attorney filled a bond for appeal of the famous Moore vs. Kelley case, recently tried in county court. License was issued on the 9th for the marriage of Mr. Charles Vandyke of Danbury and Miss Ida J. Cullison of Rexford, Kansas. Mrs. J. W. Welborn received the sad news, Tuesday, that her father was dead. She started on the same day to attend the funeral. Married in our city on Tuesday, by Rev. Bernard Sproll, Mr. Win. Kreager and Miss Caroline Lehn, daughter of B. Lehn of our county. Josie Russell, a little girl of about ten years, while staying with a married sister in the country, some six weeks ago, fell on the ice and injured her shoulder which has not received proper attention and is reported iu bad shape Miss Lou Janes of the Courier office is detained on account of a sick mother at her home south of town. Charlie Burt of the same office is also sick. Harry L. Brown came to the rescue and helped Ed get his paper out on time. The Starr-Dodge contest case in the county court was dismissed, Monday, by plaintiff—also the following cases disposed of: Dolan vs. Whitmer and Ingles dismissed by plaintiff —Minneso ta Thresher Manufacturing Co. vs. Plumb continued for 30 days—Schoon over vs. Saunders et al continued un til March 13th. $150.00 REWARD. Stolen from the safe of L. Lowman & Son, McCook, Nebraska, a small steel money chest containg $135.50 in money; 1 Diamond Brooch with single pearl pendant; 1 Diamond Ear Ring with single pearl pendant; 1 School Order on district S3, Red Willow coun ty, for $50; one note signed R. T. Al lam for $10. Above reward will be given for return of same. $50 reward for Diamonds and no questions asked. $25 reward for apprehension of guilty parties. Address J. H. Dwyer, City Marshal, or L. Lowman & Son. No matter what daily paper you read at other times, the Daily State Journal, published at the state capital, is the paper for Ne braskans during the legislature. Eighty-five cents a month. Try it. DANBURY NEWS. More winter. More Coal to buy. Harris & Harris have their elevator nearly enclosed. We have an improvised barber in the person of Charley Wade. The late cold weather has caused a decrease of attendance at school. Many of the farmers are shipping their own corn, thus gaining a cent or two a bushel. Mis. DeMay is very sick with inter metteut fever, though improving slight ly at present. A transfer of the Howard Lumber Co. yard to J. A. Cass, their former manager, was made on February first. Will Leisure of the hardware firm of Leisure & Leisure, is on the sick list, his sickness being inflammatory rheumatism The case of Teal vs. Bennington was settled and dismissed before going to trial. The case involved commission on sale of land. (Jur itinerant barber, Mr. Charles Freelove of Indianola, has quit coming to his appointment here, the last of the the week, having sold his chair to an other man who is going to run it in connection with a photograph gallery. A goodly number of friends of Mrs. .lames Everist gave her a pleasant sur prise at the Everist home west of town the first of the week, taking with them as gifts numerous articles of housliold use, the occasion being her 57th birth day. The guests also took with them a good supply of that necessary accoin paniment of social enjoyment—food for the inner man. “Uncle dm” was said to be in his element, and a good time is reported. X. X. X. Thebe is no wealth but life—life including all its power of love, joy and admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having performed the func tions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influ ence. The value of irrigation, even at great cost, has been fully demon strated in the arid legions of the southwest. A contract has just been let for the construction of an irrigation caual in Arizona that will be seventy miles long, with an average flow of six feet of water, and will cover 100,000 acres of land. The expenses of building this great ditch will be §2,000,000, but it is believed that it will be highly profitable. It will render fruitful au immense territory that is now unproductive. When the famous steamship City of New York sails from Liver pool on the 25th inst. she will bear the American flag and will belong to the American line. She will be given a warm reception when she reached New York. The City of Paris, also now belonging to the American line, will presently fly the stars and stripes, and several new ships equal to these ocean grayhounds will added to this fleet as soon as they can be built. There will be nothing afloat super ior to the American vessels from this time forth. A movement is on foot in New York that, if it proves a success, will be a good example for other states. In discussing the ways and means for securing good roads it has occurred to a legislator that prison labor on the roads would be just the thing and he has introduc ed a bill providing that two-thirds of the convicts in the state peniten tiaries be set to wo: kins on the roads for their systematic improve ment. Two birds are aimed at with this stone. One is the solution of the problem which is pressing, and the other is to find profitable employ ment for convict labor that will not compete with the skilled labor of folks outside the penitentiary. The Journal hopes that it will be a g° The idea is of course not origin al. In Europe the employment of convict labor on the roads is as old as the hills and has proven very successful. —J oumal. FARMERS. v What They Write About the Country, and "What Crops They Raise in Southwestern jVehrasha* ^FIRead What Has Been Done.|@^" SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA By an Iowa Farmer. Editor Democrat, Fort Madison, Iowa. Dear Sir.—Believing that a short letter would interest some of my friends and acquaintances, with your permission I would like to give through your col umns, a short sketch of my adventures to the far west, and what I find here. I arrived here November i8tli, last, with my family of eleven. I see but little change since I was here in February, 1892, except that there has been a great amount of prairie land put under culti vation this year, and a vast amount of grain raised, which is being marketed as fast as possible at good prices. It is surprising to see so many Iowa, Illinois, and eastern Nebraska farmers settling here, and as a result the price of farm lands is advancing. I never saw such beautiful fall weather in my life; have had no winter at all yet, but about four or five inches of snow. Weather nice. and roads fine. Upon looking over the crop I find a great dif ference in the yield per acre, some corn yielding 70 bushels per acre and some only 20 bushels. I also find that it is invariably due to the various ways of farming: good farming raises good crops and poor farming poor crops. There are many fields of sod corn here yielding 35 bushels per acre, and this yield at 25 cents per bushel makes a good income from £10 to £15 land. Broom corn is a favorite and profitable sod crop here; it costs £5 per acre to get it ready for mar ket, and a 20-acre sod field on my road to town made £12.50 per acre after all expenses. There is a large amount of prairie land from which you can get two years crops for breaking. This looks to me like better terms than the farmers can get in the east. I have found no disad vantages yet since my arrival here, and doubt of ever finding such as are ex pected by eastern people. The society is refined and social, which is very agreeable to new settlers. Now as I have already used up too much space I will close by saying that I am well pleased with Southwestern Nebraska, and believe that there are many farmers throughout the east who are losing a grand opportunity of getting themselves a good home. Should any one wish to gain any further information as to Southwestern Nebraska, I will be pleased to answer any questions, or would refer them to Mr. S. H. Colvin, of McCook, Nebraska, who was the cause of my settling here. He has a neat map and descriptive cir cular of Southwestern Nebraska, and a price list of farm lands, which he will be glad to send you upon receipt of a stamp. Thanking you for this space, and hop ing to meet some of your readers here soon, I am, very respectfully yours, Henry F. Kipp. McCook Neb., Jan. 19, 1893. Dear Friend.—I ar ived here with my three car loads of stock and goods in fine shape. Was greatly surprised to find the ground bare and roads so fine, and such nice weather, there having been a heavy snow on the ground when I left Lake City, Iowa. I find there has been only from 4 to 6 inches of snow here this winter, and there is but little frost in the ground now. I am more fa vorbly impressed with the country now than when here before. There can be no finer farm land found than here, and the vast amount of com piled all over the prairie will vouch for its productive ness. When I first read the description of Southwestern Nebraska, with prices of land written by S. H. Colvin, of McCook, Red Willow county, Nebraska, I believed it too greatly exaggerated; but I did have faith enough to come and see the country, and am no ready to confirm the statement of the country as made in the circular, and believe that Mr. Colvin has underestimated it in many particulars. I have bought tnysell a hue b4o acre farm and will go to farming in earnest this spring. I never saw so fine laying land for farming, where the yield per acre is so great, and you can buy the land at from $10 to $15 per acre. This is a good location to rent land, as you can get one-third of all the crop, and in many cases get two crops for breaking the land. Corn is yielding heavy and this is a fine country to feed stock. I am sorry that all the farmers in the east cannot see this country, as I am satisfied there are many who are giving a heavy rent that could own homes here and get all the crop. I find that the price of land is advancing, and in a short time the cheap land will all be gone. Hoping my farmer friends will be in terested enough to visit Southwestern Nebraska, I remain, Very truly yours, R. P. Barr. McCook, Neb., Jan. 2, 1893. John C. Russell, of McCook P. O., Red Willow county, Nebraska, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I live on section 12, township 3, range 29, three miles from McCook, Nebraska: that my corn crop for 1892, raised on said farm, yielded 60 bushels per acre of better com than I ever raised or saw grown in Iowa. I rented some adjoining prairie land in 1892, which I agreed to break for two years crops from same. In the spring of 1892 I broke out and planted to broom corn iS acres which when marketed yielded me $254, after all expenses were paid, being $14.11 per acre which I got for breaking the land, and the land is now in fine condition for another year’s crop, which I get without rent. I have rented considerable land in Iowa and can say from experience that there is much more profit in renting land here than in the east, and a still better profit in buying land here at from $6 to $12 per acre than renting any place. John C. Russell. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2d day of January, 1893. Matie I. Weaver, Notary Public. McCook, Nkb., Jan. 7, 1893. S. 1). McClain, of McCook P. O., Red \Villow county, Nebraska, says as follows: I live on section 24, township 4, range 30, seven miles north of McCook, Nebraska. I raised 80 acres of corn in 1892 on said section which yielded 4,300 bushels of as good corn as I ever saw raised in any state. S. I). McClain. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of January, 1893. Matik I. Weaver, Notary Public. McCook, Neb., Jan. 7, 1893. D. IY. McBride living 22 miles north of McCook, Nebraska, says as follows: I live on section 9, township 6, range 29, and in September and October, 1891, 1 drilled in 40 acres of Michigan Seal wheat, and in July 1892, I harvested and threshed 1210 bushels by machine meas ure, overrunning four pounds to each bushel by weight, making the yield per acre 26bushels, grading No. 2 in Chicago. I also planted 120 acres of corn, part being on sod, which yielded 40 bushels per acre. D. L. McBride. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of January, 1893. Matik I. Weaver, Notary Public McCook, Nkb., Jan. 4, 1893.. Ira C. Kimball, of Box Elder O. P.r Red Willow county, Nebraska, being duly sworn says as follows: I live on sec tion 23, township 4, range 29, nine miles north of McCook, Nebraska. In the summer of 1891 I raised 1 acre of onions on my farm from which I harvested 6c» > bushels and marketed them ill McCoek, Nebraska, receiving for same $271.75. In 1892 I raised acres of onions from which I harvested 1000 bushel, which I am now marketing at $1 per bushel, making in two years from i'/4 acres$1271.25. IraC. Kimball. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of January, 1893. Matie I. Weaver, Notary Public. McCook, Neb., Jan. 4, 1893. James M. Kanouse, of McCook P. O.. Red Willow county, Nebraska, deposes and says as follows: I live 011 section 6. township r, range 28, of Red Willow county, Nebraska. I have just finished gathering one field of corn containing 36 acres which yielded 50 bushels per acre of as good corn as I ever saw raised James M. Kanouse. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4U1 day of January, 1893. Matie i. Weaver, Notary Public. A FEW SAMPLE FARMS. 273.—160 acres, well improved 11 miles to McCook, 150 acres level land, 90 acres cultivated, 60 acres fenced in pasture, good 5-room frame house 14x26, good well and windmill, 25 growing apple trees, considerable small fruit, frame granary 10x12 feet, several other cheap buildings, 1 mile to school house, iJ4 miles to church, post office or store Price $1800. Time if desired. 102.—160 acres, southwest of McCook . 6 miles north of Herndon, Kansas, (a good railroad town), 140acres farm land. 20 acres fine pasture land, 70 acres under cultivation, 70 acres fenced in pasture, a large comfortable sod house, fine well, windmill and tanks, stables and corrals. Price $8 per acre, $1280. Part cash, time on balance to suit purchaser. 288.—240 acres, 9miles to McCook 7 miles to Cedar Bluffs, Kansas. 160 acres deeded and 80 acres to be home steaded, small frame house, a few trees „ some under cultivation, 220 acres level farm land, 20 acres good rolling pasture land. Price $8 per acre. Time to suit purchaser. j 278.—160 acres, perfectly smooth and level, on public road, '/2 mile to good frame school house, 1% miles to grist mill, 1 mile to post office, '/2 mile from creek and timber, % mile to railroad, 7 miles to Indianola, 7 miles to McCook. considerable under cultivation. Price $1700. Time on part if desired. 17.—160 acres, 7 miles to McCook, 7 miles to Indianola, 120 acres fine farm land, 40 acres of pasture land, farm all fenced and cross-fenced, 40 acres under cultivation, % mile to church, 2]/2 miles to grist mill, 3 miles to Red Willow post office, 1 mile to creek with heavy timber. Price $8 per acre, $1280. 263.—800 acres at J6 per acre, 600 acres fine smooth farm land, 200 acres fine rolling pasture land, good well, icx* acres under cultivation, 3^ miles to Traer, railroad town in Beaver Valley, j 16 miles south of McCook. Sell in I Smaller tracts if desired on easy terms. 292.—160 acres perfectly level valley ! land, 50 acres under cultivation, well. ' pump, good sod bam 80 feet long, frame | house 16x24, 4° acres fenced in pasture ; 3 miles to Culbertson, 7 miles to McCook : 1 y2 miles to Perry Station, fine level j roads, good settlement. Price $2,500 I Time if desired. 67.—160 acres, 11U miles to McCook. 16 miles to Cedar Bluffs, Kansas, 130 1 acres fine farm land, 30 acres pasture land, 100 acres under cultivation, nice I grove of trees, well and sod buildings. | Price $8 per acre, $1280. The above list is only a partial one of wha: I have on my sale book. If you can't find what you want on this list write me for others These lands can be bought on easy terms i some by paying two to three hundred dollars cash and time on balance, some by paying one-tenth each year thereafter. Remember I show any of these lands free of charge. Many of these farms join each other and I can furnish you any sized farm from forty acie> to two thousand acres. Should you desm any further information send stamp for reply, descriptive circular and map of Southwestern Nebraska to S.H. COLVIN, McCook, Rad Willow Co., Meb. One block north of depot, opposite Arlington Hotel.