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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1893)
L.W. M’CONNELL&CO. ; WALL IPAPER. !l!!!!t!!tUHPAINTS,[!!il-i!t!l]t!: !!!mlmiBRUSHES,i!i!il!!i' : ALABASTINE. L.W. M’CONNELL&CO. 1 Water tax for second quarter becomes due April 1st and is de linquent April 10th. C. H. Meeker. To Our Advertisers. You are entitled to have your display advertisements changed once a month at the regular price. Changes more frequent will be charged extra accord ing to the amount of composition. Local advertisements may be changed every week at usual price. Copy for new advertisements and for changes of regular advertisements must We in this office by Wednesday of each week to insure prompt insertion. Notice of discontinuance of any dis play advertisement must be given not later than Wednesday. Local adver tisements may be discontinued at any time before Thursday evening. A strict observance of these necessary rules is respectfully requested. The Publisher. January 1, 1833. The Call Leads the Procession. We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of The Call in another column. Since its reduction in price The Call is the cheapest daily in Nebraska, and its spicy and independent policy is too well known to need comment from us. In reduc ing the price of The Call so as to put it within the reach of everybody, the management have placed themselves a decicled step in advance of all other publishers in the state. This is an era of popular prices for the newspaper, and The Call is, as usual, at the head of the procession. We are printing the date to which each subscriber has paid his subscrip tion to The Tribune along with the address. Watch the date and you will know if you are in arrears. If you are please come and see us. Horses for Safe. Wayson & Odell keep horses for sale at their livery barn opposite the Cen tral hotel. Hay! Hay! Best blue stem bulk or baled. This hay was cut early. Leave orders at B. 4c M. meat market. F. S. Wilcox. Dr. A. J. Thomas, Dentist, office in Union block, over Knipple. Wayson & Odell are putting out some handsome rigs these days. McMillen is headquarters for all kinds of lamps. Scale books, 500 weighs, at The Tribune stationery department. Announcement.. In order to introduce my wire tight ener l will fill all orders received by me during the present month (April) at the rate of one dollar for each machine af ter which I shall be obliged to raise the price. As to the merits of this ma chine read the following endorsements. John Whittaker. McCook, Neb. “I have made a thorough test of Whittaker’s Wire Tightener and find it better than anything I have ever tried for tightening wire. W. S. Fitch,” President Co. Agricultural Society. “I have tested the invention known as the Whittaker Wire Tightener and find that it does all claimed for it, viz: Tightens the wire without kinks and so leaves wire in as good shape as be fore using. In fact it is the only wire tightener that a farmer can afford to use. H. H. Pickens.” McCook, Neb., April 8, 1893. John Whittaker: Dear Sir— After having tried your little device known as “Whittaker’s Wire Tightener” I must say that I am more than satis fied with the results of its work. It is perfect and will stand on its merits with all men who give it a trial. Yours Respectfully, A. C. Modi. Quality Up—Prices Down! Knipple excels in the quality of the flour he keeps in stock, and in the re markably low prices at which he is sell ing. Think of it! Fancy patent flour at.$1.25 Snowflake flour at.85 And remember that he warrants every sack. At the old stand in the Cole brick. Horses For Sale. I will offer for sale on Main avenue, McCook, tomorrow (Saturday) after noon at 2:30 o’clock, two driving horses and one riding horse. Nine months’ time will be given with approved bank able security. Ten per off for cash. B. B. Davis. , , , -— Of Interest to Farmers. If you want to renew a loan falling due and make a new one on your farm patronize the Nebraska Loan and Bank ing Co. of McCook, a home institution. Office in rear rooms of 1st National bank. Interest payable in McCook. NUMBER SEVEN. Humphreys’ Specific Number Seven cures Coughs, Cold and Bronchitis. The relief is quick, the cure perfect. Price 25 cents for sale by ail druggists. Noble, the leading grocer, makes a specialty of fresh, clean family grocei ies. He will treat you right. Knipple makes a specialty of fruits of all kinds. Wall Paper. Artists’ ~ j| A. MCMILLEN, Guaranteed Material. | Druggist. Mixed _ ...Paint... I Paints, Oils and Glass.! PROSPECT PARK. A little rain would come very acaept able j ust now. R. T. AUam is building a house for N. J. Johnson. Farmers in this neighborhood are through sowing grain. G. C. Boatman was home from the Willow Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. James Boatman we are happy to state is able to be around again after her severe illness. Mrs. J. B. Records spent the fore part of last week with her daughter Mrs. Harry Wade. Mrs. Frank Albrecht has returned home from her visit to Denver greatly improved in health. We understand Mrs. Eva Wade, who has been very sick with an attack of quinsy, is able to be about again. Sunday school every Sunday at the school house at 10 a. m. Preaching every two weeks. All are cordially invited. Next Saturday evening will be the last meeting of the Prospect Park ly ceum. Quite an interesting program is being prepared. James Boatman was called to Iowa, the first of last week by a telegram an nouncing the serious illness of his daughter-in-law Mrs. John Boatman. Sonnv. Put your $ $ $ where they will do the most good, where they will secure the best and the most groceries for in stance. You will make no mistake if Noble’s is the place of deposit. He gives the limit in quantity, quality and value, and his stock cannot be duplicat ed in Western Nebraska. The burning question with house wives of all lauds, all creeds, and all ages is: “Which is the best Cooking Stove?” S. M. Cochran & Co. answer this question today by proclaiming the “Charter Oak Stoves” to be the best in every conceivable shape. A state and national paper combined is The Semi-VVeekly Journal. The Tribune is your best local paper. Subscribe for these and you are fixed for a year. Both for $2.50. !2P"Noble, Purveyor to tne Great Common People, is now exhibiting about the handsomest and largest as sortment of plain and fancy lamps to be seen in Southwestern Nebraska. Don’t build a fence around your property until you have seen and priced that woven wire fencing at S. M. Cochran & Co.’s. Nothing cheaper, neater or better. A good live paper every Tuesday and Friday, is what you get in The Semi-VVeekly Journal for one dol lar. The Tribune and Journal both one year for $2.50. You will never know how far your dollar will go until you buy your gro ceries at Knipple’s. It will surprise you! You get a Seaside Library free with a year’s subscription to The Semi Weekly Journal. The offer will not last long. S. Mi Cochran & Co. have an im mense stock of farm implements on hand. .See them before buying else where. Knipple leads them all when it comes to selling a fine patent flour cheap. Try him once and you will be convinced. If you want a well drilled in tine shape see McClain & Co. Leave or ders at S. 31. Cochran & Co.’s. Whittaker’s Wire Tightener, tightens barbed, smooth and woven wire and slat fences without injury to the wire. If you are thinking of buying a set of new dishes call to see Knipple’s stock and get his prices. No better farm wagon on wheels than the Charter Oak sold by S. M. Cochran & Co. Whittaker’s Wire Tightener is a ben ediction to the man who owns a wire fence. Do you know that Knipple pays the highest market price for butter and eggs. _ A fine variety of seed potatoes can be bought at Knipple's after Monday Use Whittaker’s Wire Tightener to repair your fences. $ Knipple sells canned goods cheaper than ever. Baby Carriages— the latest styles— cheap. Pade & Son. Dress Sk irts. It is generally conceded that the crinoline craze has reached its height and will soon die a natural death. Its influence is Felt in the increased full ness ol gowns; but here, too, the ab surdity of exaggerated types has quickly brought about n reaction, their incon venience and discomfort for everyday gowns being immediately recognized The latest importations show skirts of moderate width, with a graceful flare at the bottom, where they measure not more than four and a half, oftener but four yards. A few have slight fullness all around the waist, but most are smoothly, though not tightly, fitted across the front and over the hips. In the back the fullness is variously ar ranged, guaged in fine plaits turning towards the back, or in box-plaits. They have an interlining of crinoline, muslin or of alpaca, from ten to eigh teen inches deep, or if the trimmin; reaches the knees, the interlining is carried to the same depth.—From “Re view of Fashions,” in Demorest’s Fauii ly Magazine for May. WANTED. Agents to sell our choice and hardy Nursery Stock. We have new special varieties, both in fruits and ornament als to offer, which are controlled only by us. We pay commission or salary. Write us at once for terms, and secure choice of territory. May Brothers, Nurserymen, Rochester, N. Y. Parties contemplating building this spring who need money can obtain same at reasonable terms from P. A. Wells. Office in 1st National bank. Rear rooms. MeMillen Bros, carry the best and most complete stock of Harness and Saddlery in the city. Call to see them if you want a good article in their line at a reasonable price. Beware of peddlers. Call and in spect the Household sewing machine sold by S. M. Cochran & Co. before buying a machine. There is no better on earth. Make Noble your family grocer and many other blessings will fall to your lot, besides having the best groceries on your table that the market affords. IN QUEENSWARE Noble carries the largest assortment and the richest designs of the season. His prices are reasonable. J. C. Russell is prepared to do cast rating promptly. Satisfaction guaran teed. Send orders through McCook postoffice. Noble is the only exclusive grocer in the city. His stock is the largest and his prices correspond with the times. Remember that S. M. Cochran & Co. now carry in stock a full and complete stock of builders hardware supplies. You can buy more goods at Knipple s for One (1$) Dollar than you can any where else in the city of McCook. McMillen Bros, have a nice lot of Lap Robes they will sell at greatly reduced prices. Splendid bargains in these. S. M. Cochran & Co. carry a large line of buggies in stock. See them if you want a good vehicle cheap. Wayson & Odell can fix you up com fortably and stylishly in any thing you may desire in the livery line. Noble carries a large and complete stock of the best brands of canned goods of all kinds. We sell the Empire letter copying books. Also best grades of type writ ing paper. Read what Hon. A. C. Modi has to say about Whittaker’s Wire Tightener. Seventeen pounds of Granulated Sugar for One (1$) Dollar at Knipple’s. S. M. Cochran & Co. can sell you a bicycle very cheap. See them. Predmore Bros, keep the best cylin der oil in McCook. McMillen has a large assortment of lamps—cheap. Machine oil of all kinds at Predmore Bros. 83F"Groceries at Nobles’. Sewing Machines on $5 a month pay ments. Fade & Son. rant Torpedo Boat*. The famous torpedo boatbuilder at Elbing, Schichau, has just attained an unprecedented speed even for this class of vessel, torpedo boats built by him for the Russian and Italian governments having reached 274 knots on an hour's run at sea. The new British boats are to be 200 tons displacement, while the Russian boats are 180 tons, so that the former may do better by reason of great er power and greater size. The length of Sohichau’s boat is 152 feet C inches, the beam 17 feet 6 inches. She may car ry 40 tons of coal in her bunkers. On trial, however, she had only 20 tons on board. The small guns carried weighed 24 tons; the torpedo armament, 0 tons; the crew, provisions, stores and firearms, 44 tons; drinking water, 24 tons; engine and boatswain’s stores and reserve parts, 44 tons; so that all the movable parts come to 20 tons, making, with coal. 40 tons. The vessel and the machinery are therefore very light. The shell plates are barely a quarter of an inch thick. There are two locomotive boilers, pro- j tected by the coal bunkers, supplying : steam at 195 pounds pressure to hi li speed engines. The guaranteed speed was to be 264 knots in the open sea, while on trial the vessel actually made 274, or, to be precise, 27.4 knots, as a mean of one hour’s steaming at sea. Schichau promises even higher results with torpedo boats he is now complet ing. —Steamship. Cheaper to Hufld a New Road. The Pennsylvania raiiroad proposes to shorten the distance between this city : and New York ‘by constructing a cutoff 25 miles in length from New Brunswick to a point 011 the outskirts of Jersey City. The line was laid out three or four years ago, and charters were procured cover ing the route, and last week a license was taken out for the construction of a bridge over the Passaic river. The route is almost a direct line and will avoid the cities of Rahway, Elizabeth and Newark. It will be used exclusively by express trains, an improved local service being established for the convenience of trav elers to and from the cities mentioned. The advantage of the new line consists not so much in the shortening of the dis tance, but in the fact that through travel will not be interfered with by local trains or municipal restrictions as to the rate of speed in city limits. An enormous number of local passenger trains are run between Jersey City and Rahway, and a great many run through to New Bruns wick. Although the road is 4-tracked all the distance the facilities are not ade quate, and as it would cost a large sum to put in two more tracks it has been decided to build an entirely new road for 25 miles. When this cutoff is completed, it will be possible to reduce the running time half an hour.—Philadelphia In quirer. The Careless American People. The delays in delivering the electoral returns of the states to the vice presi dent, and the shabby and imperfect con dition in which some of them make their : appearance, only illustrate how careless the American people are about the con duct of their elections. The nation works 1 itself into a perspiration during a cam-; paign, and the two parties are ready 1 apparently to shed each other's blood. ! But just as soon as the voting is done with all excitement evaporates, and it is hardly possible to center public attention even on the most glaring frauds. If somo of. the efforts spent in cam paigns were used in securing an honest return of the vote, elections would re flect more accurately the will of the people. There does not appear to be enough care to see even that the forms for electing a president are rightly ob served. Verily the American people trust a good deal to their common sense.— Philadelphia Press. An Electric Koad For lirussels. A scheme is well advanced for provid ing Brussels with an underground elec tric railway similar to the South London line. The railway will have no fixed terminus, but will be arranged similar to the Inner Circle line, having 11 sta tions at the most important points of the city. No locomotives will be em ployed, but each train will consist of only one first and second class composite : bogie carriage, to carry 40 passengers, I with a compartment in front in which the electric traction gear will be ar ranged. It is proposed to run 11 such cars in each direction and to work the traffic by the automatic electric block ; system, as adopted on the Liverpool Electric railway. The lifts at each sta-; tion will be operated by electric power. —London Engineering. A Question From the Coffin. Peter Johnson, an aged colored man, died a few days ago at Elkton. Friends watched over the corpse till Wednesday. One of the women who were watching the corpse procured a towel and some cold water and began to bathe the brow of the supposed dead man. She was startled to see signs of life, and all the colored people were thrown into a state of terror by the negro raising his head from his coffin pillow and inquiring what was the matter. The aged darky was taken from the coffin and is rapidly re gaining health.—Cor. Philadelphia Rec ord. A Melodious Metal. An aluminium violin was played at a concert in Cincinnati Thursday evening, and musical people present pronounced it a success, it was made by Dr. Alfred Springer of Cincinnati, who says that the metal used cost just 33 cents.—Spring field Union. John Burns, the English labor leader, declares that General Booth of the Sal vation Army is a “maker of quack reme dies for poverty, a neurotic Christian and fanatical faddist, who combines univer sal brotherhood with incompetence and high salary.” A feature of this season has been the excellence of the fruit brought in ice i cars across the United States from Cali- ■ fornia and shipped to English markets. Old Sllrar la Pari*. The Rue de Provence is the home ol Ihe secondhand dealer in artistic wared lie is a greater power than the Americas pawnbroker and hasamnch cleaner rep utation. To wander among these quainl stores is as much in vogue with th* moneyed world as with the moneyless. Silverware is there in large quantitiei and includes every serviceable objeci from a souvenir spoon to a 5 o’clock tea set. All this mass has the tarnish of ag« and neglect to tell against its beauty, but a little polishing powder rejuvenates it, and it passes out to be recognized among its brand new fellows. A remarkable set of souvenir spoons came under my notice in one of these stores. The half dozen represented Na poleon and his generals. Only the heads of the famous men were visible on the handles, but they were wrought with a perfection that would have done credit to a photographer. The bowls of th« spoons were lined with gold, and the price of the whole combination was only equivalent to $7. It is worth a visit to the Rue to see the piles of small trinkets that gather dust in the windows. A number of seals are 8-inch pieces of silver that show up ex quisite carving. 1 saw one that repre sented the birth of Christ, with the sta ble surroundings brought out in surpris ing detail.—Cor. Jewelers’ Review. The St. Gothard Tunnel Dethroned. The great St. Gothard tunnel, which was begun Oct. 1, 1872, and finished in 1880, is 9J miles in length and cost $196.4t per foot throughout. At present it is the Titan of all the world’s tunnels. “These cannot last forever," however, and bj the end of 1895 St. Gothard will be de throned, the great Simplon tunnel, now in course of construction, coming in with the title of “largest and longest tunnel in the world." This new claimant foi • Titanic honors is being built to supersede the famous “route of the Simplon,”» road over the mountains w-hicli was con structed by the first Napoleon. TheSunplon tunnel will be almost one fourth longer than the now celebrated St. Gothard. its total length from open ing to opening being, according to expert calculations, 124 miles. In short, it it almost exactly three miles longer than St. Gothard. The old “route of the Simplon," which will be practically abandoned when the tunnel is com pleted, is about 38 miles in length. At present it takes 12 long hours to^rosf the Simplon route. When the tunnel is finished, less than a half hour will be consumed in making the trip.—St. Louis Republic. The United Staten Capitol. The United States capitol at Wash ington is one of the most majestic build ings in the world. It was first begun in 1793, when the north wing was founded. This was finished in 1800, and the south wing was begun in 1811. Tho building was burned by the British in 1814, and rebuilding did not begin until 1817. In 1851 the new extensions began, the house of representatives first occupying its pres ent hall iu 1857, the senate its present quarters in 1809. The dome was con structed between 1856 and 1865. The cost of the building ha3 exceeded $30, 000,000. The dome is 307 feet high and 135 in diameter, contains 4,000 tons ol iron, arranged to move during atmos pheric changes like tho unfolding of a lily. The rotunda beneath is 96 feet in diam eter and 180 feet high. The extreme length of the building is 751 feet; extreme breadth, 324. It covers 153,112 square feet of ground. The architecture is ol the Corinthian order; the material of the central structures yellowish sandstone painted white; of the wings, white mar ble, tinged with blue.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. Recreations of Great Men. The favorite recreation of Pope's lei sure hours was the society of painters. Nothing was more agreeable to the poet than to spend an occasional evening with his friend Kneller, who, to use the wordf of Thackeray, “bragged more, spelled worse and painted better than any artist of his day.” War burton tells an amus ing anecdote of the two friends. Mr. | Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day when his nephew, a Guinea trader, i camo in. “Nephew," said Sir Godfrey, “you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world.” “I don’t know how great you may be,” said the Guinea man, “but I don’t like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you together, all muscles and bones, for 10 guineas.”—Chanfbers’ ; Journal. — Brignoll and HI. Age. On one occasion Bianchi, the noted j teacher, went on the stage to seo Brig noli, whom he found pacing up and down like a madman, humming over his part. “Why, Brig, what is the matter with you? Are you nervous?” he asked. “Yes, I am nervous,” was the reply as ho walked harder and faster than over. “But, Brig, you ought not to be nerv ous. I’ve heard you sing the part 200 times. I heard you sing it 30 years ago.” “Thirty years ago! Who are you that should know so much?” “Who am I? You know who I am. and I know who you are.” “Very well; you know what I am, but ! I am sure you do not know what you are, and if you wish I will tell you. You are a fool!”—New York Tribune. Do We Talk Money? There is one feature about Americans that I never can reconcile myself to. It is that, go where you will, to a gentle man’s house, his club or any other meet ing place, I find that money is spoken of directly or indirectly. In all other civ ilized parts of the world money is “ta booed” as an article of civilized word diet. Is it really gentlemanly to make it a subject of conversation among the best people or have I fallen among the second or third class?—An Englishman in New York Sim. All the Sign.. Winks—Who is that long haired gen ius with cotton in his ears? Jinks—Urn.—a music teacher probably. —New York Weekly.