ELEVENTH YEAR. McCOOK, RED WILLOW COUNTY, NEBRASKA. FRIDAY EVENING. APRIL 2t 189c3. NUMBER 48. ^Doubi is a Millstone^ That carries many a man to tne bottom of the sea of misfortune. As the old saying goes: “He who hesitates is lost.” The best things of life slip beyond the grasp of the man who doesn’t avail himself of the golden chance. HERE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY. Rubber Hose,.reduced from 15c to 12c. Rubber Hose,.reduced from 18c to 16c. Eureka Cotton Hose.reduced from 15c to 12c. California Lawn Sprinklers,.reduced from $2.50 to $2.00. Lawn Mowers,.reduced from 8.00 to 6.00. We are Exclusive Agents for Banquet Stoves & ^Ranges. Jewel Gasoline ^Stoves. Leonard Cleanable Refrigerators. We carry a large stock of the above and will quote low prices. Farmers & Let us o Figure £ With You ? Building Hardware, Your Harness and Barbed Wire, Etc. $1600 given away to Cash Customers. Enquire for particulars. Don’t fail to call at THE PIONEER HARDWARE, W. C. LaTourette, Propr. ...GRAND... op: :::: gi Our new goods are new open and we invite you to come and inspect stock and prices. Onr Dress Goods Dejartneot Excels all previous efforts. Our Clothing D epartment Is complete as to styles and prices. New Styles in Hats. Wait for our Spring Wraps. We will show you latest styles and give you latest prices. We are handling the BANNER BRAND of Waists for Ladies. Agents for BUT1 ERICK Patterns. We Handle Groceries and Boots and Shoes cash& BARGAIN house. C. L DeGROFF & CO. SUCCESSORS TO J. C. ALLEN, oooooooooooooooo o o o ooooooooooooooo TIXlXE TABLE. GOING EART—CENTRAL TIME—LEAVER.’ No. 2. through paRsenger.5:50 A. M. No. 4. local pHMenger.3:40 P. M. No. 6, through passenger. 4:30 P. M. GOING WERT—MOUNTAIN TIME—LEAVES. No. 1. through passenger.10 50 A. M' No. 3. through passenger.. . 11:35 P.M' No. 6, local passsenger.11:00 P. M Mrs' J. F. Kenyon returned from her Iowa visit, close of last week. Henry Davidson is back from his visit in various eastern points. * Station Agent Peckenpaugh of Max was a Sunday visitor at headquarters' Dennis Cullen has purchased the George Laverty place on north Monroe street. Claim Agent Tomlinson went down to Ox ford on 6, Saturday, to spend Sunday with the family. . The Burlington is in the market for shop machinery to the extent of forty thousand dollars. Engineer George Johnson enjoyed a brief visit from his brother, the Curtis banker, Sat urday. Brakeman Albert O’Niel has resigned and will start a tank line in Goodland, Kansas, next week. Superintendent Campbell went down to Lincoln on Monday night, returning home on VVednesday morning. Mrs. C. W. Bronson arrived home, first of the week, from briefly visiting Conductor Bronson’s mother near Minden. Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, Ogden, Utah, April 24. Fare one and a third rate for the round trip. Tickets on sale April 21-24. Conductor Solliday is adding a large porch to the east front of his residence, which will be a comfort of his residence, as well as an ornament when completed. It is reported in the papers that the Q sur veyors are inspecting the different Cascade mountain passes with a view to extending this line to the Pacific coast.—Alliance Grip. Pullman’s people are turning out three sleepers a day to meet the rush of World’s fair business. They are so arranged as to be easily convertible into day coaches next year. J. S. Hale of Yuma county, who was charged with placing obstructions on the B. & M. track near Platner last fall, was discharged from custody last Saturday, the jury bringing in a verdict of not guilty.—Akron Press. The western passenger association has made a rate of twenty dollars for the round trip from the Missouri river to Chicago during the world’s fair. It is not such a reduction as was expected nor such a one as the roads them selves ought to have made. The employes of one great railroad have been treated to a surprise at once novel and agreeable. The wages of the baggage mast ers, agents, porters and ferry engineers of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, working in New York and Jersey City, were materially increased the other day without their asking it. A railroad company has just been ordeied by an Indianapolis court to pay JS6,0oo to a man who lost an arm while coupling cars in the company’s service. If the injuries received by employes were in all cases paid at this rate the railroad companies would comply with the provisions of the new car coupler law without wailing for the time when it is to take effect. Safety appliances will be profitable to the companies in the end. The queerest railroad train seen in many long years drew out of the Pennsylvania de ' i_ot in New York city, at 10 o’clock Monday morning, amid the cheers of a big crowd of curiosity seekers. The train consisted of engine No. I, of the Pennsylvania railway, and cars Nos. 2 and 5. The engine is the first railway locomotive used on this side of the Atlantic. It is called the “John Bull” and started Monday morning to puff its way ia 1 oriously to the World’s fair, where it will be on object of wonder to millions. The coaches look like stage coaches on railway wheels, file engine driver, A. S. Herbert, drove the John Bull in 1852. J. W. Sanford, the fireman, was such in 1855. Other railroad men on the train are equally ancient. The Indianapolis Journal says there is a disposition to complain that the roads have un.ted in charging Si a meal on dining cars. When dining cars were first introduced, 75 cents was the price per meal. The Pennsyl vania, when it put on its various lines of din ing cars, soon found that it could not furnish saiistactory meals at that figure, advanced the price to $1, and has maintained that price, except for a short time on its New York and St. Pouts line. Most western lines have ad , e a d to 75 cents until the present agreement w.:S enitred into. A general passenger agent s id yes.erday: “The result of several year’s exper euce has proven to the satisfaction of railw y companies that they cannot furnish first-class meals at less than $I, and at that price there will be no money to the roads. Por years the dining car department has shown a deficet at the end of each year .which has been charged tq_ the advertising expenses and in some cases it has been a very import ant item in showing the cost of the advertising department, yet in some measure a good din ing car line is a good advertisement for a road." U. G. Wolfe and J. J. Barry are on the sick list. I Mis. J. C. Birdsell visited Denver friends early days of this week. The company is building a new depot at the station of Holbrook. Manager Trammell of the eating house service was at headquarters, Monday. George R. Johnson was a passenger on 6, Tuesday evening, for the city of Omaha. Mrs. V. H. Solliday went in to Omaha, Sat urday on 2, on a little shopping-pleasure jaunt. Machinist John Stevens and wife left on 6. Wednesday, on a visit in the eastern part of the state. The snow plows have been moved out of round house to make more room for the car penters and painters. Mrs. McCarl has moved to McCook that she may be with her sons, who make that city their headquarters.—Hastings Tribune. Don’t Rent—When you can secure a home of your own for about the same expense by purchasing it from S. H. Colvin on the install ment plan. Fireman Brown had a very sick child, close of last week, from taking poison of some kind. Prompt measures, however, brought the little one out all right. Sol. Smith of Trinidad, Colorado, a former B. & M. engineer of this division, has been at Cambridge for a week or so past looking after his valuable estate near that sparkling little burg. The Burlington route have about completed all their arrangements for the transpartation of thousands of World's Fair visitors, and all who go to Chicago over this line will never have cause to regret it. On account of the Newberry bill over one hundred men have been discharged owing to the reduction of forces on this division and the end is not yet. Salaries have also started downward.—Alliance Grip. It is semi officially reported that, contrary to previous announcements, the B. & M. will not put on the contemplated fast train for the ac commodation of the World’s fair traffic. The reasons assigned is that the danger of acci dent would be greatly augmente 1. Ample fa cilities, however, will be provided, and for that purpose Nos. 7 and 8 will be extended west from Hastings, doing the general local work. Nos. 3 and 4 will be first-class trains. The engines to be used by the Lake Shore to haul the nineteen-hour train, the Empire State, from Buffalo to Chicago, are now in the Buffalo yards being broken in. There are five of them. They were manufactured by the Brooks Locomotive Works, and are mag nificent specimens of modern steam engines. The drivers are six feet and two inches; the cylinders have a diameter of seventeen inches. They carry 180 pounds of steam, and are fully capable of hauling this train at a mile a min ute, or a little faster, if necessary. While it has not yet been announced just when this train will be put on, it will undoubtedly make its first run on May 1. The train in leaving Buffalo will stop only at Erie, Pa., Cleveland, Toledo and Elkhart, Ind. These stops will be very short, only time enough being taken to change engines. REPUBLICAN. Stock trains are almost as thick as K. T. specials last August. Agent Knapp of Wilsonville is still out on the sick list. A. G. King manipulates the punch on “Tim’s” run during his absence. Brakeman Adams has returned to his first love and will now work under Conductor Green. Engineer Coleman is running the 146 on No. 141 and 142 Hastings and Oberlin in place of Katzenmyer. Charlie Dawson takes a job as passenger brakeman on No. 141 and 142 between Hast ings and Oberlin. Brakeman Green will go to McCook soon, hoping to graduate as a brakey and wield the much coveted punch. Agent Williams of McDonald, more famil iarly known as “Jack,” was at Republican on a business trip on Friday. Operator Letford of Norton soon goes to McCook in the dispatcher's office, and will as sist m laying the boys out semi-occasionally. Conductor Lellew pointed his cigarette towards McCook on Saturday last, in conse quence of Conductor Benjamin reluming today. The original and only “Tim” Foley has laid off and will take a trip to the “old sod,” viz: Ireland. His many friends wish him a pleasant trip. Brakeman Wright is twisting wheels (car wheels) on No. 173 and 174 on the Orleans branch in place of Caffrey for Con’r Moench, for a few days. No. 163, Conductor Benjamin had a little wreck on Tuesday the 18th inst., caused by an axle breaking in the middle. The way far for a few rods was bucking and pitching like a sure enough broncho, caused by the wheels falling inside of the rails and passing under the car. It happened one mile east of Nor catur. Attorney Howard and Banker Van Pelt were passengers and they joined the grand rush for fresh air with great energy and dis patch. The wrecking crew arrived on the scene at 5 a.m. on Wednesday and cleared up the wreck about ten o’clock. —!-11---- .. ...SECOND... INVOICE! % Having had such an immense opening trade on Ladies’ and Children’s Wraps and Suits, we were compelled to re-order an er> tire New Stock. They have just arrived. Also a full line of Ladies’ Waists, all prices and qualities. It will certainly pay you to call and examine these goods. Ladies’ Capes, Ladies’ Jackets, Ladies’ ct!°Z Collars, Ladies’ Wrappers, & Ladies’ Waists. h. Lowmau & Son, 1 Dry Goods, Carpets, Millinery and Dress Making. GREAT SENSATION! C. W. KNIGHTS, hr Thirty Days! Yes, it’s a fact. I am over-stocked with pants, and as I need more room for my new spring stock, I have marked the price down to such astonishingly low figures that ANYBODY can now afford to wear pants. In fact my ENTIRE STOCK OF WINTER GOODS, such as Overcoats, Heavy Clothing Underwear, Gents’ Furnishings (and many other things too numerous to mention, Mist Go and Roprita of Cssf -§=£>THIS IS A