TWELFTH YEAR. McCOOK, RED WILLOW COUNTY, NEBRASKA. FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1893. NUMBER 1.
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J. ALBERT
WELLS.
|j Linen Department. |
FINE TABLE LINEN, NAPKINS,
DOYLIES, FINE IRISH LINEN,
BUTCHER’S LINEN, EMBROID
ERY CRASH, LINEN TOWELS
AND STAMPED LINENS. ALSO
LINEN FLOSS IN ALL COLORS.
J. ALBERT WELLS.
McCook, Neb.
CASH j§#K
Bargain House.
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SeSs“ on '>000 yds Challie at 5 cents.
" oD;r..GoodB >.000 “ Gingham “ 5 cents.
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CLOTHING DEPARTMENT
The Best $2.50 Shoe in the city.
Weare pT HCI? r TZ>TZ> T/^HTO To Cask
Making ULiUoll T 1 JTQOJCjO Buyers.
Our Grocery Stock is Complete
At All Times.
J^STKAW HATS NOW OPEN.
C. L DeGROFF & CO.
TIME TABLE.
GOING BAST—CENTRAL TIME—LEAVES.
No. 2. through passenger. 6:30 A. M.
No. 4. local passenger..3:20 P. M.
No. «, through passenger.4:10 P. M.
No. 78, freight.0:00 A. Jl.
No. 144. freight, made up here.!t:;io A. M.
No. 148, freight, made up here.5:00 A. M.
GOING WEST—MOUNTAIN TIME—LEAVES.
No. 1. through passenger..,11:30 A.M.
No. 3,through passenger.11:35P.M.
No. 5. local passscnger.10:00 P.M.
No. 73. freight.5:30 P.M.
No. 149, freight, made up here . 0:00 A. M.
No. 175. accom., made up here. 4:00 A. M.
{3?"Note:—No. 73 carries passengers for
Stratton, licnkeltnan and Haigler only.
No. 175 is for the Imperial branch.
Rev. E. 0. Marks went down to McCook on
No. 4, Thursday, lie will leave on Monday
afternoon, accompanied by his family, for the
Columbian exposition.—Culbertson Sentinel.
Mrs. E. J. McEIherron, from Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, arrived in town last Friday
night, and is now visiting at the home of her
son, C. S. McEIherron, the popular 11. & M.
second day agent at this place.—Benkleman
Bee.
Baptist Anniversaries, Denver, Colorado,
May 22 to 30th. A grand excursion of Pull
man sleepers will leave Chicago, May 22d, 8
o’clock p.m.,and McCook, May 23d, 9:00 p. m.
Full reclining chair cars. Particulars in re
gard to rates given later.
This week, the section hands from River
ton, Amboy, Cowels and both sections of Red
Cloud have been engaged in extending and
putting in new switches and tracks in the B
& M. Yards. The B. & M. folks are fixing up
the yards in nice shape, and we look for them
to put their shops in this city one of these
days.—Red Cloud Chief.
If the railroad managers will give up the
arduous task of watching their competitors
long enough to mingle with the people fora
few days they will discover that the tide of
travel will not set in strongly toward Chicago
until the cost of tickets is made about one
fare for the round trip. When the rate is
published every passenger coach in the Mis
sissippi valley must be pressed into the pleas
ant work of earning dividends for the com
pany to which it belongs.
SlO EXCURSION TO SHERIDAN, WYO.
Round trip tickets to Sheridan, Wyoming,
will be on sale Tuesday, May 30th, at the low
rate of ten dollars at all Burlington Route
stations from Nebraska City to Lincoln and
from Lincoln to Oxford, as well as all points
north thereof. Equally reduced rates will ap
ply from stations south and east of the line
designated. Special train leaves Lincoln at
at 12:20 noon, May 30th. For further informa
tion see large bills or inquire of the local
agent.
A great delegate convention will be held in
Lincoln on June 28, the purpose of which is to
show the feasibility and practicability of a
north and a south railroad from the Dakotas
to the gulf, to be owned and operated by the
, states through which it will pass. There will
be delegates from North and South Dakota,
Minnesota, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Arkan
sas, Oklahoma and Texas. Among the list
of distinguished statesmen who will be pres
ent, appears the name of Hon. Jerry Simpson,
of Kansas, otherwise known to fame as “Sock
less Jerry.”
Brakeman E. W. Casey is on the list of
cripples with a painfully contused right foot,
received at Otis, Colorado, Sunday evening.
The accident happened while the freight train
was backing down from the water tank to
the depot, where Casey had gone to get or
ders. In the rain and darkness he did not
notice that the train was backing up, and in
crossing the track was struck and knocked
down. By some tall scrambling he managed
to get out from under the car, but the wheel
caught a part of his foot and bruised it up
badly. It was a narrow escape. He will be
about in a few weeks.
A wreck occurred on the Burlington Monday
afternoon about 4 o’clock, about half a mile
west of Corona, which completely destroyed
five or six cars. The track was blocked about
five hours, delaying the west bound flyer at
this place two hours. The track was torn up
for about thirty yards. The cars being loaded
with stone and coal there was no great loss
in freight. Fortunately no one was hurt and
the track was cleared at 10.30 p. m. and trains
started moving. This is the second wreck
that has occurred at this place in the last two
days, and both occurred by journals breaking.
The wrecking trains arrived in both cases and
saved them from a great amount of delay.
Railroad men have long suspected that the
invention of the telephone caused a tendency
to less travel among busy people. When the
new line was completed between Chicago and
New York their attention was called to the
fact that Theodore Thomas examined a New
York pianist by telephone, completing the en
tire transaction without causing the appli
cant to spend a dollar for railroad fare. They
have quietly investigated the matter since,
and it is now stated that the telephone has
caused a perceptible decrease in travel be
tween the two cities among a certain class of
business men to whom time is precious. It
is now possible for a director in a railroad
company, for instance, to attend a meeting of
the board in Chicago without leaving his
office in New York. The business can be
done by telephone, and at least one court has
decided that such a meeting is legal. The
railroad men are preparing to meet this curi
ous and unexpected competition by increas
ing the speed of their trains.
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Mis. J. I). Me Alpine came down from Den
ver, first of the week, on a visit to her parents.
Miss Mary Stevensi who has been the guest
of her sister, Mrs. Frank Kendlen, returned
to Hastings, Wednesday evening, on No. 6.
Charley Sterner has gone to McCook to
work.George Strain, switchman in the
yards here, was removed to McCook, and
John Young is the razzle-dazzle man.—Red
Cloud Chief.
1 he Scientific American notices the running
of a mile in 32 seconds by the New York Cen
tral engine No. 999, or an average of 112’A
miles an hour, and adds that it is believed
that three nines will yet cover her mile in 30
seconds.
The B. & M. have had eighteen cars of new
steel distributed this week from the state line
east and the steel gang are now at work tak
ing out the old and putting in the new. This,
the company is doing all along the main line
and when completed, the will ballast the road,
making it the easiest traveling road in the
west.—Haigler News.
The private car in which the martyred
President, Abraham Lincoln, used to travel
around in the troublesome times when he was
president, is now in the repair shops of the
Union Pacific at Omaha. It will be fixed up
as near like it was when the great martyr had
it and then it will be placed on exhibition at
the world’s fair. It will doubtless attract
much attention. Of late years the car has
been used as a boarding car for section men*
at North Platte.
REPUBLICAN.
“Birdie” Kirk was down from McCook on
Tuesday.
Operator Walsh holds a key here in place
of Long, resigned.
Operator Carroll manipulates the'lightning
at Orleans instead of Operator Goodville.
“Ben” suggests that the boys cease to con
gratulate him’ any more, until he is married
for sure.
Mrs. Reed, wife of the genial agent at
Herndon, departed on No. 172, Tuesday, on a
visit, we understand, to her old home.
Three loads for Kansas City and seventeen
for South Omaha constituted the stock train
from St. Francis, Tuesday, and still there’s
more to follow.
Agent Delahoyer, of Lebanon, is taking a
vacation and the, gentleman who relieved
Pickens at Woodruff for a few days recently
—we regret that we cannot learn his name—
is acting agent.
The boys on No. 173, on the Orleans branch,
seem to think they have a hard time of it on
the Monday run, but they ought to come over
and double on Monday and Tuesday on No’s.
163 and 164 to Oberlin, and then they could
kick with a cause.
The stock train which should have left St.
Francis on Monday evening at II o’clock,
did not depart until Tuesday a. m., and had to
flag out on No. 172, then. Cause, inability to
get orders on account of a car roof blowing
off between Beaver City and Stanford and
falling on and grounding the wire. The car
was on extra 184. Conductor Quigler and
Engineer Holliday.
THE WORLD’S FAIR.
The great fair is dazzling in brilliancy;
overpowering in size; magnificent alike in
conception and execution.
When Adam was a boy, world’s fairs were
not thought of. They’re a modern product.
And the more modern they are, the better
they are.
The Columbian exposition is the latest and
best—a long way the best. The whole wide
world has combined to make it worthy of the
nineteenth century and no endeavor was ever
more successful.
A visit to it is the privilage of a lifetime,
and the easiest and best way to avail your
self of that privilege is to take the Burling
ton route to Chicago. The local agent will
gladly give you any information you stand in
need of.
A. D. Gibbs was in Omaha, first of the
| week, on business of the law.
C. T. Brewer and L. R. Hileman were in
Omaha, early part of the week, witnesses
in the United States court in the S. P. Hart
cattle case.
\V. II. Anderson was a passenger on No. 6
last evening, on a business trip east—he didn’t
know just where nor how many places he
might visit.
S. P. Hart spent the early days of the week
in Omaha, where he had a case in the United
States court over an old cattle deal. He re
turned home, Wednesday night, before a ver
dict had been arrived at.
Trice’s negro minstrels played to a full
house at the Menard, Wednesday evening,
giving fair satisfaction, we understand. A bat
tery of forty pounders couldn’t keep away a
crowded house from a minstrel show.
Don Thomas had an experience with a bold
bad burglar, the other night, which Don’s
chums take pleasure in relating to his evident
discomfiture. The boys claim that the scene
was highly tragical, as well as amusing, when
Don emerged from under the bed, inquiring
breathlessly, “are the burglars gone?” after
the “burglar” had been in bed fast asleep for
half an hour. Charlie and John Heber mourn
a sadly demoralized alarm clock, which was
utterly knocked out in the wild excitement fol -
lowing the entrance of the “burglar.”
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