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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1893)
UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1895, 25 CENTS. If you are not already a JOURNAL subscriber that is all you wil have to pay us for the ScmUWedtly Journaf from now until January 1, 1895, if you will at the same time pay i year's subscription in advance to the Tribune. The Semi-Weekly Journal is the greatest paper in the west, pub lished Tuesday and Friday, giving two complete papers each week with markets and telegraphic news of the world. Send in your orders at once to the TRIBUNE. __ I W. C. BULLARD & CO. -to: ■ ■U— BED CEDAR. AND OAK POSTS. 0TU. J. WARREN, Manager. 6. & M. Meat Market. RK^tt”7 -r' —TTnnn |———TW**HTB^» FRESH AND SALT MEATS. BACON, BOLOGNA, CHICKENS, TURKEYS, AC., AC. F. S. WILCOX, Prop. F. D. BURGESS, PLUMBERHSTEAM FITTER NORTH MAIN AVE.. McCOOK, NEB. Stock of Iron, Lead and Sewer Pipe, Brass Goods, Pumps, and Boiler Trimmings. Agent for Halliday, Eclipse and Waupun Wind Mills. GREAT SPEAR HEAD CONTEST. SAVE THE TAGS. One Hundred and Seventy-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, $173,250.00 In yaiuable Presents to be Given Away in Return for SPEAR HEAD TAGS, 1,155 STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES.134,650 00 5.775 FINE IMPORTED FRENCH OPERA GLASSES, MOROCCO BODY, ' BLACK ENAMEL TRIMMINGS, GUARANTEED ACHROMATIC... 28,875 00 23.100 IMPORTED GERMAN BUCKHORN HANDLE, FOUR BLADED ’ POCKET KNIVES. 23,100 00 1 1 5.500 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH ’ PiCKS.. 57,750 HO 1 1 5.500 LARGE PICTURES (14x28 inches) IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing, ’ no advertising on them. 28,873 00 261,030 Prizes, amounting to.$173,250 CO The above articles will be distributed, by comities, among parties who chew SPEAR HEAD Plug Tobacco, aud return to us the TIN TAGS taken therefrom. We will distribute 226 of these prizes in this connty as follows: To THE PARTY sending us the greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS from this county we will give.1 GOLD WATCH. To the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each, 1 OPERA GLASS... .5 OPERA GLASSES. To the TWENTY PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 POCKET KNIFE...20 POCKET KNIVES. To the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each I ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM TOOTH PICK.100 TOOTH PICKS. To the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each I (LARGE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS.100 PICTURES. Total Number of Prize, for tbis Connty, 226. CAUTION.—No Tags will be received before January 1st, 1801, nor after February 1st, 1894 Each package containing tags must be marked plainly with Name of Sender, Town, County, State, and Number of Tags In each package. All charges on packages must be prepack D.—SPEAR HEAD possesses more qualities of intrinsic value than any othrr piu,r tobacco produced. It is the sweetest, the toughest, the richest. SPEAR HEAD is absolutely, positively and distinctively different in flavor from any other ping tobacco. A trial will convince the most skeptical of this fact. It is the largest seller of any similar shape and style on earth, which proves that it has caught the popular taste and pleases the people. Try it, aud participate in the contest for prizes. See that a TIN TAG is on every 10 cent piece of SPEAlt HEAD you buy. Send in the tags, no matter how small the nuanttty. Very sincerely, 1 3 THE P. J. SORG COMPANY, Middletown, Ohio. i A list of the people obtaining these prizes in this county will be published In this paper immediately after February 1st, 1894. DON'T SEND ANY TAGS BEFORE JANUARY I. 1894. LOVE'S DESPAIR. Why should I waste my life In heaving sighs For her whose love I know can ne’er be mine? What, though her eyes with sweetest glances shine. And in her face the rarest beauty lies. Let some one else her loveliness now prize. For I shall sadly sigh for her no more. Although my heart with longing pangs ie sore. And rent with love’s sweet lingering memories. i’ll try to drive her from my fancy’s eye. And in the future I’ll forget the past. Our joys and sorrows cannot always last. But like all things of earth must surely die; And bo I’ll sadly sit and sigh no more. But laugh through life, a breath which soon is o’er. —John J. McIntyre in New York Sun. BRAVE BETTY. There was a clatter of horses’ hoofs on the hard road in front of the little wood en jail at the county seat of an interior county of West Virginia, and then a pris oner was brought in by half a dozen of ficers and chained to a ring in the wall. The prisoner was a broad shouldered young man, with long, black hair and piercing eyes. As he passed into the jail part of the building Betty Rainsford, the pretty wild flower daughter of Jailer Rainsford, caught sight of him. She sprang forward with the word “Jim” trembling on her lips, but instantly re strained herself and turned away with apparent unconcern. Jim Springston was a moonshiner. In other words, he manufactured liquor without a government license and was therefore hunted by United States de tectives. He had a still among the dark recesses of the mountains, where for years he had pursued his unlawful call ing. At last, however, ho had been trapped by Detective Johnson and his deputies, but his capture was effected only after a hard fight, in which Spring ston had wounded two deputies slightly and had himself received a flesh wound in his left arm. “Well, we’ve got another desperado, and the court will soon make shore work of him,” said Johnson to the jailer as he came out from securing the prisoner. “I shall look to you,to see that he does not escape,” and the officer twirled be tween his fingars the key of the padlock which secured Springston, at the same time striding out. After placing his deputies on guard around the insecure structure to prevent recapture by the prisoner’s friends, or to circumvent any efforts on the part of the prisoner him self to escape. Captain Johnson went to the only lodging house in the village, where he put up for the night. The reader has already surmised that the members of the Rainsford family were at least acquainted with Jim Springston. He was, in fact, the affi anced husband of Betty, who had al ready resolved to rescue her lover at all hazards. Her father was, to say the least, morally responsible to the law for the safekeeping of Springston, and site knew it would bo of no avail to turn in that direction for relief. In fact, she would not have released Jim from jail if she could have done so with her own hands, as it would have brought censure and disgrace down on the head of her father and created the suspicion that the Rainsford family was in league with the illicit distillers. Jim bpnngston nau ueen a imment visitor to the Rainsford household for the previous year or two and had won his promised bride over numerous rival suitors, but the head of the household did not know he was a violator of the law until brought in that evening. Neither had Betty known of this fact, but the moment she had learned of the arrest she decided in favor of Jim. At supper that evening the elder Rains ford stated that, while he sympathized with Springston, he could see no way but that he would have to go to prison. Betty acquiesced meekly, but her brain was busy with a plan of her own. A passing country doctor had dressed the wounds of the deputies and the pris oner. Betty looked down at the latter operation, but not even a look of recog nition passed between herself and lover. They seemed to pursue that conrse intu itively. They were as strangers, and thus darkness settled over the quiet country village. Just after midnight, when the alertness of the guards was benumbed by drowsi ness, a dark figure stole to the window of the jail. A voice almost as still as the night itself called: “Jimt Oh. Jim! Don’t stir or make a noise. It’s Betty.” There was a soft answer denoting that he heard her, and she went on thus. “Read this note when daytime conies and obey instructions carefully.” thrust ing the paper through the bars and into the hands of the prisoner by means of a long stick. After breakfast the next morning the prisoner was taken out and mounted on a horse, and the officers also mounted their horses, and the party set off for the nearest railroad station, a distance of 50 miles. Just as the horsemen cantered away a glance from Betty to Jim as sured each that both understood the programme. Captain Johnson felt elated over the capture of Springston for the reason, first, that there was a handsome reward awaiting his safe delivery into the hands of the government and. secondly, be cause the capture added another large feather to the already well decorated cap of the detective. It was a delightful summer morning, and as the party rode along the birds chirped and the dew sparkled like noth ing had happened or was about to hap pen among the lonesome mountains. The road was little more than a bridle path in places, and for two miles from the Rainsford house it bore around the foot of a mountain, forming a semicircle and coming back to within half a mile of the starting point on the opposite side of the range. For a long distance at this point the roadway was overhung with thick branches, producing twilight except in the middle of the day. In a few moments after the departure of the officers and their prisoner, a slight, boyish figure, wearing an ill fit ting suit and a slonch hat half conceal ing the face, disappeared into the forest i tn the rear of the Eainsford residence, ft somewhat resembled Betty’s younger brother, who was absent from homo at the time. In a belt were two revolvers, ind a Winchester rifle was grasped firm ly in the right hand. The figure hurried across the mountain by way of a foot path, and on reaching the public road at the dark, shady spot disappeared be hind a log among the laurel underbrush along the roadside. In 10 minutes there was heard the sound of the tramping of horses’ feet. The figure behind the log became alert ness itself in an instant. The winches ter was trained on the road, where a small opening would reveal the passing ! horsemen. As they came up it could bo seen that by some means Jim Spring Bton had succeeded in getting five of his captors in advance, riding single file, and was talking in a cheerful tone to the one in the rear. As they came on Jim cautiously gathered up the slack of his bridle reins and scanned that laurel thicket with bated breath. For au in ' slant a femininelike finger pressed the trigger of the sleeping winchester, and then came a sharp report, the scream of a horse, and down went the rear guard. Bullets camo from that thicket like hail and seemed to take effect entirely among the horses. i The greatest confusion prevailed : among the officers. Two were entan gled in the trappings of their slain horses, and a third was on the ground in danger of being trampled to death by the excited animals of those yet mount ed. In less time than it takes to tell it the firing had ceased and the cloud of powder smoke floated away on the lazy atmosphere. At the beginning of the firing Jim had dashed into aside path and disap peared. His horse cauic back in a few moments, however, indicating that he had dismounted and fled to the thick woods. Ten minutes later he was joined i by the boyish figure, who handed linn the winchester and one revolver, when they vanished into the underbrush. W hen Captain Johnson hail restored | order, he found all of his men safe, but 1 three of the horses were dead. It seemed that the attack from ambush had been ' made on the horses. A searcli of the woods was made for the escaped prison er and the attacking party, but it was a vain search. Behind the log in tho laurel thicket were a half dozen car tridge shells and a small footprint in the loose earth. That was all. Two hours later, when the officers re ; turned to the village with chagrin pie i tured on their faces to get a couple more ' horses Betty was going about her house hold work singing blithely. I As the officers came up, two of the horses carrying double, she went to the ' door in apparent great surprise and was • an interested listener to the story of the ! attaclt as related by Captain Johnson. He said the onslaught was made with ‘ such fury and suddev.ess that the horses i became unmanageable to such an extent that himself and men were unable to use ! their firearms. They left the country : without again seeing Springston, Sprmgstou gave up his unlawful busi : ness, and a year later he and Betty com menced housekeeping in a neighboring ' settlement as man and wife. He some , times tells their children how a disguised I young woman once rescued her lover by ' shooting the horses of his guards. He I calls that woman “Brave Betty, the Jail 1 er’s Daughter.”—Charles A. Hartley in ; Cincinnati Enquirer. They Saw the Fair. "Been to the World’s fair?” asked tho ( man who hail not been shaved for six I months. “Saw it by moonlight—me and Jerry | Haggles," replied he of the vermilion nose. "Mo and Jerry was out in Den ! ver for our health. Jerry’s left lung is off bad. Let’s git to Chicago,’ sa3Ts Jerry one night when we was hnung uT on a truck in Wazee street. ‘All right, says l. fo' I was anxious to be in society ouee more. The next night we jumped a freight fo' as far as Omaha without ! gettin turned down once. It got warm then, and we changed for an empty cat tle car on account of the ventilation. It | was on a Sunday morning when we ! struck Chicago. ‘Let’s lay off and re j cuperate after the trip, Jerry,’ says I, ( ‘and we'll make a sneak on to the fair grounds at night.’ ‘All right,’ sa3’s he, but we kept a talking until it was al most dark about what we’d do when we got in the grounds. “Well, as I was sayin, when I woke up the car was joggin along kinder slow like. 1 looked out through the slats. We was passing the fair. ‘Hay, Jerry,’ I says. ‘Hay, there, here’s the fair; let’s jump!’ We both made for the door. I got there first. ‘Open it,’ says Jerry. ‘I can’t; it’s locked.’ ‘Let’s take it in through the slats,’ he sa3’s. And we looked for all we was worth. In 10 min utes we was past.” “How did you get out?” "Get out? We didn’t get out until we got to Buffalo. We would’a’starved if Jerry hadn't had a loaf of bread in his hat.”—New York Herald. A Chilly Duel. A duel of an original character was | fought in front of the Antwerp railway i station. Two gentlemen from Liege, after a hard day’s sightseeing, refreshed themselves so effectual^ at a cafe that from beer to brandy and from argu ments to insults they came to blows. Blood alone could wash away the stain of their mutual insults, but as deadly weapons were not kept on the premises for the use of customers the proprietor of the cafe suggested that as the street j was deserted the adversaries should an nihilate each other with “douches,” and he handed to each a portable water pipe. Cold water being anything but an excit ing medium, the combatants after a thorough drenching shook hands and hurried to enange their garments.—Lon don Tit-Bits. A Chump. Little Wiilie—Jack, what’s a chump? Little Jack—A chnmp is a boy that doesn’t know wot a chump is.—Good News. TO EXPEL SCROFULA from the system, take AVER'S Sarsaparilla the standard blood-purifier and tonic. It Cures Others will cure you. smbri Cures Consumption, Coughs, Croup, Sore Throat. So’d by all Druggists on a Guarantee. Fora Lame Side, back or Chest Shiloh's Porous Plaster will give great satisfaction.—25 cents. SHSLOH’S VITALIZE!?. Mrs. T. S. 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E^’Night calls answered at office. J. E. KELLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AGENT LINCOLN LAND CO. MCCOOK, - - NEBRASKA. Omc»: In rear of First National Bank.
