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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1894)
TWELFTH YEAR. McCOOK, RED WILLOW COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 2, 1894. NUMBER 37. CHAS. M. NOBLE Has Been Awarded The FIRST-PREMIUM By the Great Common People for the General Excellence of his Stock of PLAIN AND FANCY GROCERIES. The Conclusion Was Unanimous. Besides it was agreed that his .display of. GLASSWARE baa no equal in Southwestern Nebraska. .AND HIS. PRICES ARE RIGHT. Always the Lowest and Best Values Can be Found at C. M. NOBLE’S. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Gastoria, THIS IS OUR OUR ANNUAL INVOICE SHOWS A i GOOD MANY ODD LOTS, REMNANTS, ETC., AND TOO MANY WINTER GOODS. TO MOVE THESE GOODS WE WILL MAKE SWEEPING REDUCTIONS THIS i MONTH. WE HAVE PURCHASED A LARGE STOCK OF EMBROIDERIES AT 50e ON THE DOLLAR, AND THESE, TO GETHER WITH MUSLIN8 AND GING HAMS WILL BE PLACED ON SALE AT CORRESPONDINGLY LOW FIGURES. COME AND MAKE A SELECTION OF THESE GOODS AT ONCE. Bargain House. C. L. DeGROFF & CO. Tx.fc*£:E TABLE. GOING EAST—CENTRAL TIME—LEAVER. No. 2. through passenger. 5:40 A. M. No. 4. local passenger. 9:10 P.M. No. 78, freight. 7:20 A. M. No. 64. freight.6:30 A. M No. 80. freight . 9:U0 A. M. No. 148. freight, made up here. 6:00 A. M. GOINO WEST—MOUNTAIN TIME—LEAVES. No. 3. through passenger.11:36 P.M. No. 5. local pusssenger. 8:25 P. M. No. 63. freight.6:60 p. M. No. 77. freight. . 4:S P.M. No. 149, freight, made up here.6:00 A. M. IMPERIAL LINE.—MOUNTAIN TIME. No. 175. leaves at.8:00 A. M No. 176 arrives at ..5:40 P. M. I39p“Note:—No. 63 earri s passengers for Stratton, llenkelman and Haigier. All trains run daily excepting 148, 149 and 176. which run daily except Sunday. No. 3 stops at llenkelman and Wray. No. 2 stops at Indianola. Cambridge and Ar apahoe. No. 80 will carry passengers for Indianola. Cambridge and Arapahoe. Noe. 4. 5.148, 149 and 176 carry passengers for all stations. You can purchase at this office tickets to all principal points in the United States and Can ada and baggage checked through to destina tion without extra charge of transfer. For information regarding rates, etc. call on or address C E MAGNEK. Agent. THE MID-WINTER EXPOSITION. The low rates to California now offered by the Burlington Route, constitute an unequaled opportunity of visiting that land of sunshine, fruit and flowers. On account of the Mid Winter Exposition—California’s World Fair —agents are now selling round trip tickts to San Francisco. Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego, etc., for 865.50. Tickets are good to return until April 30th, 1894, and are very liberal as regards stop overs and transit lines. Wide choice of routes going and returning. This is the year of years to visit California, and the Burlington is the route of r >utes to get there. Ask your nearest ticket agent for full information, or write to J. Francis, Gen eral Passenger and Ticket Agent, Omaha. LOW RATES TO THE SOUTH. On February 13th, Burlington Route agents will sell round trip ticxets at the one way rate, to all points in Texas and the south. Ask the nearest ticket agent for information about routes, stop-over, etc., or write to J. Francis, G. P. & T. A., Burlington Route, Omaha, Neb. 2-L Nebraska State Poultry Show- and Conven tion, Kearney, Nebraska, January 16-20. Tick ets on sale January 14 to 20, good returning until January 25th. For the above occasions delegates paying full fare going will be returned at one-third fare on presentation to the B. & M. agent, at point of meeting, certificate signed by proper officer of the meeting. Special Ticket Rates. We will until further notice sell tickets to Spokane, VV ash., Portland, Oregon, and inter mediate points. 1st class continuous passage 830.00. 2nd class continuous passage S25.00. Effective Oct.i6th, round trip tickets will be sold to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Colton, San Bernardino and San Diego. California at very low rales. For full particulars regarding rates, etc., call on or address C. E. Magner, Agent. Great is retrenchment! Miss Grace Cummings departed for her home, Sunday morning. On an average a locomotive engineer trav els 20,000 miles in the course of a year. A further reduction of ten men is expected in the company’s force here, next Saturday. Mrs. J. D. McAlpine was down from Den ver, close of last week, guest of her parents. Thirty-four men were let out of the compa ny’s employ here, last Saturday. The reduc tion is in the carpenter forces, the machinists, their helpers, etc. March first next a new schedule of wages will go into effect on the U. P. There will be quite a considerable reduction all around a among engine and trainmen, office and shop men. Fireman R. L. Harris who has been laying off for the past two months on account of sickness has returned from McCook and will be able for work in a few days.—Alliance Grip. The remains of the late T. J. Potter, the well known general manager of the Union Pacific railway, were last week disinterred, together with those of his daughtor, at Ottumwa, la., and taken to Burlington, that state, for rein terment there. Charley Pruitt has been going to and from our city for several weeks past as a relief man “Pearl” is now relieving the operator at Yuma, Colo., having been called there Wed nesday night. The B. & M. is sure to give him a good position in the near future.—Ar pahoe Mirror. The Texas anti-scalper law has been killed as the result of a friendly suit brought against the International & Great Northern railway. Judge Todd of Houston decided that the road need not redeem the unused portion of a tick et, thus destroying the civil penalty clause and igvalidating the whole act. Combination does not always force up prices. The report of the railroad commis sioners shows that in the last twenty years the thirty-six railroad companies of Massachu setts have been consolidated until now there are only fourteen. During the same period freight rates have decreased 55 per cent on an average all over the state. Since 1865 the de crease has been 64 per cent. Do you know that Harlan county has more miles of railway than any other county in south western Nebraska? No county west of Adams, Clay and Nuckolls has so much mileage. The following is the mileage taken from official reports in various counties: Nuckolls, 139.09; Adams, 132.07; Clay, 121.1S; Harlan, 81.25; Kearney, 71.81; Webster, 70.97; Furnas, 62.27; Red Willow, 50.46; Hitchcock, 46.19; Franklin, 46.34; Perkins, 43.85; Dundy, 41.50; Frontier, 32.12; Gosper. 20.83; Chase, 18.48; Hayes, 12.57. George Powers, an Englishman in the em ploy of the Burlington, in the city freight de partment at the Bluffs, is about to become an independently rich man, says the Council Bluffs Globe, through the medium of an heir loom on his mother’s side of a big chunk of English real estate, property that has been in his family for a great many years. About a week ago an English agent, representing an English law firm, came to Council Bluffs from Birmingham, England, in quest of Powers, and made known to him the fact all he would have to do would be to establish his i dentity as the rightful heir and he would be fixed for life. This Powers had no difficulty in doing, and after the signing of numerous papers the agent returned to England with the promise that something might mature that would be worth the while of his trip. The agent, Burton by name, would not dis close the exact amount of property that would fall to Powers, but it is understood to be in the neighborhood of $50,000. On Thursday evening, of last week, six men rode up to the eating house,at the depot, alighted and called for supper. They were fairly well dressed and kept their coats tight ly buttoned. Phis fact and the many partic ular inquiries which they made about distan ces to neighboring cities aroused suspicions that they might be a gang of train robbers. Superintendent Campbell was notified by wire and he notified conductors along the line to be on their guard, and gave them orders not to stop for danger signals, but to slow up until they could ascertain the cause. News of the state of affairs got newsed about among the passengers on train No. 15, Friday even ing. Several Red Cloud gentlemen were on the train and each of the adopted some plan of his own to save what money and valuables he bad on his person.—Red Cloud Belt. William Markin, a bridge carpenter on the Burlington & Missouri railway, met with a se rious accident Tuesday afternoon which may prove fatal. While working on a bridge over Box Elder creek, near Hudson, Colo., a small station between Brush and Denver, he fell from the top of the bridge, about fifteen feet, striking on his head. He was taken to Den ver on train No. 149, for treatment. The gross earnings of the Burlington road from January I to December 31, 1893, are $38,356.483, a decrease of $2,055,918 from 1892; the freight earnings were $24,229,767, a de crease of $3,257,185; the passenger earnings were $10,185,381, an increase of $2,279,452; the operating expenses were $24,502,189, a decrease of $1,656,807. The total net earn ings for the year were $3,894,294, a decrease of $578,210. The company evidently has something in view on the St. Francis line, from the frequent visits made to the branch by the officials. General Superintendent Calvert and Super intendant Campbell were over there, Wed nesday again, in the latter's private car. It is rumored that two more engines and crews will be put on the passanger service, which will help out the freightmen somewhat. CNo. The shops will not be closed, nor will they be moved away. Just lie low breth ren until the storm is o’er. W. M. Irwin’s son about six years of age slipped on the ice, Sunday, and dislocated his arm at the elbow. Chris Salen’s two girls have been under the doctor’s care with an attack of tonsilitis. C. J. Pope of Red Cloud was at western division head quarters, Monday. F. W. Campbell’s baby has been quite sick. Also George Atkins. Still rumors of further retrenchment in railroad forces. Charlie Williams’ child has been ill with the croup. Willie Malen has the lung fever. District Court Filings. The state of Nebraska vs. Janies K. Ellis, gambling, January 20th. C. S. Quick vs. Simeon Billings et al., ap peal. January 26th. Pekin Plow Co. vs. James Harris, equity January 29th. Robert McFarland vs. Edwin W. Moshei et al., equity, January 29th. Robert McFarland vs. Capital National Bank of Lincoln, equity, January 29th. James Porter et al. vs. Capital National Bank of Lincoln, equity, January 29th. George E. Thurman vs. Ella R. Thurman, divorce, January 39th. S. J. Mattocks vs. Paul E. Boyston et al., John J. Lamborn vs. Loyal M. Hayes et ai., equity, January 31st. TRANSCRIPTS OF JUDGMENT. John A. Noel vs. Stephen Cloud, §50.70, January 18th. S. T. Braider vs. Frank Kellogg, §56.25, January 18th. Raymond Bros. & Co. vs. Eli Collette, §123.55, January 39th. Lawyer Selby was up from Cambridge, last night. William Divine came up from Lincoln, last night. H. W. Cole is absent in Illinois visiting at his old home in Geneseo. temando Kennedy, son of F. M. Kennedy of Valley Grange precinct, is very ill with fe ver. Stanton Rolley, a former citizen of this place, was recently severely injured in a run away down the moutains in Colorado, while returning with a large party from a funeral. From and after February ist all ac counts must be paid monthly. No credit will be given any one who does not com ply with this rule. This is final. M. E. Knipple. This is the Time WHEN WE MUST Clear Our Stock -for Spring Purchases. That means we will sell anything in the house at almost your own price. It is not a matter of profit but to get rid of Goods. Prices on paper cut no figure. A personal examina tion is the only way to convince yourself. L. Lowman & Son, DRY GOODS, CARPETS, MILLINERY. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. A DOLLAR or two is considerable these hard times, but there are times when you are wholly justified in the expenditure. For instance if you are looking for a Round ©aft HeatiDg Stove, don’t let some un scrupulous dealer sell you some other Stove for the Rouud ©aft ^ >r sell you some cheap imitation ; which is ‘‘just as good” for cl Bo!J cir Or Two Less. Remember that imitation is An Acknowledgment of Superiority, So Buy The Gmaine Ml OAR.! Origninal See the name cast on the legs, also on the nickel name plate. GALL AND SEE THEM .... AT THE .... THE PIONEER HARDWARE, W. c. LaToukette, Propr.
