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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1894)
TWELFTH YEAR. McCOOK, RED WILLOW COUNTY, NEBRASKA. FRIDAY EVENING. MARCH 23, 1894. NUMBER 44. » DON’T BE IMPOSED --UPON! Don’t be mialed by the statements of merchants .... claiming that they can.... SAVE YOU MONEY! I am selling first-class groceries right along as low as those who olaim they can save yon money it you will trade with them. Below we give a few items. Pickels, per bottle, - $ .10 Onions, per bottle, - - .10 Chow Chow, per bottle, .10 Catsup, per bottle, - .20 Raisins, per pound, .05 Best Tea in McCook, lb, .50 Syrup, per pail, - - .65 Jell, per pail, - - .65 Mince Meat, per package, .10 Clothes Pins, per dozen, .02 Peas, per can, - - .10 Com, per can, - - - .10 Alaska Salmon, per can, .12i Everything else in proportion. Always the Lowest and Best Values Can be Found at C. M. NOBLES. (slit invitation. . » x [E CORDIALLY Invite you to call and inspect our New Line of Dress Goods, Ladies’ Wraps, Trimmings, etc., etc. Having spent two weeks in Eastern Markets, we have made large and choice selections and at prices that defy competition. Don’t forget our large CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. We have added some New Things in Children’s Suits. C. L. DeGROFF & CO. -4$4i CASH [ targain ouse. C. L. DeGROFF & CO. : Halloween With the Cliff-Dwellers. On October 31st, we started from Man cos, Southwest Colorado, with pony train, in true western style, for a thirty mile ride down the Mancos canon to the famous Clifi-d welter's region. Our out fit, ponies w»th packs etc., remind one of the geography pictures of crossing the Andes, that in our youth seemed so ro mantic. Indeed, a good degree of the romantic was in our surroundings. The canon ride was a novelty to those who never had such an experience; it is very different from a canon viewed from a train. We galloped gaily along for a time on the sage brush trail, where the irrigation ditch has not come, then the valley nar rows and becomes rugged and we must go Indian-file, the sage-brush becomes thicker and higher, and a kind of Wil low hedges us in, then up steep ascents where the pinyon tree—a dwarf cedar that clothes the mountains—contends with us the path, and sharp rocks higher than our ponies hardly give us passage way, down again almost perpendicularly we rush into sage and willows. We learn to trust the sure footed pon ies after the first few descents, and then we begin to enjoy the scene. The jag ged rocky mountain walls tower up some thousands of feet on either hand and we look for the ruins, but they are far ahead and we push on with shouts that rever berate through the chasms. Now we dash through the river and climb its rug ged bank, but this grows common as we cross and re-cross the stream seeking the easiest passage. As on and on we go our hilarity gives way, and we ride demurely along until the sun is well in the west, when the head of our cavalcade espies the first dwelling, and off we rush up the cliffs to see it. Some other vandal had proceed ed us, so on entering we discovered noth ing more rare than corn-cobs and char coal, but we have entered the mysterious dwelling and are elated. Again we push on and soon were in sight of Cliff-canon where we stopped and pitched our tent for the night, con tent not to play any Halloween pranks on an ancient people until we were somewhat rested. So gathering wood for the camp-fire we prepared for the night. After supper and the evening’s tales and nonsense, we lingered about the fire and watched its glow on the sage tassels, as the wind and the river sang a duet to silent stars that shone down on us, as our imaginations played with pos sible raids by the Indians on whose res ervation we were, or wandered back, far back, to the people who have vanished and left only these awsome habitations perched in the clefts of the precipices. One cannot write down the fantastic fancies that flitted through the mind on that starlit-night in the far off wilder ness of Colorado, but they merged with ' the dreams that peopled the valley with weird figures, and the distant coyote’s howl, half startling the dreamer, seemed the challenge of the people of mystery, till we slept again. Morning broke and early we were following the devious path up Cliff canon, in time to see the sun sal ute the dwellings of the Aztec, but none were there to retnra the salutation. As we came in hail of the larger rains we dismounted and began the ascent, but before we reached the mansions of old, we were full of pity for the poor wretches who must have performed the wearying feat daily. The sight well repaid the effort to reach these ruins, for indeed they are palaces, story on story they tower up ward in good architectural form. The arched, overhanging ledge-rock is a sure protection from above, and the defence is excellent from below, as one must climb up by precarious ways. The out look is grand-still we concluded not to remain as the matter of transporting food and fire-wood seemed insurmountable, from which we infer that the original in habitants must have been more industri ous than we. The largest of these ruins visited was probably one hundred yards long, and much of it in good preservation,the cedar beams were in good repair and samples of cloth of reeds were not harmed by time. The buildings are of cut stone layed with mortar, the rooms are from three and a half to four feet high, the doors and openings small, not exceeding two feet in height, there are also loop holes through which to shoot arrows. Broken pottery and an occasional stone ax are now the chief signs of civilization, aside from the buildings. The mystery that enshrouds these ruins—some say they vie with Egyptian antiquities for age—the weirdness of situation; and the improbability of lifting the veil of uncer tainty characterizes them as fit subjects for the dreamer, the moralist, and the antiquarian. We turn onr steps home ward leaving the dreamer to dream. RBv. H. L. Pkeston. Abstracts of title will be furnished promptly and accurate by C. T. Bkcgs. Roy Dixon made a flying visit to Den ver, last Friday night. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Humphreys, Wednesday. Roadmaster McFarland was up from Red Cloud, Wednesday evening. A sister of Dispatcher Townsend came in Monday from Lincoln, on a visit. Tim Foley was up from Hastings,Sun day, to see his headquarters friends. Conductor E. Q. Roby has purchased the W. S. Coy dwelling in south Mc Cook. L. I. Meserve is in Akron relieving an engine man there for the next thirty days. Mrs. F. M. Washburn is back from her visit to the old home at Bromfield, this state. Roadmaster Haley has purchased Dr. A. J. Thomas’ residence on Madison street. Mrs. S. L. Moench has been entertain ing Miss Dora Harrold of Plattsmouth, this week. Clayton Keim came up from McCook to attend Masonic lodge in Benkelman last evening.—News. John R. Roxby came down from Mc Cook last week and spent Sunday with his folks.—Arapahoe Mirror. R. R. Woods, general manager of the Sheridan Fuel company, has gone to San Diego and ’Frisco to attend the mid winter fair.—Alliance Grip. The way the company is getting after the engine men on the question of coal consumption is causing many of the boys to tremble in their boots. Conductor Line brought in a special of empty flats, Wednesday evening, from the east, for use on the construction train which goes into service west of here. Engineer Sanborn and daughter,Grace, returned from Lincoln last evening,where they went to visit Mrs. Sanborn. The Tribune is pleased to note that they left Mrs. Sanborn much improved, both in mind and body. The destruction of the Union depot at Denver, Saturday night, removed one of the handsomest depots in America. It cost about a half million dollars. A de fect in the electric light wires caused the fire. It will be rebuilt at once, finer than before. Harry Dixon, eldest son of Traveling Engineer Dixon,and bride,nee Miss Anna Herstrom of Denver, arrived in the city Tuesday morning, on a brief wedding trip, and are the guests of his parents. The happy couple were married in Den ver on Monday evening. Messrs. Wolff and Moench, the hog fanciers, are cultivating a new breed of hogs, which according to Roadmaster Rogers, are destined to become popular and carry the pig world by storm. Sam says they have decided upon the name of “The Balance Breed,” from the fact that if you hold them up by the ears they just balance, so long are their snouts. The Pennsylvania has adopted as its standard a rail weighing eighty pounds to the yard and sixty feet long, instead of thirty, which has been laid heretofore, and the ends of the rails, instead of be ing square face to face, form a miter joint. It is claimed that in the use of a sixty foot rail one danger of passing curves will be greatly lessened, while a great saving in wear will result.—State Journal. J. J. Wilkinson, B. & M. immigration agent, is with us again to make Oxford his headquarters the present season. He is firm in the belief that this will be one of the best years Nebraska has ever known, both in point of prosperity and the amount of immigration, and anti cipates a heavy influx of people into these parts. The number of people the railroads are even now carrying,he says, has not been equaled,with the exception of the world’s fair season, during the past two years.—Oxford Standard. DBATH CAMS SUNDAY Samuel B. Stapp, brakeman, was frightfully and fatally injured, last Fri day morning, at Haigler, while attempt ing to make a coupling between two freight cars. It is thought that he step ped into a hole; at any rate he fell under the merciless wheels, one of his legs was so horribly crushed and mangled as to require amputation at the thigh. Be sides he was terribly hurt about the ab domen. He was promptly brought to his home in west McCook, the mutilated member amputated, and every effort made for his comfort, but death came to his relief on Sunday afternoon. The body was taken to McDonald, Kansas, Monday morning on No. 2, for burial. The deceased carried $500 in the Burl ington relief. He leaves a wife and four young children to mourn his sad and sudden taking away. Mnch sincere sympathy is felt for his bereaved family. ..ON THE ROAD.. ....PROM.... oooooooooo oooooooooo New York oooooooooooooooooo oo AND CHICAGO, SHIPPED TO OUR ADDRESS, THE FINEST AND BE3T ASSORTED ....STOCK OF ... Dry Goods, Millinery AND CARPETS. The Finest that has Ever Been Shown in McCook. OUR OPENING WILL BE LATER. we’ll tell you when. L. Lowman & Son, DRY GOODS, CARPETS, MILLINERY. (Dressmaking Department Opens April 1st.) MISS CORY, Friday and Saturday, March 23rd and 24th. * fVT?ff• Miss Cory will, on these dates, have ready for inspection of the ladies of McCook and vicinity all the latest and most fashionable creations in Spring and Summer Millinery. Don’t fail to see her display before making purchases. The prices, too, will be just exactly right. \ SAVE^MONEY! \ f "Wall Paper, per roll - 3c. I Gilts, per roll, - - - 6c. m Mixed Paint, - - - 90c. White Lead, - - - $5.50 j Linseed Oil, - - - - .65 J Other Goods at Reduced Price. * >- ( ? JSFTainting and Papering at Especially Low Prices. Leave your orders with I ■ the painters and paper hangers. Don’t give middle men a profit. | ? McCook Paint and Wall Paper House. J f CORNER OF MAIN AND DOUGLASS. I ^GEORGE ELBERT W. R. COLE. { Carson & West -OF THK WILL SELL MILK Durizig the month of April for 4 cents a qnart. Wait fcr their wagon. Purest of milk. Courteous and prompt treatment STOCKMEN Attention! I still have a few good young Bulls that I will sell very cheap, if taken soon. All in want of anything of this kind will do well to call and examine my stock. W. N. ROGERS, proprietor Shadeland Stock Farm.
