TWELFTH YEAR. McCOOK, RED WILLOW COUNTY, NEBRASKA. FRIDAY EVENING. MARCH 23, 1894. NUMBER 44.
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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.
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[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.
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[ targain ouse.
C. L. DeGROFF & CO.
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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.
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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.
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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. *
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? 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.
