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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1894)
TWELFTH YEAR. McCOOK, RED WILLOW COUNTY, NEBRASKA. FRIDAY EVENING. APRIL 0, 1894. NUMBER 46. DON'T BE IMPOSED -UPON! Don’t be misled by the statements of merohants .... claiming that they can.... SAVE YOU MONEY! 1 ana selling first-class groceries right along as low as those who claim they can save you 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 Corn, per can, - - - .10 Alaska Salmon, per can, .121 Everything else in proportion. Always the Lowest and Best Values Can be Found at C. M. NOBLE’S. £}n Invitation* * * E CORDIALLY Invite you to l 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. r ciicii ia ’gain j louse. C. h. DeGROFF & CO. Wreck at Blue Hill. Train No. 142, from Red Cloud to Hast ings, drawn by two engines with engine 146 in front, came down the grade at Blue Hill on Wednesday at 10:45 P- m., and ran into train 99 on the Edgar and Holdrege branch as she was pulling out along the main track for Bladen. The 142 was a heavy stock train about six hours late and was coming down grade at a fair rate of speed. Engineer Bigley of 109 and Fatty Neiling of 146, reversed their engines, applied the air and turned loose the sand, but could not avert a col lision. The head engine struck the 99 just forward of the passenger coach on the rear end of the train, smashed into a box car containing a shipment of eggs from Schum & Barnes of Lawrence, to Den ver, derailed another box car and over turned the passenger coach. The pas sengers were badly shaken up but not injured. An infant was thrown from the seat, where it lay sleeping, under the forward seat, and a fat man was thrown from another seat to the one occupied by the kid. The parents were afterward heard lamenting the loss of the baby’s carriage which was in the baggage car and smaihed. Engine 146 was derailed but not badly injured. En gineer Neiling and fireman Al. Avery each took a header as did Ed Montaney, fireman on 109. All escaped uninjured except Neilling who suffered a badly sprained wrist and knee and at first was thought to be badly injured, but he was only winded, and Montaney who sprain ed his wrist. The 109 lost her pilot but took the train out around the wreck about 1 o'clock that night and pulled 141 in on Thursday. Roadmaster Mc Farland was early on hand with section crews from Red Cloud, Cowles, Blue Hill and the Holdrege branch, and clear ed the wreck and relaid the torn up tr2ck by Thursday afternoon. The accident turned out very luckily. A moment after Neiling and Avery left their cab it was pinched back on the tender in a way that would have caught them and ground them to mince meat, and had the col lision occurred a moment later the coach ; would have been struck by the engine. | L. I. Meserve returned home from I Akron, Monday night. The engine men are all seeking t o make good coal and oil records now. H. L. Davidson has been enjoying a visit from his mother, the past week or so. Roadmadmaster Josselyn was up, Mon day, from Orleans, on business at head quarters. Jay Tubbs, who is now located at Red Cloud, was recently wedded to a Corning, Iowa, lady. Mrs. E. Hanson is visiting her parents in Illinois, and will be absent a number of weeks. The usual spring rumor of prospective changes among Burlington officials is going the rounds. Miss Frederick, of McCook, is visiting her brother, S. S. Frederick, this week. —Holbrook Herald. The records and other material stored over the office of the freight house caus ed the ceiling to give way, this week, and the carpenters have been repairing j the break. During the month of March 14 cars of cattle were shipped out of this station, together with 10 cars of hogs and one of horses, which is a total af 25 cars, and a fair month’s stock business. General Superintendent Calvert and Assistant Supt. Highland came down from Denver, Monday night, with Supt. Campbell. They continued on their way east, Mr. Campbell remaining here. G. J. Frederick has secured from the Lincoln Land Co. an acre of land in the vicinity of the bridge, and in due course of time will establish a home on the west side. He is now engaged in constructing a dwelling.—Oxford Standard. It is rumoredthat Nos. 1 and 6 passen gers will be placed on by the Burlington i about May 1st, when it is announced 1 that the Rock Island will put on a couple I extra passengers for the summer busi ! ness. The Bnrlirgton must be in it. j A brakeman named Tom Wilkinson, says the Holbrook Herald, played a shabby trick upon the sympathetic peo ple at this place the other day. He was making a coupling and just as the cars came together he gave a yell and rushed into the depot nursing an imaginary crushed hand. Several ladies fainted and as many bottles were offered, which Tom put under his vest in good style. As the train was pulling out of town, Wilkinson showed the crowd two unin-' jured but very dirty hands. Should he come through this place again soon, the Burlington route will be shy one brake man. School Land Squabble. Robert Wheeler of Osceola claims that a plan was concocted whereby he was to be defrauded of a section of school land in Red Willow county. He filed a peti tion in the supreme court yesterday for a writ of mandamus, J. B. Meserve, county treasurer of Red Willow county, Land Commissioner Humphrey, O. Frost and F. G. Stilgebocer being named a3 respondents. Wheeler’s petition is a lengthy document and recites that he got the land February 19, 1887, by as signment of lease from J. H. Mickey, who got it the same way from S. F. Fleharty. It comprises all of section 16, township 3, north of range 26 west, in Red Willow county. Wheeler de clares he made all payments up to the payment due July 1, 1892. He did not make that payment or any since, he says, because of oversight, caused by the press of official duties and a mistake on his part. In 1893 when his lease became delinquent a notice was issued stating that unless the lease rental was paid the contract would be forfeited, but in stead of serving him with a notice County Treasurer W. T. Henton pub lished it three times in the Indianola Courier. As he had lived in Osceola for seventeen years and as records of the state board of educational lands and funds containad his assignment papers he avers that the state board and all county officers knew his postoffice ad dress. March 9, 1894, the laud was offered at public auction for lease and O. Frost aud F. G. Siiigeboiier, cashier and assistant cashier respectively of the Bank of Bart ley, acting to defraud, bid on the land and hired W. 0. Bond, W. P. Elmer, Samuel Stockton, E .E. Bantham and J. H. Lewis, who also made bids on por tions of the land, to withdraw and let them have it without competition. Frost and Stilgebouer’s bid was a pre mium of $8 for all the land, and being the only bidders they got it. Wheeler now says he has made valuable im provements ot the land, claims that it was not legally forfeited, that the state board acted contrary to law, that legal notice of forfeiture was not served on him and he asks for a writ compelling County Treasurer Meserve to receive from him $124, or whatever sum was due the state March 22, 1894, and com manding Commissioner Humphrey to reinstate his contracts of lease.—Lincoln Journal. _ The new county treasurer expects to qualify today, and enter upon the duties of his office. J. D. Carter is very ill with a relapse of the measles. L. B. Stiles has been away since Tues day night on business. W. P. Foreman has been around, this week, on business of the auditing depart ment. J. E. Sanborn is now running between Red Cloud and Hastings,with headquar ters at the latter point. R. G. Donovan, a former Burlington engineer at Plattsmouth, died in the Lincoln asylum, last Saturday night. A station agent of a railroad in Iowa has put the following placard on the clock: “This is a clock; it is running; it is Chicago time; it is right; it is set every day at io o’clock. Now keep your mouths shut.” A very amusing joke on conductor H. A. Beale is related. He with a number of other railroad men attended the thea tre in Hastings, a few nights since. A scene represented an express train go ing east. Just after the scene, the man ager of the company stepped before the curtain and read a telegram announcing that Conductor Beale and Engineer Sny der were to run the express train west,— the manager mistaking the ex. (which meant extra) for express. Conductor Beale also evidently misunderstood the message, and under the impression that the theatrical manager meant that he should run the stage express back west, stood up in the theatre and remonstrat ed with the manager that he could not run the dinged thing back, amidst the vociferous amusement of the audience. So the conductor’s friends have been making life a burden to him ever since. ] The circumstances make the incident ■ more amusing than language can por tray. . ..READY FOR. . . BUSINESS! SPRING GOODS. Dry Goods, Millinery AND CARPETS. L. Lowman Sc Son, Just Received! The largest and most complete stock of Spec tacles and Eyeglasses ever displayed in McCook DON’T RUIN YOUR EYESIGHT by using poor glasses—good ones don’t cost much. Consult your own welfare, your pocket book and Leach, the Jeweler, and you will be pleased. He will guarantee satisfaction. CHAS A LEACH, jeweler and Optician, (Successor to Cabroth & Son. SAVE MONEY! Wall Paper, per roll - 3c. Gilts, per roll, - - - 6c. Mixed Paint, - - - 90o. White Lead, - - - $5.50 ® Linseed Oil, - - - - .05 ^ Other Goods at Reduced Price. I I isgf" Painting aad Papering at Especially Low Prices Leave your orders with the painters and paper hangers Don’t give middle men a profit. McCook Paint and Wall Paper House. CORKER OP MAIN AND OOUGLAS3. GEORGE ELBERT \V\ u. COLE. STOCKMEN wlftetltiou! 1 still have a tew good young Bulls that I will sell very cheap, if taken soon. AU in want of anything of this kind will do well to call and examine my stock. W. N. ROGERS, proprietor Shadeland Stock Farm.