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THIRTEENTH YEAR. McCOOK, RED WILLOW COUNTY, NEBRASKA. FRIDAY EVENING. MAY 28, 1894. NUMBER t.
'Windmills, Pumps and Reservoirs.
If the experiments now being made
in the way of irrigating by water pumped
into reservoirs from wells from wind
mills shall prove successful, as seems to
be altogether probable, there is no doubt
but that this manner of irrigating will
be quite generally practiced. It is
claimed that such pumps as are used by
Messrs. Fowler and’Gerald Wilcox on
their farms south of the city are capable
of doing wonderful things in the way of
elevating water into reservoirs. The
making of reservoirs is not an expensive
operation, and the cost of pump and
mill is not great. So that, we say, if
the results are anything in proportion
to the expectations this will become a
popular way of irrigating, even in the
valley. And the Meeker ditch will not
soon, we fear, be as generally used as
the company fondly and naturally
hopes.
The people of McCook, who donated
$10,000 to aid in building the ditch, con
not help feeling disappointed that so few
comparatively are using water from the
ditch. Some inquiry among those un
der the ditch in this vicinity discloses
the feeling among the farmers that the
water rights are too high and the con
ditions too binding to warrant the use of
•water. While we are not fully prepared
to discuss the theory, we do, with others
who favored voting bonds, lament that
•every available acre under the ditch is
not under irrigation, and that the pros
pects are not more roseate for an early
realization of that hope.
And, at the risk of having our water
tax doubled again, we will venture the
hope that the ditch company will be as
liberal as is consistent with sound busi
ness principles, and that all reasonable
means be employed to encourage the
most general use of water possible.
A Disastrous Freeze.
In common with all the north and
northwest country this section was vis
ited by a severe freeze, last Friday night,
and much damage was done to fruit,
garden truck, flowers etc. The damage
runs in strips and localities, and was
much heavier on the low than on the
uplands. It was one of the most severe
freezes this country has ever experienced
in mid-May, and will largely reduce the
unusually bright prospect for fruit. The
severity of the freeze puzzles the old
settlers on account of the fact that the
ground is so dry.
Word from the Beaver country is to
the effect that the freeze was very dam
aging over there. The foliage of trees,
the alfalfa, andsoforth, being embraced
in the chilly disaster.
Fruit, flowers, hedges and garden
truck were sufferers to a greater or less
•degree throughout the city.
But rain and warm weather will bring
out alljright much that seems to be dam
aged badly even.
A Successful Revival.
During the past winter and spring re
vival meetings have been in progress up
on the Willow under Rev. Vivian of the
Methodist church and the number of
conversions all told we are informed has
reached about eighty souls. So that
the baptismal occasion at the mouth of
Spring ereek, last Sunday afternoon,
drew out a company of at least 600 peo
ple. Of this number perhaps 30 were
from McCook, the remainder being from
all over that neighborhood for many
miles around. There were five immer
sions and thirteen baptisms by sprink
ling. The preaching services were con
ducted in the grove on the Willow by
Rev. Vivian. A basket picnic in the
grove added to the occasion—and they
do say that the women up in that vicin
ity beat the world in cooking.
Object to the Income Tax.
The board of directors of the McCook
' Co-operative Building and Savings Asso
ciation at their meeting on Monday even
ing of this week, instructed 'the secre
tary to prepare and forward to. our rep
resentative in congress a remonstrance
.against the clause in the income tax bill
regarding building associations, which
they think should be exempt from such
taxation. _
Writing paper in boxes very cheap at
his office._
A nice variety of ink and pencil tab
lets at this office.
Remember, if you want an abstract,
that C. T. Beggs is a bonded abstracter.
Wanted—A good girl to do general
house workin a family of three. Inquire
at E. R. Curtis’ home or shop.
Fifteen (15) cents will buy a box of
nice writing paper at this office, con
taining 24 sheets of paper and 24 envel
opes. _
You will find all the fruits, berries
and vegetables, in season, at Noble’s.
And they will be the freshest and best
the market affords.
Shop Lifters Caught.
On Monday Mrs. Carrie Rosser of No.
105 Monmouth street was arrested for
shop lifting and at a hearing before
Squire Kelley plead guilty and was
sentenced to imprisonment in the coun
ty jail for five days—sentence being sus
pended for the present on account of the
illness of a young child of the woman.
A. M. Drew of The Fair complained
to the police that he was being robbed.
Suspicion pointed to certain women,
and on last Saturday evening while they
were in the store, they were watched
and seen to appropriate certain articles.
On Monday morning a search warrant
was issued and the Rief premises, No. 105
Monmouth street, were searched, with
the result that a large amount of stolen
property was brought to light. On the
following morning other property was
recovered in a like manner, and it is
stated that during Monday night a con
siderable amount of plunder must have
been burned, as fires were kept going
in the house all night long.
The women were provided with regu
lar shop-lifters’ dresses with concealed
bags, pockets etc., and the police think
they have run into a nest of profes
sionals.
The police are to be congratulated
upon their work in this case. McCook
has suffered too much recently from
house-breakers and shop-lifters, and we
hope this will in a large measure at least
put an end to it.
Obituary Notice.
Died, May 21st, 1894, Sarah J., eldest
daughter of Mary J. and the late J. Neill,
aged 22 years, 1 month and five days.
She leaves a mother, two brothers and
two sisters, and a host of friends to
mourn her loss. The deceased was as
sailed a few months ago by that dread
disease, consumption. After weeks of
patient suffering she gave up the strug
gle for life and is at rest.
Her mother, brothers and sisters and
other friends were by and tried to allevi
ate the pain of the sufferer as best they
could; they could go no further than
the brink of the cold stream, but a bet
ter and truer friend led her across to
that land where no wasting disease en
ters in, and where friends never part.
Take comfort, Christians, when your
friends
In Jesus fall asleep;
Their better being never ends,
Why then dejected weep.
Why inconsolable as those
To whom no hope is given,
Death is the messenger of peace
That calls the soul to heaven.
Possible Litigation.
While at Indianola, Monday, the
writer heard rumors to the effect that
some parties on the Willow above the
Holland dam proposed to dam the creek
at various places and use the water for
irrigating purposes. This would of
course render the Holland ditch prac
tically valueless. While we are not
posted as to the amount and manner of
Mr. Holland’s appropriation of the Wil
low, we would advise the gentlemen con
templating appropriating the water
above his right to seek good legal advice
before spending much money or time in
the making of dams, ditches or laterals.
It seems to us quite clear that Holland’s
prior appropriation and investment is
entitled to some protection in equity,
whatever other legal or other complica
tions may arise. _ Irrigation will natur
ally bring considerable litigation as to
rights, property, etc., but it were wise to
take soundings before venturing in too
deep.
It Discounts Prohibition.
“There is a little public house
That everyone can close;
It is the little public house
Just below the nose.”
It has rained both east and west of us.
Our turn next.
A boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Theo.
Kapke, Saturday.
Mrs. S. Adams is suffering with a pain
ful abscess in one of her hands.
One of Max Eppler’s children is sick
with inflammation of the bowels.
The freeze last Friday night was hard
on garden truck and tender flowers.
The wind of last week blew off the
trees and bushes a large amount of fruit.
John F. Helm of Red Willow shipped
a car of hogs, Monday, from Indianola
station.
One man on the Willow claims to Wave
lost ioo bushels of apples by the freeze
of last Friday.
We hear it stated that covers for ioo
wagons were sold in Bird City, Kansas,
in one day recently.
There was a large crowd at the mouth
of the Willow Monday seining for fish
just below where the dam of the Holland
ditch is located.
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
There will not be any Episcopal ser
vices on Sunday morning or evening.
Rev. Durant will be in Arapahoe.
No services in the Methodist church,
Sunday morning. In the evening Rev.
J. T. Roberts of Curtis will occupy the
pulpit.
No services in the Lutheran church.
Sunday morning. Elder McBride will
deliver the Memorial sermon at Bart
ley. The evening service will be held
under Christian Endeavor auspices.
Union services will be held in the
Congregational church next Sunday.
Rev. J. T. Roberts, of Curtis, will deliver
the Memorial sermon. Special music
will be rendered by the Methodist church
choir.
At the regular business meeting of the
Christion Endeavor society of this city,
the following officers were elected for
the ensuing six months: C. T. Watson,
president; Miss Clara LeHew, vice pres
ident; Miss Emma McBride, recording
secretary and treasurer; Miss Olive
Rittenhouse, corresponding secretary.
There wil be no meeting at 7 o’clock
next Sunday evening on account of the
missionary meeting at 8.
The Christian Endeavor society here,
assisted by the Red Willow society, will
give the following missionary pro
gramme in the Lutheran church, Sunday
evening at 8 o’clock. Good music. Ev
erybody invited:
The Biblical Reason Why, J. Longnecker
Missions in Madagascar.
.Miss Florence Thompson
Missions in Japan.Russell McMillen
Missions in China.Howard Finity
Missions in India, Miss Hannah McBride
The Measure of Responsibility.
. C. T. Watson
Communicated.
The young man who goes bicycling on
Sunday with an awful doubt in his mind
as to its rightness must be profoundly
grateful if he finds himself able to dis
mount with enough of the original hu
manity left to enable him to say I am I.
That he should so far have degenerated
that even the idea of a Sunday ride could
occur to him, while being pardonable,
is open to severe criticism. That his
watch chain was broken at the very
start should have prevented further des
ecration of the Sabbath, and served as a
warning. What wonder then that, per
sisting in his recklessness, the “safety”
capsized? What wonder that the only
escape from the wreck was to cut away
part of his Sunday pantaloons? What
wonder that when he mounted for the
third—and last time—the chain broke?
What wonder that he walked home!
The only wonder is that the warning
coming so seldom is never heeded. But
we think in this case experience will not
fail to teach.
A Family Row.
Monday morning, Mrs. John Petersen
of the Union hotel had her husband ar
rested under the charge of threatening
to do her bodily harm. Squire Berry
heard the case, and as Petersen stated
in open court that he would have killed
her if he could have gotten to her, the
Squire lifted up his voice and put Peter
sen under $300 bonds to keep the peace.
After going to Indianola with Deputy
Sheriff Babcock to repose in Castle
Banks, Petersen changed his mind and
provided the required bonds. The diffi
culty between the couple seems to be
over the presence of a young man named
Newton Beggs in the hotel. The hus
band objects and the wife favors. There
is a probability that the family linen
may be aired at the coming term of the
district court. At present writing Mrs.
Petersen and Mr. Beggs are holding the
fort and Mr. Petersen is visiting up in
Frontier county. And the end is not
yet. _
Flowers For Decoration Day.
The committee on decoration of the
Grand Army of the Republic request all
citizens who have flowers to spare to
kindly donate them for decorating the
graves of the soldiers who are buried in
Longview cemetery. Please be as gen
erous as possible in the matter, and
bring the flowers to the opera house.
The teachers and pnpils of the public
schools are especially requested to help
in this sacred duty of gathering flowers
for the soldier dead. All flowers should
be brought to the opera house, where
they will be taken care of.
An Invitation to Celebrate.
McCook, Neb., May 25, 1894.
To the Mayor and City Council and
All Civic Societies and Fire De
partment of Said City:—
You are most cordially invited by
|j. K. Barnes Post, No. 207 G. A. R., to
participate in the sevices on Decoration
day and show due respect for the hon
ored dead of our grand republic.
Sidney Dodge,) _ m
J. A. Wilcox, f Com
PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
J. M. Kanouse has been granted a
reissue of pension.
Lawyers Norris and Jones were over
from Beaver City, Monday.
Mrs. Orville Burnett has been
visiting her mother at Hastings.
Sheriff and Mrs. Banks were with
us of the valley’s finest yesterday.
J. H. Bayston, county superintendent,
was a business visitor, Saturday last.
Miss Blanche Sherman has return
ed to Red Cloud after a visit to friends
here.
Banker Hupp had business in In
dianola Monday and in Lebanon on
Tuesday.
Rev. P. S. Mather was up from the
county seat yesterday on busiuess of the
the cloth.
Charlie Spencer came up from Re
publican City, Monday night, and may
remain here.
Mrs. Delos Griggs and son Bert
have arrived in the city from Engle
wood, Illinois.
W. H. Wadsworth, Indianola’s lead
ing hardware merchant, was a city vis
itor, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Spearman ar
rived home Tuesday night from their
Chicago visit.
Mrs. Smith, of Denver, formerly Mrs.
Orme of our city, has been in the city
part of the week.
John Dunbar, a former citizen of
McCook, died at Stratton last Friday
morning of dropsy.
Mayor Kelley joined his family at
Kirwin, Kansas, yesterday, and will not
be back until Sunday night.
Mrs. C. B. Rowell has been down at
Hastings since Snnday on account of ill
ness in her son’s family there.
James Hatfield arrived from De
catur, Illinois, last Friday night, to look
after his heavy interests here.
C. F. Babcock, John Petersen, H. P.
Waite and A. E. Baker were business
visitors at the county-seat, Monday.
Miss Watson arrived, Monday night,
from her visit home in Grand Island,
and has resumed work in the office of
P. A. Welles.
Geo. W. Kaime, we understand, ex
pects to go to Chicago soon to take a
position. George is an exceptionally
fine accountant. Good luck to him.
E. C. Ballew and J. S. LeHew ar
rived home, Wednesday night, from
OMaha, where they have been as wit
nesses in the case of the moonshiners.
Miss Graham is the guest of her sis
ter, Mrs. A. P. Welles. She arrived
from the east Tuesday night, and is on
her way to Colorado on a visit to another
sister.
REV. H. L. Preston will leave on
next Monday for Baxter, Iowa, to par
ticipate in the celebration of the golden
wedding anniversary of his parents. On
his way back he will attend the annual
meeting of the Congregational Home
Missionary society in Omaha.
J. E. Kelley was in Omaha a brief
while, Tuesday, at the meeting of the
Republican state central committee.
Hon. J. C. Allen represented the 29th
district as his proxy. Mr. Kelley re
ports an enthusiastic gathering of Re
publicans from all over the state.
Rev. Newton, late a Baptist mission
ary in this section of the state, formerly
pastor at Sidney, Nebraska, and for a
year previous a missionary among the
slaves of the Indian territory, lectured
on his experience in the territory at the
Lutheran church, Sunday evening. It
was amusing and not without interest.
The reverend gentleman is on his way
back to Massachusetts on account of the
field being unable to support him longer
at this unfortunate time.
Will Be Represented.
At the special meeting of the McCook
Republican Club held in the city hall,
Wednesday evening, the following del
egates were chosen to represent the club
here at the state meeting of Republican
clubs to be held in Lincoln on Tuesday,
June 12th, namely: E. H. Doan, C. W.
Knights, J. C. Allen, F. M. Kimmell,
C. F. Babcock. President J. P. Lindsay
and Secretary H. H. Troth are also en
titled to seats in the state league meet
ing by virtue of their offices. It is ex
pected to make this a rousing meeting.
It will be largely attended and much
enthusiasm developed for a Republican
victory in Nebraska, this fall. The
National Republican League meeting
will be held in Denver on Jnne 26th.
Delegates to this will be selected at our
state meeting.
The wind blew steadily for five days
beginning last Saturday, the worst five
consecutive days ever known in 'his
county-We believe that if every farm
er who has a draw on his land had built
a dam and thus made a reservoir and a
small lake of water there would be less
damage from these periodical drouths
in these west-Missouri regions_If
windmills . were cheaper or as cheap as
they should be farmers could put up
enough to irrigate on a small scale. Or
if there were some means devised for
damming the wind and putting it to use
in getting the water out of the ground
and on top of it this would be the finest
country in the world. The way people
damn the wind now does no good.—
Hastings Tribune.
On July 1st a new money order system
will go into effect by which both large and
small sums can be transmitted by letter
with absolute safety and at much less
rates than are charged at present. With
the issuance of a new money order the
postal note will be abolished as there
will no longer be any need of it. The
fees charged for the new money orders
will be as follows: For $2.50 or less, 3
cents; $2.50 to $5, 5 cents; $5 to $10, 8
cents; $10 to $20, 10 cents; $20 to $30, 12
cents; $30 to $40, 15 cents; $40 to $50, 18
cents; $50 to $60, 20 cents; $60 to $70, 25
cents; $75 to $100, 50 cents.
Every young man ought to have for
his first ambition the purpose to get a
home and a trade and a business after
leaving school. To do this he must
avoid tobacco, drink and dissipation of
every kind, saving his money up for a
home or a business. This is the way
the most successful men have done.
Too many young men begin life by try
ing to out-dress, out-smoke, and out-run
in extravagance, their employers. Young
men have earned good salaries and lived
it all up and when hard times come have
nothing. This is largely why there are
so many homeless men on the roads
now'.
“The way to make windmill irrigation
a success is to keep it in operation every
day in the year” said County Surveyor
Lamb to the Bee. “The autumn season
is a splendid time for soaking up the
ground and during the winter the ap
plication of water to the soil renders it
in fine shape for spring cultivation.
Farmers who intend to raise crops next
year by using windmill irrigation should
have their irrigation system completed
and in operation by the first of Septem
ber.”—Benkelman Bee.
Horsemen are becoming interested in
the new “starter” which has been in
vented for the purpose of getting the
horses off in a bunch instead of scoring
for an indefinite time with ansatisfac
tory and irritating results. It is a net
ting hung across the track. The horses
are brought up to it, and when all are
ready it is whisked up out of the way,
leaving a clear track. If it does not
frighten the horses it is believed that it
will make a revolution in the starting of
large fields of racers.
The entertainment given by Elba
Wright and May Dawson in the opera
house Tuesday evening, under the aus
pices of the A. O. U. W. band, was
fairly well attended and enjoyed. The
band boys played very nicely, both on
the street and in the opera house. They
realized a small sum for the band treas
i
ury.
E. T. Maddux recovered his team at
Norton, Kansas, where they had been
left by Lovelle Clyde, who fled from the
city, last Friday a week ago. The boy’s
father reimbursed the German who was
knocked down and robbed of some $67,
that night, in the saloon.
The young son of Mr. and Mrs. Brace
fell out of one of the rear windows of the
Smith building on Main avenue, Mon
day, but seems to have escaped injury
entirely,—although the distance was
considerable and he fell on the wooden
sidewalk at that.
It is remarkable, says the Ulysses Dis
patch, how the young man who can’t
raise money enough to pay his board
can raise the stuff to buy a galvanized
bicycle with wooden rims and nickle
plate. _
Last Sunday, Mitchell Clyde was shot
in the foot while up on the Willow in
company with a female of the town.
The doctor removed the bullet and he
will likely be around again in a short
time.
Josh Billings once remarked: “Fools
are divided into three classes—common
fools, particular fools and dumed fools;
but occasionally you find them all in
one, a common, particular dumed fool.”
The county premium list is now in
preparation at this office. Send in your
advertisements at once. Don’t delay.
The list will be printed in a week or two
at longest._
Frank Everist shipped some cattle
into Omaha, Tuesday, from this point.
THE SCHOOLS.
SCHOOL DECISIONS.
State Superintendent of Public In
struction Goudy has officially promul
gated a number of important decisions
affecting school interests in Nebraska.
The following is a synopsis of each de
cision.
1. There is no statute requiring the
paymeut of school district orders in the
order in which they are drawn.
2. A contract signed by two members
of the school district board, without a
meeting of which all members have had
due notice, is the individual contract
of the members signing such contract.
The contract with a teacher is made an
exception to this. See 4 Neb. 2<>4 and
13 Neb. 70.
3. When a board employs a man to
teach the school he has no right, except
by the consent of the board, to put a
substitute in his place, and not even
with the consent of the board, unless
such substitnte is a legally qualified
teacher.
4. The minimum amount of school
required must be taught by a legally
qualified teacher in order to entitle the
district to its share in the state appor
tionment.
5. In connection with the new at
tendance law it is held that children
have free school privileges in one school
district only at a time. If they elect
under the new act to attend outside of
their own district they carry their share
of the state funds with them and forfeit
for that school year all their rights to
free school privileges in their own dis
trict. They may not, under this act,
alternate between two districts and claim
rights in both.
o. me Nebraska statute authorizes
the drawing of interest upon “all war
rants issued by the proper authorities of
the state, county, city, town or other
municipal subdivisions less than a coun
ty.” Hut the supreme court lias held
that the school district “is not strictly a
municipality,” and that school district
officers are not mnnicipal officers, thus
making it clear that the statute does not
authorize the payment of interest on
school district orders.
7. The action of the voters at an an
nual meeting as to the amount of school
to be held the coming yeor is final, and
may not be reconsidered at a special
meeting. The board should make pro
vision for the holding of school in ac
cordance with said action, but in case the
voters at said meeting fail to make pro
vision for carrying on said amount of
school, and there is no district money
for this purpose, the board is not person
ally liable for any loss of state apportion
ment which may result to the district
because of failure to hold the required
minimum amount of school. In case such
loss occurs because of neglect upon the
part of the district board the members
of the board may become personally
liable to the district for the amount of
said loss.
8. In measuring a district under the
provisions of the new- attendance law
the measurements should follow air
lines, not section lines necessarily.
9. The district text books are in the
care of the district board the same as
other school district property, and are
subject to the regulations of the board
as to their use by the pupils at home
or during vacation.
10. In regard to the disposition of a
name which appears upon a petition for
school district boundary, when the per
son so named has changed his mind and
does not wish to appear upon the petition
or remonstrance, it is held that the per
son has entire right to remove or give
authority for the removal of his name
from the petition. It is held that all
interested parties shall have ample op
portunity to express their wishes in this
matter at any time previous to the tak
ing of action upon the petition.
The picnic Saturday last caused a few
of the children to be on the sick list
Monday.
The “special helpers’’ will indulge in a
picnic, next Saturday, at Longnecker's
grove down near Red Willow.
The children of the sixth grade par
ticipated in a picnic in McManigal’s
grove near the water works, last Satur
day. The seventh and eighth grades peo
ple indulged in similar delights at
Fitch’s grove southwest of the city.
A daughter of Widow Neill, of Raw
lins county, Kansas, was buried in Long
view cemetery of this city on Wednes
day afternoon. The deceased was a
former pupil of our public schools, but
has been teaching lately. She died on
Monday of consumption. The father
died of the same disease about the time
of his arrival and taking up his home
stead. His remains and those of a
grandmother repose in Longview.
The water bubbling up at the corner
of Main and Dudley the other day at
first created the impression of a possible
break or leak in the water mains. In
vestigation disclosed the fact that a
gopher was responsible for the leak, the
water coming from around the park
trees, which were being irrigated.
A number of McCook people were un
fortunate in business relations with F. H.
Selby of Cambridge to various sums.
Fanners are rushing their hogs into
market. Quite a proportion of the hogs
are not ready for market, either.
Fine and complete line of calling cards
at The Tribune. Also order taken for
engraved cards.
Good writing paper ten cents a quire
at this office.
