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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1894)
DON'T BE IMPOSED -UPON! Don’t be misled by the statements of merchants .... claiming that they can.... SAVE YOU MONEY! 1 am 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, .12£ Everything else in proportion. Always the Lowest and Best Values Can be Found at C. M. NOBLE’S. Cash UUUWUI We have a complete stock of Challies, Lawns, Percales, Black & White Dress Goods, Russian Ducks. Parasols, Fans. CLOTHING. Our stock is large and we are determined to reduce it. BOOTS, SHOES, SLIPPERS. We carry a good line of goods guaranteed to wear. See them. GROCERIES. Compare prices and stock and you will buy of us. Hard times prices will be given on any and all goods in our store. Coming pay day will be the biggest in a year. Mrs. S. H. Goodenberger is on the sick list. 212 came in from Havelock, last Fri day night. Mrs. George Weick of South McCook is under the doctor’s care. Solliday brought the special up from Hastings, yesterday morning. Mrs. Harry Conover has gone to Red Cloud on a visit to her mother. The company is a heavy loser by the floods on the Lyons branch in Colorado. Mrs Dull is visiting her daughter Mrs. George Frederick at Oxford, this week. Oscar Yarger was down from Hudson, Colo., Saturday night, on a tender mis sion. Harrv Conover has retired from the * train service and will switch in the yards at Red Cloud for the present. J. Inglis’ baby—recently recovered from an attack of the measles—is suf fering from an abscess on the neck. Twelve years ago on Tuesday of last week, May 29th, the Burlington ran the first train into Denver, says the Akron Pioneer Press. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Chicago & Northwestern have each contracted for 15,000 tons of stee rails at the lowest figure rails have ever been purchased, it is stated. Conductor Joe Williams of the St. Francis line has retired from the com pany's employ with the company’s con cent. Joe carried two cars of stock for Kansas City by Oxford. John Green of McCook has taken charge of a new ballast gang at Oriva, as foreman. Senator Grier of Seneca is running the boarding train in fine shape, so the boys say.—Alliance Grip. The Burlington is putting in four stone bridges between Kenesaw and Heart well. There are 30 men in the gang and it is stated that it will require three months time to finish the work. P. Churchill, conductor of McCook, was a pleasant visitor at Alliance, last week, looking over the country. He likes Alliance first rate and says she will soon beat McCook if she keeps on at her present rate of prosperity and growth.— Alliance Grip. The B. &. M. enjoyed a somewhat novel experience for this locality the present season when a freight train went into the ditch near Bostwick on Tuesday by reason of the track having been un dermined by the rains of the previous night. Six freight cars badly wrecked was the total damage. The postoffice department has sent to all railway service employes circulars calling attention to the postal regulations requiring postal clerks to accept all pre paid mail matter offered them at their cars, and to forward it to its destination. Inquiries have been received at the de partment from almost every section of the country indicating a general mis understanding due, it is stated, to the publication of a number of articles in correctly intimating that the section of the regulations making the obligation has been repealed. The rule is declared to be still in force, and refusal to comply will render clerks liable to dismissal un less special authority is given. The trunk line association has in prep aration a telegraph code which is in tended for use between itself and its members and among members them selves. The code is in book form and beside constituting a very marked effort at economy in telegraph tolls it will, it is believed, largely tend toward effecting a more rapid method in the dispatch of business. The code has been in prepa ration six months and is arranged in alphabetical order. The freight com mittee of the association has supervised and adopted it and the book is now with the passenger committee for such addi tions as will be found necessary for adaptability to that department. The telegraph lines will be losers by the new code, which will cause an annual saving of many thousands to the railroad com panies. A sad and probably fatal accident oc curred at the depot Wednesday night. Mart Colicott with two tramps were riding the blind baggage of No. 4 and when it stopped he claims they pushed him off and he fell on a pile of cinders and rolled under the wheels. The train had run by and before he could get out of the way it backed up and the wheels passed over his leg below the knee. He was taken to the Metropolitan hotel, where he remained until morning, when the B. & M. surgeon, Dr. Gnnn, arrived from McCook and with the assistance of the physicians here the leg was ampu tated at the knee. He is now at the residence of his sister, Mrs. D. A. Kinser, and is resting as easy as could be ex pected under the circumstances.—Cam bridge Kaleidoscope. “AJAX,” THE NEW B. & M. ENGINE. The new B. & M. narrow gauge engine which was received from the company’s car shops at Plattsmouth, Neb., a few days ago, has been put to work on the Lead passenger run. The boys have named her the “Ajax,” because she is a record breaker. The erigine and tender weigh about twenty-five tons, the weight of the engine proper being upon six drivers, thirty inches in diameter. She was designed by and constructed under the personal supervision of Master Mechanic Hawksworth, who brought into requisition all the approved appli ances, and realizing the necessity of having ample and secure braking equip ment, gave this feature special attention. Every part was made of the best material to be had and the machinery fitted with great care, so that thus far she has worked smooth and perfectly satisfac tory. She has a large boiler and cyl inder, which afford superfluous power, and the fire box being extra large there is no trouble experienced in keeping up steam. She is equipped with an extra large sand box and double pipes ou each side of the engine, which put sand under the drivers, fore and aft. She also has a steam bell ringer, which rings the bell continuously, an essential feature on the Lead run. The braking power is perfect. Besides having the Westingliouse air, which is very effective, the water brake can be used at any time and will hold a heavy train down the steep grade with ease. There is also a hand brake upon the engine that may be used to set all the drivers, and a hand brake upon the tender, and either one of the brakes may be used with perfect ease should the others give way. With such pre cautions there is no danger at all of ac cidents. The “Ajax” will be used upon the Lead run and the “Betsey” will go to Plattsmouth to be remodeled.—Dead wood Times. Last Monday night a stock car es caped from the sidetrack at Edison, and collided with No. 5 about a half mile east of that place, smashing the head light, and doing other damage which necessitated sending to Oxford for an other engine. The wind blew a car off the sidetrack at Culbertson, yesterday afternoon. At the rain meeting held in the city hall, yesterday afternoon, the committee that went down to Beatrice reported un favorably. That the rainmakers were more or less fakers. That they thought is was a good advertising scheme for the Rock Island railway, and a money mak ing scheme for the alleged rainmakers. As the rainmakers wanted money to the extent of $500 without guaranteeing any rain, the committee thought it not advisable to buy such an expensive pig in a poke. Wyandotte Eggs for Sale. Eggs of the celebrated S. L. Wyan dotte chickens for sale—$1 for sitting of fifteen. Six sittings for $5. Leave orders at C. M. Noble’s or The Tri bune office. Benj. Baker. Fine Printing. We make a specialty of fine job print ing. Our samples of fashionable and ele gant stationery for invitations, programs etc., is not excelled in Nebraska. For Sale. Full blooded registered cow and calf. For particulars enquire at my place five miles north of McCook. tf. George Hanuein. Notice. There will be a meeting of the G. A. R. post, Monday evening, June 12th, at H. H. Berry’s office, to perfect arrangements for a 4th of July picnic. A. P. Sharp, P. C. The Cambridge paper is informed that Frank H. Selby will enter into partner ship with Judge Cochran at Salt Lake City as soon as he settles up his affair there. “We don’t think.” The special musical programme given in the Congregational church, last Sun day evening, by the Christian Endeav orers, was greeted by a large audience. 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. Mrs. L. R. Hileman and three children departed for Exeter, this state, Sunday evening, at which place they will remain during the summer. Fifteen (15) cents will buy a box of nice writing paper at this office, con taining 24 sheets of paper and 24 envel opes. _ For Rent—The J. Albert Wells resi dence of seven rooms. Inquire of P. A. Wells, over Citizenr bank. Fine and complete line of calling cards at The Tribune, Also order taken for engraved cards. Abstracts of title will be furnished promptly and accurate by C. T. Beggs. Remember, if you want an abstract, that C. T. Beggs is a bonded abstracter. A nice variety of ink and pencil tab lets at this office. Good writing paper ten cents a quire at this office. Writing paper in boxes very cheap at his office. Shall we celebrate? If not, why not? i ONE CITY’S TRIUMPH. _ APPARENTLY INSURMOUNTABLE OB STACLES OVERCOME. Bow the City of Springfield, Ills., Stopped Paying Rent and Built Its Own Home. Revenue From Street Franchises—Mu nicipal Control of Waterworks. One «f the most embarrassing 1aes tions that confront many cities has been solved by Springfield, Ills., which dedicated on the first day of last March a newly erected city hall costing $50,000 without adding to the bonded indebted ness of the city and without raising the funds with which to pay cash for the investment Operating under the state law known as the general incorporation act the city of Springfield was hampered with the constitutional inhibition against ex ceeding the maximum rate of taxation, and the annual assessments of property for taxation were so reduced each year by the state board of equalization as to make the total revenues available for city purposes too low to admit of in cluding a building fund with the cur rent expenses. I'll at the city has found the way in which to overcome such ob stacles and by so doing has today a mag nificent public building makes the plan adopted for its erection have something more than ordinary interest in these days of “town booming. ” On the 6th day of February, 1893, the plan which was subsequently adopt ed was proposed to the city council by Edward W. Payne, a young business man. He suggested that the city of Springfield stop paying rent and build its own home through the assistance of a local building and loan association. In order to make it possible for the city to undertake the project in the way pro posed Mr. Payne offered to organize a syndicate of citizens who should sub scribe in their own names for enough shares of stock in a local building and loan association to furnish all the need ed capital. This syndicate, he proposed, should co-operate with the city council in the adoption of plans, the aw.irding of con tracts and in the active work of super intending the construction of the build ing. They were to be reimbursed for their outlay by the monthly payment from the city treasury of a sum of mon ey slightly in advance of the aggregate expenditure the city was then making for the rent of dingy and unsatisfactory quarters for its public offices in a num ber of old buildings in different sections of the business district. At the end of 10 years the aggregate of these monthly payments should be sufficient to return to the syndicate their original invest ment in full, with a reasonable addition for interest on the use of the money. The plan was accepted, and the building is the result. In order to make their proposition the more tempting the syndicate represent ed by Mr. Payne secured an option on the most desirable site in the city for such a building and offered it in con nection with the main proposition. The city council had previously prepared the way for the ultimate erection of such a structure by establishing a sinking fund to furnish the money for the purchase of a site, and it had available for that purpose the sum of $10.000, which it paid to the syndicate for the title to the land on which the building now stands. The property was deeded to the city, subject to a mortgage which secures the syndicate against any loss of its invest ment. The result is that within a few days more than one year after the plan was first formally proposed the city is making payments on its permanent home. The city is also negotiating for a municipal electric light plant for light ing the streets and to furnish light to private consumers, and it is considering the same plan by which the new city hall was built as the solution of a prob lem similar to that with which the council was confronted when it under took the building project. It is proposed also to require private corporations ask ing for public franchises to pay annual ly into the city treasury a percentage on the gross receipts of the business they enjoy from the use of the city streets. It is expected that this policy will eventually lift the bonded indebtedness oi me city ana reance tne rate oi taxa tion for local government expenses to a point below the rate in many cities which give franchises away and get no return. In behalf of this policy it is claimed that it is fair and just both to the company that asks for the nse of the streets and for the citizens, and also that it eliminates the element of selfish ness and gives the citizens a direct and personal interest in the financial success of the companies which furnish necessi ties to the public. By assuming direct control of the waterworks system last year the city of Springfield has made that branch of the municipal service more than self sus taining, and the revenues derived dur ing the first year of that control give positive assurance that in a few years the low rates charged for water will yield revenue enough to pay a large share of the bonded debt and help in the reduction of the rate of taxation. Causes Which Promote Growth of Towns. The chief causes which promote the growth of towns and cities are primarily their location as entrepots for the prod ucts of industry and commerce. They become great and populous because they are so situated as to furnish convenient markets for the exchange of products. Becoming centers of labor and trade, they attract vast- numbers who procure a livelihood by buying or selling for themselves or others, or in manufac tures requiring materials of differ ent kinds brought from different di rections and long distances. People are attracted to cities in the many diversi fied ways by which men are brought to gether in single communities for all their purposes of business, of labor, of travel, in enterprises of all kinds, and in all the methods which a partnershij of human interests involves. ♦ THIS WEEK. We must close them out and are willing to sell them .... At Cost And Eess. ♦ ♦ ♦ No House in The City Can Compete With Us on. Low Prices. ♦♦♦ Millinery At Prices Lower Than ever before offered. Ladies’ Trimmed Sailors only Fifty Cents Each. ♦ ♦♦ Department in Eicellent Order. • Every garment is Guaranteed. Agents for the Standard. .Patterns. ♦ ♦♦ i I