M1 , ' i i. ' a 1jt ribunc. , THIRTEENTH YEAR. McCOUK , RED WILLOW COUNTY , NEBRASKA , FRIDAY EVENING JAN. 25 , 1895. NUMBER 36 , Diphtheria Victims , Diphtheria is prevalent in the home ( Jessie Powell , who lives in the littl house first door west of the city hal I ' aud there have already been two death in the family , Last Saturday mornin hislittle four-year-old daughterdied wit the fell disease , interment following th same afternoon in Longview cemeter ) On Wednesday his step-daughter Mar 1 McGervin , t6 years old , also succumi ed to the disease , to which she was ai j easy prey by reason of aer extrem -flc hiness. Her remains were buried i Longview on the afternoon of the sam day , because of the nature of the malad ) Since writing the foregoing th eighteen-year-old step-son , Samuel Me Gervin has also died , making the thin fatality. He died yesterday mornin ; and was interred in the afternoon. Th deceased had been employed on F. S Wilcox's ranch for about a year , am was well spoken of. The family are in iteedy circumstance and wards of the county , and it has beet diffcult to combat the disease on account "of their poverty and surroundings. HERE ARE A FEW PRICES , i .ABC.Best Crackers ( by box ) lb. . . 6i Hams , per lb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ro ilacon , per lb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - Pork , per lb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 ) 10 lbs. Lard ( dinner pail free ) . . . . . $ t.2 20lbs , G. Sugar , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , „ , 1r : o lbs. Rice , . . . . . . . . . . . t 25 lbs. N. 0. Sugar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ia 6 Cans Best California Iruit. . , , . . . 1.0 < Cocoanuts , each , , , , , , . . . , . . . , , , . S j Great variety of canned vegetables a lowest prices in the city. We are giviing away the Cristo breac ' and cake knives , also toilet soap. Tr } our 25 cent tea , positively the best it town for the money. Four sacks of White Bread flour foi ; 3.00. For the Lenten season we have jus' received a fine line of herring , whitefish mackerel , salmon and trout. r Try us , we can please you. MCCooK MERCANTILE Co. , t A Life Partner. s 1 On last Sunday morning Mr. C. W , 'Barnes of the Times-Democrat quietl } and privately took unto himself a life partner in the person of Miss Rose Lee ; one of McCook's most excellent daugh ters , Rev. R. L. Knox of the Episcopa church formed the partnership , whirl ; was duly consummated at the residence o the bride's brother , Mr. J. P. Lee , in the presence of but a few near relatives. After the ceremony the wedded couple ' 'drove down to Indianola , where the 1 .groom's parents live , oti a brief visit. THE TRIBUNE voices the sentiments < f a large circle of admiring friends in wishing Mr , and Mrs. Barnes a married . .tfe of happiness and prosperity and of ; all the good and perfect gifts of that blessed state. The Coming Charity Concert. On the evening of Thursday , February 14th , Mr. H. P. Sutton and Mrs. E. E. -Utter , assisted by the musical talent of -he city , will give a concert in the opera i house. The net proceeds from the concert - cert will be given to the King's Daughters - -ters for distribution in benevolent work. rSil excellent musical treat may be ex- pected. DR. C. E. WILLIAMS. t The Imperial dentist , will be in Mc- : Cookon Wednesday , January 3oth , prePared - Pared to do any work in his line prompt- workman-like manner. Remember - ? y and in a - member the date and wait for him. At Dr. Hall's office , opposite the Commercial - I ial house. Here's Your Pork. C , 7 . Brewer tins his packing house in operation now and his meat market presents - ' sents an unequalled opportunity for the -purchase of pork tenderloins spare ribs , .hogs' heads , lean backs , pigs' feet and I sausage at very low prices. Oak Posts for Sale. I have 150 good oak posts for sale at a cents apiece. ELMER ROWELL A nice variety of ink and pencil . tab- ; uts at this office. 'Brewer has a large supply of pigs' feet in market. Nothing finer. Snowflake flour at 75 cents a sack. : n 500 pound lots , $1,40 per hundred , at .Knipple's. - C M . I ; . KniPPle has rented the building clue door north of his present location upon which the lease expires the first of ' nestmonth , $50.00 reward will be given for proof that the McCook soaps will injure any of to finest fabrics that can be washed with any soap. f Br. Price's Cream Baking Powder World's FAIT uighut Medal and Dlplema. M1 _ He Got the Lump. A few days since an emigrant sauntere into the general store of J. A. Wilcox Son. The senior member of the firr was weighing up some New Orlean sugar for a customer. After eyeing th sugar for some time with a wistful ey and watering mouth , the emigrant state his wish for a taste of the sugar , statin ; that he came from the southland. Tb senior told him to help himself to lump. This the emigrant refused to d until he had pressed a penny into Mr Wilcox's unwilling hand. The inuocen emigrant insisted that lie had connscieti tious scruples against taking even a lumi of sugar without paying for it. Hi ; mother had taught it him at her knee in his boyhood days , etc. After making the forced deposit of a cent , the emigran surveyed the barrel and carefully select ed a lump weighing a number of pounds add commenced to gulp the sweetnes down in mouthfuls only possible to southerner. Justin thought the fellov was joking. But he soon disabused Jus tin's mind of the supposition , by asking for some water. The emigrant wa directed to the hydrant at rear end o the store , where after imbibing copious ly of three-sixteenths enough to par alyze the fire pressure , the innocen faded through the back door , and joiner his covered wagon and family. Justin got to the back door just in time tc respond to the farewell salutation the emigrant waved him with his hand in which was held in great glee and eviden satisfaction , a huge lump of N. 0. sugar And Justin seems to enjoy the joke a : much as the big-mouthed Missourian. Break up this glass breaking business Cupid is getting iii his work in greal glee. FOUND.-A sure cure far coughs.- McConnell's Balsam. 'First-class pork tenderloins al Brewer's meat market. Try them , LosT.-A corn , after using 3 Day Corn Cure , prepared by McConnell & Co. THE Brigade band boys are expecting their new instruments any day now. Best Fancy Patent flour at $ roe per sack , $1,95 per hundred , at Knipple's. 'Sausage of all kinds , fresh and properly seasoned , al Brewer's market. Snowflake flour at 75 cents a sack. In 500 pound lots , $1.40 per hundred , at Knipple's. The devil is trying to reorganize hell again on highly moral lines-or words to that effect. Tighten up your belts , brethren , and never say die. Stay with her. Never give up the ship. Frank Heard and Mrs. Emilie Austin of our city were recently united in marriage - riage at Indianola. Mrs. Ella Kilgore , ladies and childrens nurse. Prompt attention to night calls. At the Union hotel. Dr. L. J. Spickelmier on Tuesday moved into quarters over Ganschow's store recently vacated by Dr. A. J , Thomas. Mr. Watts , from the Chicago Conservatory - servatory of Music , will be in McCook , about the first of February , to tune pianos. Leave orders at Sutton's jewelry - ry store at once. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The following from the pen of a farmer member of our public schools is taken from Kate Field's Washington : RENUNCIATION. First I gave my spring-time up- Daffodil and buttercup , With the early fragrance clinging To their petals-all the singing mat could come from trees new budded , And from meadows sunshine flooded. Then I gave my summer over- rimson rose and purple clover , snowy daises golden centred , Lilies that the wild bees entered , humming drowsy tunes ; till they Wooed the sweetness all away. Autumn , too , l yielded up- Every red-bronze acorn cup , Every pointed sumacli-cluster , Every leaf of fevered lustre , All the tender softened haze That could mark my autumn days. 1\'hat is left for me to yield ? snoav is hiding bush and field , All the birds have southward flown. In the Northland I alone stand with empty arms , bereft , Haying only winter left. -BERTIIA GERNEAUX DAvis. Howard Finity returned to school , his week , entering the eleventh grade. In the public school , the other day , r promising lad startled everybody by ; iving Jerusalem as the birthplace of Sod. Whereat another young hopeful innouneed that he knew better than hat , namely : that God was born in a nanger Neither of the lads , however , ire taking the theological course , Progress of Irrigation. . The irrigated acid irrigable lauds of th western part of the United States ar mainly included between the one hut : dredth meridian and the Pacific ocean and comprise , according to otlicial sun veys , about 6tooooooo acres. Withii this great extent of country are pearl all eombunatious of soil and climate. 1 a general way , however , fourgreat class es may be distinguished. There ar desert , pasture , firewood and timbe lands. Of these , the desert land is prat tically valueless , the pasture land toi and to support vegetation and may b used only as a pasturage , and only th two latter divisions are more or less fur tile. The irrigated sections are iucludei inn the desert and pasture lands. A present some 3,63t,38t acres , o less than six-teiitlis of one per cent o the entire region , have been provider with a water supply sufficient to raisE crops. The portion of this desert or pasturE land which may in the future be brough under irrigation depends , of course , up on the thorougluiess and ingenuity witi which the water supply is utilized , bui it is probable that it will be under three per cent of the entire area. Statistic' ' show , however , that irrigation is r profitable measure and cannot be neg lected. The average cost of water foi irrigation throughout this section is al the rate of $5.15 per acre. Applying these figures to the total acreage the total first cost of irrigating the land : last year was about $3ooa ,000 and the total value of the water right was $94 ; 412,000 , the increase of value being $64 ; 800,000 , or 215.64 per cent of the invest- ment. The estimated first cost of the irrigated lands from which crops have been obtained was $77 , , ooooo , in 1589 , and their present value , including the improvements , is $296.850,000 , showing an increased value of $29,360,000 , on 283.08 per cent of the investment in the land. The average value of the crop raised was $ t4.S9 per acre , or n total of $53,057,000. This , it nnust be considered , exhibits merely the cost and value of irrigation in the arid regions. The value of the unutilized water supply can hardly be estimated. During the past four years the federal government has done much to further the work of irrigation by establishing an irrigation survey and by appointing state engineers in California , Colorado and Wyoming , whose duties are practically - ally confined to irrigation. At present the irrigation oftllis region is carried on by what is called gravity irrigation. The different systems adopted by modern engineers may be classed as perennial - ennial , periodical and storage work , by irrigation front artesian wells and from surface sources. The perennial irrigation - tion includes the supply of water from canals which receive their supply from streams which give a constant supply of water throughout the entire year. Periodical irrigation includes the cain- als which have a supply only at certain seasons of the year. A more common plan , bewever , is the storage system. The da , ns for this system are- generally constructed on intermittent streams for he purpose of receiving and preserving their flood waters. The irrigation from artesian wells is practiced wholly by means of canals , vhich convey the water direct to the and from the wells. And the irrigation rom ground sources is performed by : unnels under the bedsof streams , which : ap some water-bearing stratum or by : uts in sloping ground , by wells to col- ect the ground water , and by similar : ontrivances. The work of irrigation calls for much Lill and scientific knowledge. Climate , ; eology and topography must be consid- : red in the work. It is to be hoped that he skilled engineers now at work on he subject will provide an economical ind efficient system for tine future- Scientific American. C. F. Babcock has moved his office into his own store room , first door north of the First National bank , J. E , Kelley has added a handsome and defiant piece of furniture to his office br the convenience of his insurance bus- ness. It is the very acme of conven- ence. The thanks of some of the Baptist Irethren of Driftwood precinct , Red Wil- ow county , Nebraska , are due to Rev. : . W , Rogers of Atchison , Kansas , and o Rev. T. E. Vasser of Kansas City , 4lissouri , for favors received from them. According to the report recently made o the senate by the secretary of the interior there are 210,800 acres of and in the McCook land district. These ands are divided among the several : ounties as follows : Chase , 58.ooo ; Dun- lv , 119,400 ; Frontier , 2,500 ; Hayes , t6,3oo ; Hitchcock , 4,300 ; Red Willow , 100' - - Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World's Fair Highest Award. FEOI'LE YOU KNOV. . . . . . . . . . . RUSSELL MCMILLEN will return fret Pennsylvania , next week. A. BARNETT and A. P , Barnes wer capital city visitors , last Friday. J , V , WINTERSTEEN represented tin State Journal Co. in our city , Monda and Tuesday. MR. AND MRS. S. E. HAGER of In dianola drove up to this commercie center on Tuesday. BANK EAMINERiCLINE was up fror Minden , Monday and Tuesday , on busi ness of Iris office. MESSRS. P , . A. WrrLs and W H Wells went up to Denver , Wednesda ; night , on business. E. C. WAGNER of Arapahoe was ; brief visitor , Wednesday , on his Wa ; home from a trip to Lincoln. REGISTER CAIurnELL came home Monday night , from quite a protractec absence in tine eastern part of the state MR. AND MRs. ALBERT MCMILLEI became the proud parents of a fine bob baby , Wednesday morning of this week Mts. Lours LowMAN arrived home Friday night last , from her visit to rd atives and friends in Lincoln and Omaha MR AND MRS. J. E. ALLEN , who havE been spending the past month visiting in St. JO epii and Tarkio , Mo. , arrivec home on Saturday night. F. E. STOCK now of Boulder , Cobra do , spent Monday and Tuesday in tau city , on his was west from visiting rela tives and friends in eastern Nebraska , CUUNTV CLERK ROPER came up from Indianola , Friday night , on some busi ness connected with his Southi Side prop city , returning to his office work the following morning. W. H. WELLS , brother of P. A. Wells of our city , is here from New York city , looking after tine extensive interests of tine Nebraska Loan and Banking Co. , of which he is president. REV. H. L , PRESTON went down to Indianola , last evening , to attend the Congregationtl Sunday school institute holding a three ( lays' session there under direction of a state officer of tine Sunday - school work. E.C.BuRKnTr of TirE TRIBUNE force left on last Saturday night for Arkansas , where lie expects to remain three or four weeks its search of health. Mrs. Burkett and the baby will visit her parents - ents at Indianola during his absence. GEORGE 13. JOHNSTON has retired from tine Culbertson mill , and contemplates embarking iii the hotel business again. Eie has in mind a Utah point. His many McCook friends will most sincerely - ly regret any move which wilt take the family from our midst. MISS SARA LOWMAN will leave for the : ast about February first , to make tine lsual spring purchases of dry goods , mft- inery and notions for the firm. She vile be absent a number of weeks and Nil1 visit both Chicago and New York In her purchasing mission , MR. AND MRS. HORATIo STONE were ) ereaved of their two-months-old boy aaby , Wednesday of this week. The aneral was conducted by Rev. H. L. 'reston from the house , yesterday afternoon - noon , burial being made in Longview : emetery. The parents are grateful for ail assistance rendered by neighbors and fiends during the illness of their child. AT THE CHURCHES. Usual services in tine Methodist church in next Sunday morning and evening. iundar school and Epworth League , Congregational s e r v i c e s-S u n d a y cbool at Io a. m. Preaching at Ira , ni. ; abject , "The Voice of God , " Endeavor fleeting at 6:30 , led by the Lookout corn- nittee , Sermon at 7:30. Anyone who wishes to donate his abor , time or money to aid Rev. Knox n building a place of worship for the ; piscopalians vvili oblige by sending n to him at the office of George Burgess . note to that effect. The building will ae begun about February 4th , on lots forth of the Lutheran church. The limensions of the building will be about 4x36 with a I2xI2 addition for chancel. t will be placed on the back end of lots nd so arranged that it can be used as a ; uild room , etc. , as well as church until . more substantial structure can be : rected. A Distressed Family. Both Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Moore are nedfast and very ill. The former has a evere attack of diphtheria and the later - er is seriously affected with dropsy and heart trouble. It has been disclosed hat they are in very close circumstances rid assistance , nurse , etc. , have been Irovided by the Pythians of which order Ir. Moore is a member. Consult Holmes Bros „ the carpenter Everybody needs it-McConnell's Fri grant Lotion. FOUND-A sure cure for coughs : McConnell's Balsam. Try McMillen's Damask Rose Lotto for face and hands. "Life isn't worth living without taste of those spare ribs at Brewer's. LosT.-A corn , after using 3 Day Cor Cure , prepared by McConnell & Co. , McCook soap is guaranteed to do twit as much work as White Russian soap , Best Fancy Patent flour at $ I.oo pe sack , $1,95 per hundred , at Knipple's. Snowflake flour at 75 cents u sack In 500 pound lots , $ n.40 per hundred , a Knipple's , Plain and fancy queensware for ever ) body at Noble's. See his assortment ; i is unequaled iii the valley. J. A. Ranney's baby has been very it with a threatened attack of pneumonia but is now recovering slowly. Abstracts of title will be furnishei promptly and accurate by byC. C. T. BEGCS. FouNU-A small blank book contain ing valuable papers. Owner can hav the same by calling at residence o Tinnm Pahl , first door south of Congre gattonial church , alicl proving property The King's Daughters distributed barrel of clothing , Saturday , receive from harry Dixoni of Kenuett Square Penna. The clothing was in good con dition and the aid was gratefully re ceived. Noble's stock of queensware is ad mitted to be the finest in tine Repubhicar valley , and then , too , the prices are sc reasonable that you just can't resist buy ing when you see the display and leant the figures. Representatives Lamborn , Cole auc Bee have been petitioned by many resi dents of this part o the state to ask and labor for an appropriation for putting down some experimental artesianl well : on the high divides of western Neb braska. The Annual meeting of the McCook Co-operative Building and Savings As sociation will occur on the evening of February 20th next. At this time the new members of the board of director ; will be chosen. A new series-0-will be opened on that date also. Mrs. James Harris wishes us to state that the people of Driftwood precinct are very grateful for aicl received from Wellington - lington , Missouri , and secured through the efforts of her husband , That she distributed - tributed 5,000 pounds of lour and other articles on the 17th to those in need of assistance , George Howells , a few days since , sue- : essfully performed quite afeatof house- moving. With four wagons and four : earns lie moved a house 14x24 feet in limension front southwest McCoolt tllir- : een miles out into Coleman precinct , Ind placed the building on its founda- : ion , all in one day. It wilt be remem- lered too , that a number of steep canons - ons have to be crossed on the way , McCooK , NEil. , Dec. 1o , 1894 , : , , W , McConnell & Co. , City : Gentlemeu-I have glad a cough for [ bout t6 years , and have tried all of the popular remedies without being bene- itted. I used one bottle of McConnell's 3alsam and my cough is gone , 1 there- bre cheerfully testify to its merits. Yours truly , LITTLE ANNIE Roornv. III Main Avenue. This is excellent weather for the preparation - aration of small individual irrigation Rants. A well , a windmill and a reser- roir of earth will cost very little and the noney will all come back in a single eason. One of these plants on every luarter section of land , where water is near the surface , will do more to bring vealtii to Nebraska next year than all he free silver talk that could be crowded n between this date and Christmas. Tate state relief commission is an or- anization created by the governor. Its , bJ'ect is to receive and distribute among he agriculturalists of the state by reason > f tine loss of crops by drouth. The : ommission has the cooperation of ransportation companies and free bill- ng food , clothing , fuel and provisions , vitli distributing agents centrally b eat- : d in the various precincts where suffer- ng exists , who have complete lists of iestitute people. Contributions from he charitably disposed will be as evenly listributed as circumstances will permit. lit communications should be addressed .o Luther P. Ludden , General Manager , [ , incoln , Nebraska. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder Awmded Gold hkda' Midwiatet Falr , San Frdnasco. The County-seat Comedy. The supreme court last Thursday hannd- ed dowel the following opinion in the Red Willow county-seat removal case : State ex rel , vs. Roper. Mandamus. Writ denied , Opinion by Connnnnissioner Ragan , Section z , chapter 17 , compiled statutes 1893 , construed and held. (1. ) That within the meaning of this statute a county-seat shall riot be relocated - cated in any place unless three-fifths of all the electors of the county shall express - press their will to that effect by their votes at an election held for that par- pose , (2 ( , ) The law presumes that when such an election is held that all tine electors of the county vote at such an election. (3. ( ) Iii a mandamus proceeding to conl- t'el the officers of Red Willow county to remove their offices to and perform the duties of their offices at the city of Mc- Cook the application alleged "that on the 1st of August , 1592 , a special election was held in said county for the relocation - tion of the county-seat thereof ; that the county-seat at that time and for more than five years prior thereto had been located at the city of Indianola ; , that ueitlier previous to nor since said date had any election been held inn said county - ty for the relocation of the county-seat thereof ; that the canvass of the votes cast at such election shovvecl the following - ing result : Votes in favor of Indianola 867 , Votes inn favor of McCook 1,339. Rejected ballots one. Blank ballots three. Ballots written for McCook ; aid not counted two. Ballots not accounted for twenty-five. 'total number of names of electors on poll books 2,237. " Held. ( r. j That the twenty-five ballots "not acecomited for" constitute a part of the "vote cast" at tine election within the meaning of the statute. (2 ( , ) Tlie law presumes that every clue- E tor whose name appears on the poll books was present and voted at the elue- ttoIi. (3. ( ) That in order for the result of tine election to locate the county-seat at Mc- Cook three-fifths of tine 2,237 votes must have been mast inn favor of that city. (4. ) That as the application failed to show such fact it did not state a cause of action. - These Need Attention. Complaints are being filed at the office ' of Police Judge Berry that the windows of unoccupied buildings are being ruthlessly - lessly destroyed by certain boys who travel over the city inn gangs and deliberately - erately smash windows , overturn water closets , and carry off such portable articles - ticles as are lying around loose , or unay be easily secured. Tine police should give this matter their immediate attention , and such work should he stopped. Already - ready considerable damage has been caused aggregating a number of hundred dollars- Such actions should be firmly and promptly frowned down , even if a severe example must be made of some of these young scamps who appear to be beyond parental restraint. Complaint is also made at this office that there is ton much fighting going do among the young school boys. A sort 0f a feud seems to exist between the east and the west side boys , and a number of quarrels have already taken place , in which tine principle of fairness has been conspicuously absent , and a few of the lads have been pretty severely handled by overwhelming numbers of the opposing - ing gang. The proper authorities should take these respective matters in hand at once. There is Ito excuse for such heathenish work in this day and generation. AT THE C. 0. D. STORE. zo ! Granulated . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 'l Excellent Coffee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 I Good Uncolored Japan Tea. . , .25 I Extra Good Uncolored J , Tea .35 I ? Best Uncolored Japan Tea. . . . . 45 3 Cans Blue Valley SugarCorn , , . . ,25 6 Cans of Best California Canned Fruit ( assorted ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . r.oo Mustard Sardines per can. . . . . . . . to Oil Sardines per can . . . . . . . . . . . . .o , 3 ? California French Prunes. . . . . 25 4 i Soda or Oyster Crackers. . . . , . -25 3 l Ginger Snaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 A'r Trig C. 0. D. STOR $ . For Safe or Lease. The butcher shop and tools on West Dennison street. Inquire of S. M. Cochran - ran & Co. , or of PERRY STONE. I 60 Acres For Sale. 70 acres old ground , go acres under the irrigation Glitch. Two miles front 6lcCook. Terms easy , F , S. WiLeos Hogs' heads at Brewer's old reliable - able meat market. They are fine. Good writing paper ten cents a quire at this office.