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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1899)
By F. M. K1MMBLL. Subscription , $1 a Year in Advance OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co. REPUBLICAN TICKET. HTATE. Supreme Judge M. B. Reese of Lincoln Resent E. G. McGlltnn of Omaha Rogunt W. B. Ely of Ainswortl JUDICIAL. Judge 14th district..Q.W. Norris of Beaver City COUNTY. Clerk S. W.Clark ofBnrtloy Treasurer O. L. Thompson of Qorvor ShorifT Fred Kinghorn of Box Elder Clerk Dist. Court..F.G.StilRcbouor of Danhury Sunorintoudont. . Martha J. Cordoal of McCook Judce G. S. Bishop of McCook Surveyor. . , E. S. Hill of Indinnola Coroner Joseph Six > tts of McCook Coinmissionor I ) . A. waterman of Lobanoi HON. T. L. MATHEWS of Fremont has been appointed U. S. marshal for the district of Nebraska. SINCE the decisive defeat of the "Shamrock , " last week , by the "Colum bia " under former's best , the own con ditions , there seems to be no reasonable doubt who rules the waves at leas when yatcbing is involved. FRED KINGHORN was an honorable manly and courageous member of the gallant Fighting First Nebraska am discharged his soldierly duties , like the rest of the brave boys , in a manner that has challenged the admiration of the world. He has the solid , substantial reliable qualities to make a dependable sheriff , an officer with courage enough to do his duty , and with judgment suffic ient to know his duty. MR. BRYAN has apparently forgotten to tell his Kentucky and Ohio audiences that the currency of the country in creased from $1,506,434.966 , at the date of bis nomination , to $1,948,703,186 on October i , 1899. It might be just a little embarrassing for the man who predicted in 1896 that the currency could not in crease withont the free coinage of silver to admit that it had increased thirty per cent , in three years. Here are the official figures : MONEY IN CIRCULATION IN U. S. July I , iSge/date of Bryan's nomination ) $1,506,434,966 March I , 1897 , ( date of Mc- Kiuley's inauguration ) . . 1,675,694,953 March I , 1898 , ( end of Mc- Kinley's first year ) 1,756,058,645 March i , 1899 , ( end of Mc- Kinley's second year ) . . . 1,928,842.612 October" , 1899 1,948,703.186 CHAIRMAN JONES of the Democratic national committee has evidently not ' kept u very close eye upon the conditions in the United States during his absence in Europe , since he is credited with say ing , on his return , that he did not think the prosperity in the United States had yet reached the agricultural classes. The mere fact that the exportation of agri cultural products during the fiscal years 1898 and 1899 under the Dingley law and McKinley administration equalled that of the three years 1895 , 1896 and 1897 , under the low-tariff law which Mr. Jones assisted in framing , ought to be a suffic ient hint to him of prosperity among the agricultural classes , while the further fact that hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of mortgages have been paid off since the country rejected free silver , and thus assured a sound financial basis , should be to him additional evidence of agricultural prosperity. THERE is every inducement , this year , for the Republicans of Red Willow county to give the5 state , judicial and county tickets a united and loyal sup port. The nominations were fairly made by uninfluenced delegates. 'The county candidates named are competent men to fill the positions for which they as pire and have been chosen from all over the county. The judicial nominee has proven his fitness for the district bench during the past four j-ears and merits your vote of confidence and continuance in office. The state ticket is an able one. Judge Reese , the nominee for su preme judge , challenges admiration. His career as a judge and a good citizen of the republic and of the common gC. wealth has been honoiable and worthful. He will be a valuable addition to Ne braska's supreme court. And , finally , in view of the over-shadowing import ance of the coming national campaign , 1900 , every Republican should stand by his colors , steadfastly and loyally. Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum * Alum ffrfag powders are the greatest menacers to health , of the present day. ft" ROYAL CAKING POWDER CO. , NEW YORK. SOLD OUT AGAIN. Welly's Warm Letter. [ TUe following letter from the pen of Judge Welly will explain itself. It comes in answer to a communication written by Editor Wheeler of the Beaver City Times , which is atpsaring in the Populist papers over this district , this week , in part : ] C. R Whuolor , Editor Heaver City Times : Dear HIr : T have read your letter in the Times under the above 1 leading and also "lie laid down his contest for the same reasons he has done this. " Now , sir , get down on * your perch or get up higher. T challenge you further to prove of my ever receiving a penny or any other favor for any ollicial or political act of mine. 1 am and always have been ready to go before any impartial committee or tribunal for any Investigation In regard to the many insinuations and charges that emanate from the Heaver City contingent. Now I submit the proof direct that your last charge is absolutely false as will be shown from the affidavits herewith enclosed showIng - Ing that my letter which heads your article was written prior to the date thai you allege that I was in consultation with Mr. Rathbun. I think if there Is anything In what you say the people ought to know It. I spent my own money in the campaign and not others' , even you being no exception because I paid for the telegram you sent mo after the certificate was .sent In. It did me a great deal of good Indeed for you to send mo the telegram to come to Beaver City after all the dirty work had been accomplished and the certificate oi the canvass board sent away. How foolish you must have been to have gone to see Nor- rls as you say , to get his influence for holding the certificate when if you told the truth in your letter and you sent the telegram Im mediately after that Intervlewyou knew that the certificate at the time that you had this alleged Interview and at the time that you sent this telegram , had already been sent away and was beyond the control even ol the canvassing board ; hut in your lettei you tell quite a different story now to what you did four years ago when in answer to Ihis telegram 1 came to Beaver City. The circumstances you relate were not told to me then ; the story you told mo at that time or the one you now publish must be false ; they are not consistent and cannot both be true. Yoy harp on Union precinct forgery. Do you not have brains enougli to know that the supreme court granted the relief in that and that as a matter of fact the canvass on which Xorris * certificate of election was issued did not give him those fraudulent votes in Union precinct ? that was righted by the supreme court before the issuing of the cer tificate , and it is due to Norris to say that lie laid no claim to those fraudulent votes. But , Mr. "Wheeler , what have you to say about the five tallies that showed up in your God-like Beaver City poll-book when the second can vass was made ? Who wrote those tallies in there ? What is the evidence ? You are now trying to make the people believe that Norris , in broad daylightin the commissioners' room , when the county clerk's ofiice was open , and the door leading to the commissioners' room was not closed , changed the figures in the canvass book. Nobody has overcharged Norris with being a fool and lie certainly would have been if he had undertaken this crime in this way. You do not even say in your letter that he had these books in his possession but by insinuations that are far- stretched you try to make the people believe that lie was guilty for the purpose of taking the guilt oir from other shoulders that are a great deal closer to you. As far as the real damage done four years ago , the change of hose six votes did not hurt me and it is quite mmaterial how those changes were made or vho did it ; but how different in legard to the poll book ; this was sealed up in a package ind placed in the vault in the county clerk's iflice , the door leading to the vault and also the county clerk's oliice was locked. These canvass books were in the same vault. Did Norris have access to this vault , or to this office when respectable people were asleep ? Could he have gone into the vault in broad laylight in the presence of the public and ) pencd up this sealed package and made the change without being detected ? What is the evidence. Mr. Wheeler ? .You know it well. Why didn't you tell the truth ? It is perhaps leedless now to remind the people of Furnas county that during this fatal Sunday , the day > efore you say you were in the ofiice , that a member of the firm of McCIure & Anderson lad possession of this key and that one of the members of that firm knew the combination to that safe. These are undisputed facts. Why hedge-around them ? This may hurt your pet candidate , but let us analyze his position a little further : Do you not remember that this same candidate stood up in the supreme court and before the state canvassing board and claimed and de clared that Norris was honestly and fairly elected ? Now , four years afterward , he comes out and says that I was defrauded out of the oflice and says his client committed the crime. Now what kind of professional conduct Is that for an attorney ? An attorney who is sworn to his client's interests , and who. even though ill he says is true , is bound by the laws of our state , by the oatli he has taken as an attorney , by his professional relations to the world as in attorney and by all that is honorable and holy in man to remain silent and forever keep sacred all the secrets of his client that come to his knowledge in the management of his case. Would you elect a man of this kind to the office of district judge ? Can you conscien tiously ask the honest voter to cast his ballot 'or him ? How safe would such a man be on he bench ? Of course lie knows who did the leed or he would not say that I was defraud ed. Why does he state that he supported Norris four years airo because he didn't think ! was a fit man for the place ? Why , as a pop- ilist. if he is one. lias he knifed some one on the ticket almost every year since the organ- zation of the party ? I know why. It is be cause he could not use them as his tools and cause them to do his bidding. Who. if any one , has had more mortgage foreclosure busi- less in this district for the past eight years ban this same candidate ? Has he not be come wealthy-because of the many mortgages le has foreclosed and the farmers that lie las driven from their homes ? Now , further , . believe , as well as many more populists , .hat we have been completely wheedled in his candidate for the judgeship and antici pated it at the time of the convention. His nomination , obtained at the hands of this committee , was another Beaver City outrage , s there anything you would not do ? Why flid this same candidate spend from morn Sunday. October 8th , until Op , m. at the home of our nominee ? Why was it that just after this visit the withdrawal came ? Why were lot the people warned of the sickness of our candidate , and if unable physically to make lie campaign , let the people make the cam- > aign for him , which they gladly would have lone. This nomination , obtained in the way it has been. Is another Instance and another sample af the work that was done when I was de- rauded out of this office. Defeated at the convention where the people were represent ed , he managed with your assistance by wire pulling and trickery toobtain the nomination , bat was refused him and would always have ) een refused him where honest people of the populist faith had a voice. No populist Is mder any obligation tosupporthim. He has \re thepopulistsgoingto permit this without ebuke ? Let the voters answer at election. D. T. WELTV. . . .COAL eeo Crib 800 Bushels Ear Com for Barnett Lumber Co . . .HARD AND SOFT COAL. . . AH Coal Well Screened. Bottom Prices THERE is one famine which Mr. Bryan and other people who are bewail ing present conditions have neglected to mention , and that is the car famine. The railroads , whose activity is a better barometer of business conditions than perhaps any other class of our great business enterprises , are suffering from a shortage of cars with which to transact the immense business of the country , despite the fact that they greatly in creased their rolling stock in the past year in the expectation of an increase in business. The growth in railroad busi ness is illustrated by the single fact that the east-bound tonnage from Chicago for four weeks of September in 1899 was 491,321 against 259,806 in the prosperous year 1892. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ For wounds , burns , scalds , sores , skin dis eases and all irritating eruptions , nothing so soothing and healing as DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Mrs. Emma Belles , Matron Englewood Nursery , Chicago , says of it : "When all else fails in healing our babies , it will cure. " D. W. Loan INDIANOLA. L. J. Holland had business in the west end burg , Friday last. Commissioner Crabtree had a business call to the county seat , last Friday afternoon. County Supt. Welborn held an examination at McCook , last Saturday , and attended the teachers' meeting during spare moments. S. R. Smith had a contest before the local land officers in the metropolis , Monday. The case involved the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter and the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 33 , township 2 , range 27 west a timber claim. James Nutt is the contestant and Henry Vosburgh , the contestee. For all fresh cuts or wounds , in either the liuman subject or in animals , as a dressing , Mallard's Snow Liniment is excellent : while For sores on working horses , especially if slow to heal , or suppurating , its healing qualities are unequalled. Price , 25 cts. and 50 cts. at McConnell & Berry's. BOX ELDER. Corn-picking is well under way some fields yielding well. Rev. J. V. Robinson visited friends jn Stockville , last week. Anfin Houge lias bought what is known as the \V. E. Ketch farm. Mrs. John White has been quite sick hut is better at this writing. James Doyle was up in Frontier county , last week , rustling calves. Matt Stewart is fencing another quarter , to secure a winter pasture and range. Mrs. Isica Atkinson has been entertaining her mother and sister from Maxwell , Iowa. 1. W. Spaulding has bought what is known as the Troxel farm , and is fencing the same. Miss Maude Harrison entertained the young people in the usual happy style , last Friday evening. Miss Gertrude Atkinson has accepted a po sition in Mrs. M. E. Barger's millinery store in McCook. Mrs. M. E. Piper and baby will leave , latter part of this week , for Bennett , this state , to visit friends. The ladies will meet , this week , to clean the church in Box Elder , which is in need of soap and water badly. Fred sheriff-to-be visited the Kinghorn , our - - , home folks , last Sunday , coming out from the metropolis on his bike. Mrs. Malen Campbell has resigned as su perintendent of the Sunday-school , and Ed. Warner has been elected in her stead. There's always hope while there's One Minute Cougli Cure. "An attack of pneu monia left my lungs in bad shape and 1 was near the first stages of consumption. One Minute Cough Cure completely cured me , " writes Helen McIIenry , Bismarck , N. D. Gives instant relief. D. W. Loar. DeWitt's Little Early Risers permanently cure chronic constipation , billiousness , ner vousness and worn out feeling ; cleanse and regulate the entire system. Small , pleasant , never gripe or sicken "famous little pills. " D. W. Loar. - , . , > ' -i , s * - - - BI8I ,33- , is a specialty with us. None of it gets into our store unless it is right in every respect. It must he proper * 1i in shape , ample in size , right in 8 pioportionsatul chuck full of good , substantial value for its price. If it's unfinished so that cuffs will ravel out ; if it's shaped like a grain hag On the shoulders ; if it's thin m and slazy and only slung togethei , \ve have no use for it at any price. If the arms and legs are narrow and skimpy , it can't get into our store. ' , ' S- * * - ? < = ! "AJfl- SS . = * s N r * Lr * * ' * Another Thing- We carry extra sizes. Not in all grades , hut in the right grades for both men and women ; for instance , size 50 in men's shirts , same in men's drawers ; and size 9 in ladies' vests and pants. That comes handy for big people. We supplied a man at Wilsonville this week who tried last week to get fitted in Omaha. That sounds strange , hut it's true ; m took size 50 and a quarter of a yard of blanket goods with which to put a gore in the hack seam of the size 50 drawers. His measure is 54 inches around the waist. Men's Shirts and Drawers at 25c , 35c , 50c , TSc , 85C , $1.00 , $1.25 , $1.50 , $2.00 , and $2.25 * " : apiece. Ladies' Vests and Pants at 2flc , 25c , 35c , 40c , 50c , 85c and $1.00 apiece. Ladies'Union Suits at 35c , 50c , $1.00 , $1.25 and $1.75 apiece. Children's Shirts and Drawers in all sizes from Infants to fifteen years of age prices from I5c to 75c apiece. I Children's Union Suits from three to fifteen years at 25c , 35c , 65c , T5c and 85c apiece. We Solicit Your Inspection and Trade. Postoffice Per in same Building. GEO. E. THOMPSON. MCCOOK , NEB. ONE PRICE PLAIN FIGURES CASH ONLY \ Store Openes at 7:30 A. M. This Sale is for Cash Only. Closes at 9oo P. M. No Goods Given Out Saturday Evenings 10:00 P.M. on Approval. * Souhwest Corner of Main and Dennison Streets. You should Take Advantage of this Great "Retiring-from-Business" Sale at Once. At the present rate of selling , we will soon be out of busi ness. Here we give you just a short list of a few Great Bargains iiowbe- ing1 offered in the last few weeks of this Remarkable Going-Out-of-Bus- iness Sale. IN FURNISHING GOODS. Night Shirts. - Fine White Muslin , ? 5c now 49c Best Wamsutta Muslin , $1 00 now 75c Best Wamsutta Muslin with Embroid ered front , $1 00 now 75c Fine English Satteen , $1 fS now $1 19 Unlaundered White Shirts Sizes l ? and if 1-2 only. Best Grade , ? 5c now 39C Overalls and Cotton Coats Best Union Made. 85c and $1 00 , now Hen's Cotton HaIf = Hose Plain and Fancy Latest Styles. 25c to 50C now 15c to 35c Hen's Merino and AIl = wool Hosiery. 25c to soc now I5c to 35c Lined Wool and Leather flitts and Gloves. 25c to $1 50 , reduced to I5c to $1 19 CLOTHING. Suits for Men , Lowest Cash Prices. $ 5 75 now $3 75 6 75 now 4 90 T 75 and 7 50 now 5 50 9 50 now 7 90 10 00 now 8 50 12 50 now 9 00 Finer goods same proportion. Boys' and Children's Suits. $ 1 75 now $ l 25 2 00 now l 49 2 50 and 2 75 now l 65 3 00 now 2 00 3 75 now 2 75 4 25 now 3 25 Finer at same proportion. Children's and Boys' Over = Coats. Wonderful Bargains and Choice Goods. Price $2 25 to $9 00 Now $1 00 to 5 50 COme and see them. SPECIAL TABLE. All goods on this table are marked with a Plain Green Tag , and are sold at Exactly One-half of the Lowest Cash Price. Men's Suits , Men's Pants , ' r' * Boys' Suits , Boys' Pants , Children's Suits , Prince Albert Coats and Vests , all of which we have but a few Suits or Lots remaining from the immense quan tity we had at the commencement of our GREAT SELLING-OUT SALE. Come quick and look through these your size may be among them they are Special Bargains not to be found again in a lifetime all Desirable Styles. "Fish Brand" Slickers. Best Yellow , $3 oo now $1 50 Best Black , $2 TS now i 37 The Famou flff Co ,