BpXftJMWtfWMiHI graft JHbune 8y F M KIMMELL OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co Subscription 1 a Year in Advance REPUBLICAN TICKET CONOHKSBIONAT Congressman Goorge V Norris McCook 8TATK Governor John H Mickoy Lieutenant Governor EG McGilton Secretary of State George W MarBh Troasaror Peter Mortousen Auditor Charles Weston Attonioy General Frank N Prout Land Commisioner George D Follmor gupt Public Instruction wm K Fowler COUNTY Representative CountyJudgo County Attornoy Commissioner First district J E Ilnthorn S L Green CEEldrcd D AWaterman Next in nobility and strenuousness to making an honest man is the keeping of him honest Men who live by the sword die by the sword and sometimes as in Tracys case they provide their own sword Kearney county farmers own and operate eighty threshing machines this season a machine for each six sections in the county The TniuuNE has small concern about an impending millenium The evolu tion of man is too slow It has taken thousands of years to evolve man to his present estate and the process is evi dently but just fairly under way Bandit Tkacys race is run Run down and fatally wounded by a posse of five citizens of a little burg named Creston he crawled into a wheat field and after an attempt to staunch the flow of blood from his wounds received in a hot running figlxt with the posse - killed himself In public affairs secret or executive sessions star chambers and the like may in instances accomplish good and desirable results but the tendency is dangerous and should most certainly bo held within reasonable very reasonable bounds Proper publicity is a great safeguard in public affairs and its effect ive operations should be broadoned not lessened That the trusts are creating distrust is evident to every observer of the times and that thoughtful and patriotic men are giving the matter close and careful and intelligent attention is as well known Perhaps no one has been more earnestly engaged on the problem than is President Roosevelt who has practical ideas on public questions and plain and direct ways of stating them His course is being somewhat widely guessed in the daily press but is probably best out lined by the following lines from his message of last December Publicity is the only sure remedy which we can now invoke What further remedies are needed in the way of governmental Regulation or taxation can only be deter mined after publicity has been obtained by process of law and in course of ad ministration The first requisite is knowledge full and complete knowl edge which may be made public to the world George W Norris the Republican candidate for congress from the Fifth district has himself to thank for what ever success or distinction he may have achieved is life And he certainly has claim to both for it is both successful and distinguishing for a Republican to be twice elected to the office of district judge in a section of the state where the opposition usually has things its own way Judge Norris has just turned 41 having been born in Sanduska county Ohio in July 1861 Here he grew up his boyhood being a hard one because of the death of his father when he was quite young He worked as a farm hand dur ing the summer and attended school during the winter until he fitted himself to teach Later he attended a normal school at Valparaiso Indiana and Bald win university at Berea Ohio During his time as a teacher he was studying law and after leaving the university he went into a lawyers office for a season and then attended a law school Two more years of teaching gave him funds to purchase a library and begin his practice In 1885 he opened a law office and continued his profession for ten years when he was elected district judge and is still on the bench Per sonally Judge Norris is described as one of the most popular of men his popu larity being due to his well recognized ability his keen sense of right and jus tice rather than any effort of the man himself in the cultivation of public and frivate endorsement He has won pub ic approval by bis course on the bench and his nomination at the Hastings con vention was a tribute paid to his worth by his party Stockville Republican Advertised Letters The following letters were advertised by the McCook postoffice Aug 4 1902 Miss Lyda Biggs Albert Williams A J Fenimoro Charles Frances Anna Harris E C Mussey John Mostly Wm Trenhail Jr Advertised August 7 1D02 Mrs Emily Clark J J Grnndy C K Jesseo S N Johnson T J Mack E T Makaske Shaks Mesirveir When calling for these letters please say they were advertised F M Kimmell Postmaster Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat 5his preparation contains all of the digestants and digests all kinds ot food It gives instant relief and never fails to cure It allows you to eat all the food you want The most sensitive Stomachs can take it By its use many thousands of dyspeptics have been cured after everything else failed It prevents formation of gas on thestom ach relieving all distress after eating Dieting unnecessary Pleasant to take It cant help but do you good Prepared only by EODeWittOo Chicago Tho H bottfe contains Sii times the 50c size CITY CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS Catholic Order of services Mass 8 a m Mass and sermon 1030 a m Sunday school 230 p m Every Sun day J J Loughkan Pastor Metijodist Sunday school at 10 a m Preaching at 11 a m and 8 p m De votional service of the Epworth League at 7 oclock The pulpit will bo filled both morning and evening by Rev W II D Ilornaday pastor of the M E church at Cambridge Congregational Sabbath school10 Sermon Christs Assuming Presence 11 Y P S C E 7 Fifteen minute sermon on The Sinners Friend So long as the hot weather continues our entire evening service will last but thirty minutes All are welcome Frank W Dean Pastor Episcopal Services in St Albans next Sunday The rector will celebrate Holy Communion in connection with sermon at 11 Every communicant is requested to bo present Offertory for Episcopal Fund The rector will go to Stratton on No 77 for evening service At 8 p m even song and sermon by C V Barnes lay reader All welcome R M Hardman Rector Baptist Rev Geo L Snyder assist ant pastor will preach at the Baptist church Sunday evening He will also fill his appointments at Zion Hill Sun day morning and at Pickens school house Sunday afternoon The South western Association of Baptist Churches meets with the church at McCook August 15 17 All members and friends of the McCook church are requested to plan to be present at all these services Rev C W Brinstad Dr Sutherland Rev Henry Williams Rev Geo P Mitchell and several others will bo present to give addresses Geo L White Pastor Rev R M Hardman of St Al bans made his final visit to Benkelman Trenton and Stratton this week Mrs T B Campbell and Mrs T F Rowell will entertain the Dorcas Ken sington next Thursday afternoon Aug ust 14th at the home of Mrs Campbell The ladies of the Catholic church will give an ice cream social on Mrs Mul lens lawn Thursday evening August 11 An interesting program will be rendered prograsi Program of the annual meeting of the Southwestern Association of Baptist Churches to be held at McCook Nebr August 15 17 1902 EVENING SESSION FIUDAY AUGUST 15 7 30 Devotional Service Rev C B Stophens 800 Annual sermon Rev C W Brinstad MOliNING SCSSION SATURDAY AUGUST 1G 900 Praise service Rev H J Hewitt 9 JQ Reading of church letters business etc 10 0 Tho personal factor in soul winning Rev Geo L Snyder 1100 The Publication Soc Its Colportago and S S work Rev Geo 1 Mitchell AFTERNOON SESSION 1 30 Prayer meeting Rev Geo L Snyder 200 Systematic giving Rev C B Stephens 2b0 New ideas on B Y P U work Rev H J Hewitt 30 The State ConvcntionRev C W Brinstad EVENING SESSION 7 30 Song and praise serviceRev Geo L White 8 00 Sermon Rev Geo P Mitchell MORNING SESSION SUNDAY AUGUST 17 945 Sunday School 1045 Short talks to school by visitors 1100 Sermon Rev Henry Williams Tho annual offering for the Missionery Union will be taken after the sermon AFTERNOON SESSION 200 Devotional service Rev Geo P Mitchell 2 30 Koligion in tho social circle Mrs Geo L Snyder 3 00 Grand Island collegoPresGeoSuthorland 3 30 Discussion Home and JForeign Mis sions Led by Rev Henry Williams EVENING SESSION 7 0J B Y P TJ prayer meeting S 00 Song service 815 Tho coming conquerors Pros Geo Sutherland The Progress in Irrigation Special to The Tribune Washington D C The progress in agriculture in the arid states and terri tories during the decade ending with 1899 is shown in the report just pub lished by the Division of Agriculture of the Twelfth Census As this progress is attributable largely to irrigation tho statistics relating thereto are of general interest The number of irrigators in the United States in 1899 not including irrigators of rice was 10S218 an increase in ten years of 999 per cent The area irri gated was 7539515 acres an increase of 1076 per cent Of this area 5914412 acres were in crops and 1595133 acres in pasture and unmatured crops The cost of irrigation systems in operation exclusive of those on rice plantations was 867770942 while the value of- the irrigated crops was 85360491 The total length of all the main ditches in the arid and semi arid states and ter ritories was 44149 miles The average number of irrigated acres in farms in arid states and territories was 71 the average value of irri rigated land per acre 4253 the aver age value of crops produced on irrigated land 1481 the average first cost of water 780 the average annual cost of maintenance 053 Of the 5711965 acres in crops hay and forage occupied 3665654 or 642 percent cereals 1399 709 or 245 per cent vegetables 168432 or 29 per cent orchard fruits 25L2S9 or 44 per cent other crops 226881 or 4 per cent The value of the hay and forage was 34834 cereals 14338326 vegetables 9627491 orchard fruits 8920409 other crops including sub tropical fruits grapes flowers plants sugur beets etc 16712246 In Nebraska the number of irrigators increased 214 in 1889 to 1932 in 1899 or 8023 per cent and the number of acres irrigated from 11744 to 148538 or 11618 per cent The ditches in opera tion in 1899 had a length of 1701 miles cost 1276978 and irrigated 147695 acres There were 843 acres irrigated from wells The irrigated area in crops was 829726 acres yielding products valued at 982615 The area irrigated in pasture and unmatured crops was 18812 acres Shortly after sending the irrigation bill to the president congress passed a resolution authorizing the director of the census to compile statistics relating to irrigation for the crop year of 1902 With the data now assembled this work will be comparatively simple most of it being done by correspondence To se cure this information inquiries will soon be sent out to irrigators throughout the United States The cooperation of those interested in irrigation is earnestly solic ited for upon their prompt response will depend very largely the value of these statistics This is in part a supplemen tary work the results which will be utilized in the work soon to be under taken by the department of the interior under the provisions of the irrigation bill FASCINATING DANGER The Peril That Beset the Builder of BrltlKCM The design of a long bridge span Is one of the most elaborate mathemat ical problems that arise in constructive work The stresses produced by its own weight by the weight oC traffic by locomotive drivers by the hammer ing of flattened wheels by the action of brakes on an express train by the high speed on a curved track by the wind and by the expansion and con traction of the steel in summer and winter are all accurately calculated The deflection of the loaded and un loaded bridge is determined and com plete drawings are made of every mem ber of it The bars of steel are tested in machines which will pull in two a horsehair or a steel bar strong enough to lift half a score of the heaviest lo comotives at once and which will crush an eggshell or a steel column and accurately measure the stress in each case The different kinds of mem bers are forged riveted bored or planed in perhaps half a dozen remote shops and although usually not fitted together there are examined and meas ured by specialists to see that they are correct and are then shipped by scores of carloads to the site of the proposed structure where steam derricks unload them and pile them many feet high in stacks covering acres of ground The bridge piers may rise above the water hundreds of feet apart It re mains to place them on a thousand ton structure high above a savage chasm over an impassable current or roaring tide where the water is deep the bot tom of jagged rocks or treacherous quicksand or where an old bridge must be removed and the new one built in its place without interrupting traffic on the bridge To accomplish this the engineer has timber bolts and ropes hoistinj engines derricks and a band of intrepid builders who have perhaps followed him for years through more hardship and danger than fall to the lot of almost any other calling The complicated framework of a great span is a skeleton with many accurate joints and thousands of steel sinews and bones each of which must go in exactly the right place in exact ly the right order The builder must weave into the trusses pieces larger heavier and far more inflexible than whole tree trunks swiftly hoist and swing them to place hundreds of feet high fit together the massive girders and huge forged bars with watchmak ers accuracy support the unwieldy masses until they are keyed together and self sustaining and under mil lions of pounds of stress must adjust them at dizzy heights to mathematical lines This he may need to do not de liberately but in dangerous emergen cies at utmost speed putting forth his whole strength on narrow springing planks in a furious tempest in bitter cold or in blazing heat He may be in the heart of an African desert men aced by bloodthirsty fanatics or in a gorge of the Andes hundreds of miles from tools or supplies where there is absolutely no supplement to his own resources Under such conditions bridge building is one of the most fas cinating and difficult of engineering problems and requires a different so lution for almost every case Frank W Skinner in Century Bells It was long a fixed idea that silver mixed with the bell metal improved the tone but this is now considered in correct The Acton Nightingale and Silver Bell two singularly sweet bells at St Johns college Cambridge are said to have a mixture of silver but if true this is not believed by compe tent authorities to be the cause of their beautiful tone This idea led to the story of the monk Tandio concealing the silver given him by Charlemagne and casting the bell in the monastery of St Paul of inferior metal where upon he was struck by the clapper and killed In the ninth century bells were made in France of iron They have been cast in steel and the tone has been found nearly equal in fineness to that of the bell metal but having less vibration was deficient in length and thick glass bells have been made which give a beautiful sound but are too brit tle to long withstand the strokes of the clapper Gentlemans Magazine The Inventor of the Match The first match was the product of the ingenuity of John Frederick Kom erer who early in the nineteenth cen tury was imprisoned in the peniten tiary at Hohenasperg in Germany He invented the lucifer match while in his gloomy dungeon The German govern ment forbade the manufacture of matches on the ground of public policy because some children playing with them had caused a fire Komerer was ruined by Viennese competition when he was released from prison and died a pauper Up to 1SG2 the Vienna man ufacturers controlled the match busi ness of the entire world From Real Life Teacher Evil communications cor rupt good manners Now Johnny can you understand what that means Johnny Yesm For instance pa got a communication from mas dressmak er this morning that made him swear Philadelphia Press A Pert Reminder Little Bertie had been taught not to ask for anything at meals One day poor Bertie had been forgotten when he pathetically inquired Do little boys get to heaven when they are starved to death London Tit Bits The gravedigger rises to remark that every man finds himself in a hole soon er or later Philadelphia Record The next hardest thing to getting np in the world is to keep from getting down WIHESi BABY use Motners Friend Womans greatest dream of beauty and glory is when nature has chosen her to become a mother Every faculty is keenty alert as she foresees the joy ambition success and the life long satisfaction com fng nearer day by day in the dear and innocent being so soon to see light and the uncertainty whether she shall see a sweet girl or a brave boy face beside her on the pillow adds zest to her expectancy Mothers Friend applied externally throughout pregnancy will relieve the pain of parturition and no mother and child can fail to be healthy heart- strong clear complexioncd pure blooded and cheerful in disposition who are mutually influenced by the continued use of this great liniment MOTHERS PRIEND Buy of druggists ioo per bottle Our treatise Alolheriood mailed free THE BRADFICLD nilULATGa CO Atlanta Ga Ecpre of Tox s o otea Citizens oi Jlcuuiea and adjoining ounties of Texas are in a state of ter or because of the depredations of oyotes which are killing scores of attle Worse than that the slinking irutes are spreading hydrophobia rrng the stock A man living in Til en was bitten by an infected colt and ied in a few days Ways and means f getting rid of the pests are being n5dpred LUUKi nuubfc rEV6 JULY MORTGAGE rkcord Farm filings 2 600 releases 4 1006 City and town filings 4 2 69775 releases 5 2530 Chattel fil ings 62 3524920 releases 98- 31 25487 Commissioners Proceedings McCook Nebraska August 5 1902 Board of county commissioners met pursuant adjournment Present D A Watermar lpdv H Ilormett f nnfi c missioner W RJStarr county attorney and E J Wilcox county clerk The minutes of the previous meeting were read and on motion approved On motion John R Tate was appointed road overseer for district No 27 On motion tho official bond of John R Tate road overseer for district No 27 was approved On motion the treasurer was instructed to refund tho sum of I to George Rothemejer tho amount of poll tax illegally assessed to him in 1901 and paid by him under protest On motion the treasurer was instructed to refund to George Mick the sum of ft tho amount of poll tax illegally assesi ed to him in 1901 and paid by him under protest On motion ttie treasurer was instructed to refund to B J Kipp tho sum of tho amount of poll tax illegally assessed to him in 1901 and paid by him under protest On motion the treasurer was instructed to refund to M M Delhunty the sum of 13i2 tho amount of taxes erroneously assessed to her in 1901 and paid by her under protest On motion the treasurer was instructed to refund to John Flohr tho sum of 47i the amount of taxes erroneously assessed to him in 1901 and paid by him under protest In the matter of tho sealed bids for tho con struction and furnishing material for the wagon bridge across the Republican river on or near the section lino between sections 20 and 21 township range 2is west of 6th pm the board finds after careful examination that the bid of H T Ward Co is the lowest and best and on motion same was accepted and contract entered into with them Amount of bid for bridge complete 126000 In the matter of the sealed bids for rebuild ing repairing and furnishing material for the bridge across the Republican river southwest of ludianola the boaid finds after careful ex amination that tho bid of II T ard Co is tho lowest and best amount of bid J0000 and on motion same was accepted and contract entered into with them The following claims were audited and al lowed and on motion clerk was instructed to draw warrants on the county general fund levy of 1902 in payment thereof as lollows E G Caino ic Co coal for paupers 3 7 Perry Roe same and lumber 61 10 W C Rullard Jc Co coal for paupers 14 9 William McCullum incite for paupers 6 00 A Guy same SOU Smith Cochran same HI 10 NJ Uerling same 10 00 J A Wilcox same 9 65 Josiah E Moore maintaining pauper 17 50 J MBrown services as plijsician Hi 00 Andrew Phillips salary as janitor for July 23 00 R M Osborn drayage 1 23 Polk Bros labor on court house roof 3 10 1 Uolemau hardware 19 3i A C Wilson surveying road No 363 S S Graham chainman road No 363 James Williams same James Williams axman road No 363 State Journal Co advertising bids for bridges 14 20 3 20 5 20 5 20 15 00 State Journal Co supplies 36 00 G C Boatman postage and oflice expen ses 12 00 A C Crabtree same b 00 E J VWlcox same 5 SO O L Thompson railroad fare advanced for return of Sophia Reishick 7 CO DA Waterman commissioner service and mileage 31 80 Maurice Keddy same 19 70 J H Bennett same 32 00 and on county bridge fund levy 1902 as follows 11 Rinck bridge work 4 50 M S Rinck same 7 50 C H Angell same 3 23 HJ Hall same 4 50 Guy Battershall same 1 50 Peter Rheinheimer same 7 50 A W Dutcher same 3 00 Isaac Cromwell same 3 IX h red Rheinheimer same 3 ii George Younger same 6 10 Frank Cain same 7 U John Castillo same 1 73 li C Longuecker same 2 50 W C Randel same 5 25 F Li Rinck same 7 50 G O Lionguecker same 7 50 Fred SVatermau same 3 00 E A Rinck same 4 50 W F Simpson same 2 25 Smith Lake same 7 0 John C Kinkaid same 5 IM H F Morris tame 2 75 W N Cratty same b 00 WHClayton same 7 00 Barnett Lumber Co lumber 45 95 Same of Danbury lumber and piling 207 25 E G Came Sc Co same 62 45 W C Bullard Co bridge material 3S 60 and on county road fund levy 1902 as follows Frank Cain road work 12 00 T K Quigley same 3 00 J H Dwyer same 1 00 Frank Cain same 7 00 T J Ruggles same 10 00 C H Angell same 7 50 A D Johnston same 7 50 John Broomfield same 4 50 J C Ball same 5 CO J R Neel same 6 00 C H Angell same 2 50 C W Peters same 7 50 On motion board adjourned to meet Septem ber 2nd 1902 D A Waterman Chairman Attest E J Wilcox County Clerk Special Sale In our Superb Showing of Sightly Summer Suitings Supremely Shown In those Silk Striped Specialties better known and heretofore admired as those beautiful silk striped Gren adines which have been selling for 6oc and 85c a yard We now of fer these to close at 42c andjj62c yd j j The 62c piece comes in black and white only Mil - - it tllllll Hfrrwww s D Phone 16 Physician and Druggists Ford Sturgeon a prominent drug firm at Rocky Hill Station Ky write We were re quested by Dr G B Snigley to end forllerbine for the benefit of our customer- We ordered three dozen in December and we are glad to say Herbine has given great satisfaction that we have duplicated this order three time and today we gave your salesman another order We beg to say Dr G B Snigley take- plea ure in recommending Herbine iCc bottle at A McMillens Yrzrzrr This 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Rocky Mountain Tea doe ct McConnell fc Berrj Bargains in Hardware A number of two turner Gasoline Stoves at 325 A regular 300 Clothes Wringer at 250 A few hundred feet of Rufc her Hose at 10 cents per foot A full line of Hay and Bun dle Forks at a greatly reduced price All kinds of Tin Granite and Galvanized Ware The best and most complete stock of Table and Pocket Cutlery which we are selling at the lowest possible figure Also a full line of Steel Ranges and Cook Stoves Everything in the Hardware Line at the lowest prices H P WAITE McCook H r