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m 1 BIXLER OPERA HOUSE Saturday February 16th The Philippines and Their People A Delightful Entertainment of Picture Song and Story Given By s eeor Kamon eyes OnHBHWMlHmMtd OMESEEKERS EXCURSION RATES Frequently each month to home seekers territory INTER TOURIST RATES To Colorado California and all the Southern resorts Personally con ducted California Excursions CHEAP EXCURSIONS To Salt Lake City Jan 15 1 6 1 T To Denver January 20 21 22 ree lands Write for folder describing how to obtain free 610 acres of government land in Nebraska for mixed farming and dairying 3END FOR FREE FOLDER A Good Dairy District The Big Horn Basin Irrigated Lands in the Billings District Eastern Colorado Personally Conducted California Excursions and To the Great Northwest Inquire for Details GEORGE S SCOTT Ticket Agent McCook Neb L W WAKELEY G P A Omaha Neb NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATE In the County Court of Red Willow county fbraeka In the matter of the estate of James W Lister fceased Notice is hereby given to all persons having laims or demands against the estate of James V Lister deceased that I have set and July 19 1907 for the reception and pre sentation of claims aud demands against said and July 20 1907 for the examination nd adjustment of said claims and demands as quired by law at the county court room in IcCook Red Willow county Nebraska And 11 persons so interested in said estate will ap aar at said time and place and duly present iieir said claims and demands in the manner equired bylaw or show cause for not so doing r the same shall be forever barred Given under my band and the seal of the ounty court this 17th day of January AD 1907 seal J C Mooee County Judge ORDINANCE NUMBER 130 An ordinance entitled an ordinance to assess id levy a special tax upon all of the real estate ing and being within sewer district number ie of the McCook sewer system and in the city f McCook Nebraska for the purpose of paying tie cost of constructing district sewers and hums therein Be it ordained by the mayor and council of iie city ofMcCook Sec 1 The cost of constructing -districts jwer drains within sewer district number one f the McCook sewerage district and within ie city of McCook Nebraska as it appears rom the report of the special city engineer on le in the city clerks office is the sum of twenty- jven thousand eight hundred and sixty two ollnrs Sec 2 The mayor and council sitting as a ioard of equalization have formed and deter- nined that the benefits to the real estate within - lid sewer district by reason of said improve- 1ients are equal and uniform as to each lot and arcel of land therein Sec 3 That there be and the same is hereby levied upon all tho real estate lying and being A ithin sower district number one of tho city of McCook a special tax of fifty seven cents upon ach front foot of ground abutting upon any istrict sewer or drain within said sewerage istrict said sums of money are appropriated l i tho payment of the indebtedness sot forth in one of this ordinance Sec 4 This ordinanco shall take effect and I e in force from and after passage approval Lala Filipino Author Lecturer and Publicist Endorsed by President Roosevelt Secretary of State Ha Admiral Dewey General Merritt General King General Green Senator Depew Senator Scott Late Senator Davis and many others of like prominence flHftWJtITMlftillHlll Tickets v25c 35c and 50c MOfiOUKMnrAtl Commissioners Proceedings1 McCook Nebraska January 18 1907 The board of countj commissioners met pur suant to adjournment present C B Gray F S Lofton and - Pr mer commifcsiouers aud E J Wilcox clerk The minutes of previous meeting were read and approved The board continued the examination of tho accounts of the county treasurer throughout the day The petition of Susan C Hileman et al ask ing for the establishment of a public road was read and after due consideration sumo was re jected for the reason of its impracticability On moti u board adjourned to meet January 21 1907 Attest EJWilcox C B Gkay County Clerk Chairman McCook Nebraska January 21 1907 The board of comity commissioners met pur suant to adjournment present C B Gray F S Lofton and SPremor commissioners and E J Wilcox clerk J he minutes of nrevious mnntinrr wprn rend and approved On motion treasurer was instructed to refund to Lewis Kern the sum of 5640 the amount of taxes erroneously assessed to him in 1906 on beet money aid paid by him u der protest for the reason that 50 per cent reduction on the assess men1 ordered by the board of equalization was not deducted On motion E B Nelson was appointed over seer for road district No 30 The petition of C HHarman etal asking for tho appointment of C E Eldred as additional counsel in the case wherein the First National Bank of McCook is nlaintiff and Red Willow county is defendant was presented and on mo tion pension was granted ana u a Jiiurea was appointed On motion treasurer was instructed to refund to A E Petty the sum of 2400 the amount of personal tax assessed to him in 1906 and paid by him under protest for the reason of illegal as sessment Petitions of the countv officers askincr for den- uty and clerk hire for the year 1907 were lead and considered and on motion granted fixing the number aud compensation as follows County treasurer one deputy 570000 County clerk onedeputy 70000 County clerk extra clerk hire if any bo needed tOOOO On motion the county cleric was allowed the sum of 500 per annum to bo paid quarterly for performing the duties of clerk to the board of county commissioners and attending to the busi ness oi tne county On motion C BGray was allowed the sum of S58for car faro in attendance at the state meeting of county commissioners On motion the following claims were audited aud allowed and clerk was instructed to draw warrants on the county general fund in pay ment thereof as follows J H Grannis mdse forpauper S 1600 Jones Finnegan Co same 2010 CLDeGroff Co same 2724 CHBoyle abstract 47n FMKimmell radiator 1800 McCook Water Work Co water tax 1600 State Journal Co supplies 18900 LWMcConnell supplies 415 J L Sargent same 236 HEWaughsame 1000 CBGray commissioners services 2780 FSLofton same 3620 S Premer same 4670 And on the county road fund of 1906 as follows BGGotchel road work 300 JJColeman same 300 Clarence Bush same 1100 WTHarris same 300 Frank Cain same 9275 GR Havens same 800 And on the bridge fand levy of 19C6 as follows CGCoglizer bridge work 1025 Annual settlements of the followiug overseers of highways were examined and on motion clerk was instructed to draw certificates on road districts as follows S Y Vandervort overseer districtNo 20 3000 John Haag overseer district No 23 2400 J J Ooleman overseer district No 33 3000 The following official bonds were examined and on motion approved Sidney Dodge justice of the peace Danbury precinct William Hiersekorn justice of the peace in Beaver precinct J H Rice constable in Beaver precinct George W Wyrick over seer road district No 4 Martin Riuck over seer road district No 31 The board having made a careful examination of the accounts of Ben G Gossard county treasurer find that ho has received as fees from January 4th 1906 to January 2nd 1907 both inclusive 254097 The board havinc made a careful examin ation of the accounts of Ben G Gossard county treasurer find the following to be a true and correctstatement of all monies received and disbursed by him as treasurer from July 1 1906 to January 2 1907 both inclusive see statement elsewhere In the matter of the necessary expensos dur ing the year on motion the estimate for tho same for the Near 1907 whr firpd b tVillnvru County general fund 2000000 County bridge fuud 90U0C0 County road fund 500000 Soldiers relief fund 50000 North Valley precinct bonds 50000 Bartley village bond 50000 McCook city bond S0000 McCook city sewer bond 80000 School district bonds 1200000 On motion board adjourned to meet February 13 1907 Attest EJ Wilcox C B Ghat County Clerk Chairman NOTICE OF SALE UNDER AGISTERS LIEN Notice is hereby given thnt by virtue of an agisters lien for pasturing and keeping of one bay mare nbout years old aud one brown mare Vth blaze face and one white hind foot about 9 years old from the 11th dny of November 1903 until this date und r a contract with one John Hawkins owner of said stock on which thero is now due the sum of S11G00 an affidavit set ting forth tho description or said stock and tho amount due for tho pasturing and keeping of said stock having been filed in tho oflico of tho county clerk of this county being tho county where said stock was fed and kept on the 18th dayof October 1D0G I will sell the property above described at public auction in front of tho Citizens Bank in McCook Red Willow coun ty Nebraska on the 18th day of February 1907 The Bcdoaln of Socotra The Bedouin is decidedly a hand some Individual lithe of limb like hia goats and with a cafe au Iait colored skin lie has a sharp profile excellent teeth He often -wears a stubby black beard and has beautifully penciled eye brows and though differing entirely In language in physique and type he closely resembles the Betouin found in the Mauri and Gara mountains Fur thermore the mode of life is the same dwelling in caves -when necessary but having permanent abodes on the lower lands and they have severai other striking points in common Greet ings take place between the Arabian Bedouins and the Socotran Bedouins in similar fashion by touching each cheek and then rubbing the nose We found the Bedouin of Mount Haghier fond of dancing and playing his teherane and also peculiarly lax in his religious observances and though ostensibly conforming to Mo hammedan practice he observes next to none of their precepts and it is pre cisely the same with the Bedouins whom we met in the Gara mountains There is certainly nothing African about the Socotran Bedouin There fore I am inclined to consider him as a branch of that aboriginal race which inhabited Arabia with a language of its own Nineteenth Century Order or E Ji Titles They had been talci r about an Eng lish marquis and the position he held among his titled aristocracy I didnt know a marquis ranked so high said the girl in white Dear me said an Englishman Didnt you Why a marquis ranks next to a duke lie paused to sip his tea and take a foie gras sandwich Marquess not marquis he went on is the more accurate use of the word It is so spelled and pronounced in Burke Shall I tell you the degrees or the English aristocracy The knowl edge may ue userui to you wnen vou A Daring Vi Some wasps live In part upon honey which they collect from the most open petaled flowers and thus to a very moderate extent they may be regarded in the light of flower fertilizers Klrk Iand says in the first volume of the American Naturalist that the paper hornet Vespa maculata often enters my nucleus hives when I am rearing Italian queen bees and captures the young queen in the midst of her little colony usually just after she has com menced her first laying I have seen this depredator enter the small hive drag out the queen and fly away with her to the woods page 52 Some of the species of the genus polistes store up honey which Is poisonous from the fadt that it hsj been collected from poisonous flowers They are found in South America where also species of the genus chartergus occur wasps that make a very remarkable and tough nest with funnel shaped combs inside arranged one inside of another nest fashion but not in contact ex cept at their points of suspension At the apexes of these cones occur the apertures of entrance for the inmates to pass up among the conical tiers Steering the Ship The work of steering a great ship even with the aid of modern machin ery Is much more delicate than one would imagine The larger and faster the ship the greater is the difficulty It is not enough to hold the wheel in the same position to keep the ship on her course for the wind and waves and the currents of the ocean tend constantly co knock the ship off her course The great wall of steel for the hull may be 700 feet long and sixty feet hieh offers a broad target for the wind and waves The art in steer ing is to humor the ship to these forces and when she is deflected bring her back quickly to her course If you cbuld watch the binnacle especially In bad weather you would see the necdIe of th compass constantly shift come to contract an international al- - Q oll l inS from side to side which means llUUV After royalty come dukes After dukes come marquises then earls vis counts barons baronets and knights I dont mention lords A lord is an earl the Earl of Craven for instance Is often called Lord Craven or else the title is only the courtesy one ac corded to the younger sons of dukes Philadelphia Bulletin The Parrot Fish There are water parrots as well as land parrots The parrot fish come from the tropics are brilliantly colored and have beaks something like those of the parrot for use in breaking off the coral shell In order to get at the living polyp Not all of them how ever live on aninial food some species being herbivorous One species is found in the Mediterranean sea where It has been known for thousands of years xne ureeiis anu liomans re garded it for a time as the first of fishes and Pliny tells us how it was introduced Into the Italian sea in the course of the reign of Claudius It was known as the scarus by the an cients who told some wonderful sto ries about its love Its wisdom and its rumination Some having a length of sixteen inches have been captured alive Dnbnqncs Senl On the city seal of Dubuque la ap pear the words La petite nuit and strangers are always puzzled by them Why should Dubuque be called the little night It is explained that the place originally was settled by an old miner named Dubuque When the In dians granted certain lands to Dubuque the document was drawn up in French in Prairie du Chien The clerk -who did the work believed that la petite nuit meant the old miner and his mistake has perpetuated a phrase which however pretty has no signifi cance in its present connection Blew His Own Horn A certain colonel who was in com mand of the Perthshire yeomanry was at an evening party in Edinburgh com plaining loudly of his officers alleging that all the duties of the regiment de volved upon him I am he said to all intents and purposes my own major my own captain my own lieutenant my own cornet To say nothing of being your ain trumpeter too remark ed a grim old Scottish lady sotto voce Quick Wit There is no more effective weapon to defend us from impertinence or rude ness than quick sharp -wit But few men have it and It Is born with them If we try to imitate it we end in ill nature and scurrility Wit cannot be forced into growth But courtesy and good temper can These weapons are sure and grow brighter and stronger with age Didnt Iiike Taxes Cases against George Washington ap pear here and there in old documents No less than three claims were entered against him during the year 17S7 to compel him to pay taxes The hu morous clerk commenting on these ac tions remarked George Washington Esq appeareth not to like taxes Modem Life All the accessories of modern life in crease so rapidly that there Is little likelihood of its expenditure diminish ing or of life becoming more simple and less costly Black and White Clmnsred Maude You wouldnt know my fiance now if you met him Nell Why has he changed so much as that ifaude That isnt It exactly Ive changed him that the great steel prow is not goinj forward in a perfectly straight line Francis Arnold Collins in St Nicholas New Yorlcs Cub Drivers A driver has to have a license That mysterious official the mayors mar shal grants one upon the payment of 25 cents and two written testimonials of honest A man may come out of Sing Sing whither he has been sent for highway robbery or stoning the ministers cat or any other crime if he presents two greasy letters one of any Jones and the other of any Smith stating that he is an honest fellow he will get a license No inquiry is made His references are never looked up Indeed if you are a desperate criminal guilty of murder or failure to pay alimony you can do no better than take out a license and hide on top of a cab So Into the business drift all sorts and conditions of rogues Under the aegis of the law the aegis being a twenty five cent badge they rob you and me Vance Thompson in Outing Magazine The Hessians Played Tl J ii- - I xl is a matter or recoru mat upon 4 Lim iirst oiuenu ceieuranon or inde pendence day by the Continental con gress music was secured for the occa sion by forcing the Hessian band which had been captured by George Washington at Trenton in the previous December to play in the public square all day to the great delight and amuse- VyL io awu aiaicu that these involuntary celebrants were obliged to practice appropriate airs for three- weeks previously in order that they could not plead ignorance as an excuse Curious Colneldences When the Siting theater in Vienna was burned with great loss of life one of the other playhouses of the Austrian capital was playing Paille rons Le Monde ou Ton SEnnuie when the Stadt theater in Vienna was burned another theater in that city was playing Le Jlonde ou Ton SEn nuie and on the evening of the day when the fire in the charity bazaar in Paris took place the Theatre Trancais was announced to play Le Monde ou lon SEnnuie Jealousy That word communist my dear observed the young husband correct ing her has the accent on the first syllable How do you know The dictionary says so I never saw a man as prejudiced in favor of dictionaries as you are exclaimed the young wife I -wish you had married a dictionary Too Much at Stake to Forget When you are absorbed In your business cares downtown today Her bert you will forget your little wife entirely No darling That steak you cooked for me with your own sweet hands this morning for breakfast will keep you in my memory every minute of the day Overdoing the Exercise Footpad with revolver Hold up yer hands Victim You can go through me if you want to but Ill be dad dinged if Im going to hold up my hands any more Im tired of doing it Youre the third since I left the lodge Chicago Tribune According to Circumstances A man never talks much about the sweetness of a cob pipe so long as he has money to buy cigars Topeka Capital Coal dust mixed with salt and water r A ftrrnil Intnno tvjll 6 9 ii ii nmaumimmmmmmmmmii i Dont Be Hasty In Your Spring Buying NEW STYLES WEAVES and COLORS are just oqt in SUMMER WASH GOODS SILKS and SUITINGS and you will appreciate this suggestion if you Wait for Our Complete Assortment We are keeping in touch with all the new things as they come to the front and we will be on the ground to pick up the latest up-to-date novelties which are just now presenting themselves Our Stock of Muslin K is now complete in 7 n i n uii gcuineiiib in au sizes and at all prices 25c to 750 each Dont fail to look Underwear mfi1 f SaK Mtwvw fT t x 7 uilkHF MI JV7 over our m n f Ik N I v Dress Skirts and P NfrX JTMf I A Silk Petticoats M M I They are extremely tt tfKWwl X good values We i I have placed in stock A ew Lace v otwo I Front Corsets KW You have read about l if it vou should try A - V one you will like it vksRs I H C CLAPP Exclusive Dry Goods and Ladies Furnishings Walsh Block - Phone 56 - flcCook t00000 il ffiSfUfiPvn i I a a w jj in 9i f ta 9 T- SMTS J 1 S H U Mi0 iU 1 m IB v i ip Mr r B W LKjnr i I in a Stock Certificate of the 1 McCook I I Building Loan Association m No better or safer investment isopen to you An investment of 100 per month for 120 months will earn So nearly 9 percent compounded annually Dont delay but see the secretary today Subscriptions r e ceived at any time for the new stock just opened e COOK TRIBUNE Only One Dollar the Year McCook Hardware Co Hardware Implements Feed Grinders Gasoline Engines Harness Saddles Buggies Wagons We can fill your order for anything W B MILLS Phone 31 R b SIMMONS Successors to W T Coleman jj rJ 4 V
