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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1907)
I Jf i I 523 J if J WtAMZJL9J3JZZ f OUR LINCOLN LETTER Gossip from the State Capita Legislative and Otherwise vrrrsrriYS TrrT3Tvrrsvrr The antl freo pass bill agreed upon by the sub committee comprising Senators Gould of Greeley and Gib son of Douglas and Representative Marsh of Seward and Representative Knowles of Dodge follows closely the national act on the same subject and the bill introduced In the senate by King of Polk It goes a little further and provides that attorneys employed by railroads shall not be entitled to passes unless they are actually em ployed and receive a salary of 500 a year The sub committee has agreed upon the following bill to re port to the joint committee Section 1 No railroad corporation owning or operating any line or lines of railroad in the state of Ne braska or any officer or agent of any such railroad corporation shall issue or give any free ticket free pass or free transportation for jpassengers except to Its bona fide employes and their families its officers surgeons who are annually employed attorneys who are actually employed and re ceiving a salary of riot less than 500 per year minioters of religion trav eling secretaries of Young Mens Christian associations inmates of hospitals and charitable and elemosy nary Institutions and persons exclu sively engaged In charitable and ele mosynary work to indigent destitute and homeless persons and to such persons when transported by charita ble societies or hospitals and the necessary agents employed In such transportation to inmates of na tional homes or state homes for dis abled volunteer soldiers and of sol diers and sailors homes including those about to enter and those re turning from such institutions to necessary care takers of live stock poultry and fruit to employes on sleeping cars express and baggage cars and to linemen of telegraph and telephone companies to railway mail employes to newsboys on trains baggage agents persons injured in wreck and physicians and nurses at tending such persons Provided further that the provis ions of this act shall not be con strued to prohibit the interchange of passes for the officers and bona fide employes and their families of other railroad companies nor to prohibit any railroad corporation from carry ing passengers free with the object of providing relief in cases of gen eral epidemic pestilence or calami tous visitation Sec 2 Any railroad corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and for each offense or conviction hereof shall pay a fine of not less than 100 and not more than 1000 Senator Hoidbrook will this week Introduce a bill into the senate to es tablish a state fire commission sim ilar in function to the fire marshals of some of the eastern states It is said to be backed by a number of fire in surance companies The -bill makes the governor fire commissioner and allows him a chief deputy and two as sistant deputies The chief must re side in Lincoln and is to receive a salary of 2000 ayear The assist ants are to receive salaries ofl500 each In accordance with the recommenda tions of the state bar association Rep resentative Tucker submitted a joint resolution for an amendment to the Constitution to reorganize the state gtipreme court The bill provides for ja supreme court of seven members jone of whom is to be a chief justice Instead of the senior member of the pourt serving as chief justice he is to jbe elected for the full term of twelve tyears Each of the judges is to serve the same length of time A reciprocal demurrage in the opin ion of Senator Holbrook of Dodge Jdounty would do away with the pres enh objections to demurrage charges against shippers and in -accordance with his opinion he has introduced aj Dill applying the reciprocity theory to Jthe unloading of freight cars The bill allows a shipper forty eight hours ini which to unload each car consigned to him and provides that if the unloading is accomplished in less time the unused time shall be credited to him to offset delinquency in future unload ings The state board of educational lands and funds has authorized the purchase of another block of 10000 of bonds of the state of Mississippi to net the state of Nebraska 375 per cent interest The house finance committee has agreed to recommend an- appropria tion of 75000 for the state board of agriculture if the money is to be ex pended at the discretion of the board There is disposition to have made ready the appropriation bill so it can be discussed intelligently and not be rushed through at the last minute when all is excitement thus allowing boards superintendents of institu tions and others to drag money out of the state treasury with impunity Indications are that every request will be investigated thoroughly and if the money is actually needed it probably will be appropriated but if not the legislators doubtless will use the pruning knife freely and effectu ally The joint committee on railroads had a busy time with their -work The committee met sooner than was expected and succeeded in agree ing on a two cent fare bill to be in troduced in the house by Harrison of Otoe and made some changes in the rcJlway commission bill and heard the argument of railroad attorneys and managers against a reciprocal demur- rage bill The two cent fare bill will merely change the word three in the pres ent statute to two cents and pro vide that half fare tickets shall be given to children under 12 years of age the latter being a rule now in force on most of the railroads in Ne braska The bill will be introduced as a committee bill by Harrison of Otoe chairman of the house railroad committee When it came to the committee bill conferring power upon the rail way commission the joint committee succeeded in going through only about six sections of the proposed bill The Aldrich bill has been fol lowed in many particulars The joint committee decided to give the com mission a lump sum of 6000 a year for clerk hire instead of giving 2500 for one secretary and 1200 each for two clerks It was also decided that instead of compelling the commission to inspect all railway bridges in the state twice each year this duty is made merely optional The following provision is from Representative Cones bill affecting weights It shall be unlawful for any person firm or corporation owning within the state goods or merchandise in original unbroken packages lo cated within this state to offer for sale any such original unbroken pack age unless such package shall have plainly printed or stamped thereon in the English language the full net weight or volume contained therein Provided that the natural shrinkage in the course of handling such goods to the amount of 5 per cent of the net weight or volume thereon shall be ex empt from the provisions of this act The claims committee of the house met at the Lindell hotel Claims and deficiencies have been filed that at present do not aggregate as much as uiual Of the claims so far handed to the committee there is the one by En gineer U G Sawyer for 750 for in juries received while a public employe the old claim of Mrs Mary M Hoxie for 233333 for salary as matron of the Kearney industrial school by J H Mickey for 19183 for railroad fare paid while governor for 1750 by the estate of John F Cornell for expense incurred when his office was investi gated while he was state auditor Members of the legislative commit tee which Inspected the Soldiers home at Grand Island entertain dif ferences of opinion regarding the ap propriation which this institution should have The commandant hac Tecommended that 75000 be appro priated for permanent improvements and some members of the commitcee believe such a large sum is unnecesA sary inasmuch as the maximum of the number of old soldiers who will become members of tne home ia reached As a compromise between conflict ing interests on the compulsory edu cation bill which he introduced into the senate early in the session Sen ator Thomas has a new measure which he may offer as a substitute for S P 50 The new measure is not radically different from the old one but it is not quite so rigorous It provides that every child between 7 and 15 shall be required to go to school not less than two thirds of the entire school year in his district or in any case not less thantwelve weeks during the year The house indefinitely postponed the bill by Raper which abolished the pres ent optional death penalty The bill was recommended for passage on the previous day without discussion and some of the members said they were not aware of the scope of the bill at the time Carlin of Rock moved to re consider and after a long debate the bill was killed The house killed th bill by B W Brown of Lancaster pro viding that judges of the supreme dis trict andj county courts are ineligible to election to office save judicial posi tions Before a packed gallery and a crowd ed lobby the senate laid the county op tion bill to rest by the decisive vote of twenty to eleven Though not much has yet been done in the legislature the majority say all party pledges will be fulfilled before the close of the session The house got busy on the 5th and passed eighteen bills Most of them however were of local interest The house passed Mr Cones bill providing that railroads shall not em ploy boys under 21 years of age as night telegraph operators or tower men Author of the measure declared that he believed many wrecks are caused because young and inex perienced men help in handling trains A bill to be forthcoming will revise present methods at the South Omaha stock yards Fusion members are be hind the measure fortified by stock raisers of the western section of the state BUYING A WAGONirtoZrLLniTFn siirrnn rn i s nninir How Mr Brown sGat the Worst of Two Bar- gans TRIED MAILORDER METHODS Thought He Was Saving Money But Will Not Try the Same Thing a Second Time Buying at Home Pays copyrighted 1906 by Alfred G Clark Mr Brown a farmer living in Boone county Mo decided to buy a spring wagon The next time he was in town he went to the local dealer to see what he had in stock One wagon that suited him was offered to him at 75 He thought he would take it but before ordering he looked over a mall order vehicle catalogue Here ho saw described a wagon which as far as description went was the same as the one he saw in the deal ers store room In fact the descrip tion was written in such a convinc ing manner and all of the good points of the mail order vehicle were brought out so thoroughly that it appeared to -be superior to the other one And the price was only 6745 Mr Brown thought of the saving of 755 which represented several days of hard work The more he thought about it the more he wanted to save that amount and in the end the Chicago maiL or der concern got his check When the wagon finally arrived with a freight bill of 450 he rode to town with his son and spent half a day putting it together He had to buy a screw driver and some oil and sand paper and a few bolts to replace some that had been lost in shipment -0 -v w u 1 l i H b V w I I w 1 l I m lU U III - a capita of wealth and dwarfing local business only to enrich a concern al ready rich enough to buy several counties An extra thousand dollars In any community will mean during the year many thousands of dollars in business transacted and Increased in come for practically every one In tho community Often the amount sent to the mail order houses is more than enough to turn the balance the other way and business depression exists where prosperity would prevail under normal conditions Even If the coun try purchaser was able to save a snug sum by ordering his supplies from a mall order house the loss to the com munity would be greater than the gain for himself It is needless to point out that as the amount of the mail or der business from any community in creases the amount of Iqss to the com munity also increases until it is only a question of time until the individual loss caused by the general depression of business will exceed the individual saving In fact if everyone in the commun ity bought from the mail order houses local markets would disappear and the farmer would be compelled to sell as well as buy from the catalogue concerns The rural districts would be devoid of business activity while the wealth of the country would be centered in one or two points Buy ing by mail may be attractive but the most pronounced mail order fiend must look with apprehension on any condition whereby he would be com pelled to depned on the mail ordei man for a market for his products But the idea of saving on individual purchases is to a great extent a fallacy In spite of his boasted ability to buy in large quantities he is not able to buy for much less than the country merchant Competition in all manufactured products is too keen foi Like the terrible devihfish the catalogue house is death to everything that gets within its grasp Once its death dealing tentacles have wound around your community there Is no escape Are you assisting the greedy monster by sending your dollar to the mall order house All of these cost him 75 cents He was not experienced at putting spring wagons together and he didnt do a very good job of it for one of the seats refused to sit in the right place and he had to get a local blacksmith to help him fix it This cost him another half dollar and delayed him so much that he and the boy had to go to the hotel for their dinners an additional expense of 70 cents So before he got his team hitched to the wagon It cost him 7390 allowing him a saving of 110 which was very stingy pay for the time he had lost Of the amount he spent for the wagon only 195 remained in Boone county The railroads and the mail order house got the rest of it In the meantime his neighbor Mr Jones bought the 75 wagon from the local dealer who made a profit of lfr on the sale As the vehicle was already assembled and there wereno extra parts or tools to buy the amount paid for the wagon represented all of the cost to Mr Jones The dealer spent the 16 profit for a new sign on his building the sign painter hired a carpenter to repair the roof on his house the carpenter paid his bill at the butchers and the butcher bought a hog from Mr Jones And so the 16 kept going in the county until a farmer with the mail order habit got hold of it He sent it to Chicago and it never came back But this wasnt the last of the two purchases A few weeks after the two wagons wore bought Mr Browns boy and Mr Jones boy driving the new vehicles met on the country road j They drove too close to each other and a smash up resulted The weak est part of each wagon gave way an axle on the mail order product was broken and a doubletree on the other was smashed Both breaks were plain ly because of defective construction Mr Jones took his broken doubletree to town the next day and the dealer gave him a new one - Mr Brown at tempted to explain to the Chicago firm that the axle would not have broken if it had not been defective and coupled this explanation with a re quest for a new part but after several weeks of correspondence with the piece as far away as at the begin ning he gave it up and bought the axle himself This experience told Mr Brown why he should trade with home merchants instead of patroniz ing the mail order houses In Boone county and in every other county there are many who send thou sands of dollars out of the county ivery year without ever considering that And the small saving he is able to make by large purchases is more than offset by his larger expenses These expenses must come out of the purchaser so the mail order man is compelled to make a larger profit that the local dealer It costs him more tc market his goods He must maintain a large and expensive office force and lie must advertise As an example of what the mail order man expects to make out of his customers a Iettei written by a prominent mail ordei man might be quoted Writing to s magazine he said Advertising ic your publication cost us 17 cents ai inquiry and we made sales at a cosi of only 56 cents each for advertising This is about half of our regular cost This man was selling A complete out fit of clothes for 995 He was will ing to pay a dollar for each sale the advertising brought him Ask youi local dealer how long he could kee the sheriff away from his doors if he took a dollar out of every ten dollai sale You cant buy the same class oj goods any cheaper from the catalogue houses than from the local dealer though one may think he can aftei reading the catalogues The differ ence comes in the quality of the goods There is a particular class of goods known as mall order goods This trade term is applied to cheap bui showy goods and novelties which car be sold at a large profit It means much the same thing as street fakii goods and as is the case with street fakir goods mail order goods are noi handled by the regular jobbers and wholesalers They cannot afford to handle them because their customers want better merchandise The street fakir duplicates in appearance the jewelry carried by a first class jew elry house and makes large profits The catalogue merchant does the same thing but does It on a larger scale and much more cleverly To Domesticate a Cat It is said that an unfailing remedy for a cat that will not accustom itself to a new home is to grease its feet thoroughly with butter and put it down the cellar When it has licked its feet clean it will be thoroughly domiciled and will cause no further trouble by running away Marriage Days in Italy In Italy Sunday is usually selected for the marriage of those persons who have never been married before Widows however in accordance with an old custom usually choose Satur day BESSIE NEWTON 8HOT ON EVE OF INTENDED WEDDING Tho Benefactions of Count Creighton Who Recently Died In Omaha Other Matters Here and There Ponca Crazed by a rejection of hia offer of marriage after courtship ox tending over 5 years and tho fact that nis old sweetheart would marry Ed ODonnell Frank Frink shot and in stantly killed Bessie Newton and a short time later attempted suicide In flicting a severe bullet wound in tho head from which he will probably die For the past five years Frink and Miss Newton had been sweethearts A short time ago she gave a final refusal to his offer of marriage and centered her affections on Ed ODonnell Her wedding to ODonnell was schedule to occur at once When the news camo to the ears of Frink of the approaching ceremony he finding the girls father down town and knowing that she was at home alone secured a revolver and went to the house When she came to the door he lifted the gun and shot her through the heart She fell dead at his feet Returning to town he se cured more cartridges for his gun and went Into an alley where he shot him self through the head He failed to in flict a mortal wound and reeling waa able to walk half a block before ho fell He was taken to the hospital and while upon the operating table the bullet which he Intended should end his life fell from his nostril Gifts of Count Creighton The benefactions of Count Creigh ton who recently died in Omaha in clude these To completing of St Josephs hospital started by his wife 250000 Convent to the Sisters of Poor Clare 50000 J A Creighton Medical col lege 40000 Creighton block 15th and Douglas streets to Creigh ton University 125000 Arlington block Dodge street between 15th and 16th streets to Creighton univer sity - 750Q9 Edward Creighton Institute and College of Law 60000 Byrne Hammer building to Creighton university 300000 John Deere Plow company building to Creighton uni versity 10000 Warehouse lot on Jones street to Creighton university 5000 Other benefactions 1000000 Total 2005000 Hunt for Dead Mans Gold Norfolk William Boche one of the original members of the German colony from Wisconsin who laid out this city in 1866 died a few days ago and carried with him to his grave the secret of a hiding place in which he stored a quantity of gold some of his family believe it to have been 2000 and some believe it to have been much more His widow and children are now searching for the hidden treasure Mr Boche never trusted the banks When he made a sale of real estate he had the currency changed into gold and hid it somewhere nobody knows where He told his wife a couple of weeks before he died that he intended to tell her before his life ended where the money could be found He walked out of doors on a warm afternoon and re turned to be stricken Disease in Cream and Pork Norfolk Dr C A McKlm Nebraska state veterinarian is anxious for a bill to be passed in this state providing local inspection of meat and dairy pro ducts because of the increase of tuber culosis among hogs and also humans He says drinking tuberculosis milk produces tuberculosis of the lungs A tubercular cow in this neighborhood was recently killed the herd has probably been infected milk from that herd goes to Omaha to be made into butter The scientists are trying to learn why hogs are getting the disease so fast whether from drinking separated milk or following tubercular cattle Egg Business Big at Seward Seward The Burlington has agreed to build a spur for J G Baeschlin the egg and poultry buyer so that he may ship the eggs and poultry bought at Seward by John Fleener to the mar kets with less trouble than heretofore It is the purpose of Mr Baeschlin to build an egg and poultry house that will take care of his business in the future Last year he shipped sixty seven carloads of eggs and fcfty two carloads of poultry from Seward Dur ing the last year his monthly purchas es amounted to an average of 10000 or 120000 a year Nonagenarjan Who Saws Wood Fremont Harlow Goff who lives just north of the city on Broad street is one of the oldest and probably the moBt active man of his years in this part of the state He is 93 years old but is out around his premises every day and is sawing and splitting his supply of wood as usual He is able to attend to his business affairs and bids fair to reach the century mark He says he works every day from choice and because he enjoys it For Indeterminate Sentences The house has passed a bill which will if it becomes at law make a sweeping change in the regulation of the penitentiary and is along the line with the new idea that the law should reform rather than punish persons guilty of crime It takes the length of term which a convicted criminal shall serve out of the hands of the judge who sentences him and put it in the hands of a prison board which con sists of the state board of charities and corrections with the governor and warden of the penitentiary WORK8 IN THE GARDEN Elghty 8ven Years Old But Hat a Sound Back Robert Scollan 87 years old of 58 Garden St Senoca Falls N Y a fine sturdy old gentle man who works In his own gar den gives thanks to Doans Kidney Fills for his sound back and kidneys Mrs Goetchlous his daughter says Father had a severe at tack of kidney trouble and lumbago which caused him much suffering Ho began taking Doans Kidney P1H3 and was soon cured We always keep them on hand My husband was cured pf bad pains in the back by taking only part of a box Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y Expensive City to Live In High prices continue to rule in Daw son City which Is probably tho most expensive town In the world It 13 a thriving place with a population of over 8000 with warehouses churches banks electric lights wholesale and retail stores and two up-to-date news papers The newspapers themselves are worthy of consideration in the light of expense for they cost 25 cents a copy At this time of the year three eggs ordered in a restaurant cost 150 while a caribou steak coats one dollar Beer Is worth one dollar a bot tle and champagne 1050 a quart MIX THIS AT HOME Valuable Prescription Which Anyone Can Easily Prepare The following simple home made mixture Is said to readily relieve and overcome any form of Rheumatism by forcing the Kidneys to filter from tho blood and system all the uric acid and poisonous waste matter relieving at once such symptoms as backache weak kidneys and bladder and blood diseases Try it as it doesnt cost much to make and is said to be absolutely harmless to the stomach Get the following harmless ingredi ents from any good pharmacy Fluid Extract Dandelion one half ounce Compound Kargon one ounce Com pound Syrup of Sarsaparllla three ounces Mix by shaking well in a bot tle and take a teaspoonful after each meal and again at bedtime This simple mixture is said to give prompt relief and there are very few cases of Rheumatism and Kidney troubles it will fail to cure perma nently These are all harmless every day drugs and your druggist should keep them In the prescription department if not have him order them from the wholesale drug houses for you rather than fall to use this if you are af flicted WHEN HIS BABY WAS DYING The Milkman Was Late That Day but None Complained A few days ago people on Llnwood boulevard who patronize a certain milkman missed his familiar before breakfast ring says the Kansas City Star It was late in the morning when he finally made the rounds And the women scolded Ill have to take milk from some body else one irate housewife snap ped All right madam he said softly Something in his voice made her pause What made you late she demand ed still angry A tear wavered on the milkmans eye and trickled slowly down his cheek When when I left home he be gan He paused and gulped at something in his throat When I left he said my baby was dying I knew someone would be angry with me If I didnt come so I He could say nothing more The woman said gently Im sorry Next day the milkman failed to ap pear The second day he was around very early We burled her yesterday was his explanation No one chided him They under stood His baby was dead GUIDES CHILDREN Experience and a Mothers Love Make Advice Valuable An His mother writes about feeding children If mothers would use Grape Nuts more for their little ones there would be less need for medicines and fewer doctor bills If those suffering from indigestion and stomach troubles would live on Grape Nuts toast and good milk for a short period they would experience more than they otherwise would be lieve Our children have all learned to know the benefit of Grape Xuts as an appetizing strengthening food It is every evening with few variations like this Mamma lets have toast and Grape Nuts for breakfast or lets have eggs and Grape Nuts never forget ting the latter One of our boys in school and 15 years of age repeatedly tells me his mind is so much brighter after having Grape Nuts as a part if not all his breakfast Name given by Postum co Battle Creek Mich Read the lit tle book The Road to Wellville i pkgs Theres a Reason j ja