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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1908)
V HiTcrr aMvr i mi i fc 3 McCOOK Were Just As Thankful p vfmm WWEjMs -iii - I gFunilwixwttn rfniirn rmriiim nnIM Middlcton Ruby PLUMBING and STEAM PITTING All work guaranteed Phono 182 McCook Nebraska fliss Ha M Briggs j will teach class on piano Grad Av3 unto of Bethany conservatory 01 Jjinusuorg iyiiuh oiuuiu ui homo of A G Bump Phono Black 252 Scholars call or phono for further information A G BUMP Real Estate and Insurance Room Two over McConnells drug store McCook Nebraska JOHN E KELLEY ATTOBNEY AT LAW and BONDED ABSTEACTEB McCook Nebraska CaABont of Lincoln Land Co and of McCook Waterworks Oflico in Poatoflico building C H Boyle C E Eldred BOYLE ELDRED Attorneys at I aw Long Distanco Ione 41 Rooms 1 anil 7 second floor Postoffico Itaililinir ne I 1 ttB 4i McCook Neb GUNN DENTIST moss ii2 Office Rooms 3 and 5 Walsh Blk McCook GATEW00D VAHUb DENTISTS Office over McAdams Store Phone 1 90 H P SUTTON JEWELER MUSICAL GOODS NEBRASKA For a small package as a large one Each will receive the same thorough and careful attention If wc set the former it may in time grow to the later by the satisfaction you will derive jn wenriiiK our laundered work Family washing 5c per pound McCook Steam Laundry W C BLAIR Prop Succcor to G C Heckman PHONE 35 West Dennison St BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach Seed plants roses bulbs vines shrubs S3 trees Colorado grown oel on eanu uwm FRICES Free cata logue Agents wanted INTERNATIONAL NURSERIES The Big Growers Denver Colo FRIEND TO FRIEND The rjersonal recommendaticna of pie -who have been cured of coughs and colds by Chamberlains Cough Remedy have done more than all else to make it a staple article of trade and commerce ova a large part oi tne civmzeo wunu ii n I 1 CITY LODGE DIRECTORY A V A A M McCook LcmIro No KB A P A M moets ovory llrat unit third Tuut day of tho month at 800 i in in Masonic linll Chauics L Faiinehtock W M Lon Conk Sec n H M Occonoxco Council No 10 It S M meets ou tlio Inst Saturday of each month nt 800 p m n Masonic hall ItArru A IIaoiikro T I M SyiVKSTKlt COKIIKAI Soc I A M Kihr Cyrus Chapter No 35 R A M meets ovory ilrst and third Thursday of each monthat 8UU p in in ilafcomc null ClAKIiNCi H GttAY II P Clinton B Sawykk Sue KNIOIITH TISSUIAR St John Cominandory No 10 K T meets on tlio fcccond Thurt day of each mouth at fa00 p in in Masonic hall Emkrhox Hanson E C SVIAEBTEUConDKAL Koc ISASTlIItN STAR Eureka Chapter No 80 O E S moots the second and fourth h ndayH of each moutli 800 p in in Masonic hall Mrs Sauaii E Kay M Sylvester Coudeai Sec w ut MODERN WOODMEN Nohlo Camp No CGJ M W A moots ovory second and fourth Thursday of each month a 8150 p in in Gauschows hall Pay asbosbnients at Whitn llousn Grocery J M Smith Clerk S E Howell V C ROYAL NEIOHllORS Nohlo Camp No 802 R N A moots every second and fourth Thursday of oach mouth at 2t0p in in Ganchows hall Mrs Mary Walker Oracle Mrs Augusta Anton Rec w o w Meets second and fourth Thursdays nt S oclock in Diamonds hall Ciias F Markwad C C W C Moyer Clork WORKMEN McCook LodKO No 61 AOUW meots ovory Monday ntfe00 p m in Diamonds hall C B Gray Rec Fred Schlaoel M V DEGREE OF HONOR MrCnnk Lodeo No 3 D of II meets ovory second and forth Fridays of each month atS00 p in in Gauschows hall Mrs Laura Osburn C of H Mrs MatieG Welles Rec LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS McCook Division No G23 B of L E meots every socond and fourth Saturday of each month at 2 J0 in Morris hall Walter Stokes C E W D Burnett F A E LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN McCook LodRO No 599 B of L meets ovory Saturday at 730 p in F in E chows hall I D Pennington M Geo A Campbell Sec railway conductors TTsirvnv Division No 95 O R C meots the second and fourth Sundajs of each mouth at 300 p in in Diamonds hall Joe IIegenbergee C Con M O McCluee Sec railway trainmen CW Bronsou Iodgo No B of R T meots first and third Suudays at 230 p m and second and fourth Fridays at 7 30 p m each mouth in Morris hall Neal Beeler M R J Moore Sec railway carmen Young America Lodge No 45G B R C of A meets ou the first and third Thursdays of each mouth in Diamonds hall at 7 Ii0 p m Con Kreiger C C N II Snyder Rec Sec machinists Red Willow Lodge No 587 1 A of M meets every second and fourth Tuesday of the month atS00p m in Gauschow hall D O Hewitt Pres H Anderson Rec Sec BOILERMAKERS McCook Lodge No 407 B of B M I S B of A- meets first and third Fridays of each mouth in Odd Follows ball KNIGnTS OF PYTHIAS McCook Lodge No 42 K of P meets every Wednesday at 800 p m iu Masonic ball M Lawritson C C J N Gaarde K R S odd fellows McCook Lodge No 137 1 O O F meets every Mondav al800 p m in Gauschows ball Scott Doan oec E H Doan N G eagles Vr Prink Anrin No 1514 F O E meots the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 800 pm iu Diamonds hall Social meetings on the lirt and third Fridays R S Light W Pres G C Heckman W Sec KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS McCook Conncil No 1126 K of C meets tho first ami third Tuesdays of each month atS00 p m in Diamonds hall G R Gale F Sec Frank Real G K DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA Court Granada No 77 meets on the first and and third Tuesdays of each month at S p m in the Morris ball Anna Hannan G R Josephine Mullen F S LADY MACCABEES Valley Queen Hive No 2 L O T M meets every arst anu tmru xnur uui uuuius cm month iu Ganschov ball Mrs W B Mills Commander Harriet E Willetts R K G A R J E Barnes Post No 207 G A R meets on the first Saturday of each month at 230 p m Ganschows ball J M Henderson Cmndr J H Yarger Adjt L OF G A R McCook Circle No 33 L of G A R meets ou the first and third Fridays of each mouth at 230 p m in Diamonds hall Matie Welles Sec p e o Chapter X P E O meets the second and fourth Saturdays of each monta at 230 p m at the homes of the various members Mrs G II TnoMAS Pros Mrs C H Meeker Cor Sec i FENNEY WALKER GENERAL CONTRACTING PAINTERS AND DECORATORS Not How Cheap but How Good with Us Office and Shop west of First National Bank Steel Ceilings Sold Put Up and Decorated KILL THE BRUTE SKIN HSM PROPERLY AND SHIP HIS SKIN AND ALL OTHER FURSHIDESPELTSWO0t TO THE SHIPMENT H0U5E MlimURViOOLC liiAipoiis MIiaix THERES MONEY IN IT Write for Circulars utBetituktxaiWMM ffil OFTHEFRONTIER How They Brought Law and Order to the Unruly West HE RULE OF THE REVOLVER Life In the Wild Days When Gun Plays Occasioned Little Comment Yet When There Was Always Safety In Leaving It to the Crowd The hold reckless life of the frontier of the middle years of the nineteenth century and later has been often re called by the stories of desperadoes and bad men but in the birth and growth of the frontiercities is a unique phase of American civic genius which has been little dwelt upon Most of the cities of the far west have hovered close about the gather ings of hardy miners as they came or went on a feverish search for gold In forty nine SO000 men from all parts of the world reached the El Dorado of California Some traveled 2000 miles overland others went far around by Panama or Cape Horn In fifty nine 100000 gold seekers stampeded wildly across the sunburnt plains of Colorado Only 40000 stayed the year through Of like kinl although of smaller proportions were all the pil grimages that are more or less respon sible for the cities of the west the Qndiug of a streak of magic yellow its story leaking out and growing the glimpse of nuggets and speci mens and then the grand senseless rush to the Land of Get-Rich-Quick Thousands of daring spirits were drawn by the yellow loadstone intent on nothing but the accumulation ot wealth Then necessity produced some weird assemblages of tents shanties and log cabins many of which grew into cities Often full grown towns sprang up in a few months Far from any state or territorial government and composed of a conglomerated herd of excited men none of whom had time for civic affairs these embryo cities ex isted and grew under conditions that were unique and extremely wild Our forefathers landed on the east ern coast full of religious zeal and a desire for freedom of thought and life Their leaders and law came with them They prayed and lived communistical ly as long as they could then in creased expanded and developed into a nation But the gold discoveries of California Nevada Colorado and Mon tana brought thousands of independ ent men to the wilderness who were full of the hunger for gold not homes who had no leaders no laws to which they could appeal and nothing to bind them together Then the leaders came out of the crowd and the law grew as it was needed it was omy uliml time that any of these men came to consider remaining permanently in the country and it was these venturesome builders who developed the newer part of our nation From the nature of things with so much at stake among such hard living men there were plenty of lights and disputes There being no authority to which to appeal differences were set tled between man and man A six shooter was the greatest help a man could get toward a physical superior ity over other men and so everybody carried a gun and knew how to use it The trigger linger grew nimble with practice and there developed a condition where frequent killings anu shootings occasioned little comment or criticism where men were almost in different to the spilling of blood and looked death square in the face with a nonchalance that is hardly conceiv able now Shooting affrays were the froth of a very strong brew of the bor der life and they put a settlement to questions quickly and definitely If when the smoke cleared away some good man lay biting the dust his light had gone out according to the code of the time fierce and barbarous as codes must be when man first struggles with nature And yet there was always safety iu leaving it to the crowd The gener al sentiment of the community was very partial to fairness and honesty during the early days of most border towns There were no locks or keys oiircr 111V mans credit was good to any amount and stores and provisions could lay untouched for months In wholly unguarded places It was the natural frank honesty of the virgin west and a veritable paradise for thieves and criminals And they came hordes of murdering plundering adventurers who knew no code of morals or chivalry and resorted to anything to accomplish their ends They found plunder rich crime easy and escape still easier and drifting all over the country levied tribute from each new camp as it sprang into being Often these men were in such a ma jority that a man who believed in hon esty and justice was a man indeed if he had the couriae to back his ideals But there were such men men as God meant men to be full of the sense of right and the fitness of things and un afraid They stepped right into the opening and tackled some of the cuss edest crowds in Christendom teaching a wholesome respect for life liberty and the pursuit of happiness to hunches of drinking blasphemous and unharnessed tempers The gun fight ings lynchings and wanton spillings of blood that spiced the histories of the time may have been very close to sav agery but they serve now to deepen the respect we must have for men who harnessed law and order on such condi tions Outing Magazine Good Temper Good temper is like a sunny day French Troverb I BARTLEY C E Matthews and A J DeArmond have been appointed to tho oflico of justice of tho peaco for East Valley pre cinct Evil doers ploaso take notice and save costs II N Rosebush of McCook and his crow of concrete workers are doing a fine lot of work in Hartley putting in side walks and street crossings Calvin Hammond took out a lot of paint Wednesday to brighten tho build ings on his homo place Mrs Reiner is having her farm houso south of town painted A L Cochran is adding anothor room to his residence J A Curleo is at his homo iu Lincoln sick Mrs Leonard Ilarsch who wont to Omaha to consult Dr B B Davis has not yet returned Wo are informod tho doctor diagnosed tho diasoaso cancer of the liver Prof Parsons of Glasgow Kansas was in Bartloy Wednesday Ho is now engaged in marble and granito work at Lovoland Colo Thirteen years ago ho was tho professor in our high school A car load of sulphur burned on tho switch here Monday night about ton oclock The fumes gave us an idea of the orthodox futuro for earthly sinners Mrs John Wolf will go to Lincoln in a few days to visit her daughter Mrs Earl Eddy Robert Fischer is iu Denver for a short stay hoping to improve his health Dr and Mrs Brown made a business trip to Indianola Monday W S Minnick made a business trip to the Beaver Monday Will Sheets was at McCook on busi ness Wednesday D ANBURY Quite a number of Danbury citizens attended the musical entertainment at Marion Friday night R E Pogue of Bertrand made a short visit hero Wednesday Mrs Herman Wintjen was thrown from a spring wagon one day last week She was not injured very much Mr and Mrs Oscar Thomas left last Tuesday for their new homo in Cali fornia Mrs Reta Drath and son spent a day in Danbury and then departed for the home of her parents in Illinois Hayes Moyers mother of Ludoll is here visiting S II Stilgobouer and family of Ma rion were Danbury visitors over Sunday Mrs Ruby is spending the week in Marion i Tho Easter program at the Congrega tional church was well attended Tho M E church has purchased a new lighting plant and will have it in stalled this coming week W J Stilgebouer was a business vis itor in Banksville Tuesday Mrs R E Poguo and children who havo been visiting hero for a few days returned home this week Miss Laura Dewey was an Atwood visitor over Sunday Mrs II V Lord and family were Mc Cook visitors Saturday and Sunday INDIANOLA Charley Boas was at McCook Friday evening Miss George visited at her homo in Cambridge Saturday and Sunday Miss John Dunning visited relatives in Oxford Monday Tressa Lehn went to Denver on No 13 Monday where she will be engaged as a nurse Neal Quick went to McCook Monday Laura Miller was at Red Willow Tuesday Mrs Baker returned to her home in Bartley Monday after a short visit with her son and family George King of Spokane Washington is here visiting his brother Charles King and family Marion Powell was in town on busi ness Tuesday Joseph Harrison was at McCook on business Tuesday John Mallock shipped a car load of cattle to St Joe Saturday evening Dr and Mrs W D Mackechnie were at McCook Monday evening Mrs F Hardesty is on tho sicK list S R Smith was at McCook on busi 1 ness Tuesday Dr Minnick was at McUook Monday evening H WKeyes was m McCook Monday Mrs Kennedy went to McCook Wed desday morning on No 13 for a visit with relatives J M Pratt had the misfortune to fall out of his wagon and get run over a week ago Monday and broke one bone of his foot and fractured another Leonard Smith shipped some cattle to St Joseph Tuesday evening Townsite of Parks Surveyed J R Phelan has had a townsite sur veyed at Parks Dundy county Mr Phelan has been spending most of the past winter at Parks and Denver and has just recently returned to his home in Alliance HERE AND THERE Wymoro has subscribed 11130 for races this summer Holdrego is boosting for a 820000 Y M C A building Tho Misses Ro becca and Ada Smyth of that city plodgo 81000 And Holdrego went dry In several respects this would ho an ideal spring for tho Burlington to put up that Mauhattan streot viaduct From no saloon at all to a contem plation of four applications for license to sell booze must mako tho averago Indianolaitos head fairly swim Governor Folk of Missouri doclaros tomporanco tho greatest question before the American people and Governor Hanley of Indiana seconds tho no tion If Doc Razeo isnt tho first man iu Nobraska to successfully aviato it will be because ho cant manago that mar velous pair of wings ho is now assid uously sprouting McCook is doing her share in seeking to relievo drouth in surrounding towns McFann Cox havo petitions in for licenso in Bonkohnan and Indian ola besides tho local petition Bartloy is to havo an Advont church material for same being now dolivored on site T I U- rl J UilVU OCUll illl 1UVUIU1IIIU IUU UJ fail at tho sight of a woodpile Eustis recently suffered a 830000 lire loss and is now figuring on voting 15 000 bonds for water works Easter edition of tho Arapahoo Pioneer was issued in three colors hand painted Foxy GRANT Clara Cunningham closed a successful term of school in district No 51 Fri day April 17th She was well liked by everybody Henry Blunck is working for A A Towle this week John II Wesch has loased tho Row land threo quarters for two years Tho Prairie Dog ball team came over to play tho Grant ball nine on tho Grant diamond Score 25 to 29 in favor of Grant A program was given by Clara Cunningham and pupils after tho ball game Everybody had a good timo Gust Blunck is hauling wheat to Traer Kansas for John Wesch W II McBrien and R E Adams will pitch for tho Grant bail team this season Bert Benjamin has the misfortune to have his pump give out every day thus giving him lots of work driving his stock to water in tho neighborhood Roy Albrecht took a load of hogs to Cedar Bluffs Wednesday Some rain Wednesday night but more is needed Dead Horses If young fellows who are pursuing their dissolute courses could be con vinced of the evil they are storing up for futuro days they would reform in a body and the millenium would be here tomorrow morning The youth who is a jolly good fellow for a season or two when life is young pays for it all through his autumn and winter and finds that ho is paying usurious interest without recourse It is one thing to stand in a bar room in che golden evening of youth and sing Marguerite and pay for every bodys refreshments and enjoy famil iar conversation with the bartender it is another thing to pay for dead horse3 in old age when dollars come hard and dimes look unconscionably large The country is full of old men who are needy and miserable doing hard work that is almost beyond their strength who might bo spending their age in comfort even in opulence had they not been jolly good fellows when they were young It is the winter of their lives and the darkness is closing in and they are paying for the horses that aied long ago What the world needs is a preacher so compelling so forceful so eloquent and sincere that he can show the jolly good fellows wherein they are fools and impress upon them the lesson of the dead horses We have preachers enough who can describe tho journeyings of John the Baptist in the wilderness and tho for- titude of Daniel in the lions den but I John and Daniel are dead and nobody cares much about what happened to them in tho wilderness or tho men agerie while the country is full of jolly good fellows who are going hellward with their heels over the dashboard and they are worth saving for most of them have good material in them To one who is growing old and who is still paying for dead horses there is nothing sadder then the spectacle of a young man going wrong the wrong road is taken so buoyantly so gaily that the wandering youth looks like a victim decked with flowers for a hea then sacrifice And there is no power great enough to turn him to convince him of the ambush and the avalanche That is the pity of it Emporia Gazette Have You Houses To Rent Then you should be supplied with rent receipt books The Tribune has just what you want compact and com- plete FRANK REISTLE ENGRAVER and ELECTROTYPER Pnoit 1114 1420 24 lAWBlNCL OLNVCR COLO TTTT II I ii munu n m PRICE Mike Walsh DEALER IN POULTRY EGGS Old Rubber Copper and Brass Highest Market Price Paid in Cash Now location just across rirCTonlc IV l streot in l Walsh buildiiitf You Carry Insurance on your life on your proporty Why not insuro yoursolf against adversity in tho futuro by invest ing your surplus funds in a bank account Allow it to accumulato until a timo comes when you need it badly that is when you will appreciate its truo worth Just as tho value of yourlife in surance increases as you grow older so will your bank account grow as you add to it weekly monthly or yearly In fact tho possibilities of your bank account is limited only by your earning and saving capacity An account with this bank is Good Insurance The Old Reliable 22 Years in Business THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK McCook Nebraska utt vmMsmmm April Specials I IlBl i To the Pacific Coast Very favorable excursion rates to the Pacific coast during the sum mer season of 1003 including special dates in April to California as follows April 25th and 2Gth Illustration only SCO round trip The coast tour is the finest rail road journey in the world Mako it this summer Also low one way rates during April To Colorado and the Rocky Mountains Plan now for your summer vaca tion in Colorado Wyoming the Black Hills or Yellowstone Park Very low and attractive summer tourist rates to the cool mountain resorts after June 1st Homeseekers Rates First and third Tuesdays to the west generally The Biff Horn Basin Auction sale for choice of the newly irrigated lands under the Oregon Basin or Wiley ditch near Cody Opening in May1903 Also splendid chances yet for homesteading government irrigat ed lands near Garland Wyo Write D Clem Deaver Lancseek ers Information Bureau Omaha He will personally conduct land seekers excursions to the Big Horn Basin first and third Tues days of each month through the summer Excellent busi ness chances in new growing towns on Burlington extensions Write Mr Deaver or R E FOE Ticket Agent McCook Neb L W WAKELEY G P Af Omaha Neb lprs SaSgsggS Al 4