Mr
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The Successful
Farmer
A
y fto1 a mfl iwiy
of today who does not possess
a bank account is an excep
tion
To no one is a checking ac
count more of a luxury It
solves the problem of always
having his money at hand of
making exact change and re
ceiving a receipt in return for
the money paid
Some men oven to this day
persist in carrying a roll of
currency on their persons
they are the ones wo usually
read of in the papers as hav
ing been hold up and rob
bed
A bank account is the best
burglary insurance you can
have
This bank wants your busi
ness wo will appreciate it
we prove it
The
First
National
Bank of Mccook
By F M KIMMELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
The Arapahoe Pioneer has been leased
by our esteemed Gaelic friend Mooney
to Messrs W O Butler and Lawrence
Butler and the Pioneer promises to
blaze the way more brilliantly than
ever
For every supposed violation of con
gressional perogative and senatorial
dignity it seems ro be the utmost ambi
tion of the present congrpsa to make
Teddy smart now that the presidents
term is rapidly coming to a close
What a terrifying cage of lions those
senators aod congressmen have become
who erstwhile wore for the most part
the veriest bunch of pitronage soeking
whelps
Congress both branches seems to
bedHvoting more of the peoples time
and money just now in ac effort to em
barrass and disciedit President Roose
velt than they are improving in an hon
est effort to secure just and needed leg
islation Heres confusion to the con
gressional bunch and power to the big
stick Congressman NorriB Kincaid
and Pjllard are credited with voting
against the resolution aimed against the
president and The Tribune gives a
large bright credit mark accordingly
Death of Caleb Clothier
A telegram from Holdrege Nebraska
announces the death last week of
Caleb Clothier well known to many
readers of this paper Mr Clothier has
for years lived on a ranch near Carrico
Hayes county coming to this section of
Nebraska more than 25 years ago from
New Jersey Formerly very wealthy
his closing days were in anything but
affluence the last two years being spent
in Wallace the ward of a friend
He recently went to Holdrege for med
ical treatment and died at the home of
J M Harbaugh in that city cancer of
the liver and old age bping the stated
cause of death He was 78 years of age
He had no relatives in this part of the
country an only sister being the sole
survivor She is over SO years old and
lives in Mt Hcliy N J where the re
mains were shipped for burial
Rev Carmlcbael Kills Himself
Rev John Havelin Carmichael charg
ed with killing Gideon Browning at
Battle Creek Mich last week com
mitted suicide at Carthage 111 Mon
day In a letter he acknowledged the
commission of the deed which be at
tributed to an over mastering desire on
his part to escape the hypnotic influence
of Browning
Carmichael preached in Nebraska
several years ago Benkelman Dono
van and Grant being among his charges
His conduct at Benkelman brought
charges against and resulted in his re
moval from this conference
Taylor Gives Himself Up
Bert M Taj lor of Minden charged
with rape arson assault and murder
and for whose
apprehension 81000 re
ward has been offered recently surrend
ered himself to a Union Pacific brake
man and is now in jail at San Bernar
dino California
The story of his crime is familiar to
all Nebraskans one of the mort dast
ardly in thh annals of the state
Engines 2020 and 1182 are over drop
pits 1 and 2 respectively this week
The boys expect to turn out four No
3 and one No 5 this month which
will keep them going some
OLD TIME FORCEPS
When the Thing Was Turned 8ome
thing Had to Give Way
And speaking of teeth reminds mi
that the country doctor had to draw
them when they ached The dentist
artistry had not attained the elevated
plane it occupies today when every
bodys mouth shines like the inside oi
a communion cup I honestly bellev
the modern dentist has more different
kinds of tools than even a sanltarj
plumber and thats a whole lot when
you come to count them up The mod
ern dentist hates the worst way tc
draw a tooth Nevertheless if th
modern dentist must draw the tooth
he has a particular forceps for a par
ticular tooth and a cruel hearted and
cold looking thing It is too It puts
you so in mind of a successful finan
cier When you brace yourself in the
Iron chair and- take a tight grip on the
arms of it and make up your mind
youll try to stand It and he gets that
forceps well under the gum and wait
a minute I feel so kind o faint
Laws Why didnt I mind my mother
when she told me not to crack hick
ory nuts with my teeth Well any
way you know hell get the tootli out
without doing more than take the
whole top of your head off and that
only In a figurative sense
Uncle Doc had one Implement that
did for every tooth big and little
front and hack It wasnt a forceps
It was a turnkey The real old folks
know what that Is and will say so
with the cold chills running over them
But youve never seen one and many
a man that you would call old has
never seen one Its something like a
ennthook The loosely riveted piece
that curves slips over the tooth and
catches on the inside the solid cam
bears on the outside gum the operator
turns the handle Lets not talk about
It Something has got to give Maybe
the tooth will come out maybe It will
break off maybe the jaw will frac
ture All those are dctnlls The main
point is that if the operator twists the
handle something has got to give and
thats all there is about it Eugene
Wood In Success Magazine
A GENTLE REPROACH
Telling Retort of the Lamblike Violet
Eyed Beauty
There is a certain young woman who
is beautiful with that childish wistful
innocent looking violet eyed beauty
which reduces one half the feminine
world to tears the- other half to utter
ly helpless rage We all know the
type but it is seldom given us to see
it in such perfection We usually as
sociate it with a Iamblike appealing
mentality -that permits itself to be rid
den upon as soon expect a wood violet
to turn and rend you
A short time ago she was asked to
a womans luncheon and got herself
up for the occasion in a way that
made the result of her efforts a thins
not easily forgotten She arrived look
ing so lovely that there was little said
among the guests for a few moments
after her entry into the room Perhaps
she felt the silence At all events she
turned to the woman standing nearest
her and said iu a childish voice with
ever such a little lisp and pretty south
ern accent
Howr well yo are lookin today
It was a well meant civility from a
young woman to an older one who
seemingly was unable to accept it as
such and put up her lorgnette sweep
ing the speaker from top to toe What
she saw was enough to disconcert a
younger and prettier woman than her
self but even so one finds it dillicult
to justify her next move
Wish 1 could say the same for
you she returned closing her lorgnette
with a snap
One or two of the guests were
friends of the pretty woman and al
most stopped breathing in order not
to miss what they felt sure would
come and it came The pretty one
raised her eyebrows slightly then
said with an air of gentle reproach
Why dont yo lie like a lady like
I do Rehobolh Sunday Herald
What He Needed
A sovereign would tempt many men
and when Iiimkius making a few pur
chases at the stores saw one lying ou
the floor just by the counter he quiv
ered with excitement
Glancing around to reassure himself
that none was looking he quite acci
dentally dropped one of his kid gloves
neatly ou the coin and then dived He
got the glove all right but still the sov
ereign remained
A shopwalker approached him
Good morning sir said the man
rubbing his hands together in the ap
proved style and may I show you a
bottle of our celebrated liquid glue
which sticks
London Mail
The Cellar Stairs
A man who once had a bad fall when
going down his cellar stairs now has
a broad strip of white painted on the
floor at the end of the last step This
is easily seen even if the cellar be
dark and many a nasty accident is
avoided If the house is rented and
you do not like to paint the hoards a
piece of white oilcloth can be tacked
to the floor at the foot of the stairs
See that the tacking is securely done
or a worse fall may follow than from
a misgauged step Philadelphia Tress
Dodged
I got my wife through advertising
Then youll admit that advertising
pays
Ill admit that it brings results
was the cautious reply - Louisville
Courier Journal
No man can be provident of hb time
who Is not prudent in the choice of bis
company Jeremy Taylor
LAND OF THE CR0SSB0V
The Deadly Poisoned Arrows of the
Lissoo Sharpshooters
On the wild frontier between China
and British Burma is a barbarous trlbo
which has no civilized supervision
George Forrest an English traveler
thus describes the chief weapon of
these people If I had to suggest a
title for a hook on the upper Salwin I
should call it The Land of the Cross
bow which is the characteristic
on of the country and theLissoo tflbe
Every Lissoo with any pretensions to
chic possesses at least two of these
weapons one for everyday use In hunt
ing the other for war The little chil
dren play with miniature cr6s8ppws
The men never leave their huts forany
purpose whatever without their cross
bows When they go to sleep
kung Is hung over their heads and
when they die It Is hung over their
graves The largest crossbows have a
span of fully Ave feet and require a
pull of fully thirty five pounds to srlng
them The bow is made of a species of
wild mulberry of great toughness and
flexibility The stock some four feet
long in the war bows is usually of
wild plum wood The string Is of
plaited hemp and the trigger of borie
The arrow of sixteen to eighteen
Inches is of split bamboo about four
times the thickness of an ordinary
knitting needle hardened and pointed
The actual point Is bare for a quarter
to one third of an inch then for fully
an inch the arrow is stripped to half its
thickness and on this portion poison is
placed
The poison is invariably a decoction
expressed from the tubers of a species
of aconitum which grows on thoso
ranges at an altitude of 8000 to 10000
feet The poison is mixed with resin
or some vegetable gum to the consist
ency of putty and is then smeared on
the notched point The feather is sup
plied by a strip of bamboo leaf folded
into a triangular form and tied in a
notch at the end of the arrow withthe
point of the angle outward The ro
duction in thickness of the arrow
where the poison is placed causes the
point to break off in the body of any
one whom It strikes and as each car
ries enough poison to kill a cart horse
a wound Is Invariably fatal Freeand
Immediate incision is the usual remedy
when wounded on a limb or fleshy part
of the body but at Chengka the uncle
of the Laowo chief showed us a prep
aration which resembled opium dross
and which he said was an effective
antidote
With few exceptions the Lissoo
seemed to us to be arrant cowards
but the crossbow and poisoned arrow
are certainly most diabolical weapons
An arrow from a war bow will pierce
a deal board an Inch thick at seventy
or eighty yards Some of the Tsekou
natives were so expert that they could
hit a mark four Inches in diameter re
peatedly at sixty to eighty yards As
no one goes anywhere without his
crossbow and his bearskin quiver full
of poisoned arrows and as every vil
lage is at feud with every other vil
lage mutual suspicion is Inevitable
In open flight the Lissoo are usually
careful to keep at a respectful distance
from each other and behind oxhide
shields which protect the whole of the
body Cut if battle is rare murder
and sudden death by ambush in the
jungle are common i
Drank and Remembered
A porter in a big New York ware
house iu Greenwich street was recent
ly discharged for getting drunk and los
ing a valuable parcel The discharge
sobered him instantly coming as a sud
den hard shock He said he would
take the oath never to touch liquor
again hut Ids pleadings for reinstate
ment were unheeded He searched
everywhere for the parcel but oould
not recollect what disposition he had
made of it Of his honesty there had
never been a question in twenty years
Overcome by the loss of his place he
got violently drunk and while in this
condition recollected where he had left
the parcel and went and recovered it
New York Times
Where Willie Was
The professor at the dinner table
Oh by the way Mrs Chopsticks hav
you seen your little boy Willie lately
Mrs Chopsticks No professor I havo
not seen him since 10 oclock and I
cant imagine what has become of him
In fact I am very much worried about
him Professor Well seeing Martha
pour me out that glass of water just
now reminded me of something that I
had on my mind to tell you some time
ago but which unfortunately escaped
my memory It was just about 10
oclock I think that I saw little Willie
fall down the well Atlanta Constitu
tion
Sympathy For the Orphans
An elephant while stamping through
the jungle one day quite unintentional
ly stepped upon a mother bird crush
ing it to death Hearing the cries of
the little brood in the bushes near by
she sought out the nest and with a sym
pathetic sigh said Poor little things
Ive been a mother myself Ill keep
you warm And she then proceeded
to sit upon the nest From George T
Lanlgans Fable The Kind Hearted
She Elephant
Modern Version
Then you will be ever at my beck
and call inquired Aladdin
With the exception of Tuesday and
Friday afternoons Monday and Satur
day evenings and every other Sunday
Ermly replied the genie Washington
Herald
The Knocking
De successful man said Uncle
Ehen keeps quiet sos he kin hear op
portunity knofkin at de do Pe fail
tre tries to do all de knockin hissef
Washington star
M
OTORDU
S
OUTLAW
Fearless Billy the Kid Who
Reveled In Carnage
ONLY A BOY YET A TERROR
This Youthful Desperado of the South
western Territories Was but
When He Met Death at the
Hands of Sheriff Pat Garrett
When General Lew Wallace was
governor of New Mexico and the war
that raged for several years between
the rival cattle companies was at its
height Billy the Kid had reached
the flood of his murderous career He
arrived in Lincoln county to take sides
in the cattle warfare known and
feared In every range town and min
ing camp in the southwestern terri
tories
Pure wanton love of carnage was all
that attracted him to Lincoln county
With tlie band of desperadoes he led
he raided ranches shot up towns
killed burned houses and committed
outrage after outrage with the blind
recklessness of a maniac Fear was
extinct within him He cared no more
for detachments of cavalry than he
did for cowering sheriffs
Affairs in New Mexico finally came
to such a pass that half the cattlemen
paid the youthful desperado tribute
It was only after Pat F Garrett was
- made sheriff of Lincoln county and the
author of Beu Hur General Wal
lace urged that fearless gun fighter
and gambler to capture Billy the Kid
that a determined effort was made to
end his reign of terror
The obstacles that Garrett had to en
counter called for all his headlong en
ergy and nerve Billy had the entire
countryside in a state of abject terror
friends were ready to give him timely
warning of pursuit ranchmen dared
not deny him lodgment or conceal
ment
Pat Garrett undertook the capture in
October 1SS0 and on Dec 20 he sur
rounded the Kid and his band in a
deserted house near Stinking Springs
After a siege lasting most of the day
the outlaws ammunition was exhaust
ed Billy the Kid surrendered He
and his four followers surrounded by
a great force of armed men were taken
to Las Vegas and thence to Santa Fe
for safe keeping
An array of indictments charging
murder confronted him He was tried
on one indictment and acquitted then
tried on another and convicted He
carried himself throughout with sneer-
ing defiance After he had been sen
tenced to hang Garrett took him to
Fort Stanton near Lincoln Two depu
ties armed with Winchesters were as
signed to guard him in the temporary
jail in the Murphy Dolan store build
ing
In some mysterious fashion the
-Kid possessed himself of a revolver
shot down his guards seized their
weapons and appeared at the window
When another guard appeared the
prisoner riddled his body with buck
shot Then he called to an old man on
the plaza to bring him a file Filing
off one of his shackles he called for a
horse One was brought and he es
caped
For nearly three months after that
Billy the Kid led a fugitive life
Garrett dogged him patiently and final 1
ly got wind of his hiding place the
ranch of Peter Maxwell near Fort
Sumner It was nearly midnight when
Garrett and two deputies quietly ap 1
proached the Maxwell hacienda Gar-
rett crept into the room where Max-
well was sleeping Softly awakening
the sleeper he questioned him concern 1
ing the whereabouts of the Kid i
At that moment the hunted youth
sprang into the room calling out in
Spanish Quien va Who comes
there It was Billy He was un-
armed and as he reached for his rifle
Garrett shot him The body of
liam Bonney Billy the Kid was bur- j
ied in the military cemetery at Fort
Stanton July ir 1SS1 nis age at the
time of his death was twenty one years
seven months There his body is to 1
day though in later years a corpse was
exhibited throughout the west as that
of the famous young outlaw narpers
Weekly
None Left Alive
An orator said one of our states
men was addressing an assemblage
of the people He recounted the peo
ples wrongs Then he passionately
cried
Where are Americas great men
Why dont they take up the cudgel in
our defense In the face of our man
ifold wrongs why do they remain cold
Immovable silent
Because theyre all cast in bronze I
shouted a cynic in the rear
Bucolic Humor
Hiram why dont you speak to that
city gal out there a sittin on the grass
with her back up agin your No Tres
passing sign
Mandy that young woman is be
neath my notice Boston Transcript
But Not the One
Mrs Hoyle My husband had 100
000 when I married him Mrs Doyle
How much has he now Mrs LToyle
Oh he has most of the ciphers left
Bohemian
The Whales Blow
Porpoise What is the whale blowing
about DocGsh Oh he got so many
notices for his feat In swallowing Jo
nah hes hiea blowing ever since Ex
chance
Progress N the real cure for an over
estimate of Macdonald
For the Benefit of
My Customers
V
My creditors being at all times satisfied and not being
forced to raise for them any imaginary sum of money I
am in a position to give to my many customers
The Highest Class Merchandise
at the Very Lowest Figures
Listen to My Saving Proposition
In order to protect and hold my much appreciated trade
I will furnish you all
Winter Underwear Wool and Fleeced-
Lined Hosiery Outing Gowns Knit
Skirts Flannelettes Outing Flannels
Yarns Battings Cloaks and Furs at
20 to 30 per cent Discount during the
Months of January and February
I do this to enable you to buy what you need when you
need it from a stock which you know to be up-to-date and
from a firm which is here to stay and to guarantee you now
and at all times
Perfect Satisfaction or Money Refunded
Examine what you are buying Dont be caught by
showy price cards as a bait and find yourself stung by
shop worn shelf worn and old time merchandise outof date
and worthless with only creditors and receivers to go to for
satisfaction and then not get it
In Underwear
Ijiurnish you
25c garments for 19c
50c garments for 39c
75c garments for 58c
1 OO garments for 79c
125 garments for 95c
150 garments for 115
200 garments for 150
250 garments for 195
300 garments for 225
and so on up
In Hosiery
I furnish you
1 5c hose for 1 1 c
25c hose for 19c
35c hose for 29c
50c hose for 39c
In Outing Flannels
I2c values go for 9c
ioc values go for 8c
All Battings Reduced
Cloaks and Furs Discounted 30 per cent
This allows you any
25oocoat for 1750 1250 fur for 775
2000 coat forg 1400 10 50 fur for 700
1800 coat for 1260
1 5 00 coat for 1 o 50
1 2 50 coat for 7 75
1000 coat for 700
800 coat for
6o
5 75 coat for 403
500 coat for 3 50
750 fur for 525
500 fur for - 350
400 fur for 280
3 00 fur for 2 10
200 fur for 140
150 fur for 105
100 fur for 70
400 coat for 280 And all new stock with
300 coat for 2 10 ular prices to figure from
Muslin Underwear Sale
Ends Saturday Night January 16th
This has been the most phenominal sale of under muslins
ever put on in McCook and the crowds in our store every day
prove that the ladies in McCook appreciategenuine bargains
Come in tomorrow the last day
H C Clapp
Exclusive Dry Goods Millinery and Ladies Furnishings
Real Estate Filings
The following real estate filings have
been made in the county clerks office
since last report
Lincoln Lund Co to S R Me3
sner wd to lots 1G IS blk 2
Danbury 200 00
William Parrott et ux to Da
vid Parrott wd to se qr 11 4
27 ISOOOO
Robert A Morrison et ux to
Farmers Mtg Loan Co wd
to e hf 15 w hf sw qr 14 nw
qr nw qr lot 3 blk 23 lots 1
2 3 blk 22 all in 3 28 27000 00
L D Vanderhoof et ux to Fred
Stpvens wd to w hf ne qr 26
3 2S 2000 00
United States to heirs of Ark
ansas Downs pat to se qr ne
qr
Francis Day et al to William N
Downs qcd to same 100
Joseph Downs et al to William
N Downs qcd to same 1 00
James M Downs et us to Wm
X Downs qcd to same 1 00
Allen E Pennington et ux to
Francis M Pennington wd to
part sw qr se qr 17-1-26 50 00
Phone 5
222 Main Ave
McCook
RED WILLOW
E ASexson was quite sick for a
while but is going about again
Holton Longnecker and family left on
Sunday for McCookwhere
they will re
main for a while so Mrs Longnecker
can receive medical treatment
Dora Sawyer is staying at Louis Long
neckers and attending school driving
with little Blossom
There was quite a hilarious charivari
at Mr Critchfields one night last week
when Mr Owen Critchfield brought his
bride home
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R H Gatewood
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