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We Startled a Good Many
People With Our Heater Offer
Did You Read It
Wo put some statements about heating stoves down in black and white
that stovo users never heard before Wo want to repeat thorn
Romembor wo aro backed up by one of tho grandest stovo manufac
turing concerns in tho world yes by a concern that makes and sells
moro soft coal heaters each year by three times than any other maker
anywhere
So there aro millions of dollars behind what wo have to say about heat
ers this year
To us alono is given tho right to make the most unusual guarantee over
made on a heating stove
Coles Cold Blast Guarantee
Here is our authority from the President of the Cole Manufacturing
Co tho strongest guarantee over made on a heater
You aro authorized to sell theOriginal Coles Hot Blast Heater this
year on tho most rigid guarantee ever made by any stovo manufacturer
Our guarantee to every customer of yours is
1 A saving of one third in fuel over any lower draft stovo of the same
size with soft coal slack or lignite
2 That Colos Hot BIst will use less hard coal for heating a given
spaco than any base burner made with same size lire pot
3 Thsit the rooms can be heated from cno to two hours each morning
with the soft coal or hard coal put in the stovo the evening before
i That tho stovo will hold fire with soft coal from Saturday night
until Monday morning
5 A uniform heat day and night with soft coal hard coal or lignite
6 stove will remain absolutely air tight as long as used
7 That the feed door is and will remain smoke and dust proof
All we ask is that the stove shall be operated according to directions and
set up with a good flue
Signed COLE MANUFACTURING CO
Makers of the Original Patented Hot Blast Stove
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McCook Hardware Co
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MAIN LINE EaST DKPaUT
No 6 Central Timo 1140 p M
16 500 a si
I 535 A M
12arrG15pin i40 A si
14
10
MAIN LINE WEST DEPAHT
Mountain Timo 120 P si
5arr850pm
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1142 P SI
930 A si
905 A si
1230 A si
820 A Si
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No 176 arrives Mountain Timo 420 p M
No 175 departs 710 A si
Sleeping dining and reclining chair cars
Boats free on through trains Tickets sold
and baggage chocked to any point in the United
States or Canada
For information timetables maps and tick
ets call on or write D F Hostetter Agent
McCook Nebraska or L W Wakeley General
Passenger Agent Omaha Nebraska
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS
Dispatcher D N Cobb is ill and at
Funk recuperating
Conductor Lino was off first of the
week and Herman Hegeuberger had his
run
The structural iron for the viaduct
over the east end of the yards arrived
Tuesday
One car of automobiles was lignited
and totally destroyed up west on No 77
Sunday morning
Conductor Wyman returned from his
vacation close of last week and his way
car 143S7 the last one put into service
Conductor E O Scott has purchased
a lot ou 4th street west and is preparing
to build thereon a modern cottage to
cost about 32000
The company has material distribut
ed and work enough in sight to keep
the bridge gang busy all winter re
placing the frame bridges with concrete
structures
The immense supply of ice stored here
by the company last winter has been
exhausted by the big run of fruit this
season and ice is now being shipped in
from Wymore and other points to pro
tect the business until another crop is
available
There is a night agent in the office at
Bartley and the depot will be opened
from 7 oclock in the morning to 4 in
the afternoon and from 5 in the evening
until 2 in tho morning Tickets can be
purchased only during the above men
tioned hours
The burning of a big bridge two miles
east of Stratton Sunday afternoon oc
casioned the company serious incon
venience and delayed both freight and
passenger traffic No 6 was detoured
via Alliance to Lincoln No 14 via Ster
ling and Holdrege to Oxford and No 10
arrived here ten hours late
Conductor Joe Marshall of Lincoln
has been assigned to the McCook divi
sion and has the run on Nos 2 and 3
This owing to the mileage traversed be
tween Kenesaw and Hastings on the
Lincoln division by McCook division
crews On the same account another
McCook division conductor has been
assigned to the run between Denver and
Alliance the mileage giving this division
two crews and the Sterling division
three Conductor Pope and Fay are on
the run
Fred Schlect was let out of the se
vice last week
Engine 1312 is down on her wheels
and will be out in a few days
Engine 1963 is over the drop - pit
this week for usual repairs
Kepairs to the steam chpsr cylinders
etc of No 322 were made this week
One of the grey hounds No 2702
had her driving brasses smoothed up
this week
Several small fires in the shop lately
nothing of note A smoke jack over
over No 17 etc
The carpenter shop adjoining the
blacksmith shop has been considerably
improved in apprarence lately
Milton Frost who served his tiire
here yearsgo has returned to his old
love and is at present on the rod bent h
W F Pate was called into Lincoln
midweek on business of a coming new
time card He returned home last
night
Conductor Ira E Converse has been
entertaining his brother George A of
Hendley who returned home close of
last week
Engineer and Mrs MHGriggs and the
children who have been absent on a
visit in Kansas returned home last
Sunday night
C O Moore of the master mechanics
office has been transferred to Supt Rol
lers car as stenographer vice Fred
Walsh resigned
Engineer and Mrs I L Rodstrom
left Sunday for Fremont on a visit
They will also take in the sights of
while away
W C Allison arrived home Tuesday
on No 15 from his trip to Atlanta
Georgia attending the national conven
tion of car repairers
There were only six fine Waverly
electrics in that car of autos which
burned on 77 near Stratton this week
They were consigned to San Francisco
Roy Kleven has been appointed to the
new position is the dispatchers office
checker of train sheets and train orders
He will also go over the road instruct
ing operators
Conductor and Mrs J W Line are
enjoying a visit in Vermont the old
home state departing on an absence of
three or four week at Franklin and
other points Monday
Its several weeks old but that doesnt
change the fact that ttiey have a fine
little daughter at the home of Mr and
Mrs Walter French now of near Hold
rege but formerly residents of our city
Engines 2998 and 1050 have been help
ing make steam for the shops this
week while work has been progressing
on the ash pit improvements and en
largements to the steam plant this
week
Mrs J G Inglis asd the children re
turned last week from spending a
couple of months visiting relatives in
Saskatchewan Canada They came by
way of St Paul Minn and were pre
sent at the funeral of the late lamented
Governor Johnson of that state Mrs
Inglis is greatly improved by her visit
having had a very enjoyable vacation
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It KICKDKICICK A COOK tin
courageous explorer who Una
gained undying fume by N
discovery of the north pole is
u iishictit f lirooUlyu For years he
has given Ills attention to arctic ex
plorations and in Ibll J was surgeon
of the Peary arctic expedition and In
1897 9 surgeon of the Helgian arctic
expedition lie his received numerous
decorations from the geographical so
cieties of Europe for his research and
writing n the polar tield
Dr ilv -fined on his present expe
dition in the T of l7 sailing
from North SSuuc l It board
the schooner John It Iiaunv iwilt by
John It Bradley of New ori i
financed th expedition
The party was re enforced with
sledges dogs and arctic equipment
at Etah Greenland whence it sailed
March 1908 Dr Cooks pliifr was to
set aside all tradition by making the
dash to the pole during the winter
months when the elements are consid
ered least advantageous for an ad
vance northward
Without a big ship without the com
pany of a single white man Dr CooUs
dash for the north pole was made un
der incredible hardships and he had
not been heard from in more than a
year and bad been practicallv given uji
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for lost But his indomitable courage
carried him through where whole ships
companies have come to grief
The one man who started with him
Rudolph Krancke was left to guard
the supplies at Annootok twenty miles
north of Etah west Greenland This
man remained alone for several
months and theu seized the lirst op
portunity to leave when Commander
Robert E Peary arrived with his ex
pedition on board the ship Erik Cook
had sent one letter to Francke by Es
kimo messenger before Peary arrived
but if he sent any more or returned
for supplies after Francke left it is not
known According to Francke Peary
insisted on obtaining a large number
of valuable blue fox skins and nar
whal horns which had been left at the
supply station by Dr Cook and which
were expected to defray the cost of his
return from the arctic
There was some mystery about this
affair when the news of it came out
on Franckes arrival in New York and
charges and countercharges flew back
and forth with increasing bitterness
between the Cook adherents and the
friends of Peary As month after
month passed without further sigu
from Cook there was talk of a relief
expedition Admiral Wintield S Schley
the Jiero of the Greely relief rescue
was named as one of the leading fig
ures in rasiug the money necessary for
the movement to find Dr Cook and
a short time ago an expedition started
to seek the missing explorer
Until recently no word was received
from Dr Cook since March 17 1908
He was then on the polar ice north of
Cape Thomas Hubbard about 5J0
miles from the pole He was the only
white man with several Eskimos and
a big equipment of dogs sled and
supplies He was then on the eve of
making a desperate dash for the pole
over the ice He was making a
straight course for the pole and said
that if he were lucky he might reach
his supply statiou at Annootok by the
end of May
Dr Cooks dash was hastily con
ceived He started on a hunting trip
In the spring of 1907 with John R
Bradley a wealthy New Yorker who
had hunted game in all corners of the
world except the polar regions Mr
Bradley bought a Gloucester Ashing
schooner with an auxiliary gasoline
engine and in this vessel went north
Dr Cook being in command
The hunting trip ended in the latter
part of August 1907 an 1 on Aug 2G
the schooner stopped at Annootok ou
the northwest coast of Greenland Al
most up to the last it was thought
that Dr Cook would return to New
York but he decided to remain and
make a one man attempt to reach the
pole One of the crew of the schoon
er Rudolph Francke a young German
American volunteered to stay at An
nootok and guard the supplies
The first week the two men began
building a house for the long winters
habitation Then they hunted for a
month laying in a stock of meat The
thermometer went down steadily with
the approach of the long arctic night
and while they were hunting it was
constantly between 30 or 40 degrees
below zero
They spent the winter preparing the
sledges and the supplies for Dr Cooks
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trip and disi oxcivd a way ot prepar
ing dog food which gave Dr Cook a
great advantage In weight over ail
reiiMs explorers During Jnuuar
the tegisteivd 7J degrees
below ero Inn Pr Coni and his man
went out to Inn Iiii people who
were supposed to I ive i n ship
wrecked in Flaglei li Iim mm d no
body
Tlie last two weeks were -pent ii
testing out the rhe dogs an
the supplies and on Feb Jl Dr IooU
started fur the farthest nur n Francli
wont with him as far a gler ba
and then Dr Cook seni iicn back to
Annootok on March 3 Inu n guan
the winfer quarters It was nearly
ir laier that Peary reached i In
ueigiib i i i el of Annootok when
Francke was keeping his lone vigil am
who claims that Dr Cook had ordcrct
him to go back by one of the whaier
ships at the end ot the precedim
June
It is no new thing for Dr Cook
attempt di2icult and extremely liaz
anions feats of exploration In everi
case in which lie has set out to
cover new paihs in the wilderness o
uncharted m ms or mountains he ha
displayed a dash and resourcefulmv
which marked him as extraoidmao
even among explorers It was iu
valiant courage and resourcefulness
added to a wry vigorous physique
which his many friends in Brooklyn
had in mind when they assured an
ions inquirers that Dr Cook wotiiu
appear somewhere in Norway oi
Greenland aliw and well
Dr Cook is a married man and has
a home in Brooklyn where his wile
and two children live lie is nut otteii
home having been engaged in explora
tion work on and off tor the pist
eighteen years Dr Cook was horn ai
Callicoon Depot a very quiet little
binilet in Sullivau county N Y on
June 10 lS5i Do received his early
education in Brooklyn and graduated
with the degree of doctor of medicine
from New York university in ISmi Lie
was married iu 19U2 to Mary Fidel
Hunt in Brooklyn
Exploration at both ends of the earth
and near the top of its highest moun
tains has attracted Dr Cook for years
in 1S91 and 1892 just after his gradu
ation from the medical college he
served as surgeon of the Peary expedi
tion to Greenland In 1897 9 he was
surgeon of the Belgian expedition to
the antarctic He tried to asceud
Mount Mc Kin ley in Alaska the high
est eak on the North American conti
nent in 1903 and failed In 190U he
tackled Mount McKinley again and
won
He is the author of several books d
scriptive of his travels and discoveries
and he has lectured extensively In
an interview about six months befort
he left on the fishing trip to Labrador
Dr Cook said
Some day 1 am going to find the
north pole
Dr Cook once had a scheme for sail
ing to the south pole and he worked
on this for some time trying to figure
out exactly how to do it His trip
with Amundsen gave him the inspira
tion for this De finally in his efforts
to arrive at some method of reaching
the south pole hit upon the idea of an
automobile with some arrangement for
traveling over ice fields He worked
upon this machine for some time at
Callicoon The automobile was kept
in a barn and Dr Cook would allow
none excepting the workmen and him
self to see it
In speaking of the automobile at that
time Dr Cook said
The device I have invented for m
automobile would not help at all in
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getting to the north pole Up there
the pole is surrounded by a shifting
sea of constant moving ice An au
tomobile would be lost
At the south pole one can approach
by ship no nearer than 730 miles It
theu becomes necessary to travel over
the fields of ice The snow there has
no crust and the ice is rough I ob
served that iu my trip to the antarctic
zone With the automobile 1 will be
able to get over thee fields When I
have the first one completed and have
tested it I shall build others and then
dash for the south pole
Dr Cooks dream of getting to the
south pole never has been realized He
abandoned the idea some time later
for the dash for the north pole which
has been so successful
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Robert Lofton has jone to braking on
freight
D T Spencer went to work as brake
man Inst week
Will Spencer who has been very ill
U now inproving
Jay Wood has become a passenger
brakeman this week
Don Walters is a new fireman and he
is it work on the switch engine
Andrew Christianon is a new switch
man in the local yards this week
Ed Hall is a new member of the car
perters gang and they could use an
other to handle the business just now
J M Smith is visiting at Thedford
Thomas county also up in Cherry coun
ty Sam Franklin is in charge of his
work
The company is now handling a tine
stock business from the west one of
the advantages derived from acquiring
the C S
ADVERTISED LIST
The following letters cards and pack
ages remain uncalled for at the McCook
postofiice October 8 1909
rETTKItS
Sampson Mr Andrew Wood Alice
Humphrey H H Kslcp H II
Falireiibruch Dence Cook Mrs G II
Crawley Hertha Cappel Mr and Mr- Carl
Ainenid Atidr ifKerc Mr W
CAItns
Hailuy Wm H ei Mr Scott
Gliddcn Ralph Inlliii Frank
Coademe J M Schrool K J
Sohwartz M Wliaten Wm
Farr Mr Hiiginan Donolioe Mr Jack
Donloe Jack Cox Miss Msij
Mr Bert Kcnjaniin
Bet be E Anderson Mr H E
Austin Charley liufliiiiUon Miss Fannie
Coppin Mrs Ora
When calling for these please say
they were advertised
Lon Covk P M
Typewriter ribbons for sale at Ti c
Tribune office
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