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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1912)
if ri1 m 7y i H C P 7 b h IT J HIP I1 IP I I timim9imfiivAmKiyx tta Through Sleepers to California Through sleepers are now operated to California via Denver Scenic Colorado and Salt Lake City To Los Angeles via Salt Lake Route Every day through Tourist Sleepers Day light ride through Scenic Coloradowith half day stop over in Salt Lake To Los Angeles via Southern Pacific Every day through Tourist Sleeper service with personally conducted through sleepers to Los Angeles Tuesdays Thursdays and Sundays Da light ride through Scenic Colorado and Salt Lake To San Francisco via Western Pacific Through Tourist Sleepers every Wednesday Friday and Saturday via Denver Scenic Colorado Salt Lake and Feather River Canyon To Los Angeles via Santa Fe Route Personally conducted through Tourist Sleepers every Tuesday via Den ver Santa Fe route Through Standard Sleepers to San Francisco Every day through Standard Sleepers via Denver Salt Lake and South ern Pacific Day light ride through Scenic Colorado Let me tell you about our through sleeping cars to Cali fornia also to all Northwest territory via Billings Mont pfflPPjjj L W WAKELEY Oeneral Passenger Agent Omaha Nebraska BURLINGTON TIME TABLE East Depart Central Time No 6 1130 P M 16 500 A M 2 550 A M 12 635 A M 14 920 P M 10 530 P M West Depart Mountain Time Nc 1 1220 P M 3 1142 P M 5 arrive S35 p m 13 930 A M 15 1230 A M 9 625 A M Imperial Line Mountain Time No 176 arrives 330 P M No 175 departs t 645 A M Sleeping dining and reclining chair cars seats free on through trains Tickets sold and baggage checked tc any point in the United States or Canada For information time tables maps and rickets call on or write D F Hostetter Agent McCook Nebraska or L W Wakeley General Passen ger Agent Omaha Nebraska RAILROAD NEWS NOTES Operator and Mrs F II Trimble spent Saturday and Sun day in Denver Brakeman B 0 Dickey went down to lied Cloud Sun day morning E S Howell and H M Fin ity were Lincoln and Ilavelock visitors Sunday John Crawford the genial coal expert was at headquarters first of the week Mrs O Gr Coppom and the children visited in Ilolbrook be tween trains Saturday night Engineer II Goldensky went up to Denver Monday morning for a minor operation on his nose Mrs C B Sentance and the children went down to Ox ford on 10 Saturday night on a visit Brakeman Guy Child ers went diown to Oxford Thursday night to Cake the Oxford Red Gkmd local runs on 63 and Gi Agent George Scott of Brush wag in the eoty Sunday to have his picture tooken with the rest of the McCook band boys Mrs J E Johnson returned to Lincoln Saturday morning af ter visiting here several days with her husband Trainmaster John son Engineer Tom Gushing was a Denver passenger Saturday to spend several days with Mrs Gushing who is just back from California Engineer and Mrs L E Hanford went to Denver on No 3 Thursday night on a visit to relatives They returned Hiome last evening Engineer J E Sanborn has laid off for a few days and has gone up to Sanborn station to be with Mrs Sanborn who is some wihat indisposed The repair track men all liad an unsought vacation last Thursday Indeed every man in the service who could be spared enjoyed the same unsolicited priv ilege Ghair car 4454 came into Mc Cook with a hot box Saturday evening on No 10 and liad to be set out here on account of a rough journal The delay was slight Another chair car was substituted Thursday morning a box car loaded with coal in the local east rtain ran off the track at a frog in the east end of the Mc Cook yard and turned over on its aide The coal was transfer red and the wrecker picked up the car F L MiTon and family left on Saturday jniglit on No 14 for Kansas pity Mo From there Mrs Mason leaves for Bartlesville OHa for an extended visit wtith ilier sister Mrs A M Jones and Kir Mason leaves for Omaibja whre he wall visit with Mr Ray Iight formerly of our city Mr Mason leaves from there for Lin coln to vfisLt with Jhls parents D F HOSTETTER Ticket Agent McCook Nebraska Conductor II R Childers is on the sick last -Mr and Mrs V 0 Norman were in the city Saturday Brakeman W A Jeffries was down from Denver Saturday Swatoliman T E Lundberry is off duty with an injured foot Brakeman A S Moore of Iloldrege was in the city Sunday Conductor C E Crouch was a Denver pilgrim Sunday Brakeman A G Brooks was 4 a Denver passenger Saturday Conductor II A Beaile is attending a conclave of Elks in Denver Conductor J F Utter came up from the Orleans branch to be wrJUi the home folks Sunday Conductor Herman Ilegenber ger came up from the Orleans branch to be with the home folks over Sunday Brakeman J O Walker who was injured about ten days ago in the Denver yards is rccuperat ing at Republican and expects to be back at headquarters Sat urday W C Allison whose eye was injured a short time ago will return to Iks work in the shops tonight His eye will not be permanently blinded as was first thought mmSM lrttirrarcT ITUTEVE an Arrow Shirt for every function and for every sport madein the good Arrow way of fabrics that wear and colors that will not fade The Arrow label on a shirt stands for service and satisfaction 130 and 200 Arr L C STOLL CO SHIRTS C L DeGroff Co Jewelers Opticians Eyes tested and fitted Fine re pairing McCook Neb Eggs for Hatching from High Scoring Prize Winners Barred and White Rock Buff Brown and White Leghorns White and Sliver Laced Wyandottes Black Minorcas White and Buff Orping tons S C Rhode Island Eeds Pens No 1 5 No 2 3 Utility stock 8150 for 15 Satisfaction guar anteed LEBANON POULTRY YARDS Lebanon Nebr NECKLACE IN THE LIMELIGHT Famous String of Leeds Pearls Comes Before the United States Su preme Court Washington The famous 220000 pearl necklace of Mrs William H Leeds of New York and Newport was in the limelight the other day at the Supreme Court of the United States A case to determine whether the United States was entitled to only 10 per cent duty on the gems considered as pearls in their natural state not strung or set or whether the govern ment was entitled to 60 per cent on them as pearls set or strung was up for argument Mrs William B Leeds of New York and Newport is shown here wearing her famous necklace which was the L Tlji a Mrs W B Leeds subject of the suit The pearls were imported as unstrung by Bernard Citroen in 1906 He therefore paid 10 per cent of their value The gov ernment alleged that the pearls were really set or strung and that it is entitled to the higher duty In its brief the government says the neck lace was purchased in Paris in 190G About a week after the stones were imported and after a duty of 10 per cent had been collected the govern ment made a demand for an addi tic lal duty of 50 per cent amounting to 110000 Citroen came to Wash ington it is said protested against the additional duty and asked for a refund of the duty already paid and that he be permitted to return the pearls to France The request was not granted The additional duty was paid and the pearls turned over to Mrs Leeds The Circuit Court of Appeals for the second circuit held that the pearls were dutiable at only 10 per cent In its brief in the case the government quotes Mrs Leeds as saying she wore the pearls a great deal in Paris in 190G that the purchase was made there but they were to be delivered in America She placed the purchase price at 3406o0 and explained that she turned over in Paris as part pay ment another necklace of pearls for which she had paid 52000 GREWSQKE BATTLE MEMORIAL Ghastly Reminder of the Defeat of the feadjofc Hordes on West Af rica Plains London On the plains of West Central Affica stamps the ghostly memorial of the battle of Diola shown in the accompanying illustration Of it Norman Hardy a recent English traveler in that region says The Badjolr are the greatest war riors of West Central Africa Intrepid hunters their expeditions in pursuit of game take them many hundred miles from their home If on his jour ney a Bsdjok is offered an insult by a man of some other race the whole tribe will rise to revenge him From the west coast to the Great lakes no I Q Grewsome Battle Memorial tribe could resist them Finally the people of the Kwilu valley rose against their domination The natives only armed with bows and arrows de feated under the leadership of Yengo the Batljok hordes armed with flnit lock in the great battle of Diloa On the battlefield a memorial of skulls was orscted Comb Teeth Fracture Skull Hornell N Y Miss Emma I worth 54 is dead from a peculiar cause In passing out of a drug storo she slipped on a cement step and fell backward She sustained a fractured skull and the teeth of a comb she was wearing in her hair penetrated the wound and entered her brain She died shortly afterward THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SPR ING GOODS ever shown in McCook are now being displayed over our counters and we invite your early inspection of these new things Coats Suits and Dresses in all the newest ideas direct from New York The latest colors weaves and styles are now arriving by every express and our ready to wear department is complete with wearing apparel for early spring Nobby Spring Hats are now being brought out in our millinery department and we are pleased to announce that we were in being able to secure Miss Carlson again this season as our trimmer g See the Classy New Hats Now on Display ST 1 hat Wooing Ham Ham it has always seemed to us varied more than any other articles over which blessings are mumbled in degree to palatableness fragrance and invitation The variation is due to the manner of approach If a per son is off his appetite ham does the best when served as an Arizona break fast something else for the man and the ham for the dog But supposing you have fen hunt ing rising early and stay ing late You have lost your lunch You have to trudge homo orar a hard jad You pass a farmhouse and its open door there comes the souic of siz zling ham and the heavens wreath of its perfume It matters nor if that ham sprang from a razorbaslc hog in the wilds of Arkansas you recognize that that ham is the most glorious flower that grows the worlds desire the inner fountain of Eden the pilar of fire by night the sweet influences of the Pleiades and the deliverance from envy hatred and malice and ail uncharitableness For the next three miles you cant say a word to your companion because of a watering mouth Napoleon on Shakespeare It is a fact that the great emperor of the French- hag a very poor opinion of Shakespeares plays According to Thibaudeau in his Bonaparte and the Consulate Napoleon said one day Shakespeare was forgotten even by the English for two hundred years un til Voltaire took It into his head to write him up to please his English friends and ever since people have gone about repeating that Shake speare was the greatest author that ever lived I have read him and there is nothing in him that approaches Corneille or Racine His plays are not worth reading Her Hair Saved Her When the steamer Tagus rose after a dip into an enormous wave whilo sho was on her way from Bermuda to New York a bride tne only bride on board was floating about the deck like a biscuit The water was three feet deep and she might have been swept from the deck had not M Kreishler a New Yorker grabbed her by the hair and saved her So frightened was the young woman that she was carried to her stateroom in hysterics and for five hours she could not be convinced that the ship was not sinking Snake Had Lived on Eggs On his morning round for eggs re cently Michael Heiseman of Custice O reached into a hens nest and touched an object that made him jump back quickly A closer examin ation showed a big spotted snake coiled in the nest Beating a hasty re treat Heiseman sepured a shotgun and on reaching the nest noticed that the snake had swallowed a china nest egg and was gradually working it down its throat It was- but the work of a moment to blow off the head of the reptile Heiseman then recalled the fact that his egg supply had de clined recently and he thinks that the snake with perhaps its mate had been making forays on the roost for some time Trouble Forecast My wife says women ought to vote sssiVI Jrlr Meekton T17V11 Vnirr irmi inv nhivHfVn No But theres going to be a ter 1 rible row If the women of our com munity get the vote and then trr to vote for anybody escept her S dry Goods Millinery Ladies FIjrnishin6s MS COOK - NEBR TERMS OF COURT For 1912 Fourteenth Judicial District of Nebraska Judge E B Perry lias desig nated the following dates for court in this district for the en suing year Ohase April 29 jury Nov 25 jury Dundy March 18 jury May 23 equity Oct 28 jury Frontier April 1 jury June 3 equity Oct 14 jury Furnas Feb 19 jury May 13 equity Nov 11 jury Gosper Feb 13 jury May 27 equity Dee 9 jury Hayes April 15 jury Oct 7 jury Hitchcock March 4 jury May 20 equity Sept 23 jury Perkins April 22 jury Dec 2 jury Red Wallow Jan 29 jury Maj 6 equity Sept 9 jury Try a Tribune want ad and watch results FRE IF IT FAllLS Your Money Back If You Arp Not Satisfied With the Med iciiie We Recommend Wc are so positive -that our remedy vdB permanently relieve constipation no matter liow cihronie it may be that Ave offer too furnish the medicine at our ex pense should it fail to produce satisEacitiory results It is worse than useless to tempt to cure constipation with caithartac drugs 1axatavws or cathartics do much harm They causa a reaction irritafte and weaken the howels and tend to make constipation more chronic TBesides rtilieir use -becomes a hab Is MZjr it that ds dangerous Constipation is caused by ss weakness of the nerves and niffii cles of the large intestine or de scending colon To expect ps manent relief you must therefwj tone up and strengthen these 02 and restore them to activity Wie want you to try Rexall fe derlies on our reeommendatixu They are exceedingly pleasant take ibciing eaten like candy qeEL are ideal for children devests persons and old folks as well as for the robust They act direie ly on the nerves and anuseles e the bowels They apparently ha nc a neutral action on other as3 ecate organs or glands They tlb net purge cause excessive laosp ness nor create any ineonvsr enience whatever They may Ifc taken at any time day or night They will positively relieve ehrwn ie oir habitual constipation if ncn of surgical variety and the naj riads of associate or depended cluwnie ailments if taken wife regularity for reasonable lengSs of time 12 tablets 10 eent 36 tablets 25 cents SO tablets 50 cents Sold in McCook only cr our store The Rexall Store E W MeConnell Doctors claim that laughter as the surest road to health evecs person owes it to themselves- i get as much enjoyment Gut of 13D as possible and the greatest psst enjoyment comes from the exs edse of our risibles or in other words hearty laughter Casg Jones which is the attractiest at the Temple itheatre on Wed nesday of this week is built far laughing purposes only Thertcj many a laugh in the piece ac the specialties help to drive qg care away Prices 50e 35c asE 25c CREM Mill a pro fcectiosa and giaaraBfee alum which h roiizi L in loW priced baking porcefcx To he on the safe side when buying baking powder examin the label and take only a brand shown to be made from Cream of Tartar 1 A i