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240 acres well improved, If mi es from 1'epot in Kas. Good spring Best of terms Willtaae
40 acres as part payment, balance long time at low interest.
200 acres l>4 miles from depot. Richardson county, Nebraska Good buildings and land V ill
take 40 or 80 acres as part payment 1
100 acres upland, 1 mile from depot, Richardson county. Nebraska. ?!2,00<*.
160 acres Johnson county, Nebraska 80 rods to church and school. Best of terms. Might rent.
107 acres near Brownville, Nebraska
80 acres V-mile from Falls City high school
640 acres, 48,000 improvements Also 040 acres adjoining. Will take 160 acres as part payment.
Fine running water. A No 1 opportunity.
Money to loan
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Henry C. Smith
LANDS & LOANS
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A SEVEN MILLION
' DOLLAR DAM
A Structure Higher Than the Famous
New York Flatiron Building Out
in Wyoming.
Vnele Sant does some foolish things
sometimes, but he is pretty hard
headed after all when it comes to
a business proposition, and he is the
promoter In this ease; the strange
part of it is that this structure will
make more money for more people
and be of fur more benefit to tin* com
munity ns a whole than the Flatiron
Itnlldlng or any other big city build
ing, for it will be the means of hous
ing and furnishing a livelihood to
over 20,000 people, and it Is not a
philanthropic enterprise, either.
It Is a simple proposition, too—
imagine 1’ncle Sain, if you will, as one
of those giants of ancient mythology
who over-strode tin1 world, and sen
him take In his hands a massive, V
shnped wedge of stone, a good deal
the shape of the Flatiron Pudding,
only larger, and carefully Insert It be
tween the towering canyon walls of a
turbulent, roaring mountain river,
damming the witters and at the same
time forever blessing them to man
kind’s use; Ihen watch bis fingers as
they slowly draw furrows In the
earth’s surface, away from the base of
the wedge and out over as fnlr a coun
try as the sun shines upon; then see
the water gates open and the life-giv
ing waters flowing through these fur
rows, with fertile farms and pros
perous villages springing into exist
ence as though by magic.
And there you have the picture of
Vhnt 1 'tide Sum is doing for his eliil
dn n in what, until lliis time, has heen
one of the out-of-the-way corners of
the country- the Hlg Horn basin of
Wyoming, lying a short distance east
of Yellowstone National Park.
The Canyon is that of the Shoshone
Klver, the wedge, the highest masonry
dam ever constructed, the furrows
made by the giant's lingers, (lie irri
gation canals and ditches which carry
the water which is rapidly causing
150,000 acres of arid land to blossom
ns the rose. Tills is one of those rare
occasions when a business proposition
makes a vivid appeal to the imagina
tion, for foolhardy indeed would have
been he who, a few years ago, would
have predicted Hie glorious agricul
tural future of this country then cov
ered with buffalo grass and sage
brush. Hut the soil is so rich and the
conditions, with proper water supply,
so favorable, that crops arc here pro
duced rivaling those of Hie Valley of
Hie Nil.- itself - the ancient granary o*
Hu' world- and are several times as
large as those produced lu the humid
regions of our own country.
A few years ago given over to tlie
cowboy and the hlg cattle rancher, it
to-day retains some of the flavor of
the wild west, with Cody, named alter
that famous scout, "Huffalo Hill," ns
its principal town; here, too, Huffalo
Hill still makes his last frontier stand
against the encroachments of civiliza
tion, for in addition to the town be
ing named alter him, lie owns the ho
tel- one of the best in Wyoming—and
maintains n hunting lodge in that
irimeval forest which still exists be
«ween Cody and the National l’ark.
The Government is spending about
$7,000,000 to reclaim these so-called
arid lands, and when the dam and
other works, including a RV4-mile wa
ter tunnel through the solid rock, and
numerous canals and laterals, are
completed, which they will be by the
end of 1909, opportunity will have
been provided for thousands of people
to become independent and gain
homes for themselves. Already some
of the lands have been Irrigated and
about 20,000 acres settled upon, ami
other farms are now open to tlie tirst
comer and on the easiest of payments.
In addition to the government irri
gation enterprise, private capital is
building other irrigation systems
which, when completed, will mean
over a million acres of irrigated land
iu this famous region, enough land to
support on the farms and in the towns
"hioli are growing up as a natural
result, over a quarter of a million
people. The rAllroads are not back
ward in realizing the assured future
-«f this country and are spending mil
lions of dollars In building main lines
ami branches hither and thither, and
one of them- the Burlington route —
w hich at present has a line to Cody—
Is building what will be a main line
through the heart of the district to
Theriuopolis and tbenee southeasterly
to a connection with its other lines
and on lo Denver.
There are good towns, Including
Cody, Busin, Worland, Garland, Pow
ell and Thermopolls already men
tioned. At the latter place are situ
ated the Theriuopolis I lot Springs, as
notable for their curative properties
as (lie Hot Springs, Arkansas, or the
hot springs at Carlsbad, Germany, and
bound ere long to lie as famous as
these better known springs.
Perhaps in no other one section Is
there so much land susceptible of irri
gation and Bur'll an abundant and cer
tain water supply combined with per
fect climatic conditions and Inspiring
physical surroundings as in the Big
Horn llasin. On till sides rise the
snow-capped peaks of the Big Horn,
Absorakn, Pryor and Owl Ganges,
forming an encircling mountain bar
rier assuring protection irotu storms
from whatever direction and serving
as a constant Inspiration to those so
fortunate as to live in this region of
already great development and stiii
griuter possibilities. Immediately to
the west within driving' distance lies
Yellow-aone Park, the people’s g oat
est playground, while on ail sides are
found the llni-st bunting and fish ng
the country affords.
Alfalfa, the great forage crop of the
west, small grains, sugar heels, pota
to! s, nil tlu1 fruits which grow in the
temperate zone, and garden truck,
comprise the principal agricultural
products.
The crop yields are phenomenal,
sometimes so great as to enable the
pettier to pay for his entire farm from
the proceeds of a single crop.
Coal of the finest quality in abun
dance, natural gas already lighting
and heating two of the principal
towns, oil wells for which one refinery
lias already been built, and sulphur
deposits already yielding large results,
give some idea of the mineral re
sources of the basin, the development
of which has only commenced. The
precious metals, too, are found.
Hon. Frank W. Mondell, Chairman
of the Committee on Public Lands of
the House of Representatives of the
United States, says:
“Taken all In all, no region that I
know of in the United Stales lias a
brighter prospect than Hie Rig Horn
Rnsln; so wide Is the range of Its
products and possibilities that it
might easily be made self-supporting
and self-sufficient; fortunate. Indeed,
arc the people who have cast their
lot wi ll H ut region and who continue
to pin their faith to its assured fu
ture."
Tilts wonderful country Is develop
ing rapidly Churches and schools
abound. Tim population Is intelligent,
(lod-feariiig and law-abiding, and any
man out there who is half a man lias
tlie opportunity to quickly make him
self Independent.
The greatest need of the Rig Horn
Rasim however, in rommou with oilier
parts of the west, is settlers to take
advantage of the wonderful opportuni
ties which it has to offer, and now
that these are becoming better known,
settlers are coming in ever-Inereating
numbers. One of the surprising fea
tures is the large number of settlers
who come from the cities and towns
and who, knowing comparatively little
about farming, are making a great
success, irrigated farming is certain
ly proving a great boon to the “but
cher, the baker and the candlestick
maker" as well as to (lie farmer him
self, and with tlie great land hunger
which seems to have seized tlie people
generally, it will be hut a compara
tively short time, now, before the
lands of the entire public domain
which are susceptible of cultivation
| will have been settled upon; and then
those who might have taken advan
tage- of those opportunities will Gild
Hint it is too late.
Nowhere will the farmer, the home
maker, the tradesman and the small
business man find more or better op
portunities for acquiring independ
ence, and for establishing new homes
under the most favorable conditions
in a new and rapidlv developing coun
try, than in the Big Horn Basin of
Wyoming.
NEMAHA VALLEY
Pressed Stone and Brick Co.
W. H. PUTNAM & SONS, Props.
We manufacture and carry in stock a full line of Cement
■ Blocks, Brick, Tile and Plain and Fancy Trimmings,
, which we would be pleased to show and price you before you
! place your order elsewhere. We also wholesale and retail
Sand, Cement and Crushed Rock
; /
> We are ;#£ents for the Boelt’S Concrete Mixer Visitors al
> ways welcome at our yards. Located on the
t CORNER 14th & MORTON STREETS
; 2 Blocks from Burlington Depot FALLS CITY. NEB.
>
RAPS POOR HUSBAND HARD
•HUSBANDS LAUGH RESENT
ED BY GOOD SISTER
Says Preachers Are Overworked
and that "Husband" Hides
Behind Petticoats.
To The Tribune: 1 am always in
terested in reading the home paper
and am so glad you are making a
fight for a better Falls City. Just
keep on keeping on, and may you be
prospered in doing so. "Husband's"
article seems so unfair to me that
if you can, 1 wish you would give a
place in your paper to my answer,
without signature.
1 have lived in so many saloouless
communities that 1 know there's noth
ing in tin; business, from any stand
point business, social or moral.
Falls City is prosperous, hut site
would lie larger, more beautiful and
more prosperous if she had annihi
lated her saloons twenty years ago.
Success to you in your moral
fight.
Wlu'ii "Husband" presumes to shift
his civic responsibility on a ballot
less wife and then smugly congratu
late himself on his ability to"laugh,”
he advertises either his ignorance or
his cowardice and subjects himself
to the criticism of fair minded citi
zens.
Has it never occurred to this
amused individual that he has any
responsibility in cleaning up the
gambling joints that he insists his
w'ife ought to look after in Falls
Olty? It Is not the women who are
found in those places. The handicap
now is and always has been in the
moral progress of this fair
city that there is such a large
aggregation of tins genus‘“Hus
band," whose chief confcern
is the collection of rents and
the limitation of tax percents. The
last "pound of flesh" is exacted from
the “victims." Not directly always,
but rooms must he rented to yield a
good investment and if there tire no
legitimate renti is for the rooms,
then they must be rented for saloons
and gambling, no matter how many
women go eloakless or children shoe
less.
These same patriotic, progressive
husbands have been willing now for
many years to place all the moral
responsibility on their patient, help
less wives and the few overworked
and underpaid preachers of the com
munity.
Rut why in the name of decency
and reason and true citizenship will
they insist on putting all problems on
ministers, wives and a few others?
He admits that It is "wife and her co
laborers have a herculean task right
muter her nose"—and no one ques
tions Ids proposition after reading
his unsympathetic fling hut what
can she do?
He denies her the ballot, for that
would make her unwomanly and per
chance so harden her to the civic
problems that she would be incapa
i itatvil for keen suffering over the
inoral stigma that attaches to a com
munity that cherishes its civic evils.
To be sure “Evangelists" are help
less in getting results when a town
takes as a matter of fact such a
tragedy as the one a few weeks ago.
1 suspect “Husband” prays for the
speedy completion of those new
churches so that his own property val
ues may be enhanced. He certainly
would not want the ministers to start
anything for that might hurt business
That is why “Husband" is not will
ing lo help start something. He would
so much rather hide iiis responsibil
ity behind his wife's petticoats It'
tlie ministers began an agitation we
would at once hear about "preaching
the gospel" only. That has happen
ed in Falls City once or twice and
tlie reverend gentleman had to seek
some other clime right soon.
In the language of this much
wrought up genleman, I say, “Lord
hasten tlie day” when he and many
others like him will have courage and
backbone enough to tackle mens prob
lems in manly ways and not thrust
all the responsibility on women, and
then "laugh" because the women are
helpless to down evil in man-protect
ed strongholds.
It is a disgrace to any enlightened
town that conditions are such that
women must beg protection for their
natural protectors, who in their weak
| nest? are constantly tempted all be
cause of that theory, long ago explod
ed In thousands of prosperous towns,
that "saloons and their kindred evils
lesseen taxes and provide city im
provements.”
t Yes, yes, waken up the community,
Imt let tin- process begin on respon
sible "husbands.”
I am glad The Tribune is calling a
spade a spade and a gambling den
a corrupter of public morals.
Hasten the day when Falls City
shall be as fair in morals and repu
tation as she now is in situation and
in environment. OltSKRVBR.
November 20, 1900.
Christian Church Recital.
The second benefit recital for tlie
Christian Church building fund was
given last Monday night by Mrs. Will
Julian and Mrs. C. L. Day of Long
lteach, Cal , Mrs. ,!. K. Cain, Jr. of
Stella and Mrs. T. .1 Cist of this
City, and was fully enjoyed. The
program was an excellent one, and
the ladles responded cheerfully to
repeated encores, although they have
been giving recitals repeatedly in
the past few weeks, and must be
tired from the continued strain. They
had a large and appreciative audi
ence Monday night, although the
church was not so full as at former
concerts because of the bad weather.
It is to he regretted that, it may be
a long time before we stintl have the
pleasure of hearing these ladies
again, as Mrs. Julian and Mrs. Day
will leave in a short time for their
homes in Long Beach, Cal. Ttiey
have left pleasant memories for their
friends and admirers, who will hope
for tlie time when they shall give
another recital for our entertain
ment.
Christian Church.
There will be special services at
the Christian church next Sunday,
both morning and evening. Bible
School at 9:45; 11:00 preaching by
the pastor, subject of the sermon,
“The Lord’s House.” Y. P. S. C.E.
at 0:30. At 7:30 a special pro
gram given by the local Christian
Womans Missionary organization.
Special music, and special address
by Mrs. Eva It. Day, subject, “Wo
man's Greatest Victory." Tlie ladies
are planning a great service and
expect a splendid time. They will be
pleased lo welcome all friends of
tlie congregation at the church next
Sunday evening.
Legal Notice.
To William Ogden,
Non-Resident Defendant.
William Ogden, defendant, will
take notice that on the 18th day of
November. A. I>. 1909, Louis Freder
ick, plaintiff herein; filed his petition
in the District Court of Richardson
County, State of Nebraska, against
you, the said William Ogden, defend
ant, the object and prayer of which
is to obtain judgment against you for
labor performed by said plaintiff
and for material furnished by him for
the said defendant in repairing, re
modeling. and painting the dwelling
house of said defendant, situated in
the County of Doniphan, State of
Kansas, for the amount of $141.37
with interest on said amount at the
rate of 7 per cent per annum from
August 10. 1909.
And you are further notified that
at the same time, said plaiptiff pur
suant to the statute iu such cases
made and provided, sued out an order
of attachment against you in said
case on the ground that you are a
non-resident of the said State of Ne
braska, and have real estate in said
county and state, and that said order
of attachment was delivered to the
sheriff of Richardson County, Ne
braska and by him on November 23,
1909 levied upon the folloAving real
property, belonging to you, and sit
uate in the County of Richardson,
State of Nebraska and described as
follows, to-wit: Lot No. Four (4),
in Section No. Thirty-six (30), Town
ship No. One (1). Norlli Range 18,
East 6th P. M„ being 41.72 Acres,
in Richardson County, Nebraska.
And you are further notified that
unless you plead, answer or demur
to the petition of plaintiff filed in said
cause on or before the 10th day of
January A. D , 1910 the same will be
yiken as true and judgment rendered
against you according to the prayer
of said petition and an order by said
court that said attached property be
sold at public sale to satisfy what
ever amount the court shall find due
from you to the plaintiff herein, and
to pay the costs of said action and
of said sale and proceedings in at
tachment.
Dated December 2, 1909.
LOUIS FREDERICK. Plaintiff.
By JOHN WILTSE. Attorney.
First publication Dec. 3, 190B-4t.
—Don’t thow that old suit away'
Take it to Stanley Stump and hav»
it cleaned and pressed. 38-tf
St. Thomas Church.
Rev. G. L. Neide. rector. Second
Sunday in Advent, Choral celebra
tion of the Jioly Eucharist at 10:45
a. m. The lecture sermon will be
on “The Bible and The Bible Alone.”
Sunday School and the rector's Bi
ble class meets at 0:4"> a. m. Even
song and sermon at 7:30. The choir
meets for rehearsal Friday night at
H o'clock
The ladies of the Christian church
will hold their annual bazaar in the
basement of V..G. Lyford's store the
| second Friday and Saturday in Dec
ember. This year the ladies have
a very novel plan. Seven booths will
be arranged to represent the days
of the week. The Endeavorers will
have .charge of the candy booth. It
will be a treat for you. Don't forget !
the place and date.
—
(Oopjrrtjrttt, 19(19, by W. N. I'.)
The old. old story, told times with
nut number, and repeated over and
over again for the last 36 years, but
it is always a welcome story to those
in search of health—There is noth
ing in the world that cures coughs
and colds as quickly as Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. Sold by all
druggists.
Ads. as
Reputation
f*p Props
| y
I Let us build you an inch
B ad. in this paper; a col- >
« umn ad., a page ad., or M ,
I any old size ad.
I Let it tell in forceful terms: H
| What you’ve got to sell |j
B What it’s worth
y Why it’s best at that price n j
| Such an advertisement u
n in this paper will bring n
y buyers who hardly knew U
n you existed before you
B advertised. j|
n'liDYrlatit. law, by VV. N. U.)
A Lamp is An Ornament
As well as a necessity, in ev
ery home. We have them.
Our stock of Fancy Decora
ted, Nickle-plated and Glass
Lamps, consists of the dif
ferent sizes, shapes and dec- j
orations. Our stock of
'
Decorated Lamps
j
is the best we have ever han- J
died, both in price and quality. Nothing better for
Christmas presents. We have them at
Chas. M. Wilson's
EOR SALE
RICHARDSON CO. FARMS
40 acres rolling land, $1,400.
94 acres bottom land, $6,500
100 acres rolling land, $5,000.
80 acres good land, $7,600.
80 acres good land, $7,200.
80 acres good land, $9,200.
80 acres good land, $12,000.
110 acres good land, $12,760.
160 acres good land, $16,000.
160 acres good land, $16,000.
160 acres good land, $20,000.
320 acres good land, $25,000.
OKLAHOMA LAND
240 acres improved, $4,500.
160 acres improved, $3,000.
PALLS CITV PROPERTY
A1 four room house, $1,200.
A1 fine modern cottage, $3,500.
5 room house, 5 lots, $2,500.
8 room modern residence, $4,500
10 room, fine residence, $3,200.
9 room modern residence $7,000
6 room residence, $2,500.
7 room residence, $3,500.
I
The above are all well improved properties and worth the money.
1 also have several good farms to exchange for good income
property or business.
1 have a couple of fine business propositions for sale,
ly you wish to buy, sell or trade see me, I may have a bar
gain for you.
G. H. EALLSTEAD
PALLS CITY, NEBRASKA
