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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1910)
THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE Entered a* second-class matter at FallsCity, Nebraska, post office, Janu ary 12, 1'J04, under the Act of Congress on March 3,1S79. Published every Friday at Falla City, Nebraska, by The Tribune Publishing Company E F SMARTS Manager One year Six months ..... ■ ■ ■> Three months . .... .-hi TELEPHONE 226. And now congress is getting a 191ft wriggle on itself. Oklahoma is going to have an ex-1 Ira session of the legislature to work i over the famous bank guaranty law j It is believed .Mrs. Frederick Cook was in Detroit the other day. Prob ably looking for material to build Doe an igloo. Hogs reached $h per hundred last wok. The man working on salary would better ills condition financially by trying the pork Industry, Congress may seek the causes ami the remedies in the high cost of living. Yes, i'ui hurry up and give us the remedy first., gentlemen. One hundred and thirty-four hold ups occurred In Chicago on the night that ushered In the new year. Talk about tin- "wild and wooly west!" The indications are said to he that Wheat King Patten is going to drop a decent sized wad in corn. Probably corn is a little out *>f Jim’s class That Evansville. Ind. hermit and supposed pauper, who starved and went crazy with $22,000 in greenback In his clothes, didn't have far to Km _ , Offered nil the bananas he could aat for five cents, a ninoteeti-yonr-old hoy at Bladen, Neb., consumed six teen, and then died, tineas ho got his nickel's worth. Edward l’eyson Weston, the veter an pedestrian, is going It) break all records hy walking from Los Angel es, Cal., to New York in 100 days, starting February 1st. Charles W. Morse, the convicted finance wrecker, and former Ice king of New York, has been taken to the federal prison at Atlanta. (!a , to be gin hi-; lift* n-year sentence. Chicago has a female hold-up wom an, who is getting ill '•nine good licks tiood Idea, most married men will he l>e aide to yield grncefully to a hold-up woman it will make them feel perfectly “at home " A few days ago at llan ati, Okla an attempt was made at hank rob bery, hut officers had been tipped off and in attempting to capture the men two were killed and one wound ed. By mistake one of the men kill ed hy the officers, was the decoy who had "tipped off" tile robbery. It will soon be time to discuss the fitness of men for the city coun cil, and The Tribune hr pea that pro greasin'. pushing men will be chosen. Falls City lias grown above tile one idea-—that of granting a license and the year’s work is at an end. Let the Commercial club call a business meeting for the purpose of discuss ing this ninth r. One of the bandits shot dead in' Chicago recently has t> m uicntiticd! as Harry Featherstonhuugh, degen oritt° of w proioinont Ho-vlish ily and entitled to a lordship in that] country. He had become famous in the west here as a bandit and confi-1 deuce man, and was killed while at-j tempting to rob a saloon. When the "black sheep" goes on a rampage he usually does the Job up blown till the finish. The great industries of this route try and the government are having H hard time adjusting their differen res. To the casual observer it is hard to tell just who is who and 1 whether or not the time has arrived when the corporations have not absorbed the nation and stand alone its it. They certainly grease the wheels until the maeh'nerj runs about as they desire it. Are we hack to the age of a ‘survival of the fittest.” John Wanamaker, the great mer-1 chant, lias contracted with the New York Evening Post for a full page of advertising each day for five years. This is probably the largi . <l\ t tising space deal ever closed. And yet, some of the little fry, will stand around and yelp that advertising does not pay. John Wanamaker knows by years of experience. Would he be giving that much to a New York news paper just for charity's sake, or does he expect to reap his profits on it just as he does on his other stocks in trade? ... It Is now stated that John R. Walsh t the convicted former Chicago banker, | will have something like a half mil I lion dollars left from the wreck of | liis fortune after all Ills debts are 1 cleared away Itut old pud broken in health and spirit, in spite of liis out j ward appearance of confidence, tin* 'half-million will probably lie of little benefit to tin* man who took the long shot at dealings i'i high finance and failed, lie gambled on a project that Would have made him a public benefactor had It succeeded Imt it failed, and Ills transgressions embod ied In failure must be settled for. \nothcr stray of just ice gone wrong comes from Wheeling, W Va, where Joseph Vastcllo, a convict has confessed that lie was the guilty one who killed with dynamite, and robbed a contractor's paymaster near Wash ington, Pa., in MMKi, for which one man was hanged and another is serv ing twenty years in prison. Vastcllo was shortly after convicted of rob bery and sentenced to elghl years in prison, and his term will soon ex pire lie says remorse brings the confession. The Pennsylvania officers refuse to credit the confession, but the West Virginia prison officials be lieve il is genuine "Murder will out," but in this instance it epmes a little late to do ollur than brighten up the character of the man who was hanged MARKET LETTER. Letter From our Regular Correspond ent at Kansas City. Kansas City, January H>, lata Cattle receipt* last week showed an enlargement from previous week, hut were still small enough to permit salesmen to enforce an advance of la to 20 i mils for the week on nearly everything, alter numerous fluctua tions. Tuesday was low day of the week followed by stronger markets Including Thursday, but with some weakness at the close of the week. The supply today is 17,000 head.some what heavier than was expected, al though there is a strong disposition known to exisi among f« cder- to get rid of short fed holdings. Sentiment is general that higher prices will rule later in the season, based on the heavy mark 'ting of short fed cattle lately, and on the way hogs and slice' are soaring, and many feeders feel that they began to feed too early in the season. The market is steady to 10 lower today, and the complaint is heard of lack of quality, and the per sistence with which this claim lias been made for the Iasi week or two indicates that owners are anxious to unload. Steers sold at *7.25 and at $7 lo today, a little better than top reached last week, bulk of steers at $,'. 25 to $0.40, cows at $2.50 to $5.00, heifers tip to $11.00, choice veals $x to $o.oo, heavy calves around $5.50, bulls $11,40 to $5.10, stock steers $2.40 to $5.00, feeder* $4.25 to $5.25, a few selected feeders upwards lo $5.90 during the week. Hog receipts were light last week, account of difficulty of transporta tion companies furnishing good ser vice when the country was in the giiji of zero weather, and prices shot up rapidly last week. Top hogs reached $8.75 Thursday, hut it was plainly a temporary altitude, and the position had to be immediately aban doned, the close of the week III to 15 below the high point. Run today ts 111,000 head here, and liberal at points. and for once the predictions of packers that we would have a good run tills week, proved correct. The meat proposition, as prices are still higher on live animals than relative price of product Sheep and lambs made a good ad vance last week, although receipt* were tairiy liberal. Run today is 12,000 head, heaviest in many weeks, but the market is holding up pretty good, steady to 10 lowv r Tile Ron ssee lambs sold at $s.00 today, same price at which they sold on different days last week, fair to good lambs ; worth $8.15 to $8,50, yearlings $0.75 ! io $7.40, wet hers $5.25 to $5.85. ewes $4. 75 to $'. 60. the lattei price tops today, and Highest of Vinter on ewes, lately .and on tin way lings and sheep J. A. RH’KART. Live Stock Correspondent Cheap and Safe. The small sum of $2 will buy a Je.Oi'O policy, good for five years.from the Richardson County Farm Mutual Insurance Co., provided the building has good lightning rods. Then these policies can be renewed another five years for the still smaller fee of fifty tents. Smaller policies tost the same amount. Tin* last 22 years this company has been thoroughly tried.nnd found re liable. We have over two million insurance in force, and constantly gaining new members. All the farm property of the county ought to b insured with us. It is folly to keep on sending money out of the county for good safe protection. School boards and country churehes can save money by insuring with us. Call, write or phone to me, over DittmarV store, Falls City. Nebraska. SAMUEL LKTiTY, Sec A. THAT LOST PUPPT THE STORY OF A SEARCH, WITH PROPER RESULT. Household Pet Had Lett Train of Devastation as He Went on His Joyful Way—Claim of Owner ship Postponed. The puppy was missing our own little Kiddo, and none knew where he might be. In fact we felt it would be easier to tell where he might not he, with ti choice limited to the stable cupola and the hell tower on the en gine house. Search of his favored spots revealed him not. Under Ihe house we found the feathers of a chicken we had be lieved long since safely Interred. Frag ments of a napkin that had blown from the clothesline showed that he had been there, hut our dear little puppy was nowhere in sight. Out In the alley we found where in Ids innocent play he had carried the cook’s best apron anil made strings of It. Poor little dog! lie had to have something to amuse himself wtth. Our neighbor, Mr. Iturns, came to the hack fence and rested his coatless arms upon it "Have you seen our dog?" we asked him. Mr. Burns considered "What sort of a dog was he?” he asked. "A little, lieu-hit mongrel with a stub tail?" We Indignantly replied that he was a fox terrier with a pedigree as long as the laws of the Medes and the Persians. "1 seen him," said Mr. Burns. “He chased two of my set tin’ hens off th’ nest and busted hair tile eggs, if ever 1 ketch—” “Which w'sy did he go?" we asked. Mr. Burns smiled grimly. ‘‘Last I see of him,” he said, “he was I ravelin’ due west an' half a brick was follerin’ him pooly dost." Then we left him considering which way was west. They had seen him at the drug store. He had managed to get his head caught in a jar and had fright- i ened an old woman so badly that the doctor had to he called just because he approached her without removing the jar. "Have yon seen our little dog?" we asked the grocer down the street. "if he was you'll,' said the grocer, “you owe me for a whole cheese, i Some darn little snub tailed beast ato the wood off a new cheese and got into it before we saw him.” "That wasn’t our dog." we assured him. "Our dog hates cheese—won't stay in the house with it, in fact. But which way did that dog go?" Following tits directions und fol lowed by his suspicions glances we went down the street again. Far down the street we beheld a small and hilarious crowd. Approaching, wo stuv the cause. A little stump-tailed iR terrier, pain fully like our own lost pet, had paused at a second hand store and had pulled down a string of shoes that were on exhibit outside. These we was doing his utmost to destroy, manifesting the liveliest sat isfaction at any progress made. At our approach he fled and we knew whose dog he was. But as we had to pass the druggist's and the grocer's and our neighbor's home we were not sorry, for there are times when one does not like to claim even a pedigreed dog. ami this was one of them.—tinlveston News. Passports in Turkey. Before visiting Turkey one gets an exaggerated impression of the strict ttcss of the passport regulations, but > in reality they are nothing more than another device for raising revenue. To explain tin's 1 just mention that before traveling in Turkey one must get a license (tezkerch), costing about five shillings and sixpence, which has to be vised at various places en route, and for each visit a fee is demanded. if one proceeds without a visa a fine in sootier or inter extracted from one In order to stop people traveling with ! out a license a police official examines and enters in a book the particulars of all passengers by train, if anyone is found without a tezkereh he is re moved from the train and fined, but it I is only on the trains that any super vision is exercised. On the caravan roads one is never asked, so that if one wanted to travel unknown to the government it would only be neces sary to go by road.—Wide World Magazine. Some Strange Coincidences. Isaac it. Thatcher, a clerk of Wash ington. has returned from a visit to Isaac B. Thatcher of Easton, Pa. The name is not the only coincidence. Both are civil war veterans. Each married a woman named Mary. Each man's wife's maiden name was White. Each man's mother bore the Christian name Hannah. Each has a son Charles. Al though they have traced their respec tive ancestry back for live genera tions, they have been able to establish no relationship. Twelve years ago a cousin of the Washington Thatcher* riding on a train in Virginia, met the Easton Thatcher. The two began to correspond, and this year the Easton Isaac B. Thatcher invited the Wash ington Thatcher to visit him. Limit Too Low. 1 When you are angry,” said the man of gentle instincts, "stop and count a hundred.” “A hundred!” echoed Mr. Sirius Darker. ”lf I could stop at a hundred a counting up my wife’s milliner's 1 1 bills I wouldn't be angry." THE POLICEMAN IN CHURCH Sight of Uniformed Official Seems to Get on the Ijferves of the Worshipers. "Did you ever see a uniformed po liceman in rhurch?" asked tlie gray, headed man. "Did you notice the ef fect he lias on the congregation? There is a psychological problem worth investigating. “There w'as a policeman in our church Sunday morning. As a conse quence every one had a (it of ‘nerves.’ It wasn't the policeman's fault. He didn't do anything, not in an official capacity, that is. He didn't come as a policeman, but as a worshiper who wanted to say a prayer the same as anybody else. His attitude, mental and physical, was wholly devout. He sat in an inconspicuous pew in the rear of the church where lie could he seen by a few, hut in less (ban five minutes the knowledge that lie was t iere was flashed from pew to .pew and everybody began to fidget. They wondered what lie wanted. Somehow It never occurred to anyone that lie was a seeker after spiritual light. They imagined that he had come to arrest somebody, and they were curi ous to see who it could be. That con gregation, I take it. was a law-abiding indy of people, from the pastor down to the most mischievous choir boy. yet everybody suspected everybody else of wrong doing. The pastor got nervous and mixed the pages of his manuscript, the choir sang out of tune, an usher dropped the money box. “Keen after the service was over and tlie policeman had gone away without taking anybody prisoner, it was funny to watch the crowd. They separated into little groups, and each little group eyed some other little group suspiciously and whispered mys teriously. That, I tind, is the usual attitude of a church audience toward a policeman. At a fire, at a theater, at a department store, at a prize fight a policeman is considered a legitimate part of l lie show and no one gets ex cited over him, but just let him go to chureli in a uniform and there is dan ger of having to call out the reserves." Reptiles as Pets., How strange are many of our preju dices! To illustrate this In common affairs, what boy is there who shrinks from picking up a frog? Moreover, what young fisherman hesitates to dig worms for bait, or handle them? Yet these same youngsters will shrink with loathing from a small snake. The first impulse is to kill the reptile ns i horrid thing. Hut the little brown or green snake of our country roads is cleaner and nicer to handle than a frog or an angleworm. He is usual ly harmless also, and if gently treated will make an amusing plaything. This prejudice i the result of cus tom tind education, in some nations such reptiles are not dreaded. Lizards and snakes are tolerated as well as butterflies, and are even used as pets. It you catch a butterfly and give him a tasl“ of moistened sugar on your hand you may release him. He will not tiy away, but will remain perched on your finger and continue to feed. Toad - may he tamed to take Hies or millers from your hand, and so may the little gray lizards which abound in some portions of the country Kindness will work wonders with many of the inferior creatures which we hate or despise. Yet the prejudice against them is hard to root out. Often it exists unconsciously. The Line He Carried. Mishop Watterson of Nebraska was never at a loss for an answer to Im pertinent questions. One day lie met a man on the train who mistook him for a traveling salesman and started in to quiz the bishop. "Do you represent a big house?” he began as an opener. "The very biggest on earth,” replied tile bishop, with a twinkle in his eye. “Wftat’s the name of the llrm?” con tinued the questioner. "Lord & Church,” smiled the bishop, pleasantly "llum! 'Lord & Church!’ Never heard of it. Hot any branch houses?” "Oh, yes, indeed; branch houses all over the world.” “Hum! That's queer! Never heard of them. Is it boots and shoes?” “Neither.” "Oh, I see; dry goods, I suppose." “Well, yes; they do call my sermons that sometimes.”—Judge. Westinghouse Follows Father's Advice. Though It could hardly be said to he for financial reasons, George West inghouse, Jur., in marrying .Miss Vio let Evelyn Brocklebnnk, an English girl, is following the advice which his father has always given to his em ployes. “Of the many thousand em ployes that I have had,” Westinghouse, Sr., says, “those who save their money are the ones who marry for eign girls. Most of thfese employes have been imported from Germany, England or elsewhere, and some of them get more money here in a week than they would get In a year over there. 1 never have known it to fail that If one of these brings his wife with him he will have a bank account in six months and own a house within a year; hut if he marries an Ameri can girl he will probably never know what a bank account looks !ike.' From English Schoolboys. The following schoolboy “howlers” are given by a correspondent: "To kill a butterfly you pinch its borax." “The blood-vessels are the veins, ar teries and artilleries.” “A ruminating animal is one that chews cubs.” •'Algebra was the wife of Euclid." “The masculine of vixen is vicar.”— University Correspondent HIGHEST •Award 1 Highest Award in High Class Dinner Sets Either Plain or Decorated from $10 to $40 per set We carry the stock and can sell you your breakage. Our stock of Cut Glassware and J-'ancy Chinaware, the largest and best we have ever handled. See it for ioio. Our Grocery Stock Is As Good as the Best and our*Coffees are bought for their drinking qualities, j Try them. Chas. M. Wilson's A New Line To the Northwest i — Through the Big Horn Basin The Big Horn Basin is fast settling up and offers the greatest opportunities for farmers, and especially farm renters to secure line government irrigated farms at the mere cost of the water, anu often a single crop can be made to pay'for the farm. Ten yearly payments without interest. This is cheaper than paying rent in any locality. With the completion of the new line this promises to become i jgreat wealth producing region. The oil, gas and irrigation of the Big Horn Basin will malo ! that country a combination of farm and industrial prosperity. Write me for full descriptive literature. Go with me to the Basin and let me help you select a new bom Dollars paid for rent are lost, I) CLEM DEAVER, Geneuai. Agent, Land Seekers Information Bureau Room 6, “Q" Building. Omaha, Nebraska. ,:-rk .. ■« it’s the man with money saved in the bank who makes a success. Will you have money in the bank to take advantage of the opportunity when it comes? * Your home bank should get your deposits, thereby being able to accommodate you should you need a loan. • Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. By patronizing your home bank, you are helping your neighbor and fulfilling the scriptures. The Farmers’ State 5anl{ PRESTON, NEBRASKA This .is imt a one man hank, hot the cashier invites, : nd > octaves the hearty and intelligent support of the Hoard of Director*. O r oMicers and Di rectors are not engaged in any business nnderrnkii g* of a *peculative nature and n<> 1 nan* are made to the customers «»f tin- m k to he n-ed in questionable business ventures. A Graceful Endorsement (tiering, Scotts Bluff County,Courier) “There is a paper printed at Lincoln called THE NEBRASKA STA f CAPITAL. This writer never fails to read it through and through, al though it simply contains tiie personal opinions of Frank A. Harrison We don’t love Harrison, never did, and do not know why, but we do enjoy this paper and we pronounce it a Ifltle nearer the public purse of Nebraska than any other single publication in the state. He is devoting much of his ammunition just now to anti-saloon doctrines, and to his ef forts may be attributed much of the progress toward county option. Some papers which carry an editorial column have a string of sloppy slush which is well nigh meaningless, and the Courier is constitutionally afraid to try it, but the man who can get up a weekly bunch of editorials such as Harrison prints is no less than a genius. Ten years ago this paper carried an editorial column,but the mad rush of business has been responsible for its absence since then. A course of reading THE CAPITAL has produced the desire to say our own say again, hence this column, which we are inclined to make permanent.’’ Are you a subscriber to THE CAPITAL? Try it. If you pay $1.00 before January 1, you can include the name of some friend, and get credit for one year on each name. A Word With You Blankets and Robes At a Great Reduction Finest Line in the Gity /"X 1 If A LJ "f* C* 1 Call and See Us U. W AUll I tL