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JV'\ READ THE TRIBUNE DURING THE CAMPAIGN. IT IS THE CHAMPION CF COUNTY OPTION IN SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA. ONLY FIFTY CENTS FROM NOW UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1911. 0N The Falls City Tribune FIVE CONSOLIDATIONS: FALLS CITY TRIBUNE, HUMBOLDT ENTERPRISE, RULO RECORD, CROCKERS EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL AND DAWSON OUTLOOK. A \ » . Vol. Ml FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1M10. Number 32 NEERASKA. Some Facts All Nebraskans Ought to Scatter Broadcast. 1 f'rom ti,477,282 acres planted to eon in 190(1 Nebraska gathered a crop ol 109.179,1 ;}7 bushels, worth worth $98, 123,871. That crop, if loaded Into standard freight cars, 1.200 bushels to the car, would have made a fraiglit train .long enough to reach front Chicago to Denver, 1.040 miles, with 172 miles of corn filled cars left over to adorn the side tracks There are millions of acres of corn land in Nebraska that have never been touched by the plow. In 1909 Nebraska harvested 50,313, 600 bushels of wheat from 2,564,379 acres, an average of practically 20 bushels to the acre. This wheat crop was worth nearly $40,000,000. If that wheat crop had been loaded into standard freight cars it would have made a train long enough to reach from Omaha to McCook on the Burlington, or from Omaha to North Platte on the Union Pacific. There are milions of acres of wheat land in Nebraska never touched by the plow. The duty of Nebraskans who desire to assist in the work of developing rln state, is to call the attention of homeseokers to the wonderful oppor tunities that are offered by this great young state. There art* 100,000 quarter sect ions of unoccupied land in Nebraska that may be made into profitable farms. The soil is fertile, the rainfall quite equal to that, of other sections that have become agriculturally rich, and the transportation facilities far sup erion to what the more favored Sec tions had a dozen years ago. There is room and opportunity for the accumulation of a competence for 250,000 more farmers in Nebraska. The hardships of the early pioneer need no longer be endured by new comers. They will have the advan tage of schools, and churches, and railroads and markets from the start. Their only capital needs to be indus try, frugality and honesty. Pome of Nebraska’s most prosper ous farmers to-day were renters ten or fifteen yares ago. What they have done a hundred thousand more can do within the next ten or fifteen years. The same capital, the same soil and the same frugality necessary to acquire a competence in the Canadian northwest, would mean ample riches after an equal length of time upon a Nebraska farm. For years the Argo nouts traveled across the plains of Nebraska , in search of the gold and silver of the mountains, unmindful of the fact that at the grass roots in Ne braska lay a greaterstore of gold and silver than were hidden in the moun tains in all the ages of the past— eternal mines of riches that grew more fruitful as the days went by. From the grass roots in Nebraska in any one of the last ten years has been ’ mined” more wealth than the famed gold fields of Alaska have yielded in a decade, and the men who mined their wealth from the soil of Nebras ka endured no hardships compared to the hardships of the Alaskans. There are millions of acres of government land in Nebraska—all of it good for something, most of it good for general purposes, and much of it good for anything in the line of agriculture suited to the temperate zone. The hundreds of growing cities and towns offer inducements for mer chandising and manufacturing. The mechanic may find employment in in the smaller cities where the cost of living is comparatively small, and where the opportunity to become a home owner is great. liet us all join together in the greaft work of boosting Nebraska. Gone Abroad. Miss Busan Qehling left Monday for a summer vacation. From Chica go she will go to Boston, from Bos ton, August (6th, she will sail for Germany to spend sixty days with the Knights of Qolumbus from the differ ent cities of the U. S. A. Many points of interest will be visited. The Passion play and the Vatican are two of them. A Free Hearted Man. It is reported that one of our citi zens gave one-thousand dollars to Foreign Missions last week, after giving fifty dollars a year regularly for some time. This is a large gift to the Lord's work, and we would gladly publish the name of the doner, but usually such people do not like to see their names in print, in connec tion with their donations. MARKET LETTER. Lettep From our Regular Correspond ent at Kansas City. Kansas City. Aug. 1, 19to.—Too many cattle at each of the big mar kets last week caused heavy declines on all kinds and the loss in some classes, notably Stockers and feed ers, was so great as to put the mar ket on same on the verge of demor alization. At tin- ffve leading mar kets receipts last week were sixty thousand cattle greater than during corresponding week last year, and this big run following the liberal supply of tlio previous week put the situation in the hands of the buyers completely. Best fed steers lost 20 to 85 cents, medium grades of killing cattle 35 to 60 cents, low grades of killing cattle, stockcrs and feeders and calves declined 50 to 75 cents. Dry pastures and lack of stock water were the moving forces on a good mariy cattle last week, together with the fears of a protracted drought, which induced some owners to try to get in ahead of the big rush that a good many people confidently ex pected would he made this week. The run today is a surprise, only 12,000 head here, Including 2,000 calves, and not half as much pannicky talk about dry weather is heard today as a week ago. There has been no gen eral rain over the country, and local rains have not been enough to do much good, hut surplus receipts this week will he confined to offerings of owners compelled to liciuidate. The market is strong to 10 higher today, top corn fed steers at $7.85. Most of the run today is pasture cattle, the best wintered westerns of big weights selling up to $6.75, and medium Weight steers $4.50 to $5.75, best feeders around $5.00. Best grass cows sell around $3.80, best veals at $7.50. After some erratic movement last week, the hog market closed with sharp losses, and there is a big crash In the situation today, prices 15 to 30 cents lower today. A large per centage of the run is heavy sows, and prices on this kind are hardest hit, heavies selling today at $7.65 to $8. Packers complain that demand for provisions is not up to expectations, buyers evidently waiting for some new developments before providing for future requirements. Prospects of lower provisions naturally makes stocks as muchh as possible. Run here is 5,000 today, but with buyers in their presennt frame of mind it will take extremely small runs to resuscitate the market from the blow received today. J. A. RICKART, Live Stock Cor. _* • Baptist Church. The historical lectures were con tinued last week. "The Choosing of Israel,” and “Trial by Law.” The Sunday evening subejct was "The Scattering of Israel," and for the four evenings since. Rev. Williams has spoken on the prophecies of the second, third, seventh and ninth chapters of Daniel.” The lecture of Friday on the period of tribulation and second coming of Christ will probably end this series. The mem bers of the church and friends who have received such invaluable help from these lectures are sincerely grateful to Rev. Williams for under taking this task, in response to their desire at such season .Sunday morn ing the sermon subject will be'‘The Message of the Cross.” New Feature at Chautauqua. A new feature of the Chautauqua this year will be a children’s play ground where mothers may leave their little ones during the exercises in the auditorium, or at any time from one to six p. m. There will be a large tent, swings,hammocks and sand piles for the childrens’ amuse ment and a good cheerful woman in charge. This is not a money making venture but is established by the City Federation of Woman' Clubs for the convenience of mothers who otherwise might not be able to at tend the sessions, but a very small sum will be asked to help defray the expenses incidental thereto. Picnic at The Park. Saturday afternoon from five until seven o’clock, Class No. 2 of the Christian Bible School enojyed them selves at the city park. About twen ty-five little girls were present. At six o’clock their teacher, Mrs. Belle Mulligan, assisted by Miss Louise Net tlebeck served a fine picnic dinner. The little girls thoroughly enjoyed ! the affair. AN EXTENSIVE FRUIT FARM. The Forest Hill Fruit Farm At Its Best Just Now. Last Tuesday for it short time we were enabled, through the kindness of Henry C. Smith to visit his fruit farm near fhirada. We were raised on a farm; have seen a few good orchards, hut never one like this. To stand on a hill from which a large part of the orchard of seventy acres can be seen, a beautiful sight pre sents itself. Never have we seen so many trees so nearly the same size and with so few missing. The orch ard contains about 4,000, trees and not more than 200 have died in the fourteen years it has been planted. Looking down the rows one wonder that tin* trees are able to bold (heir load of apples. Many of the limbs are even now touching the ground. There will he at least r>,ouo barrels of apples of the finest quality in tjiis orchard. Tin' ground lias been cultivated un til but few weeds are to he seen anil every drop of moisture is con served. Only one tree noticed show ed any signs of being bothered by insects. The apples are of the finest quality, showing that the man In charge is an artist In his profession. Mr. Smith said that looking hack at tlie farm as it was fourteen years ago, lie wonders why he ever tried to clear it up and plant it in fruit. The job was surely a big one. No one, however, looking at the farm as it is today, can have anythiug but admiration for the courage of a man who will attempt to hew a farm from a forest and stick to It until the result Is such a farm as this one. As the population of the United States increases, and it is doing It rapidly, we will be compelled to prac tice intensive farming. Then will this country conte into its own. Then will these hills, farmed as is this one, he worth more to the owner than the best Iowa or Illinois land. Musical. y A program of especial merit was given by the young people of the Re formed Church at Zion, south of Dawson last Sunday. The program as printed in the last, week Tribune was carried out with but few changes Unusual musical ability was display ed by so many of the performers that to mention any one in particular would be unfair. The house was not large enough to hold all who came, and everyone felt I irtore than repaid for going. It was excellent. -—-5 Chautauqua Notes. The Chautauqua will begin August 6th. The committee lias labored assiduously in order to make things worth while. Something which will make us better, will help to lift us out of our regular grind and give us something of what is going on in the world about us. We think that Falls City is just about right hut lets go and hear what others are do ing. The price of tickets is as noth ing to what we will get out of the program. Base Ball. Our team is being strengthened rap idly and will be here during Chautau qua week. After the program each day-the \isitors will be able to see an exhibition of ball playing that will be of real interest. The new pitch ers are surely good. The whole line up is being improved and even though we are not as near the top as all ti-an.s would like, we will finish higher than we now are, or the other teams will have to play ten men, and we have never yet accused them of doing that. Christian Church. Services at the Christian church as follows: 10:00—Bible School. 11:00—Preaching by pastor. The subject of the address will be “The Christian’s Badge.” 7:00—Christian Endeavor. No evening service on account of the Chautauqua. Council Meeting. Tuesday evening the council met and allowed the following bills: Water and Light.. .. $1)50.81 Emergency. 116.55 General. 392.18 Occupation. 127.90 The street sprinkler was granted a rate of eight cents per 1,000 gallons of water. Library Notes. The library will close promptly at 7:45 during Chautauqua week and will not be open on Sunday after noons, August 7 and 14. STOCK FOOD SWINDLERS. j Dr. Morsman Goes After Them, One Case Brought to Light Here. Head Dr. Morsmau's Article on ] “Stock Foods" in tills issue of The | Tribune. Not long since in conversation with a farmer we learned of what lie was pleased to call un experience. He ii seemed wanted a chance lo get rich quick. An agent for a particu lar bra“nd of stock food, warranted to cure every ill to which the animal world is heir to 'and they arc legion), called upon this brother and induced him to sign a contract making said brother sole agent for tho factory, in the county in which ho lived. Three tons of the magic cure-all was ship ped, followed soon after by the state ment that the amount specified in the note was due. Rather than go into the courts the amount was paid, the ‘‘medicine" was stored in the granary, and last spring, at. a stock sale, was offered for sale at auction and brought one tenth of the price paid the factory. Dr. Morsmau's article on the val ue of such medicine is both interest ing as well ns timely. Read it. Kansas Man Plays the Baby Act. Of all the baby acta on record, tin* one made by the Kansas man who attempted to catch the auto-horse thief is the funniest. To expect a thief of tiie kind this man was known to be, to quietly submit to arrest when there was a chance to get away, is ludicrous. Moral suasion coming from a woman or child might have had some effect, but. from a man armed with a gun, well the fellow did more harm than good. We don't believe In shooting, neith er in stealing, but when necessary, a man should decide before he starts out what he will do, and either go pre pared to do business, or stay in the house, A Timely Expose. The Tribune desires to call atten tion to an article in another column of this Issue dealing with the "stock food" swindle. Tile article is timely, as this class of graft nnd swindling has been overworked in Richardson and adjacent counties. It Is an arti cle that should lie read by every fanner who is a subscriber to The Tribune, and passed along to those who are not subscribers. It is a, swindle so palpably transparent, so coarse in its working, that it should bo treated tin* same as the “shell game,” the "gold brick” and similar swindles. Read it and pass It along. Brought Insane Man to Town. George Coon and James Whitney last Tuesday brought to Falls City Samuel Grundy, who has been wan dering around in the neighborhood of Salem, tiis home is in Waubunsee county, Kansas. He has been sent to the asylum at Topeka several times. Two weeks ago he escaped from the asylum and since then he has been wandering. The authorit ies came for him Wednesday. His wife, Mrs. Grundy is well known here, being formerly Miss Sue Faulkner. Katheryn Eleanor Barton. Katheryn Eleanor Barton, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Bar ton of thts city, died Sunday morning, July 31, aged three years, three months and eleven days. She was a lovely child. Loved by all who knew her and almost idolized by her par ents. The funeral services were conduct ed by Rev. Brooks at the home on Monday, August. The bereaved par ents have the sympathy of a host of friends. Agnes O’Donahue. Miss Agnes O’Donahue of this city died at the home of her parents on Monday night, August 1, 1910. She was eighteen years, five months and fourteen days old. Acute tuberculosis was the cause of her death. The funeral was held from the Cath olic church Wednesday morning at eight o'clock, conducted by Father Hoffman. Agnes had known for some time that the end was near and expressed herself as being ready to go. Held As The Horse-Auto Thief. The man held by the sheriff is a puzzle; nothing definite can be learn ed about him. The general, belief is that he is not the right man, and yet his actions are not quite what one would expect from a man who had spent his days in the Sunday School SPEECH Of C. H, ALDRICH PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR TALKS. Makes Ringing Speech at Republi can State Convention Good Campaign Document. Then' were* many speeches hi the 1 republican state convention, but none ! made the decided lilt like that of C. II. Aldrich, one of the candidates for governor. It was delivered before the platform committee reported, and con tained no straddling, halting phrases. It was straight out for county option, and for other progressive ideas, and was delivered in a strong, clear voice that electrified the two thousand peo ple who were in the auditorium. Mr. Aldrich said: The man from Gullilee one said: "I have not come to destroy, but to fulfill.” That statement Is at once the philosophy and logic of radical ism. The Savior was charged with being a radical dcsfructlonist, of changing the order of things, of tear ing down old institutions and doing away with ancient customs. Conservatism said you are destroy ing our ancient, faith. You are load ing the people away. You are killing our business. And for this they cru cified Him. It is true that He Insurged. That He destroyed and tore down. That He changed the order of things. But He tori' down only that which ought to have been torn down. He destroy ed only that which ought to have been destroyed. He only changed the things which needed new and better things in their stead. In short, for everything He tore down He builded something better. The phrase then, "^rogresslvenoss without destruction” is a meaningless platitude. Progress means development both by transition ami destruction. Much of the so-call ed conservatism means supinely sit ting down and carping and quarrel ing witli every suggestion for im provement without the ability to do anything. Conservatism stands for an old order of things, cherishes the past and kicks at every advancement and every change. This is why some people make such good democrats. Radicalism in Its best sense always builds where it destroys. In civil government it wages war for better laws, better customs and better in stitutions. it struggles to preserve and broaden every man’s opportunity It breaks down every barrier and keeps open and unobstructed the path way to individual opportunity. Radi calism is morul earnestness in action. It is buoyancy, enthusiasm, energy, and patriotism blended and harnion ized with cold Intellect. A true lead er in such a cause iH a conservative champion of radical principles. Of such was Abraham Lincoln and Theo dore Roosevelt. Matchless men, each with a matchless cause. Each at one time tiw* loader of the matchless, peer less republican party. That party is the rndieal political organization of representative gov ernment in this country. It destroys, but it builds. It tears down, but constructs. It killed slavery and se cession and over their ruins lias builded a monument that is an im perial federation of union and liberty —an ideal republic. A Real Fighting Force. For tin* last fifty years the one ag gressive and progressive fighting force in American political lifp has been and is the republican party. It It is radical, but conservative in its radicalism, while It is aggressive and does not hesitate to assume new res ponsibilities and advocate now things and apply new remedies, yet it is rarely ever experimental. Because it makes sane and reasonable appli cations of old and tried principles to new conditions. In short, the republi can party, and its leaders, are never swept from their moorings by the hysteria of some transient wave of public opinion. No better illustration of this is found than in the InsUince of President Taft pushing his line of action like General Grant of old, fighting it out on certain lines if it takes ail summer. The citadels of Taft opposition fell, and onr presi dent came forth bearing aloft the ban ner of victory for the nation’s un counted millions In the shape of the railroad bill, postal savings bank, statehood bills and most important of all, a traffic commission act. That congress certainly finished like a hunch of thoroughbreds. The leadership of the republican party, as a rule, unerringly interprets the sign and conditions as made mans feet by the great masses of American citizenship. Then it follows that we know our duty and it ever has been the object and purpose of the republi can party to legislate for the many | rather than tho few. For nearly half a century the task | imposed upon republicanism has been, to solve tlie problem of representative government. This is to so legislate and to manage and execute our laws that, none can be so high .as to bo above the law and none so weak as to bo below it. In other words, the struggle of froo government is equality of opportunity for all, and special privileges to none, And if I tun elected governor of tho state of Nebraska no measure will receive my official signature that is in the interests of tho few and against the interests of the many. As He Sees The Issue. The issue of tho campaign now com ing on is simply tills: Shall tho breweries and raiironds be permitted to elect another governor? Two years ago they defeated George L. Sheldon. Emboldened by their success they are now out In the open. They live in a government that is an absolu tion of law. Yet no law was ever enacted in this country that was good enough for a brewery or a railroad to obey. No law applied to them waa enacted that they and each of them did not try to evade or to nullify. In 1906 the railroads tried to evado paying their taxes, when the peoplo had to. In 1907 tho people enacted a railway commission law, that wax Just to every common carrier in tho slate. It constitutes the people’s bill of rights. It establishes a com mon forum of Justice and promotes right, relations between the peoplo and the common carrier. Did the railroads take kindly to this measure? No, not on your life. The first effort that the commission made, it was met with a temporary Injunction and all proceedings were stopped. Then and there began a law suit to destroy the commission law. I know. I was the attorney of the rail way commission to assist the at torney general. Without going Into detail, when we got through with the circuit court of appeals at £Jt. Louis we had a decision that estab lished the jurisdiction of this com mission to fix and establish rates, and What is of vast importance, that high court said, the Nebraska rail way commission cannot be enjoined from proceeding to fix and establish rates, and from doing It. But still they were not satisfied. Every big railroad in the state today has an action pending In the federal court to nullify the two cent fare and the Aldrich freight rate law. Yes, and they tried to evade and nullify the anti-pass law. But they don’t have any advantage over the breweries in th.j regard. The most brazen, galling effrontery ever ex hibited sinks into insignificance be fore the criminal aggression of the Nebraska breweries. Today they are fervent worshippers at the shrine of the Slocim law. Their devotion to that law ife little short of sublime. Well, they have kicked It around enough, evaded its provisions and stabbed it to death, so that they ought to respect Its corpse. County Option Will Come. But the Slocum law came just the same. County Option will come Just the same, and it will solve the liquor problem In Nebraska because It places in the hands of all the people to control a thing in which all the people are interested. It Is fair. It is just. It places nothing in any county against the will of the ma jority. So let us get together and la solid phalanx we will storm the cidodet uf the railroads and brewery combina tion. We have got them out in the open, the absolute enemies of good government, because they are Join ed in an unholy alliance to defeat the will of the people. Let each voter do his plain duty and all will be well. Let him bear in mind that the party of Wendell Phillips. William Lloyd Garrison, Abraham Lincoln and Theo dore Roosevelt never hesitated or fait in the face of responsibility. May God vouchsafe unto us the power and courage to do our full duty and then Nebraska will rise from this struggle purified, ennobted and strengthened in the victory won for better citizenship, better condi tions, rejoicing that the enemies of good government lie prostrate, mori bund, wounded and dying at the* hands of decency. About The Postoffice Site. It is reported that the lots across the street south from the Graham, lumber yard has been offered by P. H. Jussen and Ferd Harlow as a post office site. We believe that no better place could be found. At least these men deserve credit tor th«ir public spiritedness.