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The Falls City Tribune
FIVE CONSOLIDATIONS: FALLS CITY TRIBUNE, HUMBOLDT ENTERPRISE, RULO RECORD, CROCKERS EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL AND DAWSON OUTLOOK.
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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.
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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.
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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.
