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The Falls City Tribune Vul VIII . FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1911. Number 10 NEWS FR.OM R. R- YARDS ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TRIB UNE READERS As They Were Told To Our Regu lar Correcpondent At Division Grounds Engineer B. A. Garkson lias taken one of tlie Lincoln local runs. Business on the read is on the in crease He last few days. Part of the round house dynan.o is being sent away for repairs. Owing to the rain there is not much doing here. This weather makes the men have the summer fever, because it is so nice and warm. Work is getting very slack around here and we hope it will not get worse. A. W. Painter is mad; ask him what the trouble is and he will sure ly tell you. There was a man from Omaha yes terday looking after the coal at the chutes. The section hands found it bad in raising track on account of the rain. Engineer Duff at the coal chute wa surprised at. having seen his name in the paper, and ho can’t make out who did it. “Billy'’ is getting very lively late ly, He is trying liis hand breaking coal. That is the way to do it, we like to see you work. Engineer Mike Sherlock arrived at Falls City tc take day switch engine. Engineer M. .1. LaCourt taking night switch engine. We would be glad if winter was over so that the news tould he ga thered up during the sunshine, so as to be able to get about. We are sorry that there was no news from this place yesterday, be cause we wish to keep you informed as to what we are doing. ’Twill not occur again soon. The contractor's men started work ing yesterday, connecting the bottom of the hot well, which when com pleted will he used as a hot water supply for washing, and filling boil ers. It is reported that "Billy” lias given up the id»a of being a brake man and is now thinking of going out firing, becoming one of the (Knights V of the Scoop) boys who spade the black Diamond. STANDARD OIL AFTER GOULD Attorneys Made Formal Demand for Books of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. St. Louis, Feb. 1 .—Attorneys repre senting the Standard Oil and Kuhn ix>eb interests, which are seeking con trol of the .Missouri Pacific Railroad company have made a formal demand for the stock books of the eori>oia tion. The attorneys stated they desired to get the names and addresses of all stockholders. This was with the view to obtaining their proxies for use in the election to be field .March 14, at which {he Eastern allies, it is said, hope to oust the Goulds from control ^ of the system. Edwin G. .Merriam, assistant counsel ot the road, refused to discuss the purpose of the attor neys’ visit and would not reply when ho was asked if the road intended to give up the books. Police Have Train Robber. A man by the name of Wm. l.a Frasae, was arrested in Chicago by , secret service men. it is said that he is the one that held up passengers on .\To. Pacific train No. lid between Leavenworth and Kansas City dur ing Christmas time. Conductor Mays gold watch which was taken by the bandit was found in a pawn shop in Chicago, it being pawned by I.aFrasse roommate. I.aFrasse is being tak en back from Chicago to Kansas City where a charge of train robbery will be placed against him in the Wyan dotte comity court. —Apprentice girls wanted at the Bon Ton Millinery Store. 15-2t. The price of the Daily Tribune by mail is $2.50. HIGH SCHOOL HAPPENINGS SCHOOL ITEMS OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS Items Gathered Daily By The Reg ular Tribune Cor respondent Teacher to pupil—“How do you tell case. Pupil—“By the gender.” Teacher to illustrate—“Well—John here is niasculin gender, what’s his case.” Mr. Roy Greenslit, one of the memberes of the Falls City base ball team, has resigned his position as principal of the High School of Ra venna, and will go into the lumber business with his father. Miss Henrietta Lietzke left yes terday for her new home in New York. THRE TRAINS IN ONE WRECK Two Expresses Dashed Into Freight And All Caught Fire Courville, France, Feb. 16—A col lision occurred near here on the western section of the State railroad, when the expresses for Paris and Brest dashed simultaneously into a freight train being sidetracked. The wreckage immediately caught fire. Nine bodies were taken from the wreck up to midnight and one of eight who were injured died. It was appar ent also that other bodies are still un der the burning wreckage. THEY FEAR LOSS OF CANADA Are About To Get Province London, Feb. 16—The Morning Post bases an alarmist editorial on a Wash ington dispatch saying that. American public men openly predict that recip rocity will lead to the eventual an nexation of Canada by the United States. The editorial appeals to Unionists and "to those Liberals not yet blinded by partisan prejudice,” to close their ranks and fight to save the empire which is threatened with danger. The Chamberlain wing of the Unionist party is making a strong effort to rally its followers. A series of meetings has been arranged, to be held in lx>ndon, and the provinces to stir vigorous campaign of imperial preference. Married In Omaha Stanley J. Wicks, formerly of this city but now of the Capital Hotel of Lincoln, was married yesterday in Omaha to Miss Margaret E. Becksom. The groom is well known in this city and has mayn friends wrh'o hasten to extend congratulations. He is a brother of Mrs. Elmer Kanaly. To Enlarge Hotel The Goolsby hotel is to be ma terially enlarged in the near future. '1 lie patronage has increased so rap idly that the hotel in its present size is entirely inadequate. An ad dition will be built to the west, the lower floor of which will be usd for reading room, barber shop and baths. The upper rooms will be ar ranged and furnished with all con sideration for tile guests and will be built with view to exterior improve ment as well as interior comfort. - The average cost of hauling ;• “ one ton of produce one mile in . * the foiled States is cents; in * * Europe it is N cents With equal- -• * |y as good roads as the French ” ... peasaut enjoys the American « farmers could save $250,000,000 T . a year. •} _ St. Thomas Church Next Sunday morning the rector of * St. Thomas church will begin a ser ies of three sermons on . “The Lost Coin; The Lost Shoe]) and The Lost Son.” The first, “The Lost Coin,” Will be delivered at the 10:45 service next Sunday. The purpose is to bring before the people the theologi cal, us well as the ethical tefk’hing contained in these parables. Ever notice that at least two-thirds of the persons who pass a barber ^hop always looks in. While a man attains his height, be fore he is twenty one, his nose gen erally keeps on growing. ,'.it ... ■■ | Have Modern Labor i| Saving Devices Proved of Value ? Do They Give the City Man I Advantage Over His Country Brother? DO modern inventions cost more than they are worth and labor saving devices add to llie troubles of the average hard work ing citizen ? The object of life is to increase the sum total of one's spiritual experiences. To do this one must be in the thick of the fight. In no other way can one get the depth and breadth one needs for growth. Time saving devices are NOT INTENDED TO GIVE T1IE WORKER LESS WORK AND MODE LEISURE. They are intended to give him MORE TIME TO DO MORE WORK. They increase the volume of his work and enable him to get through with it quicker than the old fashioned man did with a fifth of his business. In the country men and women are POORER, have LESS COM FORT and GROW OLD QUICKER than city folk do. They don’t keep up with the procession. They have CH I LLY HOUSES and IN DIGESTIBLE FOOD, HEAVY BEDCLOTHES and NO HOT WATER, FEW AMUSEMENTS and NOT ENOUGH WORK. They make a fuss about trifles. THE DIFFERENCE IS DUE CHIEFLY TO THE MODERN DEVICES FOUND IN THE HOME AND THE OFFICE OF THE CITY MAN AND WOMAN. ON THE MODERN FARM, WHERE SCIENCE HAS RE PLACED TRADITION THE PEOPLE AS WELL AS THE CROPS HAVE IMPROVED. RIVAL TOWNS MAY CLASH ARMED MEN ARE GATHERED AT SNYDER AND MOUNTAIN PARK. Each Claims to Be the County Seat of Swanson County, Oklahoma and May Battle for Records. Oklahoma City, Ok., Feb. !«..—The county seat trouble between snyder and Mountain Park in Swanson coun ty may lead to a battle between the residents of the two towns. There are said to be 400 armed men in Snyder prepared to resist any effort to remove the county records from that city, while the residents of Mountain Park are arming to march over to Snyder and take the records. The instructions authorize the of ficers to swear in as many deputies as necessary, either from their own or Swanson county, and they are guar anteed the aid of the state militia if this becomes necessary. Sui>ersedeas bonds are now being made by both towns to offset and interference from other counties. The trouble between the two towns came to a head when three men went o the farm of C. E. Hull, county com t >i sinner, near Indiahoma, and ar risted him. Wyatt Staples, a farm aud employed by Hull, interfered and \ as shot and killed. J. C. Armstrong another commis •ioner, living near Cold Springs, 15 miles northwest of Snyder, also was forcibly taken at the same hour by an :her band of masked men. Hath were taken to Mountain Park. C. H. Bristow county clerk, v.as arrested and held in Mountain Park as he passed through in a motor car on his way to -nyder from his home at Roosevelt. Hull and Armstrong were released on bonds of $1,500 each. The charge against them was that they felonious ly removed the county records from Mountain Park to Snyder. To Make SanFrancisco Happy Washington, Feb. 16—All is in readiness for President Taft to sign the house joint resolution that gives to San Francisco the right to hold an exposition in commemoration of the completion of the world's greatest engineering feat, the Panama canal. Phis Important document will be placed on the president's desk in the presence of the California representa tives in both houses of congress and citizens who came here to win the prize for the Western metropolis, he will affix his name to the vellum print ed document. Senator Scott Turned Down. Washington, Feb. 15—Senator Scott of West Virginia made an unsuccess ful attempt to call up in the senate the Bulloway service pension bill. A man with an aggressive disposi tion never seems able to get much satisfaction from beating a carpet. 'LEAHY TOLD | KAS. SENATORS CHARGES MADE BY GOVERNOR’S SECRETARY INVESTIGATED Told Senators he Heard Their In tegrity Assailed For Failure To Pass Legislation Topeka, Feb. It! -The investigation into the charges made by David I). Ideally, private secretary of the gov ernor, in an interview published in a Wichita newspaper that political crookedness was rampant in the legis lature, occupied several hours in Hie senate. L>euhy was on the witness stand tor more than an hour. He specifically charged that Jackson T. Moore, better know n as “Doc ’ Moore, editor of the Pittsburg Headlight, for mer chairman of the Republican stale committee, had attempted to induce him to use his influence with a house employe to change the name of “Cas sin,” the author of a house bill, to “Casey." Leahy said that he assumed that Moore's motive was to try to git him to do crooked work. i ue senate nas oruereu g,.um copies of the daily senate Journal containing the testimony printed. The record will be distributed by the senators. Leahy told the senators plainly ihat he had heard their integrity assailed because ot their failure to pass im portam legislation. .Moore also took the witness stand. Ills explanation was that he had gone to Leahy as a friend and legislative adviser and had asked him if a house bill for the good of Pittsburg, which had already been killed, could not bo introduced under another man's name and in that way have another chance for passage. He said that he had no wrong intent and that the name of “Casey’’ was good nnturedly suggested by Leahy himself. The bill in which Moore was inter ested was a measure to legalize a bond issue for the purchase of the water works in Pittsburg. The bill was being opposed by the other mem ber from Crawford county, Mr, McCor mick, and it was for that reason Moore said he wished “to slip one over" on that member and have trie bill passed without his knowledge. The senate chamber was crowded. At times the lobby became so noisy that several threats were made by the president to clear It if better or der were not kept. Both men made good witnesses. Leahy was in com mand of himself at all times. On be ing questioned by Judge Price and Senator Brewster, experienced law yers, Leahy showed his Celtic nativity by his keen wit and quick repartee. In a passage of words between Leahy and the lawyer members 1-eahy never came out second best. Not all the neighborhood nuisances are kept in barns or kennels. Ever know a woman who thought it was her duty to baketwo differ ent kinds of cake every Saturday. BIG SPECIAL OFFER TODAY TEN DOLLARS IN GOLD TO BE GIVEN TO ONE CONTESTANT The Standing Of The Several Con teMnnts Remain heSame Ab Yesterday Maxwell Automobile.$650.00 Upright Plano. 350.00 Four $50 Gold Watches.. .. 200.00 Four $37.50 Diamond Rings.. 150.00 Victoria Phonograph. 60.00 The Votes. Weekly. Daily. Old New New 3 mo. 50— 650— 1.000 G mo. 100— 500 - 3,000 1 yr. 600— 1,500— 6,000 2 yrs.1,260— 3,600- 12,500 yrs. 2,000— 6,200 -20,000 4 yrs. .. .. .. 3,000— 7,000—27,600 5 yrs. 6,000—10,000—36,000 To the contestant who tins the mos voles to Us ciodjt by six p. in., Fri day, March 3rd will bo given ton dol lars in gold. This offer is open to all and does not. irkrfere In any way with the regular prize. This is tin1 first ipedal 1'iizo but not the only one. A contestant < an win both a special prize and one of the reg ular prizes, but no contestant will be awarded more than one special prize. There is no change in the standing of the contestants, none of the con testants have sent in any votes since yesterday. Essley, Rev. A., Falls City.... 17,260 Wittwer, H. E. Dawson.16,250 Whitaker, Charles, Falls City..16,250 Holland, C. E„ Falls City.... 11,000 Tyner, W. M„ Salem.0,000 Shroyer. J. O., Humboldt.8,360 Sailor, C. C., Verdon,.0,000 Price, Alice, Dawson.0,000 lifiniUse, A. D., Preston.4,500 LiniV, Claud M. .Ir, Humboldt.. 4,000 Maid win, Mrs. A. .J. Stella_ 3.000 Lewis, Maggie, Shubert.. ..... 3,000 Rohlmeir, Aug F., Dubois.. .. .3,000 Hoatmnn, Fed, Shubert.2.260 oooooooooooo o THE DAILY TRIBUNE o o Delivered anywhere n IN FALLS CITY o o Per week.6 cents o o Per month .. ..25 cents o o o o o n o o o o o <> o Dr. J. W. Bourne Dead Friends in this city received word yesterday of the death of Dr. .1. W. Bourne, who went south a few weeks ago hoping the climate might bene fit liis health. Ilo is well known to many Falls City people, having been a practicing physii inn in Ver don for many years. CHARGED BANK WITH FORGERY Senator Eailey Contends That One Piece of Lorimsr Evidence is Open to Suspicion, Washington, Fob. 15. — Senator Hailey was prompt in resuming Ins ar gument in the senate in support of the report of the committee on priv ileges and elections, exonerating Sen ator Lorimer of Illinois from the Charge of bribery in connection with liis election to the senate. He quick ly entered on senational grounds by practically charging forgery aguinst the Illinois State bank of Chicago, in which lie said Gov. Dencen is in terested. The Texas senator returned to the consideration of his charge that the bank deposit slip evidencing State Senator Holstlaw’s deposit in the State Bank of Chicago had been a forgery. He referred to the fact that Senator Cummins had sought to intro duce the original slip which it was as serted, had been made out by Chief Clerk Newton of the bank. Mr. Cummins, Mr. Bailey said had permitted him to take the paper and added that his examination of it had only had the effect of confirming his theory that the slip had been a forg ery. He was sure that the handwrit ing shown in Newton’s signature was not the same as that on the slip. • • .. % High freight rates are not nearly as heavy a tax on tho P shippers of stock and other farm produce as had r ads are. <& • » « • •••••••••«••« •••««•*•» WILL BENEFIT NEBRASKA LUMBER AND TIMBER PRODUCTS ALSOFISH Benefits Accruing to the State of Nebraska by the Proposed Reciprocity Agreement. The reciprocal aggreement places timber, ordinary sawed lumber, wood en staves, paving posts,railroad tics, telephone, electric light, and trolley poles, and pickets and palings on the free list. The United States fur (her agrees to cut the present duty on laths of 20 cents per thousand Piet os in half, and reduce the duty mi shingles from 50 cents to :to cents per thousand. On all lumber planed or finished the present duties are reduced by $1.25 per thousand feet. The state of Nebraska produces no lumber of commercial importance, hence these sweeping reductions iu duly on till grades of lumber and timber should prove of the greatest value to the state. The United Sta les found it to its advantage to im port lumber from Canada in the fis cal year 1910 to the value of nearly $24,000,000 with the present duties in force. If the heavy reductions In duty become effective, this amount could he Increased almost indefinite ly, us Canada is probably the Holi est country In the world In Its resour ces of limber and ana of fwrest. The Dominion Statistician has esti mated tlte area of standing timber to lie more than a million and a quarter squpre miles. As Nebraska is now compelled to purchase all the lumber necessary for her Industries uud building construction outside of the state, the proposed reductions in duty can hut rebound to the advan tage of all interests within the state, with no industry adversely affected. 1 i-'ish The proposed reciprocal agreement places fisli of all kinds, fresh or prepared in any manner, on the free list. This provision should be of material importance to the stnto of Nebraska, inasmuch as only u negli gible quantity of fish is obtained from the waters within (lie state. The nutritive \aluo of fisli as an article of food Inis been long recognized, and their consumption in the United States is rapidly increasing. It >« estimated that fish to the value of nearly $50,000,000 are annually con sumed in the United States. The imports of fisli and fisli products have practically doubled during the last decade, amounting to $ 1 ti,XI!6,000 in the fiscal year 1!H0. This clearly indicates that American fishermen are no longer able to supply thn home demand for fisli. Falls City Chorus A- arranged at the rehearsal last week, the Falls City chorus will meet Friday evening at the home of Mrs. Ranks. A few more bass singers are desire d to complete the mem heri'liij) limit of forty. Anyone in terested may communicate with Junn .iaquel at the j< weliy store LIVE STOCK REPORTS REPORTS FROM SOUTH OMAHA AND KANSAS CITY After Decline in Prices For a Few Days, Market is Stronger Again Today South Omaha, Fob. 16—Cattle—Re in ipts, 8,800. K n • ipts of cattle were light for Wcdnt day. Tin- sharp break in prices yesterday and the day before having apparently reduced ship ttients. i hi demand was fair, and the market opened with prospects tha cattle would command steady prices. Hogs Receipts 5,900. After the rapid decline in prices during the last few days, the market this morn ing opened with stronger foelhig. and with prospects that prices would be 5 to 10c higher than yesterday. Kansas City, Feb. 16—Cattle—Re ceipts 6,000, including 400 native steers, $5.50 to $6,60; southern cows and heifers $3.25 to 5.25; calves $4.60 to 8.25; stoekers and feeders $4.50 to 5.80; bulls, $4.50 to $5.25, and western steers $5.25 to 6.00, western cows, $3.20 to 5.00. Hogs—Receipts, 11,000; market 5 to 10c higher; bulk of sales $7.05 to $7.057.20; packers and butchers, $7 05 to 7 20; lights. $7.15 to 7.25. Tin--? n-j-r nmrrriii»m'rT—M"———~vwwinmM—B———M—I