THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE Consolidations—Falls City Tribune, Humboldt Enterprise, Kulo Record, Crocker's Educational Journal and Dawson Outlook Entered as second-class matter at Falls City, Nebraska, post office, Janu ary 12, 1004, under the Act of Congress on March 1 i87». Published every Friday at Falls City Nebraska, by The Tribune Publishing Company One year_-—--$1.50 Six u • Mis Three months . 40 TELEPHONE 226. Honestly, Mr. Democrat, don’t you think it is about time for a cleaning about the court house? Judges Letton, Rose and Root arc practically certain to receive a second term on the supreme court. Sheriff Fenton has heroine a candidate for a fourth term. The court house ring of third, fourth and six termers are cer tainly exceeding the speed limit. ->«•» Judge flagnon has announced himself as candidate for n sixth term as County Judge and the News tenders him its con gratulations, What on, Ids ncrTe? Judge Hamer of Kearney has announced himself as a republi can candidate for supreme Judge, lie should be overwhelmingly de feated. lie does not possess a single qualification for the office. •Judge John B. Ilaper will prob ably have no opposition in this district. This is as it should be. Judge Ilaper is universally recog nized as the best district judge the district lias ever had and n<> chances should he taken on Ins mg him. V, G. Lyford lias announced himself as a candidate for a sec ond term as Regent of the State University. Mr. Lyford has serv ed in this capacity with great honor to himself and this comi ty. Ilis re-nomination and re elect ion is assured, hut his home county should give him its un animous support. Next to lie an umpire we would hate to he a city official. The personal of our present city ad ministration is the highest in the city’s history. The members are giving of their time and talents freely and are earning and re ceiving the thanks of the com munity with a few irresponsible and unconsequeutial exceptions. - ► Our ball team must be main tained. If we were without a ball club it would probably be no , great loss, but Falls City cannot afford to start anything and quit. The committee is laboring vali antly to save our city this Inund ation and it is your duty to as sist. It is of no concern whether you enjoy the game or not if you live here and make your money here you should spend a little of your money here to maintain the reputation of Falls City as the best town on the map. The court house crowd of third, fourth and sixth termers, indifferent to public, sentiment and intollerant of any precedent that would tend to jar them loose from the county’s money bags, are again seeking to con vince the public that their own party has no one except them selves conpetent to fill the of fices. A rude awakening awaits these gentlemen. The rank and file of the democratic party are opposed to a life tenure in of fice, and arrogance and selfish ness are abhorent to our entire citizenship. The Kansas City Paper house has sued the Tribune Co. ^or a small paper bill and it named Ifcq-r Oliver as manager, being unable otherwise to ascertain the real owners of the paper, Jour nal. Yes, borther Journal, we fell into the hands of some sharks who abused our good name. We are not to blame. Not a long time ago our neighbor passed through a 'cry severe trial and it ought not to boast. Pride goeth before a fall. We are striving to gain our good name again, and we think our friends will have some patience with us. •m • ► Its about time for republicans to get busy with their nomina tions. July 1 bth is the last day. This is the year of promise. Hun dreds of conscientious democrats have declared themselves in op position to the arrogant demands of the court house ring. Hither llogrefe of Stella or Ikirrott of Falls Pity can easily he elected treasurer. Leyda and VViltsc can beat Gagnon. Ilossack can he elected over Fenton. In fact the party has many men who can be elected this fall and the county organization should see that (bey file. Wake up, .Mr. Ilowe, and do something. - ► Louie Grouch, editor of the Journal and Dean of the guild of knockers, says the Tribune is under democratic management. Louie is always funny when ser ious. Would it be impertinent to inquire what republican tick et lie has supported in the past ten years? Does he think he can bury bis head in the sand and hide the fact that his paper is owned by the democratic office holders in this county. We say owned not from the fact that they have any particular title to Louie, but. that they own his paper by buying and paying for it. Under democratic manage ment, indeed! The funniest man on earth is the unconscious hu morist. FOR SUPREME JUDGE. The Express, in common with oilier citizens of Gage county, is pleased to learn that lion. J. E. Cobhey is a candidate for a po sition on the supreme bench of our state. Mr. Cobhey was born in Mis souri, where his father was prin cipal of the Clarksville Academy in 18511. At the close of the Civil War. the father found him self with impaired health, from hardships suffered in the union army which made an outdoor iife advisable. He settled on a small farm in llenton county, Iowa, twenty-five miles from a railroad. Here the subject of this sketch grew up, attending district school in the winter and working on a farm in the sum mer. When eighteen years of age he commenced teaching school. By teaching and farm labor he worked bis way through college and law college, lie is a graduate of the scientific course of the state school of Ames, Iowa, and the Iowa college of law at I)es Moines, now a part of Drake uni versity. In 1877 he settled in Beatrice, and opened a law office. Al though active in polities, always taking a deep interest in politi cal matters, he has not been an office seeker. In 1877 he was appointed U. 8. Commissioner by the U. S. circuit judge, which position he still holds, being appointed by both republican and democratic federal judges. At the present time, the position is not lucra tive, but it is a convenience to federal officers and others to have a commissioner af. this place. One term as county judge of Cage county (1880-81) one term as city attorney of Beatrice, two terms on the council of the same • ity and i. few minor positions cover his official life. He has always identified him ?eli with the social life of this city, being a prominent member of the Christian church, differ nit Masonic lodges, also l*. C. T. and Beatrice commercial club, Nebraska Historical association etc. With the growth and develop ments of tile country in the de cadi from 1880 to 1890 his law practice grew rapidly. During the twenty-five years following 18*0 he was connected with much1 of thi* important litigation of this vicinity and period. The i are and research which he plac ed upon the legal propositions he urged before the courts soon made him one of the leaders of the bar of Gage county, ac knowledged to he one of the ‘ ablest in the state, and gave him the confidence oi be courts and ♦ he respect of his orfessiomd brothren, lie has given much of his time to legal writing, publishing in 1890 the “Law of Replevin”, which ha 1 been about two years in prepanrtion. This work was well received by the profession and was soon recognized as the leading t<■ xt book on this diffi cult subject, which position it still holds. A second edition was published in 1900. The “Law of Chattel Mortga ges'’ came from the press in 1893. 'Phis is comprehensive and the only two volume work ever published on this subject. In 1891, under legislative au thority, lie prepared the statutes of the state, and in 1893, a .sec ond edition. This work was known as the “Consolidated Statutes.’’. The investigation ne cessary for preparing it, gave him a vision of a better statute and tin.1 work of gathering notes and material, was at once com menced, and for ten years much •if liis time was given in prepar ing the material for this new statute which was first published in 1901 as the Annotated Statu tes. This work contains all the statutory law of the state scien SfimiHy clarified ami arranged1 and more than 30,000 notes ex plaining the text. The publica tion of the Annotated Statutes is still being continued, a new edition being published after each legislative session. Ill's statutes have attracted at trition outside of the state. The commission in preparing new statutes in Wyoming, Missouri and Oklahoma, followed some of its features. In New Mexico a commission of five appointed to select an expert to prepare a new statute for the prospective state, after a careful examination of the different states, selected tin Annotated Statutes of Ne braska as the best model, ajjd employed Judge Cobbey to pre pare these statutes, giving him unlimited authority to re-word existing statutes or draft new ones as to him seeiued best. During the year 1908 he was m Santa J