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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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<V engaged on this
work, which, when completed, I
was entirely satisfactory. This
work involved not only a thor- j
ough study of the common law.
as classified by Blackstone and
the statutes of the several states I
based thereon, but a study of
the civil lay as classified by the
Code Napoleon and enacted into
statutes by the Latin nations.
New Mexico up to 184b received
Is law from Spain through Old
Mexico, and this eviil law foun
dation influences the application
and enforcement of subsequent
common law enactments. Th'»
experience gave Judge Cobbey a
broad aud comprehensive know-i
ledge of statutory law. He has
frequently been a contributor to
legal journals and law magazines.
This experience in the differ
ent branches of the law, as peac1
Htioner, trial judge, text book
author, law writer, compiler, an
notator and statute draughtsman,
give to Judge Cobbey a wide and
comprehensive knowledge of le
gal problems which, with his
great capacity for work, his
friends *hink eminently qualify
him for a position on the su
preme bench.—Daily Express.
Subscribe for the Tribune.
A MERE PROPOSITION.
Oh. do not wear
Tin* harem skirt;
I cannot tell
You why, sweet Gert,
but do not wear
The harem skirt
You still Insist?
Won’t he denied?
Insinuate I
I’ve hurt your pride?
X sure do w ish
Y'ou would subside.
Ahem! Now please
Give careful heed;
I'll apeak and then
Depart with speed.
Suppose—suppose
You were ku(" k-kneed?
A CALL DOWN.
Restaurant Cashier This dollar does
not look very good.
Guest—Well, just bite it, and if it's
anything like the dinner I just had, it
will taste even worse than it looks.
As Compared.
Behold the hustling bootblack,
At work with all his power;
He, like, the busy little bee,
Improves each shining hour.
Evidently an Impostor.
“Did I understand you to say that
man was from Kentucky?”
"Yes.”
“You must be mistaken. He Isn't
from Kentucky.”
“Yes, I am sure 1 heard somewhere
that he was.”
“No, you're wrong. He's been here
ten minutes and hasn't boasted about
it.”
THEN THE FIGHT STARTED.
“What were tie'trouble over at do
Jones' house last night?”
"Why, Sarah give a watahmelon
party an' she wanted to nave de rhlnas
to preserve, an’ dry done eat rhines
an’ all.”
Point In His Favor.
"I’r* fault* you hat.”
Raid William Nodi*
“Hut na*ar yet
Hava triad to yodia "
Cauaad by Labor Trouble*.
’T# it gamUn* I’hlppanAala?"
"Abeolutely, air—"
“Hut thia looka ltka a crack right
acroa*— "
’"l*rma by Chippendaia bimaalf, air,
In a fit of rag* whan ha itaard the
union bad eallad out the man.”—
Pur. oil.
Praflt.
"Wall. I mmoa 1199 today
“Kina How did yon do it?”
"By dacliniag to buy 1,000 sharaa i
of mialag stock which a proaodar
Inaiatad would ha adraacad from 2f
cants to 40 oaata a ihara at tan'
o’clock aaxt Thursday ”
Happy Ending.
Qunnar—Yes, Bilkia* waa th* ahy
est bachalor you erar saw That is
why they introduced him to Mias Da
Flash. She was sort of a hint to
matrimony, you know.
Guyer—And how did it end?
Gunner—Oh; he took the hint.
At the Ball.
“1 presume you have some trouble
keeping your wife in clothes?”
“Oh. no; none at all. As long as
she measures more around the hips
than she does about the waist she
won't come out of her clothes any
farther than she is now.”
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JOHN DeFOX
Osteopathic Physician
, Strong Building
Phone 538 Falls City, Nebr.
Little Mixed. ^
"Captain,” exclaimed the younjjovire
on her first tropical voyage, “if my
husband conies on deck tell him I am
taking a siesta. You know what that
means?"
The bluff old captain looked some
what bewildered, hut he bowed cour
teously and made the promise. Some
minutes later the husband came up
the companion way.
"Captain,” he called, “have you seen
anything of my wife?"
"I have, sir," responded the old
salt, "an’ she told me to tell you that
she is taking a sou'wester.”
Cruel and Inhuman.
“I hear that Mrs. Cole, the wife of
the dentist, is suing him for divorce."
"Yes. Too bad that he treated her
thut way, wasn’t it?”
“What did he do?”
"She had to have a tooth filled one
day, and when he got her into the
chair and gagged with one of those
rubber contrivances, be stood there
and talked at her ail afternoon, re
fusing to give her a chance to an
swer buck.”
Erroneous impression.
Seymour—I've just lost $100 through
Waters', the bucket shop dealer; I
thought you told mo the fellow was
on the square.
Ashley—He is on the square; he’s
on the northeast corner of it.
A Baa Faculty.
“I know a man who had rabbit’s
eyes grafted on him.”
’Then I suppose he thought every
body he looked at had cabbage heads.”
The Kind.
•‘Whet magnificent nerve your chauf
feur hasl”
“Yes: it’s a motor nerva.”
Economy
It was fit a reception and the
lady, who had been reading up
on health culture, mistook Law
yer Williams for his brother, the
doctor.
“Is it better,” she asked con
fidentially, “to lie on the right
side or the left?”
“Madame,” replied the lawyer,
“if one is on the right side it
often isn’t necessary to lie at
all.”. [From Success Magazine.]
Speaking of the
Divorce Evil
Trying to succeed in huainasa
without advertising is liha too
case of ths man who, trytog »o |
e—* tipanava. divorced hhl wjio
and alor* attempted to hoop
houao and raiac hia children.
It coat him raora assay Ihr
doctor bills and hsnai n
penaes in a year thaa ha gora
hia wlfa in a lifatane.
When advertising is
divorced, business suc
cess becomes failure.
This paper is building your
neighbor’s business. He has
, reasons. He tried advertising
and it helped him. It is not
an experiment — this paper
brings results. Good, hard,
convincing results — dollars.
(Copyright, liMt, by W. K- UJ
Always On The Go.
Billy Fenton left last Monday
lor Lansing, Michigan to bring
back Mr. Sherwood, who is want
ted here for selling horses and
other property which he had no
right to dispose of.
Kill More Than Wild Beasts.
The number of people killed
yearly by wild beasts don't ap
proach the vast number killed by
disease germs. No life is safe
from their attacks. They’re Tu
air, water, dust, even food. But
grand protection is afforded by
Electric Bitters, which destroy
and expel these deadly disease
germs from the system. That’s
why chills, fever and ague, all
malarial and many blood diseas
es yield promptly to this wonder
ful blood purifier. Try them, and
enjoy the glorious health and new
strength they’ll give you. Money
back, if not satisfied. Only 50c
at all druggists.
Horse Fell Cn Him.
While working around the
livery barn last Monday, Barton
Metz had the misfortune of hav
ing a horse fall on him, which
fractured his shoulder blade and
broke two of his ribs. Mr. Metz
is becoming fairly old in years
and will probably be laid up for
some time.
There is one medicine that ev
ery family should be provided
with especially during the sum
mer E"~ths; viz, Chamberlain’s
WANTED: Mechanic to work
in blacksmith an;! wagon shop.
Shop phone 183. Res. 261. Ed
ward Daeschner.
RATES—1 cent per word for
first insertion; H cent per word
for each additional insertion. No
ad taken for less than 10 cents.
FOR SALE modern home on the
nstallinent plan. Inquire of G.
II. Fallstead. tf
STATIONERY printed artis
tically at reasonable prices at
this office.
WANTED: Stock to pasture.
Have about 500 acres of bluff
pasture. Drop me a card and I
will call. C. E. Burgess, Barada,
R F. D No. 1.
f OR RENT: Furnished rooms,
seven blocks north of Round
house on Uth and Fulton. Ray
mond SehlosB.
WANTED TO RENT—Furnish
ed rooms for light house keeping.
Inquire at Tribune.
