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About The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1894)
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JHe dir. a correspondent in tot chool-district y Matte county, one of good judgment, andr M... ;n ... . Writ ciainly. aach iU- separately, aires " -"- : - WEDNESDAY. DECEMHEK 26. 16M. Journal & Bee. We give you The Columbus .Touksal and the Omaha Weekly Bee for $2 a year, when paid in advance. Sub scriptions may bepin at any time, and now is the time to begin with the two, whether subscription to ei ther has expired or not Bee & Journal. It is said that trichinae has been dis covered in horse meat in Paris. Kearxet. has had three bank failures in the last three months, the last one the "National" cause, inability to make collections. Miss Maggie Warrick, a highly es teemed young lady of Hastings, has been adjudged insane, said to be caused by her inability to find work. It seems that at the recent state con vention of school men it "was developed that under the present law a voter on the school question need not be a citizen of the United States." The explosion of a lamp left burning during the night caused the loss of the residence of A. B. PerkinB at Clay Center Friday morning. The family all escaped uninjured and saved considerable fur niture. News from Sioux City Friday says that a sudden rise in the Missouri of nearly six feet carried out the pontoon bridge. Four men on the draw were taken off by a skiff after an exciting time. A terrific snow storm caused the rise. ScHMiTTUEROER, captain of police of New York made confession Friday Ihj fore the Lexow committee that the entire police system of the city with the exception of Sup't Byrnes and a few others is rotten to the core. His dis closures occupy a large space in the daily papers. The Schuyler Herald (dem.) i3 very pointed, very emphatic and abrupt when it says of President Cleveland that "it required Beveral hundred words to tell what he thinks about the currency, but that the people can tell "mono expressive word their estimate of the Trust presi dent 'traitor. " A century ago there was not a mile of telegraph or telephone wire in exist ence, not a foot of railroad nor a steam loat, und the great argument of our fore fathers against the extension of territory included under one government rested upon the fact that means of communica tion were bo limited that a large country would fall to pieces. At Picton, Texas, Prof. Gray and Wil mer Randolph, a school boy, had a racket because the latter would not obey the rules. Gay started to whip the boy, when he stabbed him and ran out. Gray drew a knife and cut the boy as he went. Randolph fell and the professor walked to the nearest residence, bleeding as he went. It is thought both will die. A special from Cheyenne says a Chicago syndicate having a capital of 812,000,000 has bought the properties of the Van Dyke, Sweetwater and Rock Springs Coal companies, comprising all the mines of Rock Springs, Wyoming, not controlled by the Union Pacific com pany. The syndicate is said to have bought mines in Kansas and Nebraska. Congressman Meiklejoiin- happened Saturday to be in the pathway of a mur derer, Joseph Bean, (who had unloaded three revolvers into the body of his step daughter), and pinioned his arms to his side. The murderer, noticing by Meikle john'a watch chain that he was a Mason, gave up, told of his crime, surrendered his revolver and. without resistance, ac companied an officer. The apple has yielded about 1,500 varieties up to a few years ago, yet some other species of the genus may be quite as capable of useful development. The different varieties of wheat aro believed to have originated in a seemingly unim portant forage grass, and a wild plant still growing on English and French coasts has given us the white and red cabbages, cauliflower and common turnip. Messrs. Coxet and Browne, who made such a stir in Washington last summer, were at the capitol Friday to resume efforts in behalf of the Coxey bills, one for good roads and the other for non interest bearing bonds. An arrangement was made with Representative Bryan, chairman of the ways and means com mittee, to which the bills were referred, to give Coxey and Browne a hearing about January 15. It seems that Daniel F. Beatty, the organ manufacturer of Washington, N. J., has come to something of his just deserts at last, having been convicted by government prosecution for the fraudulent use of the mail. E. D. Saw yer of Reading, Pa., proved to the satis faction of a jury that ho did not receive from Beatty the kind of an organ he had ordered, by catalogue, and in aiumi an hour after the- case went to the jury a yerdict o! guilty was given. Coanty Printing. The Joubxaii is one of the four news papers of the county selected by the present county board of supervisors to publish for them. One county board is not constituted like another, always, party considera tions vary, chairmen vary, members of committees are not uniform in their knowledge of affairs, and thus it hap pens that what constitutes publishing for the county varies along with the rest of the variations. Sometimes, at the first annual meeting of the board in January, publishers are requested to present bids for "such legal notices as are required by law to be pub lished in a newspaper of general circula tion in the county," and this would in clude supervisors' proceedings, road notices, tax-list, the county treasurer's semi-annual statements, the estimate of expenses, the notice for supplies to be f nrnished the county. Sometimes publishers are requested to place bids for publishing such legal notices required to be published in a newspaper, and which are "at the dis posal of the board." And it has several times been contended that the road notices, the county treasurer's semi-annual statements (and perhaps 6ome oth ers that we do not just recall), are not "at the disposal of the supervisors," but are "at the disposal" of the officer in charge, whoever he may le. The past year four newspapers have been publishing the supervisors' pro ceedings, and the tax-list, The Columrcs JouRNAii, the Columbus Telegram, the Columbus Wochenblatt and the Humph rey Democrat, each being allowed one third legal rate, maKing a cost to the county of four-thirds of one full legal rate. The legal (or statute) rate for the pro ceedings is three and one-third cents a line, which gives one and one-ninth cents a line to each of the papers mentioned. The statute rate for the delinquent tax list is 20 cents for each description of land and 10 for each town lot, and the rate to each paper is six and two-third cents for land, three and one-third for town lots. Outside of one item, wo beliove, The Journal (though one of the contract naners). has been given none of the printing at the one-third rate except supervisors' proceedings and tax-list. The road notices, etc., have been placed elsewhere, as not at the disposal of tho board, whether nt the one-third rate or not we have not ascertained, but we most respectfully insist, not only aa a tax-payer but as a contract-publisher for tho county, and a business manager of a business institution, that the county, which pays the bills, ought to have any benefits there are in competition, and that public work is not a private clutch. OFFICIAL PRINTING. People who observe business matters in a business way and give any further, penetrating thought to it will have noticed that almost all the legal notices emanating from the county jndgo'sotlice are placed with the papers of the county judge's particular brand of political faith. We would infer from appearances that Judge lleusley is a democrat, which of course he has a right to be, but, not withstanding, never the less, parties in interest, widows, orphans, debtors, who have hard work to meet their obligations and can't meet them, and must submit to be sued, sometimes having little or nothing left, and they, above all others, should have the right graciously accord ed to them of making the best terms they can, at the lowest rates they can. We presume that Judge Hensley would say he didn't care a continental where notices are printed, just 6o the work is done right, and we propose to see to it, so far as lies in our power, that at least widows and orphans, especially of the poor, shall have a cut rate, just as well as the county or the city, and then let it lie understood that the party in interest, those who pay the bills, themselves direct where the publishing shall be done. Certainly, an official (and these remarks apply to the county sheriff as well as tho county judge and all the rest of them) has no right to compel the tax-paying public, or expense-paying heirs or orphans to pay the highest rato that can be by law exacted, when a low rate can be secured that will be just as effectual. Now we do not understand and do not say that these officials fix the fees, but, let them alone, and let the matter go through the channels fixed by them, and the bills will come in at the full legal rate, 10c a line for the first time and 5c a line for each subsequent time, with 25c for each affidavit attached. Here is a sample of what a little com petition does for the city, and if it is good for a wealthy city like Columbus (which makes no deduction for a pub lisher's occupation tax or his other taxes and makes him pay as much for water as do other people which is all right), why competition ought to be good for the lowering of expenses to the widows and orphans of the poor. Last year The Journal printed the ordi nances and notices of the city for 3c a line, and one of our force attended very nearly every meeting of the council, almost as certainly as did any member of the council, took notes of the pro ceedings, wrote them up, after which the men of the office set them up in type and they were published, all of which was done without a cent of expense to the city. This year, the Telegram, on a competitive bid with The Journal cut away down to (if we remember rightly) ll cents a line. They do not, however, make a rule of attending the council meetings, and our (at present occasional) reports of the proceedings are so satis factory that they reproduce them with out having the labor of attending the meetings, and for the publishing of which they, of course, like us last year, get no pay except the satisfaction of good done "virtue is it3 own reward" surely, in this case. The point we wish to emphasize is that the public should not be allowed to discriminate against any newspaper or newspapers on a merely business proposition; newspapers should not be compelled by the pressure of unjust conditions to discriminate in favor of rich city or wealthy county, and against poor widows and needy orphans the Telegram or The Journal (or any other paper in the county) can well afford to clip some from the' regular, legal, max imum rate, if some method can be de vised whereby the printing for county and city, through judge and sheriff and J treasurer, anu county cierK anu uisinct court clerk and superintendent of schools i can be fixed at living, reasonable rates. IJet the county supervisors (whose office is ono of honor-rather than emolu ment, whose bonds are large and wages comparatively small), start in with their work the coming year on the principle that they are tho first conservators of the county's welfare; that, as it is they who must approve bills, and they who must order warrants drawn for their pay, they have the right of direction and contract. Let other bill-payers work on the same principle with all the county offices. Let us make Nebraska's motto, "Equal ity before the law," an honest maxim of conduct not only for newspapers and toward newspapers, but for everybody. The Public Funds. Everything in relation to the financial affairs of state, county and municipality must necessarily receive greater atten tion from now on than ever before in Nebraska. The last few years has de veloped a spirit of investigation, critical inspection and searching inquiry into details, which is made all the more nec essary to the men who have the bills to pay. On one phase of our financial prob lems the Kearney Hub seems to have a little information. At least it assures us that a prominent populist is au thority for saying "that Governor Hol comb will recommend in his inaugural address the repeal of the present de pository law for placing public funds and the enactment of a law requiring public treasuries to keep their moneys in their own vaults at their own risk and behind time locks the same as banks. No matter how this may be, it is certain that the present system of farming out public money has been a detriment to the banks, and it cannot bo gainsaid that it has hoodooed two or three Kearney banks within the last three years. It would be to the interest of tho banks to refuse to touch a dollar of county money under the present law and to the interest of the depositing portion of the public as well. The county treasury would lose something in interest charges, but there is no good reason why the county should speculate in the county's funds, and it should also be made impossible for any county treasurer to do it either." Would the Hub be in favor of making it obligatory upon county supervisors to invest surplus funds in county warrants, school warrants, state warrants, and also the accumulating amounts of sink ing funds in U. S. government bondu, so that the county would be getting some interest in return to offset what it pays out'' itoniW anil tiolil. It is doubtless well enough that even democrats are divided as to the policy to le nursued bv the administration on vital questions affecting every commer cial interest of the country. Nebraska democracy's only great newspaper organ, tho World-Herald, occasionally has some very pointed criticisms to make against the state of affairs existing at the White House and among them the following: "When tho syndicate of New York bankers pledged themselves not to with draw any gold from tho United States treasury to buy bonds with if their bids were accepted, there were many wise people who thought they saw a chance for a joke at the expense of the World Ilorald because this paper had predicted heavy gold withdrawals. But the figures now show that since December 1 the gold has been leaving the treasury almost as rapidly as it poured in when the syndicate began pay ing for its bonds. In other words the syndicate furnished the gold one week and on the following week began indi rectly to draw it out again by presenting treasury notes for redemption. Since December 1 the treasury reserve of gold has decreased almost SR.000,000, and tin's has taken place in spite of the fact that the general conndition of treasury finan ces has improved on account of increas ing revenues. When the bonds were offered for 6alo the gold reserve in the treasury amount ed to about $60,000,000, and the bonds brought nearly as much more into tho treasury, but by January 1st it is probable that the gold reserve will again fall be low the $100,000,000 point. How do the people like to have the national debt increased withont any national benefit. August Trimrorn, a banker of Oak land, Nebraska, last Thursday night was aroused by a fusilade or shots and on getting up and investigating found him self and family all present and nearly as sound as usual, but on entering the room where the shooting had occurred, he was surprised. He had, before entering, endeavored to find his revolver to defend himself against the midnight burglars, but could not, and, despite the danger, he determined to investigate alone. Tho dispatch to the World-Herald tells tho remainder: "He cautiously entered the room and found it to be filled with smoke and coal gas. The base burner which he had carefully filled on retiring was almost wrecked and pieces of coal strew ed the floor. In three or four places the walls were plowed and broken, and in general the room had rather a disorderly look. Further investigation of the 6tove showed the cause of the midnight fusil ade. On filling the stove at night Mr. Trimborn had in some way dropped his loaded revolver in with the coal and it was the discharge of the cartridges that caused the shooting. Mr. Trimborn told the excited ueighbors who had gathered by this time the cause of their awakeuiug, and ull hands went back to lied. One of the bullets was later found in the bed occupied by Mr. Trimborn's two little children, but fortunately nobody was hurt." Judge Doane has collected the last $500 of the fee agreed upon between him and the committee of the legislature which managed the impeachment trial of state officers of 1893. When the trial commenced Doane, Lanibertson, Pound and Greene were employed and the fee of $2,500 to" each agreed upon. After ward the committee scaled these fees and paid only $2,000 to each, except Greene, who only received $500. Lam bertson got $500 for preparing a brief, and Judge Doane went into the courts and got an order to the auditor to issue a warrant for his remainiug money. This is the money which he now col lects and Judge Pound is considering the advisability of going after the S500 which the committee cut off from his share. He will decide in a day or two what be will do about it. Nebraska Plas Irrigation. When you come to think of it and draw the reasonable picture of what the combination means, it is marvellous t3 see the long vistas opened, of plenty peace and prosperity. The Fremont Herald adds a touch to the canvas: "Nebraska can stow away at least 5,000,000 more people than we now have in the state, and furnish a means of gain- ing a livelihood for them when once the western half of its soil has been brought under suitable and reliable irrigation ditches. It is often asserted by those who should know the facts that a farm of forty acres of irrigated land will yield a more certain revenue than three times that number when dependent upon the rainfall, which in the western counties is extremely unreliable. The Herald takes a decidedly opti mistic view of Nebraska's future and firmly believes that tho movement now fairly started in the way of redeeming the arid land within our borders, will bo the means of producing results in the way of developing the unused resources of the state that will surprise the most san guine, not excepting even the gentle manly class of people who have spoiled good farms by cutting them up into town lots in order that all should have a chance to invest in city property. Remember, our prophesy is to the effect that with the year '95 will come to our people unfailing evidence of better times and that by the middle of '96 Ne braska will be in the midst of one of her best and most lasting booms. If the year 1900 does not furnish the census enumerator 300,000 names inside the limits of the city of Omaha and at least 2,500,000 people in tho state, it will be largely the fault of her own citizens for there is practically nothing that "push" will not accomplish in this country and there is no place where its beneficent influence can be so readily shown as in tho development of certain communities when blessed with enough push.'" Self Culture. To nn'se the depressed, by a wiso cul ture, to tho dignity of men, is the high est end of the social state. Religion, by teaching men their near relatiou to God, awakens in them a con sciousness of their importance as individ uals. The path to perfection is difficult to men in every lot; there is no royal road for rich or poor, but difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit ia to grow strong by con flict. In our worldly and sensual pro pensities lie the chief obstructions. No man receives the true culture of a man, in whom sensibility to the beauti ful is not cherished. Regard your child as an intelligent, spiritual, immortal being, and honor him as such. One of tho great evils of society is that men, occupied perpetually with petty details, want general truths, want broad and fixed principles. Hence many, not wicked, are unstable, habitually inconsistent, as if they wero overgrown children rather than men. To build up that strength of mind which apprehends and cleaves to great universal truths is the highest intellec tual self-culture. Channing. What U an Ad? A lever of trade. The dealer's sure road to success. A money-maker, getter and saver. Infallible bait to catch customers. The life-blood of modern business. A helpmate to prosperity in business. A Hash of information to all the people. A medium for the increase of business. The electric power controlling trade. The ''Limited Express" on tho road to success. The corner stone of the temple of Fortune. The mine that yields pure gold in large dividends. The key-note of progress in the march to success. The power that starts and keeps trade in motion. A notice that brings best returns for the least money. An indispensable to success and busi ness enlargement. That which booms the place and en riches the advertiser. A means of communicating items of interest to wide-awake people. Personal and public benefits are deriv ed from its judicious application. An intelligent message to intelligent people, profiting sender and receiver. An electric current that propels the wheels of commerce. Cincinnati Trib une. Then and Now. Times will change and circumstances change with them. Look on that pic ture and then on this applies to politics as well as art, and B'rer Bixby of the Lincoln Journal sings his song in these stanzas: No more on the rostrum will Bryan debate On tariff and silver and gold; He tried for the contract of saving tho stato And now he is out in the cold. He talked to the gallery benches with vim. And O, how the rabble took on; Last fall there was nothing the matter with him Now, what is the matter with John? The trouble with him his horses would balk, A demo-pop team does not "draw," So Thurston will stand in tho senate and talk While Bryan is practicing law. We Sweep the World. It is an old saying that a "new broom sweeps clean'' but when we say "we sweep the world" we mean that among all the railways of the world none stands higher in the estimation of the public, in all especial points, than the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. It is the only line west of Chicago which runs electric-lighted, steam-heated and vesti buled trains between Chicago, St. Panl and Minneapolis, and between Chicago and Omaha. Try it. F. A. Nash, Gen'l. Agent, 1504 Farnain St., Omaha. W. S. Howell, Trav. Passenger and Freight Agt. The Report of the Strike Commission on the recent labor troubles in Chicago has attracted much attention and criti cism, but the most scathing denuncia tion of it which has yet appeared has been written for the January Forum by Mr. Harry Perry Robinson, editor of the "Railway Age," under the title of "The Humiliating Report of the Strike Cora mission." Mr. Robinson reviews the events of the late strike and points out the many misstatements and inaccura cies contained in the Report. Hon. Turner M. Marquette, a pio neer resident of Nebraska, and well known to our readers as the B. fe M. railroad attorney, died at Tampa, Fla., Saturday, of neuralgia of the heart. November 12. he first experienced its symptoms. He was at the time attend ing U. S. court in Omaha, and while ascending the stairs in the federal building, was taken with a fainting spell TT lnvB a widow and four erown ehil. dren. 1 The Magician's Wooing. It was a music teacher bold , Who loved a fair young maid. And when to her his lore ho told Something liko this ho sayed. Light of my soul! My life's bright re! I Ioto you near or fa!" The maiden turned her head away, And gently murmured "La! "Such flighty nonsense doesn't go. You're not the man for mi; I want a man who has tho do. So you're not in it. Si?" ADDITIONAL LOCAL. Relief Committee. By direction of the committee the fol lowing information is given for the bene fit of the public. The organization of the committee is as follows: Q. W. Phillips, chairman; Mrs. E. O. Wells, treasurer; Mrs. dark Gray, sec'y. The ward committees are as follows: First ward Mrs. J. A. Barber, Mrs. I. Sibbernsen, Mrs. E. O. "Wells, Mrs. H. Hockenberger. Second ward Mrs. C. B. Tomlin, Mrs. Henry Ragats, Mrs. R. H. Mosgrove, Mrs. A. Haight. Third ward Mrs. E. H. Chambers, Miss Sarah Fitzpatrick, Miss Ida Meagher, Mrs. Clark Gray. The central committee for the manage ment and distribution of supplies, con sists of Mayor Phillips, Supervisor Fpeice, Jonas Welch, Mrs. J. A. Barber, Mra. C. B. Tomlin, and Mrs. E. H. Chambers. The commercial sample room of the Meridian hotel will be used as the dis tributing room. The times for distribu tion are Tuesdays and Saturdays at 2 o'clock p. m. Persons requiring aid will please apply to some member of tho committee in their ward or to a member of the central committee, each of whom is authorized, after duo investigation, to givo an order for supplies, to be present ed by the applicant to the committee nt tho distributing room on ono of tho reg ular distributing days. Tho committee requests the co-operation of all good citizens. Mrs. Clark Gray, Sec'y. Lamb Acquitted. The following from the Greeley Citizen of a late date, concerning one well known to many readers of The Journal, puts a little different phase upon tho case from what we had heard. It is a little out of tho ordinary run of suits in court. "The intricacies of the law wero never so obvious as in tho case of the state of Nebraska vs. Michael Lamb, decided by his honor Judge Oles lnut Thursday. Nearly three years ago Mr. Lamb was accused of abetting two men to commit a larceny in Boone county, and tho case was tried in Platte county, where he was found guilty, and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. His attorney Mr. M. B.Gearon,at once instituted proceed ings in the supreme court, and after one of the hardest fights for his clients tho supreme court reversed the verdict of the jury, and then it was considered that it was vain for Mr. Gearon to continue the fight to save his client from the pen. But while he was combatting the highest court in the state he was laying tho foun dation so that in spite of the jurv and even the supreme court he could save his client and he did so. After the conviction ho procured Lamb's release through a supersedeas bond in the supreme court, and for two years Mr. Lamb has been attending to his farm. On Wednesday Sheriff Knvan augh of Columbus, came to Greeley and arrested Lamb on an order of tho dis trict court of Platto county, to make him serve out his sentence. Mr. Gearon promptly began habeas corpus proceed ings before Jndgo Oles alleging that his term of imprisonment had expired and that the court had no right to hold him in jail any longer. The point relied upon was that Judge Sullivan ordered him into prison on Sept. 3rd, 1892, and the record did not show that the order had ever been revoked, and hence in con templation of law Mr. Lamb was during all the time in the jail in Columbus. So complete was tho web woven that Sheriff Kavanangh admitted that the states attorneys claimed that the sentence was served out. It is a great victory for Mr. Gearon, and a very pleasant thing for Mr. Lamb, and we may add that the general feeling in our town was in hi3 favor." For Tnr. Journal. Pedagogical Principle'. Proceed from the concrete to the ab stract. Proceed from the known to the related unknown. Advance from the particular to the general. Mental activity is essential to mental growth. Concentrated attention is neccessary to successful acquisition. Confusion prevents couceutration; or, order facilitates concentration. The above are 6ome of the guiding principles that should control the teacher in his work. Their conscious presenco in the mind of the teacher will prevent many mistakes in the work of the school room. W. J. W. Taken I'p. At my farm four miles east of the city 30 HEAD OF HOGS. They will average about CO pounds each, are Poland China, and have no distin guishing marks. The owner will prove property, ptiy damages and charges, and take his hogs, or tho law take its course. 5-Dec-5 E. O. Wells. To California in a Tonrit Slerper. The Burlington Route's porsonally conducted excursions to the Pacific coast are just the thing for people of moderate means. Cheap respectable comforta bleexpeditious. From Omaha and Lin coln every Thursday. Through to Los Angeles and San Francisco without change. Experienced excursion mana gers and uniformed Pullman porters in charge. Second class tickets accepted. Cars are carpeted and upholstered and have spring seats and backs, mattresses, blankets, curtains, pillows, towels, etc. Only $5.00 for a double berth, wide enough and big enough for two. The route is over the "Scenic Line of the World," throngh Denver, Salt Lake city and Sacramento. All the wonderful canons and peaks of the Rocky Moun tains are passed during the day. If you are going west you should arrange to join one of these excursions. They are tho liest, tho very best, across the conti nent. Information and advertising mat ter on application to the loc.nl agent or by addressing, J. Francis, Gen'l. Pass'r. Agent, Omaha, Nebr. l-Dec-5m Viit the Fnlkw. For the Holiday season the Union Pacific will sell tickets from points on the system on December 24th, 25th and 31st, 1894, and January 1st, 1895, at greatly reduced rates. For full informa tion call on your nearest Union Pacific Agent, E. L. Lomax. Holiday Ratex via The Burlington Route. Dec. 22, 23, 24, 25 and 31, and also on Jan. 1, round trip tickets to points within 200 miles will be on sale at rate of fare and a third. Minimum rate 50 cents. Tickets and information at the depot. COLUMBUS MARKETS. EirOurquotationsofthemarket6areobtained Tuesday afternoon, and are correct and reliable at the time. QRAIN.KTC Wheat M Shelled Corn 50 Oats.. 4 KTQ Flour in 500 lb. lots $ 8 90 PRODUCE. xsQit&r teU Potatoes $ 75 LIVESTOCK. F&tilOgB .... 3 nJ3 Ml Fat cows 1 rfil 7.7 Fatsheep $25063 50 Fat steers OOgS W Feeders 1 502 CO gasiness gtotit3. Advertisement r under this head five cents a line each insertion. WM.SCHILTZ makes boots and shoes mthe best styles, and uses only the very lest stocktluit can be pri.cnr.tl in tlm market. 52-tf LKOAIi XOTirK. In tho District court P'.-.tto county. Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of Paul l'ohl, a minor. THE cnuf-e came on for hearing upon the ieti tion of Emil l'ohl, guardian of the estateof Paul l'ohl, a minor, praiug for license to sell the bontheatt quarter of Section twenty-four, in Township thirty North. Kauge seventeen west of the lit li Principal Meridian, and lot No. four in block No. eight in the village of Newport, Hock county, Nebraska, or a sntlicient amount of the said property to bring the sum of $300, for the payment of the debts of the said minor and for the charges of managing his estate, there being no goods, chattels, rights or credits belonging to said minor in the hands of the said guardian to pay said del its and charges. It is therefore ordered that the heirs and next of kin, and all ersons interest wl in said estate appear before mo at cliamliers in the city of ( olumbus, Platte county, Nebraska, on the 31t day of January, 1SIC, at ten o'clock a. in., to show cause why a license, should not lie granted to said guardian to h11 so much of the aloo described real eMate of said minor a shall lie necessary to pay said debts and charges. It is further ordered that a copy of thw order to show cause be published for four successive, weeks in the CoLVMHUS Jouknm. (a uewspaiKT of general circulation is said l'latto county), prior to the 31st day of January, 1""". Dated this 11th day of December. 1SU. J.J.SULLIVAN. ll-Dec-l Judge. LKCAL NOTIt'K. Ti, l.nr.wi1 .Initih. non-resident defendant: YOU are herebv notified that on the l.!tli day of DtHvmbcr. lb'.'t. Hannah Jo-eph iil.nl a IM'tition against jou in the district court of Plat to county, Nebraska, the object and prajerof which aire to obtain a divorce from jou on the ground that jou have willfully nhapdoned the plaint ill without good ca:i- for the term of two earsla- tv-t. A1m for4.ili:uony. attorney fees, and for the custody of the children. Ion i.re requested to answer said vt it iou ou or before. Monday, the Ith day of February. 1 "... HANNAH JOSEPH. By McAi.t.isTi:u A Cukm.i.h's. I'laintitl. Her Attorneys. "ii-Dec-1 Colton-Seed Meal T Sl.5 per Hundred Pounds. Best Thing forMilrii Cows. WURDEMAN BROS., Proprietors of the COLUMBUS j?laning - Mill MANUFACTURE Doors, iiliiuls, .Mouldings, Stuir Work, Sllsil. Et- J-?Scroll &i ins;, Turning. Houv FinisJunr, iu faet .!utii:i;; mill work or all kiniK We are prepared to do machine reinirinsr, ami iron lathe work. tsEatiiuntes made nt once for jou on nnj--thinR jou wifh in our li:i". lniiKtf D. T. Mautyn, M. D. F. 11. (Jkkii, C. 1). Kvw:, .M. M. D. D. DOCTORS MARTYN, EVANS & GEER, CONSUIiTlNO Physicians - and - Surgeons To St. MarjV Hospital and St. Francis Aei.ilenij , COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. United Stat. Fxaminine Surgeon. Asdistant Surtr.s'ii- Fnion Pacini-. O.. N. A. I!. 11. Kailwajn. ;-r()!Ii''eo;eu nit;! t n;ilu:i. TelephoneNo. !.. Two hloei.H north L nion Pae:sie Depot. LOUIS SOHREIBER, Hsiit SELLS THE DEEKLNd Self-BMer $ Mower. Thew are, perfect machined, Mtru where HtreiiKth ia needed. Kverj- letr within ear reach. "To lie simple it to he treat." The binder has been reduced to a fewximple pieces ueii;hint; together onlj- W) poiir.iN. See the Deerin;; before jou btlj another. Shop ou Oiivo Street, Columbus, Neb., four doors eolith of liorowiak's. !ui.ijlf rem fJOOD Wines, Liquors and Cigars cli. vr "THE NEW SALOON" On Eleventh tt. Imported and domestic wined for familj" trade a epecialtj-. l.rCUHINfSEK X ,11USSEI.VI.N, Smaytf Cor. Eleventh and SI Hte. ALBERT &. REEDEK. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, OthYe over First National Hank, COIXMlll'B, NEBRASKA. Sljantf NEW DEPARTURE. I HAVE (ON I.LDED TO ENTKK INTO contract to put out orchards do all the work, and havo full chaw? of the name from three to five jears, I to run all riakti of lo&h-. :lnct.tin JOHN TANNAHILL. W. A. MrAi.i.isTKit. W. M. ("OUSF.I.ICS. TLTcALLISTER & CORNELIUS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBC3, -EBRA9KA. 31jantf DEELRICH BROS BHsiIiiilwaiDHaKer wmsmmsmimmmmmmm FREE TRADE PRICES -A.T Gash Bargain Store ! All goods average 25 per cent lower than a year ago. We aro not loaded with old high-priced stock. Nearly everything bought this fall, and yon can see the difference. Wo don't sell two or three things like prints at less than cost to catch you, and make it up on other goods. Our Underwearat 25c,50o and anu mo same wun an our warm seasonauie goous. c Ribbons at 5c and 10c. Can't be bought elsewhere for double, i SPECIAL PRICES on Kid and all other Gloves. Handkerchiefs all kinds -at half former price. HOLIDJ Of all Kinds, . Toys and. Fancy Goods. W A llAIKfht tianvt li.i,tl?n flmi,i PnniA nml nnt tli.t ,ifftr t,nu. t..-.P..A l. l..i .1 iifiiur iup nc&i arc gune, mill you more nt some other place. ! F. .auhajKMaafifito. C.US.U.HKCHKU. LF.Ol'OLDJ.t'tittl. 38 Established 1S70. BECHER, JEGGI & GO,, REAL - ESTATE - LOANS - INSURANCE, wrLd. 38ea,l Estate. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. MONEY TO LOAN ON FAKMSat lowest rates of interest, mi short or Ions: time, in amounts to suit applicants. r BONDED ABSTKACTEUS OF TITLE to all real estate in I'hittecounty. lteprescnt THE LEADING 1NSUKANCK COMPANIES of the World. Our farm policies nt tho mint liberal in use. Lotsc adjusted, uud promptly paid at this office. Notary Public alwajB in office. Farm and city projiertj- for sale. Make collections of foreiu iuheritances and sell steamship tickets to and from nllpaits of Europe. Itiug'UMf The Omaha Weekly Bee 65 Cents Per Year. The largest, brightest and best Newspaper published in the west. The Bee for I895 will be a better paper than ever before. Special Features l S)HMial subjects lor Women. Special subjects tor Children. Special subjects for the Farm ami the Farmer. One or more sood stories each week tor every body in the family. Reliable market reports. Together with the News from all over the world. And all lor less than any other Weekly paper in the country. Send !" cent money order, express order or hank 1 1 rail lir a year's Mitaeription. If you end filver or currency, reyNter it or you send it at your own ri-k. Addre- order tt . . . THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Oinaluu ISTt'b. CARL KRAMER. DKALm IK - Books, Stationery, Toys, Fruits, Fine Candies, Cigars and Tobaccos. J COM AND SEE ME. SUBSCRIPTIONS taken for all mar azines, penoilieala anil papers. Mail Orders Promptly At tended to. HEADQUARTERS FOR SANTA CLAUS AT- CARL KRAMER'S. Thirteenth St. 2ii4vLiu M. C. CASSIN, - rilOl'UIKTOIl OF TIIK Thresh and Salt Meats- Game and Fish in Season. fa"Hiyhcst market prices paid Tor Hideo and Tallow. THIRTEENTH ST., COLUMBUS, - - NEBRASKA. i'mprtf UNDERTAKING! CAKKY ALL KINDS OK llnrial (boon's. Do Embalming, Conduct Funerals. SSrUnvo the finest Ilean-t. in the coanty. FRED. W. HERRICK, Cor. Nebraska Ave. and PK7Ll.... u l Xhiiteenth ! yf"17i JiumH5, neo. Omaha Meat Harm TEES - 75c is just half what others charge 3 - G-OODS I 1 A A..l. I. ... ;, t-,r J3 liiive iu iym nimi is ion or puv a: H. LAMB & CO. W i. ilJVi.'U H. F. J. HOl'KKNltElUIKH 1.SUIHKKNSF.N. 12 Pages Kvery Week. or caciL memboi f tiio fa.vr5.il3-. . . . HUGH IILLOHES Can furnish von with the 15KST LnmliBr, Latli, SMngles, Doors, WINDOWS, KMNDS, MMK, Ktc., and everything kept in the. LUMBER LINE. South of U. P. R. R. Depot, Colmuhns, Nebraska. lOnmy-ljr Dr. CLARK'S INSTITUTE HU THE TIO ATJIKNT OK TIIK Drink Habit . Also Tobacco, Morphine and other Narcotic Habits. 5rriwititri;itiiimt kiiii if ilt-oirHi. COLUMBUS, - - NEBRASKA. I3jirrtf MIRTY & ENGELMAN, M 4l.ru: IN FISH AI SALT MEATS, FISH, ETC. Eleventh Street, Columbua, Neb NEW SHORT LINE TO J. FRANCIS,Gen'l Pass'r Agent, OMAHA, NEB, wsssmaEsmm SEATTLE r 2