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s.li?iV. S'c-i $2&&? &' "-5, ?vj5af T WPssRwSPSISLSSraa? T? wsssssssssl V-'., -s ' - 1? V715 X.V '"IS-VV- 2 .. M ivk t ?. sssMl a. -. :. It F &: a a- i " t? : '. ' : if . i " Culumb us f ottrnat M. K. TURNER & CO., Ctoloanlraav If ! :.. Om yaalw nail, poetage prepaid.. $L --ftwafcle fa All 1 1 - Hn. 9Q 9&tUtmmmmmWLwB otnri- Mkr totter oc avaaauieu aatoiaadfly list, fist whicli. JotmaaX-the is uid or ac- WEDNESDAY. MARCH 4. 1896. Ex-Gov. J. M. Thateb was taken ill Saturday at Lincoln. His friends have hope that he will recover. Victor Eosewater has been appointed regent of the State University, in place of Mr. Estabrook, resigned. The 6-year-old daughter of Henry Betlike, near Thayer, was burned to death Wednesday, her clothing catching fire from burning rubbish in the yard. The St Louis Republican asks a ques tion that is doubtless considered very pertinent in that latitude: Why is it the rope never breaks when the vigilance committee selects it? "Monet has the peculiar faculty of annoying both by its presence and absence. Those who possess it have trouble to keep it, and those who are without it have trouble to get it." Db. J. S. Devbies of Fremont is being talked of as a democratic candidate for congress in this district. He, and Boss Hammond for the republicans, could make a debate over the district on polit ical issues. It, now, the X rays could be applied by every man to his inwards and photo graph for him, the exact location of the besetting sin and what it is composed of, there might be some show yet for Cleve land's administration. As insurance -company is seeking to avoid payment of a policy, because "death resulted from the intentional act of another." It is the case of Mrs. Drummond of Lincoln against the Rail way Officials' and Employers' Associa tion, and is now in the supreme court on appeal. Old customs become new sometimes. A cattle trail has been established at Tekama leading to South Omaha. This old system of cattle transportation has been tried and the cost, it is claimed, is only one-third of the railway charges. The cattle trail is liable to extend into other fields. JOrd Quiz. In Lincoln and vicinity 142 micro scopes are in use in education; in the whole state there are 286. Twenty-three high schools have 75; Nebraska City has 11. The Lincoln Microscope club met Wednesday evening last and listened to the address of their president. Prof. C. E. Bessey. About thirty were present. Ansel Oppenheim of the Great West ern railway company recently returned from Europe. He says there is a general feeling on the other side that the whole world is entering on a period of prosper ity. Englishmen prefer American secu rities to all other kinds of English securities, and money in London is a drug at n4 of 1 per cent a year. A bill is before the Ohio legislature providing for the election, once in four years of one delegate from each town ahip in a county, whose duty it shall be to meet the first Monday in June to fix the salaries and fees of all county offi cers within their respective counties for a period of four years; this done and without salary, the duty of the dele gates is done. The origin of the name Cripple Creek is thus given: Five men near Pike's Peak prospecting for gold; a mule got lame and they stopped to rest him; in a stream about a yard wide they washed some sand and' found gold; decided to prospect; built a cabin; while at this, a man fell from the top, lit on a dog, broke the dog's leg and his own arm making three cripples in camp,' mule, dog and man hence the name of the now famous place. Thbocgh the Blade at Seward, the chairman of the republican county cen tral committee urges a full attendance at the primaries of the party; that Che probable delegates should be required to declare their preference before the vote ia taken; that the proceedings should be -conducted openly and fairly and in such m manner that every man will have an .opportunity to express his preference without restraint this in view of the presidential campaign upon which the party is now entering. ' ' These is a feeling in parts of Nebraska mot readily accessible by ditches from running streams that irrigation by arte sian wells is among the possibilities if sot the strong rrbilitire, A mating of Seward county citizens was held the other day at which, resolutions were - passed asking an extension of the Geo logical survey io cover the state of Ne braska; urging an appropriation for sinking of experimental artesian wellsin various parts of the state, end soliciting Nebraska's congressional delegation to do what they, can to aid in the matter. Hox. A. JEL Cadt has' about decided to make a fight for the republican nom ination for congress in the Sixth dis- . tract. That district has never been represented in congress, .and we hope that Cady will be elected to fill the va cancy. He is ablej-clean, and honest, ad his elevation to a seat-in the na tional legislature would be an honor ' worthily bestowed. Be -began life in Nvbraaka as editor of the Schuyler Sun, gad made himself rich .and the people happy with his bright arguments. Any mam. who can make money out of a ysjatij newspaper in Nebraska oaght let stat fo congress and kept there. i News. bdtklHMVMililC bmmi1n-wtmmwmlr wttm. -- -- ifc !! a mt das to spfcask r mmmtaia6tm eoaated far. IssBlitaarie afcaaJi teyatfetottoacsswaC MLtJnmm , r toaeooaiBataBWtefall wr et tk writer. Wa mm tbe rick to raJeet ur MMcripr. liable ta avarr w.-Wrie iaatmlr. mtitily. Qm-wlaats. SPAIN INDIGNANT. HOWLING MOB ATTACKS THE UNI TED STATES CONSULATE. Fifteen Thoaaaaa People Wratky aa Skew Their Saleea by Breakiac Wladows. No Heads Broken. At Barcelona Sunday, after a public demonstration to protest against the United States recognizing the Cuban government as a belligerent power, the people were so fired by the speeches that they set out for the United States con-: sulate. The leaders of the meeting saw at once to what serious results this might lead, and tried to dissuade the mob from their purpose, but to no pnrpoeft. - - 'The authorities of Barcelona had by this time taken alarm, and a force of police was sent to the consulate. The excited crowd seemed to get wilder yet at sight of the police, and yelled "Long Live Spain" and "Down with the Yan kees." Words, however, did not seem to be weighty enough arguments with the mob. and so they began to throw stones, breaking a number of windows in the consulate, at which the police waited for no further demonstrations, but charged and roughly dispersed the mob, wound ing several, but with no fatal results, so far as known. Afterwards the crowd gathered at other places and listened to speeches praising the Spanish army and denounc ing the action of the United States sen ate. It is said the mob consisted mostly of students, but they evidently had the sympathy of the people with them. It is good to hear that there are left in Spain some people who are not gone daft on the situation between that coun try and this. "Spain shonld act with energy and prudence," says one. "We of Spain must not do anything to con tribute to the complication," says an other. "The occasion demands ealm ness," says another. There can be little doubt about the result, if ever war should come. The American people, however, although they would like to see the Cubans free from Spanish domination and would greatly rejoice at such a result, are not disposed to go to war about it unless Spain will-not be content without it. It seems to bo the opinion of ex-Senator Mandereon's friends in Nobraska that his candidacy for the presidency is rather in the interest of some other opponent of McKinley than in his own interest, and that a Nebraska delegation, ostensibly for Manderson (if it were pos sible to select such a delegation), would only help some of the other "favorite sons" to control the St. Louis convention. The republicans of Nebraska know what they want, and we judge that while they are not mortgaged to any man, either inside the state or outside of it, the sen timent is overwhelmingly for McKinley. Now it is a fact that it may be well for several politicians to take note of: the McKinley kite is all right for all the varying breezes of Nebraska's bread prairies, but beware of the kind of tale yon attach to it. It will not be advisable to select men wearing McKinley over coats but Manderson or Thurston under garments. Pull fair. In other words, don't let it be said that Nebraska repub licans are the personal property of any man or delegation. Let their independ ence of mind le marked, decisive and unmistakable. The funny fellows sometimes hit the center of tho mark with their random shots, and here is Bob Burdette'a view of the American idea on a subject of con siderable discussion just now: "The Monroe doctrine, Bidwell, simply ami implicitly declares, that no foreign nation shall come over here and slide down our cellar door; that England and France shall not hang on our front gate to do their own courting; that they can't bring over their own syrup pots and elder sprouts and make syrup in our maple grove; that Germany and Austria can't spot no bee tree in our woods; that Italy can't cut her fire-wood on our hedgerows; that Russia can't spank her neighbors children with our butter paddle. Tho Monroe doctrine simply means that we are the bull of the woods between two oceans, and that the man who joins farms with us on either side -had better not 'move the boundary fence until he talks to us about it, and that he can't sublet a patch on his farm to anybody until we are satisfied that the new tenant will make a good neighbor for us. That's about all there is of it." TnE Grinnell, Iowa, Signal is demo cratic, and one of the very, very many that is tired of, disgusted with, and sick of the present administration. It says: "Is it democratic to run this country into debt in time of peace? Is it demo cratic to sell bonds to a syndicate at 104 that sell on the market at 117? Is it democratic to debase and degrade one- half of the coin of the countryjio as to increase the purchasing power -of the other half? Is it democratic to run the government in the interest of Wall street money ring and ruin the people? Is it democratic, to interfere in state elections so as to enable the republicans to defeat the regular nominees of the democratic party? All this is Grover Cleveland democracy, but it bears not the least semblance to Jeffersonian democracy the quicker the true democracy sets its seal of condemnation on this spurious democracy the better it will be for the party." The Cedar Rapids Outlook is about right in saying that "there should be offered a reward bounty to anyone who will invent the necessary machinery for the manufacture of crude sugar from beets, and that will be cheap enough to allow a community like Cedar Rapids to put in a plant and manufacture their own sugar. With this invention it would only be a step to the discovery of the necessary cheap machinery and improved chemical processes by which this crude sugar could be refined. If a crude plant could be constructed at a cost of about $10,000 or $15,000 with sufficient capacity to manufacture all the beets that could be raised in the territory tributary, to Cedar Rapids, then the business would be worth advocating."'' ' waTawM Akktk, the Lincoln Journal's Wash ington correspondent, says that General Manderson is in the race to stay; that he has received a number of assurances of support as second choice from promi nent eastern politicians and' republican leaders and .believes that if selected by the Nebraska delegation as their choice in the convention, and if earnestly sop ported by Nebraska republicans at St Louis he. will be. able to make a snowing which will evidence much more strength than some of those who are-now oppos ing him believe that he can secure, with as good a chance as any other dark horse to get first nnder the string. IRRIGATION. WHAT A FRIENDLY EXPERT THINKS OF OUR POSSIBILITIES. Sarprie Expressed Because m Mark Di- rawiiun km aot Materialized ia Irrigat- iag Caul. . Editor Journal: I have been watch ing with considerable interest the efforts that have been made during the past three years by some of your citizens to construct an irrigation canal in the vicin ity of your city. From the amount of talk and discussion that has been carried on in relation to irrigation and canals, Columbus should have had two or three canals by this time. I know nothing of the causes that havo created this agita tion, nor of the reasons for the failures to materialize results, yet there is no good reason why a canal should not be constructed near your city. Equally with the state, Columbus has a great many advantages in her favor, in tho matter of canal construction. Donald W. Cambell of Denver stated in the Sidney convention a fact that is well known at the present time that irri gation canals could be constructed easier and cheaper in Nebraska than in any other state in the west, aud also that the annual cost of maintenance would be less. Tho cost of many of the farmers' canals in Scott Bluff county and also canals in other counties in the state, where good management and engineering skill are shown has cost the farmer not over two dollars per acre for tho irrigating capac ity of the canals. This cost has been on a basis of a cubic foot per second for 80 acres during the irrigation season; the amount usually required in arid coun tries, such as Utah or Colorado. In the vicinity of Columbus not one half this amount would be required annually, therefore your canals should not cost over ono half the amount expended on tho Colorado or western Nebraska works. There seems to be no good reason why your farmers shonld not organize a dis trict aud build a canal at a cost for its irrigating capacity of about one dollar per acre. This could be done easily if machines were used. We have used the new Era grader and wheel scrapers very generally in the construction of our Lin coln county canals, and one contractor moved his dirt at a cost to the canal company of three and one-half cents per cubic yard. Suppose your farmers attempt a work of this character. They will find that there is nothing difficult nor complicated in canal construction. By putting on sixteen or even twenty head of horses on one of these graders where a long drive can lie made they will be astonished at tho amount of earth that can be moved in one day, by this number of horses a machine and three men. We have paid here for moving earth with the common scraper, from x, to 7 cents per cubic yard. Tn estimating the cost of canals, I have not included laterals, but these should not be included in tho cost of any main canal, as it is impossible toestimate their number or their size; as a rule every farmer generally builds his own laterals on the mutual canals. In the vicinity of Columbus you would seldom need summer irrigation, provid ed that the farmer made it a rule to adopt the fall, winter and early spring methods of wetting their lands, and thus keep their farms well wet down. This would also greatly increase the irrigable capacity of your canals. This fall, win ter and early spring system would prob ably be tho ltest for the Platte county farmer, although there are some varieties of crops that will stand heavy irrigation, oats first, corn next; with potatoes, great care will be necessary as too much water will make this class of vegetables soggy and watery. In Platte county, for en minor irrigation, with your rainfall taken into consideration, about one irri gation would be about all that would be needed, whereas in an arid country the same crop would probably require two or three applications of water. If yon carried your caual out on to the high uplands another dollar per acre would le needed on the cost, perhaps not over half that amount if you had no difficulties of any amount. With yonr advantages in the matter of a water supply your coun ty could become one of the best agricul tural sections of the west, for I am satis fied that there exists no difficulty in making Nebraska a great fruit growing state, except the seasons of drouth that 6ome times afflict us, and our dry falls and winters. With the advantages of fall and winter irrigation, crops of every character of fruit that grows in the tem perate zone could' be grown in yonr county at a very low cost for irrigation supplies. As your Loup river excels any other stream in the state in this respect, your hill sides along the Loup could be made one continuous vineyard, and every, variety of. small fruit could be grown in wonderful abundance. Your lands would also secure the advantage of the'fertil izing qualities that would be. deposited by the sediment from the rivor's water and in this way they wpald be practi cally inexhaustible. -- One matter that the farmer would be compelled to learn; this would be the best method of applying waterJ. But this could be acquired in time, although if the land were merely wet down during the non-growing season this' art would not be required. In regard to the anntfal cost of main tenance on canals in your county, this, where you had noinmes nor any amount of lumber rotting out every year, should not exceed "Soor 30 cents annually, per haps even less than these figures. I mean by-tbis statement that the cost per the irrigable capacity of the canal per acre. In Utah on the farmer canals it varies from 10 cents to 75 cents per acre per year, and this -mostly in labor at so much per day, but a canal that would only irrigate 10,000 acres in Utah with their rainfall should irrigate easily in Platte county from 25,000 to 30,000 acres. As I would like to see some results come from all this irrigation discussion that has gone on in your -vicinity, and from obaerratios I aboald aay tltat a canal could be constracted cheaper in your county than any0ther place in Ne braska, I am unable to understand why your fanners have not got to work be fore this. Wishing you and your people success in any enterprise they may undertake,' I remain Respecttally yours, I. A. Foxt. Syaopols or the PreceetUags of tho Board of 8aorvloora. Wdsdat, Feb. 19. 185, 1p.m. Tke board of Super? bore aet Feb. 19, 1896 at 1 O'clock p. m. in adjourned meeting at cill of Mr. Chairman . At roll call all members present; Uoa John Wigxiu in chair, E. Pobl clerk. Minutes of previous meeting were as corrected approrrd. Communication from Couaty Treas urer II. S. Elliott was read aad referred to com iniltee on supplies. Communication of C. A. Keoman read' aad placed on .file. Communication of A. J,Mokler and olsoof M. K. Turner & Co., accepting the county printing according resolution in January meeting. Communication of M. T. Bowman referred to committee of accounts and expenditure, nesolution of Supervisor Olson adopted, viz: Resolution that the eommitli-o appointed to ex amine the sheriffs office. .ili-if the clerk of the district court and count ju.Ic- V office, be and an? hereby appointed to examine tlse county clerk's oce and report the same to this board at the nreseat session of the board: said examination to cover the entire term of ex-County Clerk Phil lips. MU ULSOSC. Report of special committe approved, viz: To the board of Supervisors of Platte County, Neb: We, your committer appointed to engage an expert accountant to asfot the stata account ant in examining the books ofex-Treasnrer J. W. Lynch, would respec fully report that w cn rured the service of Mr. John R.!edde atS3.00a day and give a bond in the sum of $300.10 for the railhlU! periorniance oi sucn won. Itopecl fully submitted. Joux Wiooiks, 1. A. Bkchck, R. Y. Lisc-o. Special committee. Report of committee to investigate records ap proved, vie Your committee appoidted to examine tbe sheriff's office, district clerk's office and county judge's office, after commencing the examination found that it would be for the best interests of tbe countv to emptor an expert who was familiar with t'he different offices to assist tlicin. They therefore empoyedU. A. Newman as expert as sistant at S3.0U a uay. Respectfully submitted. A. . Rolf. D. A. IlEcuen, K. Y. I.isco, ReKrtot imestinjtion committee on sheriff's office was adopted anil by order of the board Io be spread on record, tiz: To the lion, ltoatl of Supervisors of Platte County, Nebraska: Your committee ppoint-d to a-certain the amount of fees collected by D, C Kavaiiaugh. sheriff ol thK Platte countv. re spectfullv report that we have performed that duty aud'Gnd that P. C KavanuiiKb as sheriff has collected the several amount an reported herein, from January 4. 1831. to January 9, 1SPC. Amount collected from justice courts in Columbus, Xeo 8 236 3T Amount collected from county court cases .. Amount collected Iroiu district 232 CO court cases...-.- 3007 II Amount collected from county claims allowed SOSI S Amount collected from state case Slaters Iamb KM 85 Amount collected from state tak ing prUoneis to penitentiary r times including per diem....... 317 S3 Amouut collected from Itoonc counlvNeli . . CO Amount coltecled from Merrick county Neb Amount collected from Madion countv Neb 4 85 4 Aniout collected from Nance county Neb claim for SOT 00 allowed 104 7 Claim for WM Oil allowed....".. 192 C'Liim for 9 85 allowed 9 ri Claim for SI15 &1 alio wed 31 Amount charged for mileage in justice courts Amount charged lor uiileagi! iu county court..... Amount charged for mllesge in district court .. Amaunt chrgert for mileage in claims allowed in county Ameunt charged for acknowl OS I0S35 6IS.1 .3)5 00 759 45 edging deeds, printers fees ap praisers' fees and mileage and certificate of liens in district court 677 CO Amount charged county fur boarding and guarding prison ers washing for jail and expen ses 957 90 Amount charged state for mile age, expense, hoard, car fare in Case State vs Lamb 49? S3 Amount charged state, mileage taking prisoners to penitentary .74 40 Amount cnargca state ior noara Ing prisoners after conviction. Amount charged state for guard ing prisoners, back hire and mileage tor guard Amount barged Nance county 117 00 15 Neti. ror boanung ana guara ing prisonets and washing for same Git 20 Amount charged Madison county Neb. for mileage Uv balance 4 Of. 5784' 89HW Jtt S9WS W .5.17S1 77 To balance. Your committee further fmd-i that 1. C. Kavanaugb. sheriff of this county from January 4, 1S94. toJanuarv i, 189ft, has cbargad twice for board iugprisoner "Pier son" Charged twice for boarding pris oner llerriugton Charged twice for hoarding pris oner Maynard Flston. ..... Charged twice for boarding pris oner Anton Sakowski Charged twied for boarding prU oners Robert Harris and 1-red Charged twice lor jailor's fees from June 15, UsM, to July 10, Overcharged for boarding pris onerSam lhitcb Overcharged for hoarding prison er Pan Vilson Overcharged for boarding pris oner Ilarrey Riley Overcharged for boarding prison er Frank Zolo Own-burged for Itoarding prison er John Wurdemau Oterchargtd for Itoarding prison er It. V. Irwin Overcharged for janitor's fees in ICiPu' Overcharged for jailor's fees in IKK1 .-. Overcharged for washing jail iu year I8!C.4 weeks ...... Overcharged for jailor's fees as shown by pi I sou calendar charg ed jailor fees when no prlon crs were in jail, 51 days at ?1 Ui perday 12 SJ 7 M 13 00 21 CO 37 50 St 50 5il 50 1 00 50 .VI 2 !) :T 00 1 50 '0 011 81 0 Amount of feesallowed by law to Hicrifi-. VJW0 per year Amount allowed as salary for deputy sheriff 5700 CO per year. By balance 4000 03 1400 00 H29 27 J602-J 27 tC0 27 To balance HIS 27 Amount collected in criminal cases. . C2 25 Total $1591 53 Amount of uncollected fees earned by P. C. Kavanaugh sheriff froui January 4 1891 to J189G. In justice court in Col umbus, Neb'. 4i7 10 In county court .. . S89 65 In district court MlvJ 50 Amount of mileage reported in justice court Amount of mileage reported in district court By balance 150 85 237 00 1827 00 (23.10 77 WOO 77 To balance due Platte county. .tl800 27 Your committee further finds that P. C. Kav anaush as sheriff was paid by Platte county for .boarding flattie Wright 91 days when the ;rison caianqar uoes not snow wnen sue was committed to jail or when she was discharged. Also that P. C. Kavanaugb as sheriff has re ceived from Platte county: For committing to fail Mary Costellandrs f CO Itoarding one day 75 For committing to jail Pauline Alliston 50 Boarding one day 75 For committing to jail Tom Page 51 Boarding 6 days 450 For committing to jail F. Uilmore 50 Boardings days..... .- g 25 For committing to jail Win. Brown so Boardings days 150 For committing to jail John Sharp 1 50 Boarding 2 days 1 50 The prison caienttar 01 saia sneriir does not show when they were committed or when they were discharged. Respectfully submitjed, A. U. Rolf, B.Y. Lisco, P.A.BKCBKK, Columbus, NebFeb. 6, 189b. Tbe committee on county judge's office reported as follows, viz: To tbe If on. tbe Board of Supervisors ofPJatte County, Nebraska. Gentleman: Your committee appointed to examine the records In tbe county jadjge's office respectfully, reported that we have performed that duly and -find that W. N. Ilensley ex-county judge of that county has collected fees from January 4 1894 to January 9 189S as follows: On transcripts filed is district court . jll.V) 80 In sundry case in county court... 383 10 Making complete records, case in county court 78175 Issuing marriaga licenses 383 SO Claims allowed by county 81 30 Fine collected from W, Dietrich. 10 00 Fine of w. Pietricb pain to Co treasurer I IU 00 By balsase 177545 f 1775 45 11775 45 Unpaid fees as follows For making; complete records 5 231 SO Unpaid fees cases in county court 495 95 ToU! tli 60 Allowed as salary Sl.5u0.00 per jCsvr. - SuUUw uv Wefts that the few collected and rtmaiaia BarM4etBtxeeodtBlarysilww4TUw. A. C. stour, ft. Y, Lace, P.A. Bacans, OMMstm. Tl report ef the c nsmlllre wm adopted set Het4bytlMBiwtobispraBoareeotd,Tiz: AaaOMt eX tary fees colleotoa by O. B. Spake, aterk of tho tricteaart, ftwta Jan. 7, IMS, to Jaa. t. MM, M aft B,0 each . . . . 190 W PaileowBty trini M at fete eah...... !! Trial oreeart fees collected 73 at 4srKwsr VMSKBs1 r V Paid ceoaty Uwawrattl.e9 ck 42 M AaMMatflaeaeoUeetad 3W Paid coaaty treasurer M)M) .04sVULBvO III V9 29ffM MMM) To amount dae county till 00 On account of committee work tho heard took recess uatil 9 o'clock a. bl. Fee. 20, IHtX Thcbsoat. Feb. 38, IMC The board of supervisors reconvened Thurr day, 9 o'clock a. m, Hon. John Wiggins in chair, CPoMetork. At rll call all members present. Oa motion clerk shall notify M. T. Bowman, at Schuyler, that the Vard has no jurisdiction to do anxlhiag in regard to fixing the break' la Platte river. Carried. The board on account of committee work took recess unU half past 1 o'clock p. m. Ekb.90, 1896,1-10 p. m: The board of supervisors reconvened Thursday half past 1 o'clock p. m, lion. Joan. Wiggins in chair, K. Pobl clerk. At roll call all members present. CsauBunlcotlea of Clerk of District Court G. B, Speice was read. " ' Oa motion of Supervisor Cecher the request be not granted. Carried. Moved by Supervisor Bender that the clerk shall no: ify ex-Treasurer J. W. Lynch to appear before the board Friday Feb. 21, IMS, at 2 o'clock P.m. Report of Sopervisor Eolf relating 'the Gleasen Road Fo. SM was read aad adopted. - On motion said report of Supervisor Rolf be at tached to the appraisers report of tbe Gleasoa Road. Carried Report of committee on supplies and pubic property beg leavo to make following report in reply to comsaanication of Hans S. Elliott, county treasurer, in regard to repairing o01e and fixtures new floor, said wall papered and ceiling ceiled. all wood work painted and counters, tables and desks varnished. John Morrerr, 1'ktsk Binder, A. G. Rolf. Report adopted. . . Moved by Lisco the purchasing'agent shall see that the above repairs are done . Carried. The request of County Survey or R, . Bosalter to change his office with the so-called county judge office was granted by the board Moved by Supervisor Becher tbe report en coun ty clerk's office be recommitted. Carried. (Continued next week.) HIS "HEAVY FOOT." It Has Decreased Busioesa ae.00O. V Ia rifteea Moatha. The next president most be a Dem ocrat. Grover Cleveland would pot a heavy foot on billion dollarism. New York World, Jane 34, 1892. Be did. He did. In the first 15 months of the Gorman tariff he made the business of the country almost $6,- 1899. isoe. 000,000,000 less than in the first 16 months of the McKinley bilL Study the figures, Mr. Pulitzer, and congratulate yonr editorial council upon the accuracy of their forecast: BANK 4r.ntKng- Fourth quarter. 1880. U612,OOO,O90 Full year, 1891 65,713,5,509 XcKinley period IS months 171,87,573,500 Fourth quarter, 1804... Full year. 1805 112.638,000,000 V 62.823,C8B,2s9 Free trade period, 15 months t65,61,30,2s9 "Billion dollarism" business de crease under his "heavy foot". . 6,866,038,980 Speakee-Reed at Wages. The increase of wages which the serv ice seller ought to have and the only useful increase he can ever get will be by the operation of natural laws work ing upon the opportunities which legis lation may aid in furnishing. The in crease will never come from the outside, will never be the gift of any employer. It must come from tbe improvement in the man himself. Can you get a carpen ter or bricklayer to work for 85 cents a day? He did it in England in 1725. To day in the United States it is a poor place where he cannot get ten times that Eum. Why does he have to have ten times as much? Because the carpen ter of today could no more live as did the carpenter of 1725 than he could live in a cave and hunt snakes for food. The difference in wages means the difference in living, and the $2.50 is as much a necessity today as the 25 cents was 150 years ago. Hon. Thomas B. Reed. Yzye'a Doetrlao. It all of our industries were equally exposed to the pernicious effects of free trade, they might not be destroyed. Manufacturing might and probably would continue here, but the price of it would nave to be paid by the poor la borer in scanty wages, hard work, poor living and destroyed homes. The total extinguishment of one industry is easy, for its laborers would not consent to a reduction of wages which would enable it to live, but would find employment in those that survived. The doctrine that the wages of those employed in the protected industries alone are affected is too absurd to require refutation. -Hon. W. P. Erye. Wi I contend-that agricultural interests, along with -others, are in a bad condi tion, and that there is a remedy; that tho present bad condition is the direct consequence of the application of one theory or policy, and its remedy lies in adopting an opposite policy ; that free trade or insufficient tariff is the bad policy that a sufficient tariff, with in cidental or even intended protection, is the remedy. The former is the policy of the Democratio party, the latter of the Republican party,.?-Hon. Francis E. Warren. .The increase in the number and the extent of failures baa aroused some ap prehenslona. Failaxea at tbe end of tbe month were looked for, bat they have come ahead of tiaaa. New York Jour nal of CcwBBMrca aad CkMausercial Bpl latia. .' rMMBaaKp?pT$ BRITISH CUTLERY. SHAM AND SHODDY GOODS MADE IN SHEFFIELD. Shkffixix, Feb. If.' The great weight of cutlery which Imb. is being aad will be dispatched to your side ooasists principally of a low grade of goods at a conrespotklinfr price. Every conceivable form of adaltara tion, trickery, misrepresentation and ve neer is resorted to in order to deceive and alloy, and so long as some of our producers can get orders it matters nothing to them who is afterward "sold." The latest manifestation of this sharp work was revealed to me by one in the cutlery trade the other day. "Is there any adulteration carried on in the trade of Sheffield?" I asked. The man laughed at me, evidently pitying my ignorance. "Adulteration!" ho whined out "I shonld think there is, for with foreign competition, especially from tbe Ger mans, with taxation on our goods in 'America,' and with people here want ing to buy stuff for 'nowt,' our masters have to resort to deception and adulter ation heavily. " "But in what way do you put shod dy into- yonr goods?" This seemed to put him on his mettle, and he produced a box containing a large quantity of knicklmaoks. "Just come here," he said sharply, "and I'll illustrate what I mean in a practical manner. ' ' He went on : "Sheffield, sir, as you well know, is noted the world over for its products in table cutlery. The day was when for hafts or handles we used nothing but real bone or. ivory, but such is not the case today. With the change of fashion and the common rank and file the world over wanting to be in style like the 'up per ten,' naturally at dinner time they want their table cutlery to appear white and clean. There are thousands upon thousands who, because their knives and forks look nice and clean, think they are ivory hafted, and they bought them as such, but they are as mistaken and befooled as they never were in all their lives before. "Just you examine this piece of ma terial closely," he said as he handed me a table knife haft. "Examine it thoroughly, test it well, do as you like with it and then tell me what yon think is the material." I obeyed the command thoroughly and then pronounced it "ivory. " I said : "It's got every appearance of ivory. It's white, thoroughly hard, strong and faintly streaked." He said cheerily: "It's no more ivory than I am ivory. It's a manufactured substance called zylonite, resembling in every point and degree ivory itself, but to any person out of the trade it cannot be deciphered' between the real and this sham ivory. Only experts can possibly tell one from the other, tho two being to all appearances identical. " "But what is this zylonite?" I asked. "That, sir. I cannot tell. All I know is it's a secret composition known only to the makers themselves. All I know about it is this : It has already replaced ivory 60 per cent in the production of hafts for table cutlery. " "But can this composition be manip ulated into everything where real ivory was once used?" "No matter what yon want to pro duce it can be used for everything in the place of ivory, thus materially re ducing the cost in tbe manufacturer's hands. But it is always sold as ivory to the ignorant public outside. It's used very extensively for making hafts for table cutlery, for ladies umbrella han dles, walking sticks, ladies' workboxes and many other things. " "But cannot you tell me how the pub lic may know one from the other and thus escape oftentimes being gulled?" "Well," he said thoughtfully, "that is a difficult matter, but I'll show you how ' t may know the one from the other. This manufactured zylonite, wnen it's in a polished state, as you find It on knife handles, is always inflam mable. Look," he said as he struck a match and applied it to tbe piece of zy lonite, "see how it blazes!" And literal ly the lighted end blazed. "Then this zylouite is very largely used in the trade of Sheffield to replace ivory, is it?" "I should consider that at least 60 per cent of all the table cutlery turned out here carries with it a zylonite haft. "The manufacture of zylonite is a se cret procesa. The price varies from time to time, and black (so it seems it can be had in ail colors) is usually cheaper than other colors. The difference be tween the price of this aud real ivory is not very much, but being made in sheets, rods and tubes there is very lit tle waste, and tlic-iefore it conies in considerably cheaper." Today on this side everything of a shoddy character is flourishing, while real, substantial, sound, genuine stuff is at a discount. And who is to help largely in the consumption of it? The answer can only be: The American peo ple as long as they have a low tariff. Yankke. TarlaT Policy to Blame. A policy that allows the shipment of gold to foreign countries to go on un checked is unwise, unpliilcsophical and. suicidaL Ihe revt-rsal of the tariff pol icy of the government has brought about this unfortunate condition in our finan cial operations. Hon. Robert J. Gam ble, M. C, of Sonth Dakota. All Wted aad Word. The message is like tbe man ver bose, inefficient, unsatisfactory. As cucb, however, it will only disappoint these who have chosen to make an idol of Mr. Cleveland, to which they could look for salvation. But the day of idols, Whether of brass, bronze or flesh, has Cone by. John C. Frennd. KICKING THE HOP GROWERS. Daaaacratfc rastcra Wast Cheap Hob Fo Brltiah Brewers. The New York Times every now and gain baa a dig at (he unfortunate hop growers. Ita latest was as follows : "If tbe bop growers of the United States can sell 17.000,000 pounds in Eu rope, meeting foreign hop growers there on even terms without any protection whatever, it is nousenso to pretend that they cannot moru easily undersell these foreign hop growers here at home either with or without the tariff protection of the present law." Nobody ever pretended that tbe Amer ican bop growers "cannot more easily undersell these foreign hop growers here at home." Of course they can. They can give away their bops it they want to, and thus control the home market That would suit tbe British brewers' syndicates which control most of our breweries, and as their dividends have been pretty low lately and not up to prospectus profits the New York Times naturally wants to help its English friends. If our hop growers did "undersell these foreign hop growers here at bome" would it pay then to do so? That is theAMerjcanDointof view. WaJ . fJaaawals An asMw at aa sTialis.ii OisasiMl naaajinai Ia tho Mmw. Avafct Mill gylaasHa. don't waat to sea Axeerioan hep grow an raising their erop just for the fan of the thing and for the pleasure of mort gaging their farms till they ace aeiaed by tk sheriff for the sake of beaaiUag , must brewing sjMioatsa. Bmt the Mow York Tiawas dots waH this. The lajaancrstic bard tixees have cut down the eoMamption of beer by 750,000 bar rels daring the fret quarter of the pres ent fiscal year, aad business is aadoabt edry dull among the British brewers. But it lias, been, worse with the hop groweis, who have been obliged to sell their hops anywhere from 8 to 8 cents a pound without making a cent of profit. Root up the American hopyards is the New York Times idea, so that more land may be devoted to other crops of which we havo a surplus and which are not paying farmers money enough for taxes. Tbe condition of the hop market was well illustrated by The Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin on the same day that the New York Times gave its kick at American hop farmers as follows: "Prices (of bops) are still depressed, and tbe prospects are unsatisfactory." This meant "unsatisfactory" to' the farmers who held hops. Having got them down, the New York Times gave them another kick, with a sort of "blarst job" expression, thinking how "satisfactory" the hop market news of the day would be to the British brewing syndicates. We like to read the "high tariff ab surdity" of the New York Times be cause it contains such a lot of low tariff mt To Chicago aad the East. tigers going east for business, will gravitate to Chicago as the commercial center. Passengers ting friends or relatives in the easi states always desire to "take in Chi en route. All classes of passen gers will find that the "Short Line" of he Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail way, via Omaha and Council Staffs, affords excellent facilities to reach their destinations in a manner that will be sure to give the utmost satisfaction. A reference to the time tables will in dicate the route to lie chosen, and, by asking any principal agent west of the Missouri river for a ticket over the Chicago, Council Bluffs & Omaha Short Line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, yon will lie cheerfully fnrnished with tho proper passport via Omaha and Chicago. Please note that all of the "Short Lino" trains arrive in Chicago in ample time to connect with theexpresstrainsof all the great through car lines to the principal eastern cities. For additional particulars, time tables, maps, etc.. please call on or address P. A. Nash, General Agent, Omaha, Neb. ADVERTISEMENT. RAND I.SLAW, NEBRASKA, ) FebrnarjKnth. lS9tl ) looksnre now opertnTivhunt roots andfrill remalfo until tho Ellf enth of April (Satuulayhuinless the wquired acreage shall be njade up prevons to that date. No contacts will baaleepted frou any other thaVparties puroobing to ge the crop thehrat of attention, and wrW either own 0 rent desirable land adamed to the growi of the sugar beet. Nowess than thrikcre contracts will be acmpted. Blankontracts can be seen bymppljing to Joam Kryzeke, Columbus, NeHtaaka. K UXSAKD BET MIMAR L.OVPANV. The Paradise of the FariSr. hree grand tours to Honolulu. Hawaiian Islands, '-The Paradise of the Pacific, via Union Pacific system and Oceanic Steam Ship Co. leaving Omaha' the morning of Jan. 16th, Feb. 11th, and March !th. Only nine days from Omaha to Honolulu. $205.00 for the round trip, including stateroom and meals on steam ers. Tickets good for nino months, with stop-over privileges. For information and tickets apply to J. R. Meagher. a. Kiag Sloran" Nut ion 1W "There is nothing new under the Bini" does not always convey the truth. Especially is this true as regards the new composite cars now operated daily via The Chicago, Union Pacific and Northwestern Line between Salt Lake City and Chicago. These handsome Buffet Smoking and Library Cars are entirely new through out, of latest design, contain all modern improvements, and are ivell supplied with writing material, the leading dailv papers, illustrated periodicals, maga zines, etc. The fact that these cars run dailv via "The Overland Limited" and that the Union Pacific was the line west of Chicago to inaugurate this service should commend itself to all. See that your tickets read via "The Overland Route." Attention. Farmers ! I WILL SELL YOU A FENCE from M inch to 88 inch and clow ennnjeh to stoji rabbits. I m sell yon a hot; fence, 24-inch, for 10 cts. per rod, and a 58-inch, 11-bar, for general farm awe, for 65 cts., warranted to stop all domestic ani mab. All this fence is fully warranted by the PAGE WOVEN-WHCE FENCE CO.. end pnt up by me. I will lie at von BerKen- utore every Saturday. 19frbtf C. S. EASTON, ABent. justness Notices. Advertisements nnder this head five cents a lineeach insertion. M.8CHILTZ makes boots anil shoes in the sLcli beet styles, and nses only the very best k that can be procured in the market. 52-tf COLUMBUS MARKETS. tXOamaotationsoftheoiarketeareobtained Tuesday afternoon, and are correct and reliable at the time. OB.UN.KTC. I147l . Shelled Corn (lata XaJ V Floor in 500 lb. lots PBOOCCE. 'UlrW7 sZfetvst' ."I 13'i .$ 4 TAq. 00 H log: . fi .c?3 40 fi (032 ro $15020J . .3 OOfeS .7) potatoes.... LIVESTOCK. Fathoae... Fat cows... Fat sheep... Fat steers.. Feeders..... . i vmi 5 W OOSLEY & 9TIHKS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Southwest corner Eleventh and North Streets, lljuly-y Coixmbch. Nkbbaska. NOTICE PROBATE OF WILL. jSBce Aecei Nfcbi ice probate or will, rndolin uichainRer, asetl. In the county court. Platto county. braska. The State of Nebraska to the heirs and next of kin of said Fridolin Lnchsinger. deceased: Take notice, that npon filmic of a written in strument parportinf to be the Iat will and testament of Fridolin Lnchsinger. for probate and allowance, it is ordered that aid matter be set tor hearing tbe auth day or :uarcii, A. u. 1899, before said count; court, at tho honr of i o'clock p. m., at which timo any person inter ested may appear and contest trie same; anil lue notice of tlda proceeding is ordered published three weeks successively in The Colcmbc.s Jocbnal. a weeklv and legal newspaper print ed, pablished and of general circulation in taid county and state. In testimony whereof, 1 hate hereunto set my hand aad otaeial seal at Columbus, this 2d dij oz atarca, A. 0. 1BW. , .. 1 jrajse naJassvsssf earn Croat? Ja4t mwAi . 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CASS IN, -ritopHirrou or thk Omaha Meat Market PYesli and Salt HVTeate Same and Fish in Season. iSHighest market prices paid for Hides and Tallow. THIRTEENTH ST., COLUMBUS, - - NEBRASKA. 2.:tlrtf UNDERTAKING! We Carry Coffins, Caskets aiMt Metallic Caskets at as low prices as any one. DO EMBALMING HAVE THE BEST HEARSE IN THE COUNTRY. FRED. W. HERRICK. Dr. CLARK'S INSTITUTE FOB THE TltKATMEXT OF THE Drink Habit : Also Tobacco, Morphine antl other Narcotic Habits. "-privaie treatment (?ien if desired. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. 13aprtf W. A. McAllister. W. M. Cornelius " eAIXISTER CORNELIUS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, XZBRASKA Sljantr B. P. DUFFY. WM. O'BHIKN. jyjTTY O'RRXEN. LAWYERS. Special attention given Law. to Criminal OIKce: Comer Eleventh and North Itta. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. JERERT REEDER, ATTORNEYS AT LAAV, Office oTr First National Bank, COX.OVBVS, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmWmmW'ium Sliaatt W & ! . ' . . . -t - " '--'I - i I i . t &$ 7 ' sry "W- zzprsx s . -. S&2CM!U " '. "!' . . - - ! 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