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WEDNESDAY. APRIL IS. 1SJS.
A- 4 N. TIME TABLE.
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tfcward ..
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7300 a.m.
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t-nifaa at Colambas p. m; the fieUnt leaves
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twtbKx.!. 590a.m limlvd 1035a.m
Or. to. Local. S a. m Nr. PI. Local.l2:45 p. m
Nr. 11. Local. IflOp.m Fastfaul -. :5p.m
Pant MaU 2:15 p. m Or. I. Local. 8:35 p.m
No. S, Fart Mail, carries i8seneni for
throoxh point. Going wt lit M5 tj. d.. ar
rive at Denver 7:10 a. m. No. 2. Fast Mail car
ries pasaeaicers to Fremont. Valley and Omaha
Kola cast at 2:15 n. m.
The freight train leaving here at 450 p. m. car
riea paaseaeem from here to Valley.
. COLUMBUS AMD HORFOLK.
PMaeriicer arrives from Sioux City 1230 p. m
. - lfiiYes for gioar City 30p. m
Kt:el leaved for Sioax City 7:30a. m
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roa ausoh axo okdar bapids.
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. 130 p. m
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goriefg gttins.
tST"AH notices nnder this heading will be
charged at the rate of ft a year.
a LEBANON LODGE No. 58. A. F. A A. M.
Ja, Regular meetinga 2d Wednesday in each
XJ month. All brethren invited to attend
r j. n. stibes, w. m.
W. K. Notes rus. Bec'y. 20july
WILDEY LODUK No. 44, LO. O. F.,
-meets Tuesday evenings of each
?u.lr t tliAir hall on Thirteenth
fMTft- Ktnwt Visitinir brethren cordially
Invito. W.A.WAY.N.O.
W. It. Notbmtcim. Soc'y. 27jan9l-tf
COLUMBIA CAMP No. S3. WOODMEN OF
the World. meeU ovory second and fourth
ThurHdays of tho month, 730 p. m., at Oehlnch a
Hali.Thirteonth stn-et. Regular attendance is
very desirable, and all visiting brethren are cor
dially invited to meet with ns. jan23-tG
EORGANIZED CHURCH OF LATTEIUDAY
Saints hold rtnlar services every Sunday
at 2 p. m., prnjer meeting on Wednesday evening
at Uwir clianel, corner of North street and Pacific
Avenue. All are cordially invited.
13iulw9 Elder H. J. Hnosox. President.
VANG. PROT. CHURCH. (Germ. Reform.)
Service every Sunday at 10:30 a. in. Bap
tisms, marriages and funeral sermons are con
ducted by the Pastor in the German and English
languages. Residence, Washington Ave. and
Eleventh streets.
llnov-111 E. Da Gexueh, Pastor.
Everything growa now.
Fine job work done at The Journal
office.
John Kelley is attending court as a
juror.
Dr. Nanmann, dentist, Thirteenth
.
street, it
Dr. T. R. Clark, Olive street. In
office at nights.
II. O. Cross had business at Platte
Center Monday.
Attorney Phelps of Schuyler was in
our city Monday.
Gns G. Becher made a business trip
.to Omaha Monday.
J. X. Heater is making a sojourn at
home of several days.
. Bora, Friday morning, to Mrs. W.
W. Whlttaker, a son.
F. B. Ugrim Mart trip tqLiapala
Saturday on business.
. Attorney W. E. Reed of Madison
was in the city Monday.
Mrs. McCanu will move to her Col-
fax county farm this week.
: The Cecilian club will meet with
Miss Speice Monday evening.
Dr. Oeer is taking a vacation of a
, few weeks, visiting in Chicago.
Wanted, a housekeeper. Inquire of
Jokn lloagland, Richland, Nebr. 2t
Charles Zeigler went up to Monroe
Monday to stay for several days.
Judge Kilian is making some re
pairs to his Olive street residence.
Josiah McFarland is back again
from Genoa, to remain permanently.
Drs. Martyn, Evans & Geer, office
hree doors nnith of Friedhofa store, tf
V, Dr. L. C. Voss and C. F. O. Miessler,
V. Homeopathic physicians,Columbu9,Neb.
Clean, pure Canada seed oats, 20
cents a bushel. Inquire of Pat Murray.
The collection taken at the Catholic
church on Easter Sunday amounted to
$82.
Hagel & Stevenson are adding ma
chinery to their separator north of the
city.
Some farmers report all small grain
in, and early wheat and rye as looking
fine.
A lively interest in the dairy busi
neea will bring the price of cows up
again.
H. H. Hudson was one of the village
trustees elected in Silver Creek at the
recent election.
G. Kramer, brother of our towns
man, Carl Kramer, was elected mayor of
. 8t. Paul. Nebraska.
Envelopes with your return card
printed on them, for 50 cents a hundred
at The Journal office.
D. A. Hale of Humphrey was in the
- ritv Mondav. Dave says he drove 65
miles in the rain Sunday.
O. Steinbaugh of Monroe has moved
his family into the city. He is working
' at L. Held's blacksmith shop.
Mr. Easton says that south of Silver
Creek Thursday night they had a very
big rain almost a waterspout.
Bert Coolidge has gone into the veg
etable business near Spearfisb, South
Dakota, and expects to do well.
W. B. Backus has been unanimously
re-elected principal of the public schools
at Florence, for the coming year.
Bring your orders for job-work to
this oatae. Satisfaction guaranteed, and
work promptly done, as agreed upon.
Friday was a very warm day for the
first of April. Some straw hats and a
few parasols were seen on the streets.
Next Saturday the democratic pri
Baaries, and April 20, 2 o'clock, the
eoanty convention at the court house.
REMEMBER! ! E. T. Bowers, t-
eriaary surgeon, will be in Columbus
the first week of each month, to answer
calls. tf
Editor Parks of the Telegram stated
when he heard of the nominations on
the city ticket that Wiggins was no good
aad easy to beat bat the election proved
aim to be vary badly mistaken.
Aboat twenty-seven friends of Earl
McCoy gave him a amrpriss Saturday
evening. A delightful time was had by
all present.
Mesdames Nautnan and Tomlin will
entertain the Mystery elub at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Nauman next Satur
day evening.
buy a
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Page.
Wilhelm Both,carpenter and builder,
Corner of I and Eighth streets, is ready
at all times to taut Business or ao wora,
as necessity calls.
D. M. Gorman was here the first of
the week attending to a big delivery of
nursery stock for the Fields & Bryant
nursery of Fremont.
Another corps of surveyors are at
work north of town in the interest of
the Great Eastern ditch. John Truman
of Genoa is with them.
Charles Evans had the misfortune
to drop a keg of paint on his right foot
atr Monroe Thursday. He is here now
but has to use crutches.
The seed oats ad
lodhlbl
ada variety
years. It is peneVMikclean. 1
Snp't Williams made a half day's
visit to the Schuyler schools Thursday
afternoon last Schuyler has a new
school building costing $21,000.
Married, in this city, Wednesday,
April 8th, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Albert B. Cramer, by Elder H. J. Hudson,
John F. Blessen and Miss Minnie Meyer.
John A. Asche, six miles south and
two miles west of Leigh committed sui
cide Monday morning by hanging him
self in a cattle shed; cause, despondency.
Mayor-elect Speice is having the
same experience as other mayors-elect in
Nebraska this spring, viz: About 80
applications for all the positions to be
filled.
Baptist church, J. D. Pulis, pastor.
Services 11 a. m., 7:30 p. m. Subjects
for April 19th: morning, 'Daniel's Fifth
Kingdom;" evening, "A Mistake of
Moses."
Edna Wiley found the pocketbook
advertised in last week's Jochnaii and
belonging to Mrs. J. Condon-Walker,
and brought it in yesterday. It pays to
advertise.
Gates Bros, have a grader and are at
work on the canal. O. Nelson also has
one and will go to work. Contracts
havo been let for several hundred thous
and yards.
E. II. Funk, the auctioneer, will
open up for business in the Rickly
building on Olive street. He will put
in a stock of goods. You will hear from
mm J
clam
him later.
We have the nicest line of common
amber suits we ever carried and the
prices are away, away down. Mice
carved suits at one-half former prices.
Herrick. 3t
rV-fig4T8 of Everlasting Layers, olr-
wise aiiawn as stiver spangaaa nanv
bnrgs, purefcasd, first prenr .anWfowls
$1.00 per 8ittin3C15. East FourfeWth
street. E. W.B01
Adjutant-General P. H. Barry will
be here some time this week or first of
next to inspect the new militia com
pany; regular drill nights Thursday and
Mnsjaay.-Fverybody tarapnt .:.,
Neat Wednesday evening, April 22,
at H, is the hour of meeting for the re
publican convention at Norfolk to select
two delegates and two alternates to the
presidential convention at St. Louis.
Editors Casper of the David City
Press, and Barber of the Fullerton Jour
nal, were visitors at The Journal office
a portion of last Wednesday. They are
old-time friends, and always welcome.
The last meeting of the Farmers'
club was well attended, and an interest
ing time spent in listening to some well
prepared papers. The next meeting will
be held at A. W. Clark's the first Friday
in May.
The Telegram says it was a "signal
victory" for the democracy. Another
such and they will be clear down into
the ditch. From about 125 majority
down to one is "signal" enough to be
mentioned.
The Telegram styles Wiggins' sup
porters in the late campaign "republi
cans, pops, socialists, anarchists and
political mavericks." This is a mixture
of the cowboy and southern fire-eater
style of rhetoric
Patrick Finnegan of Colfax county,
near Schuyler killed his wife Monday
morning, and then committed suicide.
He had often threatened to kill his wife,
and about three years ago attempted
suicide by poison.
The Monroe prospect well is now
down 300 feet, and it is said there are
strong indications of coal; also that for
the last 100 feet there has been oil in
the water all the time, forced up with
the slate and stone.
The supper and fair of the German
Reformed church last Wednesday even
ing brought out a very large crowd of
people. Some four hundred tickets
were sold for the fair alone. About two
hundred dollars was cleared.
The rain of last Wednesday was
seemingly one of the beet that ever fell
in this country. Those who have had
occasion to work in the soil since then
have found Chat the moisture penetra
ted to every particle of the cultivated
land.
District court is in session with
Judge Marshall on the bench. On Mon
day the case of the First National Bank
v Gerhold et al, was heard, and yester
day State, v Koch was to be heard.
There is quite a quantity of business
ahead.
The State convention Ancient Order
Hibernians "will meet here April 24; these
conventions are held once in two years,
the last being at Tecumseh, at which
there were present one hundred dele
gates, and an equal number are expected'
this time.
tWask Goods, White Goods,
ess Goods, the latest for
spriag amd simmer, 1896.
Follow the crowd to E. D.
Fitipatrick's, the White Fromt
Dry Goods Store. tf
Now is the time to subscribe for The
Columbus Journal and the Lincoln
Journal, semi-weekly, both for $2.00 a
year. Three papers a week at a cost of
teas than 4 cents a week. This very
liberal offer will only hut until May 5th,
when the rates will be raised.
BmVBnl I A raster who cairmaffordm
jBfed fencenaa well tovamtonwft
anv nntil he cavaaione wdHhkiiaTiD
aartised usjanptber
Nfetrick MnrrlWu of thSbn-
aad in use hereealv two
GeT.aA-aWtoa7W
aoa aftafejoosas now dMpied by itst
once aad
Saturday,
property,
tables,
John Peters of Boone county and
Ed. Hoare of Platte county, seem to be
the prominent statesmen of the two
bailiwicks if we are to judge by the fact
that they are delegates to both congres
sional and state' conventions from their
respective counties.
Unfortunately for George Willis,
who has the contract for the Cassin
building on Thirteenth street, the water
and loose dirt settled against the foun
dation on south end so solidly as to
spring the wall which will have to be
taken down and relaid.
The Getbsemane Commandery No.
21 elected the following officers last
week: J. D. Stires, E. C; Charles E.
Pollock, G.; F. H. Geer, C. G.; C. J. Gar
low, pilot; William Fox, S. W.; J. G.
Pollock, J. W.; A. Anderson, treasurer;
J. Rasmussen, recorder.
Conductor Steve Overton brought a
car from Norfolk Friday belonging to a
traveling minstrel company, and which
was in bad shape, as to the boxes. The
car was an old one and had hot boxes
on either side. Steve was heard to re
mark that he was lucky to get it off his
bands. The troupe went west.
While Chauncey Depew andVan
derbilt were in the city Thursday on
their New York Central car quite a large
crowd gathered at the rear end of the
train. Depew asked what the city was
noted for, and one of the crowd spoke up
and said it was noted for the large num
ber of McKinley men it contained.
Quite a number of laboring men
left here yesterday to work on the road
bed at North Bend. The U. P. are
going to ballast the road from Omaha
to Cheyenne, with the red gravel from
Sherman, Wyo. The work is to be done
this summer and will give employment
to suite a number of laboring men.
e well anowakcbaracterid
favor of thekerlasting
Spangled Hamburg fowls
jrly maWrity, non-sittilaatPot
beautiful, the tfinaavof their ecus
meat the best, and inWery best of egg
producers. Only $1.00 pefcaitttng of 15..
E. W. Borders, east Fourteenth street.
The prospect hole is down over 320
feet. The different substances passed
through are as follows: Dirt, 16 feet;
gravel, 56 feet; hard blue clay, 10 feet;
soft stone, 4 feet; shale, mixed with iron
pyrites, 126 feet; hard rock, 17 inches;
gravel with water, strong vein, 8 inches;
gray and black shale, 116 feet. Mon
roe Republican.
Quarterly meeting at the Methodist
church next Saturday and Sunday morn
ing. Quarterly conference Saturday at
3 o'clock p. m. Preaching by Dr. Tin
dall at 8 p. m. Snnday, love feast at 10
a. m.; preaching and sacrament at 10:45"
a. m. by Elder TindalL Preaching and
sacrament at Ives school house, Sunday
at 3 p. m. by the pastor.
We call the attention of the board
of supervisors in the matter of eleotion
ballots for the next fall's election, so
that they may be on their guard, for a
little line left out, intentionally or oth-1
e s Ise susy cause the -expense of a - aew - 4
election. In the case of the city election
last week, the powers that be, seemed
determined to elect all democratic coan
cilmen at all hazards.
You young fellows of 75 and 80
years, take courage from Dr. De Bossy,
Dean of the French physicians, who is
hale and hearty as ever, and still in the
practice of his profession at Havre,
France, and is 103 years old. He says:
"The secret of longevity is considera
tion in all things, cleanliness and a pure
life, and I believe it is in the power of
every one to become a centenarian."
Every day is adding to our list of
subscribers, but there is yet plenty of
room for more. We give yon now. The
Journal and the Lincoln Semi-weekly
Journal, both, one year, when paid in
advance, for $2.00. Subscription can
begin at any time. Now is the time to
subscribe. The Lincoln Journal is issued
Tuesdays and Fridays, and will give you
a mass of news that you cannot hope to
equal anywhere for the money. Both
for $2.00.
Why couldn't Columbus imitate the
enterprise that is projected at O'Neill by
eastern parties. "They have purchased
5,000 acres of land in a body south of
that place and have constructed an irri
gating ditch twelve miles long. They
are now cutting scores of miles of small
lateral ditches, 200 feet apart. The con
struction work is being done under di
rection of expert irrigators from Colora
do. At least 3V500 acres of the big farm
ranch will be cultivated this season."
Paul Hagel remarked the other day
that Nebraska farmers are just begin
ning to learn something of how valuable
cows, hogs and chickens are. Nebraska
seems destined to be one of the very
best dairy states in the union, and cer
tainly the hogs and the chickens will
add to the income to be derived from the
cow. It is becoming fashionable now
for the farmer who has a number of
milch cows to invest in a small separa
tor for himself. They make money by it
From the Genoa Populist we learn
that J. A. Krause has been elected one
of the village trustees; that W. A. Davis
and family will leave on the 20th for
their new home in Oregon, Miss Dora
remaining in Genoa till she graduates in
June; that "four more graders arrived
this week, to begin work on the Great
Eastern canal. They are making the
dirt fly at a rapid rate, and it is their
intention to have water running by the
first of June. The company is meeting
with very little opposition."
Malice is not a good ruling princi
ple for an editor to followin the conduct
of a newspaper, whether that malice has
reference to private individuals or to
publio omeers. We beg leave to be al
lowed in all kindness to suggest to the
editor of the Telegram that he brace up;
that he look away from the troubled
waters in which his little craft has been
floundering for several weeks; that he
look beyond the false lights on the
shore, up into the everlastingly stars in
the heavens, and, as a good seaman
does, take his reckoning, and start anew,
oahk voyage, aad start right
wmetase oat atjtabtie sale on
ApRaUS, at 2 psj. all ito
caayristofchAf chairs, stoves,
carpets, books, oagan, etc.
MfaTBIaTD.
Olsok IvzBBox At Columbus, April
7, by Judge J. N. -Kilian, Niels Olson
and Miss Sine Iverson.
The many friends of the hsppy couple
congratulate them on their union.
TaasEKTXWF HEmrnfQ On Tuesday,
April 7th, at the .German Lutheran
church. Rev. Meisaler officiating, Will
iam Tessendorf of Platte Center and
Miss Augusta Henning of this city.
Misses Ida Preab and Annie Tessen
dorf acted as bridemaids, and Messrs.
Earl Simmons and Albert Tessendorf as
groomsmen. After the ceremony a sup
per was served at the home of the bride's
parents to the guests, forijeight. in
number. The evening wsaSMa'in
playing games and dandngr'TPascouple
will make their home north of. Platte
Center. Their friends extend many con
gratulations. Sullivan Hioarsa Saturday, April
11th, 5 o'clock p. m., by Rev. Newton
Mann of Unity church, Omaha, at his
residence, Florence Sullivan of Chicago,
and Miss Bessie Higgins, of Omaha.
Mr. Sullivan is one of the editorial
staff of the Chicago Tribune.
Miss Higgins is a daughter of the late
Judge J. G. Higgins of this city. Since
leaving this county she has been mainly
engaged in newspaper work, first on the
Bee at Omaha, and later on the Chicago
papers.
The many Columbus friends of the
gifted bride, will congratulate her on
her marriage.
The Bee says that they will reside in
Chicago. j
For the last few days the people in
this region have mostly been engaged
in letting it rain. The ground is all
soaked full and puddles of water are
standing hero and there and yonder, in
the low places. There has been nothing
just like it for a long, long time, and it
does really beat all what a difference it
makes on the look of all things in gen
eral, and everything in particular. News
is that the rain has been generally
throughout Nebraska, and even extend
ing into Kansas and Iowa. Please let
it rain.
The Telegram editor in his review of
is last two years' work here tries to
throw out the inference that his com
petitors have played him dirt. He is
troubled with a lot of self-inllicted, sore
looking places because he thinks he is
about to loose a little more of his pull,
and he is endeavoring to create some
sympathy for himself on the part of his
democratic brethren. It don't do to
pay too high a price, even for democracy
of the Parks stripe. It has cost too
much already. The racket can't be
worked any longer.
An exchange makes the following
severe suggestion: "In city after city
the world's experionce is the same. If
you want to drive the tramp away, give
him a night's lodging at public expense,
but make it a cast iron rule that he shall
first take a bath. Weary Waggles would
rather face death than soap and water
and the use of a good scrubbing brush.
'Wash myself?' says he. 'It would kill
me!' And breathing a vast sigh Weary
Waggles, moves on. The sure way to tell
the decent workingman out of employ
ment from the tramp is that the decent
workingman is always not only willing
but glad to have a bath."
John Wiggins made a grand race for
- mayoiv considering -that some repuWi
cans didn't vote because they thought
he "had no more show than a snowball
in a red-hot 6tove;" considering that
men were allowed to vote and against
him of course, who have no residence
here; considering the crooked work of
some of the clan who make a business
of drinking beer and dealing in election
eering yarns; and also considering the
apathy of a number of republicans who
have always favored Speice, and who
are thought to have done so this time;
also considering that on the day of elec
tion as well as all the night before,
there were several free dispensaries of
beer, run in opposition to Wiggins.
Whether you consider John as a repub
lican or a "maverick," he is a racer.
The Nebraska underpinning has
broken out in a new place, this time in
Washington county, two miles north
west of Calhoun, on the farm of Otto
Wagner, while digging a well. At a
depth of 160 feet the quartz containing
the precious metal was found. An assay
was made by D. S. Carraway of Omaha
and the specimen found to run $16 to
the ton. It is pronounced a very rich
find, if it shall prove that it extends
very far. The Bee says that a deposit
of the value indicated by the assay could
be worked to immense advantage at that
point, having freight rates favorable to
making money. If the specimens are
fair samples of the deposit, the find is
sufficient to make eastern Nebraska a
rival of the richest gold-bearing territory
of the United States. The managers of
the Omaha Smelting and Refining works
say that if the quartz is of general ex
tent it will prove to be one of the richest
gold discoveries ever made in the west
Numbers of wells ' are being sunk in
Washington county. The fact is that
that is a sensible thing to do anywhere
in Nebraska no telling what we may
find.
Tho concert at the Congregational
church Friday night was simply grand,
and all who attended should feel grate
ful to Rev. Rogers for making arrange
ments to have the Chicago Lady Quar
tette give an entertainment in our city,
as we seldom hear such music The
Quartette at the opening took the house
by storm and from that time to the end
of the entertainment the audience was
thoroughly enraptured. The quartette
work was extra well done and especially
the first piece in the second part of -the
program, which was a medley arranged
by Mrs. Raymond. The selection in
cluded "Annie Laurie" and rendered in
such a manner thatone could almost
imagine himself in bonnie Scotland. The
solos were all pleasing and each soloist
was encored and especially Alice Merrill
Raymond, who has a most wonderful
voice. Miss Nettie Jackson, as elocu
tionist, captured the audience with her
first piece and one could not but think
she had a violin which she was playing
for a party to dance the "Money Musk."
She was extraordinarily good and re
ceived repeated encores. As the crowd
were leaving the church it commenced
to blow quite hard and the rain was
falling in good shape. For a while Eas
ter hats and bonnets were being blown
around in the mud, but no one who at
tended the concert will miss goiag if the
i Quartette ever cornea to Columbus again,
HAL.
J.atect)M
ia taeeity Thursday.
J-CLFUhnan
m FailertoB Mon-
day. '
Earl McCoy. visited Saturday and
Suadayathome.
mm, J. Laagtree went down to Omaha
Tueiaaytoviaitaweek.
MisaDaiay Raakia of St Edward vis
itedXM. BritaUa family last week.
MjaV8ad Bows, a teacher of How
elta, visiUd the Tamer family Sunday.
Mr. aad Mm Myron Wheeler of Lin
coln, visited Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Cham
bers
Mr. and Mrs. Lsmbach of Utica, Neb.,
visited 'relatives here the past week, re
turning home Tuesday.
KepuMteaa Csaveatlea.
The delegates elected to the county
convention convened at the court house
Saturday; last at 2 o'clock, and were
calledito-order by Carl Kramer of the
central committee.
J. "N. JjQlian was elected temporary
chairman and Bert Strother temporary
secretary, the temporary organization
beias afterwards made permanent.
SWpkalagerr Kent and Reeder were
appelated committee on credentials and
repotted .the following as entitled to
seataln the convention:
CUgimbus, First ward H T Spoerry,
C A oosley, C E Early, H G Cross, J
AErast,GViargaU.
Second ward-J G Pollock, J D Stires,
J-KiHaa, E H Jenkins, H J Hudson.
Thirttjrard-C H Sheldon, W A Mc
Allister, J G Boeder, G G Becher, C J
Garlow. Carl Kramer, Frank Mills, C C
Gray, L G Zinnecker.
Columbus township Geo E Barnum,
John Tannahill, H J Alexander, R P
Schofield.
Burrows E R Williams, E Evans.
Bismark A Weishand, Henry Buss,
Fred Godeken, H G Lenschen.
Butler Chris Meedel, F P Johnson,
D C Owen.
Grand Prairie E C Morrow, William
Hoeffelman.
Granville GW Clark, Lewis White,
R P Drake, A Iliohan, P H Fedderson.
Humphrey E A Stockslager, Ed Per
enod, Will Hlian, K E Bay.
Monroe A Watts, Charles Kelley, T
J Williams, G F Alexander, B R Stein
baugh. Lost Creek W E Kent, RG Strother,
L J Niemoller, H B Fennimore, Bob
Hilliard, C E Chapin, Ed Hoare, Frank
Kenyon, Will Smith.
Woodville Thomas Druss, J Cocksy,
J W Apgar, Wm Justice.
Loup John Boss, John Rupp, Fred
Meedel.
Joliet David Thomas, J N Jones, G
W Kief er.
Shell Creek G M Hyland, Dan Thay
er, Sam Fizzel.
Sherman J H Wurdeman, A Rein
branch. By motion, the last two were included
in the list of delegates and were given
seats in the convention.
On motion of Kramer, delegates
present from each township and ward
were authorized to cast the full vote of
their delegation.
On motion of Drake a committee of
three was appointed on resolutions.
The chair appointed Drake, McAllister
and Stires.
The work of the convention went right
along while the committee on resolu
tions were cogitating. It was deter
mined to proceed to elect delegates to
the Omaha convention by ballot those
eleven receiving the highest votes to be
declared the delegates. At first there
were thirteen put in nomination, but
Carl Kramer and Fred Meedel with
drawing their names, the remainder
were declared the unanimous choice of
the convention, viva voce: G G Becher,
II J Hudson, J E Ernst, C C Gray, T
H Williams, R P Drako, Ed Hoare,
Chris Meedel, W H Illian, D Thomas, L
J Niemoller.
The convention then proceeded to
elect twelve delegates to the convention
at Norfolk, the same to be by ballot, the
twelve having the highest vote to be de
clared the delegates. Twenty were put
in nomination, three of them withdraw
ing their names, and on the ballot being
taken, the following were declared
chosen: John Tannahill, Ed Early, G
W Clark, E R Williams, Charles Kelley,
Henry Ragatz, E H Jenkins, D C Owen,
A Watts, Ed Hoare, E C Morrow, Bert
Galley.
The resolutions were then read by
Drake, chairman of the committee, and
were adopted without discussion and
without dissent, and are as follows:
Resolved, That wo recognize with pride
and satisfaction the spirit of growing
Americanism, and in William McKinley
we recognize the incarnation of that
spirit, the defender of the American
home, the protector of American indus
tries and labor; the embodiment of the
republicanism of Washington, the fath
er, of Lincoln, the savior, and of Grant,
the defender of the republic. Repre
senting the republicans of Platte county,
we voice a public demand in hereby in
structing the delegates to the congres
sional and state conventions, chosen by
us, to vote and use all honorable means
to secure delegates to the republican
national convention who will use all just
means to secure his nomination to the
presidency of the United States.
. The convention then adjourned, sub
ject to the call of the chairman.
School Beard.
The board met Monday at 4, in ad
journed session, all present
On recommendation of Chairman Hock
enberger of the committee on finance,
the following transfers were made from
the license fund (reported as having in
it $5,500): to the teachers' fund $2,000;
to the general fund $250; to the text
book fund $100.
There was some informal talk indulged
in as to the receipts for the coming year,
the amounts being roughly estimated at
$6,500 from licenses; $1,400 from state
apportionment and $4,100 from the levy
on the basis of last year. The board are
confronted with the fact that the coming
year, additional room must be provided
for pupils, necessitating also an addition
to the teaching force.
On motion the appointment of a com
mittee of one to draft resolutions ex
pressive of the sentiment of the board in
the Poet-Martin case was reconsidered,
and the motion indefinitely postponed.
"A- contract was entered into with the
Central School Supply Co. of Chicago
for 3 sets of relief maps, 21 maps for
$300, contract to be dated 1 Sept 96,
payments 04 $100 each, 1 Sept. CT, 1
March 'OS and 1 Sept '96, without in
terest, freight prepaid by company.
Turner voted against the purchase,
thinking that the price of the maps was
about twice what it ought to be.
CKyCeaacU.
The usual resolattoa was passed com
mending the courtesy and fairness of
retiring Mayor Phillips a well-deserved 1
commendation in this case.
CoL M. Whitmoyer was selected as
president of the new council.
Liosasas to sell liquors at retail were
granted to Wm. Bucher, V. A. Macken,
Paul Happen, John Wagner, S. J. Ryan,
Carl Rhode, Samuel Gass, L. J. Lee, J.
P. Abu; at wholesale, to J. H. Kersen-
brock and J. P. Abta. Druggists' per
mits were granted to Gabler Sc Wilson,
C.L. Stillman, C. E. Pollock & Co. and
A. Heintz.
License ordered issued to Henry Lub
ker as plumber.
An effort of C. A. Newman to have the
Telegram declared the official paper of
the council did not succeed, the matter
being laid on the table indefinitely.
FotThbJocbmai..
Hew It Wtat.
Eettor Journal: Some of your read
ers may wish to know what took place
at the council meeting Thursday even
ing last and here' it is, in part. The
friends of John Wiggins were there in
the interest of the republican party
asking for a re-count of the ballots for
the office of mayor. While the majority
for Speice on the face of the returns was
only bare one and some of the canvass
ing boards did their work in a rather
loose and hurried manner, the republi
can committee thought it. would be
nothing more than fair for Speice to
submit to a re-count, but it would ap
pear plaialy to one who attended the
meeting that Speice had been gives'
orders by superior officers in the party
counsels and hence declined to make any
concessions to the republicans.
C. J. Garlow stated the case for the
side of Wiggins in a clear and candid
manner, using but a very little of the
council's time. He was followed by ex
Judge Hensley on behalf of the pure
'democracy of the city of Columbus who
claimed that Wiggins and his followers
were entering into child's piny to at
tempt any such thing. He went on to
tell how sacred the votes were while
locked in the ballot boxes, but ho did
not seem to feel such concern on the day
of election about the sacredness of the
ballot so long as democratic votes were
being cast. He claimed that the request
was contrary to law, when he knows
there is a provision in the statute which
says plainly that such steps may be
taken. Galley made a few remarks, the
balance of the council were mum. The
city attorney got up and passed on the
question and admitted his ignorance re
garding section 15 of an ordinance pro
viding for the election of city officers.
The request of the republicans was
rejected, which was what the committee
expected, for from the facts in the case
it was generally admitted that there was
a doubt about the election, hence to
down the powers, a long-drawn-out con
test would have to be gone through with,
and the game was not worth tho powder.
The Other Side.
In last week's issue of The Journal
a reference to the fact that the
bondsmen of ex-Sup't Backus had re
ceived notice from the government in
regard to accounts of his amounting to
$25,448.20.
We aimed to state briefly what was
claimed by the government, and stated
in addition that "it is presumed Mr.
Backus can make his accounts clear;
indeed that he had long ago done so to
the proper official representatives of the
general government."
We are in receipt of the following
communication from Mr. Backus, and
we take great pleasure in laying it before
our readers:
Tho notice does not say that I am
short in my accounts, neither does it
state that the accounts are wrong or
that the money or property has been
misappropriated or stolen. The notice
reads "he was found indebted to the
United States in the sum of $25,448.20
for moneys and property not satisfac
torily accounted for." That he was
given a notice "to immediately file such
explanations and corrections as he de
sired to be made." Thie means that the
examining officials have excepted to cer
tain items in tho accounts and desire in
formation regarding certnin things or
calls the disbursing officers' attention to
errors in cash accounts or in the dispo
sition of property. Exceptions are as
common to government officials as the
air they breathe. An exception does not
mean that the property or money was
stolen, it simply means "information."
Let the flame bnrn and reason with
me for a moment $25,448.20 is the
amount. $25,44830 minus $19,515.91
equals $5,&32.29. Now for the $19,515.91.
Up to 1892, vouchers were signed in
triplicate, a government check or cash,
given in pay, and vouchers sent to
Washington and passed. After 1892,
aad when I had been out of the service
nearly a year and a resident of the state
of Washington, I received "exceptions"
to $29,575.91 worth of these vouchers
that are straight as God mado them;
that said vouchers must not only be re
ceipted for on the voucher where the
receipt is printed but. the maker of the
bill must also place his name on the bill
at the top of the voucher and even if the
bill is written or printed on the voucher,
the name must be on or under the bill
and also on the printed receipt on the
voucher, that is two receipts for one bill.
These bills or vouchers, numbering 252
and amounting to $19,515.91, from 1892
to the close of my term November, 1893.
A copy of these bills is in the hands of
Carl Kramer and the gentlemen who de
sire information can ask the parties
whether or not they got the money.
How do I rid the exceptions taken to
these $19,515.91 worth of bills? Simply
make out bills in triplicate, send the
same to the proper parties for signature,
forward them to the department and
the work is done. That settles $19,
515.91. The following will give you an idea of
some of these exceptions: Voucher 24,
1st quarter, 1892, suspended $250.00.
This was money paid Jay Merrill for a
team. O. L. Baker knows all about
this. Voucher 61, 1st quarter, 1892,
James Pearsall, $100.00. Voucher 18,
1st quarter, James Pearsall, lumber
$63.80. Voucher 50, 2d quarter, 1893, A.
Dussel, lead $9.12. Second quarter,
1892, M. K. Turner & Co., cards and
cardboard, $6.75.
Now, gentlemen, you got your money,
didn't you? You signed three vouchers?
Yes, but Backus is held to the. treasury
department for the full amount simply
because you did not put your name at
the top of the voucher and on the bill as
required, after he had left the service.
Is Backus short that money? Is he
short the $19,515.91 paid just the same
way? Look over the list at Carl Kra
mer's and see where I am charged up
with money you honestly earned and
received. How are these vouchers paid?
In cash or by government checks on the
U. S. National bank. Omaha. Very few
of my vouchers were paid in cash, none
that I can now remember. A voucher
was signed by the party receiving the
money, check given to him, and the
check cashed in the Omaha bank and
forwarded to Washington. The super
intendent swore to the correctness of
the voucher, attached his authority for
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buying tho articles named, took up the
property on the voucher and the trans
action was complete. I said $25,44&20
minus $19,515.91 equals $5,932.29. I
have now accounted for the $19,515.91.
Now $5,932.29 minus $1,939.76 equals
$3,946.53. I will explain the $1,939.76.
I find this amount to be exceptions to
traveling expense vouchers as follows:
John Tannahill, cash spent, $314.64
James Perrigo, " 106.05
S. C. Beissingor, " 153U
W.B. Backus, " 71455
MissScisson. " 356.65
MissMosher, " 190.22
Balance small amounts by various
persons but all correct.
Captain Tannahill spent the above
$314.64 securing Indian children for the
school. His vouchers were held up and
are charged to me Bimply because he
didn't tell "why he hired a team," "why
ho drove forty miles," "how far he drove,"
"why he hired an interpreter," "why was
BIuo Beard" and many other small ex
ceptions. But the $314.64 spent for
actual expenses by a man whose honesty
cannot be questioned is charged to me
on a technicality. Did I get that money ?
The government don t say so; it simply
questions certain expenditures and calls
for explanations, but charges tno rail
amount, if a question is asked about one
cent of any line. So it is with the other
expenditures by Perrigo, Beissinger,
Backus, Scisson, Mosher, et al. These
exceptions can be removed by the above
parties imparting the information called
for, swearing to the same. I sign the
statements, send them to. Washington,
the exception is removed, and $1939.76
ceases, to be charged to me. The last
amount abovo named $3,992.53 minus
S2.0C8.28, equals $1,924.25 charged on
property accounts. The $2,068.28 is all
charged on clerical errors, such as ex
ception to pay roll because Herbert M.
McFayden signed, his name H. M. Mc
Fayden; because services of so and so
"has not been reported and approved"
and "affidavits should be furnished, etc."
Not one of 'these exceptions require
money remittance but simply a correc
tion of papers to comply with the de
partment rules. These exceptions can
be removed by correction and explana
tion. Wo now leave the cashaccounts and
come down to the property accounts
with its "exceptions," 1,924.25.
I find here $219.24 excepted to, this
money not being paid by me, but by the
department long after I left the service;
it was paid to H. Eley, Genoa, for coal
furnished, and I hardly got that money.
Some young chickens died and were not
accounted for satisfactorily, as required
by technical rules, and I am charged $9
for these youngsters. Kersey is held up
to be explained to the amonnt of $371.11,
leather to the amount of $87.08. These
exceptions of property can bo accounted
for correctly and exceptions removed.
I quoto tho conclusion to the property
account by tho examiner: "It is possible
some of these articles are receipted for
by the special agent under another
name, as in the case of tbo leather of
which ho takes up a largo excess." The
special agent "receipted for an enormous
amount of property not required by the
returns. So you see the department ac
knowledges that I am "long" on prop
erty. During my administration over one
third of my employes were taken from
Genoa; from $12,000 to $15,000 in money
outside of salaries paid annually to its
merchants; $55,000 worth of improve
ments were mado at the school, and
with the exception of $5,000, all of the
money was saved out of the school per
capita appropriation, or made on the
farm, or in the shops. Thousands of
dollars worth of improvements were
made and three large handsome brick
buildings stand there as monuments of
the untiring industry of the employes
and pupils.
When tho accounts are balanced and
I am allowed my salary duo, and money
paid for freight on government goods,
and property furnished at my personal
expense, you will find that the govern
ment owes me thousands of dollars of
money I never expect to get. I do not
owe the government a cent, and the gov
ernment in its generosity don't claim I
do. There is no issue. I answer the
exceptions and I am done.
After having been exhonerated of all
charges preferred by my political ene
mies, I resigned my position and in
accepting my resignation the present
Commissioner of Indian Affairs said: "I
am well pleaded with the work you have
done at Genoa, and wish you the great
est possible success in business."
Yours truly.
W. B. Backus.
Weather Kepoi-t.
Review of the weather near Genoa for
the month of March, 1896.
Mean temperature of the month 30.13
Mean do frame month last j ear 3&17
Highest daily temperature on SOtli 68
Lowest do 15th, below zero 3
Clear days 11
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High winds days. 7
Calm days 11
Rain or enow fell darin? portions of days 8
Inches of rainfall or melted snow 0.51
Do same mo. last year. 0.92
Inches of snow 6.80
Do same mo, last year 1.30
Prevailing winds S.E. to N.W.
First appearance of robins on 9th.
Twelfth, parhelia.
Eighteenth, lunar corona.
Violent dust storms from N.W. on the
18th, 21st and 28th.
First appearance of larks on 13th; first
of killdeers on 30th.
Osceola Record: Polk county will be
without an open saloon again this year.
All three towns went dry again. In Os
ceola but one ticket was in the field and
the saloon question was voted on yes
and no. A very light vote was polled,
only 134 being vast. There were 87
against and 46 for saloons. Shelby went
dry by a majority of 8, and Stromsburg
f !.
COLUMBUS, NEBR.
by a majority or 20.
Leigh World: Qaickeastadt k Graves
have been conaideriag the matter of
forming a farmer's aad merchant's mu
tual insurance company at this place.
The plan in part is to issue policies to ao
one but farmers or those living ia the
county and to insure against fire light
ning and tornado. There has been noth
ing done as yet in the way of orgaaiziag.
We would like to see such a company as
this organized and believe it could be
conducted upon a paying basis to the
company and satisfaction to the policy
holders.
Albion News: A small village on wheels
passed through Albion last Tuesday. It
was composed of two frame structures
and one regulation prairie schooner, with
a go-cart or so to represent the unincor
porated limits. The village was thickly
populated with men, women, children,
horses and dogs, who, in compliance
j with Horace Greeley's sensible advice,
were going west to grow up with the
country Loran Clark writes his
brother Luther from Battle Creek, Mich.,
where he is again taking treatment at
the sanitarium of that city, that he still
entertains hopes of ultimately recover
ing his health. Mr. Clark's many friends
in Boone county and throughout the
state will anxiously await favorable tid
ing in regard to his condition.
Te Chicago aad th Cant.
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naturally gravitate to Chicago as the
great commercial center. Passengers
re-visiting friends or relatives in the
eastern states always desire to "take in"
Chicago en routo. All classes of passen
gers will find that the "Short Line" of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Rail
way, via Omaha and Council Bluffs,
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 be 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, you will be cheerfully
furnished with the proper passport via
Omaha and Chicago. Please note that
all of the "Short Line" trains arrive in
Chicago in ample time to connect with
the express trains of all the great through
car lines to the principal eastern cities.
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