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J-' t-isCV - Vf I Sf- TWSfctf- grn- - i ' KX. ' ? a3V"S. V-C rC - . ' i ft- MfW AT. jwT -.' c V - - u W1 ; - . - il .is . !- .-El .1 I t . . . j . . ' . . . .. f ; i. U.- i Columbus gemma!. WEDNK8DAV. APRtL St. 1696. A. AN. TIME TABLE. Fracbt. tva Colunbos Bellwood David City.... Arrive nt Lincoln 740 a.m. mix 7:41 " 84S " UrUa.m. 2-JOp.a. S20 " 415 p.m. 743 1030 "-Tj - The passeacer leave Lincoln at 635 p. m., rate at tviumbas V35 p. aa; tbe tun Lincoln at 75 a. nu. and arrives at Col 4:60 p.m. t learea ONION PACIFICTIME-TABLE. ooiMaKAT. aonowBST. Col. Local.... A Wa. m Atlantic Ex... 59Da.ni limited 10.S5a.Sl Or. la. Local. . a. m Nr. Pi. Local. 12 45 p. m Nr. PI. Iiocal. 10 p. Fart Mail..... 65 p.m Fart Mail 2:15 p.m Or. Is. Local. 835 p. m Xo. S. Fast Mail, carries passengers for through point. Goinjr wet nt 6:15 p. hi., ar rives at ltonver 7:10 a. m. No. 2. Fast Mail car- riea passenjeera to- Fremont. Valley and Omaba iroiac east at 2:15 n. m. The freight train luavinK here at 430 p. m. car ries fiaseners from here to Valley. OOLUXBCB AND NORFOLK. Passena-er arrives from Sioux City 1230 p. a - leaves for Sioox City 630 p.m Mixed loaves for Sionx City 8:00 a. m Mixed arrive.. HiWp. m rOB ALBIOK AKD CEDAK BAPIDS. Mixed lea rea Mixed arrive Passenger leaves arrives... ....... 05X1 a. bi 820p.m. .-....- 130 P. 12:40 p. m gnifff Mtitr. rAU notices under this heading will be charged at the rate of $2 a year. LNON LODGE No. 58, A. F. A A. M. meetings 2d Wednesday tn eacn month. All brethren invited to attend k J. D. Stibkh, W. M. W. K. Notkstun. Sec'y. 20july WILDKY LODGE No. U.LO.O.F- -meets Tuesday evenings of each -week at tbeir hall on Thirteenth street. Visiting brethren cordially invited. W.A.WAT,N.O. W. 1L Nonanxis. Sec'y. gjaaM-tf rOLUMBIA CAMP No. 35. WOODMEN OF V the World, meets everj second and fourth Thursdays of the month, 730 p. m., at Oehlnch's Hall.Tliirteenth street. Regular attendance is ver desirable, and all visiting brethren are eor diall) invited to meet with us. janB-'S REOUGAN1ZKDCHUBCH OF LATTEB-DAY Saints hold regular services every Sunday at 2 p. m.. n.. prayer meeting oi chapel, corner of No . All are cordially i V Elder H. J. I --- n I ? on Wednesday evening at their ortii street and racinc Avenae. invited. lliulcW HDD90X. President. EVANO. PROT. CHURCH. (Oerm. Reform.) Service every Sunday at 103C a. m. Bap lUma tnirriinm snd funeral sermons are con ducted by the Paxtor in the German and English languages, nesiaence, numiiipuu ai-. mm Eleventh streets. 14nov- 04 e- ue ubxlkb, rasior. Koch was found guilty of assault! Fine job work done at The Journal . -office. Dr. Naumann, dentist, Thirteenth street, tf A big rain at Genoa and Norfolk Sunday night. A Dr. T. R. Clark, Olive street. In office at nights. Another rain Thursday night with showers Friday. Fanners are busy getting their spring work done. This k Arbor day Plant trees where they are needed. t -The P linl See raur neighbor anmsnk it , j.. . . - ' '.- 'tflABHHB s LEBi .mWUiasair V. .. t.., ,:. nrvBBBVifiB'Aa sb raBBsrui ii-iaBBBW. UK MSJlMMai' " KaV aMWBBBW :. Tpbbn HoaglanHfikhlanu7br. Qaite a auabsr of aomsUrylofausjaJ . being beautified in different ways. Frank Taylor shipped out a load of hogs Sunday night to South Omaha. . Drs. Martyn, Evans & Geer, office .three doors north of Friedhof's store, tf John Wiggins went to South Omaha with a shipment of hogs Friday night. V Dr. L. C. Voss and C. F. O. Miessler, Homeopathic physicians.Colnmbus, Neb. ' Leo Borowiak will open a general merchandise store at Genoa next week. Clean, pure Canada seed oats, 20 cents a bushel. Inquire of Pat Murray. . -ciner favyonrxwaf ear: turn around aniswtonratJJigefenSijJoctrine. Lute North has purchased Ed. Chambers' fast pacing horse "Tom Lee." Rev. Lacey and W. R. Notestein go to Omaha today to attend the Presby tery. Saturday morning there was ice formed half an inch thick at Grand Is . land. ya -f-Lost, lrafeareek, aiwd cuff jwton nearhiltz'fetoraindegljjafis office Jim Frazer shipped three loads of cattle that were extra fine, Tnesday '. night. R. H. Henry is laying a brick side walk around his Fifteenth street resi dence. D. L. Pond, editor of the News at Inman, was in the city last week attend ing court. D. W. Ziegler was called to Kearney Thursday by the very serious illness of hk'motber. Envelopes with your return card printed on them, for 50 cents a hundred at The Journal office. The U. P. pay car came through Friday evening and gladdened the hearts of the employees. Mrs. Dr. Nauman and Mrs. C. B. Tomlin entertained the whist club at the former's home Saturday evening. The Ladies' Guild will have a busi ness meeting Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, at Grace Episcopal church. Bring your orders for job-work to thk office. Satisfaction guaranteed, and work promptly done, as agreed upon. REMEMBER! ! E. T. Bowers, vet erinary surgeon, will be in Columbus the first week of each month, to answer calk. tf Hagel & Stevenson received a ship ment of one hundred large milk cans Monday to be nsed on their cream routes. S. L. Bristol of North Platte Ukee the place here, held so long by D. M. Doty; he'k a man well liked by theoweuth railroad boys. . A. W. Armstrong has a brass fur nace, and k doing some very neat work. , For an all-around mechanic, it k diffi- cult to match him. The meters are going in right along it k meter or pump; meter or wind mill; meter or engine, at least that k . the way it looks now. Prof. Leavy's -pupik numbering aboat fifty gave him a surprise Thurs day evening. A lively evening was spent in playing games, aad a good timere- sorted by all present.. WilMmBotkxtiMDUr and baildar, of Iaad Eighth street, k ready times to talk business or do work, necessity calk. Several Colambns citizens have re ceived copies of a f ree-silTer paper, pab Ikbed at Chicago by RE. Brown, fos merly in the insurance business in this city. Maier & Kotlar and the Argus Co. have each received a gasoline engine the past week to aid in running their plants. We are pleased to see these evidences of thrift. i "The River of Years" was sung by Wis. Florence Halliday Brown delight- rally; thk song was the success of the evening. xioiiowbj luonaon, xjng.,; Journal. -We have the nicest line of common cbmlaber suits we ever carried and the paces are away, away down. Nice carved suits at one-half former prices. Herrick. 3t George Fairchild expects to start east the last of thk week to see about the settlement of an estate in Ohio he k interested in. He will be gone about two weeks. Baptist church, J. D. Palis, pastor. Services 11 a. m., 8 p. m. Subjects April 26: Morning, The Two Resur rections." Evening, union bible meet ing, M. E. church. Chas. Moras returned home from Denver Wednesday last to transact some business. He reports "The Corporal" and the rest of hk string of flyers there I as in excellent condition. -Judge Marshall adjourned court! Monday afternoon until Thursday morn ing, the attorneys not being ready on Monday, and Wednesday being a holi day they loose one and a half days. The last of the property of the Y. M. C. A. was sold Saturday for 915. the gymnasium had been sold before to South Omaha for $30. We are told that thk gives money enough to pay off all debts. A. F. Saff ran will remove his cigar factory to the new Schroeder building north of the U. P. depot, opening out May 1. Mr. Saffran k doing a steadily growing business, and k well up in every line of it. A number of tramps, who were locked in the cooler Friday night, made their escape by wrenching off an inside lock then making a hole in the floor through which they crawled, and took French leave. ht the program was Mrs. Florence allidak Brown, who isWlways a fSror- ite; her flbsw'In the Chimmv Corner" was encoredu was also nfhL encore "Zuyder ZeefEinsbury (Ehndon, Eng.,) Gazette. A. Powell of St Edward called at Journal headquarters Thursday on hk way home from the republican state convention. He k a republican through and through, and believes in the rule of the plain people. Grace Episcopal church, Sunday, April 26, 11 a. m., service and sermon, "Christ's Question Concerning Himself;" 7:15 p. m., preparatory service; 8 p. m., service and sermon, "Joseph's Forgive ness." All invited. Bible meeting at the M. E. church Sunday evening, April 26. Union ser vice of Baptist, Congregational, Pres- hytsriasy.Garman Reformed and JL.E. churches. Address by Rev. E. C. Con dit, of Denver, Colo. The ordinary citizen spends some thing of hk spare time mornings and evenings in making garden or otherwise getting ready for the growing weather which k looming up in the near distance, There k no place like home. "A nation is but a larger man, and the.individual bears the same relation to the state that each organ does to the whole body. Every legislative enact ment ought to be the outbirth and ex l pression of an inward principle." e songs of MrsFlorence Hnlliday rownsHt'ere arusucflnw renaereomsne has a Bwefct contralto tweo. trolled; bo t pieces being aotiirously applauded, elhores were sungjd floral gifts were preeenWsWf Brooklyn Citizen. There was quite a difference in tem perature betweeu'Wednesday and Thurs day, the former being hot, the latter cold, with 6now in some places. Thomas Keating says we are living now under a "cold" moon he even said so before the wave hit us. WhitM-oods, ress e latesfVfor 81 181 Follow theVrowato E. 1. Fitzpatrick'she Wh Front Dry Goods StorcX. tf Now is the time to subscribe for The Columbus Journal and the Lincoln Journal, semi-weekly, botn tor 3Z.UU a year. Three papers a week at a cost of less than 4 cents a week. This very liberal offer will only last until May 5th, when the rates will be raked. Mr. Wekshand tells us that winter wheat and rye are looking very fine in hk neighborhood; he also says that Ber nard Eihausen has been seriously ill with the grip followed by kidney trouble; his wife and chfld, who had also been afflicted, are better. . Wednesday evening last about fifty friends of Mrs. Jacob Schram surprised her while at her household duties, and made a very enjoyable evening of it. It was the forty-seventh anniversary of her birthday, and her numerous friends will wish she may have many returns of the same. D. M. Doty, who has held the posi tion of master mechanic and foreman of the round house for the Union Pacific here for several years, left last week. He went from here to Omaha on Wed nesday, with the intention of going from there to Wyoming, where he has a posi tion. Florence Hallicky Brown, a Iffeh of Years." echo. Then Old Sweet plauded so that a verse over Times. Brooklyn John C. Howard left on last Satur day for Philadelphia, to join the Buffalo Bill Wild West show as a member of the band. John was joined at Cadiz Junc tion by George Turner, who goes with the show. "Jake" and "Dowdle"'are fixtures with thk outfit, and it shows that the managers know a good thing 1 when they get it-(Cadiz (O,) Sentinel. Jr-Wt efraeri alall t aajnece r4sh GoMs, rfWs(MMlS, fc bring am shmii Aaltn unsUTliAlliiw M.W, MMMJfc ..WA..r awshe was applaudW to the Vtw. D.um... . BT-.j.tl MIS, viuru ocuig uuvo nT Mrs. Brown wis ap- sne was obliged to sfQg agfin Sa with Mia Maud Bigktaura k clerking in the Boston store in Oaaaha, going down last Wednesday. It certainly was sot the democratic federal brigade tht was ia session Mon day at the comBcfl chamber. George Scott and George Barnum went to St. Louk 8aaday, expecting Guy C. Barnmm to return with them. Shell creak raked four feat Monday night, caaaad by the heavy rain Sanday night in the northwestern part of the county. The yoaag ladies of tbeC. E. society of the Congragatioeal church will give a sockble evening of May 1. lbs cream and cake, 10 cents. will -give IkLooncert in onroeKnday, May 1. TJa. people of that pkceaay rest assured ofvnand treat, amoungtaVabrat our musicaicity can f urnkh. v Farmer W. H. Lewk planted hk potatoes Monday morning. He waited till the sign was right then pot a liberal amount of seed into the ground, and if the great Eastern ditch gets along by the first of June he will have a crop. We learn that papers will be filed today by citizens asking to intervene in the suit of Albert vs. the City, aad for an injunction restraining the QstjaBaB abut ting oft water from any premises in the city until the matter can be heard in court. J - A joint aeaaionef the Madison and Platte county teachers' assocktions will be held in Humphrey Saturday next. We notice on the program from Colum bus, Miss L, Sheehan, Prof. Williams and Prof. Leavy. It k expected that a large crowd will be present. Hugh O'Neill of South Omaha, fore man of Dan Hannan's grading outfit, with teams, wagons and grader, passed through the city Tuesday en route to Monroe to work on the Great Eastern canal. Hugh informed us that there would soon be several more outfits go to work. -Mr& Florence HallMay BrtWn de Ughtfullyang "The Rir of Wars," which provedTaVbe one of tbtebest songs of the eveningX MraVBrown caused a stormy ebcore to desoeVd on her head by singingVtoo sweetly ous Life." FinsburmfXiondon, Eng.,) Gazette. Mrs. John Dineen died Saturday last and Undertaker Gass was called to conduct the funeral Sunday. She was a widow and aged 60 years, her husband having died two years ago. The burial took place at the Catholic cemetery near Gleason's, a large number of neighbors and friends being present at the funeral. Editor Parks ought to quit hk lying about Wiggins anyway. There are more than a few people who believe Wiggins was the choice of the people for mayor, and as to the counting of the ballots, Mayor Speioe said he certainly would object to the recount, whereas the Tele gram says the contrary. Be as fair as you can. Mrs. Delia Baker, wife of Johnnie Baker, adopted son of Col. W. F. Cody, died suddenly Friday night at the New Tork residence of Jule Keene, treasurer of the "Wild West" show. Before mar riage Mrs. Baker jttd larav I Wm. Sweeney, rode in the arena of Buf Vli- . - . .. falo Bill's exhibition in all the principal cities of the world. Gus G. Becher, C. C. Gray, J. E. Ernst, T. H. Willkms, R. P. Drake, Ed. Hoare, Chris Meedel, W. H. Illian, D. Thomas and L. J. Niemoller all went to Omaha Wednesday as delegates to the republican state convention, while Carl Kramer, J. N. Kilian, Jap Heater, E. Pohl and E. II. Jenkins went along to help start the ball rolling. Hagel Si Stevenson on Wednesday last received here from their customers in this vicinity 448 cases of eggs, 30 dozen to the case, making 13,440 dozen, doubtless the biggest one day's receipts ever recorded for Columbus. The truth k that the country generally have little conception of the magnitude of the egg trade, and how much mankind is in debted to the thrifty and enterprising barnyard fowls. The Ancient Order of Hibernians are expecting about 100 delegates to tbeir state convention which meets here Friday of thk week. Fifty-four will be here from Omaha alone. The conven tion will be held in the K. of P. hall, after high mass at the church. The la dies' auxiliary may possibly meet here the 6une day, and if they do the ladies of the society are prepared to give the two societies a banquet. Jdby lorence Halliday Brown, assist- Ida MartinXlocutionlBt, Miss ElsieVMorse, piankt, ariaV a young ladies' quarVtowill give an entertain ment in theEpngregational church Tuesday eveningmpril 28. Mrs. Brown will ljve selecticu from oratorios, operas, ad songs ancsalkds. The en tertainmeirvwill begufvromptly at 8 o'clock. Ticlats are for sohjat Pollock's drug store. Admission, 35c Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Davis left Wed nesday for Chattanooga, Tenn., where they were called by a telegram that their daughter Laura was dying. Laura went with her grandmother in January, the family hoping it would benefit her, but the rheumatism of which she was afflicted has affected her heart. A tele gram received 'from Mr. Davk says Laura is somewhat improved, but Mrs. Davis k sick with nervous prostration. Recently the president of the Fre mont board of education asked the Dodge county treasurer what the school balance was and was informed that it was about $57. The board was not satumed witn tnis and ordered a com- mittee to check up the books and they found a balance of over $600. The treasurer had merely neglected to post up hk books and it k claimed this amount was drawing interest for hk own . pocket At the democratic county conven tion Monday afternoon, R. H. Henry presided, H. C. Carrig wielded the sec retary's pen, P. B. Duffy, W. N. Hen aley and C. B. Tomlin made speeches; resolutions were adopted favoring the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, and selected as delegates to the Lincoln convention today, Messrs. Henry, Sullivan, Duffy, Kehoe, Phil- lips, Ottk, Cox, Tomlin, Newman, Hen sky, Rickert, Hendryx, Hale, J. C. Car- 1 rig, Julias Ernst Tan Oaafaaa dab will PKKSOITAL. LGlack was in Omaha last Albert Schroeder of Humphrey in to the city Friday. Mrs. W. A. McAUkter went down Omaha Monday. Miss Nellie Post started for a trip to Chicago Tuesday. John Eusden was visiting hk'daagb- ter in South Omaha part of last week. Robert O'Brien of Cheyenne, arrived in the city Saturday for a few days' visit. Mrs. W. H. Chapman and children of South Omaha are viaitingin the city; the guests of Mrs. John Huber. Mrs. Chapman returned to her home in Omaha Wednesday, after a few days' visit with her parents,- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hamer. P. W. Henrich's family passed through Columbus Friday on their way to Omaha on a visit. They will atop in thk city on their return trip. MAWBTBD. OstebhoutLbslik April 16th. by Judge Kilian, Bert Osterhout and Mks Josie Leslie. Wukdemaxx Loseke On Thursday forenoon at 11 o'clock, at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. Freesee, Carl Wurdemann and Mks Minnk Loseke. , The bride k eldest daughter of Ger hard Loseke; the groom, the well-known business man of thk city, and both bare the hearty good wkhes of their numer ous friends. Frank Wurdemann, Her man Oehlrich and Arnold Oeblrich of thk city were present at the wedding. . Subscribe for The Journal any day. Fifty cents will' get you the paper for the next three months, $1.50 for the next year. A grand jubilee was held at St. Franck Academy Monday morning in honor of Skter Josephs, sister superior of the school, celebrating her twenty fifth anniversary of sisterhood. The school children gave an entertainment, and a very large crowd was present? to honor one who had proved faithful for so many years. Every day is adding to our list of subscribers, but there k yet plenty of room for more. We give you 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. The Signal says Dr. Okeyand family have left Platte Center for Mendota, HI.; that John Jaixen and Miss Maggie Gro nenthal were married April . 14; that Mrs. Fred Jewell, who has been danger ously ill for two weeks, k .but little im proved; that it was thought the first part of the week her recovery was doubt ful; that Mrs. Brandt of Columbus vis ited a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Herrguth; that Mrs. Phil Walker of Winside is visiting with her mother, Mrs. Dineen; that Misses Ada Bloedorn and Anna Nelson visited among friends in Columbus Saturday. The Nebraska Farmer very justly remarks: ''Perhaps it k not generally trnsnm rt tfiA nffiUA wtM ttufc UTa. hT"3tu - sv!!,',r fc'W.TrsCTTi t i, , ? .1 a. a. mj - m 3? orasaa is ine greatest sneep ieeoing state in the nnion, but such is the fact Situated upon the extreme western limit of the great corn belt, and lapping over upon the range country that extends over Wyoming and Colorado, Nebraska thus becomes the natural and logical feeding ground for the great sheep feed ing interests of the Northwest. Ten car loads of Nebraska fed sheep are this week billed for Liverpool by a feeding ranch in Dodge county. Nebraska corn k thus fighting its way to the front in the markets of the world oven though it has to go in sheep's clothing." There was a little twister Friday night about 10 o'clock, so Charles Brin dley tells us. He thought for about a half-second that hk time had come. Hk house was sensibly moved; a heavy coal bin, filled with coal was turned over; mnd was picked up on the street and dashed against the window; fifty feet of fence in the rear of Gerrard's residence was blown down, while at neighbors near by, loose boards stand ing up against a barn were not distur bed. At nearly the same time, ten miles southwest of the city at C. S. Easton's, a wagon loaded with bay was turned up side down, and the dwelling house very sensibly shaken, the storm in the upper atmosphere roaring like a cyclone. The members of the woman's club, together with several invited guests, were given a real treat Saturday after noon at the residence of L. Gerrard in listening to a lecture by Miss Louise Pound of Lincoln, her subject being the "Poster Craze." Mrs. Gerrard intro duced Miss Pound as a truly now wo man, a young lady who k an expert skater, a champion rower of a boat, a bicyclist, an artist, a graduate of the State University, of which she is now one of the teachers, and a literary writer. Miss Pound had with her a number of reproductions of poster drawings and the parlors were decorated with some thirty posters owned by Mks Grace Gerrard. The lecture was in substance as follows: Andrew Beardsly of England, a young man of 23 years of age, acciden tally made a free-hand drawing of some grotesque figure and it so pleased him that he gave it for publication. He saw that his idea was a nucleus for a new field, if not exactly artistic, it was sure to attract attention, the most important road to fame, which has been given him I after about three years before the pub lic. It k said the posters do not need to be well drawn, the most essential point k to draw the most grotesque figures, in fact, just as when you were a child. Some artists claim the childhood drawings, the most crude, outline work is tne correct way oi drawing, in America, Bradly, Penfield and Reid are the leading poster artists. These pos ters sell from 25c to $3 apiece, according to the fame of the artist From an ar tist's standpoint, the poster has done much to interest the public; you can't go by a good poster without looking at it, therefore it makes the best advertis ing medium. They have been called the people's art Misses Mary Henry and Grace Gerrard gave a piano duet and the latter closed the program with a piano solo. Columbus ladies will look forward with pleasing anticipation to the next entertainment . -.AA -i at the usual hoar, number of citizens wiir a r?-- fact the room was crowded ly portion of the time, many not seats, bat compelled to stand up ortaani around, just as they could find ewutothusg to lean against Ordinarily, trtsyoceedinga of the council (except to tfcpae inure inunedktely interested in the results) are rather monotonous, but on aald nights like Friday was, the ao- are far too banted for thenrowd. Aa The Journal has often f N if there were more interest usually in the deliberations of the coaaail by citizens, it would undoubted ly be to the advantage of the commu nity Mayor Speice, after calling to order, proaaeded with the usual course of business, beginning with calling the roll, reading- minutes of previous meeting, whkh were gone through with, in the usual way. Under petitions, communications, etc., Clark Becker read a letter from the mayor of Seward asking for a copy of the ordinance concerning water rates, as he had understood that Columbus has an. ordinance that gives pretty near sat isfaction; he said that their rate of 30 oents per thousand gallons kept a good many from using water on their lawns last year. ; A list of active firemen and of those whose terms had expired was presented, and, without reading, ordered to be placed on file. The applications of Thos. F.' Wilson, George M. Douglas and John Burrell for the position of engineer at the water works were read and placed on file. The request of H. J. Hudson for con tinuance of desk room in the council chamber was granted. A petition signed by 167 freeholders was presented asking for the opening of street crossings on M and K streets be tween Eleventh and Thirteenth, over the Union Pacific railroad; K street k the one on which k situated the Baptist church and M k the one running north and south, west of the Lindell hotel. An effort was made several years ago to open these streets, but it was not pushed for some reason or reasons not generally known. It k now proposed to see what can be done. The names of petitioners were not read, but the petition placed on file, and will doubtless be referred to tho proper committee when the mayor shall name the standing committees. The bond of Bayard Fuller as police judge was approved. Tho council waited several minutes, until the judge could take the oath of office, Council man Whitmoyer remarking that they were waiting on something that ought to have been done two weeks ago. The bond of Frank Wurdeman as city treasurer was presented, in the sum of $10,000, with J. H. Wurdeman, C. H. Sheldon, Jonas Welch and W. A. Mc AUkter as sureties, and was referred to the city attorney. The bond of Robert Hirschbruner as plumber, with Ernst & Schwarz as sure ties and in the sum of $2,000 was pre sented and referred to city attorney. The bond of Bert H. Moore and Geo. Brodfuehrer as herders, with J. L. Stur geon and John E. Moore as sureties, was presented and referred to the city attor ney. Claims were allowed and warrants or dered drawn as follows " i GrB.Bpeice;'dktrict' court clerk's fees case of Elston v tho City. . .$6 10 Pafiar ! lri a ... 1 50 50 50 30 W. S. Gardner, burying dog,. Same, hauling coal to council chamber, Carl Kramer, pens, ink, pencils, etc Chas. Brandt, advanced on regis tered letters to non-resident lot owners, notification as to side walks, 49 Commercial Bank, rent of council chamber three months ending 14 April TO, after deducting $1.50 for light put in 23 50 W. A. Hewitt, hauling and replac ing election booths, 3 00 B. & M. R'y Co., car slack coal 36 48 W. S. Gardner, unloading coal, 6 00 U. P. R'y Co., slack cosl, 69 88 The usual bills for judges and clerks and police of election, the city reserving where parties were indebted to the city. The following claims were placed on file, to be referred to proper committees: S. E. dishing, B. McTeggart and John Seipp, $1 each, for hauling hose carts and book and ladder truck to fire. At this stage of the proceedings the mayor stated there was an opportunity for any citizen who had business before the council to be heard on the same. C. B. Tomlin stepped forward and pre sented a petition signed by forty-eight consumers of city water asking for the repeal of the ordinance for the reasons that its provisions were unjust, unreas onable, levies an unjust tax upon water consumers, and k against public policy. The following k thelktof petitioners: G A Scott, J E Hoffman, A Jaeggi, James Naylor, I L Albert, John Huber, C B Tomlin, A L Koon, C C Jones, J G Reeder, J P Abts. V A Macken, LCVoss, John Graf, L W Weaver, L G Zinnecker, MH Watts, Alonzo Height, August Boettcher, J A Ernst, J N Kilian, C J Garlow, G Frischholz, Wm Bucher, Henry Gass, G A Schroeder, C B Tomlin's Ren tal Agency, F H Rnsche, C E Morse, CCGray, J A Barber, M Casteel, Chas A Speice, E D Fitzpatrick, T R Clark, M. D., WHLewk, L J Lee, Theo Friedhof, Louis Schwarz, Paul Hagel, Hagel & Stevenson, Bernard McTeggart,H Murdock, a. .Newman, R Wagner, M Brugger, Leander Gerrard, J M Gondring. In presenting the petition Mr. Tomlin remarked that he had not expected to make a speech. He stated very briefly his objections to the ordinance. Councilman Welch wanted to know if it would not be well to experiment a little. To which Tomlin replied, "I have no money to experiment with." Mr. Gerrard said, in substance: I signed that petition because I think the ordinance unjust, unfair and not nec essary. Citizens have put in thk water works system; they have paid their full proportion of the tax, and it k not right that they should be charged an outra geous tariff for the use of water. They should not be charged any more than what the city charges the railroad com pany. If the city puts in the meter for the Union Pacific railroad company to measure their water with, and then only charges them 8 cents a thousand gal lons, I don't see why I or any other cit izen should be treated any differently. In the case of the railroad company they had been paying a very low rate, and the city authorities concluded that it wan fartooloWkiJaetioeto ortiMfts, aad so another contract was made with them and the revenue to the city has been much greater. Now why not apply the same rule to citizens if any are thought to be getting an undue advantage, then let the city put in a meter, as it has done for the railroad company. There k no reason why the poor or those who use only a little water ahould be charged a higher rate than the rich. He spoke at large of the general principle and said that the people of this country had been for years fighting railroad discrimina tions of the same kind. It don't cost the city any more, it costs them exactly the same to pump 1000 gallons for the railroad company that it does for the private citizen. It k conceded all around that the present rates for house use are high enough. You won't get more and you don't expect to get more from the ordinary house use; then why compel them to furnkh a meter at an additional cost to them of three or four years' rent of water, besides the tax for water, when you know that the revenue to the city will' not be increased there by? And especially why do so in these close times? Mr. Cornelius asked for the privilege of speaking as a citizen and not as city attorney, and wkhed to say that the or dinance in question had been before the council for aix months. It was not a new matter to the council; they had sought information from every source available, -and bad corresponded with a number of cities where they had meter rates, and had placed the rates here lower than they were anywhere else. So far as the railroad k concerned, the city had had a contract with them for five years at $500 a year, and finding it was not enough, the next contract (the one under which they are now usincr water and which has yet a year to run) was made; the city getting 8 cents a 1,000 gallons. The half dozen members of the council had given a great deal of their valuable time to the study of the subject, and ho was not able to seo that more would be got than would bo nec essary to run the works. If any acci dent should happen requiring the ex penditure of $500 for repairs, there would not be enough on hands to do the work. As a legal proposition he would like to have Mr. Gerrard point out the statute that would allow the city to put in meters. He thought the council had acted in the line of strict public policy when they provided that each one pur chasing a meter could get it at once and as cheap as if he had purchased a thou sand. C. C. Gray inquired who furnkhed the meter to the railroad company, and how the council construed the law differently in that case and this. Mr. Cornelius said that tho present council were not responsible for what the former council had done. Nobody would argue for the violation of the present contract with the Union Pacific. There are several considerations that should not be lost sight of. We have between 700 and 800 voters and 'only about one-third of them take water from the city; most of them are so situated that they cannot have thenseof the city water, except as a protection in case of fire. Their property will be taxed for the payment of the bonds with the pro ceeds of which the waterworks were con structed. It would be unfair to make these people "pay; besides this, all or a part of the running expenses for water not used by them. He referred to the fact that property owners could and would take better care of meters than the city. Gerrard said that the city council were just like anybody else. They are not infallible. They aro liable to make mktakes just as all of us are. A former city council had charged for use of water on lawns according to the length of the hose and after he had called at tention to the injustice of that, it was changed and then they charged accord ing to the number of feet frontage of the lot getting the water out of the same tap all the time. He thought this just as unfair as the others. He thought that water should be measured to those who have lawns, to hotels, to manufac turing establishments, but to households where there is no claim that they use more than they pay for, why compel them to pay $20 to measure $5 worth of water? He thought it was a good plan to give the railroad company such a rate as that they would continue to use the water, but be equally as reasonable with our own citizens. It is not neces sary to pile up a reserve fund; he didn't believe in laying up money for a rainy day and starving yourself" to death to lay it up. Thk property belongs to us. The city don't want to get rich out of its citizens, and we don't want to be squeezed. If the law can be stretched for the railroad, it can bo stretched for us. Mr. Tomlin thought that if tho city had $100 left over last year, after paying all expenses of the waterworks, and with such a year for scarcity of water, with the present prospects for an ordinary good season, we ought to got along without an added tax for water service. Mr. Segelke in answer to a question said that hk meter was put in about four years ago. Then he paid $20 for the factory. The first year on meter measure the water cost him $10; thk year he thought it would be S5, but he said he hadn't occasion to use so much water as formerly. Mr. Phillips, ex-mayor, then spoke nt length in regard to the contracts with the railroad company; the work of the council in investigating the subject; the water scarcity of last year caused by illegal use by lawn owners, so that had a fire occurred at 3 o'clock any morning with only 15 or 20 feet of water in the stand pipe it would have been a serious calamity. As a matter of fact the large amount expended was expended for fire protection, and the use of water other wise was really incidental. Tho city (the tax-payers at large) should not be taxed for the solo benefit of the 150 along the lines of the mains. Councilman Galley was sorry that the same number of representative citizens had not come before the council when the ordinance now denounced, was un der discussion by the council. There certainly was opportunity given, and an invitation extended. The origin of the trouble k in the fact that year after year the ordinance limiting the use of water was violated and there was no effectual method, in the opinion of the council, to remedy the evil except to measure the water to all consumers HENRY RAGATZ & CO., Staple and I L Fancy Groceries, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE CLAMPS. Elewntti Street, - We invite you to come and see us. We regard the iatereets of oar patrons as mutual with our own, so far aa our dealings are concerned our part of the obligation being to provide and offer Good - Goods - at - Fair - Prices. -EVERYTHING KEPT that is expected to be (band m a f rat class, up-to-date grocery store. this does away with the necessity of branding any of our citizens as thieves. No man wants to be water commissioner and a detective at the same time. He then set forth the methods used to get things to rights, the notifications to users of water, the 9 o'clock whistle, etc., with the effect of lessening the evil for a little while, but the breaking out again worse than ever. In the meantime, with water in tho standpipe 15 to 20 feet at 3 o'clock in the morning, if business blocks in the city had been carried up by fire, who would have been to blame for the calamity? The city council. We asked citizens, time and again, to come in and help us formulate some thing that would be just to everybody and yet carry out the primary object of tho establishment of the works protec tion against lire. Xo one comes. The ordinance is passed now, on the eve of its enforcement, we aro told that its rates are exorbitant. He then gave fig-, nres to show from 66 of the principal cities of the United States that our rates are not exorbitant, and then said that if it should possibly be found that they brought more revenue than necessary, they could be lowered. Fire protection was all the use ho had of the waterworks at present, and he probably paid as much tax as any of you. It was tho duty of the council to make the water works pay. Mr. Garlow said he appreciated the situation of the council, he had himself been a member and knew how impossi ble it is to please all, or even oneself. He thought the principle to act upon k to find the actual cost to the city for pumping water; he had figured it and found that it was 3 cents per 1,000 gallons and thus create a sinking fund to pay off the $37,500 bonds and provide in case of accident. He acknowledged to a use of water after hours, almost everybody did, in an effort to save their lawns during the severe dry weather, but he thought that time was past. The true theory k to make it as cheap as can be so that all will be justi fied in using city water. W. A. McAllister spoke in favor of the meter system, thought it was the proper way. The primary object of the water works is protection against fire the use in houses and on lawns are luxuries. The 175 users of city water should pay at least the running expenses of the systom. Mr. Gleason said that there was need ed a little plain English talk. He had spent money to get waterworks and he would not put in a meter. There were many others tho same way. Councilman Newman moved to refer the petition to the committee on water works, when the same should be ap pointed. The friends of Lela Stillman sur prised her at the Clother House Thurs day evening. Dancing and cards were kept up until a lato hour and then re freshments were served. The following were present: Mamie (j luck. Vera Kramer, Belle A) era. Anna Taylor. Jessie Swnrtsley, Htolla Klliott. Tena Zinnecker, Emily Korer, Lncy Msrtyn, llose Flynn. l'hon Rootson, Florence Elliott, Zoe Bchrock, Minnie TannaLill, Clara Uohl, Alberta Poet. Mattin Post. Gene Wilson, Matw Gushing, Come Parks, Emily Segelke. Angie Early, Metta Hensley, lla Stillman, Flossie Whitmover. David Martyn, .Lester Sisson, (leonre Wilson, Jack McCann, (Seoroe Hwartsley, Carl Johnson, Tom Johnson. Howard Geer, Fred C. Williams. Bert Moore. Grey son Moore, Ed McCann, Kam Friedhof, Frank McTagKart, Harry Kightmire, Bert Stillman, Jake Hooper, Mark McMahon. Will Baker. Gas Becher, Charles VanAlstine. Charles Stillman, George Hcott, Walt Schroeder. Gny Foz, Albert RasmnsBen. Ocrtrnde Whitmoyer, ueorgn Brodfuehrer. For The Jocrxm.. Good Feare. Good fences are a thing of beauty and a grand improvement on any farm. A man with good fences will be found to be one who commands the respect and friendship of all his neighbors; one who succeeds in life; cno whoso word k as good as bis bond. 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