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w '1 I UuUtuen. Oelwafctras, Nebr. Couwtaa, Nabr., m FOMJBHKD WEDNESDAYS BT CtUrtis Jfinal Co., (INCORPORATED.) nass of nmoumoi: Oaamr.kvaaU.MtlM nnuelil fLU WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 20. 1906. 1.AIKTT. ItiHr. BENEWALft-Tha date oppmltoyo-r! bumob yoar wr, or iippr bow to what time yoar tamest has teaa received ep to Jaa.L.19. KbtoFeb.l,t9aSwdBooD. When paynmt la made, the data, which answers aa a receipt, wilTbe i ha a A arrordiagly. D1BCONTINOANCE8-Beepilblejbacrib. an will ocmtiaae to noeive this JoniBal until the ?bUaha an aotitod v 1 to duaMbna. lull all arraara jitt aaeat be paid. It jou do not viaa the Joaraal oaatiaaed for another year af tarthe Umm paid for has expired, yon ahoold prarioe! aotify aa to diaoontinne it. CHANGE IN ADDRKBS-Wbea ordering a efcaaae la the addraaa, eahecnbera should be anre to ain their old aa well aa their new addreaa. REPUBLICAN TICKET. STATE. Charles B. Letton .... Supreme Judge RH.aSSt? .-University Regents COUMTSV W. L. Smith Treasurer Ed. Lusinski Clerk J. D. Stoes : County Judge R.B. Webb Sheriff O. H. Smith Superintendent Dr. H.G. Morris.... Coroner O.C. Shannon Surveyor What do you think of Stires' plat form? The rest of the republican candidates are with him. There will be no mud slinging in this campaign. But there will be some pretty muddy facts taken from the official records. t If Ernst and Bender anil the Tele gram would only put it back, a dem ocrat might dig up some excuse for voting the democratic ticket this fall. The democratic county convention "resolved" against passes. Democra tic county officials who ask re-election on that anti-pass platform continue to ride on passes. The re publican state convention "resolved" against passes and a majority ofouristate officials sent in their card boards the next day. Another example of democratic prom ises and republican fulfillment. On the day following the conven tion two democrats in Lincoln took the trouble to communicate to the Journal office their determination to join the republican party. "That platform suits me," one of them ex plained. The other said that at last there seems a chance to bring about a real reform in Nebraska politics and he wanted to affiliate with the party that is starting out to do things. State Journal. The Telegram is exceeding gener ous. It credits the editor of the Journal with "trying to disrupt the democratic party in Platte county." Thank you brother, but our modesty forces ns to "pass." What we are charged with trying to do, has already been completely accomplished, and we are compelled to agree with four out of five democrats in the county that the credit for the accomplish ment belongs to the Columbus Tele gram. The democratic supervisors pay 25 percent more than the law allows for printiug the proceedings in the demo cratic papers on the pretext that it is necessary for all the taxpayers to have am opportunity to read the re cord. And yet when the Journal re quested a carbon copy of the same proceedings ottering to print them free for more taxpayers than any other Platte countyjpaper reaches, Bender moved to table the Journal's request and Held seconded with the remark, "Yes, and let us table it a d long time." And still the personal organ of Erast and Bender says that Goetz and Kiernan and Swanson are "po litical shysters" for having the hon esty to tell the people of Platte county that those gentlemen are holding $500 of the county's money illegally. STJBES ANNOUNCES PLATFORM Edrob Joorhax.; The Republican iMmnmtkm he honored me with the BoauaatloB of County Judge, and as I WMaot ptessat, to express my views vpoa the issoes that have been made nroaaiaeat, I take this method to'an mae aosse of the principles that shall govern y octal conduct, should I be elected. I have noticed, with nwch satisfac tioa,yomr ef orts to correct sosae of the , that have grown up m we au- it of ow'ooaaty afairsaad I hope the people have been aroused to the danger of this tendency to squander public funds and prostitute officials po sition to personal and political advan tage. The -Railroad Pass" question : While a railroad pass may neither be given nor accepted as a bribe, more than any other form of courtesy or favor from an individual, yet it is a growing evil with a dangerous tendency, nd to avoid any possible undue influence, and hold "the scales of justice" impartially between the rich and poor, I propose to re fuse socb favors daring the campaign and my term of office, if elected. Legal Printing: I regard it an injus tice to litigants and an abuse of official prerogative, as well as a corrupting pol itical practice, to give the publication of all legal notices and official proceedings t j some party paper, as a compensation for political services, regardless of the wishes of interested parties or value to the public; but I believe that the party requiring snch service should have the right to select the pap r, and. if elected I shall comply with a'l such requests; provided the paper selected fulQIIs the letter and spirit of the law. Respectfully Yours, J. D. Stiiies WORK OF THE STATE CONVTION The work of the republican state convention last Thursday, both in its selection of a candidate for supreme judge aud in the fraiming of its plat form is such as to inspire confidence in the heart of every friend of good men and clean government in Ne braska. Charles U. Lettan, candidate for supreme judge, i entitled to every vote that was wist for Theodore Roosevelt last fall. Possessing the highest legal quali fications and the advantage of many years of exjierience on the dktrict bench, Judge Letton i clean, honest, courageous and a shouting disciple of Theodore Roosevelt. His speech of acceptence before the convontii.n is stfficient, taken in con nection with his admitted qualifi cations for the office to commend him to the people of Nebraska: He said: I want to say that if eleeted, which I expect to be, I shall know neither rich nor poor, neither corporation nor individual, and that so far as in me lies, I will dispense justice with even hand to every man within the borders of the state." What higher pledge could he ex pected from the tongue of the highest member of our state judiciary? But the republican state conven tion did other work than to name a candidate for supreme judge who perfectly represents the highest type of Roosevelt republicanism. It framed a platform. And be it said to their honor that the Platte county delegates helped to adopt it. That platform strikes out boldly and di rectly at every important issue of state and national politics, commend ing the railroad and corporation pro gram of President Roosevelt, and de manding an anti-pass law and a di. rect primary law. Here are a few planks from that ex cellent platform: Wc heartily en dorse and support President Roose velts position and effort to secure ade quate and effective interstate com merce. "We believe strictly in the principle of equality before the law as applied to the transportation business and. therefore, demand immediate relief through the enforcement of cxiting laws, or through amendatory legisla tion from the payment of rebates to favorite shippers, to unlawful and wrongful discriminations between communities and individuals, both in the state and in the nation. "We request and demand of our representatives in congress active and harmonious co-operation with Presi dent Roosevelt along these lines, to the end that corporate rapacity, ex tortion and abuses may be subdued and abolished, and the sovereignty of the people over corporations fully, promptly and permanently es tablished. "Believing that the nearer the con trol of public affairs can be brought to the people, the better the result will be, we declare ourselves in favor of a direct primary law governing the nomination of all public officers. "We believe that the giving of free transportation upon railways is detri mental to the interests of the people and recommend that a law be enacted by the legislature of thw state to pro hibit it." AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT. It is with feelings of deepest appre ciation that I acknowledge my in debtedness to my friends on the Platte county delegation and else where throughout the state, especi ally the newspaper boys, for their loyal and enthusiastic support which led to my nomination for university regent at the republican state con vention. F. H. Abbott. THE ISSUE IN PLATTE COUNTY. The one issue before the jteople of Platte county this fall is the question of a clean, businesslike administration of county affairs and the destruction of the spoils system. Consult your tax receipts and you will see that your taxes have-not only grown, hut that by far the greater part goes for county and local purposes. What is the cause of high taxes in Platte county? Have we a new court house or other improvements, proportionate to the in crease in your taxes? Then where has your money gone? Ask Supervisors Ernst aud Bender who have overdrawn their legal salaries more than S500 in a single year. Ask the democratic newspapers of Platte county which for years have been paid 25 per cent more than the legal rate for official printing. Ask the Columbus Telegram which for years has secured the county printing on a fraudulent contract through "secret understandings" with the county clerk. Ask the sheriff and the county judge who are pledged under the spoils sys tem to serve their friends and the democratic press first, and the public afterwards. Lo.ik up the expensive litigation of Platte county, inaugurated to secure fees and favors for court officers and their friends. In these things you will find a partial explanation of high taxes in Platte county. What is the remedy? First kill off tiic soiIs sy.-tem at the basis of this extravagance and curruption. Then turn out of effiet the Ernsts and Benders and those who defend them. And then elect men like the republican candidates who are pledged to serve the people iir.-t and their friends and the newspapers afterwards. What the taxpayers of Platte county demand, democrats and republicans alike, is a strict business administration of county af fairs by men who know neither republican nor democrat, friend nor foe, rich nor poor, in the performance of their duty. Business and not politics is the issue. PLATFORM OF UEPUULWAS CAXDIOA TKS OX LOCAL l&SL'ES: If lictcl weple!Kinrslve! toa busi neNK administration of tin county affairs in strict accordance with law. Opixieeii to the ioils hyntcin now in vognn in IMattn rounty, wt will bi Ktiided in the laciiii; of imtronsiKP by the wihhett anil interests of the iwitrons of ourotlicce, anil not by ilelK made to friends in return furi Militiciit favors. ' Uei'1blic.n Cakdidatks. Which will m Return of... 0 Sherlock Holmes IIIG9 ! . t:: r...:iiw".:.:.i sL'.'usrT'irst of all, J want you gentlemen to under stand that I have known this lady 'shut site was a child. There were sev en of im in a g-.ii:; in Chieajp. and El sle'M father wnu the I hum of the J.Int. Ho was it clever man. was old Patrick. It was lie who iuvcntcA that writing, which would pass at a child's scrawl unless you just happened to have the key to it. Well. Elsie learned some of our ways, hut she couldn't staud the 'business, and she had a bit of honest money of her own, so she gave us all the slii and grit away to Londou. She had been engaged to me, aud she would have married me, I believe, if I had jtakeu over another profession, but she would have nothing to do with any thing on the crotM. It was only after her marriage to this Englishman that I 'was aide to lind out where she was. I Iwrote to her, but got no answer. After thsit I came over, and, as letters were no use, I put my messages where she could read them. "Well, I have been here a month now. I lived on that farm, where I had a. room down bolow, and could get in 'ami out every night and no one the wiser. I tried all I could to coax Elsie away. I knew that she read the mes sages, for once she wrote an answer under one of them. Then my temper got the better of me, and I Itcgan to threaten her. She sent me a letter then, imploring me to go away, aud saying that it would break her heart if any scandal should come upon her husband. She said that she would come down when her husband wait asleep at 3 In ,the morning and seak with me through the end window, if I would go away afterward mid leave her in peace. She came down and brought money with her, trying to bribe me to go. This made me mad, and I caught her arm and tried to pull her through the -window. At that moment in rushed the husband with his revolver in his hand. Elsie had sunk down upou the i'loor. "and we were face to face. I was heeled also, and I held up my gun to scare him off and let me get away. He fired and missed me. I pulled off al most at the same instant, and down he dropped. I made away across the gar den, and as I went I heard the window shut behind me. That's God's truth, gentlemen, every word of it; and I heard no more about it until that lad came riding up with a note which made me walk in here like a jay and give myself into your hands." A cab had driven up while the Amer ican had been talking. Two uuifoMued policemen sat Inside. Inspector Mar tin rose aud touched his prisoner on the shoulder. "It'ls time for us to go." "Can I see her first?" "No, she is not conscious. Sherlock Holmes, I only hope that If. ever again -I have an important case I shall have the good fortuno to have you by my side." We stood at the window and watched the cab drive away. As I turned hack ,my eye caught the pellet of paper which the prisoner bad tossed upon the table. It was the note with which Holmes had decoyed him. "See If you can read 'it, Watson," said he. with a smile. It contained no word, hut this little line of dancing men: "If yon use the code which I have ex plained," .;aid Holmes, "you will find Unit it simply means 'Come here at once.' I vas convinced that it was an invitation which be would not refuse, since he could never Imagine that It could come from any one but the lady. And so, my dear Watson, we have end ed by turning the dancing men to good hvbea ths have so often been the agents of evil, and I think that I nave fulfilled my promise of giving you something unusual for your notebook. (Tnree-forty Is our train, and I fancy .-we should be back In Baker street for (dinner.' T J" V- W. PLATFORM OF THE "KlXlJ" OX LOCAL ISSUES. (Inferred from the lloconls) We stnnd for illegal salaries, excessive fees, nseless litigation, anil a democratic printing trust. you take? T5ny one word of epilogue. The American, Abe Slancy, was condemned to death at 'the winter assizes at Nor wich, hut his penalty was changed to jtcmtl servitude In consideration of mit igating circumstances and the certain ty that Hilton Cubitt bad tired the first shot. Of Mrs. Hilton Cubitt I only know that I have heard she recovered entirely and that she still remains a widow, devoting her whole life to the care of the poor and to the administra tion of her husband's estate. The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist No. 4 of the Series ftoffrfc. IM. h A. Ctnau DojU mud Ctlller'i IfstUJ (Cttittgtt. IMS, h MfClmr,, FkUlif tf C.) HROM the years 1SCU to 1901, inclusive, Mr. Sher lock Holmes was a very busy man. It is safe to say that there was no public case of any diffi culty In which he was not consulted during those eight years, and there were hundreds of private cases, some of them of the most in tricate and extraordinary character, In which he played a prominent part As I have preserved very full notes of all these cases and was myself person ally engaged In many of them. It may be imagined that It Is no easy task to know which I should select to lay he fore the public. I shall, however, pre serve my former rule and give the pref erence to those cases which derive their interest not so much from the brutality of the crime as from the ingenuity and dramatic quality of the solution. .For this reason I will now lay before the reader the facts connected with Miss Violet Smith, the solitary cyclist of Charllngton, and the curious sequel of our Investigation, which culmiuated In unexiected tragedy. On referring to my notebook for the year 1S05 I find that it was upou Sat unlay, the 2Jd of April, that we first heard of Miss Violet Smith. Her visit was, I remember, extremely unwel come to Holmes, for he was immersed at the moment in a very abstruse and complicated problem concerning the peculiar persecution to which John Vin cent Harden, the well known tobacco millionaire, bad been subjected. My friend, who loved above all things pre cision and concentration of thought, re sented anything which distracted his attention from the matter In baud. And yet, without a harshness which was foreign to bis nature, it was Im possible to refuse to listen to the story of the young and beautiful woman, tall, graceful and queenly, who presented herself at Baker street late In the evening and Implored his assistance and advice. It -was vatn to urge that bis time was already fully occupied, for the young lady had come with the determination to tell her story, and it was evident that nothing short of force could get her out of the room until she bad done so. With n resigned air and a somewhat weary smile. Holmes beg ged the beautiful Intruder to take a seat and to inform us" what it was that was troubling her. "At least it cannot be your health," said be as his keen eyes darted over her. "So ardent a bicyclist must be full of energy." She glanced down In surprise at her own feet, and I observed the slight roughening of the side of the sole earn ed by the friction of the edge of th pedal. "Yes, I bicycle a good deal, Mr. Holmes, and that has. something to do with my visit to you today." .My friend took the lady's ungloved band and examined it with as close an attention and as little sentiment as a scientist would show to a specimen. (To be continued. ) For the boy detectives: A reward of $1 will be paid for the proof of any per son keeping or harboring a dog withont a license. Per order City Council. 3t VV.V -tg jf v.. I BSY ict -JS .3 YOU WANT Journal BECAUSE: Styles are always up-to-date. Work is guaranteed. Prompt delivery. Reasonable prices. U It we haven t it we will men money on printed cards lor society people; Journal Sale Bills bring bring business. Try us. Only Daily in Columbus. Help us push. Columbus Journal 60. gPTTlUTfr XI U UUJ X X X x Poland-China 2g The undersigned will hold a Public 2 Sale of Poland-China Boar Pigs at gBRANIGAN'S BARN K Columbus, Monday Q Commencing at 1 p. m. Sharp. 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