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We have recently listed several large ranches which will be cut up and sold in quarters or
tracts to suit purchaser. The low price at which these raches are listed enables us to
make the lowest prices that have been made in years on land similarly situated.
80 Acres or 160 Acres
on Easy Terms
for men of small means larger
tracts for the investor.
Every
Platte county man who has
bought land in Sherman county
has made money. Call at our
office for their names.
6,000 Acres in Nance County
3,000 Acres Kent Lands 3,000 Acres Gould & Miller Lands.
Every body knows the Kent ranch between Genoa and Fullcrton and the Gould & Miller ranch between Ftil
lerton and Uelgrade. These ranches include hay land, cultivated valley lands, and table lands, cultivated and un
cultivated, improved and unimproved. There is land in these ranches to suit everybody from the young man or
renter with limited means to the stockman or investor. Prices mime from $17.50 to $50.00 and terms to suit all.
Sherman County Lands
In tracts of from 160 to 2,500 acres.
Prices from $10 to $30 per acre.
With the same kind oi farming, these lands will produce as much as
Platte county lands
YOU SHOULD SEE THEM
Did you ever
Hear of a
man who
ever lost
money on
Nebraska
Land?
Why Not
Invest your money near home
where you know the land and
can look after it at small ex
pense? We never
offered such bargains in Ne
braska lands. Don't delay.
See us now.
BECIER, IOCKMBKMBR & GHAMBEES,
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COLUMBUS, NEB
ESTABLIHHED MAT 11, 1870.
oliimtws goiTtmaL
Columbus, Ncbr.
Entered at the Poetoffice, Columbus, Nebr., ae
ecead-claM mail matter.
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ers will continue to receive this journal nntil the
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ter the time paid for has expired, jou should
previously notify us to discontinue it.
CHANGE IN ADDKESS-Wl.en orrterinc a
change ia the address, subscribers should be sum
to give their old as well as their new addnt-s.
THE LAXD FEXCIXG CASE.
Bartlctt RichanK Nebraska's cattle
king, fined 8300 and placed in the
custody of a United States man-hal lor
six hours and those hours selected at
a time when the prisoner might join a
theatre party composed of his jailor
and the judge who sentenced him!
The man whose much in western
Nebraska is sixty miles long and thir
ty wide and who counts his cattle in
tens of thousands this man fined
$300 for the. illegal fencing of hun
dreds of thousands of acres of govern
ment land! And the court explained
the small fine on the ground that "'Mr.
Richards is tearing down his fences!
Is it a wonder that the secretary of
the interior said some sharp things
about the judge and United States
attorney who permitted such a judg
ment? To the superficial observer, who
knows nothing of the conditions of the
western country the Richards pro
ceedings seem absurd. But to those
who know the conditions there is noth
ing strange or absurd about them.
The fact is that this country is bet
ter oil under fence than with the
fences removed. And as for the
homesteaders, neither the fences nor
the ranchmen like Richards keep
them out. In fact about the only
men who prove up on their home
steads according to law are those
whoc homesteads are included in the
big ranches, and who are able to live
there the necessary five years only
because they draw salaries from the
ranchmen. There i no war between
ranchmen and homesteaders. The
excitement is chiefly in the minds of
the people who do not know what
they arc talking or writing about.
To be sure, the federal land of!icci
cannot be blamed for trying to en
force the law. Rut if the settlers and
cattlemen had kept out of Western
Nebraska until they could have made
a living on a sand hill homestead in
compliance with law, western Nebras
ka would not occupy today, as it docs,
first place among the stockraising
regions of the union.
The trouble lies in the home-tend
law and not the cattlemen. And the
trouble will never be settled until the
land is sold, preference being given
to actual settlers.
BRIGHT TRADE PROSPECTS.
The prospects for a big trade in
Columbuswcre ncver.brighterthanthey
are today, and Columbia merchant.
were never better equipped to upply
that trade. It is gratifying to the
management of this paper to be assur
ed that the leading merchants of this
city see fit to make the Journal the
medium through which to announce
their splendid bargains to the buying
public.
Such ads as the two page ad of the
Gray Mercantile Company this week
is evidence not only that this enter
prising firm enjoys the confidence and
patronage of a large number of peo
ple, many of them from towns forty
miles distant, but also that the Jour
nal is the most valuable and desirable
advertising medium to which Colum
bus merchants have access.
The Journal has spent hundreds of
dollars to build up the largest circu
lation in Platte countv, and it is irrati
lying to run a newspaper in a city
where the business men are broad and
liberal enough to spend their money
with the newspaper that spends its
money for their interests.
Columbus is heading oil' much trade
from the Omaha stores, because it has
business men enterprising and
long-headed enough to keep in stock
the goods the people want, sell them
at right prices, and let the public
know about it, through the be-t ad
vertising mediums.
The advertising in the Journal this
week will bring thousands of dollars
to Columbus and the people who
spend it will get better values for
their monev than thev can get in
Omaha. Read every Journal ad this
week and be convinced.
GAIXIXG FAVOR.
If the expressions from a few of
the most influential papers of the
state can be taken at their face value,
Col. Carroll I). Evans if he enters at
all, will enter the senatorial race as
one of the srrongest candidates.
The Albion News and Lincoln
Journal have made flattering com
ment in response to the discussion of
Dr. Evans' candidacy in this paper
two weeks ago:
The Albion News .-ays:
JJr. Uarrol 1). jvans of Columbus, is
being mentioned in connection with the
United St-Ues fcjeuatorsbip. While the
doctor lias not got the reputation of
being a politician, he wouiii make a
good MMuitor, anil it is possible that the
lack of reputation referred to will be a
toner ef strength in the approachine
fontest. The people are getting tired
of turning everything oer to the
politicians who work at it for a liv.ru.
The Lincoln Journal says:
Perhaps it is none to early to discuss
the availability of men who are liable to
btcome prominent in the race for Sena
tor Millard's eeat in the United States
senate. Besides Ross L. H'immond and
two or three men from Omaha there
now appears another strong character
in the person of Dr. Carrol D. Evans of
Columbus. The doctor is not a politi
cian in the senBe of ever having courted
political favors though he has served as
surgeon-general on the staff of two
governors. If the doctor should decide
to enter tho race, he is likely to come to
Lincoln with strength enough on the
iirst ballot to make his competitors look
wild.
Mavbc the editor of the Telegram
is saving that "tainted hundred" for
Rockefeller's Christmas stocking.
The Journal this week contains a
full canvass of the vote at the recent
election. Cut it out for your scrap
book.
The county auditor in Douglas
county the other day surprised the
supervisors by paying back three
day's salary covering time which he
devoted to his private business. That
man will certainly die young.
The physicians of St. Louis, it is
said are to have a "dead beat" direc
tory of I ,000 names and another di
containing the names of 70,000 people
supposed to be "good." A writer in
Harper's Weekly has been mean
enough to suggust that "there are still
iii St. Louis at least 70,000 appendices
which, as the Irshnian observed, ought
to be removed whether they are there
or not."
It was an abscure school teacher, J.
H. Rathbone, who adopted that beau
tiful story of Damon and Pythias to
the ritualistic service of the Knights
ofPythias lodge. In honor of the
founder of that lodge which now num
bers more than a half million mem
bers, the old school houses and
grounds at Eagle Harbor, Mich.,
have been purchased for the annual
assemblage of the Pvthian Knights.
The Yale-Princeton foot ball game
was witnessed by 30,000 people and
the receipts of the game amounted to
$59,400. The president of the United
States attended the West Point-Annapolis
game, going from Washington
in a private car. And yet there are
a few people who believe that the
great college game is to be discon
tinued simply because the college pre
sidents have set their heads together
to make some needed reforms in it.
eminent. Our democratic opponents
have a great faculty of reaching 'way
out into the future for an issue and as
soon as they get a good tail-hold on
it they holler till they arc black in
the face and claim it as theirs by right
of discovery, although everybody else
knew it was there all the time."
The republican state central com
mittee has published an itemized state
ment of all receipts and disburse
ments for the last year. This open
and above-board policy will be com
mended by all. It takes consider
able money to pay the legitimate ex
penses of a political campaign, and
unless it is shown just what the money
i spent for, there is always a suspi
cion that unlawful methods were used.
We hope this method will become
universally demanded by all parties.
Publicity is an all-powerful remedy
for corruption. Albion Weekly
News.
It is already plain that Congress will
require a rigorous accounting of the
810,000,000 already expended in alleged
work on the canal before sanctioning
the appropriation of any more money to
be used by the existing Canal Commis
sion. It is by no means certain, either,
that President Roosevelt will approve
of the plan recommended by the board
of Consulting Engineers, because it fails
to assure that quickness of execution
which he has been believed to regard as
a prime desideratum. Should his ap
proval finally be given, it will have, no
doubt, great weight with Congress,
which, nevertheless, is likely to call for
the data relating to all the plans, in
cluding the old isthmian commission's
project, the sea-level project and lock
canal ideas of Mr. Linden Bates, and
also the "Straits of Panama," advocated
by M. BunaaVarilla. The latter dis
tinguished engineer asserts in a letter
to the New York Herald that by means
of a plant operated on water instead of
a plant operated on a railway he could
remove the COO million cubic yards in
volved in the excavacation of the "Straits
of Panama" within twenty years and for
a maximum outlay of 8300,000,000; that
is to say, he could do the work as quick
ly as a plant on rails could accompln-h
the removal of the 200 to 250 million
cubic yards which would be required
for the construction of the single-lock
sea level canal recommended by the
consulting engineers. Harper's Weekly,
OONT WASTE GRAIN!
A Cheaply Made Wacom
Will Waste Eaomch
Grain to Bay a
Good One.
Our wagons will not scatter
your grain while on the road to
market or overtax your horses
with needless heavy draught.
We keep only the Latest and BEST in
Baggies and Carriages
AllKindaof
FARM IMPLEMENTS.
Our horse skews stick
and don't lame your horses
TRY THEM.
LOUIS SCHREIBER.
6. J. GflRLOW
Lawyer
Gelwnbua. N.
Office oyer
O-jlambos State Rank
The Lindsay Opinion last week
drew a good picture of the relation of
the democratic party to the "govern
ment ownership" policy.
"No thinking man can find fault
with the principles of, nor afford to
belittle the benefits which might he
derived from government ownership
of public utilities. But let us be sure
that when the time comes we jret
D. STIBK8.
ATTOM
OnW. OHtb St., foarth door north of first
National Bank.
COLDMRD8. NEBRASKA.
Of Rowland and Clifford's new pro
duction, "Dora Thome" the Rochester
(N. Y.) "Democrat and Chronicle" has
to aay: "Lem B. Parker's dramatiza
tion of Bertha M. Clays long popular
novel, 'Dora Thorne' drew a large nu
dience to tbe Baker last evening and the
play proved to be one of the best seen at
the theatre this season. The play, like
the novel, is full of thrills that delight
the feminine heart and the large propor
tion of women in love culminates in
marriage, is then turned to misery by a J OHIUAGO, account International
aesigmng auveninress, inrougn inree "e aioch. exposition rate, one fare
acts, and in the final act triumphs over
the machinations of the D. A. The
jft? Special lefcces
drama was presented by a strong and
unusually well balanced cast. At
North Opera Opera house, Wednesday,
December 13th,
The Misses Dora and Lydia Weaver
gave a delightful party to about seventy
of their girl friends last Saturday night.
All kinds of amusing games were play d
government ownership, and not colos-1 and refreshments consisting of ice
sal grail at the expense of the gov-' cream, cake and candy were served.
piusr-'-OO. Dates of sale December
16 IT, 18 and 19. Retain limit De
cember 24th. For exhibitor.. Decern.
ber 20th. Tnan TV.1.
A. KUHN. P. A. F. & p. A.
J.
Fox Sale.
My 20 acre fruit farm, two and a half
miles east of Colnmbus and a quarter
nule north of telephone road. Price,
81500, part cash, balance on time.
W. J. McEaiheox,
16th and Jackson Sta, Omaha, Neb,
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