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.1 l I Ik EsTiBuraxD Mat ll, ibw. Columbus Journal. Columbus, Nebr. tana at the FostoOcs, Colambua. Nebr m PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS BY Oluibns Journal Co., (INCORPORATED.) orsvBsoBtFnoH: ta aatat II itmd m m aiaarli1 $LM ...... 7B w BT WEDNESDAY. JAN. 10. 190c. nxsaicz . amott. it. BENEWALS The date opposite your name on yoar paper, or wrapper shows to what time yoai ubscription is paid. Thus JanOS shows tha Marment has been receiTed np to Jan. 1,1805 FebOB to Feb. 1, 1903 and so on. When payment is made, the date, which answers as a receipt will be changed accordingly. DISCONTINUANCES-Besponsible subscrib ers will continue to receive this journal until th publishers are notified by letter to discontinue when all arrearages must be paid. If you do no' wish the Journal continued for another year af ter the time paid for has expired, you should prsrioasly notify us to discontinue it. CHANGE IN ADDBESS-When ordering e efcaage in the address, subscribers should be sun to fire their old as well as their new address. THE CATTLE RARON'S SIDE OF II On thn page appear several cuts V lustrative of the cattle industry oi western Nebraska. For these cuts the Journal is indebted to C. H. Tully, of Lakeside, Nebr., an officer of theCom bination Cattle Co. of Alliance, Nebr., whose ranches arc near the big ranch 'of Bartlett Richards, of illegal fencing fame. It is from the cattle shown in these cuts that the Combination Cattle Co.( shipped the yearlings and two-year-olds that won premiums at the recent International Stock Show in Chicago. The Journal takes this means of getting before its readers the real con ditions in the great grazing country in western Nebraska,concerning which thera is manifestly gross ignorance, not only among the people and press of eastern Nebraska, but also in the halls of congress. We want to state in the beginning that we have no word of censure to offer against President Roosevelt or the Secretary of the Interior for the prosecutien of Richards or the behead ing of Mathews and Baxter. It is their business to enforce the law of the land and not to pause, even though the enforcement of a law should work to defeat the very end for which the law was passed. And we hasten to add that the strict enforcement of the anti-fencing and homestead laws in western Ne braska along lines proposed by the President, is the very shortest road to the defeat of the fundamental pur poses for which these laws were made. The homestead laws were passed to attract settlers to make homes on gov ernment land and the anti-fencing law? v en passed to safeguard the? settlers in the use and enjoyment of their homesteads. What is the condition in western Nebcaeka today? Practically all of the government land is under fence. Has the fencing of this land prevent ed actual settlers from exercising their homestead rights? By no means. The facts are that tha land on which it is possible to live has all been taken, and if every fence on government land should be torn down today, it would not add fifty new homesteaders to the country. On the contrary, it would drive out hundreds of home steaders and small ranchmen. Why? Because, with no fences, western Ne braska will revert to the open range again, where the small rancher would be at the mercy of the big outfit, and his small herd would fall easy prey to the rustler. Those editors who refer to the west ern ranchman as a "cattle baron" and a "land grabber' overlook the fact that k is sand and not ranchmen that has prevented a more rapid settlement i of the country, and that the practice of illegal fencing has actually worked yh v " . 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Another, and a more harmful re sult, from an economic standpoint, would follow the removal of the fences. The high bred cattle like those shown in the cuts on this page, would be replaced by scrub stock. The ranchman who now pays S"00 a head for his bulls to keep up his breeds, would have his cows mixing up with all the scrub bulls that might drift in from Texas or Oklahoma and his herds would deteriorate. And few ranchmen would be generous enough to buy high bred animals to do serv ice for a neighbor born with parasitic instincts. There is still another thing which is overlookad by those who speak of the "cattle barons" as if they were criminals. The prosecution which would simply force a Richards to sell his high bred bulls and hire a few more men to ride the range where his fences now stand, would force the rancher with the small herd and lim ited means entirely out of business. Summing up the whole situation in a word, the laws in western Nebraska are a misfit and to enforce them will cripple an industry which adds mil lions of dollars a year to the state's wealth. What can be done about it? The Nebraska delegation in congress should take up the question and force through congress remedial legislation at once. The editor of this paper, speaking from a thorough personal knowledge of the conditions, urges most emphat ically the attention of our Nebraska congressmen to this question. The money that is being wasted on .-ecret service men to hunt down honest ranchmen and real benefactors of our state should be devoted to a congres sional investigation which should have for its object the formulation of a plan for throwing the thousands of acres of uninhabitable public lands on the market, making it available for the greatest possible settlement, and sav ing the fences which are essential to good cattle and organized conditions of societv. WILL CARRIG GIVE PASS? UP HIS The state legal department has fur nished Auditor Searle with an opinion to the effect that a sheriff riding on free transportation cannot collect mileage, although in securing the transportation he entered into a con tract with the railway not to charge fees in its cases and t-j advance its in terests by all honorable means. The decision is based on the ground that the contract has no value because of the fact that the fees do not belong to the sheriff to give, but to the public, and that the law forbids the commu tation of the fees of the public officer." State Journal. This opinion will be of interest in Platte county as well as in Cass coun ty where the question was raised by the refusal of the state auditor to allow mileage to Sheriff McBride for a trip to Kearney in which he used a pass. Sheriff Carrig also rides on a pass. As consideration for the pass, he col lects no fees in railroad cases and agrees to "advance the railroad's in terests by all honorable means." The bargain is a good one for him as his saving in car fare amounts to much more than the fees in the railroad cases which he barters for his pass. Besides, it appears from the opinion quoted, that he has no right to bar ter fees which belong to the public, for the personal privileges connected with the pass. The profit which ac crues to a public official in the course of his official "duties, through the ac ceptance of a pass, should revert, ac cording to this opinion, to the public. Thisi-s right. Sheriff Carrig should either surrender his pass and collect fee. from railroad cases or he should deduct from his mileage bills the amount of car fare saved through the ueofthc pa-. The supervisors should take cogni zance of the opinion quoted above in auditing Sheriff Carrig's mileage fees unless he should see fit, as it has been suggested, to surrender his pas. suuuuuuiHflsflBHI BBBBBESHPJPJf.-si:.,' i iJJBBBt i isjaf IT laijj Bwf Lk-fs7 , a - -aaaaUL-- BBJl'JI... i BSWTawPl'' " If the railroads have been assessed too high they cannot be blamed for seeking redress in the courts. But they should be satisfied with the same kind of redress accessible to the com mon citizen. Since they have not been satisfied to take their chances in the state courts on an equality with the common citizen, they need not feel surprised if the common citizen sends a legislature to Lincoln next year that will not give them a square deal. Retaliation macks a good deal of bar barism but a- long as the railroads themselve assume the attitude of bar barians they cannot complain if their own weapon are turned against them. The Fullerton Post, edited and pub lished for the past two years by R. G. Adams was sold last week to A. B. Currier, ckrk of the district court of Nance countv. The retiring editor together with his wife, will join the Salvation army. The Post will be made a republican paper by Mr. Cur rier. A A A A A AAA AAA AAA A AAA A A AAA A wA OTHER EDITORS. State Jonrnnl : We are given an op portunity to smyathize with John A. McCall by tbe statement that he has paid in to the New York life tbe sum of $235,000 that was paid to An drew Hamilton, the insurance lobby ist, and not accounted for by him, es pecially in view of the statement that V. nsBffaaBaBwBSHHsBUiUBsBYBBwl &c(s&a' IBBBBjBsZfvoZBjBBBBEa 3 ? . zmli' -'14 ? ' "e bBBBBBsWt 7sarBBBBBBB -laaBsar. Pbbkc ' jaasjaBtBB aBBBBBBBit -HCaV .BBBBBM a"aB"!r - at sassm. ' nawsBBBBB BBBBBBBK ''ft 3 aaBBBBBBa BBfiaBt asr BBBfl 9" aBssBssfassl mtKjBmflSBISlStmirX aBBsPBBwasLBawl VaTCT(Bu llbsabsSV' ? " JBwaP:"5sTss7?S' U'a"'",;,ryfrg'BBBjBBj PlgyBsBP-'f,.yJ.S?ry TIfifi? awsBwassBBJBisstB "feX'V''Sr'rt!riw r!awL!v!'St- -""" C?-'r . """-f '" r -$ REGISTERED HEREFORD BULLS -Unless th" Present Anti-Fencinir Law is Kcpcak-d and Homestead Laws an' Amended to Permit Ranchmen to Lease or Own the Grazing Land of Western Nebraska. Rejristered Bulls and Improved Ranches will Soon lie a Relic of the Past. this wipes away Mr. McCalls private fortune. The circumstances antece dent to this act of restitution have a different effect, however. Near the beginning of tbe life insurance inves tigation Mr. Hughfts found an item of $100,000 that had been paid to Hamil ton by order of John A. McCall. On September 30, McCall explained that Hamilton was in the real estate de partment or his company and that the money was handled by him in a real estate deal for the company. A little later Mr. Hughes found another item of $75,000 paid to Hamilton, and Mc Call said nnder oath that this also was paid in connection with a real estate transaction. Shortly atfer this Auditor Maine of the Equitable testi fied that Hamilton was the chief le gislative manager of the big three companies, and that the money hand led by him was used as a legislative corruption fond. On October 4, Mc Call was recalled and admitted that the sums handled by Hamilton amounted to $476,9-2? instead of the $235,000 previously Etated by him as the amount, and he now admitted that Hamilton was not in the real estate department of tbe company but mana ger of the bureau of "taxation and legislation," a highly euphonious term. In his recent statement to the committee Hamiltonjnade amdavit that every cent spent by him was spent according to McCall's, instruc tions. Moreover his statement show ed that the total amount received by him from the New York Life was 11,167,310 instead of the two much smaller amounts to which McCall had variously made oath at two different times. It is thus shown tnat McCall was aware of the legitimate nature of these tranasctions, as proved by his effort to conceal them, efforts which appear to have drawn bim perilously near to an act of perjury. McCall place was a position of trust. He re ceived a salary twice as great as the president of tbe United States receives, for serving the interests of his policy holders. By repaying thiB $.'o3.000 he admits a breach of trust, and fore stalls a peoulty that should have been inflicted later by the courts in any event. A cornered criminal is a piti able object in any case. We should pity McCall, but can hardly be ex pected to sympathize with hinr. Albion News : Some time ago the farmers complained about the heavy advance in the price of lumber in the past few years. Now the lumber trust comes back with some figures to show that it doesn't take as many bushels of corn or wheat, which the farmer produce-!, to buy lumber as it did before lumber advanced in price. The figures given follow: In 1890. 44 '.j bushels of wheat would buy 1,000 feet of lumber. In 1800, SO bushels of corn would buy 1,000 feet of lumber. In 1900, SO bushels of corn would buy 1,000 feet of lumber. In 1900, 3G , bushels of wheat would buy 1,000 fee of lumber. In 1905, the 33 bushels of wheat would 1,000 feet of lumber. In 190.1, bushels of corn would buy 1,000 of lumber. buy feet Albion News: The newspaper situ ation at Columbus continues to im prove. The last move is the consoli dation of the Journal and Argus. This makes the present number two English and one German papers. This number is just right to serve all in terests, and tbe business men, in whose power it lies, will do well to frown down any future attempt to start another paper. Too many pa pers are as bad for a town as not enongb. A newspaper which is not profitable to its publisher is of no va lue to tbe commumty. Colambns has the reput-tion of beiug a newspiper graveyard, and her Deople will do well to begin right now to live down the unfavorable record. Omaha Bee: Indian Commissioner Lenppiis discouraging the Indians from ttoins to Washington to see the Great Fattier and himself. He says the In dian can do mere good by writing and at less expense. Ol this there is no doubt. It takes very little time sad precious little ink for an Iodiaa to make his cross mark oa a petition or remonstrance, and, judging by results, thnre is well sronnded suspicion that most petitons and remoBstraaoes mailed to the Indian bureau find their way into the waste basket or pigeon hole. Genua Leader: Then was an im portant newspaper change announoed fAi sTf jkl an wm wm sb 1 a nV w aabV EVt 4 AJ Abbott has purchased the Argus of ! that city and will consolidate it with his Journal. Editor Green of the Ar gus will take over the Journal's job outfit and announces that he will run an exclusive job office. Columbus 'now only has three papers, two Eng lish and one German. It is enough. Enough to cover the field and enough for the business men to support. Genoa Leader: The patrons of the telephone at Columbus are onto their jobs all right. They sweetened np the 'hello" girls at the Nebraska central on Christmas with thirteen pounds of candy presented by the busi ness and professional men of that city. And now when they ring np "central,'- "Number pleate, ' comes glid ing back over tha wire in tones so sweet, so soft, so seductive that it causes thrills of delight to course up and down the spinal columns of the male inhabitants of that town, it is claimed that the local calls have in creased a hundred per cent the past week, the extra being furnisned by the " bald-headed row. " Ord Jounral: The Columbus Jour nal has absorbed the Argus of that city. The latter was a bright sheet, well edited and apparently prosper ing It was doing a good work in its field and we regret to see Mr. Green, the editor, lav down the clever pen to take up the stick of the job printer. The Journal is a good paper and will doubtless be better than ever. Central City Nonpareil : The Co lumbus Journal and Argus have made a trade whereby the former acquires the ownership of the latters subscrip tion list and good will and tbe latter sets tha Journal's job business and machinery. The editor of the Argus, B. B. Green, is establishing a print ins: and speciality house and propoees tc go into that class of printing on an extensive scale. Editor Abbott hopes to make a very strong paper out of the consolidation of the Journal and Ar gus, now that he is free to devote his exclusive attention to the newspaper work. This change reduces the papers in Columbus to three, which is a plenty. The Nonpareil regards Mr. Abbott as an editor of mere than ordi nary ability and now that he is freed of business care and worry expects him to make the Journal one of the very best weekly papers in the state. Fullerton News-Journal : There is a 6trong suspicion entertained in New York state that President Roosevelt meaus to solve the question, "what shall wo do with our ex-presidents'. ' by becoming a United States senator. FremontTribune It is reported that down in Maine the abanoned farms are beiug devoted to the growing o f the Ben Davis apple. The hard headed Yankees have at last, in all probability, found something they can grow. And since they failed to ex tract gold out of the sea water that lasbeB their "stern and rock-bound coast," as Mrs. Humans spoke of it, they have been seeking a substitute with which to sold-brick the public The Ben Davis apple is about as good a thing for that as can be found. PERSONAL and PERTINENT A Fullerton newspaper man has sold his paper to join the Salvation army in order to "help save the world from 6in." We know of no better field in which to "save sinners" than newspa per field, provided the publisher can "save coppers" enough to put his buogry stomach in proper barmony with his hungering after-righteous-ne 8 soul As a financial proposition tbn Salvation army may have its ad vantages, but as a soul-saving proposi tion, a pinsperouB newspaper holds tuo kuiuiuj; ubuu. "Stop your paper" is the laconic meFtaze that sometimes comer from a subscriber, usually a delinquent sub scriber, and usually unaccompanied by a monev order to settle the delin quency But fortunately the letters are not all like that, and an editor should be pardoned for quoting once in a while from ietters of a different character. William Lockhart of Mon ousahela, Penn. who has many freinds in Columbus closed a recent letter to tbe Journal in which was a substantial remittance, with these words: "I look for the Journal as I do a letter from a friend. " Another apperciative letter reached tbe edi tor's d sk this week fiom an out-of-town advertiser who was flooded with responses from a Journal ad. This letter closed with tnere words: "The Journal is sure a winner as an advertising medium. I will know where to advertise in tbe future." It cheers a publisher in his efforts to publish the news and to find a large crcnlation for his advertisers, to re ceive Euch letters. The fellow who gave his name as William McAllister of Columbus to the Omaha police when he was jugged last week for "doing tbe town" at too 6wift a pace, displayed a mixture of judgment and mercy seldom found in the rogues who fetch up at tbe police station under assumed names. It would have been hard for him to ap propriate the name of a Columbus FRIDAY. January 12th m w" ! i . 9mmm I saj v s' i I ma ? VN"fe0 rwL,- . " vi VS .N ?-&; BBi l:tfJ!ssW rtk-5S2l.ai - s 'Vv I Follow the Crowd Second year Engagement ex traordinaryA $1.50 show at dollar prices A star cast of people including the Great German Comedians MILLS UD LEWIS In C. H. Kerr's Tuncliil Musical Farce-Conieily TO EGYPT 3 Salts! lets of Fus-3 and ihe hicgest show bargain on earth. A 81.50 attraction catering to the masses in these days f compe tition at oO and 75c and SI 350 HUGHS Tn Lss Than That Number of Minutes Cine and See and Convince Yourself PriGCS. 25, 50. 75 and $E JSSale Opens Wednesday Forenoon. citizen who would find it les neces sary to nrove aa alibi. A very close lawyer friend of Mr. McAllister's, who was in Omaha ou ihe day of the arrest has been taking a tonic ever since, in contemplation of what would have happened in bis "happy homes' had the fellow stumbled onto a diflVr ent Colnmbns surname to o with the name, "Wiliiam". The American girl has added an inch to her 6tatur while the American man has been dwindling away. This is the state ment of an eastern exchange, which says that the average height of the American woman has increased from five feet five to five feet six in a very short period. The dimim-hed height of man is explained by the statement that "nature is busy working ont the type of man who is best adapted to endure the nervous strain of American business life, and i now experiment ing with an undersizedcarefallv tough ened sample capable cf cetting along with little rood to the relief of his digestion and adapted for the con centration of vital enerjiy on nerves and brain instead of on bone and mus cle." This much ounds .scientific. But explaining tho incenned height of woman the exchange say. "She has attained this elevation, it seems, by wanting to be tah and oy tukug ex erciee to that end. besides studying Gibson's picturrs. " Then thu writer hastens to console the dwindling man by adding that after a. while the wo men will come to itu the eating for the race. a they bavn more leisure for that dntv nnd n phyicni appara tus better adapted to ir. Tho danger of tbo tendeicv is modified, it is claimed by "tbe propensity of tall handsome girls to mnrrv she rt. wiiy. sucoesful men ' Execution should he taken to any philospby that snuctions the yoking up of tall women with short men. We tnerefuro beg to offr a substitute. We suggest that the girl babies be raised on brownie books intead of Gibson's pictures nnd that tailors' fashion plates ho pinned to the cradles of tbe boy babies during tbe next generation A retnrn to the old fashioned hoop skirts for women and tight breeches for men might help some. If that won't do then, let the women do mens work for a generation while the men raise the babies and do the eating. CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL FILLS Mafr. AIwav rt-liable. Iridic, ask Onisirist for CHItHCKTCK'N :.N;i.lSII i:i ICc-tt a:ij !! metallic bott". -ealit with blue ribbon. Take ao albrr. Kra laiiru ulili tationmaatl imilatlon. iliii ot (.url)ru?t.-.t. or send -ir. in M.-imjw fur Iartirular.. Tti aoaiala atul (teller for Inii ." IiiWkr, byrelnra.llall. l0.ewTcstiinnitI.tl-i. NiMby all DnufKists. CHICHESTER CHEMICAL CO. sa 5iurr, flllLA PA. JOLIET CORN SHELLER AND- Mitchell Onr wagons will not scatter yourgrain whileonthe road to market or overtax your horses with needless heavy draught We keep only the Latest and BEST in Buggies & Carriages All Kinds of ..Farm Implements.. C5)"Oiir horseshoes stick nnd don't lame your hoe try em LOUIS sCHREIBER. JIM'S PLACE l carry the best of everything in my line. The drinking pub lic is invited to come in and e& for themselves. JftS. NEVELS. Proprietor r1fi Twelfth Street Thou. No. lib C. N. McELFRESH Attorney - at - Law Zinnecker li'ldg, Columbus. Neb. Wm. DIETRIGHS "Tcrriaaa PllltinQ lain and ornamental Painting at H Kinds. Cltu or Geuntrtj. ml.TeI.2MJ. COLUMBUS. NEB R. W. HOBART Attorney - at - Law Rooms 10 and 11 New Columbus State IS:snk Building-. ft. M. POST -Attorney : at : Law Columbus. Neb. Brick House Herd Durocs 100 March and early April pitfR for Summer and Fall trade. Cnn furnNh in pairs or trios, not related, at bargain prices. Write or call for prices or des cription. RFD 4, Columbus. J. J. BARNES G. J. GARLOW Lawyer Otlice OTor CDlninbne Stato Hank Columbus. Nsb. J. D. SriKES. ATTORNEY AT LAW. OtS"-. Olive St.. fourth door north of Firt Nptionol Bank. COLUMRCS. NKBKA8KA -'il'i.i v-li . V" Tv- -v 9 r t ' .i 2m yy ii ?v kvs r.m .MkV i&r!WMM vVv sro Pi jr .JV HE can play on his knees, He can climb all tho trees, And holes in bis stockuiijs Will never be .seen; lie can bop, skip and jump, lie can. shin up a stump, If lie wears Improved 'Iron Clads No. 19." For Sale IIv J. H. GALLEY Dealer in Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Caps, Cloaks and Carpets Columbus, Nebraska eij.cavn. l3"JMr!' n i M&Ma .w' H r t I t nrppiKG VATS AND DEHORNING PENS-Cattlean- Dipped Twice a War.