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State of Nebraska, )
County of Platte, )
ss.
Frederick H. Abbott being firat duly
sworn, on oath deposes and says that
he is the editor of the Columbus Journal
and that the average weekly circulation
of the Columbus Journal from January
1, 1906 to March 7, 1906 was 1860 copies,
1366 of said circulation being within
Platte county.
Frederick H. Abbott,
Editor of the Columbus Journal
Subscribed in my presence and sworn
to before me this 13th day of March,
1906. C. N. MCELFRESH,
(Seal) Notary Public.
FREAKS OF THE IMAGINATION.
It is strange, the stunts a man's
imangination will work with history,
when he becomes a mad aspirant for
an impossible office.
Last week the editor of the Tele
gram devoted an editorial to the Ne
braska bankers in which he pictured
them falling over themselves to get
into tho democratic mule cart to avoid
the impending financial crash which
he says is to start in that city made
nortorious by democratic Tammany.
He refers to the present banking
system as "wild cat" banking, appar
ently forgetful of history which rec
ords that "wild cat" banking went out
of style with the old democratic "wild
cat" state bank which was the child
of Jacksonian democracy.
He condemns the "clearing house
certificate," forgetful of the fact that
it was the use of the "clearing house
certificate" that carried the nation
over a financial panic resulting from
democraeic tariff tinkering and mis
management. ''Asset currency" is called a repu
blican idea and a "John Law system
of finance." In this also the Tele
gram editor's imagination violates
history. Asset banking is no more a
party question than is the controversy
as to the relative merits of the cash
and credit systems of conducting a
retail business. Asset banking has
worked successfully in several states,
in Canada and elsewhere. Its advo
cates are bankers, some of them demo
crats, some republicans. The system
is urged bv its friends as better adapt
ed to the creation of an elasttc cur
rency than tho present system and it
is recommended as a solution of the
embarrassment in which bankers will
find themselves when the national
debt is paid, if it should be, and they
can buy no government bonds as a
basis for bank-note circulation.
John Law played poker and if he
had lived about two hundred years
later he would have been a modern
Bull on the Board of Trade. That
was why he founded the "Mississippi
scheme" aad wrecked the hank of
France. The same kind of men wreck
banks today, although we have profit
ed by the experience of the Duke-regent
of Louis XV, and we do not
place men who like to toy with the
cards in positions of financial respon
sibility. Bank failures today are almost
without exception, traceable to mo
dern John Laws. The John Law
banking system however, died with
the democratic wild cat banks and we
will never have another "green back
er" party to help resurrect them.
The Nebraska bankers are opposed
to the John Law manipulators on
Wall street, whose chiet business it is
to infate prices and unload worthless
securities. Most of them too, per-
hapsare opposed to a change to the
"asset" system of banking hut no
banker who is familiar with the al
phabet of financial history would
tchargethat "asset banking" and "wild
cat banking" are synonomous.
The democratic party in this
state has played the open and shut
game successfully in many instances.
It has played for the saloon vote and
the prohibition vote and got them. It
has played for the railroad vote and
the amti- ailroad vote, just as it is do
ing today, and got them. But for the
democratic party with its record of
wild cat banking, greenbackism, bi
metalisra and fiaancial panics to pre
sume to stand as a "sound money" par
ty and bid for the votes of bankers is
certainly the limit of political audacity.
PASSING OF THE WESTERN CAT
TLEMEN. The death knell has already sound
ed. "Ranchinz" in the old sense of
that term will soon be a thing of the
past. The sand hills of western Ne
braska will be converted into pastures
for dairy cows trad the small railroad
towns marked now by the ranch store
and the shipping yards will be con
spicuous for creameries and large
general stores.
Instead of tho cattleman who has
lived that easv life, watchincr his
steers fatten on the succulent buffalo
grass and his calves grow sleek at the
sides of their mothers instead of this
easy-going ranchman will come the
man with the hoe and the milk pail.
The small fertile valleys of the sand
hills will be cultivated and they will
will produce the alfalfa and kaffir
corn and barley and wheat and sweet
corn and turnips and potatoes, while
the dairy cow will graze the sand
hills and transform the riches of those
barren wastes into golden cream which
will be sold to maintain hundreds of
happy homes where now is nothing
but desolation.
This transformation will not come
in a day nor will it come as . a sole
result of the Kinkaid act which gives
a tree homestead ot o4U acres to
every settler. But it will come
through a combination of individual
enterprise and government benevo
lence and as a result of the natural
changes in the country. As a matter
of fact all of the best land has long
been taken in the country under the
Kinkaid act Hay for winter food is
absolutely essential to the successful
raising of cattle. The cattleman
knowing this better than anyone else
long ago acquired nearly all the
available hay land depending upon
the free government hill land for
grazing. At first fences were built
only around the hay land. That was
the day of the open range. Then
came the small cattlemen and their
war with the big cattlemen. Finally
peace came. Both contestants re
mained on the field of batlle. Divi
sion fences were built between them,
the bounds being fixed by those stan
dards of rough western justice which
are generally right.
On this peaceful plan the cattle in
dustry developed to its present con
dition. With the security offences
came the fire-guard which saved the
grass and covered the sandy knobs
with sod. The same condition
brought the registered cattle and
covered the sand hills with the best
bred cattle to be found in any coun
try in the world. Just at this stage
comes the order to remove the fence
from government land. The direct
result of the anti-fencing order is be
ginning to be seen. The smaller
ranchman will iave to herd his cattle
on the open range, reduce his herd or
leave the country. The larger ranch
men, like Richards and Comstock are
hiring more men to ride the range
and for a while their large herds will
remain intact But the large as well
as the small ranchman, and the gov
ernment itself will have to change
their plans to meet the economic con
ditions of the country, and it is in that
change that will be seen the passing
of the cattle baron and the establish
ment of valuable homes on the so
called Nebraska desert.
The change would have come with
out the sudden enforcement of the
fencing laws. It would have come
because people are land-mad, and be
cause the unlawful fence and the fire
guard in he sand hills have made
that land worth having.
It is unfortunate that a leasing law
to supplement the Kinkaid homestead
act did not pass last winter, for such
a law would have aided the small
ranchmen, in adjusting themselves to
new conditions and would have worked
toward the immediate breaking up of
the- large ranches. However, it is
only a question of time when either a
leasing or purchase law will be passed,
enabling actual settlers to use all the
land and when that time comes the
big ranchman too will have to go.
Meanwhile many of the smaller
ranches will be broken up and the
hay land sold in small tracts to set
tlers who can take free grazing land
to go with the hay land and the sand
hills will offer homes to many a fami
ly 'of small means that is now strug
gling for a bare existence on high
priced land in the farming country.
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GRATIFYING.
Last month was the first month of
the third year of the Journal's ex
istence under the present management
It is interesting as well as gratifying
to compare the April advertising and
circulation of this year with the same
month's business of the previous years.
Compared with April 1904, tin Jour
nrl's'circulation last month was three
and a half times as large and the
advertising accounts three and one
fourth times as large. Compared with
April 1905, the Journal's circulation
had increased 33 per cent and its
advertining accounts show a gain of
25 per cent over the combined daily
and weekly advertising for April 1905
This result should be gratifying to
Journal advertisers, for it shows that
the Journal's circulation has increased
more than have the charges for ad
vertising and that Journal advertis
ing, considering circulation is cheaper
today than ever.
And indeed the Journal's growth
and increasing patronage from Colum
bus business men are due almost en
tirely to our constant effort to make
the Journal the largest advertising
medium in the county.
The Journal has never tried to use
a political club to secure business nor
has it ever used the power that every
paper has to injure those few mer
chants who have seen fit to withold
advertising contracts. We have tried
to build up an advertising medium
so valuable that the merchant who
refuses to advertise on personal
grounds, punishes himself by a loss of
trade through his failure to reach the
buying public.
As a whole, the business men of
Columbus have been liberal toward
the Journal, many who differ the most
widely politically, being among our
best patrons. During the next year
the Jonrnal has plans for building a
circulation of 2500. The business
men of this city have already shown
that they are mindful of tha Journal's
valuable service to them in reducing
the number of English papers from
four to two in the last two years.
All that we ask of them in the future
is a continuation of the same square
deal while we are making the Jonrnal
a still more valuable advertising me
dium for them.
"Jim" Dahlman is not to be the
only democratic "cowboy" candidate.
Our friends McKillip and Howard
have announced officially that they
too were cowboys. Instead of resort
ing to oratory and statistics which
nearly always defeat democratic can
didates, it is said they nre planning a
series of hog-tying exhibitions for the
coming campaign. To add to the in
terest of the exhibitions, they promise
to cut their hair and braid it into
their throw ropes.
Those who are interested in the
schools and churches of Platte county
will find very inferesting reading this
week in the columns of Platte county
history. The first Columbus school
house was built of logs. Later it was
bought by C. A. Speice for $20 and
used for fire wood. And the present
churches developed from a Sunday
school conducted in the old town hall.
The story is interesting and whole
some. Have the children read it.
A Columbus man has estimated
that if the people throughout the Uni
ted States had donated flour to the
San Francisco sufferers as liberally as
did the citizens of Columbus, one bil
lion pounds of flour would have been
donated. This amount divided equal
ly among the families of the United
States, connting five persons to a
family, would give every family a
little over a fifty pound sack.
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OTHER EDITORS.
Edgar Howard has got P. E. Mc
Killip nominated, elected and all bnt
sated in the lower house of congress
and all that the dear people will have
to do is to carry ont the program as
he has arranged it There ;u where
the troable is coming la. The people
of this district have beea long suffer
ing and exceedingly patient, bnt there
is a limit to all things and they can't
be expected to ax into spasms of de
light over a candidate whose sole
claims for recognition consist of a
head of football hair and a good bank
account- Howard can continue to
paint MoKllip as a great statesman,
bnt the pictures will fool no one who
knows the man. It is not pleasant to
talk thus of a prospective candidate,
bnt it is high time to raise a kick.
We have had one McKillip campaign
and it is enough. Howells Jonrnal
(Dem.)
We Hare all Been There.
(From Chicago Tribune.)
Within the last decade we ""men
have granted women many rights,
and they are demanding more. We
hear more and more about woman's
rights 1 am not the man to refuse
them, even if I dared, but it is high
tiaM that we married mea organize a
creeoaiag brotherhood to
awrried mea's richta.
I
J am aot atalrtag political prafermeat '
in thus advocating a new deolaratioa
of independence although"!' feel sure
of the solid married men's vote of the
United States on the following Iplat
form: One bureau or chiffonier drawer in
each house for husband's exclusive
use.
One hook in one closet for hus
band's exolnsive u.e.
A man who works from eight to
eighteen honrs a day earning a living
and paying life insurance, taxes, pay
ing for a cemetery lot. and trying to
lift the mortgage is entitled to this
much in his own honse. He should
have the free and unlimited use Jof a
hook on which to bang, his clothe,
and a drawer into which to stuff Mb
shirts and collars and. furthermore,
he should have the exclusive use of
these.
When i first got married we lived
in the cutest, daintest little four room
flat in the world. There were three
closets, and even now 1 recall with
alarm the fact tbat when we moved
into it I calmly selected the smallest
closet and remarked. "This will be
my closet." Thereupon I placed .my
wearing apparel within tbat closet,
picked three choice bnreau drawers
for my ether wearing apparel, and
placed my collars and neckties in the
upper drawer of a dressing stand, so
they would be handy.
My wife wasn't used to being mar
red, either, so. perhaps that is why I
got away with my calm presumption
preemption of all those drawers and
hooks. 1 figured that she conld de
posit her garments in the two other
closets and the other eleven available
drawers.
A month after we were married my
collars were ousted. Then, to my
surprise, I discovered feminine wear
ing apparel In mv cloet. Inch by
inch, I was evicted, until finally I
founi my dress suit and other treas
ures packed in a spare shirt waist box
and poshed under my bed.
Still, I hung tenaciously to one
hook, upon which I habitually hung
my nightshirt.
I have a habit of undressing rapid
ly and peeling to the boff before
thinking to look for mv nightshirt,
and I never shall forget that zero morn
ing when the janitor let the steam
die out. and I stood, clad only in
goose pimplas, in that darkened room
and pawed for a nightshirt, only to
find a new blue silk underskirt occu
pying the sacred place. I found that
nightshirt over the back of a chair,
'Right under your eyes," as the
missus remarked, when I spoke of it.
That was the beginning of a con
test that has lasted ever since. I
have for miny years reserved a spioe
for tnat nightshirt (or its eqnvolent, )
carefully placed it there each day
when 1 arose, and each time I retire
have found it some other place. Ac
cording to my statistics I have pawed
around in the dark on 2. 192 different
nights, looking tor that nightshirt,
and fonnd it in 2.040 different places
ranging from the ice chest to the
baby carriage. On only three occa
sions have I found it on the right
hook. On there three occasions the
hook was the last place Z looked
After a time, whpn I was becoming
house broke, we moved into a Bix
room flat, with five closets and, be
fore the movers had finished scratch
ing up the piano. I staked out a claim
to one bedroom and one clooet, and
purhased a new chiffonier for mv own
exclusive use. My claim was jumped
before we straightened things out.
the missuB "just putting some of her
things in there temporarily." In
side of two months the chiffonier
had been moved ont of the room en-,
tirely, and only two hook in the
closet, the shirtwaist box, and a
trunk were left for me. l stood it
for at me, then Datientlv and witbont
recrimination went down town and
bought another chiffonier.
I went home expecting a reprimand
for the bald sarcasm of my act, but
instead was met by thanks.
It was so good of yon, dear," said
tbe missus, giving me a little hng.
"Just what I needed for baby's
clothes."
I hung on desparately to my one
remaining hook until the next spring,
when we bought a house. I looked
for a bouBe that was all closets, and
finally found one with eight rooms
and ten closets, besides ohina and
linen closets.
I invoicd yesterday. I am still in
sole and undisputed posession of the
small, right hand, upper drawer of
the oak dresser, two hooks in tbe
closet, one of which bears a painting,
"Night gown; don't tonch," and the
laundry bag in which I keep my
linen. My dress clothes are on nailB
np in the attic, my socks, etc., in a
hat box under mv bed, and the rest
of my stuff in trunks. It's about
tima we married men were uniting
and striking for our rights.
P. S. The laundry bag has been
appropriated to hold the children's
Blockings.
P. P. . Fonnd my nightshirt
folded under my pillow, and the mis
sus' new Alice blue skirt on the
hook.
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NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT DE
FENDANTS. J Rebecca S.HoKsett; and Tnomas H
iHogeett. Phoebe M. Hollinmhead
and Milton Uollint8hea? ; Elizabeth
WhiDole and Casner W. Whirmln
Nathan W. Jonea and Jones
his wife, first and full name un
known, non-resident defendants will
take notice that on the 2nd day of
April, 1900, Wesley E. Cole and Re
becca J. Taylor, plaintiffs herein,
filed their petition in the district
court of Platte county, Nebraska,
against said defendants, impleaded
with William B. Jones and Blanche
Jones; Marv Kelley and Charles Kel
ley: Baiclay Jones and Ida Jcmmr-
Cynthia N. Thurston and Bertha
Jones, defendants, the object and
prayer of which are :
To have the plaintiff. Rebecca J.
Taylor, and the defendants Re bceca S.
Hogfiett, William B. Jones, Mary
Keller, Barclay Jones Phoebe Bf.
Hollingshead, Elizabeth Whipple.
Cynthia N. Thurston, .Bertha Jones
and Nathan W. Jones decreed to be
the only heirs at law of Barclay Jones,
deceased. That the said Rebecca J.
Taylor may be decreed to have had
legal right and authority to deed and
transfer the following lands, to-wit :
The West one half (W j..)of the North
west one quarter) (N. W. 1$) of sec
tion six (U), Township Seventeen (17)
Range two (2) West of the sixth ()
P. M. in Platce countr. Nebraska to
the plaintiff, Wesley E. Cole. That
all the defendants herein, and all
other persons may be decreed to have
no interest whatever in said
lands and that the title thereto
may be found to be in and forever
quieted and confirmed in the plain
tiff. Wesley E. Cole, and for
such other and further relief as equity
may require.
You are required to answer said pe
tition on or before tbe 14th day of
May, A. D. 100(5.
Wesley E. Cole
and Rebecca J. Taylor.
By G. P. Rose, Their Attorney.
Dated this 3rd day of April, 1906.
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