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.& f ; "t ? I -A H li: fc. 1-1' ? P t a L .' V. MF , - --: rVW "o !i Igpyl Calnmtmslttmial. ZTefer. tx MHI. j . U DOUGH BETOID THE Wolff ME The Gential City Stromsbarg ex tension of the Union Pacific is almost completed. .The last rail has been laid and news cornea vfrom the head onartars of the road to the effect that I n:io service will be baton within the 01 xt ten days. KMiKiio FKBKUABT 6, IM7. ItaSTROTHER. F. K. STKOTHER. Editor .Manager .... mSEEE ntenflL tKi Jan ekown that aaammatmm kneaneated ap to Jaa. ijl6. unSnnai-anaanalaA on. Whm naymnnt a moan tan detn,whleh nnewera aa a laoaipt, wwMUMratiiwiBa AmmmA nanncriD- MbaiaHMBiaaatiBadbrlattar to dieeontinoe, jlia ill pi tar-aayr-it aajaaid. It yoa do not flfflfcJiaaiL'aitllaatiMarataJiliMP. Six weeks More of winter, probably, ad aix weeks snore of the legislature, certaimly. After reading about the storms and ia the Dakotas during the t winter, the homeseeker ought to be satisfied with a good quarter of Nebraska land. This week Columbus will entertain Aa state aw4i"g of the Young Men's Christian association. Our citizens aJMd wake their visit one to belong raamesaiiered, and also put forth an ex tra efbrt to secure a Y. M. C A. bwildiBf , for this city. Tha Sua Francisco incident, which ifwltad front the authorities refusing to allow Japaaese to attend the public stnosls, will sooa be setteled, as the amayor aad school board have' taken a junket to Washington at the expense of the city. Two years ago the independent telephone companies wanteda law to compel the Nebraska telephone com aaay to connect with their lines. Since then the independents havete cved a franchise in Omaha and they are bow asking the legislature .not to Bass the law they advocated so strongly last winter. The Thaw murder trial in New York is attracting unusual attention all over the country. On the side of the defease is an array of the very heat legal talent that money and influ ence can bay. The prosecution is in the hands of an able states attorney ot reputation, with the assist- also of great legal talent No nhUlieaaire has ever been electrocuted ia is country before, and it is hard to predict whether the end of this trial will he a hang jury, an acquittal or an electrocution. Will a statewide primary be a ben eft or a detriment to the rural dis tricts? Under the present system these districts are not represented as they should be, partially because the voting places are not conveniently located for a maiority-of the voters, as this would be impossible in a country .township, aad as a usual thing the pri nmrirs are held during the busy sea soa tor the fanners. The legislature will bo doubt enact" a primary law, hat it should be one that will give the country districts their full share of representation. The lawyers in the state senate have killed the bill for a constitutional revision commission on the plea that every one cf them knows what the .dsseets of the Nebraska constitution an aad that they, themselves, can draft the needed amendment just as well as any lawyers on the outside. The ability of the lawyer law-makers is coaceded, aad it is quite possible that if they had nothing else to do they might, formulate the needed ia the constitution with Suffi- study to make them ; of experience and run of the courts, as they do. - But formulating is one thing and getting ratiaed at the polls is quite an- No proposed constitutional it has the ghost of a show to at the polls unless it has (of all the big political itional amendment by republican lawyers and by a republican legislature will net get the approval of the detno atafie aad populist organizations as easily as w'woald if originated by a eesssaissien made ap of the most rep lananlsliiri aad infuential men of all .am - The same m tree when it the gauntlet surely be the ratiied aartnm.'ABaistiti a . a a -.J to getting the approval of the voter at the poke. But from all this, no legislative corn- will ever bring us a thorough ve constitutional the members are en- a analtitade of other duties aeasiUy give.the undivided thought required for this The Merrick County Medical Society l.eld a meeting last Tuesday evening the principal feature of which was a ban quet at the Schiller hotel. Dr. Bobert K. Holliater, a Burgeon lately located in Omaha, was present and gave an address on a technical subject, illustratiBg the use of a certain new instrument that promises to be of great use in certain branches ot snrgency. Mrs. Thomas May, who lives in Madi son, and does work in a restaurant there, :. truiv thnnirinir the doctor for bis nromot services from which she is per- milted to see the sun ahine and feel the breath of air. Last Wednesday she be came melancholy over family affairs and to relieve her troubles took a big dose of chloroform. She was in an unconscious condition when discovered, and only for the prompt efforts of her friends and a doctor, she would now be across the big divide from whence no mortal returns. Citizens of Fullerton are kicking very strenously about the way Uncle Sam is handling the mail on the branch line. They say the service is bum and to give Journal readers a fair idea ot tneway tua, mticAnn nlona the line feels, we auote the following from the Follerton News-Journal: "The mail service on this branch is certainly the limit If some im ali.mnnd aeraoner would take hold of the matter and take it up with the mail service men, something might be done. The service is so bum that we wonder the railroad company doesen'! get ashamed and through up the job. Th imdt exDreaa could beat them to standstill and have plenty of time to do a few working stents on the side." D. A. Gard of Lincoln, an organizer for the American Order of Protection, whose home was formerly at Ord, has been spending several days in St. Paul and vicinity. For some time Mr. Gard has considered the feasibility of utilizing the falls of the North Loup, about 200 miles up the river, for developing electric Dower, and he now has a number ot Omaha capitalists interested in the pro ject who are likely to make his dreams come true. The Jails ar located in Cherry county and are a familiar land mark to early betters of Howard county who followed the old trail to the Black Hills and hunted deer in that locality. While the stream at this point ia little more than a good-sized creek, the water has a sheer drop of fifteen feet or more and hv carrvhur it through a flume for lam than a mile a fall of at least twenty feet can be secured. Mr, Gard figures that nower can be developed on the 'spot and transmitted by wire to Ord, St Paul, Grand Island and neighboring towns at comparatively slight expense.' The country in the vicinity cf the fall? is very sandy, bat the river for a consid erable distance above has a gravel bot tom, which is' said to be a favorable fea ture. Mr. Gard considers this tip finest opportunity for the development of power in Nebraska, and since beginning his investigation he is surprised that no one has taken advantage of it before. St. Pan! Bepnblican. A Madison county farmer married and sole supporter of a wife and eight chil dren, was the victim of cne of the worst accidents to befall a man. It came to him when preforming his labors as all men do to feed the months of his fam ily and there duty in clothing them. The man is practically wilnout means and the accident and conditions are told by the Madison Star-Mail in the follow ing terms: J&mes Fitch met with a horrible accident at the Herman Mans place in the Pleasant Valley neighbor hood the other day. His left hand and arm were caught in the shelter, and ali of the hand except the part correspond ing to the thnm was literally torn off and the muscles of the forearm were partly torn out and fearfully lacerated. Dr. Long who was at once called trim med up the lacerated part disjointed the stubends of bones of the hand, and with indefinite pains made an effort to repair was was left of the hand, so that the thumb if possib'e might be saved to the man. The repairing required over 8 bnndred sitches.' Mr. Filch lives on one of the Marshall Field places in Stan ton county. He has a wife and eight children whose ages range frcm JO years down to three months Mr. Fitch is a poor man who came down from the Rosebud last spring and he has, worked among farmers east of town the passed summer. Under these conditions Dr. Long reported the case to the com missioners of Stanton county as one re quiring county relief. After some dally ing the comaussionerg turned the case over to the county pbysiaian of -Stanton county on the theory, presnniably that it would be better"to swap hosesio the middle of the stream", and cheaper to pay a 8tanton physician to go 14 miles to attend the case, than to pay a Madi son doctor for going eight miles to at tend it During the Spanish-Amerioan war the Oregon was considered by far the best warship in the United States navy. Last week the navy-department set aside $1,000,000 to repair the' vessel and place it in the up-to-date elass. And this change has taken place ia leas than ten years. . .We have a good hearing tove and farnaoe lump coal at $5.0 par toa, and all other good coals. Ii. W. Weaver Son. Kitty and thd Russiati Coatee By PbI CrHwlck ' (Oseyrlght, T Joseph B. Bowles.). "Tell me about the sales," I request ed, when we were at but Bitting alone. "Sales, servant8,and scandals are the main lines On . which conversation usually runs at afternoon teas." 1 Kitty gave her skirt that peculiar fillip downward over her little 'feat which Is so-marked a habit of the sex. She considered her reply. "I think I may agree with you, Reggie so far as your firstly and secondly," she de cided, at last "But as regards your thirdly you must admit that no scan dal would be complete without a man. It is man who always enjoys scandal; and, consequently, when he is present at an afternoon tea" "At which the tea is itself absent," I Interrupted amiably. "Don't ring for Loftus, I beg rm not thirsty. Please refresh me instead with stories of the wonderful bargains you have ac quired." "Sales," commenced Kitty "are a popular illusion. One hears them an noiPicedrr" "Fuji page advertisements In the papers e nhllanthrepjc" mur- mured. , "One rushes off to a steamy shop to jostle and fight with quantities of really extremely ill-behaved womea in order far bny an article that prob ably will: never be of the slightest service." "Did I ever tell you about the girl who put five pounds into the pocket of a coat' that another girl sold?" In quired Kitty, earnestly. "We have never talked about money In- our 'lives ," "said. Tha$ win In evitably become our main topic rafter we are married. Married folk never have tone to. discuss .any other suh ject." "There were two girls," begs Kitty, totally ignoring my last remark. ''One was named Clara, and the other called herself Polly. Tr wert In a store, In the mantle ana millinery depart ments. They , also lived together. i&Msaaaaaaaaaa f r ? tjctw i It Was Perfect Apart from h F&y they had of hall ing.eacb. other by nicknames, they were very pleasant, prgerfy 1 ypung things. They had bad"-manner club." "Explain." I demanded. 'It's a money-box on the chimney piece," said Kitty. "Every time Polly was disagreeable or snappy, Clara made her contribute sixpence to the box. Similarly when Clara was quar relsome pr lazy " "I understand. Tell me more about the five pounds." "Don't be impatient? It happened that, after a year or so, this moneyr box became exceedingly heavy. They decided, after much discussion and consideration, that the club should be wound up since both had been re markably good-tempered and sweet for quite a long period. It seemed al .most an aspersion on them, their keep ing on with the club. Clara wondered what they ought to do with the money. Polly suggested, promptly, that ihey could divide it and buy themselves something pretty and permanent.", "Practical little girl!" "They imagined that there would.be fully three pounds In the club," Kitty went on. "Putalag! ttiey had 'not been so very naughty, after al). - The money-box yielded, on investigation. the sum-of 29 shillings and sixpence. Clara said that such an amount .couldn't be divided it would be too difficult Polly acquiesced; and they eventually sat down to. a great game 'Of cribbage, one night the winner to fake the entire proceeds of the jciub."" "If this Is to be a gambling story, !I shall have to rise to order." said I. "Kb much worse," announced Kitty, J placidly. "Listen. The game com menced at 8:30 precisely, one windy ' March evening, and it lasted until 11. As the clock was striking 11, Clara, with a small grimace, pushed over to ithe fair and flushed Polly 69 six pences. "They're yours,' said she, briefly. "What are you going to dc Iwltfr themT .poljy, with a nervous, ! hasty chuckle of triumph, answered: 'Buy a new Jacket, of course.' " -! '1 like Polly," I remarked. "A very sensible creature." 1 Something In Clara's expression caused Polly to become nervous. She :crossed to her friend.- and, resting her hand on Clara's shoulder, Polly whispered a trifle shamefacedly: "If ymf wanf: the money, dear take It I haven't soi'dny'phj coat yet; and I'll wear it right oa' TkVjh"e mpfifr; it will give me much more plmw "And Clarar "Shook her head. She wanted the money for a purpose which she feared Polly would laugh at Clara at last owned up. She would have given the money to the landlady aa rent In ad vance. "Rnt why" requested Polly, amasedly. "They don't pay as in ad vance for working. Nobody ever esif. of tosmchn thing- If you lBfcalBnBehaeni J . J snnnnnnmaaiaaMaaassnaaieasaai anmai art i-i i i - . - j- - . "MesssssssaaaBanamnnnaaanaaBaaaaam EY'S . H.GALL Semi-Annual Clearing Sale Commencing Monday. February 11th, 1907 and con- tinuing' lO days. 4 H, A V I N G just completed invoicing we find fhat wehave on hand the following mer chandise that must he disposed of hefore our SPRING STOCK arrives. All Mens and Boys Clothing and Overcoats, Ladies, Mens and Childrens Underwear, Mens Sweaters Gloves and Mittens, Woolen Hosiery and Socks, are going at greatly reduced prices during this Special February Clearenoe Sale. As iar as possible we will pick out the goods offered for sale and mark them with special tickets. During this Special February Sale we will offer our entire stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Caps, Ladies and Childrens Cloaks and Dt-ess Skirts at Special Reduced Prices. Dent miss this Sale as we have a large and well selected stock of merchandise to pick from and are making hig reductions in all departments. Cloaks and Skirts x Now is the time to get a Skirt cheap. AU $4.00 skirts now $3.20. All 9)5.00 skirls now :- $4 OO. AU as,oo skirts now $4 80. All $7.00 skirts now $6.00. All $8.00 skirts now $6.8Q. 20 v Discount On all Tailor Made Sute and Sldrta, Special Discount on all Flannels, Hoodi, Shawls, Ladies Gloves, Mittens; Underwear Wool Blankets and Comforts, Ladies and Childrens Gowns. Special Wag Prices On all Mens and Boys Caps, Gloves, Mittens and Mattes. nSSnnBSnaw See Heavy winter Goods at ray Ben . ICE DrassGttds . 20 Discount 32 inch Fancy lloaair, valse 2c, now 16c 40 iack Faney Suiting, valne 35c, new 28c 36 iack all Wool Suitor, valne 40c, now 32c 36 inch Granite cloth, v&Jae 50c, now 40c 38 inch BrUliantine, valne 50c, now 40c 40 inch Granite doth, valne 65c, sew 42 iach Sicilian cloth, valne $100, now 80c 60 inch Broadbcad worsted ia plain aad fancy, valae $1.25, now $i.oo. Our entire stock of Mens and Boys .Clothing and Overcoats during this sale will be offered at 30 per ct. discount. J. H. GALLEY 505 ELEVENTH STREET, COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. TT' w V w aa-V-Fnv p w v w w v w aaiPFpFa--ws pay your way as.you go, you're doing more than most folk, be sure." She offered to share the club, however, if Clara wouldn't be so absurd." "But Clara persisted!" "She said that sbe thought she dJdS't Actually knowbut she thought t&t tjie landlady nwj' rather poor. That times hag peen. hard late; that) perhaps, would; bp reaj help to .the woman. 'Oh, it's' far too little to he of any use,' cried Polly, deci ively. 'You're a tender-hearted old duffer, Clara. Drink up" your cocoa, and let us get to bed. I feel quite dissipated.' " "I'm beginning to like Clara best, after all." Kitty feared that Clara was too sentinjanUL ''She may pave imag ined things, you know1 her ladyship continued. "SU11 Polly took "the money, and sold all her old clothes for another thirty-odd shillings, and then, with what she had saved she possessed five golden pounds. She had only to wait now for the end of the great sale, when goods -left in stock would be offered, at an alarm ing reduction, to the employes. There was ppe little Russian coatee of elec tric seal which she especially coveted. 'It was the very last hour of the sale. Polly popped 'down from the millinery department to tell Clara of her choice if It still remained. The coatee was still there, but not Clarsu She had been called away to .the. counting-house over some error in an account. Polly who is rather a fine looking girl, I think took the coatee off the model and swiftly tried it on. It was perfect. Polly's pretty reflec tion was beaming back from the glass when there came a sharp call for her from the millinery room. She shipped out of the coatee, screwed up her five golden "pounds in b))) tora from her book, and throat the pre clous little screw of paper into one of the pockets of the coatee. Flinging the latter on Clara's chair, Polly fled for her life." "Clara came back as soon aa Polly had gone" "She saw the coatee, and, tidily, put it back on the model. Ten minutes afterwards a small-hard-to-please woman caiae fussing into, Ifee nUe department She turned over every, thing, tried on a hundred and one' Jackets, grumbled at the prices un ceasingly, and finally" "Bought Polly's ceateer "Bought it and took it away with her! Said her carriage was at the adoor, and ahe wouldn't trouble the itnM uniil 1 knmA VAn ft noca what Polly felt, when at closing time. she cam for 4he cot! Goneand the five poanaa as well! H$F bta eyes flashed lightning aad auddaa death. There was a scene; and poor Clara cried. Polly cried, too; then stormed again. 'And you don't know the creature's address, nor anything? Oh, Clara It ia too cruel of you! Why are yon so dreadfully tidy? Conktat yoa asa that tan coat waa tkara an rjsj to ha packed? I he-. lieve you did It on purpose: "I don't like people to be too neat, I put in. "I remember once " "This is my story," declared Kitty, Imperiously. "Walt until you hear the conclusion. Clara waa saying that the lady would be sure to bring the K9?S bac. we9 B?U? das.had. PHt eftfce'reoni. 8he interviewed the haj) parter. She spent the evening chaa. jng electric seal coateeg. One aha fancied that she had tracked it, aad gaspingly addressed the wearer, who turned such furious eyes upon poor Polly that she stammered, went red, and gave way to ignominious flight "And the moral?" "There isn't any. Daya passed. Clara bought Polly a little fur collar, and made her wear it They were nice girls, with kind hearts, although rather slangy ne Bdrnlaf: behold the fuspy lady! She had, at length, found the five pounds. Now arose a difficulty with the atom. Polly had to make them understand she hadn't dared speak about it he fore. But directly the fussy lady per ceived Polly, she exclaimed, roundly: 'You're the girl who spoke to me just as I waa leaving my carriage on the night I had the coat! I recognise your voice and manner, my dear. I'm dredfuly sorry I was so ruerrr hadn't the faintest netien than aa to, what you meant You must let 919 make good yotjr toes in any case. "That conVinced the store aeopler "After awhile. Aad the fussy lady and the two girla became great friends. They took such aa interest in a little scheme ofweekly charity dinners which the fussy lady had in hand; and thus they met other friends Pwho were helping "Were those the girls? And was that the coatee? I. suppose you gave it to her you dear, fussy thing? must admit' thatTliked the "eoatet and Polly and Clara." "You like all girls, Reggie that's the worst of you!" Kitty laughingly rose to ring for Loftus. "Yon mast go now my dressmaker Is coming. But you can call at eight if you like. We have a committee meeting to-night Nora is coming besides Polly and Clara and the others. "AU'woinen?" I inquired, doubtfully. "Come anc see," replied Kltf ' KOTICK FOR CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE. SeftUe E, FamU.defeadaat.wni UkBic that oa the XSth day of Jaaaary. IST7. Kreictt J. FamU, pkdBtiff hernia. Ikd hto petition ia the diatrict coart of Platte coutr. Nebraska, aant amid gopkie K FamU, the object and prajer of raid petition betas to aware a divorce from said defendant, from the bonds of aaatrh May and to have the marriage contract delred aaU and void and of ao f ntther force aad effect, on the onde that aad defeadaat willfully daaerted aaldplaiaUg for a period oo more than two yean, Yoa are repaired toaanweraald petition on or before the tttb day of March. WW. Kvbbctt J. Fa i axix, plai-.tiff. By Ida attorney. '- J. Gariow. Dated Jan. 28. US7. janJOUt Faraat far Sale. Improved ansa for sale, Platte and Bocae counties. First National Bank NOTICE TO KON-BESIDEKT. Straas Brot liera Compear will take antic that on the Sd day of January. Mi. John Kattermaa, Const? Jadge of latte coaaty, ffrtiraaaa iiued aa ordr of attache ent for the earn 3 45. 1 a aa act ioa pending- before hinu wherein John 11. Keraenbrock ia pfauatiff and 8trnan Brother Company, a corporation, is defendant: that said anm of 23 45 ia doe and -.viae; to sni4 plaintiff from said dafeadaat oa accoaat for shortage resalrjaa; from the sale of certain liquor oa or about the ISth day of Trptfiner. 1HK. by the said John H. Kenenbrock. plaintiff that ander and by virtoe of said attachment prccerdisea. notice in carni hmeatwaa ecired apon one John Lutjelaechen, John Lneechen. and the sum of $109.00 garnished thereander. Yoa will tortber take notice that aaleea yea appear and ansaer oa or before the 18ih day of r cbraary. HOT, al the hoar of 2 p. m. of raidday. jadjnaeat will be rendered against joa aa prayed for ia the bill of particulars. Joes II. KnsEXBROCK. PlniatiS?. By C. N. McElfreeb, his attorney. Dated Jan. M. 1907. 414 a 4444W&1 K Fancy Groceries AT KEATING aid SCHRAM'S nvmjnwsmnvvvna Fishermen Use Wlrefeee. The wireless telephone, it is clalnted, haa successfully entered into the deep sea fishing Industry. For the last week experiments have been conducted by the wireless telegraph station at Brant Rock, which ia equipped with a wire less telephone, with a small vessel stationed among the feet of the south shore fishermen 13 miles out is Mas sachuaettf bay. Recency, it $ a sorted, the Jaharmsa wished to learn the prices ruling la the Boston mar ket The operator oa the wiralesa fitted boat called up Brant Rock, aad telephoned the atehernten's resjnsst The land operator asked Boston, nasi the answer was iwwaiisd the lihimua X. T. 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