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THE COURIER. ii POINTS IN POLITICS. Now that the republican county central committee has met and fixed the date of the convention there is a disposition on the part of the candi dates to begin tho ante-convention fight at once. For a couple of months there has been more or less preliminary skirmishing; but the campaign for nominations cannot be said to have fairly begun until this week. All through tho heat of July the politicians' ardor will wax strong, and the clashing of the clans will go on unrestrained by the intluencoof the dog days. Tho desire for oflico is a thing beyond tho reach of winter's cold or summer's heat. It rises alcove tho elements, and leads men a merry dance through all the days and some of the nights. T-t Nebraska may, at rare intervals, sus tain a failure of tho corn crop: but -sinco the good old days when territorial poli tics wad not unmixed with the smoking "gun' there has never been a failure of the crop of candidates. At all times, aye, in tho darkest hours tho state has seen, even in that fearful period when the cloud of grasshoppers brought an all-pervading gloom on the common wealth, patriots have not been wanting to man the guns and pocket the sheckels provided by "we, the peo ple'. And the zeal for public service has increased as the trees on the Xe braska prairies have grown taller, and tho bung hole in the great treasury vat has oozed more and more. In Lincoln and Lancaster county the patriots swarm around tho public crib in much the same way that bees swarm around the hive, and their industry in the pursuit of oflico is comparable to the industry of tho bee. They work with might and main, these patriotic politicians, appar ently undeterred by the fact that mighty few win tho prize they covet. t-t One hears a great deal about this or that politician's popularity and in fluence. So and so will be successful, it is said, because of his pull. Rut after all, pulls and popularity are generally distanced by hustle. It isn't always merit that pulls in under the wire first, and influence often lags along in the rear while energy shoots in ahead. Of course popularity and influence are good things; but tho candidate who places the most dependence on work, who sees the most people, who is most active, is generally the one who is suc cessful. t-t It is a far cry to the Twelfth of August. Many are the hopes that shimmer in the sunshine of the present that will have gone glimmering ere the goal of mid-summer is reached. Some of those who are now most active will have been lulled to sleep, and new men will be bombarding the walls. A (licks may foretell the changes in the weather a year hence, but no grey beard may comprehend the mutations of Lancaster county politics. It is given to no man to tell what the future has in store for the attenuated, Hickman patriot or the gentle and diffident Ensign. Who can say what pitfalls may come in the way of a Kelley or a Melick? And is there anyone who would presume to fix the fate of the ruddy-hued colonel known from Greenland's icy mountains to Afric's sunny strand as bold Ed Sizer; or fasten the destiny of that redoubtable young man of the raven hair and pierc ing eyes who answers to the name of Low? And none can say whether Charley will have the proper open sesame or be compelled to Waite out side; and that man of canned goods and vegetables,Rohmon;and the unctuous son of Erin. Patrick Dcre; and smoothly smil ing Harry Wells; and that man of war like mien Frank Mitchell; and the viva cious Tom Cochran; and tho good natured John Cunningham; and the lucky Ike Lansing; and the rising young man, Spencer; and tho sphynx-like Charley Hall; and tho man of the hand bo mo whiskers, Ed Holmes; and the bland Scott; and tho cherub faced Maule; and the man-who-shakes-his-head when he-makesaspeech, Jim Cald well; and that other ex-legislator, Cor nish; and about a hundred others what are tho wild waves of prophecy saying of them? It is all uncertain as uncer tain as life among trolley cars and ap pendicitus and green apples and D. G. Courtney. t-t That there will bo more or less fusion on the part of democrats and opulists is probable; but there are a good many members of both parties who are not possessed of an over-weening desire for fusion, and they will not fuse even if tho conventions demand them so to do. It is generally thought annng the jiopu lists and democrats that any effort to secure otlices this fall other than those now held by Mr. Miller and Mr. ISaker would be fruitless, and there will bo a more or less concentrated endeavor to keep there two men in at the expense of the balance of the ticket. The Third ward will support John S. Bishop for county judge. Fred Beckman and Maxey Cobb are entirely serene these troublous days. J. S. Baer has helped the ticket be fore, and there is a general desire to have him put up again. Pat Dore will in all probability, get into the convention with a goodly num ber of votes at his back. The candidacy of Jim Mahoney for sheriff is expected by its promoters to bring down a deputyship. There was talk of bringing out a new candidate for sheriff, Ryan by name, in Havelock; but Ryan has, it is said, do clined to b a candidate. There is a revival of the Elmer Stephenson talk. It is said that the Third ward may present his name when the nominations for cleric of the district court are called for. D. G. Courtney isn't devoting so much time to politics as formerly. About one-half of his valuable time is given to telling the inmates of barrooms and corner loafers what a bad paper The Couriek is. 'The Courier," says the bosom friend of the late Charlie Crow, and its editor is . ." Captain Billingsley says there will be a fight over the judgeships in the Fourth ward. This, with a great many people, settles it. A number of well informed politicians still insist that Hall and Holmes will fight, each with a candidate for clerk of the district court hanging on his coat tail. There are others who maintain that both judges will go into the convention. It is said in support of this that both Hall and Holmes are ac ceptable to the people of the county and that sentiment will dictate the nomina tion of both. "The h 1 with senti ment," remarked a Fourth ward war rior who heard this assertion. "We are going to fight dead sure." The indi cations of a fight are fairly encouraging. Ensign for sheriff aru about evenly matched. They are regarded as the leading candidates of the ward. Ensign has a large and enthusiastic following, and Sizer has gained considerable strength through his joining in with the Aitken forces last spring. There is sure to be a primary fight and these two will be the principal combatants. The out come all depends on what the other can didates, Tom Cjchran, A. D. Burr, Henry Hoagland, Kimmcll, W. L. Brown and John P. Maule, do. Cochran, candidato for county judge, is probably as strong, personally, as Sizer ur Ensign, but the fact that tho county judgeship i? considered a minor ollice has a ten dency to keep him in second place until Ensign and Sizer settle their scrap. Cochran could mr.ko either Sizer or Ensign by going in with him; but ho is not disosed to antagonize Alva Smith and Dan Kelley and John Trompen by uniting with Ensign; neith er is he anxious to arouse thcoppositiou of Charley Waite, Sam E. Low, C. H. Rohman and the other candidates for clerk of the district court by helping to get Ed Sizer before the convention. Some people think Cochran would stand a show if he made the tight on his own account. C. C. Flansburg Attv at law. Brownell Blk. First publication June 22 In tho District court of Lancaster county, Nebraska. Joseph II. Sniffen, Plaintiff, vs. Annie Morrill, et al., defendants. Annie Morrill. Romaine L. Bogardus, Wesley Young, Mrs. Wesley Young (his wife, first real name unknown) Joseph N. Dowden, Benjamin M. Gibson, Dewit Wheeler and Orin Y. Wheeler, defend ants will take notice that on the first day of May, 1S95, Joseph N. Sniffen, the plaintiff herein, tiled his petition in the district court of Lancaster county, Nebraska, against said defendants, the object and prayer of which are to foreclose a certain mortgage executed by Annie Morril (widow) to Joseph N. Sr.iiTen, Plaintiff, upon the following described premises to-wit: Beginning at tho south west corner of the south west quarter of the south west quarter of section no. eleven (11) in '.ownship No. ten CO), range No. six (C) east and running thence north along the section line eighty rods (SO) to the north west quarter of said south west quarter of south west quarter, thence east thirty one and 55 100 (.11.55) rods along tho north line of said forty acre tract, thence south parallel with the west line of said section to the south line of said section, thence west along said section line to place of beginning, enclosing and in cluding a tract of land off the West side of sid forty acre tract eighty rods long, north and south, and thirty one and fifty five hundreths (31.55) rods wide from east to west, Lancaster county, to secure the payment of one certain promissorv note, dated February 1st, 1S93, for the sum of 81000, due and payable two years from date thereof; said mortgage provided that in case said note, or interest thereon, was not paid when due, or within ten days thereafter, the whote sum secured thereby might be declared to be due and payable; there is now due on said note and mortgage, the sum of 81000., with interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum from the first day of February, 189.'!, for which Bum, with interest from this date, plaintiff prays for a decree that defendants be required to pay the same, or that said premises may be sold to sa.isfy the amount found due. You are required toanswersaid petition on or before Monday, the 29th day of Julv 1895. Dated June 15th 1S95. C. C. Flansburg, Attv. for Plaintiff July 20. FREE ! A GUIDE TO HEALTH with every purchase of Jlunyon'w Remecllej at RIGGS pharmacy, X. W. Comer 12th and O Sts. ED. M. ALLEN. Attorn ky-At-La w. SutfllF- SALE. First Publication Juno 8. Notice is hereby given that by virtuo of an order of sale issued by the clerk of the district court of the third judicial district of Nebraska, within and for Lancaster county, in an action wherein Mary E. Swayne is plaintiff, and John Werts et al, are defendants. I will, at 2 o'clock p. in., on the 9th day of July A. D. 1895, at the east door of tho court house, in the city of Lincoln Lancaster county, Nebraska, offer for sale at public auction the following described real estate to wit: Lot number eight (8) in block four (1) in McMurtry's addition to Lincoln, caster county, Nebraska. Given under my hand this Gth day of June A. D. 1895. Fred A.Miller JuljC Sheriff follow- wero R. i IN CHANCERY ) Order on absent I defendant A. Bruce Coffroth Attv at Law. First publication June 8. ORDER OK ABSENT DEFENDANT In the circuit court of the United States, for the district of Nebraska. At a sessi on of the Circuit Court of the UnitedStates. for the district of Nebraska, continued and held pursuant to adjournment, at tho United Statee court room in the city of Omaha, on the third day of June 1S95, the Honorable Elmer S'.Dundv. Judge, being present and presiding in said court, ttie ing among other proceedings had and done to wit: o 111 Edinburg Lombard Investment company limited, a corporation Complainant, vs. Herman P. Hcrmausenet. al. I Defendants ) And now on this third day of Juno A. D. 1S95, being at the May term, A. D. 1895, of the said court, it having een made to appear to the satisfaction of the said court that this is a suit commenced to enforce a lien upon real property within the said district, and that Herman P. Hermansen and Johan na M. Hermansen, defendants herein are not inhabitants of, and havo not been found within the said district, and have not voluntarily appeared in this suit, on motion of said A. Bruce Coffroth solicitor for fhe said complainant, it is considered by the court and ordered that the defondants aljore named be and are hereby directed to appear and plead, answer or demur to the complain ant's bill of complaint, on or before Monday, August 5th, 1895, and in default thereof, an onler be entered in this cause taking the said bill pro eonftaso. It is further ordered by tho court tha at least twenty days before the said Monday, August 5th 1S95 a copy of this order be served upon Herman P. Hermansen and Johanna M. Hermansen the said defendants wherever found, if practicable, and also upon the person or persons in charge or possesion of the real property described in complainants bill of complaint, if any there be; or in lieu thereof a copy of this order be published for six consecutive weeks in The Lincoln Courier, a weekly news paper published and in general circu lation in said district of Nebraska. (signed) Elmer S. Dundy, Judge. The United States of America, District of Nebraska. . ) I, Elmer D. Frank, clerk, of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Nebraska, do hereby certify, that the above and foregoing is a true copy of an order entered upon the journal of the proceeidngs of said court, in the cause therein entitled; that I have compared the same with the original entry of said order, and it is a true transcript therefrom, and of the whole thereof. Witness my official signature, and seal oi said court, at Omaha, in said district, this third dav of June A. D. 1895. Elmer D. Frank. July 13 Clerk. BLUE RIVEE ICE can only be had from the wagons of P. H. Cooper. Telephones 583 and 551. This is the situation in the Fifth ward: Sizer for clerk of the district court, and For pastry use F. S. Johnson's XXX family flour. Watch for the name LINCOLN ICE CO. They have no pond ice. 1010 0 street.