McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-31

IF you are looking for timber claim,
call on William Fruin. He has num-
Der of fine ones for sale.
The "heaps' of McCook's good mon
ey the Courier speaks of the Indianola
boys taking home with them from the
so-called race, Saturday, is mythical
even phantasmagoric in the extreme.
The Arapahoe Mirror is our author
ity for the statement that Jos. A. Sny-
der has traded his bunch of cattle
numbering about 40 hea6 to B. L.
Chambers of that place for farm in
Gosper county.
According to the Gazette Journal
they ''have an excellent soil to raise
brick" in the vicinity of Hastings.
What Il red hot snap those Hastings
people have to be sure. Brick-raising
soil comes high, does it not, Bro. Isaac =?
The Ulysses Dispatch has occasion
to remark that the unpleasant smells
of that burg are making the children
png-nosed, and that those already pug
nosed are becoming pugger and more
plugged with regard to thier PROPOSES.
Here to
That horse race, Saturday, may be
styled immense an immense it was.
Ten Brock, the famous, would have
been distanced Well, boys, we think
the public will excuse you this time,
but don t let it occur again. 1t really
looked too palpable.
A party from Fillmore county were
in town, Monday. They entered six
quarter sections of land in the south
eastern part of the county. They report
a number of wagon loads en-route from
the same county, who are coming up to
Red Willow to locate. Let them come.
1t would be a great accommodation
to the people of McCook and vicinity
if this office was a postal note Office.
Indianola, we believe, already enjoys
that advantage. VIII petition for
the postal note service be forth coming?
We hope it will We ought to have 1t.
j. Byron Jennings took handsome
tongue flashing from an irate old woman
in the court room at Indianola and it
delights district attorney Morlan to tell
the story; yet, it seems that Morlan
himself, was the object of the tail end
of the whip cracker after all.-Faber.
We are informed that Mr.. Franklin
has disposed of the Farley property on
Main avenue and Dennison streets, re-
Gently purchased by him, and that the
purchasers intend erecting brick build
ing. A brick structure on that corner
would be great improvement, and we
hope the report is true.
Lew Ginger gave his entertainment
in McCook, Tuesday evening, to a small,
but appreciative audience. Mr.. Ginger
was laboring under a number of disad-
vantages, but we are Informed by par
ties who were in attendance that they
were well pleased. His description of
the battles of Missionary Ridge and
Chickamauga were interesting.
\ young whiffet from below Indian
ola, ACQUIRED in the conventional cow
boy paraphernalia: succeeded in making
a consummate ass of himself on our
streets, Saturday, and also on Monday.
1t only required about two glasses of
beer to disturb the equilibrium of his
liliputian brain, at best, and after arriv-
ing at that point his staggering had
the effect of an emetic.
Elsewhere in this issue we produce
S. B. Browns statement concerning the
loss and finding Of Mr. Church's pocket
book As Nh. Brown is the person
against whom the circumstautial evil
dence points, and as we have always
considered him honest and upright, we