McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-03-06
McCOOK


town OF McCook.. 1t has about four hundred inhabi
tants, chiefly employees Of the railroad company, fol
here is located Of the division stations Of the B.
n. R. r. The people of this place have exhibited nc
little enterprise In the way of public improvements
among which are the CongregstonaIist church build
ing, and bridge across the Republican. Owing 70
the impurities In the water obtained from ordinary
wells system of water works tss been established
and Is In successful operation The United States
Land ONCE for this district Is located here thus
making the taking up Of government lands In sny
part Of the county an easy matter. The town con
tains two general stores, bank two hotels lumber
yard saloon, ETC. II is essentially railroad town
and being the last town Of importance on the railroad
in this state. is headquarters for the stockmcn and
cowboys of the range. %
The above contemplate, cowardly,
and unprincipled misrepresentation and
fabrication appeared in last weeks
Courier. Personally, the author of the
miserable sluT merits no attention, as
his unprincipled, unmanly character is
too patent to the people of Red Willow
already, too putrid to be resurrected and
exhibited to the public gaze SO we will
dispose of the nasty, NANCY thing, and
proceed. The writer has nothing but
kind wishes for the continued prosperity
of the people of Indianola, and this
sentiment is the feeling of all our citi-
zens, who with us have the sublimest
contempt for the father of the above
bundle of villianous falsehoods, and un-
bounded sympathy for the people who
have the measly carcass quartered in
their midst, breeding nothing but dis
cord and strife between those whose in
terests are common. just how infnit-
esimaIly small the principle, the honor,
the manhood of an individual is, who
claims to be working for the interests
of the whole county, is uncomfortable !;
and while his imbecile utterances fall
upon the ears of those who know him
the effect is nihil, but when advantage is
taken of what purports to be an annual,
i. e., an impartial description of the
county, to disseminate such statements
among those whom the annual reaches
away from this county as being the real
condition of McCook, the grossness of
the outrage upon the community needs
to be set before the people in its true
light. To speak specifically would oc-
cupy too much space, but one statement
demands impelatively correction
Population about 400. McCook to-day
contains not one soul less than 700 peo-
pie, and the writer of the lying state
ment knew it at the time. Fully one
hundred people have moved into Nc
Cook during the month of February,
and more are coming every day. Our
reporter, after seeing the obscure init
nation that hamlet, McCook by name,
existed, started out to investigate, and
presents the following as the result Of
his search:
McCOOK
Is situated midway between Lincoln
and Denver, on the line of the b. & NJ,
of which it is division station. The
company has erected Is stall round
house and repair shops, an eating house,
and division headquarters. The Lincoln
Land Co., at an expense of $25, 900,
has planted system of water works
only exceeded by one city in the State
of Nebraska, Omaha. A substantial
wagon bridge was recently completed
over the Republican river at this point,
and the streams of wagons which week
ly wend their way to McCook from the
southern part of this county and north
ern part of Decatur county indicate the
great increase of trade its erection has
brought to our town. There are three
hotels, two large general stores, two
hardware stores, two drug stores, two
meat markets, two lumber yards, two
livery and feed stables, two land agen-
c;es. two insurance agencies, two MILL
merry shops, two harness shops, two flour
and feed stores, one photograph gallery,
and another in course of erection, one
bank, two BARRIERS, four lawyers, three
physicians, one resident dentist, one