McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-24


desire to have your names, not for pub
lication, but merely for our own private
use, and the same will remain private
property. Send us in the local items
from your neighborhood. We are pleas
ed to give them space in our olbmns.
At the adjourned school meeting held
Monday night, the proposition of Capt.
Phillips of the Lincoln Land Co., offer
ing block 20 to school district II, gratis,
was accepted by unanimous vote.
This block is just across the street from
block 5, which would have cost the dis
trict over 500. So this disposes of
the matter of site, and the 81, 500 will
be put in the building alone. Two diff
ferent plans of buildings were examined
by the meeting, and the matter was
handed over to the Board of Directors
and the building committee, who will
proceed with the building as soon as
the bonds are issued and negotiated.
The intention is to begin the erection
of a Sc, 600 building, finish as much of
the same as the money in the treasury
will permit, and finish the building in
another year. This will afford room
for the school children of our town for
a year or two and will be in keeping
with our style and general get up.
Our subscribers along Red Willow
and Beaver creeks are complaining of
irregularity in receiving their papers.
Now we wish our patrons to understand
just where the responsibility lies. Dur
ing the entire time we have been con-
Quoting THE TRIBUNE the paper has
been mailed in the postofice at McCook
every Thursday evening, without one
failure. The papers are sent from this
postofice every Friday morning, and
should reach our subscribers on both
the Willow and Beaver on Friday even
ing. We have made inquiries of differ
ent postmasters on these creeks, and
they are of opinion that either the mail
carriers leave before the mails are dis
tributed, or else the mails are not pre-
pared at Indianola in time for the car
riers. We hope we will have no fur
Their cause of complaint in this matter.
It is evident that the paper ought to
reach these points EVERY Friday even
ing, and these numerous miscarriages
are iazcnsshles
eciesnt SONS % fore-ahadow
another Lat Tharsday lille attempt-
ing to extinguish u pairie fire, which
wasfaglng near their home about two
piles north of Culbertson on the Black
wood, three members of the Larson
family were severely burned, Mrs. Lar
son not being expected to live, and Mr..
Larson and daughter both being quite
badly burned. 1t appears that the
mothers clothes caught fire while try
ing to put the fire out, and that her
husband and daughter received their
injuries in trying to extinguish the
flames and save her life, in which they
were unsuccessful, as we understand
the mother cannot live. The father and
daughter will be able to be around in a
few weeks. The fire is supposed to
have originated by some passing horse
man or others throwing lighted cigar
in the dry grass. The case Is sad one,
and the people of Culbertson have dis
played their practical sympathy by rails
ing the family large sum of money.
And again. A very severe accident
befell Taylor Games on the Frenchman,
Saturday. He was returning home with
load of barbed wire, and in putting
on the brake, while going down over a
bank, the bank gave way, and he was
thrown to the ground, the heavily load
ed wagon passing over his leg, breaking
both bones of the same, producing a
compound fracture which will require
time to bring out all right.
Now comes case Of self murder from
the Driftwood. The unfortunate prin-
cipal in the sad tragedy was a man by
the name of Bitner, who lived up the
creek about eighteen miles from Nc
Cook, in Hitchcock county. We are