The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-04-29

An Omaha firm have decided to adopt q
new and cooperative plan in the matter o
paying their employees. Beginning with
May LIST they will divide the profits OF theil
business as follows: After deducting 1C
per cent interest on actual capital invest
ed, the remaining profits will be divided
equally, in proportion to the total amount
OF wages paid and the capital invested.
Every employee who has been with them
six months, and has not been discharged
for good cause or voluntarily left their
service, will be paid his share in proportion,
to the amount OF wages earned and capital
invested. In all cases where the firm is
compelled to deduct from bills OF customers
because OF faulty work or carelessness OF
workmen, the cost OF labor will be deducted
from the pay roll OF the persons perform.
ing the work.
JUDGE WAKELEY rendered an opinion at
Omaha in the suit brought by the gas com.
pany to restrain the passage OF an ordin-
ance by the city council granting q charter
to a new company. The decision reviews
the history OF the gas company and the
ordinance passed on, and concludes with
the opinion that it is within the power OF
the city to pass the ordinance, but that
does not restrain the present company
from continuing their business.
OBJ FELLOWS OF Beatrice, by resolution,
decided not to attend the celebration at
Omaha because they could not get better
rates on the railroads.
dick DEADEYE," a notorious tough who
has been hanging about Omaha for some
time past, has been given orders to make
himself scarce III that locality from this
time forward.
HASTINGS surprises strangers with the
number OF elegant turnouts that appear on
It's streets.
LAST week Sheriff Fowler, OF Nemaha
county, took to the penitentiary Mark
Hall, of that county, who plead guilty to the
murder of David Worrel, and was SEN
fenced at the last term Of court to two
years at lard labor. Two years ago the
coming Fourth of July, Hall struck Wor-
rel with a billiard cue. in the saloon of J..
G. Maclay, in Auburn, the blow resulting
in the death OF Worrel soon after. The
prisoner made a statement to Judge
Broadly to the effect that Woryel began the
quarrel, using abusive language, and that
he struck the fatal blow in self-defense.
BoHANAN has received a message from his
NouioCI bliU tlC OilSSo DtdItS SuDIeIlt
court had overruled Attorney General
Leese's motion to throw Bohanan's case
out of court. and nave ordered the case to
be argued on its merits. The next step
by the prosecution will be the filing OF a
motion asking that the case be advanced
on the docket. This no doubt will be lone
and the case argued some time this fall.
THE bids for the erection OF the new court
house OF York county were opened on The
goth. There were five complete bids filed:
r. K. Allen, OF st. Joe, $50, 900; D. R.
Howard, of Lincoln, $50, 600; J. T. eau
sand, OF Lincoln, $4,000; W.. U. Patvin,
of Lincoln, $57, 700; Hutchinson e. Collier,
OF York, $4,000, and $4,000 without
jail.
ASHLAND has a fine large new hotel which
is to be opened about May 1.
IT is said that last year there were more
weddings in Wayne, according to the popu-
lation, than in any town OF the state, and
the matrimonial market opens very brisk
this season. There will be several matings
at an early day.
ALAND, loan and building organization
has been effected at Columbus.
COUNTY organization is the principal
topic of argument in Blaine county at the
present time.
The postmaster at Western locks the
boxes OF delinquent patrons until they
come down with the rent.
THE total number OF children attending
school in the state is 233,23S. To teach
them 1862 instructors are employed at an
annual cost of S 1892, 346.
A PETITION is out for a daily mail from
will also b. sent in showing the present
mailroute by way OF Omaha and Cheyenne,
a distance of nearly 1000 miles.
The Baptists OF Wymore are erecting a
house of worship 26x42.
EUGENE KRAUsE, OF West Point, came
near having a leg broken while soldering
pipes in the water. works bitches in that
place, the other day, by the caving of the
bank. Help being at hand he was speedily
released from his painful position. One lee
was bent over the pipe in such q way as to
severely strain it.
THE Moline plow men are casting about
for a location in the west. 1t is possible
Omaha may secure the mandatory if
the citizens exhibit q spirit OF liberaIity
commensurate with the Importance of
the enterprise.
THE unknown child that was found in Il
barn in Lincoln one night last winter, died
at the Home OF the Friendlcss a few days
ago. There was q mystery about the
desertion OF this child, which the police
were at one time in a fair way Of solving,
when they were hauled off the trail.
AMONG the prominent enterprises which
are on foot at Fairfield is Il butter and
cheese factory. The building and apparat-
lis viii cost I 1000.
ONE OF the institutions OF Fairfield is
the Norman stud stables owned by ]. w.
Small. Some OF the finest and best stock
III the state, or in the west for that matter,
can be seen at these stables.
THE Odd Fellows OF J%uniata viii hold n
celebration of their own on the Goth, be-
tie railroad rates are too high TO
so to Omaha.
A LARGE and enthusiastic meeting was
held at Huntington, Oregon, last week, in
of the Huntington and Pine Valley
railroad. Fifty per cent of the assessment
stock was paid in, and a survey order
ed. This road opens up a large mining dis
trict To Nahro SEn whose fra do has i,nrato-