The McCook tribune., 1891-01-23
FROM THE COUNTY SEAT.
Epitone Of the Weeks Events
at the Seat OF County Affairs.
Joe Goggles, the Irrepressible, Special
News and Society Reporter.

Wheat straw is selling for S. per
ton i'm Indianola
Dr. George 7. Moore and family have
gone to Minnesota.
A counterfeit silver dollar is being
circulated in this city.
Judge Cochran was in this yellow
ocher city on the goth inst.
Dan Harrison will 90 out to Oregon
soon to look up business location.
]. B. Mather expects to irrigate his
farm near town with steam pump.
j. E. Helm will experiment with the
bucket pump in irrigat,ng, this season.
County Treasurer Henton has rented
the Hetherington property for year.
D. R. Carpenter was bound over to
appear in district court in the sum of
$500.
R. NJ. Snavely has gone to Denver on
business. Expects to stay two or three
weeks.
Mr.. Holland who owns the Steve
Lyon ranch has already dug mile of
irrigating ditch.
1t is reported that Chicago capitalists
are coming to lndianola to investigate
the ocher business
The revival meetings at the NJ. +.
church are largely attended and much
interest manifested.
More aid is now being sent to this
point in care of Rev. J. T. Roberts than
comes any other way.
W. S. Phillips has gone to Union
vile, Mo-, to look after the title to the
land he bought near there.
Some of our real estate men are re-
ceiving inquiries every day as to the
price of land in this county.
A company will be formed to tap the
Red Willow and irrigate all the bottom
land from the Willow to BARLEY.
Mrs S. F. Daily, relative of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. j. Rand, has been visiting them
the past week. She went to Denver,
Tuesday morning.
j. Byron Jennings, said to be the
handsomest attorney in the eleventh
judicial district, was doing business in
the county-seat on the 10th inst
D. R. Carpenters preliminary trial
came off Wednesday before Judge Keyes,
Attorneys Starr and Berge appearing
for the state and Attorney Frank II.
Strout for the defendant.
County Treasurer Henton could not
have selected man in the county as
his deputy who would have been more
acceptable to the people of this CON-
munity than Foster Stilgebouer.
F. A. Godell of Haverhill, Mass, an
old schoolmate tf Attorney Strout, on
his way to California, stopped off few
days to visit Frank. Mr.. Godell is one
of three brothers who run large stove
manufacturing establishment at Haver-
hill.
Brother Carpenter has at last rem
dered an account of himself, during the
first days sessions of our highly riproar-
ious state Legislature. We had been
credltably informed that the talented
editor Of the B.-L.-F.-W. had gone
down to Lincoln after hayseed and ex-
pected that he would distinguish him
self beyond regulation. But seeing no
special mention of him in the great
metropolitan press of this state we
thought he might have gone on down
into Kansas where hay is more abun-
dant and preachers less numerous,
else why had he not taken Sheriff Nc
Clay by the nap of the neck and the
seat of his breeches and thrown him
over the dome of the capital. Why had
he not like the LIE Noir Faineant at the
tournament of Ashby-de-la- -Zanche
swung in at the supreme moment and
tied Meiklejohn and McClay in knot
and stow them away under the Speakers
desk. Imagine our surprise when
Richard himself steps to the front and
explains that while the storm was at
its highest he was calmly but firmly
making peace between two con-