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The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29
Sur Aeisbbors.

The Shelby Polk county,, town board
has brought suit against Henry Weber,
saloon keeper, for balance of S257 on
last years license.
Polk county commissioners have dis
covered that the present county superin-
tendent, is entitled to only $500 salary.
He is a republican. His predecessor was
a populist and received $1,000 year.
Albion News, correspondence from
Cedar Rapids: Rev. F. w. Bross was
the victim of genuine surprise last
Saturday on the occasion of his birth
day. His friends, and truly they are
legion, presented him with q valuable
fur coat, as an expression OF good will
and appreciation OF his earnest labOrs in
our midst.
st. Edward Sun: James Nevels re-
ceived letter from James McCntchen
this week stating that he was we'll salts
fed with Georgia and the locality in and
around the Soldier Colony. In the al
lOtment of the lands Messrs. Nevels,
McCutcheOn. Frank SissOn and Robert
Hardy, all secured ten acre tracts near
each other about six miles from the
town of Fitzgerald.
Osceola Record: C. l.. johnson of
Colorado Springs, was in Osceola yes
terday renewing old acquaintances. He
was resident Of Polk county many
years ago and for some time was deputy
county treasurer under n. C. Foy. He
went to Colorado about nine years ago
and when the Cripple Greek gold field
was opened mp, got in on the ground
floor, and his many Polk county friends
will be glad to learn that he has good
thing.
Fremont Herald: The idea of Super
visor W. H. Mead providing a wood pile
at the court house, to enable willing men
to earn their meals, was put to test yes
terday. Four men were put to work
cutting up the wood and carrying it
about to the different rooms in the build
ing. Hereafter wood will be burned at
the court hOnse instead of coal. The
men are allowed Sl.5O per day, being
paid in provisions. furnished by the
county.
Albion Argus: Willie Browder, the
seventeen year old son OF James Brow
der Of Loretto, met with serious acci-
dent last Tuesday evening, that cost him
the sight of his right eye. While rum
ming around the corner of the barn he
fell upon an upturned harrow running
one Of the rusty teeth in his eye, COM
pletely bursting the ball. He was taken
to Omaha Wednesday morning and
placed in a hospital, where every pre-
caution will be taken to keep ont blood
poisoning.
Warren Randall, who has a ranch
southwest of Shelby, lost q steer weigh
ing 100 pounds. Advertising failed to
locate the animal. Recently the owner
found it lying on the floor of an old de-
serted house detached from the other
buildings. For forty-three days it had |
remained there, with broom corn rub
bish for food. 1t had wasted away about |
twelve pounds each day and was very
weak. The location OF the bones be-
meath the hide was conspicuous. Ran
dali believes that the steer will live and |
regain its plumpness.
An irrigation system for central Buffa- |
10 county will be practically completed |
by February IN, ready for use on this |
crops. The main ditch starts |
from the Platte river, south OF the city |
OF Kearney. and runs northeast along .
ridge north OF Buda, for Q distance Of !
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29

The New York Tribune notes that the
imports Of wOolens, cottons, silks, linens
and other fax and hemp goods for the
seven months of 1S94-5 under new du-
ties compare with the imports for the
same months in 1884 under old duties
as follows, warehouse charges being here
,no01ocfo6.
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29
IoRoaRn Iroa lnDoRtn,

Iron ore il fighting its way here from
abroad In March we imported over 30,-
900 tons as against 5, 700 tons in March,
1894. OF pig iron also We bought @Sl,-
900 worth from foreign countries last
March as against %, $50 worth in March,
1894
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29

The treasury statement Of the public
debt for the month of April shows an IL
crease of 2.349, $50 in the interest bear
ing debt and decrease Of q, ,O99, ,345 in
the cash balance in the treasury. These
are free trade times.
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29

The presidential boomers are at work.
At Lincoln, Mckinley organization is
being effected, and literature sent out.
We are also in receipt OF a pamphlet from
the headquarters at New York city, OF
the Levi p. Morton campaign committee.
down as one of the presidential possibil-
tiles by SO prominent a newspaper as the
Cincinnati Gazette.
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29
COLUMBUS MARKETS.
NOTICE PROBATE OF WILL.

Notice probate OF will. Anna Maria Kicker
bacher, deceased. In the county court, Platte
county, Nebraska. The State Of Nebraska to
the heirs and next Of kin If said Anna Maria
Kckerhacher, deceased:
Take notice, that upon filing Of a written in
strument purpOrtins to be last will and Tesla
ment Of Anna Maria Rickerbacher for probate
and allowance, il is ordered that said matter b.
set for hearing the 10Th day Of February, A. ID.
1891. before said county court. at the hour of
o'clock p. m, Mt which time any person inter
estesa may appear and contest the same; and
notice of this proceeding is ordered published
three weeks successively in The COLUNEUs
JOURNAL, n weekly and legal newspaper, pub
lishes in said county and state.
In testimony whereof, have hereuntO set my
hand and the seal Of the county court. at Colum-
bus this 18th day Of January, A. d. lsssi.
}. N. kILIiN,
2tjan4 County Judge.
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29

IT seems now that diplomatic relations
between Venezuela and Great Britain
have been suspended since 1887. There
is a strong belief at Washington that
relations will be restored. and that Great
Britain will consent to arbitration.
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY q. 1886.

The Bank of Commerce at Grand Is
land was closed last week. The amount
of deposits is said to he $l45,OOO. Hall
county is reported as having $4,000 on
depOsit in the bank.
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29

The Democratic party is always for
something free. It has advocated free
whisky and free trade, and of course it
must next declare for free silver. The
only thing which the Democrats did not
want free was the negro.-Cleveland
Leader.
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29

The leader in the February Forum is
contributed by Professor Charles Eliot
Norton, of Harvard University, who dis
cusses ''Some Aspects of Civilization in
America" A very striking and sugges-
tive paper.
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29
STATEMENT

I, Henry H0ckenbarser, secretary Of the
above named association, do solemniy swear
that the foregoing statement Of the condition Of
said association, is trae and correct to the hest
Of my knowledge AMI belief.
HENRY nOCKENBERGER,
Secretary.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9Th
day Of January, 1896.
/. SIBBERNSEN,
Notary Public.
Approved
IL. WEAVER,
ii. 1. MURDOCH. Directors.
l.. q. ZINNECKER, sjan3t
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29
TAKEN Up.

At my premises, eleven miles north Of COlum-
b0s, in sherman township, December 81,
BAY BRONCHO MARE.
about four years old, one white hind foot. white
about seven hundred pounds. Owner will prove
property and pay charHes.
lS3an5t HKx1I HoDBINsIEYIEN,
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29
The following resolution offered by Sup'r Rolf.
was a6Onfssl viz.

was adopted, viz:
Re it resolved by this board that the treasurer
l,e and he is hereby requested to allow the Of
his books and papers, including all cancelled
warrants and all other papers and books in his
possession. necessary to a thorough and com
plete examination Of said office by the state
examiner and snch experts the COMMITTEES Of
the board shall appoint.
Sup'r lisco Offered the following resolution,
which was adopted:
Resolved that the county sheriff, clerk Of the
district court, county judge and all Justices be
requested to furnish the committee appointed by
this board all books, records AMI papers that
they may require.
On motion OF Snp'r Rolf, the board adjourned,
subject to the call Of the chairman.
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29

ABOUT Feb. the treasury department
will resume the coinage Of silver dollars
and continue until about $l8,OO0,OOO
have been coined. When the present
administration came into power there
were in the treasury about s29, 100000 in
silver dollars coined from bullion under
the act of 1890 and available for the
redemption of treasury notes issued in
payment of the bullion purchased. Since
August, 1893, about SlS,OOO,OO of these
notes have been redeemed in silver dol
lars and cancelled. The secretary OF the
treasury has now decided to coin from
the bullion on had and purchased under
tbs act Of 1890 about $lS.OOO,OOO, which
will restore the amount of dollars in the
treasury to what it was on March 4,
1898. The average cost of the silver
bullion purchased under the Sherman
act was clR cents on the dollar, which
leaves a gain or seigniOrage Of 2Sls cents
on the dollar. At this rate the seigniOr-
age on the $4,000. 600 to he coined would
be s., ,l30,O 900 which will he accounted for
in the available cash on hand. increasing
it by that amount. The order for the
resumption of the coinage at the mints
at Philadelphia. New Orleans and San
Francisco is expected any day.
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29
COanty Supervisors.
fC0ntinued from last week. !

tSoutIuueu iIssH inSe WecA.l
January II. 1875.
The board convened st 2 O'Clock p. m. Roll
call, all members present.
On recommendation of the committee on sup
plies. the following bills we're unanimously
allowed, and the clerk ordered to draw warrants
nm .v..pora0 fund in ,,ent ~ tho
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29
Sup'r Rolf offered the following resolution:

Resolved that the chairman Of the board, and
Supervisors Becher and LiscO he and are hereby
authorized to appoint and contract VIII some
competent p nersoa 70 ear examine me the .hs uesnisrs
and that they have the county attorney draw up
contract covering such examination; that said
committee shall have full power to select and
hire such expert accountant and shall allow him
such compensation as in their judgment is for
the hest interests Of the county. Adopted.
Sup'r IiscO, "a one Of the investigating COM
mittes on Sheriff kavanaueh's bond. reported
fayorably regarding the same. and On motion Of
Sup'r Lisco, the bond was approved.
Sheriff ID. G. knvanaush made application for
one deputy. On motion the request was granted
On motion Of Sup'r Rolf, the following yearly
salaries were designated for the deputies and
,larks named resDectiyslv.
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29

Report adopted.
The chair appointed - committee Supervisors
Rolf, LiscO and Becher.
County Clerk Pohl made application for one
filing and one attest stamp. Referred to CON-
mittee On supplies.
On report Of the committee recommending the
same. the p1rchasing agent was directed to pur-
chase said supplies.
Sup'r Becher offered the following resolution:
Be it received By the Board of Supervisors
that the following balances in the several funds
hereinafter mentioned. b and are hereby ordered
tzansferred to the consolidated county general
fu~l 20
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29

WIN. SCHILTX makes boots AMI shoes in the
w hest styles, and uses only the very best
stock that can hs OrOcursd in the market. 52-tf
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29

And that there be also transsesrsd to
eaid county consolidated geneeal
fund. fr01 tie county relief fund
M.ti.x ss.nd total Of. ;::.;..s .iis %
sum q $50 s the .s%e % S.ins s i. 'snS amount mt
drawn from said poor farm fund for the purpOse
Of Providing seed and fesd to indisenf farmers
And Be i further resolved that there h. trans
fesred to the school fund Of the county the cum
Of $50 the same being the amount shown b.
the treasorer's report to have been collected for
Respectfully submitted.
Resolutions adopted.
The bill OF County Treasures, h. 8. Elliott,
for $57s was. ON Recommendation of the COM
mittee on supplies. allowed. and the clerk or
dered to draw warrant for the amount ON the
general fund.
Sup'r Rolf offered the following:
Resolved that the county attorney is hereby re-
9uested for written opinion as to whether the
board can lawfully approve Of the sherid'e bond
gear. and whether the report Of the committee.
Of settlement with the sheriff as reported
by them, which il spread up0n the records, was
. settlement with the sheriff such as cOntempla-
ted BY Law.
Adopted.
The opinion Of County Attorney Gondring
was read and ordered spread upon the record. a.
follows, viz:
To the Honorable Board cf Supervisors of Platte
county. Nebraska, Gen.l h...n:
In answer to yoIr communication hereto at
and county board to make iaii and final % s se.tie-
ment for the last year, would not in my opinion
yitiate or affect the approval Of the bond for
In GOO tho shor;6 b.s pnl,l;c f,,.,s ~. ,.,,..
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29

SOUTH DAKOTA is gro~ling at the poor
oil that the oil inspector allows to run
through his fingers, and purpose having
better oil even il they have to abolish
the inspector and 60 into a combine
themselves. II the whole people of the
country fhat is. the government, con-
front every monopoly with regulation
securing reasonable prices and good ser
vice, or quick hustling out Of business,
the country would be better off. Oil is
q great convenience and people wouldn't
like to do without it, but an independent
mind is the Indispensable oil OF oil in
running human machinery.
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29

And that there be also Transferred to
said county consolidated general
fund. froa The county relief fund
The cum a.
The Columbus journal., 1896-01-29

Imports, seven months. Increase
The St. Johns herald., 1896-09-05
Bursting FIy-WheelS.

The bursting of fly wheel is almost unheard of in England, notwlthstand- ing the high speed engines we now have running, yet in the United States fly wheel casualties have become a matter of weekly report. In England we have many thousands of high speed cast iron fly wheels and very large wheels up to sixty tons weight running with very high periphery speed, and they all run safely, and yet in the States they say: 'oThe sudden advent of the electrical ap- paratus and its high speeds found peo- pie making fly wheels of cast iron, with a narrow factor of safety, or, indeed, no factor of safety at all, if we consider the impossibility of detecting inherent strains and imperfections In this mate rial. No one can know the value of material nodded into form at a tenn. perature of 2,OO0 degrees and then cool. ed down to a 10th of this tempera ture, nor can they judge internal structure by surface indications. The fact is that cast iron is not suitable material for fly wheels that are to be driven at high speed, nor is it necessary to make them of this material. There is not even the claim of cheapness in their favor,- if the methods of making such wheels of wrought iron and steel were once work ed out"
 Twenty years ago Scotch firm, who had to make a large fly wheel for a spinning mill, riveted up a box rim, made from rolled plates, and filled it with cemented masonry or "grout," and did a very sensible thing.-London En- Oinnpr
The St. Johns herald., 1896-09-05
The Aryan Cowboys.

The study of domestic cattle should be of especial interest to Us because they have undoubtedly occupied a more inn portant place in our own ancestral his tory than any other species of animal The Aryan tribesmen from whom nearly all western civilization folk are de- scended were cowboys almost to man. Like the Kaffirs and damaras of South Africa today, all their thoughts were about their herds This is shown in a curious way by the study of the early development of our language The San skrit word for king meant originally "a chief herdsman'' The word for an as- sembly, or the meeting place of con- gress, was the same as that for a cow yard. A soldier was "one who fights about COWS" It would seem as if they regarded nothing else as worth ruling over or talking about or fighting for. Professor Max Muller traces the word daughter" to the ancient term for milkmaid. In the good old times they plainly did not take any account of young ladies who were not accomplished performers in the cowpen.
 The COW or OK was for long ages the chief standard of value Everything, from new coat to a new wife, was priced at so many COWS. Many of our words which refer to money bear traces of this, such as fee" and "pecuniary," which are directly derived from the old English and Latin words for cattle Doubtless there were currency disputes when other materials began to be used for coinage, and difficulties arose about the adjustment of relative values. Cow metallism" might we'll have been an important plank in some of the Aryan political platforms American Review.
 Times or general calamity and con- fusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is pro- duced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-09-05
MAKING A MINE.
In Some Instances It Costs Nothing-In
 Others the Cost Is Millions.

Others the Cost Is Millions.
 There are no hard and fast rules in regard to making a mine from the time it passes into the prospector's hands un- til it becomes dividend payer Many mines are such, as the miners say, from the grass roots," and turn cut large quantities of ore from the begin ming.
 J. B. Haggin, the millionaire mine owner, took s, 1000, 900 from the Custer mine, in Lemhi county, Ida, before 1t became necessary to use a candle (giant powder) This mine was known as the Mineral mountain. A man came along one day, and after looking at it remarked, "Why, the hanging wall IS gone" This was true. Nature had as- sisted the miner in this case; the moun- tain side had been eroded, leaving the mineral standing there. MT. Haggin also spent about $3.O0O, 900 in develop ing the Anaconda mine before it was on paying basis
 Mines have been discovered contain ing fabulous wealth, although a pres pectOr would starve to death in trying to work them. This was true in regard to the Homestake mine, in the Black Hills The prospectors who made the discovery could do nothing with it, and 1t passed into the hands of Senator Hearst and other California capitalists. They concluded that, unless it was worked on a large scale, it could not be made profitable. An so stamp mill was ordered and shipped ill from Cheyenne, at cost of $135, 900, as an experiment.. The mine has paid in dividends $37, 800 month for IT years.
 It requires a large amount of money usually to put a mine on a dividend paying basis, and, as a rule, this the prospector cannot do, although prospect ors have made fortunes with their prop critics. s.-Spokaue Spokesman-Review
The St. Johns herald., 1896-09-05

supposed that he was distracted Men respected his moods, but these things do not increase friendships. Challice the Animal and Challice the Intellect weighed each other down.
 They left Cambridge; they went to London; they took lodgings. ''You arc now so different from me in appear ance," said the Intellect, ''that think we may leave off the necessary precau- tions. Go about without troubling what l am and what I am doing. Go about and amuse yourself, but be careful" 1"
 The victim of sloth obeyed He went about all day long in heavy, meaning less fashion He looked at things in shops. He sat in museums and dropped off to sleep. He strolled round squares. At luncheon and dinner time he found out restaurants where he could feed-in reality, the only pleasure left to him was to eat, drink and sleep.
 One day he was in Kensington gar dens, sitting half asleep in the sun. Peo- pie walked up and down the walk be- fore him - beautiful women gayly dressed, sprightly women gayly talking -the world of wealth, fashion, extrav- agance and youth. He was no more than three and twenty himself. He ought to have been fired by the sight of all this beauty and all this happiness. Nobody in the world can look half so happy as a lovely girl finely dressed But he sat there like a clod, dull and insensate
 Presently a voice which he remem- bered, ''Papa, it is Will Challicep He looked up heavily. ''Why, Will"-the girl stood before him-''don't you know me?''
 Itwas Nell, the daughter of his tutor, now comedy maiden of one and twenty, who laughed and held out her hand to him. He rose, but not with alacrity. The shadow of smile crossed his face. He took her hand.
 "ChalliceP" his tutor clapped him on the shoulder ''I haven't seen you since you took your degree Splendid, my boyl
The St. Johns herald., 1896-09-05
BITTEN BY A SNAKE.
That Is What the Victim of Practical
 Joke Thought.

OOke thought.
 "A good many years ago." said an ex-congresslnan to party of congress- men, ''I was in Georgia. A party of us decided to go from Atlanta to Clarks- vile on horseback Tim Murphy, an Irishman, was lieutenant of the At- lanta police force. He wanted to go, too, and we consented. On our way to Clarksville, through the mountainous sections of the state, we killed two large rattlesnakes. Murphy was amazed and frightened He wanted to know if snakes were plentiful, and we told him that they were. We told him that at Ciarksville they had often been found n the rooms of guests at the hotel Tim hated to turn back and so went on.
 "We knew that at Gainesville a sa- loon keeper had stuffed bull snake, and we concocted a plan to make Tim wish he had never left Atlanta. We got to the old fashioned hotel all right. We were put in big room, with four beds in it. We drank a good deal, and Tim was in excellent spirits. It was warm night, and most of us undressed. Tim pulled of everything but his shirt. He lay down face foremost across the bed. Then tied a string around the neck of the snake, put ishhcok at the other end of the line and cautiously hitched the hook to Tim's shirt.
 ''The next time he turned around he got glimpse of the snake. Holy schmokeP he yelledl LookP And then he made dash for the window. As he jumped out the window the fshhook pricIled him in the back He uttered an awful yell, said he had been bitten and went flying through the sandy streets of the town dressed in Kongo style We followed and tried to catch him. At ev- cry step he swore he had been bitten, and that he would die. We overhauled him after the whole town had been aroused. We took him back to the hotel and filled him with whisky, telling him that was the only cure for snake bite. The next morning he went to At lanta and took a course under a physi- elan for snake bite. For years after that Tim would brag about killing 20 snakes at one time and of having been bitten by one of them. He did not learn of the trick for five years, and then he threat ened to take my life. "-Washington Star
The St. Johns herald., 1896-09-05
CHAPTER v.

The first step was achieved. The first class was gained. Challice of Pembroke was second classic. He might have been senior but for the unaccountable laziness of his first year. He was university scholar, medalist, prizeman. He was one of the best speakers at the union.
 He was known to be ambitious. He was not popular, however, because he was liable to strange fits of dullness. Those who met him wandering about the banks of the river found him apparently un- able to understand things. At such times he looked heavy and dull. It was
The St. Johns herald., 1896-09-05

There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all ether diseases put together and until the last few years was supposed to be in curable. For a great many years doctors pro- nounce1 it a local disease and prescribed local local treatment, pronounced it incurable Science has proven catarrh to be constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Halls Catsrrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,, Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoon ful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address,
 F. J. CHENEY IS CO, Toledo, O. EMeSnld hV Druggists 7hn