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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-12-22
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MuHERE is one feature of ciyIllza

~HERE is n feature Of civiliza.
A ton which always follows the
w. flag around the world. That Is
the spirit Of Christmas. Wher-
ever the 25th Of December finds an
American warship that place is On
Santa Claus map. though to get there
he may have to shed his furs and
change his RENDERS for a team of por-
poises. The seafaring man is senti-
mental to a degree, and no one Of his
fellow citizens celebrates the Yuletide
with more enthusiasm than the man
behind the gun.
Lying in one Of Uncle Sans navy
yards or anchored In the sheitering
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-12-22

ner. Uncle Sam feeds his seagoing
servants pretty well at all times, but
at Christmas he spreads himself. Be
sides, the jackies generally have a few
gold pieces saved up to put on the
finishing touches, and the committee on
comestibles is kept busy for days be-
fore the festival hunting all kinds Of
delicacies to their lairs. The result is
a dinner which would make any mans
mouth water on sea or land. One year
on the Texas, for example, the menu
of the forecastle Christmas feast con-
sisted of oyster soup, roast turkey
and cranberry saCce, boiled cold
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-12-22
Christmns Gift. of Radinu

Last Christmas in London it was
quite the thing to give Christmas gifts
Of radium. Of course only an ininitesi-
NAL particle of the precious substance
was included in the present, and even
then the gifts cost all the way from
$40 to $50. An instrument called the
spinthariscope, which consists Of q
small case about the size Of that o n
tanning a finger ring, contained the ra-
dunn particle, which was placed under
a small lens like a microscope. By
taking the contrivance into a darkened
room and looking through the eyepiece
one could see varying lights flashing.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-12-22
A Large Christmas Pie.

One of the largest Christmas gifts
and altogether the largest pie on record
was one sent by the Earl of Lonsdale
to King George III. of England. The
pie weighed SIC pounds, and it contain
ed 8 geese, 2 ducks, 4 fowls Cthe kind
not stated in the records, 6 pigeons, 6
wild ducks, 8 teal, 2 starlings, II par
tridges, 10 w%oodcock, 2 guinea fowls, 3
snipe, 6 plover, 8 water hens, 1 wild
goose, 1 curlew, 40 yellow hammers, 10
sparrows, Is chaffinches, 2 larks, 4
thrushes, II fieldfares, 6 blackbirds, 20
rabbits, 1 leg of veal, 1 ham, 8 bushels
of flour and % pounds of butter.
In the language of the nursery rhyme
concerning the four and twenty black
birds baked in a pie, wasn't that a
pretty dish to set before the king?"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-12-22

be washed out In honor Of the day. The
plea is usually effective.
The distribution of Christmas mail,
following the athletic programme,
takes the place of the distribution OF
! gifts at home. The farther from
Goods country" the ship happens to
be the greater the interest in this cere-
mony. Much of the mail may have
been posted by dear ones at home
many weeks before Christmas, but the
letters and packages bear the inscrip-
ton, mot to be opened before Christ
mas" and the officers see that the In
junction is not disregarded. Often the
seals of sacks known to contain Christ
mas mail are not broken until the time
comes for it's distribution, that the re-
cipient may derive the greater pleasure
from their treasures by enjoying them
In common.
The officers have their dinner in the
evening. The day has very likely been
@ lonesome n in the wardrOom, for
If the ship Is on a home station all the
officers who can get away and who
have families spend the day ashore.
At night, however, they return, bring
Ing their "sweethearts and wives" with
them. The naval regulations, ordi-
narily ignoring the very existence of
women, permits them to dine aboard
ship on Christmas day, and few navy
women" fail to take advantage of such
a privilege. A good part of every Off
GERS December pay is exhausted in
the interests Of Yuletide cheer and no
guest has eve hesitated to pronounce
the wardroom's Christmas banquet en-
unqualified success. Still, 1t sometimes
happens that the enlisted men have
a better dinner than their superiOrs,
for the able seaman is an early bird,
and where supplies are limited he may
corner the market before his officers
know what has happened. The crew
Of a man-of-War on the Asiatic sta
ton some years ago bought up all the
turkeys in Hongkong and Canton and
the officers of the ship would have been
put to it to find a substitute had not
the sailors taken pity on them and
given up some of their spoils.
The days celebration ends with a
concert by the ships band or a min
strel show, with sailors and marines
In burnt cork performing all manner
Of stunts" and cracking many an ex-
cellent joke at the expense Of the Off
GERS, who always take the jests in
good part. International complications
furnish plenty Of themes for clever
wftticisms and sketches, in which the
men often show much dramatic abil-
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-12-22

kneel around a table, a pie in front Of
each face. The man who can get away
with his pastry in the shortest time,
using teeth and lips only, wins a prize
of some sort, while the losers have the
consolation of having had an extra
pie.
At some time during the day the cap
tain of the ship is likely to find him
self confronted with a deputation of
men representing those who have by
Infractions of discipline incurred de-
merit marks, carrying q pail of Stacked
lime and water and a whitewash
trush, mutely pleading that their sins
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-12-22
will by request, visit professionally
McCOOK, NEB., JAN. 10
At Palmer Hotel
Hours: 1 p. m. to Q p. m.
1 p. m. to 9 p. m
Returning every four weeks. Consult
her while the opportunity is al hand.

DIR. CALDWELL limits her practice to- the
special treatment of diseases of the eye. ear,
nose, throat, lungs, female diseases, diseases of
children and all chronic, nervous and surgical
diseases of a durable nature. Early cOnsump-
ton, bronchitis, bronchial catarrah. chronic
catarrh, headache, constipation, stomach and
bowel troubles, rheumatism, neuralgia, ~sciatica,
BrignJs disease, kidney, dizziness. nervousness,
indigestion, obesity, interrupted nutrition,
slow growth in children, and all wasting iseas-
es in adults, d~efOrmities, club-fect, curvature
of the spine. diseases of the brain, paralysis,
epilepsy, heart disease, dropsy, swelling of the
limbs. structure. open sores. pain in the bones,
granular engagements and all long standing
diseases properly treated.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-12-22
LIVE STOCK MARKETS AT
KANSAS CITY
THE WEEKS TRADE REPORTED BY
CLAY, ROBINSON & COMPANY,
LIVE STOCK COMMISSION
MERCHANTS.
OFFICES AT CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY, oMaHR
SIOUX CITY, ST. JOSEPH AND
DENVER
Kansas City, Dec. 20, 1905.

Kansas City, Dec. 20, 1905.
Receipts of cattle thus far this week
are 80, 700; last week, 42,400; last year
$4,000. Mondays market was slow
but about steady for beef steers; all
other grades strong to ten cents higher.
On Tuesday trade off beef steers ruled
strong to ten cents higher; COWS and
heifers firm stockers and feeders steady.
Receipts today were $500. Beef steers
were active and firm; COWS and heifers
uneven but generally unchanged; stock
ers aud feeders weak with stock calves
nearly impossible to move at any price,
especially ordinary grades. The follow
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-12-22

Pimples, blotches, eruptions, liver spots, fall
ing of the hair, bad complexion, eczema, throat
ulcers, bone pains, bladder troubles, weak back,
burning urine, passing urine too often. The
effects of constitutional sickness or the taking
of too much injurious medicine receives search.
ing treatment prompt relief and a cure for life.
Diseases of women, irregular menstruation.
falling of the womb, bearing down pains, fe,
male displacements, lack of sexual tone, Len
corrhea, s~terility or barrenness, consult Dr.
Caldwell, and she will show them the cause of
their trouble and the way to become cured.
CANCER, GOTTER, FISTULA, PILES
and enlarged glands treated with the subcutan.
eous injection method, absolutely without main
and without the loss of a drop of blood. is one
of her own discoveries and is really the most
scientific and certainly sure method of this Adj.
vanced age. DR.. caldwell has practiced her
profession in some o. the largest hospitals
throughout the country. She has lately onenad
an office in Omaha, Nebraska, where she will
spend a portion of each week treating her many
patients. No incurable cases accepted for
treatment. Consultation, examination and adj
vice, one dollar to those interested.
DR.. ORA CALDWELL s CO..
omana' NEBRASKA Chicago, Illinois
Address all letters to los Bee Building, Omaha
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-12-22

ity. Last year the Panama incident
was very creditably worked up" on
battleship. This year the Russian
and the Jap will have to take their
turns as targets for the minstrels'
merry Quips.
1.-The Star Spangled Banner" the
marine amen, puts the official benedic-
ton on the celebration, and, with
taps" sounding in their ears, officers
and men curl up in their hunks and
hammOcks to dream of their maternal
grandmothers and the other specters
which plum pudding evokes.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-12-22
BY II. W. ferrtn
Copyright. 1905. by A. w. Ferrin

tongue, picked beets, celery, mashed
potatoes, green peas, cider, mince pies.
assorted cakes, oranges, apples, ba-
nanas, nuts, raisins, candy, coffee.
cigars and cigarettes.
The Texas was at the New York
navy yard, to be sure, but her rela-
tives in the navy who passed the day
in foreign ports probably Jared quite
as well, though their crews may have
had to substitute some other bird for
the turkey. The tars of foreign fleets
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-12-22
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Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1905-01-06
n INTERESTING PROP SAL.

SENATOR Stewards bill for raising
n.;ol salaries at Washington is
.,alv 10 arouse interest not only in
,oeress but throughout the coun-
y II proposes to double the salary
.,.;d At present to the president, to
..ise that of vice-president and
....Ler OF the House from $4,000
s9O 900 and pay each senator, re-
,.aoontatiye and delegate in con-
as,sss $4,000, instead Of IS, 900. The
1ota Of going into effect is placed at
Mach 4. 1909, so that no one now
owsa will be affected by it un.
egs reelected in the meantime.
So fas as the adequacy OF present
lnavmont is concerned that there can
~ little difference Of opinion. The
rates were fixed at time when the
l.vnepse of living in Washington
vss much less than it is to-day. The
hresident's salary was doubled In
kinnt's first term. He had the
hene6t of it during his second term.
Fbe growth of the country has been
II great since that time, and the
corresponding social obligations up
On the president have increased 50
Enormously, that $4,000 today is
Is inadequate as s25, 900 was in 1873
trbe amount proposed in Senator
Etewart's bill is an entirely reason
hble one, and the country is surely
bible to pay it9
As for the salary of So 900 paid
spresent to senator's and representa-
Hiyes, few persons will contend that
lt is sufficient to enable them to live
otherwise than in the most frugal
Imanner in case they have families to
Support. A bachelor might live on
kt but even he would be obliged to
llpractice careful economy.
It will be said, doubtless, that
there is no lack of men who are
willing to accept the office at pre-
sent rates, and this is true; but it is
equally true that the majority of
Them viii be men of considerable
Iprivate means, and that many men
sot real and desirable merit are
prevented through lack of means
from accepting office. The subject
is large one and will excite wide
Espread discussion New York Globe
Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1905-01-06

Hunt D. Possry claim to lot and impts al
Mesquite. Possry claim to 20 acres land on Cox
entry Val ll6 tax 81 poll tax 00pen 69c adv 0C
total $500
Huntsman s-Possfy claim to lot at Mesquite,
possry claim 10 ( acres land east Of VIM Abotts
--possry claim to lot and impts known as Hyrum
Burgess place Val S0 tax 02 pen l0o adv 90 total
S3i2
Huntsman Perry Fee simple title to 10 acres
land at Mesquite Val IS, tax 2.S9 pen 2s adv
2 90 total $5.l7
johnson Johu Mp POssessory claim to 40 acres
land on Application No l2s08 being northeast qtr
OF southeast quarter Of Sec 20 township Is range
10 possessory claim to acres land at Mesquite
Val ll5 tax 39i penalty poll tax 90 80 adv 90
total 50 60
Leayitt Jos-Possry claim to IA acres land at
Mesquite -Possry claim lots and impts at
Mesquite Val lis tax 3.9l poll tax 90 pen G9c adv
90 total 50 GO
Treman Geo oA-Posses sory claim to acres of
land In Mesquite Possessory olsim to 10 acres Of
land on Application No l2S0s in section 20 town
ship 13 range II, tax 20 pen 42o adv 200 total
SG67,
Road DISTRICT No 2. Fioche
Denton W A. Fee simple title to lot and impis
on Main street Val 70 tax an poll tax So pen SIC
adv 2, total 1884
Panaca Road District NOS.
lots Sliqn and impts IN oae simple title to 100 t
acres land in Meadow Valley Wash
Fee simpe title TO lots adjoining d Rice-poseery
claim to 10 acres pasture land south OF Panaoa
Val $50 tax ls 90 pen 80 adv 2 206totRl s2l,s2
VIM Adair -Possry claim to lot and impts in
Glover Valley. Val ITO tax 37l pen SIC adv 2 90
total SO II
Empty H Possry claim to house in Panaca east
of wadsworths Val 40 tax SO poll tax 90 pen 4Sc
adv 200 total 1919
eoott Mrs J-Possry claim to house in Panaca
Val 100 tax 8 40 pen 3lc total S5,74
Wadsworth D-Possry claim to lot and impts In
Panaca--Possry claim to house in Panaca Val $50
tax 10 poll tax 90 pen Ole adv 2 90 total Sl209
Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1905-01-06
Death Of Tom snnson.

Last Saturday morning cave in
the Prosperity mine buried Thos
Stinson under tons of debris. Stin-
son had been working in an upraise
from the tunnel level, which was
being run to tap an old shaft for air
purposes, and drove into an old
stope. He was warned the night
before that there was a possibility
that the soft ground which be said
his shots broke into might be old
works, but he thought different and
went to work the next morning.
Within half an hour the cave came,
filing the upraise and burying the
unfortunate man. Owen McNeely,
the owner of the property, who was
working in the mine, observed the
cave and together with his brother
made every effort to save the en-
toned man. A messenger was sent
to neighboring camps and men hur-
ried to the mine, where they worked
all day Saturday and until four
o'clock Sunday morning before they
reached the poor fellow. When
found he was standing on a four by
six spreader, crouche, into little
break in the wall, but dead and stiff
AZ least two hundred tons of dirt
and rock rus he'd down past and over
him but failed to knock him from the
stull. Miners worked with feyerish
energy all day and night and during
that time carried out nearly if not
quite 200 tons of debris. This had
to be run through the upraise into
the tunnel j. w Morgan and
Thos Lake remained in blind drift
through the upraise. At one time
they were imprisoned in this drift,
three hours before the muckers
could car out the mass of dirt from
the mouth of the raise, and when
the air was gotten to them they were
in an exhausted condition. Owing
to the hanging bouldsrs in the up
raise and stope hook had to be
made and the dead man pulled into
drift where it could be reached.
The body was prepared for burial
and shipped to Kingman, where the
funeral took place.-Mohave Miner.
Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1905-01-06

Denton W A-Fee simple title to lot and impts
Main street, Val 70 tax an poll tax So pen b7c
y | adv q total sS "a
Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1905-01-06

With his flowing patriarchal beard
white as snow bank, and massive
figure, but little bent in spite of his
three score years and seventeen
Senator Stewart of Nevada, is a man
whom visitors in the Senate galleries
look at more than once. Generally
he is enveloped in a capacious frock
coat that falls to his knees and adds
to his stately appearance, But OF
late the Senator has adopted a more
conspicuous attire. He wears a
dinkey little blue coat, not half as
long as his coats of former days,
and waistcoat white as his linen
shirt front or his abundant beard
The doorkeepers have been on the
point of stopping the Neyadan more
than once, thinking it altogether a
different man. - Washington Post,
Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1905-01-06
Rond plstrlct No /. punkeryIlle

Cox Martha--Possry claim to so acres land appl
1875 being n qtr Of 8 qtr and W qtr Of W qtr
9 81 tp Is rg 70--Possry eiaim to lot north Of z
Bunker Jr--P0ssry clailn to 20 acres land Il mile
north Of Bnnkervile Val 1853 tax i6 II pen 6l adv
90 total sis Is
Leavitt Alonzo TPossry claim to 10 acres land
u mile Of Bunkervilie possessory claim to lot
and impts in Bunkeryile Val 46 tax IA q poll tax
90 pen La adv 90 total $40 93
Coz Isaiah--Possry claim 70 two lots in Mesquite
Possry claim to 80 acres land appl l9s0S being G
otr OF qtr sec 20 tp i3 RI II Val rs tax s5c pen
0sc adv 90 total 50 93
Harding Perry Possessory claim to so acres land
one mile vest Of Mesqutei Val 80 tax .02 pen l0t
adv 81 total 1912
Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1905-01-06
sEARCHLlGHT ITEMS

Items taken from the "Search-
Tight, Lincoln County, Nevada.
4. L. Henderson, deputy U. S.
mineral surveyor, has been engaged
by A. NJ, Jennings to survey for
kpatent fourteen claims at Eldorado.
Locally the properties are known as
Ethe Landon and Evans groups.
both groups are under bond to Mr..
RJsnnings.
As yet it is all rumor, but from
Two different sources, both equally
nliable, it is learned that the reports
fecently made by Santa Fe engineers
Fre rafy favorable and it is practi-
ally certain that the Santa Fe will
build branch into Searchlight.
Will the Quartette ever cease to
lnproveH Apparently not. for every
foot Of development work adds not
only to the values but also to the
aze Of the ore bodies. Progress has
been slow IN west drift on the
iOO-ft level for the reason that it has
Deem necessasy to catch-up the
Y ground and to do considerable timb-
snug. The drift, however, is well
started. Two-sets wide it is being
carred and it will run both east and
west. This new work is increasing
materially the water supply To the
east Of the shaft the old ore shoot
aas been opened up for nearly 400
Two upraisos have been run
slfongh to the level above, and a
1hlrd one is now about halfway
through. In No. 2. raise there is
n'e feet of heavily stained copper
ore which will run better than $500
aton. In other words this shoot of
0fe is growing longer with depth
and increasing in values. In a cross
cutlnto the foot-wall, between raise
70 and No 2, a water course was
hpped. 1t is one Of the best course
~ the mine and the water flows
ofocS-like out Of the crosscut into
lle main drift. The sump is being
sisaned out and preparations made
" resume sinking. All the material
ana supplies for the new ten
'lmps are on the ground and it is
SSapected that the stamps will be
"0pplug In about two weeks.
= woman aged twenty-eight died
i i Davarla in the cradle in which
aus was laid soon after her birth
~ ~ q which she had passed the
4 UlOiH nf h.. O. 4 A =
Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1905-01-06
NOTICE OF
TAX SALE.
DELINQUENT LIST OF PROPERTY FOR THI
YEAR 1908, LINCOLN COUNTY. NEVADA.

Notice is hereby given to those whom IT may con.
cern and to the following named persons and to all
owners Of, or caiments TO- the real estate and Inn
provements thereon, or improvements when as
sessed separately, hereinafter described, known or
unknown. That the taxes for State aud County
purposes, for the year A. D. 1904 assessed against
the following described pieces OF parcels Of pro.
perty are now delinquent; that ten per cent penalty
and two ts2.oOl dollars, cost Of advertising, has
been added in each case, AMI that any piece or par
eel of property upon which said taxes, penalty
and costs shall remain unpaid on.
Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1905-01-06
Monday, January 10th,
At Noon, A. D.
1905.

70 much Of each parcel as will pay the amount
of taxes delinquency and costs against It will be
sold by ne, as County Treasurer and Ex.G8icio
Tax Receiver of said County of Lincole, at 70
O'Clock NJ. OF said day, at the front door Of the
Court House, at the town of Pioche, in said county,
to satisfy such taxes delinquency and costs. Sold
sales will be made subject to redemption within
six months after sale, by payment Of all the sums
assessed against each parcel, together with three
per cent per month thereon from the date of sale
until paid. in accordance with the provisions Of
Section OF an act OF the Legislature Of the State
Of Nevads approved March 18th, 1885 Statute
OF 1895, Page III.
j. A. NRsBITT,
County Treasurer and Ex0fhcio Tax Receiver Of
Lincoln County. Nevada.
pioche December 22d 1904.
Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1905-01-06

!, woman aged twenty-eight died
- y DaVarla in the cradle in which
sus y. was laid soon after her birth
wt ~ y which she had passed the
III, gnoie OF her life. She preserved to
I~s hsb end the size and appearance of a
ny. my lew months old, though her
s1a sua developed abnormally, and
-A' was a persistent talker,