The Goodland republic., 1907-02-15

tendent ana Curtis Calvert. Frank
Cross and W 3 Morgan, appeared 70
be very glad that the quarantine had
been raised on them last week and
their friends were congTatuiating them
over the fact that they did not come
down with the disease. They were
exposed 20 q smallpox case but came
through without a pimple-
q Il Nester returned Sunday night
from Chicago, where he went as q de-
legate OF the Brotherhood OF Railway
Carmen OF America He reports a
raise from one to two cents an hour
for ali men empOyed in the Rock Is
land car department and amounting
to 100000 q year on the entire sys-
tems figured on a basis OF ten-hOuT
day.
Mrs A D. Stewart entertained Tues
day afternoon a Valentine party, for
her sister, Miss Nadge Alden, who has
been the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. Stew
art for the past month About twen-
ty-fye young ladies responded to In
vitation for the afternoon from to
O'Clock. After receiving Valentine
sOnnets, for which Miss Marcia Biddi-
son won first prize. a dainty lunch
was served and this pleasant little af-
fair came to a close.
The 1OO-feet high reinforced con-
crete smokestack viii be completed
this week Only four feet is to be ad-
ded with a bell-shaped fare at the
top. This VIII give the furnaces at
the Rock Island shops hne draft,
thereby securing a better consumption
Of coal and an economy Of fuel The
boiler room has a new set Of coal
bunkers. The middle wall Of the en-
gine room has been taken down to
make room for more machinery.
J. l. Bales, a new settler living
near Brewster, was in GOOdland Fri
day, the second time since he came to
Sherman county. Hewas formerly from
Phillips county, but came here from
Provo, Utah, where the family went
on account OF the health Of their
daughter. He looked over propositions
in Salt Lake valley Utah, but found
nothing which suited him He came
to Sherman county and looked at
land north Of Brewster, and said cit
looked awful good to him"
NJ ". Busby, who was sick with
smallpox at the county poor farm
house, which was used to isolate the
smallpox cases, was liberated a few
days ago by the health authorities. Mr..
BristoW, who came down with the
disease about the same time, had a
more severe attack and has not yet
been liberated from quarantine. There
has been no spread Of the infection
and in a couple Of weeks it is probable
that all smallpox cases will have dis
appeared.
Representative J. o. Boyle has sent
the editor a copy Of the committee's
bill in the house on assessment and
taxation. It proposes to create a tax
commission, define its powers and du-
ties, fixes the compensation Of its mem
bers and employees, and abOlishes the
board Of railroad assessors and the
state board Of equalization. We have
mt looked the bill over carefully, but
Mr. Boyle says this bill is Of much i'm
pOrtance, for, among other things, its
passage would result in a uniform as
sessment over the entire state. In
stances were brought out where some
counties assessed stock at as low rate
as $1.7S per head and other counties
at as high as s1O.7S-
Mrs. P. A. Brunner left Monday
night for Denver to join her husband
and to see her little boy, who was dan
gerously scalded last week and sub
sequently taken to a Denver hospital
when the child developed hemOrr-
hages from the stomach. Doctors
speak Of burnings in degrees the
fifth degree being the severest and
almost always fatal. The little Brun-
ner boy was burned to the fourth de-
gree, and after he began bleeding
from the stomach it was feared that
he could not live, but happily he is
still alive and now has a good chance
Of recovery ahead Of him Mr.. Brun-
ner is the rector Of the Episcopal
church in this city
DIR. r. B. HARVEY. DENTIST.