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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1885
Page
4
The B and M freight depot at Omaha burned Saturday morning causing a 22000 loss with 5500 insured. They will rebuild at once. The notice also mentions ad fraud concerns and new prohibitions on intoxicating liquors by B and M agents in Kansas with conditions for private use or medicinal permits.
MackIN and Gallagher escape punishment on a technicality after ballot stuffing in the November election, just in time to influence the spring Chicago elections. The piece denounces repeated abuses of legal procedures, arguing convictions are voided by technicalities and the purge of corrupt actors proceeds unchecked.
The State Journal notes a case from Jarvis Illinois where Effie Irons recovered after days from a three year illness following a revival meeting. It argues faith cure can prevent quackery and offers harmless treatment for non organic diseases while noting it cannot cure visible organic lesions.
The Bloomington Guard notes five car loads of stock were sent to Benkleman last Saturday. The Cambridge Monitor reports J Higgins and his three sons started for Culbertson with 500 head of young cattle. Elmer Kelley of Kirwin was named a clerk in the McCook land office and passed through Bloomington recently to take his post.
Mrs Wilcox of Gage county died suddenly near L W Browns on the Sappa while en route to Hitchcock county. The twenty three year old woman was taken ill with consumption and the body was taken to Cambridge after the death during the Sunday travel.
Commissioner Sparks of the Land Office explains a Friday order suspending action on pre emption timber culture and desert land entries in a wide western area. The suspension starts at range 17 west near Franklin County and covers Nebraska Wyoming Colorado Montana New Mexico and western Kansas to protect the government from fraud.
McCook shoppers are urged to visit ER M BRICKEY & CO for new suits pants shirts underwear hats and other furnishing goods. the store touts cheap prices a wide line from jeans to cottonade pants and new fancy shirts with guaranteed fit and workmanship. located on main avenue the ad promotes the latest styles from an eastern tailoring house.
McCook Nebraska dealer 8 L Green offers Shilohs Cure for croup, whooping cough and bronchitis with guaranteed relief. M A Spalding touts reliable stock and agency for Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption and throat lung chest cures, inviting trials with a free sample bottle.
McCook land office announces James M. Heisler has filed for final proof on his claim for the north half of the southwest quarter of section 14 in township 3 north range 28 west. Proof will be made May 8 1885 before the register or receiver in McCook Nebraska. Heisler names witnesses Benjamin F. McQuay Daniel Shaw William McQuay and James Davis all of McCook Nebraska.
Notices announce final proof dates for Homestead entries in McCook Nebraska with names of claimants such as Joseph L Springer and Henry C Jacobs. Witnesses Vance McManigal Silas H Colvin William Hamilton Arnold Angel Irvin Spaulding Dewitt Swiggart and others are listed from Osborn and McCook Nebraska.
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