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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1884
Page
2
A lyrical sequence recalls alternating seasons and a love triangle with travel and reunion. The speaker laments changing fortunes as lovers come and go through spring and summer, awaiting happier times in Florence before a husband dies in a churchyard. The poem closes with solitary voyage and memory attributed to Leah.
Three trappers Hall Lockie and West start June 1870 on Musselshell river with supplies for ninety days. Sioux attack, killing horses and capturing two men. West escapes, joins Wolf Point drive, pursuit follows with 34 men. They rescue Matthews station, defend ranches, and trap the raiders in a night ambush, killing eleven Indians and driving off the rest. The march ends at Wolf Point with renewed frontier peace.
A baseball pitcher earns mockery for consistently missing targets, described as unable to hit the broad side of a barn, reflecting widespread amusement at his errant throws.
This poem celebrates the heart as a roaming compass guiding lovers and families through cities cottages and wild seas. It extols love as the sun that lights every shore and frees the spirit from chains while granting life beauty glory and power.
Bangs and bangles remain in fashion with Moliere piastra and Spanish embroidered vel vet girdles. Newmarket bonnets fade, pale amber and cypress green color French dinner dresses. Fur trims, lace pelerines, embroidered velvet mantles, and ostrich feather borders feature in afternoon and visiting outfits. White remains widely worn but some pieces favor ivory and cream tones.
The Sioux reservation, a vast tract between the Missouri river and the Black Hills, faces a proposal to open 14,000 square miles to settlers at 50 cents an acre with four annual payments. Proceeds fund Indian benefits while railroads gain western routes. The plan reaffirms the 1868 treaty with three-fourths adult ratification and may delay opening until next winter.
The Dakota delegation in Washington expresses dissatisfaction with a proposed bill allowing liberal provisions for Indians. The Brule Band reportedly resents plans to allocate timbered lands north and west of Chamberlain, areas speculators had hoped to claim.
An Independent View explains the solid north and solid south blocs with counts of electoral votes. It lists states aligned with each side, notes debatable states totaling 93 votes, and discusses tariff issues and possible shifts in Michigan Wisconsin Nebraska Illinois Iowa New York Ohio Indiana New Jersey California Nevada Virginia North Carolina.
Dr Miller describes London covering 122 square miles with 2600 miles of streets and fourteen by eight miles in outline. He cites one million gas lamps and 1400 churches alongside 500 hotels and a large workforce including 300000 domestic servants and 141000 paupers. He notes diverse populations and a beef value of £50000000 with a vast liquor trade and a police force over 10000.
The Washington correspondent of the Detroit Journal notes a surge in fashionable parlor poker among society ladies. He reports dainty, circumspect women now betting and bluffing with a five-cent ante and a dollar limit, poker chips in many boudoirs. A cattle stock raiser in bull-headed luck is mentioned.
The message notes crop reports from 27 counties and outlines steps to gather and consolidate data. County commissioners are asked to obtain blanks and collect statistics, sending totals to county clerks with assessment rolls to publish a comprehensive state report. Wheeler states officials will cooperate for a credible final publication.
The report shows 39 percent of the 1883 corn on hand as of March 1 1884 with 60 percent kept for state consumption and 34 percent sold outside. It notes 28 percent merchantable and 20 percent unmerchantable corn on hand, 15 percent still in the field, and no injuries from moldy grain. Wheat 1883 on hand March 1 1883 is 33 percent with 57 percent consumed in state and 43 percent shipped out, and average bushel weight 50 to 55 pounds.
A Ottawa resident offered to become editor in chief of a Chicago daily for 2000 dollars a year. The reply revealed the position would demand editorial control plus night editor duties reporter foreman and other tasks, with possible long day and night shifts. He decided against the offer.
A man in ragged clothing visits a Woodland Avenue grocery and asks for twenty five cents to aid a colored church building. He dodges questions, proposes a crackers gift, and declares himself chairman of the building committee.
Mrs Gunkettle complains her husband never brings reading material home. He lists a pamphlet on Michigan fruit interests while she derides it and toes the line of watching a fussy baby until its cries subside. The scene mixes sarcasm and domestic friction over reading choices.
Fred A. Ansell of Little Valley Cataraugus County born 1866 and aged 17 inches under six feet tall at 143 pounds is hailed as the champion standing high kicker of the United States. At the Boston exhibition October 31 1883 with sixty five contestants he won by 17 8 inches recording 7 feet 111 4 inches. He has never been beaten and continues practice.
A brief sketch notes a cricketer famed for a lazy stance yet remarkable accuracy. A single well directed ball is described as never missing, highlighting contrasting effort and precision.
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