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M THE PLAGUE.
Tho tifo plague crept along slowly,
bat sarely. ITirst it took poor old Tepe,
tbe blind beggar, ytho -lived all alone
1b Ms little jacal down sear t&e Plaza
Mayor. He died. Then it made its way
straight p the Calle Alfonso. All tbe
"unwashed" got it and even the better
people, asd finally tbe gorezBor's fami
ly, in their villa close to tbe Press, and
alter that well, it became impoesiblfel
to keep track of the spread of tbe dis
ease. On Tuesday perhaps six families
had tbe fever. Tbe next Shu day the
whole great town was stricken, and
every homse in tbe place, from tbe low
est little peon hut up to tbe great mar
ble fronted bouse of tbe jefe politico,
was ia BMorning.
The zaedicos did their best Working
day and night, with bo rest, no sleep,
doing, the doctoring and the nursing-,
too, they battled to stamp out tbe feser
leave and did. The governor and his
family fled to their hacienda borne over
siear Dolores Hidalgo. The jef a politico
also departed in haste and some of tbe
foreigners. Many of tbe latter, however,
bad gone away to tbe states or tbe tierra
fria at the approach of tbe warm weath
er and tbe threatening plague. A few
"white men" iH tbe bank and out at
tbe mines bad to remain in the city
and did so with a good grace, thanking
Providence that the wives and children
were at home and out of the accursed
hole.
Hastings was one of tbe few men who
stuck to it, for two reasons to begin
with, be was not a coward, and he knew
that if be left the business of the Cia
Miners Unida de Londres to take care
of itself the deuce woald be to pay ; for
another thing, there was his pretty,
silly, helpless wife in Esgland. She
bad gone heme in March, just when the
weather was getting sultry and sugges
tive of what was to follow, with many
expressions of grief at leaving JIarry be
hind to work alone during the hot sum
mer. But then, as she put it, they
couldn't both afford to go.
Hastings never thought of her as be
ing selfish. It was a miserable bole for
a woman to live in anyway, even at tbe
best, and she could not be blamed. So
he loyally defended her in his thoughts
and sent every cent of bis pay to her
outside of the actual gustos, or expenses.
The latter did not amount to much, for
aiiue food is simple and inexpensive.
Butjt is clean anyway, without a super
fluity of germs such as you get during
plague times in Mexico, and if be could
havo always got mine food it might
have been all right.
But the cook old Juana fell ill. In
two days she was dead. Next 1 he Mexi
can foreman died, several of thearrieros
followed, a few of the miners, and a
dozen or so of the berreteros, at which,
in a very bad state of fright, the re
maining mine men struck and departed
in haste to Provideucia, a little pueblo
higher up, where the disease might not
follow.
Lef fc-alone, Hastings Ehrnggcd - his
shoulders and saidasaugbry word.
Then he cabled to Lcsdon, explaining
matters, and adding that he would hold
oh, that tbe plague would have to run
its course, after which he hoped to get
the mill going again. But they might
prepare for its Etoppage ct least during
three weeks more.
After which there was nothing to do.
He could pot go cut to the adjacent
4nines for fear of carrying the infection
with bim. In town James of the Banco
de Inglaterra and Hardy of the cable
company had died during tbe time of
his own Etmggle with the Cia Unida
employees. So he was the only white
man left.
In the town there remained only one
small unclean meson operated by an in
different Chinaman. Here Hastings had
his meals, coming down town for them
through the deserted, silent streets,
where a few starving dogs lay in the
sunshine, gasdng wistfully at the white
man as he passed and bowling miserably
for food. There were a few ragged look
ing burrcs and some meager pigs that
ran wild in the middle of the streets,
and old Pepe's green parrot fluttered
about in the little space in front of bis
jacal, calling: "Pepel Pepito! Choco
late para el lorof" But tbare was no
Pepe to hear.
One hot, heavy day, Hastings walked
down to' the little meson fox bis dinner.
He did not feel well, and his head was
dizzy and burning. Ha knew very well
that the tifo always started out that
Way, and so that morning he had sent
pff a check for a full month's pay and a
statement of his life insurance policies
to bis wife, Then feeling somewhat bet
ter, he decided that be would stop in at
the botica as he came from lunch to get
something from M. Fabian, the old
French apothecary. But the old
msirt
ZlTnr 57" "ZZtuZ'S- " AMie together two -eletons, those
r-1 u i::r7,::
ed. Inquiring of fhe Chinaman, that
worthy stated that M. Fabian bad
"deaded" and there was uo one in the
shop; that the senor possibly might get
some drugs in the padre's bouse; but,
no, that was impossible, for the padre
died, this morning. At whiah Hastings
shrugged his shoulders again and said,
"No importa." It did not matter.
Unable to eat the hot, unwholesale
food, and with bis head throbbing un
mercifully, be made bis way beck to
ward the Press .and tbe mine. Down
tbe Calle Fernando a long row of peo
ple were comiBg. When be got nearer,
be made out that they were the peons
wrapped in carbolized sheets, carrying
put tbe dead. They shouted at him, be
cause it jjjs eadly q approach a tifo
porpee, awi be turned into a side street
which was quiet ad deserted, with tbe
bot weather" grass asd foliage almost
choking it. As be went along it grew
more familiar to bis beBusabed senses,
until finally be got to a. bouse a small,
flower tbatcbed caitJ that be happened
to ?emepec very well indeed. It was
deserted sow, &ad a few birds twittered
fcbeat ia the "Aztecfiower" boshes and
lemon tree- No other soasd could be
htzsd, it looked cool ix tbe yard and
tiny par!, with Its fountain long ago
goae dry, and Hastings stumbled,
through the shrub choked entrance and
satdowa dizzily in tbe shady patio.
His bead was. rapidly growing worse
buraiagi dizzy, with erneer, blinding
piiiM shooting about. His eyes were
Jbeer, too, -for be could see all sorts of
Ioocesyfavor;te perfume was still
i-iWabost the patio everywhere;
fet Deleres was iKt there she bad left
tbe oity -tbe day be was married in Lom
iom. Vbflrsfore why: ym it feat be
with tbe little green loci to perched on
ber shoulder and tbe sunshine lighting
gp ber blue black hair and the. red rose
ia it? She bad always worn tbe deep
red roses in her dark hair after the first
time that be bad. noticed and admired
the adoraeBt in bis careless way. Bet
then is all ways she bad tried to
please him. Not a good woman, she had
been very unselfish and Ehe had loved
bim. Perhaps, after all, if he had mar
ried ber instead cf coolly breaking to
br after their two years together the
fact cf the ether woman in England
the Eweet, pure girl, bis wife she
would have daid with bim to tho last,
nursed bim, held to bim even in death.
Well, it was over with it didn't mat
ter much anyway the wife was pro
vided for, and if he went under all
alone in this plague cursed town
buenp!
And then, very tired and stupid, bis
bead aching horribly, be stretched him
self oa the floor in the shade of the
I Jemou tree and dozed. In uneasy deep
he passed off into unconsciousness, as is
the way with tbe tifo. In another hour
be was quietly raving. Tbe birds flew
close and chirped at him curiously. A
few lizards, attracted by the warm sun
shine, crawled up and basked on tbe
edge of the patio near him. The sun,
going down, blazed furiously on him
and increased the fever beat, but there
was no one else.
Jnstabont sundown, as the sun's rays,
cooler now, fell athwart the patio and
the body of the delirious man, someone,
heavily perfu med an d in rustling cloth es,
came through the gate and the shrub
bery and steed in the docrway, looking
about her with a fierce, scornful "expres
sion that slowly faded away as she
mused. Over there was the fountain
of which they had been so proud. It
was dry and grass grown now. The
lemon bushes planted by them with so
much tender care and pruned and lov
ingly tended were now great rough
trees, unpruned and gnarly. Even the
big rosebush that they had planted so
that she could alwajs have red roses
was wild and straggling. Everything
dead, gone! One slow tear trickled
down her- painted cheek as she looked
about and thought. These little mute
things flowers and the like will Etir
even a nameless wcxuau into remorse
and sorrow and even agony sometimes.
She turned to go, sighing heavily.
But some impulse moved her. She
wanted to go back througb the patio to
the room that had been- hers. One look
at it would not hurt, as she was going
away that night. He was put of" the
city, so she bad been told in Provi
dencia with that white faced woman,
his wife. Nobody would know it if she
made a fool cf herself and cried and
wept iu that room for a little space.
When one has been a fool and broken
one's own heart, one has to weep.
She very nearly stumbled over the
form of tbe man as she went. He was
still raving, but not violently, as he lay
there, and, strange to say, in Spanish.
Perhaps if it had been in bis own lan
guage the would net have cared. But
sho listened, her heart wildly beating,
as he murmured word after word,
phrases in her own tongue. She listen
ed, and toon a thought struck her
there was no mention of the other wom
an, bis wife, the wife who had gene
away and left him when trouble and
plague came near. She listened what
was it ho was saying, in a. thickened,
besky tone? "Dolores, te amas! Dp
lores, mi querida"-r- And then, over
and over again, sweet Spanish words,
always of Dolores. Dolores, not the
white woman! Oh, thank God! Then
he bad not loved her after all- he had
married her, but bis heart had been tru
to the poor Mexican.
Sobbing now, with all the pent up
passion of many past mouths, tho worn
an leaned over and clasped the burning,
delirious form in her arms, pressing her
lips to the unconscious face and the un
seeing eyes. She knew that it was too
late to check the fever now nothing
conld be done there were uo medicos,
no botica, no drugs, not even water,
nothing. He could only die. But she,
who had loved bim best, could die with
bim.
Months after, the plague extinct, two
skeletons were found in the patio cf tbe
little cottage. One was identified as that
of Harry Hastings,. M. E., which was
fortunate for his widow in England.
Otnerwise she could not have claimed
the life insurance policies. But they
were paid, and tbe little widow invests
ed quite a large sum in pretty, black
crape gowns. And she was. so fair and
childish and innocent and helpless in.
her black roL :s cf Lereavement that an,?
pther man, a lich one, proposed for her
and married her. She lives comfortably
pud at ease in r beautiful English home.
to perhaps, she is not to be pitied, af te?
And fn the Ccmpo Santo on the bill
in r-lTsnnain-'f'fi fhprr
fs a grave where
"
of
Harry Hastincs and the unknown worn
&a who bad died with him. They had
been eo buried to save time. Tbe bead
stone, erected by tbe Cia Unida, saya
simply, "Henry Hastings, aged 31." So
tbe erstwhile widow is not shocked by
the knowledgo that Dolores lies there
too. Hew itt Darrell in Argonaut
Hesse Fer Weasea Xarses.
A home for wemen nurses has been
completed and fnrnished by the man
agers cf tbe Friends asylum at Frankt
ford, a suburb of Philadelphia, whig if
to bear he name Elmhnrst.
tTke Middle Aged Maa.
"I wonder," said the middle aged
man, "why we take life so bard. At the
very best wn$ have only 75 or 100 years,
of if, and yet we fume and fuss and
worry alj through it I think of it
sofaetimes. Here I amwell, say, 50,
with maybe ?Q years ahed. The' cold
chances are against my getting go many,
put take a hopeful view and say I've
got 30. But that's a mighty short time,
beb? But just think of frittering away
that time is worry!
MWh-I think of these things, I
make p my mind that by cracky, 1
will not worry any more, aaa?, J
think I take tfeiags more philosophical
lytbas I ?wed tel. Bat let somelitUi
thing come up I I don't fly all to pieces
over it maybe, but it drags and griads.
And oely 30 years to live J
"What a waste of time! What poor,
miserable critters we arel" New York
Sun.
Tbe ,aam California, derived from
tbe two Spaateh words oaliwie fbraalli
L e., "hot furnace" was grrea by
Cartes in tbe year ISSi to tbe pasiBeula
sow kaows as Lower California, of
which be was tbe discoverer, oa ac
qoaat of its hot climate.
OK THE SANDS
A 1xsdlcsa sea amA. esdles sky,
AsdyoaaadT jaatyoccad .
W&ea life asd love rd sweet feege wars
JOHBg.
Xet a aril ia Eight, uo s liviag tkisg
Astir, Ecr scar ns tb new ecm baag
A silver feamxnoek -wiere elves xsigLt swtejg
Wkea yoa and I sad the -world were yoaag.
Was it ages gose, or lat yesternigiit?
Were we tbe first -wkose vrsrm lips clasg,
Tae first who set for love's dear deligkt,
Wkoa tbe sad old earth -vras glad asd yotragf
Sea sad skj and tbe sands iaipearled
Witb starry sbclls from the soft fcaia swaag,
Aad you and I tat we m&de the world
Wfeea lova aad kepe' Ti'tl s-rrcct ILTe were
young!
Madeline B. Bridges ia Brooklyn life.
A MAN TIGEE.
BY CHARLES B. LEWIS.
We were encamped on tbe banks of
the Chumbul river, on the east side of
the Cbittcre hills, India. It was a gov
ernment party, in charge of Captain I
'Jordan, a military engineer. The object
-was to see if the river could be tapped
and a canal constructed to run the wa
ters across tbe flat country to the east
for irrigation purposes. There were two
English soldiers and a parry of 20 na
tives detailed with the captain, and two
English officers d myself were with
the survey as volunteers. This meant a
surveying and, bunting party combined.
There was plenty of game in the Chit
tcro bills, end Captain Jordan was a
veteran hunter as well as a prominent
enigneer.
Wc had not yet got settled in camp
when the natives appeared to tell us
some queer stories regarding a tiger
which had lately made his appearance in
the neighborhood. In the first place, he
was of astonishing size. No one had
ever seen his like. In the next, as they
declared, be bad. more ihe face of a hu
man being than of a tiger. Again, be
bad been encountered, face to face, by
several natives, but instead of attacking
them bad contented himself with a look
and then walked off. On one occasion
he bad entered a village and stealthily
approached an old man who was cook
ing his supper at a fire. His presence
was not discovered until he rubbed his
nose against the old man's shoulder and
emitted a souud like the purring of a
cat. Dumb and helpless with terror, the
native waited to be attacked, but after
walking around the fire two or three
times the beast went off into the thick
et This old man stoutly declared that
the tiger bad the face of a man and
that it seemed to desire speech with
him: Tho beast had been roamiHg about
for three weeks when we got, there, but
in all that time had not attacked a na
tive nor killed an animal belonging tc
the villagers.
The natives of India are not only su
perstitious to the last degree, but given
to the grossest exaggeration in all their
statements, and. their declarations in
this case wcro taken with many grains
of allowance. As a rule they are very
anxious to get rid or tueir dangerous
neighbors, but in this case they be
sought us net to barm the tiger. The
soul of some good man, native or white,
had taken possession cf the beast, and
for that -reason be had spared The vil
lagers and should be spared in turn. Tc
kill him would be sacrilege, and in re
venge a man" eater would be sent to de
populste the village.
It was four days after the natives had
come in before we got sight of the man
tiger. Captain Jordan bad begun bis
preliminary work, and one day when he
was on the bank of tbe river, half a
mile below camp, I took my gun to join
him and get a shot at some wild swans
which had passed down the stream.
Thus far wo had bunted only small
game and had heard nothing further
from the tiger. Tho sun shone brightly
in a cloudless sky, and the weather was
hot, and 1 knew enough of tbe tiger's
habits to be sure that he would be lying
up in some cool spot during the heat of
the day. I heard tbe captain shooting
to bis assistants long before I got to
him. They had crossed the river on a
raft, and he was alone. Just before 1
reached bim I struck into a path used
by the wild animals as they came down
from tho hills to drink. Forty feetaway
I caught sight of tbe officer standing bev
hind his surveying instrument, and at
the same instant my eyes fell upon a
tiger creeping along the path between,
pa. For a few seconds I believed the.
creature to be a dog. Then as I fully
realized what it was and that he was
stalking the unsuspecting man I was so
unnerved that I stood stock still and
gazed at him. I bad only a shotgun,
leaded with swan shot, but tbe actions
cf the beast were so singular that I for
got I was armed at all. While I contin
ued gazing at bim be crept forward to
the captain's feet and lay down and
rolled over in play.
All of a sudden and without realizing
what I was doing I uttered a shout. In
turning tbe captain stumbled over the
tiger and pitched forward, and, with a
sort of yelp, the beast sprang away into
the bushes. Though the officer got a
full view of the creature it was hard for
bim to believe that things had occurred
as they had. As the tiger had not been
disturbed by me it was a source of won
der why he had not attacked the officer.
When the natives came to hear of it,
they asserted with g3ea earnestness
that the soul of some friend of the cap
tain bad passed into the beast and that
the tiger had heard of his presence and
came to welcome him. This was absurd,
of course, but nevertheless we had tc
admit that there was something very
h singular about the matter.
H ThrA pvpninpa Inter too n( of V.-
" - ' CJ Tm 1 1 V V UJC
door of the mesa tent and smoked and
talked after the evening meal. It was a
bright moonlight evening, and we could
see almost as well as at noonday. By
and by Captain Jordan rose up and
started down to his horse, 200 feet
away, and we were following him with
our eyes, when a tiger sprang out of a
hollow where it hud been crouching and
seised him and rujhed away to the
thicket. he thing transpired so quick
ly that it was 1 seconds before one of
us moved. As we sprang to our feet we
asked each other if wehad seen aright.
The officer uttered no cry and tbe beast
did not even snarl. The man was seized
by tbe left hip, given a twist, and most
of bis body seemed to be oa tbe tiger's
back as the beast galloped away. Before
ose of us could seize a rifla the beast
aad bis victim bad disappeared into the
brush, which came within 200 feet of
our teats. We set up a great sbcntiag
sad fired oar guns, hoping to frighten
the tiger, and as scon as lanterns-could
be lighted we pvsbed ocr way into the
-jawglc, bet tbe caeewse bopeleaeTrota
tbe start. Tbe tiger bad crept across a
clear piece of grosad for a distance of
100 feet to reach tbe bellow. Tbemoos
ligbt was so strOBg that aoae of us
ought to have sees bin, but ae a matter
of fact bis proooaao was ,not ewm sus
pected until tbe captain's horse scented
bim and began to cutnp.'
What happened to tbe captain we
beard from bis own lips sext afternoon.
The facts in tbe case were published i&
many Indian and English journals at
the time, and strange as. tbey were no
one ventured to dispute them. 2text
morning we assembled 200 natives and
beat up the country for miles around,
hoping to at least find the half devoured
body and give it burial. Not a trace of
it could be found, nor was tbe tiger
seen. When Captain Jordan was seized,
the action was so sudden that it was
half a minute before he realized the sit
uation. The tiger's teeth did not grip
fhe flesh at all, but only tbe clothing.
Tbe officer's arms were free, and bad he
had a pistol he could have made use of
it. Clasping the tiger with bis right
arm, his left bung down, and as soon
as the thicket was reached he grasped
at the bushes to delay progress. In this
way be checked tbe pace considerably
until an open path leading up into the
bills was reached. He beard our shouts
and the report cfvfirearms, but bad no
hope of escape. He was. carried a dis
tance of two miles and a half, and at
the end of it the tiger scrambled np a
very steep hill to a masa of rocks on the
crest. These rocks were surrounded by
a dense jungle, and in forcing a way
through it the officer'sace as bedly
cut by the bushes. He had planned to
make a fight for bis life when the tiger
dropped him, but the beset acted so
queerly that he changed bis mind.
There was no growling, no sign of an
ger. The tiger let go of him to back off
and sit up on bis haunches and whine
and whimper and look at him in a
queer way. Just at that spot the moon
light filtered down until the officer could
see pretty plainly, and.be was amazed
to discover that the tiger had almost a
human face. Not only that, but it was
the face of a native servant who bad
been with bim for years, but who was
bitten by a cobra several years before
and lost bis life in saving that of his
master.
So impressed was Captain Jordan
with this wonderful resemblance that
he called the name of bis servant aloud.
As he did so the tiger fawned upon him
with overy evidence of affection and
carefully licked the blood off his face.
When the officer sat up, the tiger rub
bed its head against him and purred
like a cat and seemed highly delighted
to have its fur Etroked. The queer con
duct of the beast was a great puzzle to
tho officer, as you may well believe. In
stead of being eaten alive he was being
toyed with. It was a full hour before
he dared hope that he -was really to be
spared. During the night he sat with
his back to a rock, tho tiger lying be
side him, and every Eound from camp
came up to him on the stillness of the
night. What daylight woald bring he
did not know. When it came, the tiger
sat up and yawned and looked about
Then it licked his face and hands, rub
bed bis shoulder and finally slipped
away into the jungle. In his report of
tbe adventure Captain Jordan said tbe
face of the tiger boro such a wonderful
resemblance to that of his old servant
that he thought himself dreaming. This
resemblance was, of course, only in a
general way. When the tiger left him,
he did not know exactly what to do. He
feared if he attempted to depart the
beast would return and attack him, and
he therefore remained quiet.
In about an hour the tiger reappeared,
having evidently eaten and drunk, and
he lay down beside the captain, and
both slept until niidaftemoon. Then the
tiger fondled the man again, looked him
in the face for a long time, and finally
whined and whimpered and went off.
Ten minutes after he disappeared the
captain rose up and started for camp,
which be reached in less than an hour.
His appearance struck us dumb for the
moment. We scoffed st bis story, bat
he took the whole party to the spot
where he had been held captive. It
was hard to swallow his statements, but
I am satisfied that he did not exaggerate
in the slightest Two days after his es
cape the tiger was found dead not fax
from camp, and then all of us had a
look at his face. Its resemblance to that
of a native was indeed wonderful. Pho
tographs were taken, and the papers
printed woodcuts, and when the face
was put in a group with four or five na
tives uq one could detect it as that of a
tiger. It was a queer thing, taken all
around, but I have given you the de
tails just as I got them, and you must
figure things out for yourself.
Oa the Verge of Bala.
The rinderpest and the drought, it is
said, have Drought tbe Orange Free
State to the verge cf ruin. The drought
has lasted for ten months and still con
tinues. A cabbage is sold far a shilling,
and there is no meat except the car
casses of wornout wagon bullocks.
Business is being wound up all over the
place, and trade is almost at a stand
still. Alter the
Woolsey West Ten years ago all the
land around here sold for: $1.25 an acre.
Hudson Bivers And what does it sell
for now? -
W. W. Taxes. Brooklyn Life.
Tbe SaproBe Caart.
Justice Brewer has noted some curi
ous coincidences in regard to the mem
bers of the supreme court. The judges
are seated ou tbe bench on either side
of the chief justice in tbe order of the
date of their appointments, the senior
at the right, tbe second at the left, and
so on. Before the retirement of Justice
Field on the right of the chief justice
were seated the three colors, Justices
Gray, Brown and White: JSTone of tbe
associates who sat on the right of the
chief justice had children. Every asso
ciate who sat oo tbe left bad a large
family, and all but Judge Peckham bad
grandchildren. New "York Tribune. -
Tee aCaca Fer Klaa.
"I will give $ 100 to any one who cam
equal my tricks!" shouted the professor
of legerdemain, who-had tbe stage.
"I accept your offrr," answered a'
man as be pushed through the crowd.
"Do you belong to tbe perfesh?"
"Naw; 1 manufacture gas meters."
"Then 1 witbdruw the proposition."
I-"-roit Free Press.
It'a tae Xew Crees Thct S ir eep -CT eaa.
The one tcing ia which we doa't
valae experience is a bocim, BofoQ
Transcript
Baby Mine!
Every mother
feels an inde
scribable dread
of the pain and
danger attend
ant upon the
.most critical pe
riod of her life.
Becoming a.
mother should be
a source of joy
to all, but the
sufferrne - an d
i
1T?B
danger of the ordeal make
its anticipation one of misery,
MOTHER'S FRIEND
is the remedy which relieves
women of the great pain and suf
fering incident to maternity; this
hour which is dreaded as woman's
severest trial is not only made
painless, but all the danger is re
moved by its use. Those who use
this remedy are no longer de
spondent or gloomy; nervousness
nausea and other distressing con
ditions are avoided, the system is.
made ready for the coming event,
and the serious accidents so com
mon to the critical hour are
obviated by the use of Mother's
Friend. V a blessing to woman.
1.0OPERBOTTXE at all Drugstores,
or sent by express on receipt of price.
RQQ'Q Ccaiainisg iaTalcable iafonaatioR of
Wrc interest to all tromen, -trffl be seat
rntc to any addrcSs, npoa applScattoa, by
Tin UBABTTELB KEGULATOK CO., AilzxU, Of.
Legal Notices.
KOT1CE OF SALE.
TTotice la hereby given that b virtae ot a ver.
bal chattel mortaga dated oa or aboat Kay 18th,
1SS7, aad not recorded .and execrated by Carl Lnnk
vr tzto William Bnbtrts to secare the payBseat of
J?.5A.and npoa Trhick there is bow doe the sam of
187.50; default haTiog beea made in the payment
of said sum, tlireloiel will Fell at public aaciios
the property therein decribed, to-wit: Four
hand red aad ninety-rtro bushels of eora Is e&rc
all of the afcoTe described corn ttss grova upoa
the sixty scree of 'and lying along the west line of
the we-t hlf of Fectioal, township 11, range S3,
at the house of T. A. Hoberts situated oa the
northeast quarter oieectlon 2, tovrashlp II. range
83. in the precinct of Birdwood, Lincoln county,
Nebraska, on the 2d day of April, 1898, at one
'clock p. at. of mid day.
Dated this 11th day of March. 1SS6.
WIIXJAX ROBERTS, Mortgagee,
mI13 By his Attorneys, Davis-fc Kibslet.
KOTTCE TOR PUBLICATION".
Land Office at North Platte, "Neb., )
February 19th, 1883. J
Notice is hereby given that the following-aaaied
settler ha? filed notice of his intention to sake
final proof in support of his claim, aad that said
proof will be aiade before Eegister aad SeceiTer
at North Platte, Neb., oa March. 23th, 1866, via:
LOBEXZO D. GEORGE,
who made Eoaiestead Entry No. 18091, for the
lots 1 and i, section 2, township U north, range 31
west, 6th P. X.
lie names the folloxing witnesses to prove his
continuous residence apoa and cultivation of said
lead, viz , Lorea Starges,Haas J. Hansen, William
isiebold and .Look Peterson, all of North Platte,
" fa-6 JOHN F. HTNMAN, Begister.
In the matter of the Estate of George W. Dillard,
Deceased.
It appearing by the petition of James M. Kay,
Administrator of said Estate, filed this 21st day of
February, 1898, that there is set aScieat per
sonal property in the bands of said Administrator
to pay the clnlras and charges allowed again-ft
said Estate, and that it is necessary to sell the
realty of said Estate, to-wIU Lot 5. in block 159,
and lot 5, in block: 149. all in North Platte, Lincoln
county, Nebraska, It Is ordered that all persons in
terested in said Estate appear before me at my of
fice in North Platte. Nebraska, on the- 7ta day of
April, 1S8S- at ten o'clock ia the forenoon of said
day, to show csaee why a license ehouMSaot
be granted, said Administrator to sell so arseh of
said realty as shall be necessary to pay the charge
against said Estate. Notice thereof will be given
by publication for four successive weeks prior to
said day of hearing in the Taramrz, a legal news
paper pnblished in oar said eoaaty.
H.X, Okxmzs, Judge.
D, M. HOGSETT
Gontoetof and Buildef,
AND AGENT FOR
ECLIPSE and FAIRBANKS
WINDMILLS.
NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
J. F. FILLION,
Plumber, Tinworker
General Kepairer.
Special attention given to
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