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STATE
Pernor BIJas A Holcomb
lieutenant Governor James E Harris
6crfetafyoI State W F Porter-
jCreaiurer JNMeservei
Auditor John F Cornell
Cora Lands and Bulldlngii Jacob V Wolfe
Attorney General Constantlne J 8mvth
Supt Public Instruction W It Jackson
flEAHadley ScojW
ICW KaleymRed Cloud
Eegents University BajsrtlnsWaketld
I ChasWetotfHajr 8pg
I H L G oold Osratall a
ICH Morrill iSncoln1
CONGRESSIONAL
8enators Win V Allen jMadlson John M
Thurston Omaha
Rspresentatives First District Jesse B Strode
Lincoln Second D H Mercer Omaha Third
JeoDMeIklejphnFullerton Fourth E J Hai
ner Aurora Fifth Win It Andrews Hastings
Sixth O M Kem Broken Bow
JUDICIAL
Supreme Court T L Norval Chief Justice
Harrison and Tolk associates
Fifteenth Judicial District M P Kinkaid
OVNcllI W H Westover RuBhvillc
LEGISLATIVE 0
Representative Fifty second District OP
Billings Nordcn
Senator Fourteenth District Otto Mutz
Spriagvlew
LAND OFFICE
Begister C R Glover Longpfne Receiver J
A Flke Newport
COUNTY
Treasurer G P Crabb
Jierk Geo Elliott
Uherlff Amos Strong
Judge W R Towne
County Attorney F M Walcott
County Superintendent Lillian Stoner
Surveyor Chas Tait
Max viertel
Commissioners W APaiker
I P Sullivan
A PRECINCT
Overseers of Highways R Hansen and J Raj
Constable R Towne
Justices of the Peace John Dunn and J M
Camm
Assessor- John Dunn
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VILLAGE 4
Town Board E 8parks president C H Cor
nell treasurer T C Hornby clerk D S Ludwlg
and PF Simons
Marshal and Water Commissioner Henry
Eatey
school District No l M Walcstt president
M V Nicholson treasurer J C PettlJohQ secre
tary i W S Jackson G P Crabb and J T Keiley
SOCIETIES
Imp 0 RIM
Sitting Bull Tribe No 22 Improved Order of
Bed Men meets every second and fourth Friday
evening of each month at Davenports Hall
Visiting brethren are fraternally Invited to be
present at the councils of the tribe
J H Sears F M March
Chief of Records Sachem
A F A M
Minnekadusa Lodge No 192 A F A M
meets irregular communication Saturday even
ing on or oeiore tne iuu moon m eacn montn
members of the order in good and regular stand
lng cordially and fraternally invited to attend
J T KEELEY W M
W W Thompson Secv
0 E S
Northern Star Chapter No 59 Order of the
Eastern Star meets on second and fourtji Tues-
day evenings of each month in Hornbys hall
TV W Thompson Magoie WAXajTfc
Secretary Worthy Matron
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Valentine Lodge No 70 A O U W meets
on l si and 3rd Mondays of each month
J C Pettijohx Rec O W Hahn M W
D OF H
Valentine Lodge No Degree of Honor
holds regular meetings first and third Wednes
day evenings of each month
M Christensex Mrs JCPettuobn
Recorder Chief of Honor
I O O F
Valentine Lodge No 205 I O O F meets
every Thursdav eveniug Visiting brothers cord
tally nvlted to attend our meetings
J H Thurstox Fraxk Brattok
Qoirofq
Secretary
Noble Grand
G A H
Col Wood Past No 208 Department of Ne
braska regular meeting 2d and 4th gjrtrdays of
each montL at 2 o m sharp Comrgas from
other Posts are cordially Invited to attend
J W Tucker JOHk Duxx
Adjutant Commander
MTT A
Valentine Camp No 1761 Modern Woodmen of
America meets second and fourth Wednesday
evenings of each month at Davenports HalL
Visiting neighbors cordially invitetd to attend
IW S jicKsox W E HAfiEt
Clerk Venerable Counsel
kToFp
Cherry Lodge No 69 Knights of Pythias meets
every Tuesday evening at DaveflpMts Kail
W S Jackkox E P Roberts
K of R and S
Chancellor Commander
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Arrival and Departure of Mails
Mall east and west closes at 8 pm
Rosebud leaves at 800 a m dally except Sun
day and arrives at 500 p m
Simeon Kennedy and Oasis leaves
at 700 a m Mondays Wednesdays and Fri
days and arrives at 700 p m Tuesdays Thurs
davs and Saturdays-
Ft Niobrara leaves daily at700 a m and
500 p m arrives at 930a in and 730 p m
Kewanee and Sparks arrives Mondays
Wednesdays and Fridays at 603 p uland
leaves Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at
7o a m
General delivery open from 760 a m to 7Q0
p m General delivery open on Sundays rqm
s to 10 a m Lock boxes opendaily form a a
to 800 p m
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PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS
I I
D CLARKE
Attorney-at-Law
Uklnds of legal business promptly attended to
Valextixb Nebraska
T C DWYER
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Physician and Surgeon
Omce at C R Watsons Drug Store Prompt
attention given to all professional calls
Valentine - Nebraska
Teachers Examination
The regular monthly Teachers
Examination will be held the
third Saturday of each month
at my office in the Court House
LILLIAN STONER
Supt of Schools
PFSIMONS
PROPRITOR OF
DRAY LINE NO I
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Seasonable charges
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NEBRASKA CONQRESS
DAILY REPORT OF WHAT IS BE
ING DONE
Many Measures of More or Less Im
portance Being Introduced at the
Present Session of the Sunflower
legislature
Tuesday
Senator Mutz asked for a great deal of
information on the 26th The senate record
is tolerably clear up to data and is as fol
lows Up to date there have been intro
duced in the senate 173 bills Of this num
ber 159 have been read the second time and
referred to standing committees Of this
latter number 117 have been printed and
are in the bill files on each senators desk
and forty one are still in the hands of the
printer Of the bills referred to standing
committees four have been referred back
to the senate and are now on general file
Senator Dearing introduced a bill for the
regulation of telephone companies fixing
the rate of charge per phone at 2 per
month Senator Beal introduced a bill
providing for the appointment of clerk of
the district court in counties which have
attained a population of 8000 or more the
present law requires that they be elected
Senator Metz introduced a bill for the re
districting of the judicial districts of the
state it makes sixteen districts instead of
fifteen as at present
Aside from voting tV tthe repeal of the
beet sugar bounty law the hoifseon the 26th
devoted the greater portion of the time to
fighting for and against Soderraans line of
bills looking toward a reduction of salaries
in several of thostate institutions An at
tempt was made to pass house roll No 19
which aims a a reduction of salaries in the
Industrial School for Boys at Kearney
Typographical defects in printing amend
ments delayed Litis measure The house
then took up house roll STo 29 attacking
the salaries of the superintendent and em
ployes of the Institute for the Deaf and
Dumb at Omaha The bill passed A bill
to establish a State Board of Engineers was
introduced It provides that this board
shall cousist of the governor attorney gen
eral and secretary of state They have
power to appoint three secretaries
The proposition to recount tle votes on
the constitutional amendments was the
subject of several conferences caucuses
and committee meetings Tuesday some of
which were in progress till midnight The
senate committee on constitutional amend
ments held a protracted session and listened
to a verbal opinion from Judge M B
Beese In brief Judge Beeses opinion
was that in order to carry out a constitu
tional amendment it would require a ma
jority of all the votes cast at the election
In this case it would require a majority of
230000
Wednesday
Eighty four members of the house re
sponded to roll call on the 27th The read
ing of the journal was dispensed with
Immediately Bicli of Douglas moved that
the house adjourn until the 28th at 10 a in
This was seconded but Jenkins of Jeffer
son moved to amend by making the hour
2 oclock in the afternoon The test vote
came on Jenkins amendment which was
-defeated by 52 to 25 The house then ad
journed until 10 oclock Thursday morning
The object to be accomplished was the pros
ecution of the Douglas County contestcase
The whole morning session of the senate
on the 27th was taken up with the consid
eration of a motion offered by Senator
Mutz of Keya Paha requiring all standing
committees of the senate to make an imme
diate report on the status of bills in their
possession The motion after a protracted
discussion was agreed to and enforced
After recess the senate took up bills on
third reading and in so doing very nearly
administered a death blow to one of Mr
Hansoms measures affecting Douglas
County The bill was senate file No U
providing that the number of county com
missioner in Douglas County be reduced
from five to three Senator Kansom barely
saved the bill by requesting just before the
vote was announced that it be recommitted
to the judiciary committee Agreed to
The joint resolution directing Senator John
M Thurston to vote for any and all meas
ures favoring the free and unlimited coin
age of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 was
placed on its final passage Before the
ayes and nays were called Senator Murphy
ltepublican of Gage was recognized and
spoke in opposition to the resolution A
letter written by Mr Thurston in 1895 was
read to the senators after which several
other members took turns in the debate
The resolution was agreed to by a strictly
party vote
Thursday
The senate on Thursday contented itself
With routine work The first thing re
ceived by the senate was a petition of much
importance to the fanning industries of the
state and related to the beet sugar industry
The petition was referred to the committee
on agriculture The judiciary reported a
number of bills back to the senate with the
committees recommendations Twelve
new bills were introduced Spencers con
current resolution undertakes to pledge the
senate to the payment of the bounly
already earned by the beet sugar manufac
turers under the law passed two years ago
came up and its consideration provoked a
discussion of wide range The matter was
not settled when adjournment time arrived
The attempt of Pollard of Cass to procure
judicious legislation in favor of the beet
sugar industry showed that considered as
an enterprise it had few friends among
the majority of the house House roll Xo
127 by Smith of Richardson is the only
remaining measure to attract consideration
It provides for the issue of 250000 in state
bonds for the erection of a factory to be un
der the direction of the governor who has
power to appoint a manager and other
officials All past legislation received its
death blow in the indefinite postponement
of one bill to prohibit railway companies
from granting transportation to others than
employes and of another to compel them
to do that very thing for state officers and
members of the legislature Eecent at
tempts to reduce salaries received another
impetus in the action of the house on
ShuU s bill to reduce the salaries of the
state board of transportation This was
reported by the committee for indefinite
postponement but Shull got through a mo
tion to non concur and place the bill on
general file The concurrent resolution
attaching the financial record of Senator
JohnM Thurston from the senate was
read for the first time
and passed to a sec
ond reading A large number of new bills
were introduced
Friday
Senator Ransom continued his remarks in
he senate on Friday morning on his motion
to indefinately postpone the Spencer reso
lution relative to the payment of the beet
sugar bounty At the close of his remarks
the previous question was ordered and the
yeas and nays were called on the
motion to indefinately postpone the
Spencer resolution The motion was
adopted by a strict party vote
The senate then went into committee of
the whole for the consideration of bills on
general file The first bill taken up was
introduced early in the session by Mr
Murphy of Gage Itmakes a radical change
in the matter of summoning juries for dis
trict courts The committee voted tp rec
ommendthe bill for passage Senate file
No 46 to require street railway companies
to vestibule their cars was recommended
to pass Concurrent resolution No 1 of
fered by Senator Dearing of Cass directing
the attorney general to institute legal pro
ceedings to enforce the statutes against the
elevator trusts was recommended foipas
sage Senate file No 18 introduced by
Senator Ransom of Omaha was after a
brief debate recommended for passage
Senate file No 14 also by Mr Ransom
was after a long discussion recommended
for passage This is the bill which nar
rowly escaped defeat the other day It re
duces the number of county commissioners
in Douglas County from five to three The
senate then adjourned until 10 oclock Sat
urday morning
Ninety seven members answered to roll
call in the house on the 29th The gavel of
Speaker Gaffin fell at 1045 Following the
reading of the journal Mr Sheldon at
1110 moved that the house go into
committee of the whole to consider bills on
general file and the motion prevailed
The house after some discussion adopted
the report of the committee at the after
noon session Speaker Gaffin then an
nounced bills on third reading Clark of
Lancaster then demanded that a reportbe
liar frnm tlin fnmmitfoo nn onrnllorl oi
engrossed bills Clerk Eager read the re
port to the effect that house roll No 5
which provides for a recount of the vote on
constitutional amendments had been found
correctly engrossed and enrolled Clark
of Lancaster moved that the bill be imme
diately recommitted for amendment Hull
raised the point that the motion was out of
order and that the bill must be recommitted
to the committee of the whole for amend
ment The point of order was declared
well taken The question was on the mo
tion and the ayes and nays were de
manded Result 61 to 34 Then Jenkins
moved that the house go into committee of
the whole for the specifiic purpose
of correcting house roll No 5 Defeated
by a vote of 62 to 32 The major
ity and minority reports of the com
mittee on privileges and elections were then
presented and read The following bills
were indefinately postponed Providing
for investmsnt of funds of life and accident
insurance companies providing for re
duction in fees and salaries of county offi
cials providing for a state beet sugar fac
tory providing for the maintenence of
of farmers institutes The house then ad
journed until 10 a m Saturday
Saturday
The senate met with many members ab
sent on the 30th but in spite of several at
tempts at adjournment remained in session
until noon Aside from the proceedings
with reference to Senator Ransoms bill to
reduce the number of cjommissioners oi
Douglas county little else was done A
petition from a few residents of the north
ern part of Dundy County was presented
The petitioners ask the legislature to make
an appropriation to pay for the freight on
shipments of corn donated by farmers in
the eastern part of the state to the desti
tute of Dundy County It was re
ferred to the committee on charities
A communication was read from ex-Governor
Robert W Furnas enclosing the
resolution adopted at the recent annual
meeting of the State Board of Agriculture
asking the legislature to make an appro
priation for the Trans Mississippi Exposi
tion The senate spent some time in com
mittee of the whole in the consideration of
senate file No 178 providing for the col
lection of an annual tax from state banks
such tax to be held by the state treasurer
as a safety fund for the protection of de
positors of insolvent banks Senator Gond
ring of Platte spoke in opposition to the
proposed law At the conclusion of his
remarks the senate adjourned until Mon
day afternoon at 2 oclock
Following suspension of the reading of
the journal in the house on the 80th the
speaker announced that the introduction of
bills was first in order Speaker Gafiin
then announced that the hour set for the
special order of the day the Douglas Coun
ty contest cases had arrived and that the
vote would be taken on the adoption of the
minority report signed by Rouse By ram
Sheldon and Eager The original vote re
sulted Ayes 42 nays 65 When it was
seen that the minority report was defeated
all the Republicans with the exception of
Sutton and Ilolbrook changed their votes
from aye to nay This left the vote on the
minority report Ayes 11 nays 87 A
motion to postpone the majority report in
definitely was made and after debating the
motion at some length a vote was taken
resulting in 55 for and 43 against Then
the vote on the adoption of the
report was had Ayes 55 nays 43
At the afternoon session the following
bills were read the first time
By Webb house roll No 387 authorizing
the appointment of a state printer and sta
tioner and defining his duties and to pro
vide for the manner of contracting for and
purchasing state printing binding sta
tionery and office supplies and the dis
tribution of the same and to repeal sec
tions 4422 to 4436 inclusive of chapter li of
the Consolidated Statutes of Nebraska of
1893 to provide for the administration of
the state penitentiary and the government
thereof and of prisoners therein and to re
peal chapter lxxxvi of the Compiled Stat
utes of 1893 to provide fortownship boards
to purchase real estate a resolution to
amend section 1 of article xii of the con
stitution of the state of Nebraska relating
to municipal corporations requiring com
mission merchants receiving consignments
of live stock grain wares or merchandise
of any kind to act as the agent of the
shipper prohibiting the deposit of the pro
ceeds of sale in any bank to the credit of
any such commission merchant and pro
viding for remittance by draft payable to
shippers order without endorsement
Mozart was the greatest writer of
opera and the father of the modern
school He was in most respects the
the greatest musical genius who over
lived At the age of 5 he wrote com
positions of much beauty and died at
36 leaving over 800 finished composi
tions
It is said by philologists that there
are thirteen original European lan
guages the Greek Latin German Sla
vonic Welsh Biscayan Irish Alban
ian Tartarian Illyrian Jazygian
Chaucin and Finnic
The stock of Europe consumed 47117
tons of American hay for which the
Maud Mullers of this country and
their fathers and brothers received
S699020
ALGER GETS A PRIZE
MICHIGAN MAN IN MKINLEYS
CABINET
Is Offered and Accepts the Position
of War Secretary Has an Honorable
War Record and Has Been Governor
of His State
To Succeed Lamont
Gen Russell A Alger of Michigan is
to be Secretary of War in MeKinleys
cabinet Gen Alger was summoned to
Canton where the portfolio was tendered
and accepted In speaking of the matter
Gen Alger said that not until the inter
view were there any overtures made to
him in connection with the cabinet He
said also that none of the appointments of
his department had yet been disposed of
or decided upon and that it would be
some time before any announcements in
that line could be made
Gen Russell A Alger was born in La
fayette township Medina County Ohio
Feb 27 1836 His grandfather served
in the revolutionary war and is claimed to
have been a descendant of William the
Conqueror When 11 years of age both
his parents died For the next seven
years he worked on a farm earning money
to defray his expenses at the Richfield
O academy during the winters Subse
quently he taught school antl in March
l857 entered a law officenn Akron Two
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GEN KUSSELI A ALGER
years later he was admitted to the bar
but abandoned the practice of law the fol
lowing autumn on account of failing
health and moved to Grand Rapids
Mich where he engaged in the lumber
business and where in 1S61 he was mar
ried to Annette H Henry
In 1S61 Alger enlisted in the Second
Michigan Cavalry and was made captain
of Company C He was wounded in the
battle of Booneville Miss Owing to his
part in this engagement he was promoted
to the rank of major In 1862 he became
lieutenant colonel of the Sixth Michigan
Cavalry and in 1S63 was made colonel of
the Fifth Michigan Cavalry his regiment
being in Custers famous brigade In
1864 failing health induced him to retire
from the service He was breveted brig
adier and major general for gallant and
meritorious services and was on private
service in 1863 4 receiving orders per
sonally from President Lincoln
In 1865 he removed to Detroit where he
has since been extensively engaged in
lumber and pine land business Gen
Alger was elected Governor of Michigau
in 1884 receiving a plurality of 3950
rotes over Begole fusionist His ad
ministration of State affairs was consid
ered highly successful In 188S he was
one of the leading candidates for the Re
publican nomination for President Gen
Alger served one term as commander of
the G A R
The cases of cholera on board the Nu
bia at Plymouth have been confined to
the troops
Queen Victoria has donated 500 to the
India famine relief fund which has been
opened by the Lord Mayor of London
Serious floods have occurred in the Isl
and of Montserrat resulting in the loss of
seventy five lives and the destruction of
roads and bridges
The revenue of Newfoundland for the
firat six mouths of the fiscal year exceeds
that for the same period of the previous
year by S100000
Hungary has given formal notice to
Austria of its intention to terminate the
customs and commercial convention be
tween Austria and Hungary
The lighting of certain of the London
prisons by electricity is under considera
tion and it is proposed to erect a special
description of tread wheel to supply the
motive power
The Italian general medical council has
just presented a request to the Govern
ment the effect of which is that all for
eign doctors shall be prohibited from prac
ticing in Italy
A great bush tire has been raging in the
county of Montagu in Tasmania and the
township of Pengana has been nearly de
stroyed Hundreds of people have been
rendered homeless and the damage done
is estimated at 15000
A few weeks ago the German firm of
Friedrich Krupp prespnted 10000 to the
workmens pension fund of their works
and now a further donation of 25000
has been made to the fund for the widows
and orphans of their officials
It is reported that Count Muravieff
the newly appointed Russian minister of
foreign affairs has been charged to for
mally invite President Faure to St Pet
ersburg
Gustaff Wolff acting German consul at
Tacoma Wash was married to Miss
Christiana Smith of Chicago who arriv
ed from the East a few hours before the
ceremony
Intimate friends of the late Alexander
Dumas fils have resolved to keep the re
membrance of the dramatist alive in their
minds by a special dinner every three
months in Paris
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