V tf ra OFFICIAL DIRECTORY STATE Governor Silas AHolcomb Lieutenant Governor James EflarrW tfecrefctfyal State WF Porter Treasurer JNMeserve Auditor John F Cornell Com Lands and Bulldlngii Jacob V Wolfe Attorner General ConstantlneJSmvth bupt Public Instruction W R Jackson f R A Hadley SCojla C W KaleymRed Cloud Regents University Shos Rawlins wakefld I Chas Weston Hay Secretary t l iooia umaiia C H Morrill LTOCOl CONGRESSIONAL Senators Wm V Allen Madison John M Thurston Omaha Rspresentatlves First District JesseB Strode Lincoln Second D H Mercer Omaha Third UeoDMeiklejohnFullerton Fourth E J Hal iir Aurora Fifth Wm V Andrews Hastings Sixth O M Kem Broken Bow JUDICIAL Supreme Court T L Norval Chief Justice Harrison and Polk associates Fifteenth Judicial District M P Klrikatd ONeill W II Wcstover Rushvllle LEGISLATIVE Representative Fifty second District O P Billings Norden Senator Fourteenth District Otto Mutz Bprlngvlew LAND OFFICE Register O R Glover Longplne Receiver J I a t nee ivewpori COUNTY Treasurer G P Crabb JierK Geo Elliott Sheriff Amos Strong Judge W R Towne County Attorney F M Walcott County Superintendent Lillian Stoner Surveyor Chas Tait Coroner A Lewis Max vlertel Commissioners W A Tsuker 1 P Sullivan PRECINCT Overseers of Highways R Hansen and J Raj -1 Constable R Towne 1 Justices of the Peace John Dunn and J M Camm Assessor- John Dunn VILLAGE Town Board E Sparks president C H Cor nell treasurer T C Hornby clerk D S Ludwlg and P F Simons Marshal and Water Commissioner Henry Rarey chool District No 1 F M Walcott president M V Nicholson treasurer J C Pettijohn sepre tary W S Jackson G P Crabb and J TKealey SOCIETIES Imp 0 RM sitting Bull Tribe No 22 Improved Order of Red Men meets every second and fourth Friday evening of each month at Davenports Half Visiting brethren are fraternally invited to be present at the councils of the tribe J H SfiAits F M Makch Chief of Records Sachem A F A M Mlnnekadusa Lodge No 192 A F A M meets in regular communication Saturday even ing on or before the full moon in each month members of the order in good and regular stand ilng cordially and fraternally Invited tp attend J T KEBLflr W M W W Thompson Secv 0 E S Northern Star Chapter No 59 Order of the Eastern Star meets on second and fourth Tues- I dav evenings of each month in Hornbys hall W W Thompson Magoie WAtctfrr i Secretary Worthy Matron A O U W Valentine Lodge JSTo 70 A O U W meets on l si and 3rd Mondays of each month J C Pettijohn Rec O W Hahx M W D OF H Valentine Lodge No Degree of Honor j holds regular meetings first and third day evenings of each month 1 M Christensek Mas J C Pkttuobn Recorder Chief of Honor I 0 O P Valentine Lodge No 205 I O O F meets srEry Thursday evening Visiting brothers cord tally nvited to attend our meetings 1J a 1HUKST0N JJKANK iJKAXTUJX Noble Grand G A E Col Wood Pest No 208 Department of Ne braska regular meeting 2d and 4th Saturdays of each month at 2 v m sharp Comrads from other Posts are cordially invited to attend ij W Tcokkr Johw DUXN Adjutant Commander MW A Valentine Camp No 1751 Modern Woodmen of America meets second and fourth Wednesday evenings of each month at Davenports Hall Visiting neighbors cordially invited to attend W S Jacksox W E HAi1r Clerk Venerable Counsel K of P Cherry Lodgo No 169 KnlghtS of Pythias meets every Tuesday evening jxt DavenpMt9 Hall W S JACKBOX E P EoBEftTS K of R and S Chancellor Commander Arrival and Departure of Halls Mall east and west closes at 8 p m Rosebud leaves at 800 a m daily 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 days ana saiuruays vt Niobrara loo l leaves daily at700 a m and c500p m arrives at 930a m and 730 pm1 Kflwanee and Soarlcs arrives Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays at 500 pm and leaves Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at 7s am General delivery open from70 a m to 700 p m General delivery open on Sundays from 6 to 10 a m Lock boxes opendally form a a to 800 p m W EHALEY Postmaster PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS TJD CLARKE Attorney-at-Law y AUklnds of legal business promptly attended to Valentine Nebraska T C DWYER Physician and Surgeon Olhce at C R Watsons Drug Store Prompt attention given to all professional calls VALENTI2TE - 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 P F SIMONS RRQPRITOR OF DRAY LINE NO I Satisfaction guaranty Seasonable charges NEBRASKA CONGRESS DAILY REPORT OF WHAT IS BE ING DONE Many Measures of More drliess Im portance Being Introduced at the Present Session of the Golden Rod Legislature Wednesday Wednesday was Lincolns turn to sweat through a legislative session over a dis puted charter The occasion was marked by a large outpouring of the residents of the capital city the gallery looby and all available space on the floor of the senate itself being filled with interesting spectators The charter is claimed to be a partisan document having been prepared by the Populists of Lincoln It is opposed by the Republicans and ispecially by Senators Talbot and Spencer the members from Lancaster County Schaal of Sarpy offered a resolution pro viding for a committee to investigate the charges of bribery preferred by D E Thompson president of the Lincoln Gas Company McCann moved to lay the res olution on the table saying it was beneatli he dignity of the senate to even consider such charges Graham and Mutz both ex pressed themselves as against the resolu tion On roll call the motion to table re sulted in a tie vote and the lieutenant gov ernor cast his vote in the affirmative thus knocking out the proposed investigation Appropriations for the State University and State Normal School met with sturdy opposition Wednesday from the fusionists in the house By a scant majority the two university items of 30000 for the mechanic school of arts and 20000 for the state dairy building were recommended for pas sage The surety bond bills providing for bonding couuty and state treasurers by corporations were recommended to pass by votes which are far from being unani mous House roll No 274 by Gaffln pro vides that county fair associations may participate in the Trans Mississippi Expo- sition and provide for the expense of such exhibits This measure was recommended by the standing committee to be engrossed for a third reading Wooster opposed this and moved that it be indefinitely post poned This was lost as was also the mo tion to send it to the general file The bill was at last recommended to be engrossed for a third reading The whole afternoon was consumed in committee of the whole Tuesday The following tabulated statement shows the total appropriations for each board and institution as agreed to by the bouse It will be noticed that one of the largest items of saving has been made in the amount appropriated for the maintenance of the convicts in the state penitentiary The saving is made possible by the new system of managing the state penitentiary The money derived from leasing the labor of the convicts is now applied toward their maintenance Too much space would be required to give an itimized satatement of the appro priations for the several state boards and state institutions They are summarized as follows 1897 1895 Board of Public Lands and Buildings 21700 22675 Board of Educational Lands andFunds 4000 18000 Board of Purchase and Supplies 400 400 State Banking Department 1600 1500 State Library 7200 10000 Supreme Court 18303 15210 Board of Transportation 871 525 Board of Irrigation 2400 2800 Normal School in Peru 9842 14790 State penitentiary 63100 138700 State university 58500 50850 Hospital for Insane at Nor folk 71670 79450 Asylum for Insane at Hast ings 152125 127800 Industrial School at ney 89650 85400 Girls Industrial School at Geneva 80850 25350 Institute for Deaf and Dumb at Omaha 31740 49467 Institute for Feeble Minded at Beatrice 56800 63550 Institute for Blind at Ne braska City 81525 43950 Industrial Home at Mil- ford 17900 20200 Home for the Friendless at Lincoln 31000 24500 Soldiers Home at Grand Island 64750 67750 Soldiers Home at Milford 11600 8000 Hospital for Insane at Lin coln 118500 103500 Fish commission 7500 8550 State Historical Society 8500 Totals 906778 992923 The senate on Thursday morning by unanimous consent advanced the Trans Mississippi Exposition bill to the head of the general file It therefore stands third on the list of bills which will be considered in turn The senate went into committee of the whole to resume consideration of the Lincoln charter This bill occupied the attention of the senate for the entire day and it was not until 630 in the evening that the big document was finished Only once was anything approaching deter mined opposition shown the entire day being consumed with the reading of the bill line for line this being insisted upon by the Lancaster County senators The only section seriously contested was the provision for a fire and police commission but the section was retained The senate voted down a proposition to submit the charter to a vote of the people of Lincoln and recommended the bill to pass Friday The Trans Mississippi Exposition bill passed the senate on the 12th and is ready for its final passage as soon as one or two small amendments are printed The sen ate by a narrow margin of two votes de clined to increase the amount appropriated by the house But two amendments were made one designed to limit the monthly allowance for each member of the commis sion and the other to make the appropria tion of 100000 available as soon as the stockholders had paid in an equal amount The bill bad the - right of way over everything except tba treasury vault bill Both had been hiade spocial orders for Friday The latter bill was made special order for further consideration Monday Before the special orders were takeri up the senate read and passed several bills which were ready for third reading Among them were the following Senate file No 78 relating to the trans fers of real estate from one school district to another for the purposes of taxatjon The lavy at present provides that all the real estate of parents sending children to an adjoining school district shall be transferred to laid adjoining district for purposes of school taxes The new bill provides that only the quarter section of land on which is located the residence of the parents shall be transferred Senate file No 40 was passed by a vote of 26 to 0 It provides for the organization of mutual hail insurance companies Concurrent resolution No 25 was passed It designates the Friday near est the middle of the month of May in each year as bird day to be observed by pub lic schools Concurrent resolution No 27 was passed with no votes against It au thorizes the governor to sign a contract with the governor of South Dakota to fix the boundary line between the two states at a point in the center of the main chan nel of the Missouri Kiver running between Dixson County Nebraska and Clay Coun ty South Dakota subject to the approval of congress Among the most important bills passed by the house are the following House roll No 154 defining what shall be a legal tender for currency in the state of Ne braska and providing that it shall be gold coin and standard silver dollars of the United States of standard weight and fine ness House roll No 184 by Rich pro viding for the sale upon execution of stock in corporations and interests in companies incorporated and designating the manner of levy under execution and writs of at tachment The bill passed with the emergency clause Hulls bill house roll No 150 to prevent the adulteration of cider passed by a vote of 77 to 2 House roll No 261 is for an act to prohibit the useless waste of mutual artesian well water to which was attached an emer gency clause The bill did not pass with the emergency clause and was placed on ts passage without it and passed House roll No 267 to prohibit corporations from contributing money to influence and con trol elections was then placed on passage and passed by a vote of 83 to 1 House roll No 170 providing for the imprison ment of non resident voters in the state of Nebraska was passed by o vote of 84 to 0 House roll No 171 to pun ish the bringing of illegal voters into the state passed by a vote of 81 to 0 House roll No 172 by Gaffin amending section 189 of the Criminal Code and punishing bribery threats intimidation and imped ing electors at elections was passed by 7i to 0 House roll No 36 the suffrage meas ure was defeated by a vote of 50 to 40 Saturday The senate gave itself up to routine mat ters on the 18th and by dint of close appli cation to work succeeded in accomplishing a great deal of business The notable features of the forenoon session were the final passage of the bill carrying an ap propriation of 100000 for the Trans-Mississippi Exposition the final postponement of the new age of consent law which occu pied the attention of the house for sogreat a length of time and the spirited debate upon the -bill introduced by Mr Beal of Custer having for its object the repeal of the deficiency judgment law From the committee on federal relations Mr Ran som reported joint resolution No 21 in quiring into the alien ownership of lands in the United States with the single rec ommendation that it be placed on general file The joint resolution is as folllows Resolved That we urge upon our repre sentatives in congress that a provision op made in the twelfth census for ascertain ing the amount of leal estate bonds stocks machinery shares or any other property whatever owned by non residents aliens in the United States The same committee recommended the indefinite postponement of joint resolution No 26 introduced by Mr Graham by re quest proposing an amendmentto the state constitution relating to revenue and finance The only negative votes on the exposition bill were cast by Canaday Osborn Ritchie Buncjas When the order of bills on third reading was reached jn the house Saturday the committees substitute for house roll No 183 was first on the list It is for an act to authorizo the organization of mutual in surance companies to insure city and vil lage property against loss by fire light ning tornado and to regulate their con duct The original bill was introduced by Jones of Nemaha and is practically the same bill that passed the legislature of 1895 and was vetoed by Gov Holcomb The bill received 77 votes and none against and was passed A report from the committee on rules was submitted making a change to the effect that the introducer of a bill should in committee of the whqle have ten minutes to explain his measure and five minutes to plose in answer to opposition- On the adoption of this report roll call was demanded tfhe vote resulted Ayes 54 nays 23 A re quest from the secretary of state was read asking that he be allowed a voucher for 8 for postage used in collecting returns from the variqus pquntjes for thpusB q te commission engaged in recounting the Yotes cast for the constitutional amendments On objection of Clarlr of Lancaster the re quest went over The house then went into committee of the whole with Billings of Keya Paha in the chair House roll Nq 615 tlie general salary bill was first on the list for consideration When te general salary bill house roll No 615 was reached Wooster made an attack oh some of the items in the governors offipe Ths led to a wranglp between Wooster and Clark of Riphardsap chairman pf the ppmmittee on finanpe ways ana means and bcqre any action could be had on fhp apprqpriation salary bill tljo noiqnvtteeQf the whole rose and adjourned Twenty million dollars worth o bank notes leave the Bank of England dally while sixty folio volumes o ledgers are filled with writing in Keep ing the accounts of a single day The Argentine Government will shortly order the construction of six new torpedo boats and likewise projects ordering two new cruisers The total cost of these vessels j estimated at 5000PQQ A Geneva elockmaker has invented a speaking watch It is an application of the phonograph to the old fashioned repeater whoso springs and hammers have been replaced by a disc of vul canized india rubber As the point moves over the surface It emits articu late sounds Indicating the hour being an exact reproduction of those pro duced on a cylinder by the human voice and which can be heard iu an adjoining room D A Buck a resident of Taterbury Coun once made a perfect steam engine- tlmt was so small that the engine boiler governor and pumps all stood on a space only one fourth if au incb in diameter and less than seven six teenths of an Inqh high The engtac had 14S dtetmct payts beia tosother by fifty twp screwa The diameter of the oyJinder was but X 2G of an inch and tho whole affair not including the bus plate weighed but three grains I THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE Treasury Situation Reviewed and Prompt Action Urged The following is President McKinleys message as read before congress in extra session Monday To the Congress of the United State Regretting the necessity which has re quired me to call you together I B tht your assembling in extraordtoary bmsJoW is Indispensable because of the oondltlon1 in which we find the revenues ot tho gov ernment It is conceded that it current expenditures are greater tkan Ma recaipts and that such a condition has existed for now mora than three veaxa With unlim ited means at our command w are pre senting the remarkable spectacle of in creasing our public debt by borrowlu money to meet the ordinary outlays inci dent upon even an economical and pru dent administration of the govfirtoaant An examination of the subject dladloses this fact in every detail and leads inevi tably to the conclusion that the condition of the revenue which allows it is unjusti fiable and should bo corrected We And by the reports of the secretary of the treasury that the revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30 1892 from all sources were 42586826022 and the expenditures for airpurposea were 41595380656 leaving an excess of receipts over expenditures of 391445368 During that fiscal year 40 57046798 were paid upon the public debt which had been reduced since March 1 1889 259O7G850 and the annual interest charge decreased 1168437660 The re ceipts of the government from all sources during the fiscal year ending June 80 1893 amounted to 461716q6194 and its expendi tures to 45937488765 showinf an excess of receipts over expenditures of 284167429 Since that time the receipts of no fiscal year and with but few exceptions of no month of any fiscal year have exceeded the expenditures Records of the Past Three Xeara The receipts of the government from all sources during the fiscal year eridlna June 30 1894 were 37289249829 and its ex penditures 4426057587 leaving a deficit the first since the resumption of specie payments of 0980326053 Notwithstand ing there was a decrease of 1676912878 in the ordinary expenses of the government as compared with the previous fiscal year its Income wfes still not sufficient to pro vide for Its daily necessities and the geld reserve In tho treasury for the redemption of greenbacks was drawn upon to mast them But this did not suffice and tlie government then resorted to loans tore plenlsh the treasury reserve In Febru ary 1894 50000000 in bonds were Issued and in the November following a sacond issue of 50000000 was deemed neoeuaarj The sum of 117171795 was realised by the sale- of those bonds but tho reserve was steadily decreased until on February 8 1895 a third sale of 5231fi4O0 In Wnds f 6r 65116244 was announced to congrass The receipts of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30 1B95 wF 880r 37320330 and the expenditures 423178 4284BJ showing a deficit of 4280522318 A further loan of 100000000 was nego tiated by the government February 1835 the sale netting 111166246 and swelling the aggregate of bonds issued within throo years to 262316400 For the fiscal year ending June 80 186 the revenues of the government from all sources amounted to 40947540878 while Its expenditures were 43467865448 or an ex cess of expenditures over receipts of 25 20324570 In other words the total receipts of tbo three flsoal years ending Juno 80 1806 wore insufficient by 13781172943 to meet the total expenditures Nor hofl this cpndltLoaaInop Improved For the first half of the pfaaenj fiscal ydar the reosipts of the government aoluslve of postal revenues were 76wWJ6 and its expenditures exclusive or postal serv ice 19541000022 or an excess of expendi tures over receipts of 8780239646 In Jan uary of this year the receipts exclusive of postal revenues were 24S16siQ3 atj tfce expenditures exclusive of postal service 3026938929 a deficit of 39538524 for the month In February of this year tha re ceipts exclusive of postal revenuea ware 2440099738 and expenditures exolualve of postal service 2879606586 a deficit of 433505928 or a total deflolt of 86031 58044 for the three years and eight monJKis ending March 1 1897 Not only are we without a surplus in the treasury but with an Increase Tn th pub lic debt there has been a corresponding increase in the annual interest oharge from 2289388320 in 1892 the lowest of any year since 1862 to 343879760 in 1895 or an increase of 1149341440 r It may be urged that even if tho reve nues of the government had been suffi cient to meet all its ordinary expenses during the past three years the gold re serve would still have been insufficient to meet the demands upon It and that bonds would neoessarily have been Issued for its repletion Be this as it rooy it is clearly manifest without denying or affirming the correctness of nuch a conclusion that the debt WQUlo have been decreased Li ut least the amount of the deficiency a J business confidence immeasurably strengthened throughout the country Prompt Itevenuo Action Urgoq Congress should promptly correct the existing condition Ampfb revenues must be supplied not only tor the ordinary ex penses of the jrovernment but for the prompt payment of liberal pensions and the liquidation of thefprinoipal and inter est of the public debt In raising revenue duties should be so levied upon foreign products as to pre serve the hom market so far as possible to our own producers to revive and In creased manufactories to relieve and en courage agriculture to increase Qur do mestic and foreign commerce to aid and develop mining and budding and to render to labor in very field or useful occupation the liberal Vfuges and adequate rewards to which sljiU and industry are JUBtly enti tled The necessity of the passage ot a tariff law which ahall provide amtflo rev enue peed not be further urgedv ha im perative demand of the hour ft the prompt enactment of such a measure and to this object I earnestly recommend thftt con gress shall mak ivery endeavor Before othsp business i3 transacted ler us flrs provide sufficient rvnue to faith fully administer the government without the contracting qf furtner debt or the continued dlstwroance of our finances William MoRlnley Executive Mansion March fo 1897 tsottea A wash battle for washing gaseb has bPm devised recently The bottle has no stopper and consists of a conical flask with a gallwy round the top into which mercury or other suitable liquid ist poured In this rests an inverted bulb flask wUh wide neck from which a glass tube leads away the gas but the gas is brought into the arrangement by a tubo which comes bodily through the hollow of the bulb and terminates in the conical flask below within the washing liquid Shoe Soles A new shoe sole is being tried in the German army It consists it is said of a kind of paste of linseed oil varnish with iron filings with which the soles of the new shoes are painted It is said to keep the leather flexible and to give the shoe greater resistance than thety sfc nails Already in many regiments nails made of aluminum a ised in stead of the ordinary fcn nails and are apparently oWd satisfactory The man who controls hiinseAfj may hope to reform other men Of cotton other toft Sea Island ive last yeai expoxe 3 02171787 pounds forvtueh ye received 202418551 Refrigerated povk was exported from this country year to the extent of 818581 pounds valued at 60660 fhe American orchard owner last year exported 81S711 barrels of apples and received 954318 for them Of hides and skins for tanning pur poses this country last year exported 36002859 pounds valued at 2310323 PLAIN OR FANCY P RINTINQ anMMHH QUICKLY CPECIALTIES W R HALEY BILL HEADS LBTTBR HEADS NOTE HEADS STATEMENTS ENVELOPES INVITATIONS PROGRAMMES MENUS LARQB POSTERS BUSINESS CARDS SMALL POSTERS OALUNQ GAS9 SALE BILLS ETC CHROMO CARPS Notary Public Real Estate ABSTRACTER Valentine Nebraska 1000000 Bond Filed Office in JP O Building The DONOHER Has recently been refurnished and thoroughly ronoyated making it now more than ever worthy of tho reputation it has always borne of being THE MOST COMPLETE AND COMFORTABLE HOTEL IN THE NORTHWEST Hot and Gold Water Excellent Bath Boom Good Sample Boom 31 J DOXOHEM Proprietor Qherry Qounty Bank Valentine Nebraska Every facility extended customers consistent withlcongervatire banking JExchaBge bought and sold Loans upon good security solicited at reasonable rates County depository E SPARKS President CHARLES SPARKS Cashier IM B ANK OF VALENTINE C H CORNELL President M V NICHOLSON Cfsahiev Valentine Nebraska A General Banking Business Transacted Buys and Sells Domestic and Foreign Exchange- Correspondents Cheraioal NatlonalBank New York Xlrst National Bank Oaafct CITIZENS - MEAT - MARKET GEO G SCHWALM PROP This market always keep3 a supply of FISH AND GAME In addition to a first class line of Steaks Roasts Dry Salt Meate Smoked Hams Breakfast Bacon and Yegetable3 At StattersOld Stand on Main Street VALENTINE NEBRASKA THE PALACE SALOON HEADQUARTERS WINES LIQUORS and CIGARS Valentine Ol the Choicest Brsuadft Neerasxa Remember that this office is fully prepared at all times to turn ou on the shortest notice in the most artistic and workmanlike manner all kinds of 9 9 Job Printing Ar