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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
feXrrer vJn m2SS
Bupt Public Instruction w It Jackson
fKAITadley Scotfa
I C W IvaleymRed Cloud
Regents University shos Rawlins Wakef Id
I Chas Weston Hay Spgs
I II L Goold Ograialla
ICH Morrill Lincoln
CONGRESSIONAL
Senators Win V Allen Madison John M
Tlnirston Omaha
Rspresentatives First District Jesse H Strode
Lincoln Second D fl Mercer Omaha Third
iion DMciklejolin Fiillcrton Fourth EJ Hai
iinr Aurora Fifth Wm K Andrews Hastings
blth O M Kem Broken Bow
JFDICIAL
Supreme Conrt T Xorval Chief Justice
UairiMiu and Folk associates
rlfe1h lcia District M F KInkald
ONeill V II Westovcr ltuslivllltf
LEGISLATIVE
Representative Fifty second District -OF
ftllllncs Nordeu
Senator Fourteenth District Otto Mutz
Bprliijjvlew
LAND OFFICE
Register O It Glover Longpine Receiver J
A Fikc Newport
COUNTY
Treasurer o 1 Orahb
lcrlj Geo Elliott
lnti Amos Strong
Judge W R Towne
County Attorney F M Walcott
County Superintendent Lillian Stoncr
Surveyor Chas Talt
Coroner A Lewis
Max vlertel
Commissioners i w ATaiker
i P Sullivan
PltECINCT
Overseers ol Highways R Hansen and J Ra
Coiibtahle R Towne
Justices of the Peace John Dunn and J M
Cumin
Assessor- John Dunn
VILLAGE
Town Board E Sparks prosldent C H Cor
nell treasurer T C Hornby clerk D S Ludwlg
unci V F Simons
Marshal and Water Commissioner Henry
Ra7ey
chool District No 1 F M Walcott president
M V Nicholson treasurer J C Pettljohn secre
tary W S Jackson G P Crubb and J T Kcoley
SOCIETIES
Imp 0 RM
fitting Bull Tribe No 22 Improved Order of
Red Men meets every second and fourth Friday
evening of each month at DavenportsJ Half
Visiting brethren are fraternally Invited to be
present at the councils of the tiibc
J H Seahs F M March
Chief of Records Sachem
A F A M
Minnekadusa 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
ing cordially and fraternally invited to attend
JT Kkelby W M
W W Thompson Secv
0 E S
Northern Star Chapter No 59 Order of the
Eastern Star meets on second and fourth
dav evenings of eah month tn Hornbys hall
W W JUlOMfSOX MagoiWaloott
Secretary Worthy Matron
a oTtl w
Valentine Lodge No 70 A O U W meets
on l si and 3rd Mondays of each month
J C Peitijohx Rec O W Habit M W
D OF II
Valentine Lodge No Degree of Honor
holds regular meetings first and third Wednes
day evenings of each month
M Christexsen Mrs J C Pkttijobn
Recorder Chief of Honor
Js
I O O F
Valentine Lode No 205 I O O F meets
very Thursday evening Visiting brothers cord
iv nvuea toauena our meetings
D H TlIUnSTON Frakk Bratton
Secretary Noble Grand
G A H
Col Wood Past No 20S Department of Ne
braska i egular meeting 2d and 4th Saturdays of
each month at 2 d m sharp Comrads from
other Posts are cordially Invited to attend
J WTccKKit Jobk Dunn
Adjutant Commander
MwT A
Valentine Camp No 1751 Modern Woodmen of
Ameiica meets second and fourth -Wednesday
evenings of each month at Davenports Hall
Visiting neighbors cordially Invited to hi tend
W S Jacksov W E HaZBy
Clerk Venerable Counsel
K of P
Cherry Lodge No l69Knlchts of Pythias meet
every Tuesday evening at Davennotts Hall
W S Jackfox E P Bqberts
K of R and S Chancellor Commander
Arrival and Departure of Malls
MhII east and west closes at 8 p m
Rosebud leaves at 800 a m dallj except 8un
dav and arrives at 500 p m
Simoon Kennedy and OrsIs leaves
at 7 00 a m Mondays Wednesdays and Frl
dav8 and arrives at 700 p m Tuesdays Thurri
das and Saturdays
Ft Niobrara leaves daily at700 a m and
500 p m arrives at 930a mand 730 pm
- Kewanee and Sparks arrives Mondays
Wednesdavs and Fridays at 609 p m and
leaves Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at
7a ti m
General delivery open from 760 a m to 00
p m General delivery open on Sundays from
8 to 10 a m Lock boxes opcndally form 8 a
to 800 p ra
W EHALEY Postmaster
PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS
TTD CLARKE
Attorney-at-Law
AUklnds of legal business promptly attended to
VAbExiiXE Nebraska
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C DWYER
Physician and Surgeon
Olhce at C R Watsons Drug Store Prompt
attention given to all professional call-
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
Satisfaction guaranteed
Seasonable charges
3t A JELS PROUD TEAR
rHE ORGANIZATION IS THIRTY
ONE YEARS OLD
rirBt Conceived in Illinois the Order
Has Had 8000 Posts witli a Mem
bership of Over Half a Million
Death Making Inroads
A Famous Society
iS
I i 73 If J HI
ILLINOIS is the
birthplace of tlie
Grand Army of
the Republic was
the home of tlie
first post organiz
ed writes J A
Watrous in tlie
Chicago Times
Herald but Wis
consin bears an
honor equal to it in
Uie fact that thirty one years ago the first
State or department encampment of the
rder assembled within her borders at
Madison But few posts were represent
ed One each at Milwaukee Madison and
Berlin and less than a half dozen others
t was a small body of young men who
roinposed this first lepartment encamp
ment Among them were the late Gen
Lucius Fairchild Col Tom Reynolds tlie
Irishman who refused to have his leg
amputated becanse it was imported the
ate Gen Jerry Rusk Gen lames K
Vroudfit Gen George E Bryant Private
9enry Sanford Private George Baker
Private Nelson Bowernian Col Henry
k Starr Capt Edward Ferguson and a
Jew others Gen Tames K Proudfit
ivho had served as adjutant of the
Twelfth and later as its colonel and was
the high station when the order was first
Hurlbut Surgeon
on earth are Gens Logan
geon Grimshaw Gen Cal Wagner and
Gen Hartranft Gen Devens of Massa
chusetts was in at the new birth
National encampments have been held
twice at Indianapolis one each in Phila
delphia New York Washington Boston
Providence Portland Me San Fran
cisco St Louis Columbus O Pittsburg
Milwaukee Louisville St Paul The
next session will be held at Buffalo the
last week in August
At the thirty first department encamp
ment of the order in Wisconsin at Eau
Claire recently probably not to exceed a
dozen of the men who belonged to the
Grand Army in 1SGG when tlie first de
partment encampment was held were
present Among the men who have held
the office of department commander in
that State still living are James K
Proudfit Thomas S Allen Edward Fer
guson George A Ilannaford nenry G
Rogers S F Hammond G J Thomas
II M Enos Phil Cheek Henry P Fisch
er Michael Griffen A G Weissert L
Ferguson Benjamin F Bryant W H
Upham C B Welton E A Shores J
A Watrous W D Hoard and D Lloyd
Jones Messrs Welton Upham Bryant
L Ferguson Watrous Weissert Griffen
Cheek and Rogers are tlie only ones who
were present The department has had
as high as 14000 members Its present
membership is between eight and nine
thousand
It was the department of Wisconsin
that first moved to establish a State home
for the veteran soldiers their wives and
the widows of soldiers It has been in
operation near Waupaca for ten years and
has proved a great success The example
set by Wisconsin has been imitated by a
number of States and several others are
contemplating the step
HELD FOR SMUGGLING
Millionaire Dry Goods Merchant of
St Louis Is Accused
Richard M Scruggs the millionaire dry
goods merchant who was arrested in New
York Saturday for smuggling jewelry and
fine laces is one of the most eminent and
respected citizens of St Louis He and
Edward G Langhorn general manager
of the American Arithmometer Company
who were passengers on the American
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LEADING ASPIRANTS FOR THE OHIO GOVERNORSHIP
A
t
JOIIX R MiEAX rAUL J SOrG
rJo4ow
arevetted a brigadier was made depart
ment commander The work of organiz
ing in 1SG7 and 1SGS went forward with
great enthusiasm By the end of 1SG8
there were about 100 posts in the State
The fame of the new order in Illinois and
Wisconsin attracted the attention of
Pennsylvania New York and several oth
er Eastern States and it was extended to
heir borders charters being given by the
lepartment of Wisconsin The chief post
ii Philadelphia is working under a char
ier signed by Department Commander
James K Proudfit This is true of posts
in other State
There are now over forty Grand Army
aepartments nnd there have been as high
is S000 posts with a membership of near
y half a million The birth of that order
resulted in bringing into existence the
Womans Relief Corps which has a mem
bership of nearly 200000 The two or
ders have expended for charity many mill
ions of dollars They have led in patri
otic education and demonstration they
have led in suggesting and in agitating
for the establishment of several of the
national homes and the establishment of
all of the State homes they have exer
cised much influence in pension legisla
tion sometimes unwisely but in the main
wisely and justly and they have given
us Memorial Day with its beautiful and
inspiring cereinoiile
Wisconsin is the possessor of the post
that has been in existence without inter
ruption the greatest length of time Wil
liams No 4 of Berlin
From 1SGS to 1S75 nearly all of the
Grand Army posts in the country died of
an overdose of politics It was along in
1S79 that tlie order began its resurrection
on a new foundation rigidly excluding pol
itics and demanding utter non-interference
with religious beliefs On that foun
dation it grew more rapidly than it had
at first It sprang forward like a fright
ened fawn under Commanders-in-chief
Major Merrill of Massachusetts Paul
Yandervoort of Nebraska Col R B
Beath of Pennsylvania the one legged
drummer boy Johnny Kountz of Ohio
Gen S S Burdett of Washington Gen
Fairchild of Wisconsin Capt Rea of
Minneapolis Major William Warper of
Kansas City Gen R A Alger of Michi
gan Judge Yeazey of Yenuont Adjutant
John Talnier pf New York and Col A G
Weissert of Wisconsin
Since then the order from natural
causes lias ceased tp increase It hijs
been growing smaller rapidly it wil con
tinue to speedijy grow smaller A fair
sized army corps 14000 will have died
by Sept 1 next Ten years from now
there will not be one third as many posts
and members as there are tq day Fif
teen years from now there yil scarcely
be more than one post in a county Twen
ty years from now one or twp posts in the
State will answer Twenty five years
from now the Grand Army of the Repub
lic will be only a memory
Since Weissert ip S9l2 there haye been
at the head of the national organization
Capt Jack Adams of Massachusetts Col
Tom Lasvler of Rock ford 111 Col Walk
er of Indianapolis and Major Clarkson
Illinois has the honor of baying had at
the head Gen John A Logan two or three
years Gen Stephen A Hurlbut two
years Lawler one While 01ftrkson is
now a resident of Nebraska he was an
Illinois soldier thus giving the State four
commanders-in-chief
Pennsylvania has had three Wagner
Beaih Hartranft Among those who held
Line steamer St Paul were taken into
custody by theUnited States customs
officials when they landed Jewelry val
ued at about 2000 was seized and a
charge of attempting to defraud the Unit
ed States revenues was made against
them
Mr Scruggs is the senior partner of ond
of the largest dry goods houses in the
west lie is 7G years old and is the pres
ident of one of the leading charitable or
ganizations of St Louis When there
was great suffering among the poor of
that city last winter G0000 was raised
and distributed mainly through his efforts
lie had been in business in St Louis for
nearly half a century He had never
been abroad uutil he took the trip which
ended so unfortunately
From hia own explanation Scrugga
brought over presents for relatives and
friends and neglected to declare them It
seems a case of inexperience and bad
counselors and the old gentleman said
he would gladly write his check for 10-
It CHARD jr SCKUOGS
000 if he could wipe the whk affair off
the slate
Scruggs and Langhorn went to London
to dispose of the European rights for the
manufacture of the arithmometer a cal
culating machine The sale was made to
English capitalists and Scruggs as pres
ident and treasurer of the company sign
ed the contracts and received 200000
Having completed his business hq
bought a few watches rings and pins to
present to relatives and employes He
was told that it is customary for Ameri i
cans tp bring in articles for their own
use or intended for presents without de i
claring them and paring duty as on arti
cles intended for sale Tlie penalty fon
smuggling may be anything from alight
fine to a fine of 3000 and imprisonment
for two years
1 i merchant of Lincale
Tex was recently enticed from his home
by a negro and murdered Edward Jones
a negro was arrested and in a confession
implicated Will Jones a white man Jonea
yas placed in jail Shortly after 1 oclock
in the morning a mob appeared at the
county jail at Tyler broke in the doors
and shot Jones to death They refused to
kill the negro who killed Stewart
John Wolff who had been scolded by
the foreman drowned himself in a vat
of beer at the Moerlein brewery in Cin
cinnati Ohio
NATIONAL SOLONS
REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT
WASHINGTON
Detailed Proceedings of Seriate and
House Bills Passed or Introduced
in Either Branch Questions of Mo
ment to the Country at Large
The Leirislative Grind
Representative McMillin Monday in
troduced in the House a resolution pro
viding for the consideration of a Senate
resolution recognizing the belligerency of
the Cuban insurgents from day to day
until disposed of The resolution was
referred to the Committee on Rules The
resolution appropriating 50000 for the
relief of distressed American citizens in
Cuba reached the White House at 1220
oclock just as soon as it could be sent
up after being signed by both houses
while they were in open session The
President signed the resolution imme
diately The conferees on the sundry
civil appropriation bill have agreed The
most Important amendment to the bill
was that revoking the order of President
Cleveland of Feb 22 1S97 setting apart
21000000 acres of lands as forest res
ervations The appropriation for Pearl
harbor Hawaii is reduced to 10000
The Senate amendment for improving
Salmon bay Washington is stricken out
The appropriation for a Government ex
hibit at the Omaha exposition is left at
200000 the 75000 increase of the
Senate being stricken out The amend
ment for investigation of sugar produc
tion remains in the bill The appropria
tion for the improvement of the lower
Mississippi River is increased to 2933
333 The net reduction from the Sen
ate amendments is 500000 The Mobile
bay improvement is made 25000 in
stead of 40000 inserted by the Senate
The total of the bill as agreed to is 53
G22G51
The debate on the tariff bill began in
the Senate Tuesday with crowded gal
leries ami a large attendance of Sena
tors and the tariff leaders of the House
Mr Aldrich Mr Vest and Mr Cannon
were the speakers Early in the day Mr
Mallory the new Senator from Florida
was sworn in and took his seat Senator
Cullom introduced by request a bill to
amend the interstate commerce law The
bill prescribes relations for pooling re
quiring that pooling contracts shall not
extenu beyond five years and that they
shall name the maximum and minimum
rates to be charged requiring the approv
al of the interstate commerce commission
before tlie agreements can become ef
fective The bill provides for a com
plete revision of the interstate commerce
law The House was not in session
The Senate Wednesday resumed con
sideration of tlie tariff Mr Vest oppo
sition leader moved a reduction in the
duties upon boracie acid and was de
feated 34 to 20 The debate was par
ticipated in by Senators Vest Jones of
Arkansas Aldrich Perkins White Caf
fery Gray and Stewart Mr White a
Democratic member of the Finance
Committee opposed Mr Vests amend
ment urging that the California industry
required the rate allowed by the com
mittee Seven paragraphs of the bil
were considered during the day tho com
mittee being sustained in each instance
The resolution was agreed to authorizing
the Secretary of the Navy to employ any
suitable ship in foywarding relief supplies
to India Tho House
was not in ses
sion
The Cuban resolution was brought be
fore the House Thursday A motion to
refer to committee none of which are
yet appointed was declared by Speaker
Reed to be out of order Mr Lewis ap
pealed from the Tuling and the appeal
was tabled- to 57 Adjourned Th
Senate made good progress on the tariff
bill disposing of ten pages Several votes
were taken the Finance Committee be
ing sustained In each case by majorities
varying from six to fifteen The dru
schedule was under discussion and the
debate was largely technical Before tak
ing up the tariff the final conforenee re
port on the sundry civil h was agreed
to including the
provision suspending un
til March 1 next tha executive order cre
ating extensile forest reserves
Aftov a long period of silence Senator
Tillman of South Carolina startled the
Senate Friday by a speech no less dra
matic in its delivery than sensational in
its allegations He declared iho w
statements that Senators were speculate
fc m Migur siocks pending the settle
ment of the sugar tariff schedule were
gotting to be so persistent and forceful
that It was a national scandal He
pre
coded his speech by presenting a resolu
tion for the appointment
of n special
committee of fiYi Senators to investigate
he chargeS The Senate then took up the
tariff WH The House did nothing The
Senate Committee on Public Buildings
and Grounds agreed to report favorably
the bills for public buildings at Baltimore
JJ cost 1500000 Durham X C
Sl o000 McKeesport Pa 200000-
SASfet0rnP 75i Wilkesbarre
Inn 100 Bue Cy Mont 300
000 and
Aberdeen D 100000
For the first time in
many years a mem
ber of the TJnited States Senate was Sat
urdty ftfteraoon directed to take his seat
as a result of statements made in lrKota
The Senator who offended was Mr Mor
gan of Alabama and the ma ivho called
him to order was Senate JJale of Maine
Mr Morgan was at 4e moment soundly
berating Speaks Reed for his exercise
of the onojnan power in the House The
PVeidtng officer at tho time was Senatoi
Gallinger of New Hampshire but aftei
the spurt of indignation on th cf t
Hale was over Mr Morgan continued
ns speech declaring for the first tire
during tho twenty years he had served
in the Senate this was the only occasion
on which he had been direct to cea3
debate and take his seat He wanted tb
American people to know that such de
mands were made at a time when tbt
Senator so doaft with was defending the
Constitution The whole day was con
suwert in a further consideration of the
fclass schedule The Senate adjoumec
over Monday
Current Comment
Why not place a heavy tariff duty or
pink teas Chicago Times Herald
It will be very discourteous to Gen
Miles if Europe will not get up a war foj
his diversion Pittsburg Times
The Senate committee having taken tht
hide off the Dingley bill has evened thing
up by putting hides on Portland Easter
Argus
Mayor Harrison is modifying Chicago
civil service regulations The modifica
tion is executed with an ax Washing
ton iost
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