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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
STATE
PoTeroor Sllajj A Holcomb
lieutenant Governor JameSEflarrli
A gtcretafy of State WF Porter
treasurer JNMcserve
Auditor John F Cornell
Com Landsand Bulldlngij Jacob V Wolfe
Attorney General Constantino TSmvth
Bupt Public Instruction W It Jackson
fEAIladley Scfifla
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Regents University
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I u w jvaieymKeq uiotid
Shos Rawlins WalcefId
cnas weston nay spss
IHLOoold cWlla
ICH Morrill Lincoln
CONGRESSIONAL
Senators Win V Allen Madison John M
Thurston Omaha
Representatives First District Jesse R Strode
Lincoln Second D II Mercer Omaha Third
Geo I Meiklejohn Ftillerton Fourth K J Ilal
ner Aurora Fifth Win K Andrews Hastings
Sixth O M Kern Broken Row
JUDICIAL
Supreme Court T L Norval Chief Justice
Harrison and Polk associates
Fifteenth Judicial District M P Klnkald
ONeill W II Wcstover Rushvlllc
LEGISLATIVE
Representative Fifty second District OP
Billiims Norden
Senator Fourteenth District Otto Mutz
Bpringvlew
LAND OFFICE
RpRister C R Glover Longpine Receiver J
A Fiko Newport
COUNTY
Treasurer G P Crabb
gcrk Geo Elliott
Sheriff Amos Strong
Judge w R Towne
County Attorney FM Walcott
County Superintendent Lillian Stonrr
Surveyor Chas Talt
Coroner A Lewis
Max vlertel
Commissioners W A Paiker
I P Sullivan
PRECINCT
Overseers of Highways R Hansen and J Raj
Constable It Towne
Justices of the Peace John Dunn and J M
Cainin
Assessor- John Dunn
VILLAGE
Town Board E Sparks president C H Cor
nell treasurer T C Hornby clerk D S Ludwlg
aiuiPP Simons
Marshal and Water Commissioner Henry
Razey
chool District No 1 F M Walcott president
M V Nicholson treasurer J C Pettljolin secre
tary W S Jackson G P Crabb and J T Keeley
SOCIETIES
Imp 0 RM
sitting Bull Tribe No 22 Improved Order of
Red Men meets every sneond 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 Skaks F M Marcii
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 orderin good and regularstand
lng cordially and fraternally invited to attend
J T KEELEr W M
W W Thompson Secv
0 E S
4 Northern Star Chapter No 59 Order of the
Eastern Stai meets on second and fourth Tues
day evenings of eaoh month In Hornbys hall
W W Thompson Mago ie Walcott
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 Pettijohn Rec O W Hxhx M W
D OF H
Valentine Lodge No Degree of Honor
holds regular meetings first and third Wednes
day evenings of each month
M Christensen Mrs J C Pettijobn
Recorder Chief of Honor
I 0 O P
Valentine Lode No 205 I O O F meets
Pverv Thtirsdav oveimi Vlsltlnc hrothra rord
lallv nvlted to attend our meetings
D H Thuiistox Frank Brattov
Secretary Koble Grand
G A E
Col Wood Pest No 20R Department of Ne
braska legular meeting2d and 4th Saturdays of
each month at 2 d m sharp Comrads from
other Posts are cordially lnvjted to attend
J W Tucker Dunk
Adjutant Commander
Mw7 A
Valentine Camp No 1761 Modern Woodmen of
America meets second and fourth vefluesflay
evenings of each month at Davenports Half
Visiting neighbors cordially Invited to attend
W S Jacksox W E HaBt
Clerk Venerable Counsel
K of P
Cherry Lodge No 160 Knights of Pvthlaa meet
every Tuesday evening at Davenpqi ts Hall
W s Jackbon R P Roberts
K of R and S Chancellor Commander
Arrival and Departure of Malls
Mall east and west closes at 8 pm
Rosebud leaves at 8i00 a m dalljj except Sun
day and arrives at 500 p m
Simeon Kennedy and Oasis leaves
at 700 a m Mondays Wednesdays and Frl
davs and arrives at 700 p m Tuesdays Thurs
days and Saturdays
Ft Niobrara leaves daily at7 00 a m and
500 p m arrives at 830a m and 730 pm1
Kewanee and Sparka arrives Mondays
Wednesdays and Fridays at 609 pm and
leaves Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at
7a m
General delivery open from 769 a m to 700
p m General delivery open on Sundays from
8 to 10 a m Lock boxes opendally form 0 a
to 800 p m
W EHALEY Postmaster
PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS
nVD CLARKE
Attorney-at-Law
Allkinds of legal business promptly attended tc
Valentine Nebraska
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T C DWYER
Physician and Surgeon
pmce at C R Watsons Drug Store Prompt
attention given to all professional calls
Valextixe - 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
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SECRETARY 0E STATE
HOW SHERMAN DISPOSES OF A
DAYS BUSINESS
He Ib Methodical at All Times Saves
Himself by Relying Upon His As
sistantsMeeting Office Seekers and
Dealing -with Diplomats
Mr Shermans Day
Washington corresponaence
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K works at ms uesK
from 9 oclock in the
morning until 4
oclock in tihe after
noon then he goes
home and reads nov
els He is an omniv
orous consumer of
novels of all degrees
of merit of all colors
of binding yellow
preferred He says
they rest his mind He considers that at
the age of seventy four he has earned a
rest from the heavy literature of finance
of economics of statesmanship and Mr
Babcock his secretary says that he fol
lows the woes of the latter day heroine
the truly good stiltings of tihe modern
hero and the sulphurous ejaculations of
the fin de siecle villain with a really re
markable interest even if he does smile
a good deal through his spectacles over
what he reads But all this happens after
4 oclock in the afternoon when Mr
Sherman is Mr Sherman and not the
Secretary of State and it is with his man
ner of putting in his time as Secretary of
State that this article is concerned
When Mr Sherman became the Secre
tary of the Treasury a matter of twenty
odd years ago he was confronted by one
of the most herculean tasks that ever
r vmf1 lm hnfnr mi American statesman
within the compass of sijety seconfls and
then either send for proper official or
else slioot it out by messenger to the place
it belongs
The only occasions upon which ait
Sherman feels called upon to grow ittle
expansive are the diplomatic days Thurs
day This is the especial day that he sets
aside for the reception of the diplomats
to talk over things with them confidential
ly and on this day other visitors have a
very slight chance of being received by
him The Secretary of State receives the
diplomats in a room adjoining his office
and called the diplomatic room by all
odds the most gorgeously furnished gov
ernmental chamber in Washington Run
ning its entire length is a carved ebony
table and it is at the head of this table
seated in a tall revolving chair that Mr
Sherman receives the diplomats one by
one They string int othe anteroom for
their audience with the Secretary of State
all the way from 10 to 1 oclock and in
receiving them no matter of precedence js
observed The first to arrive is the first
to be received The Secretary of State
gives these audiences for a general re
sume of each diplomats business and it
is for tiliis reason that he only receives
them one at a time He leans back in his
revolving chair with his spectacles push
ed up on his forehead taking in what each
of them has to say and occasionally jot
ting down a note on a scratch pad in front
of him Mr Sherman is not a linguist
The only language he can speak is Eng
lish But as there is not now in Wash
ington a single representative of another
nation who cannot also speak English th
Secretary of State has no trouble in car
rying on these conversations
NEW UNITED STATESTREASURER
Ellis H Roberts a New York Banker
Recently Appointed
Ellis H Roberts of New York who has
just been appointed treasurer of the Unit
ed States by President McKinley is th
president of the Franklin National Bani
iiilMyrHlifi
SECRETARY OF STATE SHERMAN
the resumption of specie paymentsand
Mr Sherman worked away at that job
and accomplished it from 9 oclock in the
momaug until 4 oclock in the afternoon
no more no less
I first became connected with Mr
Sherman at that time said Mr Babeock
his secretary and I never knew him to
work longer than the office hours of his
clerks Mr Folger permitted the secre
tarvship of the treasury to kill him prob
ably Mr Manning did also Neither of
these gentlemen was generous to himself
A whole generation of political experi
ence taught Mr Sherman that lesson be
fore he assumed the reins of the treas
ury and accomplishing more work in that
capacity than did Hamilton he emerged
from the ordeal with his health and
strength The secret of it He trusted
his assistant secretaries he allowed his
subordinates to do the work they were ap
pointed to do lie never permitted a pa
per to lie on his desk for ten minutes and
made disposition ot ins anairs as mey
came up His desk was clean down to
the blotting pad when he put on his hat
aud quit his office at 4 oclock in the af
ternoon The Secretaries of the Treas
ury who allowed the position to give them
nervous prostration attempted to do the
whole thing themselves and no secretary
of any government department can do
that and live through his term
As was his rule when Secretary of the
Treasury so is Mr Shermans rule as Sec
retary of State When he came here he
frm ml n he exnectcd he would that the
State Department is fdled with men who
have been here a long time and who
have every detail of the departments
routine at their fingers ends Mr Sher
man perfectly appreciates the fact that
these men know more about the practical
workings of their respective branches of
the department than he himself could
hope to acquire in a period of service here
twice as long as tnat lor winch he was
appointed and he is a strong believer in
the value of routine So he lets them go
ahead keeping an eye on their work but
in no wise interfering with it without
good occasion And- I guess this is the
reason that he has all the hair he had
when he was twenty years old that he
is as straight as a string at seventy four
and that his eyes are just as good to day
as they ever were
Whenever any document reaches Mr
Shermans desk that does not absolutely
require his personal attention he sends
immediately for the official to whose
branch of the department the document
properly belongs and turns it over to him
with a few succinct instructions He does
not lay it aside for future consideration
and thereby accumulate a monumental
pile of papers filled with possibilities of
grief and labor to come It is really quite
entertaining to see Mr Slwrmim cut open
an official letter as it reaches him hot
from the mail glance it over and grasp it
of New York lie has long been promi
nent n national affairs He was a dele
gate to tlie Republican national conven
tions of 3S04 1SGS aud 1S7S In 1SGQ
he was a member of the New York Leg
islature aud in 1S70 he was elected a mem
ber of Congress from the Oneida district
and was re elected in 1S72 Mr Blnine
then Speaker of the House made Mr
Roberts a new member a member of the
Ways and Means Committee an unusual
honor In 1SS9 President Harrison ap
pointed Mr Roberts assistant United
States Treasurer at New York City In
1S93 Mr Roberts was offered the presi 3
dency of the Franklin National Bank and
accepted the place Mr Roberts is a wide
ly known traveled man and has written
ELLIS IT ROBERTS
several books not only qu finance but on
other subjects among them may be men
tioned Greece and Beyond Planting
and Growth of the Emni Sfn4 o
Government Revenue Especially ttw
American System He is 70 years old
Francis Schlatter three years ago waa
a shoe cobbler in Denver and earned a
precarious Hying at his trndo He began
to hear silent Yiw as he said and
in obedience to their commands gave away
his tools and began a pilgrimage toward
the laeific coast He was several times
arrested as a vagrant and throw Jwta
He footed the epUre
distance and re
turned to New Mexico where he was
heard of among the ludians as the ines
siah m the eariy part of last year near
Albuquerque The newspaper reporters
discovered him being followed
by mou3 of
Indians among whom he cured the sick
paralytic and blind by toucldng the af
flicted with his hands
The Pennsylvania road reports net earn
ings as 708707 less than last year
W0EK OE CONGRESS
THE WEEKS DOINGS IN SENATE
AND HOUSE
A Comprehensive Digest of the Pro
ccedinge in the Legislative Cham
bers at Washington Matters that
Concern the People
Lawmakers at Labor
When the Senate laid aside the tariff
bill Saturday night it had reached the
sugar schedule which lias been the sub
ject of so much interest and conflict
During the day many of the paragraphs of
the wood schedule had been agreed to but
that restoring lumber to the dutiable list
at 1 per 1000 feet proved the greatest
stumbling block since the debate began
Mr Bacon Dem of Georgia gave his
support to the committee rate saying it
was essential to the lumber industry of
the South He also spoke in favor of a
revenue tariff so adjusted as to give equal
benefit to all industries Mr Bacon and
Mr Vest clashed several times on tariff
doctrine Mr Vest expressing his regret
that a Democratic Senator would aid in
restoring to the dutiable list one of the
three products lumber salt and wool
which the Wilson bill put on the free list
Mr Clay of Georgia also spoke at length
on the tariff bill criticising the sugar
schedile and other features of the bill
The Senate Monday defeated the motion
to put white pine on the free list and the
entire lumber schedule was agreed to as
reported In the House the Senate bill
to amend the act to authorize the con
struction of a steel bridge across the St
Louis river was passed A Senate bill to
authorize the construction of a bridge
across Pearl river Mississippi was pass
ed The House adjourned until Thurs
day
By ihe decisive vote of 42 to 19 the
Senate Tuesday adopted an amendment
to the tariff bill placing raw cotton the
great jrodnct of the South on the dutia
ble list at 20 per cent ad valorem It is
the first time in the history of tariff legis
lation that a duty on cotton has been in
corporated in a bill The amendment was
proposed by Mr Bacon Dem of Geor
gi He said the omission of this article
from the dutiable list was a violation of
the principle of the Democratic platform
that tariff taxation should be so imposed
as to discriminate against uo section The
tariff as a whole fell like a dead weight
the producer of cotton raising the
prices of all articles essential to his use
and yet on his article of production raw
cotton he was left in the lurch Sev
eral other items were discussed but noth
ing further was settled
The Senate had a period of tariff
speeches Wednesday aud as a result lit
tle progress was made on the bill Mr
Rawlins of Utah and Mr Mills of Texas
discussed the Democratic attitude on the
tariff from their respective standpoints
Later in the day Mr Cannon of Utah pro
posed an amendment placing an export
bounty on agricultural products He
spoke for two hours on the need of giving
the fanner a share of the benefits of the
tariff Mr Butler of North Carolina also
spoke in favor of giving the farmer equal
benefits with other classes under the bill
Only half a page of the bill covering four
brief and comparatively unimportant par
agrapns were disposed of during tlve day
The long deferred debate on the sugar
schedule of the tariff bill came on Thurs
day after the Senate had disposed of the
cereals in the agricultural schedule
Nothing definite was accomplished J unit-
T Hoyd who was recently elected to
succeed the late Representative Giles of
the First Missouri District took the oath
at the opening of the Huwsv Ml Hitt
asked unanimous consent for the consid
eration of a jinu resolution for the
nient u the salaries of certain consuls
general and consuls die names of whose
posts were changed in the last consular
aud diplomatic bill The resolution was
parsed Mr Payne then moved an ad
journment which was resisted by the
minority Thu rising vote resulted in
tie S7 to fc7 Speaker Keed saved the
motion by voting aye and the House ad
journed until Muuday
The first test vote on the sugar sehethrle
was taken in the Senate late Friday re
sulting in the adoption of the Republican
caucus amendment changing the House
rate of 1 575 1000 tu 105 per pound by
the close vote of yeas 82 nays 50 The
affirmative Wte was made ui of
nine Republicans one Democrat
of Louisiana one silver Republican
Jones of NVvada and one Populist
Stewart of Nevada The negative vote
was made up of twenty live Deuwcrats
three Populists and two silver Republi
cans It was ihe cIoc ote thus far
taken on an issue of importaucv ami was
accepted a shorng that amendments
having ihe sanction of the caucus were
assured of adoption The vote was taken
after a day speiu in speeches on the fttecl
of the sugar schedule
The next time Broker Chjraau will try
Mr Ilaveineyers receipt for defying Sen
atorial interrogation jvoiis Washington
Post
Mr Baileys aspersive remarks about
full diss are somehow reealled by the
Logan McCook embroglio Indianapolis
News
An earthquake shock has shaken
Greece All sorts of powers seem to be
against the little kingdom Baltimore
American
It is to be hoped that Senator TilUnan
wont swap the tinesoff his pitchfarfc by a
jab on the back of the sugar octopus
Nou York Press
The latest society item is to the effect
that Broker Chapman is passing a few
weeks as the ftuest of the nation in jail
Providence News
Kentucky views with scorn the colonels
that are being made to order iu South
Carolina and Illinois In Kentucky colo
7iels are born and not made Chicane
Itecord
So the weather bureau is going to un
dertake xo forecast the weather twelve
hours earlier than usual That is cer
tainly a case of hunting for trouble Bal
timore News
Is this a circus asked Mr JJr it
the Senate In getting through with it
program and folding its tets it is safe tc
say that the Senate is cot a circus St
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