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Brandon left tide
and thigh
Earmark square
crop right ear
Southern branded
cattle have but one
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Native cattle have
throat wattle
Ranee on Gordon and Snake Creeks
Horses have same brandjon left thigh
A Rctcarl of 100 will be paid to any
person for information leading to the arrest and
final conviction of any person or persons steal-
Ing cattle with above brand
Joseph W Bownet
P O address
Merriman Nebr
Bight ear cropped
Hole In center of left v
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Range Lake creek
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William M Dunbar
Lessee from Heine Kroeger
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Cody Neb
DUn Either side
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Henry Pratt
Rosebud S D
Left side
Horses same on
left shoulder
Dcerhorh clip on
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Jack LePoint
Merriman Neb
Cattle branded on
left side Some on
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Earmark round hole
In center of left ear
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Cody Neb
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Charles JEL Faulhaber
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Kennedy Neb
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Brand is small
Earmark Quarter
clip behind half cir
cle forward on left ear
Range Lone Tree
Lake
Crownlee Nebr
Either richtor left
side on cattle
Horses same on
left shoulder
Lett ear cut off of
cattle
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Merriman Neb
Charles Benard
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Horses branded
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William F Schmidt
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On left side
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GLADSTONE IS DEAD
ENGLANDS GRAND OLD MAN
PASSES AWAY
His Demise Had Been Long Expected
Owing to His Years and Suffering
Death Was Faced with Fortitude and
Welcomed as a Friend
Nation Mourns Him
William Ewart Gladstone Englands
greatest statesman of this century died
at Ha svordcn castle at 5 oclock Thurs
day morning
It is a simple story this record of the
closing hours of a life which more than
any other perhaps has influenced the
lives of his fellow countrymen during
two generations The pain which though
intermittent was most cruelly severe for
the last nine months had gradually sub
sided for three or four weeks past This
was due not so much to the use of mor
phine which was employed more or less
since January as to the fact that the
nerves themselves had mercifully ex
hausted their capacity for suffering
Drugs were used sparingly during the
last ten days the result being that Mr
Gladstone was conscious and clear in
mind except for brief spells of delirium
due chiefly to weakness
Gladstone well knew on Tuesday thai
his hour had come and plainly the
thought brought him sweet content He
was conscious most of the time but al
most beyond the power of speech or mo
tion His great mind was still active and
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
still versatile He surprised the watch
ers at midday by murmuring a prayer in
the French language with which he was
perfectly familiar but seldom used in the
ordinary affairs of life His vital force
continued to diminish and during the af
ternoon his pulse became almost
ceptxble His breathing was but of the
faintest and his extremities became cold
through the feeble action of the heart
rot there was a slight rally about sun-
DEATH IN A STORM
Iife and Property Lo3t by Tornado in
Iowa Illinois and Wisconsin
Storms of -wind hail and rain ravaged
widespread sections of the Northwest In
Eastern Iowa cyclones brought death and
disaster to scattered communities and in
Illinois Wisconsin and in Southern Kan
sas cyclones and high winds leveled frame
buildings killed some stock and damaged
crops In all the afflicted sections wires
were blown down and early details of the
disaster were meager Almost all the vast
territory mentioned was rain soaked and
wind blown The cyclones moved the
usual narrow paths of from eighty rods
to eighty feet in width and swept for a
distance of twenty miles or less
The cyclone passed north of Clinton
Iowa between the towns of Charlotte
and Riggs at 4 oclock in the afternoon
doing an immense amount of damage and
killing ten people as far as reported The
storm after leaving Tipton passed be
tween Clarence and Stanwood swept
south through Lost Nation and Elwood
running north near Delmar touched the
lower end of Jackson County and cross
ing the Mississippi at South Sabula Iowa
struck Illinois between Savanna and
Thompson Trees were uprooted and
buildings wiped out The storm passed
two miles southeast of Riggs on the Mil
waukee Railway and ruined everything
in its path from southwest to northeast
In the vicinity of Cedar Rapids the cy
clone first appeared one mile south of
Stanwood at 320 oclock in the afternoon
Great damage was done to property in
the vicinity of Tipton Charlotte Quig
ley Clarence Elk River north of Wheat
land and near Maquoketa It is esti
mated that not less than twenty five peo
ple have been killed while the number of
injured will not be less than fty Many
saved their lives by fleeing to cellars
The cyclone which struck Freston
Iowa Tesoyed most of the buildings in
the town and killed Charles Floy his
wife and three children The bodies of
two of the children have notbeen round
In Ringgold County southwest of Des
Moines the buildings of J A Miller east
of Blockton were swept away and Miller
and his daughter were injured The lat
ter had both legs broken At Maloy the
schoolhouse and Chicago Great Western
depot were wrecked
Two cyclones from southwest struck
the village of Stillman Valley 111 the
larger going north doing but little dam
age The smaller one struck the south
west side passing across the town level
ing ten houses one church and several
barns and damaging a dozen houses one
church a creamery and the Great West
ern depot M Nelson his wife and two
children and -one Johnson are reported
killed and about twenty persons are
more or less injured none fatally
In Joliet the wind and rain storm
swept through the city and blow down
the big tabernacle where Evangelist Will
iams has been holding revival meetings
A cyclone passed seven miles uorfch of
Sheffield 111 going in a northeastern
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TRACK OF THE TORNADO JN ILLINOIS IOWA AND WISCONSIN
down and the night was passed in nat
ural sleep During Wednesday there was
a slow flickering of vital flame and there
were only occasional intervals of semi
consciousness until the end came at 5
oclock Thursday morning
The Retrospect
James Madisotn was President of the
United States Si John Moore had fallen
at Coruna Napoleon Bcsanparte had
reached the summit of his glory in his
triumphant assault upon Vienna and the
beginning of his tragic decline in the di
vorce of Josephine Wellington with
Waterloo beckoning him on had crossed
the Duoro the Pope of Rome was a pris
xier the battle of Wagram had been
fought and won and all Europe from the
Spanish peninsula to the Netherlands and
from the borders of Siberia to the Irish
sea was under sword in 1S09 the year
that gave William Ewart Gladstone to
England and humanity
Of a lineage remarkable only for its
rugged honesty and unquestioning de
votion to the sovereign power the son of
a successful East India merchant who
had earned a baronetcy by his achieve
ments in commerce he seemed predestin
ed upon his entrance into public life to
become the representative statesman of
the middle classes That he had come to
them with hands full of promise was evi
dent from the beginning of his career
Double honors from Oxford at the age of
22 a member of Parliament at the age
of 23 Lord of the Treasury and Under
Secretary of State in the Peel govern
ment at the age of 25
Gladstones commercial treaty with the
French which gave new life to British
trade his wonderful ability as a budget
maker his direction upon business princi
ples of the vast machinery of the empire
something never known before Avon to
him the hearts of the mercantile classes
home and colonial For over sixty years
Gladstone has been in public life For the
greater part of sixty yeans he has la
bored to turn England from her medieval
follies superstitions and bigotries
For the better part of sixty years
this figure has stood amid the wavering
and cowardly policies of Europe a stead
fast supporter of truth and justice a sub
lime example of the power of courage and
the nobility of man
Gladstones battles were not- alone for
British trade and British prosperity but
for British manhood and British princi
ples Their influence has been felt to the
remotest corners of the globe He gave
to modern political thougiht a width and
depth of liberality and a humane coloring
tnatiilBuiniTC thy hejarts and the
nustcOis feUowmen
rection It first struck the earth near F
W Marrassys farm and destroyed ev
erything in its path for miles Several
persons are reported killed Paw Paw
111 reports that a cyclone passed four
miles north of the town Several people
were injured and Mrs Frank Chichester
was killed
TO RAISE MORE REVENUE
War Measure Will Yield a Total of
151497066 Per Annum
The increased revenues proposed in the
pending bill are as follows
Fermented liquors 5S90G120
Tobacco and snuff 43Si05G0
Cigars and cigarettes 10302465
Tobacco maufacturers and dealers 307102
Bankers 2394600
Exchange brokers and pawnbrok
ers 1500400
Commercial brokers 213094
Theaters circuses and other ex
hibitions 1820447
Bowling alleys and billiard tables 166907
Stocks bonds merchandise etc 10000000
uuuk cueciis 5000000
Inland bills of exchange 1500000
Foreign bills of exchange 500000
Express and freight Including
all bills of lading 10000000
Life insurance 1277000
Mortgages 2041599
All other articles in schedule A
Including the tax on receipts 2S000000
Proprietary preparations and per
fumeries v 20000000
Chewing gum 1000000
Legacies and successions 9275475
Total 214045829
Add to this the revenue to be derived
from articles not included in the pending
bill on the basis of the receipts of 1S97
214045829
KltS V7V S200S542
Brewers special tax 100 97
Retail dealers in malt liquors 191071
Wholesale dealers in malt liquors 278S01
Oleomargarine l034o29
Filled cheese 18992
Miscellaneous receipts 375468
Total estimated revenues 208113659
Deducting the revenues for 1897 which
were 140619593 the revenue provided
by the Senate bill is 151494060
Notes of Current Events
The effort to make sugar from beets
dates back to 1747
Hawaii begs to remind the President
that it is still there and is still willing
A twelve story hotel is soon to be built
in New York It will cover an entire block
and cost 4000000 It will furnish par
lor bed room and bath for 1 a day
At Chicago John Asquith 75 years old
and his wife Margaret 70 years old were
found dead in bed at their home They
had evidently committed suicide by as
phyxiation
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During the next year the postage
stamps will be printed at the bureau of
engraving and printing of the Treasury
Department instead of by private contrac
tors The contract will amount to over
02500000 even at the extraordinarily
low price charged The ordinary post
age stamps will be furnished at 5 cents a
thousand postage due stamps at 114
cents a thousand newspaper and periodi
cal stamps at 005 cents a thousand and
special delivery stamps at 114 cents a
thousand The contract contemplates a
total of 30636338S5 ordinary stamps
4340330 special delivery stamps 5544
229 newspaper stamps and 195731G0
postage due stamps There has been an
enormous increase in the stamp business
Ten years ago in 1S88 the total value of
stamps issued was 3S298741 to day it
is 62530201 twenty years ago in 1878
the total was only 211S055790
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The speech of ATr OhainSberlain British
minister of the colonies in Birmingham
the other day is not taken seriously iiij
Washington neither by our own Govern-
ment nor by the members of the
matic corps While an Anglo Saxon al-
liance would not be unnatural or unpro
fitable for England there are complica
tions which would make it impossible at
present and the fact that Mr Chamber
lain proclaims it would make it unpopular
in cerrann inuuenvuu circles across tn
water for he is not regnruea as a
tical man He is the frequent inventor
of new political policies he is an uneasy
restless patriot impulsive and impetuous
who talks as fast as he thinks and never
fears to express himself on all subjects
He has belonged to all political parties
one after another and is always springing
novelties upon the British people
There is a fear at the Navy Department
lest it may be necessary to exercise severe
discipline with some of the naval reserves
who have enlisted for the war Two of
the Maryland reserves who were ordered
to the auxiliary cruiser Dixie have de-
serted If they are apprehended and con-
victed of desertion under the laws of war
they will have to be shot Both of them
are said to be young men of good families
and excellent character who enlisted un i
der mistaken notions They supposed that
they were going out for a summers cruise
to have a gay time of it but when they
found that they were expected to scrub
decks clean guns shovel coal and do oth
er menial labor these proud sons of Mary
land bolted without saying good by and
have not since been seen There has also
been considerable trouble of this kind
with the military volunteers
The surgeons who have been making
examinations of the members of the mili
tia volunteers wall make reports that will
be apt to discourage the bjcyele habit and
particularly the ue of Tqvf handlebars
It is said at the medical department of tlie
army that a great numlxr of the volun
teers who have been rejected for physical
disability are bicycle riders who by that
violent exercise have developed diseases
of the heart and the spine which unfit
them for exposure or endurance These
troubles are said to be confined almost
entirely to riders who use low handlebi s
and lean forward in the saddle
Something over 75000000 has already
been expended in war preparations and
about 25000000 more of obligations nTe
outstanding that will mature during the
present month making a total of 100-
UUUUOO up to date with contracts being
made daily for all sorts of purposes involv
ing tie expenditure of millions The Sen
ate Committee on Finance after consid
ering the subject very carefully came to
the conclusion that the efforts of the
United States to free Cuba would cost not
less than 380000000 provided the war
was not prolonged more than one year
Gen Leo is going to have a sensational
staff if all the persons who have applied
for service with him are gratified Some
how or another the ambitious young men
who have received staff appointments and
particularly the sonsrof their fathers ap
pear to think that Gen Lee is going to be
a favored commander for most of them
have applied for service with him Rus
sell Harrison James G Blaine and Al
gernon Sartoris are among the number
and his own son George Mason Lee is
also to be appointed
The first thing that Gen Wheeler did
when he was assigned to a command was
to ask that his son be detailed as a mem
ber of his staff Secretary Alger has de
tailed his son as a member of the staff of
Gen Males There is a good deal of the
favorite son business going on in Wash
ington just now in connection with the
army appointments
It is not believed by anybody in Wash
ington that the Spaniards will attempt to
send ships or troops to Manila It would
bo useless for them to do so unless the
squadron is stronger than that of Admiral
Dewey and a squadron of that strength
could not be spared from Spain without
leaving its own coast unprotected
The battleships Kearsarge and Ken
tucky might be finished and placed in
commission in two months The Illinois
could not be made ready for sea in less
than six months but work was stopped
upon all of them some time ago because
it was deemed more important to fit out
the auxiliary cruisers first
The father of Adjt Gen Corbin is still
living in the old family homestead in Ohio
Although over 80 years of age he man
ages the farm upon which the general
spent his boyhood and where he stopped
hoeing corn to enlist as a private soldier
at the outbreak of the rebellion
William McKinley has been President
of the United States for nearly fifteen
months and has just sent his first veto
message to Congress declining to approve
a bill to authorize a new trial for a case
In the court of claims
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AUR GRAND OFFER
To
keep our great factory
busy and introduce early our splen
did 98 models we have concluded to
make a marvelous offer direct to the rider
For 3o days we will sell samples of our
swell 98 bicycles at net cost to manufac
ture and will ship C O D oa approval
to any address on receipt of the nominal
sura of 100 if west of Denver SS This
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deposit is merely to show good faith on purchasers
part if you dont want to send money in advance send
your express agent s guaranty for charges one way and
we will pay them the other if you dont want the wheel
If RP O f fl M Highest grade embodying every late improve-
joints improved two piece cranks arch crown large detachabla
sprockets handsomest finish and decorations Morgan Wright
Quick repair tires single or doable tube hieh erado pnn Jn
mont Special price on sample 2900
COSSflCr A splendid machine equal to any for service and easy rnnning BestlHinch
2LaaMBbM seamless tubing two piece cranks arch crown detachable sprockets find
finished and decorated Morgan Wright quick repair tires single or double tube
high grade equipment Ourspecial sample price g24 00
KUONOTCS Befit xnedinm srado for 1S93 1 inch tubing striped and decorated arch
nZaijC J crown dust proof bearings ball retainers beat Indiana or New
Brunswick tires standard equipment Special price on sample 1900
NOTE Choice of Color Style Height of Frame Gear etc Fully Guaranteed
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