HE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT
EGBERT GOOD Editor and Publisher
Official Paper of Cherry Coun
ty Nebraska
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Entered at tb e Postofflce at Valentine Chefftr
county Nebraska s Secondclass matter
This paper will be mailed regularly
to its subscribers until a definite order
to discontinue is received and all ar
rears are paid in full
A sinner suggests that the house of
representatives and theBenate of the
fcongresrbf the United States can be
more hopef ally and Jealously prayed
forby clergyman Who cannot loolr
their members in the face Few
jbreacherswith good eyes saith the
feinner would have the mora courage
to invoke wisdom and blessings on
Average congressmen whose habits and
morals are not taught in Sunday
bchbols The present chaplains Mr
iMilburn and Mr Couden are blind
NebraskdCityCbiderbtitive
It dont pay for the editor of a eouh
try newspaper to be areiigtouB ptiiios
fophef unless heBfceps hi8 philosophy
but of the aper livery time he gets
off a good thing about some kind of
tinner or other he stepson some poor
iellows toes- and then there is the
dickens to pay Everybody in town
Immediately fits your philosophy to
Somebody aid the somebody usually
concludes that he is being pub
lished and goes after the editors
Bcalp Everybody wants a newspaper
fco publish the truth except when he
is concerned
The exhibition of life teck at the
Transmississippi Exposition will be
held from September 19 to -October 20
and everything points to a large dis
play J B Dinsmore Commissioner
bf live stock states that the corres
pondence received from intending ex
hibitors is far larger inaa anse of the
fcftte for the closing of entries than it
Was at the Columbian Exposition at
Chicago If Mr Dinsmoses expecta
tions are fulfilled the exhibition of
live stock at Omaha will toe one of the
-finest ever given in thexceuntry
The 35000 prize money offered by
the Exposition will be -distributed as
follows Cattle 000 horses and
mules 8000 hogs 7000 sheep
6000 fat stock 000 poultry
2000 -Money from other sources
ill mostly be devetedsto special pre
miums
Very much discouraged are the gold
bugs in their effortstte breed v dissen
sions between the democrats and pop
Tilists in Nebraska The only differ
leaces between the pops and democrats
are such as can be seen by republicans
IChe allied silver forces are wonking
together in complete harmony On
yhe second day of August they will
put up a state ticket Which every pop
every democrat and every silver repub
Ucan can heartily support That
ticket may not contain the names of
just jsuch men as every individual sil
ver advocate would likesto see there
i -but it will be the Choice of
ty in all three conventions and that
Will make it the Choice of every ene
my of goldbugism in ihe state which
means that the ticket will be elected
r by twenty thousand majority There
is eomething wrong with the dagestive
organs of any goldbug who ean see
lack of harmony in the ranks of the
Bilverites Papilllon Times
The report of the warden eiSie pen
itentiary covering the six months end-
ing with May 31 1898 makes a
did Bho wing for the management of
that institution since it has ieea in
demopop hands During the period
namedVarden Leidigh has not drawn
upon the legislative appropriation lor
a pennyefor the maintenance of the
penitenjery
Buringithe last 18 months in which
the penitentiary was under- the con
trol of theirepublican board of public
lands andbuildings the expenditures
Sot the current expenses of the prison
amounted to 47315303 During the
18 months ceding June 1 1898 while
this prison ws under the control of
the demo pops the current expenses
of the penitentiary amounted to 23
0Q939
Thus it will be seen that during a
period of 18 rnoaths the demopops
conducted the penitentiary at an ex
pense 50000 less than the expense
incurred during a similar period under
the republican administration
WarM Herald iJrt i
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ANNEXATION OR
This paper always opposed the an
nexation of Hawaii hence many seem
to think thatit is against taking any
of the Spanish territory we have ciojis
qjuered tThis is not so there is a Wide
difference between the two proposi
tions The people of the United States
are not in favorof an imperialistic
policy dnd do not believe we should
go into the business of annexing ter
ritory beyond the Atlantic or Pacific
simply because we can
tEhe war with Spain has given us or
will give us possession of the Philip
pines Cuba and Porto Eico besides
less important places What ate we
going to do With them New con
ditions have arisen which it seems
will make the annexation or control
of these islands imperative upon the
United States In our declaration of
war we expressly stated that we were
not going in for reasons of conquest
but for humanitarian purposes alone
In the prosecution of the war it has
been found necessary to take possess
ion -of the enemys territory It is
that the people of
these islands are not capable of gov
erning themselves hence we cannot
retire and leave them to work out
their own salvation without retarding
civilization and working irreparable
injury to the people themsefves We
cannot return them to Spain without
laying ourselves operi to cens ure for
insincerity
In this predicament annexation
seems to be the most sensible way out
If anything else can be done satisfactorily-
this paper will favor it as
against annexation
A letter from Superintendent Jack
son says
The Nebraska Educational Exhibit
at the Tranmississippi Exposition as in
the gallery o the Manufactures build
ing Some visit our educational -headquarters
in the Nebraska building and
fail to fin5 the exhibit not knowing
that itis jtut up in another building
The eyhibit occupies some 15000
square ifeet of floor space and
grades of school work from
the kindergarten up through -the state
university and is pronouncedly lead
ing educators of other states as ono of
the finest educational exhibits they
have ever seen The work is neatly
arranged and tastefully -decorated
Visitors can find seats wherethey can
rest and examine the work You can
stand up for Nebraska perhaps in
no better way than by taking your
friends with you to see this exhibit
which no doubt is as fine arreducation
al exhibit as was ever put up by any
state
Night before last five feet or 500
barrels of water were used from the
watectank after 8 p an Most of this
water was evidently stolen At63J
yesterday morning every drop of water
was used from the tank and the wind
was blowing at the rate of 20 miles an
hour Suppose a fire haG started
The result of this wholesale stealing is
that nobody will be able hereafter to
get water from the city mains becween
the -hours of 8 p m anda m A
sufficientvpiantity must be kept on
hand forifire protection There seems
to be no -way of stopping the thefts
and the village board is considering
the advisability of putting -in meters
This subject will receive attention next
week
Little Willie Mama what is
politics
Mama It is a disease my son
Little Willie Then our poor par-
rot must fee diseased for I byt some
tickStonit today
CCf aman snakes a practice of sitting
on the -safety valve of truth he must
not blame anyone but himself if he
some jday gets -blown up
O P iBillings of Norden one of
the wealthiest fitockmen in that eec
tion wasin Ainsworth over Sunday
on his way east
M V Nicholsen of Valentine was
visiting in Ainsworth last Friday
Attorney JEdClarke of Valentine
is doing our tpwn today
The sporting editor of the Star-
Journal is authorized to issue a chal i
ienge in tfee name- of Geo McDonald
for a foot xace of pQ yards amount
aot stated jtfobody Jarred Ains
worth Star Jwinal
Married at Cfaadron Tuesday July
26 I89S Claude B Eeece and Anna
Sageser the Rev L W SEIorton per
forming the ceremony The happy
young couple came to Valentine this
morning and will make their home at
the grooms farm near Simeon where
both are well and favorably kaown
Special Jnys at the Exposition
Aug 4 Stenographers Day
Sept
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rM Ait
Iowa K of P Day
Red Mens Day
Tennessee Redmens Day
St Joseph Day
Business and Fraternal As
sociation Day
Texas Day
Sioux City Day
Bohemian Day
Missouri Day
Kansas Day
Editors Day
Labor Day
Colorado Day
Bocky Ford Melon Day
Port Arthur Day
Fraternal Union of Amer
ica Day
Lumbermens Day
Woodmen of the World
New Mexico Day
National SI i riners Day
New England Day
Oklahoma Day
and 19 Modern Woodmen
and 21 Iowa Days
Commercial Travelers Day
Chicago Day
Knox College Day
I O O F Day
Tennessee Day
Other Special days to be anntiunced
later
Teachers Institute
Following is taken from the prospec
tus for teachers institute
County Superinten dents Office
Cherry County Neb
Fellow Teachers The Thirteenth
Annual Teachers Institute for this
county will be held in the public school
building Valentine Neb - August 15
1898 and continue two weeks
Each person who intends to teach in
the county the ensuing year is expect
ed to be present unless excused by the
couuty superinteadpiit
Our instructors for the coming ses
sion need no introduction to you for
the efficiency of their past w ork highly
commends them to you Supt C M
Pinkerton of 3Jead City S D and
Prof li H Watson principal of Val
entine schools will have chaige of the
instruction lEach gentleman will de
liver a Iecture during the ime An
nouncement of subjects and dates will
be made later
Any information regarding board
will be cheerfully given
Examination August 26 and 27
Bring -all your text and reference
books also Snug iyre Caref uTly pre
pare the work
A registration fee of fifty cents will
bechargedtohelp defray the expenses
of the Institute
All school boards and other friends
of education are cordially invited to
all sessionand lectures during the In
stitute
Very -sincerely your co worker
iiiLiaAN U Stoner Co Supt
JLile of tlie Volunteers
In an interview with the Chadron
Journal Capt A G Fisher of Co H
Second 2s ebraska Volunteers says
Military life as I have experienced
it is all that can be desired Our day
begins at 5 o clock wheu reveille
brings us out from our blankets which
the cool nights makevvery comfortable
The weather has not been so hot at
any time as it was here Saturday and
Sunday The setting up exercise con
sisting of at least 10 minutes calisthen
ics is folio wed by mess After this
the sergeant takes his detail of
four qr five men and goes to guard
mouut which -ceremony takes about
an hour Bydhat time it is 7 oebek
and -the company marches out into the
timber for tivo hours and a half of
drill which isiconducted by each com
mander and the nun commissioned
officers independently from any other
company This consists of warious
evolutions of onarohiug the extended
order and other skirmish drill the
manual of arms and bayonet exercise
At 930 the company comes back to
camp and are engaged inbrushiug up
their clothiug cleaning their guns
shining up their belt plates buttons
etc aud generally making use of the
time until noon At 12 oclock the
fellows all line up with their tinplates
cups iron knives and forks rn single
fileidown at the kitchen shanty where
they are each served an ample
ty of substantial food probably having
a boiled potato alsoor some goqdpot j
ato salad and some -excellent dump j
lings By this time -the mail hascome
and the boys are reading their letters-
At 130 begins a non commissioned
officers school fn each company and
t 230 the commissioned
miss this and go themselves to a bat
allion school untif the expiration of an
hour At four oclock the four com
panies comprising our batuSion form
and we have a hard drill for an hour
which is immediately followed by mess
As soon as mess is finished we form
ither for a batallinn dress parade
whieh is a ceremony consuming three-
quarters of an hour followed by aa in
spection of the dress aud arms of the
men or the inspection without the
dess parade if it be not our day which
comes every three days for each
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SPAIN SAYS NOUGH
Washington D 0 July 26 1S8 The Spanish royernment
ias sued for peace not indirectly through the great powers but by a
direct appeal to President McKinley The proposition was formally
submitted to the president at 3 Vclock this afternoon by the French
ambassador No terms were stated The government bulletins tlw
aboveofficially
Mies has landed at Porto Rico
Manila is reported to have surrendered to Bewey
Xiobrara Fulls
Wanted A good cook at Parker ranch
four miles west of the Falls
Parties were over from Simeou Friday and
boughtcornotMrs C A Johnson at 30 cents
per bushel
Several Indians were camped on theriVer Sat
urday aud Sunday
Frank Keese bought a new mowing mnebine
e guess hay will be plentiful when e gets
through haying
Corn and crops of all kind will soon do to
burn if a good rain does not come to onr relief
Bad Bov
Johnstown
Four weeks ago today we landed in this quiet
little village All are strangers to us and we re
fnain about the same Everybody stays at home
and attends to therr own business and the con
sequence is that there is no quareiing
Well about the Johnstown mail route it is a
joe so far a3 deep sand is concerned and a
horse killer too I have three teams and will
have to buy two more if I continue to carry the
mail
Major Morris of Sioux City is hefe with a
nice bunch of heifers to sell He is the same
old Major of old
My better half went up to Sparks last Thurs
day to look after matters Uji there and she sold
our hens and two calves tb Win Archer and
Krnest Boden so it will be Bodeus chicken
ranch instead of Sears just the same they are
the best of property
This place was visited by some persons who
wanted to put on dog last Thursday night
and they helped themselves to a uew set of har
ness and fly nets that belonged to Wm Kilgore
the section foreman Of course they wanted a
buejgy for an easy ride so they just hooked onto
D K Facts and 1 dont know if they said good
bye or not but they are gone Mr Kilgore
and Fifer followed their track and caught up
with them at Moonlake 25 miles south ot here
and saw tiie property they were locking for
and something they did not want to see in their
hands so they had to go back to Ainsworth to
get the sheriff and by the time he got to vhere
the boys left them the robbers were onfr and
they took everything that belonged to us with
them the could not be followed and the gents
are sporting a new set of harness And buggy
It they have not traded them off The hordes
they were driving answer to the description
of those of Otis Grady and the belt that one of
them wore was suiely my Winchester rifle belt
I Sre some of our people carrying their harness
in to the house shice the robbers have gone but
we can not get our buggies into the house
The west bourid passenger train ran into a
horse last night near the section house and Wil
ed him The horse belonged to a traveling man
audit was old and blind and did not heed the
warning so now he is at rest and his owner is
footing Ills wiy to Woodlake uhere he is going
to work thiough the haying season J boucht
his wagon aud harness so T have something to
trade consisting ofleatlier straps stove wood
bailing wire etc and anyone wanting to buy
or trade for anything in that line just call on
Jabiks II Scaiw
Johnstown Nebr July 2i 1898
Democratic Senatorial Convention
A delegate convention of the demo
cratic party of the 14th senatorial dis
trict of Nebraska is hereby called to
meet in Valentine on Saturday Aug
ust 20 1898 at 16 a for
the purpose of placing in nomination
a candidate for senator from said dis
trict and the transaction of such other
business as may properly come before
the convention Each county is en
titled to one delegate at large and one
for each 150 votes or major fraction
thereof cast for Hon C J Smvth for
attorney general at the election in
November 1896 which gives She fol
lowing representation towit
Sox Butte h Brown 3
Cherry 5 Dawes 7
Key a Paha 3 Bock -3
Sheridan 7 Sioux 3
It isearnestly requested that a full
delegation be sent from each county
ak many -matters of importance will
cpme up at this meeting and a permanent-organization
will be effected
M F Clynes Chairman
Democratitepresontati vc Contention
The democratic electors of the 32d
representative -district will meet in
convention at JSorden Nebr Sept
17 1898 at 1 tp m to nominate a
candidate for legislature and for any
other business that may come before
the convention IRepresentatioh is as
follows
Cherry S Keya Paha 31
Based on the vote cast for Hon C J
Smyth w E Halet
Chairman
Populist Representative Convention
The peoples independent electors of
the 52d representative district are re
guested to meet in convention at Xor
den -on Saturday Sept 17 1898 at
ldtolockp m Counties are entitled
to rehresentation as follows
Cherry 8 Keya Paha 4
o proxies will be allowed but the
delegates present will cast the full
vote of the county
EO H Keineut Chairman
Mill JPrices for JFecd
Bran bidfc 50c per -cwt 900 ton
Shorts bulk 60c per cwt 1100 ton
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Screenings
Chop Feed 70c
Corn 50c
Oate 80c
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Left ears ta
Customer of ours and to accomplish that
end we- are making greatly reduced prices on
all summer goods straw hats clothingj lawnsr
shirt waists etc This class of goods- must all
ga inside- of the next thirty days
To housekeepers we would say we have
just purchased half a ear load of
STONEWARE
Crocks jugs- jar3 churns etc all sizes
Having purchased in large quantities we can
sell at low prices this is one of th secrets of
our low prices on sll goods
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premier typewriter
Best Value Writing Machine
First In Improvements Honest
Construction and all High grade
Typewriter Essentials T v
ART BOOKLET FREE
tion of 1897 viz One delegate at
larcre and one for each 100 votes or
major fraction thereof which gives the
following by counties
Box Butte 6 Brown 4
Cherry 8 9
Keya Paha 4 Sheridan 8
Sioux 3
Ainsworth Home Rule
oam Hudson
Simeon Neb
tcsJSS3EKsij3
utred
Left Kip on cattle
Left shoulder on
horses
Some horses Lazy
a on leftsiioulder
ltange between
Gordon iind Snake
River and Niobrara
Kiver
All catcle dehorned
Xotice to Bridge Guilders
Sealed proposals will be received by the Coun
ty Board of Cherry Countv Nebraska until
August 15 180S at l oclock p in for the con
struction of live 5 iron or steel wagon bridges
described as follows
One l across Cordon creek about 13 miles
southwest of Valentine Dimensions of bridge
is20 feet m length width 14 feet set on iron
posts bottom of ondge to be C feet above level
oficieek
One 1 across Gordon creek about 14 miles
southwest of Valentine Dimension of bridge
18 feet in lengtu width 14 feet set on iron posts
bottom of bridge to be 3 feet above level of creek
The above biidges are to be built on mail
route from Valentine to Simeon Y O
One l across Boardman ci eek abimt45 miles
southwest of Valentine section 23 tottnship 30
range 31 Dimension ol bridge 35 feet in length
width 14 feet set on iron posts bottoin of Undue
to be G feet above level of creek
One 1 across Snake river about 40 miles
southwest of Valentine near section 11 town
ship 30 range 32 Dimension of tridue 30 feet
m length width 14 feet set on iro posts Dot
torn of bridge to be 7 feet above the level of the
river
que l across Snake river about 35 miles
south of Cody near section 12 township 31
radge 31 Dimension of bridge 40 feet in length
width 14 feet set on iion posts bottom of bridge
to be six feet above Hie level of the river
Above bridges to be covered vnii3 inch plank
either hard pine or oak
Parties bidding can bid on one or all of the
above bridges
Bids should be addressed to 1 Sullivan
Uiairnian Board of County Commissioners Val
entine Nebniska and endorsed Bridge lro
oosals The Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids J w DakifA
Va entme Neb July 14 1833 Co Clerk
AlWotntmentof Administrator
In the County Court within and fnr rUrrv
county Nebraska
In the matter of the estate of Agnes Archer
deceased
David A Archer having filed In my oflice a
petition praying for the appointment of William
A Archer as administrator of the estate of
Agnes Archer deceased ail persons interested
In said estate will take notice that I have fixed
Satut day August 6 1893 at 2 oclock p m as
th j time and my otlice in Valentine Cherry
comity Nebraska as the place for hearing of
said petition at which time and place all per
sons interested in said estate may appear aud
show cause if any there be why sii2h adminis
trator should not oe appointed
Witness my hand aud the seal of the county
court this 20th day of -July 1898
kkAL W li Towvk
v 2C 23 County Judge
Xotice to Creditors
In the County Court within aud for Cherry coun
ty Nebr July 14 1898
In the matter of Henrv Carter deceased
To the creditors nl said estate
Youareherebynotifiedthatlwill sit at the
County Court room iil Valentine in said jountv
on the Cth day of August 189s to receive and ex
amine all claims against said estate with a
viewtoiheir adjustment aud allowance The
nine limit ior uie preentation ol claims against
said estate is months from the 1st day of July
a i 1013 uiiu me tune Jiina lor payment ol
debts Is one j ear from said 1st dav of Julv 1S93
Witness my hand aud the seal of the County
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Earl Comstock3 Manager
Valentine Neb
Cattle branded on
left side or hip Also
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Horses same as on
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Omaha Branch Office Corner Seventeenth and Earnam Street
Populist Senatorial Convention
A delegate convention of the peo
ples independent party of the 14th
senatorial district of Nebraska is
called to meet at Valentine Nebraska
on Saturday August 20 13 at 10
a ra for the purpose of placing in
nomination a candidate for said dis
trict and for the transaction of such
other business as may properly come
before the convention
The representation is based upon
the vote cast for Hon J 5 Sullivan
for supreme judge at the general elec
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825000 Seward for sufficient evidence to
convict any person of stealingcattle of the above
brands
Thomas Farren
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side or hip
tTol F on left
Horses
shoulder
Range head of
Antelope
John DeCory
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Bros
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Right or left side
norses same on
left shoulder
Iiannark Swal
low tall clip right
or left ear
Range Eig Creek
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Paul Didier
Rosebud S D
Horses
Cattle hole in
each ear
Range Big and
Little White Rivera
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Horses JD on left
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S H Kimmel
Rosebud S D
Also B4U on left
side
Cattle undercut xn
botk ears
Horses branded 4
on loft shoulder
Rane on Antelone
end Spring Creeks
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Louis J liithards
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Merriman Ntb
Charles Eiehards
aterrimaii Ket
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ISraud on either
rightor left aide
horses andsom
cauia oraim
on Ieit side
and hip
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