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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1898)
l 13c Vf v k v J r - JMetzger Bros 7 E J H MM t fc mf H I HI il i - mil M Mmm c AIsi Jack LePoint Merriman Neb Cattle branded ou left side Some on tainajso jiark round hole ter of left ear se WWmM on left side j2SS STOCK BRANDS rullman Neb Cherry Ce TlrRnrl nn Ipff kMa and thigh Earmark square crop right ear Southern branded i cattle have but one I brand nn lift aidn rtauge on uordon and Snake Creeks Horses have same brandjon left thigh A Reward of tOO will be paid to any for information leading to the arrest and Eerson nal conviction of any person or persons steal ing cattle with above brand Joseph W Bownet P O address Merriman Nebr Right ear cropped Hole In center of left ear Range Lake creek BD HM William M Dunbar Lessee from Heine Kroeger Cody Neb DUn Either side EI low Oh right Left ear oi cattle Split nange neaa oi iiay reek Henry Pratt Rosebud S D - Left side Horses same on left shoulder Deerhorn clip on some cattle Infl -Mm nMn mtrm I Qui I William Shangren Cody Neb W ffH I I mmm m Oulap underside oi neck Sv I on right side Range Lake Cora and Bear creeks Charles H Faulhaber i HfSKhjPJPP I a 1 W f Brownlee Nebr Either right or left side on cattle Horses same on left shoulder Left ear cut off of cattle Range Loup river Marshall Wolfenden Kennedy Neb Some a on the left hin Horses S on left shoulder Brand Is small Earmark Quarter clip behind half cir cle forward on left ear Range Lone Tree Lake rjin Louis F Richards Bm I Merriman Neb fl 133 M Rosebud S D Range Big Ti and Bad Rivera Charles Benard Cody Neb Hange on the Snake Rver and Chamber lain flat s W R Kissel Brownlee Neb Lrnl Also some below lelt hij Also HI right hip Range Kissels Ranch Wheeler Bros Charles C Tackett Til Rosebud 3 D Range Bead 6 An telope near at Marys mission Horses brand on left thigh William F Schmidt Aosebud y D On left side Horses branded tame on lft hip or hsulder Range florae Creek H jvts v j a j LOSSES IN THE WAR I SMALL NUMBER OP AMERICANS WERE KILLED Spains Loss of Men Waa Many Times What Oars Was and She Has Parted with Much Valuable Property Es timate of Iiosnes in Both Armies Casualties Were Few Wellington correspondence n t i m u A I Mm rm ml wSmh fcL m Army and Navy Departments are in possession of uearlj complete lists of casualties on the American side nnd of more of less accurate es timates of losses inilicted upon the Spaniards during the war which lasted only 114 days The double total is probably less than that of single battles in our civil war The Span ish casualties are of course far greater than ours but are diflicult to estimate be cause of conflicting reports The first defenders of Spanish honor to fall in the war were undoubtedly killed at the bombardment of Matanzas on April 27 the war having been declared by Con gress to have commenced April 21 Short ly after this the cruiser New York fought some Spanish cavalry at Cabanas thirty eight miles west of Havana without sus taining loss nnd on May 1 Dewey won his world famous victory off Manila af ter stopping for breakfast when half way through The loss on the Spanish side footed up 400 killed and over GOO wound ed The American casualties consisted of the wounding of six seamen The Vicksbiirg and the cutter Morrill engaged the Santa Clara batteries off Ha- wMmwm INTEKIOK XF UOSPITAL TENT vann on May 7 without sustaining injury Four days later came the tight in Car denas harbor in which the only American naval officer to be killed in the war met his death The cruiser Wilmington tor pedo boat Winslow and gunboat Hudson had entered the harbor to attack some Spanish gunboats In the fight a shell burst aboard the Winslow killing Ensign Worth Bngloy and four others The Spanish losses in Cardenas included one medical officer three sailors two women three children killed wounded unknown The day of this skirmish was also the day on which the cruiser Marblehead the gunboat Nashville and the auxiliary cruiser Windom attacked some Spanish J V Al J i - r fV f y t SOLILOQUY OF BRER EAQLE f - Hk yv wt i2ass2 vhm q i ukw T 4 slkQJ wsi wor ifS V Si V rzjL - re1 h G - ----- S Vj V itS i55ia VSjf S 3 s Well now that it is all over it appears to me that that bird has moulted wonderfully since last February next two or three days fighting in which the marines did gallant work Sergt Maj Henry Goode and Private Taumau were killed and live privates wounded There wore also some Cuban casualties Sampsons next bombardment of San tiago resulted in the killing of an officer and three men and the wounding of an officer and twenty men On June 13 the Yankee fought a Spanish gunboat off Cienfuegos and Solon P Kennedy of New York was wounded Three days later the Spanish general Joval was killed in a naval attack on Snntingo A gunner was killed at target practice on the Yankee by an exploding shell Then Shatter effected a landing in Cuba and moved upon Sibo ney and the army took up its share of suffering and danger The daring and famous charge of fhe rough riders and the Tenth cavalry and First cavalry on Scvilla Heights near Slboney when 1000 Americans fought twice their number look place on Juno 24 The killed in cluded Gapt Allyn K Capron Sergt Hamilton Fish Sergt Marcus D Ilussell all of the rough riders Capt Maximil iano Corp White of the Tenth cavalry Corp Doherty and ten privates Maj Crow Lieut Col Alexander O Brodie Capt McClintock and Lieut Thomas of the rough riders and Maj Bell Capt Knox and Lieut By ram of the First cav alry were wounded as were forty six oth er soldiers The Spaniards lost 285 killed and wounded The Texas shelled the Santiago bat teries on June 22 when a six inch shell killed Apprentice Frank B Blakely and wounded seven seamen Shortly after- 5CENE ON THE HIGHWAY NEAR PONCE PORTO RICO troops behind improvised breastworks at Cienfuegos One seaman was killed and another was so badly hurt that ho died later Captain Maynard and Lieut Cam eron Winslow both of the Nashville were slightly and Robert Volts of the Nashville Herman W Kuchneisted John Davis nnd John T Doran of the Marble head and William Lovery were seriously wouuded Many other Americans receiv ed trifling wounds The Spaniards lost i 300 killed and many hundred wounded j Sampsons bombardment ot ban Juan de Porto Rico an engagement satisfac tory in its results look place the next day the Iowa Indiana New York Ter ior Amphitrite Detroit Montgomery Wampatuek and Porter joining in the at tack The enemy responded with a heavy fire killing Frank Widemark a seaman on the New York and the gunners mate on the Amphitrite and wounding seven The ships wore uninjured The Spanish governor general reported the casualties In the town as eight killed and 3J wound ed A second mirf r attack on Cardenas ook place in which seven Spaniards were reported wounded and on May 31 Com modore Schley bombarded the Santiago fortifications firing on Morro Castle La Zocapa and Punta Gorda Our forces were unscathed nnd the Spanish loss was oported heavy On June 0 Sampson took s turn at the forls silencing them without sistaining loss Ou the Spanish side Col Ordonez Capt Sanchez Lieut 1rizar and Officers Perez nnd -Garcia were wounded An onsigo nnd five sailors were killed and twenty wounded Five American ships bombarded i nianera in the bay of Guantnnnmo on June 7 and forty marines went ashore there from the Oivon three days later Then they were joined by 500 more ma rines from the troopship Panther under J Lieut Col Huntington and the Marble head Vixen and Dolphin ran up the bay to fire on the Spanish earthworks The first battle of the marines took place June 11 when Assistant -Surgeon John Blair Gibbs of Richmond Va Sergt Charles H Smith and two privates were killed The Spanish loss is unknown In the l ward Thomas Levalley of White Plains N Y died in the Key West hospital of appendicitis caused by overexertion while serving on the Yankee before Guanta nnmo and Santiago Casualties at Santiago In the advance on Santiago of July 1 2 and 3 there were killed 21 officers 205 enlisted men and 77 officers and 1197 en listed men were wounded At that time S4 enlisted men of whom many have since been found were reported missing In the destruction of Cerveras fleet on July 3 Chief Yeoman George H Ellis of the Brookjyn was the only American killed Three were slightly -wounded on the Texas The Spanish loss has been estimated at 350 killed and 160 wounded including Admiral Cervera himself and Capt Eulatq Besides tins in the sink ing of the Spanish cruiser Reina Merce des Capt Acosta five seamen and 21 marines were killed nnd a lieutenant and 11 men wounded In the subsequent mu tiny of Spanish prisoners on the Harvard six of them were killed and 15 wounded The loss with the Spanish cruiser Alphon so XII is unknown Winthrop Chauler of New York a brother of Col Win Astor Chauler was wounded in the right arm on July 3 while landing with a force of 25 rough riders aud some Cubans from the auxiliary gun boat Peoria at Palo Alto Gen Miles after effecting his landing in Porto Rico at Guaniea lias had such a gratifying time of it that there were practically no American casualties Capt Gihon Barrett and four men all Sixth Massachusetts were wounded in a fight before Yauco where four Spaniard were found dead and several wounded On Aug G eight privates were wounded af Guayamn Oue Spaniard was killed and two wounded Five men were wounded at Asonninta Xiieut J PIInines Fourth artillery and two privates were wounded and a corporal killed One man was kill ed and an officer and lo men wounded near Hormigueros In the fight at Manila July 31 the Span ish loss was estimated at 800 killed and 1000 wounded and we lost nine killed nine seriously wounded including Capt Reiuholdt Richter and 38 slightly wound ed The last casualty in the navy was the death of Emanuel Konlouris a coal pass er on the gunboat Bancroft who was kill ed during a recent engagement with Spanish riflemen at a point of land jutting out into Cortes bay Corporal Swanson was killed by a shell in Gen Wilsons advance in Porto Rico Capt Loo and Lieut Maines and three privates were -wounded The Span ish loss has not been reported Total Losses in Both Armies Gen Vara del Rey of the Spanish forces was one of those killed at El Cahey Gen Toral declined to estimate the total Span ish losses there It is safe to say that their loss in killed in battle on land and sea is several times our loss in dead Ac cording to the estimate at hand the navy has lost Killed 1 officer and 18 men in cluding Cadet Boardman accidentally shot at Cape San Juan Aug 10 wounded-3 officers and 40 men The army has lost Killed 23 officers and 213 men wounded 87 officers and 131G men Total American loss 24 officers nnd 249 men killed 90 officers and 1350 men wounded The estimating of the number of Ameri can soldiers who lost their lives through sickness in the war is a more difficult mat ter because of the lack of complete re ports from all hospitals At present the Navy Department has no sufficient data on the matter As to the army 250 deaths is a conservative estimate The land that Spain must add to men and ships in her column of losses includes Cubas 43319 square miles Porto Rico contains 3550 square miles and is the healthiest of all the West Indies Guam or Guahan is the southernmost and larg est of the Ladrone group If we select it as our perquisite in that locality we will get a fertile piece of ground 100 milej in circuit thickly wooded and provided vth a couple of Spanish forts and a roadstead The Philippines have an aggregate area of 114400 square miles We have taken thirty or forty transports in the course of the war WANT TO BE ANNEXED A Strong Feelincr Among Spaniard in Cuba for Union with Us A correspondent of the New York Her ald who visited Havana since the signing of peace articles between the United States and Spain says that the sentiment of Spaniards in the capital is in favor of the annexation of Cuba to the United States They realize that if a steady and strong government is not founded it will be very difficult for them to remain in the country representing as they do the wealthy element They prefer the idea of annexation to any other kind of rule for they believe it would be the only thing which would guarantee order and the pro tection of all kinds of interests They state that a government established under any other conditions would not Inst very long The Cuban element representing finan cial interests and having social standing who have taken no active part in warfare have similar ideas and believe also thnt any other government which miirht hn oc j tablished in Cuba in which certain radical elements would participate would precipi tate groat disturbances nnd render im possible all efforts for pacification by the Government Among many of the plain people thejeeling of annexation is strong We want to belong to the United States and not to the Cubans many of them said to the correspondent GRAND REVIEW HlvLD i i Brilliant Spectacle Witnessed at Camp Thomas Forty thousand people saw the great review at Chickamauga Snodgrass hill was black with spectators and their ve hicles formed a line of miles The crowd came early and waited The assembly in JW v AX AMBULANCE WAGON I itself was a great show People were there from all the country round about to see the last review of Cump Thomas They were not disappointed The military panorama passed before them was aU they expected it to be S -- WXWgy s y v -v it r CITIZENS - MEAT MARKET GEO g schwalm prop This market always keeps a supply of FRESH - FRUIT - AND - CAME In addition to a first class line of Steaks Boasts Dry Salt Meats Smoked Hams Breakfast Eacon and Vegetables AtStetters Old Stand on Main Street VALENTINE NEBRASKA J Jf 4 4 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 49 THE PALACE SALOON 9 Hot and Cold Water 1 rT XrrCWk I I I HEADQUARTERS FOR Of the Choicest Brands The DONOHER V V Is continually adding improvements and it is now the best equipped and most comfortable FIRST CLASS MODERN 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