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WOOD BROTHERS
LIVE STOCK AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS
SOUTH OMAHA AHO CHICAGO.
WALTER E. WOOD , Cattle Salesman. HENUY C. LKFLISK , Hog Salesman
WE FURNISH MARKET REPORTS FREE OF EXPENSE.
Write to us. ( © ) Write to us.
MAI10RY. SON & ZIMMERMAN GO.
INCORPORATED , ESTABLISHED 1862.
JHICACO , ILL SIOUX CITY. IA. ST. JOSEPH , HO. SO. ST , PAUL , MINN.
LIVE STOCK COMMISSION
MERCHANTS
ROOMS ( so 132 AND 134 x QflilTH OMAHA
OUU I 0 UmMnM
X NEW EXCHANGE BUILDING ,
JOHN L. CARSON' , Financial Manager. D. B. OLNF.Y. Cattle Salesman.
J. M. COOK , Hog Salesman. J. A. McINTYIlK , lloz Salesman.
C. A. CALDWELL , Cashier.
COX , JONES & COX
LIVESTOCK
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
SOUTH OMAHANEBRASKA
Itonm 1O8 KxPhaucr Illrtg.
References :
UNION STOCK YAKDS PACKERS' NATION A L
NATIONAL BANE BANK.
Telphone
We have a larpe clientage among Nebraska Feeders and nan always cent Omaha prices to
Kaiich customers IF NOTIFIED BEFORE SHIPMENT.
FLATO COMMISSION COMPANY
LIVE STOCK SALESMEN AND BROKERS
Capital 8100,000.00
JUrcotors : Salesmen :
F. W. FLATO. JR , President. ED II. l.'no (
PAUL FLATOrice President. JIM S. IIoux \ lattle &
J. C. DAHLMAN , Secretary. E. W. CAIIOAV , [ log Salesman
JOHN D.SEITZ. HUGH HITCHCOCK , Sheep '
ED. H. HIED , JOHN P. CLARY , Cashier
SOUTH OMAHA , NEBRASKA
Correspondents :
DRUM-FLATO COMMISSION COMPANY
Capital $500.000.00.
CHICAGO. KANSAS CITY. ST. LOUIS
{ { TOOK EXCHANGE
RESTAURANT.
OPEX DAY AND NIGHT.
E. T. MILLER , Proprietor.
LODGING FOR STOCKMEN -
NEWLY FURNISHED ROOMS
262' ' H STREET , South Omaha.
Three Doors From Orner
RATES : $1.00 to * 1.50 Per Day. Telephone No. 67
S5.00 to S7.00 Per We k.
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REED HO'
MRS. JOHN REED , Proprietress.
STOCKMEN'S PATRONAGE ESPECIALLY SOLICITED ,
25th St. B tweea L and M Streets. Sc nth Omaha , Nebr
A Few Facts For Cattle Dealers.
It has been repeatedly
cle.nioiistrAiccl in
the past that
I IA.
Stands at top as a market for Range Feeders
You can satisfy yourself as to the truth of that cjlarement by
comparing the safes at Sioux City , last year , with those at any other
competitive market. You can also ask your neighbors who have sold
cattle at Sioux City. This year Sioux City is in the field for fat cat
tle as well as feeders. The great beef slaughtering plant of the
Cudtthy Packing Co. Is ready for business
The capacity of the Stock Yards ha's been
greatly increased and you will find
excellent facilities for handling
your business.
No charges , except for feed ordered if your cattle are not sold on our market.
The Sioux City Stock Yards Co.
JOHN II. KEENE. General Manager
FIRST CLASS MILL
, I have established a Feed and Saw Mill
9 miles south of Cody , at the mouth of
Medicine Canyon , and am now prepared
to grind Feed. Corn Meal and Graham ,
cr turnout all kinds of Lumber and di
mension siulT , and Native Shingles
Give us a trial order.
J. F. HOOK.
ANCHOR WIRE FENCE. . .
Strouzost fettco on the
market , is perfectly safe ,
and an effectual barrier !
naainst all forms of stock. '
Made of No. 8 calvanlzed
steel wire. CTOHS wires
securely clamped. Inex
pensive. Write for cat- !
atogu : . Meat , this caper
OLO TYC.fe. OUH STYtfi.
D. C. NELSON
CODY , NEBR.
Has recently started in business and
offers bargains to all cash
buyers of
< < ' ' 0 Groceries
Corn
'
* * * Outs
Chopper ! Feerl
JFVotir
Salt
GUilden Wire , Soft and Hard
rine , Paints , Oil * and all
Ifindtt of Ranchers' Siipptic *
T IFIIITZ
Brown lee , - JN"ol > rasl fi
promptly attended to-i
WESTERN NEWS-DEMOCRAT
EGBERT GOOD , Editor and Publisher
The legislature now occupies the
floor. _
Balloting for a new United States
Senator will begin the 17th. The
woods are full of candidates.
'This is a republican year" says the
Ainsworth Journal. Truly it is. The
"infant" tin plate industries have just
formed a trust capitalized at 150.000,000
and the envelope trust has doubled
prices.
Says the Louisville Courier-Journal :
' 'From a collar button to a locomotive
there is nothing now r.roduced in
America which is not produced cheaper
and better than its counterpart in
Europe , " and strong though that state
ment is , it is true. What then do we
need with a "protective" tariff ?
The Chadron Journal says the north
west proved its intelligence by the size
of its republican majorities. Reason
ing from this we presume Bro. Julian
thinks the man who doesn't yote is wiser
than he who does. Had it not been for
the stay-at-homes where would those
republican gains have come in ?
Farm , Stock and Home says that
"The United States of America" is a
title good enough and broad enough ,
while if it is lengthened to the "United
States of North and South America ,
Europe , Asia , Africa. Oceanica , Pacific
and Atlantic Oceans and the Carribean
Sea , " the "proud bird of freedom , "
despairing of covering or representing
so much would wither , despair and die !
It will look very queer to see such
opposites as William Jennings Bryan ,
Andrew Carnegie , Senators Hoar and
Tillman , Speaker Reed and Mr. Bailey ,
Ex- Senator Sherman and Senator Mor
gan walking arm in arm under the
same banner and stepping to the same
tune of independence for Cuba and the
Philippines. Yet such will be the
alignment in the coining contest.
National Rural
It is evident that the life of a news
paper man in the west is not all sun
shine , at least it is not so with a certain
Nevada editor , who is chasing around
through the hills pursued by sixteen
young ladies , who have sworn to takQ
his life on s'ghl , and all bec.uisc in/ /
making up the forms he happened t6
get the report of a concert and a cattle
show mixed up , causing the article to
appear as follows : "The concert given
here by sixteen of our most beautiful
young ladies was highly appreciated ,
they sang in a most charming manner ,
winning the plaudits of the audience ,
who pronounced them the best herd of
Shorthorns in the count } * . A few are
of rich brown color , but the majority
arc able-bodied , sleek , clean-limbed and
handsome. "
Among the measures which John
Shore , the able representative from
this district , will work for this winter
will be a-law to shorten the "open
season" for hunting prairie chicken ,
grouse , etc. As it now .stands the law
permits the killing of these birds while
they are yet too young to get out of
harm's way , ( September 1) ) , and thous
ands are annually slaughtered while
the weather is so warm that they spoil
before they can be brought to marketer
or be disposed of in other ways. He
believes the "open" season should be
changed to read November to Febru
ary , instead of September to January
as it now is. In his efforts to have the
law so amended he will have the hearty
co-operation of all true lovers of sport ,
and all humane people who believe in
giving every animal a show for its life.
Every fall we hear stories of parties
who ride into flocks of young chickens
and kill them with buggy whips , the
game being too young to seek safety in
flight. Only this autumn we were told
of one mail who killed 32 young birds ,
"as fast as he could pump bis Winches
ter , " and of these he saved but half a
dozen , they being so tender and the
weather so warm they rotted ere they
could be brought to town. If the
'
'open' ' season began two months later
this sort of business would be stopped.
Another measure which will have his
hearty support will be a bill to provide
for the payment of taxes by men who
ship stock into a county and keep them
over winter and during the summer
and then skip out without paying their
portion of the county and state ex
penses. Western counties lose thousands
of dollars annually by the laxity of our
present tax laws. Representative
Shore advocates making the jnan who
feeds or winters the stock liable for the
tax. In this way provision for the
payment of taxes will be made and
none will escape. Other measures
which meet his sincere approval Avill be
treated of in subsequent issues of this
paper , and so far as possible we will
keep our readers informed as to their
representative's words and works. i
3
1 Live Stock Notes ,
, A statement compiled at Houston ,
Texas , shows 120,000 head of cattle
i being fed tor the Cuban market ou the
line of the Gulf road.
Competent authorities estimate that
j there are. at least thirty-five per cent
I more cattle in the sandhills this winter
than there was last , and the outlook
, for good prices this year groVt better
with each succeeding week
A dispatch from Lincoln , Nebraska ,
says : "Corn is selling to feeders at
most stations at one cent to three cents
per bushel more than to ship to market.
Don't look for any rush of corn from
this state. " There is a growing con
viction that the supply of good market
able corn is smaller than was at first
supposed. Much of the crop is far be
low the average , and there are many
section ? where great quantities of 2orn
are not worth more than half as much
for feed as if it were hard and sound.
John Dierk , who has no peer in Holt
county as a cattleman , has been having
exceedingly bad luck of late. He is
feeding some nine hundred head of
cattle just north of town and during
the last two weeks has lost twenty head
while others are sick. These Battle
were recently brought in from his
ranch , where he still has some thirteen
hundred head , and were on corn when
brought to town The case is certainly
a mystery. He does not become dis
heartened , however , but will continue
feeding as long as a ray of hope re
mains. Ewing Advocate.
An interesting session of the Sheri
dan County Wool Growers' Association
was held at the county judge's office , in
this city , last Tuesday afternoon. Both
the president and vice president being
absent , J. E. Brown was chosen tem
porary presiding officer. Secretary
Ladd was present. A committee was
appointed whose duty it is to look after
and report all diseases that may appear
among sheep. The committee is I.
Sager , J. M. Barlow , W. S. Perkins ,
Wni. Lister and H. A. Peters. At
present the association has a member
ship of 17 , and a number of other sheep
men have signified their intention of
joining. Rushville Standard.
The Cudahy Packing Co. ended aip'
the year 1898 bv the largest shipment
oTproduct ever made by them , or in
fact , from South Omaha. During the
ten ho.urs of the working day of Satur
day , December 3t , a total of 101 cars
were loaded and dispatched to various
points of the globe from their plant ,
the shipment representing a cash value
of close to $170,000. While beef pro
ducts formed the main part of the
different consignments , with canned
goods largely represented , there were
no less than nineteen different packing
house products included , making it. in
all probability , one of the most varied
shipments made in one day rtrom any
packing house in the world-
The Chicago business letter of the
National Stockman says : "In all
probability fed Mexican lambs will
command good prices next spring.
Unfortunately , quite a number of feed
ers of lambs and sheep are compelled
to sell at this time on account of the
advance in screenings and other feed in
the northwest. Those who hold on are
likelv to profit by pursuing that course.
Thisi * > C. . favorable time for marketing - !
keting sheep , the consumption of mut
ton around the Christmas holidavs always -
*
ways being light , ami sheep have been
selling at very low prices of late. Heavy
sheep have met with serious neglect ,
there being no export remand worth
mentioning. Good export grade sheep
have been selling at such prices as were
paid not long ago by feeders.
Choice feeding cattle are selling high
er than they did a few weeks ago , but
they are still very much cheaper than
during last spring and summer , and
the speculative feeders who bought
young steers as long ago as last spring
at $4.50 to $5 per 100 pounds with the
intention of grazing them through the
summer and then selling to other cattle
feeders at about the same prices per |
hundred weight , making a good profit !
out of the gain in weight acquired ou
cheap grass , find their calculations were
all wrong.
Fewer Texas cattle are being mar
keted than in former seasons , and an
unusually large number are i > eing fed
in that state. Feed is abundant in that
section of the country , and Texas far
mers can easily make much more
money bv making their cattle fat than
by shipping their stock to market to be
sold to canners or feeders. At the
present time no cattle can be shipued
from below the quarantine line except
such as have been dipped under strict
government supervision or can pass a
rigid inspection. This checks ship
ments materially , and is a serious dis
appointment to buyers from northern
sections. Of late years there has been
a large demand for Texas well-bred
yearlings and two-year-olds.
TIZENS - MEAT - ET
GEO. G. SCHWALM , PROP.
This market always kecp a supply of
FRUIT
In addition to a first-class line of Steaks * , Roasts , Dry Salt Meat *
Smoked Hams , Breakfast Bacon and Vegetables
AtSietter's Old Stand on Main Street , VALENTINE , NEBRASKA
THE PALACE SALOON
HEADQUARTERS FOR to
tote
WINES , LIQUORS AND CIG' S to \ \
Of the Choicest Brands
4 * *
VALENTINE * / NEBRASKA
49
eye * '
MRS , HARRIS BOARDING HOUSE
AND BAKERY ,
Fruits x and x Confectionery
Meals at all hours ,
Price , 25 cent. First door South of Valentine Bank ,
49 The DONOHER 8
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49 Js continually adding improvements and it is now the tt
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best equipped , and most comfortable to
tote
4 to
49 ? FIRST-CLASS MODERN HOTEL tote
tote
49 to
IN NORTHWEST NEBRASKA
49
< 3 ? Hot and Cold Water Excellent Bath Room Two Sample Room *
49
HERRY OUNTY KANK
Valentine , Nebraska
y facility oxtpnded ctistoniprs consistent with conservative banking
' bought nnfl sold. Limns upon good security solicited at reasonab (
rates. Cuunty depository
K. SPA UKS , President Oil A RLES SPARKS Cashier
C. II.-CORNELL , President. M. V. NICHOLSON , Cashier
F VALENTINE.
Valentine , Nebraska.
A General Blanking 9iisiiiesnTranfincte l
nnd Sells Domestic and Forein
CnrrcHpondrnt * ;
Chemical National Bank. New York. First National Hank. Omaha Nebr.
Highest market price paid nnd prompt returns. Reference
Omaha National Bank.
F. S. BUSH & COMPANY.
513 South 13th St. , OMAHA , NEB
We charge no commission.
J. 0. DWVER. E. II. DWYER
DWYER BEOS.
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Superintendents of
A. Private Hospital ,
For the Treatment of Diseases-
All Kinds of Surgical Oper
ations Successfully
Performed.
? ALEN1TNE , - - NEBRASKA
TH ED FORD HQSP1TAL
Modern equipment. Up-to-date proced
ures. All the newer methods in .
-MEDICINE and SURGERY
Specialties Hay fever. Catarrh. Cancer ,
liiiptnre and Tiles cured without the
knife. Disease of the eye. ear , stomach
and of women , and all chronic diseases.
Will answer calls by mail or wire within
.1 distance of too miles. Regular days :
THURSDAY and FRIDAY at SENECA
-and MUM.EN-
The balance of the week atTHKDFORD.
Dr. M. . OLA.EK , Manager
C. ffl. SAGESEK
TONSOiWL
ST
Hair cutting and shaving.
KOI AND GOLD BATHS ,
The
OWL
SALOON
Golden Sheaf Pure White Rye ,
Susquehanna Ryeand Cedar Creek
I ouisville. Kentucky , Bourbon Whisky.
Pure Grape & Cognac Brandy's
Toka , A ngelica.PortSheny ! and lilack
berry in wood , claret , Riesling ,
Siiuternes. Cooks Imperial ;
Casts and Clicquot in bot-
tios. Damiana and oth
er Cordials. Til
: : so Agent ftp Fred Kings Celebrated Ei-
na , Pale BSJP far fimily n , and
n i T
3100 t
C. H. THOMPSON ,
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Wan. \Vntarft. * . Prop.
IHEDFORD - - NEBRASKA.-