L t r i it f 1 2 I The Valentine Democrat ffilPll STILL H I M RICE Publisher VALENTINE NEBRASKA BBEf TaEGRAWS I Old St Joseph the largest city in Florida in the eighteenth century but Jong since extinct Js to be re-established The report is current in Chicago so ciety that Mrs George M Pullman widow of the palace car magnate is soon to be married to Gerald Barry a New York artist A deal has just been consummated whereby the Standard Oil company ac quires all the interest of the Pacific Coast Oil company The purchase price is said to be 1000000 Western railroads have been unable to agree on the interchangeable mile age question and there is little pros pect that the minimum mileageto be sold will be raised above 2000 miles The state department has rendered an opinion to the effect that the United States government cannot decide in favor of Porto Rico in the matter of her claim asainst Cuba for 2500000 It is Bald at the navy department that in the fire at the Norfolk navy yard Sunday the money loss is of sec ondary importance the fire destroyed valuable records that cannot be re placed A question put to the governments in the house of commons elicited the statement that there had been 15625 cases of typhoid fever among the Brit ish troops in South Africa and that of this number 3642 proved fatal The Illinois Staats Zeitung was sold at auction at Chicago to Mrs Marga rita widow of Herman Easter who was editor of the paper from 1867 to 1890 The -property was bid in for 50300 subject toa mortgage for 150 000 The Salvation Army of New York City will provide on Christmas day a dinner for 25000 poor people in Madi son Sauare Garden In the mornirig 16000 uncooked dinners will be dis tributed to poor families in 3200 bas kets Twelve hundred men and boys at Natalie colliery at Shamokin Pa op erated by the Shamokin Coal company have struck because fifteen black smiths and carpenters had not been given the 10 per cent increase in wages It appears from bulletin No 17 of the census that Washington is no cap ital of the caws It has only six to the 100000 whereas St Paul has 723 and Kansas City 100 But St Paul has only forty seven goats whereas New oYrk has seventy three to the 100000 La Crosse Wis drugists will seek to apply a recent decision of the United States supreme court in a case arising in Massachusetts to local business It relates to the -prices of proprietary medicines and hoids in brief that re tailers cannot cut the prices of a pat ent medicine if the maker will not consent The award of contracts for supply ing the United States army with khaki material was made at New York City The J Spence Turner company received a contract calling for 500000 yards on a bid of 2095 cents a yard Boessner Broesel Co received two contracts one calling for 350000 yards for which 2178 was bid and 150000 yards at 2115 cents a yard Senator Hanna has hired the Cham ber of Commerce building at Cleve land O for New Years night for the coming out party of his pretty daugh ter Ruth The party will be more na tional in its character than any similar event for invitations have been sent al lover the country and the young lady will have one of the largest coming-out parties ever enjoyed by an American debutante One hundred citizens and heads of families living in the vicinity of the Weldon farm the retreat of George Jacob Schweinfurth near Rockford 111 have joined in a petition demand ing that the false Messiah be removed from the community It is understood that Col Schweinfurth still holds the balance of power with certain mem bers of the Weldon family and that he has settled down in his old retreat for time indefinite Robert T Tighe who established the first telegraph system in South Amer ica is dead at New York City At the outbreak of the civil war he en listed in the Fortieth New York regi ment In 1866 he went to Chili and Peru where he established telegraphic systems Citizens of Topeka Kan raised 25 175 by popular subscription at a law and order meeting The money is to be ased to suppress joints and is placed in the hands of a special com mittee with authority to use the money in securing evidence and em ploying counsel where necessary to convict joint keepers The conversion of the Philippine and Cuban debts of 230000000 into Spanish interior 4 per cents is com pleted A charter was filed in Recorder Si mons offce at Chicago incorporating the John Cudahy company with a cap ital stock of 500000 The servant girls of Minneapolis are being organized into a union by the Trades and Labor Council Already a large number of the women have agreed to become members and it is t believed that nearly all will join The object of the association is to correct alleged abuses and secure privileges and better wages for the gjrls Minneapolis will have oneibank less after January 1 for on tjjplate the Nicollet National and theirst Na tional two of the best known and strongest financial institutions in- the northwest will be consolidated Which name will be retained has not yet been decided upon The current receipts of hogs at Chi caog are heavy and buyers are looking-for liberal receipts next month and in February but with small stocks of provisions and the consumptive de mand all over the world the strongest it nas Deen since people began to eat -meat the situation is one that hog i raisers can dew with complacency PNG Boer Leader Has ITot Abandoned Belief in European Intervention NO POPULAR DEMONSTRATION YET Encllak Methods of Warfare Character ized as Barbarous in the Extreme Claim Made That the Usages of Civil ized Warfare are ignored LONDON Dec 22 William T J Stead has just returned from The Haeue where he had a long confer- ence with Mr Kruger and ascertained at first hand the views of Mr Kruger and nis counselors as to the present situation and future prospects Mr Stead has written the following for the Associated Press First of all nothing is decided about his visit to America at present President Kruger has not abandoned all hope of securing the support of the governments of the civilized world in his demands for arbitration Until the last government refuses absolutely to say a word in support of the prin ciples which they solemnly laid down at The Hague conference Mr Kruger will not partake in popular demonstra tions It is recognized that if he cared to do so he could shake the continent The popular enthusiasm for him is un paralleled since Garibaldis visit to London but until his diplomatic mis sion is exhausted an appeal to the people cannot even be taken into con sideration Mr Kruger Is emphatic in disclaiming any desire to involve oth er nations in war in behalf of the Boers What he asks is that the gov ernments which at The Hague declared their intention to use their efforts to secure amicable settlement of disputes by means of mediation and arbitration should make a united effort to bring the verdict of the civilized world to bear on Great Britain The English Mr Kruger said are waging this war in South Africa like savages They are burning homes de stroying dams cutting trees devastat ing fields and creating famine They are unable to capture Dewet but they are making prisoners of women and children who are not treated with or dinary decency Hundreds of women have been confined in prison Krall near Port Elizabeth with only one chair and several of them are expect ing to become mothers Mr Kruger avers that the provi sions of the conventionat The Hague and the laws and usages of war are trampled under foot and he wants to know whether the signatories of this convention have anything to say on the subject The man on horseback at this mo ment is not Mr Kruger but President Steyn He Delarey and Dewet are masters of the situation having a better disciplined and more effective force than that which followed the vierkleur flag at the outbreak of the war They have plenty of ammuni tion and replenish their store continu ally from the British convoys They have taken enough Lee Metford lines to arm all the burghers now in the field I cannot nut their position bet ter than in the words of one of Mr Krugers counselors England is our accused England is the sole witness against us England is the judge England is the executioner and Eng land hopes to profit by our death We appealed for arbitration before the war We are fighting for arbitration today We have the right to expect the sympathies of the civilized world Germans Defeat Boxers BERLIN Dec 22 A dispatch from Field Marshal von Waldersee dated Pekin December 19 says Guendells column marching from Shan Hai Kuan - successfully encountered a force of Boxers December 14 at Yung Ling near the eastern imperial tombs Fifteen Boxers were killed One thousand Chinese regulars under Fang Do Ling have been driven out of Lu Tai They fled to the moun tains northwesterly on Guendells ap proach Thurstons Ron Gets r Place WASHINGTON D C Dec 21 The senate today confirmed the following nominations C S Francis of New Hampshire to be minister to Switzer land J G A Leishmann of Pennsyl vania minister to Turkey C L Thur ston of Nebraska secretary of the le gation at Buenos Ayres J F Baker of New York secretary of the Chilean claims commission J M Ferguson of Pennsylvania secretary of the legation to Japan More Pay for Militiamen LONDON Dec 22 The secretary of state for war St John Broderick announces that in view of the pro longation of the war in South Africa members of the Imperial Yeomanry will be paid 5 shillings instead of 1 shilling and 2 pence a day Militia men are promised priority of return over regulars Dner May Be Senator ST PAUL Minn Dec 22 A Havre Mont special to the Dspatch says It is deemed more than possi ble that Charles E Duer of Fort Ben ton may be chosen United States sen ator from Montana for the short term Duer is a pioneer of the early 60s an extensive sheep owner and head of the famous Stockmens National bank TOR f RAID IN DIVORCE Leader of Concern and Co Respondent areScntonced -NEW YORK Dec 22 Recorder Goff today sentenced Henry Zeimer one of the -Leads of a fraudulent di Torce bureau to ten years in states prison and James Holden alias Frank Wilson a professional co respondent to three years in state prison Mrs Byrde Herrick and Mary Thompson who said they had testified falsely in divorce cases were allowed to go under syspension of nenienca BOM HOUSES ARE ADJOURNED 1 IRRIGATION AND RIPARIAN RIGHTS National Legislative Bodies Cease Labors Until January 3 WASHINGTON Dec 22 No busi ness was transacted by the senate yes terday The news of the death of Mrs William P Frye wife of the president pro tern of the senate was conveyed officially to the body and out of respect to her memory immediate adjournment was taken until January 3 1901 Sen ator Fairbanks of Indiana called the body to order and Rev Dr W H Milburn pronounced a beautiful invo cation The secretary thon read a letter from Senator appointing Senator Fair banks presiding officer during his ab sence from the senate Meantime a conference of senators had been held as to the order of business The read ing of the journal was suspended and at 1205 p m on motion of Mr Hoar the senate adjourned until January 3 1901 When the house met there were less than 100 members on the floor The majority of the members already had departed for their homes to spend the holiday recess The chaplain in the morning prayer referred to the death of Mrs Frye wife of Senator Frye and of Representative Wise of West Virginia After the approval of the journal some routine minor business was transacted by unanimouss consent Bills were passed to fix the times for sessions of the district and circuit courts for the eastern district of Texas The death of Representative Wise of Virginia having been announced the house adjourned until Jan 3 DETAIL STORIES Of MASSACRE Horrible Atrocities Said to Have Bees Perpetrated by Tnrks NEW YORK Dec 22 A dispatch to Journal and Advertiser from Vienna says Further reports of the Turkish massacres of Christians show that their instigator is a Mohammedan fanatic named Haiduk Islam brags of having slain 200 Christians with his own hands The Turkish authorities have shown utter indifference of the outrages and those being perpetrated on Chritsians are beyond description At Bituch men were cruc fied on tree with stakes driven through their hands and feet Women were attacked and then mutiliated Children were murdered by mutilation before their parents eyes Women were mal treated at Grumma before the eyes of their husbands brothers and fa thers and then carried into the bondage of harems Men were tortured to death slowly by various means their limbs cut off successively and children were thrown into the river The fiends tortured the Christians at Riharitz by slicing flesh from all parts of their bodies before killing them A Greek orthodox priest was tied in a sack and pitched into the river at Genovitza The Servian con sul at Mitrpvitza estimates that I4LOJ persons have been killed and 400 wo men attacked and placed in harems CONGER INSTRUCTED TO SIGN Agreement Not Exactly to American Lik ing bat Delay is Dangerous WASHINGTON Dec 22 An in struction will again go out today to Mr Conger at Pekin to sign the agree ment which according to Pekin ad vices already has been signed by all of the other ministers at the Chinese capital This instruction is sent wth some reluctance because the agree ment as it now stands does not com pletely represent the view of the Unit ed States government But it is be lieved to be the most favorable com promise that could be reachedunless negotiations are to be drawn out to a dangerous length for all reports indi cate a growing spirit of unrest in Chi na owing to the absence of any form of native government in Chi Lii and the adjacent provinces So the United States accepts the irrevocable condi tion imposed upon the Chinese gov ernment though after all this ex pression is rather a matter of form than of substance for diplomacy knows no such thing as irrevocpble agreement Contestant for Congressional Seat WASHINGTON Dec 22 Speaker Henderson received a telegram an nouncing the death of Dr Richard A Wise the member of the Norfolk Va district at his home at Williamsbug at 1240 this morning No details be yond the simple announcement were received Dr Wise was twice seated as a member of the house on a con test in the last and the present con gress and had given notee he would contest the seat in the next congress Improvements costing 10000000 have been approved for the University of California Wrrm Time hi Spanlh Senate MADRID Dec 21 During the dis cussion in the senate of the royal message announcing the marriage in the near future of the princess of Asturias heiress presumptive to the throne with Prince Charles second son of the Count of Caserta Senor Or tega a republican raised a storm of protest by recalling the conspiracy of the bourbon princes against other roy alists which he feared this marriage would have a tendency to renew Fire at Elk Point S D destroyed the entire business portion of the town A seat in the New York stock ex change was sold for 50000 the high est price on record Major Taylor the colored bicyclist of Worchester has signed an agree ment to race in Europe during July and August of next year byville 111 by James G Middles- wortn resulted in the disposal of fifty head for 5735 or an average of 114 75 i Marshall Nelson the famous scout of the late General Lawton has been summoned by General Wood to Cuba for service under special instructions The sale of Hereford cattle at j Constitutionality of State Act to Be Sub ject to Legal Test LINCOLN Dec 24 The of the state irrigation act will be subjected to a legal test before the supreme court next month The court recently handed down a decision which was believed at the same time to be a deathblow to the irrigation Interests of Nebraska and an effort will be made to secure either a reversal or a modifi cation of that opinion The decision was in the case of the Crawford com pany against Hathaway and others appealed from Dawes county The case will be brought to the at tention of the court for second consid eration by Attorneys J W Dewee3e and J S Kirkpatrick of this city who will appear as friends of the court in behalf of the irrigation interests of the state but not as attorneys for either party in the original action Leave was granted to file the motion and the document prepared by the at torneys was presented The court is asked to reverse or modify the judg ment to decide the constitutionality of the irrigation statutes in their re lalon to the creation of the State Board of Irrigation to adjudge and determine to what extent the irrigation laws modify or abrogate riparian rights and to adjudge and determine whether the right of Leroy Hall ap pelle in the Crawford company case to maintain a dam upon and to use the waters of White river for power purposes has been acquired by pro scription or as riparian owner or pro prietor t The court wilL listen to argument on these questions at the sitting be ginning January 2 Nebraska vs the B U B B LINCOLN Dec 24 The action of the supreme court in overruling the motion of the attorney general for a rehearing of the case ot the State of Nebraska against the Burlington rail- road has removed all possibility of prolonging the existence of the State Board of Transportation under its pres ent organization According to the de- cree of the court the life of the board came to an end when the motion was overruled and therefore the salaries of the three secretaries and other ployes stopped at the same time Sec- retary G L Laws said regarding the matter My opinion is that we are knocked out but there is still a pos i sibility of reorganizing the board under the act of 1885 which may have been revived by the decision of the court That act provides for a board consist ing of the auditor attorney general and secretary of state and allowed each member to appoint his own sec- retary on condition that the three be chosen from the Frst Second and Third districts respectively If the law of 1885 is still in force there might be a reorganization but I am not pre j pared to say so positively Senator Allen Asked to Help LINCOLN Dec 24 The Nebraska dairymen In annual session in thisj city sent the following telegram to Senator Allen at Washington In the name of seventy thousand cow owners of Nebraska weask you to report the Grout bill from commit- tee and to become its especial cate on the floor of the senate The bill referred to is an act to pre j vent the fraudulent sale of garine Nebraska Butter the Best LINCOLN Dec 24 Director G Lr McKay of the dairy department of the Iowa Agricultural schoof the expert engaged to judge the exhibit at the Nebraska Dairymens association said that he never saw a better collection of private butter than he examined here The average scoring was ex ceptionally high The prize winners in the dairy class were J K well Lincoln 95 J Hoagh Boyden la 94 August Sader Papillion 94 L C Norton Fort Crook 93 and Mrs J S Temple Cheney 92 Find Silks In a Queer Place TABLE ROCK Neb Dec 24 A sacks of silks and other goods was found here by one of the section men under a pile of railroad ties a half i mile or less east of the depot During the day a couple of strangers were dis j covered tearing down the pile of ties and handling them over When dis f covered they left on a freight train The goods were near where the freight trains stop Before the find was re ported to the authorities the strangers had left town Dandelions Blooming in Nebraska SUPERIOR Neb Dec 24 Dande lions are in bloom on the prairies be tween this place and Guide Rock Soma of the farmers south of town are doing their spring plowing Water left out of doors over night does not freeze These facts give some idea of the re markable winter that is being experi enced in southern Nebraska The merchants in the small towns are feel ing the effects of it disastrously and tbey are praying for a cold wave Johnson Goes to the Pen PONCA Neb Dec 19 Elmer John son who has been in the county jail for the past six months for clubbing the marshal at Emerson who has since died pleaded guilty to the charge of assault with intent to do great bod 3 ily harm and was sentenced by Judge Graves to eighteen months in the pen- itentiary Frank Poulton also plead- ed guilty to the charge of horse steaP ing and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary Dawes Reports Deficiency LINCOLN Dec 24 Superintendent Dawes of the School for Deaf and Dumb at Omaha has informed the gov ernor that the deficiency in accounts in his institution will amount to 6 32459 Of this amount 1000 will be due for salaries and wages and nearly as much for fuel Superintendent Dawes devotes considerable space in his report to an explanation of the needs of the institution and after call ing attention to the big deficiency as serts that it is a scource of gratifica tion to know that its affairs have been handled so well under his supervision THE SCHOOL FUND DIVISION Itate Superintendent Jackson Completes His Apportionment LINCOLN Neb Dec 22 State Superintendent Jackson has completed the semi annual apportionment of the temporary school fund among the vari ous counties of the state The total amount apportioned is 30783054 and the total number of children of school age 377791 making a rate per scholar cf about 81 cents Following is the apportionment by counties JNumoer ot Amount Counties scholars due Adams 7340 593076 Antelope 4185 341001 Banner 337 27215 Blaine 149 12140 Boone 4234 344994 Box Butte 1619 1319W Boyd 2631 214378 Brown 1216 1015 26 Buffalo -7984 650550 Burt 4592 374164 Butler 5894 480253 Cass 7760 632298 Cedar 4550 370742 Chase 926 75452 Cherry 1555 126704 Cheyenne 1472 119941 Clay 6060 493779 Colfax 4400 358519 Cumingr 51583 454912 Custer 75C6 640935 Dakota 2379 193845 Dawes 1973 160763 Dawson 4535 369520 Deuel 747 60867 Dixon 303 31S023 Dodge 8082 658533 Douglas 41474 3379372 Dundy 820 66S13 Fillmore 55S0 454668 Franklin 3529 2875Ii Frontier 3320 270519 Furnas 4681 381416 Gage 1Q59S 863543 Garfield 698 56874 Gosper 1946 158563 Grant 213 17356 Greeley 2311 188304 Hall 6050 4S2964 Hamilton 5044 410994 Harlan 3541 288527 Hayes 972 79200 Hitchcock 1726 140637 Holt 4361 355342 Hooker 55 4481 Howard 4283 34S9S6 Jefferson 5 566 453527 Johnson 4055 333408 Kearney -3929 320142 Keith 700 67037 Jxeya Paha 1071 87267 Kimball 238 19393 Knox 5491 447416 Lancaster 21990 1791733 Lincoln 4152 338312 Logan 369 30027 Loup 465 37889 Madison 6325 515372 McPherson 100 8148 Merrick 3166 257970 Nance 26S4 21S697 Nemaha 52S6 430712 Nuckolls 4655 379297 Otoe 7313 595876 Pawnee 4263 347356 Perkins 55 47667 Phelps 3896 317433 Pierce 3244 261327 Platte 6628- 540061 Polk 4030 32S371 Red Willow 3526 287304 Richardson 7034 573142 Rock 1059 86289 Saline 7C9S 578357 Sarpy 3006 244934 Saunders 8353 680617 Scotts Bluff 86 72193 Seward 5627 458498 Sheridan 2268 1S4S00 Sherman 2650 215927 Sioux - 631 51415 Stanton 2650 215927 Thayer 5t233 426394 Thomas 170 13832 Thurston 2040 166223 Valley 2S31 230910 Washington 4706 38345 Wayne 3734 304253 Webster 4273 348171 Wheeler 460 37482 York 0151 501184 Totals 377791 30783054 Census of Nebrislta Towns WASHINGTON D C Dec 22 The population of incorporated places in Nebraska having a population of more than 2000 but less than 25000 is as follows City 19G0 Alliance 2535 Auburn 2 664 Beatrice 7875 Blair 270 Columbus 3522 Fairbury 3140 Crete 2199 Falls City 3022 Fremont 7241 Grand Island 7554 Hastings 718S Holdregfe 3007 Kearney 5634 McCook 2445 Nebraska City 73S0 Norfolk 3883 North Platte 3640 Plattsmouth 4964 Schuyler - 2157 Tecumseh 2005 Wahoo 2100 Wayne 2119 Wymore 2626 Yorlc 5132 1890 S29 1537 13855 29 SISi 2530 2310 2102 6747 7536 13 5S4 2601 8074 2346 11 194 3038 3053 8392 2160 1654 2003 1178 2420 2405 Batter Product of the State LINCOLN Dec 22 Returns from the creameries of the state show that 9093706 pounds of creamery butter were manufactured in Nebraska in the year 1900 the greater per cent of which found a market outside the borders of our state said Secretary Bassett It is estimated that 6000 000 pounds of dairy butter or farm butter produced in this state has under the commercial term of ladle butter been shipped to markets out side the state making the exported butter product of the state for the year approximately 15000000 pounds This amount is but a small percentage of the butter which might be produced for export from the state or that would be produced if fraudulent imitation products were compelled to be sold on their merits and honest butter had only fair and legitimate competition in the open market Will Shorten Its Line PLATTSMOUTH Neb Dec 22 The Burlington Railway company has presented a proposition to the com missioners of Cass county for the sale of their bridge over the Platte river between Oreapolis and La Platte The fact was presented in this connection that the railway company intends to begin work at once of straightening its line from apoint near Swallow hill to a point where the road crosses the Papillion creek a mile or more north of La Platte which work will involve the erection of a new bridge over the Platte river some two miles east of the present structure Big pay for Bnslnefs GREELEY Neb Dec 22 Last j Saturday was one of the biggest days for business ever seen in the town The bank received deposits to the amount of 11000 and paid out in this regular run 14000 On that day John Fitzpatrick whose crop was noticed last week finished delivering 11223 bushels of corn of his own raising and received 2918 in a lump The stores were all crowded with customers and it was what might be called a busy day aeeewsww - ft TAT Hi v5 to to UPRIGHT Straight and strong is the statu when the twists and curvatures of -Mil mmz f Lumbago Ik TRADMAf are cured and Btraightened out by St Jacobs OH 539393S399a3aa33SS9 Very bbusH sail as easy totskeassvgass OAKTEfCS IP STYLE H P2LLS t IH FOR HEADACHE FOB DIZZINESS F0 BILIQUSMESS FOB 7Q8PID LIVER FOR GQMSTlPAHBi F9K SALLOW SKIH FOSTHECOMPliitnv Z5 cwifc I ggrely Vgeta3gevggs HTvucm mJLm i My CURE SICK HEADACHE A TOUR OF THE WORLD BY YOUR OWN FIRESIDE The Stoddard Illus trated Lectures Ten Superb Volumes 4 OOQ Vfeivs This work has had an enormous sale sold on easy payments Geo LShuman Co 315 Dearborn StreetJChlcago ft RAIN f THE PURE GRAIN COFFEE Grain 0 is not a stimulant like coffee It is a tonic and its effects are permanent A successful substitute for coffeev because it has the coffee flavor thst everybody likes Lots of coffee substitutes in the market but only one food drink Grain O Xll grocers 16c and 25c DrBuLTs Cures all Throat and Lung Affections COUGH SYRUP Getthegenuine Refuse substituted IS SURE Salvation Oil cures Rheumatism 15 ag cts Your clothes will not crack if you use Magnetic Starch Cincinnati is enjoying a street car line boom Eight lines are to be ex tended TVIiat Shall Wo Have for Dossert This question arises in the family every day Let us answer it today Try Jell O a delicious and healthful dessert Prepared in two minutes No boilingl no baking add boiling water and set to cool Flavors Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry At your grocers 10 cts The multiplication table has no legs but it gets there just the same Garfleld Tea is the -original herb tea for the cure of constipation and sick headache it is a specific for all disorders of stomach and bowels The British war office Is considering the advisability of training volunteers in the use of the motor car Duty is the privilege of living SECURITY Genuine Carters Little Liver Pills Must Bear Signature of See Fac SbnUe Wrapper Below A I en I brasses VV N U OMAHA No 52 1900 STlSeS WKKk ALL ui TARS SP1 x - u d vJ