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Tis paper will be mailed regularly
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-THURSDAY DECEMBER 31 1896
Tomorrow is 1897 Only three
Soars b the present century left
2Eignt years now until the girls have
another chance to get a life partner
without waiting for him to do the
popping
Today the earth is in perihelion i e
i the point when it is nearest the sun
It is today3000000 miles nearer that
great luminary than it was last -July
-but it dont feel that way
Prom private advices received tit
this office it seems almost certain that
Hon J iN GafSn will be elected speak
jr of the house of representatives in
tbe tjoming session of the legisla
ture
The Wool Growers Association has
jgjot in shape to demand a restoration
of the duty on wool and it is probable
tthat fhe cemmittee will favor them
reports a tariff bill to Con
egress
STobfdy seems to be tearing his
tphirt off in the effort to get the Valen
tine pestoffice and tis well tis so
WarwitfitSpain seems -imminent and
no locdl disturbances should be
aronssd
iLetrEiirope do vrhatGhe -may the
ITJriited States will soonhave the best
andswiftest if not the largest navy in
tbe svorld The AnnapoliB is the name
rcf the latest gunboat launched and
frilbbe turned over to Uncle Sam
about Marchil
r Tom Smith formerly of Ains worth
mow of McCook Junction has applied
for the position of secretary of the
senate Tom is irrepressible and ai
rways goes with the crowd There is
xukparticular reason why that Tom is
inbt entitled to his share of the pie
Ifemport Republican
The war of the place hunters is on
Lincoln and even at this distance
ere is much interest taken in the
fray Grizzled old veterans who- have
passed through many a campaign
without ever receiving reward
anxiously scan each mornings paper
for latest news from the front and all
iisgloriously uncertain
Several good people in and out of
the county have urged the importance
-of passing a law this winter to
the South Dakota and Wyoming stat
UteeTequiring the hide withthe brand
upon it to accompany the sale of all
dressed- beef not necessary for publi
Gtiori but as an evidence of good
This seems to be a good law
aodifanyifaingcan be done to dis
courage the stealing of cattle in this
region it ought to be done As soon
as the rustling element finds out that
CraiUngjDff cattle at night is theiirect
-road to the state penitentiary
cwill lose its charm
iCKaron Signal Recorder
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esdent Cleveland is in the pi-
tioiifOf the man who wanted to do a
certain thing but found upon
hed ufce damned if he did
nd dzaaned if codidnt Under the
-circumstances the pnsqident is doing
Jqstas he pleases and taking the
Cttfsea 3fby his action he should
pieSjJpjtaCa war with Spain
would damn him -for the move
the consequences of winch would have
tote borne -by the coming administra
tion Ashe favors neither Spain 4ior
Cuba theijingoists get in their work
andjdamu him One thing however
is in his favor whatever he does it
will not harru bis future an ho dues
ojQsirojnctfo political hijnois
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tbat the Grant County Tribune pub-
lished at Hyanriis has taken up the
question and in company with this
paper will fight for te assessment -of
taxes on the fuilaluo of pioperty in
stead of one fifth or one third or any
other fraction of valuation The Tri
bune of last week says
Personal property has been uniform-
Jy assessed seauaaloualy low in this
county partly because of the custom
and precedent prevailing elsewhere
but mainly in order to come in for as
-light a contribution as possible to the
state treasury The consequence is
and has been that our warrants are at
a discount because we cannot under
the statutory limitation levy a suffi
cient amount of taxes to pay our ex
penses Then we have to resort to the
expedient of having judgment ren
dered against the county in order to
catch up with the deficit in the mean
timewe have to pay interest and cost
There is neither sense nor economy
in this but if there were the measures
resdrted to are clearjy illegal But if
it were not illegal we do not pain any
thing by it in the end the time comes
when the county has to liquidate and
so does the state and then comes in
creasing assessments Then we have
to scratch around to pay it all in a
lump instead of having the payment
distributed throughout a series of
years The next thing is a howl about
taxes increasing
The fault in our present law lies in
the fact that it provides no penalties
for evasions or negleot to comply with
its provisions The law says that
assessors shall actually view and de
termine the value of all property listed
for assessment fixing therefor a fair
cah value but in no place does it say
what shall be dune in case any assessor
fails to observe the lav There is only
one way in which an assessor can be
reached in this matter and that is
through acharge of perjury
Section 4346 of the Compiled Stat
utes of Nebraska says that the asses
sor shall return his assessment book
to the county clerk verifed by fis
affidavit and in the form of affidavit
to be used we find the following clause
That iu every case where I have been
required to ascertain the true amount
or value of the property of any person
or body corporate I have diligently
and by the best means in my power
endeavored to ascertain the true
amount and value and that I verily
believe the full value thereof is set
forth in the above returns The
law abounds wish the terms full
value or fair value but nowhere
doeait say one third Precedent es
tablished goodness knows when has
made perjurers f many thousands of
assessors The lwishould be repealed
or else enforced The rate of taxation
would be made lower and consequent
ly would not seen such an oppression
People generally consider the rate not
the amouut of taxes
IS NOT POPULISM
The Wymre Arbor State
brightest populist paper on
the
our
exchange list tabes a little fling at
The Democrat because it dares stand
up for what it thinks right and de
fondsthe party whose cause it ex
pouses The Arbor State says that
up to the meeting of the Chicago
convention the populist party vas the
only outspoken free silver party io the
United States but Bro Dodds is off
on that statement The reform
press proved frequently during the
campaign that every statesman and
every political party was or had been
in favor of free silver But the
Arbor State makes another mistake
when it says the populist party was in
favor of free silver This paper con
tends along withThos E Watson late
candidate for vice president Paul
Vandervoort president of the Reform
Press Association and numberless
other prominent populist leaders that
the populist party is not in favor of
free silver only as a makeshift even
as tha democratic party was not in
tavor of the Wilson tariff Take Tom
Watsons latest effusion on this sub
ject for example He says It was a
day of irifiuite woe when we allowed a
few place hunters to place populism on
tne shelf in the interests of silverism
And iie goes on to say that he was
not afraid to ey pose the insufficiency
of silverismwherever he went during
the recent -campaign Tom Watson
is a genuine populist and his standard
should be lived up to by his followers
Prom now until sometime next
month there will be daily hearings by
ths Ways and Means committee of the
house of representatives and every
parson or corporation that wants pro
tection or a bounty or just a plain
every day gift of something valuable
is invited to be present and get a finger
in the pie Ptepublicans are in the
saddle and as soon as Cleveland is off
their hands will ride rough shot over
existing Innil laws
going on bet ween this paper and the
Chadron Signal Better look our Bro
Berkley you know the consequences
of interfering in a family row The
participants in the rowaiways uniteto
oopose one who is a common enemy
rUim
There in a great revolt growing in
the ranks fof the republican party
This arises -from the growing impres
sion that Mark Ilanoa will deal out
the appointments afWashington and
President McKinley will deal out the
disappointment Republican statesman-are
growing weary of the trusts
and corporations that bought the
presidency for their party Let the
battle go on Wymore Arbor titdte
The Dunkard sect is said to intend
purchasing tho entire body of land
comprised within Brown county
Indiana juid will there found a colony
on Altrurian principles which should
delight the heart of William Dean
llowells Already 41000 acres have
been bought and 100 families will
move upon the tract in a few days
Election of county officers will be held
only to comply with the law but there
is to be neither jail nor courthouse in
the county when the sect really ob
tains possession The Dunkards are a
thrifty and honorable people and they
have that in them which may make
the plan feasible
WHO IS AUTHORITY
The IsTew York World the great
deniucratie weekly pays the populist
party will have 28 members in the
next congress The Valentine
Democrat says the populist party will
only have 12 members in the next
congress
The above is clipped from a populist
on temporary of this paper which
seems to live but tor the purpose of
trying to injure The Democrat In
answer to the question in the headline
th1 following lrni tin New York
World of Decern bet llhis punlished
In the preset t house of represents
tives there are 244 straight republi
ctns 105 democrats 6 populists and 1
silver part congressman In the next
house there will be 204 straight repub
Mean 124 democrats 12 populists and
15 fusionists
THE COUNTY BOARD
Various papers throughout the state
are cursing in more or less mild terms
b iard is unique in its makeup being
composed of one man from each of the
three great political parties and poli
tics cannot be said to be the cause of
any action the board may take Each
party has reason to feel proud of its
representative on the board and none
more so than the democratic party
Its representative P Sullivan has
always stood for what he considers the
best interests of the county and is
honored and respected by all M
VierteJ the republican member is a
well known business man from Grooks
ton and the i populist M Dunham
will next week be succeeded bv a man
of his own political faith W A Par
ker of AVood Lake
FOR CUBAN LIBERTY
All of us would like to see the
Cubans win their right with Spain and
all of us would like to help them in
any honorable way but just at pres
ent we can do no more than we are
doing Simply because President
Cleveland is notut jingoist he should
not be made the target of all those
who are willing to get up a fight upon
every possible occasion provided they
can do it without any risk to them
selves It is doubtful if one third of
those who are so anxious for war
would be found a the front if their
presence was needed Cuba cannot be
recognized until she shows something
to recognize The Cubaus have no
semblance of a government established
as the United States had when France
gave us her aid or as the Confederates
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CHERRY WWII INDEPENDENT
pftBERT GOOD Editor and blissier
8SE8S AT FULL VALUE j The Mnsworth Star Journal wants
The Democrat is glad to notice jo take a hand in the little controversy
In wder to introduce The Valen
tine Bemoprat into homes where it
does not now go regularly the pub
lisher will upon receipt of one dollar
send the paper to new subscribers from
now- until January 1 1898 Thin
offeris unprecedented for a paper of
the size and quality of The Demo-
orat and if you are not now on the
iisf this is the time to send in your
name with a dollar
The subscription price of The
Democpat is l per year but if sub
scription is allowed to become delin
quent it will be charged at the rate of
125 This is done as a means of
protection to the publisher When
your subscription becomes delinquent
you will be notifiud of the fact and
the 125 rate will not be charged
without your knowledge
Beginning the first of the new year
the Weekly Courier Journal of Louis
ville Ky will be changed to the
Twice-a-week-Courier-Journal It will
be published Wednesday and Saturday
mornings The paper will be six pages
or twelve pages a week Instead of ten
page3 weekly as at present an in
crease of 832 eolumns of matter dur
ing the year The Wednesday issue
will be devoted exclusively io news
and politics while the Saturday issue
will be strictly a family paper filled
aiifl Hast
The publisheis of the St taul Week
ly Dispatch have jut favored us with
a copy of their annual premium supple
j meut Some of the offers which they
make are simply wonderful Articles
which would cost more than the sub-
of business men who run the village but 75 cents per annum and it is the
on business principles and during lHrgestand best weekly paper pub
their term of office have not only paid lished in Minnesota consisting of
thedbt which hung over the munici from ten to sixteen sheets per week
pality but have made various improve Send postal card for sample copies -of
ments around town The county naner and nmnhim RmmiMmpnt tr
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Weekly Dispatch St Paul Minnesota
Davenport Thacher carry k com
plete line of coil ins and undertakers
supplies 27
In selecting an agricultural paper
one should be taken whose teachings
will be applicable to our climatic con
ditions Papets published in the east
while ably edited and very valuable
for their localises and constituency
are of doubtful value to Minnesota
the Dakotas Western Wisconsin
Northern Iowa and Nebraska Farm
Stock and Home Minneapolis Minnv
is an agricultural journal that fills till
the requirements ot the northwestern
farmer It is published the 1st and
15th of each month consists of from
16 to 24 pages and its regular price is
but 50 cents per year However by a
special arrangement with the publish
ers we are enabled to offer it with the
Democrat for 130
Something for Xotiiiug
Itraddition to giving two papers a
week the Semi Weekly State Journal
now gives to each person sending 1
a free premium You can have your
choicof the Toledo Made or New
York Tribune Or you can have any
two of these papers free Poultry
News Swiue Breeder Farm News
and Womankind Hundreds of
other tree premiums such as a splen
did Atlas State Journal Almanac
United States History etc Send pos
tal card request for premium list
had when Spain recognized the lost You should read the Journal during
cause While we are shouting Vive
Cuban libre let us not forget our
honor as a nation or disregard our
treaties with Spain The best solu
tion of the problem is for the United
States to warn Spain that for the bene
fit of humanity we stand ready to as
sist in the stoppage of the cruelties
being practiced ifi CuIm and then
raakeovertures for the purchase of the
island Spain would not lightly dis
regard the warning and would speed- same
uy come to terms
the legislature no matter what other
papers you read at other times You
must send your money direct to the
State Journal Lincoln Nebr to get
any of these free premiums
To Wltotn it Jlatj Concern
All persons indebted to the estate of
Walter Harp deceaspd sre requested
to settle promptly Joha J Guth is
authorized to receive and receipt for
J DAVEXrORT
Administrator
FINAL PROOF NOTICES
Parties hain final proof notices in
these columns will reoeuve a marked
copy of the paper whieh contains
first insertion of same Jt is the duly
of each claimant to examine their
notice carefully and should thpco bej
any error the fact should be reported
to the landofficondto this office at
once for correction
US Land Oillce Vali nune Nrbr
XovlMiie9Gl
Notice is hereby given thai Hh fohowing uam
ed settler has Med uaiu vor intention t
make final proot in suyporvof his claim aad
tluit said proof wilibfc made before IioSir Lucas
USCCU at Aieirinttin JCetr on Iec SOtii
1K9GVIZ C i
Joseph A Saults of Pullman Xeb
H E 9301 for the sSsvJd uud JsJiscH Sec 14
TpifrK37
He names the following witnesses to prove lus
continuous residence upon and cultivation oi
said laud viz
Cliarh Jacobsnn William Metzger and Eg
bert Uonnen of Pullman Nebr William hulov
of Gordon Nebr
C HGLO Vii R Register
U S Land Office at Valentine Neb
Dec lstaSK I
Notice is hereby given tliat the loiiuuiuK uani
ed settler lias filed uouco of his intention to
uiikfi final proof in support of his claim and
that said proof will be made before Jlesisier
and Receiver at Valentine Ncbr on Jan
13th 1837 Viz
Willard L Cohee of Simeon Xeb
II E 8417 for the sMswh sec 27 and nimM
secitp 20 rA
He names the foIlowhiK witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation of
said land viz
Charles It Howard raid Robert L Quisenberry
of Oasis Nebr JohuJt Ballard and Jlenry U
Ballard of Wood Lake Ncbr
C1L GLOVER leister
U S Laud Office at Valentine Neb
Xec 12th ISM
Notice is hereby given that the folinjvinf
named settler hs filed notice of his intention
mSLKti nnai prooi in siipjw i oi jus uiajiii ciu
wirh RtnriPQ niQpllMnv ninfnrocj
witn stones miscellany pictures that said protf will be made betore the Register
Receiver at Valentine Neb on Jan awl
poetry sketches etc The politics of
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li9i viz
the paper will -not be changed and the
battle for pure democracy and true
democratic principles will be continued
successfully in the future as in the
past In spite of the expense involved
in the improvements noted the price
of the Twice-a-week Courier Journal
will remain the same one dollar per
I year with liberal inducements to
agents or old subsciibers who send in
new ones A feature aming the com
ing year will be the editorials of Mr
Henry Watierson on political and
other tcpics of the day
John G Nichols of UeigvNebr
HE No RS31 for the lots n ind e i rvH
Sec l Tp b K GO -
lie names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of baid laud viz
Daniel l White and Peter Gallowiv of
Neb lienrybehteieter ami Peter Kenners
oIKeige Neb
C It frtOVbR Agister
U SLand Office Valentine Nebr
December Ifith f
Notice is hereby given that tiie following
named settler has filed notice of hi intention to
make final proof in suppot t oi hi- claim and
thiii b d noi will be made befoie the Register
ami JteceiUr at Valentine reb on JanCon
197 i
C harJcsL Morgan of Cody ebr
II K No Hit lota 3 1 friMvh and ne j
mvh See 2 To 3J K X
ile names ie iniunuiiv itneiv8 to prove 1h
continuous residence xiptii and cultivation ef
said laud vi7
JcrrHi C bmtts Anson Ncwbery Amos I
Chitders and lienrvi lioilldaj all oi Only
Isebr
C ft GLOVKK rRegbter
U SLaid Office Valentine Nebraska
Injcember tt i lfaW
Comp aint having been entered at tins miir
i by George V Keinier Jr ag niht Chi istau
Soreiiseu for abandomiii his Homestead etry
No 10i20 dated leoruaxy V2 xipen tne
serintion urip of flip ivsnr ivp aivjn
btnpuon pwee or tne pper aie gten wk iiSvv auiwswsee 2fLTn
the boards of their various cities ana Lfree with mvnra nlmerititipii Thprp 3J 39w in Jierrv county Nebraska wilii u lew
to the cancellation of srtideinry the aaul par-
counties out in this respect Valentine lis soinethingvof interest in it for every I ties are hereby summoned to appear at tits
And Cherry county are to be member of the family The subscrip oclock respond and imnish lestumiuy
lated The village board is composed tion price of the Weekly Dispatch is I conccny mc iyjmster
Estytitf
Taken up by tho subscriber living
4 miles northwest of Georgia in Cherry
countv Nebraska on the 21st dav ot
May 1896 one stagorc reeroipposfcd
to be three years old color red aim
branded thus 7 III
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Passenger leaves OXeill Keb
at 1005 a m immediately after
rival of train from -Black
Hills -reaching Sioux City at 235 p
m saving three hour3 tkae
Lowest rates Purchase local tickets
to ONeill and rebuv there
The F E SL V make holiday
rates of one and one third for the
round trip to points within 200 miles
of the selling station Tickets on sale
December 24 25 and 31 and January
1 good returning until January 4
The current number of Farm
Stock -and Home Minneapolis Minn
should be read by every farmer in the
3tate In fact for a farmer to miss
reading any number of that excellent
journal is a misfortune which he can
escape amost without money and
without price by taking it in connec
tion vith the Dkmocua T
StrtJycil or Sto7tn
Prom my place in Valentine bav
horse weighs about 900 povnrip whitn
hind feet star in forehead branded
monogram AL on left shoulder
Alfkijd Ij xxib
The Bust Wug
To Sioux City is via OXeili and the
PaoiQc Short Line
Try it
Strayed From my place on th
northwest corner of town Saturdsv
Octobpx 10 team of horses -0--
sortvi Ltk anas njn fi reea
weighs about 2200 0her
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jjurs hy ilitftnt rftirv9ktlotti
3radt til Mi jUucell
Obftarviitory
The observers at the Lowell observa
tory find that Mercury and Venus ro
tattt cui thciraxis ooctduriiig their rev
olution nbout the aun Vfsnus in not
as has been supposed
but is veiled inan atmosplicntJtiutMcr
eurj is not
This official dispatch from Mc Lowell
for distribution to astrouomer3 ja ex
ceedingly mtere ithUisince it suggests
radical chuncs in tho generally ac
cepted opinions coiieeminir tuts
motions of theec planets and
condition existing on Venus
Of course the- data from which ho
opinions have ben deduced cannot an
vet be stated for the information hns
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timroJvitjrjt
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YES US AKD MftCIJii
2mpartot 2evr fcpetio Solat
ium io fhz PJueta
come to us hv telegraph Observations
of Mercury and Venus have always been
difficult tho reasons therefor an the
dirtcreut planets being however -not
the same JXfercury never leaves the
company of the sun its greatest -distance
from it in the sky being not more
than about 20 degrees It is on thatac
count enveloped always in sunlight
which dims its brightness and makes
the details of its surface difficult t de
tect Soire 50 years ago a tronomers
throupbt they discovered motioaabout
it axis and fixed the day at about fivcjJ
riinutos less than ours But this time
while Generally accepted and given
pla e in lest books has been without
absolute proof It has been conceded
that little or no atmosphere exists
there for if it did it would liave been
detected during the transits of tin
planet across tha suns -disk
tion period must in this case be deter
mined from observation oE the actial
surface of Mercury and hitherto no ob
server has been fortunate enough to
to get een glimpses of this
With Venus the case is quite different
The brightness of thisphmet 3a such ok
to obsei revision sothat the best obser
vations have been taken at times when
there was daylight present to tone
down its brilliancy It has been the
general opinion that the surface oMhe
planet was hidden from usby dense
clouds in the atmosphere while moun
tain peaks piercing these clouds or per
manent spots have been lacking so that
the time of rotation has been in doubt
It ha beu set down however as about
an hour longer than the day of the
earth Some observations of tilings
which vere suppoed to give
rotation have been recorded but
like the satellite which was seen by the
older astronomers to be in company
wiih the planet -the later astronomer
with hs powerful telescopes has not
been able to se them
The dispatch from Flagstaff suggests
the curious fact that these planets
have each of them only one day in eoch
year and this -will very readily settle
the question of -possible inhabitants
unless indeed there are nomadic tribes
which follow the sun and live always on
the s unny side of tbcplanefc for
oth T jvrtion exposed to darkness and
inter planetary cOul can hardly be
aide to lifo With reference to
tho ctmosphert of Venus it has been
genc tlly conceded that one exists
v lilch den or than ours The rea
sons f ir this belief arc briefly that at
the line when Verus is a crescent the
hours extend over more than half a
rircle Vnt could not do were
no atnOJp here to reflect the
light i vd further when during he
transits of Venus n portion -of the
planet has entered upon the suns disk
or remains upon it an illumination of
the whole edge of the planet has been
seen which couid In ureouipiished in
no wy nowii to us except the dillo
sion of the sunlight through an at
mosphere The degree cf this diffusion
beii r corsirienii it is probable tbalthf
atmosphere is into dense Mr Lowell
is rowever assurcl that the supposed
clouds do not exist and allthat prevents
ova- observation of configuration of
Venus is the difficulty of looking
through its atmosphere Boston
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ENGLISH SHOP
the
Thtj Art ftyncraHy Xfftnd aad Alto
PleHaDt
One can hardly enter a high class
London shop without noting not only
the height and air of distinction the at
tendants possess but their refined
oees and msiinor deferring o this
one day the mnnarer of a large estab
lishment said that the girls in their
departments are required
to have all these qualifications and for
the most port thvy come from good
families preferring thLs to the over-
crowded occupafion of nursery
cresc or companion There is hardly
much to choose from in of f ree
dom for il the girls are obiigr d to -live
in i lmftrVng provided by aud under
the sup3rvision of the management
These homes arc doubtless com
fortable but he rules are extremely
strict TCo masculine callers- are ever
allowed and the hiseis closed nrompt
ly at tn If a girl missts thn closing
hour on three oerrasiom no ezcuse pre
vents a prompt dismissal The man
agement claims that these rules neces
sitate its attendants taking a proper
amount of rest and probably custom
ers find it to heir advantage not to bo
obigd to listen to an accoTmt of ifche
last- dance or what he said end she
said when they wishto be waited on
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