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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
STV1T
CiVCJT0r
icuunaut ov nior
ecrotary of Htato
Treasurer
Com Ijiiulsaml lluildiug 3
BilasAHolcomh
Uoieii K Alitor
Joel A IIi i
JSUaclhrV
lumuiie Mooiv
Henry Oltiis rll
COUNTY
Treasurer G SmHl
jiori Geo hilJiit
iJberiir V Amos Strour
JudBe FMWalcott
CrHinty Attorney Kd Clark
County Superintendent Lillian JJtonci
Surveyor Chas Tar
Cteroubr - A Lewis
l Max vievtel
Commissi oners SI Dutbam
I P Sullivan
PRECINCT
Overseers ot Highways It Hanson -and Jllay
Constable K 1 owne
JuaUys of tbe Peace John Dunn and J M
Caiuni
Assessor- John Dunn
VILLAGE
Tovn Board E E Sparks president r H or
oell treasurer T C Hornby clerk D S Ludwip
aud J IiUrJeitrb
Warshal and Water Commissioner It Towin
cbool Distrii t No 1 F Si V alcott piesiueiii
t v Nihniwnn trpastirer J G Ieililolin
tary J W Durlemh G 1 Crabo and 1 Keoley
Societies
Imp 0 R
Sitting Bui Tribe No 22 mnroved Order of j
Ked Men meets every seuomi and lourtb Friday
eveuinu of each liionib at Davenports Hall
Visitingbrelbrenare fiaternaJy invited to b
pr sent at ihe council of ibe tribe
r nwiimiiw C01 li C HTboinnson fcachein
A F A M
Aiiunekadusa Ixde No ll2 A F A A Si
noetsin regular couiniunloatioii Sat 1 iday evei
lng on or lusiototiiU Xuu niooit in eaen ntoiitli
mjiihers of the order hi now and legularbtaiifl
toK cordiaily and fntteriialiy hiyited to an can-
JT Keeley W l
W W THoairsos Sef
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Northern Star Chapter No r9 -Older of th
Enft rn StaT niecis on second and lourtb lues
dav evwiius of cash month m Hornbys ball
w W Thontpsn W aoik W a coit
Secretary Worthy Matron
A 0 U W
ValRiitlne Lodge No 70 A o U W met 1
1 bt jd ra Siouday in tracb inortli
Carl Samaj luw W Iloisciaw at
S D of H
Tun Valentin Loflse No Degree of Hour
HVin hIclo uit tiiis Just 4i lijiro
IIJ sa ev i n jts f each raoalb
bin M Chribiewsen Kec -Mrs It Hobinson oi
gto
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Yalentint Lodge No -203 i r nv
even Thursda evenni VuiliiiR tuoth r scon
rtollynviled to attend our meetings
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Wesiev HoLsciiAw Secv
hi n romiinr miptiiir2d and txh Saturdays ol
eacnmonfl afinni sharp Comrads from
other Iobts are cordially invited to attend-
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Col Wood W It C No 173 regular meeting
-d aud 4th Saturdays or eacb mouilr
Amanda Ludwig Pres
IIeltn Hoknby Sec
M W A
Arrival 0x16 Kepartur or 3ails
Mail easi and west closes at 8 p m
Rosebud lea es at 8 o a 111 daily except Sun
day aud an ives at 500 p m
Simeon Kennedy and Oasis
m Mondays irednesdays and bn
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Saturdays
Ft Niobrara leaves dailyatTKWa m am-
500 p m arrives at 3oa TnaiiQ ymu p in
Kewauee and Soarte arrives
Wednesdays and Fridavs at 5o0 pm ant
leivts Tuesdays Thursuays and Saturdays at
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General delivery open from7a tn to
m General delivery open on Sundays froi
g to 10 a in -Lock boxes opendaily form 0 a
m to Si0 p m
W EHALEY Postmaster
PROFESSIONAL AMD BUSINESS CARDS
T C DWYER
JPhtficifzn and Surgeon
Oftca at C R Watsons Drug Store Promp
aitenttcn given to all professional calls
VALKXTINK - - - NKHKVSKA
Tcacliers EsiamiBiation
The regular monthly Teachers
Examination will be held the
-at my office in the Court House
LILLIAN STOMER
Surjt of Schools
D CLARKE
Attorney-at-Law
oU kinds 0 lejralbusiucaa promptly attended to
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SCIENCE AND JNDUSTRY
jjtcr power i1 aWivcd from Ills
ovapoKitJou of water by tin suns heat
ami its deposifion oattiie highlands in
the iorm -of suovor raun
ConiltdoeK not growhelow 40
toarsther the ankle of the horse It
ifl this strength which enables the ani
mal to support his own great weight
for many hours without fatigue
Ul U WWII tts UUVC Ui IU1U Kilij WL VVH
Mr Mlver director of the Great
Western roil way of England making a
presentation at Liverpool the other day
to the district troods manager ilr
demic auringits whole season Yetbe
yond those killefl by the direct effects
of the sun the mortality was singularly
low the infant mortality ever the
finger that points unerringly to thf
sore spots in a community if any then
be was so noticeably low as to cause
a feeling almosit of exultation among
the sanitary officials And it was shown
by comparison with earlier hot spells
that the population yielded more slow
Valentinc Camp No 1751 Modern Wooomon 1 of A
AviQ inwis sifrind and fourtb Wednesday - tonene
Where it had taken two
of eacb month at Davenports Hall or three days to reach the climax of
VWUnBnelghuorscogtaviiMgt sunstroke it now tool five Tlie
JwSpirk Clerk j pie better housed belter fed and
K of P
Cherry Iodge No 1BI Knights of Pvthias meets
every Tuesday evening at Davenpoirs Hal
Joa Putmecil K of It and S
i breathing clean air in the clean streets
had acquired a powr of resistance to
which fJie past had no parallel The
sanitarians had proved their case
i Jacob Iviis in Ceiiturv
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A Breathing Well
In San L uisOhispo county Cal there
is a gas well whose strange conduct
is described by a correspondent The
well is 6 iisches in -diameter and 350
feet deep During settled weather it
blows out gas for three hours and
then sucks in air for an equal period
Mondays of time and this regular breathing
continues without interruption until
a change of weather Before a storm
when the barometer is falling the
time during which the well expires
is greatly increased and sometimes the
outbreathing continues for 24 hours
After the iassage of the storm and
-with the barometer rising the inhala
tfon of air is similarly prolonged If
the ahris shut off when an inhalation
is about to take place the gas after
ward ceases to flow so that the well
must be allowed to perform its regu
lar breathing iu order to continue its
ield of gas An automatic valve has
been placed at the mouth of the -well
to permit the ingress of air and when
the opening is restricted the inward
suction -causes a loud sound as if the
well served for nostrils to a subter
ranean monster afflicted with snoring
Science
THE LARGEST CArJSOM
S17r00 ir the- Si pan
Informal ion lias jU f r fnohoil yw
Tcrk that the largfK t carbos over futtnl
has been iJiHCOuiivl in he- -wilds of
At tonurv General Arthurs Churchill oms Placed deeper ifc dies Cora Hound Brazil
luUHc Instruction Menrj 1I below 40 fathoms indicates cither that rmot as birr as ones fit Tlipsiri0n is
I L iiunihomVVOinalK the bottom haw gouc down or it haa much -sought stout It is of
Ecscntsumvcrbiiy
M Hail iAHni fnllon fiv lli 4lfnlJirvmripith I iomrni1ilAriii wtmrirriiftnn rTfliK t hp
YV Holmes lleree - 7
TMallalieu Kearney 7so auimul tissues are stranger than I hairiest Known substance tor tlus
til J Hull Kugur u tendons and Hon inputs which bind reason it ia used fofdriliirtr and is ox-
COrGEESSIONAL
- Senators Win V Allen Madison John St
T HIS Dl Jet Jesse 15 Strode
Lincoln hocHid D H Mercer Oimilta llilr1
Oo li Mflklfjohn Fiillortou Fourth liJHw
nwAuiora Filth Win Andrews HnstiuK
SiKtli O M Keui Broken How
jumciAL
Supreme Court T L Norval Cblor Justk
Harrfcou and lolk ja GoiiaScs
Flfteculu ludldal WMriet M T Klnkaac
OKoill W 11 Wfestovtr Kubbville
LKGISIATIVE
ItojircwnUtlve Fttiyerond DWrict - Ksank
BollileutuerKilgftre
Senator Fourteenth Dltrlct Kcnry G v
r art Crawford
IANI OFFICE
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treinelv valuable Small bits are found
frequently in diamondiferous region
About six months ago M 1J Levy a
diamond merchant of this city started
French and Belgian capitalists arc en the Braail workings He worked his
to construct large alkali works near
thcnewly discovered rock salt deposits
at Pola in Central Asia There is a
good coal at Rardimkul near by The
fait is of very fine quality with no ad
mixture of other chemicals
German excavations in the island
of Sa nroria have now been completed
Dr Lyller von Gaertringen has identi
fied the city on tlic slopes of Mesa
AFcwrt10 LonBp1M j remains on the seashore near the mod-
way up i ne Amazon paruy ainpoy
canoe and partly by the plodding mule
TJaus lie traveled for nine days unl
he came to a place called Jaereniulor
Near this spot a forjner seout of Mr
Levy one Pedro Gunzalos had bought
a -tract of laud 30 Ungues in extent
Part in fact nearly the whole of this
stretch of property yields a choice
variety of boa constrictors and wild
1 1 j I t t 1 1 1 H li
the and out as wunzaws aau own nail
Vouno as ancient Thera the
ing incee creawires aji nis me lie uiun x
mind them The attractive portion of
his land w us a bit ot clear ground on
which liehad found a quartz bearingear
bon lie saw in this a fortune He got
together a force of natives who were
only spasmodically industrious Small
Steele said the Great Western had 2500 f
hits of carbon were lound not how-
milos of rails emplovxng 52000 men I
had a weekly re venuo of 200000 and
a subscribed capital of over 6 80000
000 a11 yielding dividends
According to Engineering somere
eent research s by Capt Abney show
that the light of the starry aky is to
thait of the full moon about as 144000
The latter is usually considered to be
about 1000000 to that of the sun at
noon so that we receive over 13000
000 times as much light as from tbe
sideration
Ciucium a new element dipeovered
by Ii P Barrierc in morazite sand j
dissolves in sulphuric nitric or acetic
acid forininig soluble salts either white
or slightly rase tinted lis atomic
weight is calciijlaied as 104 Thcdisvov
ercr proposes to use the substance for
an incandescent gaslight on the Wels
bacli principle
NEW YORKS
The
SANITATION-
Infant Mortality During tho Hot
Spell Waa Remarkably Low
The appeal to the public conscience
told at last With that attack in the
churches which has not been without
j blame the new era began That year
1S79 ajpublic competition evolved the
present type of tenement far from per-
feet but ah immense improvement on
the wicked old barracks The sanitary
reformers got the upper hand and their
work told The xlcati rate came dovt 1
slowly It is to day at the end of 3
years quite 25 per cent lower than
when the health department was or
ganized and New York has been re
deemed from a reproach for which
there was no excuse for no city in the
world has such natural opportunities
for gocl sanitation
Thoimuienec stride it hastaken was
measured by the mortality during thi
unprecedented hot spell of Vast sum
mer It was never so great as indeed
there never was an emergencj like it
since records were kept Durinc the
G A R ten days it lasted the heat claimed many
Col Wood Post No 20S Department -more victims than the last cholera
ever in sucn protusion as to satisfy
Gunzalos He was becoming
agei
Ope Hay two months after Mr Levys
arrival Gunzalos workman was hum
ming a song while dislodging quaitz
in a perfunctory sort of way He ob
served with surprise the outlines of a
iaige carbon in a fallen piece He gavcd
at the big atone a moment in simaze
ment and then shouted exult iugly to
the oversftpr Tlmf snlpmn nffinJnl
stars taking both hemispheres dauced a jiff whea he took it frQm thp
workmans hand and Gunzalos treated
all hands liberally when the carbon
was brought to him A few days after
he went to Jaereandor lie showed the
stone to Mr Levy who had been quietly
buying a few bargains in gems
After inspecting it critically Mr
Levy iiI -Ill give you 3500 for
the carbon
Gunzalos rejected the offer with a
scornful gesture Ill sell it for 10
000 and not a pound leas he said
But insisted Mr Levy it will coat
1000 to cut the carbon Nothing less
than a ten ton hammer will make an
impression on it You can see the ex
pense the buyer will be under
I hhink I shall have it kept in a vault
in Paris for the present said Gun
zalos and then I may send it to the
United States
The carbon is three and a half inches
long three inches wide and the same
in thickness It is a trifle spongy on a
small area of tho surface but other
wise is solid Y Tribune
1 AS TO RESPIRATION
1
Scientific Tests to Ascertain the Proper
I Way fro Breathe
1 Some interesting records on the ques
tion of respiration have been compiled
by Dr W Marcet who has devoted the
greater part of his life to the solution of
problems connected with this subject
His investigations have not been eon
iined to the laboratory but have been
conducted frequently in the open air
to varying elevations extending from
the sea level to the summit of the high
est Alpine ranges
Beginning with normal breathing in
a state of repose experiments were
made on forced or labor breathing
respiration under exercise ajid
i tion as controlled by the mental exer
cise of the will In order to obtain the
I lecords of the various conditions an
mslrument was designed which showed j
on the chart in horizontal lines -the
number of litres of air expired and in
vertical lines the time in minutes
The traces thus obtained differ con
siderably from those illustrating forced
respiration being much less deep
though deeper than the normal In j
talking singing readingand coughing
the respiration assumed the form of i
breathing under exercse but in talking
aud reading alone where the strain of
the lungs is very feeble the tracing
returns parallel to the normal almost
immediately after the exercise has
come to an end
In singing however a marked differ
ence was observed in the breathing
when standing and when sitting This
difference is well worthy the attention
of vocal students When the singer sat
down the curve resembled that of the
forced breathing almost exactly
which is not the case when standing
This shows that the erect position is
the correct one for singing
Another fact of interest to athletes
and people who run for their trains
was demonstrated It is not general
ly known that many people run a most
serious risk in rushing for a car If
they could keep on running after reach
ing the car platform the danger would
be much lessened The opening of in
ternal lessons which may be fatal in
character comes from thest dden cessa
tion of effort In case of extreme
breathlessness as would oecur after
running for a train great relief would
be experienced from talcing a few deep
breaths Chicago News
A Curious Custom
A strange custom prevails among the
members of a certain tribe in the
ulion a single young man dies
Unburied Slain some one who has carried to the grave a
Thft -War bfirf WBen Chili and PerU iS mTrOTTMWo rlniKThr 5n flin nnnicr
third Saturday of each month -3 anient but atraveler
history of the vear calls on the bereaved
who lately returned tram boutn parents end says Your son is sure
ica states that on the battlefield of to want a wife Ill give you my daugh
Tarapaca the dead are still lying just iCT an y0ll snall deliver to me the
as they fell There were 4000 of them marriage portion in return A friend
ana nearly 1000 horses are also left iv 0i7er of this deserintion is never e-
buried It never rains at Tarapaca and
I the sun has dried the corpses and the
j nitrate in -the soil has -preserved there
anu up on tne pxaieau owuTnuiniirb
lie in ghastly ooutusion with thebroken
swords and Ibaoonet as fresh looking
ns ii ay of the nietnorable fight- X
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jected and the two parties soon come
fotenus as to the aiaountof the dowry
wliieh varies according to the advan
tages possessed by the girl in her life
time -Cases have been known where
the young mans father has given 10
cows to secure v dead wife for his detd
son Chicneo Nervj
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