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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
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governor Silas A Holcomb
Xlcutcnant Governor James E Harrii
Secretary of State WF Porter
v treasurer JNMeserve
auditor JohnF Cornell
Cora Lands and Bulldlngii Jacob V Wolte
Attorney General ConstantineJ Bmvth
Bupt Public Instruction W R Jackson
fKAHadley Scojla
Regents University
I u w uioua
Shos Rawlins Wakglld
I Chas Wei ton Hay Bpw
I H L CooIdOraialla
LCH Morrill Lincoln
COKGRKSSIONAL
8enators Wm V Allen Madison John M
Thurston Omaha
RspresentatI ves First District Jesse B Strode
Lincoln Second D H Mercer Omaha Third
Geo I Meiklejohn Fullerton Fourth E J Hai
rifr Aurora Fifth Wm K Andrews Hastings
Sixth O M Kem Broken Bow
JUDICIAL
Supreme Court T L Norval Chief Justice
Hnrrisonand Folk associates
Fifteentlr Judicial District M P Kinkaid
ONeill WH Westover Rushvllle
LEGISLATIVE
Representative Fifty second District O P
Billlncs Norden
Senator Fourteenth District Otto Mutz
Springview
LAND OFFICE
RecIsUr O R Glover Longplne Receiver J
A Fike Newport
COUNTY
xrcoSurcFf vt Xf rioo
Jlerk Geo Elliott
Sheriff Amos Strong
Judge W R Towne
County Attorney FMWalcott
County Superintendent Lillian Stoner
Surveyor Chas Tait
Coroner A Lewis
Max viertel
Commissioners W APaiker
I P Sullivan
PRECINCT
Overseers of Highways R Hansen and J Raj
Constable R Towne
Justices of the Peace John Dunn and J M
Camm
Assessor- John Dunn
VILLAGE
Town Board E Sparks president C H Cor
nell treasurer T C Hornby clerk D S Ludwig
and P F Simons
Marshal and Water Commissioner Henry
Razey
school District No l F M Walcott president
M V Nicholson treasurer J CiPettiJohn secre
tary W S Jackson G P Crantf and J T Kealey
SOCIETIES
Imp 0 K5M
Bitting Bull Tribe No 22 Improved Order ot
Red Men meets every second and fourth Friday
evening of each month at Davenports Half
Visiting brethren are fraternally invited to be
present at the councils of the tribe
J H Sears F M March
Chief of Records Sachem
A J3 A fM
Minnekadusa Lodge No 192 A F jA M
meets In regular communication Saturday even
ing on or before the full moon In each month
members of the order In good and regular stand
ing cordially and fraternally invited to attend
J T KEELSr W M
W W Thompson Secr
0 E S
Northern Star Chapter No 59 Order of the
Eastern Star meets on second and fourth Tues-
day evenings of each month In Hornbys hall
tW W THOMPSON1 Magie Waloott
Secretary Worthy Matron
A O XJ W
Valentine Lodtre No 70 A O U W
meets
on l si and 3rd Mondays of each month
J C Pettijohn Rec 0 W HAH2T M W
D OF H
Valentine Lodge No Degree of Honor
holds regular meetings first and third Wednes
day evenings of each month
M Cheistknsen Mbs J C Pkttijohn
Recorder Chief of Honor
I 0 O F
Valentine Lodge No 205 I O O F meets
every Thursday evening Visiting brothers cord
tally nvl ted toattend our meetings
JD H Thubston Frank Bratton
x Secretary Noble Grand
vr a jx
Col Wood PsstNo 208 Department of Ne
braska regular meeting 2d and 4th Saturdays of
each month at 2 d m sharp Comrafls from
other Posts are cordially invited to attend
J W Tuokkr JoHlr Dunk
Adjutant Commander
mIvTa
Valentine Camp No 1751 Modern Woodmen of
Ameiica meets second and fourth vveduesaay
evenings of each month nt Davenports HalL
Visiting neighbors cordially invited to attend
W S jAfcKsox W E HAiJ5r
Clerk Venerable Counsel
K of P
Cherry Lodge No 169 Knights of Pythlaa meets
every Tuesday evening atDavenpaits Hall
W S Jackson E P Roberts
K of R and S Chancellor Commander
Arrival and Departure of Mails
Mall east and west closes at 8 p m
Rosebud leaves at 800 a m dally except Sun
day and arrives at 5C0 p m
Simeon Kennedy and Oasis leaves
at 700 a m Mondays Wednesdays and Fri
davs and arrives at 700 p m Tuesdays Thurs
days and Saturdays
Ft Niobrara leaves daily at7 00 a m and
500 p m arrives at 930a in and 730 pm
itewanee ana sparKs arrives juonaays
Wednesdays and Fridays at 509 pm and
leaves luesaays inursaays ina saiuraays at
a m
General delivery open from 7 Q a m to 7 00
p m General delivery open on Sundays irom
fc to 10 a m Lock boxes opendally form 6 a
m to 800 p m
W EHALEY Postmaster
PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS
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Attorney-at-Law
AUklnds of legal business promptly attended to
Valentine Nebraska
J C DWYER
Physician and Surgeon
-Office at 0 R Watsons Drug Store Prompt
attention given to all professional calls
Valentine - Nebraska
Teachers Examination
The regular monthly Teachers
Examination will be held the
third Saturday of each month
at my office in the Court House
LILLIAN STONER
Supt of Schools
P F SHVIONS
PROPRITOR OF
DRAY LINE NO I
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Reasonable charges
NEBRASKA CONGRESS
DAILY REPORT OF WHAT IS BE
ING DONE
Many Measures of More or Less lm
portance Being Introduced at the
Present Session o the Golden Rod
Legislature
Tuesday
House roll No 5 the measure around
which all legislation has revolved during
the past two weeks was passed by a vote
of 71 to 26 The bill provides for a recount
of the vote on the constitutional amend
ments Representative Baldwin who did
not take the oath of office Monday with
the other three new members was sworn
in- The following new bills were intro
duced To amend certain sections of the
statutes relating to cities of the first class
providing for the payment by coun
ties of the premium on the bonds
of county treasurers providing for
the payment out of the state treasury
of the premium on the state treasurers
bond to provide for the sale of unclaimed
freight and merchandise transported or
received for transportation by common
carriers to establish and create a precinct
board of equalization in counties under the
commissioners system defining fraternal
beneficiary societies orders or associations
and regulating the same and to repeal an
act pertaining thereto to define the duties
powers and obligations of such societies
and associations and to provide penalties
for the violation thereof to apportion the
state into judicial districts and provide for
the election of judges thereof and to repeal
certain sections pertaining thereto
In the senate on Tuesday after Mrs
Colby had addressed the assemblage on the
question of woman suffrage and standing
committees had reported the following
measures were passed Senate file No 6
by Mr Murphy of Gage amending the law
relating to the summoning of juries in dis
trict courts Senate file No 13 introduced
by Ransom it reduces the salaries of the
Douglas County commissioners from 1800
to 1500 per annum Senate file No 46 also
by Ransom requiring street railway com
panies to vestibule their cars After recess
Mr Ritchie from the committee on inter
nal improvements reported back senate
file No 136 with the recommendation that
it be passed The bill amends the law
wnich creates a special fund for the pur
pose of erecting a court house and other
public buildings Senate file No 14 by
Air Ransom reducing the number of com
missioners of Douglas County from five to
three was passed The senate then went
into committee of the whole for considera
tion of bills on general file with Dundas
of Nemaha in the chair
Wednesday
Senator Murphy offered a resolution ex
pressing the sympathy of the people of Ne
braska with the destitute citizens of Chi
cago and calling upon the people of the
state to extend aid This resolution was
laid over Mr Johnson from the com
mittee on public lands and buildings rec
ommended the bill providing the manner
in which cities and villages may accept by
gift or devise real estate for park purposes
be placed on general file Mr McGann
from the committee on judiciary reported
the following bills To provide for the
payment of attorneys fees by counties in
civil actions with the recommendation
that it be passed as amended providing
penalties for the destruction of fences with
the recommendation that it be passed as
amended aifecting the property rights of
married women with the recommendation
that it be indefinitely postponed to provide
for the issuing of a certificate by county
clerks as evidence of the satisfaction of
mortgages with the recommendation that
it be indefinitely postponed The lieuten
ant governor read a telegram from Mayor
Swift of Chicago declining aid offered by
the state
The twenty third journal day of the
house opened with ninety three members
marked present A number of bills were
read for the second time and referred to
committees Bills on third reading were
declared in order and Phelps bill house
roll No 29 which provides for the repeal
of the Russian thistle act of 1895 was
brought to the front The bill passed by a
vote of 80 to 10 Ilouse roll No 89 is Soder
mans bill to reduce the salary of the su
perintendent of the Geneva Industrial
School for Girls from 2000 to 1500 per
annum The bill passed 86 to 1 Ilouse
roll Xo 165 by Van Horn relating to
swamp lands passed by a vote of 81 to 3
House roll No 146 providing that pre
cincts townships cities and villages may
compromise their indebtedness and issue
bonds therefor was passed 91 to 0
On the call for reports of standing com
mittees a number of bills were recom
mended for passage On motion of Wim
berley of Lancaster the house went into
committee of the whole to consider bills on
general file House roll No 174 an act to
create a public library board was recom
mended for passage without division a
bill providing for the punishment of bicycle
thieves was indefinitely postponed The
committee then arose and reported On the
bicycle bill No 81 Clark of Lancaster
moved that the report be non concurred in
but that the bill be engrossed for a third
reading On this a roll call was demanded
and resulted in 57 votes against non-concurrence
to 34 for it The report was ad
opted and the bill indefinitely postponed
Sheldon sent up a resolution reciting that
whereas Mr Soderman had been called
home by a telegram announcing the death
of one of his children it was the sense of
the house that he be excused from attend
ance on the house until his return The
resolution was adopted unanimously by a
rising vote A lar c number of bills were
introduced
Thursday
The senate gave itself up almost
entirely to the consideration of Senator
Johnsons bill for the protection of depos
itors in state and private banks The only
matter considered aside fom this bill and
the usual routine work was the following
resolution offered by Senator Dundas but
laid over under the rules
Whereas one of the most needed reforms
in the state of Nebraska is the present
system of the assessment of property for
taxation and
Whereas numerous efforts to correct or
better the system have proven failures and
wnereas The present low and unequal
valuation comes from efforts on the part of
assessors to list property at so low a valua
tion that the taxpayers of their respective
counties shall not be required to bear more
than their proportion of taxation there
fore be it
Resolved That a committee of three
senators be appointed to draft and submit
a bill for an acton this line with a schedule
of prices given similar to though more
elaborate than the schedule adopted each
year in tfeje several counties of the state by
the several assessom of the counties to the
end that one schedule of prices be adhered
to throughout the tilate and that different
grades of property shall be assessed at its
real value or a certain percentage thereof
The house on the 4th adopted a resolu
tion authorizing the speaker to appoint a
committee of three to investigate the con
dition of the state treasury covering the
past two years and to report upon the al
leged illegal loaning of money to banks
and also upon the failure of ex Treasurer
Bartley to cash warrants when presented
The committee is not yet appointed but the
field offered for its investigation is a wide
one A bill introduced by Speaker Gaffin
for the suppression of foot ball in the state
was also reoommended for passage ihen
the house adjourned over the afternoon
until Friday to allow the various commit
tees to visit state institutions in the vicin
ity of Lincoln
Friday
The house on the 5th appointed a com
mittee of three to investigate the affairs of
the state treasury killed Rainmaker
Wrights bill appropriating 10000 for ex
periments in producing rain by artificial
means and named a committee of six to
visit the state institutions ascertain their
needs in the way of appropriations and re
import to the house The bill appropriating
4Uuui for the payment oi incidental ex
penses incurred by the twenty fifth session
was also passed In committee of the
whole house roll No 23 relating to ware
house receipts was recommended for pas
sage Loomis noxious weed bill was laid
on the shelf Grimes game bill was re
ported back for amendment A hot debate
was had over the question of adjournment
Quite an element was in favor of adjourn
ing over until Monday This met with
strong opposition The motion to adjourn
until Tuesday morning at 10 oclock was
defeated 66 to 12 The house then ad
journed until 10 a m Saturday
The senate was content to transact rou
tine work on the 5th with as few words as
possible The regular order was shortly
completed First came a petition from
several citizens of Antelope County pro
testing against the payment of the bounty
due under the beet sugar bounty law and
asking for the repeal of all bounty laws
now oh the state books Mr Graham pre
sented the report of the committee on uni
versities and normal school affecting the
condition of the latter institution at Peru
The committee recommended the rebuilding
of the dormitory recently destroyed by fire
and an appropriation not exceeding 20000
be made for the same An act relating to
the protection of fish was recommended to
pass Among the new bills introduced
was one by Ritchie for the submission to
the electors of the state of a proposition to
call a constitutional convention The re
count bill was taken up The bill as it
originally passed the house was first read
for the information of the senate Mr
Ransom offered an amendment to the
bill remarking at the same time that the
amendments would probably surprise
some people He moved their adoption
The amendments were read at length Mr
Beal seconded the motion for their adop
tion Mr Conaway of York objected to
present consideration of the motion for the
reason that the noise and confusion in the
senate chamber prevented him from hear
ing perfectly After brief consideration of
the amendments they were adopted and
the senate adjourned
Saturday
Seventy one members answered to roll
call on the 6th The report of the finance
ways and means committee on house roll
No 93 the Trans Mississippi Exposition
bill was read by the chief clerk The re
port recommended that the bill be placed
on general file with the amendments made
Friday night by the committee Homer
sent to the clerks desk a resolution highly
eulogistic of the attitude of Senator Wil
liam V Allen in defending the credit oi
Nebraska The resolution was referred to
the committee on miscellaneous subjects
Following the reference of a num
ber of bills to committees the house
went into committee of the whole
to consider bills on general file
House roll No 64 was first considered It
is an act to prevent the desecration of the
American flag The bill was recommitted
for amendment House roll No 185 to
legalize the acts of the clerk of Buffalo
County was recommended for passage
House roll No 133 is a bill defining cruelty
to children prescribing punishment there
for and for guardianship of children in
certain cases The bill was recommended
for passage House roll No 129 by Case
beer was taken up relating to the publi
cation in newspapers of notices of election
on constitutional amendments The bill
proposes to amend section 1 of article 15 of
the constitution of the State of Nebraska
Several amendments were made and
the bill was recommended to pass
Grimes woman suffrage bill house
roll No 155 was next considered
Section 1 provides that the rights of the
citizens of the slate of Nebraska to vote
and hold office shall not be denied or
bridged on account of sex This act pro
poses an amendment to the constitution
amending section 1 of article vii The bill
was indefinitely postponed A motion to
non concur in the report of the committee
resulted in 32 nays 23 yeas and 44 absent
and not voting The result of this vote
left the last named bill in shape to come
before the house again Monday for final
action as the measure was simply hung up
by the action of the house on the commit
tees report
The senate put in the time up to noon on
the 6th in the transaction of routine work
In committee of the whole senate file No
17 by Mr Talbot was recommended to
pass It provides that six months time
shall be given instead of one year after
rendition of judgment for litigants to carry
a case to the supreme court Senate file
No 135 by Mr Dundas provides for the
repeal of a dead letter statute relating to
marks and brands and was recommended
for passage
The committee held an animated session
over senate file No 47 introduced early in
the present session by Mr Ransom It
provides that a chattel mortgage on house
hold goods shall be invalid unless signed
by both husband and wife The bill was
recommended for passage
The bill relating to legal newspapers
was then taken up for a long and animated
discussion in which the friends of the
measure had the better of it even if they
did not succeed in securing a favorable
recommendation Senate file No 50
by Mr Lee proposes to ratify
the employment of attorneys by
county boards heretofore made and was
favorably recommended The committee
then rose and its report was adopted
After recess a bare quomm of seventeen
senators were present The senate did not
adjourn until nearly 5 oclock The entire
afternoon was spent in committee of the
whole with Mr Dearing of Cass in the
chair The general file was practically
cleared up but few bills being laid over
At 4 50 adjournment was taken until 2
oclock Monday afternoon
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SSISSa
Stephen Crane has written a vivid
story of border life which will be pub
lished In the Century
S R Crocketts new historical ro
mance Lochlnvar is to be published
as a serial in the Christian World of
London
The late Archbishop pf Canterburys
historical work on The Life and Times
of Cyprian is among the forthcoming
publications
Mrs Rorer and her magazine have
been swallowed by Mr Boks paper
and Mrs Rorer will hereafter run a
domestic department in the Ladies
Home Journal
The new authorized edition of Byron
which Is being arranged for by Mr
Murray the London publisher will be
brought out on this side of the Atlan
tic It is edited by Lord Byrons grand
son the Earl of Lovelace
Joel Chandler Harris is about to turn
historian He is at work on a history
of Georgia in the form of stories and
characterizations which are to be
somewhat after the manner of the
popular Uncle Remus tales
Prof Angelo Heilprin contributes to
the Popular Science Monthly a sum
mary of Our Present Knowledge of
the Antarctic Region with a sketch
map giving the more important points
that have been named by navigators
A feature of the Forum Is a study
of Pope Leo XIII by that able
French academician the Vicomte E
Melchoir de Vogue The writer treats
his subject sympathetically having en
Joyed the personal friendship of the
Pope
The International Journal of Ethics
published in Philadelphia finds its con
tributors in Europe Asia and America
One of the most noteworthy articles is
on The Ethical and Political Prob
lems in Japan by Tokiwo Yoklo of
Tokio
A London publisher is investing 50
000 in a new edition of Dickens the il
lustrations for which are to be super
vised by Mrs Perugini Kate Dick
ens George Crulkshank a nephew of
the artist and Gordon Browne a son
of Phiz
An illustrated edition of The Si
lence of Dean Maitland Is among the
new announcements Maxwell Gray
or Miss Tuttiett is still writing but
she has never equaled this first book of
hers which has become one of the most
successful novels of modern times
Prof William P Trent of the Univer
sity of the South recently delivered a
course of lectures at the University of
Wisconsin on certain Southern states
men of the old regime These are now
to be published The work will treat ol
Washington Jefferson Randolph Cal
houn Toombs and Jefferson Davis
Herbert D Ward the novelist and
husband of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Ward has written a new novel which
will be the fictioii feature of the La
dies Home Journal during 1897 It is
a humorous story and has the unique
title of The Burglar Who Moved Para
dise It is a sequel to Mrs Wards An
Old Maids Parauise the husband tak
ing up the pen where Miss Phelps had
naturally to put it down when she ber
came Mrs Ward
Not Easily Bunkoed
The train was nearing Detroit when
at a way station a young man dressed
in the height of fashion and carrying
a summer overcoat stepped on board
and went through the cars as if looking
for some one He stopped once oi
twice at a seat occupied by a farmer
looking man who attracted his atten
tion Finally he asked politely
Is this Mr Sam Garland of Bean
ville Ohio
Yes Spose you read my name on
my valise hey
No uncle Im your nephew Hal
Garland of Detroit
I guess not I reckon I aint lived
fifty five years not to hev my eye teeth
cut An I aint got a nevvy that looks
sech a dude as you air not by a long
shot
The young jnan colored but laughed
good naturedly
I can find some one on the train
who knows me he said And going
into another car soon returned with a
youth who was of his own age and
style
This is my friend Mr Sampson
uncle Perhaps you remember his
father who came from Beanville
Howdy Mr Confederate I remem
ber Jim Sampson fust rate but he
warnt no relation of yours Im right
sorry boys that I cant cash that
check of yours I reckon the goods
will have to stay in the freight house
You see jour old uncle has traveled
afore
The two young men went off laugh
ing and the nephew who had been
taken so persistently for a confidence
man had the satisfaction of seeing his
uncle take the wrong car and of saying
to a friend
The next time mother sendc me to
meet some of her country relatives Ill
take her along I know the oid man
will bring up at the police station-
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One of the funniest things in the
world Is to see two strange girls pass
on the street and give each other tho
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