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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
STATE
PiEF39rvK siiMAHoicomfc
Lltatoout Governor Janies E Harrii
gecrettry or State WF Porter
ifeurer J N Meserve
Auditor Jobn F Cornell
Com Lands and Bulldlngii Jacob V Wolfe
Attorney General ConstautlneT Smvtn
oiipi instruction W R Jackson
Regents University
fllAIIadley Scojla
I C W KaleymRed Cloud
Shna Rltvllnc WolafM
Cbas Weston Hay 8pga
IHLGooId Ogamlfa
CH Morrill Lincoln
CONGRESSIONAL
Senatois Win V Allen Madison John M
Thurston Omaha
representatives First DIsti let Jesse B Strode
Lincoln Second D H Mercer Omaha Third
Geo 1 Mclklejohn Fullerton Fourth E J Hal
iiir Aurora Fifth Win K Andrews Hastings
Sixth O M Kem Broken Bow
JUDICIAL
Supreme Court T L Norval Chief Justice
Harrison and Folk associates
Fifteenth Judicial District M P Klnkald
ONeill W H Westover Rushvillc
LFGISLATIVE
Representative Fifty second District 0 P
Bllllncs Norden
Senator Fourteenth District Otto Mutz
Sprlngvlew
LAND OFFICE
Register C R Glover Longpine Receiver J
A Fike Newport
COUNTY
Treasurer G P Crabb
Jlerk Geo Elliott
Sheriff Amos Strong
Judge W R Towne
County Attorney FM Walcott
County Superintendent Lillian Stoner
Surveyor Chas Talt
Coroner A Lewis
Max vlertel
Commissioners W A Paiker
I P Sullivan
PRECINCT
Overseers of Highways R Hansen and J Raj
Constable R Towne
Justices of the Peace John Dunn and J M
Canim
Assessor- Jobn Dunn
VILLAGE
Town Board K Sparks president C H Cor
nell treasurer T C Hornby clerk D S Ludwlg
and P F Simons
Marshal and Water Commissioner Henry
Razey
school District No 1 M Walcott president
M V NlcholBon treasurer J CPettljohq secre
tary W S Jackson G P Crabo and J T Kefley
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SOCIETIES
Imp O RM
Sitting Bull Tribe No 22 Improved Order of
Red Men meets every spcond 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 Seabs F M March
Chief of Records Sachem
A F A M
Mlnnekadusa Lodge No 192 A F A M
meets in regular communication Saturday eveu
lng on or before the full moon in each month
members of the order in good and regular stand
lng cordially and fraternally invited to attend
J T KEELBr W M
W W Thompson Secy
Adjutant
oTir
s
Northern Star Chapter No 59 Order of the
Eastern 8tar meets on second and fourth Tues-
i day evonlngs of each mouth in Hornbjrs ball
W W THOMPSON
i Secretary
MAfiOIE WAtPOUT
Worthy fifatroq
A O U W
Valentine Lodge No 70 A O U W meets
on l si and 3rd Mondays of each month
J C Pettijohx Rec O W HAttir M W
D OF H
Valentine Lodge No Degree of Honor
holds regular meetings first and third Wednes
day evenings of each month
M Chribtknsen Mrs J C PKrnjOBJf
Recorder Chief of Honor
I O O T
Valentine Lodge No 205 I O O F meets
every Thursday evening Visiting brothers cord
jlally nvlted to attend our meetings
pH Thurston Frank Brattok
Secretary Noble Grand
G A R
Col Wood PstNo 208 Department of Ne
braska regular meeting 2d apd 4th Saturdays of
eactumontL at 2 d m sbaip ComTds from
other Posts are cordially invited to attend
Xi a
W Tdokkr
JOHN JJUXX
Commander
M W A
Valentine Camp No 1751 Modarn Woodmen of
America meets second and fourth TTeouesdajr
evenings of each month at Davenports Halt
Visiting neighbors cordially invited to attend
IW S JACKSON W B HaSKT
Clerk Venerable Ctfumiei
K of P
Cherry Lodge No 169 Knights of Fvthla meet
every Tuesday evening at Daveflpdits Hall
W S Jackson b P Moberts
K of R and S Chancellor Commander
Arrival and Departure r Malls
Mall east and weit closes at 8 pm
Rosebud leaves at 800 a m dally except Sun
day and arrives at 500 p m
Simeon Kennedy and Oasis leaves
at 700 a m Mondays Wednesdays and Fri
days 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 maud 730 pm
Kewanw and Sparkt arrives Msnlaysi
Wednesdays and Fridays at 600 p Taad
leavts Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays afl
7s am
General delivery open frora7W a m to 700
p m General delivery open on Sundays from
6 to 10 a m Lock boxes opendally form 6 a
m to 800 p m
W EHALEY Postmaster
PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS
gD CLARKE
Attorney-at-Law
Allklnds of legal business promptly attended to
Valentine Nebraska
T C DWYER
Physician and Surgeon
Omce at C R Watsons Drug Store Prompt
attention given to all professional calls
VAiENTiNi - Nebraska
Teachers Examination
Theregular monthly Teachers
Examination will bo held the
third Saturday of each month
atmy office in the Court House
LILLIAN STONER
Supt of Schools
PFSIMONS
pRQPRITQR QF
DftAf LINE NO I
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rr ISatisf action guaranteed
Beasonable charges
NEBRASKA CONGRESS
DAILY REPORT OF WHAT MS BE
ING DONE
Many Measures of More or Less Im
portance Being Introduced at the
Present Session of the Golden Rod
Legislature
Wednesday
The leading feature in both branches of
the legislature Wednesday was the recep
tion of the governors message on finances
of the state lie asks for an investigation
of the treasury and points out the failure
of Bartley to make the required settlement
with Meserve and the need of legislative
action
The following bills were passed by the
senate Providing that cities and villages
are empowered and authorized to receive
by gift or devise real estate within their
corporate limits or within five miles there
of for purposes of parks or public
grounds providing a law defining
cruely to children prescribing punishment
therefor and for the guardianship of
children in certain cases providing that
no children under the age of 12 years shall
be employed in any store office shop
factory or mine in Nebraska to exceed
three months in any one yearproviding that
all graduates of the University of Nebraska
holding the degree of bachelor of arts or
bachelor of science shall be accredited
qualified teachers within the meaning of
the school laws of this state and all such
graduates shall haveequal privileges upon
equal conditions with graduates from any
and all other educational institutions within
the state requiring school district boards
to provide on every school house site and
keep in good repair and in clean and
healthful condition at least two separate
water closets providing that all legal ad
vertisements shall be set in solid nonpareil
type joint resolution extending an invita
tion to the world to take pait in the exposi
tion at Omaha
House roll No 206 was the first bill con
sidered under the call for bills on third
reading in the house The bill was intro
duced by Hull and provides that county
commissioners shall be allowed 3 per day
for time actually employed in official busi
ness and in counties having a population
of over 70000 the salary shall be fixed at
1200 per annum The bill reduces the
salaries of the county commissioners in
Douglas and Lancaster Counties from
1800 to 1200 per annum While the roll
call was proceeding Hull fearing that the
measure would fail to carry demanded a
call of the house The doors were closed
and the sergeant-at-arms began to rustle
for absentees Then Hull moved that
further proceedings under the call
be dispensed with and it pre
vailed Absentees voting raised the
number to a sufficient strength and the
bill was declared passed by a vote of 33 to
26 Sodermans bill house roll No 145 to
reduce the salaries of county attorneys was
next on the list As amended in committee
of the whole it reduces the salaries of the
county attorneys in Douglas and Lancaster
Counties to 2300 per annum It reduces
the salaries of all other county attorneys
20 per cent The bill passed by a non-partisan
vote of 7S to 9 There was no debate
over Sodermans bill house rpll No 19
which reduces jthe salary qf the superin
tendent of the industrial school for boys at
Kearney to 1QQ per annum It passed by
a vote of 81 to 1 Rouses bill house roll
No Ill provides for transportation of in
mates of soldiers and sailors homes to and
from the homes and was passed by a vote
of 84 to 0
Hon W J Bryan addressed a joint
session of the senate and house AYednesday
evening in the hall of representatives
Every available inch of room was occupied
and hundreds were turned away One
hundred and thirtythree seats were re
served for members of the legislature in
front but these were filled at an early
hour and many of the legislators weie
obliged to stand
Thprsday
Thursdays proceedings Qf jthe senate
here purely routine Presideut Protein
Ransom occupying the presiding officers
chair most of the day Mr Talbot of Lan
caster presented a protest from the ladies
of the Grand Army of the Republic against
the proposal to close the branch soldiers
home at Milford The comrnitfeg on Mis
cellaneous subjects recommended that
senate file No 113 introduced by Mr Tal
bot be placed on general file The bill de
fines the crime of gpaye rqbbin and pre
scribes rules for disinterring and dissecting
bodies The committee on municipal
affairs reported favorably on senate file
No 67 by Mr Muffly to consolidate the
offices of justice of the peace and police
judge in towns The bill introduced by
Mr Mutz senate file Nq 23 making it un
lawful for a county frgsurer q accept in
payment of poll tax the affidavit Qf any
person that he was not notified was recom
mended to pass Senate file No 31 by Mr
Murphy for judicial determination of the
question of the adoption orrejection of con
stitutional amendments was indefinitely
postponed Joinj resolution Nq 4 asking
the Nebraska senatois and reprjweniat jves
in congress to vote for a free coinage of
silver bill was by recommendation of the
committee on federal relations placed on
general filo Senate file No 133 introduced
by Mr Dundas reducing fees fop JegaJ ad
vertisements and public printing was lec
ommended for passage by the committee
on printing to which it had been referred
back for correction
Reading of the jcurnal in the house was
suspended on the 18th and Hull was recog
nized by the speaker He said he wanted
to speak on behalf of prompt action on he
Transmississippi Exposition bill He
moved that the bill house roll No 93 be
advanced to the head of the list on the
general file Wposter started in to oppose
this but Pollard was ropognjzp Ha said
that in all justice to the farmers arid advo
cates of this measure it should be immedi
ately considered If the bill was to be
killed it should be done now If
anything was to be done in its
favor now was the time Mr Wins
low rmoved an amendment that action
be deferred on the bill till the state institu
tions had been provided for The aye and
nayvote was called resulting Nays 67
ayes 36 The measure was placed on
general tile and there are sixteen measures
ahead of it The icport of the committee
to investigate the several Mate offices was
read and refencd to a special committee
The balance of the day was spent in com
mittee of the whole c
Friday
A largP audionce of spectators gathered
In the senate chamber Friday afternoon to
listen y the Jeffcoat Evans contest The
report of the committee on privileges and
elections was taken up After it had been
pead Mr Hearing chairman of the com
inittefcwhich made the report moved that
it be adopted Mr Graham- of Frontier
movedas a substitute that the report of the
committee be not concurred in and that
John Jeffcoat be declared entitled to the
seat now occupied by J II Evans Mr
Murphy of Gage moved that further pro
ceedings be deferred for one week The
motion was lost The senate then voted on
the first half of the motion made by the
senator irom Frontier The motion was
agreed to by a vote of 18 to
14 After some debate the last half
of Mr Grahams motion was carried
by a vote of 17 to 13 and Mr Evans was
unseated After the result wasannounced
a resolution was introduced providing for
the payment of contest fee3 out of the
senate contingent fund The total expenses
of the contest amounted to 879750 of
which 1500 is for JelFcoats attorneys
1500 for Evans The balance is dis
tributed among the stenographers and
notaries A committee of eleven senators
consisting of Osborn Weller Sykes
Grothan Watson McGann Feltz Mutz
Graham Johnson Miller and Canaday
was authorized to make a tour of the state
institutions The senate then adjourned
till 2 oclock Tuesday afternoon
The house spent most of the day in com
mittee of the whole with Wheelor in the
chair The Trans Mississippi Exposition
bill was made a special order for Tuesday
February 23 The following report of the
committee on insane hospitals was read
and adopted In the matter of certain
complaints against the superintendent re
garding the government of the institution
for the Deaf and Dumb at Omaha Your
committee would recommend that in
view of the complaints presented to it in
writing by persons formerly connected
with said institution as employes thereof
which reflect on the management of said
institution by the superintendent in justice
to the superintendent and in order that the
whole truth may be known a committee of
five be appointed by the speaker from the
committee on deaf and dumb and insane
hospitals to visit said institution inspect
the same and the books and receipts to take
testimony of witnesses and do all things
necessary to make a full fair impartial in
vestigation covering the management of
said institution and report to the house at
the earliest possible date at the expense of
the state
The following is a statement by ex
Treasurer Bartley in regard to his alleged
shortage of state funds
When Treasurer Meserve took charge of tlw
office he requested that all moneys which are not
covered by depository bonds be paid to him In
cash amounting to some 670000 I informed
him that the times were such that it was very
hard to make a settlement in that way but I
would comply with his request although it might
take some time to do so I have proceeded on
these lines and collected and turned over to him
about l52f20 and am settling with him as fast
as it Is posYbls for a man in my position to do so
without endangering the loss of funds Thoro Is
nolnecesslty of making a mountain out of a mole
hill every dollar that is due from me to the
state will be paid in reasonable time There is
not a penny of the public funds intrusted in my
care that cannot be accounted for and while I
have heretofore avoided any newspaper discus
sion of my affairs I desire to say that the state
of Nebraska has not and will not lose one dollar
through any short comings of myself
When Mr Meserve took possession of tho office
there was due from myself to the state In all
funds including bonds and securities some 5
030000 Of this amount I have accounted far and
turned over tq Mr Meserve some 4530000
leaving a balance due of 520000 This is about
tho amount I owe the state
The governors message to the legislature
apprising it of the shortage concludes thus
I also deem it my duty in this connection to in
form you that I am advised by the state treasurer
that he has as yet been unable to make a final
and complete settlement wjth his predecessor for
moneys belonging to the stateand due from tho
retiring to the incoming treasurer Under date of
January 30 the state treasurer informs me that
there was due to the stab frain his predecessor
at tne expiration of nis term of offlcel53S3O410
that of this amount there was in depository
banks 104661GS9 leaving unaccounted for
4S9GS731
I am also informed that a general fund
warrant with jnterest amounting to tho sum of
20188405 the gum being for an appropriation
made by the last legislature to reimburse the
sinking fund on accqunt of losses by the failure
of the Capitol National Bank has heeu paid out
of the funds in the state treasury and is yet un
accqunteu fqr naking a total amqunt due he
state qufsjde qf moqeys jq depository banks of
the sum of 69157126 less he cash payments of
15380913 herelqbefqre mentioned leaving a
balance duo the state of 537763 13
In opder Jljat hp states jntofeats may be fully
protected jt wqulq seem to me to be advisable
and of great assistance to the executive and
legal departments of the state if your honorab9
body should appoiqt a joint committee tq in
vestigate and ascertain all needful facts
mg mis suuecu wun sucn autnqmv and power
in the nrqnusfis a tyay be ny yqu deemed for the
mtecesits of tho stqte 3
StetUMjay
Jones of Wayne introivtoed a bill in the
house for an ot to compensate the pro
ducers of sugar beets and chicory roots and
to provide for an appropriation of 75000
for this purpose Another bill introduced
by Hull of Harlan provides tha a judg
ments in courts qf record and jjustk e courts
shall be assessed and taxed htthe full
amount sfyown hy tho record of the court
and shall be subject to sale the same as
other personal property and said judg
ment can be seized and sold foir taxes at
any time whpn said taxes are delinquent
Clark of Richardson moved that a sifting
committee qf seven be appointed by fne
speaker to advance biljs on tj general file
and the niotjo ctri jeq Wqosters niotion
tha lquse mee Monday afternjooju in
informal session to celebrate Washingtons
biithday hy singing sneaking and other
exercises was yo dqvn Sheldon asked
unanimous eonseni tq uitrortc6 a resolution
whiou was read by tho clerk as follows
Whereas Joseph Crow John H Butler
Levi Cox and Frank Burman were seated
in this house upon proper credenthjaj th
opening of this session ftnq subsequently
by vote of tJa honspiflseated arid
Whrva rtho attorney general has ren
dered an opinlnn that they are not entitled
by law to the pay for the time they were
sitting as members of this house afld en-
gaged in transacting the gates husiness
which they were regnjr to 00 by the lav
and rules qf this hquse
Besolyed That said Joseph Crow John
H Butler kevTCtax and Frank Burman be
paid from the incidental funds of this leg
islature 5 per diem for the time they were
sitting members 0f thla house together
with mileage to and from their homes at lfl
cents per mile alter deducting any amounts
they may have already drawn on account
of services here
The resolution was carried with but a
few dissenting votes A number oij bill
were then on second reading referred to
appropriate committees The hou38 the
went into committee of the whple tq con
sider bills on general file and upon arisinc
the hoys
am
jimrn d until Tuesday atj 1Q
Ncvrdas nix K10 ioxv
In the State of Nevada which hj pop
ularly supposed to bt the poorest in th
country the tax rate is eAC eptlonally
low while a large surplus has accumu
lated in a school fund
Discretion
eloquence
of speech is better than
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
Justice Harlan Tells How They Ara
Arrived At by Hia Associates
Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court
of the United States at a banquet in
Cincinnati Ohio gave the following
Interesting account of the method pur
sued by that body in deciding eases be
fore It
In my intercourse with the mem
bers of the bar I found to my great sur
prise that the impression prevails -with
some that cases after being submitted
are divided among the judges and that
the court bases its judgment In each
one wholly upon the report made by
some judge to whom that case has been
assigned for examination and report
I have met with lawyers who actually
believe that the opinion was written
before the ease was decided in confer
ence and that the only member of the
court who fully examined the record
and briefs was the one who prepared
the opinion
It Is my duty to say that the busi
ness in our court is not conducted in
any such mode Each justice is fur
nished with a printed copy of the rec
cord and with a copy of each brief
filed and ench one examines the rec
ords and briefs at his chambers before
the case Is taken up for consideration
The cases are thoroughly discussed in
conference the discussion in some be
ing necessarily more extended than in
others The discussion being concluded
and It is never concluded until each
member of the court has said all that
he desires to say the roll Is called and
each justice present and participating
in the decision votes to affirm reverse
or modify as his examination and re
flection suggest The chief justice
after the conference and without con
sulting his brethren distributes the
cases so decided for opinions No jus
tice knows at the time he votes in a
particular case that he will be asked
to become the organ of the court in
that case nor does any member of the
court ask that a particular ease be as
signed to him
The next step is the preparation of
the opinion by the justice to whom it
has been assigned The opinion when
prepared is privately printed and a
copy placed in the hands of each mem
ber of the court for examination n nrt
criticism It is examined by each jus
tice and returned to the author with
such criticisms and objections as are
deemed necessary If these objections
are of a serious kind affecting the gen
eral trend of the opinion the writer
callstheattentionofthejusticesto them
and they are sustained or overruled
as the majority may determine The
opinion is reprinted so as to express the
final conclusions of the court and is
then filed
Thus you will observe not only is
the utmost care taken to make the opin
ion express the views of the court but
that the final judgment rests in every
case decided upon the examination by
each member of the court of the record
and briefs Let me say that during
my entire service in the Supreme Court
I have not known a single instance in
which the court has determined a case
merely upon the report of one or more
justices as to what was contained in
therecordandasto what questions were
properly presented by it When you
fiufl an opinion of the court on file and
published the profession have the right
to tafce it as expressing the deliberate
views of the court based upon a care
ful examination of the records Lad
briefs by each justice participating iQ
the judgment
Foiled Again
The grocer was weighing- some sugar
for the woman in the dyed blue bonnet
when the man In the black frock coat
and yellowish white tie who had been
standing in the door for some minutes
came Inside and laid a silver quarter
on the counter
I picked it up on the floor jus at
tho edge of the steps he said It
must belong to you A quarter or a
thousand dollars sirit is the principle
of the tWag that I look at I want
nQtVtfBg that is not mine There Is the
money
The grocer laid a 3arge forefincer on
the quarter and shoved it back across
the counter
-You put dot money In your pocket
mein friend he said
But air you or one of your clerks
mvst have dropped It and it rolled
over there My motto has always
been
J believe said the grocer dot you
yoost moved your family in dot house
across the street dis morgen Vas it
not so
Yes sir I did and it being con
venient we expect to do a good deal of
You put dot quarter back in your
pocket righd away Dot vas not mein
quarter You put him back in your
pocket und ven your fe come ofer
vor dose groceries you will remember
dot my defms vos spod cash efery
tltne Detroit Free Press
Swedish Doctors
In Sweden doctors never send bills to
their patients the amount of remunera
tion being left entirely to the lattera
generosity The rich however pay
their doctor very liberally when once
he haseen retained by tlftem whether
they have need of hia services or not
From the ppor receives only small
sums and fjfom tjUe veiy q nothmg
Yel to bis gifcat credit be it said the
Swedish doctor visits the poorest of his
PAtients as faithfully and constantly as
his richest
Sure Sinn
Miss Robson I dont think Fred wilj
be long in coming to the point now
Mrs Robson Why not
Miss Robson Because hes beginning
to worry about your bad temper Judy
In the rivers of Surinam -there is a
apti that 1ms four perfect eyes two- on
each side of the head one above the
other
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Valentine Nebraska
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Has recently been refurnished and thoroughly renovated
making it now more than ever worthy of the
reputation it has always borne of being
THE MOST COMPLETE
AND COMFORTABLE HOTEL
IN THE NORTHWEST
Hot and Cold Water Excellent Bath Eoom Good Sample Room
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Valentine Nebraska
Every facility extended customers consistent iWithgconservative bulking
Exchange bought and sold Loans upon good security solicited at reasonable
rates County depository
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gANK OF VALENTINE
V a COttNELL President M V NICHOLSON Cmehier
Valentine Nebraska
A General Banking Business Transacted
Buys and Sells Domestic and Foreign Eocchange
Correspondents -Chemical National Bank New York JPlrst National Bank Oaaia
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This market always keeps a supply of
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In addition to a first class line of Steaks Roasts Dry Salt Meate
Smoked Hams Breakfast Bacon and Vegetables
At StettersOld Stand on Main Street VALENTINE NEBRA8KA
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on the shortest notice in the most artistic acd
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