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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1897)
v r I 7 P OFFICIAL DIRECTORY 8TATE QlWW SHapjLEolcsmb 1 Xlimt Governor James E Harrli x tcr1fcr el State WF Porter rreaiurer JNMeaerve Auditor John F Cornell Cora Lands and Buildlngu Jacob V Wolfe Attorney General Constantino J 8mvth 8upt ftibllc Instruction W B Jactaon fKAHadley Scojla ICW Kaloym Ked Cloud Eegents University Hhos Rawlins wakf Id 1 Chas YVeitonHay 8pga I H L Odold Ofatlla ICH Morrill Hftcoln CONGRESSIONAL Senators Wm V Allen Madison John M Thurston Omaha Ilspresentati ves First Dlsti let Jesse B Strode Lincoln Second D fl Mercer Omaha Third Geo WMeiklelohn Ftillerton Fourth E J Hai ner Aurora Fifth Win K Andrews Hastings Sixth O M Kern Broken Bow JUDICIAL Supreme Court T L Norval Chief Justice Harrison and Polk associates Fifteenth Judicial District- M P Klnkald ONeill W H Westover Rushvlllc LEGISLATIVE Representative Fifty second District O P Billings Nordeu Senator Fourteenth District Otto Mutz Sprhitjvlew LAND OFFICB Reftistfr 0 R Glover Longplne Receiver J A Fike Newport COUNTY Treasurer G P Crabb Jlerk Geo Elliott Sheriff Amos Strong Judge W R Tovrne County Attorney Fit Walcott County Superintendent Lillian Stoner Surveyor Chas Tait Coroner A Lewis Max vlertel Commissioners W A Paiker f P Sullivan PRECINCT Overseers of Highways R Hansen and J Raj Constable R Towne Justices of the Peace John Dunn and J M 3ACamm Assessor- John Dunn VILLAGE Town Board E 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 MWactt president M V Nicholson treasurer J C PettljoJ seore tary W S Jackson OP CrabD and J T Keener K k SOCIETIES Imp 0 R1M Sitting Bull Tribe No 22 Improved Order of Red Men meets every second and fourth Friday evening of each month at Davenports Hall Visiting brethren are fraternally Invited to be present at the councils of the tribe J H Sears F M Makch Chief of Records Sachem A F A M Minnekadusa Lodge No 192 A F A Iniegular communication Saturday even ing on or before the full moon In each month xnotnbers of tho order in good and regular stand ilng cordially and fraternally incited to Attend J T KEELfir W M W W Thompson Seey O fi S Northern Star Chapter No 59 Order of Eastern 8tar meets on second and fourth Tubs- i aav eTemnirs oi easa monin m xiwruuj a uu Vf W THOMPSON i Secretary Worthy Matton A O U W Valentine Lodge No 70 A O U W meets on l si and 3rd Mondays of oach month J C Pettijohn Rec 0 W Hahx M W D of H Valentine Lodge No Degree of Honor holds regular meetings first and third Wednes day evenings of each month M CHRIBTfeNSEX MBS J C PETTUOHN Recorder Ohlef of Honor I O O F Valentine Lodge No 205 I O O F meets every Thursday evening Visiting brothers cord Sfally Hvlted to attend our meetings ID H THURSTON tfRXKB tSBAIUK Secretary G A K Noble Grand Col Wood Past No 208 Department of le- braska regular meeting 2d apd ith Wflydays of each montL at 2 n m enarft ComTfla from other Posts arc cordially invited to aKind J W Tucker JoSk DVNK Adjutant OOmiriafcder M W A Valentine Camp No 1761 Modern Woodmen of America meets second and fourth wmuMawr - 4 nAti wiANtk TVnflTinnHti Holt K of P Cherry Lodge No 169 Knights of every xucsaay evening acuavt W S Jackkox K of R and S Chancellor tVteiting nelgtSora oordlally invitld to avteftd 1W B Jackbox w if I Clerk Venerable wBJir uHuei rthUs meeta ttfHall cherts gmmander Arrival and Departure ef Malls Mall east and west closes at 8 p m Rosebud leaves at 8iD0 a m dally except Sun day and arrives at 500 p m Simeon Kennedy and Oasis leaves at 7 -00 am Mondays Wednesdays and Fri days and arrives at 700 p m Tuesdays Thurs days and Saturday Ft Niobrara leaves daily at700 a m and 500 p m arrives at 930a mand 780 pjn Kewanee and Spark arrlteB Monaayf1 Wednesdays and Fridays at 809 p m and leavts Tuesdays Thursdays aind Saturdays af 7o m General dellveryopen frora79 a m to 700 p m General delivery open on Sundays frQm 6 to 10 a m Lock boxes opendally frra e a m to 800 p m W EHALKV Postmaster PROFESSIONAL AHD BUSINESS CARDS TLD CLARKE Attorney-at-Law AUklnds of legal business promptly atteaded to Valentine Nebraska g T C DWYER Physician and Surgeon Olhce at C R Watsoas Drug Store Prompt attention given to all professional calls valentine - Nebraska Teachers Examination The regular monthly Teachers Examination will be held tho third Saturday of each month at my office in the Court House LILLIAN STONER Supt of Schools PFSIMONS PROPRITOR OF DRAY LINE NO 1 Satisfaction guaranteed Jteasonable charges NEBEASKA CONGRESS DAILY REPORT OF WHAT ING DONE IS BE- Many Measures of More or Less Im portance Being Introduced at the Present Session of the Golden Rod Legislature Wednesday The first attempt to advance radical rail road legislation was made in the senate Wednesday morning Senator Feltz of Keith County moved to make the 2 cent fare bill a special order for March 6 While the attempt failed the roll call showed a strong sentintent in favor of the bill The only measure considered besides the above was the Omaha Charter bill whiclioccupied the greater part of the session Speaker Gaffin on Wednesday morning named the following sifting committee Jone3 of Nemaha Moran Hull Woodard Robertson Wiebe and Fouke Severe from the committee on engrossed and en rolled bills rose to a question of privilege He said that it had been stated on the floor of the house and the statement published in the newspapers that the clerks in the com mittee room for engrossed and en rolled bills had deliberately changed the wording of bills This he said was false and that the clerks in that room were strictly honest and would not do such a thing for the world As Smith of Douglas had admitted Tuesday that the clerks had done so the member from Douglas was severely lashed over the shoulders of the press The word association had been eliminated from the Trans Mississippi Ex position bill The elimination had been done at the suggestion of Smith of TDouglas but the actual work had been authorized to be done by Chief Clerk of the House Eager Following the reference of a few bills on second reading to appropriate committees the house went into committee of the whole to consider bills on the gen eral file with Rouse in the chair The committee reported back to the house in favor of passing house roll No 36 the woman suffrage measure and the report was adopted by a vote of 66 to 24 Webb chairman of the committee on printing reported that of the first 400 bills printed but 800 copies were supplied by Jacob North instead of 500 as provided in the contract North had agreed to print 150 copies more of the missing bills The re port recommended that North be paid only for the 300 copies furnished Jenkins moved that the report of committee be con tinued and authorized to report further to the house The motion prevailed The house then adjourned Thursday The Trans Mississippi Exposition bill passed the house Thursday without the emergency clause by a vote of 70 to 20 Sheldons bill house roll No 447 to pro hibit games theatrical and circus enter tainments on Sunday was the topic of a lively debate and was indefinitely post poned House roll No 485 by Kapp is a joint resolution authorizing the commis sioner of public lands and buildings to select and accept for the state of Nebraska certain tracts of land in Fort Randal Mili tary Reservation as school land The bill passed 90 to 0 House roll No 259 was next in order The measure amends section 58 chapter xliii entitled Insurance Com panies of the Compiled Statutes of Ne braska 1895 and repeals said section It authorizes the forming of companies to conduct a line of general insurance on de tached farm buildings country school houses and churches also upon cattle mules sheep and hogs against damage by fire lightning or tornadoes providing sudi property be not insured for more than two thirds of its actual value By a vote of 88 to 1 the measure passed The bill for a graduated scale of punishments about the same as the Illinois habitual criminal law was passed House roll No 254 providing for an appropriation of the matriculation fees of the State Normal school for a library fund for the use and suppprt of the library of the school passed Thursday morning when the regular or der was taken up Mr Howell from the committee on municipal affairs reported the Lincoln charter with the recommenda tion that it be placed on general file For reasons only known to himself the assist ant secretary made a verbal addition to the wording of the report by announcing that the committee asked that the charter be placed on general file with the recom mendation that it do pass A motion to make it a special order for March 9 did not prevail and it will have to come up in its regular order The senate then took up the order of bills on third reading Senate file No- 24 introduced by Mutz and relat ing to salaries for caunty superintendents of public instruction was passed Senate Jite No 1W hv Panaday and relating to teachers fnstitujfls ys nassecj It makes a few technical changes jn the law Senate file No 255 by Ransom refating to the manner of voting on proposed amend ments to the state constitution passed The bill provides that the returns made by the judges and clerks of election shall include First tho number 9f electors voting at said general election second the number of electors who voted WF the amendments third the number of electors Wbo votefl against the amendments fourth tjp nunjr ber of electors who voted for senators fifth the number who voted for represent atives sixth the number who voted for both senators and representatives Joint resolution proposing an amendment relat ing to the investment of the permanent school fund passed House roll No 8 re pealing the law passed two years ago for the payment of a bounty on sugar and chicory pasafl Tne senate practically re constructed tfe bJM ft t passed the house and it will have to be Feturne4 to the lower branch before it can go to the governor Friday Bills on third reading in the house on Friday morning McCarthys measure ap propriating 25000 for a state normal school at Scotia Greeley County was the first considered The bill had been recom mended to pass in committee of the whole by a good majority but on the first roll call It got but thirty nine votes two less than the reauired number and a call of the house was demanded Bernard of Pawnee and Gaylord of Buffalo changed thejr votes from nay to yea and and the bjll was passed The final vote showed UO to 39 in favor of the bill House roll No 187 by Hull amends section 562 of Cobbeys Con solidated Statutes of 1891 and repeals the section It provides that every railroad company shall have the power to cross intersect join and unite its railroad with any other railroad before constructed at any point upon its route and upon the grounds suc other railroad company witii thn necessary turnouts sid ings switches and utljpr conveniences in furtherance of the object of its connection Jt is made the duty of the state bpard of transportation to investigate all points In the state touched by two or more railroads at -which points they receive and deliver freight At such investigation all parties shall be allowed to appear and be heard If it be found to the interest of shippers that such junction should be formed the board is directed to order the companies to do so and it is the duty of said railroads to comply with the order of the board The measure was passed House roll No 8 by Dobson provides for the repeal of the sugar bounty law of 1895 section 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 and 20 of chapter vi article iv compiled statutes of 1895 The senate asked that the house concur in an amend ment changing the form and the amend ment was adopted The proposition to abolish the Soldiers Home at Milford came up in the senate Friday morning as soon as the sound of the chaplains voice had ceased Ever since the first few days of the session a bill has been pending to abolish the Home The bill has been in the hands of the com mittee on soldiers homes of which Mr Sykes of Adams County is chairman Nothing has been heard of the bill but Friday morning Feltz andGrothan brought up the subject and insisted upon an im mediate report Their insistance brought out an animated debate in which most of the senators on the floor participated The senate adopted the minority report and the bill went to the general file The Omala charter bill came up on third reading and the senate then saw that it was in for a night session The reading clerk attempted to skip large portions of the reading but was called down by Mr Graham The reading was then continued properly At 6 oclock the senate took a recess till 780 After the supper recess the reading of the Omaha charter was finished and after some little delay the roll was called and the bill passed with the emergency clause But twenty one votes were recorded on the first roll call and a call of the house was ordered After the doors had been closed forty five minutes Senators Muffled and Lee appeared voted for the bill and it was passed Saturday John OYeiser made an attempt to get his bill for the initiative and referendum rec ommended for passage in the house Satur day and had it not been for Burkett of Lancaster he might have succeeded Sixty seven members answered to roll call An attempt was made to adjourn This was defeated and reports from standing com mittees announced After the reading of reports the house went into committee of the whole House roll No 68 by Yeiser is the bill providing for the initiative and referendum It was the topic of a long discussion and considerable amendment by Yeiser When section thirty was reached Clark of Lancaster moved that the section be stricken out and another substituted making the privileges of the initiative and referendum applicable to cities only of the metropolitan class By a close vote Clarks motion was lost and a division was not called for Then Clark moved that the provisions of tho act should not ap ply to cities having a population of of over 25000 inhabitants He directed attention to the fact that judges and clerks of election could object to any ordinance passed by the council circulate a petition secure the names of 15 per cent of the voters and earn a few dollars in fees to put in their pockets It was a most vic ious measure In large cities he said it would require 50 per cent of the collected taxes to hold elections under the law Clark of Richardson then moved that when the committe rose it report the bill for indefinite postponement Shull of Ne maha opposed this He thought it assump tion on the part of the gentleman from Richardson to speak for the people of the whole state Clark declared that he had spoken only for the people of his own county Shull pointed out that the initia tive and referendum had been made an issue of the Populist campaign Clark re plied that he had heard nothing of it in his bailiwick Snyder of Sherman spoke at considerable length in favor of the bill Dobson of Fillmore made a savage assault on the measure He said he was a Pop ulist but not Populist enough to support such a measure Then he surprised the whole house by voting squarely against Clarks motion for indefinite postponement Wooster inveighed bitterly against the bill Burkett moved that the committee rise This was lost Clark of Lancasters amendment that the bill should not apply to cities of the first class also failed Then the measure was amended providing that but one special election should be held annually unless the parties signing the petition should deposit sufficient money to defray the expenses of the election the money to be returned to them in case the proposition was success ful at the polls There was a flury of fili bustering and a manifest disposition on the part of the fusionists to shut off Burkett from speaking on the question He began however at 1215 with the evident inten tion of talking against time Sheldon had moved that when the committee rose i reconimended the bill for passage Burkett saitl Ije was willing tq stop talkg anq allow the committee tq rise and ask leav to sjfc agajn Bupketf yielded the fjflqr few minutes to Bollard The latter san that the sifting committee had jumped the bill into the house the first tliiug Saturday morning and he for one hail time to Iqok it up and examine its provisions Thefl Sheldqn withdrew hjs motion and moved that te committee rise ajidjenqri progress- Tins prevailed Burkett Pftd carried his point and forced a fair disous sion on Yejsers bUli Two Cents Worth of Gas In a lecture recently delivered at the Royal Victoria Hall London Prof Carl ton J Lambert stated that thirty seven cubic feet of gas which is valued at one penny two cents and weighs about 14 pounds can generate ftbqyt PPP pound Qf Water w hen fturpefl and about nlueteep oubjc feet of carbonic acid It can beat thirty gallons of watei from 50 degrees to 110 degrees for a bath or it can boll eight gallons ol water In good kettles and make tea foi sixty four persons It can work a one horse power gas engine for one hour oi lift a weight of eighty eight tons ten feet high doing the work of six men foi one hour It can melt ten pounds iron and make a casting n tVYentj minutes which prdinrily vfoild re quire tWQ bqurs and thirty pounds qJ coke It can braze a metal joint in twe rolnutea which would require twenty minutes in ft forge if burned in a six Inch flue for ventilation purposes It can induce 80000 cubic feet of pure air It can give you a brilliant light iWeisbaoh incandescent of fifty candle power for nine hours It can in a good radiating stove comfortably warm a room slx teen feet square for an hour It can easily cook a dinner for eight persons- Practical EngiiiecD SENATE AND E0USE WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW MAKERS A Weeks Proceedings In tke Halls of ConstreHs Important Measures Dis cussed and Acted Upon An Impar tial Resume of the Business The National Solons When the naval appropriation bill first came up in the Senate Monday after noon Mr Chandler stated that he would move later to increase the appropriation for torpedo boats or decrease the number provided All the other items were agreed to without comment except that relating to cost of armor establishment of Govern ment armor plant etc which occasioned extended debate The Chandler amend ment reducing the price of armor plate to 300 a ton was adopted without a divis ion Another to reduce the total of con tracts authorized to 2407500 to corre spond with the reduction per ton was adopted The amendment authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to establish a Gov ernment armor plate factory at a cost of 1500000 if he failed to make contracts was lost The naval bill was passed at midnight and although Mr Chandler tried to call up the international mone tary conference bill the Senate adjourned In the House the bill to prohibit the trans mission of detailed accounts of prize fights by mail or telegraph led to a very lively skirmish in which prize fighting was de nounced on all sides But the bill met with most strenuous opposition on the ground that it would tend to establish a censorship of the press and was finally sidetracked A bill was passed to pro vide for the transmission to Washington of presidential election returns by mail The bill abolishes the system of messen gers now employed In the Senate Tuesday the fortification bill was passed as was also the deficiencv appropriation bill after amendment to keep the 1310427 claim of the Southern Pacific Company in the treasury until final adjustment of the Government lein upon that corporation The House amend ments to the international monetary con ference bill were agreed to and the bill sent to the President The President sent to the House a veto message upon the immigration bill his principal objection being to the educational clause the Presi dent holds that the worse class of immi grants is not found among the illiterate The day in the House was one of routine work The House Thursday by a vote of 193 to 37 overrode the veto of the immigra tion bill The conference report on the postoffice appropriation bill was agreed to Then the fight on the naval bill was re newed the price of armor plate being the matter at issue The Senate amend ments to reduce the price from 563 to 300 and to build three torpedo boats and a practice boat were agreed to The In dian bill District of Columbia appropria tion bill and the sundry civil bill were accepted as they came from conference The Senates work was confined to clos ing business and the measures considered by the House were the only ones in hand All of them went to the President as the House accepted them Both Senate and House adjourned with out day Thursday In thei Senate agree ment was unanimous to resolutions ex pressing the appreciation of the Senate for the able and impartial discharge of the duties of presiding officer by Mr Steven son and by Mr Frye president pro tern Mr Hoar announced that the committee of Congress had waited on the President and that he had asked them to convey his congratulations on the close of their labors There was anxious awaitinjr for the announcement that the President lmd signed the remaining appropriation bills But it did not come QraduaUy the iden tity of the Senate wjs merged into the more striking features of the inauguration cerempny and the session came to a close without further legislative business The general deficiency bill failed in confer ence and the agriculture sundry civil and Indian appropriation bills failed of executive approval The House was still in the legislative day of Tuesday when it adjourned without day The closing hours were uneventful The statement had worked hard all night to get the sun dry civil Indian and agricultural bills to the president only to have them pocket vetoed while the general deficiency bill failed of because passage the -Souse re fused to subscribe to the 500000 of Bowman claims whicii the Senate insist ed upon Mr- McMillin pf Tennessee with a few appropriate remarks offered a resolution of thanks to the Speaker for his impartiality as a p1resjdhlg officer which was unanimously adopted by a ris ing vote As SoVev Reed mounted the rosjrum thf members rpse and cheered valiantly He acknowledged the warm reception and then delivered his parting address With a whack of the gavel at 1156 he then declared the House ad jpurned without day and the members hurried over to the Senate to participate in the ceremonies there The Senate went into executive session promptly upon the receipt of the Cabinet nominations and as soon as the announce ment was made of the appointment of Senator Sherman whose name headed the list he was confirmed It is the prac tice to refer all nomination to committee but it was the desire tf Mr Shemans friends to signal thei regard for him by immediate action There was more f9TO Vm reality in the reference of the norniuations to committee Not one Of the cQfflnAittees held a formal meeting they being polled on the floor of the Sen ato in every instance No objection was made in committee to confirmation While the Senate was in legislative session the credentials of Mr Hanna as Senator from Ohio to succeed Mr Sherman were pre sented by Mr Foraker an e was sworn in by Vice President HXPart Mr Davis was also designated acting chairman of the Commie on Foreign Relations to succeed Mr Sherman Boyond the usual notification to the Prudent nothing f ur heu was dpue A anowslide occurred at the Cleopatra tunnel near Pitkin Colo owned by John Cudahy of Chicago by which four men were hurled in their cabin Jack McCar thy succeeded in extricating himself from the wreck and without a shred of cloth ing made his way to the Tycoon mine where he procured assistance The colored Knights Templar comman deries of the United States have organ ized a grand commandery in St Louis Delegates fronrseven distific jjere pres ent and over thirty Stotea weire repre sented PLAIN OR FANCY P RINTINQ quickly asms CPECI ALTI ES -5 BILL HEADS LETTER HEADS NOTE HEADS STATEMENTS ENVELOPES INVITATIONS PROGRAMMES MENUS LARQB POSTBRS BUSINESS CARDS SMALL POSTBRS CALLING CARDS SALE BILLS ETC CHRQMO CARDS Notary Publi W E HALEY Real Estate ABSTRACTER Valentine Nebraska 1000000 Bond Filed Office in JP O Building The DONOHER Has recently been refurnished and thoroughly renoyated making it now more than ever worthy of the reputation it has alwayB borne of being THE MOST COMPLETE AND COMFOBTABLE HOTEL IN THE NORTHWEST Hot and Cold Water Excellent Bath Room Good Sample Room ST J DONOHER Proprietor Cherry Qounty Bank Valentine Nebraska Every facility extended customers consistent with Jconservative banking Exchange bought and sold Loans upon good security solicited at reasonable rates County depository E SPARKS President CHARLES SPARKS Cashier i f r gANK OF VALENTINE C H CORNELL President M V NICHOLSON Cmghier Valentine Nebraska d General Banking Business Transacted Buys and Sells Domestic and Foreign Exchange Correspondents Chemical National Bank Hevr York tf lrst National Bank Oaka CITIZENS - MEAT - MARKET GEO G SCHWALM PROP This market always keeps a supply of FISH AND GAME In addition to a first class line of Steaks Roasts Dry Salt Meats Smoked Hams Breakfast Bacon and Yegetable3 At S tatters Old Stand on Main Street VALENTINE NEBRA8KA THE PALACE SALOON HEADQUARTERS WINES LIQUORS and CIGARS Ol the Choicest Brands Valentine - Nebraska - II I - - - - W - - L Remember that this office is fully prepared at all times to turn out on the shortest notice in the most artistic and workmanlike manner all kinds of Job Printing