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OFFICIAL CIIRECTORY
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Povorngr SHajj A Holcomb
V Jicutonant Governor James E Harris
Vfcrctafy of State WF Porter
freaeurer JNMeserve
Auditor John F Cornell
Com Lands and Bulldlngii Jacob V Woire
Attorney General Constantino J Smvth
faupt Public Instruction W It Jackson
fll A Hidley Scojla
C WKaleym Red Cloud
Regents University- Shos Rawlins WakeiId
1 Cbas Weston Hay Spgs
I H h Goold Ogaialla
OH Morrill Lincoln
COXGRKSSIONAL
Kenators Wtn V Allen Madison John M
Thurston Omaha
KspresenUitives First District Jesse B Strode
Lincoln Second D fl Mercer Omaha Third
Geo DMclklcJnhnFullerton Fourth E J Hai
ner Aurora Fifth Win it Andrews Hastings
Sixth O M Kein Broken Bow
JUDICIAL
Supreme Court T L Norval Chief Justice
Hstrrison and Polk associates
Fifteenth Judicial District M P TClnkaid
ONeill W1I Wcstover Busuvlllc
LEGISLATIVE
Representative Fifty second District 0 P
Billinus Korden
Senator Fourteenth District Otto Mutz
Bprliigvlcw
LAND OFFICE
Register 0 R Glover Longpine Receiver J
A Fike Newport
COUNTY
J CUSilrCif 1t X i vrftUD
Jlerk Geo Elliott
HherinT Amos Strong
Judge W R Towne
County Attorney FM Walcott
County Superintendent Lillian Stoner
Surveyor Chas Talt
Coroner A Lewis
C Max viertel
Commissioners W A Paiker
I P Sullivan
PRECINCT
Overseers of Highways R Hansen and J Raj
Constable R Towne
lustlces of the Poace John Dunn and J M
iSuni
Assessor John Dunn
VILLAGE
Town Board K 8parks president C H Cor
nell treasurer T C Hornby clerk D S Ludwlg
ami I F Simons
Marshal and Water Commissioner Henry
liuzey
Mhool District No l F M Walcott president
M V Nicholson treasurer J C Pettijohn secre
tary W S Jackson G P Crabb and J T Kedley
SOCIETIES
Imp O R5M
Itting Bull Tribe No 22 Improved Order of
Red Men meets every second and fourth Friday
evening of eaeh month at Davenports Half
Visiting brethren are fraternally Invited to be
prrseiit at the councils of the tribe
J IS Skahh F M March
Chief of Records Sachem
A F A M
Minnekadusa Lodge No 192 A F A M
mcets in regular communication Saturday even
ing on or before the full moon In each mouth
members of the order in good and regular stand
ing cordially and fraternally invited to attend
J T KKELBr W M
W W Thompson Secv
O E S
Northern Star Chapter No 59 Order of the
Eastern Star meets on second and fourth Tues
day evenings of cash month In Hornbys hall
W W Thompsox Maggie Walooxt
Secretary Worthy Matron
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Valentine Lodge No 70 A O U Wt meets
on l stand 3rd Mondays of each 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 CHRISTKNSKTf MRS J C PKTTIJOBN
Recorder Chief of Honor
i 67o F
Valentine Lodge No 205 I O O F meets
i every Thursday evening Visiting brothers cord
riany nvitea toattena our meetings
D H Thurston
Secretary
G
rARft CKA11UK
Noble Grand
A E
ColWood PstNo 208 Department of Ne
braska regular meeting 2d apd tn Saturdays of
each month at 2 d m sharp Comrads from
other tosts aro cordially Invited to attend
J W TupKKR Jottx Dunn
Adjutant Commander
Mw7 A
Valentine Camp No 1751 Modern Woodmen of
America meets second and fourth Wednesday
evenings of each month at Davenports HalL
Visiting neighbors cordially invited to aitend
W S Jackson W E IUtJfcr
Clerk Venerable Counsel
lofT
Cherry Lodge No 169 Knights pf Pythias meets
every Tuesday evening at Davenpw ts Hall
W S JACK60N B P BOBERTS
K of R and S Chancellor Commadder
Arrival and Departure of Malls
Mall east and west closes at s pm
Rosebud leaves at 8 100 a m dall except Sun
day and arrives at 50Q 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 at700 a m and
500 p m arrives at 930 a maud 7S0 p rfl
Kewanee and Sparks arrives Mpndayo
Wednesdays and Fridays at 600 pm ana
leaves Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at
73 a in
General dell very open from 769 a m to 700
p m General delivery open on Sundays froin
8 to 10 a m Lock boxes opendally form tf a
i toS00p m
W EHALEY Postmaster
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PROFESSIOHAL AND BUSINESS CARDS
TgD CLARKE
Attorney atrLaw
lklnds of legal business promptly attended to
Valentine Nebkaska
G DWYER
Physician and Surgeon
Omce at C R Watsons Drug Store Prompt
attention given to all professional calls
Valentine - Nehraska
Teachers Examination
The regular monthly Teachers
Examination will be held the
third Saturday of eaeh month
at my office in the Court House
LILLIAN STONER
Supt of Schools
P F SIMONS
PROPRITOR OF
AY LINE NO I
Satisfaction guaranteed
Reasonable charges
NEBRASKA CONGRESS
DAILY REPORT OF WHAT IS BE
ING DONE
Many Measures of More or Less Im
portance Being Introduced at the
Present Session of the Golden Rod
Legislature
Wednesday
Following are bills on third reading
acted upon by the house on March 31st
Senate file No 108 Beals deficiency judg
ment bill -which was passed over Tuesday
on account of house amendments not being
printed was read and after a call of the
house was passed by a vote of 58 to 2 i
Fouke McLeod and Mann Republicans
voted for the bill while Hyatt Rich Uerl
ing Woodard Zimmerman and Clark of
Richardson voted with the minority
against it House roll No 267 by Gaffin
to prohibit corporations from contributing
money to campaign funds had been
amended by the senate and the house con
zurred in the amendments Senate file No
210 by McGann providing that the terri
tory within the corporate limits of a city of
i600 inhabitants or over shall constitute
one school district was passed by
a vote of 61 to 17 House roll
No 428 extending the powers
Df the state board of transportation re
ceived 65 votes with 23 against and it
failed to pass with the emergency clause
Senate file No 78 allowing pupils to attend
school in a nearer district and providing
that they shall liereaf ter be enumerated in
he district nearest their residence was
passed by a vote of 79 to 1 Senate fde No
145 requiring railroads to mow their right-of-way
twice a year between the 15th day
of July and the 15th day of August of each
year was passed Senate file No 104 the
bill for the protection of fish failed to pass
The judiciary committee reported house roll
No 653 with the recommendation that
it be engrossed for the third rdading The
report was adopted It is the bill to vali
date bonds in metropolitan cities The
house took a recess until 780 The house
convened at 780 with sixty members pres
ent and went into committee of the whole
to consider house roll No 247 the general
revenue bill On motion of Wooster the
bill was recommended for indefinite post
ponement House roll No 342 Feruows
bill for the government of the state peni
tentiary was recommended for passage
House roll No 274 providing for the brand
ing of convict made goods was indefinitely
postponed
The senate Wednesday made an earnest
effort to clear away the large accumulation
of business on the general file The day
was commenced with the usual attempt to
advance favorite bills for immediate con
jslderation but the effort resulted in failure
The greater portion of the day was taken
up in committee of the whole in considera
tion of bills and some lively discussions
were had The only bills passed were
senate files Nos 269 270 and 271 They
provide that the governor shall appoint
the superintendents of the Institute for the
Feeble Minded at Beatrice the Industrial
School for Boys at Kearney and the In
dustial for Girls at Geneva At present
these officers are appointed by the Board
of Public Lands and Buildings
Thursday
The senate put in the forenoon of the 1st
passing bills most of them senate files
which have yet to run the gauntlet of the
house Some comment is heard over the
passage of three important bills at a day so
late in the session when their fate in the
house is doubtful because of the near ap
proach of final adjournment The three
bills referred to are the ones imposing a
tax upon the gross parsings of express
telegraph and telephone companies of the
state The first senate file No 31 taxing
the express companies was passed
by a vote of 17 to 2 Senate
file No 875 providing for the taxa
tion of telephone companies was next
placed on its final passage It proposes a
tax of one half of 1 per pent on the gross
earnings of all such companies The bill
was passed by a vote of 17 to 5 Senate file
No 378 taxing the telegraph companies 1
per cent on gross earnings was passed by
a vote of 17 to 5 The anti corporation
bills having been disposed of the next
taken up was senate file No 23 introduced
by Mr Mutz of Keya Paha providing a
systematic method for making road over
seers returns to the county treasurer It
was passed by the requisite majority
House roll No 196 appropriating 20000
for the erection of a new dormitory build
ing at the State Nqrmal Shool at Peru was
passed without the emergency clause
The first work of the house Thursday
morning was to advance senate file No 40
to third reading It is the bill to authorize
the organization of mutual hail insurance
companies Under the regular order of
business bills on third reading were taken
up Senate file No 187 to provide for a
system of uniform vouchers for the dis
bursement of state funds was passed by a
vote of 78 to 0 Senate file No 312 setting
apart 240 acres of land in Lancaster County
for the use of the hospital for the insane
was passed by a vote of 77 to 0 Senate file
No 40 to authorizto the organization of
mutual hail insurance companies was
passed by a vote of 86 to 1 The bill pro
vides that any number of persons not less
than 100 residing in the state who own
collectively not less than 5000 acres of
grain may form an incorporated company
for mutual protection against loss by hail
House roll No 42 a bill to enable irriga
tion districts that have no outstanding in
debtedness to discontinue their oruaniza
tion was passed by a vote of 77 to 1
House rqll No 224 appropriating 25
000 to build an addition to the Nor
folk asylum was passed with the
emergency clause receiving 07 to 13 votes
House roll No 359 a claim of 376 for four
men in Red Willow County who had paid
the above amount rent on school land
withouth having been granted a lease for
the same was passed House roll No 18
by Uerling to provide for building a
standpipe and an additional wing to the
asylum at Hastings and appropriating
30000 to defray such expense was passed
with the emergency clause House roll No
634 by Sheldon of Dawes providing for
drawing and empanelling juries in the trial
of original actions In the supreme court
and providing fees of the jurors was
passed with the emergency clause the vote
being 68 to 14 House roll No 653 to amend
the Omaha charter In regard to Issuing
bonds and validate such bonds as have al
ready been issued was passed with the
emergency clause stricken out
Friday
As soon as the senate was ready for
business Friday morning special action
was taken on a number of bills Senate
files Nos 296 250 203 201j 202 261 and 292
were advanced to third reading Tho first
bill was senate file No 296 to extend and
regulate the liability of employers to make
compensation for personal injuries received
by their employes in their service and to
prevent the making or enforcement of con
tracts or agreements limiting or impairing
such liability The bill failed to pass
Senate file No 214 amending the irriga
tion bill was read the third time and
passed House roll No 203 appropriating
30000 for the wing of anew building to
be erected on the campus of the University
of Nebraska for a school of Mechanic Arts
was passed and sent to the governor
nouse roll No 254 a pro forma bill
appropriating the matriculation fees
of the State Normal School to the
use of the institution was passed
Senate file No 61 was read the third time
and passed This is the bill introduced by
Mr Ritchie placing the management of
the Industrial Home for Fallen Women at
Milford under the management of the
board of public lands and buildings the
superintendent and other officers to be ap
pointed by the governor Senate file No
818 was then placed on its final passage
and it received the necessary votes It
provides that contracts for sale of lands
between the owner and agent employed to
sell such lands shall be made in writing
The consideration of the appropriation bill
consumed the balance of the days session
and when the committee rose it had not
been finished
When the house opened for business on
the 2d a messenger from the governor an
nounced that the executive office had
signed house rolls No 72 for the releif of
Burt County No 209 relating to the Mor
rill fund No 29 repealing the Russian
thistle law senate file No 256 relating to
an irrigation fund in Hancock County and
senate file No 381 an act in
corporating cities of the metropolitan class
nouse roll No 463 by Loom is providing
for a blanket ballot in place of the present
system was passed Senate file No 351
providing that unclaimed bodies of those
I who die in state institutions shall be turned
over to medical colleges failed to pass
Senate file No 157 by Ransom to prohibit
officers in cities and villages from accept
ing free gas or electric lights water or
transportation on street cars and providing
punishment for violations of these provis
ions was passed by a vote of 53 to 21
House roll No 342t to provide for the ad
ministration and government of the
state penitentiary was passed with
the emergency clause Senate file
No 207 by Talbot defining frater
nal beneficiary societies and regulating
the same was passed with the emergency
clause without opposition House roll
Xo 881 by Gaylord to provide instruction
and transportation for pupils either within
or without the district of their residence
was passed with the emergency clause
House roll No 351 allowing Mrs B Mc
Kell of Thayer County 16388 overpaid on
school land was passed nouse roll No
175 by Wheeler amends the present law
in regard to the deposit of state and county
funds in banks It provides that the ck-
posit shall not in any case exceed 80 per
cent of the capital of such bank The bilj
passed with the emergency clause
Saturday
The following bills were acted upon by
the senate on the 8d Senate file No 292
introduced by Mr Spencer of Lancaster by
request was passed It amends the law
governing the practice of medicine in Ne
braska Senate file No 169 introduced by
Mr Beal of Custer was passed This bill
pertains to the appointment of clerks of
district courts Senate file No 250 intro
duced by Mr Ransom of Douglas was
passed It makes a radical amendment to
the method of levying taxes for school pur
poses and will especially affect the city of
Omaha Senate file No 202 introduced by
Mr Graham of Frontier an act for the es
tablishment maintenance and manage
ment of public libraries in school
districts failed of passage Senate file
No 201 introduced by Mr Dundas
at the request of the State Teachers
Association was defeated It amended the
laws relating to county superintendents
House roll No 244 introduced by Mr
rrince of Madison to appropriate 25000
for the purpose of erecting an additional
wing to the Hospital for the Insane at Nor-
folk was passed It lacked one or two
votes of the necessary number to pass it
and a call of the house was ordered It is
now understood that all danger of the de
feat of the appropriation for the Hastings
asylum has passed and that when the bill
is reached it wiil receive the necessary
seventeen votes
Immediately after the reading of the
journal Saturday Stebbins of Lincoln
County offered a resolution which had for
its aim the paying of all employes of the
house straight time instead of for actual
amount of work performed A motion to
lay the resolution on the table prevailed
Many bills were advanced to third reading
after which the house went into committe
of the whole The committee of the whole
report was adopted on all bills except
house rolls Nos 491 and 57S with little op
position The report on hquse roll No 49
was adopted after voting down a motion to
indefinitely postpone When the report on
house roll No 57S came up a motion was
made torecommend for indefinite post
ponement and a call of the house was de
manded by Smith of Douglas at 580 when
it developed that there was not a quorum
present One or two members were
brought in but most of the absentees hacl
gone home Unanimous consent was asked
to have the call raised but there were
three or four objections The speakerruled
that a motion to adjourn could not be en
tertained during a call of the house Dur
ing the next two hours ten attemptn were
made to raise the call Finally by tho help
of a couple of members of the je ount com
mittee fifty one votes were secured and the
call was raised The house adjourned
without acting on the report
The First Watcrv
At first the watch was about the size
f a desert plate It had weights and
was used as a pocket clock Tile ear
liest known use of tho modern name
occurs in the record of 1552 which
mentlqns that Edward VI had one
larum or watch of iron the ease being
likewise of iron gilt with two plum
mets of lead The first watches may
readily be supposed to have been qC
rude execution The first groat Im
provement the substitution of springs
for weights was in 1350 The earliest
springs were not coiled but only
straight pieces of steel Early watches
had only one hand and being wound
up twice a day they could not be ex
pected to keep time nearer than fifteen
or twenty minutes in the twelve hours
The dials were of silver or brass the
cases had no crystals but opened a
the back and front and were foi
five inches in diameter A plain Watch
cost the equivalent fclQOOi in our cur
rency nd fiftec one was ordered It
took a year to make it
Every lie has other sins hiding be
hind it
FLOODS IN S DAKOTA
LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED IN TWO
INSTANCES
Hivers and Greeks Are Full from
Bank to Bank Railroad Bridges
in Great Danger and Many Have
Already Been Carried Away
Flood Situation in Dakota
Melting snow and rain have tilled the
rivers of South Dakota from bank to bank
and in many sections the prairie is covered
with water for miles At Sioux Falls the
Sioux has got in its work That city is
cutoff from the country on the north
south and west all roads being impassable
from washouts between bridges and flooded
roadways
The Milwaukee railroad bridge at Ver
million is in great danger A dispatch
from that city Sunday stated that it was
likely to be carried out at any moment
Thus far the greatest amount of damage
by the overflow of water in the Sioux Ver
million and Jim River valleys has been
done in the Sioux The water came with
greater rapidity and took the people living
along the stream completely by surprise
although they had been repeatedly warned
to prepare themselves for an overflow
There were a great many narrow escapes
but as yetno lives have been lost A young
man named Eleson was crossing a bridge
on the Brule a small creek emptying into
the Sioux driving two teams When half
way across the structure was swept
away The wagon was new and
the young man found himself sail
ing down stream in the wagon box which
had become separated from the wheels
He was rescued some distance down Btream
Both teams were drowned Farther up
the stream a farmer suddenly found hlfl
house surrounded with water He con
structed a rude craft of flood wreckage and
started to cross the hill with his family of
four The current carried them down
stream into a heavy growth of timber
whore the raft was broken up The family
found refuge on the roof of a farm shed
and were rescued
The flood situation at Aberdeen is more
serious than ever before Nearly the en
tire west and south parts of the city wera
tinder water Monday All livery barns
blacksmith shops warehouses etc on the
west side were flooded The schools at
this point were all closed and there was
not a steam heating plant or furnace fire In
operation in the town Between Groton
and Andover on the Hastings Dakota
division a boat ferry was put in operation
and passengers transferred All other rail
road communication is cut off
The first of the high water in the Jim
reached Yankton Saturday and the river
now extends from bluff to bluff above the
city The Milwaukee road has had about
two miles of track washed out east of the
Jim The Great Northern Railroad has
abandoned its service for the present
Yankton was entirely out off from the out
side world by rail Monday
There are acres of water in every direc
tion at Huron The flood conditions here
are the worst ever experienced The trains
north and west on the Chicago and North
western have all been abandoned the
tracks being under water or the roadbeds
washed out but those east and south were
running regularly up to Sunday There
was great apprehension for the safety of
the Great Northern bridge at this point as
the banks were being badly washed out
and being a pile bridge had already been
severely strained
The Jhn rose seven inches at Mitchell
Saturday The Milwaukee and Omaha
quit transferring across the river on ac
count of the current being too swift The
water has spread over a large section and
many wagon bridges have been carried
away
There are a number of small creeks in
the vicinity of Chamberlain that are caus
ing considerable trouble and in one in
stance loss of life A young man named
Charles Reber while on an errand was
drowned while crossing Smith Creek His
body was recovered The creek was badly
swollen by melting snow American
Creek which enlers the Missouri at
berlain was so high that the Manchester
quite as large as a Missouri Rivev ferry
used the mouth for a harbor something
never before possible
Miller and all west o Hurcm haye been
without railroad service for over a week
and country stages have been abandoned
for a longer space of time Tho prospects
Sunday were that no trains could be run
wpst of Iuron for a weok or so
A telegram Saturday from Tyndall
stated that it had rained there incessantly
for six dajs and that tho situation was
as bad as in 1881
John A Bushnell of Sioux City a Mil
waukee brakeman was drowned Saturday
afternoon in the Sioux River between
Hudson and Calliope BushneU v as work
ing on a pile driver and vo on the ladder
when his hands slipped 3E he fell into the
river Considejabfe driftwood was float
ing and Hip unfortunate man was carried
down by tb swift current A boat was
pccttrel and fellow workmen used every
endeavor to rescue him but h soon sanK
out of sight It is not ikey his body will
ever be recovered He was a married
Ar Jam In a Tunnel
A surious state of things was observ
ed in the tunnel of tbtj underground
railway of Buda Pesjt on account of
lack of ventilation For a stretch of
more tban two miles there is only a
Single ventilator -which is entirely in
sufficient and the trains running
through the tunnel compress the air
w lttrtn like that in the gun barrel of a
Zalinskl dynamite gun It is stated
that on several occasions the cars were
raised bodily from the tracks by the
pressure of air and gas and the pas
sengers were almost suffocated Steps
have been taken to increase the num
ber of air shafts so that there will be
at least ten of these in each mile and
very large exhaust fans will do away
with the danger of insufficient ventila
tion which now renders the employ
ment at the same time of the-
tracks in the tunnelfe9lujely danger
ous
New Mueuin lor Windsor Castle
Windsor Gastle U now to have r
museum forftfe reception cl some ol
the hlsijawa relics which owing to
th wantjfrf a suitable place for theii
exhibition have hitherto been inacces
sible to visitors
Senttor Beranger is the Dr Park
hurstand Anthony Comstock of Parjs
He ifg leading a crusade agaiist ylce in
theFrench capital a tlie present
myment vice is cny laps ahead of the
Titorers
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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 Boom Good Sample Boom
M JT JDONOJIEtt Proprietor
Qherry Qounty 3ank
Valentine Nebraska
Every facility extended customers consistent withfeonservative banking
Exchange bought and sold Loans upon good security solicited at reasonable
rates County depository
E SPARKS President CHARLES SPARKS Cashier
gANK OF VALENTINE
C H CORN ELL TroBiaenU M F NICHOLSON Ctuhier
Valentine Nebraska
A General Banking Business Transacted
Buys and Sells Botnestie and Foreign Exchange
Correspondents Chemical National Bank New York first National Sank Osaka
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 2eata
Smoked HamB Breakfast Bacon and Tegetables
At StettersOld Stand on Main Street VALENTINE NEBRA8KA
THE PALACE SALOON
HEADQUARTERS
WINES LIQUORS and CIGARS
Valentine
Ol the Choicest Brandfl
Reme
that this office is ftj
on the shortest nrJ
workmanlike maJ
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