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VOL XII
THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT
GOOD Editor Tid Publisher
Ofticial Paper of Cerry Coun
ty Sebreka
-200 Per Fer i Advance
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Entered at I ho Post office -at Valentine Cherry
county Nebraska as SecOEfirClass matter
This paper will be mailed regularly
to its subscribers untiVa definite order
to discontinue is received and all ar
rears are paid in full
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THIS AND THAT
Com ina -Events
Presbyterian Supper November 5
Teachers Association November 13
Thanksriving November 23
Methodist Dinner Thanksgiving Day
TV G Sawyer of Elgin 111 was in
town on business Tuesday
31arence Martin of Ainsworth
-working on the school house
is
The PreclHCt Vote Interesting FactH
The vote of Valentine precinct for
the state tickets was Post r SO Sul
livan f us 106 Strong pro 4 Switzler
nat clem 3
The wie on county ticket was as
follows For treasurer Thackrey r
93 Fritz p 64 Ballard 1 48 Sheriff
Strong r 94 Waggoner p 56 Bur
leigh p SO Metzgerd 34 Judge Po
Jen rj 61 Towne dp 148 Superin
tendent Stevenson r 87 Stoner pd 1
17 Surveyor Tate r 93 Estabrook
pd 103 Coroner Lewis r 97 Dwyer
dp 109
For precinct officers Assessor C
E Watson r 99 Ray p84 Justices
John Dunn r 126 Grant Dunn p 64
Ferguson r 90 Vachon p 59 Con
stables Mammond r 110 Hackler p
55 Layporte r 117 p 59 The
democrats had no ticket in the field
A record of the vote of Valentine as
the ballots were counted shows that
the candidates for county offices re
ceived votes from members of the va
itious parties as follows
R P D Total
Daniels 78 5 3 86
Burleigh 18 55 17 90
Metzger 0 1 33 34
Strong 78 9 7 94
Waggoner 9 49 8 66
Childers 10 2 36 48
Thackrey 86 4 3 93
Fxitz 5 54 5 64
Ballard 5 1 42 48
Stoner 21 46 50 117
Stevenson 81 4 2 87
34 republican 27 populist and 11
democratic straight votes were cast
Had it not been for the absence of a
democratic precinct ticket our straight
votes would have numbered about 30
An examination of the above table
will show that there are over 50 dem
ocrats in this precinct 17 demoorats
voted for Burleigh and 3 for Daniels
adding these to the 34 votes given to
Metzger makes a total of 54 from tihis
1 8hQiiM be subtracted -to allow for the
populist vote leaving the net democrat
vote 53 Th67figures are about the
Crabb Vincent are building a tsame in the case of the other two can-
warehoue in the rear oftheir stoie
Tlev Bates will hold regular services
at i je Episcopal church Sunday morn
ing and evening
A new sidewalk was laid on Cather
ine street this week from Main street
to Tillsons livery barn
A splendid musical program is pre
pared for the Presbyterian supper and
entertainment tomorrow evening
George dleinert went to Ainsworth
Fridsy and brought Mrs Reinert and
little son up with him Sunday night
Lost Tuesday Oct 20 between
Crookst3nand Georgia a gunnysack
and contents Leave atQuigleys and
receivevreward of 1 41
F E Gillette and S B Turner of
Ainsworth are in town this week hav
ing come up to buy a couple hundred
steers from J K Moore
Come in and sign the petition for
postal savings banks This is not a
partisan move at all leading men of
all parties advocating the measure
Bricklaying began on the school
house this week and is progressing in
good shape The contractors expect
to havethe building enclosed in about
three weeks
The war is over now and hereafter
we will print more news and less poli
tics A number of articles are crowd
ed out this week to give room for the
election returns
The M E aid socity will give a
turkey and oyster dinuer at the court
house on Thanksgiving day Save
yourselves the trouble at home and
comerpartake of ours and be thankful-
J AY Spirk representing the Pierce
Mill Co Pierce Neb and Minne
cbaduza Mill Vaentine 2Jeb was in
the city Wednesday on his return
rfroni the Black Hills He reports
trade bestin years
Prof 11 G Easley of Valentine
Jatley from New Albamy Ind will lec
ture in the school house at Crookston
SSebr Saturday evening Nov 6 1896
On a subject interesting to old and
young A short program will also be
given byijthe school Price of admis
sion adults 15c children untfer 12
years of age 10c The proceed will
be used in increasing the school Sibra
ry -Come esery body it w irerest
didates This is not so bad and is al
most as great as the populist vote yet
they said we had only 1 to their 10
Another peculiar fact found in the
table above is that the populists made
but 26 scratches in a total of about
60 votes and the republicans made 70
scratchesout of 96 votes while demo
crats made 45 scratches on the 53 bal
lots they cast This proves that dem
ocrats are more liberal in their views
than populists or republicans
About Postal Savings Bankti
The New England states and New
York are fairly well supplied with
savings banks Morever the banks in
those states are much safer than the
great majority of the savings institu
tions that are to be found in other
iparts of the country The savings
ibanks of the New England states and
New York are what are known a s
mutual savings banks managed by
trustees wno derive no profit from
their operation In other sections the
savings institutions are almost entire
ly stock banks operated for the profit
-of the stockholders and only too often
to the loss of the depositors In the
seven eastern states referred to none
but the mutual banks are allowed by
law to do a savings business If the
tpeople were to be limited to private
savings institutions as places of de
posit clearly every state ought to fol
low the example of New York and
New England and provide for mutual
banks
In the savings banks of the United
States as reported to the comptroller
of the currency there were last year
5065494 depositors with deposits to
their credit amounting to lj907156
277 Further according to the comp
troller of the currency nearly 80 per
cent of both number of depositors and
amount of deposit is represented by
banks in the New England states and
New York These seven states have
a population of approximately 12000
OJO or one sixth of the entire country
yet the savings banks of those states
hold four fifths of the savings deposits
of the country Two fifths of the sav
ings bank of the United States are lo
cated in these seven states Before
the en tire country can be as well sup
plied with savings banks facilities
several thousand new institutions
must- established
THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT
Published for Fonv Years as
CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT
VALENTINE CHERRY CO NEBRASKA THURSDAY NO VEMBER 4 1897
- jolLIHN IS ELECTED
xnacKrey - oxu
Fritz 593
Ballard
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For Sheriff
Strong 1 1 516
Waggoner -- 443
Childers 254
For Clerk j
Daniels 497
Burleigh 442
Metzger 24
For Judge
Jusion Candidate For Supreme Judge
Will Have a Comfortable Majority
HJSI0NISTS MAKE GAINS
JPlnralKy Will Exceed That of Bryan
Incomplete Returns Point to the De
feat of Post and the Balance of
the Republican Ticket
Xincolv Nov 2 Additional precinct
returns from the state today did not
oliange figures given last- uight
IT Oien ------ oOO rtrvfcinrr a fusion plurality exceeding
Towns 725
For fiuperintendeit
Stevenson - 502
Stoner 670
Above ds the vote for county of
ficers with two precincts to hear
from and they will not change the
result The fusion candidates
are elected and the republican
clerk treasurer and sheriff Yoto those from
on court house is unobtainable un
til official coiiiut Division is lost
Next week well tell how it all oc
curred
Sunday October 31 Company G of
th Twelfth Infantry gave a 100 din-
ner to 1st Seargt Wm Brill the occa
sion being his jetiiement from the ser
vice after thirty years of enlistment
twenty five years of which time vis
spent with the Twelfth With one ex
ception the entire company was pres
ent at the dinner and as a token of
their esteem the boys presented the
Seargeant with a handsome meer
schaum pipe Japanese tobacco jar and
a silver match safe General Wheeler
commander of the Illinois state mil
itia furnished the tobacco which filled
the jar It is well to note that Seargt
Brill is a veteran of the civil war and
joined the standing army after tfoe war
Ee goes from Fort Niobrara to Ohio
where he will add toftis retirement pay
of 33 a snug salary as instructor in a
military school He has many friends
here who will regret his departure and
wish him well In the future
Eli Precinct
Jessie Garner is spending a few
weeks visiting in the eastern part of
the state
James Dennison and family have
returned from Minnesota
Wm Nichols has taken the job of
holding Goodfellos cattle on their
winter range There are about 700 1
head of them
I B Nichols and son Charles are
plastering a house for W Curry
north of Merriman They will plast
er a house for Wm Crane while up
there
Tom Franks went to Chadroa on
business Monday
Miss was the only teacher
of the four in this precient who at
tended the teachers association at
Merriman Saturday
While in Valentine we spent a
pleasant hour with the editor and wife
at their pleasnt home on Elmore
street
Beatrice Steele went to Valentine
Saturday to attend school
41 votes were cast in this precinfc
The vote stood For assessor EcE
Crane 23 C W Goodrich 13 for
court house 29 against 7 F R
Yanish and Janes Dennison were
elected road overseers and P Sullivan
and I N Garner justices of the peace
Sandy
Kennedy
Samuel Sears and wife have return
ed to Cherry county to spend the win
ter
Miss Clomie Spain departed on 16th
ult for a visit with her sister Mrs
Rose Moberly at Deadwood
Mrs John Gee visited Mrs R M
Faddis at Pass last week
Anna Sears returned last week from
Loup county where she had been visit
ing relatives
Dan Sears returned on the 25th from
Woodlake with a bunch of cattle We
understand that ninety head got away
during the storm and Dan and his man
are still looking for them
Mr and Mrs S Q Spain visited
Valentine on the 22d where Mrs S
i had dental work done U S
that
of 1890 which was about 11000 At
fusion headquarters the same claim of
last night of a plurality of from 2000C
to 25000 was maintained Secretary
Sizer of the Republican committee
would not concede this or even admit
defeat Many of the Republican work
ers however accepted the returns at
hand as a certain indication of tho do
feat of Post Rep for supreme judge
and the balance of the state ticket A
seeming inconsistency in figures
sent out from Lincoln and
elsewhere in tho state
is explained by the difference in com
parisons made Governor Holcomb last
year rau far ahead of his ticket Re
turns sent last night other than from
Lincoln compared the fusion vote of
this year with the Holcomb vote of
last indicating a Republican gain when
by comparing with tho average fusion
vote of last year a fusion gain is shown
for this year The Republicans of this
Lancaster county elect their entire
ticket by slightly reduced pluralities
except Woods for register of deeds
Lincoln Nov 3 Nebraska has re
newed her allegiance to fusion by elect
ing the three candidates on thattickofc
by pluralities ranging from 10000 to
25ooo Complete returns have not been
received but enough are in to measure
the result and indicate a greater fusion
victory than in the presidential year
From fusion headquarters the follow
ing was given out by J H Edmisten
chairman We have carried Nebraska
for the fusion ticket by a plurality of
from 20000 to 25000 Together with
the magnificent victory for the state
ticket wo have carried a majority of
the county tickets Thecause3 leading
to the result is a determination on the
part of the people of Nebraska to de
mand more and better money through
the free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver
Chairman Mercer of the Republican
oommittee is sick at his home in
Omaha Secretary Sizer was unwill
ing to make any statement in the ab
sence of more complete returns
The State Journal Rep on returns
from 70 precincts outside Lincoln and
Omaha concedes defeat for the Repub
lican state ticket
At 1 30 this Wednesday morning
124 princts outside of Lincoln and
Omaha had been received by the State
Journal showing a net fusion gain of
1221 If this ratio of gain is main
tained the fusion plurality for the
state outside the two cities mentioned
will be very close to 20000 Lancaster
and Douglas counties cannot cut this
down more than 4000 and unless ma
terial Republican gains are made in
towns without telegraphic service tho
fusion plurality will remain at between
12000 and 16000
3Ir Bryan who is at his home was
-asked for an expression of opinion on
Nebraska in particular and the country
in general Further than to say that
the state returns were gratifying he
declined to make any statement until
he had more carefully studied the
figures
Omaha The Republican county ticket
was elected by majorities ranging from
1000 to 1800
Tho Omaha Bee says Returns from
Nebraska come with the customary de
lay so aggravating but apparently in
surmountable All that is certain this
morning is that tho vote is much lighter
than it was last year that in the 246
precincts outside of Douglas county
from which returns have been re
ceived up till 8 30 this morning a plu
rality of 90 for Holcomb in 1896
had been changed to a plurality of 492
forPosta net Republican gain of 582 A
steady increase in this ratio will elect
Post The retmrns received are widely
scattered over the state and include
manyof the strongest Populist pre
cincts
Kansa Returns Incomplete
Topeka Nov 3 -Practically no
figures are to be had to show the result
of yesterdays elections Both the Re
publicans and the fusionists are claim
ing to have elected a majority of the IS
district judges voted for but their
claims are indefinite In the Atchison
district ex Governor Glick fusionist
has been defeated for state senator by
R T Andrews Rep No figures are
to be had as to the election of the other
state senator and the four members of
the lower house to fill vacancies In
Wyandotte county in which is Kansas
City Kan the Republicans elected
their full ticket with the exception of
coroner by pluralities ranging from
200 -to 8000 Bryan carried the county
by 26 votes In this Shawnee county
theJtepublicans have substantial ma
jorities From only about a score of
the j 05 counties hive dafnite results
been received t s Jm jjJE
J JmLa
P O address
Merriman Nebr
Right ear cropped
Hole in center of left
ear
Range Lake creek
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Steadmau Bros
1 JJ
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Pass Neb
Brand on either
right or left side
Horses and some
cattle brand
on left side
and hip
Sam Hudson
Simeon Neb
Th
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Kange Bull Lake
and Wamaduce
creek
Charles Eenard
Rosebud S D
Bango Big White
and Bad Rivers
TJ
William M Dunbar
Lessee from Heine Kroeger
MS HSI I
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Cody Neb
DUn Either side
Also
Eifl
low
on
right
Left ear oi cattle
Split
Kange neau oi nay
reek
Joseph V Bownet
7 SI
Left hip on cattle
Left shoulder on
horses
Some horses Lazy
on left shoulder
Kance between
Gordon and Snake
River and Niobrara
Kiver
Left ears tagged All cattle dehorned
Henry
Rosebud S D
Left side
Horses same on
left shoulder
Deerhorn clip on
some cattle
Pratt
Ti1
William Shangren
Cody Neb
pinw
Dulap underside of
neck
NO 41
SWEATERS
BY DAY AND NICE WARM
LAIMKET
BY NIGHT ARE JUST NOW THE
TWO THINGS
MOST COMFORTABLE
We have a good
line of each See them
Davenport Thache
GENERAL MERCHANTS
Winters Coming
And now the careful housewife begins to look around for
FLANNELS - AND - ARCTICS
aud other warm and heavy goods
The best place to get them is at the store of
E McDonald
Indian goods trinkets and curios a specialty Store at Crookston also
Earl Comstock Manager
Valentine Neb
Cattle branded on
i left side or bip Also
969 TG
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Horses same as on
Isteer left hip Also
C on left shoulder
OWMOEEY
WATOHMAKEE - AND - JEWELEE
Fine line of plain and fancy jew
elry constantly on hand
Kepairing promptly executed and
done in the best manner
Eull line of sporting goods
O A WELLS
DENTIST
Office over
T C Hornbys Store
Whats the Uhb
Of travling one hundred miles further
and three hours longer to get to Sioux
City when you can take the Pacific
Short Line at ONeill and save both
time and distance Connections mado
e7ery day except Sunday with traius
east and west between Sioux City and
the Black Hills Buy tickets to
ONeill Same Fare
O M SAGESEE
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TONSORIAL
ARTIST
Hair cuttiag and shaving
Shop in the W H Mose3 building
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RAILROAD
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