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Horses ZZ on loft
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Karmaik Quaiter
clip behind half cir
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Range LoneTiee
Lake
Pullman Neb
Clicrry Co
ISraml on left tide
and thigh
Earmark square
crop right ear
Southern branded
cattle have but one
brand on leftside
Nathe cattle have
throat viaLlta
Jtlauue on lioruon and hnakc Creeks
Horses have same brandon left thigh
A Rnicrtrtl otOO will be paid taanv
person Tor information lending to the arrest anil
final conviction of anv person or put sous bteal
ting cattle with above brand
Joseph W Bownct
F O address
Merrimau Nebr
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Hole in center of left
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Lessee fJom Heine Kroeger
Cody Neb
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Cody Neb
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Mcriiman Neb
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Charles EL Faulhaber
Brownlee Kebr
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left shoulder
Left ear cut off of
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Range Loup river
Marshall Wolfendeii
Louis F Richards
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Charles Benard
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Brownlee Neb
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Cody Neb
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Rosebud S D
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In the House on Monday a resolution
calling for information as to the concen
trndos in Cuba was adopted Another res
olution calling for the correspondence re
lating to the exclusion of American fruit
beef and horses from Germauy was
adopted The remainder of the day was
devoted to District of Columbia business
A feature of the Senate session was a
speech in advocacy of the free coinage of
standard silver dollars by Mr Allen Mr
Harris introduced a resolution calling for
information regarding the abandonment
of the Governments purpose to bid in the
Kansas Pacific Railway under a guaran
tee of the full amount of the principal of
the debt On Mr Chandlers objection it
went over one day
In the IJouse on Tuesday the time was
devoted to the consideration of bills and
ioint resolutions and sixteen of more or
less public importance were passed An
order was entered by unanimous consent
for the consideration of the Loud bill re
lating to second class mail matter on
March 1 2 and i and the order for the
consideration of the bankruptcy bill was
modified so that the final vote shall be
taken on Saturday instead of Monday
The Senate bill amending the navigation
laws was passed as was the bill to make
it lawful to transmit through the mails
private postal cards with a 1 cent stamp
aflixed In the Senate a resolution was
passed after a spirited debate calling for
information regarding the sale of the
Union Pacific road
The debate on the bankruptcy bill open
ed in the House on Wednesday but it at
tracted little attention the interest of
Ihe members being entirely absorbed by
he disaster to the Maine At times the
ball of the House was almost deserted
the members being congregated in the lob
bies or cloak rooms discussing the acci
dent and speculating upon its probable
consequences Just before the House ad
journed Mr Boutelle chairman of the
vaval committee presented a resolution
which was unanimously adopted express
ing regret for the disaster condolence
with the families of those who lost their
lives and sympathy with the injured A
discussion upon the coast defenses was
the interesting feature of the Senate
Many Senators took the ground that the
appropriations should be for the full
amount of the estimates by the War De
partment instead of some 4000000 less
Senators Perkins and Hale said that it
was the policy of the Appropriations Com
mittee to make an annual expenditure of
10000000 for fortifications Sena
tors Stewart Hawley Chandler and
Lodge spoke in favor of increases Sen
ior Teller also advocated liberal expen
ditures anil during his remarks made sig
nificant allusions to Cuba and Hawaii
Tn the early part of the day there was a
discussion of the Kansas Pacific Railroad
sale but no action was taken
In the nouse the debate on the bank
ruptcy bill continued on Thursday Messrs
Moody Rep Mass Alexander Rep
N Y Broderick Rep Kan McCall
Rep Mass Knox Rep Mass Crum
packcr Rep Ind and Dolliver Rep
Iowa spoke for it and Messrs Little
Dem Ivy Smith Dem Ivy Wilson
Dem S C Maddox Dem Ga Spark
aiiin Dem Pla and Bartlett Dem
Ga against it In the Senate by a vote
3f 34 to 29 the resolution of Mr Turpie
declaring the Senates opposition to the
confirmation of the sale of the Kansas Pa
cific Railroad was agreed to The Cor
bett senatorial case was discussed by Mr
Pettus and Mr Hoar An agreement was
reached to take a final vote upon the case
Feb 2S
Aside from adoption of the resolution
giving the Secretary of the Navy permis
sion to use 200000 in the work of rais
ing the battle ship Maine Friday in the
House was devoted to a continuation of
the debate on the bankruptcy bill The
speakers were Messrs Sulzer Dem N
Y Strode Rep Neb Connolly Rep
111 Rixey Dem Ya Grosvenor Rep
O Sayers Dem Texas and Ray Rep
N Y in favor of the bill and Messrs
Kitchins Rep N C Linney Rep N
C Love Dem Miss Ball Dem Tex
Henry Dem Miss Maguire Dem
Cal Bland Dem Mo Ball Pop
Colo De Arniond Dem Mo Wheel
er Dem Ala and Lloyd Dem Mo
against it In the Senate the Maine dis
aster and the Cuban question occupied the
entire day
Owned by the Nation
Queen Elizabeth -was passionately
fond of flowers but -with the -wealth of
an imperial nation at her back she
could not enjoy them at all seasons of
Jie year as she desired The uncertain
ly of the time maimer and quality of
the flowers wore irritating to her and
from her dissatisfaction with the exist
ing order of things grew the most fa
mous garden of the world With her
own hands Queen Elizabeth laid out
the grounds that were to produce and
fructify the flowers of her drawing
room She stirtetl to raise flowers for
her own personal gratification and
piwIpi In nrofliifinir Hmvorc nml nlnnte
I for the millions No single desire of
an impetuous queen ever yielded better
fruit On Queen Elizabeths little flow
er garden the nation gazes to day with
national pride Its original purpose of
supplying the royal table with cut
flowers is still observed but that is a
small incidental feature of the Kew
The garden beioiurs to the nation and
it is the nation the ignorant and un
lettered as well as the wise and stu
dious that enjoys its fragrant flowers
it graceful trees and palms rad its
baKimic herbs and plants
When Empress l ive Out
When her majesty the Empress of
Japan drives out no one is permitted to
Jook at lier from the windows or chinks
in the doors or any part of the house
h i must sit down by the side of the
tree through which she passes Each
person must doff hat or cap as she
eept the women in European
v hose heads may remain
No one may speak or follow the
niiao and uo noise of any kind is
a ou the streets through which
v asses Brooklyn Eagle
BATTLING WITH SNOW
fireat Railways Are Kejit Clear in
Winter at Enormous Cobt
There are thousands of men in the
Northwest whose only occupation dur
ing the winter months is to light snow
It is exciting work too a life that in
volves the greatest hardships and con
tinual risks One might search the
world over for a more desperate and
dangerous employment The cost of
these snow storms to the railroads is
something enormous It is estimated
that the two leading lines running west
through Minnesota and North Dakota
the Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern ajid the leading road in the
northern part of South Dakota the Chi
cago Milwaukee and St Paul have
spent during one season not less than
100000 in clearing snow from their
tracks and in putting up additional
fences and guards Besides their shops
become tilled with equipments dam
aged or ruined in tussles with the hard
snow ice on miles of tracks In addi
tion other roads whose mileage is not
so great or Avhose lines are in parts of
the Northwest less exposed are said to
have spent half as much more in the
ame time In all it is believed i000
D00 is not too high an estimate of the
lirct t loss outside of lessened travel
o the roads in the blizzard section dur
ng a hard winter
Under favorable circumstances the
snow parts readily before the onslaught
f tho plow but when the drifts are
round too deep or too hard for the
alow to handle hundreds of men are
set at work and most of them learn
or the lirst time that shoveling snow
s about as hard work as a man can ask
They lo not dig the track open but are
set off into little groups a few yards
apart and each group cuts a square
hole down into the drift perhaps clear
through it perhaps only part of the
way down Then the men are with
drawn to a safe distance and the wedge
plow driven by three or four mogul
locomotives pulling a half dozen heavily-loaded
coal cars to give impetus to
he mass when it strikes the bank of
s now is sent at full speed into the hol
lowed drift Often the entrance is
made at a speed of thirty or forty miles
in hour and usually the drift is con
quered
The introduction of the rotary plow
aas simplified the task of snow lighting
aiore than anything else especially in
he prairie country It bores its way
aito snow banks clearing just enough
ton Sykes on notes to wLich the bar 1
onets name was attached On tic trial
the latter swore that he lrad not signed
the notes but that his wife had been
guilty of forgery
The revelations on the trial of her
ladyships career as a high gambler
amazed all England She is known at
Monte Carlo and people who make a
i profession of betting on horse races
have come into possession of much of
her monev She plays baearrat She
likes to buy 50000 race winners and
she is eccentric in many more ways
AVhen Lord Sykes married her she was
a popular woman The third duke of
Portland was her great grandfather
The present duke is her cousin Her
aged husband has a rent roll of 500
000 Lady Sykes wanted money to play
cards and the baronet gave her plenty
of it lni t finally protested Lady
Svkes declared that her husband en-
LADV TATTOX SYKES
couraged her to gamble and shared in
her profits but refused to share her
losses She says she will sue him for
divorce and an increase of alimony and
maybe for perjury
SUE AS A SURGEON
How the Great Writer Attended tv
His Friends Leg
Eugene Sue and the eccentric wit
Romieu were intimate friends and
often enjoyed the wildest pranks to
gether One evening they dined at the
Cafe de Paris On the way home Ho-
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FIGHTING THE SNOW KING IN THE NORTHWEST
space to enable the waiting train to
pass through Some of the bigger plows
weigh over fifty tons by themselves
and with the machinery that operates
them the total weight is over 100 tons
In a number of cases snow fences
along the tracks have been blown into
the cuts by winds during the storms
and then covered by snow the whole
mass being frozen solidly Into this
mass rotary plows have been driven
and not being constructed to fool with
sections of fencing they have invaria
bly got the worst of it and been disa
bled One disabled machine starting
for the shops for repairs was behind
an engine that had to leave it and run
for water Twenty minutes after the
locomotive had gone the track was
hopelessly blocked and it took three
days to got back to that rotary plow
At another time at a station in North
ern Minnesota the engine of a passen
ger train was detached to go to a tank
LOGO feet away When the water had
been taken the engineer found the
track blocked that he had come over
five minutes before and it took him
and his fireman just fourteen hours to
go back that 1000 feet to the train
waiting at the station A fearful bliz
zard was raging and no man from the
station dared go to their relief while
they did not dare trust themselves
more than a few feet from their ma
chine At the end of fourteen hours
they had shoveled before the engine so
as to get back and they were so badly
frost bitten as to be laid up for several
days
It is difficult to realize that the air
can be so full of snow as to hide objects
only a few feet away and that this ob
structing snow is so fine as not to be
distinguishable at the same time It is
hard to understand how a man can lose
his way in broad day on his own door
step or on the way from his house to
his barn but hundreds have had the
experience and scores have died in con
sequence
A BLUE BLOODED GAMBLER
Lady Tatton Pylces an English Plun
der and Alleged Forger
The attention of Englishmen and
Americans as well has lately been held
by the sensational suit of Jay a Lon
don money lender against Tatton
Sykes a ricli old Yorkshire baronet
The money lender sued to recover 50-
CC0 wiiieli lis hzH leased to Lady Tat- J
mien made a misstep and sprained his
ankle
Sue who had been a surgeon in the
navy picked his groaning companion
up placed him in a carriage and drove
him rapidly home where after put
ting him to bed he hurriedly dressed
his foot
At the commencement of the opera
tion Romieu who was suffering great
ly fainted away and did not come to
until it was over when he murmured
his heartfelt thanks for the relief he
felt Eugene Sue justly proud of his
professional skill went away promis
ing to return the next morning to re
new ithe treatment
When morning arrived so did Sue
still a little anxious about the sprain
Romieu was asleep as he entered the
room
Well my dear friend how do you
feel this morning inquired Sue
Ah said Romieu yawning never
better in my life My foot must be
well I have not stirred all night
As he spoke he attempted to leap
from his bed but the action was at
tended with a yell that almost shook
the house He sank back upon the
bed as pale as a sheet
What cried Sue Can your leg
be broken Does it still pain you like
unat Let me see it
You You See then what you
have done cried the victim throw
ing back the clothes with a dramatic
gesture and a horrible face
Sue looked The leg that was care
fully bound and wound in cloths never
looked better but the other it was so
badly swollen that the bones could not
be seen
Alas cried the erstwhile surgeon
I have dressed the wrong foot Why
didnt you tell me that it was the other
one that hurt
My dear Eugene said the suffer
ing patient sitting up in his bed you
are a great writer no doubt but wav
ing his hand toward the door kindly
hasten and send me a surgeon
Everyone thinks he can get along
with nice men and that he is annoyed
only by fools
The gossip that the milk men give
their patrons should be called Chalk
Talks
When a farmer tickles the earth lus
fields lausli with crops
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GEO G SCHWALM PROP
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Smoked Hams Breakfast JBacon and Vegetables
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To keep our great factory
busy and introduce early our splen
did 98 models we have concluded to
make a marvelous offer direct to the rider
For 3o days we will sell samples of our
swell 93 bic3cles at net cost to manufac
ture and will ship C O D on approval
to any address on receipt of the nominal
sum of igo if west of Denver 5 This-
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Valentine Nebraska
Every facility extended customers consistent with conservative banking
Exchange bought and sold Loans upon good security solicited at reasonabld
rates County depository
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Notary Public
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Real Estate
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Valentine Nebraska
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South of Court House
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Highest grade embodying every late improve
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sprockets handsomest finish and decorationn Mnrmn Ar
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finished and decorated Morgan Wright quick repair tires single or double tube
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Brunswick tires standard equipment Special price on sample 1900
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