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About Western news-Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1898-1900 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1898)
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25 26 25 25 25 25 26 lio 26 25 At ne sw G 32 - 25 VILLAGES AND TOWNS VALENTINE VILLAGE Amt G39 057 957 823 0G5 607 038 687 418 739 284 358 Amt 849 741 384 348 714 1137 888 284 774 534 422 338 635 787 594 635 741 320 736 575 476 787 735 Amt 701 G99 734 794 389 487 390 390 454 701 195 335 699 389 389 897 701 390 359 750 875 718 635 700 701 700 390 390 311 668 390 751 700 787 390 390 701 699 515 360 G62 390 389 389 587 656 G35 m m 718 701 699 717 551 96 368 292 735 604 3S9 700 486 377 390 701 390 750 390 700 766 700 700 10il 390 700 202 636 701 700 766 636 635 314 584 390 232 292 668 718 766 054 376 389 145 366 700 366 390 195 693 717 -69 24 97 488 390 488 389 C84 390 3S9 Lot Blk Amt Lot Blk AmL 3 1 S12o s 4 L26 9 g 1255 10 m 7 12o 11 5 12 1414 13 8ii 1 g it 219 2 15 627 3 10 109s 4 br 2 2 H5 14 l 26 5 1 26 15 i26 6 1100 21 112 10 1255 02 LIS 1 3 786 30 158 2 125 30 1099 3 691 25 10 188 5 120 26 L89 9 1004 6 11 410 11 721 14 1097 2 ft width 15 1560 of 12 At 13 1318 37 4706 I 4 942 18 2038 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5 6 Lot 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 U 13 16 17 18 19 20 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 12 15 KILGORE VILLAGE Blk Amt 1 229 2 43 2 47 SPARKS VILLAGE L 9 10 Blk J 7 Blk 7 7 9 18 24 27 27 Lot Blk 17 and 18 2 19 to 32 2 CROOKSTGN VILLAGE Blk Amt 1 19 1 19 1 224 Lot Blk 17 1 IS to 21 1 NENZBL VILLAGE Blk Amt 1 04 2 06 3 04 4 06 5 39 6 39 Lot All 5 and 0 5 and 6 All All 4 to 10 Blk 7 S 9 10 11 12 753 188 L88 188 13 1463 1489 1255 1255 14 2519- 2510 314 188 1255 220 942 722 1255 16 1506 18 157 157 157 269 2041 125 126 601 942 TO Amt 469 05 93 787 690 140 92 125 090 93 785 96 94 94 92 C H CORNELLS ADDITION TO VALENTINE Lot Blk Amt Lot Blk Amt 8 1 94 19 2197 9 94 20 189 16 126 KAUTZS ADDITION TO VALENTINE 13 1 to 3 6 to 8 14 5 and 6 5 and 6 Lot All of 9 to 11 12 Lot 1 to 5 7 to 16 7 to 16 Lot 1 1 1 1 1 to 10 All 14 61 22 l4 19 18 Amt 49 38 37 37 37 37 37 37 50 50 50 50 50 53 51 53 48 50 48 37 37 34 31 37 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6 4 23 5 12 VOGTS ADDITION TO CODY VILLAGE Lot Blk Amt I Lot Blk Amt 3 2 - 12 14 and 15 2 12 and 13 2 71 1 1 3 COLES ADDITION TO CODY Lot Blk Amt 1 to 3 1 123 GEORGIA VILLAGE Lot Blk Amt 11 and 12 1 94 Lot 9 and 10 18 to 20 5 and 6 3 2 and 3 1 3 and 4 24 12 Amt 18 28 18 05 09 04 09 Amt 28 196 Amt 05 16 Amt 72 08 10 41 -41 -27 Lot Blk Amt Lot Blk Amt 5 to 9 1 21 24 2 05 10 1 06 1 and 2 3 212 15 and 16 1 07 3 to 5 3 12 18 1 04 6 3 61 1 to 19 2 76 7 to 16 S 41 20 2 05 4 4 204 21 2 04 5 to 12 4 32 I J -E Thackrey Treasurer of Cfrerry County Nebraska hereby certify thir the above and foregoing Is a true correct d complete list of the lands and town lots Iff Cherry Cotffity Nebraska upon which the taxes remain unpaid and of the amount of taxes assessed against each tract And v i that I will offer the above lands and town lots at public sale at my office in the Court House in Valentine Nebraska on the first Monday in November 1898 between thfl hours of 9 a ni and 4 p m said sale to bi continued from day to day until all bavi been offered for sale 1 E THACKREY County Treasurer DRIVEN MAD BY TORTURE Frightful Practices in Saghalienf Bns siaa Penal Settlement The presence of a batch of convicts in Odessa Russia for deportation to Saghalien has occasioned the publica tion of various accounts of the treat ment received by the prisoners in that island and if the numerous stories are true Saghalien must be a veritable in ferno Eye witnesses relate that a common sight is that of shackled hu man beings yoked to a huge cart 1 nose weight tries the strength of tltrir un derfed bodies to the uttermost These men are demoralized by the brutality of their surroundings and the cruelty of the officials who are ever ready to have recourse to the knout to enforce submission An attempt to es cape is punished with ten years extra imprisonment and it needs only one or two failures -to break away to living about an unfortunate prisoners resi dence in this slough of despond One form of treatment is the coupling of the shackles which ensheath a prison ers ankles to a wheelbarrow This the victim must drag night and day for months perhaps till the iron in flames the flesh and the legs mortify His comrades may mercifully soak the feet and forcibly pull off the bandsa process which is attended with the most excruciating agony but which is eagerly The knouting of a man is a scene of incredible barbarity TlTe victim is mounted on a specially constructed wooden horse and his back is bared The scourge is applied with such vio lence that at each stroke pieces of flesh are torrf away and the blood from the wounds bespatters the face of the exe cutioner Such is the horror of Saghalien that men and women go mad and lunatics are to be found hiding in quiet places All the women are more or less de mented Their lot is peculiarly un happy They are given to the bache lor convicts men whom for the most part they have never seen before EveD those who are not convicts lose theii reason as witness the story of Mile Naumofa This lady had devoted her life to the rescue of children in this un happy spot and for years had spread a light and comfort around her but in a paroxysm of madness induced by the soul torturing surroundings shot Her self Her work was taken up by three older ladies one of these shot herself the second went raving mad and the third married a warder London News A Contrast One man through favor or influence or interest gains a high office in politi cal life Another without any of these accessories wins an equal place through his fitness for it gained by long years of faithful loyal service and gradual preparation The former not withstanding his official position has undergone no more improvement than the mineral which was dug from the earth As he was before so he re mains The latter has become truly el evated for he has risen in worth the force from within has developed his powers and fitted him for higher use fulness One youth has been through the various stages of school and col lege life he has been sent abroad for culture and he has had done for him all that money and friends can do yet with all this external pushing up wards he may not have half the true mental elevation of another who with out any advantages but what he has earned for himself is yet a close think er a sincere seeker after truth an earnest wrestler with mental difficul ties a student not merely of books but of men and of nature Plack A remarkable act of pluck and brav ery on the part of one of the gentler sex was displayed at Wissahickon sta tion on the Reading Railway A bevy of young ladies who were out on a chestnuttlng picnic from West Phila delphia were waiting for a trolley car to convey them to Norristown A man much the worse for liquor came walk ing along the station platform and just as a train was approaching attempted to cross the tracks One of the young ladies saw his danger and quicker than a flash she jumped on the track seized the unfortunate man by the nape of the neck and threw him out of harms way The next moment the train rushed past All the girls and the rescued victim got aboard the trolley car and before they reached Roxborough the man sobered up sufficiently to realize the peril he had been in and to show his gratitude offered to marry the girl at sight She however declined on the plea that it was the first offer she had ever had Philadelphia Record Veteran Cursed His Luck Abraham Sprawls was a veteran of three wars and he used to live in Wire grass Ga He had lost one leg in battle and walked around on a wooden stump One day he got in the way of a fast mail and the engine ran over him One of his sons and he had a family of fif teen had witnessed the accident and running toward him shouted Trains cut off dads leg an hell git damages He lifted the old man to inspect his wounds but suddenly let him fall say ing in a tone of disgust Durn it all Its his wooden leg theyve cut off Yes groaned theold man as they wheeled him home its just my durned luck Cant see to save me how they missed the good leg Atlanta Consti tution There is certaiajy something of ex quisite kindness ani2 thoughtful benev olence in that rarest of gifts fine bfceedinj Bulwer l tK HJafWi THE ISLAND OF DREAMa Iway away to the Island of Dreams n the sea of night where the starlight gleams There hope ever reigns eternal supreme Though only the hope of a fanciful dream In the Island of Dreams there are no tears And age never comes though thousands of years Should come and go while you dwell on the shore Your heart would be young while wait ing for more In the Island of Dreams love is the king On the mystical throne that he may bring The hope of the heart sought fondly so long And tune the sad soul for a dreamland song In the Island of Dreams the heart is pure As flowers that bloom on the twilight shore Tempest and tempter of the distant past Will there give the soul a respite at last In the Island of Dreams again we meet The long lost ones whose wandering feet Have reached the distant enchanted strand And the peace and rest of the dreamlit land In the Island of Dreams our sweethearts wait As they did of old at the garden gate And the lips will then touch asthey touch in dreams And joy be as real and sweet as it seems In the Island of Dreams I have a friend Who comes every night when slumbers will lend The aid of a vision to sleepy eyes And brings me a message from paradise Away to the Island of Dreams Ill go Out on the shadows how darkly they flow Listen wait be still watch the golden beams Fading so faint to the Island of Dreams THE ULACIERr K1WIM 1 A PRETTY tough climb isnt Z it Max u Tbe speaker was a tall Englishman of perhaps 50 but looking bs hard and tough and generally fit as most men of half his age Yes sir said the guide who stood before him at the inn door and well have to start early if we are to get back the same day Sir Robert Ballard turned and re entered the room Prom a desk he pulled out a sheet of paper and pick ing up a pen sat down at a table and began a letter My dear Harry he wrote Im afraid J have not been quite fair to you Thinking over things again I can see that your foolish pranks which so much offended me may have been Indeed no doubt were he results of sheer youthful high spirits I am therefore again altering my will and instead of my cousin James Rennie be ing my residuary legatee you will find the bulk of my property will eventual ly come to you and that you will grow up a man worthy of the trust I am re posing in you Your affectionate uncle ROBERT BALLARD Sir Robert sealed and stamped the letter and then on a sheet of foolscap proceeded rapidly and with business like precision to re draught his will It seemed an easy enough matter and took but a very few minutes You would hardly have imagined the amount iu question was something like 80000 or 90000 The rapid pen ceased flying over the paper and Sir Robert touched the bell Call Max Schneider he said to the waiter and you too come in I want you to witness this signature for me He signed the document the two men affixed their signatures and then he folded it placed It in an envelope and slipped it into an inner pocket of his Norfolk jacket What time do we start to morrow Max he asked Not later than half past three sir answered the guide Very well then I shall go to bed at once and I suppose youll do the same then to the waiter Mind you call me sharp at 3 Good night II Great luck having such lovely weather eh Max Lovely indeed Sir Robert but pray dont say anything about it till were clear of the ice Its the worst of bad luck Sir Sir Robert laughed the laugh of a strong man who is thoroughly pleased with himself Indeed he had reason to be pleased Very few men had ever climbed the beetling cliffs of the Aiguille Vert at all Fewer still could boast of having accomplished the feat within the hours of a single day Half an hour later they reached the edge of the ice The sun had now set and the air chill with approaching night was no longer clear as it had been Pale wreaths of smoky mist hung in light bands which seemed to shift and change kaleidoscopically though no breeze was felt Still roped together as they had been during the entire climb they crossed the moraine and started steadily tramp ing across the rough ice whose surface was broken by a hundred deep rifts and lumpy yawning crevasses The fog closed and fell thicker and thicker Some three hours later that night one of the guides burst into the kitchen of tiie Montvert Inn His face was white and drawn and he was almost speechless with excite ment misery and fatigue At lasxt he managed to grasp out his piteous suory how they had missed their way iij a fog how he had heard a sharp cry of warninff from Max w iMmimmtmWii2FfUm0Hm was leading the party how next he had been jerked off his feet by a tre mendous pull at the rope round bis waist and how he had desperately saved himself by driving his alp2nstick 1ntn thp 1pp Nfrt thin hp knw lin i 0 was alone alone on the eage of a giant crevasse whose misty depths yawned silent as a grave The instant they understood him a rescue party was formed under the guidance of Herman the innkeeper All night the devoted man worked and most of the next day But it was useless The glacier does not easily give up Its prey III A big broad shouldered good looking young fellow of about eight and twenty was sitting in a rather dingy little room in Bloomsbury answering a letter he had just received Harry Ballard had been looking out for a chance to accompany a reading party abroad during the long vacation and by good lucli even better billet had come his way An old friend of his father a Mr Ffolkes had written to him to engage his services as tutor and general bear leader to his son young Edward Ffolkes during a forth coming Swiss tour He had always wanted to get abroad and now the chances had fallen his way he was resolved to make the most of It Young Everard his pupil was a thoroughly nice lad and the whole expedition seemed to partake more of the nature of a holiday than serious work The two trudged afoot through lovely valleys up turf clad slopes drinking in the clear air and enjoying themselyes rather like two school boys than a tutor and his pupil Everard wanted to climb a moun tain Harry rather discouraged the idea He told the boy of the fate of his uncle Sir Robert Ballard Yes I remember of hearing of that when I was quite small answered Everard sympathetically Were the bodies ever recovered No never said Harry and prob ably never will be They walked in silence a little way Then Harry said Do you know Everard I should like rather to see the place Suppose we go up to Montvert We can do it in two days from Chamounix Your father put no restriction on our move ments Then lets go replied the boy keenly Montvert had become quite a fash ionable resort within the last few years The old inn had been much en larged It boasted all sorts of modern improvements among them a drawing room a band and a visitors book The latter Harry was studying when he was startled by the names Mr James Rennie and Miss Rennie and maid Glasgow nMy cousins by Jove he muttered He had seen nothing of them for years not since Mr Rennie had come in for all of Sir Roberts money The daughter Muriel he had never seen James Rennie he knew by repute as a rather hard and canny Scotchman and here they were staying at the same hotel They met that evening m the draw ing room And this is my daughter Muriel Rennie said Harry looked up and saw a soft dot of a girl in a black evening gown who gave him a warm impulsive hand Bhake Somehow Harry and his charge stay ed on at Montvert for a whole fort night Harry was a new man The inevit able was happening Only the poor fellow had not realized it Each suc cessive day was plunging him more deeply in love with his cousins daugh ter Them the Rennles gave a picnic It turned out a brilliant sunny day and it was decided to go up the valley to a wood near the lower end of the Aig uille Vert glacier It was at this picnic it for the first -time struck Mr Rennie that Harry was a trifle more attentive to Muriel than there was any occasion for He did not say anything but he made up his mind to two things First to watch the young couple pretty care fully that day secondly to leave Mont vert to morrow Harry and Muriel slipped off amongst the trees and soon found themselves quite alone they strolled down to where from under its arch of muddy ice the glacier river started on its foamy career and seated them selves near by on a great mossy stone under a pine tree The blazing sun made the shade most welcome and the two sat there quietly drinking in the warm scent of the woods Im afraid our holiday will be soon over she said We have to be home by the first of October Harry experienced a curious shock With extraordinary suddenness he re alized what life would be without Muriel Muriel he said quickly and earn estly Muriel will you care Apparently she did for when five minutes later an interested spectator walked quietly up behind them over the carpet of noiseless pin needles he saw a sight that made his smooth face wrinkle with rage The two cousins were sitting closer together than strict cousinship and Muriels head was leaning on Harrys shoulder James Rennie lost his temper You sneaking young scoundrel said he advancing toward them Mu riel turned in astonishment and Harry rose very quietly There was a dan gerous gleam in his eye You were saying That you are a scheming fortune hunter Your uncle cut you off and now you think to Tegain the money in a low underhand way by marrying my daughter OrabJ A sharp rending sound fol lowed by a heavy fall made all three jump back A great piece of Ice loosened by the heat had fallen away from the glacier end and something else something dark and soft had slipped from the broken mass and lay limply on the de bris below For a moment no one moved Then Harry stepped forward and stood by the fallen figure The others followed It was the body of a man He was dressed in rough tweeds and his upturned face had a quiet peace ful expression He might have died an hour ago Instinctively the men removed their hats Then Harry looked at Mr Ren nie You know who it Is he asked Yes its Sir Robert he answered in a low voice They picked up the body and lifted it into the shade of the pines As they did so a folded paper fell from the torn jacket That evening Harry met Muriel In the hotel garden Your father has told you what ftj was he found he asked Yes dear she answered And ha told me too about your suggestion Harry you are very generous and do you know father appreciates it Im glad he doesnt think badly of me any longer darling said Harry but you know we shall be rich on half the money shant we Muriels answer quite satisfied himj Omaha Bee Dutch omnibuses are fitted with let ter boxes Of 51000 breweries In the world 25 000 are in Germany j The first large iron bridge in thej world was built over the Severn in 1777 come out and grow In curls janl Scientists assert that the ny make 660 strokes a second with its wings Moscows orphan asylum foundedf by Catherine II is supported by a tax on playing cards The Visitor states that the new Cath j olic cathedral In London will be conn pleted by the year 1900 Lobsters have a great dread of thuni der and when peals are very loud will swim to deeper water Meteors rush through space at the rate of twenty six miles a second They are not usually larger than a peb4 ble and on striking the earths atmosi phere they immediately dissolve intci gas The British museum contains the old est specimen of pure glass which bears any date This is a little lions head having on it the name of an Egyptian king of the eleventh dynasty The quiver of the aspen leaves is dufl to the fact odf the leaf stalk being flat on the sides and so thin about the mid dle that the slightest breath of wind sets all the leaves wagging horizontal ly Flogging has become so indispensa ble In Russia that some Inventor has perfected a machine which saves the human arm Under the flagellation of the machine taxes and arrears are to become speedily collected Cranberries are not injured by freez ing They are often sent as far as Manitoba in open box cars When they arrive they are frozen into solid blocks of Ice The sides of the cases are knocked off and the berries are expos ed in a solid mass like cakes of Ice Hartland in Devonshire has had only three vicars since 1700 The pres ent vicar has held the place since 1859 his predecessor held it for sixty two years having served as curate for ten years before and succeeding an In cumbent who served thirty seven years No sovereign of the United Kingdom was every crowned in Ireland bu double coronations of English mon archs have not been Infrequent Henry VII was crowned at Westminster and again at Worcester Henry III a Gloucester and Westminster and Henry VI at Paris and Westminster The Indemnity Was Paid The controversy between Haiti and Germany over the Lueders case said an old resident to a Star reporter re cently brings to my mind the fact that the United States at one time at least during my life showed the same spirit that Germany did in demanding an indemnity at the point of a gun The incident happened just after ther close of the war and was about the same kind of affair The Brazilian gov ernment had imprisoned or treated an American citizen in some outrageous way arid the American minister at Rio Janeiro acting on his instructions demanded an indemnity He was put off from day to day and finally from week to week until he made up his mind that he was either going to do his duty or lose his position so he said nothing more about the matter but waited for a United States warship to anchor in the harbor When the ves sel arrived he quietly moved his effects from the legation to the boat nndxtben announced to the powers in Brazil that he had located the United States lega tion on the deck of a United States war ship and that unless that indemnity was forthcoming in three hours he would shell the town The indemnity was paid If theLord answered the girls prayem he would afflict every one of them with a fever after which their hair woultL Every time a man cuts a cantaloupe which he picked out for a good one he has to revise his rules governing XhL point of good cantaloupes