FLATO COMMISSION COMPANY
LIVE STOCK SALESMEN AND BROKERS
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JHrcrtor * : .Salemnen :
F. W. FLATO , JR , 1'resident. ED II. HEID )
PAUL FLATO , Viw President. JIM s. HOKN \ Battle ? a Jitn <
I C DAIILMAN. secretary. E. W. CAIIOW. Ho Salesina"
JOHN D SEITZ. HUGH II ITCIICOCK , Sheep
ED H. HIED , JOHN P CLARY , Cashier
SOUTH OMAHA , NEBRASKA
Correspondents :
DRUM-FLATO COMMISSION COMPANY
Capital $500,000.00.
CHICAGO. KANSAS CITY. ST. LOUIS
flTOCK EXCHANGE
BESTAURANT. -
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
E. T. MILLEE , Proprietor.
LODGING FelT STOCKMEN
40 NEWLY FURNISHED ROOMS-
262 N STREET , South Omaha.
f Throe Doors From Omer
RATES : $1.00 to 61.50 Per Day. Telephone No. 67
85.00 to 87.00 Per We k.
R HOT
J.
MRS. JOHN REED , Proprietress.
STOCKISTS PATRONAGE ESPECIALLY SOLICITED ,
[ 5th St. Between L and I Streets. Sc nth Omaha , Nebr
A Few Facts For Cattle Dealers.
It has * been repeatedly
demonstrated in
the past that
Stands at top as a market for Range Feeders
You can satisfy yourself us to the truth of that slarement by
comparing the saies at Sioux City , last year , with those at any other
competitive market. You can also ask your neighbors who have sold
ca "tie ai Sioux City. Tins year Sioux City is in the field for fat cat
tle as well as feeders. The great beef slaughtering plant of the
Cudahy Packing Co. is ready for business
The capacity of the Stock Yards has been
greatly increased , and you will find
excellent facilities for handling
your business.
No charges , except for feed ordered if your cattle are not sold on our market
" he Sioux City Stock Yards Co.
JOHN II. KEENE , General Manager.
Millinery
and Ladies' Furnishing Goods
CALL AND GET PRICES.
CORA GILLETT.
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LIVESTOCK
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
SOUTH OMAHA , NEBRASKA
Konm 1O8 Exchange
Keferences :
ONION STOCK YARDS PACKERS' NATIONAL
NATIONAL BANK BANK.
Telphone
\Vehave a large clientage among Nebraska Feeders ami can always ueat Omaha prices to
Mancli customers IF NOTIFIED BEFORE SHIPMENT.
MRS , HARRIS BOARDING HOUSE
AND BAKERY ,
Fruits * and * Confectionery
Meals at all hours ,
Price , 25 cent , First door South of Valentine Bank ,
< W 4 ? ? The DONOHER
S ? -rV
4 ?
4 ? J& continually adding improvements and it is now the
best equipped , and most comfortable
FIRST-CLASS MODERN HOTEL
IN NOUT1IWEST NEBRASKA
Hot and Cold Water Excellent Bath Room Two Sample Room *
HERRY OUNTY HANK
Valentine , Nebraska
Every facility extended customers consistent with conservative bankin
Exchange bought and sold Loans upon good security solicited at reasonali
rates. County depository
E. SFAUKS , President CHARLES SPARKS Cashier
WESTERN NEWS-DEMOCRAT
EGBERT GOOD , Editor and Publisher
The present state legislature will
soon adjourn , and well that it may , for
about all it has done was to elect M. L.
Hay ward U. S. Senator , who the
Omaha I3ee says is "a railroad tool
from away back. ' '
The O'Neill Independent last A\eek
indulges in a two-column roa-t of the
pop state oilicia.s , from Cornell down
to Superintendent Jackson. Popping
it to pops by pop papers is the game.
Ainsworth Journal.
How different all this is from the
way the republican papers treated
Bartley and Moore.
There is -bitter fight on in Holt
county against the retention on the
bench of Judge Kinkaid. Westover , if
he accepts a renomination , will evi
dently lead the ticket this fall , and if a
good running mate is nominated , Kin
kaid will be retired to private life.
Several prominent republicans have
privateh expressed themselves in favor
of this change.
When President McKinley did not
put a crushing heel upon Algerism , he
lost his opportunity. When he did
not demand , with all the fullness of
the high authority vested in him , that
his investigation should investigate , he
lost his opportunity. When he did not
define his country's attitude towards
the natives of Luzon at the critical
moment , he lost his opportunity. St.
Louis Republic.
lu 1880 there were 24,338 known
Hour mills ; in 1890 there were but 1S- ,
470 , and the 1900 census will show only !
about 13,600. And yet the amount of j
capital invested in mills has increased j
over $46,000,000 since I860 , and the I
number of employes has increased over ,
7,000 , in spite of the improved machinery - j
chinery of the last twenty years. In
stead of increasing in number the mills
increase in capacity. This is one more
illustration of the great concentration
of wealth that is constantly going on.
The World-Herald has been investi
gating a little on its own hook , and
discovers that the supreme court is
made up of salary grabbers. Judge !
Norval's wife has drawn from the state ,
treasury $8,930 as "stenographer" to ;
her liege lord ; various members of.
Judge Harrison's family have drawn i
$3,008 for like services ; Commissioner j
Irvine's wife has pocketed $3,000. and '
noL to be outdone Ragan's wife drew a
similar sum. Ryan kept relatives upon
the pay roll for a while , but since Judge
Sullivan's advent to the court he has
stopped his nefarious practice- Speak
ing cf these things the Herald perti
nently asks : Is it any wonder that a
court so constituted renders and re
verses its opinions according to polit -
cal expediency' ? Is it any wonder that
such a courf after finding a man to be a
defaulter and embezzler , incapable ot
holding office , should } * et permit him to
remain mayor of Omaha upon a technicality - :
nicality so frivolous and falsd that even ,
his own attorneys did n t urge it ? j
We are accustomed to speak of the
hold gold has upon the world as some
thing which has happened but recently , '
and moderns seam to think that the '
llothschilds have but lately assumed
the place of bankers to nations , yet as
early as 1823 Byron wrote : |
'Tis gold , not steel that rears the conqueror's
urcli. |
Two Jews , u chosen people , can command
In every realm their sci ipture-promised land. '
Two Jews , but not Samaritans , direct j
The world , -with all the spirit of their sect. ;
If this were true in "Byron's day , how
much more true is it now. Still in the
language of the poet , the Rothschilds
All states , all things , all sovereigns control ,
And waft a loau from Indus to the pole. j
* " * Columbia feels no less
Frjsh speculations follow each success. i
And the hold the money barons have
upon the world grows greater every
year. Individuals , communities , states
and nations arc trying to borrow them
selves rich , fnd every new issue of"
bonds made in payment ( ? ) of a debt ,
adds to the hold the money power has
upon the people. Our nation has gone
blindly' on doing the bidding of the
Jews , adopting their system of finance ,
engaging in enterprises suggested by
them , enacting faws for their benefit , ,
until now thev are becoming insolent
with the insolence of masters and the
<
people when they dare to raise their
voices are called "anarchists' " and :
"repudiators. " This state of affairs is
conducive to bad morals , and unless a
halt is called , the country will soon be
filled with real anarchists. Trusts ,
combines , bond issues and the general
'
rottenness in government which have
resulted from the infamous coucentra-
i
tion of gold in the hands of the few ,
made possible l > y the single gold stan
dard of values , these together with the
imperialistic policy this government
has now entered upon , retard the pro
gress of society and the development
of individuality and the order to halt :
is becoming imperative. If this be
pessimism , make the mostof it.
F. N. Smith , an extensive feeder of
( stock and also a banker of Yarmouth ,
Des Moines county , Iowa , writes :
'Stock in this part of the country is
wintering well , and cattle in the feed
lots are doing splendidly. IIog.- > are
generally health- . NoL more than 7-3
per cent of the number of cattle fed a
year ago are feeding now in this sec
tion. " Mr Smith owns a great deal of
land and bought two hundred head of
feeding cattle in the Chicago market in
one day borne time ago.
;
In Hie fall of 1SOS the Kansas Ex
periment Station made an experiment
to test the value of alfalfa hay when
fed daily to fattening hogs that were
being given all the grain they would
eat. The gam greatly exceeded cur
expectationsand if further experiment
bhow the same results , alfalfa hay will
form a regular part cf the rations of
every well-fed pig fattened in Kansas
in the winter. Jn a foi mer experiment
at this college , pigs wtre pastured
through the summer on alfalfa with a
light feeding of corn. After deducting
the probable gain 1'iom the corn , the
gain per acre from the alfalfa pasture
was 77(5 ( pounds of pork. National
Rural.
[ From a reply to a correspondent , we
clip the following remarks from the
Homestead : Blackleg is not contagious
in the ordinary .sense1 of the term nor is
it a blood di.M'.M 1. but it i.s a germ dis
ease communicable by inoculation.
This has been frequently proved by
actual experiment , in which well ani
mals having no opportunity to contract
the disease in any other way , were
given the disease by being inoculated
with the tissues of animals that had it.
The idea of bleeding in the foot to cure
blackleg is not a new one , but , on the
contrary , a very old one. Those who
have had most to do with the disease ,
however , say of this remedy , that as
about all animals that are attacked die ,
it is no harm to try it , although they
add that it does no good. Setonizing ,
which used to be thought valuable as a
preventive , has also been practically
abandoned as useless. A man may.
with impunity , skin cattle that have
died with blackleg , and yet we would
not like to do it fov the value of the
hide , nor would we consider our duty
done if we did not caution every reader
against the danger of it.
The Nebraska steer is > known for his
rapid and quick growth , and Avill show
more si/c upon his natural grazing ad
vantages , at two years old , than any
other steer that enters the feed lot.
The absence of stagnant and impure
water , the pure and invigorating influ
ences of climate , with the two hundred
varieties of native grasses which sup
ply his daily bill of fare , is the solution
to the cattle problem in Nebraska , and
plainly indicates why the Nebraska
steer , is the peer of all competitors and
why he is destined to be the trade mark
for Nebraska's agricultural and cattle
growing , industry throughout the cattle
imukets of the world. The extent of
Nebraska's resources for growing these
beef animals has not vet been discov
ered. , The finest of grazing lands are
yet idle : millions of acres have never
;
been trod by the hoof of the herd. The
live stock industry of Nebraska offers
great ' opportunities for capital and ex
perienced energetic operatives World-
Kerald.
It now looks as if hog owners in the
country were masters of the situation.
Every time the price breaks so 2011 ntry
buyers cannot pay Jfli.TiO per 100 pounds
feeders will not sell. This stops the
free marketing of hogs , and then the
eastern shippers promptly put prices
tor choice hogs higher. The most
striking feature this week was the coming
,
ing closer together in prices of heavy
and light-weight hogs , the range being
the narrowest shown for .several W2eks.
The Chicago packers are apparentl } ' Jill
bearish , and but for the libenil pur
chases made by the eastern shippers
prices would have ruled considerably
lower than they did.
During February 10,401 horses were
marketed here , against 18.162 in Feb
ruary , 1898. The combined receipts
for January and February were 20.823
horses , against 24,335 for the like
period last vear. Not only are the re
ceipts falling off , but the purchases of
horses by exporters this year have ran
nearly " > ( ) per cent behind last year.
Only 1,46(5 ( horses Avere purchased by
foreign buyers in the Chicago market
during February , against 2.89(5 ( in the
same months last year. Exporters re
port the foreign horse markets as quiet
and overstocked.--National Stockman.
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GEO. G , SOHWALM , PROP.
This market always lcef-p.- i supply of
ill
i In addition to a first-class line of Steal- ? . Roasts , Dry Salt Meats
{ Smoked Hams , Breakfast J3aci : : and Vegetables
1 At Blotter's Old Stand on Main Street. VALENTINE , NEBRASKA
THE PALACE SALOON
69
HEADQUARTERS FOR
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WINES , LIQUORS AND CIC ' ? S
W Of the Choicest Brands
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VALENTINE NEBRASKA
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j For a drop-head
. machine when you
* V ? 7.i i Thar * * *
can get a first-class
machine for § 21.00
by writing to
H EMERY ,
Valentine , - Nebr.
Highest market price part and prompt returns. Reference-
Omaha National Bank.
F. S. BUSH & COMPANY.
513 South 13th St. , OMAHA , NEB
We charge no commission.
C. 11. C l'I ; . President. 31. V. NICKIOLSOX , Cashier
Valentine , Nebraska.
A , General Kan king ISiisiiies.VTrasasacted
s and Sells Uomesiic and Foreign Exchange
Corrcspoiuloiits :
Chemical National Bank , New York. First National Hank. Omaha Nebr
It is difficult to understand lio\v Sec
retary of "War Algcr and liib favorites
in the Commissary Department of the
arm } ' will meet and explain the charges
made by Inspector General Breckin-
ridge to the effect that 120.000 pound *
of the canned beef furnished for Ameri
can troops in 1SOS had been shipped to
France and rejected by the French
government in 1893. This is a most
serious charge. As it is .stated that the
inspector general's official report will
contain the proofs of its correctness , the
secretary ofvar will not be allowed to
ignore it without causing a storm of
protest from the country at large. It
is an issue that must be faced fairly
and squarely , with the whitewash
bucket relegated to the background.
St. Louis Republic.
The Stockman gathers it from num
erous private letters received from
stockmen during the past tert clays that
stock losses are already severe. The
Stockman does not care to appear sen
sational along this particular line , but.
it has pretty good authority for stating
that by warm weather these losses will' '
foot up to 10 per cent Notwithstand
ing the reports to the contrary , the
figures now approach close to that
figure. Northwestern Stockman. |
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If You Want to Buy or Sell
Li\c Stock , make your
wants known to the
Cherry Co , Live Stock Exch ,
Valentine , Nebr ,
4
Feed in Transit at Fremont
Capacity : Sheep , covered
sheds , 2i cars : open pens. 15,000.
Caitle 28 cars
The place to rest and feed for
the Omaha market.
Easy run to feeding points out
side Chicago.
Long distance telephone.
Write or wire when yon will ar
rive , tj
Fremont Stock Yards Co
e
Golden Sheaf Pure White Kyc ,
! Susqilehnnnn Rye.and Cedar Creek
I ouisvillc , Kentucky , Bourbon Whisky.
Pure Grape & Cognac Brandy's
. . . . . . \'V tr/t'C/t )
TokaAugelica.PortSheny ! and Black
ber.y in wood , claret , Ptie ling ,
Sauternes. Cooks Imperial ;
Gasts and Clicquot in bet
tles. Damiana and oth
er Cordials.
Also Agent for Fred Kings Celebrated Ez
ra , Pale Beer for family use , and Pabsts
. 't Bfl = r
C. H. THOMPSON ,
THE PIONEER STOGK FARP /
Mammoth Spanish Jacks , Poland
China and Chester White Hop. ,
Plymouth Hock Chickens and
GALLOWAY CATTLE
REGISTERED BULLS
FOR SALE
J. H. MCALLISTER
.Toy , Holt Co. , X
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Wia. 31. Walters , Prop.
THEDFORD - - NEBRASKA
Strttj/cd 03Stolen. .
One blue KeWInsr,4-yr old. wHirht : irioit 7 < > ,
branded lior = t > .slioton left shoulder. One
\\hitti iiKiroalHUit l2-yrod. ! has brand on left
shoulder'design t knmrin with ' _ ' -vr old coir
following , bay. with white face. Liberal reward
for information. F. MOOLK ,
Cody , Ktbrasiiu.