FLATO COMMISSION COMP
LIVE STOCK SALESMAN AND BROKERS
Capital ftl < ; oOOG. < * O
Director * : . MalrMinni :
F. W. FLATO , JR. , President. ED H. KKID /
PAUL FLATO , Vice President. JIM s rioiw \ ( ' attle - < } l J f n
J. C. DAIILMAN , Secretary. E. W. CAJIOW. flog c.-i
JOHN D.SEITZ. Ilroii HITCHCOCK , Mu-ep "
ED. H. KIED , JOHN P CLAHY , Cashie
SOUTH OMAHA , NEBRASKA
Correspondents :
DRTJM-FLATO COMMISSION COMPANY
Capital $500.000.00.
CHICAGO. KANSAS CITY. 1 LOUIS
STOCK KXCH AM. F
RESTAURANT.
OI'EX DAY AND NIGHT.
E. T. MILLEU , Proprietor.
LODGING FOE STOCKMEN -
NEWLY FURNISHED ROOMS'
282 H South Omaha.
Three Ior'rFrom ( rn r
RATES-$1.00 to * 1 50 Per Day. Telephone'No. 07
85.00 to 87.00 Pere k.
R ED HOTEL.
.M US. .JOHN' RKKE ) , Proprietress.
STOCKMEN'S PATROHAUE ESPECHLLT SOLICITED ,
15ht. ! . B .tweej I- and M St nts. Sc atli Omaha , Nebr
A Few Facts For Cattle Dealers.
ft IlllH Il M Il
Stands at top as a market for Range Feeders
You can satisfy yourself as to the truth of that dtareniPiit. by
comparing the sues ; at Sioux City , last year , with those at niiy other
competitive market. Yon can also ask your neighbors who have sold
ea'tle : it Sioux City. Tins year Sioux City is in the fkld for fat cat
tle as well as feeders. Th ijivat beef slaughtering plant of the
Cuduhy Packing Co. is ready foi business
The capacity of the Stock Yards has been
greatly increased and you will find
excellent facilities for handling
your business.
Xo charges , except for feed ordered if your cattle are not sold on our market
7 he Sioux City Stock Yards Co.
JOHN II. KEENE , General Manager.
Millinery
and Ladies' Furnishing Goods
CALL AND GET PRICES.
CORA GILLETT.
LIVESTOCK
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
OUTH OMAHA , NEBRASKA
Itonm ION K\rhiinK < >
Heferences :
UNION STOCK YAHDS PACKERS' NATIONAL
NATIONAL BANK BANK.
Telphono 141
We have : i larperlient'iK ? among Nebraska Fepilcrs and can always ocat Omaha prices to
Kant-Ji 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 ,
WO JOO -O 0 WOO - OO
i The DONOHER & v
2 *
] & continually adding improvements and it is now the
4 ? best equipped , and most comfortable .
FIRST-CLASS MODERN HOTEL
IN NORTHWEST NEBRASKA
49 Hot and Cold Water Excellent Bath Room Two Sample Foom
HERRY OUNTY RANK
Valentine. Nebraska
f-t ' ! it\ i.v "M'l'- i -in r-- with him' " . '
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WtSlERNNEWS-BEKGoH T
ROBEET GOOD , Editor and Publisher
The Dinglcy bill , to enact which a
special session of congress was called ,
continues to produce a handsome deficit
each month Did you ask the remedy ?
More bonds , of course.
State Senator Reynolds has been
bending his energies in an effort to cut
in two the price paid to newspapers for
legal work. We wonder how those re
publican newspapers which su ported
the senator lif.e this slap in the face ?
The capital stock of trusts organized
durmg t e two years of the .Mcllanmi
administration at A'.i liingtun , amounts
to about ten times as much as during
any ot.ier administration of four years.
And they si ; } th < ' administration is op
posed to trusts and i : > the friend of the
poor man !
1 here may be many signs of prosper
ous times visibC in the he veus and on
earth , butte ! lug'i price o. seats on the ,
evr Yortftuck gambling exchange
is not onof them. If > ivcuhitor& who
dvo by ileecing tne [ nibl-c , are prosper
ing , we do not consider the fact of any
particular advantage to the people at
urge. Do you ? Kunu Journal.
The beef com minion tasijd ; some i
good c.iuiK'ti bt-ef winch w ii .said U >
have bi-pii brought back rrom Port /
Rico to I'lncago. It iMi't lhat kind the
boys and Miles are kicking on : it is the
rotten stuff they hud to cat that made
them sick. A million good cans won't
make one bad can good. Stick to the
text. The committee is up to Chicago
looking through the factories. And
what are factories , processes , or any
thing else , in the case ? The question
is , did the hoys have rotten beef issued
to them ? Delphos ( Ohio ) Courant.
The government owns the telegraph
lines in Chili As a natural consequence
quence the Chilians are able to send
messages at 8 cents each as against 2 >
cents for the cheapest message in the
United States. This fact is good and
sufficient evidence from the standpoint
of monopolists that the Chilians are
unable to govern themselves. Here is
another chance for Uncle Sam to take
up the white man's burden and destroy
this object lesson before the contagion
has opportunity to spread. J.V. . Wil
son.
The demo-pops after hugging them
selves for causing the republican ad
ministration to declare war against
Spain , with wonderful consistency raise
thunder over the increased appropri
ations , $482,000,000 of which was for
the war. Rushvillti Recorder.
No demo-pop complains of the legiti
mate increase on account of the war ,
but the Recorder maliciously hides the
fact that after deducting the $4S2,00i- (
000 war budget the expenditures of the
rep blican congress lately ended ex j
ceeded by about $ l < iO , ( > 00,000 those of !
any other congress. And in addition
to all this AVC are still licking stamps j
and paying increased internal revenues [
o' all lcnds : to prosecute the war. It is i
this that the demo-pops are kicking' '
about.
During the last year of Cleveland's
administration the country recovered
its normal condition and Mr. McKinley
stepped to the front and bowed. It is
two years since then and the estimated
deficit for the year ending June 30.
1899. is ascertained to be more than i
one hundred millions of dollars There j (
lias been one big bond issue and anoth j
or will have to be floated to continue I :
the expenses needlessly incurred. Certainly - ;
tainly such things cannot continue tin- | '
checked , and ofcoursc there will have I
to be a change in administration to i
chec < \ them. During the democratic
administration to follow the present '
i i
one , the same res"lts must follow that ; '
fell on Mr Cleveland. The only ( piesj j (
tion is , will poor people again fail to j '
realize the true cause and wait for its ' . '
remedy. Alliance Grip.
The observant reader must be familiar - | <
'
iar with the fact that the supreme. <
court has decided that the Railroad ! ;
Joint Traffic Association is illegal , and j <
that , in consequence , said association i \
has disbanded. It is all right to disband - (
band , but ought not the gentlemen f
composing that body , who have for <
years been violating the constitution | i
and laws of the land , be punished for . '
their wrongdoing ? The chicken thief 1
is not allowed to go scott free on the 1
simple promise rob no more hen ' *
roosts. But we are so familiar with t
the illegal acts of big criminals that we j
follow another course with them. Ofi
course , the Traffic Association , though i
[ lead , will not quit its wrongful acts ,
but will endeavor to move congress to 1
iix the law to suit ; if they succeed in (
this well and good ; otherwise , according - t
ing to the advice of a Wall street Oracle
' there is another method of meeting i
the decision by the railroad managers. " 1
Farm Journal.
Mr. Sherman of this place has suffer
ed the greatest loss of sheep that we
yet learned of. Within the last few
weeks he has lost very near four hun
dred sheep , which was about one-third
ofhisbunc'1. lie returned from his
ranch a few da'-s ago , -ind states that
the loss of himself and partner togcth r
was between SI,400 and $1.500. liar
risen Prcxs.
Full prices for all sorts of hides are
now demanded by the big cattle slaughterers -
torers , their .strength beiny ; based upon
the diminished offerings. The receipts
of cattle at the five principal western
markets where cattle are slaughterer ]
were during January and February
90.000 head less than during the same
period List ye-ir. March hides are re
garded -is the worst of the \ ear. but
poor as they are they are selling at , the
present time withou' ' any difficulty at
strong prices
Regarding the s lies of beef on the
spring mark-1 th Dakota Farmer says :
" i ho South Dakota c.ittlenvn who
have good breves to send to market
this spring ought to take much comfort
from the s-atement of Carey McLain ,
\Vellsvillo , Kansas , -a man who has
been in the cattle business in Kansas
the past tiirtv-one ! years and has an
extended acquai itance among cattle
wen. IIo bays : "From the best in-
formatio I can gath > r , Kansas will
lot fund h one-half her usual output of
jood beeves this * pring. "
Through an oversight last week we
) in tted publishing the iollowing inter
esting stock item taken from the Merion
ion Journal : "The Xiobrara Land &
sheep Compain. of Gordon , was or-
janixecl this week. This company is
egularly incorporated with : ? ] 0,000
capital stock. $10,001) ) of which is now
jaid up. The officers are O II John
son , president ; Fred Iloyt , secretary ;
Edgar Morrison , treasurer an 1 John M.
3arto , general manager. 'I he affairs
) f the company will be managed by a
) o = ml of five directors as follows : O.
T. Johnson. Edgar Morrison , J. M.
Jarto , Fred Iloyt , and X.V. . Ileillcy.
L'he company has bought and leased
wo full townships of lands , extending
rom Gordon to the JNiobrara river.
Che / expect to .stock this land with
heep , employ men and teams to plant
tnd raise fodder and other rough feed ,
i ml engage in sheep raising on an ex-
ensive scale. They are sanguine of
iiiccess. Mr Barto , the general inana-
jer has made a comfortable fortune
n the sheep business in the last live
-ears. "
An old settler who is writing for the
Jhadron Xew.s. savs of the season of
SSO :
The summer of ! SSO was very dry
nd the grass was shorter than usual.
'he hay crop was practic .lly a failure
rith those who were accustomed to
Hitting up small quantities for feeding
h rough a few da\s of bail weather. In
he latter part of October we had a
ieav.\ fall of stiow , which laid on the
; round a few ( lavs , when the wind
ilew from the we : t and we were treat-
d to a arenuine chinook , which caused
nuch rejoicing a-nonj those interested
11 cattle , but just as the snow * was
nelted into a * \ \ \ > \ \ and the low and
: > vcl places covered with water , the
reMther very su-.ldenly tur od oxtreme-
r coid and the slu h and water b.-camu
: ; e ; and then it snowed for days , until
h ? ground was covere-l from six
ueh ° s in some localities to two feet in
tliers. an-1 the ice underneath re
clined until spring. In the locality
rhere I was the winter did not really
Teak until the llth day of April , and
li e weather for over five months was
ontimrally bad very much like it was
tiring the month of February this
ear. but with more snow with extreme
old for ( ias and weeks at a time , and
lien more moderate for a few days
; ith the sun warm enough to melt the
now a little , and then again severely
old forming cruts with squalls of
now accompaming each change. I
aw thousands of head of cattle with
keeling legs nivule raw by tramping
lirough the crusts of snow. When
pring came every sheltered spot con
iined dead cattle.
Thirty and forty per cent losses were
ot infrequent , and in some localities
Cached ciglitj'-fivc per cent.
To have some idea of the terrible
) ss , it may be said that along the line
f the Union Pacific the stench from
le decaying carcasses waa unbearable
hen warm weather came , and that
jad ha 1 gangs of men out for weeks
ctween CliC3'enno and North L'latte
rurying the dead animals.
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GEO. G. SOHWALM , PROP.
This market always kcepr- supply of
In addition to a first-class line of Steal. . Roasts , Dry Salt Meats
Smoked flams , Breakfast JBan and Vegetables
At Blotter's Old Stand on Main Street. VALENTINE , NEBRASKA
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< * ? PALACE SALOON ifr i >
&
HEADQUARTERS FOR
< ? Wli IBS , LIOUOSS AND GIG. ' S
Of the Choicest Brands
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49 VALENTINE NEBRASKA
can get a first-class
machine for § 21.00
by writing to
'I. H EMERY ,
Valentine , -Nebr.
Highest market price paid and prompt returns. * Reference
Omaha National Bank.
F. S. BUSH & COMPANY.
513 South 13th St. , OMAHA , NEH
We charge no commission.
D. II. COISXEl.L , . President. 31. V. XHJS2OJLS5HS , Cashier
Valentine , Nebraska.
A Gvsioral Kan king 25HsinesaTraz8snctecl
ESnys and SeJIs S > saiestic RIS < ! Foreigas Exchange
Correspondents ;
Chemical National Bank , New York. First National Hank. Omaha Nebr
The past winter has generally been a
very disastrous one to sheep feeders ,
especially those \vlio went into the busi-
nes i on a large scale and had to buy
their feed. In the lirst place they had
to pay too inucii for their feeding stock.
Sheep and lambs u ere sold and bought
an extravagant expectations as tj the
future market and these have not been
reaii'/.ed by a long shot. High pricvl
feeding slock , advancing prices for
jorn , scree : ings and mill feeds , and do
dining : > -irkets for fat stock arc a coni-
) ination that it is almost impossible for
the ieeder to beat. National Stockman
The Dallas Journal has made a care
ful canvass through its armv of agents ,
* * C-3 '
of the losses by the storms and cold in
that state. It is prepared to state that
the losj-es among cattle on the open
> rairies in the coast country , where
they were without other feed than the
native grasses are from 10 to 15 per
cent. From the southwest , where
nuch feeding is done , the losses are
es. and almost equally favorable re
sults are brought from the western and
northwestern part of tin-- state wnere
it will n , t exceed 10 per cent and con
fined to cows and young calves , and to
eastern , and southern eat'le shipped in
late and too low in condition to with
stand an ordinan winter.
If You Want to Buy or Sell
Lhe Stock , ruake your
wants known to the
Cherry Co , Live Stock Exch.
Valentine , Nebr ,
Feed in Transit at Fremont
Capacity : Sheep , covered
sheds , 2i cars ; open pens , 15,000.
Cattle 28 cars
The place to rest and feed for
: he Omaha market.
Easy run to feeding points out
side Chicago.
JTj
Long distance telephone.
Write or wire when ymi will : ir-
ivc , t ;
Fremont Stock Yards Co
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Golden Sheaf Pure White Rye ,
Siisqiieiiinni Hyp.and ( Vdar Creek
I ouisville , Kentucky. Bourbon Whisky.
Pure Grape & Cognac Brandy's
Wines
Ti.ka.\nircllica PorLSii ! ny and Black
her y in wood , claret , Rie < ! ing ,
SautMriies. Cooks Imperial ;
Gasts arid Clicquot in bet
tles. Diraiana ; and oth
er Cordials.
fop Fed Kings Celebrated Ez-
: B , ale 3aJP fjf f vini.j as * , and f-.bsts
Sxpu t Ba r
C. H. THOMPSON ,
THE PIONEER STOCK FARM
th Spanish Jacks , Poland
China and hi-t-T White Hogs ,
Plymouth Ituck Chickens and
: GALLON AY CATTLE
REGISTERED BULLS
FOR SALE
J. H. M2ALLISTER
Joy , 52 5t Uo. , Nebr.
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Wm. 3f. ! WalterM. Prop.
THEDfOHO - - NEBRASKA
Strayed or Stolen.
( inhiu ' pel'linirJyr old. welcht aliout TOO
bran-li't 1-orFe slimon left Miouldej. Otic
\\hlt'muealioui 12-yr old. luis hrnnd on left
shou ier ! tdesiRii not known ) \ \ - lthyr olil rc-U
ftillovvinjr. hay. with \\hite face , l.i ' ' ( ia -ward
for information. F. 3 !
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