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About Western news-Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1898-1900 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1899)
STE NEWS-DEMOCRAT : NJews. . VOLUME XIV VALENTINE. NEBRASKA , DECEMBER 21,1399. NUMBER . f Metier Bros. , Pullman Neb ( * lierr > ( ' ' . Brand on 'eft ' IK. tlnuli , KarniarK , s'j Top right ar Southern brandei cuttle have hut OIK half-diamond E" - oi .left . side Native cattle hav < _ , throat wattle Itance on Gordon andiSnake Creeks IJorses have same brand on left thigh A Jlfirfird of $25O will he paid to anj person for information leading to the arrest ant final conviction of any person or persons steal Ing cattle with above brand EDWARD BAD HAIK. * * l Fostofflce address Allen"HD On left shoulder and baron side ; horses same on thigh Range-Bear UeeR T J ASIJBUKN Postolllce addres Valentino , Neb Branded on right side ; horses same Range-io miles east of Valentine on the Niobrara Joseph W. Bownet P. O. address Mernmali , Nebr. Right ear cropped Hole in center of left ear Range Lake creek S. D. Parker & Son P O Address L.V. . Parker Reige. Neb Brand same as cut. Also ItariL'C on Xiohmra south of Crookston 11. A. McQuade. Valentine , Neb Branded on either side Itonge between Timelier and Swan Lake Charles C. Tackett r Koselni'l , * . D. Unnge head of An telope near St. Marys mission Horses branded on left thigh Peter Vlondray Rosebud. S. D. Left side. Left car ironped. Horses branded VB. VB.Range Range Little White River , at mouth of 3edar f'reek. Louis J. Richards Merriman , Neb Gorsuch Bros. Newton , Nebraka Cattle branded as ou cut cutSome Some ft sldeorliir Range on Gordon Creek Louis F. Richards Merriinan Neb Henry Pratt Rosebud S. D. Leftside- Horses same on left shoulder Deerhorn clip on some cattle John DuCory Kosebud. S. I ) . Some branded ID 417 on left side Horses JD on left hip Kange in Meyer C < > on AnusIopeCn-ek . S. Rowley Kennedy. Xehr. Same as cut n 'eft ' side and hip. and on left shoiildiTofhor ses. A Ml > ikW m nd hip. .Y n r'ght hip and F-f on left side. CJ ou left lilu'of horses. f W ANDERSON . J. C. ROUND' Aiirlers ui & Hounds. Simeon. VehnwU ; ( 'title branded oi left > .idi' as on cut ; n..so 1C on lett sldt with on Iff ! hipo some rattle ; aiso S4i on right side Horf < brand , rake and 1 ( on left shoulder 01 hip , . , i ilome ranch on Dewey Lake. Range on Niobrara River , east o Fort Niobrara ; also between Snake River anc Simeon , known as the Felch range , all in Cherrj County , Nebraska. Marshall & Wolfendeu Kennedy , Neb. Some R on the left hip Horses on left shoulder Brand is small Karmark : Quarter clip behind , half cir cle forward on left ear Range Lone Tree Lake I. T. Richardson. Perch , Nebr Some on left hip Horses on left shoulder William M. D unbar Lessee from Heine & Kroeger Cody. Neb DUn Either side low Also on right Left ear ol cattle Split Itange head of Hay Amelia Young. Tody , Nebraska On right side. Right ear split Range , Little White river Peder Thorsen. Gordon. Nebraska On right sideT on right hip. o horse brand and T on richt shoulder Also cattle branded I' 8 on lefU'side Mange , lowl miles soutli of Irwin Henry Young , Cody , Nebraska Horse brand IIY on left shoulder Cattle , right ear split Range , Little White river , S. D. Stotts & Stetter. Cody. Nebraska Branded on leftside llange. Tin Can Lake ind Morgan Flats D. C. Nelson. Cody. Nebraska. On right hip. Range , Medicine l .ake to the Snake river Uutt Brothers. Cordon. Nebraska Kange,14 miles north of Gordon. F. C. Duerfellt , Manager. Gordon , Nebraska battle also branded O on rijiht hip Horses and mules . .randed same as cut on left shoulder J. C. Jordan Cordon , Nebraska ) ne bunch branded as on cut on left side One hunch branded < l.on left lnj ) Hordes A on left shoulder Uau e. 10 miles sourhwi'St of Gallop , between Niobrara and Snake rivers George F Damon Albany. Neb Cattle branded Fl on left ribs or right shoulderMI ; > on right hip and left ribs ; Uon left hip Horses FJ > or SDou right shoulder Range 7 mi north east of Albany Neb Agent for Pasteur Black Leg Vaccine Jospph Fickel Gordon AlKO Horse brand F on left shoulder Kange 10 nules northeast of Gordon rwwwwwvwwwvww j STOCKJTOTES , To tell the age of any horse Inspect the lower jaw , of course ; The six front teeth the tale will tell And every doubt and fear dispel. Two middle "nippers" you behold Before the colt is two weeks old. Before eight weeks two more will come , Eight months the "corners" .cut the gum. The outside grooves will disappear From middle two in just one year ; Jn two years form the second pair ; In three the "corners" cut are bare. At two the middle "nippers" drop , At three the second pair can't stop ; When four years old the third pair goes , At five a full new set he shows' The deep black spots will pass from view At six 3Tears from the middle two ; The second pair at seven years ; At eight the spot each ' -corner" clears. From middle "nippers" ' upper jaw At nine the black spots'will withdraw The second pair at ten are white ; Eleven finds the "corners" light. As time goes on the horseman knows The oval teeth three sided grow ; They longer get , project betore , Till twenty , when we know no more. The sheepmen of northwest Nebras ka , South Dakota and Wyoming met at Edgemont last Saturday for the pur pose of forming a permanent organiza tion. Secretary Chas. F. Martin , of the National Live Stock Association' , has sent out a circular urging all the liye lock organizations in all parts of the country to join the national association and have representation at the January meeting at Fort Worth. While the weather during the last ten days or two weeks has been ex tremely cold , we are happy to say that it has- done but little damage to stock , Jecause it I'as been "dry cold. " The snow has caused some inconvenience , but not more than is to be expected at this season of the year. The Homestead correctly describes this portion of the state/when it says : 4"The , changes in the range cattle indus try are increasing eyery season , and a arge proportion of those now engaged n the work are doing what they call "a semi-range business. " This means that the cattle range all summer and are under fence in winter. " While a few years agp the range was the only place that cattle obtained feed all our stock men now feed hay during the winter. II. Blenkiron , a cattleman owning a ranch down near Amelia , was shot and instantly killed at Beldeu last Sunday evening by C. S. Harris , editor of the Belden News. An article appeared in the News to which Blenkiron took ex ceptions , and he called upon Harris in the hitter's office for the purpose of get ting him to retract it. The argument waxed warm and Harris says Blenkiron started for him to do him up when he shot him , claiming to have done so in self defense. Self defense was the ver dict of the coroner's jury. The Texas Stock Journal says that stockmen of Wyoming are buying ( Union Pacific lands for grazing pur poses and have , up to this time , taken about 1,0. 0OOU of the 8,000,000 acres the company owns in that state. The sales for the last year have been stead ily increasing , the demand for land ex ceeding anything in the previous his tory of that portion of the range coun try. Reports from Colorado show a greatly increased volume of business there in the land office , all of it consist ing of-sales of public land for grazing purposes. At Chicago on Wednesday of last week the center of attraction at thn stocK j'ards was sixteen head of high grade Angus bee.ve.-5 , averaging 1 > 38 pounds , for which ihe s-ky-scrapimj price of $8.23 was obtained. This is the highest sale in considerably more than fifteen tears , and the next day another feeder-brought in some 2-year- old steers , ' averaging 1,700 pounds , which brought $8.50 , the highest price paid since 1882. They were of the Aberdeen-Angus breed and were fed from calves up on the common feed grown on the farm and ran freely on the grass during the summer. They were finisned on ground corn , ground oats and brau mixed. in many parts of the west and northWest - West where sheep have been allowed ihe e\elu.Mve privilege of the range , the grass lias bcim eaten and tramped down until it has become necessary to aban don the country at least temporarily. A rest may be all that is needed , but some think that the grass can never be re claimed except by artificial means Cat tlemen have given place to the sheep herders , and ns one of the Montana pa pers says "After sheep comes what ? " This is the problem that confronts the ranchmen in many parts of the west , and in some places promises to be a serious one. Farmers are rapidly tak ing up the available agricultural lands , but there are vast areas that can never be farmed until some Srstetn of irriga tion is established. Chicago Provers' Journal. A number of our cattlemen have of late lost cattle from some mysterious cause. The cattle so dying were those turned into cornfields. They are at tacked with dizziness , stagger to and fro for a short time , ending in falling to the ground in spasms , and after a struggle seem to die in terrible agony. The Star-Journal reporter has inter viewed a number of our stockmen over the cause of these deaths and each and every one seems mystified and are un able to account for it. Some think it is caused by the deadly "night shade ; " others claim it has been caused by 'loco , " so well known in southern Kan sas'- sas'Whatever Whatever the cause , fullv fifty head of cattle have so died within a radius of a few miles of Ainsworth. And , also , whatever the cause , it somes from the cornfields , for as soon as the cattle were taken off the corn stalks and put. into the feed lots the losses ceased. It is claimed by some that the deaths resulted from lack of water and salt , the cattle overfeeding and becoming bound up. This theory is especially untrue with regard to I. Fowler's cat tle , for instance. Mr. Fowler lost eleven h ad before he took them off the cornstalks , and in each and every case the cattle had freest access to both salt and water , and did help themselves lib- erally"and instead of the binding pro cess , the direct opposite was manifest. Neither were the cattle bloated in the least.Ainsworth Journal. This is probably an outbreak of "cornstalk disease" which caused so much havoc a couple of years ago. The remedy is to feed cattle other rations Before turning them into the stalks. If Uro. Burleigh will advise his readers to send to Lincoln for "Bulletin No. 52 , " issued by the agricultural college the atter part of 1 97 or early in 1898 , they may learn something about the trouble. Since writing the above we learn that this cornstalk disease is also prevalent in Hock and Holt counties. Perhaps the most infamous piece of egislation ever attempted in this coun try is embodied in II. 11. 1. now before congress. Ordinarily , a bill when in- ; reduced in our national legislature , is equired to be read twice , is then re ferred to a committee , after being con sidered there is reported to the house , s then considered in committee of the whole and finally put upon its passage ; but in this instance the procedure is entirely changed , regardless of rule or custom. The bill was introduced the first day oi the present session , was lever referred to a committee , and with only three days for printing and consideration was forced before the louse and one week later was brought to a vote. The bill provides first to en act into national law the single gold standard , makes every bond , every coupon , every greenback , eveiy treas- iry note , payable in gold , and prevents hem being pnt into circulation again except in exchange for gold ; it makes ill debts , public or private , that now exist or are hereafter contracted , pay- ibleingold ; it creates a division or re demption into which $760,01)0,000 ) is hut up ; it authorizes the treasurer of the United States to at any time issue bonds without consulting an } ' other person or branch of the government ; it makes silver redeemable in gold , it j authorizes the coinage of small pieces ' of silver but requires that an eqtial amount of treasur-v notes must be de stroyed at the same time ; it gives the secretary power to name the size of ! treasury notes to be 'issued and proliib-i its silver certificates from being issued except in denominations of $5 and mi-1 der , thus making silver legal tender1 only in small amounts ; it permits ua-i tional banks to issue currency to the full amount of bonds held b } ' themand reduces their taxes , and finally permits' ' national banks to organize with only | 25,000 capital. Almost every demand that the capitalists of this country have ever made is embodied in this bill : it was considered by the republican com mittee almost six months before it was introduced in congress ; and yet this k'brutal majority" rush it through con gress like a private pension bill and never give the people of the couutry tiuie to express their opinions on it L"ne above bill pa-td the hou e of representatives , Monday , by ; i vote of 190 to leO , eight gold standard demo crats voting with the majority. ' 1 CHRISTMAS , 49 49 4 ? 49 49 49 49 49 49 Our Attractive Holiday Display 49 4 ? Awaits your Inspection , , , , ff 49 49 49 2 * 49 DAVENPORT d THACHER 49 i * 49 General Merchants 49 V V W W W W IP W W W V V V V W W V V V V i ? V ? V STOVE TALK , TALK ABOUT STOVES a "root o deal ; but that's our business. Stoves are a specialty of .ours. By the way , we have just received a few of those ' Unexcelled Heating Stoves The MAGIC ESTATE HOT BLAST. > Remember we are also dealers in < BED SPRINGS , MATTRESoES , \ 9 PICTURE FRAMES , Etc. : : : : : : / V ANDERSON , DREYFUS HAD TWO TRIALS" * ' \ WE ONLY WANT ONE To convince you beyond a doubt that the best line of LIQUORS , WINES AND CIGARS Can be had at THE STOCK EXCHANGE WALTER F , A. MELTENDORFF. PROPRIETOR OUR MOTTO Honest Goods ; Honest Prices ; Courteous Treatment. LI Ladies' and Gentlemen's Fur Coats , Ladies' and Children's Felt and Warm-Lined Shoes. Boots and Shoes and Furnishings of all kinds. Practical Tailoring All our work guaranteed. D. Stinard , Clothier. AJex Marrivall Tine Kidge , S D Cattle branded as on cut and below on either side Eennk swalljiw fork on leit and crop right Horse L rands as below on left thigh or hip Eorses \Vheeler Uros. Cody Neb Also B on right side Range Chamberlain Flats and Snake , River Newman Bros. & Nations. Cody , Nebraska On point left shoul der. Also O o ou point left shoulder Also JuT011 left shoulder Same on left hip Leftside J. A. Ad.imson. Valont'ne. Neb On left side or hip A 4 left side or hip On left side Range on Niubraia Marquardt & Bowlus OTTOSTUUJJE. Manager. Merriman. Neb Cattle brand OM on left shoulder. Some of cattle have various older brands. OS on left hip. Horse bra'd A on left shouldei. Kange Formerly Gee W Monnier ranch 5-miIes east of Merriman. from F.E. &M.V.K.3J. south to Ltander Creek. Mar quardt & Itmvlns. SRr5bner.Nebra.slta. ti. C. Trowbridge Merriman , Neb llange between Irwin - win and Merriman , south of railroad Uugh Bovill , Manager Merriman Neb ANo All on left aide or hip Range north of El Charlotte E. Merrimau Neb Left side or hip Eange north D Eli Taken up , at my place abtmt 4 miles' east of FortMobrara,3ra\ : , ono sorrel baUl gelding , 5 years old , and one bay mar 2 years old. ' both bnuicteil on left shonltletj /v ;
