The Valentine Democrat I M RICH Publisher VALENTINE NEBRASKA I BRIEf TELEGRAMS Jaj Daniel Whittle aged 60 former ly o Chicago and for many years the friend and associate of the late Dwight L Moody died at East Northfield Mass Three weeks more will finish the finest logging season ever known in northern Wisconsin or Michigan The work done has simply been phenom enal and unusually prosperous times ore expected this spring Jacob Muller once a leading grand opera singer in Europe and this coun try died suddenly at San Francisco Cal just before the beginning of a performance given for his benefit He was the husband of Madame Inez Fab bri also a former operatic star The tax reform league whose plat form is No salaries for public of ficials has been organized in Denver Colo Its members will support at the coming municipal election none but candidates pledged to turn their salar ies into the public improvement fund The price list committee appointed at the last regular meeting of the Wis consin Valley Lumbermens associa tion met and the present price list was discussed It was concluded that in consideration of the present status of the lumber market the price list would be subjected to a 25 cent Increase which shall necessitate the issue of a jjew list Dr Mantagu White has been ap pointed by the American Transvaal League its delegate and envoy to rep resent that league and branches in the United States at the congress to be held- in Paris France March 12 of all societies and associations exist ing in any part of the world to be friend and aid the Boers of tho South African republic The State department has been in formed by Consul Fee at Bombay in a j recent report that a steamer plying directly from New York city has ar rived with an electric plant and outfit and a party of engineers and electric ians The party are representatives of a New York firm and are destined to the Kolar gold fields near Banga lore the capital of the native state or Mysore Major Francis S Earle a prominent Grand Army man is dead at San Di ego Cal In 1860 he was a member of the famous Seventh regiment of the New York militia but the next year when the war broke out he had moved to Michigan where he was appointed adjutant of the Fourth regiment by Col Woodbury He was advanced to assistant adjutant on the staff of Qqq Fitzjohn Porter The president has issued a procla mation putting in force a nei extradi tion treaty between the United States and Switzerland Up to this point the two countries have been getting along in an unsatisfactory manner as to ex tradition matters under some very general provisions contained in two or three sections of the old treaty of amity and commerce and it has been deemed better to modernize the ar rangement The census taken December 1 1900 shows the population of the German empire to be 56345014 of which num ber 27731067 were males Thirty three of the largest towns have popu lations of over 100000 each or an ag gregate of 9108814 Since 1895 the increase In the population of the em pire has been about 4000000 or 719 per cent the highest rate of increase for any quinquennial period during the last thirty years Contracts have been let by the Bur lington road for the double tracking of Its lines from Creston to Ottumwa Iowa The work will involve the ex penditure of 2000000 When it is completed there will remain only about seventy miles of line between Chicago and Omaha which is not dou ble track This work may also be done during the present year but if not it certainly will be next year D D Streeter Co of Chicago are the contractors for the largest portion of the work between Creston and Ot tumwa Another advance of 25 cents a ton in the price of pig iron has been an nounced placing No 2 foundry at 1150 a ton The Indiana house killed by a vote of 39 to 55 the Agnew bill providing for a ship canal from Lake Michigan to the Calumet river The price of window glass will be advanced 25 per cent for March and April delivery and another advance will probably be made in May Lee Samuelson of Rockford 111 leads the sparrow killers of his county He has killed 3461 and has received from tho county treasury 6922 for the work The Big British tramp steamer Sa moa has been purchased by the gov ernment and when she arrives in port 200000 will be spent in fitting her up for transport service The Samoa is on her way to San Francisco from Hong Kong and is expected to arrive m about ten days President Eaton of Beloit lollege has telegraphed his acceptance of the call to the Milford Mass Congregational church The San Francisco Call says that the executors of the estate of the late Col Charles F Crocker have decided to erect a 1000000 hotel on the old Cal vary church sit The estimates for the British civil service for 1901 2 total 40666608 an increase of 1307652 Cappie Overton aged 21 died at Odon Ind of pneumonia He had been an invalid for eleven years His heart was on the right side of his body and he had but one lung The strike of the machinists of the Chicago Alton shops at Blooming ton 111 is over and all the men will return to work General Manager Bar rett held a conference with the strikers and it was announced that Mr Bar rett had conceded the demand of the men that the piece work system be not established I MAT 01 WEST Department of Agriculture Eeviews the Condition in Wyoming CANADIAN METHODS ARE STUDIED Guiding Principle is Security of Title and Die of Available Water for lasting Benefit to Greatest Number Progress of Work WASHINGTON March 11 The De partment of Agriculture has issued as bulletin No 96 a paper entitled Ir rigation Laws of the Northwest Terri tories of Canada ami Wyoming with discussions by J S Dennis deputy commissioner of public works of Can ada Fred Bond state engineer of Wyoming and J M Wilson agent and expert in the office of irrigation in vestigations at Cheyenne Wyo The bulletin was prepared under the direction of Prof Ellwood Mead irri gation expert in charge of the office of irrigation investigations who in submitting the subject matter of the publications to the Department of Agriculture stated This publication has been pre pared because of a demand for in formation regarding the Wyoming law and the Canadian northwest irrigation act both of which were partially de scribed in bulletins numbered 58 and 60 of the office of experiment stations Several of the western states are now earnestly seeking for some way to put an end to the litigation and contro versy and to provide some simpler cheaper and mora effective method of establishing titles to streams than is possible through a resort to the courts The success which has attended the operation of the two laws therein giv en makes them worthy of study and the six principles noted as having served as a guide in the framing of the interpretation of the northwest irrigation act are believed to be so sound and fundamental as to be worthy of general adoption I believe the publication of the bulletin will be of service in pointing the way to much needed reforms In many of the arid states The six -principles upon which the Canadian northwest irrigation law is based are as follows First That the water in all streams lakas ponds springs or other sources is he property of the crown Second That this water may be obtained by companies or individuals for certain described uses upon com pliance with the provisions of the law Third That the uses for which water may be so acquired are domes tic irrigation and other pur poses domestic purposes being limited to household and sanitary purposes the watering of stock the operation of railways and factories by steam but not the sale of barter of water for such purposes Fourth That the company or in dividual acquiring water for irrigation or other purposes shall be given a clear and indisputable title to such water Fifth That holders of water rights shall have the protection and assist ance of permanent government officials in the exercise of such rights Sixth That disputes or complaints regarding the use or diversion of water shall be referred to and settled by the officials of the government charged with the administration of the act and that decisious so given shall be final and without appeal Deputy Commissioner Dennis in his review of the operation of the Can adian northwest irrigation act based upon these principles gives briefly but comprehensively an itneiresting ac count of the operation of the law which is in the main successful He concludes that while the Canadian laws relating to irrigation are in their infancy or formative stage and possi bly weak in many respects the guid principle and aim of these laws is se curity of title and the use of the avail able water in such manner as to bring the greatest -and most lasting benefit to the greatest number LI HUNG CHANG ILL AGAIN Physician Says His Life Thread Hangs by a PBKIN March 11 Li Hung Chang is again seriously ill and his physician says his life hangs by a thread Prince Ching and Earl Li seem to think that by spreading rumors of the courts unwillingness to return to Pekin unless this or that thing is done they can influence the delibera tions of the ministers of the powers As a matter of fact according to re liable reports from Sian Fu the im perial personages are extremely un comfortable at Sian Fu where they live in the house of the governor which is only a small structure French missionaries who have just re turned here from Sian Fu teMeve the empress dowager would bring the court back to Pekin on the first offer of the allies having as a basis the re moval of the troops except the lega tion guards Carter Given a Position WASHINGTON March 9 Former United States Senator Carter of Mon tana has -been appointed by the pres ident a United States commissioner of the St Louis exposition He has ac cepted the offer The position pays 5000 a year Disastrous Storm in Chicago CHICAGO March 11 One of the worst wind storms of the season struck Chicago yesterday and during the two hours it was at its height damaged property throughout the city to the extent of 175000 Many heavy plate glass windows were blown in Tele graph and telephone companies were the worst sufferers Thousands of poles were blown down and Chicago was practically Isolated from the west and northwest by telephone and tele graph all day RUSSIA ASSERTS IGNORANCE Denies Upon Every Opportunity that It Has Designs Upon Manchuria WASHINGTON March 11 The of ficial correspondence that has passed between the State department and the several powers Interested in the Chi nese question discloses the fact that Russia suspected as she is by England and perhaps by some other powers of planning to seize and hold Man churia as her own has upon every oc casion when opportunity served to draw forth a statement of her motives declared emphatically that she had no such purpose On February 16 the United States ad dressed strong representations to Chi na through Mr Conger and Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang China was told that the United States could not approve any secret negotiations be tween China and any individual power looking to the concession of territory to such power And it was further in sisted that to be valid any such con cession of territory should be given only with the assent of all other powers To still further emphasize the warning against the beginning of a division of China it was significantly stated that the United States did not regard the present as an opportune time for making any concessions of territory or even for conducting nego tiations for such concessions On March 1 the State department took steps to acquaint every one of the powers interested m China with the instructions it had given Mr Con ger The result was to elicit from nearly all of them expressions of ap proval of the doctrine laid down by the United States and foremost among the powers which accepted it was Rus sia The United States government has not entered into any secret or open agreement with Great Britain or with any individual power however strong it may sympathize with the British desire to insure Manchuria against seizure On the contrary our govern ment has from the beginning discour aged such special alliances as to China and has adopted the practice of in forming every one of the powers of the contents of any statement it has addressed to any one of them TfflRTY THOUSAND RESIST General Fa Hsianfr and Prince Tnan Pre pare to Oppose Arrest SHANGHAI March 11 Dispatches from Lau Chau assert that General Tung Fu Hsiang with 20000 men and Prince Tuan with 10000 men are at Ning Hsu prepared to resist arrest The China Gazette announces that Sheng the taotai has memorialized the throne in favor of the abolition of the likin duties and that all the vice roys and governors support him LONDON March 10 The Japanese battleship Hatsuse just completed in England has been ordered to proceed hither with all possible speed says the Yokohama correspondent of the Daily Mail Other orders given to the Japanese navy indicate the seriousness with which the Japanese government views the situation in the far east Well informed Japanese regard Rus sias action in Manchuria as a gigantic bluff inspired by the notion that Eng lands hands are tied in South Africa but as Germany is only half hearted in the maintenance of Chinese integ rity a coalition with Japan is improb able and Japan is too much embar rassed in her finances to do more than protest and endeavor to secure com pensating advantages in Korea Chinas signature of the Manchur ian convention is practically assured says the St Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Mail because Russia last August sent to the empress dowager 7500 pounds of bar silver HARRISON SLIGHTLY WORSE lie ft Lung Inflamed and General Not So Well as Formerly INDIANAPOLIS March 11 The condition of former President Harri son is serious Dr Jameson stated to day that the upper part of General Harrisons left lung was inflamed There is some danger of the conges tion extending to the rest of the lung and to the right lung Until 3 oclock this afternoon General Harrison was resting easily -but at that time he be came slightly worse and Dr Jameson was called He said that he was cer tain nothing was to be apprehended for the next forty eight hours but the age of the patient renders all calcula tions uncertain At 8 oclock this even ing General Harrison was suffering some pain but was resting compara tively easy DEWET IS SAEE ONCE MORE Escapes Into His Own Country and Can not Ite Operated Against LONDON March 11 The Times publishes the following dispatch from Aasvogelkop March 9 General DeWet has escaped north ward by a forced march with 400 men His objective is believed to be the vi cinity of Kroonstadt Four other Boer leaders are still in the southwestern part of Oranve River colony Now that General Dewet is back in his own country it will be almost im possible to operate against him Just as soon as he is pressed his commando dissolves to meet again a few days later Only a few bands of Boers are now left in Cape Colony AMERICANS MOST MERCIFUL All Other Foreigners in Fekln Have Done Some Executing LONDON March 11 It is not likely that the powers will oppose the schemes of Russia says the Pekin correspondent of the Morning Post wiring Saturday The situation is regarder as very gloomy Even the Chinese plenipotentiaries declare open ly that intervention by the powers is not desirable unless they are prepared i to back up their protests A BELGIAN HARE SHOW It Proved Successful Beyond All Expec tations BIO AND LITTLE HARES IN PLENTY The Hare Proposition as Viewed by a Well Informed Farmer A Murderer Gets Nineteen Years Imprisonment Miscellaneous Nebraska Matters attended and created such interest that it was prolonged beyond the date first set Just how many hares were on ex hibition is not known though not on account of them running around so fast for all were in cages or in the rabbitry language in hutches But there were hundreds of them and then more hundreds not only from Ne braska but from all adjoining and several far away states There were big hares and little hares brown golden red black and spotted hares and a number of inter esting hare families As a rule they are gentle but they have teeth like knife blades and some of the boy hares are great fighters of other boy hares A number of farmers were in attend ance and bought quite heavily One of these farmers in discussing the hare proposition said I am of the opinion that the hare is going to be raised extensively by the farmers in the near future They will not breed for points but instead will pay most of their attention to meat stock I have investigated this question thoroughly and have reached the conclusion that on a farm I can raise a hare to maturity for not to e3eed 10 cents Such a hare will sell for at least 12 pounds on foot thus yielding a net profit of 115 on each animal If I care to do my own kill ing I can sell the meat at 18 to 20 cents per pound and as a hare of ten pounds will dress seven pounds I have from 126 to 140 to say nothing of the pelt which is worth something iiKe ou cents You may raise chickens hogs sheep or cattle but you cant get any such returns for your money Just now the small hare weighing eight pounds is more in demand but inside of a year when the hare gets down to a strictly meat proposition as itmust the big fellows will be the high priced ones and will be the ones sought after Of the hares now at the show Pro fessor Crabtree who is recognized as an authority says that they are as fine a lot as he ever saw on exhibition Along this line he said I realize that Nebraska was one of tne last states to take up the Belgian hare industry but it has made some rapid strides In this show the animals average as good as those in Colorado Kansas and California where breeders have been in the business for years There must be something about the Nebraska climate that does it for it is not all in the breeding and care that the animals are given Sidney Pleased with tho Honor SIDNEY Neb March 11 News was received here that President McKinley had sent to the senate the name of James L Mcintosh for receiver of the Sidney land office in place of Matt Daugherty resigned The appointment is received here with universal satis faction as Mr Mcintosh has resided here since childhood and is a practic ing attorney of excellent ability He is a member of the state central com mittee and chairman of the republican county committee Immigrant Loses His Money MCOOK Neb March 11 W H Chambers an immigrant from Ander son la who arrived in McCook is poorer by 585 in cash He had the money in a wallet and does not know anything about the money after he left Indianola He was with a car of goods on the way to Culbertson Receiver at Sidney WASHINGTON March 8 The ap pointment of J L Mcintosh Jr to be receiver of the land office at Sidney Neb was sent to the senate today and it is expected he will be promptly confirmed as it is the desire of the leading republican senators to get away from Washington Saturday Three Veterans Pass Away FALLS CITY Neb March 11 John Schuler died at his residence in this city Tuesday morning after a long ill ness aged sixty eight years Mr Schuler was a pioneer of Richardson county and was well and favorably known He served through the civil war Mr Schuler is the third member of the Falls City G A R to pass away within the past ten days J D McCann and Elias Minshall preceding him Nineteen Years for Murder COLUMBUS Neb March 11 At the special session of the district court here Judge Hollenbeck on the bench a motion for a new trial for N J Gen tleman convicted of murder in the sec ond degree two weeks ago was argued and overruled and Gentleman was sen tenced to the penitentiaryy for nine teen years Interest Felt at Beatrice BEATRICE Neb March 11 The supreme court ruling in the case of Frank L Dinsmore convicted of mur dering his wife in Dawson county is of more than passing interest to the people of this city He formerly lived here and for years was a clerk at the Randall hotel and is a brother of the former superintendent of city schools He was well known at Barneston this county having been in charge of a grain elevator at that point prior to his removal west He was married in this city his wife being a Miss Cal vert of West Beatrice i THE LIVE STOCK MARKET Latest Quotations from South Oxxsh and Kansas City SOUTH OMAHA Cattle There was another light run of cattle and the demand being quite lib eral the market ruled active and steady to strong all around Beef steers of good quality were picked up early this morn ing at prices that looked strong as com pared with yesterday Where thecattlo Just suited them they paid perhaps a little higher prices but as a rule the sit uation could best be described by calling it a strong active market As high as 540 was paid for a bunch of steers which is the highest price paid in some time The cow market was also active and fully steady with yesterday Med ium weight heifers or cows of good qual ity were ready sellers and in some cases Drougnf a mtle stronger prices today OMAHA March 11 Tho Belgian Sf1 rn of coT sa sold fully wo m Uv Crt n LV particularly early In the inCT Blllln worn In irnnrt lomonH If tViox were of good quality and prices could buieiy oe quoted steady to stronger Calves also brought good firm prices and the same is true of stags Stockers and feeders did not show much of any change There were only a few on sale and anything at all desirable met with ready sale at fully yesterdays quota tions Hogs There was not a heavy run of hogs today and the market started out about 2c higher than yesterday morn ing xne first hogs sold largely at 537 O40 and some prime heavyweights sold as high as 545 or 5c better than yester day s top The hogs began moving to ward the scales quite rapidly but before there was time to sell more than half the receipts the market weakened and packers were only offering 532535 The last end of the marnet was very slow as the best hogs were sold first and packers were not particularly anx ious for what was left Sheep There was just a fair run of sheep here today and the demand was In good shape so that the market ruled active and steady to strong all around Quotations Choice fed westerns 140 460 fair to good wethers 425440 choice ligthweight yearlings 160460 fair to good yearlings 440460 choice lightweight ewes 375410 fair to good ewes 350375 choice lambs 490515 fair to good lambs 470490 feeder ewes 3250350 feeder wethers 375 400 feeder lambs 400440 KANSAS CITY Cattle Native beef steers steady to 10c lower Texans steady to strong others steady native beef steers 470555 stockers and feeders 400ff515 Includ ing heavy feeders at 425475 fed west erns 450550 Texans and Indians 375 40 cows 225 425 includng canners at 225300 heifers 325475 bulls 300450 calves 400600 Hogs Market steady top 547 bulk of sales 530545 heavy 535547 mixed packers 535545 light 520 53 1 pigs 4607515 Sheep and Lambs Market for sneep steady to 10c higner lambs steady west ern lambs 4803505 western wethers 425465 western vearliners ewes 375425 culls 2503S0 MEANS EARLY ADJOURNMENT Senators Not to Reorganize Committees at Extra Session WASHINGTON March 9 The re publican senatorial conference decided to not reorganize the committees at this session This means an early ad journment of the senate probably to day The conference was without ing incident although many speeches were made Two resolutions were con sidered and both were voted down The first was offered by Senator Ma son and provided for the immediate reorganization of the committees Senator Foraker presented the sec ond and it provided for the appoint ment of a committee to consider the basis of a reorganization to report at the beginning of the session of congress commencing next December ine majority against both propositions was large The effect of these two negative votes is to defer all action on reorganization until the December ses sion The speeches against organization at this time were all based upon the plea that it meant indefinite prolonga tion of the present special session To this argument the reply was made that it was better to take the time for this ncessary work now when only one house is in sssion and no legis lation is pending The new senators said very little generally taking the position that they were willing to be guided by the ex perienced senate leaders Requisition for Brailey LINCOLN Neb March 11 Lieu tenant Governor Savage issued a requi sition on Governor Van Sant of Minne sota for the return of Fred Brailey to Boyd county Nebraska Brailey is un der arrest at Marshall Minn He is wanted on the charge of criminal as sault on the person of a young woman in Boyd county alleged to have been committed last July Sheriff Herman Stamer has been commissioned to bring the prisoner back Opposition to Sanger WASHINGTON March 8 There is growing opposition to the appoint ment of Colonel Sanger as assistant secretary ot war Senator Piatt of New York called on both the president and Secretary Root in relation to the matter Secretary Root said it was his personal appointment and should therefore not be interfered with Whether Senators Piatt and Depew will take the same view of the mat ter is problematical GanjT Attempts Blackmail SHENANDOAH la March 9 A gang of seven toughs has written sev eral letters to Henry Gallup a citizen of Shenandoah to the effect that it would burn his property if he did not leave town or pay it 280 Mr Gallup has placed the letter in the hands of the postal authorities and an investi gation will be made The cause of sending the letters is that the gang believes Mr Gallup gave information against them as gamblers Iowa Indians Complain WASHINGTON March 8 A dele gation of Musquakie Indians from a reservation near Tama la had a con ference with the Indian officials They were accompanied by Attorney Wil cox who was at the Indian office with them The Indians complain of the treatment by Agent Malin and they i make charges against Mr Nellis su perintendent of their school While the charges made against both officials are serious they are discredited by In dian Commissioner Jones THE DUTY OF MOTHERS What suffering1 frequently results from a mothers ignorance or moi frequently from a mothers neglect to properly instruct her daughter I Tradition says woman must suf fer and young women are so taught There is a little truth and a great deal of exaggeration in this If a young woman suffers severely she needs treatment and her mother should see that she gets it Many mothers hesitate to take their daughters to a physician for examina tion but no mother need hesitate to write freely about her daughter or herself to Mrs Pinkham and secure the most efficient advice without charge Mrs Pinkhams address ia Lynn Mass j M MISS PFAUGRAF 41 ii Mrs August Pfalzgraf of South Byron Wis mother of the young lady whose portrait we here publish wrote Mrs Pinkham in January 1899 saying her daughter had suffered for two years with irregular menstruation had headache all the time and pain in her side feet swell and was generally miserable Mrs Pinkham promptly replied with advice and under date of March 1899 the mother writes again that Lydia K Pinkhams Vegetable Compound cured her daughter of all pains and irregularity Nothing in the world equals Mrs Pinkhams great medicine for regu lating womans peculiar monthly troubles WET WEATHER WI5D0M AXft THE ORIGINAL tvSvftO WX 1 x X K M Jk V IKn x OWy W LnuiaauT DCautllul m VJffRBMv SLICKER BLACK OR YELLOW WILL KEEP YOU DRY NOTHING ELSE WILL TAKE NO SUBSTITUTES CATALOGUES FREE SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS AJTOWER C0B05TONMA55 HALT ATTENTION SOLDIERS piVTL WAR Every soldier who served 00 days in the War of the Rebellion and who was honorably discharged and who made Home stead Entry of less than 160 acres of land Is en titled to enough additional acres to make with thefirstentry 160 acres the flrstentrymssthave been made before June 22 1874 We purchase these rights The heirs are entitled if the soldier Is dead Pensions etc adjusted Send for free circular A W Ringland 626 Rialto Bldg Chicago L mMAOttNTED AT0NCE o with rig to sell our Poultry Mixture straight salary 1500 per week and expenses years contract weekly pay Address with stamp Eureka Mfg Co Dept P East St Louis Ill- OKLAHOMA OFFERS FREE HOMES to 50000 people on lands soon to open to settlement Opportunity of a lifetime THE KIOWA CHIEF devoted to information about these lands will contain proclamation fixing date of opening One year 8100 6mos 60 cents 5 cents per copy MOR GANS MANUAL Complete Settlers Guide with sectional map 510a MANUAL MAP and CHIEF six months 8150 For sale by Book and News Dealers or address DICK T MORGAN Perry 0 T IN 3 OR 4 YEARS AN INDEPENDENCE ASSURED If ypu take up your homes In Western Can ada the land of plenty Illustrated pamphlets giving experiences of farmers who hare be come wealthy In grow ing -wheat reports of delegates etc and full lniormauon as to reduced railway rates can be had on application to the Superintendent of Immigration Department of Interior Ottawa Canada or to VY V Beanutt 01 N Y Wf Bldg Omaha Neb IEATEST OF CEREALS Spdtz Started tie Finals Worii la 195 It wiu capture every heart I n 1ECL with 1 ta SO bo of grain and 4 tons of hay equal to Tlmothv ter acre Get thecennlnebyot Ealzer the introducer Combination Corn is one of the greatert things ot the century It Is early and an mously fabulously big yieldcr aeort to revolutionize corn Krowinsr bound Sateens Vegetable Seeds The beauty aboutSalzerti vegetable teed Is tnat they nercr faO They sprout grow and produce They are of each high vitality they lanjh at droughts rains and the elements tatlnglst prizes everywhere We warrant this For U Gents and This Hotica we send 7 packages of rare choice rre5euc novelties packagea of an worth ji uil and our blcr catin rny i n to nl2r to pain 250000 new customern aa 1301 or Tor tOc 10 rare farm seed samples i uiiy mjna iuw a gee a stars and ocrgri catalogue itHHSHJL SILZ3 SEED 00 LA CROSSE WIS A- W N U OMAHA No n 1901 If UUKtS WHRE ALL ELSE FAILS gST jtarf Besi Cough Syrup Tastes Good Dec RS jpa In time Sold by d Tiggists prSj V- V i