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Official Newspaper of Cherry
County Nebranha
TERMS
Subscription 100 per year in advance 150
when not paid in advance
Display advertising 1 inch 15c per issue S10
per column by the month
Local Notices 5c per line each issue
Brands 1H inches 400 per year in ad
vance additional space 300 per inch per year
engraved blocks extra 100 each
Parties living outside Cherry county not per
sonally known are requested to pay in advance
10 per cent additional to above rates if over
G months in arrears
Notices of loss of stock free to brand adver
sers
Thursday Jnly 4 1901
An Independent newspaper like an
Independent preacher is too likely to
measure their people for a misfit and
find themselves with an unrecognized
force and of doubtful faith
The ONeill Frontier celebrated its
21st birthday last week and declares its
intention of remaining on the home
stead a permanent squatter Its editor
Dan Cronin is a good newspaper man
but has an elephant to carry
A man of public opinion who refrains
from expression may be either a load
for his fellowmen to carry along until
there is pie in sight and then willing to
claim it no matter who is the winner as
a bum will wait for some one to set up
the beer or he may be a traitor who
will accept the courtesies of his fellow
men until such time as he can step in
ignore the hand that led hia and en
throne himself in his stead Either is
for a selfish purpose
Its easy enough for the wealthy man
to sit back in his chair after amassing
a fortune and say to the Jyoung men
growing up Get to woik like I did
But there are no new worlds to dis
cover and the wealthy men of the
country have got this one pretty well
gobbled up There isnt one in a hun
dred of them now who could much more
than make a living if they hadnt
stumbled into the world in time to get
something for nothing
The only reason some jepublicans
give for being a republican is that our
people prospered under republican rule
Why shouldnt we prosper while our
land and range is free our country is
new and being developed What will
it be when you have to pay for your
summer range your winters hay and
everything else high in price Some of
you will be going out of the stock busi
ness and say theres nothing in it any
more Whats the boys of the next
generation going to do
Our republican friends are going in
to ecstacies over McKinleys being of
fered a third term and refused by him
Why ajl this gibberish and nonsense
McKinley has done well in coining
more silver just what the populists
wanted but we object to it being called
republicanism or even claiming that
the populists were wrong when they
asked for a more liberal coinage of sil
yer The only difference that we see
is that as the greenbacks are being
called in and 100 per cent of govern
ment bends issued to national bankers
instead of 90 per cent as formerly it is
stealing from the silver miners to give
to the National Bankers and as bonds
are issued our government pays interest
where they would not if greenbacks
were issued But the people pay the
tax so any scheme to exact money from
a class of people to favor another class
or from the masses to favor the class of
people that has always been favored
under republican rule
McKinley has said he would not ac
cept another nomination for the presi
dency and all the his n little repub
jcan papers are exclaiming Wheres
your danger of an empire now Their
very innocence is amusing They wem
to forget McKinley can say one thing
and do another easier than any other
man in the country Thev forget that
McKinley talked iu favor of silver and
was elected president for the purpose
of establishing the gold standard They
forget that he talked about the danger
of increasing silver coinage and pro
ceeded to coin more silver than had
ever before been coined in the same
ionjth of time They forgot that he
was horrified at the idea of criminal
aggrcssfou but when the same thing
was labeled benevolent assimilation he
swallowed it fcfca a little man They
forget that ho is fa the hands of the
fellows wko hold that Jile mortgage
stnd when they say Change yyr mind
Willie it will be doue before the com
mand is uttered What the president
says at this time has nothing to do with
Iris action three years hence Ji th
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GET A
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Theres education recreation
md genuine enjoyment in picture
That isnt all you ac
cumulate a collection of pictures
that you wouldnt part with for
many times the expenditure in
volved
We have just added a line ot
Eastman Kodaks The Kodak is
the most highly perfected and
widely used camera in the world
i It was the kodak that made pic
ture taking simple and easy
With a Kodak you can take good
pictures from the very start
we want you to come in anu see
them If you buy will instruct
i you fully We also have a com
plete line ot supplies everytnmg
i you will need An entire outfiit
can be had for very little money
Quigley Chapman
Druggists
Valentine Neb
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plutocracy thinks it needs him for pres
ident again he will be nominated and
probably elected and will smilingly
thank his dear constituents for the great
honor which he plans to repay the
benefactors who will have bought high
office for him again Central City
Democrat
Extremists might profit by the follow
ing from the Mercury Manhattan
Kansas Saturdays World Herald of
June 22nd gave a brief account which
some of our readers may have seen
Mayor Miller as spoken of is the M E
Minister and is a good man Only in
Manhattan a short time but elected
Mayor and took upon himself to close
up all dram shops and punish violator
of the prohibition law As will be seen
there is bitter feeling that will result
in something more serious if his policy
is pursued as begun
Ancient history tells us that the
devil is always walking to and fro upon
the earth and up and down it lie was
parading the streets in Manhattan Sat
urday morning and at 2 30 aroused our
people by a terrific explosion that was
heard for miles around
At first it was supposed that an at
tempt had been made to rob one of our
banks but it was soon learned the First
Methodist church at the corner of
Poyntz avenue and oth street was the
scene A hasty examination proved
that the charge had been laid on the
stone sill at the center east door and
touched off splintering the lower half
of the door crumbling the sill and
shattering the stained glass windows
The walls are apparently not injured
and the damage is estimated at about
150 Expeit are of the opinion that
not nrich damage was intended as the
building could have been easily torn
do am with half the charge that was
used
Oaring to the intense strife and bit
terness now existing in Manhattan be
tween extremists caused by Mayor
Millers partial crusade against jointists
The Mercury councils moderation
Determination with good horse sense
to back it will soon straighten matters
out All honest intelligent people
have opinions and convictions and
shose opinions are often not what they
may desire but are based upon reason
able investigation and study
It should not be forgotten that the
supreme court of the United States has
many times reversed its own opinions
and that it is a common occurrance for
the band wagon to run over statutory
laws that become oppressive
So far as the prohibitory law is Con
cerned there are two plain propositions
to consider shall we control the liquor
traffic with a high license fines or
otherwise in the interest of the city
with a public sentiment to force the
provisions or shall we let it go free with
its tram of ills as we have been doing
for twenty years
Nothing should be left undone to lo
cate the coward Protection to life and
property demands it Turn the matter
over to the county attorney and sheriff
Have them understand that the people
of Riley county will not tolerate such
crimes and that legitimate expense is
not a consideration But extremists
who are always mischief makers should
be asked to stand aside in the research
as they invariably do harm and no
good
The constutional incubator now
working in Alabama and Virginia are
not of the hatch-while-you-wait kind
Senator Pepew hasnt said that he
started the third term boom just to give
the president an opportunity to kill it
and he has thereby overlooked a bet
Sheep stealing has always been re
garded as a very low crime and we re
gret that a New York farmer should
have caught an American eagle at it
The old officers of the army are op
posed to the law making retirement
compulsory at the age of 61 but the
young fellows who get promotion
through retirements think it a very
good law More human nature
Manv persons insist that it would be
more appropiate for the Navy depart
ment to present Bear Admiral Samp
son with a mirror that would enable
him to see himself as others see him
tliun to strike a medal iu his honor
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Mormon missionaries are alarming
New York churches by their success
particularly among the women
For a man that claims immortality
John Alexander Dowie alias Elijah the
prophet shows a remarkable fear for his
personal safety
Indications are that the demand for
a 10 percent increase in wages by the
workers in iron mills will be conceded
for the coming year
Alabamas new governor is a news
paper man consequently the people of
the state are expecting a boiled down
all home print administration
The labor orginizations are already
in the field with petitions to congress
for the re enactment of the Chinese ex
clusion law which will expire next
May
The cable news says a satisfactory
end ot the Chinese muddle is in sight
but unless our memory is at fault the
same thing has been said several times
before
Cuba is likely co find getting a reci
procity treaty with the U S that will
be ratified by the senate a much harder
job than getting an independent gov
ernment
Before condemning the king of Eng
land for devoting more of- his time to
tailors than to affairs of state it must
be remembered that he cannot control
the latter
A New York scientist says that rub
ber can be grown in the U S We
dont know about that but evidence
that rubber necks are grown here
can be found on every hand
In honoring Bismarck at the unveil
ing of a statue of him in Berlin the em
peror William honored himself With
out Bismarck the empire over which he
rules would never have extited
The New York preacher who is
ashamed of his city for accepting Car
negies public library donation can al
ways look the other way w hen his fel
low citizens enter one of the libraries
Now that they have got to sending
pictures by wireless telegraphy court
ing couples can never know when it is
safe to indulge in a little kissing with
out having the thing known every
where
Senator Elkiiis has thrown a brick in
to the group of senatorial candidates
for president by calling attention to the
fact that membership in the senate has
seemed to place a hoodoo on higher as
pirations
War is hard on live stock as well as
men The British government has
purchased 250000 horses and mules in
the TJ S for use in the Boer war and
probably as many more in other parts
of the world
Seventy five years ago today John
Adams died with the words Thomas
Jefferson still lives Thomas Jeffer
son however had been dead four
His last words were Thi3 is the
Fourth of July
Whats the use of anybody else do
ing anything as long as J Pierpont
Morgan works His latest is a combine
of western railways covering 55592
niles which will be controlled by him
and E H Harrimau
Inventors are not making goo goo
eyes at the commissioner of patents
who has ordered hearings before him
self and assistant suspended during
July and A ugust much to the incon
venience of many of them
C H Wellford now takes charge of
the mechanical and local work of the
Valentine Democrat We have
selected him because of his experi
ence fitness and close attention he
gives his work and of our need for a
good practical printer
Snake River
Mr and Mrs Lewis Garner are vis
iting old friends and neighbors this
week
I rank Parkers and Mr Smiths fam
ilies were fishing at the home of Wm
Shelbourn recently with good success
Mr Waggoner and family from the
101 ranch visited Charley Parker two
or three days
It looks as if we were going to have
abundant hay crops this year
People are already beginning to
think about haying
We are grieved to hear of the death
of Mrs Bradbury after a short illness
Horace WalUngford and his wife and
babies visited at tho home of his fath
er recently
Gardens in this vicinity are looking
tine N
The general round up of cattle be
gan here last Monday
Quite a number of people attended
the races last week
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ADDITIONAL LOCAL
C H Cornell went to Omaha Mon
day
I M Rice editor Democrat was up
to Gordon Monday on business
Mrs Wm Steele left Tuesday night
for a visit with her folks at Gordon
Dont forget onr high grade coffees
and teas W APettycrew
Come and see our 10c counter of
actual values W A Pettycrew
Dr W I Seymour eye ear nose
and throat specialist 110 O Street
Omaha Nebr
Cook and dining room girl wanted
at the Central Hotel Gordon
2t Joe Morkisox
Mr and Mrs H Hooker and son
after a visit at Woodkko over Sunday
returned on 27 Monday to Chadron
All kinds of heavy hardware and
wagon wood stock at E Breuklanders
20 tf
Frank Thackrey and wife arrived
from the Anadarko Indian school I
T and has gone out to his homestead
Mrs Arthur Reis left last Monday
morning for Woorcroft Wyoming
where she will visit her parents for a
few weeks
Misses Mary and Maud Van Orsdale
from Sioux City came Tuesday nighi
for a visit with their cousins Ed and
Albert Pike
They are celebrating today at Sparks
Britt Crookston Kilgore Cody Merri
man Simeon Kennedy and Brownlee
Cherry County
Two men and three teams want da
work through haying season Post
office Sparks Nebr
23 3 fc E3Ierson Powers
Cutting parts furnished for al
kinds and styles of mowing machines
and binders at E Breuklanders
204t
Col E J Davenport returned from
Omaha Tuesday night where he hao
been with C Curnell and J A Spark
in the interests of Cherry county people
Frank Mogle Jr who was throwi
by his horse last week at Cody did noi
regain consciousness and died Saturday
ofconsussion of the brain He wat
buried Sunday
For Sale About 40 head of cow
and calves and about 100 head mixec
stuff Inquire at ranch 10 miles soutl
of Crookston
23 tf Leu Parker Mgr
Mrs J G Stetter is spending thi
week at Gordon with Mrs Lanibersoi
while John and Frank are gone t
Dead wood attending the 25th anniver
sary of the settlement of Black Hills
Lost While driving through sonu
where on Gordon creek one blacl
polled cow branded hi on right side
Reward Mrs Sopiiia Bower
Wood Lake Nebr
Died Tuesday morning infant babe
ot R A Overman and wife It wa
born Thursday and seemed health
though very small weighing 3 pounds
A B Overman came down to get a
casket
Having recently purchased one of
the Newcomb fly shuttle rag carpet
looms I am now prepared to do all
kinds of rag carpet weaving on short
notice
Mrs Ada A Holsclaw
21 tf Valentine Nebr
P Balgord wife and Oscar came
over from Rosebud last Tuesday and
left Wednesday morning for Galva
Iowa where they will make their
future home They will stop off at
Omaha and spend the Fourth Their
two daughters will re main at Rosr
bud for a few weeks when they wii
also take up their home in Iowa
Strayed or stolen from my ranch 5
miles west of Valentine on the Minne
chaduza 5 head of horses about May 1
One iron grey mare and colt one sor
rel yearling colt one three year old
horse colt dark bay or black white spol
in forehead and white hind foot on
buckskin yearling colt branded PE on
right shoulder Liberal reward will bt
paid for information leading to the re
coyery of the above property
Geo J Gaskill Valentine
Boiyai tlie Riycr
Most of the Sparks people are going
to Norden the 4th
John S Grooms and family visited
with A W Grooms Sunday
William Howes of Valentine was ou
in the country Sunday
Mr Fisher and his son from Norden
went to town the first of the week
Frank Grooms and hia brother Ches
ter went to Valentine with corn Satur
day
Miss Noy Ashburn has been working
for Mrs Bishop who has been ill foi
some time
Sunday night during the storm Che
lightning struck and killed a fine marf
weighing about 1400 pounds for Sam
uel Beriy near the Berry bridge
Renovate Renovate Renovate
White Lead Oil Turpentine Futty
Paint Whitewash and Kalsomine Brushes
SOLE AGENTS FOR
The Celebrated Lincoln Ready Mixed Paints
Varnishes and Stains There is none other so Good
We Keep in Stock at all times a large assortment of Wall paper in
prices ranging from lOcts to 50cts for a double roll
OUR SODA WATER S EQUAL TO THE BEST
And it is as cold as Greenlands Icy Mountains
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June 18 1901 Board met pursuant
to adjournment members all present
On motion Shadbolt Fleischman were
granted a refund of 1670 same being
a double assessment
0i motion contract for bridges was
awarded Canton Bridge Co for two
bridges across Loup river at 2019 and
one across Snake river at 661 Board
then adjourned as county commission
ers to June 28 and immediately recon
vened as a board of equalization con
tinued in that work until the evening
of the 22d and adjourned to J une 24
June 24 1901 Board met as per ad
journment Members all present
Continued in the business of equal
ization until June 26 and adjourned
to June 27
Tune 27 1901 Eoard met as per ad
journment Members all present
Whereupon the following levies were
made
County General Fund o mills
Bridge 2
Koad l
County sinking fund certified by Co clerk 2
Valentine precinct bond f uud 2
village general fund 10
water fund 7
light fund 4 -
The following
evies were made
District No 1
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48
49
63
7C
71
53
92
school district bond
10
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10
5
mills
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Whereupon the board of equalization
adjourned sine die
Attest Co Clerk
June 28 1901 Board met as per ad
journment Members all presen t
Give Me a Trial
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Walcott8 ami Ttlsons old St a tuts SJf
WJfr
A Schatzthauer Propr
T J Ashburn made a flying trip to
Valentine the fore part of the week
with a load of garden truck
The hail cut the corn pretty badly
u still it grows
Matt Jelly took off a fine lot of fat
hogs a few days ago We understand
he had over 4000 pounds at 500 per
hundred good for Matt the hog busi
ness is all right when we can rase the
corn
The skimming station at Spark is
getting along nicely with about 2400
pounds of milk every day
Who is hauling milk to Sparks on
the west route
Youngster
Commissioners Proceedings
Valentine Nebraska June 11 1901
Board of county commissioners met
in legular session as a board of equali
zation present Chairman L Laufer
Alex Burr and V E flaley and ad
journed from day to day until June 13
June 13 1901 Board met as per
members all present T
P Sprat appeared and requested that
cattle assessed to Uattie Eaton Cyn
thia Pearson and Spratt Pearson in
Table precinct be stricKen from tax
I sr for reason that stock belongs in S
Dak request granted and said piop
erty stricken from the list And hav
ing adopted the following schedule of
percentages in order to adjust equali
zatio i between precincts adjourned to
une 14
Sclieuif e will Le published next week
June 14 1901 Board met as per ad
journment members all present
Sj ent day in work of equalization It
appearing to the board that the cattle
assessed to R M Faddis Co and fl
S Lcckwood in Sparks and Minnecha
duza pre incts had been assessed in
other precincts were ordered stricken
from the assessors books continued in
the business of equalization until June
15 and adjourned to June 18 1 p m
June 17 1901 Board county com
uissioners met in regular session pres
ent Chairman L Laufer and Alex
Burr On motion the bids for build
ing bridges across Loup river were op
ened and found to be as follows
WrouEhfc Iron Bridire Co
Plan l 733 Han 2
3 927
5 S53
7 SCO
9 4j0
Cant n Bridge Co
Plan 1 740
3an I plan a 845
4a a 1147
6 a 1121
4 b 1000
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On motion the official bonds of Frank
Yanish constable Merriman precinct
and Henry Becker road overseer dist
Xo 4 were approved Whereupon the
board drove out to view hill near mouth
Minnechaduza creek and Com Haley
was authorized to have new road mado
up said hill On motion county sur
veyor was ordered to survey road at
location of new bridge at 13rownlee
commencing at tonth side of street
running east and wet thence south
across river along east end of J H
Lees fish pond and connect with Thed
ford road
Whereupon the board adjou rned to
June 20
Lost On June 22 1901 one
bright bay horse weight about
1200 pounds branded 8J on shoul
der also branded jrj on left
shoulder said horse strayed from
Uosebud Agency
Chas E McC hesney
U S Indian Agt Rosebud
So Dak
Notice of Sale under Chattel A ortgage
Notice is hereby Riven that by virtue of a
chattel mortgage dated on the 27th day of
March 1900 and duly Hied In the office of the
County Clerk of Cherry County Nebraska on
the 10th day of April imx and executed by
Milton Dunham to I A Hancock to secure the
payment of the sum of live hundred dollars and
upon which there is now due the sum of SKOOO
default having been made in the payment of
saiu sum and no suit or other proceeding at
law having been instituted to cover said debt or
any part thereof therefore I will sell the prop
erty therein described viz one six year old
Jack color black with light points name Jolly
Boy one sorrel three year old mare with white
face one light bay three j ear old mare left hind
foot vhlte and strip in face one black three
year old mare one dark chestnut mare nine
years old one bay mrc fiie years old star iu
lace and left hind foot white one brown mare
nine years old one dark bay mare nine years
old star in face one brown mare mule age la
years one brown horse mule age 12 years one
black mare mule age 12 years one buckskin
horse mule age 8 years tbese mules will weight
from ooo to VM pounds wheu iu good llcsh at
public auction at the house oi N S llowley in
Kennedy precinct Cherry County Nebraska on
13th day nt July 1901 at one oclock p in of said
dy Dated June 13 1001 D A Hascouk
22 3t Mortgagee
Notice Probate of Will
Notice Probate of Will David Leach Deceased
InCouutj Court Cherry County Neb
1 lie Statu of Nebraska to the lietrs aud next of
ynof bau Dyld lcli Ueceased Take
Motice lhat upon hliug of a written instrument
purporting to be the last -will and testament of
David Leach for probate and allowance it is
ordered that said matter be set for hearing the
Stli day of July A D 1901 before said County
Court at the hour of 10 oclock a m at which
time any person interested mayappear and con
test the same ana notice of this proceeding is
ordered pubhBhed three weeks successively In
the Valkstixk Dkmochat a weekly uews
paper published In this state
In testimony whereof L have hereunto set mv
hand and the seal of the County Court at Valen
tine this 20th day of June A D mm
lSEtVh WKTOWNK
r Jt County Judge
Notice to Creditors
In County Court within and lor Cherry Coun
In the matter of the estate of Abraham Col
man deceased
To the creditors of said estate
iou are hereby uotliied that I will sit at the
County Court Room in Valentine in said County
on the 13th day of July 1901 at 10 oclock a m
to receive and examii e all claims agziust said
estate with a view to their adjustment and al
lowance Ibe time limited for the presentation
of claims against said estate iso months Irom
the 20th day of December A D looo and the
limited for pajmeul of debts Is on- year
from said utjth day ot December 1001
Witness my hand and the seal of said county
Court this 19th day of June 1901
lSKAL W RTOWXE
lc County Judge
In the District Court of Cherry
County Nebraska
In the matter otthe sale of real
estate by KobertCauady guar- Order to show
dian of flie and Ueulah JHfcAiJ cause-
thur minor heirs of Fred Mc i
Arthur deceased
And now en this 13th day of June A D 1901
this cause came on for hearing before W
of Cherry one ff Hi JudHes 0I I1 district court
county Nebraska upon the petition
of KobertCanady guardian of Eflle McArthur
Arthur deceased praying for license to sell the
ollowing described mil estate to wit the mV
ec 32 township 30 range 20 west of the Gtn it
3i the proceeds of the sale to be used for the
wards amtenance and education of his said
It is therefore ordered that all persons inter
SfM14ruIaldIestae appear belord Tme at Kush
ll e3ebraska on lQe 5th day ot July A D 1901
at 10 oclock a m to show cause why su h 11-
sMsSisas6 graited to saw feuardiau
It Is further ordered that a copy of this notice
be published four successive weeks In the vi
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