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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1903)
THE VALENTINE 'DEMOCRAT I. M. RICE EDITOR Thursday , June IS , 1903 TERMS Subscription $1.00 per year in advance ; 51.50 When not paid m advance , Single copies 5c. Display advertising 1 inch single column iGc per issne or $ c.oo a year. Ixcal Notices , Obituaries , Lodge Resolution- ind Socials lor Revenue 5c per line per Issue. Brands , IH inches S4.00 per year in advance additional spaceSS-OOper inch peryearjengraved blocks extra ; $1.00 each. Parties living outside Cherry county not per sonally known arelrequested to pay in advance. 10 per cent additional to above rates if over G months iu arrears. Notices of losses of stock free to branded ver- tlstrs. Isn't it about time for a new year ? It used to be said out west that all "good Indians were dead Ind- ' ' republicans dians. From appearances licans believe the same of demo crats. While John vAtgeld lived republicans could say nothing too mean against him. He was held up by republican newspapers as a "red handed anarchist , and all round villian , but since his death those traducers are willing to recognize his great and good qualities , and ll t the other day the republican legis lature of the great state of Illinois set aside' the anniversary of his death , and eloquent eulogies were pronounced upon his memory by men of all political beliefs and 85000 was voted to his widow. Now if Mr. Bryan wishes the eulogies of the republican party he should die and republicans would then not only give him credit for honesty , integrity and pure life , but would be so pleased that such a dangerous opponent to their tricky schemes was powerless to further expose them that they would fairly canon ise him. Such is republicanism of to-day. York Democrat. ADDITIONAL LOCAL Band concert at the Post Hall Friday evening June 19th. E. HBohle and Ed Mathes drove over to Rosebud last Sat. The Valentino Bottling Works puts up eleven different kinds of drinks. 17 We'll try to give a complete re port next week of cases tried and disposed of this term of court. The J. C. C. Corset , the best cheap corset made. At the Ladies' Store. MKS. ELMORE'S. Mrs. J. H. Sears has received word that her father Lewis Adamson - son , died last Friday morning at Baird , Nebr. He was well known here in the early days. W. S. Jackson re turned last Fri day night from a five weeks visit with his peoplel in Chicago and in Wisconsin , looking well. Mrs. Jackson stopped down at Neligh for a few days visit. The field day exercises at the Post Tuesday were good and car ried out nearly as the program of last week indicated. It was a fine day and the ball game was won by 'the 3rd batalion. Score , 11 to 4. Jas. Irwin received a telegram last Friday stating that his father A. J. Irwin , had died atThermop- olis , Wyo. Mr. Irwin and wife lived here in the early dayscom- ing here in 18SO. He was 78 years old. One of the nicest fish we have seen lately was a Bass weighing 4 pounds caught out of Lake Minnechaduza north of town by Captain Howcll. Earl Comstock had secured it and we know it was a rare treat. Manly Wyman called to see us Tuesday while in town making ar rangements for his big stock sale , which will be held at Woodlake , to Friday , June 26th. He tell hs that a C. A. Johnson has purchased an go automobile which he began using last Saturday and has been riding all around the country in it. He started for Fairfax , S. D. Tuesday | tL morning at six o'clock and will alarm the natives as tLoy see the dine " no pushee , no pullee but go just pc r * frrrrasgYrey I wish to assure the citizens of Valentine and vicinity that Frank R. Roberson is one of the best lec turers I ever listened to , and I have Iheard scores of the best in the land. Mr. Roberson has a strong , resonant voice , is very pleasing in appearance , and his pictures are a revelation. In the cities of Omaha and Lincoln his lectures are considered a treat. * J have heard him several times and he never disappoints or fails to please. His "Imperial India" is a masterpiece. W. K.FOWLEK , State Supt. Notice. \ A number of persons have com plained to the editor f o the DEMO CRAT of receiving notices of indeb tedness to the Valentine News for subscription. Some mistake this for the VALENTINE DEMOCRAT. We wish those who receive these notices to understand that there is a difference and that the DEMO CRAT has nothing to do with these accounts. Junior Normal Xotes. The Epworth League extends an invitation to all normal instruct ors and students to come to the reception Friday evening June 19 , in the new court house. Come and j let us show you a good time. At present there are 70 students enrolled. We expect the attendance - ance to increase until it numbers 150 before the last five weeks of normal. The following are the names of those enrolled up to Tuesday evening. Valentine. ! Vamiie Hooper Agatha O'Shauulinessv John Massinyale Nellie Collett Clella Fruhh Noy Asb.l > urn MaudTracenell Eflle Carlson Nettie Kneeland Ella Poleii Mrs. James Invin Frances Harden Allen Gould Bertha Harvey Lucllla Stiuard Emma Carlson x Laura Roberts Eva Ashburu Maggie Simpson Eva Taylor Mabel Helzer Margaret Robinson Alice Gaskill Stella Crowe Ada Stinard Clara Ayers RutliStetter Phebe Chit-chill Laura Pettijolm Margarite Quigley Maud Kalbliuger Viola Brosius Mrs , E A Pettycrew Nettle Handy Forest Shepard John Harvey Eva Harden Cbas Eads Merriman. Nellie Mosena Mrs. W F Morgareldge WF Blorgareidge Penbrook. Alice Hutchison Annie Tillson Alice Tillson Orvilla Washburn , Newport. Lillian Flsli , Tilden. Myrtle Jones , Ft. Niobrara. Eda Broad , Britt. Carrie vvilson. Kilcore. Maude Smith , Bassett. Sophie Nye " " May Barnes , Newton ' ; Vera Gorball , Butka , Nebr Margaret Conger , Norden Delia Osborne , Sparks / ' Lulu DeBojrd , Crookston Marie NeUon , Cody Olive Bliss , Croukstou Cbas Ammon , Perch Gee , Ammon ' / ' Martha Sprague , Elgin * ' Alta Starr , Cody Frances Q-r ewe , Nenzel j MarvGrewe , " . _ Myrtle Bennett , Long Pine Pearl Hash , Gordon" ' - Grace Rash " Luella Miller. Ainsworth Florence Johnson " Ellen Bjorkman , Hay Springs lionrdmnn Springs. , ( Crowded out last Week. ) j * Aleck McAlevy lias put in 20 acres of cane for feed. Homer Tait went to the cross L n ranch this week. , _ Henry Harris is hunting horses on the Snake this week. Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson visited -S with R. Quisenberry Sunday. C G. T. Spain and wife visited with w W. Shelbourn last Sunday and enjoyed - fl' joyed a fine mess of fiish. tc Mrs. A. B. Butler has recently ar rived from Indiana to make her v A home with her daughter , Mrs. R. Quisnherry. CE The Decoration Day exercises at Kennedy were very good reflecting a greafc credit on their teacher , Mis. ca Edna Dunham. Will Shelbourn and family expect IK move a few miles farther west in w few days. We regret to see them fr as they are some of our best la neighbors. R. M. Faddis and W. Steadman were out to their Snake river ranch the fore part of the week. We hear that they contemplate putting in a dipping plant for their stock at this point. ' } Court Xotes I The district court adjourned afc tor nearly a three weeks session , This 1 has been the longest term of court in the history of the county. While litigation all over the state seems to have materially decreased , in Cherry county , judging by the amount of business at the present term of court it has increased. None of the litigation was of a tri vial character and many of the cases ' were of the utmost importance. In t the criminal business transacted there were two murder cases and in each instance a conviction of manslaughter was secured. This is pointed out to the people of the county as evidence that even this far west in Nebraska , human life may not be any longer taken with impunity. The civil suits were generally < controversies between cattlemen over the sale of cattle and wintering thereof , and , one' very important insurance case in volving many intricate questions of law was disposed of. Judge "Westover was to hold the present term of court but owing to the sickness in his family he exchanged with his associate , Judge H rring- ton , and held the term of court at his home in Kushville where it was intended Judge Harrington should preside. The number of import ant cases tried brought to Valen tine several distinguished counsel . from outside the county and has made this term of more than usual interest and importance. The en tire local bar and the visiting at torneys as well as jurors and citi zens ( all highly compliment Judge Harrington for the fairness and impartiality with which he has con ducted the business and also for his ] prompt method of disposing of cases. Every case was tried that the attorneys were prepared to try and not a single criminal case was continued except one and in that case the offense was committed af ter the court convened and the at torneys had no time to prepare the case as they were engaged in court. The comment is quite general | that the business of the district. , court is being kept right up , and that cases are not allowe'd to 'dragt along on the dockets for years/ This condition is very satisfactory to the bar and to the people and taxpayers and cattlemen in partic ular are especially loud in their praise of the judges for the prompt method in which cattle rustlers and in fact all classes of law breakers are compelled to stand trial , and for the justice meted out to them. fcti fcA few years ago tliis whole coun try was infested by rustlers to the tiS great detriment of the stock inter ests < , which is the principle indus- try in north-west Nebraska. The 'Ii I present judges have sent terror to the ? hearts of these midnight gentP' lemen and the leaders have either I , been sentenced to the penitentiary or : . have gone to new fields to oper- ate. " \ Judge Harrington sentenced 1 John Green , who was found guilty . of manslaughter for the killing of Wm. Stover at Merriman , to ten years at hard labor and on the an- niversary of which he committed i the crime , to a dungeon. In pas i sing sentence he called attention tc the fact that murder Avas the .greatest crime in the category ex cept treason and that a man's life j was the dearest thing he had and \ that sentences imposed were not' 1 ' \ j D sc much to punish the criminal as 1 " set an example to others who } " might be inclined to break the law. few sentences of this kind will 01 cause those who are inclined to . committ crime to pause and hesill1 tate before they do so ; it will have ti tendency to deter lawlessness because - to cause violators of law , when they jj know that a speedy trial and a w heavy sentence will be imposed will think twice before they are so ft . frqe to take human life or violate f1 law. V t fii j rt 1M-P-A-N-S Tabnlos Doctors find fc * A good prescription P For mankind ! , ! hi 'Hiecent package Is enough lor usual occas- * i' Blons. Tlie family bottle ( CO cents ) contains a i NG1 CIZ.VT ON CRUSHING UNIONS. \ Omaha Eustaces Men's Association * j ! Corrocta a False Impression. { Oma'ja , June 9. An impresoion seems to | b.ivo gone < > " * through various channels tliKt the Business Men's association , recent ly organized in Cnaha , Is bent oa crushing out the labor unions of t.s ; ! city and is af- Hllitel in some way with a national body similarly Inimical to organized labor. A statement recently- Issued by the authority of the Omaha Business Men's association denies this completely , and further shows that e\fii ri liie c'oscrt meetings of the as sociation the .speeches of members have al ways been marked by the most respectful attitude toward the laboring man , and not a word has been said that would suffer from public repetition. TLc conference between the labor lead ers and the special committee or the Busi ness Men's association that w'as called by j j Governor Mickey brought out a clear and emphatic statement of the position of the two bodies , as shown by the stenographic report , which has just been transcribed. It has been claimed in some quarters that this conference was barren ol results , but the exact alignment of posi tions obtained through it should afford con- tlsi sideraole , t-ati&factlon , even if no advance ' was made toward arbitration of the dis I pute. This conference seems early to have set tled down to an effort on the part of Hon. T. .7. Mahoney , the attorney of the Busi ness Men's association , to pin the represen tatives of labor to a definite and explicit statement of the position and aims of the strike then ou in Omaha. In this he seems to have slice-ceded very well , though at times calling upon himself expostulations from Mr. Bell , the president of the Central Labor union , who insisted that he was not a witness to be cross-questioned , and that Mr. Mahoney used very harsh terms in de- lining tucir position. Iu the tirst place Mr. Mahoney stated to the confeienc'1 that the Business Men's as sociation had never questioned the right of the laboring man to organize in unions , nor did they now question the rights of such unions to exist , but he wished to establish the corollary of this by ascertaining wni'ther the representatives of labor there present would also acknowledge the right of existence to unorganized labor. This right was thereupon admitted by Mr. Bell and his associates , but they stoutly main tained the union men could not be expect ed to associate with or work alongside of nonunion men. They would not deny the ug.it of employers to hire nonunion men , but they would insist that such men at unee make application to enter the union. Asked if that did not result In forcing all employes into union ranks , thus in reality driving out the nonunion men , the reply wax made that they had no desire to crush , , - . they "only Avanted to get hold of him tail : to him and make a man of . i. ' 11 w.s finally4 brought out , however , and l-i m it unequivocal terms , that the rcprc- : Qntji'ives of the labor unions present would never be willing to submit to arbl- liation the three salient poiuts of the dis pute : ( t ) The right of the employer to hiiu both union and nonunion men with out discrimination ; (2) ) the use of the boy cott , and ( . ' ! ) the sympathetic strike. They insisted that these were their weapons land peifectly legitimate weapons ) in their warfare against the nonunion man ; as they expressed it , "warfare against the man who rtaists the onward march of organized labor. " It was further maintained with considerable- show of effrontery that in the laboring world the majority is to rule and I he minority must eventually yield. Final ly , Mr. , Bell declared , quite , hotly , . "The Lime has gone by in this community when the individual has any very material rights left. " On the part of the Business Men's associa tion , on the other baud , the point was very clearly made that they do not refuse , to grant to the unions that much sought for "leeognition. " if such recognition implies . imply an acknowledgment of their legal existence , or even an agreement to settle questions affecting wages and hqurs with the olliceis or committees representing such unions : but the association , in com mon uith similar bodies of business men in Denver , " Kansas City , Chicago , New 1'ork and other cities , does refuse to "rec ognize" the unions if that recognition can- be accomplished only by signing contracts in which the employer is pledged to cm- ploy union men exclusively and to refuse supplies , merchandise or service to any in dividual , lirm or corporation that may be pronounced at any time "unfair" by the unions. The kernel of the whole dispute seems to lie ( in this. The union men believe , or lire- tend - they believe , that their unions are in danger of disruption if they concede these principles to their employers. The latter , while absolutely refusing to surrender to such dictatoir.iip , have endeavored to point out that there will still be left much for organized labor to accomplish iu this world without trying to run 011 union lines both the employes and the employers' ends or the entire business of the 'community. This position was voiced recently by a well known business man of Omaha , who said : "Where would this sort of thing lead us , were fhc unions to win out in their .strike ? Ht would result in a form of oligarchy garchy , in which the dictators would be a few men sitting -behind a table In Labor Temple , a little government within the gov- issuing their mandates to the business mm. the professional n eii , the moneyed men , the statesmen qf Nebraska. Not a laborer could lind work who did not belong to a union ; ijor could he , on tljc other hand , belong to a union unless that union saw lit to elect him. Nor could any employer offer work unless hp agreed to abide by all the rules that the tnilon might create , of the justice and equity of which the ' union should be the sole arbiter , " The daily press of Omaha ha.s attempted to cloud tlie ibsue. By skillful use of head lines ] and juggling with thp facts thes papers ha\e given out the impression , for reasons bt" < t known t" themselves , that in many ' cases the strikes had been won l > 7 the ] men , and that in other instances the "bcale" had been "signed up" by the em ployers. rStieh defections have , only oc curred among the smaller establishments and have not in any way affected the gen eral result , The terms on which the vo.st majority of strikers havp returned to work Omaha indicate a complete surrender of their di'mands , Indeed , there have no terms at nil , except that the men to.Uc their places and co.iitinue their employ ment as before , wages not having seemed cut jiiuch figure iu this altercation , The Business Men's association has not been jarred in the least. It is by all odds the most representative body of employers ever gotteujtogi'ther in Omaha for any purpose , UWde up much a'long the same lines as the famous Knights qf Ak-Mar-Bun , So fart \ h.as been very ably manned , developing from day tq daj * greater strength of pur pose OJid a clearer knowledge of what it Is | > out. The njeetings are maintained with regularity , secrecy and strict attendance. J'he business men of Omaha secin to Iwve adopted as. their working principle the now famous declaration found in tlje report of the anthracite coal strikp coiqiuissiqu. as follows ! 'The right to remain at work when oth ers have ceased to work , or to engage anew ! work which others liavn abandoned , is part of the personal liberty of a citizen that can never be surrendered , and every Infringement thereof merits , and should re- the ' stern denouncement Qt the * " * ' ' * " ' " ' * ' * * ' jj1 Jf JT _ RECEPTION BRATS7 ! ) of Canned Goods pleases ; the delicate eater. 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