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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1905)
THE VALEflTINE HEMOGIAT I. M. RIO5 , Editor and Propr. Entered at the postofiice at Valentine , Cherry countNebr. . , as Second ( ass Matter. TERMS : Subscription $1.00 per year iu advance ; 31.50 when not paid in advance. Advertlsing 1 inch single column 15c per issue or 80.00 a year. Local Notices , Obituaries , Lodge Resolutions and Socials for revenue Sc per line per issue. Brands , 11 inches84.00 per year in advance ; additional space $3.00 per year ; engrave. * blocks extra Sl.OO each. 10 per cent additional to above rates if over 6 months in arrears. Parties living outside Cherry county are requested to pay in advance. Notices of losses of stock free to brand advertisers. THURSDAY , APRIL 0 , 19C5. Ft om O'Neill Frontier. While the trust and railroad freight rate < iuestions are under agitation the people would like some relief from the excessive tolls levied by the coal men. Omaha coal dealers furnish Wyoming coal f l.CO per ton cheaper than it can be bought for . ' 100 miles nearer the coal mines. In Nebraska , coal is one of the absolute necessities in every household and yet the price of the very poorest varieties are little less than prohibitory. If coal can be transported the whole length of the state and sold for less money than hundreds of miles nearer the mines , somebody is working a graft that ought to be peremptorily stopped. /ff/aiji0f Our Own Selves. You cannot secure prosperity by destroying the prosperity of the towns around you , even the small est of them. If you destroy their prosperity , your own prosperity goe * with it. The business of building up a country and support- it is a mutual matter. We must help each other. We must patron ize each other and deal with each other , if we expect to succeed. When we turn against our own people , when we patronize those whom we do not know , those whom we cannot hold responsible if any thing happens , when we patronize thoi > e who unload worthless goods upon us , we are working against our own state , our own friends , our own selves. If we want to build up our own state we must patronize our own towns and our own people. Fill- more Chronicle. It has been a custom since the remote past for the railroads to effcr and for public officials to ac cept transportation. It is possible that , under conditions as they formerly existed , no wrong was intended by either party to the transaction. But , judging from the sentiment of the state press , the practice is to be superseded. Most of the talk has been directed against the usage as it applies to members of the legislature , but no reason can be given in the present gtate of civilization , why any state official should allow himself to oc cupy a position , which , to say the least , is getting to be regarded as compromising. The member of the state senate who tried to evade the issue when an anti-pass bill was under consideration a few days ago by bringing into the dis cussion newspaper transportation showed that he was hard up for an argument. Ainsworth Star-Jour nal. Don't Tjone Interest. It is generally accepted by thoughtful men that the railroads and allied interests will with characteristic determination and craft bestir themselves during the year in an etfort to create public sentiment against railroad legisla tion. Already in newspapers con ceded to bo subservient to railroad influences are appearing adroit articles calculated to lull the pub lic mind and prepare tho way for the springing of some new and absorbing issue. The railroads realize that no issue if pressed to a conclusion will prove more menac- to tUcir i commerce and to their dictorial attitude toward affairs both private and governmental than the loud demand for reform railroad legisla tion. The railroads' alarming grasp of the situation has just been demonstrated in their successful effort to prevent enactment of a law which would confer upon the inter state commerce commission power which it was originally supposed to have , of adjusting railroad rates and putting into effect new tariffs where the old were found to be un reasonable and unjust. The rail roads fear that the people will sooner or later awake to the fact that government ownership is the only true solution and in fact tho only way in which anything along this line will ever be accomplished. There is absolutely nothing to be hoped for from the republican party as they are owned body and bretches by the big corporations. O'Neill Independent. j Publicity A Foe To Crim * . Under this caption the Rev. John Clarence Lee , of Trenton , New Jersey , delivered an excel lent address recently in the above city which was full of praise for the modern newspaper. Among other splendid things he said : "The first function of the news paper is the gathering and narra tion of news. The world is made up of both good and evil. The newspaper in performing its func tion of narrating the history of the j day. is obliged to take cognizance ! of both. However we may regret the existence of evil , it cannot be said that it would be best to ex clude the account of it from the public press. Publicity is a foe to crime. It is one of the means by which the way of the trans gressor is made hard. It is a part of the retribution of sin. Many a grave wrong has been unea.ri.hfu by the faithful reporter , and the criminal , therefore , brought to the condemnation he deserved. " There is plenty of good meat in this statement of the reverned gentleman. It takes a correct perspective of the situation and sets forth in clear and lucid light. To be sure , there are , and always will be in every communitjr , cer tain pious souls who almost loathe the prominence given by the news papers to crimes committed. They say that it seems to be the aim of the newspapers to parade the ob noxious and diabolical things be- for the world and color them some times to distort them ; that they are beyond recognition. This they are pleacd to call "yellow journ alism. " Without vitating in the least the fundamental principle involved in the above quoted remarKS from Dr. Lee , it may be admitted that comparatively few newspapers are addicted to this habit , their chief aim being to properly expose the wrong done to society and thus protect society from a recurrence of it. : But the question involved in Dr. Lee's statement is , "Is publicity a foe to crime ? " Does it have the tendency to lessen crime ? Or docs it , as some moralists maintain , tend to educate people to look with complacency upon those things which are heinous in tho sight of God and imiu ? These questions cannot be an swered calegorkallyt but largely , hypo < hpticilly. ; From the stand point of the reader , purely , they would seem to admit of but one answer. But from the standpoint of the trained reporter they con vey a different answer. For he knows full well how even the . demimonde hate to be exposed in I the newspapers. Crime seeks to ! hide itself and those who are con- 1 stantly engaged in its propagation . are loath to be brought out in the clear lime light of truth and ex posed. There is no doubt in the mind of a newspaper man that the aggre- ' cate of mankind do not seefc un favorable criticism. This is some thing they don't want. The moral element in every community will thereafter know them and spot them. They are branded from the moment the newspaper makes the expose. However much the moralist and purists may lament this wholesale and , as they term it , needless ex posure of crime it transpires that after all it works out for the bet terment of society. Crime dare not flaunt itself brazenly before the public without getting cor- | ruscatingly into print. | Could all moral and religous , teachers view this matter from the | standpoint of the public press , j they would be led to radically . change their views as to the pub licity of crime and they would see that exposure is one of the great- ( est foes to its repetition , even as the sunlight and oxegen are to the nefarious work of the deadly bac- cilus. Sioux City Tribune. Xot Used to Xudlty Stray members of the bunch of ' cowbo3s which cut into the inaug ural parade in Washington are riding homeward , stopping at way stations on the road to "God's ! Country" and giving their im- ' pressions to reporters on the look out for "good stuff , " says an Omaha paper. Skinner Humph rey of Broken Timber , Mont. , Long Thompson of Garryowen , Fred Avery of Crow Hills and Slider Avery of White Creek stop ped to graze in Chicago and talked about the inaugural ball. | "Talk about dressing ! We do some dog in clothes in Broken Timber , but we were laid out cold at the ball , " said HumphrejT. "We gets into the ball and the first thing we see was a stunning woman cavorting across the floor with a fellow in a swell uniform. But the girl didn't appear to have any clothes on she looked cold and lost. Long Thompson turned his head away and blushed some thing he hasn't done since he was a , calf on the range of life. He whispers to us , especially to Slider Avery , who was staring until his eyes began to bulge. "For God's sake fellers , don't look ! That poor heifer's broke loose without knowing how she looks. Give her a chance to duck. " "So we all shut our eyes , but Avery he never was respectable , anyway. After a time , when it got tiresome , we open our eyes , and there's a hundred or more women skating around , dressed like the first nothing on but a lariat and a saddle blanket. " 'I'm going to bed , ' says Max- ey , 'for if 1 ever talk in my sleep after I get home , and ray old woman gets on to what sinful things I've seen here , it's all day. ' "So we backed out , rejoicing that we don't have to live where clothes are so scarce. Otherwise we had a bully good time. ' * Sparks Qnill * . A. Haley was hunting ducks Sunday. Wnii Still well is working for Roy Kuskie. Mr , Rosa , of Norden , was in this locality recently. A neicc of Mr. Swain's is here to spend the summer. Mosdanies Burdick and Hower were iu Sparks Monday. John Sbelbourii drove a car load of steors to town Saturday. Mr. Gallon has been CD the sick. We have just received a full line of the celebrated . wyviLJivT MllHN OV/llll Farm Implements , consisting of Plows , both tiding and walking " 66 66 66 Listers " 66 66 66 Cultivators Harrows , Disks , etc , etc , We have three different makes of riding Cultivators and also carry in stock Lister Carriages suitable for convert ing any steel beam walking lister or plow into a riding lis ter or a riding plow- list the past week but is improving , Sparks has been run over witl horse hunters looking for stray horses. Etna Breechbill's hired man was breaking horses for Jake Breech- bill Sunday. Preaching at the church every two weeks by Rev. Bassett at 11 , Sunday School at 10. The ducks and geese have been here and gone , still there is a few web footed ones left yet. Dave Hamar had his hand badly cut while stretching wire last week by the wire breaking. Chas. Hudson passed through Sparks Tuesday morning enroutc for the canyons after a load of posts. The box social at Kewance , giv en by Miss Tillson of Penbrook and Miss Ashburn of Sparks , was a glowing success. § 29.85 was taken in to buy a new organ for the school. A good program was carried out and everybody had a good time. The Porcupine got a wireless dispatch Sunday from Kuropatkin announcing the capture of a mule near Tie Pass the next morning after our mule's disappearance. If he had announced that he had him tied fast methinks I would have been over after him before the capture. A big crowd at Sparks Sunday : John Brindia , Wm. Grooms , Etna Breachbill , John Todd , Roy ICus- kie , Fred Grooms , Tom Jones , A. Haley , Dick Allen , Walter John son , John Jaquains , Joe Lawrence Dave Green , Chas. Hudson , Jr. , Thad Jelly , Will Stillwell , Frank Grooms , Jake Breachbill , Guy Polen and one of his uncles , John Grooms and Deacon Shatzthauer. PORCUPINE. Notice of application for a License to Sell Liquor. Notice is Hereby { then thatve liave fllert rt ith the CierK t the Hoard of trmtees of tlw Village of V alentinc. Nebraska , a petition accompanied hv a bond dilly attcated , said petlti n praying that we he gratlfprt a license to soil malt , spirit uous and vinous liquoro in said Villagn of Va' ' * entine , Cherr.v county , Nebraska , for the year ending May 1,1000 JOHN G.STETTEU , ii K. HILSlNtiEtt. Dated this Oth day of April , WANTED-300 head of cat tle to graze on my range this sea son. Plenty of grabs and water. Apply to A. E. HUTCHISON , 123 Valentine , Neb. Experience has proven that the JOHN DEERE goods are the best in the market , and by buying two car loads we are enabled to make you very close prices , Our friends are invited to call and inspect the goods. Statistics prove that the chances of your dying of Throat or Lung Troubles , are 9 to 1. Waste no time , but cure your Disease with NEW COUGHS bM COLDS the only strictly scientific LungSpecific in existence. Positively guaranteed to help OP money refunded. Saved tbe Preaclier. Rev. 0. D. Moore of Harpersville , N. Y. , writes : "I had a fearful cough for months , which nothing would relieve , until I took Dr. King's New Discovery fop Consumption. It cured my cough and saved my life. " Prices , 50c and $1 .OO Trial Bottles Free RECOMMENDED , GUARANTEED AND SOLD BY GRANT BOYER , " CARPENTER * BUILDER. All kinds of wood work done to order. Stock tanks made in all sizes Valentine , - Nebrask a _ . te MM u M M New Styles in Ladies Fancy Shirt Waist Patterns , A. JOHN & CO. , DEALER IN Dry Goods g Notions CANDIES AND FRESH FRUIT TOBACCOS AND CIGARS Special Prices on Winter Underwear and Hosiery. OLD POSTOFFICE BUILDING. VALENTINE , NEBR. ELECTRIC LIGHTS. RATES REASONABLE. The Donoher Hotel , R , L , HALL , Propr , Valentine , / Nebraska , TELEPHONE No. 21. FKCE SAMPLE ROOM.