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THURSDAY , MAUCI-I 12 , 1'JOS.
The Democratic State Conve.n-
li > n held in Omaha last Thursday j
elected delegates to the national
convention at Denver July 7. \ \ .
T. Bryan was indorsed for Presi
dent. The Resolutions will be
printed later in this paper. Mr.
Bryan was there and was loudly
cheered Thursday evening1 when
he got up to speak and also during
and at the close of his speech.
This was at the close of the con
vention and after the Resolutions I
had been read. He has a strong
voice and it is easy to follow him. i
Such a leader of the people and ! 1
only a common man but a great
commoner. lie's the idol of many
millions of our * people. 115s
speech was good and more cheer
ful than in years past , lie feels
very hopeful of results this year
and we want to get together and
roll up a big majority in Nebraska
for him and don't let Cherry
County be last to extend the glad
hand to the Great Commoner and
a welcome to represent us as our
president from Nebraska. lie's
worthy our best efforts.
We the undersignr-d are expect
ing to take care of the town herd
of cows this season. We will have
gco'l herd bulls and will take good
care of your cows.
cows.J.
J. "M. WILFOX.
J. S. SliAFKIl.
U. S. Weather luroin Eiopc-
tor week Ending jHar. 13.
Daily mean temperature 28 °
Normal 28 ° .
Highest G3 ° ; lowest -1 ° .
Precipitation .IS of. an inch.
Total precipitation to date .S7
inches.
The average for 19 years for the
same period is 1.40 inches.
Prices are what
we are talking
Now
Our stock is complete.
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BISHOP & YOUHC ,
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Sparks Quills ,
Mr. Roosa of Norden was in
Sparks Monday.
( has. Maxwell of Valentine at
tended the sale Monday.
Fine weailier prevails through
out the \\hole community.
Miss Parker \\ili give a box soc
ial and si good literary program at
Spaiks school house on March 20.
Come everybody and bring a v.ell
tilled basket with supper for two.
'I he spellir.g bee which was lo be
held at pleasant Valley School
house in District No. 28 , was i
called oil'on account of the Speak- 1
ing Contest on the same evening. j
A silver medal contest \vill be
given Mar. 33 at Kewanee school
I house live miles west of Sparks by
jthe W. C. T. U. This contest will
l be for the young people who will
' sneak for the medal.
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j A line program will be given on
jThursday evening , MaYcii 19 , at
'Pleasant ' Valley school house , it be-
i ing the last day of school. This
finishes a seven months school here
for Miss Jacobs and' she goes trorn
; here to McCann where she has a
! three months school.
Pioy Kuskie'ssale was well attend
ed and every thing sold at good
prices. Mr. and Mrs. Kuskie will
_ leave in the near future for Cali
fornia where they will spend the
coming sea-on. These young people
ple leave here with the best wishes
1 of their many friends.
, ! hn" . * Church.
Ixegular services will be held in
! St. John's church , Sunday , Mar.
loth aa 1'ollows : An early celebration -
! j tion of the Holy Eucharist at 7:00. :
Morning Prayer and sermon at
11. Evening Prayer and sermon
at 7:00. : Sunday school at 10 o"-
i clock in the morning.
| I will sell at auction at my
j place one mile south of Sparks ,
JNebr. , Tuesday , Mar. 241008,27
head of horses , o-i head of cattle ,
10 head of hogs. Farm machinery.
G. E. Tracewcll , auct. W. E.
' .Haley , cl'k. Free lunch.
! 2 J. S : Grooms.
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i See C. O. Carpenter for buggy
j painting , house painting ( inside
! and out ) . Furniture repairing
and varnishing of all kinds promptly -
| ly done. Phone S3. Shop in
j west part of town. A share of
iyour patronage is respectfully
| solicited. Satisfactory work guar-
lanteed. Let me figure on your
' work. S
IH.S.LOCKWOOD
j Handles the
! SKARPI.ESS CREAM SEPARATOR ,
L'LOUIl , GUAIX AND HAY.
ite I'ostollie. * Phone 71.
The Celebrated
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TENNESEEANS
are coming at opera house , Valentine ,
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Grand Concert Jubilee Troupe
Stupendous programme oJ : plantation song's , negro
1 'di'1- ; cxct-nrt : ' From popular grand opera.
Sweet Singers frem the Sunny South
1 'rices 35 and T0 cents.
St. Xiclmlus Cltnrcli.
Services will be helfl as folloxvs :
In Valentine , March 15 : high mass
and sermon at 10:30. : Instruction 1
for the children at 3p.m. On' ' ;
Tuesday , March 17 , St. Patrick's ,
Day , high mass 10 a. m. During ! 1
Lent every Friday evening at 7:30 : j
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Stations of the Cross and Bene-1 j
dictions With the Blessed Sacri-
ment.
In Crookston March 22.
LEO M. BLATCIIE , Rector ,
Milt Latta's recently patented
valveless pumping device sets
them all D thinking to hear of a
hollow pipe without a valve or
cylinder pumping water like a
pump and Milt says will outpump
a pump that has both pipe and
pump. He is going to give a
funny little exhibition in Valen
tine as soon as he gets a larger
j sized rig set up that will make
| the boys laugh. Milt says he will
j make easy prices to all the boys
j applying to him for the fastest
money maker ever pos ossed by a
poor working man and show the
purchaser how to operate it. Ad
dress him at Valentine , Nebr. 8 0
Thirty years ago , when I reached - j
ed western Nebraska , this country ! '
was called the Sand Hills , and
everything west of Snake Creek ,
about 1 twenty-five miles east of i
where Gordon. Nebraska , is now
located , was being used by a few
large cattle owners as a range for
thousands of cattle , but the
country east and south of Snake
Creek was considered a most
dangerous cmintry. The only
road through these hills was an
old government trail leading from
Kearney. Nebraska , into the
Black Hills. Several people- had
perished by getting away from
that trail into the Sand Hills.
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The cattle men west of Snake
Creek used every effort to keep
their cattle from drifting south or
east , by having line riders , or , in
other words , by having cowboys
ride this line , to keep the cattle
thrown back to the west and from
getting into these Sand Hills ,
believing they could never get
them out again. In March , 1S7S ,
we had a terrific blizzard which
lasted for several days , so fierce
was this storm that it was im
possible for the riders to do any
thing , except to seek shelter to
save themselves. This resulted in
thousands of cattle drifting with
the storm into these most dreaded
Sand Hills. Nothing could be
done towards gathering the cattle
until the winter was ovcrs so the
owners felt much anxiety , and be
gan to plan how they could be
gathered.
Billy Irwin was foreman for E.
S. Newman , who had lost about
five thousand cattle in this bliz
zard. The ranch was on the Nio-
brara river , twelve miles east of
Gordon , Nebraska. He told .Mr.
Newman if lie uould allow him to
select his men and horses and al
low him to do as he pleased , he
would undertake to go into this
country and see what could be
done't The agreement was made ,
Bennett Irwin , myself , and ten
other men being selected. We
started on the 15th of April , and
after two days travel , we camped
for the night , and the next morn
ing there was one of the worst
snow storms J have ever seen. It
lasted three days. Nothing was
left for us to do but stay and keep
warm the best we could. There
wns no wood in that country , only
what little we could haul to cook
with. When the storm was over
the first thing to be done was to
gather up the saddle horses that
had drifted some distance away.
They were found , after two or
three days. We were then on the
edge of the country that had the
terrible reputation a country
from which no traveller had ever
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returned , so we never moved
camp until we explored the land
ahead of us. We struck plenty
of grass and water in the valleys ,
but the rough sand hills were a
Teacher's As.socitithm .
The east division of the Cherry
county teachers' association will be
held in Valentine , on Saturday ,
March 28 , at 2:20 : p. m. The following -
lowing program will be given :
Among Country Scnools , chapters
13 , 14 and l > , quiz Miss Kortz |
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School Management Moral In
struction , quiz Miss Driscoll.
Helen Keller Nellie Brennen.
An Appreciation of Richard Mans-
h'eld May Carter
Schools of St. Louis , Laura Overman
Current Events Grace Wajjgoner
Parochial Schoolb. . . . Frances Gre\ve
i Agriculture in the Puplic Schools
May Barnes
n istory Roscoe Ward
Book Review Geraldine Tracevvell
Natural Beauties ot Cuerr\T County
1 Chas Brown
Peac * Conference W A Kortz
Experiment Stations. . . Stella Spratt
Modern Electrical Discoveries
Alta Sharp
Pioneer Teachers Phoebe Hittle
Signal Service Mable Shannon
Pictures amiStatuary Suitable for
Country Schools Bessie Dunham
The Key West Railroad
r. - . . .Lillie Grooms.
Development . Of The Sand Hills ,
By Mayor Dahlman of Omaha in the Chancellor.
terror in many places. After sev
eral days travel we began to find
cattle , and 1 remember well one
bunch of cattle that had been
there for several years. They
were as wild as any bunch of deor.
Mr. Irwin and I were together ,
so , after quite a cha e , we round
ed them up , and after they had
quited down we found they weie
cattle that had been in the hills
for some years , several without a
mark or brand , but most of them
as fat as if they had been fed in a
feed lot for market. Well , they
looked good to us , especially a
big , fat , black cow that weighed
about fifteen hundred pounds.
\Ve had been eating bacon , so I
suggested we rope this cow and
tie her down until we could bring
up the wagon and outfit , which
was twenty miles away. What I
wanted was some good , fresh beef
for the outfit , so we got down our
ropes. It must be remembered
that the horses we had were not
grain fed , and as this was about
the last of April , they were very
weak , and to handle a wild cow of
that size was no picnic. But we
were after beef. 1 caught her the
first throw , but when we got to
the end of the rope my horse went
down like a bullet , but Irwin was
there , anjl he roped her by the
hind feet.Ve then hog-tied the
cow , went back to camp , and the
next morning moved to this lake ,
and it did not take long to butcher
the animal. You can imagine this
bunch of cow-punchers going for
the beef. We then located the
lay of the lakes and valleys and
the rough sand hilK and found
thousands of the cattle we were
hunting for. We found about a
thousand head which had drifted
in , at various times , from the
Platte river. We took out of
that country one hundred and
seventy-five head of cattle , rang
ing in ages from one to four years ,
which made it an absolute certain
ty that for years they had not
been disturbed. We worked in
these hills for five weeks , and
reached the Niobrara river with
over five thousand head of cattle.
These sand hills are now recog
nized as a great cattle country.
They have developed each year.
We all know they are filled with
ranches and have been a great
factor in developing our stock
yards at South Omaha. This is
also the country which you read
so much about in the newspaper
the country of land-fencing and
land-grabbing fame. Don't you
think that some of these people
are entitled to a few of those hillb
I mean the people who went in
there and withstood the hardships
and developed it ? I do.
Nevertheless what has been ac
complished in our state in thirty
years is marvelous , and is only a
forerunner of what will be done
within the next fifty years. The
Chancellor.
autnann & Bachelor
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MEAT MARKET
Fresh Salt and Cured Meats , Fish , Oysters ,
Vegetables , Pickles , Lard. We buy poultry ,
butter1 and eff S and all kinds of live stock.
Call or Phone 88.
BAUMANN & BACHELOR ,
Valentine = Nebraska
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Lump I i U U per ton
Xut per ton
At last a Wyoming- coal has been f , jud which in all respects , for
domestic ue , equals Rock Springs district coal and excels it in some. \
Rock Sprfngs has for 3ears been unbeatable , but hundreds cf custom
ers in the western part of the state now put HUDSON" ahead of it
en account of purity , cleanliness and lasting qualities. For cooking
and heating stoyes HUDSON cannot be excelled.
FRANK FISCHER ,
Dealer in Hardware , Furniture and Coal.
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The only genuine and absolutely
reliable substitute for tea
and coffee is
the new food beverage gives life ; health-vigor , joy ,
comfort and beauty , and is highly recommended
for nerve endurance , and building up the constitu
tion. It is a pleasant beverage and contains great
nutritive and invigorating qualities. Has the re
freshing properties of fine tea , the nourishment of
the best cocoas , a tonic and recuperative force pos
sessed by neither , and can be used in all cases
where tea and coffee are prohibited.
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Eggo's Fruit Salt is a great health reviver.
A laxative and thirst quencher. Effervescent and
so delicious to drink that a child likes it. Has all
the properties of a Sedlitz Powder and more , and
is recommended in all cases of indigestion , consti
pation and headache. Removes impurities from the
blood and can be used freely without causing injury
Manufactured by
OMAHA , U. S. A.
The above preparations may be had from all
Grocery and Drug Stores.
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Public opinion is unerring , public confidence sel
dom misplaced. The true worth of every business
concern to the community in which it operates is
fixed by its clientele , the Value-giving power of ev
ery commercial institution may be determined by
the amount of patronage it receives. The people
have unmistakably proclaimed their confidence in
The Stock Exchange ,
and its methods , by bestowing upon it a far greater
patronage than that accorded any other place in
\ralentine. AYhere the- major portion of the fair ,
the impartial , discriminating public buys its Liquor
and Beer , must be a good place for You , the in
dividual , to trade. Visit The Stoc/c Exchange wlien
you need anything in our line.
W. R A. MELTENDORFF
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