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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1909)
"fKE r\ T J. M. KICK Editor and Proprietor. MARK ZAIUI Foreman. Entered at the postoilice at Valentine. Cherry county , Nebr. . as Second Class M Jitter. TERMS : * ' I > year in advance : Cherry Co. Subscriptions : \ \ J I fcl.oO when not paid in advance. Foreign Subscriptions1 ] Pcr.vcarin advance ; paper dis- * > ( continued at expiration if not renewed. * c cr 'nc' ' ' ' eacn 'ssuei ' by contract 12 c. A fiver Hairier Pate * ; - & K -j Transicnt a ! v 20c per inch ; locals lOc a line. Foreign rates for stereotyped advertising , M months or longer 10 cents per inch , net. Local notice5 obituaries , lodge resolutions and socials for revenue 5 cents per line each insertion. THURSDAY , FEBRUARY 4 , 1909. The "physical valuation" bili was introduced on the iiOth by Sen ator Ollis. This is another reforn : pledged by the democratic plat form. It is senate file ijj : : , and provides for the physical valuation of railroads and of public service corporations. The railway com mission is charged with the work. Several "bank guarantee" bills have been introduced , and there is considerable diversity of opinion as to which is the best one. But a satisfactory guarantee bill will be enacted into law. It will pro vide for prompt payment of depos itors without creating a reserve fund that will withdraw a large amount of money from actual cir culation. It will be just what the people wantaud ( just what the de positors are entitled to. The famous "lobby registration" law enacted two years airo , for "grand stand purposes. " has be come what everybody knew it would become a howling farce. People interested in legitimate bills the nurses' registration bill , for instance , are registered , so are the well known railroad attorneys and the representatives of railroad brotherhoods. The brotherhood men are here to ask for laws mak ing for safety of life and limb. But the smooth corporation work ers are not registered. However , they are onthespot , just the same. The law is worth just about as much as the old " * anti-treating" law and that isn't worth a tinker's obstuction. Indians at Washington. "Washington , J ) . C- , January 30. Hollow Horn Bear , head orator of the Sioux Indians , is in Wash ington with a delegation of his tribe , which includes Reuben Quick Bear. John Colomle , High Pipe , Daniel Good voice , Eagle Horse and Stranger Horse. Hol low Horn Bear is the Indian whose picture adorns the § 5 silver certi ficate and he is said to be one of the handsomest Indians alive. He is tall , straight , almost sixty .rears and does not look over forty. The delegation is trying to get the de partment to allow tribal moneys derived from sale of the Rosebud lands and held to the credit of the minor Indians to be distributed at once. The department has dis tributed the shares of the adults , but declines to let go of the portions tions of the minors. The tribe has also a claim against the govern ment under the treaty of 1870 for the cession of the Black HI Is. Be tween $200,000 and § 300,000 is in volved in these claims. The bill for a cession of ten acres of land in the bend of the Grand river sold to the Indians for cemetery purposes passed the senate. It includes the spot where Sitting Bull was killed in 1891 , and on which the Indians will erect a monument to him. World-Herald. A delegation of Cheyenne Sioux is also here trying to got the de partment to set aside about 160,000 acres in the neighborhood of Thunder Butte as a grazing re- cprv ( . fOr the Indian * . The legis lation for opening tl > < * lands hav- j im > passed Senators Gamble and j Kittredge and the interior depart- 1 ment have small disposition to support such a proposal and after a conference of the Indians at the interior departrr cut today it was very apparent that no such meas- lure would be favored. The In dians finally came down to a de mand for about 50,000 acres. Good Company for 1909. You are careful what choice of I friends the young people of your j household make. You do not open wide the door to those whose speech and behavior betray ill- breeding and lax morals. Are you as careful to shut it against books and periodicals that present vulgar and demoralizing pictures of life and its purpose ? Perhaps you are among those who have found that THE YOUTH'S COMPAN ION occupies the same place in the family reading that high-minded young man or woman holds among your associates. TIIK COMPANION is good without being "goody- goody. " It is entertaining , it is informing. In its stories it depicts life truly , but it chooses those phases of life inwhichduty , honor , loyalty are the guiding motives. A full description of the current volume will be sent with sample copies of the paper to any address on request. The new subscriber who at once sends § 1.75 for a year's subscription will receive free THE COMPANION' * new Calendar for 1909 , "In Grandmother's Garden , ' lithographed in thirteen colors. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION , Berkley Street , BOSTON MASS. M. E. Church Notes. Sunday morning there vvill be a Lincoln Memorial service in the Methodist church , consisting of the following program. Song "Ye Servants of God" Prayer. Song Guide Me 0 Thou Great Jehovah. Scripture Reading. Song America. Collection and Announcements. Solo Plaines of Peace. Miss Nellie Easley. Sermon Lincoln and the Victor ious Life- Song Columbia the Gem of the Ocean. Benediction. All old soldiers and members of the Womaus Relief Corps are specially invited to be present. In the evening there will be revival services. It is the purpose of the pastor to continue the Sunday evening 3vangelistic services as long as the revival spirit is on and the pro fessed Christians will continue to 10pe and pray and labor for the salvation of Souls. Fhe Thief Caught and Goods Restored. Percy Farrell was arrested at J raw ford last Monday by Sheriff Uote and most of the goods stolen rom the Jordan Hardware store it this place found in his posses- ion. He was brought back to tushville where he plead guilty .nd on account of his youth , IT Tears , was sentenced to one year n the pen. Gordon Journal * ABEKE 7 i President Urges Jap Concess ions in California. ' Washington Officials Hear They Are I Mainspring of Hostile Oriental Agi- taticr. CccHc Transportation la Threatened With Destruction. * No single question , nor indeed any Rroup of questions , is .Absorbing the interest nnd concern of tne administra tion at Washington at this moment to the fame extent as certain phases of the anti-Japanese agitation in Califor nia. The president has been in commu nication with many reputable persons who should be thoroughly informed as to the conditions on the Pacific coast. It is admitted that a sys tematic agitation was in progress on the coast , but a significant feature of its lack of strength was the fact that the labor leaders had taken no prom inent part in it. It even has been stated to the administration that the real mainspring of the agitation waste to bo found in some of the great cor porations that had found their profita ble business of coolie transportation threatened with destruction by the success attending the efforts of the administration to stop this class of immigration. For the fact is that , in the opinion of the administration , the negotiations with Japan for a prac tically complete losure of American ports to the entry of Japanese laborers arc certainly jeopardized by the ex treme utterances of certain persons in California and by the mere consider ation of such resolutions as were en tertained by the Nevada legislature. Even agreements already reached , which are being carried out in perfect good faith on the part of the Japanese government , are regarded as endan gered , in the suisa that the present agitation might very naturally tend to abate the interest of the Japanese officials in the execution of their obli gations in view of the unfriendly atti tude by some elements on the Pacific coast. It is these considerations that have influenced the president in con cluding that everything possible should be done to prevent legislation by any state that would discriminate against the Japanese as a class apart from other foreign elements entering America. The president- has entire confidence in the people of the Pacific coast and is certain they will do right in this matter. The administration is much pleased with the tone of the speech of Presi dent Komura in the Japanese diet so far as it touched on the relations be tween America and Japan. Anti-Jap Bills Up in California. Another was added to the long list of anti-Japanese bills that are a special order of business in the California as sembly. Grove L. Johnson , chairman of the committee on judiciary , report ed out favorably his measure specify ing "Japanese" in the law segregating Mongolians and Indians in the public schools. It was the attempted inser tion of this word "Japanese" ' in the statute that causea President Roosevelt velt two weeks ago to ask Governor r.illett to stop anti-Japanese legisla- Lion. All of tlie anti-Japanese meas ures now before the assembly vere taken up , beginning with Drew's anti- ilieu land bill. The committee on execu tive communications reported on the recent message of Governor Gillett ( dealing with the subject of Japanese legislation ) . The report advises igainst the passage of any of these neasures , declaring it to be the sense Df the committee that such legislation tvould be unconstitutional. Nevada Solcns Pass Anti-Jap Bill. The Nevada house has accepted the mti-Japanese resolution , atter it had jeen so amended that all reference to resident Roosevv.lt had been stricken > ut. The resolution will undoubtedly jo passed by the senate as it stands. IXPLO ! ON KiLUS SEVENTEEN. "ive WT ! tes snd Twelve Negroes Dead ; n Alabc.r.a Colliery. Senventpen ! . .en were killed by an : : ; plosion in the No. 2 Short Creek nines of the Birmingham ( Ala. ) Coal ind Iron company. Five of the dead : re whit . and twelve are negroes. The explosion is thought to havp icen caused by a windy shot. The lodles were taken Irom the mines and he rooms and passages are clear. The nine itself is practically uninjured. Ambulances were sent from Ensley to he mines and cofiins were rushed to he ill fated mine. The mine was run- ling on short force or the death list . 'ould probably have been much larger. ORTY-SEVEN OF CREW DROWN. Sritish Steamer Clan Ranald a Total Wreck in Australian Waters. The British steamer Clan Ranald is total wreck near Edithburg , Aus. , ml the captain and forty-six of the rew. most of them Asiatics , were rowned. The ship was drifting ashore , nt sank before boats could reach it. lighteen members of the crew were icked up. The Clan Ranald was < i tick by a heavy sea and rendered nmanagrable. Then , being driven shore , it turned turtle. Two Hundred Lest in Fire. At k'list two bundled lives were lost i a fir ? whi-h occurred in in a fleet 1" flow.-- bor.tr at Canton , China. The harre.-I bodies of 170 victims have al- rady been recovered , but many per- cs arc still h L 8 u Members Called to Account ioi . Absence During Roll Call , i ricjit SE. unable tc Get Enough Vctcs tc Dispose ox It and Takes Recess King's Gerre Bil' ' is Killed Experi rr.er.t Stavcns L.ncor. : : . FeL. i. The first business ol tijt i.oato.when . a met today at It o ciocK. ici. jwiug a i ecefcb seciueu late Tut.-iitj aiten.'joi. . was to tali to ac- to..r.i iiifcii.byifc wno wereaus > ent yes- teuiay curing a roil call. The condition wmch lesulted in this fcxtraorc.ii.ai ; display or discipline was orouglu auout byvnat tne Democratic mtmuers belie\eu would be a lack oi a quorum during the roil cull on the oill regulating hotels. The house saw the liveliest lilteen minutes since it started easiness lour weeks ago , and beioie the recess was taken tne lob bies were cleared by order oi tne speaker , tLe sergeant-at-arms and his assistants made a roand-ap ot absent memLeis. wnich finally resulted m a ius = ie Between that oilicial and Repre sentative 'la/lor on tne lioor oi the house , and other things oi simi.ar na ture , causing the house to tai.e a re cess until ID o clock today. The re cess was taken during a lit oi laugh- tei , which convulsed the entire house and galltnca alike. During tne roll call on the hotel reg ulation bih it was seen that a lack of filty-one votes m the affirmative would result , and at the suggestion of Demo cratic leaders the sergeant-at-arms was sent scurrying after absent mem bers. By the time enough had been brought in others had absented them selves Finally , in desperation , the speaker demanded that the absentees be piesented at the bar of the house. Representative Murphy was the first to be presented to the speaker , who asked him to explain his absence. " 1 \\as with the governoi , " declared Mr. Murphy. "I hope you will not arain absent yourself. Irom session of this body without permission , " said the speaker , wjth as much dignity as ho could com mand. "I trust I shall not , " replied the blushing Murphy , displaying a smile. " 1 hope not , " said the speaker , as Murphy was excused , at the same min ute smiling audibly. This brought the whole house to a hearty laugh. Rapping loudly for or der , Speaker Pool directed that Repre sentative Taylor be brought in The sergeant-at-arms got him half way to the speaker's lostrmu when Taylor balked. A little sr-uille ensued , dm ing which both men lei ] into a seat ar-ross the aisle , and Shoemaker of Douglas moved a recess , which was easily agreed to. * - > The house thus adjourned in the middle oi a roll call on a pending bill , which was taken up today tollowiug the chastisement or members found absent yesterday. Experiment Stations. The house passed the Bushee and Carr bills , providing for the establish inent oi agricultural experiment sta tions or demonstration farms in the ixtieme western portion of the state. The bills appropriate $15,000 each for the establishment of these stations. Senator Tanner's bill authorizing : he governor to designate the newspa pers in which constitutional amend ments shall be punted before election ivas passed by the senate by a strict jarty vote. Senator King's game bill , which had jeen changed to provide for a closed ieason on quail until 1912 , was defeat- jd , the intioducer voting against it jecause it had been altered entirely rom its oiiginal lorm , which was to jrevent shooting ducks liom blinds n the be'ls ol nvors A similar fate not Randall's bill to repeal the law or a bounty on wild animals , which vas killed in committee of the whole m the recommendation of Randall limself Fuller's bill , im-luding- he optional county bounty law relat- ng to wild animals pocket gophers. , t 10 cents a gopher , was recommend- : d to pa.ss in committee of the whole. The physical valuation bill was re- lOrted lor general file in the senate. Representative Barrett of Huffalo ounty thinks "near beer" is 'loo near > eer" and wants it more r.Ieaily de- ined in the statute , and its f-ale pro- libited nt country picnics and other | Iaces of amusement The bill pre- ents any beer containing more than per cent alcohol being sold except s intoxicating liquor. Found Dying by Railroad Tracks. Fairbury , Neb , Fob 3. E. B Ellis , n electrician of Evanston , Wyo . was Dund dying by the railroad tracks ere. He was conscious , but was un- ble to tell anything of himself , and ied within a lew moments. Papers bowed Ellis to be a member ot the llectncians' union of Denver. He 'as well messed , with money in his lothing Farmers' Institute at Hebron. Hebion."eb . Feb 2 The school i agriculture and domestic science in anncction with the Farmers' Institute as th < i most successful ever held , lid brought several ol the most prom- lent agricultural experts in the west > the city. Sheldon Going South. Nehawka , Xeb , Feb. 1. Ex-Govern- r George L Sheldon and family ex- ect to leave the first of this week ir his plantation near Greenville , iiss. . where they 'v/il ! remain until bout July I. GRANT BO YE CARPENTER & BUILDER. ' All kinds of wood work done to order. Stork tanks made in all sizes i Kesidence and shop one block south of passenger depot. Valentine , moxE 72 Nebraska References : My Many Customers. Go to the Stock Exchange Saloon VALENTINE'S PURE LIQUOR CENTER Walther F. A. Meltendorff , Propr. ip your Live Stock to IE ! E SO. OMAHA OR CHICAGO Xo shipment too large and none too small to receive the most careful attention. Each consignmpnt intrusted to our care will be handled by members of the firm. Each man's stock sold on their merits and a square deal guarantied to all. Write us for the market paper and our special market letters , which we send you free of charge. AMOS SNVDER. Hog Salesman. MATT MALOXE ) Cattle GEO M. WOOD , Sheep Salesmar. THOS. J. DONAHUE f Salesman. New Motei. Electric Lights. Good Rooms. Hot and Cold Water. NEAR DEPOT MRS. S. A. SEARS , Propr. , Valentine , Xebr. Rates $1 per day , Calls for all trains. T ERI NG Done in the most satisfach ry manner ! Largest prices for the seller and honest deali ig with the bidder ! On these terms T. W. Cramer soliu ts your patronage. Graduate of Missouri Auction School , August term. 46 W. CKAM-B . - - VALF.-vTl E. NFS. Forty Steers Perish in Storm. St. Anthony , Nob. , I-V-h. 2. Forty fat stonrs belonging to James McManr.s , and valued at $2,000 , broke out of the pasture during the recent storm and perished in a creek bed nearby I'rcni luingpi and the cold. Twenty-six of thf animals were found in one place , where they had huddled together as a protection against the slonn. Fire at Republican City. Republican City , Neb. , Feb. 2. Fi-e hi this city destroyed two buildings Dwned by a non-resident. One was cc- : -upied by Tom Gorden , for furniture ind undertaking goods , the other w.ia ised by Harvey Reiter as a restaurant. Fhe estimated loss on buildings is &G.OOO. & Storm Victim Succumbs. Hebron , Neb. , Feb. 3. Louis Tny- or , who was paralyzed by exposure n the cold of last Friday night , in lead at the home of his parents , til- oen miles north of here. St. Nicholas Church. Services will be held in t ic Catholic church as follows : In Valentine on Sunday. Fc b ' . High mass and sermon at 10 . . m. Benediction with theBIe s- d Sacrament after mass. At 3 p. m. . instruction for t le ; hildren. In Arabia on Sunday , Feb. 14 , 110 a. m. LEO M. BLAERE , Eect-r. T. J. Christopher , AUCTIONEER , "Will meet all calls phone or mail. Versed on pedigreed stock. alenilrie _ t Nebraska o Sore Se Swore ; He Swears No More. There was a Merchant mighty sore In fact , so sore he swore and swore And kept on swearing more and more. The trouble was that folks , instead Of patronizing him , by Ned ! Were buying goods by mail , he said. One day he got a little hint On how to make his store a mint ; Then hope took on a rosy tint. V Hs came and ADVERTISED his stock ; His store was crowded , c-/sJoa- ! block , From seven until six b cfock. So now thfs Merchant BWears rft nior'd ; No longer is he feeling sore , Since ADVERTISING 6rWdi hi'i
