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I. M. RICE - Editor and Propr.
MarkZarr , Foreman.
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Thursday , January 19 , 1911.
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C. P. Wiltse is again in. charge
of the Newport Republican.
.Dell Akin and Max Amende
have surrendered the Atkinson
Graphic to R. G. Williams.
We receive several letters each
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week asking for free reading
notices for something. We don't
see many of them printed in the
papers , but some of us are biting
like suckers , just for space fillers.
Cut 'em out. It costs money to
set type. We'd rather talk about
tne weather.
1 Too many editors are publishing
free reading notices of this and
that for Omaha and Lincoln , DenVer -
Ver and Chicago , which , when
SHramed up , means business for
railroads carrying people here and
there and a little for the hotels
and- stores of the towns where
these meetings are held. They
want us to tell the people about
what a big-crowd will be there and
how they are sure of a bigger
crowd than last year so you'll all
come. ; Want us to print it free ,
should we ?
Never , since we have been en
gaged in the newspaper business
has thiere been sucli demands or
requests'for free reading notices.
This week 'we have one from a
sectarian school having a.force of
twenty-seven salaried persons on
their letter heads , asking for free
space "of two a d One-half closely
type written sheets of letter heads ,
and they think we can print their
column of advertising free because
theirs is a religious school and be
cause we're interested in humanity.
They are especially anxious to
have the article appear in an early
issue of our paper and lengthen
out on striking facts that show
why they appreciate the spjendid
service which we are rendering to
the brains and brawn of the re-
publjc. We looked over the letter
just enough to glean these facts
and then consigned it to the waste
basket.
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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
( Special Correspondent ) .
Some of the things the senators
in Washington made the people
pay for : eight dozen lady scissors
and one dozen manicure scissors. '
Some of the reasons why the
cost of running the government is
increasing so fast , and why it
would really be possible for Senator -
* tor Aldrich to save the people a
lot of money if he would run the
'government as a business man 1
would run it , are revealed in the
port of Secretary of the State Ben
nett for the fiscal year 1910.
Vice President James S. Sher
man drew on1 the people for § 7000
to maintain a touring car. He
kept track of every puncture during
.
ing the year , and saw to it.that
the people stood the damage. It
might be presumed that after the
government had presented the
vice president with a handsome
car , the man of the sunny dis
position would at least insist upon
providing the driver. Mr. Sher '
man , however , not only charged \
the chaffeur's salary up to the people ,
ple , but permitted the taxpayers '
to reimburse him for the auto
driver's railroad fare back and
| , forth between Washington and ' "
i- Utica , & : Y" . , Mr. Shermans h'orae
town. But this isn't all. The j
j
| ? vice- president made the people .
even pay for the chaffeur's "coafc"
sad pants. " ( Seepage .702 of the
-report.77 " "
Guggenheim Needs ths Money.
&atbrSinio'n Guggenheim of-
Colorado , one -hundred times a
millionaire and then-some , bad
Us daily newspapers and .all the
telegram for the year charged up
to the government.
Senator William Lorimer .of
Illinois' 'apparently- urgent
business with a man namediJrown
of Ottawa , 111. , and charged the
telegrams up to the people. Lee
O'Neill Brown , who was charged
with having a. * hand in bribing
legislators to vote for Lorimer ,
lives at Ottawa , 111. , and it is more
than barely possible that the two
Browns " are one and the same.
Oh , you Illinois statesmen ! Sena
tor Lorimer also di'd considerable
telegraphing to the Chicago beef
barons at the 'expense of the
people. The nature of the biisi-
uessiness is not revealed. .
Tom Carior a Good Spender ,
The report intimates that when
Senator Tom Carter of Montana
escorted the members of the irri-
ga'ion committee on a trip to the
west to investigatejrrigation proj
ects , the party traveled like kings ,
using private diners , drawing
rooms , and tipping the- porters
and attendants everywhere with a
Uvish hand always , ' of course ,
with the people's money. For a
two days' side trip in three auto
mobiles from Casper , Wyo. , to
Pathfinder dam on Sept. 7 , 1910 ,
the Montana senator spent § 150
for transportation alone. Although
no one knows of any irrigation
projects at Seattle , Wash. , three
senators and attendants managed
to spend § 125.30 for "board and
lodging" at Seattle in two days.
In the meantime their luxurious
private cars sat on a siding un
used. Senator Carter must have
been good a good spender. "Fees
and porterage" and "incidentals"
for which no vouchers were ob
tained , ran into the hundreds of
dollars.
Begin Before Inter
state GGHiiorce ! ! Commission.
AFFECTS HHEIY : COMMODITIES
AI ! Are Article cf Daily Consumption
in Ten Middle Western States Involved -
. volved in Proposed Advance -First
Address by FrankLyon.
Washington , Jan. 17. Arguments in
the western rate cases were begun be
lore tiie interstate commerce commis
sion. In general the cases are sim
ilar to those involving the carriers in
official classification territory , which
were argued before the commission
List week. They differ from the east
era cases , however , in an important
respect. The latter involve only or
practically only class rates , while the
western cases involve only commodity
rates.
Several months ago the carriers in
the Western Trunk Line association
territory filed tariffs with the commis
sion , 'making general advances on
many commodities in that territory
While' primarily the tariffs filed {
footed only the carriers in that partic
ulnr territory , they affected the rates
on all commodities named 'on traffic
in those commodities throughout the
country.
The territory involved in the direct
: id\atJ 'es-includes the states of Wis
cousin , Minnesota , Iowa , Missouri
North and South Dakota , Nebraska
Kansas and Montana. The rates filed
are effective between points in this
territory to and from Chicago and
other basic points.
In a general way ninety-two com
modifies are affected. All of then ) are
tirticlos oi" daily consumption and , foi
the greater part , may be regarded as
necessaries of life and business. While
no definite average of the advance Is
possible , it will approximate 16 pei
cent.
* The arguments were opened by a
statement submitted by Frank Lyon
one of the counsel for the commis
sion. He had elaborate tables show
ing the articles affected b.y Jhe : ad
yances : the freight revenue of ifiany
roads , together with the ratio of jn
crease jn revenue to wage increase
the estimated .wage increase and th
amount of capital stock of the road
and the declared dividend HPOIJ i' '
Tie said the carriers frankly stat ? t
that unless they should be restraine (
ntbcr increases in rates other than in
volved in these cases would be made ,
whore competition would permit.
-Emphatic indorsement of Captain
Kpbert E. Peary , tas "the discoverer' of
rtie North poj'o was voiced 'by President
Taft in a speech at the anpual ban
quet of the National
Geographic
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Ci SENATOR
ten Votes Cast Against Him in
House and One in Senate ,
ELEVEN VOTES FOR BURKETT ,
Lincoln , Jan , 18 Gilbert M. Hitch
cock was elected United States sena
tor by a vote of 87 to 19 in the house
and 20 ib 1 hi the senate. The , ten iu
the-bouse who'voted against him were
Jfcikwr , Barclay , Filley , Uailor , Herzog.
Houfr'h/Kirk , Meyer , McCle'ilan and
Smith , all of whom voted for Senator
Burkctt.
In the senate the one vote agains\
Hitchcock was cast by Peter Jansen of
Gage for Daniel Wolford Cook of Be
GILBERT M. HITCHCOCK. j
itrice. The votes were.canvassed b3
the two houses in joint session today
at. noon.
New Orleans Avas chosen as the Ne
braska preference for the Panama .ex
pos ii ion in the house by a vote of 61
to 3(5. ( No speechc ? were made on
either side. In the senate the propo-
s'tion was referred to a committee , ol
wLieh Senator Banning is chairman.
Primary Bill Withdrawn.
Gusfafson of Saumlers withdrew hifi
bili repealing the primary law , H. R
102. He had the bill drawn up by the j
legislation reference department arid
meant for it to change the law j ack
to the. old closed primary. A mistake
in the reference department led * to
being drawn as a.refteal of vail- ,
primary law. It will be remade and
presented-again. * ' *
The matter of the , contest over thd
pnat of Scheele , representative from
Reward , was brought up when'the
r.peaixer read a letter from the secre
tary of state calling the attention ol
the house to : he fact that the papers
in the contest filed in his office -had
befin duly transmitted. Mr. Evans ,
the. minority leader , tjied to have the
matter referred to a special commit
tee , but the speaker exercised his pre
rogative and overruled his point ol
order as coming from the minority
The contest was then referred to the
privileges and elections committee ,
which has four dry Republican mem
bers , one dry Democrat and four wet
Democrats.
Members Talk pf Option BUI.
About fifty Republicans and Demo
crats from both houses met in what
was called a county option caucus
and appointed a committee of five tc
draw up a county option measure and
present it for their approval. Senatoi
J. A. Q1Jis of Valley was elected
chairman and R. R. Smith of Boone. .
secretary.
The committee appointed by the
'chair'was * Ollis , himself as chairman ;
Senator Brown of Lancaster and Rep
resentatives Quackenbush of Nemaha.
Norton of Polk and Taylor of Merrjck
The committee will report bad *
with.a . preliminary bill tomorrow
night ; at the same meeting place , the
Lindell hotel.
The drys count on about thirty-two
flry Republicans and nine dry Demo ,
crats in-the house , where fifty-one is
a majority , and seventeen out of thir :
ty-tbree'Jn.tne senate.
'Henry Bartling of Otoe , who has
been the one uncertain man in the
senate , was present at the meeting ;
according to another member , and so
piay be expected to have some lean
ing now toward the dry side.
Intolerance on Both Sides. .
One of the curious features of the
present legislature Is the intolerance
of the wets and drys , or county op
tionists and anti-county optionists.
County option appears to enter into
every discussion and every movement.
One s'de has just as much faith in the
ability -of the other to pass on genera :
jeglsjatipn , nn'd that is no faith at ail
Referendum [ VJust pas § ,
Both the large political parties hav
ing pledged to support a .referendum
bill , some measure of that nature i ?
fiure'fo bo adopted. The Democratic
jnajgrfty feels the weight of responsi i-
bility and already there ig talk gl j
backing out of it if it can be done. If i
it canriot , there is talk of passing a
referendum bill that will not be accept :
able to friends of the measure. j
Constitutional Convention. ' " ]
-epatqr Kemp ofL.Naace , following'
the example of. his Republican prede- ;
pessor , Senator King of Pqlk , has prg-
a Wl'J for a bns'tttullbiiW cop r.f
j tention. In reply to the criticism that
j he desires to sidetrack the initiative
1 and referendum by proposing to delay
until n constitutional convention can
btt called , Senator Kemp says he is in
favor of the referendum and count" op
tion of some kind , and that he will
vote for theso- measures , but neverihe-
he will insist on a constitutional
convention. ' He calls attention to the
many departments that have been crem
ated v.ith a state officer at the head , a
method used to create new offices
without violating the constitution.
The department method of creating
new offices he believes is bad because
the state officers at the head of them
cannot attend to the * duties imposed
upon the departments. Jf the new
offices are needed they should , be pro
vided for by a constitution , and the
heads elected by a vote of the people.
The governor , for instances , is now
labor commissioner , game warden ,
state fire warden , state oil inspector ,
food commissioner and state veterinar
ian. The duties of these departments
he leaves to appointees.
Patronage for Newspapers.
A large number of proposed consti
tutional amendments have been intro
duced already and others are expected
to be presented by members of the
legislature. Those that pass the legis-
j lature must be submitted to a vote of
i the people and each amendment must
, be published for three months in at
least one newspaper in each county.
Formerly the secretary of state was
the officer designated in the law to
name the newspapers to publish the
amendments. The legislature two
years ago took this power from the
secretary of state and gave it to Gov
ernor 'Shallenberge.r. Now , with a host
amendments in sight , Governoi
Aldrich will have this newspaper pat
ronage to distribute.
Hits Home Made Wine.
Senator Varner of Johnson during
Ihe past week introduced the first bill
relating to the sale of intoxicating
liquors. His bill changes the present
law which provides that wine made
from grapes grown on ones own land.
or : onand ! under one's control , can be
= old without a license , providing not
less than one gallon is sold in a pack
age. The Varner , bill provides that
homo made wine shall not be sold in
quantities less than ten gallons. I
this bill passes , those who buy wine o
the home made variety for medicina
or sacramental purposes or for a bev
erage , will be compelled to take a
spring wagon with them and a ten gal
Ion tub or keg to carry away the pur
chase.
Boards of Control.
Several h" ills were -introduced for the
purpose of amending the constitution
so'as to provide for a state board oi
control to take charge of state institu
tions. This work is now done by the
state officers who comprise the board
of public lands and buildings and they
cannot delegate their authority to oth
ers. As they have not time to give
close attention to state institutions
F.ome of the buildings are about to fall
down and many need repairing. Some
of the bills provide for an elective
board of control , while others provide
that the members shall be appointed
In some manner to be determined in
the future by the legislature.
Home Rule Cry.
The Commercial club of the town of
Humphrey. Platte county , was the-first
to raise the cry of home rule. The
club presented a protest through Sen
ator Tanner of Douglas last week in
the senate against any proposition
looking to ttfe appointment of a resi
dent of Omaha as assistant attorney
general to prosecute violations of the
laws in'Douglas ' county. The protest
avers that this plan would be a waste
of str.te funds , as the attorney general
and the county authorities can look
after prosecutions without extra heip ,
and that It would be a violation of the
principle of home rule , a principle
enunciated in Democratic state plat
forms.
Attorney General Grant Martin ,
when questioned , said he had never
heard of the proposition to appoint an
assistant attorney general in Omaha.
He said he had not asked for any such
appointment apd-he was at a less to
Know whore the plan originated. No
bill for that.purpose has yet been.in
troduced. Arthur F. Mullen , who served
a shot time as attorney general by
appointment , recommended in his re
port to the governor the. creation of
another assistant for the attorney gen
eral to prosecute cases'arising out of
the railway commission , but he said
nothing in his report about an assist
ant 'to prosecute violators of the state
, or local laws in Omaha. > -
As the county attorney of Douglas
county receives a salary ef $4,000 a
year , and the attorney general receives
only ? 2.0Cd a year , the attorney gener
al is inclined to the view that Douglas
county is well provided with prosecu
tors and that the attorney general
should not be called upon to help coun
ty attorneys only where the county
officers need assistance.
It is reported that Arthur Mullen
would not object to being appointed
assistant attorney general to prosecute
railroad litigation growing out Qf the
railway commission's office.
Bartos Wins Place.
Senator Barlos of Saline , one of the
old senators whom the committee on '
committees sought to keep in the bacR-
iground when committees werp par-
geled outthre.ate.ned to make a hot
fiaht on the floor of the senate if he !
did not get the chairmanship of the
committee on insurance. The commit-
tee on committees had decided that
Eartos could not have that place-on. ,
acrouut'of-trouble over insurance twa '
years ago when he was chairman. In
sorder TO get harmony Bartos was given
what fee1 asfceti for ;
Finished
nvoicm
r'f
and find we are overstocked on some *
lines. . To close out we will sell
CORN KING MANURE SPREADERS
That cost us $11O.OO for $75.OO
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We believe that there will be an advance
in the price of Lumber and advise our cus
tomers to build while it is cheap. A com
plete line of Posts , Barb , Wire and Staples ,
that we are selling exceptionally cheap.
You will' save money and be assured of
getting the best quality by purchasing of
us. An examination of our Lumber will
convince you that we carry the largest
stock of the best grade and at lowestprices.
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I Have Just Received a Car of Apples
in boxes containing Ben Davis , Jonathans
and Winesaps. Stop in and get some
while they are cheap.
11.15 a bushel box
Charley Gassan , Valentine , Neb.
< DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES
NDBILLiA
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ll Cigars and
Soft Drinks
G. STETTER PROP.
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Good Meals $1.00 Per Day
u ION HOTEL
Valentine , Nebr.
Warm Beds Clean Rooms
Stage Line
D. A. WHIPPLE , Propr.
Valentine Headquarters at the Chicago House
Rosebud " " " Rosebud Hotel
Leave Valentine at 8 o'clock every morning ,
Sundays excepted.
Arrive at Eosebud at 2 o'clock p. m. * A :
Leave Eosebud at 8 o'clock every morning , ' . . - ; * * < * > - " <
Sundays excepted.
Arrive at Valentine at 2 o'clock p. m. v-
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Dinner at Britt at 11 o'clock a. m.
Special attention to passengers , baggage and
express or packages.
Leave orders at headquarters or at. the Eed
Front store.
D. A. Whipple.
To Try Out With Lincoln.
Eugene Rondeau , or "Rabbit , "
as he is commonly known , has
just received the following article
from Ed Clarke :
Representative Clarke from
Cherry county is the official scout
of the Antelopes in that county.
He dropped into Despain's office
the other day and incidentally
mentioned a ball player by the
name of % < Pat" Jlondeau , a French
man with an Irish accent , whose
fellow ball players call "Rabbit. "
Clark stated he had intended to
tip "PaJ Rourke otf to the player
but the Lincoln president was
such a good fellow that he simply
had to give him first chance.
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ltRabbit was the popular short
stop of the 1910 champion. Valen
tine team. *
JOHN F. POKATfl
B1ZB&E , NEB.
Tubular Wells and Windmills
Call me up by phone
C. A. RUBY
Attorney-at-
Office front room , second story ,
over T. C. Hornby's store , Main
street entrance.
Valentine , Nebraska
When-jon have a cold get a bottle oi
Chamberlain's Ccragh Remedy. Itvill
soon fix you up all right and -will ward
oS any tendency toward pneumonia.
This remedy contains no opinm or other
narcotic and may be given as'confidenlly.
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