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The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-10-15
WOOD LAKE DEPARTMENT
By "KELLY."

By "KELLY."
October IL.
Chas. Barnes is building q wind
mill this week.
VIM. Ceryell, of Johnstown, was in
the city Monday.
G. W. Eichar is doing the carpenter
work on Mrs. Coryell's new house.
Chas. johnson ships four cars of
feeders tomorrow morning consigned
to farmers st West Point.
Leroy Leach returned from Pine
Bluffs, Ark, last night. He says
there is no place like home.
We are having a little cradle made
for MI. Parker. Think it will be done
before we listen to another pOpulist
speech.
Ely Valentine went to Bfownlee
and Tfedforn this week with DR.. Ely,
who is lecturing in the cause of sound
money.
j. 4
Jim Ackertnan, of Ainsworth, is
doing the plastering for MI. Billiards.
new house IN the south part Of town
this week.
The speeches by D. Fl. Thurston
and O. p. Billings last night were
largely attended. We failed to notice
any very convincing arguments during
the little confab.
W. Honey's brother and brother-in
law, from Michigan, are visiting witt
him a few days. They took in thu
sights at Valentine Monday and lef
for Wayne, Neb., this morning.
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C. r. WATSON is out On a hunting
trip for a few days. G. W. Carson is
ia charge of the weather bureau during
his absence and D. Z. Sherman viii
ee.apound prescriptions.
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CT OAKS AND CAPES
-AI[ new LATEST Styles PRICES IU SUIT
|: AoRNBy THE BIG STONE STORE
|OUR SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
MAE DAVENPORT Ua;4
EDNA MAcDosAID Editors

Miss Adella Sawyer is attending
school.
Carrie Hunter is once more in
school.
Mrs. Fike and Miss Lena Hawkins
visited the Primary room Tuesday
afternoon.
During the last few days Of warm
weather, school work has not been up
to the general standard.
The seats are all occupied in Miss
Browns room. If attendance in
creases as it has SO far a new school
house will surely be needed coon.
Visitors to the high school are al
ways welcome. Pupils are encouraged
to think their parents and friends are
interested in their work, and as a re.
suit better work fellows. ~.
A chrysalis Of a butterfly was on ex.
hibition in Miss Efner's room las
week. 1t was examined With a grea'
deal of interest as the scholars hae
been studying entomology on a small
scale this week.
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morning:

Precipitation is given in inches and
hundredths.. Observations by C. &.
Watson, Of u. S. weather bureau. The
weather bureau day is from 6 p. m. to
6 p. m.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-10-15

The Graphsphone concert last night
Was fairly vel! attended, and enjoyed
by those present, Mr.. Wright goes
from here TO Gordon, we are told.
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Weather

Following is a summary of the
weather experienced here during the
past week, and up to 10 o'clock this
morning:
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Educational Items,

EdncatiOnal Items,
A teachers examination will be held
in the Pioneer School house, District
Nc. 26 on the fourth Saturday of this
month Oct. "a. All teachers in the
western part Of the county desiring
certificates before the next annual
Institute should be present at chat
time. LILLIAN U. SToNER
County Supt.
Seilcol report of district No. q for
the month beginning September IL
and ending October 9 1896.
Total No. enrolled 9.
Average daily attendance z.
Number of days taught 20.
Names of those not absent during
the month are Della and Frank Burns
Total number of days all pupils
attended 40.
Average age 9 years.
Many families have left the district
in the last year OF account of crop
failures and hard times.
T. F.GoRDoN, teacher.
The Crookston Division of tke:
Teachers Association, will meet in the
School house. at 'Crookston, on Satur-
day Oct. "a. at 1870 p: m. We will be
pleased to meet all interested In the
work. The program will be as
follows:
| Music.
Class drill in numbers. ..E. G. Bristol
Life of a.,teacher out Of school 80.
! ". F. Morgareidge
Primary reading........ Celia Schopp
Where is the teachers place during
intermissien?. .....F. F. Gordon.
What to do Friday afternoons to
diversity the usual routine of
school work. Public enter
tainment ......... Emma Marcy
Music
PROGRAM CoMMrTTEE.
The Western Teachers Association
will be held at the Gatow sc%hoolh6nse
October 81, 1886, at 1 o'clock sharp.
The following program will be rem
defed:
Reading Discipline of Schools.
........M Miss Maud VanBuskirk.
Promptness Of attendance of pupils at
school $500 Miss Fanny Thackery
Glass drill, in primary Language. .....
....................Mr Mrs. Grove.
Benefits to. be derived from an educa-
tional journal. Matte Schrieak
Prose reading of a poem-Mrs. Norman
What shall be the object of our teach.
.ers work in associations this
/ year. ........ :. Lillian StOner.
I MATTE SCHRIEAK.
Secretary.
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Hill Prices FOR Feed.
Wanted at once.

Wanted at once.
Ten good teams TO haul freight to
the Brick yard aud Rosebud Agency.
Will have hauling all winter.
SO DAVENPORT & TEACHER.
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Wood Lake No. 9


Nell Hanna and son Lloyd were in
town last Sunday.
Come one, come all to hear the
Speakers next Saturday.
Miss Lizzie Morgareldge spent few
hours in the city last Saturday.
Elmer Day and wife visited at The
home of John Day last Sunday.
Chas. Barnes and Miss Mamie
Stevenson spent the day at Mr.. Leach's
last Sunday,
Rob Faddis, C. a. johnson and
Nell Hanna shipped several cars of
cattle on the 18th.
The editor Of THE DEMOCRAT
passed through Wood Lake Saturday
night on his way to Longtime.
Mrs. L. D. Valentine returned Mon
day evening on the freight from Val
entine where SHE has been visiting the
last few days.
Kelly's Aunt is'sorry to hear that
Kelly wont claim relationship. Per-
haps Kelly don't know his own rela-
lions when he sees them.
The speaking Monday night was
well attended by both parties and a
loud cheer was given when Mr.. Par
ker arose to deliver a short address.
Wash Honey spent Monday in
Valentine. KELLY's AUNT.
Cody.
BoRN:-To Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Bal
lard, Monday, Nov. 9Th, a nine pound
girl. All parties doing we'll.
Hunters are arriving here almost
daily NOW, but duck'shooting on the
lakes is reported rather slim.
The livery barn has changed hands,
and Mr.. Peter Vogt will be found
doing business at the old stand.
M. G. Hopkins, of Valentine, spent
the afternoon Saturday shaking hands
with old acquaintance in Cody. Come
again, Hop.
Geo. Segar, U estimable sheep.man
from the southern fats has been in
our midst for several days. He re.
turned home Sunday.
Mr.. Carroll, of Valentine, had the
pleasure of exploding his bag of politi
Cal eloquence to some half dozen .oi
our city gold bugs and a goodly mum
Der of ladies and children, Saturday
evening October 10th, If the 'repub1i-
can party expect to get a crowd in
Cody, they must send a republican
speaker, and we'll all go to hear him;
but to all Policy democrats
we will give a wide berth.
JINKs.
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The Power of Character.

Benjamin Franklin attributed his
success as a public man, not to his tai
ents or his power of speaking-for
these We're but moderate-but to his
known integrity of character. Hence
it was" he says, that / had SO much
weight with my fellow-citizens. / was
but a bad speaker, never eloquent,
subject to much hesitation in my choice
of words hardly correct in my Ian
guage, and yet / generally carried my
point" Character creates confidence
in men in high stations, as we'll as in
human life. During the wars Of the
Fronde, Montaigne was the only man
among the French gentry who kept his
castle gate unbarred; and 1t is said of
him that his personal character was
worth more to him than a regiment of
horse. That character Is power is
true in much higher sense than that
knowledge is power. Truthfulness, in
tegrity and goodness-qualities that
hang on every mans breath--form the
essence of manly character, or, as one
of our writers has it, that inbred jav-
atty unto virtue that can serve her
without livery
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THE BLACK DEATH.
Its Terrible Ravages on the Conti-
nents of Europe and Asia.

sfTbe~ lack Death" was first heard of
in Europe in 1871, when. after devas-
tating lare,e districts Of Asia, it was
brought II Eonstantinople from the
Black Sea ANA conveyed from the Bos-
phorus by ships TO the various ports of
The Mediterranean. It's ravages We're
terrible In Cyprus almost the entire
population was destroyed. while in Ven
ice over 100000 PEOPLE, or about seven
teaths Of the population. are said to
hfave died. In Genoa scarcely a seventh
OF the Inhabitants survived, while those
who desire to know how 1t ragged in the
other cities &C Italy need only turn to
the e1ephic descriptions given it by
I5occacciC and Peararch. At Sienna the
erection Of the cathedral was stopped
~ tho pIa que and has never been re-
shn1eF TO this day From Italy the
scou. ge made its way to France, ITO
Tnrla7d, to Germany and TO Spain, and
il is said TO have been carried to Scandi-
napia by a ship which left London in
the summer Of 1919. The whole of the
crew died Of the plague, and the ship.
4fter floating aimlessly about for
louq time was cast ashore at Bergen,
the Injection soon spreading all over
Norway and Sweden. Even Ireland did
colonies in Greenland were so obliter-
;fel that their very sites were utterly
rr.fat.ttcn. W uether from this point the
hack death was carried onward by
wandering tribes of Esquimaux, and
ftrs finally reached and devastated this
country. will never be known, but such
a course is conceivable. and might ac
count for the entire disappearance of
those Icelaudic and scandinavian colo
l.ses which ere said to have existed
along the coast Of Maine for two CEN
turies prior to the discovery of Amer
ica by Columbus.
Europe was subjected to three more
visitations OF the black death before
the great pestilence of 1865, of which
Pepvs gives so detailed a portrayal in
his diary. and in London to this day
there remain many nementoes of the
1>lsgue in the shape OF green plots in
the center Of the most populated dis
n lets. which mark the spot where thou
ssf.ds of corpses were buried along with
tons Of quicklime In deep pits. Few
A,,ae cleans so to London without paying
a Visit TO Tattersalls, in Knightsbridge,
and II may interest them TO know, II
the matter has not already been called
10 their attention. that the bit OF green
lew, facing the entrance of Tatter-
sails marks the locality OF one OF the
Ia4gest and most dcnsely packed of
tnese great pits OF The black death
New York Tribune.
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WHERE ARE THE VOTERS?
They Don't Seem to Know There is a
New Registration.

1t may be that the citizens Of Sacra-
nento expect to vote at the coming
election, but from present indications
there are several thousand of them
that will not be allowed to do so.
County Clerk Hamilton has sent no.
tices and posters everywhere in the
county notifying the voters that a new
and complete register must be made
this year; that no man can vote whose
name does not appear thereon, and that
no names will be transferred from last
years register.
He has not only done this, but in his
persuasive way he has worked the local
columns of the city press for notices (of
this kind that would have cost the
county big money if they were paid for,
but somehow the voters do not act as
If they appreciated his efforts in their
behalf.
The register has been open about six
weeks, and some 1900 men have en-
rolled themselves as voters. The reg
ister will close on the 10th of August
less than two weeks hence
yet there are nearly $4,000 citizens
qualified to vote who have not yet ap-
piled for registration,
Somebody is going to get left-sure.
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A REAL TREAT.
Lecture and Musicale at the Six
teenth- Street Church.

The Sixteenth street Church lecture
and musicale last night was a great
success, There was a large audience
present, and all expressed great delight
from first to last.
Mr.. Burnett is a traveller of much ex-
perience and an intelligent, close OBJ
server, and capable of telling what he
has seen to good advantage. He is a
very fluent speaker and carries his au-
dience along from city to city, and
country to country, with interest grow
ing more intense with the passing min
uteS.
The views were very good, the best
that can be gotten. Those illustrative
of the dangers of Swiss mountain travel
were thrilling. All were we'll pleased
with the entertainment.
The musical part consisted of an or
gan voluntary by Mrs. Genung; a solo
by Miss Eva Reeves, accompanied by
DR.. Prentice on the cello; solo. holy
City" by Mrs. Bessie Osborne Elliott:
mandolin quartet, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis.
Miss Meister and Harry Gates, closing
with the Athletic Quartet" William
Johnson, Samuel Smith, Charles Bauer
and Carl Koening. All these parts were
we'll received and greatly enjoyed
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STRANG WILL BE PUNISHED.
The Man Who Ran Down Wheelman
WaltheW.
A Jury Of Gray-Haired Citizens Found
Him Guilty Of the
Charge.

A jury in Judge Hinkson's court yes
terday administered q rebuke to that
class of drivers of vehicles who imagine
that riders of bicycles have no rights
that they are bound to respect.
And the action of the jury is not only
a rebuke. butt a warning that men can
not willfully run down others without
laying themselves liable to go to the
State Prison or the County Jail for good
long periods. In the case referred to
the jury required only fifteen minutes
deliberation to find Conrad Strang
guilty of the chage against him of driv-
ing his horse, rigged to a cart, upon T.
A. Walthew with the object of running
him down. Assistant District Attorney
j. Charles Jones conducted the prosecu-
ton and Henry L. Buckley was counsel
for the prisoner.
On the 7th of last May Strang and
companion came to this city from Elk
Grove in a cart. They filled up on
liquor to such an extent that they i'm
agined they owned the town. They put
in a considerable portion OF their time
trying to chase bicycle riders off the
face of the earth.
Late in the afternoon they were in
front of J-street saloon and saw Wal
thew and companion ride by on their
wheels. With whoops and yells they
started after the riders, lashing their
horse and trying to run down the wheel
men. AT Ninth street Walthew turned
south, while his companion kept on up
] street, but Strang, who was driving
the horse and cart, followed him and
succeeded in crowding him into the gut
ter and finally driving his horse upon
him.
WaltheW was knocked off his wheel
and would doubtless have been run over
had he not grasped one of the shafts of
the cart and thus saved himself. AS it
was, he was badly bruised.
The jury that heard the evidence evil
IDENTIFY took no stock in the plea put
forth by Strang-that his horse ran
away and insisted on chasing Walthew
into the gutter though he had the whole
width of the street in which to run. The
jury was. with one exception, composed
of elderly men and not wheelmen. With
the exception noted their ages were ap-
parently from 80 to 20 years
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new LICENSE ORDINANCE.
City Trustees Were to Have Considered
Il Last Night.
There Was No Quorum, But the Ordi-
nance Was Discussed All
the Same.

A special meeting Of the Board of
City Trustees was held last evening for
the purpose of discussing the proposed
license ordinance, recently reported
back by the committee appointed to
draft it, with recommendation favora-
BILE to it's adoption.
The new licenses and proposed
changes in the ordinance (per quarter)
are as follows: Breweries, $50; tele-
phone and telegraph companies, 500;
gas and electric light companies each,
$50; bill posters, $40; kinetescope and
phonograph exhibitions, each 50; ped
dlers, raised from So to $40; selling beer
and wine by the bottle in restaurants
and hotels, $15.
But the Trustees were evidently not
greatly interested in discussing the
proposed ordinance, as no quorum was
present. Consequently, the talk became
scattering mad general, though Trus-
tees Devine and Wachhorst delivered
their protests against allowing the pres
ent system to remain in force, fixing a
general merchandise license at $50 a
quarter. They contended that the Sec
ton was discriminating, in that large
department stores carrying fifty classes
of merchandise would pay much lower
average license than any one who
dealt in a special line of the trade.
It was contended that the general
merchandise license would put as much
money into the City Treasury as would
be derived by licensing each department
in one of the large stores, but Devine
doubted the statement, and on the spur
of the moment he drew up list of nine
departments which, if licensed separate
ly, would bring in $66 of revenue each
quarter. He concluded by stating that
he understood there were in some of the
department stores as many as fifty de-
partments, each of which would be sub
ject TO license if the general merchan-
disc section were stricken out.
Trustee Wachhorst took like view of
the matter, and then called up the pro-
posed license on restaurants and hotel
keepers for selling beer and wine by the
bottle. He insisted that at the present
time no license was demanded, and saw
no reason why the law should be
changed.
City Collector Robertson called at
tention to the fact that under the pres :
ent ordinance the tax upon restaurant
and hotel men for selling liquors for ta-
bic use was $40 a quarter, and that in
the past the law had not been enforced.
The question, he thought, was whether
S4o or SIS should be collected. He pro-
posed to enforce the law in either case,
and it was merely question of amount
Restaurant and hotel men, he said, de-
sired the license fixed at $15 a quarter,
Instead of $40
1t was agreed to refer the entire or
dirance to Corporation Counsel Hiram
w. Johnson for an opinion as to the
constitutionality Of the several sec
tions. and at $50 o'clock the non
quorum meeting adjourned.
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A Canine Drunkard.

A dog in this city loafs in a saloon
and is a drunkard. The dog is only a
common cur, but he likes his toddy and
must have it every day Not day
passes that the dog does not get drunk,
and after getting full he staggers be-
hind the stove and sleeps it off. The
dog is - years old and has made his
home around the saloon in question for
the last nine years. He never attempts
to bite any one, and all who frequent
the saloon think good deal of the dog.
Often men will visit the saloon just
for the purpose of seeing the dog and
getting him drunk. His liquor is given
to him in a saucer, and he likes it, like
many a nan.-Louisville Commercial
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Notice Of Dissolution Of Copartnership.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
the copartnershp heretofore existing be-
tween j. l.. Gillis and NJ N Winans,
doing business under the firm name and
style OF The Golden Eagle Cyclery, Gillis
& Winans, proprietors, is hereby dissolved
by mutual consent, j. l.. Gillis retiring
The business to be hereafter transacted
ard conducted by NJ. N. Winans under the
firm name and style of NJ N Winans e.
Co. All obligations due the firm of ellis
& Winans shall be paid to and all OUT
standing debts of the heretofore firm of
successor, M. N Winans tSigned)
j. L. GIILIS,
M. n. WINANS,
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ADJUSTMENTS.

AT the Clunie Opera house this after
neon at ?, this evening at s, and to-
morrow night for the last times the
stirring military play Captain Herne.
u. S. A." 1t is full of life, human inter-
est, thrilling situations and beautiful
tableaux and is set with handsome
scenery.
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TO THE WOODS.
Grammar School Pupils Going to
Nat0ma Grove To-day.

The teachers and pupils Of the higher
grade of the Harkness Grammar School
will enjoy themselves in the country
to-day.
At6oclock this morning they will start
for Natoma Grove, near Folsom, where
they will hold a picnic. Several large
and comfortable conveyanceS have
been engaged for the trip and the pu-
pills are counting on a most enjoyable
outing
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PERSONAL MENTION.

Colonel J. W. Guthrie Is back from
trip to Nevada County.
Lieutenant Colonel E. A. Forbes of
Marysville has been visiting the city
E. Railton of San Francisco, brother
os George w. Railton. is here on visit
to the latter.
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205 and 207 street, Nos 122 and 124
h street, Nos. 1925 to 1929 Front street.
Nos. 1O1 to 107 K street, No. 405 Q
street.
This Is all good business property, is
said to be paying IL per cent. on a
valuation of $4,000, and is all rented
to good tenants
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Chances for Investment. i.

At IL a. m. on Monday next, the Goth,
in front of the Courthouse, d. J. Sim
mons & Co. will sell at auction, by order
of the Superior Court, all the business
property of Green & Trainor, as fol-
lows:
Nos. 917 and 919 Second street. Nos.
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BERsAGLIERI PICNIC.
Some Features of the Parade To-
r1OrrOW.

The eighth annual picnic of the
Bersaglieri Guard will be held at East
Park tomorrow.
At 10 a. m. there will be parade of
which Louis Caffero will be the Grand
Marshal. The Mutual Benevolent So
ciety Pimente Real; Acorian Grove,
No S6, U. A. o. D.; Secretaire Con-
celho; Aurora Luzitania, No. IL, w. P.
L. c., and the Bersaglieri Guard, Cap
tain A. Sbarbaro commanding, will
compose the various bodies in line.
The music will be by the Militant
Rand, and at the Park there will be
games and prizes
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Celebrated His Release.

Pat Connors was dead drunk when ar
rested last night. He had only just
finished years, sentence at Folsom
for selling liquor to Indians. He was
sentenced from Inyo County, and was
celebrating his release when arrested.
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Threatened His Wife.

Frederick Kuntz was arrested at
Thirteenth and n streets last night for
threatening to kill his wife. When ar
rested he had a large knife in his hand,
which he threw away. 1t was, however,
recovered by officer Naghel, and will be
in evidence this morning.
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Furniture at Auction.

Bell g. Co. will sell at auction to-day
at 10 a. M, at 927 K street, large and
miscellaneous stock of furniture, bar
bers' outfit, etc. There are many spe-
cial articles not always found in auc-
fion houses
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discussed will be the carrying of the
Stars and Stripes in the parades. 1t
was said the veterans would not have
it. but a formal welcome to 1t was Is
sued by the Grand Marshal to set the
story at rest
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He Threw Rocks.

Thomas Lawry was arrested yester-
day afternoon and charged with dis
turbing the peace. He was amusing
himself by throwing rocks at little chill
dren in the vicinity of Second and NJ
c
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The Clunie Opera house is now lit in
large part by incandescent electric
lamps, and the changes on the stage
are by this means effected without in
terposing a running fiat or curtain.
There are few seconds of darkness.
then the lights flash up and 10! a new
scene appears
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AUCTION SALE OF FURNITURE AND CURIGS

MONDAY, JUNE 20. 1895. AT 10 A. NJ.
sharp at the late residence OF Dr. W. w;
Tight' deceased. No Ills ] street, we will
sell ali the furniture and household goods,
also dentist chairs and instruments, IL
brary, pictures cabinets, etc; also Il very
large collection of curios which Were Sc
lected by him from Mexico to Alaska.
Omen for inspection at a. IN. Monday.
Sale positive. Terms cash.
PETT & co ACctiOnnerS
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AUCTION SALE OF REAL ESTATE.

TUESDAY, JUNE 80, 1896 AT 10 A. NJ.
sharp. on the premises Eighteenth and G
streets, we will sell lot in block bounded
by F. and G, Eighteenth and Nineteenth
streets; will be sold in four lots, each
lot being 40xS0 feet. Terms of sale, If
desired, one-fourth down, balance can re-
of these fine lots positive. Title perfect
je26-td BELL & co, Auctioneers.