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The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-06-11

M. D. Busick, living on the river,
com mitted suicide last Saturday, by
taking strychniue, while the balance
CT the family were attending memo
rial exercises at Gordon. Poor health
is assigned as the cause for commit
ting the act.
Mrs. Fannie Curtis. we'll known IN
Gordon. was married on the 18th ult
to J. G. Stetter, of Valentine. We are
not personally acquainted with the
groom, but we know the bride to be
possessed of many excellent qualities
of womanhood. It was she who nursed
Gerald N, Cooper through his long and
dangerous illness last fall, and made
many warm friends in Gordon for her
kind and generous act. W. trust that
she has found a husband in every way
worthy of her.
Chas. II. Wexford is now foreman
in THE DEMOCRAT Office at Valentine.
Two years ago we picked Charlie up
off the street. taught him the rudi-
ments of the art ~preservative, and he
remained with us about a year and a
half, during which time he proved
himself faithful and thoroughly hon
est. We feel a deep interest in his
welfare and hope to see him obtain a
good education and get a fair start in
life. W. can see much in the boy to
admire. Few boys of his age can
! chronicle local events with q greater
natural ease than he Gordon Jour-
nal.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-06-11
Church News.

Service in the M. E. church next
Sunday at II a. m. and 500 p. m. Ep-
worth League at 200 p. m. Prayer
meeting Thursday evening at 7.3O. All
are cordially invited. o. L. Ramsey,
pastor.
The members Of the Ladies' Guild
of the Episcopal church voted to admit
gentlemen to their society, and now
the Guild has two male members.
Y. P. S. c. E. topic for June IA is
Think ye of Christi" Matt.
Is: 1919.
Epworth League topic for next Sun
day is Christ's Recognition of the
Church and Attendance on the Syna-
gogue and Temple" Luke 4: 16;
Matt. g.: 4; 9: IS; Mark 8: l; Luke %:
So; Mark IL: Il; John 8: II; Matt. q:
Is.
Rev. Bates sermon last Sunday eve
ming was a rare treat, dealing with
the ministry of the Episcopal church,
showing its divine origin and how it
was descended from the apostles ap-
pointed by Christ. Many tenets OF
the church were interestingly explain
ed.
Children's Day will be observed by
appropriate exercises at the Presbyter-
ian church Immediately after Sunday
| School in the afternoon. All are IN
vited to attend.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-06-11

Kennedy will have a grand Fourth
of July celebration. Exercises will
commence at 10 a.. M. with music, the
Declaration of Independence will be
read by Milt Latta, and a program of
Rotations, etc., will be rendered by
school children. The sports will in
clude horse, pony, foot and sack racing
creased pole climbing and so on and
will wind up with fireworks at night.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-06-11
WILL EFT
NO. I7IO9
Sire of Nabob ~ 2:3O. Sire,
Rochester GIG. Record
2:3I.

LIST dam JEANETTE, by HAM
BLETONIAN I57.
Dam OF Willet (sire of Nabob. 2:ao) and Ka-
tana dam Of Nornette. 2::25), Hazel's. Sire Of
the dams of Ida Belle. 2:2S, and Lottie &, s:H
End dam, DAUGHTER OF ABDEL-
Lab Is.
Sire OF Goldsmith Maid, 2:A.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-06-11
WOOD LAKE DEPARTMENT
LEROY LEACH, Editor.

Miss Mamie Stevenson spent a few
DAYS last week with WoodIake friends
Miss Ada Dwyer, teacher OF the
Morris school spent Sunday at the
home of d. Leach.
Charles Barnes and Leroy Leach
spent last week at the home of u
we'll known ranchman J. NJ. Hanna.
Rev. j. NJ. Bates held service ia the
school house Friday evening. On &C.
count of the storm a large attendance
was prevented.
Mrs. Willis Barnard and niece, and
MI. and Mrs. Jesse West attended
lodge memorial services at Valentine
last Sunday.
Mrs. Dain was quite i'll a few days
of last week.
c. A. Johnson returned Saturday
evening from Fairfax, South Dakota.
The result of our advertisement for
rain in last weeks issue proves the
excellence of THE DEMOCRAT as an
advertising medium.
We spent last week visiting at the
homes of Hanna brothers. These
ranches are in a very prosperous con-
dltion, and the stock thereon show the
care of experienced men, which proves
the Messrs. Hanna able stockmen.
Their homes are models of comfort;
pleasantly situated on the shores OF
Pony and Clear Lakes; surrounded by
lovely lawns and shade trees, they
form a pleasing picture, Mr.. David
Hanna has been quite i'll with rheuma.
tism the past two weeks, but is better
at time of writing.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-06-11
June Races.
Are now on-KecOrd Of Yesterdays
Events-TOdays program.

The Valentine Jane races are now
on. and,a large crowd OF sports are in
town to see the fun and win or lose
some of their hard earned dough.
The races are principally for Cherry
county and Rosebud horses, but there
are a number of matched races on the
tapis between local and outside racers
which will if run add much to the IN
terest of the weeks sport.
Yesterday was to have witnessed
three races, but as there were only
three starters in the first, no consola-
ton was needed for losers. The first
race run was a half mile dash for a
purse of $45, first horse to get $50, the
second $40 and tho third SIS. First
money was won by LOOMS Bros. sor-
rel mare "Kittie Foster; L. w. Han
dy's "Alice" second; c. c. Thompson's
"Gold Dust" third.
Considerable trouble was expert.
enced in getting a fair start, fully 80
minutes being spent in %jockeying.
Gold Dust had the pole, with Alice
next and Kittie Foster on the outside,
but after the start Kittie Foster took
the pole and kept it to the end Of the
race. She was an easy winner. and
interest was centered in the other two
runners, considerable betting being
done by the friends of the two horses.
Gold Dust led until the quarter and it
seemed as though she would easily get
second place, but while coming around
the curve and up the home stretch the
sorrel mare Alice showed her wonder
full speed and rapidly closed the gap,
gradually passed Gold Dust and came
in a length ahead of the latter horse.
A long wait then ensued, an hour
being given Gold Dust to prepare for
the next race, a quarter mile dash for
a purse of $40. Six horses were en-
tered in this race, and they all got off
in a bunch, finishing IS follows: Mig
ger Baby, Bell Free, Flying Brook.
Hutching's horse Sultan flew the track
and did not finish, and Thompson's
Gold Dust was practically out of the
race, owing to a poor start. Those
sports who bet the Higgins mare,
Belle. against the field were rather
surprised at the ease with which she
was beaten.
C. b. Thompson, VIM. Franeke, and
w. E. Haley were the judges, the
former doing the starting, and they
gave good satisfaction.
A large crowd was out to witness
the sport, women being unusually nu'
merous. The poor accommodations
undoubtedly kept many away from the
track, and it is to be hoped that before
the next series of races a grand stand
will be erected.
George LaPlant and Harry Edwards
of Pierre. S. D., are in town, and so is
Steve Tatman, of Ainswortb, who is
handling Barney Mccoy. The pres
ence of these parties becomes signif'
can't when the Sweetheart Barney at
fair of last season is remembered, but
up to the hour of going to press we
cal. learn of no race having been ar
ranged for.
The entries for the half mile and re-
peat race to-day are Handy's "Aliee,'
LOOMS "Kittie Foster" and Big Bats
sWounded Knee" with more to heal
from. Cliff Larsh is trying to get uI
a foot race with a Broken Bow sprint.
er, and will probably be successful.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-06-11
THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT
SUCCESSOR D
CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT.
ROBERT GOOD, Editor and Publisher


Matthew and Thomas Loomas of
Bog Creek, are attending the races.
Cherry Lodge No. 1863. Knights of
Pythias extends thanks to the members
of the choir who furnished the music
for memorial services last Sunday.
j. w. Hay, Ed Bahrnstadt, Jacob.
Klein, E. George, G.. w. Myer, J. NJ.
Hanna and Martin Dew. of Wood Lake
registered at the White House yester-
day.
Ninety one Indians and fifty ponies
will leave here in the morning for the
Cincinnati Geological Gardens, where
they will be on exhibition to the curl
ous Buckeyes.
This is going to be one of the great
est years in the history of Keya Paha
county for wild fruit; the woods being
full of all kinds and tits now too late
for frost.-SpringoieU Herald.
The country may need saving: the
democratic administration may be
running this nation to the bowwows,
and such, but for all that the horse
ace today attract more attention
than the republican convention.
John Hageman is the owner Of q
heifer that at the age of IL months
gave birth to a calf weighing 50
pounds and both are living. Stock
men claim this to be something phe-
nomenal.-Stuort Ledger.
Of 1913 claimants against the county,
almost three fourths of them owe per-
sonal tax, the total amount due from
said parties being $5,9SsO8. Queer,
isn't it, that few people pay personal
tax until they have to do so.
Lieut.. Elliott secured a thirty day
leave Of absence, and Monday morn
ing started for his home in Pennsyl-
vania, to attend the marriage of his
sister. He will attend the annual re-
union of his class at West Point, June
Is, before returning to his post at Fort
Niobrara.
6. H. Hornby went to Lincoln SUI
day to attend a meeting of the trustees
of the Nebraska Wesleyan University
at that place, and returned last night
He says Lincoln is dead in a business
way, and feels much encouraged owe,
over prospects when compared with 10
calities down the road.
Several of the young would b e-me1
Of Valentine thaught it would be lot
of fun to push E. J. Davenport's pr
vate bath house into the Minnecha
duza mill pond, but the result was not
SO funny as it might have been. W.
do not know the boys, or we would
tell who they were. Next time vi
will learn their names.
T.. Elsey, who is secretary and treas
urer of the Cripple Creek & High Parl
Gold Mining company, received a let
ter Wednesday from Chas. Colgan
who has charge !of development worl
on the company's property, stating
that the mine is proving to be a DO
nanza and he expects soon to com
menee the shipment of ore. Mr.. Col
gan encloses a late certificate of ASA,
showing the ore runs 1882 to the ton
The company's property includes min
claims, all located in the richest min
ing district Of Colorado.-Hot Spring
| Star.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-06-11
SuMMARY-POINTS

The Omaha Exposition bin has pass
ed both houses Of congress.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-29
The Manx shearwater.

We have still within the limits of
the British isles few colonies remain
ing of small cousin of ''the largest of
sea fowles"-a typical representative of
the great oceanic family of the Tubi-
narides-the Manx clearwater.
Driven from the island from which it
takes il name, where once it bred in
enormous numbers. the clearwater still
congregates during the breeding season
by thousands in Eigg, and in smaller
numbers in others of the western is
lands of Scotland, Ireland and Wales,
and has home on one, and one only,
Of the Sicily isles, within mile or two
of the reefs of evil repute amcug which
Queen Anne's fleet on its return from
Spain, confused by continuous fogs, and
believing itself far to the south off the
French coast, found itself entangled
with fatal results on the night of the
23d of October 1907
The chief part of the island is cover
ed with thrift, which has grown on the
dust of its ancestors until it has formed
a light, spongy peat of its own, extend
ing in places to several feet in depth,
honeycombed, more particularly at the
eastern end, with burrows.
On landing-though black backed and
herring gulls are in plenty, and the sea-
side rocks are dotted with puffins and
shags--there is nothing to be seen
which could suggest to an explorer I'M
warned that he stands in the chief Eng
lish breeding place of the most power
full and graceful on the wing, and-ex-
cepting perhaps its own smaller near
relative, the stormy petrel-the most
poetical in association of European birds.
The clearwater during the nesting sea-
son is nocturnal in its habits, leaving
the nest. if at all, only after sunset,
and returning before daylight. Black
woods Magazine.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-29


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TIDE WAVE FORTY FEET HIGH.
Awful Bore That sweeps Everything Be
fore Il ON n Chinese River.

AoNG ~ OAA - @AAAer7N ~At'N--
Twice a year-at each equinox-th
famous tides Of the Tsien Tang river,
that flows from the borders of kiangsi,
Fuhkien and Chekiang TO Hangcbow
bay, attain their greatest height, and
bore Of sometimes over 40 feet IN height
sweeps irresistibly up its shallow and
funnel shaped estuary, often producing
tremendous havoc 10 the surrounding
country; hence its name, money dixie, !"
from the amount expended in successive
centuries ON its entertainments.
II IS seen at its best at Hangchow.
the prefectural city not far from its
mouth. Twelve or IA minutes before it
is visible a dull. distant roar is heard,
momentarily swelling, until the wall
Of muddy water, tai as the hulwark OF
the biggest liner, as overwhelming as a
glacier, sweeps into sight round the
bend a mile away.
Not boat is to be seen on the lately
crowded river. All are hauled up ON TO
the huge embankment and moored fore
and aft with a dozen rattan cables, for
none but ocean going steamers could
stem the current, and even they would
need skillfnl navigation.
As the eagre nears the roar becomes
deafeuing as a storm at sea, drowning
the excited shouts of the thousands who
line the walls, until finally it foams
past in turbid majesty, hurrying toward
the heart of China.
The Chinese annals tell how, ! 900
years ago, Prince Wu Shu made 600
daring archers shoot half dozen
arrows each at the advancing food, and
then, after praying to Wu Tsz-si (the
tutelary deity of the stream, and origi-
nally an upright minister, whose body
was cast into the river after WI had
committed suicide), put the key of the
dixie water gate into an envelope and
threw it into the stream, whereupon the
waters retired.
But as by that time they would have
flowed back in any case even the Chi
nese did not regard the experiment as
very miraculous.
A couple of hundred years later the
emperor, Kan Tsung, had ten iron plates,
each weighing about $50 pounds, sunk
in the river by way of propitiating the
spirits, but the water promptly carried
away both charms and embankments.
Only last century a Hang Chow tea
merchant leaped into the river, like an
other Marcus Curtius, to avert the an
nual disaster Black and White.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-29

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good taste, judy.
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tailor may elect lie
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as regularly as ths
most Conscientious
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his digestive organs
are out Of order. he
viii have an un-
wholesome appear
ance. Ills complex
ION and the white Of
his eyes will have a
ycllowish cast. Ills
tongue will be
coated. appetite
poor, his teeth rusty,
his breath abomin-
able. He IS one big,
uumistakable sign
OF constipation.
Worst OF all. bis
temper Is as ugly
and uuwholeSoue 10
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-29
the LAST PARADE.

They were DAYS 10 be remembered
when. 81 sound Of trumpet call
Young recruits we left the village
Bent on glory one and all,
And the music round US flashing
Made rs feel that evermore
Our lives were worth the living
AS they never were before
remember the day
When we rode all away
To the dreams that the music made,
And our hopes. one and all.
When the old trumpet call
Rang out clear for our first parade
Il was glorious while il lasted.
But the years went by too soon.
Youth should stay q little longer
When a lad s a bold dragon.
Then, like shadows from US drifting
Comrades fell in foreign land
Home again the roll cali found US
But 3 broken little band
AS we rode down the street
To the old measured beat
II was tears that the music made,
And il seemed like a prayer
For the lads who would ne'er
Stand again by our side on parade.
But the marching days are over.
Veterans, now at ease we stand
Till the order comes for marching
To the last and restful land.
Only, when the troops are passing,
Our ninety years We all forget,
And the old familiar music
Makes Us feel we're soldiers yet.
And we're young once again
As we bark 10 the strain
Till the sounds in the distance fade.
So we wait one and all
For the last trumpet call
That shall sound for the last parade.
u L. AIolloy in Temple Bar.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-29
RATEs o. AnVEETisINa

Janu ny q. ls9e.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-29
rhs Inrratltuds % politIcian..

"Is it really true, said the little
boy, that politicians are sometimes not
strictly honest2''
"Yes," replied Senator Sorghum
sadly. II am sorry to say that IT is. ]
have known politicians who got votes
years ago and have not paid for them
vet. w Washington Post.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-29
Danger Signals

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Short breaibiHg after exerion.
TigbinesS Of TIE ebssf.
Duck bHiss, especially noticeable In the
evening and after full meal
CbfIIinsss in the evening, followed by
Slight ftver.
PersbfraffoH toward morning and
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Loss Of Citahtp.
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SOCIAL EVENTS.

AT the residence of the brides moth
er, zoos j street, at high noon yester-
day. J. F. Doherty and Miss Anna 1lg-
ner were united in marriage by A. B..
Banks, pastor of the First Baptist
Church of this city. About forty guests,
after partakng of bountiful repast,
united in showering the happy couple
with rice and wishing them happy
life. Mr.. and Mrs. Doherty left on the
3 o'clock train for San Francisco. There
We're many elegant presents from
friends, both in and out of the city.
William f. Sesnon, Deputy Secretary
of State, was married in San Francisco
onTuesday evening to Mary S., daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin f. Por-
ter, at the family residence in that city.
Estelie Porter, cousin of the bride,
was maid Of honor, and Miss Jeanne de
Forrest and Miss Adeline Pollock
bridesmaids. Mr.. Sesnon was attended
by Harry Gray, Roy Leventritt and
Mr.. Adams of this city. After the GER
emony an elaborate supper was served,
and there was dancing and music. Mr..
and Mrs. Sesnon have gone south on
bridal tour, and on their return will
make their home here.
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TOUGH CUSTOMER.
A Sneak Thief Draws a Pistol OF
Officers Talbot and Maley,

Officers Talbot and Maley captured a
hesitate to be murderer also on very
slight provocation.
Quite early in the evening the fellow,
who gives the name Of John OBrien-
an alias, of course-went into Bloom
berg's second hand store on K street,
between Front and Second, while there
was no one present but a little girl,
took an overcoat off a dummy and
walked off with it.
An hour later he passed the store and
Mrs. Bloomberg ran after him. He dis
appeared around the corner of Third
street and turned into the alley between
] and X. One or two young men fol-
lowed him and he ran out on Second
street toward ]. Just then officer
Maley saw him and started in pursuit,
and as the race progressed others Joined
in the chase, including officer Talbot.
The fugitive took his course UP
through the middle of X street, and
when about opposite the store where he
stole the coat he pulled a revolver from
one of his pockets, but soon shifted it
to the other.
The display of the pistol caused the
pursuers to hold back, and O'Brien made
another break to get away, but Officer
Talbot rushed upon him as he reached
Third and x streets and clasped him
about the body. Maley came up at the
same moment, disarmed O'Brien and
then handouts were placed on his
wrists and Maley took him to the City
Jail. O'Brien had the stolen coat on his
back.
On the way to the jail he showed his
vicious nature by kicking at group of
citizens who followed him. The officers
say O'Brien is a stranger, and that he
Is undoubtedly a recently discharged
convict, judging from his clothing.