Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-05-18

James Dahlman is in town this
week.
DR.. Daley is in Lincoln thi:
week.
S. L. Ellis and son Willard were
in town Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Elmer re-
turned last Thursday from their
visit at Chadron.
Chas. Pote purchased the Ash
burn place west of town last week
and has moved up from Kennedy
The Standard Cattle Company
has a large auction sale ad in this
paper, closing out their ranch
property.
VIM. Hook, Ira Stuart and &c.
Stotts, of Cody, were down to see
Ireland hammered up by Tim
Hurley last Monday.
Peter Riege has been in town
the past week doctoring for tum-
or on his head and is recovering
so he can sleep we'll now.
Rev. E. D. Clarke, has resigned
his charge of the Presbyterian
church of Valentine, and we hear
has accepted a call from Gordon.
Fred Nj. Hans was found not
guilty of the murder of David
Luse and was turned loose.
Who'll be to blame for the next
man he killss
Ed Richards and Ben Steadman
of Oasis came in Monday and saw
the boxing contest. We credit
each with another years subscrip.
ton in advance.
Miss lacy Collect returned from
Cedar Rapids Friday morning and
Tuesday went to Bancroft to ac-
cept position as seamstress on
the Omaha and Winnebago reser-
walton.
We had the pleasure of eating
some fine Bass at Dave Hancock S
ranch on Dewey lake last Satur-
day and Sunday which we're caught
by G. W. Hagan and Grant Welk-
er out of Willow lake, which was
at one time hay land.
Mrs. Brosius is recovering slow
ly from her recent attack of pa
ralysis which occurred about three
weeks ago. Her brother, Levi
Guss, of Des Moines, came out to
see her q week ago Monday and
returned Tuesday of this week.
Mr.. Guss was at one time editor
of the Iowa State Register and is
now with the Nut. Telephone Co.
Dave Hanna, who is now living
in Woodlake, was in our city Mon
day and found time to call at our
Office for visit. Mr.. Hanna sold
his 1873 head of steers that he was
feeding at Ainsworth for S.. so per
cwt. They averaged 1853 pounds
each. Mr.. Hanna run some hogs
with his cattle which be sold at the
same time. Neil Hanna had charge
of the feeding which was done at
Frank Gillette's feed yards.
The y. S. weather bureau re-
port for the week ending May II,
shows highest and lowest tempera-
ture respectively 720 on 14th
and $50 on 18th, a range of 400
and a mean for the period of So
The mean temperature is % be-
low the normal. The precipitation
was 6 and the normal SO of an
inch. For the season, since Mar.
1 to date, we have $40 inches and
the normal is 5.91, gain of .5S.
The crop outlook locally is exceed.
ingly favorable. The winds for
this period have been rather above
the normal, the extreme velocity
being A miles per hour on 18th.
The first shipment of cattle for
issue to the Indians was received
by John Neiss this week for Frank
Curry & Co., who have contract
for 1897 head of heifers and $50
bulls. There were two train loads,
the first coming Sunday night con-
tanning $50 head, and the second
toain load of $50 head, Tuesday
night, all high grade cattle from
Pan Handle, Texas. The cattle
came through in good shape,
though being four days on the way.
Many stockmen who saw them say
they are as fine bunch of cattle
as have been unloaded here in a
long time. They are mostly reds
and show good stock. 1t may be