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Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-06
THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1905.

commerce and to their pictorial
attitude toward affairs both private
and governmental than the loud
demand for reform railroad legisla-
ton. The railroads. alarming
grasp of the situation has just been
demonstrated in their successful
effort to prevent enactment of a law
which would confer upon the inter-
state commerce commission power
which it was originally supposed
to have, of adjusting railroad rates
and putting into effect new tariffs
where the old were found to be un-
reasonable and unjust. The rail-
roads fear that the people will
sooner or later awake to the fact
that government ownership is the
only true solution and in fact the
only way in which anything along
this line will ever be accomplished.
There is absolutely nothing to be
hoped for from the republican
party as they arc owned body and
bretches by the big corporations.
-O'Neill Independent.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-06
From O'Neill Frontier.

From O'Nein Frontier.
While the trust and railroad
freight rate questions are under
agitation the people would like
some relief from the excessive tolls
levied by the coal men. Omaha
coal dealers furnish Wyoming coal
S1.6O per ton cheaper than it can
be bought for 800 miles nearer the
coal mines. In Nebraska, coal is
one of the absolute necessities in
every household and yet the price
of the very poorest varieties are
little less than prohibitory. If
coal can be transported the whole
length of the state and sold for less
money than hundreds of miles
nearer the mines, somebody is
working a graft that ought to be
peremptorily stopped.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-06
,30uiust Our OsCs, SelUeS.

You cannot secure prosperity by
destroying the prosperity of the
towns around YOU, even the small
est of them. If y"l destroy their
prosperity, your own prosperity
coca with it. The business of
building up a country and support
it is q mutual matter. We must
help each other. We must patron
ize each other and deal with each
other, if We expect 10 succeed.
When we turn against our own
people. when we patronize those
whom we do not know, those whom
We cannot hold responsible if any
thing happens, when we patronize
those who unload worthless goods
upon US, we are working against
our own state, our own friends,
our own selves.
If we want to build up our own
state We must patronize our own
towns and our own people.--Fill-
more Chronicle.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-06

list the past week but is improving.
Sparks has been run over with
horse hunters looking for stray
horses.
Etna BreechbilPs hired man was
breaking horses for Jake Breech-
bill Sunday.
Preaching at the church every
two weeks by Rev. Bassett at II,
Sunday School at 10.
The ducks and geese have been
here and gone, still there is few
web footed ones left yet.
Dave Hamar had his hand badly
cut while stretching wire last
week by the wire breaking.
Chas. Hudson passed through
Sparks Tuesday morning enroute
for the canyons after load of
posts.
The box social at Kewanee, Civ
en- by Miss Tillson of Pembroke
and Miss Ashburn of Sparks, was
a glowing success. S29.S5 was
taken in to buy new organ for
the school. A good program was
carried out and everybody had a
good time.
The Porcupine got a wireless
dispatch Sunday from Kuropatkin
announcing the capture of a mule
near Tie Pass the next morning
after our mules disappearance.
If he had announced that he had
him tied fast methinks | would
have been over after him before
the capture.
A big crowd at Sparks Sunday:
John Brindia, VIM. Grooms, Etna
Breachbill, John Todd, Roy Kus-
kie, Fred Grooms, Tom Jones, A.
Haley, Dick Allen, Walter John
son, John Jaquains, Joe Lawrence,
Dave Green, Chas. Hudson, Jr.,
Thad Jelly, Will Stillwell, Frank
Grooms, Jake Breachbill, Guy
Pollen and one of his uncles, John
Grooms and Deacon Shatzthauer.
PORCUrINE.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-06
Not Used to NtlIitu

Stray members of the bunch of
cowboys which cut into the inaug-
ural parade in Washington are
riding homeward, stopping at way
stations on the road to God S
Country" and giving their i'm
pressions to reporters on the look
out for good stuff says an
Omaha paper. Skinner Humph-
roy of Broken Timber, Mont,
Long Thompson of Garryowen,
Fred Avery of Crow Hills and
Slider Avery of White Creek stop
ped to Craze in Chicago and talked
about the inaugural ball.
Talk about dressing! We do
some dog in clothes in Broken
Timber, but we we're laid out cold
at the ball." said Humphrey.
I'VE gets into the ball and the
first thing we see was a stunning
woman cavorting across the floor
with fellow in swell uniform.
But the girl didn't appear to have
any clothes on-she looked cold
and lost. Long Thompson turned
his head away and blushed some
thing he hasn't done since he was
calf on the range of life. He
whispers to US, especially to Slider
Avery, who was staring until his
eyes began to bulge.
For Gods sake fellers, don't
look! That poor heifer's broke
loose without knowing how she
looks. Give her chance to duck. "
so we all shut our eyes, but
Avery-he never was respectable,
anyway. After time, when it
got tiresome, we open our eyes,
and there's q hundred or more
women skating around, dressed
like the first-nothing on but q
lariat and a saddle blanket.
Pm going to bed, says Max
ey, for if l ever talk in my sleep
after I get home, and my old
woman gets on to what sinful
things I've seen here, it's all day.
so we backed out, rejoicing
that we don't have to live where
clothes are so scarce. Other wise
we had q bully good time"
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-06
Don't Lone Interest.

It is generally accepted by
thoughtful men that the railroads
and allied interests will with
characteristic determination and
craft bestir themselves during the
year in an effort to create public
sentiment against railroad legisla'
ton. Already in newspapers con
coded TO be subservient to railroad
influences are appearing adroit
articles calculated to lull the pub
lie mind and prepare the way for
the springing Of some new and
absorbing issue. The railroads
realize that no issue if pressed to q
conclusion will prove more menac-
Ing to tier iroB6sted> censno! OF
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-06

alphabetically. From the stand
point of the reader, purely, they
would seem to admit of but one
answer. But from the standpoint
of the trained reporter they con-
vey different answer. For he
knows full we'll how even the
demimonde hate to be exposed in
the newspapers. Crime seeks to
hide itself and those who are con-
stantly engaged in it's propagation
are loath to be brought out in the
clear lime light of truth and ex-
posed.
There is no doubt in the mind of
q newspaper man that the aggre-
gate of mankind do not seek I'M
favorable criticism. This is some
thing they don't want. The moral
element in every community will
thereafter know them and spot
them. They are branded from the
moment the newspaper makes the
expose.
However much the moralist and
purists may lament this wholesale
and, as they term it, needless ex-
posure of crime it transpires that
after all it works out for the bet
terment of society. Crime dare
not flaunt itself brazenly before
the public without getting COR
ruscatingly into print.
Could all moral and religious
, teachers view this matter from the
standpoint of the public press,
they would be led to radically
change their views as to the pub
licity of crime and they would see
that exposure is one of the great
.. est foes to its repetition, even as
the sunlight and oxygen are to the
nefarious work of the deadly bac-
, cilus.-Sioux City Tribune.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-06

It has been a custom since the
remote past for the railroads to
effer and for public officials to &C
cept transportation. Its possible
that, under conditions as they
formerly existed, no wrong was
intended by either party to the
transaction. But, Judging from
the sentiment of the state press,
the practice is to be superseded.
Most of the talk has been directed
against the usage as it applies to
members of the legislature, but no
reason can be given in the present
state OF civilization, why any state
official should allow himself to oc-
cupy a position, which, to say the
least, is getting to be regarded as
compromising. The member of
the state senate who tried to evade
the issue when an anti-pass bill
WAS under consideration q few
days ago by bringing into the dis
cussion newspaper transportation
showed that he was hard up for an
argument.-Ainsworth Star-Jour-
nal
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-06
Sparks Quilts.

A. Haley was hunting ducks
Sunday.
VIM. Stillwell is working for
Roy Kuskie.
Mr.. Rosa, of Norden, was in this
locality recently.
A neice of Mr.. SWANS is here
to spend the summer.
Mesdames Burdick and Hover
were in Sparks Monday.
John Sbelbourn drove car load
Of steers To town Saturday.
= Mr.. Calleu has been on the sick
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-06
Publicity Il Foe To Crime

Under this caption the Rev.
John Clarence Lee, of Trenton,
New Jersey, delivered an excel
lent address recently in the above
city which was full of praise for
the modern newspaper. Among
other splendid things he said:
The first function of the news
paper is the gathering and narra-
ton of news. The world is made
up of both good and evil. The
newspaper in performing its func-
ton of narrating the history of the
day. is obliged to take cognizance
of both. However we may regret
the existence of evil, it cannot be
said that it would be best to OK
clude the account Of it from the
public press. Publicity is a foe
to crime. 1t is one of the means
by which the way Of the trans
gressor is made hard. 1t is part
of the rctribution of sin. Many a
grave wrong has been uncarthed
by the faithful reporter, and the
criminal, therefore, brought to the
condemnation he deserved"
There is plenty of good meat in
this statement of the reverned
gentleman. 1t takes a correct
perspective of the situation and
sets forth in clear and lucid light.
To be sure, there are, and always
will be in every community, GER
tain pious souls who almost loathc
the prominence given by the news
papers to crimes committed. They
say that it seems to be the aim of
the newspapers to parade the OBJ
noxious and diabolical things be-
for the world and color them some
times to distort them; that they
are beyond recognition. This they
are pleased to call yellow journ-
alism."
Without vitating in the least the
fundamental principle involved in
the above quoted remarks from
DR.. Lee, it may be admitted that
comparatively few newspapers are
addicted to this habit, their chief
aim being to properly expose the
wrong done to society and thus
protect society from a recurrence
of it.
But the question involved in DR..
Lees statement is, rs publicity a
foe to crime!" Does it have the
tendency to lessen crime. Or does
it, as some mOralists maintain,
tend to educate people to look
with competency upon those
things which arc heinous in the
sight of God and mau!
These questions cannot be an
swered categorically, but largely
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-06

WANTED-3OO head of cat
tie to Craze on my range this sea-
sou. Plenty of grass and water.
Apply to A. L. HUTCHINSON,
1913 Valentine, Neb.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-06

Notice of application for License
to Sell Liquor.
Notice is hereby given that we have filed with
the Clerk the Board OF trustees 81 the Village
Of Valentine. Nebraska, "A petition accompanied
~ bond dlily att-sted, said petit II praying
that we ne granted a license to setl malt, spirit
uO,ls and viDO'ls liquors in said Village or VAL
entine, Cherry county. Nebraska. for the yeaf
ending May |. 1909 -
JOHN G. STETTER,
II +. HILStNGER.
Dated this 9th day OF April, 1900.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-06

We have three different
makes Of riding Cultivatcrs
and also carry in stock Lister
Carriages suitable for convert
ing any steel beam walking
lister or plow into a riding lis
ter or a riding plow.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-04-06

Experience has proven that
the JOHN DEERE goods are
the best in the market, and by
buying two car LOADS we are
enabled to make you very close
prices. Our friends are invited
to call and inspect the goods.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-09
Benefits Big Grocery

FULL WEIGHTS, FULL MEASURES,
BEST GOODS. LARGEST VARI-
ETIES AND PROMPT DELIV-
ERIES.
Twenty Green Trading Stamps with
pound fresh roasted Golden Santos
twenty Green Green Trading Stamps With ;ftS
pound Tea, any variety ......... .4Sc
Thirty Green Trading Stamps with
pint bottle Blood of the Grape 25c
Ten Green Trading Stamps With BIB.
can Burnham's Clam Chowder zoe
Ten Green Trading Stamps with glass
tumbler Cranberry Sauce 49,. .10c
SPECIAL ON TEA.
Twenty Green Trading Stamps with
pound Imperial japan Tea. ESQ
Twenty Green Trading Stamps with
can Diamond s. Fruits, asstd .2Sc
Ten Green Trading Stamps with bot
tie Diamond IS Chill Sauce 90. sc
Twenty Green Trading Stamps with
2-lb. can Diamond 50 Cove Oys-
Ten Green Trading Stamps with lib.
can Benefits Baking Powder. 2tc
TEN GREEN TRADING STAMPS
WITH TWO PACKAGES BEN
NETT'S CAPITOL OATS ......2 Oc
TEN GREEN TRADING STAMPS
WITH TWO PACKAGES BEN
NETT'S CAPITOL WHEAT &C.. 20c
Ten Green Trading Stamps with bot
tie Gedney's Pepper Sauce ...... .23c
Giliette's Washing Crystal, 3 pkgs &c
doz. pkgs lsc
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-09
Prices mai Are Inieresiinq 10 Shrewd Buyers

H-lbs. pure cane granulated sugar. =. 800
4S-lbs. fancy high patent Minnesota
hour .........'. ....'..''.'.. ....''Sl'4o
10 bars best brands laundry soap .,....25c
6-lbs hest Pearl Tapioca, Sago Hominy,
Barley or Farina ....... .......... ....,25c
7-lbs best rolled oatmeal ................25c
6-lbs hand picked navy beans .......25c
BIB. pals pure fruit jelly ............171ac
Jellycon or Jello, pkg ....... ..............7c
glib. can sweet sugar corn ................5c
2-lb. can wax or string beans ..........6c
GLIB. can Early June sifted Peas Tic
Falo breakfast, pkg ..,....... ............717c
oMAHA's GREATEST FRESH FRUIT
DEPARTMENT.
Bushel boxes fancy Colorado eating
apples .''..... ........ ........ ......... .N.25
Cape Cod cranberries qt.................,sls
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-09
Groceries

Bushel boxes fancy Colorado eating
Fancy Malaga grapes, lb ............. .121hc
measures fresh roasted peanuts Joe
New cooking figs, III ...... .............7Iko
3 bushel barrels fancy New York
Baldwin apples ........ .......... $3.50
A FLW OF THE MANY SPECIAL FOR
THURSDAY IN OUR HARDWARE DE
PARTMENT.
tie psrlor broom, regular SOc. this
sale ........'.. ,.,.,... $500, ,.,.......,l5o
Mop sticks regular 10o. this sale. so
Il at gal pail. regular 2Oc, this sale ..15o
Large wire photo holders, reg. l0c.
TINS SAFE ''...... ..... ..... ..,....bo
wire coat hangers. regular 1Oc, this
SAFE ...'.,.. .,.-................ ..,....,. 30
Coal Holds. regular 25c, this sale ....... lbo
! box Tooth Picks, regular &c. this sale 21ed
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-09
Rousinq Furnishing Goods Bargains.

CHILDREN's STOCKING CAPS, IN
sample line of a large manufacturer. wor
every shown--choice Thursday at 29c anC
WOOL SWEATERS, for men and boys,
in plain and fancy colors. complete
line worth regularly up to $3.50 Enr
Special, Thursday, at .......,., 49, wv
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-09

all wool and silk and, wool. the complete
h regularly up to 800, greatest bargain
25c
LADIES UNION SUITS, made OF hne
Australian wool, In. nauural gray, gar
ments worth N.76, greatest snap ever
shown 1E
at, choice. ......... ......,. ..,...... AOS
, 1905-01-05
Bos'n M ust Go.

Among the changes now on the car.
pet is the abolition of the boatswain.
So far as n can gather, the idea is
to make all boatswains of less than
fifteen years seniority qualify as gun.
ners. and let this rank gradually die
out, as that of the old navigating Off.
GERS has done. These alterations will
remove one of the oldest warrant
ranks in the navy.
The "Batsuen,' as the boatswain
was originally called was in the ear.
lier days a much more important in.
dividual than he is to-day-in fact. he
seems to have ranked almost as high
as the sailing master Of the ship,
Ropes and sails and masts and yards
were always his specially, and the dis
appearance of these from the fleet
seems likely to be followed by his
own.
Not that there is any lack of work
for him to do. Even in the modern
ironclad the boatswain has important
duties to perform; but the authorities
seem to think that the duties may
Just as well be discharged by the gun
ners. who are Cow on the top line in
everything, so much importance is at
tached to the branch for which they
specially qualify.-Pall Mall Gazette.
, 1905-01-05
POLICE COURT
IN CITY HALL
MOVE TO TRANSFER JUSTICE
GRANT FROM PRESENT BUILD
ING TO COUNCIL ROOM.
Saving OF Rent to City and Furnishing
Protection from Fire To Records
Of the court-counciI Has Matter
Under Consideration and Will
Make Report.

The removal Of the police court from
Its present location on First street to
the city hall is being discussed by the
council n Justice Grant, and it is
probable the change will be ordered.
The council chamber is large and well
lighted there being a good place for the
safe keeping of the records, a Jury
room and handy to the police station.
There would be in addition to these
co%nveniences, a saving of some twenty
dollars a month to the city.
1t is possible that the suit of Police
Justice Grant against the city for an
additional $25 a month for salary will
be decided againt the city, making his
salary $50 instead of $25, as at present
allowed by the council, and the saving
OF 500 would almost pay this. Judge
Grant is certain that he will win in the
contention.
The use of the council chamber as a
police court room has been discussed
before, but the matter was given new
life in the discussion of the heating
system employed at the city hall. Mem
bers Of the council contend that the
building has to be kept warm any way
and the additional cost on account of
the police court room would be very
small. The heating system will prob
ably be renewed or overhauled, the
present consumption of coal being
enormous, and the hall could be kept
warm at less expense than the present
quarters of the police court. 1t is also
fgued that the county would continue
to share with the city the cost of main
tanning a room for the justice of the
peace for Laramie precinct, who is ex-
off1cio the jusf'ce of the police court.
1t has been suggested that when the
county builds a sheriff's residence and
jail. as 1t must in time, the present
of the sheriff at the court
house could be converted into rooms
for the justice of the peace and the
coroner, both of which officers should
have quarters at the county house.
, 1905-01-05
Why Not See Mexico?

Forty-eight hours travel will take
you from the cold clustering northern
winter to a land of sunshine and flow
ers. What Egypt and India are to the
old world, Mexico is to the new. "A
land of white sunshine, redolent with
flowers; a land of gay costumes,
crumbling churches, and old converts;
a land of kindly greetings, of extreme
courtesy, of open, broad hospitality.
1t was more than enough to revel in
an Italian sun. lighting up a semi-trop.
ical land; to look up to white-capped
peaks, towering into blue; to look
down upon wind-swept plains, encir-
cled by ragged chains OF mountains:
and to realize hat today, in its varied
scenery costumes. architecture, street
life, canals crowded with flower laden
boats, market plazas thronged with
gaily dressed natives, faded church in
teriors n abandoned converts, Mex.
leo is the most m~arvelously pictur
esque country under the sun A tropical
Venice, a semi-barbarious Spain, a new
Holy land" For rates and information
write
T. E. FISHER
G. p. A. C. & s. Ry.
Denver. Colo.
, 1905-01-05
MOTOR TESTED ON
THE BURLINGTON
CREATES ITS OWN ELECTRIC
POWER FROM GASOLINE
DRIVEN ENGINE:
Believed to Be Solution of Great
Problem, As it Needs Neither
Third Rail Nor a Troily-Given
Trial BY General Manager Delanio
Between Chicago and Aurora.

Chicago, Jan. 5.-An electric motor
car, to take the place of the %ponderous
steam locomotive. has been found, in
the opinion of high officials of the Bur
lington road.
The new locomotive is believed to be
the solution of the great problem in
that it needs neither a third rail o a
trolley, and is not tied to a power
house at either end of the line.
1t creates it own power as it goes
along, just as the steam locomotive,
and the two or three men who have
seen it believe it is destined to revolu-
tionize railroad service.
The new motor was given its first
genuine test when it pulled the heavy
private car of General Manager +. A.
Delano from Chicago to Aurora, a dis
lance of forty miles, in an hour and a
half i've slippery rails.
The driving power of the new engine
is electricity, but behind that is the
mainstay of the Rockefellers and the
a~utoists-plain gasoline. The gasoline
is used to drive the dynamo by which
the electricity to propel the motor is
generated. The fact that the electric
current is generated in the locomotive
itself is the feature wherein the new
car is said to be so much in advance
of all others of its kind.
, 1905-01-05
HE WAS GIVEN
BIC SURPR|SE
OSCAR SODERLlN JUST HOME
FROM ALASKA AND GUEST OF
HONOR AT A PARTY,
Number of Friends Gather at North
Star Hall and Present Young Gen.
tIeman With Elegant Suit Case
and Many Social Attentions-New
Years Dinner.

Oscar Soderlin, who has just return
ed from a long stay in Alaska, vas
given asurprIse at North Star hall Tues.
day evening. he being the guest of
honor at a party gotten up by a num-
Der of his friends. Mr.. Soderlin re-
ceiyed a handsome suit case at a testi-
monial of the esteem in which he is
held and was the pleasant center of a
good dead of interest. Dancing and
games and a delicious luncheon made
a very merry evening for the party,
which included the following:
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Erickson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Palmquist, Mr.. ana Mrs. Gust
Larson, Mr.. Il Mrs. Mons Nelson,
Mr.. n Mrs. Louis Soderstrom, MI.
and Mrs. John Johnson, Misses Aman-
da Beck, Thora Elder, Mary Twett.
ChIistiae Hansen, Sophia Johnson,
Ida Bostrom, Hanna Larson, Bertha
Peterson. Edna Erickson, Irene Mel
son and Emma Olson, and Messrs.
Oscar Soderlin, Charles Olson, Victor
Carlin. Erick Erickson, Carl Larson.
Oscar Peterson, ThOrvald Oldson. John
Johnson, Gust Larson, Ben johnson,
Gus Palmquist, Otto Bullene and Cor
don PalmQuist.