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tHR FRONTIER VRINTINO COMPANY
fff.: Uoi.t county exported, in 1891, nearly
•800,000 worth of hay.
f President Cleveland's rules remind
ua of cheap watches. Sometimes they
go and sometimes they do not.
w!1olt county exported, in 1801, more
hay than any other two counties in the
state combined.
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That a man may be born on all, fools’
day and yel not bo a fool baa been fully
proven in the career of Bismarck, who
was born April 1, 1815.
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The atate of Nebraekabaa commenced
suit in the district court of Douglas
county against ex-Trea*urer 11111 and
bla bondsmen to recover 8286,084.00.
Tiik G. A. It. encampment for the
district of northern Nebraska will be
held at Randolph this year, the citizens
of that city having raised 8700 for the
same. _
Hoop skirts will, according to an
electrical expert, endanger the lives of
their wearers who attempt to walk
across the track of an electric railroad.
This hint should not be lost upon
young men.
The contest for attorney for the dis
trict of Nebraska is still undecided. It
is said that the appointment of Frank
White, marshal, kills Qering’s chances,
and that the appointment will go to T.
J. Mahoney, of Omaha.
One-kiortii of the newspapers in
the country have asked for world's fair
passes to the aggregate nominal value of
8802,500, for which they have already
contributed advertising space of a nom
inal value ef 880,250,000.
The editors of the Independent should
at least try and tell tho truth once in u
while, especially when relating to the
acts of an official, Borne day they will
hear something drop and they will
wonder what struck them.
Governor Crounse has issued a proc
lamation setting apart April 22, as
Arbor Day. It Is especially urged that
the public schools of Nebraska should
observe the day by such exercises and
ceremonies as shall be m harmony with
the occasion.
Toe eighth congressional district of
Virginia leads all others in its endeavors
to do good. Out of 17,000 democrats
who voted at the last election, 6,000
have applied for office. There is no
doubt but what that congressman will
earn his salary.
Evert elector of Grattan township
should attend the annual town meeting
which has been adjourned to Saturday.
April 15, 1898. As there is a good deal
of important business to be transacted
at this meeting it is to be hoped that
there will be a good attendance.
Ingratitude is one of the basest of
crimes, whether on the part of men in
highest or lowest stations of lire. This
has been said a thousand times before,
but circumstances make it peculiarly
timely at present as we have a very
striking example in our own city.
There is a little clause in the section
•-of the constitution which defines'the
duties of the national house of repre
sentatives that might be read with profit.
If not with pleasure, by the various
gentlemen who are voluntarily engaged
in the hard work of preparing a tariff
bill.
The Kentucky colonels and Georgia
majors have not yet worked up their
courage to the point of starting that
walking match from Washington to
their homes. They are no doubt wait
ing for the nights to get warm enough
for them to sleep out of doora without
danger.
Of all the queer ideas, that of the
democrats who propose celebrating the
birthday of Thomas Jefferson, the
staunchest protectionist of the early
days of our country, is the queerest.
Jefferson was about as far from being i
democrat as the term is now understood
as he could possibly get.
g^ Sioux City it making great prepai a
•j lion* for their corn palace featlval this
year. The date of opening is fixed for
f-‘, September 20 and will continue to
{j* October 18, 1803. The management is
- sparing neither pains nor expense to
make this palace, in attraction, surpass
;t:i> ■ an thing heretofore presented.
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Which is to he the democratic tariff
bill? The one prepared by E. Ellery
. ^ Anderson; the one fixed up by Secretary
Carlisle and Mr. Cleveland, or the one
which will be knocked together by the
.« ' * ays and means committee of the house
of representatives T It seems to be
another case of too many cooks.
j:''' In North Adams, Mass., a man by the
name of W. J. Wilbur buried his wife
v<',; last week and in four hours after the
funeral, was married the second time.
h , ’ We sometimes tax our Yankee cousins
<?•with lack of speed and enterprise, but
it must be admitted that the North
'.Adams man has beataa. all western
Iff^'Vrecords in the matrimonial line.
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Tn* Introduction of the title of am
bassador into our diplomatic service
will serve no good purpose, although it
will unquestionably lower us a peg or
two in the estimation of those Euro
peans who have respected us for our
sturdy independence. It will give our
representatives precedence in some of
the ceremonial affairs at European
capitals, but will not add to their in
fluence. * _
"Tit* wild and reckless pension list”
shows the following facts: That 13,091
received not over *3 per month; 72,854
received not over $4 per month; 180,518
received not over $0 per month; 317,741
received not over $8 per month; 875,952
received not over 110 per month; 577,053
received not over $12 per month. Death
is thinning them out so last that de
mocracy will soon be relived from
"veteran, pauper pensioners."
Thomas F. Bayaud, President Cleve
land’s ex-secretary o( state, was last
Thursday appointed as ambassador to
Oreat Britain. Mr. Bayard has the
honor of being the first ambassador
appointed by the United States as the
act allowing the 'president to appoint
ambassadors to countries sending am
bassadors to this country was but re
cently passed by congress. Germany,
Russia and France will also be honored
by having ambassadors sent there from
the United States.
Tnx hotel fire at Bradford, Pa., a
few days ago, recalls to our mind the
fact that there are seyeral hotels
throughout this country that are not
furnished with fire escapes. For a few
days after a fire, newspapers, public
speakers and every person are clamor
ing for fire escapes in all hotels. In n
few days the incident is forgotten and
the hotel proprietors fail to put in the
ropes or other fire escape apparatus.
All hotels should be furnished with fire
escapes.
Arnu. is here and the soft winds are
sighing low through the hedges of cedar
and pines, soon will the farmer in rage
be seen flying after potato bugs thick
on the vines; soon will the cucumber
blossom in beauty, soon will the house
insect crawl in our ears, soon will the
merchant unmindful of duty, squander
his profits for cocktails and beers; soon
will the heat of the summet be ended,
all its fierce tortures abated and then,
soon will our idols be shattered and
rended, soon will the coal trust go at us
again.—State Journal.
Ip the republicans do not succeed in
driving Doc Mathews out of their party
and into the democratic ranks it will be
no fault of the party papers. If Mr.
Mathews can stay with the party and
stand the amount ot abuse the papers
are heaping upon him he must be more
loyal than most men are to their party.
—Tribune.
It is a matter of very little moment to
the republican papers or the republican
party how soon Doc Mathews again
announces his democracy. He once
affiliated with the bourbons und became
a republican for pap and it would sur
prise us none should he return to his
first love for the same reason. It would
be a little hard on the democratic party,
hut then it is the rule that the victors
must always welcome the renegades
from the ranks of the conquered.
Tint following it the way Editors.
W. Knox of the Malvern, O., Doings,
bids adieu to a constituency which has
failed to support his paper: "In bidding
adieu to Malvern as the scene of our
struggle in the field of journalism, our
readers will pardon a brief outline of
the causes which have compelled our
departure. Our lack of judgment and
failure to comprehend the essentia little
ness of the place—our expectations that
we could dispel the hoary prejudice and
burst the rust-eaten sftackles of rural
conventionalities, have recoiled with
stupendous force upon our pocket-book.
We have cried ‘bread 1 bread!’ where
there was no bread. We have wasted
our energies and dulled the edge of our
wit in trying to make blood gush from
a turnip. We have laughed where
there is no mirth. We have wept where
tears are unknown. We have stung
you into madness. We havo tickled
you under the chin. We have nursed
and cuddled the lean and meagre truth.
We have created and disbursed the
large and lusty eye. The fiuits of our
efforts have been apples of Sodom and
our belly is filled wind. Were poverty
a sin, this were a hamlet in hell: were
selfishness a virtue, this were a palace
in paradise. To our friends—to those
who succored us in the hour of our
distress—our memory will ever be
green, and may the gods of time and
fortune be ever kind to them. To our
enemies—to those who withheld their
supporting arm and word of cheer—may
they reap as they have sowed. Fare
well." f
"A gentleman wlio enjoys the inti*
mate personal confidence of President
Cleveland," says a writer in Town Top
ics, “imparts to me a bit of political
news of a most novel and interesting
character. It is to the effect that, just
before ex-President Harrison’s depart
ure fr<ftn Washington, bis democratic
successor informed, him through a com
mon friend that if Mr. Harrison was
desirous of taking up his residence
abroad for a season, the President
would be glad to appoint him to any
one of the foreign missions of the first
rank that it might please tbg ex-preai
t
dent to accept. The generous offer was
declined, of course, in tlie same spirit
that it was made, but tbe incident de
serves more tban passing consideration,
not only because of its almost sensa
tional novelty in American politics, but
because of the suggestion which it con
tains of a proper disposition of men
retired from tbe highest honor in the
land. It certainly does not seem just (it
that a citizen of sufficient worth and
importance to be chosen for the nation's
cbtgf executive, should be doomed by
senseless tradition and precedent to
withdraw from bis honors to the
obscurity of a country law office or a
provincial college. It might happen, of
course, that some man of vaulting am
bition or Ignoble, temper would bring
himself to use his ministry, at a critical
juncture in state affairs, to embarrass
his late opponents or to vantage bis own
party, but that danger is too remote and
unlikely to render it an invulnerable
objection to the project suggested by
the president’s proffer to Mr. Harrison.
In these matters it is only the first step
that costs, and it requires but the coin
cidence of an ex-president as brave to
accept as President Cleveland has been
to offer, to establish a practice in every
way reasonable and commendable.
MATHEWS AS HE IS.
The O'Nejll Frontier enters a vig
orous protest beeanse its former editor,
a republican, now register of the O’Neill
land office, recommended by republicans
and appointed to such position by re
publican administration, is dealing out
the land notices to tbe democratic press.
The assumption of The Frontier that
"Doc is trimming bis sails to.tbe demo
cratic breezes” is probably correct.—
Randolph Times.
W. D. Mathews, a man who has
made a sung little fortune from tbe pro
ceeds of publishing laud notices dished
out to him by republican land officers,
has at tbe eleventh hour been appointed
register of tbe O’Neill land office by a
republican president, and now turns bis
back on bis republican friends by turn
ing into democratic channels all the pat
ronage of his office. . Shades of Judas,
Arnold, Tyler and Jell Davis!—Ains
worth Star Journal.
Tbe O’Neill Frontier rises In its
might against Doc Mathews’ notion to
give the land office patronage to demo
cratic papers. Though appointed by a
republican president and confirmed by a
republican senate, be sees fit to do
exactly what tbe Pioneer predicted he
would do: hold his job under the new
administration. A predecessor, Miner
W. Bruce, endeavored to hedge in this
way and lost his job. The Pioneer has
never had an exalted opinion of Doc
Mathews’ republican solidity, being
anything for Doc Mathews, and there is
no surprise from this quarter in his
action. Tbe day will be a happy one
when legitimate journalism will be
appreciated in this section of Nebraska
ns against two-for-a-cent nothings, and
Doc Mathews would honor the profes
sion that has honored him if he would
view matters a little that way. But
chickens always come home to roost.—
Niobrara Pioneer.
BILLS PASSED.
Following is the total list of bills
passed by tbe legislature and approved
by the governor up to Saturday last:
Appropriating 985,000 for the pay
ment of officers, members and emplopes
of the legislature; to recount the ballots
cast for and against the amendments to
the constitution relating to executive
officers, and the investment of the
school fund; authorizing the appoint
ment of supreme court commissioners
and defining their duties; to appropri
ate tbe matriculation and diploma fees
of the state uniyersity, for the support
of .the university library; to appropriate
tuition fees of the college of law of the
university for tbe use of said college;
appropriating one acre of Wynka ceme
tery, Lincoln, as a burial place for
deceased union soldiers; to authorize
the office of commandant of the soldiers’
and sailors’ home, so as to provide for
the appointment of a commandant; to
enable judgment debtors to dissolve the
general lien of judgments pending pro
ceedings in error, by permitting the
judgment debtor to deposit in court the
full sum of suoh judgment, interest and
costs, there to abide till termination of
appeal; - to provide for ditching and
draining wet or swampland; to give A.
J. Arnold an honorable discharge and
pay for three months’ service rendered
in the second brigade of Nebraska
militia in 1864; to amend section 1,
chapter 7, compiled statutes, so that no
person shall be admitted to practice as
an attorney in the supreme and dis
trict courts unless such person shall
have previously stndied in the office of
a practicing attorney for two years; to
create the office of deputy county at
torney in Lancaster county at a salary
not to exceed $1,800 per year, and creat
ing the offices of three deputy county
attorneys in the county of Douglas at
salaries not to exceed $1,500 per year;
amending sections 317 and 318, known
as chapter 8, civil rights, statutes of
1801, by making the act aoply to “per
sons” instead of "citizens:” making it
unlawful to publish an account of any
lottery carried on “either out of or”
wiuiiu me sinic, oy aumorlzlng tne
trustees of universities, consent of a
majority of stockholders, to secure
loans by mortgage; to amend the crim
inal code by striking out the words "or
both" in the penalty for offenses in
cases where justices of the peace now
have the power to both fine and im
prison, an amendment made to .corres
pond with a decision of the supreme
court; to compel railroads td put in
transfer switches where lines touch ti e
same point and to transfer freight in
carload lots without extra charge; to
provide for the appointment of a police
matron by the mayor of cities of over
35,000 inhabitants; requiring counties to
bear the expense of recording made
necessary through errors of registers of
deeds in recording; requiring notaries
public to write tbe date at which their
term of office expires, on all certificates
of authentication; to promote the de
velopment of water power for manu
facturing and ether Industrial purposes
by declaring water power canals to be
irrigation canals.—Fremont Herald.
ONE! LLBUSINESS DI RECTORY
j| K. DICKSON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Reference First National Bank
O'NEILL, NEB.
J C. SMOOT,
FASHIONABLE BARBER.
DEALER IN OIOAR8. ETO.
J^IL J. P. GI1LIQAX, '
PHYSICAN AND SURGEON.
Day and night calls promptly attended to.
Office over Blglln’s furniture store.
O’NEILL, NEB.
JJH. C. D. B. E18AMAN.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
O’NEILL,
NEB.
J£H. BENEDICT,
LAWYER,
Office in the Judge Roberta building, north
of Barnett A Frees' lumber yard,
0 NEILL, NEB.
E.
W. ADAMS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Will practice in all the courts. Special at
tention given to foreclosures and collections.
Is also
COUNTY ATTORNEY,
Da
B. T. TBUEBLOOD,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
Diseases of the Eye and Ear and fittlnfl
glasses a specialty. Office hours 9 to 12 a. m.
and 2 to 5 p. m.
Omci ovmi “THE EMPORIUM.”
ftfULLEN BROS.,
CARPENTERS A BUILDERS.
Estimates taken and material! furnished.
Jobbing promptly attended to.
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O’NEILL neb.
Finest turnouts In the city. Good, care
ful drivers when wanted. Also run the
O’Neill Omnibus Line
Comrercial Trade a Specialty
Have chargee of MoCafferty’s Hearse. All
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Successors to
R. R. DICKSON & CO.
Abstracters of Titles.
Complete set of Abstract Books.
Terms reasonable, and absolute ac
curcy guaranteed, for which we have
given a $10,000 bond as required
under the law.
Correspondence Soliced.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEB. .
O’CONNOR & GALLAGHER
dealers in
WINES®
LIQUORS
Of all kinds. A speolalty made of
FINE CIGARS.
If you want a drink of Rood liquor
do not fall to call on ua. i
Martin's Old Stand. O’Neill, Neb.
' NO. 3424.
First National g.
Paid-up capital, $60,000 #*,.
Surplus, $2o,oooo Jj1
Authorized capital, $loo,ooo jL
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ED F. GALLAGHER THAO?
I. W. THOMAS, President. G. W WATTidT^
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OF O’NEILL.
Authorized Capital, $100,000.
Paid up Capital, $301
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Wm. Adams, Asst. Cashier.
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