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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1894)
W The Frontier. Iff ' 6-""'- — -■■■ - PUBLISHED KVKI1Y THURSDAY BY , THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY Ji#.1 KING A CRONIN. EolTons. *-■ V . ■ A mtti.k learning is no more a dan gerous thing than a little power. h -► - Tim notice that the Bun gives Mr. Harmon upon bis appointment is not of a character that one democrat should extend to a successful brother democrat, but is more like the death wnil of a discovered Imposter, and is, therefore, not out of place in this particular ense. Again are the villainous methods of the independents and the wanton ex travagance of their tool, the board of supervisors, forcibly brought borne to us by the result of the Sklrving trial. $550 gone glimmering in supervisors' salaries alone, to say nothing of witness feus and incidentals. It is outrageous, but the time is coming when the people now groaning under excessive taxation, will arise bright and early some election day and swipe these peanut politicians from the face of the earth. It has been sufficiently demonstrated that Harring ton’s theory of tho board's "political and administrative rights’’ is a danger ous thing. -- Walt Mason in the Sunday Journal gives quite an extended list of probable gubernational candidates, and among tho number we find the following men tion of Doc Mathews: Doc Mathews is also being boomed for the office, and it stands to reason that no man could stand against him for a moment. As the lord high everything else of O’Neill he has brought that town to a stage of prosperity seldom achieved in this world and it is natural to suppose that he would do as much good for the state at large, ns governor. It is due to him that the chicory industry has been brought to such a successful height that the farmers of Holt county have quit raising coffee and Oolong tea. It is due to him that bard working farmers can take wagon loads of scalps to town and get their royalty on them; it is due to him that the snakes have been driven from that and adjoining counties, al though he has never tried to imperson ate St. Patrick. So many things are due to his untiring industry that it would be tedious to enumerate them. it is true that Doc has been a good man (or O’Neill, better in fact than O’Neill gives him credit with, but he oan never be governor. He has fallen from grace with a dull, sickening thud and the high places that knew him once will know him no more forever. It happend in this way: There was a ,vacancy in the registership of the O'Neill land office; Doc wanted the ' .<■. position and with that end in view summoned faithful friends to his bed side, where he lay suffering with divers and sundry pains, and bade them buckle on their armor and go forth and capture the appointment dead or alive. And they went forth and followed the elusive phantom for many weary weeks and finally treed it in President Harrison's private office where it was bound and gagged and brought back to Doc. who straightway arose from his bed and took possession of the office. - Then came ' men grown old in the service of the party and begged leave to toil as servants in the vineyard, and newspaper men, who had cried good Lord and good devil to suit any and all occasions, came and on their bended knees asked per mission to publish land notices, but Doc kicked them out, said he didn’t know them, had never seen them before, and at once distributed his plums among the democrats, saying “to the victors be long the spoils.” By these and various other methods he sought to heel himself with the powers to the detriment of A those who had been his friends in ad versity; but the end has come, and the downfall of an ungrateful man is hailed ^ with delight by the republicans whom he betrayed and the democrats whom he sought to placate. Sic temper tyrannis. WE WEBE CORRECT. Our expose of Judge Roberts of two weeks ago, modified by the correction of last week, we still maintain is correct, V notwithstanding the Hun and Independ ent, both pop organs, rush to the old man’s rescue and accuse us of falsifying Let us look over his defense for just a moment. The Hun says: Now, let us see if Tub Fbontieb has been fair with Mr. Roberts. Beginning with January 23, 1884, we find that Mr. Roberts charged himself on that date with taking three final proofs, amount ing to the sum of $7.50. During 1884 we further find that Mr. Roberts charged himself with taking fees in final proof cases just sixtv-four times, the amounts ranging from 30 cents, for one affidavit, to $4.30. During 1885 Mr. Roberts charged himself with collecting fees fifty-three times in similar cases. In stead of not being able to find a scratch of a pen Mr. Roberts’ fee book shows that he collected fees on 117 different dates. We cannot understand how a man must be made who will sit down and willfully lie about a small matter of this kind. McHugh must have known bet ter because elsewhere in his article he ” says he looked over the fee book. Mr. Roberts charged himself with fees for taking final proofs not to exceed Bix times, instead of 117 as the Hun states. That this is true there is no doubt and *V we invite inspection of the records. , The Sun says further: Owing to Mr. Roberts’ poor health he made an arrangement with M. D. Long that the latter should take the : ' proof and collect the fee, and that Long ; should pay Mr. Roberts seventy cents for each final proof so taken. All that Mr. Roberts had to do was to ndminister the oaths. While it was lamentable that Mr. Roberts’ health was not the best, we would like to enquire by what authority he made arrangements with tin outsider to divide itp the proceeds'of the county judge’s office in any such mnnncr. And how do we know that he did this? VVe arc now'dealing with the records and we fail to find a note of any such agree ment. Rut the land office records do show that for about six months of Roberts' term he took 100 final proofs, while the judge’s records show that he took but six. These are the facts and there is no way getting around them unless you go back of the returns, but it will be remembered we started this in vestigation upon the records as kept in the judges office, and propose to stand upon them. Under the Sun's line of reasoning the county clerk and treasurer could law fully employ anyone to make out sheriff certificates and pay them 81.75 in each case, themselves entering upon their fee books 25 cents for the use of their seal. It the man who received the 81.75 subsequently chose to whack up with the officer who gave him the work we suppose it would be all right. In Robert’s case it may be the same for aught the records disclose. Mike Harrington, whose opinion no populist will question, not more than two weeks ago emphatically declared that a county judge should account for all of the fees taken by virtue of ' his office, were they final proofs or any thing else. He was after Judge Lowe then. We do not care what the judge says, or what his editors say, as the records are the best evidence and to them we appeal in support of our position. EGOTISM, THY NAME IS KAUTZ MAN1 Who builds a church to God and not to fame will never mark the marble with bis name.—Pope. The entire first page of the last issue of the Beacon Light was devoted to a photograph and biographical sketch of the life of its editor, the notorious Ham Kautzman. The vanity, gall and lack of sense that prompted the production could only be equalled by the untruth ful and misleading statements of the narrative. / While bis article would tend to prove that he had led a roving life for the benefit of his fellows, the fact <s that he has been chased from pillar to post and kicked from Dan to Bersheba by indig nant. communities in which he sprung those newspaper ventures, until we find him here in O’Neill plying his old disreptuable tactics to the disgust of decdtat people. His effusion is nothing but a bid for sympathy. He has been exposed and re-exposed by the republican press until at times “it was an effort of moral suasion over desperation that prevented him from taking a winchester and killing the unprincipled scavengers like dogs.” It is wail for his old hide that his cow ardice got the better of his desire. It was not necessary for him to inflict his history upon the public. His record is so unsavory that the breezes waft us nauseating whiffs of it from Iowa, Idaho and Nebraska, while the stench he is producing here in O’Neill is a sferious problem for the board of moral health and it is thought expedient to fumigate the city when spring opens up. He has led the people out of the bondage of tax slavery, never to again be permitted. Was that when he stole a couple of thousand from the county on the tax list deal? We have ignored threats and spurned bribery, believing that it were better to fall in battle tor the rights of humanity than to seek temporary gain through the influence of money illegally wrung from the toiling masses .in wlio3e inter est we have spent twenty years of constant labor. Was that a “battle for humanity” when he jumped a board bill in Stuart and defrauded a widow lady out of a laundry bill? .Was it a “battle for humanity” when he, at the same place, ran a shooting gallery by day and drank whiskey and played poker by night? Was it a “battlo for humanity" that caused him to be starved out of Oak dale? Are these fair samples of his “twenty years of constant labor” ? We have no desire to follow his article in its tiresome entirety and re buke his many egotistical assertions, but as we glance over the columns of his braggadocio the thought occurs to us: If he has for twenty years been a public benefactor and exposed legions of venal vampires as he roamed to the east and roamed to the west and to the north and the south roamed he, why is it necessary for him to build a monu ment to his own fame? Why not leave that to be performed as an act of grati tude by a grateful people? If he has done all that he proclaims with such a great display of capital I’s bis name would now be a household word in the mouth of thousands instead of the good housewives using it to frighten their children. The quotation at the head of this article covers the case exactly. A mm Who has devoted his life to philanthropic deeds and ignited a bonfire wherever he chanced to touch the earth has little need to sing his praise in public print. But it may be all right. No doubt such characters are necessary to create an harmonious whole, and we, whose sense of reasoning is so minute, are apt to ask why such spirits are created, forgetting that we are in our scale of sense weigh ing our opinion against Providence. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven’s design, why then a Borgia, or a Cataline or a Gutzman? His vice is of such a frightful mien as to be hated, needs but to be seen: but then you know "what happier natures shrink at with affright, the hard inhab itant contends is right.’’ INDEPENDENT STEALS. At every meeting of the board of supervisors they steal from the county $186, by charging for the day before the board meets and the day after it adjourns. By awarding the printing of the tax list to the Independent they have stolen over $1,600 from the people of the county. The supervisors who by their votes perpetrated this outrage are: Conger, Crawford, Dennis, Donohoe, Eckley, Greig, Hodge, Jillson, Kelly, H. B., Kennedy, Miller, Phelps, Schiudler, Slaymaker, White and Waring. By employing more help in the treas urer’s office than is necessary and more than was employed under a republican administration, they are wrongfully spending the people's money. By employing more help in the clerk’s office than is necessary and more than was employed under a republican administration, they are robbing the tax payers. By allowing the sheriff two deputies when he should do all of the work him self, they are heaping additional burdens upon the public. By recklessly plunging the county into ill-adyised and losing litigation that are increasing taxes. Employing John Morrow for a year at $2.60 per day as assistant expert, which .was clearly a violation of our statute. By calling a grand jury last fall they heaped thousands of dollars of addi tional debt upon the county, and the benefits derived were absolutely nothing. Being the plurality party they are re sponsible for the continuance of the supervisor system, which costs the county over $50,000 more every year than that of the commissioner. Before election Joss Mullen promised that all the help he would ask would be one deputy and one clerk. Therefore, all the help he employs above that num ber is a steal, according to the words of his own mouth. Awarding the contract for publishing the proceedings to both the Sun and the Independent is a steal that will amount to considerable. By consuming sip days in the Skir ving trial without requiring the plaintiff to give a bond for costs the county has lost at the least calculation $660. Bncklen’s Arnica Salve. 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Abstracters of titles. Complete set of Abstrect Books. Terms reasonable, and absolute ac curcy guaranteed, for which we have given a $10,000 bond aa required uuder the law. Correspondence Soiiced O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY NEB. HOTEL -JAVANS Enlarged Refurnished / Refitted - Only First-class Hotel In the City. W. T. EVANS, Prop. A SALOON Where the best WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS Can Always be Had -JU5L.GLOBE, PAT GIBBONS, Prop. ...Always Buy the ...Best The ...Best is' Cheapest The finest and largest stock of goodg in the hardware and implement line in the Elkhorn vallley ia found at ... Brennan’s I NEIL BRENNAN John Deere plows, riding and walki™ cultivators; Disc harrows. 8 Moline wagons and baggies of ail kinds David Bradley & Co. famous disc col tivatois— best in the world. Glidden wire. Every spool warranted lull weight. Stoves. Garland stoves and ranges the world’s beat. The grand old Chart er Oak stoves and ranges. Gasoline stoves-a world beater-the famous New Process. 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CAPITAL $30,000, Prompt Attention Given to Collect® DO A GENERAL BANKING BUSINEi EMIL SNI66S, _practical ~===== horseshoe And general blacksmithing carried on in connection, riage work in either iron or wood executed in the nios s ’ style possible. First-class plow and machine work a be relied upon. No new experience used in any work. All my men are skilled workmen. ALSO DEALER IN FARM INPLEMENTS.—— •** Plano binders, mowers, rakes, Skandi plows, hariotv cultivators of all descriptions. Everything guarantee beat the best. o’neill,