: The Frontier.
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PUBLISHED KVE1SY THURSDAY BY
THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY
KINO A CRONIN. Editors.
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.
l'bc republican central committee of
the Sixth congressional district of Ne
braska is hereby called to meet at Kear
ney, Nebraska, on Tuesday, May 8,1804,
at 7 p. m., for the purpose of naming a
time and place for bolding the next con
gressional convention to place in nom
ination a candidate for congress and to
apportion delegates to the several
counties in said district and to transact
such other business as may come before
said meeting. A full attendance is
urged. Matt Daugiiertt, Ch’m.
W. W. Barnet, Sec.
The Chambers Bugle seconds the
nomination of Tom Majors for gover
nor.
Tns county board sometime ago by
resolution instructed the county treas
urer to proceed with the collection of
delinquent taxes. If the taxes at present
delinquent were coileoted Bolt county
would be out of debt. Let the treasurer
move. __
It did not take Sheriff Hamilton a
great while to reward Bradstreet for his
campaign services. Less than three
months as deputy seems to have squared
accounts. Whether Hamilton requested
a resignation or Brad, jumped the job of
his own volition is a question.
H. M. Grimes, of North Platte, is a
republican aspirant for congressional
honors. Mr. Grimes may be just the
man for whom we are looking, but that
name would defeat the ablest man in the
district. The opposition would make a
campaign slogan of that familiar air,
"Old Grimes is Dead,” etc.
Gutzman frankly admits that his in.
fluence in city matters is an unknown
quantity, but bombastically asserts that
in the country districts he is "all O. IC.’>
The Frontier and two hundred others
wonder why in the name of almost any
thing he doesen’t move his Beacon Light
out to his "Influence.” The city election
clearly demonstrates that his missionary
work here among the unbelievers is doing
no earthly good, in fact is driving con
verts from the fold.
Since Governor Crounse has yublicly
and privately announced that under no
consideration will he again become a
gubernatorial candidate, the blooming
prairies of Nebraska liken unto the back
of a hedgehog, caused by the lightning
rods hoisted by every other republican
statesman within the state. The Fron
tier has no preference for the exalted
position, and only hopes that the suc
cessful man will give us an administra
tion as clean and worthy of admiration
and emulation as Governor Crounse.
Speaking of the city election Gutzy
says the people "did it with their eyes
wide open." Right you are. The
people are just beginning to get their
eyes fairly open. Last year Dick’s
majority was only fifty-four but the
action of independent politicians has
succeeded in awakening forty-three
more in the city whose votes were
recorded against you as you will notice
by glancing over the returns. "Your
fight upon O’Neill institutions and hon
orable dtlsens together with the broken
pledges of your party is having an effect
all over Holt county that will cause you
to glance down yourKeeley-bulbed nose
next fall.
The little scrap going on at Ewing
between tbe Peoples' Advocate and
Supervisor Roll, both independents,
over the tax list steal, may yet develop
something of interest to voters. The
_storm cloud arose when Mr. Roll re
fused to vote for the steal, and the fire
works and cannonading was started
when the Advocate rebuked him for dis
loyalty to dishonesty. Mr. Roll comes
out openly over his own signature and
denounces the whole affair as a steal and
a combination and intimates a desire
and the ability to prove the truthfulness
of his assertions. The truth as given
by Roll is nothing more than was guessed
bv this paper at the time the robbery
was committed.
The Graphic took its life in its hands
when it referred to Frank Phillips and
Body Haves as members of Coxey’a
Holt county army. Mr. Hayes has been
suspicioned of having populistic lean
ings, but he resents the soft impeach
ment and gives us to understand that
when he wears seed in his whiskers it is
for revenue only. But Frank Phillips
v a populist! There is not a straighter,
better or more thoroughly dyed in the
wool republican in all Holt than Frank.
The Graphic should apologize profusely,
repent in sackcloth and ashes and fast
for forty days. It was a most egregious
error and calls for prompt and earnest
reparation.
The Sun still wildly clings to the state
ment that it made a couple of weeks ago
in an unguarded moment to the the effect
that the fee book shows that Judge
• Roberts charged himself with fees in
final proof cases 117 times. As we have
before stated, the assertion is false as
McHugh is dishonest in his argument.
£ The fee book shows not to exceed six
final proof cases. We admit that there
are a great many entries of “M. D. Long,
affidavit,” but Long affidavits are not
what we want. We are looking for the
words ‘‘final proof." If the Sun lias a
desire to vindicate its position lot it pub
lish verbatim et literatim one month’s
business as shown by the fee book in
question.
Six hundred dollars for Mr. Campbell's
trip to Mexico is the sum the tax payers
are called upon to pay, as per bill filed
in the clerk's office and published clese
where in this issue. With all due re
spect to Mr. Campbell we venture the
opinion that this is money spent in a
prodigal fashion. In the light of de
velopments It is safe to say that his trip
to Mexico in no way aided or hastened
the return of Scott. Ho certainly did
not bring Scott back as his prisoner, for
we have Cunningham’s testimony to the
contrary. $4,400 have already been
appropriated in this Scott matter and
when Mr. Campbell’s bill is paid, as we
suppose it will be, the total tor Scott’s
apprehension will be an even $5,000. Is
it any wonder the farmer and burgher
groan and groan when the tax collector
calls (or his tithes? The Frontier has
serious doubts as to the propriety of
Holt county paying this claim. If Mr.
Campbell was acting as the state’s agent,
under commission of the governor, the
state should pay his expenses; if he was
simply appointed by the board of super
visors, we question their authority. In
support of the proposition that the state
should pay the expense incurred by its
own agent, we quote from the compiled
statutes of Nebraska, section 5901: "The
governor of this state may, in any case
authorized by the constitution and laws
of the United States, appoint agents to
demand of the executive authority of
any foreign government, any fugitive
from justice charged with treason or
felony, and the accounts of the agents
appointed must be audited by the
auditor and paid out of the state funds.”
The Fremont Tribune, writing of
“our Joe,” pays that worthy gentleman
and efficient officer these compliments:
“Joseph S. Bartley, state treasurer, is
another republican official who does not
have to go about Betting up the pins for
a re-nomination, or lie awake nights
planning for it. Mr. Bartley’s second
nomination is conceded everywhere, for
it is the reward always given for services
well performed. Mr. Bartley’s official
recorjl for the last fifteen months speaks
for itself and it speaks most eloquently.
When he came into the custody of the
state’s funds the finances were in bad
shape and it required a master hand to
establish them upon a sound and busi
ness-like basis. The extravagant pop
ulist legislature of two years previous
had exhausted the funds, and Mosher’s
bank had collapsed and added to the
general cataclysm. The general fund
had been largely over-drawn and three
quarters of a million dollars of registered
and interest-bearing warrants were out
standing. Treasurer Bartley set assid
uously to work stirring up delinquent
county treasurers to collect what was
due, in order to reduce the interest ac
count of the state. He has also urged
upon the courts the interpretation of
certain laws with reference to an invest
ment of the permanent school fund, so
that the public school might get the
benefit of interest on all money in his
hands, and through this agitation
hundreds of thousands of dollars have
recently found investment in securities.
He has also been complying with the
law in reference to state banks of de
posit and large sums of the state's
money are now bearing interest for the
state’s benefit while on deposit in the
banks. These are some circumstances
showing Mr. Bartley’s faithfulness to
his costituents. They beget not only
confidence in Mr. Bartley himself but
they likewise inspire public confidence
in the republican party and will con
tribute to its success this fall.”
Tns able and courteous president of
the United States has appointed A. J.
Sawyer to the office of district attorney,
and all who know Mr. Sawyer will con
gratulate the able and courteous execu
tive upon his wisdom. One of the most
pleasing features of the appointment is
the fact that it lets out Matt Gering,
whose slogan has been making the
welkin tired ever since the election of
1892. We may venture now to hope
luuL jur. ucnog win gei no omce oi any
kind, and the administration will be vin
dicated to some extent. His appoint
ment would have been a menace to our
prosperity, but his rejection is just what
we have long needed—a rebuke to silver
tongued oratory. Mr. Gering has no
other claim to distinction than the fact
that he is possessed of great lung power
and a command of language that age
cannot wither nor custom stale, and
while talk is a good thing under certain
circumstances, a little of it will go a
long way. Of late years the idea has
become prevalent that to make a success
of a political life it is only necessary to
have a tongue as long as the Coxey
army, and every school has been turning
out orators at a frightful rate. And
every orator has been patted on the
back and referred to as one who would
make his mars in the political arena.
We have been smothered with words;
we have struggled in a wilderness of
speeches; we have been pelted with
rounded periods, and we have been
bruised with perorations. We have
been brought to such a pass that we
climb a tree when we see an orator ap
Burning Pain
Erysipelas In Face and Eyes
Inflammation Subdued and Tor
tures Ended by Hood’s.
“I am so glad to t>« relieved of my tortures
that I am willing to toll the benefits I have de
rived from Hood’s Sarsaparilla. In April and
May, I was afflicted with erysipelas In my face
and eyes, whloh spread to my throat and neck.
I tried 'divers ointments and alteratives, but
there was no permanent abatement of the burn
Isg, torturing pain, peculiar to this complaint.
X began to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla and
Felt Marked Relief
before X had finished the first bottle. I con
tinued to Improve until, when I had taken four
HOOD’S
Sarsaparilla
CURES
bottlee, I was completely cured, and felt that all
signs, marks and symptoms of that dire com
pl Int had forever vanished.” Mss. E. E.
Ottawa, Hillsboro, Wisconsin.
Hood’s Pills are prompt and efficient, yet
easy la action. Sold by all drugglsts. 25c.
proaching, and when we heard that Matt
Gering was a candidate for a large office,
we feared the worst; for Matt is the
captain of the younger Nebraska oiators;
he is the most profuse, the most inde
fatigable, the most relentless; he has
talked in Cass county school houses
until the maps curled up and withered
and until the ink dried up in the ink
stands. Most oiators let up when they
become so hoarse that their voices sound
as though they had a wire edge, but Mr.
Gering will continue to make signs
when his voice has departed altogether.
His rejection was the best thing that
ever happened to Nebraska, although,
in a general way, he is a most desirable
gentleman.—Walt Mason.
INDEPENDENT STEALS.
At every meeting of the board of
supervisors they steal from the county
$180, 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 $1,500 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, U.
B., Kennedy, Miller, Phelps, Schindler,
Slaymaker, White and SVaring.
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-advised and losing litigation that are
increasing taxes.
Employing John Morrow for a year at
$2.50 per day as assistant expfert, 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 ho 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 six days in the Skir
ving trial without requiring the plaintiff
to give a bond for costs the county has
lost at the least calculation $550.
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O’NEILL BUSINESS DIRECTORY
It. DICKSON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Reference First National Bank
O'NEILL, NEB.
J.
C. SMOOT,
FASHIONABLE BARBER,
DEALER IN 0I0AR8, ETO.
JJR. J. 1*. GILL1GAN,
PIIYSICAN AND SURGEON.
Day and night calls promptly attended to.
Office over Blglln’s furniture store.
O’NEILL. NEB.
E.H
BENEDICT,
LAWYER,
Offloe in the Judge Roberts building, north
of O. O. Snyder’s lumber yard,
0 NEILL, NEB.
w.
R. BUTLER,
ATTORNEY AT
LAW.
Agent for Union Trust Co's land in Holt
county.
Will practice in all the courts. Special at
tentlon given to foreclosures and collections
JJR. B. T,
TRUEBLOOD
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Diseases of'the Eye and Ear and fitting
glasses a specialty. Offloe hours 0 to 12 a. m.
and 2 to5p. m,
Offloe first door west of Heinerikson's
flfULLEN BROS.,
CARPENTERS & BUILDERS.
Estimates taken and material; furnished.
Jobbing promptly attended to.
A..BOYD’
BUILDERS.
ESTIIHATE8 FURNISHED.
GEORGE A. McCUTCHEON.
PROPRIETOR OP
| - CENTRAL- ~
Livery Barn
O'NEILL, NEB.
NEW BUGGIES ^
WnNEW TEAMS.
Everything Firpt-Clapp.
Barn Opposite Campbell's Implement Houbo
Successors to
R. R. DICKSON a CO.
Abstracters of Titles.
Complete set of Abstrect Books.
Terms reasonable, and absolute ac
curcy guaranteed, for which we have
given a 910,000 bond aa required
under the law.
Correspondence Soliced
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 beat
WINES,
LIQUORS
AND CIGARS
Can Always be Had
JUSL.GLOBE,
PAT GIBBONS, Prop.
J
...Always Buy the
...Best The
...Best is Cheapes
The finest and largest stock ot goods In
the hardware and implement line in the
Elkhorn vallley is found at . .
Brennan’s
NEIL BRENNAN
John Deere plows, riding and walkin
cultivators; Disc harrows.
Moline wagons and buggies of all kind
David Bradley & Co. famous disc cu
tivatois—best in the world.
Gliddenwire. Every spool warrante
full weight.
Stoves. Garland stoves and ranges
the world’s best. The grand old Char
er Oak stoves and ranges. Gasolii
stoves—a world heater—the famoi
New Process. .
Boss Chnrns, Western washer, Plam
jr., drills and garden cultivators, rut
her hose.
Oils. Gasoline always on hand. Lint
seed and machine oils of all kinds.
Supplies. Blacksmith supplies, iroi
steel, spokes and fellows, hard woo
lumber.
Cuttlery. I keep cuttlery of the ver
best brands and in endless variety.
Guns. Sportsmen’s headquarters. Fish
ing tackle, powder, shot, loaded shell
guns and revolvers—best made.
Tinware and graniteware, a grand su;
ply always on band—prices beyon
comparison.
Seeds. I keep the best garden seeds i
the market. All fresh and new.
THE COLOMBIAN
HOTEL
.Has recently been remodeled and every room
furnished with a new suit of furniture, making it
one of the most complete and capable hotels
in the northwest. A good sample room in con
nection. First door west of Neil Brennan’s
hardware store.
G. W. WATTLES, President. ANDREW RUSSELL, V
JOHN McHUGH, Cashier.
THE - STATE - BAN
OF O’NEUili.
CAPITAL $30,000.
Prompt Attention Given to Collect®
DO A GENERAL BANKING BUSINES
EMIL SNI66S,
PRACTICAL
HORSESHOE
And general blacksmithing carried on in .connection
riage work in either iron or wood executed in the most.
riage work in either iron or wood executed in iue .
style possible. First-class plow and machine work ia
be relied upon. No new experience used in any biaiu'
work. All my men. are skilled workmen.
ALSO DEALER IN FARM IMPLEMENTS
Plano binders, mowers, rakes, Skandi plows, hairo"
cultivators of all descriptions. Everything guarantee
beat the best.
o’NEILL, NkI,‘