BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. E XV. BUMORIPTION, SI. WNUM. CLYDt KING AND D. H. CRONIN, EDITORS AND MANAGERS. O’NEILL. HOLT COUNTY. NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 25, 1894. NUMBER 1 |gt Told Ai They Are bid to Us. IHOW IT HAPPENED Portrayed Tor General In *nd Amusement. Smith is visiting relatives i week. an was down to Omaha i a carload of cattle. * Bates, of Valentine, held Ices in this city last Sun |e started Sunday morn 8, where he is thinking Bd Cora Adder, both of tied Tuesday by County Brn, bran and all kinds of ''Neill Flour & Feed Co., »a«er. 38-tf It: “I am the backbone f the independent party of -Kautzman. Itohan is on duty again, (recovered from the acci I last week. [Smith, of Ainsworth, was |iturdav and Sunday, the lose Merithew. left for Geneva, Neb., 1 attend the funeral of a I there yesterday. lutterick patterns order Itnn and save postage khion plates free. 13-4 srithew entertained a S‘ friends last Saturday enjoyable time was O. M. Kem was in the lay night. He came in ent in the dark. He is a irk ness anyway. iman and Ed Purdy re lay night from Arkansas. pleased with the country ting of locating there. e Bowen, who had been ome days in Holt county, her home in Lincoln Sun ness of her daughter, Lillie. i, Mrs. Pfund and Miss ns returned Sunday night , at which place they al and lodge of Jtebekahs. [gbn and G. W. Wright, of lansas, are in the city look ae cases in court. They Phoenix Insurance com |an by name ot Bain, from pe, has purchased George ftksmith shop and will re ps family to this place in a pn, who resides on the Nio t>ear the mouth of the Red i O’Neill Monday night, hav from a prospecting tour ksouri. fin will furnish you all kinds carload lots or in small He can also furnish you pi and gasoline by the gallon |Get his prices before buying 15tf Ice, aged 13, daughter of Lon Past Monday at the home of Ison, in this city, of typhoid Pe funeral took place Tuesday, i being interred in the Protest my itis and Ab Wilcox have horse race to take place in ic week from next Saturday, rill be 600 yards, single dash, > of $30, and a number of side ’ill be an exciting race. es of the Presbyterian church a Halloween supper and iron sale at the rink, Wednes >er 31. Come and see the dis ■ons. Each one of the United 111 nave one for sale. Hard >8. ling photographer made a da Ipe of a comparatively obscure |inois in 1831. The man was ; Lincoln, and the picture is the likeness of him in existence, published tor the first time in | Magazine for November. tool board has decided to dis music and drawing in tbi ir which purpose MUs Dwyei loyed some weeks ago. Wi that a lack of funds was thi [or this move. The pupils it il departments circulated i mday, protesting against thi in by the board. John G. Tipton, of Omaha,will discuss the issues of the day, from a republican standpoint, at Ewing, October 20: at Inman, October 80; and at Page October 31. Mr. Tipton is a good speaker and should be greeted by large crowds. Tbb Frontier’s local department is somewhat abridged this week on account of a surfeit of political matter. We look upon the coming election as one of more than ordinary importance to our people, and we would feel guilty of a moral crime should we fail to give the matter our fullest attention. Neligh will in a short" time vote on the question of bonding the city for 18,000 to build an irrigation ditch. The river will be tapped about twelve miles west of Neligh near the Uolt county line, run down.through a fine section of country to Neligh. where it will be used for power and city purposes. Jim Mullen, Mike Harrington, Tom Golden and Gene Cress went out to Shields Friday night to talk populism. They must consider their case desperate when they find it necessary to election eer in Shields. Perhaps they think the boys out there aie preparing to resent the shabby manner in which they have been treated. The county central committee met in O’Neill Saturday as per call. Hon. Neil Brennan was elected chairman to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John McBride. The selection of Mr. Brennan was undoubtedly a wise one, as is evidenced by the rustling manner in which he has gone to work. The differ ent townships of the county were well represented and the committemen enthusiastic over the bright prospects. The O'Neill republican club is now in good working order, with the following officers: President, John Skirving; vice president, Robert Marsh; secretary.Clyde King; treasurer, S. J. Weekes. A meet ing was held at the council rooms Tues day night to make arrangements for the rally today. The attendance was quite large, and the meeting was favored by a short speech by Mr. Walker, of Spring field, III., who was in the city transact ing some business. A gentleman was down from Atkin son last week and while in the city stopped the Beacon Light and subscribed for The Frontier. After having stop ped the Jew’s sheet with anything but complimentary remarks, Kautzman ac costed him upon the street and asked him if he did not want it again, to which the gentleman replied: “No, not any more than the itch.” Pretty hard. Ham, when an old subscriber says he would rather have the itch than read the Smudge. A press dispatch from Ainsworth, date of October 18, says: “GeorgeCam pen, assistant city engineer of Lincoln, with a party of eight left hsre today for the headwaters of the proposed irriga tion ditch on the Snake river, and before returning will make a permanent survey for the entire main ditch. The county has made an appropriation to pay for the permanent survey, and as soon as this is done and cost estimated there is no doubt that bonds will be voted to construct the entire ditch, thus insuring to this county the benefits and prosperity arising Irom lands that can be depended on for good crops annually." A Frontier reporter had the pleasure Sunday of going through the various rooms of the O’Neill public school, in company with Professor McGuire and several other gentlemen, and viewing the work that had been placed on exlii bilion by the pupils of the several grades. The work taken as a whole was very creditable, although one could not help noticing that in rooms occupied by the lower grades the work by the pupils was much more thorough and showed a de gree of painstaking that is commendable. In the higher grades, while the work, in the abstract, was full and complete, the scholars seem addicted to a don’t careitiveness in regard to details that somewhat marred the otherwise pleasing effect. However, progress is being made this vear and marked improvment is expected by the end of the term. Tom Cain was up before County Judge McCutcheon yesterday on charge of shooting horses found trespassing on his farm, complaint being brought by D. P. O’Sullivan, owner of the horses. County Attorney Murphy prosecuted the case, while Mr. Cain struggled along without counsel. During the progress of the trial the information was obtained from the defendant that he bad been shooting horses for the past seven years. He seems to labor under the im pression that whenever he finds a stray .animal upon his farm he has a consti tutional right to shoot it on the spot. The judge bound him over to the district court in the sum of $500. The prisoner said that he would give no bail; all that be would ask would be the privilege of getting out of jail one hour each night to shoot “tramp horses." He appears to have a mania for wounding dumb animals, in fact hasjustly—or unjustly— earned the title of “Tom the Horse I Killer." Democrat!, Hew So Ten Like Itl Thb Fboxtibb knows of a few dem ocrats who ore thinking of voting for John Crawford for state senator because they believe that if elected he will vote for Bryan for United States senator. That idea is an illusion; he would not do it, because he said he would not. The Atkinson Qraphio of October 11— and Frontibr of same date—made the statement that Crawford had said he would not vote for Bryan. The follow I ing is the language of the Graphic: | John Crawford gives it out cold that he will not, in the event of his election, support Bryan for U. S. senator, because the silver-tongued orator is not a full fledged populist. The Beacon Light, realizing the egre gious error that Crawford bad commit ; ted, last week published the following denial. The Graphic ia a dead straight Han Jchn Crawford never made use of any auch language, and we are authorized by him to say that he always held Mr. Bryan in the highest esteem for the manly stand he took in congress in de fense of the rights of the people—free silver, tariff reform and the income tax. It is easy enough to call a man a liar, but to prove it is a very different thing. We have not taken thU matter up to vindicate the Graphic, aa that excellent journal is amply able to take care of itself, but we have interested ourselves in the matter for the purpose of showing that Crawford made the statement which he now hastens to deny; to show that he has said that he would not vote for Bryan, and to show that he has said he would vote for Bryan, thereby plac ing himself in a position to make him self a liar one way or the other, should be be elected. In evidence of his per fidy we append the following aflldavit, and from the well-knowp reputation of the man making it, it will pass current any place in this senatorial district: Atkinson, Neb., Oct. 22, 1894. To whoiu it may concern: This is to certify that the above state ment, accredited to and published in the Atkinson Graphic, October 11, 1894, is correct. That said John Crawford made the statement to me in effect that should he be elected state senator he would not vote for Bryan for U. S. senator, for the reason that he, Craw,ford, did not consider Bryan a good populist. That said Crawford made said statement on or about September 17, 1894, on passen ger train, coming from O’Neill to Atkinson. Frank Moors. [seal] Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22d day of October, 1894. A. T. Hart, Notary Public. My commission expires Jan. 27, 1890. Teachers’ Meeting. The tacbers of Holt county were well represented at their meeting at O’Neill October 20. Fully sixty teachers were present and much interest was mani tested. Able papers were read by Supt. McGuire, of O’Neill, Miss Krebs, of Atkinson, and Miss Davis, of Ewing, eliciting warm discussion and much enthusiam. The pros and cons of the vertical system of pennmanship were debated with some favor. The time between sessions was profitably spent in examining the fine exhibit of school work displayed by the O'Neill schools. It was conceded by all that the display demonstrated the fact that much sound educational work is beingdone at O'Neill. The teachers were entertained in the evening by the pupils of the high school in the novel and original drama, “The Congress of the Nations,” and all departed to their several homes feeling that the day bad been weU spent, and that it had indeed been good to be there. SEC. n C. T. A. Dr. Price’s cream baking powder—a pure grape cream of tarter powder. Always a Season Why. This has been a year of wonderful growth for the Lincoln State Journal. Its aggressive methods have pushed it to the front. One thing that accounts for this is the Journal’s principles. It is republican, true and blue, but first of all it is a great newspaper and considers news the most essential feature. It prints more state telegraph news than either of the Omaha papers. The business interests of the state rec ognize in the Journal the only state paper which is standing up for the wel fare of Nebraska. You can see how the Journal is growing in your own town. It is gaining in every other town in the state just as much. The reduced price is 50 cents per month without Sunday, or 65 cents per month with Sunday. This also accounts for the big growth. The Semi-Weekly Journal lifts the larg est circulation of any Nebraska paper. It has completely routed its old-fashioned once-aweek rivals. It is being sent from now until January 1, 1896,.for $1. This carries readers through the coming legis lature and through the next presidential campaign. It gives readers two com plete papers each week for the price of one. Gov. Furnas is farm editor, and I. L. Lyman poultry editor. It is published at the state capitol and is a paper for Nebraskans. Dr. Price’s cream baking powder—the most perfect made. VERY HARD PRESSED ♦—*— i Popa Ran lacking Their Brains For Campaign Arguments. REDUCED TO AWFUL STRAIGHTS Harrington And Golden Koeort to the Bank eet Kind of Pettifogging, Since the populist party has been in existence in Holt county Tun Fhontieh hag watched them closer, perhaps, than any other Journal and more freely ex posed their shams and awful hypocrisy, but we do not believe that in all their campaign trickery and subterfuge they have ever resorted to such unwarranted deception as they are doing to-day. They are at a loss for campaign argu ment; the Scott matter is worn thread bare and Is no longer' potent. They cannot argue from the record mnde by the last legislature because that body saddled upon the state a debt of over $700,000 and passed many laws for the enforcement of which they made no ap propriation, which the next legislature, be it populist or republican, will have to make good. They cannot argue that they have economically administered our county affairs, because the past year has seen more wanton extravagance than any other year in the history of, our county. The board of supervisors— with a populist majority—has been in session almost continually, at a cost of 9100 per day. Illegal appropriations for the le’gal committee aggregate thous ands of dollars, while county claims to-day are only worth eighty cents as against ninety-live two years ago. The county levy is to-day almost exhausted, with many claims filed and not allowed, nor will they be allowed this year and probably not next year. We say they are reduced to terrible straights for cam paign arguments. They are poverty stricken. Being poverty stricken, and poverty being the mother ot Invention, they have invented, and by the rankest kind of deception are attempting to make the people believe that their taxes are being reduced under populistic con trol. Mike Harrington and T. V. Golden are preaching this from the stump, and we are told that in some precincts they have found audiences gullible enough to applaud them. Golden and Harring ton know that they are deceiving the people; they know that they are guilty of pettifogging and they know that they dare not argue the question fairly and squarely upon its merits and the facts. They have spoken in Shields, Emmet and other townships, and in the course of their harrangues have compared the taxes levied in other years—showing a reduction -and then had the effrontery to declare that populistic control was the cause of it- Their statements are outrageous and far from tenable. The county officers have had nothing to do with this reduction, and we will tell you why: The amount of any man’s taxes depends upon his assessed valuation and nothing else. This fact cannot‘be dis proves Who fixes the assessed valua tion of real and personal property? Is it the county officers or tl)e board of supervisors? No. It is the assessors who are required to meet in March of each year and fix a schedule covering all property. This being a fact the county assessors are alone responsible for in crease or reduction m taxes, providing the rate of taxation is not changed. In view of these indisputable facts we de sire, for the benefit of Harrington, Golden and the people at large, to make a little comparison and show them ex actly why they have paid less taxes this year. In some townships the tax has been reduced on account of school bonds being paid off, and in others raised be cause bonds have been voted, but what we want is the general average. Fol lowing we give a parallel, showing how your real estate was valued in 1893, and how it is valued in 1894: KBAL ESTATE—1893 Atkinson 12 25 to 8375 Chambers 185 “ 2 90 Conley 1 75 •• 2 50 Cleveland 175 “ 2 50 Dustin 1 76 “ 2 50 Delolt 185 “ 3 00 Ewing 2 00 “ 310 Emmet 2 00 “ 310 Francis 175“ 8 50 Falrvlew 1 85 “ 3 On Q rattan 2 50 “ 4 50 Ore’nVal. 185 “ 3 00 Iowa 185 “3 00 Inman 210 “ 3 25 Lake 185 “ 3 00 McClure 1 85 “ 300 Rock Falls 185 “ 3 UC Paddock 1 85 3 0C Ple's’ntv’w 185 “ 3 0( Ste’l Creek 1 85 “ 3 0C Scott 185 “ 3 0C Saratoga 1 85 “ 3 0( Sand Cre’k 1 &5 “ a (K Stuart 185 “ 3 2! Shields 185 “ 8 0t Swan 1 80 “ *29( Sheridan 1 85 “ 3 2! Verdigris 185 " 3 0( Wyoming 175 “ 2 9( Wlllowd'le 1 85 “ 3 0( All lands within twc miles of either or any line of railroad Iron $2 to 15 per acre. A1 land wtthln one mile of rhe limits of Ewing 85.50 to 111 per aero Inman, 85.50 to 111 O'Neill, 818 to *28; At klnson, 89 to 118 Stuart, 83 to 812; Page $5.50 to 811. Merchandise one third actual oast value. HEAL E8TATH—1894 Atkinson II35 to la 00 Chambers 110 “ 3 30 Conley 110 “ 2 00 Cleveland 110 “ 2 00 Dustin 110 “ 2 00 Delolt 110 “ 2 40 Ewing 120 “ 2 50 Emmet 1 20 “ 2 50 Francis 110 “ 2 00 Falrvlew 110 “ 2 40 (Irattan 1 60 “ 3 00 Gre’nVal. 110 “ 2 40 Iowa 110 “ 2 40 Inman 180“ 2 CO l.ake 110 “ 2 40 McClure 110 “ 2 40 Hock Falls 110 “ 2 40 I'addock 110 “ 2 40 I’les’ntv'w 110 “ 2 40 Steel Ore'k 110 “ 2 40 Scott 110 “ 2 40 Saratoga 110 “ 2 40 Sand Ore'k 110 •• 240 Stuart 110 “ 2 80 Shields 110 “ 2 40 Swan 110 “ 2 30 Sheridan 110 “ 2 ou Verdigris 1 10 “ 2 40 Wyoming 1 10 “ 2 30 WlllowdHe 110 '• 2 40 All lands within one mile of either or any line of railroad from 11 to 14 per acre. All land within one mile of the limits of Swing. 13.40 to 19 per acre; Inman, 13.40 to 19; O'Neill, 19.60 to ISO: Atkinson. 15 to 115; Stuart, 13.50 to 8>; Page 13.50 to 19. Merchandise one* third of the actual cash value. I Besides tbia great reduction on realty, the tchedule for the assessment of per* ton el property shows a reduction in every imtance of nearly one-half. This being the case, why In the name of the great horned tpoona would not the taxea be lighter? Some may ask why and bow thla re duction in the schedule? That la easy: The property has depreciated In value here aa well aa elaewbere and ahould not be assessed as high; the people are not worth aa much; their property ia not worth aa much. Compare carefully for the two yeara the valuation placed on your land and when these base de ceivers attempt to Impose upon you, call them down. Bowm on Crawford. The O’Neill Alliance Tribune this week will say: Readers of the Alliance Tribune are well aware of the fact that we have not been supporting John Crawford for state senator. The Tri bune has long known Mr. Crawford to be unworthy the support of honest men, and we were surprised that the Inde pendents of this district should have nominated him for so important an office as state senator, when the need for honest men and true was so obvious. His terrible hankering after office would not be so very bad In Itself (although that is one of the things the Indepen dents are opposed to) if his record as an officer was not so dirty and damnable. We cannot support a man In our own party who employs the same disreputable tactics we condemn in the old parties. John Crawford and The Tribuno have been good friends, but we have not for the past two years been in aocord with him or his acts as a public officer. His true character was first shown when he attended the Independent com mittee meeting at Atkinson, and charged the county with that day's work as member of the board of supervisors. He next voted for the famous tax list steal of which the republican papers have so long accused him. He was at the time a stockholder in the Holt County Independent, and one of the in corporators of that concern. Any one can see the reason he had for this action. Me was liable at any time to be called upon for an assessment, and he took this means of robbing the taxpayers of the county to enhance the value of his stock in the printing company. He went, at the county’s expense, to inspect private culverts in difierent parts of the county when in reality the county had nothing at all to do with the culverts. At that time he was chairman of the bridge committee and drew big pay for every day heputin. While you, taxpayers of Holt county, were at home working like dogs to make a miserable existence, this reformer from Sand Creek township lived off the fruits of your toil. He charged Jas. Skirving mileage and appraiser’s fees for appraising a piece of land and at the same time charged to the county mileage and a day’s wsrk for inspecting a bridge close by the land. This in itself was not so awfully bad if he had not charged Skirving several miles in excess of what the distance really was. He was at Neligh attending the Scott trial just before the senatorial con vention at O’Neill, and he and another of bis friends used 810 apiece of the money that had been appropriated by the county to prosecute Scott, to pay their way from Neligh to O’Neil), that he (John Crawford) could be here to pull the strings for his nomination for senator; ana ne succeeded. He swore by all that was good and holy that if Judge Bowen did not do as he and Harrington wanted him to be need never expect anything further from the independent party of Holt county. Of course honest Judge Bowen refused to violate his oath of office and as a consequence he was beaten for a renomination for the office of county judge. But we prefer to give Judge Bowen’s own words as regards this charge; the balance of the charges can be verified by the records. The follow ing is Bowen’s letter: A LAW BRBAKBB SHOULD NOT BECOME A LAW MAKER. O’Neill, Neb., Oct. 18,1894. To the editor of the Alliance Tribune— Having unexpectedly 'come to this county and finding that Mr. John Craw ford has been nominated for the import ant office of state senator, I feel it my' duty as a good citizen to offer a protest against the election of him for senator from this district, feeling that a law breaker should not be a law maker. He did at two or three different times, while I was county judge, ask me to make decisions in two or three different cases, against parties before any evi dence was produced, saying it would save the county big expense and it would be for the benefit of the independ ent party, well knowing as be did, that the independent party is a standing protest against all forms of bribery and tampering with courts and juries. The least particle of self respect, or even respect for the eternal principle of right and justice, would have restrained any one from even thinking of making such a proposition to an honorable court. One time when he failed to see me | personally, he called my son, Ora, aside, Instructing him to tell me what I mutt do in a certain cate, If I expected any thing of the Independent party In the future. Again, it it well known that John Crawford wat appointed by the board of auperyltora to visit houtea in O'Neill to atcortaln whether they had been cor* reetly aaieaaed, and raise the aaienment where necessary, when he hlmtelf had one of the beet farm boutet, and the bett furnished, In Holt county, and he did not present one article on the attet* tor's schedule. Men in hnmble hornet In O’Neill were attested from 91S to 8125 on their little household gooda and at the same time John Crawford would not have traded furniture with them for two or three hundred dollars difference. They paid taxes, he paid none. We, ae a party, preach equal taxation and equal rights for all men, and special favors to none, and it it right under such circumstances that poor town mechanics mutt pay taxes, while John Crawford who is well fixed pays none on his household goods? The hooka show that all the property he gave in in 1863 was about 9180 all told. , It is also well known by members of the board of supervisors that when Mr. Brodie offered a resolution that when two or three of the supervisors living near any bridge to be built, be a com mittee to attend to it, in order to save expense both in days an mileage to the county, John Crawford bitterly opposed it, for be was chairman ot the bridge oommittee, and the resolution was tabled thereby giving him many day’s work. and much mileage; and he is one of the champions of reform, but we cannot see where the reform comes in. All the foregoing is true and correct and is given not in a spirit of malloe, as Mr. Crawford and I have been the best of friends, but as a matter of duty. I think we, as a party,must have true men to bring about the reforms we need so much. A corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit. Friendship should cut no figure in politics, when Justice and right Taw is at stake. > We ask the voters of this district to' consider well who they send to make our laws in the coming session. Yours truly, Wm. Bowkn. .V * , \it ; til ' iiti 4 fi wm ■cm ft •\-3 . . - ' s !IUJ. UU TV Oil, IJCIUR Ullt UUIV |nUIU| depose and say that I hare written the foregoing and that the material stat» roente therein contained are correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. Wk. Bowen. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 22nd day of October, 1804. S. I. Wnnxnfl, Notary Public. Commission expires July 15, 1805. Gentlemen of the independent party of Holt county, do you still desire evi dence of the rottenness of the man yon have nominated for state senator? No man in this county will doubt the word of ex-Judge Bowen. Thousands of the independents left the republican and democratic parties because the leaders of those two parties were corrupt, but you are asked to support a man more corrupt than any republican or democrat dare. For refusing to comply with the demands of Mr. Crawford,and there by violating his oath of office, Judge Boweu was turned down. This county never had a more capable or honest judge than Mr. Bowen, and it was his honesty that beat him. We have no candicate on our ticket for the office of state senator. We could not place the name of John Crawford, knowing, aawe do, his rotton political record. Our friends are left to do as they please about voting for a senator, but it is better, a thousand times better, to not vote rt all, than to vote for a man whose record is polluted with such acts as John Crawford has done. As Judge Bowen says: "A law breaker should not become a law maker." ’ /T ! f. '■1 m 'M m ■'i 'y-’* ■ v/‘ t,:W ■ ; Letter tut. 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