The Frontier. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY KING A CRONIN. Editors. Tbe Ord Quiz suggests M. P. Kinkuid for supreme judge. Let him slone nml he’ll go to congress. It is about conceded all along the line that Maxwell will be tbe pop nomi nee for supreme judge. Lynchino in tbe south goes merrily on: each succeeding daily furnishes a complete roster of coons that have passed In the night. Amelia Hives Chandler will spend tbe summer at Hot Springs, and write a book. Her surroundings will be con ducive to tbe production of some gosd literature. One can notice between tbe lines in the Atkinson Graphic that Bro. Jeness does not cntertaiq the same high per sonal regnrd for tbe populists that he once did. He’ll find 'em out. The present session of the supervisors i reminds ua that In Auguat twenty-three familiar namea will be dropped from the pay-roll. Thla will be a earing to the county of thouaanda of dollars. It la a piece of republican legialatlon. Judge Kinkaid haa been chosen one of the delegates to the National Repub lican League meeting, to be held at Cleve land, Ohio, June 10-20-21. On account of the Boyd county term of court we preaume he will not be able to attend. It la safe to aay that after the comple tion of the Short Line bridge at Sioux City there will be some tinkering with thia end of the line. The company can not afford to build that bridge for the accommodation of 180 mllea of track. We believe the line will be extended to Julesburg, in conformity with the original survey. A fire will soon be kindled under , the local political caldron, and when its contenta begin to boil and bubble there will be toil and trouble for those seeking preferment at the hands and feet of the various conventlona. It will be a lively campaign and none will enjoy it more than the newspaper fellows. News will then be plentiful and luxuriant. The men charged with that dastardly murder of last December will be on trial at Butte thla week. The Frontier hopes that even and exact justice may be done. We do not want an innocent man convicted, nor a guilty man to eacape. A fair and impartial trial la a right of the accused, and a conscien tious verdict a right of the state. Division agitatora are not aleeping, neither are they dead. They are float ing about the county getting in their little work to their own beat advantage. In our present poverty-stricken condi tion It looks like foolishness to divide, hut If the arms and legs are determined to sever connections with the body we suppose there will not be enough votes to say .them nay. Bro. Bates la laboring under the hallucination that It is humiliating to a man to be termed a “Hawkshaw.” The "Hawkshaws” are the people who say it is wrong to commit murder, and in so saying have gained the enmity of some populists who appear to think—and almost say—that to accomplish their own-selfish ends any means are justifia ble. Ridioule is all right in its place but it has no place in these serious matters. If aome magician could by a wave of his wand blot the name of Barrett Scott from the county records and oblit erate the recollection of him from the mlnde of the people, what would the popullstgparty of Holt county have to stand upon? To every charge that is made against their administration they answer, "Barrett Scott." The party is mistaken that thinks it can perpetuate its power by keeping green the misdeeds of a dead man. Every tub must stand upon its own bottom. jsditor HOWARD, or rapillion, bu declined to become i colonel upon the governor'* staff. He hs* no herd feel* logs toward the governor, but 1* opposed to the militia. He thinks the hoys in blue should be suppressed because they occasionally injure rioters and do not exterminate the greedy capitalists. A man who has such conclusions certainly deducts them from a false premise, but when he has the courage of his convic tions he may be admired for expressing them. We congratulate Bro. Howard; ditto the Nebraska National Guard. Thk Northwestern Catholic, Sioux City, is for silver at IS to 1. We wonder if the Hon. John Brennan still moulds thought for that excellent jour nal. If he does we are at a troublesome loss to reconcile the position of the paper to a speech made by him in O'Neill last fall. If we are not mistaken, during his speech he exhibited two Mexican dollars and told the audience that he purchased them with one American sil ver dollar, which was explained by the v fact that the American dollar could be exchanged for gold, which was not true of the Mexican com. His paper new admits that free coinage would "Hexi canixe” our finance. Has Mr. Brennan changed his views upon this question} It ii important that some steps be taken, and quickly, to repair our side* walks. We realize that the city purse is in anything but a plethoric state, yet it seems to us that a council, .such as ours, tilled with inventive minds, could devise some remedy. The walks should be repaired or removed. They have become so dilapidated that they arc actually unsafe for a sober man to walk upon after sunset. They will re sult In broken limbs if allowed to go in their present condition, and then will come damage suits and judgments large enough to build brick walks. A little closer observance of the ordinance which makes it a misdemeanor to drive horses and cattle over the walks would be a wholesome thing. Reprimand violators a few times and then, if they do not desist, give them an opportunity to bribe the police judge. Tint late lamented republican legis lature voted tax burdens on the people greater by 9575,801 than the preceding one under populist control. Subtracting the $250,000 voted for necessary relief still shows an extravagance in excess oi the populist management of $215,801. This, too, in the year that Nebraska was forced to beg charity all over the east and south.—Wealth Makers. We have been expecting some pop organ to spring these figures. Why does the Wealth Makers not be honest? Why does it not show that a great deal of this money was appropriated to pay the shortages of the last pop assembly? which was so economical that some state officers had to forego the conven ience ot telephones, and pay their own postage. And when it has given these facts as forcibly as it has the above de ception, let it compare the last session to the first pop gathering and truthfully tell its readers how they stand in point of appropriations. Tns Sun admits that "our taxes are higher to-day than they ever were.” It would not concede that before the last election. It attempts to trace the cause to the Scott defalcation, but in so doing gives the lie direct to the populist orators who last fall made the school house welkins ring with stories of pop ulist retrenchment. They went into Shields, Emmett, Chambers and other townships and told the voters that tbeir taxes were being reduced under populist control. That was after the Scott de falcation. Now if the populists at that early date had overcome the shortage so far as to be able to reduce taxes, an ob serving public will not allow them, at this late day, to plead that cause in de fense of taxes that “are higher than they ever were.” If the populists were responsible for the reduction in the first instance, why are they not responsible for the increase in the second instance? The logic of the Sun surely is hot stuff. Tns sale of the little ditch Is, we be lieve, a matter of greater importance to this city than most people at present realize. It is plain that the purchasers have some object in view, otherwise they could not have seen their way clear to pay a large price for the plant. We see but one way for them to make a big paying business of it, and that is to col onize it from end to end. It traverses territory sufficient to maintain several hundred families, and these families once located would mean considerable to O'Neill as well as the ditch company. The owners of the plant are men of means and business ability and we are more than pleased to welcome thesn to a seat among us. The company which conceived and executed the idea of building the ditch is deserving of praise and our people generally will be pleased to learn that it withdrew with a little profit on its investment. It built the ditch at a considerable cost, when to borrow money was almost an impossibility; and after construction maintained it against fearful odds. It lacked the means—but not the ability —to properly handle the enterprise, and the change is doubtless a good thing all around. EXONERATE CORBETT. I desire to stats that Mrs. Notson se cured leave of absence from her school in August before she had ever seen Mr. Corbett or communicated with him at all. After his election she asked me to write a letter in her behalf. At that time she distinctly told me that he had never promised to appoint her as his deputy, but that she most earnestly de sired the position, and I inferred from what she said that she thought she had earned it from the party. I have it from the gentlemen themselves that she told two others precisely what she told me—that Mr. Corbett had never prom ised her the deputyship. From all her eonversation with me it appeared that she simply hoped to induce him to ap point her, although he bad made her no promise whatever. Mr. Corbett was the choice of the people of this state and is filling an im portant position with credit to himself and advantage to the schools of the state. There is certainly nothing in this matter which should call for his condemnation or for the withdrawal from him of public confidence. A. P. Marble, Supt. Omaha City Schools. CHANCELLOR CANFIELD’S ENDORSEMENT. I entirely concur in Superintendent Marple’s conclusions. From all the in formation obtainable there certainly seems a strange injustice in attempting to make Superintendent Corbett at all accountable for Mrs. Notson’s death. Jambs H. Canfield, Chancellor University of Neb. Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Pair, oa BAKING POWDER MOST PERFECT MADE A pure Crape Cream of Tartar Powder.' Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant, 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. O’NEILL BUSINESS DIRECTORY It. DICKSON ATTORNEY AT LAW Reference First National Bank O'NEILL, NEB. | C. SMOOT, FASHIONABLE BARBER. DEALER IN OIQARE, ETO. F. W. ANTHONY. 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