The Frontier.
: FDBU1HID EVERT THURSDAY BT
< THE FROSTIER PRINTING COMPANY
KING * CRONIN. Editor*
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
: Ibr District Judges:
t M. P. KINKAID, of O'NeilL
; ' ALFRED BARTOW, of Ohadron.
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COUNTY REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For County Treasurer:
O. P. BIGLIN, of O’MeiU.
? For Clerk of the Court:
JOHN SKIRV1NG, of Stuart.
For County Sheriff:
JOHN BRADY, of Atkinson.
For County Clerk:
P. W. PHILLIPS, of Steel Creek,
or County Superintendent:
A. T. BLACKBURN, of Atkinson.
For County Judge:
, R. C. WRY, of Chambers.
For County Surveyor:
R. E. BOWDEN, of Paddock.
For County Coroner:
C.O. EIGLBR, of Ewing.
CITY TICKET.
For Assessor:
E. H. THOMPSON, of O’Neill.
For Juetloee of the Peace:
E. H. BENEDICT, of O’Neill.
*' O. B. DAVIDSON, of O'Neill.
:i For Constables:
■%' JOHN HOBHI8KY, of O’Neill.
TOWNSHIP TICKET.
For Supervisor, Third District:
E.J. MACK, of O’Neill.
For Township Assessor:
ABTHUB BABBBTT. of Urattan.
For Boed Overseer Diet. No. *:
JOHN KNBIOHT, of Grattan.
For Hoed Overseer Dist. No. St:
OHABLES 8HOBMAKEB, of 0ratten.
. For Justice of the Peeoe:
BIN BY HEHSH1SEB, of QratUn.
I, For Oonsteble:
JOHN HOBBISKT, Of O'Neill.
For Judies of Election:
FATBICK BABBBTT, of Qrettan.
JOHN HBBNAN, of Grattan.
BYBON O. PaBKEB, of Grattan.
For Clerks of Bleotlon:
. ELI HEB9HISBB, of Grattan.
FATBICK M0NICHOL8, of Grattan.
COMMITTEE MEETING.
Notice I* hereby given that there will
be a meeting of the Holt county repub
lican central committee held in O’Neill
at 9 o'clock r. u. on Baturday, October
M, 1800. It Is earnestly requested that
the committeeman from each township
be present at this meeting.
8. J. Webebs, Cbalrman.
!*b. McOabpbbty, Judge not that ye
to not Judged.
Loos ve Deficiency Hamilton’s
record. If you do you won’t yote for
him. _ _
Bbthba, the man with the pass. The
v time Is opportune for Holt county
voters to “pass him up."
Trb value of county warrants and the
rate of taxation do not speak favorably
for populist administration.
Tbb pop papers failed last week to
put np any defense for Mullen’s failure
to comply with the law In regard to
making quarterly statements. The pops
• attempted to oust Bklrvlng on • charge
of lees consequence.
Roes Hammond, the versatile literary
gealus of the Fremont Tribune, says It
la about time for Tom Majors to be pull
. tag In hie home and vacating the dump.
Tmb Fboktibu made a similar remark
when Majors was nominated for gover
■ nor. _ _
Votb tor Hamilton and get a defi
ciency Judgment. They are a nice
thing to have, and every man whose
farm Is mortgaged, and every man who
may be compelled to mortgage at some
future time should not miss this golden
opportunity.
Thi Beacon Light tat week produced
another check with Barrett Scotfa name
. eigned to IL It reader "Pay to State
Bank or bearer $408. Act. Jno. Bkir
\rvlug." We would like some Phlladel
phia lawyer to tell ua what that means.
Done It mean to credit or deb It Sklr
* ving’» account?
Mtaun la aomewhat of an offloe
“ aeeker hlmeelf. Three yeara supervisor;
two yeara representative; two yeara
:t eenator; two yeara treaaurer and atlll he
continues begging for vote*. If he
ehonld happen to be eleoted again be
will bare Juatly earned bie title of
"Idol"
Taw Sun dare not deny opr chargee
i' agalnat Deficiency Hamilton. To
v etmply cay that "nobody will believe It"
it mighty poor dofenae for the man who
^ be* kept the Sun alive for two yeara.
Do something, Char lea. Get a man
without a eonidenoe to make an afflda*
*11. The idea of colluaion between the
r 'lhtU and Phoenix Inenrnnce Company
| i* a matter altogether too serious to be
| treated ao lightly.
Tan pop paper*, beaidea abnaing
every man who dared denounce the
murder of Barrett Scott, have persist*
ently endeavored to cast aspersion on
every man who voted for>im. Let It
be remembered that the first time Scott
trim elected to the oflee of county trees*
ureri. P, Mullen was democratic com
mit tosm an In Plaesantvlew township.
He betrayed his party and worked and
voted for Scott, whose democratic op*
peeeot did not receive a single vote in
IMNfeOenh mmUp
rf.
Vi'
Of course The Frontier is a pape
"without influence" and it is a fact tba
"no one will believe a word it says,’
yet it is true that the shortest sentenci
in its columns sets the entire populisn
of Bolt county on' fire and causes thi
court-house editorial bureau to swea'
great drops of blood. Their words anc
their actions do not harmonize. Tbej
are whistling like the boy in the woods,
just to keep up courage.
The Sun prides itself on having "dis
posed" of the notes, fac-similes of which
we published two weeks ago. It labors
•/.duously to prove that every populist
paid Scott all that he owed him, and
that each and every transaction was ab
honorable one. We suppose if a pop
borrowed money from Scott and paid it
back it is all right, but if Brady &
Miller borrowed money and paid it
back it is all wrong. It makes a big
difference whose ox is gored.
After Scott paying bis own salary,
the salaries of bis clerks and other
office expenses, the first year of his first
term; be turned In an excess of $1,600
to the county. We find that Mullen
has turned in no excess, but on the con
trary his statement for this year shows
that he has over diawn for salaries $927.
Besides charging the people a salary as
county treasurer Mullen charged them a
witness fee of $12 in a county case, thus
making two salaries for the same time.
McHugh says in defense of Deficiency
Hamilton that no one will believe what
this paper says, anyway. The Fron
tier does not ask any one to belieye a
word it prints. It talks directly from
the records and anybody can find out
the truth by a little investigation. We
took a partial list of deficiency judgments
rendered under Hamilton’s appraise
ments and the records of the district
court of Holt county will attest the
correctness of our statement. Look it
«>P* _ ,
Why do our esteemed contemporaries
not explain to the people why it was
that Mullen charged the tax-payers two
salaries for the same time? One as
treasurer and one as witness in a county
case? Can’t they think of some fake
like the Mullen letter, which was dated
at While Wood, S. D., the same day
The Frontier was issued. The letter
was for the purpose of denying a charge
contained in the paper of same date.
The Frontier circulates rapidly but it
has no wings. v
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J. P. Mullen, county treasurer of
Holt county, Nebraska. Dear Jim: Is
it not a fact that you, as county treas
urer, at Mike Harrington’s request
signed a certificate of good character
for one 8. H. Elwood, stating that he
was an honorable gentleman and relia
ble in a business Way, when you knew
he intended using your recommendation
for the purpose of securing possession
of several hundred head of cattle be
longing to a gentleman in a western
state? Dear Jim, do not answer no to
this question.
One hundred dollars reward will be
paid for proof that O. F. Biglin ever
transferred property to defraud credi
tors. It is a fact that Mr. Biglin did
meet with business reverses a number oi
years ago, and did turn over bis proper
ty; but not to his wife and his father-in
law, but to his creditors, andv he now
bolds receipts in full for every cent he
ever owed them. If that was not an
honest act of an honest man, what was
It? These stories of Biglin’s lack of
business capacity are groundless and
desperate schemes of a desperate gang.
If the gang candidates spend as much
money for campaign whisky as their
salaries would amount to if elected,
how will they be able to support their
families and pay back the money loaned
them to make the campaign, if they are
honest? Every taxpayer ought to open
his eyes.—Beacon Light.
: The Gibbons affidavit published in
these columns last week leaves the
above question for the pops to answer.
People don’t believe candidates cau pay
$100 per head for saloons, besides other
campaign expenses, and do the square
thing. The taxpayers are getting their
I "eyes open." Avaunt, hypocrite!
Tm Justice-loving people of' Holt
county hiw not forgotten Sheriff Hem*
llton’a ectlone during the Scott trouble
laat winter. They remember how be
promised to go out and assist them in
searching the river, and how he failed
to put in an appearance; they remember
how be slunk away to Missouri Valley
to consult the hobgoblins, while the peo
ple were scouring the north country,
braying the biting January blasts in an
effort to establish the fact that a murder
had been committed. They remember
how he stayed all night with one of the
auspecta and told him he would be ar
rested, and they remember many other
Of his very peculiar actions during
those stormy days.
The populists won one campaign bj
hawking Scott's old checks about the
county, but the people have since learn
ed that they were duped by the keeper
of the checks, the oily-tongued Cana
dian Mike. In that campaign Harring
ton carried his pockets full of checki
with which to punctuate his harangues.
Nearly all of the checks were drawn for
school money, or other legitimate pur
poses, and made payable to honorablr
men of Holt county.' Harrington knee
this and governed himself accordingly.
When be made a speech in the south
country be would use checks issued to
men in the north country; men with
whom his auditors were unacquainted.
When he made speeches iu the north,
the east and the west, he changed the
program to suit the case. In that way
he deceived the voters in a number of
cases, but he won’t do it again.
Or all the affidavits subscribed and
sworn to the one made by D. J. Cronin
and published last week in the Sun is
certainly the most unique. First the
affiant takes an extract from The Fron
tier and swears to that; he swears
that he or any of his friends have never
mentioned to H. It. Uenery the possi
bility of his appointment; he swears that
he is not out of a lob; be swears that a
majority of the demo-republican “boost
ers" of O’Neill are out of a job, and he
swears to every word in bis letter, even
the heading, liut the most mirth-pro
voking part of the whole story is where
he explains how Scott came to have his
note for $25. He says that Scott advanc
wvi uiiu uu uuuuiy cmiui; mat
be assigned the claim to Scott, who
afterwards paid him the balance. That
is to say that he gave Scott a claim
worth $41 and his note for $25, for
wb'ch Scott gave him $25 in cash.
Bather funny isn't It, that Scott would
demand his note for $23 when he already
had his county claim worth $41? It
would be exactly like you, dear reader,
taking a $41 claim into a bank and sell
ing it and besides turning over the claim,
giving your note for the amount of
money received. Very lucid explanation,
that affidavit of Mr. Cronin’s.
The board of supervisors while in ses
sion last January passed a resolution in
structing the clerk to describe land, fn
tax-list in 100-acre tracts, instead of 40
acre. The intent and purpose of,.this
resolution was to save the tax-payer,
who was so unfortunate as to have his
land advertised, Just 60 cents on each
160 acres, The law allows the treasurer
to collect twenty cents on each descrip
tion advertised. The land can
be advertised in 160 as well as in 40
acre tracts, and it is the practice In all
other counties in the state to so adver
tise it, and if treasurer Mullen was an
honest man, and had the interest of the
tax-payer at heart, he would have made
his delinquent list in 160-acre tracts as
It should have been, and thus save the
people of Holt county 60 cents on each
quarter-section advertised. This is no
fiction, cover or figure of speech, and
if any voter doubts it, we ask him to go
to the treasurer’s office and pay taxes on
land that has been advertised und see if
Mullen does not charge him an adver
tising. fee of 80 cents on each quarter
section. The tax-payer may inquire,
where does this 60 cents go that is so
unlawfully collected from‘him? We
will tell you where it goes. It goes in
to the greedy paws of Ham Eautzman.
The Fxioktibe offered to publish the
list at just one-half of the price it was
let to the Beacon Light. Kautzman’s
bill for publishing this list will amount
to about $1400, when the actual cost to
him will not be to exceed $225, leaving a
nfet profit to Eautzman of $1175. As be
tween Eautzman and the unfortunate
tax-payers of Holt county, we find Jim
Mullen on the side of Eautzman and
against the people, ready and willing to
fleece each of them who have a quarter
of land, to the tune of 60 cents. A pub
lic officer could be guilty* of no lower,
contemptible act than this; and we be
lieve that the intelligent voters of Holt
county will remember this when, they
cast their ballot on November 5.
. “SKIRVINQ’S FAKE STORY.”
Under ibe bend of "Skirving’s Fake
Story” the last issue of the Sun strives
to laugh out of court Skirving’s state
ment in regard to the Barret Scott check.
As is always the case when men attempt
to defeat truth by ridicule, the Sun
makes many utterly false statements.
Mr. Skirting said in regard to this
matter that Barrett Scott was in Stuart
and he gave him (Scott) the money to
pay a balance due on a note at the First
National bank: that Scott put the money
in his pocket and when he came to
O’Neill went into the bank and paid the
balance with his personal check, instead
of using the- money that Skirving had
given him for that purpose.
The check in question has the name
of John Skirving written across the face
of it. and the Sun jumps at the conclus
ion that Skirving wrote it there, but he
didn't, and Ed, Gallagher,' cashier of the
bank, knows that he didn’t. The Sun
says Skirving got the check cashed
himself, and Gallagher knows this is pot
true. Skirving was not in O’Neill that
day. The check is in the hand-writing
of Ed. Gallagher. Gallagher drew the
check and Barrett Scott signed it and as
a memorandum wrote “John Skirving”
across the face of the check. That these
statements are true Mr. Gallagher will
not deny. Any man familar with John
Skirving’s signature can see at a glance
that the indorsement across the face of"
the check is not itt his hand-writing,
and auy man familiar with Barrett
Scott’s chirography can see even as he
runs that Skirving’s name was writteu
across the face of the check by Scott
himself. And thus bursts' another
bubble. *
The populists now realise that they
put their feet in it when they sprung
those old musty tell-nothing checks and
they are devising many kinds of ways
(•id means to make the story look at
least plausible. The people are “onto”
them.
HIS WHISKERS.
John McCaffertv, the man with all the
flourishes to his signature, the laughing
stock of the town and the triend of
those who happen to be in office, broke
loose last week and heralded his say
through the columns of the Sun and
Beacon Light in an endeavor to ezpla.’n
his connection with Scott and the county
money.
In his mad rush to get into print be
diade a magnificent effort to use up all
the paper, pens, ink and pencils he could
lay his bands on or get into his whisk*
ers or behind his ears.
After the issue of this paper in which
we showed up a little of this man’s deal
ings, his antics were the amusement of
those who met him. To keep still would
have been a physical impossibility. He
was everywhere his scattered thoughts
would take him, and if be can tell how
many time^ he paraded up and down
the street, to and from his wife’s or his
father-in-law's store, he has a much bet
ter head on him for facts than we give
him credit with having.
1 be article be contributed in explana
tion of hU shady dealings is unworthy
Dur notice were it not that he makes a
libelous attack upon the character of
O. F. Bigiio, the republican and demo
cratic nominee for county treasurer,
and a man so much McCaflerty’s super
ior in every way that comparison would
be impossible. His attack upon Mr.
Biglin could be prompted by nothing
but business jealousy, but for McCaffer
ty even to stoop to the low, miserable
net of libeling and slandering a business
competitor, tellingwhal he knows to be ab
solute falsehoods, and charging him with
dishonesty is getting to a lower level in
the catalogue of jealous outbreaks than
we supposed he was capable of being
guilty of. Mr. Biglin’s character as a
man and as an absolutely honest man, is
unimpeachable. He has liyed here for
years, has been repeatedly elected to the
office of mayor of the City of O’Neill
snd has filled that office with credit to
himself and in a manner that merits the
hearty Support of the citizens. He is
the almost unanimous choice today of
the people of this town for the office for
which he has been nominated, and we
predict to which he will be elected, and
bo will receive an overwhelming major
ity here in O’Neill where he U well
known and where his opponent, J. P.
Mullen, is known.
It is true that Biglin became financial
ly embarrassed a few years ago, but did
he do as McCaiferty did? Did he only
settle with a few of his creditors and let
the others go? No. He paid every one
of them in full and he worked hard and
honestly to do it. There is not a man
that kno ws Mr. Biglin but kuows that
his integrity and honesty are above re
proach and yet this miserable competi
tor of bis, after having a "confidential”
with Mullen, Harrington et. al., and in
ip ired with a jealousy born of business
id verses resorts to a libelous and aland
irous article, accusing him of embezzle
ment. But he gives no particulars.
Why does he not do so? Because he
knows it is but a vague charge without
i foundation. Let him tell us all about
this embezzlement.
But, voters of Holt county, McCaiferty
s not resposible. He is but a rattle
aeaded jack-in-the-box that jumps when
iver Mullen and Harrington pull the
itricg. Mullen has been trequently
leen in his store and m close consults
iion with him. What is McCaiferty do
ng now? This great model of morality
who says he wag unable to feed his
Family unless he evaded his just debts, is
gambling on the present election, is bet
ting money on the result of this election,
imong the worthless assets of the Holt
bounty bank this man’s notes appear for
15,550. Would it not be more in keep
ing with his professions of honesty to
ipply his spare' money on these notes
instead of betting it on political elec
tions? Dear reader, go to the court
house and you can find the records in
the office of the clerk of the district court
spread all over with judgments against
this same man, and yet we find him out
»n the highways and byways with his
pockets full of money, backing his
favorites on even breaks. Is it bis
money? . / ■? v, , * ,.
He say a uiat Barrett ttcott told him
that Tn* Frontier ‘'kids'’ bad a thous
and dollars or more o( bis money. Thb
Frontier "kids” never borrowed a
cent from Barrett 8cott, therefore we do
not believe Barrett Scott ever told Mc
Cafferty anything of the kind, therefore
we believe McCafferty lied. It is fair to
presume that all of McCafferty’g state
ments were as true as this particular one.
McUafferty, in his frenzy, lost all ideas of
propriety and fine sense of the eternal
fitness of things and proceeded to make
public trivial private matters. He said
Thb Frontier owed him the insignifi
cant sum ol #20. This gentle reminder
prompted us>to examine Mr. McGaffer
ty’a standing with Tub Frontier and
we were not at all surprised to find a
balance of #55 due us. The account
covers a number of years, about five
we think. If the gentleman desires a
settlement, and will kindly eali at our
place of business and deposit in cash the
difference between #20 and #55. we
will gladly draw a red line under bis ac
count. - -a .
Thb Chadron Signal concedes the
election of Judge Kinkaid, but says
Westover , has a fighting show. If
W estover la elected it will be by votes
in the east end, where he is not known.
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