The Frontier.
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY BY
THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY
D. H. CRONIN, Editor.
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The senate refused to have 20,000
copies of Governor Holcomb’s mes
sage printed.
One Huckins, a howling pop,
wants “fixing,” from the way he
howled in his paper last week.
Fred Wertz, of Omaha, was the
lucky delegate to carry the vote of
Nebraska’s electoral college to
Washington.
Senator Mills, of Texas, urges
recognition of the Ouban belligerents
and strongly denounced Cleveland
for showing favoritism to Spain.
Wheat continues to advance a
little in price, and the dream of a
v dollar a bushel may yet be realized
before another crop is ready for
market
All weekly papers printed on
Thursday performed the unusual
feat of getting out 53 issues in 1896,
something not known to have hap
pened before in over thirty years.
Thi distributors of political pap
at Linooln oouldn’t pass the goods
fast enough to preserve harmony,
and numerous howls are heard from
those who failed to get a seat at the
lunoh counter.
Now is the time to encourage
immigration to Nebraska, the land
of the sugar beet, the ohioory root,
and where corn is king, and cattle
and hogs enough can be grown to
supply the world.
Thi Pacific railway funding bill
went to its doom Monday, much to
the chagrin of the railroad people,
and the chance is now open for the
government to do something for
itself by foreclosure proceedings.
Now that the pops have cleaned
the state house pie counter of every
available crumb, it will be in order
for them to show up some tangible
reform work for the benefit of their
constituents, besides drawing their
salary. ___
Soot people are just beginning
to see the advantage of having a
ohioory factory in O'Neill, when
there is a prospect that it may be
moved away. A concerted effort
should be made to keep this institu
tion in our midst.
Both branches of the democracy
celebrated "Jackson’s day.” It
moat have made the shade of “Old
’ Hickory” turn over in ita coffin and
r grdan at the atobberings of the
dagenerated mortals who olaim to
embody all, the traits of that distin
i;'- guiahed atatesman.
Tn populist legislators gave
aereral good positions to pop editors
at Lincoln last week. We wonder
it that is an indication that the
incoming national administration is
going to give the boys of the craft
an opportunity to take the postoffioe
plums off the pie counter. We
‘ hope so.
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I ;. Peons who visit printing offices
^ . holing for the fighting editor,
should take warning from the fate
of a politician who called to “settle”
: - with aa editor in southwest Nebras
ka. A physician was called to probe
the politicians anatomy for a bullet,
and the papers state that he will
probably recover.
Tn Oregon Short Line and Utah
Northern, branches of the Union
Pacific, were sold at Salt Lake Oity
last Saturday for $7,185,500. The
water and stockholders are both get
a ting squeeaed out of the Union
. Pacific system, and the government
. is also liable to be loser to the ex
tant of its mortgage holdings.
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It has been discovered that the
bicycle is spoiling the ball room
darlings by developing certain mus
cles, so that, as one of them
describes it, "I cannot make the
little kicks and twirls with my legs
that I ought to in order to make my
dance perfect, and so, you see, I
had to give up my wheel.”
The Baltimore Sun says “trocha”
is pronounced “trotsha,” with the
accent on the first sylable. It means
a fortified roadway. Being some
what rusty with our Spanish, the
Sun’s definition is accepted as cor
rect It also explains why Gen.
Weyler made a bee line for the
“trotsha” every time a few Cubans
came his way.
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Am exchange has a customer who
atyertises his hotel with a first class
undertaking establishment in con
nection. The boarders are probably
starved to death, or the trancients
are “bled” until death is a sweet
relief. It must require nerve to
register at that hotel, and have the
landlord take your measure for a
coffin at the same time.
Tn recent blizzard had the effect
of precipitating another capital
removal scheme in South Dakota.
Pierre, the present capital, is situ
ated at the extreme outpost of
civilization, and is accessible to the
legislators when its one line of rail
road is not covered under two or
three feet of Bnow. The prospects
are good for its removal to a more
accessable point, although the ques
tion of removal will have to be
submitted to the people at the next
general election two years hence.
If the question is ever submitted to
the people, South Dakota will not
have Pierre for its capital.
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Fbank Phillips, one of Holt
oounty’s most prominent and enter
prising farmers, has just returned
from Omaha where he went with two
car loads of Bheep. . He found the
market a little dull, but the pros
pects good for a steady rise, with a
great demand for ewes for breeding
purposes. All of which goes to
prove former assertions, that the
sheep industry could be made to pay
larger dividends than any other,
business in this section of country,
and would today have been the
largest and most profitable had it
not been for the blighting effects of
a democratic administration and its
free trade tariff, whioh not only
killed the market for American wool
but paralized other lines of industry
as well. Already the incoming of
the republican party is restoring
confidence to the sheep growers,
which is noticed in the demand for
ewes to increase the flocks. With
the return of prosperity we may
expect to see Holt county take front
rank in the sheep industry, aB no
other county in the state, or state in
the union, is better adapted by
nature for that purpose. Mr. Phil
lips says Holt county is the best
place he has ever seen for sheep,
raising. All that is necessary to
stimulate this business is the protec
tive tariff policy of the republican
party, whioh we will again have
under President McKinley.
IRRIGATED NEBRASKA.
That portion of the governor’s
message relating to the present and
prospective irrigation conditions in
the state is a feature, when well
studied, that cannot fail to convince
the most skeptical that Nebraska has
passed the period in which its
agrionltural interests can be serious
ly impaired by aay ordinary season
of drouth.
The 4,785 miles of completed
irrigation canals for the crop of
1890, bringing under water control
an area of tillable lands of 1,207,966
acres, is in itself evidence that there
can never again be a repetition of
the crop failure experienced in 1894
The governor’s recommendations
for careful and studied amendments
to the present irrigation law, where
by all needed improvements will be
secured for the further development
of the state’s irrigation interests, is
timely, and will serve to put law
makers on their guard that only
impartial and practical matters be
considered in relation to irrigation
law amendments.
The increased value of agricultu
ral lands brought about by the irri
gation improvements in the state he
very conservatively puts at $10,000,
000. The value of agricultural
lands depends upon the ability of
the lands to produce cultivated
crops. This statement is verified by
the fact that tho highest condition
of crop value is produced by inten
sive cultivation. If to the produc
ing properties of the soil is added
the certainty of growth and yields,
then the highest quality of land
value has been attained. This, in
brief, is the basis upon which irriga
tion improvement in Nebraska Btands
today.
Irrigation in arid and semi-arid
districts is a necessity, and carries
with it fixed values. It can be
readily seen that the irrigated farm
is the permanent crop producing
land, and therefore possesses the
elements of permanency in value.—
World-Herald.
The latest news regarding the
Spanish-Cuba war would indicate
that Spain is financially bankrupt
and unable to negotiate a new war
loan with which to keep Qen. Wey
ler and his butchers. Weyler’s
recall is demanded by many of the
leading Spaniards, and it would
appear that poor old Spain, as a
kingdom, is in a very shaky condi
tion. The Cuban cause continues
to grow, and it has already reached
the stage where demands have been
made upon the Spanish government.
Minister Taylor has written a plain
letter of what he interprets Secre
tary Olney’s cabled approval of his
condemnation of sham Porto Rico
reforms as worthless, and of prom
ises of greater reforms in Cuba as
too vague, when he urged prompt
action upon Spain. He said in his
letter to the Spanish minister of
foreign affairs that unless Spain
offered clear and reasonable terms
as the basis of peace in Cuba before
President Cleveland went out of
office the question of looal self
government in the island would soon
disappear from American politics
and the only question to remain
would be the immediate and uncon
ditional recognition of the independ
ence of the Cuban republic. In the
meantime the people of this country
continue to agitate the Cuban situa^
tion, and it now looks as though
peace must be offered during Cleve
land’s term or the republic will be
recognized. It is sincerely hoped
that speedy action will be taken by
this country to recognize the Cubans
in their struggle for liberty The
aotion would be short and bloodless,
and the island of Cuba, which by
natural right belings to this country,
is entitled to the aid of loyal Ameri
ca to secure its freedom, even as our
early colonists were assisted by the
French to secure the precious boon
of free citizenship which we now
enjoy. Senator Money, who has
just returned from an investigating
tour of the islaud, says: “At the
very outset I will Bay that every
thing I saw and heard taught me
that Spain is unable to cope with
this insurrection. She will never
put it down. Spain will never end
this war with victory to herself.”
Consul General Fitzhugh Lee also
sent a message by Senator Money
to Secretary Olney as follows:
Your
Vitality?
The essence of life is force.
Everybreethyou brcathe^very
heart beat, every motion of
your hand, takes force. The
measure of force vre call vital
ity. If this is lackiny, there is
loss of flesh, lack of resistive
power, a tendency to catch di
sease easily, especially a tend
ency to Consumption. For low
vitality nothing; is better than
Scott's Emulsion. It supplies
force by furnishing; the nourish
ing;, strengthening; elements of
food in an easily digested form;
mrirUr* the blood, and builds
up the system. When ordinary
food is of no avail, Scott's
Emulsion will supply the body
with aU the vital elements of life.
Two alwa 50 da aad $UM> All
drtsggbta
If you will ak for it wo will and
youabook telling you all about Scott**
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SCOTT a BOWNE, How York.
“Please see Secretary Olney and tell
him that today I am more firmly
convinced than ever Spain cannot
put down the insurrection, and that
every day it continues means a loss
of life and property without the
remotest encouragement of any final
Spanish success. As I long since
told him, the insurrection will suc
ceed. My judgment to that effect
receives daily confirmation.” What
is necessary for the freedom of
Cuba is a few warlike preparations
in this country with orders for
action, instead of so much bombast
in the shape of word sympathy.
O’NElLLBtJSINESS DIRECTORY
JJR. J. P. GILLIGAN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Office in Holt County building.
All work cash in advance. Night work
positively refused.
O’NEILL, - . v NEB.
flit. BENEDICT,
LAWYER,
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of O. O. Snyder's lumber yard,
0 NEILL, NEB.
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