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It is nearly time for city politic!
to become interesting subject mattei
for conversation.
Thzbb is more railroad building in
sight for 1897 than there has been
for the past four years.
On mouth from today will see the
passing of the democratic party from
power in American politics.
Tbx citizens of Butte, Boyd coun
ty, are working to have the Short
Line build a stub to that place.
PaisiDzirr Cleveland is now put
ting in most of his time making ap
pointments. He is trying to reward
the faithful.
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Judos McHugh got it where the
ohicken got the ax. His political
towline was not strong enough to
'stand the pull.
. Chicago has refused the aid ten*
dered by Nebraska for the starving
poor of that city. Pride covereth
many a hungry stomach.
Tn tow mills at Fremont are run
ning foil blast. It takes lots of rope
for the populist legislature, but it
will eventually hBng itself.
Ixtirist in irrigatipn should not
be allowed to lag on account of the
indications for a wet. season. Let
us have the ditch by all means.
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Omaha is a great news center, and
if no genuine sensations appear the
oowshed under the viaduot, by eour*
tesy called a depot, furnishes a fruit
ful theme.
r Th* senatorial situation in South
^Dakota will probably retire Senator
ator Kyle and wrangle until the end
of the legislative session without
naming his successor.
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Thi United States supreme oourt
has assigned the first Monday in
April for a hearing of the maximum
rate eases coming over from the Ne
braska supreme court.
St. Louis has a scandal on its
hands of the Seeley dinner type. A
mulatto girl attired in a pair of
dancing slippers amused the wealthy
bon ton at a swell dinner.
A. mw idea to supercede the con
densed milk business ia to freeze the
milk into bricks. It would be a
novelty to aee oarloada of milk brieka
■being ahipped around the country.
Who* many states are passing
laws to prohibit foot ball, Nevada
eomea serenely to the front with a
law licensing prize fighting. Pugil
istic wind will now be at a disoount.
If Corbett and Fitzsimmons would
move to Nevada they might have an
opportunity to be elected to the
United States senate. The law
makers there are lovers of tbefistio
art ■
Tbs house committee op constitu
tional amendments has recommended
the passage of a bill introduced by
Qnmes of Holt, proposing an
amendment giving women the right
to vote.
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Jamss Wklson, of Iowa, has ao
espted the position of Secretary of
Agriculture, tendered by the presi
dent elect. The west is receiving
merited recognition from President
elect McKinley.
•. A tsaib load of sheep were un
loaded at Atkinson last week for
feeding purposes. With the wool
industry protected Holt county would
have numerous train loads of sheep
which would be raised here every
year instead of receiving an occa
sional consignment for feeding.
W. H. Monger, of Fremont, has
* been named to be United States Dis
trict Judge for the district of Ne
r braska. Judge McHugh’s name waa
withdrawn on account of the oppo
: sition in the senate.
If the bill against profanity,
’ which has been introduced in the
' Kansas legislature, should become a
' law, some of the members will hav$
to discover a new way to relieve
i their pent-up feelings. y
A bill to pay Boyd county $4,832
to defray the expenses incurred by
, that county in the trial of the men
accused of the murder of Barrett
Scott, was recommended for passage
in the house last Friday.
As a result of an investigation rel
ative to the percentage of farmers
who are using corn for fuel the sec
retaries of the state board of trans
portation have asked railroad mana
gers to reduce the through rate on
corn.
Tbb pops will hold a national con
ference at Kansas City, February 23,
to find out where they are at. As a
party organization the pops do not
seem to realize that they were swal
lowed by the Bryan democracy last
fall
Anoraks great(f) populist states
man has fallen by the wayside, clean
outside of the breastworks. Senator
Peffer was defeated for re-election
in Kansas. Even his whiskers^ which
have made him famous, failed to
save him from defeat
Prebidint Jordan, of Stanford
university, has stirred up the ortho
dox Christians by a bold denuncia
tion of religious revivals, which he
declares are a species of intoxication
that are no more worthy of respect
than common drunkenness.
Although the legislatures of Ala
bama and Georgia have voted down
bills making gold contracts illegal
in those states, the “counted in”
democratic governor of Tennessee,
is trying to get an anti-gold contract
bill through the legislature.
Surveyor Berry has commenced
work on the survey for the big ditch
in the Golden Irrigation District
Mr. Berry iB an engineer of exper
ience in this line of business and his
report will be anxiously waited for
by the people of the diBtriot.
In France the authorities are stud
ying schemes to increase the popu
lation, and a plan has been proposed
| to distribute political favors aooord
| ing to the size of the family. This
is what might properly be termed
protection to an infant industry.
It must have been great satisfac
tion to the lone republican in the
Idaho legislature* when he oast his
vote for Heidfeldt, thereby electing
him United States senator. He
partly paid Dubois for his party
treachery, and should receive a gold
medal.
John Ritchart, late editor of the
South Omaha Daily Sun, has pur
chased the Grand Island Democrat,
taking possession last week John
is at> able writer, and if the demo
crats of Hall county want an able
advocate of their prindes they will
give him their united support, and
they can reBt assured that they will
have a paper of which they can well
feel proud. John, We wish you suc
cess.
Otm representative in the legisla
ture voted to oust the four republi
can members from Douglas county
because they subscribed to the cam
paign fund. It would now be in or
der for these able reformers(f) to
come home and commence impeach
ment proceedings against our popu
list county officials, who could never
have been elected had it not been
for the liberal use of the root of all
evil—money. Will they do it? Nit.
The Commercial Club of Omaha
gave a banquent Tuesday evening,
the novelty of which was that the
menu was made up entirely of Ne
braska products. Among the toasts
was “Nebraska Chicory,’’ whioh was
presented by C. B. Oldfield, of the
American Chicory company. He
gave a complete history of the chic
ory business in this state and the
founding of the factory in O’Neill
Among other things he stated that
farmers in California find it profits
ble to raise chicory for 15 a toe
while in Nebraska it has reached i
stage so successful that our farmer
receive $7.50 per ton. The speake
said that if the tariff was increase!
on raw chicory it would increase th<
Nebraska product four or five times
Senator Dubois, of Idaho, hat
been defeated for re-election
When he walked out of the republi
can national convention upon th<
adoption of the platform and sei
himself up as one of the country’)
patriots, the supposition was that h«
would be re-elected to the senate foi
a six year term, and, at this distance
it looks as if the senator thought
more of an election than he did oi
his political faith. By leaving hit
party he has been forced into pri
vate life, and is now a man without
a party.
Senator Thurston has submitted
a proposed amendment to the agri
cultural appropriation bill appropri
ating $7,000 to enable the secretary
of agriculture to continue investiga
tions into the progress mhde in the
production of domestic sugar, the
area of lands adapted thereto by ir
rigation or otherwise, and all other
matters concerning the same. He
presented* a statement showing the
national benefits to be derived from
the success of this important agri
cultural product aud stating that
large tracts of semi-arid land can be
made available for the production of
raw material.
At the meeting of the sugar Beet
association at Hastings, this week,
mnch interest was shown in the sub
ject, and the matter of irrigation
was given great consideration as be
ing a factor which will develop that
industry, as well as chicory raising,
and add millions to the wealth of
Nebraska. The matter of irrigation
is nol a little local affair as some
would believe, but the consummation
of the irrigation projects now in
view are of state and national inter
est and will place Nebraska at one
bound at the head of the procession
of states whose productive resources
of wealth are boundless..
When the rate of taxation is over
Bix per cent of our reported valua
tion something must be radically
wrong with our assessment laws.
Though as a matter of fact the fault
lies not with the laws but with the
assessors who fix values. The fol
lowing seems to be their method:
Just previous to the work of . assess
ing, the assessors of the county meet
and decide among themselves what
part of real valuation they will make
the assessed valuation.- The latest
rule that reashes our notice is one
sixth. Thus when the work is com
pleted and reports are all in the re
ported valuation of our state is
about one-sixth of its real value.
These schemes work no favors with
the property ownere who pay the
taxes, but in the eyes of those who
might wish to push the enterprises
in the west but are not familiar with
the conditions, it works very much
to our disadvantage. It would seem
well and good for Nebraska’s law
makers to pass a law forbidding the
levying of more than a rate of one
La Grippe
If you have had the Grippe,
you leaow its aches and pains,
the fever, the chills, the cough,
the depress!oo—you know
them aft. The Grippe exhausts
the nervous system quickly,
lowers the vitality. Two
things should be done at once:
—the body must be strength
ened. and force must be given
to the nervous system. Cod
liver Oilwffl do the first; Hy
pophosphites the second. These
ate permanently andpkasantly
combined in Scott's Emulsion.
It lifts the despondency and
tw.1i thf inflamed
of the throat and lungs.
But you need not nave LA
GRIPPE.
You can put your system in
a condition unfavorable to it.
You can have rich, red blood;
resistive strength) steady brain
and nerves. Scott's Emulsion
prevents as well as cures.
And whether you send or go
for Scott's Emulsion, be sure
you get the genuine.
SCOTT ft BOWNE, NnrYotk.
, per cent on taxable property. This
, would have much nearer the desired
i effect Assessors would be com
i polled to search after values and
r when the reports were filed the rec
I ord of the valne of onr state would
s be very good and the rate of taxa
, tion would appear very low.' In
many counties a good house, lot,
honse furniture, team and carriage
that could not be purchased for one
thousand dollars, are valued on the
on the assessors’ books at about
$150. The rate of tax on these is
nearly six per cent, when if the
property were assessed at its real
value the rate of taxation would ’ be
only about one per cent—Blair
Bilot.
CHICAGO’S BIG CANAL.
The so-called drainage canal at
Chicago, says an exchange, is an en
terprise vastly larger than the idea
conveyed by its name. It will cost
$27,000,000. It is twenty-eight
miles long. The average depth is
thirty to thirty-six feet; the depth
of water from twenty-two to thirty
six feet. The cross sections are
greater than the Suez canal, the
great Manchester ship canal or the
North Sea Canal, which was deemed
worthy of being opened with all the
pomp at the command of the Ger
man emperor. Five times as much
dirt has been excavated as was
taken from the big Croton acqueduct
at New York. The figures for totals
of excavations in notable instances
are as follows: Chicago, 40,000,000;
Cornith, 11,000,000; North Sep,
48,000,000; Suez canal 98,000,000;
Panama canal, 200,000,000; Nicra
gua canal, 70,000,000.
O’NEILL BUSINESS DIRECTORY
1QR. J. P. GILLIGAN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office in Holt County Bank building
All work cash in advance. Night work
positively refused.
O’NEILL, • - . NEB.
omi us ion comm stage
Stage leaves O'Neill at 8:30 a. it., arriving at
Sponeer at 4 p. M.; at Butte. 5:30 p. u.
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Satisfaction guaranteed.
Address, Page, Neb.
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