•uMommoM, •i.m mm annum. d. h. ei ;€ VOLUME XVIII. ; " , O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 21. 1897. NUMBER 16. .ms sans mm Items of Interest Told As They Are Told to Us. WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED Lasol Happenings Portrayed Tar General Hdifleation and Aaisrant, Bail ties and wire always on hand at Neil Brennan's. v 10-tf Attorneys Searl and Scott was down from Atkinson Wednesday. Eon Rest—Hoese of six rooms, rent reasonable. Enquire of Mr. Doyle. lOtf Mr. Luce has moved into town and now occupies the Swingley residence on Jigid hill.” _ Use H knd G remedy for black leg. s a preventative it has no equal. Sold Hersbiser & Gilligan. 15 tf Patrick Gaghan was a caller last Fri day and left a couple of gold standard dollars on subscription. Mrs. J. J. King, and daughter May, went down to Ewing yesterday for a few days visit with friends. For teeth or photos, go to Dr. Cor bett's parlors, 38rd to 80th of each month. Photographs tl per dozen. Herman Damero and Mary Lamphier, of Phoenix, were granted a marriage license last Friday by Judge McCutchan. Do not let the black leg into your herd. Prevent it by using H and G. Sold by Hershiser & Gilligan. 15-tf It would be a good idea if some of the lady bicycle riders would be a little more careful when they are out riding. One of them ran into M. M. Sullivan last evening, burising him quite severely. > Everyone desires to keep informed on Yukon, the Klondyke end Alaskan gold fiields. Send 10c. for large Compendium of vast information and big color map to Hamilton Pub. Co , Indianapolis, Ind. The ladies of the Presbyterian church will meet with Mrs. Dobbs next Wed nesday, October 27, at 2 o’clock p. m. to remfganisw the working society, elect oWcers and transact what other business ^nay come up. All members are requested to be present. Sue. Last week we received a letter from Roscoe Coughlin, who is still in Wash ington, D. C. Roscoe has secured a position in the government printing office and says he is doing well. He sent bis regards to all the boys and said he would come out and see them all next year. . The morning of the populist conven tion a delegate from the western part of the county, who was being solicited to vote against Stewart in the convention, said, ‘‘No, I can’t vote against Stewart ■jt in the convention, for I have received % (10, a keg of beer and my ticket down * here to O’Neill today, but when it comes to voting at the election I can vote as I . please.” And that is just the way Mr. Stewait has conducted his whole cam paign—with money and booze Soap will not remove tan nor freckles. Bathe the face In warm water, and dry very carefully with a soft towel. Do I not use soap on the face unless absolute* rvJy necessar/. Never use face powder of "any sort, it spoils the skin by closing the pores. If your child suffers from sunburn moisten the face at night with cucumber juice; cut a cumber length wise and rub it on the face, allowing the juice to remain until it dries off; or use a mild solution of baking soda.— Mrs. S. T. Rorer in October Ladies’ Home Journal. The bioard Af supervisors were in session last week. A petition praying for the establishment pf a poor farm V was presented and the board decided to W submit the proposition for such estab lishment to the voters of Holt county at the general election to be held Novem t ber 2, 1892. On October 12 the entire Vy board went to Butte, Boyd county, where they met with the Boyd county board and opened bills for the building of a bridge at Badger, Holt county, across the Niobrara. The contract whs 1st to W. C. Townsend, of this county. He receives $999 for the new work and $759 12 for repair work. . The members of the board returned home Friday and on Saturday they adjourned to meet December 1, 1897. CAHD OF THANKS. The members of the O'Neill Are department hereby extend their sincere ^thanks to the orchestra for their ser ^T^ices in playing for the firemen’s dance, Jr to the rink management for the use of the rink, and to W. T. Evans for getting up the supper; also to the business men who have subscribed so liberally toward __the repair fund. THE HEW BAJXOT. Omaha Bee—The blanket ballot, which baa been in use for aome yeara in Iowa and other atatea, but which haa never before been placed before the votera of Nebraska, will be a novel feature of the coining election. The amendment to the election law, which provides for thia form of ballot, was passed by the last legislature. It waa urged aa a means of almpliilng voting, and it was asserted that it would not only be a material assistance to the Ill iterate voter, but would also make it possible for voters to occupy less time in the booths for the reason that they could vote the entire ticket with a single cross if they were so disposed. While the merits of the new plan can can be more accurately estimated after it has received b practical test, it is certain that, like any novelty, it must be throughly understood by the voters before they can use it satisfactorily. The scheme involves some radical changes from the old system, and It is scarcely likely that they are entirely familar to the mass of the voters.. During the remainder of the campaign an effort will be made by the speakers of all the political parties to familarise the voters with the new ballot. County Clerk Bedfleld has agreed that as soon as the ballots are received from the secretary of state be will have several hundred sample .ballots printed and destributed among the various campaign committees, to be used in practical object lessons by their speakers. The ballots that will be used in the election will be of white paper, as under the old law, and will contain the names of all the candidates of the various parties for state and county offices. As there are no presidential electors and and only three stale officers to go on the ballots this fall, they will be of moderate size as compared with the huge sheets that would be required in an election like that of last fall. Each ballot will be six colums wide, the colums contain ing respectfully the names of republican, democratic, populist, national demo cratic, silver republican and petition candidates. The candidates for supreme judge and regents will head the tickets, and county officers will follow. *r. The Nebraska Iatr differs from tint of Pennsylvania and otheretatee in which the blanket ballot is used in the respect that a voter may mark a cross in the circle at the top of one party ticket and still vote for candidates on other tickets. If, for instance, he wishes to vote the republican ticket with the exception of one or more candidates, he will mark bis vote for the straight ticket in the circle at the top and then place a cross opposite the names of the candi dates on the other tickets for whom he wishes to vote. The judges will then record his vote for the republican ticket with the exception of those candidates on other tickets for whom a vote is in dicated. The law further provides that every precaution shall be taken to prevent confusion on the part of the voter. Each of the columns containing a list of party candidates must be separated from the others by a distinct black line. The names of the candidates must be printed in capital letters from one eighth to one-fourth of an inch in height and a printed square in which to record a vote if the voter so desires must be left at the right of each candi dates name. At the right of the printed lists of candidates there must be a blank space large enough to admit of a name being written in for each office that is to be filled. The official ballott must be printed and in possession of the county or muni cipal clerk at least five days before the election, and the red or green sample ballots must be printed and ready for inspection at least ten days before the election. Joseph Schwartz, of Spencer, Boyd county, was In this city last Friday with two loads of hogs. He left for home Saturday morning and after they got across the bridge at Whiting’s, he sent his little girl, who was with him driving one team, on home, about two miles northeast of Spencer, while he went into town to get a carpenter to go out and do some work on hts place. While in town he succumbed to the seductive Influence of the fluid that robs man of his wisdom. He left Spencer for his home after dark Satur day evening, but never reached home. He was found Sunday at noon in one of the canyons about a mile and a half from town, with the wagon upset and lying on his chest.' He was so badly injured that he died about two hours afterward. It seems that be got lost and in wandering over the gulches the team upset the wagon, throwing him out and the wagon falling on him. He leaves a wire and nine children, ail girls. WOLFE ANDJIS DEALS The Pop Land Commiuioaer'e Bui* « ness,. Methods. RAILROAD PASSES HIS HOBBY Several Thousand Dollan Lost by the Mate Through His Management. Lincoln, Neb., October 19,1897. And now a word about Land Com missioner Wolfe and his land manipu lations. He was the populist candidate for state treasurer in 1890. In that campaign he made a vigorous protest against the free pass system. He said a pass was a bribe, and that no state official could ride upon free transporta tion and at the same time do Justice be tween the people and the corporations. He was a candidate for a state office again in 1899, and he again canvassed the state with the same old anti-pass doctrine which he had talked two years I before. In 1898 he was again a candi date for a state office, making the same anti-pass speeches, and whs elected. The first official act of Land Conjmls sioner Wolfe was to load himself with all the annual passes be could procure for himself, and from the dar that his official administration began up to the present time he has been a medium through which free passes have been ex torted from the railroads and distributed to the populists without limit. Mr. Wolfe it a farmer, and as a candidate on the ticket of the farmers’ party he made special promises as to what he would do if he ever became a member of the state board of transportation. He would re duce the rates. That was right in his line. In his speeches he used to read on tong BiMBDieats oi UDDinva ngures proving the Injustice or the prevailing rates, and he would regulate all these things. Now it transpires that Fanner Wolfe was no more sincere in his pledges to the farmer voters of the farmers’ party than were the other poli ticians. Since he has been in office he has betrayed his party upon every vital point. But the land commissioner, with reformers, while betraying his party upon the reforms whicn he promised, in order to cover up his betrayals and keep his name favorably before the people, procured a law to be passed by the last legislature which gave him power to cancel the contracts between the state and its thousands of tenants, who had leased the school lands with a view to improvement and subsequent purchase, which was their right under the old law. The public familiar with the grandstand play which Commissioner Wolfe has made to this state in the last few months In handling these public lands. Wolfe, though a farmer by profession, is a shrewd advertiser. When he had pro cured this law, and got ready to make his reform flourishes, he called in the newspaper reporters and gave them a glowing outline of his plans. For weeks, through these these public interviews he kept himself in the public eye, pretend ing that he was saving a great de al of money to the state, and was rendering the farming community valuable servi ces. And now that Ur. Wolfe has bad his inning and his advertising through the press it is only fair to enquire Just what has been its effect upon the public pocket and upon the farming community which is interested in the school lands. To understand the situation as it was when Land Commissioner Wolfe com menced his reform at the beginning of the year, we should bear in mind that from 1890 to the present year, the occu pants of school lands as tenants under the state were no more able, by reason of drouths and hard times, to pay their annual rentals to the state than were other tenant farmers able to pay their rental!. Daring tbeie yean of abort crops and low prices these tenants were unable to pay, and it was the duty of the state to nurse them along and keep them on the land uutil such ttme as they would be able to pay. This was the policy under republican administration, for republicans understood that It would be disastrous to crowd these tenants when they bad no money end there could be nothing gained by removing j them from the lands and driving them from the state. The land could not have been re-leased. There was no demand for land. Now, there accumu lated during these years an indebtedness of $460,000. How to collect this in debtedness was the problem which should have been in the miud of Com missioner Wolfe when he entered upon his office. However, under this new law, he cancels and throws away this 9460,000 without any attempt to collect it This $460,000 is a total loss. With a flourish of trumpets and much news paper advertising the land commisoner has succeeded in collecting $5,800 as payments on new leasee, with IS.SOOi aa bonuses. He haa thrown away <460,000, a large part of which could - have been collected, and in lieu thereof has collect ed 610,800 on new leases. He cancela the leases on 766,789 acres, throws away 9460,000 due the school fund of the state, collects in'lieu of this 610,800, and calls this business. Had one man in forty paid up his back rent on this school land, the ammount would hare equaled all the bonus money. Had 80 per cent of the old leaseholders retained their farms and paid regular rent in the future the amount would over balance which will be received on the new leasee. "This reform land commissioner seems to have teen.pbout.as costly an experiment as the reform governor’s approval of Bartley's worthless bond. But from an examination of the records at the state house it seems that the majority of the new leasts were secured by the old leaseholders. These school-land tenant farmers seem to have been about aa cunning In a land deal as the reform land commissioner is in his reform politics. .Each one of them had a friendly neighbor to bid in the land and then transfer the lease to him. Does the farmer who haa a tenant in ataeara for rental cancel the old lease, forgive the old debt, and then re-lease the land p> the tame party? Or does he not rather held the tenant to the old con ract and then as fast as possible collects the old rent money? Bear in mind the land commisoner has represented through his advertising in the press that he has saved money to the state. It is his business to collect the money due the state, not to cancel the debt. It was by means of this double-shuffle act that J. H. Xdmisten, chairman of the popu list state committee, flimflamed the state out of four and one-half years’ rent on some land in Dawson county and still holds the land. Commisoner Wolfe calls this reform. Mr. Edmisten, parading himself at the populist head quarters nowadays Instead of attending 10 nia Business at the state Houle, ii lull of eulogies for LandCommlsoner Wolfe, and he i« sending out literature under state house postage urging the taxpayers to rally once more for reform. In hund reds of cases under this auction scheme .Inaugurated by “Uncle Jake” new leases Sn wulf "improved farms went ’without bidders, and on the books the land is still marked vacant. It means that the man who occupied a farm like this had such standing in his community that no one cared to bid on his lease, and by tacit consent he is allowed to hold on without lease or title of any sort except occupancy. He has candled the leases on nearly 800,000 acres and released 80,000 acres. For each ten acres candled he has released one. Well informed men In the western part of the state say that at least 8800,000 of this 8400,000 back rent could have been collected this summer. Archard, one of the pop county treasury examine's under the state auditor, not satisfied with the |8,000 per annum which he gets from his office, connived with the land commissioner and got three im proved farms in York county away from the men who had improved them and expected to purchase under the old contract. Th» effect of all this school land reform is to lose to the state at least 8800,000 which could have been collected this year, and to put every man in jeopardy who had improved and expected to buy bis home. There’s more of this to come out later. When it is all told "Uncle Jake" will have all he wants to do explaining himself with out capturing the state university for bis son. Letters are coming from all over the state asking the governor to clear himself of the Ransom charges and to require a new bond from Treasurer Meserve. J. W. Jomraost. BITBAY HOTICX. Strayed, from my place at Rochester, Boyd county, about August 18, 1897, the following described horses: One gray, three years old; one gray, two years old; one black, one year old; and one light bay, one year old. A liberal reward will be given for information leading to their recovery. '4 H. C. Bakbh, Rochester, Neb. Hatfield & Hall Rare moved their reatuarnt into the Dwyer building, second door south of the postoffllce. where they will be pleased to meet all their old customers and a lot ot new ones, They will serve up oysters in any style desired, and their dining parlors are the best in the city. 15-8 Small precautions often prevent great mischiefs. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers are very small pills in size, but are most effective in preventing the most serious forms of liver and stomach troublee. They cure constipation and headache and regulate the bowels. Hbbshisib & Gilligan. CROSS SAYSJT'S FALSE Dickerson Auiated in Hnntinf Down tho Guilty Partial. AN HONEST AND UPBIOHT MAN Nr. Croat is a ropulist lulls Opposed to Tfca , Populist Method of Slandering Oppoatnu. The oattla man of the county are being throughly arouaed orer ahe effort* of the cattle thieve* to elect Bill Dick arson sheriff. Men are learning of the dose relation that existed between John Panton, Jim Perry, Bill Dlokerson, and Dell Aiken. They know that Dickerson is part of the gang, and for that reason they do not intend to have such a man for sheriff, when they know that hi* election would mean a return of the cattle thieving, hog thieving and harne** thieving of the past. The people *ee the sneak thieves and eattle thieves legg ing for Dickerson and they propose to cut off their little game in the bud. With the experience of the past we can not afford to have the cattle thieve* candidate bold the important office of sheriff.—Independent. What a malicious man McHugh 1st For the past two weeks he ha* been trying to make Bill Dickerson out a cattle thief. Ha* accused him of being tangled up with John Fanton in the Cross cattle stealing cue. Hu said that Dickerson aided Fanton to get away, and then helped to delay and mis lead the officer* in their search after him. When McHugh wrote the above he did not expect anyone who knew Dickerson would believe it. but it wag written solely with the hope that It would find a few believers in parts of the county where Dickerson is unknown. However, read what M. F. Crow, the complainant against John Fanton, hu to say in the following affidavit and then judge for yourself how okuch truth there is in the charges made by the prevaricating defender of the woman and child beater. It location (under ground) is a fitting place plaoe for such a sheet to eminate from: State of Nebraska, Holt county. I, M. F. Cron, being lint duly sworn, depose and say, that I was tbs com ¥ liaising witness and filed the complaint n the State of Nebraska against John Fan ton, et al, and assisted in hunting down and prosecuting the parties who stole our cattle (the Cross cattle) and I am and was intimately connected with the prosecution of said thieves, and knew the inside workings of said case, and was famaliar with the facta in said case, and wish to say at this time that William Dickerson, the present candi, date for sheriff on the republican ticket was in no way suspicioned of having anything to do with said cattle th