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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1901)
The Frontier. PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY BY PHX FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY D. B. CRONIN, Editor. BO MAINE SAUNDERS, Associate. That Beatrice man ought to take a little brain food. -- The Standard Oil company is fixing its fangs in the oil districts of Texas. Populist politicians of Holt county approach the fall campaign with fear and trembling. -- If the preachers need the armies to spread the gospel in China, better withdraw the preachers. --■ In Christain America Sunday papers devote fourteen columns to the stage and one column to the pulpit. South Sioux City thinks it will in dulge in a little enterprise in these prosperous times by building a sugar factory. • ..— With suoh excellent smashing abilities at their oommand, their is no excuse for the Mrs. Nation party to remain long in durance vile. President and Mrs. McKinley by all means should not overlook the opportunitee for summering afforded ^ at O’Neill while on their 10,000 mile tour. ... —. The Waterloo, Neb., Gazette, pub , lished by a former Frontier editor, J. H. Biggs, is the first to come out with a spring write-up. As many Frontier readers know, Mr. Biggs is a thorough going newspaper man and his speoial edition is well up to his usual standard. The radiant brother at Atkinson states that The Frontier claimed to be the official county paper “for a whole long year” when the Plain Dealer was the only one. The fool killer will never have done his duty until he calls upon the gentleman who straddles the tripod of the Plain-Dealer sanotum. In that ever pre-ent jocular mood of editorial writers, the World Herald thinks that a gold standard oountry like Japan ought never to be afflioted with a financial panic. Aooording to the World-Herald’s own xnouthings, the United States has been under a gold standard sinoe 1878. There was a crushing financial crash in the dark demo cratic days of Grover Cleveland that silver men sought to saddle onto the gold standard. ■..- -- "No other president of the United States within the experience of the present generation of voters,” says the New York Sun, "has had such evenly distributed support, regard less of seotional geographical lines, as was given to William McKinley in November, 1900. His greatest gains, compared with 1890, were on the Pacifio coast, 19,000 in California. In Utah the MoKinley vote increased from 13,000 to 47,000; in Colorado from 20,000 to 93,000, in Montana from 10,000 to 25,000, in Idaho from 0,000 to 27,000 and in Washington j from 39,000 to 57,000.” Secretary Boyse of the State Banking board has completed a comparison of all reports of the condition of state banks issued since the organization of his department The comparison shows that the gen eral deposits in the state banks on March 13, the date of the last state ment, were $3,214,938.75, greater than in any previous year in the history of the department In 1892, when the high water mark was es tablished, the deposits amounted to $24,891,113.29. This year the de posits amounted to $28,106,052.04. Thu indicates a healthy growth in prosperity and shows that the bank aooounts of-Nebraska people have been constantly swelling sinoe the abnormally low tide of the middle 90's. Everything points to a complete separation of the democrats from populists and silver republicans. In this state, fusion has simply been an endorsement cf populist candi dates all along and democrats are growing weary of playing tail to the fusion kite. Even in populist realms like Holt, where democrats single banded stand about the same show as prohibitiocsts, fusion rela tions have been greatly marred. Of course the pie hunters are averse to it as they realize there is no show for them unless the “reform forces get together.” Republicans have no causO to woiry about what be comes of fusion. With conditions in their favor and a united party they will have no trouble maintain ing ascendency. The first man to get into court through the Omaha kidnaping has been pronounced guiltlesb by the jury. The verdict was a surprise to those who had watched the progress of the trial and so at variance with the testimony that it moved the pre siding judge to utter these words: Gentlemen of the Jury: This is certainly a most remarkable verdict in the light of the evidence that has been disclosed in this case. You probably understand, but I cannot conceive of twelve intelligent men listening to the evidence in this case, without a broken link, and return a verdiot of this kind. Such verdicts as these place a premium upon crime and criminals. They make the in genious and notorious criminal a hero instead of a felon. Juries are for the purpose of protecting people and society; not for the purpose of making heroes of men who prey upon people and upon their propeity. I cannot conceive how this mau could have selected twelve men who would serve him better than this jury has served him, nor can I conceive how a community could select twelve men that could injure it more than the twelve have in this case. The de fendant is discharged to go forth, I presume, to commit more crime; so far as this case is concerned this jury is discharged from further serv ice; and I trust that you will never be called upon to serve as jurors in a like case in this court. You are discharged without the compliments of the court. The censure of the jury by Judge Baker finds general corroborative sentiment among those acquainted with the testimony. It is regret able that a jury should twart justice in a case that has taken the best official machinery of the state months to get in shape to clear up a great and mysterious crime. It serves as a foroeful example of how twelve men from the walks of private life can corrupt the justice that a court has every intention of honestly and lawfully administering. Nebsaska Coart Killed It. Omaha Bee: From the discus - siou indulged by certain newspapers over the recent ruling of Judge .Sanborn of the United States circu t court to the effect that no proceed ings can be brought under the Ne braska maximum freight rate law to recover penalties from any railroads, although not parties to the original suit, it is plain that the facts are not clearly understood. The original maximum freight rate case turned on the question whether the rates prescribed in the law were excessively low to the ex tent of confiscating the property without due compensation. The court held on the showing made that under the the then existing con ditions the schedule violated the con stitutional guaranties and was there fore unenforceable. The federal supreme court did not say that the law was unconstitutional, but ex pressly announced that conditions of traffic might change so as to make the legal schedule a reasonable one; whereupoh it might, upon proper showing, be received as an active statute. What Judge Sanborn de cided in the Bock Island oase was simply that while the law was nuga tory with reference to one or more roads, its penalties could not be im posed on any other road, but that all must be treated alike. What has killed the Nebraska maximum rate law devond resurrec tion is not the decision of the federal court, but the decision of the state supreme court abolishing the State Board of Transportation. The max imum rate law under its terms could not be made effective except through a state board of transpotation, and its whole fabric is built on the as sumption that the state board exists to secure its execution. If the max imum rate law is dead as a salt mackerel, as we are now told, the last nail was driven by the supreme court of the state at the instance of the late fusion attorney general, and there is no use trying to confuse the public mind upon the subject. Maine Will Float. Newtou F. Chamberlain, who is engaged in raising the wreck of the Maine in Havana harbor, and who just returned from Cuba on a short business trip, says: “We expect to have the Maine ailoat and ready for business again next fall. It was not so badly damaged when it was sunk hh is generally supposed, and repeirs can easily be accomplished. We find that the Maine has not sunk one inch deeper since I made an examina tion of it two years ago. It lies perfectly level. In order to float the vessel we shall first build a dam all around it and pump out the water. When the water has all been removed from the wreck, the hole in the bow will be repaired. Then when the water is turned in again, the vessel will rise to the surface and will be towed into the Havana docks, for a complete overhauling.” -».. COUNTY NEWS Emmet Items. Al^x Maring has purchased a fine buggy. Little Oliver Maring has the measels Mr. Ingersoll’s children have been having the mumps. Mr. Pickering of O’Neill was in this vicinity last Friday. Some are making use of this nice weather by cleaning house. Mort Hyatt and Chas. Ingersoll were in O’Neill last Monday. Mrs H. C. Uhler and Florence visited with Mrs John. Maring Sun day afternoon. . There was a dance in the Pleasant I View school house last Friday night. All report an enjoyable time. Fred Tenborg and wife and Mr. Smith and wife visited with Mr. Tenborg’s parents Sunday last. J. W. Hitchcock has purchased the quarter section adjoining his land ’ on the north known as the Alden place. Tom Maring, jr., has purchased part of the buildings on the old Graham place, now owned by Mr. Rvans. and has been moving them.! Leonia Limning s. 11. E. Bowden was in this vicinity surveying Monday. The farmers have begun listing corn in this vicinity. Erwin Simonson was victorious at the Gun club last Saturday. 1 ^ohn Mosher was in the neigh borhood Monday delivering trees. Kev. Sharpless will preach at Pleasant Valley next Sunday even ing. Philip Heckel, W. K. Hodgkin, Geo. Ridgeway and Wm. Hubby marketed hogs this week. The Pleasant Valley boys will meet next Saturday afternoon on the school-section south of Noll kamper’s to organize a base ball club. Christ Heckel raffled off his wolf last Saturday at the gun olub. Awald Spongier had the luoky num ber. Emma Weeks closed a very successful term of Bchool in the Wrede district last Friday. Frank Jenson and sister Emma, of Boyd co., were in the neighbor hood Sunday visiting friends. Mrs. Gertrude Simonson closed her term of school in the Bedford district last Friday. Mrs. Simonson is one of our most successful teaoh ers. The wind last Friday afternoon twisted the new barn just built by Adam Martin so badly that it will have to be taken down and rebuilt. The steachers’ meeting held at the Bedford school house last Saturday evening was quite largely attended. Arrangements were made for a good program at their next meeting, Saturday evening. May 11. The O’Hooligan Twins. I THE COUNTY PRESS I Ewing Advocate: A. D. Lane, special agent of the Nebraska Telephone Company was in Ewing yesterday making arrange ments to extend their line as far west as Ewing and connect with the Ewing and Deloit Telephone Line. T. H. Lawrence has bought Jas. Napier’s old place and is putting up a house 24 x 24 and one story high. Mr. Lawrence had almost completed a bargain for this place a few weeks ago, when the bouse which was on it caugnt fire and burned down. Mrs. Ida Johnson from near Page has rented her farm to her brother and yesterday left for her old home in Sweden, and expects to be gone about two years. This completes Mrs. Johnson’s second round trip across the ocean. Her father and mother are still living in Sweden. Atkinson Plain-Dealer: Peter Eritchioff was in last Satur day and secured several cans of trout from the state fish commission which he will plant in the spring branch of Brush creek on which his fine ranch is situated. Last Thursday evening a six year old child of S. P. Robinson’s died of diphtheria and was buried Friday evening in the cemetery here. Mr. Robinson recently moved to this place from Saunders county. Frank Simar left this morning for the province of Ontario, Canada, to be gone all summer. He has a job of surveying a new line of railroad through a portion of that country which he expects will take him until late in the fall. An unnsflal amount of nursery stock such as shade and fruit trees, especially has been sold in the village of Atkinson and surrounding country this spriog. Many who | never before have purchased trees and take the pains to set them out and care for them properly, have commenced the good work this year and will no doubt reap the benefit of their labors years hence. lie Kept His Leg. Twelve years ago J. W. Sullsvan, of Hartford, Ccnn., scratched his leg with a rusty wire. Inflammation and blood poisoning set in. For two yrars he suff ered intensely. Then the best doctors urged amputation, “but,” he writes, “I used one bottle of Electric Bitters and 1 1-2 boxes of Bucklen’s Arnica Salve and my leg was sound and well as ever.” For Eruptions, Eczema, Tetter, Salt Rheum, Sores and all blood disorder Electric Bitters has no rival on earth. Try them P.C. Corrigan, will guarantee satisfaction or refund money. Only Ualnt’i Modern Ships. Maine shipbuilders are developing the schooner rig to such an extent that they are putting together a vessel of that type with no less than seven masts. Big six-masted ships, rigged in Bchooner fashion, have proved to be remarkably economical and successful in carrying huge cargoes of coal and other heavy stuff, and now a step on ward to seven masts is on foot, says the New York Tribune. The new giant of its class will have a keel length of 335 feet, a breadth of 64, a depth of hold of 32, and a tonnage of about 4,000. This is a rarely interesting movement in the construction of sail ing vessels. How much further is to go? Will the seven-master, if satisfac tory, be followed by an eight-master, and possibly a ten-masted schooner, in e score of years or less? It may even be that the middle of the century will welcome a sailing leviathan with % dozen masts of the schooner rig. Yan kee inventiveness and energy take long looks ahead. Tis Easy To Feel Good. * Countless thousands have found a blessing to the body in Dr. King’s New Life Pills, wbkh positively cure Con. stipation. Sick Headach. Dizziness, Jaundice, Malaria, Fever and Agne and all Liver and Stomach troubles. Purely vegetable: never gripe or weaken. Only 25c at P.C.Corrigan drug store, American Horseshoes In Africa. The horses ridden by Lord Kitchen er’s flying cavalry to chase the elusive | General Dewet across the South Afri can veldt are shod with shoes made in Pennsylvania, the contract for their construction having been made through the instrumentality of the commercial museums in Philadelphia. Job Couldn’t Have Stood It. If he’d had Itching Piles. They’re terrible annoying; but Bucklen’s Arnica Salve will cure the worst case of Piles on earth. It has cured thousands. For Injuries, Pains or Bodily Eruptions it’s the best salve in the world. Price 25c a box Cure guaranteed. Sold by | P. C. Corrigan. / NEARLY A QUARTER F A CENTURY— Twenty-two years selling to the users of farm machinery of Holt county is a good guarantee time wnat we put out is giving the best service. Right at the front again this year with the celebrated— • JOHN DEERE MACHINERY —every bolt and bar and bur of which is genuine. Plows, harrows, cultivators and everything that is needed to cultivate the soil as it should be. Poor machinery can’t do good work any more than poor flour can make good bread; it costs you more for repairs in a year than the original machine. The beauty of the Deere is simplicity, durability, easy running and perfect work. You are looking for farm tools; here is the place to get the verry best manufactured. It pays to buy none other. We can give you a deal this spring that will make you smile. Buggies, wagons—the best made. A long standing reputation gives us pre-eminence in the hardware business of this section. The Majestic Steel Range has won fame all over the country; we have them. Exclus ive agent for the Lick and Elliott anti-rust tinware and Stan skey steel ware—every piece guaranteed. Stockmens’ attention is called to the Prussian food—the best thing yet put out to feed stoed and keep them fat and healthy. A full line of guaranteed grades of cutlery, guns, amunition and all kinds of sporting goods. HARDWARE NEIL BRENNAN THE PEOPLE’S NATIONAL FAMILY NEWSPAPER NEW YORK TRI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday, is in reality a fine, fresh, every other-day daily, giving the latest news on days of issue, and covering news of the other three. It contains all import ant foreign cable news which appears in the Daily Tribune of same date; also domestic and foreign correspondence, shot stories, half tone illustrations, hum orous items, industrial information, fashion notes, agricultural matters and comprehensive, reliable financial and market reports. Regular subscription price $ 1 50. With The Frontier, both papers, $2.25. NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Published on Thursday and known for nearly sixty years in every part of the United States as a national family newspaper of the highest class for farm ers and villagers. It contains all the most important general news of the Daily Tribune up to the hour of going to press, an agricultural department of the highest order, has entertaining read ing for every member of the family. Market reports which are accepted as authority by farmers and country mer chants,- and is clean, up to date, inter esting and instructive. Regular sub scription price $1; with The Frontier, both papers, $1.75. Send all orders to The Frontier, O’Neill. IO WEEKS trial subscript'll |Oc> THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FARMER It contains a number of special articles each week by the most compe tent specialists in every branch of agriculture; departments devoted to live stock, crops, the dairy, poulty yard, the orchard and garpen, farm machinery, veterinary topics, irrigation and the markets. The farmer’s wife, too, has her share of space, with recipes and sug gestions on cookery, dressmaking, fancy work, care of flowers and matters particularly pleasing to her, while the children have a department edited for them exclusively. Four or five pages are devoted to a complete review J of the news of the week, covering happenings at home and abroad, and news in particular interesting to the great farming west. Then, too, are the stories, choice poetry and humor and all the good things that one likes to read after the lamps are lighted and the day’s work is done. An ideal Agricultural 1 0j> / per and Family Weekly j <$) -L year. CUT THIS OUT AND SENDIT WITH A DIME OR FIVE 2-CENT STAMPS TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY j FARMER. 2227 FARNMAN STREET, OMAHA. KILLED LABOR AND NEW TYPE ENABLES US TO PRODUCE ARTIS TIC RESULTS HE FRONTIER PRTG. CO.