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i CALLED DOWN BY SUPERVISORS
1 Corruptions of Land Syndicate as Exposed by The Fron
tier Calls Down Rebuke from County Board.
| The pop ring roosters and land pirates are jumping side
[ways. The Frontier has landed several broadsides into their I
nest of corruption and given the public a squint at the dis- b
honesty and hypocracy that lurks behind the mask of reform. |j
To make the discomfiture of the bogus reformers more |j
complete, after The Frontier came out last week exposing the [I
! steals that are being made on the notices of tax foreclosures,
the board of supervisors in session in O’Neiil adopted the |j
| following resolutions:
Mr. Chairman: I move for the adoption of the following [1
| resolution: 1
Whereas, It has come to the knowledge of this board that 1$
I the oounty attorneys, W. R. Butler and A. F. Mullen, have j|
I caused to be published in county tax foreclosure cases notices b
I costing from $25 to $72; and—
I Whereas, In our opinion proper and legal notices can be a
published at an expense of from $10 to $15 in each case; {3
and—
Whereas, Numerous complaints and protests have been |]
made, and in our opinion justly, against the unnecessarily
long and expensive notices; and—
Whereas, Said notices as now published are an injustice to 1
the land owners, whether resident or non-resident, and a use- [3
less and unnecessary expense to the county as well as to the jfj
tax payers and land owners, reflecting no credit on Holt j|
county or its people; therefore be it— t|
Resolved, That we do not approve, and hereby disapprove, b
of the publishing of such notices by the legal representatives 1
of Holt county; and be it further— g
Resolved, That our present county attorney be instructed |j
to discontinue this method of making unnecessary costs to the j|
county, its tax payers and land owners; and be it further—
Resolved, That this resolution be spread upon the records b
and a copy be served on County Attorney A. F. Mullen by [I
the county clerk. R. J. MARSH, 1
W. S. GRIMES.
Resolution adopted.
Politically, there is a populist majority on the board. The t|
| resolutions, then, are not gotten up for republican campaign [|
I purposes.
Now read what The Frontier has to say further this week |j
1 about the land syndicate, found on page one, and see if you
I don’t think it is about time to give populism a black eye in |]
I Holt county.
Bewiskered Chestnut.
For the third time the Inde
pendent has published the be
vyhiskered chestnut of a certificate
of final discharge of Receiver
Howard by Judge Westover in
an attempt to justify Howard’s
tooting of the assets of the defunct
Exchange bank. As has been
shown, this certificate was filed in
the office of the clerk of the dis
trict court by Judge Harrington
many moths after Howard took
the files from the office of the
clerk of the district court and
which he has never returned.
The attempt of the Independent
to hold Mr. Skirving responsible
for the files when they were taken
from his office by Howard is not
only silly but reprehensible. A
few of the pertinent questions
that have been asked in connec
tion with this deal and which
Howard, Eves or any one of the
corrupt gang have failed to an
swer, are here again appended:
What has become of the files
in the receivership case that were
taken from the clerk’s office by
Howard?
What has become of Howard’s
official bond?
Why did Howard sell the Ex
change bank building, including
safe, furniture and fixtures, for
$790 when the same were well
worth $5,000?
Why did he sell assets of the
bank amounting to over $5,000
to Harrington & McCarthy
for $40?
When these questions are an
swered by Howard or any one of
the gang we have many more
to ask.
The only way for Holt county
to rid itself of the land syndicate
pleague is to vote down the pop
ticket.
There was never a better fitted
man for sheriff than Charley Hall.
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Reform has reached a stage of
deform that will meet defeat.
"Maligning: Honest Men.”
The only argument offered by
the pop editors, who have grown
sleek, and fat by questionable
means, in defence of their gang
which The Frontier has been
showing up to the public is a
pitiful whine that we are “malign
ing honest men.” The Frontier
makes no assaults on honest men;
men with honest records have
nothing to fear nor need they
proclaim their honesty from the
housetops as the gang of bogus
reformers now dominating the
pop parly of Holt county does.
History speaks for itself. The
records of those men who clutch
the political power of Holt county
are in plain black and white. If
it isn’t, why don’t the pop papers
produce something to show it?
Let the pop papers show why
the last and present county at
torneys cause the bill of expense
against fofclosed lands to be sev
en times greater than need be.
Let the pop papers explain why
they overcharge from $i to $4
on tax foreclosure notices.
Let the pop papers explain
why the county has lost thousands
of dollars of taxes which were
“stricken” from the records to
accomodate the pop land syndi
cate.
Let the pop editors say some
thing about the transaction of
their political high priest, who
poses as the incarnation of purity,
wherein he bought a piece of
land at “public” tax sale for taxes
and costs and in two months sold
it for $2,400.
“Maligning honest men” ! It
is a sight to make the devils
blush and plutonian angels flee.
The esteemed Independent is
kindly doing much free adver
tising for a few O’Neill republi
cans.
The Stuart Herald architect is
trying hard to make people be
lieve he is a pop.
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
State
Judge supreme court.. .8. H. Sedgwick. York
Regents. C. J. Ernst, Lincoln; H. L. Goold,
Ogallala.
County
For treasurer.lames Holden of Chambers
For clerk.E. 8. Gilmour of Ewing
For sheriff.C. E. Hall of O’Neill
For judge.L. C. Chapman of Atkinson
For superintendent.I. L. Cahill of Stuart
For surveyor. R. K. Bowden of Agee
For cororon.I. R. Smith of O’Neill
POPULIST PERFIDITY
True to its craven and perfidi
ous nature, the Independent last
week made a low down thrust at
Clerk of the Court Skirving in
an effort to mislead the minds of
the people concerning what has
become of the files in the Ex
change bank case. Mr. Skirving
here shows that it was Howard
himself who has “wilfully de
stroyed them contrary to all law
and honesty.” Read:
O'Neill, Sept. 30.—E. S. Eves, Editor
Holt County Independent.—Dear Sir:
In vour paper of September 27, in an
article relative to tbe Exchange bank
and its receiver, S II. Howard, you say:
“The complete report of Receiver How
ard, his bond and all paperB incident to
bis duties as receiver of the Exchange
bank, were duly tiled with Clerk Skirv
ing, who is tbe custodian of such records,
and if they are not on band in bis office
now he has wilfully destroyed the same
contrary to all law and honesty, or else
he hus allowed The Frontier strikers for
republican dishonesty to steal them in
order to be able to blackmail Mr. How
ard and others,’' You have on several
occasions before intimated that the tiles
were lost by me. Now, tbe tacts are,
that in tbe early summer of 1900 Samuel
II. Howard came to my office and asked
me for the tiles in this Exchange bank
oase of which he was reoeiver, inform
ing me that he desired to take them to
the office of M. F. Harrington to there
examine them. I gave them to Mr.
llowarJ and have not seen them since
that time; he nor no one else ever re
turned them to my office and they were
never again in my office. Some time
later and in the fall of 1900 the board
of supervisors came to my office and
asked to see the tiles. The board de
sired to use them in checking up W. It.
Butler, county attorney. I went to the
office of M. F. Harrington but was un
able to Hud them. On the same day I
went to Mr. Howard's home but he was
away and I did not see him. When he
returned I asked him for the tiles and
he informed me that he knew nothing
about them. The journal entry, which
bears dale of January 2, 1900, which
you set forth in your article, did not
come into my office until some time in
the spring of 1001, when Judge Harring
ton brought it in and told me be had
just found it in his office, and at his
lequest I spread it upon the journal as of
date January 2, 1900, although not re
ceived until in the spring of 1901. Mr.
Howard, as receiver of the Exchange
bank of Atkinson, nor any one tor him,
never tiled in my office his final report
of his doings as such receiver, and the
files will so show if he will return them
to my office where he got them.
The trial docket in my office does not
show that Judge Westover ever acted
on any final report filed by Mr. Howard
as receiver, amt if it was ever presented
to him it was at chambers and no reoord
was made by him on the trial docket.
I have no knowledge of anv suoh report
being presented to him, and positively
know that it was never tiled in my
office. JOHN SKIRVING,
Cl'-rk Distriot Court.
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Lew Chapman is a good man
for county judge, an old citizen
of the county and capable of
conducting the office in a proper
manner.
Mr. Holden is givininc the tall
cj O
gentleman from Shields a vigor
ous campaign and it looks now as if
he would be fifty yards ahead on
the homestretch.
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The Ewing Advocate stretched
itself in a half column last week
to come to the conclusion that
the six-pounders booming in the
republican camp weren’t worth
noticing anyway.
The pop campaign literature
has been decidedly thin all along
this fall, but the thinest thing yet
was the uxcuse in last week’s
Independent that two of the
populist candidates with other
prominent populists of the county
signed the petition to Governor
Poyntor for “a free and unlimited
pardon” of Joe Bartley because
they knew the governor wouldn’t
do it. There is populist wisdom
in this philosophy.
O'NFiLL BUSINESS PLACES
THAT ARE RELIABLE
ePatpooizc t£em
arad Will not
^et beat, v v •> v
MRS. S. G. NICHOLS
Has a complete assort
ment of fashionable
M illinery
If you wish the latest styles and
best values get my prices.
First door north of Cole’s jewelry store, 4th s
MRS. C. E. HALL
Dress Making
Modern methods, latest patterns
and perfect fits. A large force
of helpers enables me to turn
work out rapidly.
Fron rooms over 0 Neill National bank.
JOHN MANN
The Pioneer Harness Maker
is still at the old stand selling the best goods
at the lowest prices and paying all the mar
ket allows for hides and furs. Bring me them
or come in if you need a harness or saddle or j
anything to be found in u harness store.
R. H. MILLS
Wells, Wind Mills,
TANKS AND PUMPS.
Write or call on me for estimates. Residence
114 block west Porter livery.
PORTER & SON
Dewey Hotel pSSSS
Checker Livery
General feed and livery business. North
Short Line depot.
M. D- LONG
U. S. Land Attorney
Practice before U. S, Land Office.
Buys and Sells Real Estate. Agent for
MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO.
Has resided in O’Neill since i»2ay, 1877. Office
first door east O’Neill Grocery.
JOHN J. HARRINGTON
Keeps the best OLIO ETC for ^ie m(>ney
lino of. OnULO in the west.
Aud at prices to satisfy all.
He carries also a complete line of
Fancy and Staple Groceries,
Hats, Caps, Gloves, Shirts, Overalls,
Suspenders, Underwear, etc.
Mesdames
WOODRUFF & PI ANK
Restaurant and Bakery
Hoi Meals
Lunches
FrUit ai)d Candy
FRESH
Home Made Bread
EVERY DAY.
J. BENTLEY
Groceries, Fruits &
.. Candies..
BREAD, CAKES, ETC.
RYAN & LACY
Dealers In
Iregh and Salt Meat
GAME AND POULTRY.
LIVE STOCK BOJT & SOLD
Berger’s Gash Store
Headquarters for
CLOTHING
AND SHOES
Wholesale and Retail
Groceries, Fruits and
..Provisions.,
FINE TEAS AND COFFEES
OUR SPECIALTY.
J. P. GALLAGHER, Prop.
A. MERRELL
Wholesale and Retail
FLOUR, FEED &
-^OIL MEAL^
Walmer's old stand.
8AZELMAN LUMBER CO.
LUMBER
& COAL
Let us figure your bill.
MRS. ROBERTS j
MILLINERY
Store always stocked with the
latest and newest goods.
We meet all competion in prices.
New Fall Styles will soon be on display
JOHN BENNETT
NJerehant
Tailor.
Two doors cast of Hotel Evans.
HOWARD BROS.
MEAT MARKET
(Gatz* old stand.)
Choice Meat, Game and Poultry.
V. ALBERTS
Dealer In and Manufacturer of
Harness, Saddles
WHIPS, ROBES, ETC. |
Agt for Our Native Herbs
P. J. BIGLIN
Can give you the best bargains
A I C GASOLINE AND
I | I A I J KEKOSBNE
V J W f-\ I_ 1 BLACKSMITH
Yards east O’Neill Grocery.
A spun of mules for sale, Elkhorn
Valley Bank. 13 tf
Remember "True Kentuckian”—opera
house October 3rd.
For farm loans, on reasonable terms
call on Elkhorn Valley Bank. 13-tf
FOR RENT—Front room of my reri
dence; also two show cases, 6 and 8 foot,
and counter for sale.—Mrs. L. Cress. 12 3
For Sale—Twenty bead of heavy
draft horses—mars and geldings—Nor
man bred. Prices and term right.—F.
M. Harrison, O'Neill. 12-tf
Opera-house Thursday October 3rd.
The event of the season ‘‘A True Ken
tuckiau” a pretty southern play, a $10,
000 production at popular prices. The
best on the road is the verdict 'of the
press every where. Reserve your seats
early ou sale at Corrigan’s drug store.
The celebrated actress Miss Myrtle
Vinton and an Exccllant Co., will pre
sent "A True Kentukiau” at the opra
house Thurspay October 3rd. The play
deals with the south it has a pretty
hearts stay and makes one better having
seen it. climaxes are startling—The
comedy is represhing. The wardrobe
worn by Miss Vinton is valued at $6,000
High class specealties are iutrduced be
tween acts making it almost a continon
oua preformance. Secure your reseved
seals early on Sale at Corrigan's drug
store. _
Warm Weather Diet.
“It is astounding,’ said a physician
to the writer, “how little thought tha
people give to their food in relation
to various seasons of the year. I would
entreat every housekeeper not to buy
a morsel of pork, ham or sausage from
June till October. Reserve even beef,
lamb and veal for the coolest days of
summer, and in long, hot spells let
meat alone entirely. Nature provide*
for these burning days with vegetables
and fruit, tender chicken and fine,
firm, white-fleshed fish. If you have
left-over foods to be utilized, convert
them into chilled, appetizing salads in
stead of ragouts. If soups are a neces
sity, let them be thin consomme or
chicken soup, not purees or bisques.
1 would prohibit pie and rich cake,
and let fruit, ices, delicate jellies or
milk puddings take their place. I’d
also put a veto on hot breads. If peo
ple could turn an X-ray on the poor,
overworked stomachs I’m called to
care for all summer long and see the
mischief done by overeating and eat
ing things that have no business to
be cooked in hot weather, they would
realize I am speaking earnest truth."
—Good Housekeeping.
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Stockmens’ attention is called to the Prussian food—the
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and all kinds of sporting goods.
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