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The Frontier.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY
D. H. CRONIN, Editor.
ROMAINE SAUNDERS, Associate.
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republican CANDIDATES
State
Judge supreme court.. .8. H. Sedgwick, York
Regents. C. J. Ernst, Lincoln; H. L. Goold,
Ogallala.
County
For treasurer.James Holden of Chambers
For clerk.E. 8. Gilmour of Ewing
For sheriff.C. E. Hull 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 cororou.....I. K. Smith of O’Neill
Populist Argument
For four weeks The Frontier
has been trying to get the popu
list press of Holt county to say
something in support of their
cuase, but all we have been able
to get out of them up-to-date is
miserable subterfuge and brutal
personal slander.
The Frontier charged the gang
of bogus reformers and political
hypocrites which bosses the pop
party of Holt county with sending
a memorial to Governor Poynter
praying for the pardon of the
prince of public thieves, Joseph S.
Bartley. The Frontier published
the petition with the names of M.
H. McCarthy, ex-chairman of the
pop county committee, W. II.
Blackmerc, pop candidate for
sheriff,and J. A. Trommershauser,
pop candidate for clerk, attached
to it.
The following week the four
pop papers shouted at The Fron
tier in chorus, “Thief Defender.”
The Frontier charged that the
, county attorney and populist
papers are carrying on a system
of robbery of the tax payers in
making the notices of tax fore
closures an extravagent length
and over-charging on publication
fees.
The four pop papers shouted
in chorus, “Liar.”
The Frontier exploded the pop
theory of “republican” and “popu
list” tax circulated bv private
leters, and the four pop papers
shouted in chorus, “Robber and
thief defender.”
The Frontier charged that Re
ceiver Howard sold the Exchange
bank building for $790 when
there were persons ready to give
$3,500; that he sold $5,000 of
assets for $40; that he took the
files from the office of the clerk
of the district court and never
filed a report with the state bank
ing board.
(The four pop papers shouted
in chorus, “Liar and thief defend
er.”
The Frontier produced the re
cords to show that the four pop
papers have received $9,472.64
booty to pay them for shouting
“liar and thief defender;” that the
land syndicate of O’Neill has
wrung from the toil worn hands
of struggling land owners thous
ands of acres of lands and beat
the county out of hundreds of
dollars of taxes; that they refuse
to pay the accumulated taxes of
years upon their own domains
and grasp from the hands of
widows and orphans their poultry
posessions.
The four pop papers shout in
chorus, “Liar and thief defender.”
1 The Frontier challenges the
; four pop papers or any of their
army of campaign writers to dis
prove any charge it has made.
The Frontier challenges them to
take up any thing we have pub
lished concerning the record of
populism in Holt county. It
challenges them to go to the pub
lic records and show to the
people of Holt county that what
The Frontier has been printing
the last four weeks isn’t so. It
challenges them or any populist
in Holt county to disprove that
the charges of corruption, dis
honesty, hypocrisy and deceit
made by The Frontier are false
in any particular.
The records are open; the}- are
in the hands of your own history
making officials. Bring them
before the people and prove that
The Frontier is a “liar and a
thief defender” if you dare. Your
assertions are void and empty to
the intelligent people of Holt
county in the face of your dam
nable record which The Frontier
is spreading before them.
Another Lying Wonder
The most desperate effort yet
made by the gang of plunder
mongers, land pirates and disrep
utable hypocrites to cover up
their filthy tracks, mislead voters
and defeat the efforts to reform
the abuses that impregnate the
county administration wasattempt
ed in three columns ofvile trash
under a double-deck scare head,
“Skirving Says Frontier Lied,”
in the last issue of the O’Neill
fake mill.
The Frontier hesitates to dip
its pen into the ink-pot of putridi
ty and rot which has been the
only source of inspiration of the
populist campaign writers, but
there are times when men have
to wade through mud to reach
the rose beds beyond.
In a few words,the three column
diatribe in the Independent stated
that Samuel B. Howard, the re
ceiver of the defunct Exchange
bank at Atkinson, had filed an
official bond. The statement was
backed by the publication of a
certified copy of the bond. We
cheerfully accord to the badly
shattered host of “reform” all the
glory they can get out of this fact.
It is the only statement they have
yet made that could be support
ed by public record. But it
amounts not to a snap of the finger.
Let us see. The cornerstone of
the fake mill’s three column pro
duction reads:
In a personal letter to
the editor of this paper
which appeared in last week’s
Frontier, Mr. Skirving cites our
charge that “he had either de
stroyed the files in the Exchange
Bank receivership case or allowed
some of the republican strikeis to
steal them,” and says that “Mr.
Howard got the files” and that
“no bond was ever filed by Mr.
Howard,” and father that “Judge
Westover had never acted on any
final report of Recever Howard”
and that “no report of the kind
had been liled in his office as he
positively knew.”
The falsification in the fore
going is so bold, rank and visible
to all that it is amazing that any
newspaper man could have the
hardihood to put it into type. It
quotes Mr. Skirving as saying
“no bond was ever tiled by Mr.
Howard.” In plain terms, this is
a lie pure and simple. There is
not one word in the entire state
ment made bv Mr. Skirving in
The Frontier two weeks ago rel
ative to there being no bond filed
by Howard, and The Frontier
challenges the Independent to
publish the letter from Mr. Skirv
ing. What Skirving did say was
that no report had been filed anti
that Howard had taken the files
from the clerk’s office and never
returned them. The Frontier
challenges the Independent and
the whole populistic push to pro
duce from the records in the office
of the clerk of the district court
of Holt county the final report of
Receiver Howard. You publish
certified copies of Howard’s mo
tion for discharge and Judge
Westover’s order of discharge
for about the ’steenth time, but
why don't you produce the re
port?
\V hy don’t you dig up the tiles
Howard carried to Harrington’s
office and never returned?
Whv don’t you dig up this re- >
port you say is on lire docket at
the clerk’s officer
Why don’t you say something
about Howard selling the Ex
change bank building, furniture
and fixtures for $790 when there
were men waiting for an oppor
tunity to buy it at $3,500?
Why not explain Howard’s
failure to file a report with state
banking board?
The fact is you are driven to the
waif. You have printed all of the
record you can or dare and you
know if any report was ever filed j
it was either done in chambers or
on the q. t. and immediately car
ried away.
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“Not Worth the Taxes”
Ewing Advocate: During
Mr. Eutler’s administration about
a dozen pieces of land that were
not worth the taxes, were sold
for less than the taxes.
The above is a fair sample of
the false and misleading articles
that are being written in the
oflice of M. F. Harrington and
County Attorney Mullen and seal
to the populist papers of this
count}’ for publication.
To give our readers an idea of
how absolutely false are the
claims of the populist papers and
the corrupt gang of conspirators
and how the county is being sys
tematically robbed, we give
below twenty cases out of the
many in which the county has
lost the taxes and the gang of
land pirates have been the direct
beneficiaries to that amount, as
they have bought the lands.
The following are a few of the
many cases in which the county
has been robbed out of the taxes
by this system of tax forecolsures:
XW3—Edwards, w*.aiew*,se!4 27-38-13....? MS 82
flMH—Stillman. 10-:u-i:s.fist) 20
8079—Join. Inv’t Co ,..183 74
5378—Cuthe ine O’ »■*nine,.. 82 88
5**49 Moore, hvv 25-20-10. 15 49
5501—Bliven, sec 13-33-14. f3 09
5548— i. 11 v e 11. no 33-32-12.. 59 89
5452—Parents. noJ4 27-39-11. 9 87
5.'84—Chester Co. C. Co. nw 27-31-15. 71 23
♦5100-. )ot 11 block 14. O'Neill.253 71
5387—Rod men, no 5-30-11. 9 35
8244—Oregon H. & L. C(V sw 9-32-15. 8 02
5382—Tennont., nw 29-28-11... 9 20
5594—A1 leu, n w 33-28-14. 50 80
5512—Braw, n‘4 no so no 17-32-15. 19 38
8045-, sw 12-29-18. 71 73
8112—“owden, o'* w1.21-28-14 . 8 18
5339—Willhite, so nw n'a nw 29-31-12. 55 02
5554—Vo ugh, ne 21-20-12. 131 03
5558—Yale, sw 5-28-13. 37 90
Total .$1,894.78
In the above twenty cases alone
the county has been as effectively
robbed out of $1,894.78 as if they
had gone into the treasurer’s
office and taken this sum out of
the cash drawer. We do not
pretend to publish a list of all the
cases in which the county has lost
its taxes. We believe this work
should be done by an expert
ivhom we believe the next board
of supervisors will employ to
check up the corrupt gang and
ascertain the exact amount out of
which the countyhas been robbed.
“About a dozen pieces of land
that were not -worth the taxes
were sold for less than the taxes”
snys the Advocate. If any of
our readers will take the time to
investigate as we have, they will
find that with but one single ex
ception, any of the above describ
ed tracts of land are worth much
more than the taxes and costs.
Three of the above described
tracts in which the county lost its
taxes the sales were made to
three of our county officers. Case
No. 5554 for uev£ 21-26-12, was
sold to W. 1>. Cooper, when he
was supervisor, for $So and the
county therby lost $131.03 in
taxes which was stricken from
the books without the payment
of one dollar. Case No. 5339
for se nw n mv 29-31-12, was
sold to Deputy County Treasurer
J. A. Donohoe, for $67 and the
county thereby lost $55.02. Case
No. 5556 for sw 5-26-13, was
Isold to Deputy County Clerk
Casper Englehaupt for $127 and
the county lost'$37.90 in taxes,
were canceled without the pay
ment of a dollar. Englehaupt
sold this land a short time after
he bought it for $200.
Yet this gang of pirates have
the temerity to look the tax
payers of this county in the face
and tell them that this land is not
worth the taxes.
Mr. Tax Payer, don’t you think
it would better become our
county officers if they were to
put in a little of their time in an
honest effort to collect delinquent
taxes by notifying non-resident
land owners, rather than spend
ing their time conspiring with the
land pirates devising ways and
means whereby they’ can defraud
people out of their land and rob
the county out of it taxes?
Emphatic Denial
E. S. Eves, Editor Independ
ent: In your issue of October u
you charge that I borrowed
money from Barrett Scott, county'
treasurer, and that I owe Holt
county, by reason of having bor
rowed .money from Scott while
he was treasurer.
•I wish to make a denial of such
charge most emphatic. I never
borrowed one cent of money'
directly or indirectly from Barrett
Scott, either as county treasurer
or personally', and never in any
shape had one cent of county'
money’.
Charlie E. Hall.
Chased to their 'lair, the pop
coyotes are becoming desperate.
They are ready now to do any
thing to hold on to the county'
offices, and here is a sample of
one thing they have resorted to,
which appeared in their chief fake
mill last week:
Did Charlie Hall have his hand
in the county' treasury? Is he
one of the members of the old ring
who robbed Holt county? Does
he still owe Holt county money
he received from Barrett Scott.
All of these questions can be
answered by the one little word,
Yes. This is the only kind of
men the Diekson-Weeks-Akin
Brady ring will have for their
tools.
The publisher of the above not
only outdoes the ancient Ananias
but lay’s himself open to libel.
Anybody' that ever knew Charlie
Hall would be disposed to slap a
man who would bring this ac
qusation against him, and Charlie
would make himself ipany' votes
by taking the consummate hy'
pocrite who wrote it to the Elk
horn and holding him under a
few seconds. The idea seems to
permeate the populist mind that
anybody who ever had business
relations with Scott or was ever
a debtor of his ‘‘had their hand in
the treasury.”
The pop party invites the
public to continue it in power on
the strength of its record. The
republican party directs the atten
tion of the public to the populist
record—to the corruption and
outraged law attached to the re
cord of the head peace officer of
the county; to the “stricken”
taxes lost to the county for ever
through the manipulation of the
land syndicate which has control
of the populist party in Holt
county; to the system of land
grabbing under the pretext of
collecting taxes. Inspect their
records closely, dear readers,
That *is what we want you
to see.
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Judge Selah has taken to para
phrasing Shakespere as the' latest
approved populist mode of ans
wering the columns of potent
truths The Frontier is shaking
in the faces of the pirates.
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Jack Harrington says he never
received a cent of appraiser’s fees
from Sheriff Stewart. Worse
and more of it. Sheriff Stewart
is pocketing the whole thing.
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The pop papers and the pop
speakers think Dickson is the
whole thing—but no matter; the
p.ops arc going down the pike
faster than they ever did before.
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As Viewed at a Distance.
Naper News: Lee Henry, of the
Atkinson Plain-Dealer, has a hard. lime.
Personally he is a good, fair-minded
fellow, anil when let alone runs one of
the most respectable pop papers on the
line. Each campaign he starts in
decently and tries to win in a respectable
way; but Mike’s gang who gave hint his
first start, immediately swoop down
upon him and compel him to print a lot
of crazy slush that he well knows aint
so, and then he has to labor arduously
all the next year to re-establish his
reputation for truth and veracity, and
to regain the confidence of his friends.
It’s a shame! Lee ought to cut loose
from the? and be natural and decent the
whole year around, “A lie oft repeated
becomes half truth,” and if Lee isn’t
careful he will beoome as abandoned and
as cheerful a liar as Bro. Eves, who by
constant practice has become hardened
beyond all redemption and sometimes
almost believes that what he says is so
Stuart Ledger: Holt county has a
political freak. It is a populist Mark
Hanna, one who maps out the policy of
his party unaided and whips the papers
and politicians into line with a tyranny
never seen in iepublicau politics. And
this in a party which believes that no
man should be given any more power
than another! How cheap, how very
cheap, is talk!
Cahill Recommended.
This is what the Board of Education
at Stuact has to say respecting the re
publican candidate for superintendent
of public instruction of Holt county:
To whom it may concern: The bearer,
Prof. J L. Cahill, has been principal of
the Stuart high school for the past two
years and has given the best of satisfac
lion in all respects. He is well qualified,
earnest and faithful in his work. He is
a man of excellent character and a good
citizen. We take pleasure in recom
mending him to any school board. — H
Shank (director), W. N. Coats (moder
ator), R. E. Chittiek (treasurer), Wil
liam Krotter, A, C. Powell, Charles F,
Johnson, school board district 44.
j THE COUNTY PRESS j
Chambers Bilgle: Edward Adams,
formerly banker at Page, Nebraska, and
more recently of Stuart was in town last
week and signified his intention to
locate perminently in Chambers and is
to associate himself with the new bank,
which is about to open here, Mr
Adams is a gentleman who stands very
high in the estimation of those with
whom he has had business and he will
doubtless be a valuabler cquisition to our
town.
Stuart Ledger: J. A. Rice went over
to Badger the first of the week to act as
attorney in an important property
transfer. W. S. Pickier has bought out
Vandenburg’s interest in the Badger
Hour mills and he now owns the entire
plant which is valued at $16,000.Mr
Remm, an architect from west Point,
arrived in town this week and has begun
the building of a fine house for C. Schiu
stock. The house will be 16 by 28 with
an ell and will be a modern affair with
bath-room, fine stair way, new style
windows and porches.
Atkinson Plain-Dealer: They’re
people in this country who really do be
lieve that this is not a good fruit country
but as the years roll by it becomes more
evident that it can’t be beaten in some
respects. Only this year peaches were
raised on both Joseph Price’s and S.
Hiddard’s farms a few miles northeast
of town, each marketing eight or ten
bushels in Atkinson. We were privileg
ed to sample some that were purchased
of Mr. Price by C. L Sturdevant and
although, they were small they were as
fine flavored as any we ever saw. “The
Land of the Sandy Hill Crane" isn’t a
bad fruit country.
Notice.
Notice is hereby given that all.parties
owing the old firm of Mack & Peeler,
will greatly oblige the new firm by call
ing and settling their accounts as soon
as possable. Thanking you for past
favors, we beg to remain yours truly.
14 d Peeler & McManus.
For Sale—Twenty head of heavy
draft horses—mars and geldings—Nor
man bred. Prices und term right.—F.
M. Harrison, O'Neill. 12-tf
Those owing us on subscripation re
requested to call and pay up. We have
several hundred dollars on our books
which we desire to collect during thig
month. Call in and pay up.
scon’s <
t msion
of Cod Liver Oil is the means
of life, and enjoyment of life to
thousands: men women and
children.
When appetite fails, it re
stores it. When food is a
burden, it lifts the burden.
When youlose flesh.it brings
the plumpness of health.
When work is hard and
duty is heavy, it makes life
bright.
It is the thin edge of the
wedge; the thick end is food.
But what is the use of food,
when you hate it, and can't di
gest it?_
Scott's Emulsion of Cod ^
Liver Oil is thefood that makes
you forget your stomach.
If you have-not tried it, send for
free sample, its agreeable taste will
surprise you.
.-SCOTT & EOWNE, Chemists,
4-09 Pearl Street. New York.
“'Oc. and $1.00 i all druggists.
Amenities of Ancient Warfare.
During the sieges of mediaeval times
it was very uncommon for the be
leaguers to throw from their catapults
and other military engines dead bodies
of dogs, swine, together with pieces of
horseflesh and similar carrion into the
city or castle besieged in order that
the defenders might, by the stench of
this putridity, be forced to surrender.
(Ireat Seacoast* of Canada.
The eastern Canadian seacoast, from
the Bay of Funday to the straits of
Belle Isle, covers a distance of 5,000
miles, and British Columbia, with its
multitude of bays and mountainous
islands, has a seacoast of 7,180 miles,
and a salt-water inshore area, not in
cluding minor indentations, of 1,500
square miles.
Old Salon Honors American.
Awards have been given as follows
to Americans by the Old Salon of
Paris: Painting second-class medal to
H. Hftrtwitch, third-class medals to
G. H. Mosler, Seymour Thomas and
Miss S. Watkins: honorable mention,
Mrs, Mac Monnies. Sculpture, honor- ^
able mention, Barnard and Walter.
Towns In Yucatan.
There are altogether in Yucatan sev
en cities, thirteen towns, sixtv-two
ruined cities, 143 villages, fifteen
abandoned settlements and 333 hacien
das. Scarcely any of these places has
as many as 10,000 inhabitants, the
population of the great majority fall
ing below 1,000.
Women Factory Inspector. Succeed,
The two women recently appointed
in Germany as assistants on the board
of factory inspectors have proved so
satisfactory that the budget commis
sion of the Prussian house of repre
sentatives has recommended the con
sideration of more such appointments.
Gets Chair of Philosophy.
Dr. William H. Whitsitt of Louis
ville, Ky., formerly president of the
Southern Baptist Theological Semin
ary, has been elected to the chair of
philosophy in Richmond (Va). Col
lege, succeeding the late Dr. W.. D.
Thomas.
Library for Trinidad, Cuba.
By the will of the late Mary B. Car
ret of Medford, Mass., a public library
Is provided for Trinidad, Cuba. This
and other legacies are contingent on
the recovery of the estate in Trinidad
which her father owned and left.
Big Prize for Ktgay.
William J. Curtis of New York has
given $3,000 to Bowdoin College in tha
name of the class of ’75 as a prize for
the best essay on some subject in co
lonial or United States history.
Our Sins Grow.
Our sins, like our shadows, when our
day is in its glory, scarce appeared.
Towards our evening how great and
monstre- « the- ' ', -/’kling.
Call for the .Shamrock; little, but O,
my! Best value for your niekle. B’or
sale by all dealers. 8-tf
Teelb or photographs at Corbett’s,
lOih to 30lh of each mouth. 35)tf.
II wish to call your attention to 1
SW one of the finest lines of Blank
ets and Comforts that has ever been 1
•i shown in Holt county. Our comforts I
I range in prices and qualities, from $1 1
to $8; this latter price gets a fine I
Idown filling with mercerized cover. In £
blankets we have everything from 1
cotton sheets to the finest wool. I
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