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A POPULIST GRAFT.
Tlie O’Neill land syndicate is put
ting in laborous hours hunting up land
which they may grab and writing long
notices to the effect that the land is
going to be sold for taxes.
It. seems that the magnitude of this
t ax lien business is not yet fully un
derstood. In these cold wintered days,
far from the heat and turmoil of a po
litical campaign The Frontier ventures
no risk of an accusation of cam
paign talk by taking up
tills subject and endeavoring to
shed a ray of light in the thickening
gloom.
The Frontier lias before charged
that the tax lien foreclosures, as carri
ed on by the land syndicate, are not
instituted as a means to bring ransom
into the coffers of the county, but is a
scheme of designing land pirates whose
chief end in every thing is private gain.
Tills charge we again and now make.
Something over one hundred new
cases have been commenced within the
past thirty days. No sooner had the
result of election become known than
the syndicate redoubled its capacity to
grab land and every available piece
has been captured and will be held to
sell to the farmers of the county at.
syndicate prices.
In the last issue of the Holt County
Independent there were fifty-four col
umns of these notices, upon which the
printer’s fees alone amount to $2,490.
The Ewing Advocate contained ten
columns, upon which there will be
9447.50 printer’s fees, or a total of $2,
937.50 which is heaped onto the already
excessive taxes of these lands. That
this is simply outrageous, an imposi
tion on innocent people and a disgrace
to county officials who perpetrate it
is known by all intelligent men. The
delinquent taxes on the lands that are
now being advertised amount to
from 925 to $100 a quarter. The
printer fee on each notice amounts to
930, which is safely approximated as
one-third the amount of tax. Adding
sheriff and court costs the tax is added
to by a half and in some cases doubled.
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• The notices are outrageous in length.
The owner of the land could be given
t he some legal notice in one-half or a
third of the space, and hence it would
cost him one-half or two-thirds less.
Another point where the populist
newspaper men—the great lovers of
the people, the tireless laborers for the
taxpayers—are adding to the expense
of the land owners is in setting their
notices in an eight point type instead
of a six. While this is only a small
matter of about $5 more on each notice
to the publisher the tax payer would
just as soon pay it. The present form
of tax lien notices is in direct violation
of specific instructions to the county at
torney from the county board. At the
September meeting of that body the
following resolutions and instructions
were unauimously adopted:
Whereas, It has come to the know
ledge of this board that the county at
torneys, W. It. Butler and A. F. Mullen,
have caused to be published in county
tax foreclosure cases notices costing
from $25 to $2"; and—
Whereas, In our opinion proper and
legal notice can be published at an ex
pense of from $10 to $15 in each case;
and—
Whereas, Numerous complaints and
protest have been made, and in our op
inion justly, against the unnecessarily
long and expensive notices; and—
Whereas, Said notices as now pub
lished are an injustice to the land
owners, whether resident or non-resi
dent, and a useless and unnecessary ex
pense to the county as well as the tax
payers and land owners, reflecting no
credit on Holt county or its people;
therefore be it—
Resolved, That we do not approve,
and hereby disapprove, of the publish
ing of such notices by the legal re
presentatives of Holt county; and be
It further—
Resolved, That our present county
attorney be instructed to discontinue
this method of making unnecssary costs
to the county, its tax payers and land
owners; and be it further—
Resolved, That this resolution be
spread upon the records and a copy be
served on County Attorney A. F. >1 ul
len by the county clerk.
Our present county attorney has
utterly disregarded these instructions
and prepares his notices on t lie same
plan of occupying all the space pos
sible. In which case it may be no in'
1 justice to him to inquire if he sustains
friendly relations and has mutual un
( derstandings w ith the publishers as bis
predecessor, Mr Butler, did, at the
rate of 25 per cent?
Again: It iscurrently reported anc
commonly threatened that, upon the
ascension of Charley Hall to thcofticia,
position of sheriff of Holt county the
gang—t lie land syndicated lie “reform’
element—will secure the appointment
of a master commissioner to handle
their sales. In the eight years of
populist domination of tlie sheriff’s
offlicenosuch thing as a master com
missioner was ever asked for. Now
that a republican sheriff lias been
elected they wish to divert the fees
that would naturally fall to the sheriff's
office into syndicate channels by having
a master commissioner do the work ol
the sheriff. The sheriff lias been
elected by t he people to attend to t lie
business of that office and it is expect
ed hy them that what ever fees lit
shall receive above the amount allow
ed him as salary will be turned intc
the count y treasury. With all the litiga
tion the landsyndicate now has on the
way t here will be a large amount of
excess fees in the sheriff’s office next
year which will go into the public
treasury. It is these fees that the
syndicate now has its octupus eye on
and if a master commissioner is ap
pointed to make the tax sales t lie
object will be attained. It is a ques
tion of whether the man elected by t he
voteres of Holt county is to attend U
the businessof sheriff or whether some
one selected by the gang will do it.
If a commissioner is appointed the
county gets none of the fees. But it
is in the interest of the county the
gang is causing the taxes to be paid,
you know!
The findings of the Schley court of
inquiry have been filed with Secretary
Long, who has made them public. The
majority of the court’s opinion is ad
verse to the admiral, holding that he
was remiss in eleven particulars but
that he was self-possessed during the
battle. The opinion of Admiral
Dewey is in favor of Schley, holding
that his movements during tlie battle
were suited to the circumstances and
to him belongs the credit of the vic
tory. The opinion of Admiral Dewey
is likely to have a good deal more weight
with the public than.that of the ma
jority of the court. General Miles,
commander in cheif of the army, sizes
it up well in this way: ‘-1 am willing
to take the judgment of Admiral
Dewey in this matter, lie has been a
commander of a fleet and as such lias
known the anxieties and responsibili
ties which rest upon a man In these
circumstances. He was responsible
for the destruction of one Spanish
fleet and knows the feeling that en
compass a commander under such con
ditions. 1 think Dewey has summed
up the matter in a clear and concise
manner, and I believe his conclusions
will be indorsed by the patriotic
people of the United States. 1 have
no sympathy with the efforts that
have been made to destroy the honor
of an officer under such circumstan
ces. ” As a mat ter of fact*the episode
is of very little consequence one way
or the other. Schley and Sampson
each have friends who will be influ
enced none by the finding of the court,
and it- remains for future generations
to weave the scattered fragments into
history that will bedeck with the
richest garlands the memory of the
true hero of Santiago.
The Frontier puts on a new dress of
type tliis week the first time in fif
teen years. Its a little larger face but
the same body as tlie type formerly
used, and is calculated to give better
satisfaction to our readers. Putting on
a new newspaper dress complete a; we
have done is no small item in the ex
pense account, and while it may not
appear so handsome to admirers of
feminine attire as a Hradley-Martin
ball-room gown, it cost nearly as
much. We, however, believe our
readers will appreciate the improve
ment. Owing to an error at th 3 type
foundry in not shipping just what was
ordered our changes are not complete
vet, but hope to have the material by
next week to do the same as originally
designed.
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TIIE “LAMB” IIAS HORN'S.
The t ale-end of the land syndicate,
yclept the Independent, in its last
issue contained a column of abuse of
national banks and bankers and inci
dently Judge Ivinkaid, who was em
ployed as an attorney in a chattle
mortgage case, and The Frontier be
cause it bad the audacity to publish
the notice. In this instance tiie In
dependent lias been t rue to the record
made since tiie Amelia poet became
connected with it, that of the champ
ion prevaricator of tiie state. The case
referred to was wherein one Childs was
foreclosing a chattel mortgage given
by one F. E. Romandorf, and The
Frontier would pay no attention to
this screed were it not for the fact
they attempt to make political capital
out of it. The writer investigated the
matter and the following facts were
told us by one whojpas familiar with
the case. Last April N. A.
Rainbolt of Norfolk sold to F. E.
Romandorf of Lincoln blooded cattle,
t he purchase price being $750, taking
a chattel mortgage upon the cattle
for that amount. He then loaned
Romandorf $750 more, taking a second
mortgage upon tiie cattle and a
mortgage upon thirty head of other
cattle which Romandorf claimed to
own in this county. The cattle he
purchased from Rainbolt he distribut
ed for summer pasturage, giving (!.
W. Haynes 25 head and one Orr, who
was living upon his place, 15 head.
Orr then give up bis contract and left
the cattle he had with W. W. Mills.
Prior to Orr’s removel from the place
Romandorf came up and reported to
Rainbolt that there were twenty-four
head at Haynes, thirty head at Mills’
and the other thirty head upon which
he held a mortgage were in the
possession of one Barthley in Knox
county. He afterward wrote the owner
of the mortgage to foreclose upon
the cattle at Haynes’and Mills’ but
hecould never find tiie thirty head
left at Barthlev’s and it was no use to
look for them. Judge Kinkaid as at'
torney for Kainbolt sent M. I). Long
and John O’Donnell to get the thirty
head reported to be in Knox county
After diligent search they returned
and said they were satisfied no such
person ever lived in the county. As far
as can be learned parties interested
are satisfied that Romandorf never
owned in this county the thirty head
mortgaged. _Romandorf has left the
county and in fact was leaving
when he wrote asking them to fore
close the mortgage. Rainbolt paid
$39.42 to G. W. Ilaynes and $21 to W.
W. Mills for keeping the cattle. Mr.
I iaynes, a short time ago lost a $72 feed
bill against some cattle which were
taken by the mortagee and naturally
feels as if he was treated well. The
cattle sold for a little over $50o and
the owner of the mortgage loses about
$1200 on the transaction. This is the
way this great corporation skinned
an honest farmer.
New Belgian Coal Fields.
An important new coal field has been
discovered in the Belgian province of
Limburg. Seven different seams are
known to exist in the districts of Asch
and Opglabbeek, and the famous Bel
gian iron and shipbuilding company of
Cocxerills and a great firm of West
phalian colliery owners are already es
tablishing themselves in the region.
C'oekerills are building extensive iron
works in the new coal center. Work
ing plant is arriving daily by the train
load, collier and puddling villages are
being run up, and four extensive prop
erties have already been bough) for
shaft sinking._
UNOLA MED LETTERS
O’Neill. Dec. 14.—The following letters are
hold in the O’Neill office as unclaimed for the
week ending December 14, 1901:
Andrew Barnard Mrs Thomas Graham
It ay Weld A. W Nick -11
Mrs lio.se Branch Henry Furman
E. II tush Otto O. Stree’er
Miss Maud l>«an Mrs. Laura Stver
Ernest Bradshaw F E liomandorf
N. A. Brown II. D 1*. Phelps
Mrs Daniel D. Lynch Mrs. .1. P>. O’Neill
Joe Kylo E. A. Norton
Miss B. Johnson Mrs. E. P. Jones
Thos Holdersou Mrs MuryOaner
L. .1 Huzeti Mrs Stella Waikins
VIIran Harrison Louis . M. Young
\V. It Howard Daisy Young
Miss Mary Gallagher
In calling for above say, “advertised” ; if
not called for in two weeks will be sent to
dead letter office. 1>. H. Cronin. P. M.
b No. .-,770. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
I The O’Neill National Bank |
At O'Nnill, in the state of Nebraska, at the close
of business, December 10, 1901.
RESOURCES
p Loans and discounts . $<5307 56 p
p Overdrafts, secured and unsecured.. 902 27 p
P II. S bonds to secure circulation . 63(H) uO ^
rgj i'remiums on U. S bonds. 385 87 p
p Stocks, securities, etc. 1902 oft p
P Banking house, furniture and lixtures. _ 5169 53 p
p l»ue f on national banks (not reserve agents). $2807 55 p
p Duef'om tate bunks aud bankers. 193 93 p
p Due from sip roved eserve agents. 5364 39
p « hecks and other cash items. 225 84 p
p Notev of other national banks. 1500 00
rJ Fractional paper currency, ulckles and cents. 24 !>7 p
J Lawful Money .Reserve in Bank, viz: eJ
p Specie .($2,256 75) H
p Legal-tender notes.( 3.01)9 00) 5256 75-15466 43 Ej
Ueuemption turn! with U. S. treasurer ift per cent, cir'i'n.) 315 U) E
Total.. . 75748 71 ®
ILIA ILITIES Bj
Capital stock paid in., . . p
Undivided profits less expense's and taxes aid . p
National bank notes oil standing.
Due to - tale batiks and bankers. ! w % p
Individual deposits subject to check . 32707 66 f=n
p Time certificates of deposit. 1 7893 15- p
Total.
[fj State of Nebraska. County of Hoit.ss. p
P 1. James F- O’Dounell. oasloer of tlic above-named bank, do o’-mnly swear p
@1 tliat tlie above stut inept is true to tlic best of tny knowledge and I elief. p
gj JAS F. U‘DON NULL. Cashier. p
Correct—Attest: M. Dowling, Thos. II Fowler. C. VV. Smitb. Directors. p
Suli-c t ed and swown to before uio tills JKtb day of December. 1901. p
[3 [seal] M. D Long Notary Public. p
L (My commission expires January 6. 1905 ) g)
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WOMEN AS FHiLANTHROn jTS.
Millions ITave Been Given by Them for
Education and Charity.
Few realize how much the cause ol
education and the various philan
thropic enterprises owe to the women
of the United States. Some of the
gifts recently made to women’s causes
are noted below: Mrs. Joseph L. New
combe of New York to Tulane univer
sity, $3,000,000; Mrs. P. D. Armour of
Chicago to Armour institute, $1,250,
000; Mrs. Edna J. McPherson of New
ark, N. J., to Yale college, $750,000;
Mrs. H. R. Schley and Mrs. R. P. Flow
er of New Y'orlc, jointly, to the town
of Watertown, N. Y., $500,000; Miss
Helen Gould of New York, to various
charities, $400,000; Mrs. Vaughan Mar
quis of Ashland, Wis., to religion,
$300,000; Mrs. J. F. Ryan of New York,
to religion, $250,000; Mrs. Eugene Kel
ly of Buffalo, to religion, $250,000; Mrs.
Emmons Blaine and Mrs. Cyrus Mc
Cormick to the University of Chicago,
$250,000; Mrs. A. S. Greenspau of To
peka, Kan., to various charities, $200,
000; Mrs. Louise Sebor of Middleton,
Conn., to religion, $175,000; Mrs. Mar
garet J. Bennett of Baltimore to vari
ous charities, $150,000; Mrs. Mary
Shannon of Newton, Mass., to various
colleges, $123,500; Mrs. G. S. Burbank
of Fitchburg, Mass., to various chari
ties, $120,000, and Mrs. F. H. Alms of
Cincinnati to the University of Cin
cinnati, $100,000. Besides these several
sums to the university here, the total
aggregating nearly $500,000.
SERVANT GIRLS’ ROOMS.
Domestics Arc Kntitied to More Com
fortable Sleeping Apartments.
The servant girls throughout the
country are asking that comfortable
sleeping apartments be assigned them.
As a rule the bedroom of the “hired
girl” is the most cheerless and con
tracted in the house and it is no won
der that she seeks to fly from it on
every occasion that she receives an
invitation to spend an evening else
where. Every charitable institution
in the country built for paupers and
orphans is fitted up with steam heat,
hot and cold water, and the matrons
take great pride in showing visitors
the bathrooms with all the modern im
provements. And it is not strange
that girls who work for their living
would like a few of these privileges
that are given to those who are living
on charity. It is not too much to as
sume that the girls who live in our
homes and who cook our meat and
bread for us to eat may possibly have
the same ambitions to keep clean and
comfortable as those who are living in
charitable institutions. It is not going
beyond th" bounds of all reason to sup
pose that if a girl is earning her liv
ing she has a natural desire to be self
respecting and might like a closet to
keep her clothes where the moth and
dust doth not corrupt; that she may
like an opportunity to take a bath once
in a while and that she may enjoy a
decent room.
Great Reach of Roots.
It has been remarked as a serious
fact of science that a person cannot
feel pain in two different places at the
same time. To be sure, there are peo
ple who maintain that the place some
times covers the entire body, but that
does not interfere with the general
theory- A certain dentist, whose
name and address are not given, is a
stanch adherent of this theory, and
has once or twice sought to demon
strate the truth of it by jabbing his
patients in the arm or leg with a
heavy needle just as he extracts the
offending tooth. One day he got hold
of a particularly stubborn tooth, which
gave him no end of trouble. “Here it
comes out at last!” he exclaimed as he
felt it yielding, and at the same time
he plunged his needle into the pa
tient’s leg. “There,” he said, tri
umphantly as he held up the forceps
with the tooth securely wedged, “we’ve
got it, you see!” “Yes, I see,,” replied
the victim, ruefully. “I knew it was a
big one, and T was afraid it would
come hard, but I never supposed the
roots went so far down as this,” and
he rubbed the spot on his leg where
the doctor had jabbed him with a look
that was partly awe and partly pride.
History Blazed on Trees
For six miles through the forest of
Hancock anu Wood counties, Ohio,
may he seen a wide swath through the
treetops, the once open space being
grown thick with smaller timber. It
tell3 the story of Gen. Hull and the
army that blazed its way north to Fort
Meigs in the war of 1812. On several
farms near Findlay are still found
sections of the old corduroy roadway
built of the tree trunks that were
felled to gain a passage for the army.
The logs are well preserved and are
found from two to five feet under the
soil. It was at the close of that mem
orable campaign that Col. Findlay
camped on the south side of Blanch
ard’s fork of the Auglaize and estab
lished the old stockade fort named
after him, Fort Findlay.
Burial Reform Begin?*
A burial reform society has started
in a little town in California. One ol
the members has been engaged as the
undertaker, and another as grave-dig
ger. The coffins are to be made by the
undertaker, and a neat wagon is to
take the place of the conventional
hearse. The mourners will walk to
the cemetery, and the total cost of the
funeral will be about S20. On the oc
casion of death, each member of the
organization is expected to render the
assistance that he can to the family,
and to attend the funeral. These peo
ple feel that fashion and pride gener
ally stand in the way of funeral reform
and that it is only by organization of
this kind that reform can co
Aleutians Pled by the Hundreds.
The rapid decline of the native popu
lation of the Aleutian chain of islands
is told in a report just received by
(he marine hospital service from Mr.
F. J. Thornbury, its assistant surgeon
at Dutch harbor, Alaska. The report
says that formerly there were 120 vil
lages on the islands with a native
population variously estimated at from
1,500 to 2,500. Now, in the same dis
trict there are only 10 villages and
1,000 inhabitants, exclusive of whites,
of whom 300 are creoles (mixed breed
with Russians and other nationalities)
and 700 natives.
“Mt. McKinley.”
A bill will be introduced into the
next New Hampshire legislature
changing the name of Mount Pleas
ant, in the Presidential range, to
‘Mount McKinley.” There is prece
dent for the change, inasmuch as, be
sides the five early Presidents, only
chose who have been shot by assas
ins have had their names given to
mountains. The name Lincoln was be
stowed on the second highest peak of
the Franconia group, and ‘‘Mount Gar
field” displaced Haystack mountain in
1881.
Four Territories Seeking Admission,
There are now four territories seek
ing admission into the Union as states
ind according to all precedents they '
have a better chance of succeeding in
the matter in Congress, especially in
advance of a presidential election, if
they are of the same politics as the
dominant party in Washington. Of
the four, three, Oklahoma, New Mex
ico and the Indian Territory are gen
erally regarded as Republican, and
anly one, Arizona, as Democratic.—
New York Sun.
Epitaph for Equine.
A recent number of the Westminster
Gazette contains the following obitu
ary notice: "Mercifully sent to sleep
at Landguard, full of years and honor,
Freedom, a chestnut mare belonging
to Dr. Cowper. She was bred by me
and was named ‘Freedom’ by Mr. Bart
lett on account of her absolute free
dom of movement when quite a tiny
filly. In her best days rhe would be
hard to pass on any road.”
Tricking a Chronn'offer. '
President Pritchett of the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology, in
relating his experience in college re
cently, said that the way boys had of
Qnding a certain professor was to step
Into the middle of the college yard
and call out a date in American his
tory. Instantly the professor would
come out from some window or door
In the college and say that the date
was incorrect.
Local Option la HIUsMslppi.
Few as the saloons are in Missis
sippi, they pay nearly one-third of the
state’s total income from privilege tax
es. Mississippi is regarded as one of
the most ultra of prohibition states,
made so by the anti-saloon sentiment
in a majority of the counties under
the local option system. Fourteen of
the counties pay the bulk of the $150,
000 received annually from this tax.
American Enterprise in Mexico.
An American syndicate has just
bought the old McKenzie concession to
supply the City of Mexico with water.
The water will be brought from the
Almoloya springs, forty miles south
west of this capital. The work will in
clude sixteen miles of canal, six miles
of steel piping and the installation of
motive power.
American Coal In Europe,
So great has become the demand
for American coal in Europe that it
has been decided to build an immense
receiving station for unloading, screen
ing and grading coal in northern
France. Rates have been made on
French roads which will drive Ger
man coal out of central Europe.
Sun Neighbor for Raising Mosquitoes.
A man in Chappaqua, N. Y., has sued
his neighbor for damages because the
neighbor built a dam on his premises,
creating a pond which has since been
a breeding place for mosquitoes. The
man who sues says that there never
were any mosquitoes around his place
until this dam was built.
Nursemaid. Behind British Recruits.
General Buller once explained why
it was necessary to put such showy
clothing on most of the troops: “Be
cause a showy uniform attracts Mary
Ann, the nursemaid, who makes Tom
my Atkins join the army. In plain
uniforms, you would find recruiting a
harder job than ever.’’
An Independent American Citizen.
While riding in a Maine country road
a traveler observed a field of corn
which was overrun with rank weeds,
and midway of the place was a large,
conspicuously displayed sign with the
following: “Notiss! None of Your
Business if This Corn Ain’t Hoed.”
Clean Persons Among Lepers.
In the leper settlement on the island
of Molakai, there were 909 lepers and
164 “clean” persons. The genera!
opinion was that the “clean” would in
time become leprous. Nearly 1,100
people are housed, fed and clothed for
about $80,000 a year.
Tolstoy Independent of Doctors.
Count Tolstoy is not an obedient pa
tient. Some time ago his physicians
told him not to walk or ride on horse
back, but he did what he pleased, re
marking, “I know bettef than, all
physicians what is good for me.”