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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1902)
The Frontier. PablUhed by D. H. CRONIN. •1.50 the Year. 75 Cents Six Months ADVERTISING RATES: Display advertUments on pages 4, Band 8 are cna-ged for o-i a basis of h) cents tin Inch (onecolumn width) per month: on phr** 1 th charge la (1 an inch per month Local ad vertlsemonta, 5 cents per line each Insertion. Address the office or the publisher. THE PIRATES’ REVENGE. • As will be seen by a communication from W. W. Bethea to the Board of f. Supervisors printed elsewhere in this issue, Mr. Bethea has paid into the • county treasury the sum of $270.8), i pursuant to the resolution passed bj the county board last week. The promptness with which Mr. Bethea has responded to the demand of the board will meet with the ap probation of every honest tax payei in Holt county. It may be of interest to our readers to know the rea motive that prompted the move b) , the populist strategy board on the work of ex-county clerk Bethea. Tin Independent of January 24 announce) in stud horse type headlines that Mr Bethea while acting as county clerk had stolen $200, and demanded thai County Attorney Mullen commence action instanter to recover tin amount. The article referred t< iwould lead the unsophisticated reade not familiar with the methods of tin gang of land pirates, to belive that • Bill Bethea, while acting as count) icierk had surrept itiously taken $20( to which lie was not entitled. Every thing in connection with the al lowance of this $200 to Mr. Bethea by the county board was open and abov< board. Nothing was concealed. Mi* Bethea did not file a bill for tin amount. The county board—which was a populist board—by unanimous vote granted him the $200 for hi service as clerk of the board. The resolution was published in the Inde pendent in 1896 among the proceed ings of the county board, so it was m "nigger” news at this late day as tin Independent would have the public believe. Not only did Mr. Bethe and the board of supervisors think they were acting legally when tin 1200 was allowed but this was tin opinion of the attorney general o Nebraska, as well as the populis county attorney, W. R. Buttler. Thb was the law at that time as held b\ the district court until reversed b) the surpreme court in the case cited uy nr. neuica in ins ictier to ini board. As soon as this desislon wa$ hiade known to Mr. Bethea he paid into the county treasary $200 with interest to date. Had Bill Betheii while on the board of supervisors th< past year shut his eyes to the knavery of the land syndicate and sneezed whenever any of the land pirates toot snuff, the Independent would still be pointing with pride to the official record of ex-County Clerk Bethea in stead of reviewing it with so much alarm. On the contrary Mr. Bethe:* had the courage to denounce the damnable practices of the land syn dicate in plundering the county and robbing helpless people of their land, and by so doing has incurred the enmity of the pop machine. The "blow that killed father” and drew all the fire from the land syndicate batteries was Bethea’s vote on the board early in Jaunary to perempt orily stop the tax foreclosure system whicl has filled the capacious maw of the land syndicate at the expense of the county and poor, unfortunate people The Independent’s bill—which the land owners and Holt county rnusi pay—for publishing tax forclosure not ices since November amounts to ove $6000. Is it at all strange that thi corrupt gang of blackmailers woule become infuriated at any one win was instrumental in shutting oi theirgraft? The Independent articl above referred to and the subsequen action of county attorney Mullen ha altogether too much political tlavo and seems to be inspired more by desire to “get even” and detract ai tentton from their own Tascalit rather then a sincere desire for th interests of the county. If the astut county attorney is in earnest in hi pursuit of official corruption he can And plenty of it and lie need not go beyond the narrow conAnes of his own office to And it. It is not necessary litre to recount tlie details of the high handed oAicial corruption that was brought to light by Ttie Frontier during the recent campaign. Why does not the Inde pendent “demand” and why does not the county attorney commence action looking to the recovery ofthe hundreds of dollars of illegal fees charged by ex-Sheri IT Stewart, and the thousands of dollars of tax out of which Ilolt county lias been defrauded by the pernicious foreclosure conspiracy? The question is now up to the Indepen dent and County Attorney Mullen for answer and wiien it is answered we have a few others to propound. THE NEW OOPPEK1IEADLSM. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: it is a rattier dun day which does not see an outbreak of oopperheadisin in either orancli of Congress. A few days ago all me Democratic memoers, except one, of the House who voted on the proposition voted against an item in a nil tor ilie shelter and protection 01 die soldiers in the Pninippines. iJuoois, of Idaho, in the (seriate, has reierred lo Gen. Wheaton, a lue-long >oidier, wtio is one of the Oest officers ui me Philippines, as “prohaoly some unaritv h iv auoonited to vVe.st Point .,y a senator or representative, ami mice tnen supported oy me govern ment.” JJuoois, Teller and outers m Senate denounced (Jen. Bel. .is oeing worse Umn Weyler on ac count of his recent reconcentration jrder. Senator iviooey, of .vlisussippi jeing asked wliat lie would do witu me Philippines and their iniiaoitants, ,aid: ‘'iieo tliem go to tlie devil anu Lane care of themselves so far as the American peopie are concerned. ” There are evidence that asystematic crusade of vllhlcation against tlie ad ulnistratlon and me army has been .uirteJ by a junta in the Democratic party, so as to impede tlie Republi cans, and defeat, il possible, ail legis lation for tiie aid of tlie army and the advancement of tiie American cause in the country’s new territory. Tlie attacks on (Jen. Bell are shown by >Jen. Oorbin to be extravagant. (Jen. Bell’s aim is to protect tiie friendly natives from violence at the hands of me insurgents and their friends. No concentration on Weyler or Kitchener plans, wtiere thousands are herded 10 ,ether in small spacelwitn insufficient mod and with no medical attendance, .s thought of. The natives who are m be removed to other quarters will re well taken care of. The attempt .s to separate the friends from tlie enemies of the American cause, and .vnile the former will be protected the .alter will not be injured unless caught in some overt act of hostility. An especial attempt will be made to ivoid the objectionable features of ne Weyler and Kitclicner procedure, flhis is the explanation of Gen. Bell’s order which is furnished at army headquarters, and, of course, it will (land against the unsupported asser tions of the little band of impiaeabies .vho are trying to obstruct the Re publican administration in Washing mu and to strengthen the hands of Jie insurgents in tlie Philippines. The American people arc fortunate n 1902, as they were in 1892, and the ntcceeding two or three years, in laving an administration and a Con gress which has both the courage and me strength to guard American in erests vigilantly and intelligently, file Republicans have a majority of >ver twenty in the Senate and or nore than forty in the House, count ing in all the elements opposed to the .Republican party. They have a reso lute and able President. There is not the faintest reason to fear that tlie present breed of copperheads will have he influence which their predecessors uad, or to make any such trouble for he country’s armies as those marplots lid. The policy of extending Ameri can sovereignty over tire Philippines ■vill be carried out vigorously on the dues already laid down. All the legis ation which is needed to strengthen the army in the islands and on the mainland of the United States will be enacted. The little gang of copper heads in eacli branch of Congress will ie easily overcome. Tlie tire in the •ear on tlie American soldiers which was lneuecuve in me case ui \ ai undigham. Jesse I). Bright, Daniel \V. Voorhees and their fellow Hag .'urlers will be si ill feebler from their weak Imitators of the present day. SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY. Satire is the salt of wit rubbed on a Bore spot. Better a distant friend than an inti mate enemy. When a man has gone to seed it Is time to plant him. Happiness has less use for comfort than indolence has. It sometimes happens that love Is the only wisdom of a fool. If a man has a sense of humor he knows when not to get funny. It’s a poor contractor who doesn’t show up with a bill for extras. Food for thought Is sometimes sup plied by the fish that gets away. Love may not be blind at the start, . but it Is never able to see Its finish. Lots of worry and trouble is brought * on by advice that is supposed to pre 1 vent It. , Cupid makes the love matches and cupidity is responsive for the other f brands. 5 Sometimes it is a man’s dinner that t disagrees with him and sometimes it’s his wife. £ When two women are bitter enemies r there is always some man at the bot t tom of it. , A woman’s prematurely gray hair is often the result of marrying a man to Y reform him. e Few men have enough self-confi g deuce to enable them to ignore their own mistakes, s Tho army worm Is essentially a grass-eating insect, though it often feeds upon other plants, and Is said to prefer oats to corn. The British war office is said to be considering the training of dogs to carry water and provisions to sicli and wounded in time of -war. Atmospheric sharps say that even at the equator the average temperature of the sea at tho depth of a mile is but four degrees above freezing point. Dispatches from Siberia say that the crops, owing to the two months’ drouth, are almost a total loss. Meas ures have been taken to avert famine The dandelion produces 12,000 seeds per plant, shepherds pulse 37,000, thistle 65.000, chamomile 16,000, bur dock 43,000, and the common plantain 44,000. The British war office has increased the rates of pensions and allowances to the widows and orphans of sol diers killed in action or dying of wounds in South Africa. The amount of milk received In New York daily Is about 1,000,000 quarts. In extremely warm weather this amount is often exceeded by one-fifth. The supply comes from points ranging from 20 to 350 miles distant from the city. In a London case just tried a mes senger boy was s-mt to the office of a leading paper with an order for a large advertisement. He did not ar rive with it till the next day, when it was too late. The paper sued the com pany for lack of quickness in their agent and got nominal damages. The majority of ladies would be sur prised if they were informed that a bottle of lavender water contains but about a thimbleful of pure oil, for a larger proportion would not only ren der the water too strong for use, but would burn holes through the hand kerchief wherever the scent touched it. A novel way of administering justice and bestowing impartial punishment on juvenile offenders was shown in a Chicago court the other day. Two boys were on trial for fighting, accom panied by their respective mothers. The justice simply had the mothers swap sons and then administer spank ings. The punishment the urchins re ceived was vigorous. The population of Norway is about 2.200,000 souls. It was 2,110,000 in 1891, with a probability that 15,000 seamen and fishermen were absent from homo on the day that the census was taken, and that there has been a net increase of 75,000 since. This is an average of 16.80 inhabitants to the square mile, showing Norway to be the most thinly settled of all European countries. Fiber pipes and conduits, made from wood pulp and treated with a preserva tive, are now being put in use. After the usual grinding the pulp is washed, screened, passed through a beating n gine, then screened again. These operations completed, a thin sheet of the pulp^s wound on a core until the desired thickness is secured. Aft r drying the tube is aerated with a pre servative. Its ends are then finished in a lathe to any desired form. The United States has not yet ceased to pay stamp duties to Great Britain, and that “without representation” in her parliament. Revenue stamps to the value of twenty-five thousand dol lars were required to make legal the ten-million-dollar deed of gift by which Mr. Carnegie endows the Scot tish universities. So large a stamp duty was never before paid into the British treasury. Yet the Patrick Henrys and Sam Adamses of today merely smile. One-fourth of the sea-carrying pow er is in the hands of thirty large com panies of various nationalities. Only one of these is American, and it con trols only 81,000 tors out of the total of 5,616,000 tons controlled by the thirty companies. In the last decade England has built 4,63S steel steam ers, with a capacity of 9,793.000 tons. In the sam* time America has built only 465 steel steamers, with a ca pacity of 743,000 tons, and 19S of these steamers, representing 450,000 tons, were for the inland commerce of the great lakes. "If there is an idle man in the Northwest, he is so from choice,” said the superintendent of one of the great railroads, at the beginning of the har vest season. He needed two hundred men for construction work, and had sought them all the way from Chicago to Vancouver. About that time press dispatches told how tramps who cus tomarily wander over the west were making a frantic exodus eastward. This fact proves that the demand for labor was urgent. Perhaps it proves also that the west has begun to act upon St. Paul’s wise command that if any will not work, neither shall he eat. The chief of the Good-Roads train, which made a spring tour through the South, declares that people will flock to see the actual construction and op eration of a model road who would never go to a convention to hear the | subject discussed by the highest au thorities. Acting on this principle that a dozen of observation is worth | a gross of hearsay, a firm of Scotch publishers has sent twelve representa tive British workmen to the Buffalo Exposition to inspect American ma chinery and industrial methods, and to form in themselves a nucleus of fu , ture progression in their various | tMUtes. THOUGHTS FOR EVERY DAY. They who have no ideals have no Ideas. The test of a talent is the industrv and perseverance with which it is cul tivated. The self-conscious person is usually unhappy because he finds no happi ness in the joys of others. As memory may be a paradise from which we can not be driven, it may also be a hell from which we can not escape. People need from us nothing so much as good cheer and encourage ment. Life is hard for most, and needs inspiration._ A Big Cut in The Price. The Nebraska State Journal has re duced its prices to sudscribers outside of Lincoln and sudurbs from $7.50 to $5.00 per year, including the big Sun day paper, or $4.00 per year without Sunday. The price of the Sunday issue will be $1.50 per year. By this action it is presenting its state readers with thousands of dollars, but the result will be thou sands of new subscribers, thus enlarg ing its usefulness and abbing to its value as an advertising medium. In ste id of any lessening in the effort to make it a first-class State Paper, the Journal will be improved in every de partment, making it the best newspa per in the state for Nebraskans. It is published at the State Capital, toiii^ti uaa always uuuii uie ctnier ui things political and social of a state nature. The Journal’s state tele graphic service excels that of all com petizors which, with its c-ompe let associated press reports and special telegraph service from Washington, makes it the paper for Nebraska people. A. L. Bixby’s department is one of the most widely read in the west, and the fairand unprejudiced editorial treatment of all state matters has made the Journal thousands of warm friends. This big reduction in price which now makes the six week day papers eight cents a week, and the seven day paper ten cents a week, will make the Journal the most widely read paper throughout Nebraska. Why not enroll your name on the list? 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