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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1902)
<r * The Frontier. Published by D. H. CRONIN .53 the Year. 75 Cents Six Mont ADVEKTISING HATES: Display advertlsments on pages 4. r> and h are charged for on a trials of 50 cents an inch (one column width) per inontn; on pag^ 1 t lie charge !» tl an Inch per month. Local ad vertise men ts, Scents per line each insertion. Address the office or the publisher. How quickly hath the Independent dropped the excess fee matter! The best way to dispose of the oleo margarine business is to criminalize its manufacture. Emigration agents are dodging the pauper laws by importing foreign ers by way of Canada. And now the prince of Wales is coming. Europe’s butterfly aristoc racy has had to come to it at last. s\ It is easy for a railroad magnate to explain the benefits of competition or cooperation as his interests demand. The logic of the whole matter is to keep the people busy, and then you *111 have markets. People who earn money are pretty apt to spend it. The recent decision of the supreme court was a body blow to the 0’N6ill land syndicate, whose members are still gasping for breath. Hon. II. C. ltussell of Colfax county is spoken of as a candidate for the re publican nomination for governor. There are better qualified men in the ranks. St. Paul Republican: Mr. Meserve missed the opportunity of Ids life by not putting ft back as an April fool joke on the republicans. It would have been too cost ly a joke. Abel Anderson and the Atkinson & Northern has been heard from again. Whereat Butte pricks up its ears. Its an unlucky day for the county seat of Boyd that those trains didn’t run “before snow flew.’’ wnen public sentiment/ is unani mously in favor of adopting a new thing there is no need of delaying its inauguration. Everybody outside the United States senate is in favor of popular vote on senators. Reproof for forsaking their Bret principles is all that is needed to arouse the whole populist hornet nest. Notice the vollies directed at Allen’s Madison Mail. It looks like a piece of folly for a few to compell the multitudes to ab stain from spirituous and vinous liquors upon one day of the week and give them unbounded license the cither six. The police report of a Nebraska city shows that 1,088 single men were arrested as against 404 married din ing the past year; 90 married women as against 123 unmarried. This is another evidence that marriage is not a failure. The editor of the Valentine Demo crat has evidently been called a fool. Of the four editorial items he penned last week, three of them referred to the fellow “who thinks everybody is a fool but himself.” It. is not the need to take sucli thoughts so seriously, dear brother. Fremont Tribune: The fact that C. J. Smyth was attorney for J. B. Meserve and cleared that gentleman of embezzling interest on state school moneys by taking advantage of a technicality will not operate to an overwhelming extent in making him, any more than Meserve, the fusion candidate for governor. The Tribune is disposed to prophesy that when t lie “antis” come together they will finally conclude to nominte Mr. Bryan for the place and pour forth their libations of love at his throne once more. No doubt his personal integri ty and the cohorts who by a sort of religious frenzy when he is an issue can ask for support on the grounds that he can’t put in force any of his mildewed notions of national affairs, anil that therefore he can do little harm. Make a note of it that the barn dweller will be in the midst of the lightning and that his rod will receive the bolt. St. Louis is none behind the others. One alderman says he made $25,000 a year out of a $300 job; another says j he agreed to do one thing for $75,000 and did the opposite for $100,000. ; The grand jury makes the whole municipality look bad. The raising of insurance rates by eastern lire insurance companies is another opportunity for the pop to point out how the “west is being milked.” The big tires are all occqr ing in the east and a raise is needed to liquidate the losses and create a surplus for company dividends. According to the Omaha News, laboring men are scarce and hard to get. at $2 and $2.50 a day in Omaha. Contractors are begging for men and teams and any man who can handle a shovel is good for $2 the day. There was a time—a democratic time— when Omaha was feeding t hese $2 shovclers at the free soup stands. — - -4 • 4 Tlie supreme court of Nebraska has rendered a decision in a case from Dawes county which is expected to work hardships to the land syndicates around over the state that are grab bing all the land in sight 1 hrough t he tax lien foreclosure method. The de cision holds that land owners have two years in which to redeem after the land is sold for taxes. Sales have been confirmed within two hours in Molt county. --4.44 New York Sun: The democratic party would he without hope except for the southern states. There are its brains and their only majorit ies upon which It- can rely. Obviously, therefore, the time has come when to the south belongs the shaping of the democratic nat ional policy, and logi cally the candidate nominated by the democratic national convention in 1904should be a representative of the dominant southern democracy. The purpose of the American gov ernment is to secure, to men the highest degree of personal liberty and remove every barrier that gives one man advantage above another in acquiring this world's goods. Tin purpose of political parties is to con trol t lie machinery of government so that the interests of its people may he best served. Has any party in any country ever better served the pur pose than the republican party has in the past six years? — -4. » 4 Stuart Ledger: The charity of women is the salt of the earth after all that is the charily of wife-love and mother-love. Many a dissipated wretch has made a man of himself because some sweet forgiving woman lias clung to him in spite of Hie world’s jeers. That’s a pleasing notion, llut the pity is’tisn't true, only,perhaps, once in ten thousand times. Above the influence of a sweet and tender female, of the love that dips into the mires of debauchery and lifts up lie sotted husbands, sons and fathers and pleads with them to walk in ways of sobriety, above and beyond all this the god of appetite holds sway. The woman who clings to the “dissipated wretch” in the hope of reforming him is indeed leading a forlorn hope. Her hair will become gray, her brow fur rowed and troubled, while the "dissi pated wretch” goes on enslaved to the god of appetite. STATE POLITICS A Lincoln correspondent of the Sioux City Journal indulges this poli tical spurt: Two more candidates in the race, a tierce tight oil II. II. Wilson by tlu> Union Pacitic-Elkhorn forces and Gov. Savage stubbornly remaining in what his friends say is a tiopless con test are the significant features in the Nebraska gubernatorial tight. Although tlie convention is almost ten weeks distant, the republicans are already lining up delegations, and another week will tind every portion of the state canvassed in the interests of the aspirants. J. IT. Van Dusen, of South Omaha, is the latest addition to the list of candidates. He served in tlie state senate in 1890 and made an enviable record. With regard to railroads his affiliations are indoubt and both fac tions look askance at his candidacy. He is popular with his constituents and his followers are enthusiast ic. J. A. I’, black, of Franklin county, is ttie other candidate. For several weeks it lias been expected that lie would announce himself as a contest ant from the big Fifth congressional district. He is a lawyer, a forcible speaker and a man of wide reputation in the South Platte country. He is a Burling!ori svinpat iii/.er. I’olitlcians from tlie Klkhorn-Uniun Pavilie territory are bombarding n. II. Wilson, of Lincoln, with a voium Mous anvil chorus. Recently he was wilted with being a petitioner for Hartley's pardon. Why reject the executive who extended clemency and indorse one of the men who be • inglit him to do tlie deed? they ask. Another argument used is that the efforts made In behalf of Mr. Wilson by Burlington pollt icians are design id primarily to “‘kill off” the guber natorial aspirations of CL M. "Lam bert son, assistant secretary of the 1 reasury under Harrison. The latter fotigbl Hie D. L. Thompson senatorial candidacy to the bitter end in 191)1 and is a Union Pacific attorney. Mr. Lambertson intended to make the race, declare his friends, and “tile machine,” to thwart, him, advanced 11. II. Wilson. They allege that the Jailer will withdraw at I lie critical moment, leaving a pledged delegation without a home candidate. Mr. Wil son denies any such intention and asserts that lie will remain in the tight until the scrap is definitely set 1 led. Gov. Savage doggedly fights his cause, declaring that.a reaction has set in In the anti-Bartley sentiment and that he will yet win out. While t he governor denies an interview re cently published in St. Joseph, it is tacit iy admitted among iiis friends that lie expects Hartley to restore a port ion of 1 lie money belonging to t he state. This, he maintains, would send the Savage stock up several notches. * State Treasurer Steufer is no longer regarded as a possibility for renomina 1 ion by politicians. He has not given up hope, however, and is now scrap ping for his home delegation. His efforts have aroused a bitter factional light which makes his defeat almost certain. ' Willi tlie exception of Gov. Savage and State Treasurer Steufer, there will he no fight made on any of the present si a I e officers for renoininat ion. Undoubtedly both Stuefer and Sav age have ordered their respective offices to the best of their wisdom, bul for the party’s sake they should peacefully withdraw. They do not need another term to strengthen confidence anil respect for them among the people. The record of each in every essent iul sense lias been to the interests of the state even if I hey have had. to sacrifice some petty personal political prest ige. The forgoing mentioned candidates for governor present to this depart ment no choice. - — - -* • * ITEMS OK NEBRASKA LIFE It is announced that the Grand Island factory of the American Beet Sugar company will be operated this year arid that new machinery for (he extraction of sugar from syrups will be added to the plant during the summer. Bandits robbed the state bank at Buskin on the night, of April 4. se curing $16,000 in cash. Tlie records of Knox county have finally been transferred from Niobrara to Center, the new county seat. Harm B. Schmidt, aged 76 years, and Mrs. Wubke Steenblock, aged 72 years, were recently united in mar riage at Clay Center. The university of Nebraska wins in a debate with the Colorado university, “Resolved, That American Munici polities of over 100,000 Population (Should Own and Operate Their Faci lities for Surface Transportation.” Nebraska was on the affirmative side. John Colwell, one of the early set tlers of Dawes county, perished in the snowstorm that passed over this part of the state the last week in March. Colwell left Chadron March 27 with a band of sheep, which he was to drive to a range twenty miles north. It was learned a week after that the sheep had reached their range with out a herder. A searching party took his trail and found him ten miles north of town. He had perished in the storm Tuesday night, March 25. Dr. George M. Brash, secretary ol the board of health, tiled a report from physicians throughout the state, giving the number of smallpox cases found during the month of March. The total number of cases reported was 826, its against 764 for February, indicating that the disease is spread ing, Instead of decreasing. In some counties there is an increase and in others the decrease is great. Seven teen cases were reported from Holt county in February and thirteen in Ma rch. A Spencer special says: Graders are workingon the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad in Boyd county and the right-of-way is adjust ed from the east end of the county to Spencer. Butte being left about three miles south of the road, many com plications have arisen in the matter of relocating the present town. The most serious difficulty to overcome is the county seat problem. Many of the inhabitants would move to the railroad, provided they could be per mitted to take the county seat with them. The railroad will settle that proposition and the county seat will, in due time, be relocated by t lie peo ple, where it will the best subserve the interests of tIre county. Many new buildings are being rapidly built at this place and many more are about to be begun. A new an.I complete flouring mill is under way and every thing points ton busy lime for Spen cer the coming season. The supreme court of Nebraska lias denied tiie application fora rehear ing in tiie ease of William Rhea, con victed of the killing of Saloon Keeper Herman Zahn, at Snyder, some months ago. Unless the governor in terferes with a stay of execution, Rhea will pay tiie penalty of his crime April 25, within tiie penitentiary yard walls. Tiie Bee's Lincoln correspondent says: Secretary Royse of the state banking board will issue a statement within tiie next few days showing that the total deposits instate and private banks in Nebraska at the close of business on March 15 was greater than ever before in the his tory of the state, being over $34,000, 000. Prior to that time tiie highest mark attained, as shown by the official reports, was on September 15, 1901, when the deposits in all of the institution under state control amounted to $31,700,000. “Tiie show ing stumps me completely,’' said Mr. Royse. “I expected the deposits to be heavy, but 1 had no idea they would show up so strong as they do.” A few more banks remain to be heard from before tiie statement is given to the public. MATTERS OF NEWS Atlanta City, X. ,L, on April 3 suf fered a $2,000,000 tire. Andrew Carnegie lias presented the city of Havana, Cuba, with $250,000 for a public libary. Miss Ellen M. Stone, tiie celebrated missionary who was rescued from Bulgarian brigands, lias sailed for A merica. A company of British Indian soldiers shortly will visit the United States to purchase mules for the army. Their ultimate destination is Kansas City. Inspired by the Nation example, twelve masked women raided a liquor shop at Eddyville, Neb., the day after election and after they left the place look like a cyclone had struck it; be sides, they ordered the proprietor to leave town else a coat of tar and feat hers would be forthcoming. Governor G, W. Dukes, principal chief of the Choctaw nation in In dian Territory, lias addressed an ap peal to Thomas Ryan, acting secretary of tiie interior, asking for aid for 10. ooo destit ute eitzens of tiie Choctaw nation. lie says: “A great many of tiie Choctaw people are poverty stricken, and many are in actual starvation. Appeals have been made A to me, some calling to me to provide ™ ways and means of sustenance, while others are driven to beg for bread stuff. I would say as a conservative estimate that at, least 10,000 of them are in destitute circumstances. If the general distress is not relieved tlie condition threatens to become serious with them all.” Tlie Japanese government has been conducting experiments Rearing on the question of the* relation between the. mosquito and tlie spread of malaria. A battlalion of soldiers, it is stated, was completely protected from mosquitoes for 161 days during the malarial season. It entirely es caped the disease. An unprotected battalion at the same place had 269 cases of malaria. The Burlington Railroad Company, which has heretofore prohibited the use of liquor by employees who had anything to do with the operating of trains, has now extended the prohibi tion to every department of the service. The new rule reads: “The use of intoxicants by emploees while on duty is prohibited. Their habi tual use or the frequenting of places i where they are sold is sufficient cause \ for dismissal.” A new one-cent postal card is now being printed at the bureau of engrav ing and printing, and when the first issue of 4,000,060 has been counted and bundled, the new card will be placed on sale. Its distinctive feature is that the new card contains a vignette of President McKinley in lieu of President Jefferson’s portrait. The issue of the Jefferson card will be discontinued when the present stock on hands is exhausted. The Postoftlce department has under consideration the question of placing on one of the new issue post age stamps the head of some woman connected with the history of the country. No particular person has been decided upon, although there is no doubt that Martha Washington will be the woman so honored. This will be the first recognition of women in any of the government securities issued by that department. The Chamber of Commerce of Manila has sent a cablegram to Presi dent Roosevelt urging congress to take immediate action concerning the J currency question there, which, owing to the present depreciation of silver and the ratio of exchange of $2.27 for $1 gold fixed by the United States Philippine commission for tlie ensuing quarter, has caused an immense loss of business and a great increase in the local prices of necessaries. Many ar- T tides now cost 30 per cent more than they did last December. For a quarter of a century I Lave been in O’Neill in the Hardware and Implement business, and am here yet, with a carload of new Implements for the spriug trade. Following is a partial list of goods carried by me: li | John Deere Plows; Buggies, Planters, New Pitot Tongued Cultivators, Riding and Walking Listers, Discs and Seeders 1 ! These goods are beautiful in construction, durable and have no equal. The Moline wagon, none better on wheels, having many points superior to any wagon on the market. The cele U brated Champion binders, mowers and hay rakes. I also handle I bale ties. In the stove line I carry the best known steel range, | j, the great ajestic; also many other makes of stoves and ranges. | I am the only dealer west of Norfolk who carries the Stransky | .Steel Ware, every piece warranted for live years. I also handle I enameled ware. I have the Lisk and Elliott anti rust tinware, g e none better. For any rusty piece returned I will gladly give a 0 ’• ^ new piece. Nickel plated copperware, such as ton and coffee H »„i ———e——aa» ■—■■ I pots, ten kettles and other articles in profusion. Anything you jj| want in silverware, cut glass, glassware or Rogers 1847 table [ cutlery. In the cutlery line I carry no imported goods, nothing H but the products of Ameaican factories and American workman I ship. I have all grades, from the cheapest to the best. I have 1 the Sioux City garden seeds; also other garden and lield seeds, S such as millet, clover, etc. I have the best kerosene, the i “Eocene,” gaseline, machine oil, and axle grease. A very nice 1 line of sewing machines. In barb wire I have the genuine Glidden, no imitation, every pound warranted to run one rod. .} It is always my aim to treat customers in the best possible manner and to give them honest labor and good goods for 8 every dollar they may think well to turn my way. If you cannot give me all your trade, give me what you can, aud it will be appreciated. I will say in conclusion that no man in my lino will give you any more for you dollar than I will i aud my guarantee or warrant I will make good. j| It IinT IK3 X ULi IS IK E ILT IfcT ILT j O’XTEXXLXL:, x-tihe. ^