The Frontier.
Published by D. H. CBOHIN
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Don’t crow too strong on Nebraska’s
wheat crop; Its a long time till
harves t.
Did you ever notice that the big
things always happen, the wonders
always occur, the big trees always
grow -somewhere else.
With Judge Klnkaid as our con
gressional nominee there would be no
question as to the result. Now is the
time for the big Sixth to redeem her
self.
The Frontier acknowledges receipt
of an invitation to attend the annual
meeting of the Elkhorn Valley
Editorial association to be held at
Chadron on June 7.
A fall of temperature of sixty-two
degrees from Sunday night till Mon
day night is further evidence that
Nebraska can furnish the four seasons
in twenty-four hours.
The department of labor reports
that during the years from July 1,
1894, to December 31, 1900, there was
a loss to the wage workers of the
country of $257,863,478.
The county board lias finally suc
ceeded in getting the “lamps” of the
county attorney adjusted so that he
can see a hole in a board when the
board is held in front of him.
J. P. A. Black, of Bloomington,
Neb., has announced himself as a can
didate for the republican nomination
for governor. Mr. Black is one of the
active, progressive republicans of the
Fifth congressional district and is
sure to be an active figure In the next
state convention.
The Graphic lias invited the Inde
pendent to come to a discussion of
those excess fees. The Frontier lias
been trying for two months to get
the Independent to at least admit
that if Stewart owes any thing to the
county it should be collected. But
the Independent won’t do it, you
know.
The Frontier stated last week that
Hon. W. W. Wood of ltushville was
mentioned in connection with the re
publican nomination for congress.
We are reliable informed that he is In
no sense a candidate for the honor.
The fact is, the north end of the dis
trict is practically solid for Hon. M. P.
Kinkaid of this city, the man who
above all others is capable of redeem
ing the big Sixth.
The World-Herald is sounding forth
an alarm over the recent and very
great advannccs in the price of flesh
foods. It is amusing how suddenly
and frequently the average democrat
ic editor can reverse himself. The
World-Herald has professed to be the
special champion of the farmers and
live stock raisers. Now it is denounc
ing the fellows who just now are mak
ing it possible for the farmers and
stock men to reap the richest harvest
they have in many years. Evidently
the World-Herald expects pork to sell
at 10 cents while the farmer gets *7
for his hogs.
People are becoming uneasy alread
in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas be
cause of a lack of rain, or rather an
excess of wind, which has sapped
the earth of the customary spring
moisture. The alarm 1s probably
greater than conditions warrant.
Yeareof experience has proven that
there need be no fear from a tem
porary dry spell in April as it is in
variably followed by plenty of wet in
May and June. While it is perfectly
proper for the people of Kansas to
to pray for rain or anything else they
see fit, the people of Nebraska will be
more concerned about the climatic
conditions during July and August
than they are about the same now.
SAVAGE STANDS I’AT
The Lincoln News stirred up some
thing of a political sensation last
Thursday by publishing the follow
ing said to be inspired by the gover
nor himse.lf:
A special session of the present
legislature before the election of its
successor is not without the range of
possibilities. It is asserted by those
who are in a position to know that
the subject has been in the mind of
Governor Savage for many days and
that it is now simmered down to a
mere qustion of expediency. It is
said that there are two contingencies,
and two only, on which the special
session can be avoided. The first, is
ttiat the leaders who are in a position
to help Savage to a renomination and
wtio promised it provided lie should
commute the sentence of Joseph
Hartley keep their promise to assist
him in realizing his ambition and the
second is that lie change tiis mind.
The revenue system of the state is
the lever the governor is said to have
contemplated exercising in prying up
the assistance he was led to believe
was his. The total assessed valuation
of the state last year amounted to
only $174,000,000, while the railroad
assessment amounted to only a little
over $20,000,000, about one-seventh of
the entire assessment. The striking
feature of a table the governor has had
prepared from the records show a
more striking feature, however, and
that is that in 1881) the assessed valua
tion of railroad property was $11,000,
000 more than in 1001, and yet there
was an increase of 075 miles in the
trackage of the state.
wnen uovernor ravage commuted
tlie sentence of Joseph Bartley it was
generally reported that ho had I lie
pledge of the corporation leaders of the
state that t hey would assist him in
being renominated. But these same
leaders did not reckon with public
opinion. When criticisms began to
be launched from every quarter of the
state these same leaders became
frightened, abandoned the governor
and threw their support to other can
didates who had not aroused such
hostile criticism. The governor in
sisted, however, in holding them lo
their pledge, it is said. The leaders
who had promised support, on the
other hand, sent messengers to him
and urged his withdrawal from the
contest. Savage has never been
known to back down from a square
tight, however, and still insists that
he is in the race, corporations or no
corporations. If the support pledged
fails to materlalze and Savage fails of
renomination there is liable to be
some sensational developments.
The corporations are in a desperate
position, for the situation has gone
beyond their control, if it never was
in there power to dictate candidates.
Lines are too well made up now for
readjustment. With some other can
didate for governor next fail, it would
be somewhat embarrassing t o have a
special session of t he legislature called
in the midst of the campaign for the
express purpose of adjusting t he re
venue laws, with particular attent ion
heinggiven to the corporation feature
The governor has said: “1 have every
thing to gain and nothing to lose.”
The logic appears invincible. That
the system is sadly defective none can
deny. A demand for a change, even
though reinforced by a special session
of the legislature to effect it, would
hardly meet with the disapproval of
the people, and whatever would be
the result, the magnitude and
popularity of the proposition would so
far outshine the discredit of the
Bartley commutation as to permit
the governor to retire to his Custer
county farm surrounded by a halo of
glory, secure in the esteem of the
public.
Every effort to secure the with
drawal of the governor from tire race
has met with rebuff, lie stands as
though he had all the influences of
the state aligned behind him. For
weeks he has been collecting data and
statistics, and grand assessment rolls,
corporation assessments and state in
debtedness for years back, together
with the constitution and the statu
tes are at his tongue’s end. On May
15 the state board, consisting of Gov
ernor Savage, Treasurer Stuefer and
Auditor Weston, will meet to assess
railroad, telephone and telegraph
systems. Treasurer Stuefer stands
firmly by the governor, and there
promises to be something doing with
in a month. Governor Savage declines
to talk for publication at this stage of
game, but is loaded with information
and may lie induced to express him
self later on the political features.
In the alleged jocular mood which
characterizes the publication, the
Fremont Tribune strains itself to
draw a paralled from a familar Bibli
cal incident with a donkey biting a
farmer near Fremont, and prefaces its
account of the incident by saying:
The book of Daniel in the old testa
ment recites the adventures of Samp
son, the strong man of Israel,
and among other things narrates his
achievement of effecting the dest ruc
tion of three thousand Philistines
with the jawbone of a long-eared
animal.
Thebook of Daniel recites the ad
ventures of Sampson! The Tirbune
should lose no time in gett ing a bible
and making a study of the blessed
book. Does not the Tribune know
Sampson slew the Philistines with
the jaw-bone of an ass 600 years before
Daniel was carried away by King
Nebuchadnezzar into Babylon, where
his inspired record was written? In
the book of Judges, accounting the
earliest history of Israel in the prom
ised land, the Tribune will find the
account of Sampson's eventful career.
In the book of Daniel, six centuries
later, the kingdom of Israel having
reached the height of its glory and
then fallen into decay and its best
men carried away captive into Baby
lon, the Tribune will find an instruc
j t ive record of providential care qyei
1 Daniel and his companions amidst a
crooked and perversed generation,
supplemented by strange and facinat
• ing proplisies. “The book of Daniel
recites the adventures of Sampson!”
And this in the Fremont Tribune!
The bean eating Bostonians are
just now displaying their wisdom by
jailing soda water venders who do
business on Sunday while hotel land
lords deal out worse drinks on the
same day without being molested.
ITEMS OF NEBRASKA LIFE
Chief (lame Warden Simpson has
given out a statement showing that
from June 14, 1901, to December 31,
there were forty-five arrests and
thirty-six convictions for violations
of the game law. The fees amounted
to $5,581.51.
A Plainview special says: At a
special school election held yesterday
on a proposition to buy the Plainview
normal college building and turn it
over to the Plainview high school dis
trict, 1 be vote stood 140 for and 70
against. The school district comes
into possession of a property worth
$12,000, which will cost them $5,000.
T. .1. Hoyt and Mining Expert Me
Millen of Chicago are in Hastings
awaiting the arrival of a large ma
chine, which they will place at Prick
ton, on the Plue river, for the purpose
of trying to seperate the flour gold
from the sand. These men put a
small machine on the Plue for an
experiment last fall. Mr. Hoyt says
that it is no longer an experiment,
but strictly a business enterprise, and
lie has great hopes of reaping a rich
harvest of flour gold along the Plue.
The postmaster at Plattsmonth has
received a letter from an attorney at
Defiance, ()., asking him to locate
two children of .1. 1'. Corwin, deceased.
The children are named among the
heirs to a large estate left by Corwin’s
father. The younger Corwin suddenly
disappeared from Plattsmounth about
nine years ago, leaving a wife and
two small children. He went to
Denver and later to Wyoming, where
he railroaded until three years ago,
where he died. In the meantime
Mrs. Corwin married again and she is
now Mrs. Simon Hanson. Her hus
band is a well-to-do farmer, and they
live on a farm near Nehawkee. The
Children referred to are twelve and
fourteen years of age, respectfully.
A special correspondent at Lincoln
writes to the Sioux City Journal thus:
W. J. Bryan,complacently petch upon
the spring seat of a heavy farm wagon
leisurely jogging to the city after
supplies, was one of the sights which
astonished the inhabitants of, Lincoln
one day' last week. Mr. Bryan has
taken hold of the farm experiment in
earnest, and was eager to haul some
agricultural machinery and supplies
to Fairview four miles from this city,
where his farm is located. Mr. Bryan
wore a wide brimmed sombrero, heavy
overcoat and top boots. lie looked
every inch a farmer, and even
had a formidable looking whip, which
he flourished at rare intervals over
the backs of the horses. “The Bible”
is t,1 e name of the form wagon which
was recently made according to the
specifications of Mr. Bryan. The
whole affair is strongly built, with
wide tires and substantial running
gear. On each side painted in gor
geous letters, “Fairview.” The
wagon is rapibly becoming a familiar
sight on the road to and from the
country retreat of Mr. Bryan. The
family now lives in the $0,000 barn re
cently erected at Fairview, and will
entertain their friends there until
the $20,000 residence is completed.
The latter will be linished early in
the summer if plans do not go awry.
The room intended for a carriage
house furnishes for the Bryans a
parlor, sitting room and library.
Spare rooms, a kitchen, dining room
and pantry have been transformed
from future stalls for horses. Several
grain bins make commodious ward
robes. Upstairs bedrooms have been
fitted up from what was intended for
a haymow and harness rooms. “I am
in no haste to leave the barn,” said
Mr. Bryan. “Thanks to the inge
nuity of Mrs. Bryan, it is very com
fortable. In my residence will be a
commodious editorial room, for I in
tend to make Fairview my permanent
home and will prepare most of my
editorials here.”
MATTERS OF NEWS.
James Doll, an English actor, is 98
gears of age and is still playing.
Mrs. James MeGowen, aged twenty
eight, of Tucker’s Corners, a hamlet
in New York state, recently gave
birth to five children, all girls, and
are all doing well.
Over 1,000 probitionists who gather
ed in Indianapolis for their state con
vention enthusiastically indorsed a
proposition that every one should con
tribute 1 per cent of his earnings to
j further the cause of prohibiten.
Mme Palti received a pound of
candy for singing in her first concert.
Now she gets $4,000 .every time she
sings.
It is authoritively stated that J.
Pierpont Morgan, the Barings and the
Rothschilds have secured an aggre
gate of £16,000,000 of the new British
loan of £32,000,000. The remaining
£16,000.000 will be offered to the
public.
On April 19, Prof. Nichols Murray
was installed as president of Colum
bia university. The ceremonies were
i attended by the president of the
j United States and the heads of the
principal institutions of learning in
the country.
A man who served a long term in
the Iowa penitentiary writes to his
home paper that he is convinced crime
does not pay, since he has lost $16,500
he might have made working at his
trade, while the property he stole
brought him only $67.
The Canadian Parliament has been
asked to grant a franchise for a t unnel
under the St. Lawrence river at Mon
treal, which will be the largest sub
way in world. It is to connect the
Quebec Southern railway with the
Vanderbilt system in this country.
If the permit is granted work will
begin in ninety days. The cost will
be $6,000,000.
Ames, Swan & Co., bankers and
brokers, of New York have asked the
police to aid them in clearing up the
mystery of the disappearance from
their office of 100 shares of Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul stock, said to
be worth $17,000. The firm also asked
that the non-appearance of their con
fiddhtial bookkeeper. Allen F. Hedges, |
be looked into.
The division of insular of the War
department gave out for publication
recently a statement of the recepts in
the Philippines, as follows: From
customs, in March, 1902, $706,981, as
compared with $732,267 for March,
1901. The receipts of the the city of
Manila during the same month were
$66,655for 1902, as compared with $37,
279 for the same period of the previous
year.
Walter Vroman, the social reformer,
announces that he has purchased the
land and completed plans for building
a model village or co-operative com
munity within a short distance of
Kansas City. The village, Mr. Vro
man says, will finally have a dozen
factories for the manufacture of as
many different articles, churches,
school houses, dwellings, stores and
places of amusement all built at his
expense.
Great Britain has accepted Ger-J
many's prosition for an interuatiocJH
conference to regulate the use of w
less telegraphy. The other powers , ■
which the prosposition was made, viz:
The United States, France and Rus
sia, have not yet responded, but the
German officials confidently expect
favorable answers, especially from the
United States which has taken much
interest in the matter. (
It is stated by Dr. Alfred Ilillier in
an article in the Fornightly Review
that the deaths from consumption
throughout Europe are estimated at
more than a million annually. In
England and Wales alone more than
00*000 people die of the disease every
.year,and thisannual mortality exceeds
by 10,000all the ravages of the “Black
Death” during the time of the Great
Plague which is so terribly celebrated
in English history
Tlie flag pole on top of the dome of
the new Chicago post-office is 72 feet
in height, and weighs 4,500 pounds.
It was made from an Oregon fir tree,
straight as a line and free from knot.
The flag does not twist about the pole
as it is set into the truck so it turns
with winds. The building on which
it stands is 547 feet high, and will cAS(
over $4,000,000 when completed. Trlie
ground on which it stands has long
been owned by Uncle Sam. It is ndy»
worth five million dollars.
Miss Ellen M. Stone, the missionary
recently returned from Bulgaria, was
summoned to appear in the superior
court equity session at Boston to show
cause wliy she should not be enjoined
from delivering a lecture describing
her captivity this week and
Monday evening as planned. The
bill in equity is brought by a lecture
bureau, the complaint alleging that
it made a contract with the defendant
through her brother, acting as agent,
and that she will violate the terms if
she delivers the proposed lectures.
TlieC. B. & Q. road lias made public
details of a record-breaking run of
fourteen and eight-tenths miles, from
Eckely to Wray, Col., made on March
24. The distance was covered at a
rate of 98.6 miles an hour. An official
investigation was made by Burling
ton officials. The run is said to beat
any former record for that distance.
The Continental Limited on the,
Wabash railroad has made a new Re
cord from Tilton to Grant Cifly,
making 180 miles in 180 minutes.
This was with five stops—three
station stops, one to change engines
and one to take on coal. The actual
running time was two hours and
thirty-eight minutes. /
I For a quarter of a century I have been in O’Neill in the Hardware and Implement business, and am here yet, with a carload
of new Implements for the spring trade. Following is a partial list of goods carried by me: i
John Deere Plows, Buggies, Planters, lew Pivot Tongued Cultivators, Riding and Walking Listers, Discs and Seeders!
I These goods are beautiful in construction, durable and have
no equal. The Moline wagon, none better on wheels, having
runny points superior to any wagon on the market. The cele
brated Champion binders, mowers and hay rakes. I also handle
bale ties. In the stove line I carry the best known steel range,
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
enameled ware. I have the Lisk and Elliott anti rust tinware,
none better. For any rusty piece returned I will gladly give a
new piece. Nickel plated copperware, such as tea and coffee
pots, tea kettles and other articles in profusion. Anything you
want in silverware, cut glass, glassware or Rogers 1847 table
cutlery. In the cutlery line I carry no imported goods, nothing
but the products of Ameaican factories and American workman
ship. I have all grades, from the cheapest to the best. I have
the Sioux City garden seeds; also other garden and field seeds,
such as millet, clover, etc. I have the best kerosene, the
“Eocene,” gasoline, machine oil, and axle grease. A very nice
line of sewing machines. In barb wire I have the genuine
Glklden, no imitation, every pound warranted to run one rod.
I It is always my aim to treat customers iu the best possible manner and to give them honest labor and good goods for |1
every dollar they may think well to turn my way. If you cannot give, me all your trade, give me what you can, and it p
will be appreciated. I will say in conclusion that no man in my line will give you any more for you dollar than I will
and my guarantee or warrant I will make good. ||
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