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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1902)
___ The Frontier. Published by D. H. CBOSIN $1 60 the Year. 75 Cents Six Months Official paper of O’Neill and Holt county. ADVERTISING RATES: Display advertlsments on paires 4, 6 and 8 are charged for on a basis of 60 cents an Inch (one column width) per month; on pane 1 the eharae Is SI an Inch per month. Local ad vsrtfifuienu, 5 cents per line each Insertion. Address the office or the publisher. The government appeal's to be in earnest in getting at the facts con cerning the charges of cruelty to the Filipinos by certain American soldiers. If the charges be true, the guilty ones havebrought unretrevable shame upon American arms, disgrace to the uni forms they wear and the everlasting contumely of the American people upon their dishonored heads. A swift and memorable example should be made of every officer who had part or parcel in the disgraceful and brutal work. The Independent of April 25 said that “the county is legally entitled to $290.38 from Mr. Stewart, and the county is morally entitled to recover $188.65 from the republican county board, who, by their ignorance and gross incompetency, have allowed claims that were not legal charges against the county through their bullheaded stubborness In not asking the advise of the county attorney.” In its rantings about “republican in compentency,” the Independent over looks the important and very material fact that this $188.65 dates back into the years of poplsm on the county board—1900-1901. Is the moral sense Of former populist supervisors so accuto that they will now step up and pay the county 188.65? ■« » » -- M. F. Harrington has addressed a communication to the state eqaliza t4on board, asking them in the name of fair play to shove up railroad assess ments to somewhere near their valua tion. Editor Rosewater of the Bee is also working to the same end and has gone before the board in person to make an appeal for higher railroad assessments. As a matter of fact the state has long suffered a gross injus tice in the matter of railroad assess ments. While the value of railroad property has been continually on the increase their taxes have been steadily lowered. There is no earthly nor heavenly reason why railroads should be given about two-thirds the best of the private citizen in taxation. Sidney Republican: Judge M. F* Kinkald of O’Neill is making a deter mined canvass of the big Sixth for congressional honors. The judge has friends in every corner of the district who will be much in evidence at the proper time. He made the race twice twice under adverse circumstances and now that the republican nomina tion being equal to an election it seems to the Republican that the dis trict is yet under obligations to Judge Kinkaid. He is an earnest and ener getic campaigner and makes votes wherever he goes, and to know him, and to know him well, is only to ad mire him still the more. He always has that hearty handshake whether he is on the bench or in private life. He will be found a strong man in the republican convention at Crawford. A special from Thomaston, Me., announces that the Jackson club, the first Bryan club organized in the country, has repudiated the Ne braskan and gilded its silvery banner. When Bryan received the nomination in 1896 the democrats of Congressman Littlefield’s district, organized the Jackson club. During the six years that Bryan has been a national figure the club stuck to him and free silver. It was the last political organization in New England to forsake 16 to 1. Dr. G. L. Crockett, the club’s presi dent, says: “Science has solved the monetary problem and Bryan, like Clay, Calhoun and Blaine, must die with an unsatitied ambition.” The leading democrats of the country are fankly admitting the error of 16 to 1 and there is no show of the Chicago platform ever being reared beneath the democratic party again. _ COMM 1TTEE MEET I NG. Notice is hereby given that the members of the republican county central committee are called to meet at the office of R. R. Dickson in O’Neill on Saturday, May 17,1902, at 1 o’clock p. m. for the purpose of fix ing a time for the republican county convention to select delegates to the state and congressional conventions, and to transact such other business as may properly come liefore said com mittee. Dated at O’Neill, May (>, 1902. C. L. Bright, R. R. Dickson, Secretary. Chairman. -- THE FLAG WILL STAY THERE. Chicago Inter-Ocean: “The repub lic has put its flag in those islands, and the Hag will stay there. The flag will stay put!” Such is Theodore Roosevelt’s answer to the successors and imitators of Clement L. Vallandigham in the United States Senate and out, and it is a true American answer. If any of our soldiers, in dealing with barbarous Malays, has exceeded the legitimate usages of warfare witli savages, he will be punished. The republic’s justice and the govern ment’s power will take care of him. But the Hag will stay there. ^The Pattersons, the Rawlinses, the Carmacks, the Dudoises, and their like assume that the American peo ple care more for low-browed Malay savages than for their own kinsmen. The assumption is false. Argument with those who made that assump tion is vain. But the flag will stay there. The President did well to voice the feeling of the nation before a gather ing of men who take pride in their de scent from those who fought to make this republic. His words are Ailed with the spirit of ‘76 and of ’61. In every national crisis in tlie past there have been men who counseled cowardice in the name of humanity and submission in tlie name of peace. But in every case tlie American peo ple rose and said: “But tlie flag will stay there. ” And the Hag did stay there, victori ous at Yorktown, triumphant at Ap pomattox. Tlie flag is in the Philip pines. The American people sent it there, and they will keep it there. Tlie insane extra vagence and wild luxury of the Russian aristocracy is primarilly the cause of that country’s present troubles with her peasant subjects. Even a brute will rebel against a cruel and oppressive master. ITEMS OF NEBRASKA LIFE Socialists at Minden, Kearney coun ty, have secured a building in which to hold regular meetings once in two weeks. The West Point Republican tell of two young nem of its town who have started on a trip around tlie world a-foot with a mule for packing the luggage. A hypnotist, in endeavoring to en tertain an audience at Long Pine, was hooted off tlie stage and chased about town, all the while dodging bad eggs threw good. Robert Maxwell, a 13-year-old Omaha boy, who was hit by a flying sidewalk in the storm of April 25, died Sunday night. His skull was badly fractured and several teetli were knocked out by the blow which he received. Eldon Peter, the 11-year-old son of Frank Salts, residing one mile north west of Beatrice, was shot through the heart and instatly killed at his home by the accidental discharge of a thirty-eight-caliber revolver in the hands of Clifford Shellaberg, 10 years old. William 15. Price of Lincoln, lawyer prominent fusion worker, part owner of an oil claimlin Texas and formerly a clerk in the auditor’s office under John F. Cornell, has been appointed by Governor Savage to succeed J. Sterling Morton as member of the Ne braska commission for the Louisiana Purchase exposition. The Munson line steamer Olinda has arrived from Cuban ports, bring ing as passengers 19'J enlisted men of die Tenth cavalry U. S A., who have been stationed at Holguin, Cuba, for nearly three years. The men belong to troops 15, I), 1 and K, and are in command of Captain R. J. Fleming. They are enroute to Fort Robinson, Neb. The case wherein the state sought to recover from former Secretary of State Porter the money he appropriat ’d to his own use as fees, received by virture of his membership in the Brand and Marks commission, will be appealed to the supreme court, rhe fees taken by Mr Porter amount ed to about $1,000. He didnt deny hav ing accepted the money, but declared that he had a right to it, and meant to keep it. C. K. Murphy, an aeronaut, be lieved to be insane, leaped in front of a rapidly moving trolley car in Omaha Sunday evening. He was knocked down by the fender and sustained several severe bruises. He was taken to the police stat ion and locked up, charged with being insane. When asked why he leaped in front of the car Murphy answered that he was try ing an experiment which he would ex plain later. The state board of compromise has accepted $8,000 as full payment of the shortage of $13,278.45 of ex-Treasurer Lynch of Platte county. The board adopted a resolution, stating that J. W. Lynch, as treasurer of Platte county, had collected for the state $13,278.45, which amount he refused to pay over when his term expired, and that his bondsmen had offered $8,000as a full settlement of theshort age, which sum was accepted. George Beck of Nebraska City went to Omaha and fell among theives. Sunday night in the red light district he found a genial stranger who gave his name as Ed and his address as Fremont Neb. George and Ed be came very friendly during the course of the evening and they finally retired at the Richlieu hotel, occupying the same room. This morning Beck awoke to find his bedfellow missing. An inspection of his personal effects disclosed the awful fact that they were missing. Not only his gold watch and $30 in money, but his new suit of clothes, his hat, shoes, socks and underwear were gone. Only George and t he bed covers were left. Peeking over the transcom as far as was consistent with the rules of the house, Beck called to a bellboy and related the facts surrounding the de pleted condition of his wardrobe. The boy promised to do his best to assist him. Half an hour later Beck, clad in a pair of overalls and a frown, ap peal’d at the police station, where he told his troubles to the sympathetic desk sergeant. The police gathered together a few garments to make George presentable. He left on the first train for Fremont to look for Ed. MATTERS OF NEWS. Queen Wilheluima of Holland, whose life had been hanging in the balance for many days, is better. A raft containing 11,000,000 of lum ber, the largest ever floated, was re cently taken down tlie Mississippi river. The bill to admit Arizona, New Mexico and Oklohoma to statehood was passed in tlie house Friday on a voice vote without division. Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, retired, whose fleet sunk the Spanish squadron at Santiago in theCuban war, died at his home in Washington on May 0. Paul L. Ford, novelist, was fattally shot at his home in New York on Friday last by his brother Malcomb, who then sent a bullet through his own heart. 11 was the outgrowth of long standing family differences. Tlie weather in London is bitterly cold and snow has fallen in various parts of England. There have been snowstorms in Cheshire and Lanca shire, in Dover and other parts of Kent and in Leicestershire and Nor folk. , An anti-beef-eating league is being organized among the 5,000 employes of the General Electric company of Lynn, Mass. Between 1,500 and 1,700 names have been secured, represent ing 3,500 consumers. Dealers com plain that tlie consumption of meats is falling off rapidly. The Sheraden yards at Pittsburg of the Panhanble railroad was the scene Monday evening of the most disas trous explosion and tire known for many years. A score of lives were lost and about 300 persons were so badly burned that, according to the judg ment of physicians in attendance, 75 per cent of them will die from tlie effects of their injuries. A Chicago special of Friday says: Proxies for the Chicago & North western annual meeting, to be held here June 5, are at a big premium to day. A battle royal is being waged for their possession, the contesting parties being those now in control of the property on the one side and the Moores-Leeds-Gates interests on the other. Books for the transfer of stock for the annual meeting closed last week, so that purchase of stock in the open market cannot be made available unless they carry proxies with them, and efforts are being made to secure the proxies without reference to pur chases. Those now in control of the property have awakened to the fact that a big coup has been planned to be accomplished at the annual meet ing, and they are now putting forth their strenuous efforts to pervent it. When the books closed last week they thought they were safe, but they have since been convinced by indis putable evidence that they are by no means out of the woods. Large holders of share are being importuned by both sides to the contest for their proxies, and valuable considerations are being offered for them, with a large number of stockholders refusing to surrender their rights to either sides at this stage of the proceedings. Norway newspapers are printing alarmist articles on account of the recent increase in emigration from Norway to the United States. It is estimated that 30,000 Norwegians have sailed to America this yefir, dou ble the number for the same period last year. Emigration has not assum ed such proportions since the time of the famine, forty years ago. Ex tremely slack trade, heavy taxation and a poor fishing season are given as the causes of the exodus. Fruit growers in northern Missouri are much alarmed over the ravages of the canker worm. Apple, peach and cherry trees in many counties have been entirely denuded of foliage by the worms and in consequence the the fruit crop is destroyed. The or dinary solutions of paris green and water and of copper sulphate do not, in every instance, destroy the pest. One orchard near Armour, where the crop of apples for many years has sold for $10,000, will yield nothing this year. Mine workers throughout the entire anthracite coal regions of Penn sylvania, to the number of 145,000, formally begun their struggle Monday for increased wages and shorter hours. Never in the history of hard coal mining has a tieup been so complete, not one of the 357 collieies in the terri tory being in operation. There is every indication for the belief that the suspension, which was to cover only the first three days of this week, ■ will be made permanent by the 1 miners’ general convention which met | at Hazeleton Wednesday. The worst catastrophe that history has been called upon to record since the fall of ancient Pompeii befell St. Pierre, the commercial capital of Martinique, one of the largest islands among the Lesser Antilles group in the Carribean sea, southwest of Porto Rico. Mont Pelee, a volcano ten miles from St. Pierre, belched forth clouds of lire and molten lava, completely inundating the city and the country for miles around. The estimated loss of life is 40,000 with not a single surviver to tell the tale of the doomed city. A baseball umpire out in Lincoln, Neb., hit a player so hard that he went home and died. The rules are to be strictly enforced this year. Many housewives are discovering that their sons who can win prise cups in golfing contests have not enough strength to beat a 2x4 Smyrna rug. Luckily for the good health of the rest of the community, the story over which a New York doctor laughed himself to death is not being repeated. There is a man in New Hampshire who boasts that he lives on sixty-nine cents a week. There’s a fellow who can snap his fingers at the beef trust. A jealous lover wrecked a house with dynamite in Ohio the other day. Strange to say, even that heroic meas ure did not cause the lady to love him. An Ohio man has run away from . home to escape from people who want to thrust a public office on him. Major Pond’ll get him if he doesn’t watch out. In Germany they are now making sugar from beets and gasoline from po tatoes. They have not as yet been able, however, to get blood out of a turnip. Since ping-pong was invented 8,000, 000 of the featherweight zylonite balls have been turned out in London. And their life since then has not been an idle one. __ Yale’s new launch, the Elihu Yale, has been tried and found to be all right. Perhaps a launch race between the Elihu Yale and the John Harvard would be interesting. In Kansas they are killing prairie dogs by turning jets of steam into their holes. In these days of electricity . this method seems extremely cumber some and old fashioned. F. Marion Crawford has just finished a play called “Francesca da Rimini.” Clyde Fitch is about the only play wright we know of who has not as yet written a “Francesca da Rimini.” The esteemed Philadelphia Inquirer may not have portraits of all the not ables in stock, but this hardly justi fies that paper in printing a cut of Chief Justice Fuller of the United States supreme court and labeling it “Rear Admiral Coghlan.” There is a great rush for member- . ship in the new millionaires’ club which is being started in London. This is one instance in which even the modest man would like to be in the crowd.—Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. The Boston literary critic who has compiled a list of what he calls the fifty “best” American poems gives thirty places to the authors of his own city and one place to a Chicago writer. The average will be even when Chicago enumerates the fifty “best” American samae-ns — 75e gets The Frontier (1 mo. CAMPBELL’S FARM MACHINERY --1 CARRY A LARGE STOCK OF THE LATEST improved farm implements, and buy them direct by car loads from the manufacturer, so there are no robbers, profits to add to the cost price of the goods This enables me to sell at the lowest pos sible price to the user. I keep different makes and styles of walk ing cultivators. I sell the famous Ohio riding cultivators. This cultivator excels all other in appearance and the work it will do. I keep for sale other styles. Also disc riding cultivators. My leader for listed corn is the erway, 2 and 3 row. It has no runners, but carrys on wheels thus making the draft very light. One man with 3 horses can work 30 acres of corn in a day. 1 also have other kinds of listed corn cultivators. My stock of buggies is large, and you can find in my stock a variety of styles to seleet from. I can sell you a buggy at the right price as I buy them in large lots and car freight. I have 3 wheel riding listers, also 2-wheel riding listers, sulky and gang plows. My siock of pumps, {-wind mills, stock tanks and pipe fittings is complete. I want you remember the new improves wood pitman standard mower. This is the best made, finest finished and strongest cutting mower ever put on the market. I will have a new hay stackers in season that will take lead my stock of rakes and sweeps will be large. Dont forget the case threshing machine. I sell it for a lower price than you can buy any other machine and it is the best. When you want a sewing machine look at the White-I sell it when looking for a machine of any kind look my stock over I dont expect to sell all the machinery but want part of your patronage at least and will spare no effort to get it. FRANK CAMPBELL O’NEILL, NEB. I Lumber Yard 1 B i p Headquarters frr . „ - || pLuiUBER ANDI : ^ COAL 4» I O. O. 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