The Frontier.
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REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For Congressman Sixth District.
HON. M. P. KINK A ID.
For Governor,
JONH H. MICKEY.
For Lieutenant Governor,
E. G. McGILTON.
For Treasurer,
PETER MORTENSON.
For Secretary of State,
G. A. MARSH.
For Auditor,
CHARLES WESTON.
For Superintendent of Instruction,!
WILLIAM K. FOWLER.
For Attorney General,
F. N. PROUT.
For Commissioner Public Lands,
GEORGE I). FOLLMER.
The prohlbs meet in state conven
tion at Lincoln on August l).
Genl. Barry’s nomination was near
ly worn out before it got around to
him.
Plenty of rain and less populism go
hand in hand. Let the good work
keep up the pace.
Even the leading fuslonists in this
county already admit Barry’s defeat
in the congressional race. Hurrah
for Kinkaid I
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The firm of Allen, Robinson & Reed
will soon be able to resume business
without any of the members being
hampered by official duties.
The Hon. Pat Barry can scarcely
hope to win out in the Sixth district
against eight-cent steers, not count
ing the popularity of Moses Plurality
Kinkaid.—Fremont Tribune.
yuite a change during the past
week in the personnel of the English
government. It appears that Cham
berlain’s grip on the goverment is
strengthened instead of weakened.
Wonder if the editor from Amelia
has been successful in securing anoth
er promise of a private secretaryship
from Gen. Barry. The general can
make the promise easily enough be
cause he will never have the opportun
ity to fulfill it.
Congressman Ilobinson lias been re
nominated by the fusionlsts of the
Third district. Robinson is serving
ills second and last term and by the
time McCarthy gets through with him
in November he will wish that lie had
voluntarily retired to private life.
Judge Homer Sullivan had a hard
time trying to dodge the fusion con
gressional nomination, but after being
nominated four times and declining a
like number was successful in eluding
it. If the fusion nominee had a ghost
of a show to win in this district this
fall the judge would not have declined
the honor. He is not built that way.
What can tire silver democrats hope
to gain by a continued agitation of the
silver bill? Has it not been clearly
demonstrated that we can have good
times and plenty of money with which
to transact the business of the coun
try without the free coinage of silver?
The continuation of this farce more
clearly shows the incompetence of the
leaders than any thing else could.
The conditions they pleaded for have
come and there can be nothing gained
by denying that fact.
Judge Sullivan, of Broken Bow, did
what Harrington, Bryan and some of
the rest did at Grand Island. He re
fused a nomination, preferring rather
to keep his job on the district bench
than to make a trial for congress in
the Sixth district. The fusionists are
pretty badly scared in that district.
They have little hope of winning out
this year against Kinkaid and eight
cent cattle that cover a thousand hills.
The real truth is every congressional
district in the state will be safely re
publican this year.—Fremont Tribune.
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SUIIE DEFEAT.
Judge Homer M. Sullvan, of Broken
Bow, the populists nominated, coaxed
and persuaded to accept t lie fusion
nomination for congress but the judge
would have none of it. He was at the
state convention and labored long and
earnestly for the nomination of a
populist for the bead of the ticket and
predicted defeat for the ticket if a
democrat was nominated. The judge
is a careful student of things politicial
and his views on this point and the
knowledge of certain defeat at the
polls for the entire ticket is no doubt
that which deterred him from accept
ing the congressional nomination.
During a heated speech in the state
convention, on the question of fusion
the judge expressed himself as follows:
“To nominate a democrat at the
head of our ticket, means the destruc
tion of our party. It means defeat at
the polls, and if I am to go down to
certain defeat I would rather go down
witii my Hag flying, fighting for popu
list principles, behind a ticket made
up of populists, than to go down be
hind a democrat forced on us by out
side influences. I say that no demo
cratic candidate for governor can poll
within 25 per cent of the populist
vote. That was seen out in my coun
try last year when we submitted to
Hollenbeck as the nominee for sup
reme judge. We have in Custer coun
ty 2,200 populist voters but Hollen
beck fell short 700 of polling their full
strength, and 1 say that just as sure
as we agree to a democrat at the head
of the ticket this year we will not poll
1,200 votes in-Custer county.”
lie went, on turiner to protest against
the sacrifice oftlie populist organiza
tion for the purpose of stemming for
Bryan the rising tide of the reorgan
izers in the democratic party.
THE NEXT STATE TREASURER.
Peter Mortensen, of Valley county,
is again the nominee of the republi
can party for the otlice of state trea
surer. The honor came to him easily
on the first ballot at the recent con
vention. He was thus chosen, not be
cause of any personal weakness of the
other aspirants, for they are all good
men, but because of the fact that he
was considered the best man for the
place.
Four years ago he was first named
for state treasurer by the republican
state convention, the honor being
conferred upon him unsought and
against his 'expressed wishes, but he
accepted the nomination in the face
of impending defeat, for there was no
chance then of a republican ticket
being elected, and made a vigorous
fight for the honor of the party. The
popularity he gained all over the
state by reason of that campaign, no
doubt, aided in his renomination at
this time.
Mr. Mortensen was born in Den
mark, October 8, 1844. His early days
were spent on a farm in his native
land. When twenty-six years of age
he came to America and two years
later he settled in Valley county, be
ing one of tlie first to push out into
this then frontier. lie built the first
house in the county and has since
been identified with the general pro
gress and development of the county.
Always standing high in the esteem
of his fellow men he was chosen treas
urer of Valley county in 1875, hold
ing the otlice for nine years. The
rigid examinations to which his re
cords have since been subjected
showed that he had been a faithful
steward of the county’s cash. More
than that, it may be said that it was
largely due to his sagacity and bus
iness ability that the county passed
through those trying times of its
early days without financial disaster.
Mr. Mortensen is a successful bus
iness man. Though liberal and pub
lic spirited, lie is conservative in bus
iness. All his business ventures have
proved successful. The First Nation
al Bank of Ord, of which he was one
of the founders and for many years
past the president and the active
manager, is one of the best banks of
its size in the state.
Those who know Mr. Mortensen
best, know that he is abundantly
competent and peculiarly fitted to
successfully care for the state’s treas
ury and perform the executive duties
of that otlice. They know that Ins
tried and true integrity, his well
grounded conservatism and liis char
acter, which are devoid of all undue
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self-seeking, will guarantee the faith- i
fill performance of his dutie:, as state I
treasurer.
No better man could have been
named for the place.—Ord Quiz.
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RAILROAD ADVERTISING.
The Independent came out last
week with a very labored article upon
railroad taxation and The Frontier.
Because The Frontier had the temer
ity to accept this railroad advertising
at a good rate per inch, and be
cause C. I). Thompson, an advertising
agent of Omaha, through whom the
railroad advertising is sent out,
selected The Frontier as the best ad
vertising medium in Holt county, the
machine man, who grinds out the
editorial copy for the Independent,
had a pipe dream and visions of a
combination between The Frontier,
leading republicans of the county and
the railroads loomed before his visi
onary optics.
The Frontier does not deny that it
is paid for advertising the railroad
tax matter sent and secures therfor a
better rate per inch than the sheet up
the street ever received for foreign
advertising. The Frontier is being
run 10 main: money ini its uwuui.
We have tlie advertising space to sell;
the railroads wanted some of that
space, they paid us our price and got
it. Any man having goods to sell
disposes of them to the man who
gives him his price and has the cash
to pay it with. The Frontier
has advertising space to sell and will
sell it for legitimate advertising mat
ter to those having the wherewith to
pay our price, but because of the sel
ling of that space The Frontier abro
gates none of its rights to hold a dif
ferent opinion to that expressed in
the advertising matter. Hut, accord
ing to the editor from Amelia, whose
“lamps” are becoming so dimmed by
populist prejudice that he is unable
to discern a legitemate business pro
position from a policy, the acceptance
of such an advertisement places us as
a supporter and defender of the rail
railroads. According to his theory
the Omaha World-Herald, the
authority and gospel of the fusion
ists is a tool of the railroads
because it prints this railroad adver
tising matter. Likewise the Ains
worth Home Rule, one of the ablest
populist papers in the Elkhorn
Valley, the Chadron Chadronian,
another able exponent of Hryanism
and the fusionists, and t lie Rushville
Standard, another able populist news
paper.
The above are but a few of the
many fusionlst papers who are run
ninng tills advertising, and they have
been selected not because of their
views on tills question but because
they are considered the best advertis
ing mediums in their territory. This
is a case of sour grapes, as it were,
and the avaricious,gluttionous nature
of the Independent editor becomes
soured when lie sees some ot her person
secure patronage that he had no oppor
tunity to obtain.
Mistook the Signal.
Gov. Van Sant of Minnesota called
on President Roosevelt recently and
the chief magistrate intended to ask
him to stay and have lunch. The gov
ernor took one of the president ges
tures for an intimation that the in
terview was at an end and just then
Mr. Roosevelt turned to greet a dele
gation. When he looked around Mr.
Van Sant was gone. A messenger was
dispatched in search of the Minnesota
man, who was found facingnbout half
a peck of steamed oysters in a swell
restaurant. It was too late to go back,
he thought, so he remained where he
was.
Successor of Li Hung Chang.
Li Hung Chang’s successor in the
title and honors, his eldest son, Li
Ching-hsu, did not live long to enjoy
his great position and wealth. The
Pekin and Tientsin Times contains
the announcement of his death in Pe
kin from kidney disease. The title
and honors of the great viceroy now
devolve upon a youth of 16 years of
age. At one time the boy was given
a western training and promised to
. become an efficient English scholar,
but certain occult and anti-foreign
influences in the family stopped his
’ studies.
Sunshine Kills Nine Mules.
The coal companies at Susque
hanna, Pa., and in the vicinity are
losing quite a lot of their mules,
which were hoisted to the surface
since the strike and placed in the dif
i ferent yards. Some of them, not see
. ing daylight for fifteen or twenty
' years, cannot stand the rays of the
1 sun and are dying daily from sun
. stroke, being accustomed to the cool
, mines.
AUTUMN IN MARYLAND.
Writer Telia of Tate Autumn Scenes fa
that State.
There Is an incomparable beauty ia
these autumn days, a mellowness and
ripeness like a reflection from the
heavily laden orchards, which can be
seen at no other time of the year. The
nip and eagerness in the morning air
6ends the blood coursing through the
veins as though under the stimulous
of old wine. There is life and buoy
ancy in every.breath. The sun shine*
warmly through an atmosphere of
tinted crystal, and with deft touches
brings into life the slumbering beau
ties of the autumn woods. Banners of
gold and crimson and maroon hang
gracefully on the swaying branches
bright and splendid against the green
background. Slowly, as if to mark
the passing of the enchanting mo
ments, nuts drop one by one from the
trees and the echo of their striking re
sounds through the quiet woodlands.
The stream is just a little clearer and
its music on its pebbly bed a little
sweeter In these autumn days. The
ripening season comes slowly on.
Jack Frost is just severe enough to
help old Sol in spreading his incom
parable decorations, and not keen
enough to wither the foliage and leave
the trees bare and dreary—the melan
choly autumn scene of the more north
ern poet. The days of this splendid
period in Baltimore and the surround
ing country run into weeks and the
weeks Into months. It begins while
September tarries still, and the magic
of the season has not been dispelled
until late November days. There are
no clearer skies than those of Mary
land, no brighter sun, no foliage which
responds more generously to nature’s
autumn brush.—Baltimore News.
APPARATUS TO BRAKE SHIPS.
A Montrealer’s Invention to Check Ves
sels Going at Full Speed.
A contrivance for stopping ocean
vessels while going at normal speed,
has been on view In the Board of
Trade during this week. It is an in
vention of Mr, Louis Lacoste, chief
justice of the court of appeals, who
has patented it. The apparatus, of
which Mr. Lacoste exhibited models in
a tank, consists of one or more pairs
of doors, attached to each side of a
ship, which can be opened by steam,
electricity or compressed air. The
doors are fitted with hinges and iron
bars, and offer a strong resistance to
the water, and stopping the vessel
within a few hundred feet and without
any sudden shock. By opening only
one door the ship can be brought
around much quicker, than can ba
done by her rudder only. The inven
tion, which has been submitted to the
British admiralty, has been viewed by
a large number of the shipping and
commercial men of Montreal, who
were most favorably impressed by it
Mr. Geo. W. Noll, chief engineer
of her majesty's ship Tribune, has
written to Mr. Louis l^acoste in regard
to the device that, after seeing the
models, he believes It to be practicable
on the lines shown, and to be a great
factor of safety. Mr. John H. Glass,
engineer of the Allan liner Tunisian,
goes further even than Mr. Noll, pro
nouncing the brake absolutely efficient
and calculated to stop a seagoing
steamer going at full speed within her
own length. Less technical opinion
has been also favorably impressed with
Mr. Lacoste's device.—Montreal (Que.)
Gazette.
French Mining In Kngland.
A French syndicate has been form
ed for the purpose of mining iron and
coal in the vicinity of Dover, England.
Extensive mining rights have been
acquired in the Alkham Valley, in the
south of Kent, and not far distant
from Dover. The boring is to be un
dertaken by French laborers under
the supervision of skilled engineers
from the Pas de Calais. A new dia
mond drill is being erected for the
work. Kent, is very rich in iron ore,
and at one time was the principal iron
producing district in England. At
various parts of the country may be
seen closed iron mines. The reason
for their abandonment was the scarc
ity of coal, but at Dover and at other
places rich seams of coal have been
discovered beneath the iron ore strata,
so that there is every possibility of the
iron mining industry in this part of
England being revived.
Walking: Match on Shipboard.
A feature of the voyage of the
steamer Coptic, from China to San
Francisco, was a five-day walking
match. Sixteen of the passengers en
tered the competition. The deck was
measured and from 6 o'clock in the
morning until 6 o’clock in the evening
the contestants walked encouraged by
the plaudits of more sedentary pas
sengers, who drew up their deck
chairs close to the space allotted to
the walkers and watched the match.
Lieutenant Heinrich of the German
army was the winner, walking 128
miles. A. J. Flaherty of the Pekin
consular cadets was second with a
score of 116 miles.
Still Advancing.
The fashion of wearing fobs or hand
some black watered ribbons, with an
engraved jewel or signet ring attached,
has heretofore been exclusively a
masculine one. This summer we see
young girls and young women wearing
the same dignified ornaments. On lit
tle girls the use of fob chains looks
! rather odd, because you never see a
i boy wearing one; fobs and fob-chain
| jewels are a prerogative of adults.
Seal rings are not worn by children for
various reasons, but any young woman
may wear one with perfect propriety,
provided she does not usurp the right
of bearing arms.—Philadelphia T>
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Our Marine Hospital Service.
The surgeon general of the Marine
Hospital Service reports that 58,381
sick and disabled seamen of the mer
chant marine were treated during the
fiscal year, being 2,026 in excess of
the number in the previous year.
There were 13,341 treated in hospital,
the remainder being dispensary pa
tients. There were 1,369 important
surgical operations performed, requir
ing the use of anesthetics.—Courier
Journal.
Divorce in Switzerland.
Geneva has the highest divorce rate
of all the Swiss towns. There is one
divorce to every fourteen marriages.
In the other cities the rate averages
one in twenty-five. The rate is not so
high in catholic towns. It is easy to
obtain a decree of divorce. A lawyer
is not necessary, but when one is em
ployed the usual fee is 25 francs ($5).
Death Scattered by Chickens.
That cats can spread both scarlet
fever and diphtheria among humans
has been a well-settled fact for some
time, and now it is thought that
chickens are often responsible for the
presence of diphtheria. In North
Wales, England, it has been observed
that several outbreaks of that disease
immediately followed an epidemic of
“roup,” which is a fatal chicken dis
ease.
Freight.
While 100 tons is a load for an Eng
lish freight train, an average load on
one of our railroads last year was 540
tons. On two British railroads it
costs from 4S% cents to move a ton
of freight one mile, while the cost
on a leading New York road is 23%
cents a mile.
SOM1! ANCIENT MEDICAL LORE.
Prescriptions the Modern Druggist
Would Find It Hard to Fill.
The leech of the middle ages had
his own way of treating wounds afid
disease. These methods were not
exactly in line with those practiced by
up-to-date physicians. For instance,
here is what would have been done
for baby cutting his teeth in olden
times:
“Take a live Mowle and put hym
in a brasse pot and drowyne hymme,
cut hym in quarters and hange
them me on a thred to drye by ye
fire, hys syde; when ye wolde use it,
lay it, with bladders of saffron, with
a clothe to ye sore place.”
Should a boy, happy possessor of
his very first knife, cut himself, the 4
bleeding of the wound may thus be
stanched: “Write ye foure letters,
A, O, G, L, with ye blcode of ye
wounde about ye wounde.”
To preserve a family from poison or
infectious complaints a more compli
cated course is advised:
“Take ye two walnuts, two fygges,
twentie leves of rue and an ounce
of salte, all stampt and myxed togeth
er, eatte ytte fasting, whyche an
tidote, Kynge Mithridates, he dydde
so moche use that when hee dydd
drynke poison to kylle hymselfe, yt
dydd take none effect.’
Use Biblical Quotation.
Edward Lauterbach, who is men
tioned as a candidate for lieutenant
governor of New York state, has two
sons, who are extremely proud of him
and who talk a great deal about him.
“You would think,” said a friend of
the family the other day, "that those
Lauterbach boys were saying a con
tinuous prayer. They begin every
other sentence with our father.’ ”
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