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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1903)
' If. ** THE O’NEILL FRONTIER __. PUBLISHED EVERY THRUR8DAY BY D. H. CRONIN. O'NEILL, ~ - ~ NEBRASKA. BRIEF TELEGRAMS. «.j..f..«..«.j.a,<..L V"S*V<r*E** •rT « T» « . *i”r n r.T . TV rT Levi Ankeny, senator-elect from Washington to succeed George Turner, la a millionaire banker and farmer. The half-yearly report of the Re public Iron and Steel company showa net profits of |1,384,125, a gain of ,1451,000 • General Funston has fully recovered his health and expects that ere long he will be assigned to duty in the Philippines again. Mrs. Margaret Allen, the oldest wo man In the state of Washington, died at the home of her daughter In Ta coma, Wash., aged 104. The Reading Railway company, dur ing the month of January, hauled down Its main line to tidewater nearly 1,100,000 tons of anthracite coal. Charlemagne Tower, the new Amer ican ambassador to Germany, has rented a princely mansion on the Ko nlgsplatz, close to the reichstag, In Berlin. Several thousand dyers at Barcelona have struck In sympathy with the Reus strikers. Their action will com pel 40,000 spinners and weavers to remain idle. A bill providing for the abolishment of capital punishment was introduced In the New York state assembly. Life imprisonment is proposed for murder In the first degree. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on President Andrew Sloan Draper of the University of Illinois at a meet ing of the trustees and council of Columbia university. Representative Chipcrfleld has in troduced in the Illinois house a bill providing for the execution of crim inals by electrocution. The bill is sim ilar to the New York law. Senator Thomas Patterson of Colo rado says that one of the most en joyable periods of his life was the two weeks he spent traveling with a circus in southern Michigan. The members of the foreign lega tions in Pekin are again embarrassed by lavish gifts of game, plants and trinkets from the dowager empress on the occasion of the Chinese New Y ear. Joshua G. Dodge, who was an asso ciate of William Lloyd Garrison, Wen dell Phillips and other leaders of the anti-slavery movement, has just cele brated his 9Uth birthday at Arlington, Mass. General Gordon, commanding the United Confederate veterans, an nounces that the thirteenth annual reunion of the organization will be held in New Orleans May 19, 20, 2t and 22, 1903. ' The porte has notified the embas sies at Constantinople that it has re ports showing that the Macedonian committee is organizing several large bands for the invasion of Macedonia in the spring. There is a strong current of feeling in Mexico favoring the encouraging of Chinese .emigration on a large scale and securing an outlet in this way for a considerable share of Mexico's silver output. John T. McDonough, former secre tary of state, labor commissioner and county judge of New York, may be chief judge of the Philippine islands if he can arrange his domestic affairs to suit the position. The supreme court of Missouri sen tenced the following men, who have been convicted of murder, to hang on March 6; James L. Cartrell, in But ler; John G. Taylor, in Kansas City, and Charles May, in St. Joseph. Because of inability of eastern roads to handle all the traffic ofrered to them, western roads have issued block ade notices that affect several of the necessaries of life. Among the Is er is flour, which the northwestern roads will not receive for delivery to east ern roads until further notice. The president sent the following army nominations to the senate: Lieu tenant Colonel Charles L. Cooper, Fourteenth cavalry, to be colonel; Ma jor A. Rogers, Fourth cavalry, to be lieutenant colonel; Captain James Lockett, Fourth cavalry, to be major; First Lieutenant William D. Chitty, Third cavalry, to be captain; Captain Edward H. Humm, Tenth infantry, to be a major. The condition of freight congestion in eastern roads is very much worse than on western lines. The international Epworth league convention to be held in Detroit next summer will begin July 111, and con tinue over Sunday, July 19. Ex-Governor George S. Boutwell of Massachusetts observed his 85tli birthday anniversary on Wednesday. The German government has decid ed to readmit the Jesuits who, since' July, 1872, have been excluded from Slrmany., AS TO STATEHOOD SENATORS GROW TIRED OF VIR TUAL DEADLOCK. A SUBSTITUTE BILL PROPOSED Some Members Wish to Consolidate Territories Into Two States—Danger of Split May Kill Suggestion—Re publicans Seek Unanimous Vote. WASHINGTON. — All indications point to the conclusion of the state hood debate during the present week, but no one can tell at this time just when or how the change will come. If the plans of the republican lead ers who oppoBe the bill are put into effect the committee on territories will bring in a substitute bill early in the week providing for eonsolida tlon and the udmission of two Btates This will probably not be done, however, until assurance can be secured that the full republican vote will be cast for the consolidation. If this plan does not lake shape Senator Quay is likely to press his statehood amendment on the agricul tural bill and a test of strength will ensue. The vote on this amend ment will be close, if taken, and while the omnibus bill advocates feel that they have a majority they realise that It will not be so large as It would be on a direct vote on the statehood bill alone and by itself. There Is some talk now of admit ting only Oklahoma, but if this should be undertaken It will be only as a last resort and will be postponed until toward the end of the session. All senators are becoming restless under the present conditions, which, it is believed, cannot continue much longer. Monday, in accordance with notice given by Senator Allison, the bill making appropriations for the Dis trict of Columbia will be taken up. Some clauses will arouse debate, but advantage will be taken of the oppor tunity to further the efforts to com promise the differences on the state hood bill. An effort also will be made to secure consideration of the Cuban reciprocity treaty, and a portion of the time next Saturday will bo devoted to eulogies on deceased members of the house. The house of representatives Sun day held a memorial session to pay tribute to the memory of the late Sen ator William J. Sewall and the late Representative Joshua S. Salmon of New Jersey. Mr. Parker of New Jer sey presided. The eulogists of the two departed statesmen were Messrs. Gardner (N. J.), Hull (la.), Syell (Ind.), Stewart (N. J.), Foster (Vt.), Graff (111.), Wil liams (Miss.), Warner (111.), Randself (Tex.), Lloyd (Me.) and Ball (Tex.) MUST CURB TRUSTS. President Prepares to Call Special Session to Convene on March 5. WASHINGTON.—It can be stated by authority that unless anti trust legislation at least reasonably satis factory to the administration is passed at the present session. Presi dent Roosevelt will call an extraordi nary session of congress on March 5. The president himself has told mem bers of congress of his desire and of his determination in this regard and it is understood that the announcement was direct and unqualified. It is further stated that the de termination of the president was reached only after careful considera tion of the strenuous efforts that are being made to defeat any anti trust legislation by congress. These efforts have covered a wide range. They were characterized by one prominent republican leader: “The most re markable of which I have had any personal knowledge during my public life.” Passports Needed in South. MOBILE. Ala.-—Information was re ceived here Sunday from Honduras to the effect that because of the revolu tionary troubles, all persons coming into that country must have passports. Three passengers on the steamer His panla, leaving for Puerto Cortez, were required to secure passports before the vessel sailed. Petitions for Rosebud Bill. WASHINGTON—Members of con gress from South Dakota Monday pre sented to their respective bodies a memorial of the legislature of that state urging congress to pasB the Rose bud treaty bill. Plague Condition Better. MAZATLAN — There were two deaths from the plague Saturday. Very Satisfactory results are being obtain ed by the use of the Yerzln serum. Most of the patients to whom it is given begin immediately to recover. A number of hotels and boarding houses are closed, the owners fearing that in case the plague breaks out ir. them the buildings will be burned. The fire insurance agents are taking no policies. OAVES LICKING THE STAMPS. Provisions of One t%" the New Post office Bills. WASHINGTON.—The postofflce ap propriation bill passed on Thursday by the house contains an important provision that has not attracted much attention. The bill provides that hereafter postoffl es shall accept for transmis sion in the mails quantities of not less than 2,000 identical pieces of third or fourth class mail matter without postage stamps affixed, provided that the postage is fully prepaid. This ac tion was recommended strongly by Third Assistant Postmaster General Madden in the interest of economy to the government and to the business public. Under its provisions, as urged by the department, this proposed leg islation will save the expense of man ufacturing stamps, the sale of them to the public and the subsequent labor of cancelling the stumps on the in dividual pieces in the postoffices after they are mailed. It will also save the public the work of attaching postage stamps to the individual pieces of mail. Child Saving Institute of Omaha. The Child Saving Institute of Oma ha Is better equipped than any other corporation for handling legal ques tions concerning children and devotes a large amount of time to the work of rescuing children from vicious sur roundings by legal processes. A re cent appeal from Washington county, Nebraska, was promptly responded to and proceedings were begun in the county court against a woman who wa3 running a house of ill fame at Blair, having with her four small chil dren, the oldest one being a girl of nine years. She made confession in the court concerning her criminal life, when she faced the evidence that was presented, and then requested that the Child Saving Institute of Omaha should take charge of her children and place them in homes. Three of them have already found homes, and it is expected, soon that a home will be found for the youngest boy, who Is only three years of age. FRANK JAMES PUTS IN AN OAR. Kicks on the Pardon Granted to Cole Younger. ST. I.OUIS, Mo.—Frank James, brother of Jesse James, said Thursday that the pardon granted Coleman Younger by the Minnesota board of pardons will, in his opinion, deprive Younger of any way of making a liv ing. ‘‘He Is not realty freed,” said James. "He is 60 years old and has been in prison a quarter of a century and has no trade or profession. He ought to insist upon being granted ab solutely free citizenship, or perhaps it would have been better for him to have remained in prison.” TURKISH ARMY MOBILIZED. Sultan Concentrates Forces Along Bul garian Frontier. PARIS—The correspondent of the Figaro at Philtpolis states that the sultan Is mobilizing 240,000 men and has commissioned all the steamers of the Idurei Massousieh company to transport these troops, who are to re inforce the Second and Third army corps at Adrianople Salonica and along the Bulgarian frontier. Commenting on this dispatch the Fi garo says this action greatly compli cates the situation in Macedonia. Di plomacy will have great difficulty in solving without, accident this new phase of the eastern question, which has exhausted all efforts for the last 200 years. FORMER SENATOR DAWES DEAD. Venerable Massachusetts Statesman Passes Away at His Home. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Ex-United Stnte3 Senator Henry Laurens Dawes died Thursday morning at his home in this city. He was 86 years of age. Mr. Dawes had been ill since Christ mas night, when he contracted a se vere cold while driving. The cold de veloped into grip, which undermined his system. Whe President Rposevelt visited Pittsfield last fall lie called upon the veteran statesman. It was while re turning from the visit to the Dawes house that the trolley accident occur red in which the president figured. IOWA STOCKMEN IN WRECK. Accident Occurs on Illinois Central Road Near Clovcrdale. CHICAGO—Two men were killed, five seriously injured, six others slight ly, injured in a rear end collision on east bound stock trains on the Illi nois Central at Cloverdale on Mon day. The collision occurred in a dense fog, which prevented the engineer of the second train from seeing the train J ahead until almost upon it. THE NEBRASKA J.E(.ISLATfi A Synopsis of Proceedings in Both Branches of the Twenty-Eighth General Assembly. rvm^mmmmwmw 111111111111 if 1 ... 11—■ WOULD LET THE PUBLIC IN. Lieutenant Governor McGilton has orig inated a plan with reference to the con sideration of bills before the legislative committees which he thinks ought to be incorporated in the rules of the senate o\er which body he presides. The plan provides a method whereby all parties in terested directly or Indirectly in any measure may appear before the com mittee having the bill In charge and be heard In the discussion of it. Lieutenant Governor McGilton has framed his idea in this manner: All standing committees shall keep a calendar of bills in the order in which they are referred and consider the same in such order, except where passed by the vote of a majority of all members of said committee, in which case the bill thus passed shall not lose its place on the committee calendar. Each standing committee shall give notice to this body, through its chairman, at least one day in advance of the time and place of meet ing and of the bills to be considered by it, so tl^;t all persons interested may ap pear and request a hearing, subject to such limitations as the committee may impose. The lieutenant governor further outlin ing his plan, says: “The time to be heard on any bill Is while it is before the committee. The re port of the committee, while not necessa rily or inevitably final as to its disposi tion, always has a great influence on the action of the senate or house, to which ever body it Is made. It too frequently happens that a bill gets past the com mittee in the senate or house, before the committee of .the w hole and is placed on its final passage before outsiders who have a legitimate interest in the measure get the opportunity of being heard on it. They have no way of knowing when the committee is to consider the bill and consequently no opportunity of giving expression to their views. The adoption of this proposed rule, which could be used in the house as well as the senate, would obviate all this, and, I think, be a very good thing for many other rea sons.” TO GET INTO PRINT. "I see that some adverse comment Is attempted,” said Attorney Baldwin, ‘‘be cause the railroad companies utilize the newspapers to present their side in the tax controversy, and because they ex press a willingness to pay the expense of printing. Why should they not. The ar guments presented are unanswerable. The outside counties of the' stat^ are vi tally interested. The Omaha papers give only one side of the question. The out side newspapers are entitled to receive information exposing the selfishness of tin* Omaha real estate boomers. And the railroads have a perfect right to pay for the expense of printing this information. ‘‘The railroads have no newspaper of their own to present the case, and there is no one newspaper of wide circulation standing up for the rights of the country as against the encroachments of the large city. The defense of the country must come from the country papers. We can not demand that they use their space without recompense, although many of them, recognizing their o^n local inter est in the controversy, decline compensa tion and freely open their columns to forcibly express their opinions of the Omaha scheme. The criticism from the Omaha boomers is ridiculous. It sounds like the plaint of a failing and hopeless cause.” WORKING ON REVENUE LAW. ** A revenue law having for its basis tile constitution of the state will be re ported by our committee to the legisla ture when the legislature convenes next week,” said Representative Loomis of Dodge, the fusion member of the revenue revision committee. ‘‘The reports that have been published to the effect that our bill will be modeled along the lines of the present revenue law of Nebraska, or of the Kansas bill, are alike incorrect. Portions of the Nebraska law will be used; portions of the Kansas plan will be used; features will be incorporated in the bill from the revenue laws of Cali fornia, Indiana and other states; and portions of the bill will be largely orig inal with the committee. But as a whole the bill will be built along no hard and fast lines: it will be independently con structed to meet the requirements of the situation according to the best judgment of the committee. “While In a general way, the commit tee is pretty well agreed as to the salient features of the revenue law it will rec ommend, I could not myself tell, at the present time, just what those features are. The whole work has been divided among sub-committees. None of these committees have completed their work. Their work, when it is completed, will be subject to review and correction by the whole committee. Consequently noth ing is fixed, nothing is decided on, and no correct statement of the committee’s work can be given out until the task is completed.” IRRIGATION LAW UTHELD. The constitutionality of the law creat ing and defining the powers of the state board of irrigation is upheld in a deei several letters from men in various lines of business in his district, urging him to push this bill, insisting that it was of extreme necessity. Mr. Currie’s bill provides that all farm ers within the territory most affected by these pests shall take proper means—and these means are described in the bill— for exterminating prairie dogs at the proper season and imposes a penalty upon all who fail to observe this law. In the penal provision it Is ordered that the road overseer shall be paid $3 a day, or hire someone at that price, to dis tribute the prairie dog killer for the . farmer and assess the coi;t to the latter. * ! OPPOSE COUNTY OFFICERS' BILE. The bill Introduced In the senate at the request of the County Officers’ associa tion is hung up in the committee, and when it comes forth there will likely be absent from it “that we recommend that it be passed.” though the bill will be re ported favorably. It is not the fact that the committee does not favor a four-year tenure of office, for a majority of the committee does. Bur the committee does nof intend to recommend that a county officer hold office for a time longer than the time for which he was elected. An other objection is that the committee does not favor having every county elec tion held on presidential year or even year, as provided by the bill. Said one of the committee: “We are in favor of county officers holding office for four years, but I for one do not want to tell a community that the man it has chosen for two years should serve three. It is the right of the people to do that and not the legislature, in my opinion. And if we make county elections come on even years or on presi dential years it will not, in my opinion, serve the best interests of the people. In presidential years, as a rule, county and local affairs are lost sight of almost completely, and persons who are entirely unfitted for office could easily be run in and elected.” FRATERNALS OBJECT TO BILL. At a meeting of members of fraternal societies of York held at he city hall the following resolutions were unani mously adopted. The fraternal societies of York will send delegations to Lincoln to work with the representatives of York county. Whereas, Senate File 19, now in the hands of the senate insurance committee, is being urged for passage, and believ ing that if the bill ever becomes a law it will work irreparable injury to fra ternal benefit societies for at least two reasons: 1. It takes from the membership of these societies a large portion of the management thereof and transfers it to the officers and committees appointed by them. 2. It permits the management of any scciety to invest the reserve fund of any such society in buildings contrary to the purpose for which said fund was raised. Therefore, be it Resolved, That we, members of Ancient Older United Workmen, Modern Wood men of America, Tribe of Ben Hur, Roy al Highlanders, Woodmen of the World, Knights and Ladies of Security, and Bankers* Union of the World, lodges of York, Nebraska, in mass convention as sembled, hereby earnestly protest against the passage of said senate file 19 for the reason that we believe that it strikes at the very foundation stone of fraternal benefit societies and destroys our representative form of government, so sacred to our organization. And we appeal to the entire memebrship of the state to use every honorable means to defeat senate file 49. Be it further Resolved, That our senator and repre sentatives are hereby requested to use all honorable means to defeat said bill. REVENUE COMMITTEE’S WORK. Whatever else may be said about the revenue committee, whatever kind of bill it subimts to the legislature, it cannot be said that it has not worked faith fully since the adjournment of the legis lature. It has met morning, noon and night and meeting, has worked. The committee will stand by the bill it rec ccmmends until the last. Word came out from the meeting room that the committee would fight to the end any attempt to amend or strike out any sec tion of the bill being prepared. The committee speaks as one voice or it re mains forever silent, and if a majority say this is right, no other member will object to it on the floor of the legisla ture. Chairman Brown said: We are w'ork ing faithfully, conscientiously and, above all, we are working harmoniously, and I believe we will have the bill ready for the legislature by the time it reconvenes. We are studying each section carefully and we are putting in some good, strong points that I believe will be acceptable to the people of the state. It is a most difficult task to prepare a bill of this nature in one week and whether it suits or not, whether it is a good bill or a bad bill, we have put our best endeavor on it and that is all we can do.” Member Sears is getting somewhat pessimistic contemplating the manner in which the bill will be received by the people. "No matter what kind of a bill we submit, whether good or bad, flaws will be found in it and we are up for a ‘cussing’ from some quarter. But there is one consolation, we won’t know any thing about it a hundred years from now.” Alleged Noble in Toils. ST. LOUIS—A man who styled him self “Lieutenant Colonel the Honora ble F. Seymour F. Barrington, of His Majesty’s Horse,” and said he was of noble family and had great wealth, was found guilty of disturbing the peace and fined $500, or in default one year in the workhouse. Barring ton’s arrest resulted from an encoun ter with James F. Cochrane of Kansas City, whose sister he declared had been duped into marrying the Eng lishman. Express Company Tax Free. HELENA, Mont.—The supreme court has decided that no franchise tax could be collected from the North ern Pacific Express company by the state of Montana because the concern was engaged ia interstate business. Speed Record in Novel Writing. Although Marion Crawford now pro duces on an average of two novels a year, “Mraio’s Crucifix’* was written • in ten days and his “The Tale of a Lonely Parish,” a 120,000-word novel, * was completed in twenty-four days. It took him, however, eight months to write “Via Crueis,” not including the time spent in gathering the mate rial for it. The story of George El iot’s reading for “Daniel Deronda is too old to repeat, but it shows that the actual writing of a book is a small affair compared with the task of get ting ready to write one. Harris Dickson’s "The Black Wolf Breed, was written in a little over two months’ time. Another piece of quick work was Julia Magruder’s "Princess Sonia,” completed in eighteen days. No Public Library in Constantinople. A petition for leave to establish a public library in Constantinople was *;cently refused by the minister of public instruction, special objections being made to several books on the proposed list, among them the fables of La Fontaine. The frequent refer ences to the lion, the king of animals, it was held, would be regarded by ig norant people as degrading to the kingdom and insulting to the sultan. An Important Discovery. Granton, Okla., Feb. 9th.—After ten years E. H. Gosney of Granton has at last found a cure for Kidney Trouble. Mr. Gosney suffered very severely with Kidney Complaint and some ten years ago made up his mind to find a cure if one was to be had. He has tried and tried and experi mented with every kidney medicine he could hear of. Although he was always disappointed he kept on trying till at last his perseverance was rewarded and he found a complete cure. He is a well man to-day and explains It as follows: “Everything failed to cure me and I was growing worse and worse till I tried a new remedy called Dodd’s Kid ney Pills and I had not taken many of them before I knew that I had at last found the right thing. I am entirely cured and I cannot say too much for Dodd’s Kidney Pills.” The average wife dislikes to ask her husband for money almost one tenth as bad as he dislikes to have her do it. ARE TOUR CLOTHES FADED f Use Red Cross Ball Blije and make them white again. Large 2 oss. package, 5 cents. Those whom we love make life's sunshine or shadows. . ;v-~' ..._«~ WYER’S CELSIOR BRAND Pommel Slickers Keep the rider perfectly drv. No I wnter can leak in on the saddle, cut extra wide and long in the akirt. Kxtra protection at shoul der seams. Wurranted wa. ter proof*. Ifyour > dealer doesn't I have them write t 1 for catalogue to f; LH. SI. SAWYER | A SON, Bole Mfra East Cambridge, WESTERN CANADA HAS FREE HOMES FOR MILLIONS. Upwards of 100,000 American* have settled in Western Canada during the past 5 years. They are CONTENTED. HAPPY, AND PROSPEROUS, and there Is room still for MILLIONS.. Wonderful yields of wheat and other grains. Tho best grazing lands on the continent. Magnificent climate; plenty of water and fuel; good schools, ex cellent churches; splendid railway facilities. HOMESTEAD LANDS OE160 ACRES FREE, the only charge for which Is «10 for entry. Send to tho following for an Atlas and other literature. as wcllah for certificate giving you reduced railway rates, etc.: Superintendent ot Immigration, Ottawa. Canada, or to W V. Bennett, 801 New York Life Bldg., Omaha, Neb., the authorized Canadian Government Agent. SSSfieBSSfiSpaH^ SAVE MONEY | Buy your goods at f Wholesale Prices. Bj t Our 1,000-page catalogue will be sent I! upon receipt of 15 cents. This amount B does not even pay the postage, but it is H sufficient to show us that you are acting H in good faith. Better send for it now. B Your neighbors trade with us — why not m you also ? H 2 CHICAGO I The house that tells the truth. Bf W. N. U.—Omaha. No. 7—1903. r I