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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1903)
The Frontier. Published by D. K. CHOHIK IiOMAlNK SAUK DC KM. Assistant Editor and Manager. SI M the Year. TS Cent* 81* Months official paper of O’Neill and Holt county. ADVERTISING HATES: Display advertlsmonts on pages 4, A and 8 are chatgcd for on a basis of 4<J cents an Inch tone column width) per month; on page I the charge Is 41 an Inch per month. Local ad vertisements, S oents per line each Insertion. Address the office or the publisher. With an annual liquor bill of over 91.500.000. 000, it would appear on the surface that l lie eighty odd years of temperance efTort in the United States lias not been a howling suc cess. ^ Floods have reached the Mississippi since the fall of the Missouri and four lives are reported lost in around Saint Louis, witli destruction of property amounting an etimated value of 95, 150.000. After many months of bitter labor war, it Is a matter of considerable satisfaction to know that the Union Pacific machinists’ strike is at an end, and the plucky strikers again at work with a ‘ per cent increase in wages. The Frontier knows of no more sure or speedy method of democratic suicide than giving ex-President Cleveland the lead on their national ticket. Whatever lie could stand before the American people upon and tusk for votes is unimaginable. At this late date W. F. Porter is called upon by the supreme court to deliver back to the state that brands and marks money. Better late than never, of course, but will Mr. Porter figure In interest—simple and com pound—to date? A clergyman up in Gregory county, South Dakota, by the name of Stevens should lose no time in starting a collection agency. Out-lawed and dust-burled accounts would come to him for collection thick and fast. He has just collected a bill amounting to #30 of forty years standing against the United States government, for money advanced for clothing during the civil war. So far as we have observed, Ira Lamb of Atkinson is the first to be publicly announced as candidate for county office this fall. Mr. Lamb solicits the republican nomination for superintendent of public instruc tion. At this early date The Frontier has no preferred candidates, but should Mr. Lamb receive the nomina tion and carry the election lie lias every qualification to make a good superintendent. Lancaster county republicans tiave it cut and dried that Judge Barnes of Norfolk will be the republican nom inee for judge of the supreme court. While it is a matter of no little sur prise that Lancaster county republi. cans should lead out for a north Ne braska man, it is entirely satisfactory to this section of the state. Judge Barnes is a member of the supreme court commission at present. He would make a strong and winning candidate. When the strike was ordered at Chicago’s Grand Beach hoted every man, woman and child employee walked out. Whereupon the fashion able and high bred dames who were guests at the hotel became indignant and laid aside their costly robes for garments suitable to the chamber maid, cooks, waiters, and dish washers and plunged in. Be it said to these fashion god’s credit that they did tlie work so well the landlord wanted to hire them. The result of the hot county seat contest in Boyd county makes Spencer look like a ten cent piece for the time being. Butte simple had a walk-away w ith a majority of eighty-seven over all. The vote i«: Butte, 1,078; Spencer, 490; Anoka, 74; Lynch, 124; Bristow, 303. The tight was between Butte and Spencer, and the victory very decided. Spencer need not feel dis courage at these adverse circum stances; it is a hustling town in a good country, and will get there just the same. FAITH IN HIS COUNTRY President Roosevelt said many good things during his western trip, but he seems to have reserved the best for Springfield, III. The whole speech is notable. Tlie President expresses great faith in his country and yet is not blind to some serious problems and possible perils confronting our great republic. He reviews republics of former times in these words: Hlthereto republics have failed and republics of antiquity went down. Tlie republics of the middle ages went down, although tried on a much smaller scale than ours, and though, in consequence, the experiment would have seemed less hazardous. Fund amentally the cause of tlie failure of these republics was to be found in the fact that ultimately each tended to become, not a government of tlie whole people, doing justice to each member of the people, but a govern ment of a class. Sometimes they, in tlie control of tlie government, slipped Into tlie hands of an oligarchy; some times it slipped into the hands of a mob; in either case the result was tlie same; it was as fatal to tlie abiding welfare of the republic if it was turn ed into a government in which the few oppressed the many, or if it was turned into a government in which tlie many.plundered tlie few. Either form of perversion of the true govern ment principles spelled death and ruin to the community. It was no use to havo escaped one ruin if ruin came at the other end of the pole. And then adds; This, government will succeed be cause It will, and mi st be, and It shall be, und must be kept, and will be kept true to the principles for which the men of Lincoln’s generation fought. This is not, and never shall be, a gov ernment of a plutocracy. This is not, and never shall be, a government of a mob. it is a government of liberty by, under and through tiie law; a gov ernment in which no man is to be permitted either to domineer over tiie less well off or to plunder tiie better off. it is a government in which man Is to be guaranteed his rights, and, in return, in which it is to be seen that lie does not wrong ills fellows. Tiie supreme safety of our country is to be found in tiie fearless and honest ad ministration of the law of tiie land. And it makes not the slighest differ ence whether the offense against tiie law takes tiie form of cunning and greed on tiie one hand or of physical violence on the other, in either case tiie lawbreaker must be held account able and the lawbreaking stopped. The President then brings his stir ring speech to a climate witli the declaration that “we can never make this government a good government* save on tiie basis of a fine type of Individual citizenship.” All that the American republic lias ever accomp lished for the rights and liberties of mankind has been accomplished on this same basis- it lias been the good citizens who have made good law makers. The principle of self govern ment hinted at by tiie president is the principle upon which rests the past and upon which must rest the future history of the country. And it is forever and eternally true that “this government will succeed” what ever tiie problems and perils it may face if self government self control, justice instead of oppression, gener osity Instead of greed, peaceableness Instead of plundering—controls the individual. Murk wants It distinctly understood that he is not now, never has been nor never will be anything but a senatorial candidate from Ohio. NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES. Dewitt has reached a stage in growth and prosperity that it needs another bank. The Home State bank opened Monday. Robbers entered a hardware store at Johnston Thursday night, securing $80 and some merchandise and mak ing their escape. G. Tenhulsen was arrested, pleaded guilty and lined twenty-tive dollars for illegal voting at the late republican primary at Firth. The body of an unknown man was found near the Union Paeiiie tracks near Kearney. On the same day the dead body of an unknown man was also found near the track of the same road near Amers. Frank Vrovas and John Mekrs were instantly killed and W. Steel fatally injuried in a railroad accident at Genoa Sunday morning. They were on a hand car when it was struck by a stock extra on the Cedar ltapids Spalding branch of the Union Pacific. The playing of base ball on Sunday in the state of Nebraska is ajmisdemea nor punishable by fine and imprison ment. So holds the supreme court in a case brought before it from Nebras ka City, where Sunday ball playing became offensive to the law and order league and arrests of players followed. Last Saturday 15,000 circular letters, asking for financial help for the Omaha unions now on strike or locked out were mailed to every union in tlie United States. All unions are asked to assess a per capita tax of 5 cents a week for the strikers. The let ters state in full the details of the Omaha situation, declaring that the [ business men are making an organiz ed effort .against the unions. Atten tions Is called to the fact that the Omaha unions have been contributing for nearly a year to the support of the (Tnion Pacific strikers, so that they are somewhat weakened financially. Arrangements were also made to send committee to all of the principal cities of the east and west to make a per sonal appeal for financial aid. Hy a decision of the supreme court at its last sitting, former Secretary of State William F. Porter will have to return to the state some $900 and over collected by him as secretary of the committee of brands and marks creat ed by act of the legislature in 1899. His bondsmen are released from obli gation and S E. Starrett is allowed to retain #595.05 paid to him as record ing clerk. The sale at auction of the three million dollar Omaha railroad bridge over the Missouri river at Sioux City w&s knocked out Saturday by a tem porary injunction issued by Judge Monger of the federal court of Omaha on the Dakota county officials. The hearing is set for July 6, at Omaha. The South Sioux City school district claims the bridge company owes it $3,111 school taxes and ordered the birdge sold. The bridge company raises the question of jurisdiction. Ainsworth Star-Journal: George A. Farman is the luckiest man in seven teen states. Some time since, the National Tribune offered a prize of $10,000 to the person given the closest guess as to the revenue receipts of the government for a certain day. George was the fortunate man, guessing with in four of the correct amount and has been notified by the manager of the Tribune of bis winning the prize. Mr. Farman has been busy of late receiv ing the congratulations of his many friends over his good fortune. While boring a well on the farm of Mr. Hrandhoeffer, near Waco, York county, oil was struck at a depth of 100 feet in such quantities that was impossible to use the water from the well. The well filled up to a depth of forty-live feet and theoder of petro leum is very storng. Along the three streams of water traversing York county are places where coal oil ooze out of the banks and covers the surface of the water for a number of yards. Many believe that coal oil could be found in quantities in York county and hope that some expert may in vestigate. An Omaha special Of June 6 says: “The report of the anthracite coal strike commission received judicial recognition today in an injunction issued by the distret court against the waiters union of Omaha The in junction was made to replace that issu ed a month ago by the same court. Tire former order became inoperative owing to a technicality in service on the waiters. It Is identical with the former order exept that it does not permit of picketing within 300 feet of the business places which it is sought to protect. In announcing the opinion 1 of the court Judge Dickinson said: : ‘Upon tlie petition duly verified we ! must take the matters of fact alleged I as true, and .accepting these facts we ■ have, after considering the authorities j cited, concluded unanimously that ] the temporary restraning order should . be granted, but the chief authority Dy ' winch we are moved to grant the temporary order regarding the con gregating of persons at or around the places of business of the plaintiffs for 1 the purpose of interfering with pa trons of tiie houses is the report of the ' anthracite coal strike commission, which was the unanimous report of a , number of persons from different walks of life, including members of labor organizations.’ ” For Sale Cheap. SE, 17, 32, 16, and W. 4 NW, 31, 30, 16., Holt county Neb. Too far away, ( will sacrifice. Terms easy. Open to all agents. Miss Leona L. Lingle, 1 owner, 1531 Cambria St., Los Angeles, 1 California. 44-tf What Uncle Reuben Saya. Most all of us believe in a hereafter but at de same time most all of us am willin’ to beat de odder man in a hoss trade and taie a few chances.—Do tioit Free Press. Inventor Lose* Hie Mind. M. Goubet, Inventor of the sub marine boat the patents of which were purchased by an English com pany, has been removed to an utylum. Anyone who desires to have paper pering, painting, calcemining and frescoelng done, it will be to their ad vantage to see me. I have had over forty years experience and will guar antee work to be tirst-class. Leave orders for work at Corrigan’s drug store or address me at Agee, Neb. 35-2 N. S. Thompson. I have a few very tine buggies tlia I will sell cheap for cash or any kind of old time. They must go some way to make room for a carload of new goods just coming. Call first and get your choice. Remember the above goods must go before July 4.—Neil Bren nan. _ 48tf FOR SALE—A few full blooded Hereford bulls. I tf. Cowperthwaite & Son. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. A man without hands can never feel well. Never kick a live electric wire when It’s down. Honesty isn’t the kind of policy found in policy shops. It’s a put-up job on a man when his wife orders a new stove. Some brokers make it a point to sot that their patrons go broke. No man can be expected to foot his wife’s bills without kicking. It is easier to make a dollar than K is to avoid arrest for counterfeit ing. Wive* fear burglars will break in and husbands fear the baby will break out. The more checks a man receives In his business career the sooner he gets there. Some lawyers prolong the outcome of a case in order to increase their Income. Hops are said to be a sedative, yet most frogs are troubled with chronic insomnia. A bachelor who has been rejected by seven girls says that feminine beau ty is on the decline. It sometimes happens that a man agrees with you because your argu ments lvake him tired. Severe Attack Of Grip Cured by One Bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. “When I had an attack of the grip last winter (the second one) I actually cured myself with one bottle of Cham berlain’s Cough Remedy,” says Frank W. Perry, Editor of the Enterprise, Shortsville, N. Y. “This is the hon est truth. I at times kept from cough ing myself to pieces by ^taking a tea spoonful of this remedy, and when the coughing spell would come on at night I would take a dose and it seemed that in the briefest interval the cough would pass off and I would go to sleep perfectly free from cough and its ac companying pains. To say that the remedy acted as a most agreeable sur prise is putting it very mildly. I had! no idea that it would or could knock out the grip, simply because I had never tried it for such a purpose, but it did, and it seemed with the second' attack of coughing the remedy caused it to not onla be of less duration, but ‘ the pains were far less severe, and I had not used the contents of one bot- j tie before Mr. Grip had bid me adieu.”’ i For sale by P. C. Corrigan. Names Brought Recollections. Two congressmen elect from IlUnons i —Charles E. Fuller of Belvidere and: 1 H. M. Snapp of Aurora—were being: ; introduced around the capitol In Wash lngton a few days ago. Someone bap- j pened to refer to them as “Messrs. Fuller and Snapp” and a Southern Democrat remarked reflectively: “Ful- I ler and Snapp? Reminds me of a law Arm In one of Dickens' novels." Per- : haps the Southerner was thinking of ' Aulrk, Gammon & Snap in Warren’s “Ten Thousand a Year.” Danger of Colds and GriD. The greatest danger from colds andl! grip is their resulting in pneumonia.. If reasonable care is used, however,, j and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy j taken, all danger will avoidted- j Among the tens of thousands who* ‘ have used this remedy for these dis eases we have yet to learn of a single j case having resulted in pneumonia,. I which shows conclusively that it is a ; certain preventive of that dangerous disease. It will cure a cold or an at-* tack of the grip in less time than any' other treatment. It is pleasant andl safe to toke. For sale by P. C Corri gan. _ Great Northern Railway W. & S. F. RY. Through daily service to Minneapo- j lis and St. Paul with direct conne*- j tions for all points in Minnesota,, j North Dakota and west to Pacific:! Coast. Through sleeping car service., j Apply to any agent for rates, fold*is.j and descriptive matter. Feed Rogers, Genl. Pass. Agt ' i Mountain Threatens Dicactor. Great Altels. a mountain near tie* j Gemml, in the Bernese Oberland, is. 1 threatening to split asunder and over whelm the neighboring valley. Lm September, 1895. a great fall of Sue from the Altels covered hundreds of. acre* of meadow land in the neighbor hood of Spitalmatten. ■— .. Disease takes no summer vacation. If you need flesh artf j strength use Scott’s Emulsion } i summer as in winter. Send for free sample. 1 * i 1 SCOTT & BOWSE, Chemist* j e°9-4*S Pearl Street, New Verk. I 50c. and $1.00; all druggists. ( J Fishing. Loafing with a hook and line Where the waters swirl about. Whipping up the stream—It's fins When the speckled trout are out. Working up the sparkling shallow* Where the sun the water hallowfr Laughlng when the fish begin , Rolling, tumbling, falling In; Loafing with a hook and line— r Ain't It fine! Leaving all our care behind, y Leaving all the dally toll— Going out to feel the wind And to hear the shallows boil. Going where the sun Is gleaming, Nature with her Joys Is teeming— Whipping up and down the streaa In a piscatorial dream; Loafing with a hook and line— Ain’t It fine! Loafing with a hook and line Where the waters whirl about. Whipping up the stream—It’s fine When the speckled trout are out. Recking naught of business trouble While the happy waters bubble. When the speckled trout begin Rolling, tumbling, falling In; Loafing with a hook and line— Ain't It fine! —Baltimore New*. Sometimes I Imagine that heaven must be a place of surprises. We will go there, if we are fortunate enough to go at all, with mary preconceived notions concerning what we shall see and experience, and just as likely as not the decided majority of them will be shattered. Browne of our set cer tainly must be here, we will say, for he was such a good and proper man in life; then we will look about us, and will be greatly astonished to find no Browne. Muggins of no set in particu lar cannot be here, we again will re mark to ourselves, for he was so coarse and crude, or even worse; then we will see the obnoxious Muggins sit ting pretty well forward in a rather nice pew, and again we will be aston ished. Occasionally I even fear that the society in heaven may be some what mixed and common, but of course I trust and believe that this is a quite unnecessary fear on my part. However, these reflections are quite apart fmm the story, and it really is time that it were begun. At the time of which I write the "enterprising City of Sodtown,” as the advertisements of enthusiastic real es tate promoters termed it, was wild and Western and of the frontier. On the whole, we Juveniles partook largely of the character of our sur roundings; we were as uncultured as we were good-hearted, and as rough as we were care-free. This statement applies to all of us, but if you had set carefully to work to select the wildest young cub—human, you understand— among us all, you certainly would j have selected little Jack without a moment's hesitation. Probably little Jack had another name. Arguing from the analogies of tne case, I consider it likely that he had, but, if so, nobody in Sodtown had i heard it or knew what it was. His ! mother had died long before the child | could remember, and his father was i known merely as big Jack, a gentle ! man who followed the more or less ■ lucrative profession of cowboy. So ! little Jack grew without any hamper | ing circumstances worthy of men tion. What would you expect of a child of such lineage and environments? But ! what you would expect really toes not ; matter greatly. As a matter of fact, ! the experiment of raising figs from j thistles never has been much of a I success, and, equally as a matter of I fact, little Jack early developed a moral toughness that was phenomenal, even in Sodtown. At 11 or 12 years of ; age he fought, swore, lied and—stole, ; I was going to say, but the fact had not been absolutely proved, and per j haps it is mere justice to give him the [ benefit of any possible doubt ■ Withal, little Jack was a small ath lete, and so we boys treated him with the respect that is due to physical f ‘‘Youse fellers start’ ready to pull me out," he said. S ■ strength and prow***. V> knew that I he would fight tbr »gh his opponent were twice his size, and so we did not cross his path except we very strong ; ly felt that the god of battles and (justice was on our side. The snow lay deep on the ground , till late in the spring of 1881, as resi j- dents of Dakota at that time will re ji membex Then the sun’s rays, which !: so long had seemed to lack vigor, of a suddira became potent, and the snow moved off in raging floods of water, ij The “J un” river, ordinarily little more than a creek, became a resistless tor I rent, sa some places three or four j miles wide, and the cabin homes of * the se ttiers scattered along the valley g*nen|ly w^re'swept away. To walk atocg its DanKs men was to look upo»v a gray desolation of waters, only broSQ, en here or there by floating cabins or barns or the white glitter of great cakes of lee. Some of us boys were so walking one afternoon when a shanty floated past us. Tossed here and there by the flood, ground among Ice-floes and beaten by trees set afloat by the wat ers, It was a question of but short* time until it must go to .pieces. “Fellers," suddenly shouted one of the boys, “ain’t dat a kid cryln’?” We listened a moment. Then over that waste of waters floated a little walling voice that came from the floating cabin. We looked into one another’s eyes, while the tiny voice still wailed, and I hope that God will preserve me from ever again hearing a sound so pitiful. What should he done? What could be done? I think the answer of my despairing heart to the latter question was the answer of\ every boy there—nothing. Of every boy save one. While we still stood In awful silence—a silence on which that thin cry yet heat—little Jack spoke. “Youse fellers,” he said, “stan’ ready to pull me in w’en me an* de kid gitsl back.” V, And. before we fully realised what he was about to do, his coat and shoes were off, and he was battling with the cold, cruel waters. We watched the little black head as “to do—kid—safer -A It made its devious way onward, here 7 dodging a cake of ice, there skirting a floating tree, until at last—Hurrah! He had gained the shanty! A moment he disappeared from view; then he appeared at a window with a wee brown bundle in his arms. "De ole folks is both drowned,” we heard him shout, as we ran along the shore by the side of the whirling cabin. Then he again was hi (he water, and we hardly breathed as he battled shore* ward. It was a life or death struggle for every foot of advancement, but his life had given him hardihood, if noth ing else, and slowly—oh, so slowly— he made hAs way with the burden, whence came no vj now. As h<ujp neared the shore «re Joined handsT" making a life-line to draw him from the water. Thank Ood, he is almost to us now! He is safe at—No! Yes! A great cake of ice, striking an obstruction, whirled as it were on a pivot and almost caught him, but we snatched him away, and now at last he was safe. Not quite, oh, little Jack; not quite safe, unless, indeed, there be perfect . safety on a bosom of infinite love and comprehension after the heroic heart has ceased to beat and the eyes are closed in the long sleep. The great cake of ice, whirling by him, had touched little Jack, and its touch was death. Even as we lifted him from the water, some of its cold ness had entered the brave little heart, and on his head was a great, Jagged, cruel wound, whence the stream of life flowed unceasingly. We held him, and knew not what to do. One of us sobbed brokenly, but the rest were very silent Then Jack opened his eyes and feebly whispered: “Is da—kid—safeT" Yes, t>h, yes. little Jack; we told you that you had saved the babe, and our whisper was almost as low as yours as we assured you that this was so. The little black head sank down. Then, very slowly, the eyes again opened, and in a faint whisper was heard; “I’m—damn—glad.” Then, while the flood flowed on, the neglected, soul of little Jack went out on a deeper and darker flood which no more shall beat earthward for him. And this is why I say that I some times think heaves must be a place of • surprises. But greatest of all its sur- | prises to me, if ever I should reach the beautiful city of love, would be to And no little Jack there, a pupil in such a wonderful school as his life never knew.—Alfred J. Waterhouse in New York Times. An Apt Pupil. “The great trouble with you," said Mrs. Jaggsby to her husband the nest morning, "is your inability to s^y 'no.' Learn to say It at the pro tar time and you will have fewer heMk aches.” I “I can see where you are right, my dear,” replied he of the throbbing temples. "By the way," continued Mrs. J., "I want to do a little shopping to day. Can you let me have |10?” “No," answered the wily Jaggsby without a moment’s hesitation. Judgment Suspended. Mrs. Homer—“What did your hus band say about your new tailor-made gown?" Mrs. Nestdoor—"Not a word. He hasn’t seen the biU yet."