Tiit7, Frontier. Pu!>li»beit by D. H. CRONIN ROMAINE SAUNDERS. Assistant Editor and Manager. $1 ift the Year. •■> Cents Six Months - Official paper of O’ Nelli and Holt county. ADVERTISING KATES: Display adverllsments on pages 4, 5 and 8 are charged for on a basis of Ml cents an Inch (onecolumn width' per month; on page 1 the charge Is 81 tn Inch per month. Local ad v©rtlscD)Onts, r» cents! per line cnoh Infwrtlon. Address the office nr the publisher. THE BLACK AND WHITE It happened since the Illinois preach er referred to last week preached his sensational sermon endorsing negro burning. Perhaps lie will add another chapter to it when he hears of lhe “crime which would seem impossible this side of hell.” Perhaps he will say with renewed emphasis In this in stance: “1 wpuld rather see a com munity wrought to the highest pitch over a crime that would seem impos sible this side of hell than to remain apathetic.” It is the same sad story of desertion, desolation and death. Here it Is from an Omaha paper: Bell Smith, aged 19 years, of Neosho, Mo., lies dead at the undertaking rooms of Brailey & Dorrance. She was a victim of contidcce in an untrue love affair. She died away from home and among strangers, out all that eouldibe was done for hei by charitable people who employed medical aid and nurses. The girl cametoOmaha three weeks ago ami asked two girls who had been her friends in Kansas City, to secure employment for her. She then left the store where her two friends were employed and for several days nothing was known of her whereabouts. After leaving her friends Miss Smith went to a Fa main street lodging house where she secured a room, giving her name as Florence White. That night her baby was born, dead. From ac counts published in the papers of the young girl’s condition charitable in clined people went to her assistance. Physicians and trained nurses were summoned to care for her. For some time it was thought that she would recover, but two days ago she became woise and Friday night she died. Before her death she admitted that her name was Belle Smith and that her father resided at Neosho, Mo., and that he was the sheriff of the county in which he lived. She had been In love with a traveling man, she said, and lie under promise of ■ marriage, bad accomplished her ruin. I’o tlielast however, she maintained silence as to bis identity, saying that tier life was ruined and it would do no good to ruin the life of anyone else. She said the man knew of her condi tion and that when he learned it he he no longer made Neosho on his trips. While communities are being ■‘wrought to the highest pitch” and ministers are denouncing from the pulpit and writers from the tripod the crimes and misdeeds of the black man whom they lead away to be burned, alTairs like the above are but incidents in the sum of human achievements andlfailures. If there is any excuse under heaven for a “com munity to he wrought to the highest pitch” and to take the offender with out the tamp and burn him with lire or stone him with stones, as in thedays of Moses, Aaron and Josuea, tills is one of them. A young life has been snuffed out, another grave lias been dug, another heartbroken and dis graced father and mother, another funeral train passing; and the clods cover the collined clay of another “who loved not wisely hut too well.” The man of commerce will continue his commercial rounds, shaking hands and smiling—just tlnj same ‘‘good fellow.” The Frontier places no premium upon the crimes of black men, but if burning and lynching is a just revenge, in heaven’s name give the white devils a taste of it, too. -""4 • »» .. Populist papers in general, and the Holt County Independent in particu lar, are expending much literary effort upon one John Sprecker, the tall sycamore of Colfax county, because he sees lit now, after some years retire ment, to publish a mugwump paper. Whatever else may be said of this erstwhile populist editor, he did more for that party in the days when popu lism stood forsomething beside boodle and public plunder than all the mouth lugs of all the alleged reformers lead now gushing t hrough t he pop press of Nebraska ever clid or ever can do. The Frontier doesn’t know how it is in Colfax county, but in Holt county and generally over the state populist ■WMUMWWWMMW—I reform is a farce which lias become the ridicule and disgust of a large share of the honest voters. Its more than two years since this same Mr. Sprecker whispered in ourearthatif he ever launched another paper it would lie a mugwump, and he evident ly still is of the opinion that this politi cal band is preferable to the hypocracy of reform. NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES. Nebraska in general was pretty well watered Thursday and Friday with gentle but copious down pours of those million-dollar rains. In Colora do there was snow storms. The socialist party held a state con vention at Omaha the evening of July 4, nominating: C. Christenson, Plats mouth, supreme judge: F. S. Wilber, Omaha, and Thomas P. Lippencott, Blair, regents of the university. A1 Young, a bartender, died in con vulsions in a Kearney livery stable, where he wentatan early hourThurs day morning after a night spent in playing cards and drinking. The dead man had been formerly in the saloon business at Gibbon and had relatives in Kansas. John Arntz, age 35, was found dead in bed at Wymore this morning. He was addicted to the use of liquor and was intoxicated at the time of his death. The coroner held an inquest and the verdict was that-alcoholism caused his death. He was a single man and a painter by trade. Governor Mickey on July 3 signed the pardon of Martin Haley, recom mended by Warden Beemejr, Secre tary of State Marsh, Chief Justice Sullivan and Attorney General Prout. As Haley was the only man eligible under the ten-year rule, he will be the only prisoner to secure his freedom on tomorrow. He is 44 years old and mentally and physically a wreck. He was sent up from Boone counry for murder in 1888. A young woman teacher of Hast ings was recently bunkoed of $20 by a sharper who represented himself to be an agent commissioned by a certain firm to establish agencies, lie told the young woman he could give her a position, with nothing much to do, but which would yield a weekly stipen ed of $15, and would be a very desira ble summer occupation. She however, was to pay the sum of $20 to him to guarantee good faith and to enable him to obtain the signed contract from the firm. She paid the money asked and there the story ended. A Norfolk special says: About a thousand dollars has recently been paid into court here by violators of the fish laws. Eight nets have been taken from the North Fork river by Deputy Warden J. A. Hainey, and in every net were from a dozen to fifty fish, which cost the catchers just $5 apiece. The nets were all destroyed. Fisli Commissioner Simpson of Lin coln and Game Warden Carter of North Platte have been in the city several times to prosecute the law breakers. On one trip they desposited 500,000 catfish and pike in the North Fork. Hon. O. M. Kem, former congress men from Nebraska, his family and hired men were poisoned at their home in Montrose, Colo., June 24th, and are not out of danger yet. Meat cooked, in a kettle in which arsenic and lime had been mixed for spraying caused what may yet be a fatal acci dent. Eleven people were affected. Drs. Schermerhorn and Allen were called and this morning reported the sick resting easy, but not out of danger. Dr. Schermerhorn stated the kettle used was a porcelain vessel and had been used six weeks before. Mrs. Kem desired to make a stew and her husband told her to use tiiis kettle as there would be no danger. She first parboiled the meat and then poured this water off, which no doubt saved the lives of the family and men. Supervisors’ Session O’Neill, June 23,1903.—Board called to order at 9 o’clock a. m., all mem bers present. The footings and corrections of tiie personal property and real estate the entire valurtion of the county was re ported as follows: Precinct Heal Estate Personal Total Atkinson.$(>6586 $ 9028 $ 75614 Chambers. 56094 15718 71812 Cleveland. 47989 9713 57702 Conley. 45111 6830 51941 Deloit. 39480 8563 47956 Dustin. 30002 8510 38512 Emmet. 57995 6097 04092 Ewing. 71884 13308 85192 Fairview. 33655 10248 43890 Francis. 43771 11677 55448 Grattan. 111603 14440 126043 Green Valley.. 45885 7550 53435 Inman. 68258 12269 80527 Iowa. 53404 7054 60468 Lake.. 39277 7799 47076 McClure. 25804 5377 31181 Paddock. 52603 10899 63502 Pleasant View 27706 6653 34307 Bock Falls. 52470 8077 60547 Sand Creek.54400 11791 66119 Saratoga. 60403 10437 70840 Scott. 45145 7544 52689 Shamrock. 33266 3918 37194 Sheridan. 59420 11654 71074 Sheilds. 56484 9196 65680 Steel Creek.... 44708 7356 52064 Stuart. 127760 21890 149650 Swan. 21329 5948 27277 Verdigris. 53968 18653 72621 Willowdale_ 51835 5019 56854 Wyoming. 32171 6789 38960 O’Neill City... 99920 38366 137286 Atkinson Village27197 16383 43580 Ewing. 13342 6955 20297 Inman. 4555 4594 9149 Stuart. 11298 15703 27001 Total. 1,766,788 381,036 2,147.824 On motion the report was accepted. On motion the Holt county Tele phone company was assessed for 84 miles at the rate of $9 per mile land the clerk instructed to proportion the same to the various precincts and school districts through which the line passed. On motion the Interstate Telephone company was assessed for 60 miles at the rate of $10 per mile, and the clerk instructed to proportion the same to the various precincts and school dis tticts through which the line passed. On motion the Ewing and Deloit Telephone company was assessed for— | miles at the rate of $3 per mile and the clerk instructed to proportion the same to the various precincts and school districts through which the line passed. On motion the board adjourned un til 9 o’clock tomorrow morning. F. W. Phillips, Chairman. E. S. Gilmour, Clerk. O’Neill, J une 26, 1903.—Board called to order at 9 o’clock a. m., all members present. On motion the following levies were made upon the city of O’Neill and the various villages of the countryas certi fied to by the clerk thereof the levies being on the one hundred dollars val uation. City O’Neill,—general fund, 10 mills! water bonds, 10 mills; It. R. inst. fund, 9 mills, R. It. sinking funds, 5 mills; judgment, 15 mills; total, 49 mills. Atkinson, village—general funds, 10 mills; water bond, 7 mills; judg ment, 10 mills; total, 27 mills. Ewing, village—general fund, 10 mills; total, 10 mills. Inman, village—general fund, 10 mills; total, 10 mills. Stuart, village—general fund, 5 mills; total 5 mills. On motion the following levy was made: Grattan Township 14 mills on one hundred dollars valuation. Wagons. Do you want a first-class wagon at a very low price? I have the old Hick ory and Stoughton wagons in wide or narrow tires—will sell trucks with out boxes. Frank Campbell. 52-4 Chicago’s Centnnial Celebration. ,-S» The Chicago & Northwestern rail way announces that much interest is being evidenced throughout the west in Chicago’s celebration of the 100th anniversary of this city’s settlement in 1803. The celebration will take place from September 26 to October 1, next, with a program that includes a series of commemorative events that posses many special features of in terest. A great naval display will be a part of the program, together with regattas and the spectacular arrival in canoes, by way of the lake, of 400 Indians, the descendants of tribes formerly occupying this site, who will establish a village around a reproduc tion of old Fort Dearborn, on the lake front. Athletic contests, parades, great tire works display, patriotic meet-'"^ ings and religious services, a grand chorus, military meneuvers by gov ernment troops, and on the conclud ing day a reception to the president of the United States and other dis tinguished guests, all contribute to a t most elaborate program. f Every energy is being employed to make the occasion typical of that spirit that has made Chicago one of the greatest cities in the world. John A. Kuhn, Asst.G. F. & P. A. Danger of Colds and Grin. The greatest danger from colds and grip is their resulting in pneumonia. If reasonable care is used, however, and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy taken, all danger will avoided. Among the tens of thousands who have used this remedy for these dis eases we have yet to learn of a single case having resulted in pneumonia, 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 and Fafes to toke. or sale by P. C Corri gan. UPPORT , SCOTT S EMULSION serves