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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1903)
The Frontier. Pabliihad by D. H. CRONIN ROMAINK SAUNDERS, Assistant Editor and Manager. ft 50 the Year. 75 Cent* 81* Months Official paper of O’Neill and Holt coonty. ADVERTISING RATES: Display advertlsments on pages 4, 5 and 8 are cnarged for on a basis of 50 cents an Inch (onecolumn width) par month: on page 1 the charge is 11 an Inch per month. Docnl ad vertisements, B cents per line each Insertion. Address the office or the publisher. ’Tis to be hoped the Kansas wheat stories are true. Others are boasting great things for their crops. In this part of the farm com Is reaching tip where it will draw moisture from the clouds. People who are persistent in the pursuit of trouble usually get their noses punched. Our esteemed con temporary may run amuck before the fall campaign is over. About 700Nebraska papers are “giv ing away” pianos as a subscription boom. The Frontier is still printing all the news at a dollar and a half in advance and requires no side attrac tions to find a ready market. Aside from the scientific theories and sentimentalisms, the tetnperence peoples’ greatest argument is the living testimonials of temperance and frugality comprising the world’s greatest and best men of today. Tax payers of O’Neill are made to smile by the pompous claims made for the recent arri v# from Missouri dur ing hfs brief admistratiofi. lie should have been here during the years of fire-laden winds* withered crops and empty granaries, when the people had enough to do to buy bread. Tire municipal prosperity Is dire to ho im provised pop, but to a bountiful Providence which makes our people prosperous. — ' . — - ■ ■ ■ ‘— Well, should Mr. Cleveland secure the nomination there would be harm ony between he and Ml Roosevelt in one particular. Tlie ex-prcsldent has again demonstrated his disbelief in race suicide. Daily papers that took occasion upon the deatli of the pope to boast of being ‘The only-one with definite bulletins,” witti insinuating and disrespectful side shots at contemporaries, need re formation before they are ready to die. Whether t he town of Newport lias no other buildings than barns, or whether the storm which Struck that town last week was only a “barnstormer” we arc not pre pared to say. At any rate the Eagle reports Jtt.rfoo worth of barns blown away. -^ ..— Tlie more or less welcome informa tion is given out that China is to open two or three additional ports to the trade of tlie Untied .States and of the rest of tlie countries, and St. Petersburg has assured Washington that she will not in any way oppose such act ion. Whether the railroads or the re publican party is going to run the republican judicial convention will do for the Independent to snort about as long as its editor hasn't tlie brains or Sense to publish a newspaper, but what is worrying tlie Independent piratical gang most is the fact that their .Jlmftiy lias to “git.” State Treasurer Mortensen evident ly knows what to do when tlie emerg ency arises. He lias been asked to countersign warrants which tlie last legislature ordered drawn on tlie per manent school fund to re-lmburse sundry county treasurers who made over-payments by mistake, and says no. The constitution says tlie perma nent school fund shall remain unde minished. Tlie treasurer takes the position that the legislature has no power to appropriate the funds and refuses to recognize the act unless so directed by the courts. Ainsworth wants tire new state normal bad enough to vote a $10,<KX bond bonus with only eighteen dis senting votes. Strange what a com inunity will do when it gets enthusi astic. Should she get it, Ainswortl will live to see the day she would vote down the same proposition. Independent: Better stay in the hay field or corn field and let the pass gang do the whole thing, for that is just what they are going to do an) how.lust come as delegates to the convention and introduce a resolution elenouncing the railroads for dumping Barnes upon you and see how man) votes your resolution will get. Here is a queer bit of advice, ven tured, no doubt, in love to “you re publican farmers.” We have very high regard for the intelligence ol Holt county farmers irrespective ol politics, but how are they to tell what the able counsel who wrote the above wants them to do? If they stay in the corn field how are t hey coming tc the convention with the resolution, or if theycoming to the convention how are they to stay in the corn tiefdV Perhaps the question might be miti gated and this able advice heeded by inducing the chairman to call the con vention in a corn tield. NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES. An automobile touring party con sisting of Mrs. C. E. Wilkins, II. P. Craig and John Dye of Omaha are enroute to Denver. The party travels in a large touring car and are well equipped for bad roads and heavy travel. Five hundred poor boys and girls of Omaha, of every possible variety of race, color, age, shape and size, were given their annual outing at Hans com park Thursday hy the Salvation Army. Brigadier Cousins of the army purched $40 worth of street car tickets to take the youngsters out to the park. A Hay Springs special says: This section of Sheridan county has been visited with a severe cloudburst. The principal damage so far reported oc curred ten miles west and to the north of Hay Springs, near Bordeaux creek, where four miles of the Northwestern railroad tracks were washed out. The grounds of Bordeaux park, one of the finest in the state, suffered severely. Near the ground a tine herd of elk was drowned. They had cost their owner, O. Messenger $2,000. The house, hams and windmill on the farm of Charles Waldron were swept away by the flood, which came so quickly that the family had barely time to make its escape. The Mississippi Valley futurity meet has been awarded to Kearney by the officers of the association and the meet will take place in October. Preparations will be made for one of the greatest dog racing events ever held. Near Kearney are what are said to be the finest jackrabbit racing grounds in the west. An Ashland special to the Lincoln Journal says: The large threshers of Saunders county some time ago form ed a close organization and issued a note to the farmers of the county that henceforth owing to the price of machinery, wages, oils and fuel, the cost of threshing was to be advanced one-half centa bushel. This announce ment at the time called forth a great howl from the farmers, who claimed that last fall these same threshers claimed to have made as high as $50 and $<i0aday during threshing season. The united threshermen of Saunders county have stood pat, however, and are now charging the following prices: Wheat, 4 l-2c.; rye, 4 l-2c.; barley, 3 l-2c.; oats, 2 l-2c. A number of men have purchased threshers and will operate independently of the trust at the old scale. It is said that these independent threshers have more business now than they can handle for the season, while the ‘‘union” is suffering for contracts. Another in teresting feature of this organization is the fact that a number of the united threshermen are said to be men who a few years ago were prominent popu lists in Saunders county politics and loudest in their clamor against trust. | A paragrapli from the announcement of this union reads as follows: “We find that for us to continue in our work and supply you with up-to-date machinery and do first class work, pay an increase in wages, increased prices for oils and coal, keep up expenses, wear and depreciationof our machines and have a little left for a rainy day when we can’t thresh, it will be neces sary for us to require a little better price for our services, and we feel that it will not work an injustice to you, when you consider it from the thresherman’s standpoint. We .feel that the former prices are not enough under the present conditions. So do not ask us for a less rate.” The an nouncement is signed by Sam F. Neg ley, as Secretary of T. N. P. A., No. 252. Wahoo, Neb.” New Law Does Not Effect Holt Lincoln * Star: County commis sioners must be nominated by the dis trict conventions of the districts in which they reside, and not by the county convention. The above is the opinion of a number of leading lawyers of the city, and is sustained by the opinion of Attorney General Prout. The question is one that has mysti fied the politicians of the state for several weeks, causing some confusion and possibly a few invalid nomina tions. The last session of the legislature passed senate tile No. 8, a bill intro duced by Senator Marshall, and it was signed by the governor and is now a law. The bill provides for the election of county commissioners by a vote of the qualified electors of the entire county, but that the commis sioners shall be nominated each in and by the district in which they reside. It says nothing about the nomination of a commissioner by the county at large, nor about the confirmation of a district convention nomination by the county convention. In referring to the matter the engrossed bill saj’s: “The commissioners shall have the qualifications of electors and shall be residents of their respective districts, but shall be elected by a vote of the entire county at the annual general election.” In speaking of the method of nom ination the engrossed bill says: “One commissioner shall be nomin ated by each of said districts,but shall be elected by the qualified electors of the entire county.” “Some counties not being fully in formed in regard to the matter, have nominated the commissioners in dis trict conventions and then confirmed the nomination in the county conven tions. This, of course, was a sure way to prevent error, but was not neces sary. Other counties which have already held their conventions, did not nominate the commissioners in district conventions, but in the coun ty convention. These nominations will have to be made again or the election will not be valid. The bill also provides that the con fines and boundaries of a commission er district cannot be changed more than once in three years, and then only by a vote of the qualified electors of that particular district, which is in tended to prevent gerrymandering. The bill applies in no way to those counties which are under township organization and have the supervisor system of representation in the county legislatures. Chicago’s Centnnial Celebration. ^ 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 180.3. 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 fire works display, patriotic meet-N-<| 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, ail contribute to a . most elaborate program. \ 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. Annual Popular Excursion to Duluth The Great Northern (Short Line) will run their annual popular excur sion, starting from O’Neill at 10:10 a. m., Thursday, Auguste. Returning, will leave Duluth Sunday August 9, at 4 p. m. Rates for round trip $6. Double bertli in tourish sleeping car $1 each way. Reservations in sleep ing cars should be made as early as possible. For further information call on or address W. E. West, agent, or Fred Rogers, G. P. A., Sioux City. House to rent.—Dickson & Co. 49-tf j Those who are graining; flesh j and strength by regular treat 5 mentwith | Scott’s Emulsion | $ should continue the treatment I 1 t in hot weather; smaller dose 5 anda little cool milk with It will J do away with any objection I which is attached to fatty pro f ducts during the heated R season. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, E .109-415 Pearl Street, New York, | 50c. and $ 1.00; all druggists. NEVER in the history of the trade in this locality have we been more successful or better satisfied with the immense trade we are receiving in all lines. A Comparison of Goods and Prices ALWAYS DOES THE .. WORK .. FARM MACHINERY, WAGONS & BUGGIES In the Machinery line we have the King of all in larest, up-to-date McCormick Harvesters and Mowers, and it is needless to assure you that they also DO THE WORK. We have also a full and complete line of Mc Cormick Hay Rakes and Jenkins Sweeps, Stackers, etc.; they will DO THE WORK. In Farm Wagons and Buggies we will from I now till after the 4th of July make f SPECIAL PRICES | and give you goods that are without a peer in the 1 market. Young man, let us sell you one—they 1 , WILL DO THE WORK. 1* I )