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.
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’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.
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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.
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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*
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