The Frontier.
Published by D. H. CBONIN
KOMAINE SAUNDERS, Assistant Editor
and Manager.
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COUNTY CONVENTION
The republlcsnt of Holt county are hereby
called to meet in convention at the oourt
' house In O'Neill on August 17, 1003, at 10
o'clock «. m.. for the following purpose:
1 To select a chairman for the Holt county
central oommlttee.
2 To select a secretary for the Holt oounty
central committee.
3 To seleot a oounty central committee.
4 To select fourteen delegates to attend
the state convention.
5 To select fourteen delegates to attend
the judicial convention.
5 To nominate candidates for the follow
ing offices: County clerk, oounty superin
tendent. olerk of dlstrlot oourt, treasurer,
county judge, county surveyor, assesor,
coroner.
7 To transact such other business as may
properly come before It.
The basis of representation for the several
townships shall he one delegate for every ten
votos or major fraction thereof oast for Hon.
John II. Mickey at the general eleotlon held
November 4,11102. which will be:
Atkinson.13 Pleasantvlew. 2
Chambers. 0 Hock Falls. 4
Cleveland. 2 Sand Creek,. 2
Conley. 3 Saratoga. ..2
Delolt. 4 Soott. 4
Dustin.. . .. . 3 Shamrock...:. I
Emmet. 3 Sheridan. 3
Kwlng. V Shields. 3
Kalrview . 1 Steel Creek. 4
Frauds. 2 Stuart.15
Orattan. 5 Swan. 1
Green Valle. 2 Verdigris . 5
Inman. 7 Wlllowdale. 2
Iowa. 2 Wyoming.2
Lake. 2 O'Neill, 1st w . 3
McClure. 2 O’Neill, 2d w. 2
Paddook. 5 O’Neill. 3d w. 5
Total......133
It Is recommended that no proxies be al
, lowed, but that the delegates present be
authorised to oast a full vote of the town
ship represented by them. It Is further
recommended that all township primaries be
held on Augjst Ifi.
K. R. DICKSON, Chairman.
J. C. HAHNISH. Secretary.
The x-ray Is a bad thing to monkey
with.
After all, a tripout into the country
beats “weekly crop reports.”
A cyclone, two dead and several In
jured is the latest from Kansas.
After the democrats find a presi
dential candidate, what will be their
Issue?
Better deepen your cyclone cellar;
the pop convention convenes In
O’Neill Saturday.
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The Itock Island railroad thought it
better to increase the pay of its 2,000
train men than to contract a strike.
A good republican ticket this fall
will clean up the pops at the court
house and place Holt county back on
the republican list.
If every law on the statute books of
j Nebraska was enforced as rigidly as
the game laws there would soon be an
end of lawlessness.
The Independent judges the coming
I state republican convention by the
j way pops do things. Holt county pops
are past masters with boodle and
booz. * ' _^_
An exchange says nothing will grow
faster than trouble under careful
i
. nursing. It might have said nothing
? requires less nursing to make rapid
I growth. _
Carrie Nation was in a Scranton,
Pa., Jail when last heard from, having
| offended the dignity of the police
f judge by calling him a “hog and a
beefy, porkey, two-legged animal.”
The Graphic brings out a pretty
good man for county treasurer in the
! person of Conrad Kramer. Mr. Kramer
| is a substantial man and would grace
any ticket anywhere you would put
him.
It looks like the Platt amendment
i might soon come into good play to
; prevent self destruction in Cuba.
I Hardly are United States troops with
| drawn until the islanders bite and
devour one another.
According to rales of unionism in
; Texas members of the state militia
I cannot belong to unions. The union
evidently don’t want its members
; pointing guns at themselves in case
of labor troubles.
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| While the people of the producing
* sections of the country are antislpat
\ ing the profits to be realized from the
| year’s planning and labor, the an
il nouncement comes that on September
1 freight rates on all trunsmississippi
lines are to be shoved up.
FINANCIAL CONDITION
A considerable Increase in the
amount of money in circulation was
reported by the treasury department
on August 1. The total reached
82,382,018,498, as compared with $2,
376,323,210 on July 1, and $2,260,606,137
on August 1, 1902. Estimating that
the populatiSn increased to 80,602.000,
the amount of money in circulation
per capita is #29.65, or nine cents less
for each man, woman, and child than
at the high record point two months
ago, just prior to the heavy exports of
gold.
The chief alterations during July
were gains of #7,300,000 in gold certifi
cates and about $1,000,000 in bank
notes, while a loss of nearly a million
occurred in gold coin and #1,400,000 in
United States notes. Otherwise the
alterations were small.
Including treasury holdings, the
total stock of money in the United
States is #2,695,440,174.
Six thousand more aliens entered
the New York port last month than
during July a year ago, or an ominous
total for the month of 42,000.
Tile St. Louis fair commission ob
jects to the Missouri mule for the
sculptural decoration of the Missouri
building, saying it does not typify the
spirit of the state. In the light of
recent developments down that way
the hog would be the proper thing.
In a recent issue of the Commoner,
Mr. Bryan brings from obscurity the
name of Judge Owen P. Thompson of
Jacksonville, 111., as a democratic
presidential candidate. As the demo
crats’ most popular candidate Is not
popular enough, it is not likely they
will select upon one altogher un
known.
The Frontier trusts that republicans
throughout the county are awake to
the importance of turning out good
delegations to the county convention
which meets in O’Neill next Monday.
A full county ticket is to be named,
state and judicial delegations to be
chosen and the central committee
reorganized. Let’s have a good con
vention.
In view of all the efforts made by
the present administration to curtail
the trusts and the fact that Mr.
Morgan and his correlated trust mag
nates are deeply Interested in securing
tlie nomination of some man by the
democrats whom they can support as
against Mr. Roosevelt the lie is given
to the claims that republican policies
foster trusts.
An Iowa agricultural professor says
the corn production of the west can
be increased a half billion bushels if
farmers will observe the simple rule of
planting a hundred live kernels in
every thirty hills. Whether this is
too many or not enough The Frontier
doesn’t know. If we have the right
kind of weather the corn fields can
safely be left in the hands of the
farmer. _
General Nelson A. Miles has been
retired from the command of the
United States army, having reached
the age limit of 64 years. General
Young succeeds him. General Miles
is an ideal type of American soldier.
Entering the army early in life as a
private he had reached the highest
rank in the army and retires in old
age, yet strong and robust, with all
the glory of well earned honors.
None of the legal lights in this
judicial district have officially hereby
announced themselves candidates for
the republican nomination to be
handed out at Valentine the 25th
Instant, although several are said to
be quietly awaiting the event. We
have plenty of capable men in the
district, and Holt county herself has
and able attorney in the person of Mr.
Dickson who would do the job honor.
Lincoln Star: There is not a more
astute political observer and manager
between the oceans than Senator
Gorman. His opinion was asked the
other day on the effect of the postofflce
scandals. The senator blandly rumin
ated a moment and then delivered
himself of this sage suggestion: “The
postofflce frauds may hurt the repub
licans or the republicans may make
capital out of their own zeal and
honesty in hunting them.” The wily
Maryland statesman knows a thing
or two.
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES.
A $96,000 fire occurred Saturday in
Omaha.
Valentine has billed a handicap
tennis tournament for August 24, in
viting northwest Nebraska into the
contest.
The Merrill Commission company,
a grain and stock concern, with bran
ches in a number of Iowa and Nebras
ka towns, suspended Saturday.
The republican convention of
Richardson county drafted an unusual
resolution condemning the course of
one of the party newspapers in that
county.
One hundred and sixty-three certi
ficates were issued last Thursday by
tiie state board of health to applicants
who desired leave to practice medicine
in Nebraska.
Four men were caught casting a fish
seine into the waters of the Loup
river near Kearney and were arrested
by Deputy Game Warden Hunger. It
cost them $10 and costs each.
Adjutant General Culver of the Ne
braska National guard, has issued an
order to the Second Nebraska re
giment, advising the members to be
ready to participate in the meneuvers
of the Untied States army at Fort
Riley, Kas.
Secretary Dodson of the state board
of irrigation has received reports from
the western portion of the state to the
effect that there is planty of water in
all of the streams for irrigation pur
poses. There has been so much rain
fall lately that many of the ditches
are not being used.
A report from Lincoln says the
bondsmen of a long line of state audit
ors may be called upon to pay about
$200,000 to the state for salaries wrong
fully allowed members of the legisla
ture under the 60 day session provided
by the constitutional amendment sub
mitted in 1883 and counted carried
without a sufficient number of votes.
The Springview, Keya Paha county,
Herald says: While drilling a well
for M. N. Woolhiser, Roby and Boyd
struck a sheet of coal at 224 feet.
They went down 324 feet but got no
water or at least no How. That it is
coal, there can be.no doubt for it will
burn and give off the same gaseous
odors as coal. Whether it will do to
work is not known.
Barricaded within the residence of
her divorced husband, which she had
stormed and taken by force, Mrs.
Martha Vincent of Schuyler defied
the sheriff, who had gone to the house
to serve a warrant for her arrest upon
a charge of assault with intent to kill
her divorced husband. The Vincent
home Is situated upon an island in
the Platte river,and as the sheriff’s two
assistants knew the ground thoroughly
they lay in wait all night. In the
early hours of the morning they saw
the woman open the door, when they
intercepted her retreat and placed her
under arrest.
Secretary Thompson of the State
Food Commission is making the
rounds of the state in quest of viola
tion of pure food laws, his energies
being chiefly directed toward ferret
ing out dealers who sell spurious or
adulterated vinegar. Already State
Chemist Nelson, who is in charge of
food commission headquarters during
the absence of his chief, has received
by express several samples of question
able vinegar, sealed up tightly in stone
jugs, which were gathered by Secre
tary Thompson in his rounds and
which he viewed with suspicion.
Chemist Nelson has just completed
outfitting the new state chemical
laboratory in the upper floor of the
capitol and on the return of Secretary
Thompson the suspected vinegar will
be subjected to an analytic inquiry.
The addition of a chemical laboratory
to the equipment of the food commis
sioner’s office will greatly facilitate
his work.
Based upon the decision of the su
preme court of the United States in
over 600 cases, the attorney general
has handed down an opinion which
will effect the foreign corporations of
the state to the extent of many thou
sand of dollars, and is expecting to
bring in enough to pay off the floating
debt of the state, says the Omaha
News. The opinion is to the effect
that all foreign corporations doing
business in the state must pay a tiling
fees to the secretary of state before
they can do business in Nebraska.
The decision was brought about by
the attorney for the Omaha Electric
Light and Power company presenting
their articles of incorporation and de
manding the right to do business in
the state. It is the successor to the
new Thomson-Houston Light com
pany of Omaha. The secretary of
state decided they would have to pay
a filing fee and they objected. Attor
ney Morsman of the Omaha company
is preparing mandamus proceedings
to compel the secretary to
issue the necessary papers
to do business here, and the case will
go to court for settlement. All the
foreign corporations doing business
will be hit hard should the opinion of
the attorney stand, but the Standard
Oil company will probably pay most,
ita share being estimated at $30,000.
A later report, however, says the at
torney general’s position is not good.
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