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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1904)
[great DISCOUNTS!] > f \ ■ * Beginning January 4 we will start a great discount sale, when we will lower prices from 20 to j0 Per Cent Everything in our store will be subject to discounts except groceries. Come early as the sale may not last long. Kg| ■■h ■ Is -*«' x«? tfirf •. .7- ••• . . r j . ' l%Jl X*'• * ’.v I The Frontier. Published by D. H. CEOS IN. KOMAINE SAUNDERS. Assistant Editor and Manager. ■ 1.50 the Tear. 75 Cent* Six Month* Official paper of O'Neill and liult count). ADVERTISING RATES: Display advertlsmenta on page* 4, 5 and r are charged for on a hauls of 50 cents an Incl (onecolumn width) per month; on n«g» I tie charge Is II an Inch per month. Local ail rertlsements, 5 cents per line eaoh Insertion Address the office or the publisher. The Inman News puts it “ex-Gov ernor Dietrich.” It requires a real patriot to accept a government job to which there are no perquisites attached. Missouri has a running mate for President Roosevelt in the person of Cyrus P Walbridge of St. Louis, who will have to hustle if he outstrips John L. Webster. The young and energetic king of Spain expresses a desire to visit the United States. Come along, Alfonso; your royal highness will be properly entertained. Wreckage by land and sea abates none with the new year. A sunken ■hip in the Straits of Juan de Fuca, oil Washington coast, with the loss of fifty lives and a wreck on the Rock Island near Topeka, Kan., with seven teen killed, are among the latest. According to reports from Washing ton, the government contemplates the expenditure of some $500,000,000 on public roads, of which sum $308,000 is provided in the bill for Nebraska. ’Tisagood work and more appropriate than sticking millions into an army and navy.. xn uie senator metricn trial me court held that the accused was not a senator at the time the contract was made with the government in leasing a building for the Hastings postofflce. The senatorial prisoner was discharg ed and he goes to Washington to as sume his legislatives duties an acquit ted man in the eyes of the law. At a critical moment in the trial, counsel for the senator raised the question' as to whether his client was a senator at the time of the alleged shady trans actions and the court decided he was not. Thus ended Nebraska's senatorial sensation without the calling of a single witness, and the wind knocked out of the prosecution. Senator Diet rich now says he will call upon the United States senate to make a full i,- . . • A and unbiased investigation of the al I 'gations which still seem inadequate ly exploded. Norfolk News: Congressman Kin kaid of the big Sixth bids fair to make his presence felt in the national legis lature during his term of office. He is a hard worker and is getting next to things as they are done there with remarkable facility. His constituency is already beginning to feel that they have an able representative in the judge, and before his term is closed the entire state may take pride in the fact that he is one of the delegation from here. Even if his piesent rec cord is not Improved upon, his dis trict can do no better than t<J return him for another term at the earliest opportunity. He is of the sort that Nebraska needs in congress and is certainly a magnificent improvement over former representatives of the Sixth district in recent years. SUPERVISOR SESSIONS Official : Publication : of : Proceedings O’Neill, Neb., Jan. 4, 1904.—Board called to order at 1 o'clock p. m. Present: Blglin, Grimes, Howard, Keefe, Moler, Simar and Phillips. Minutes of session of November 6, 1903, were read and approved. On motion D. W. Cameron was re quired to furnish a bond of $200 for completion of his contract of side walk around the court house grounds. The above motion was carried. The following petition was: To the Honorable Board of Super visors ui Holt county, Nebraska.— Gentlemen: The undersigned repre sents that he was assessed in Pleasant View Township for the year 1903 at a valuation of $62 and that the board of equalization raised the valuation to $167 and that he paid taxes on the valuation of $167 when he should have paid on the valuation of $67. He therefore asks your honorable body to refund him the amount $6.65, the amount paid in excess. Tax receipt is hereto attached. Hugo Alps. On motion the above petition was granted and the clerk was Instructed to draw a refund warrant for $6.65. The following petition was read: O’Neill, Neb., Dec. 2, 1903.—To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Holt county, Nebraska.—Gentlemen: The undersigned respectfully repre sents to you that he is the owner of south 1 of NWJ and north 4 of SWi section 7 township 25, range 16, that in writing to the county treasurer to know the amount of taxes he gave him the wrong description, and paid taxes on October 25,1902, on the south 4 NEJ and north 4 SE4 35-26-15 for the year 1902 as will see by receipt hereto attached. He further states that he does not own the land on which he paid the taxes for the year 1902 and the same was paid erroneously and ask you to refund him the amount of $8.92 and that the same be applied in payment of taxes on land first above mentioned. G. M. Hadley. By P. J. O’Donnell. On motion the above petition was granted. The following petition was read: To the Honorable Board of Supervi sors of Holt county. Nebraska.—Gent lemen: The undersigned represents to you that in the year 1902 he was assessed in Ewing township on person al property at a valuation of $8 and labor tax $3, which tax he paid on January 29, 1903, as you will see by re ference to the tax books of 1902.' He also represents that he Was as sessed on the same property for the same year in Ewing village. Having paid tire taxes in Ewing township for said year lie asks that the taxes assess ed to him in Ewing village for the year (1902) be stricken from the tax books. Dated Ewing, Neb., Nov. 30, 1903. Joseph Sehober, Jr. On motion the above petition was granted. The bids for building bridges between sections 20 and 21-29-13 and between section 19 and 20-33-14 were opened and considered by the board. On motion the contract for the con struction of the above named bridges was awarded to E. Boy Townsend. The following request was read: Atkinson, Neb., Dec. 16, 1903.—To the Honorable Board of Iloltcounty.— Gentlemen: You are hereby request ed to transfer all excess bond funds in S. D., No. 213 to the general funds. Anton Prussa, Director. On motion the above request was granted and the county treasurer was instructed to make the transfer of said funds. The following petition was read: To the Honorable Board of Supervi sors of Holt county, Nebraska.—Gent lemen: Your petitioner, E. L. Brooks, of Knox county, Nebraska, represents to you that during the year 1888 he was a citizen and resident of the vil lage of Atkinson, Nebraska, and was engaged in the general merchandise business. That his stock consisted mostly of second-hand merchandise, a great portion of which was damaged and shelf worn. That the enter value of said merchandise did not at any time exceed the value of $2000. That the assessor of Atkinson township for the year 1888 either through error or accident assessed said stock for the sum of $1520, that said assessment was grossly unjust and excessive and said stock should not have been assessed for more than the sum of $400 as com pared with the assessment made that year of the other stocks of goods in said village. That at the time your petitioner had no experience in busi ness matters and knew nothing of the laws regulating taxation in the state and took no steps to secure a proper assessment of said property. That petitioner removed permanently from Holt county, during the year 1888 and never since had a residence therein. That the taxes levied against him for said year is the sum of $96.48 and while the same is unjust and oppres sive, still your petitioner is anxious and willing po make a just and equit able settlement of the same and now offers to confess judgment for $50 and cost of suit, the same to be in full settlement of said taxes. Petitioner prays your honorable body to enter an order instructing the county attorney to commence suit in this county for the recovery of the amount of said taxes and upon an offer being filed by your petitioners to confess judgment for $50 and cost of suit, that said county attorney shall accept said offer and fully release and satisfiy said jugd ment upon the payment of said amount, arid that upon the payment of the said sum of $50 to the county treasurer he shall strike from the tax list of said county said taxes as sessed against your petitioner for the year 1888. E. L. Books. By L, C. Chapman, his Attorney. The following resolution was read: Now on this—day of \ January, 1904, E. L. Brooks of Knoxcountv, Neb., by his attorney L. C. Chapman ofO’Neill, Neb., filed his petstton in writing praying for relief from a grossly ex cessive and erroneous assessment for the year 1888, made upon certain per sonal property then owned by said Brooks and situated in the village of Atkinson in said county, and offering to confess judgment of the sum of $60 and cost of suit tlie same to be in full settlement of said taxes; and it appearing to the board from the evidence produced that said assessment was erroneous, unjust and excessive and it further appearing to the board that the said Brooks has not been a resident of this county for more than fifteen years and that he has no property in this county wherewith to satisfy said taxes and it appearing fm’ther that the in terest of this county will be better1 subserved by accepting the offer made by him rather than litigate the mat ter in another county. Therefore be it resolved that the county attorney be instructed to com mence suit in this county for the re covery of the amount of the taxes due from said Brooks and upon an offer being tiled by said Brooks to confess judgment for the sum of $50 and cost of suit that the county attorney ac cept said offer and fully release and satisfy said judgment upon the pay ment of said amount, and upon the payment of the sum of $50 to the county treasurer said treasurer shall strike from the tax list of said county the taxes against said Brooks for the year 1888. The above resolution was adopted. The following petition was read. To the Board of Supervisors of Holt county, Nebraska: We, the undersigned electors resid ing within five miles of the following road, ask that a bridge be built across Honey Creek on section line between section 15 and 22-31-12 said bridge to be about 32 feet long and IP feet wide. Signed by Wm F. Clevish and 30 others. On motion the above petition was granted for a sixteen foot bridge and Supervisor Moler was instructed to construct said bridge. On motion the board adjourned un til 9 o’clock January 5, 1904. F. W Phillips, Chairman. E. S. Gilmour, County Clerk. O,Neill, Neb., Jan. 5, 1904.—Board called to order at 9 o’clock a. m., all members present. Minutes of yesterday’s session read and approved. <D. W. Cameron presented his bond for the completion of cemeint side walks around the court house grounds which was upon motion accepted. On motion the following claims were allowed upon the road fund: L. S Butler.$ 6 70 L E. Skidmore. 4 00 C. E. Hall. 159 55 J. N. Kay. 5 70 Philip .Heckel. 3 10 J. A. I’rommershausser. 5 70 „ John Stites. 2 00 Henry Martfeld . 6 00 G. A. Taylor. 3 95 Frank Thayer. 2 00 Harrison Stites. 2 00 John L. Darr. 3 10 L. A. Combes. 5 70 On motion the following bonds were approved: D. J. Cronin, county treasurer. E. S Gilmour, county clerk. (Continued on Fifth page.) f 20 CENT. 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