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The trouble with fire-proof buildings
is their contents is intlaroable.
The Russian bear thinks he has
about enough and is looking around
for somebody to help him let loose.
Between the weather and state and
national legislative bodies it can not
be said that the railroads are having
an easy time of it.
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When a public official has betrayed
his trust or been negligent of duty the
natural inference drawn is that his
defenders are implicated or profit
thereby.
If the esteemed Independent finds
pleasure in insisting it is so, notwith
standing Governor Folk denies over
his own slg having promulgated any
such “lobbyist rules’* as imputed to
him, let It believe it. Governor Folk is
a great and good statesman—too great
and good to presume to curtail any
American's personal liberties.
It has been proven a thousand times
that the complexion of a man’s pro
fessed politics is no guarantee of his
honesty. Dishonest men will profess
any sort of politics to attain positions
where they can get their graft in. The
demand for an airing of an official
trust is not a question of politics with
the tax payer; it is a business propo
sition.
The Frontier has received many
strong and encouraging words of ap
proval during the past few weeks as
well as a substantial increase in cir
culation. Of course there are a few
fellows who don’t like it because it
hurts to be hit where they live. It
never yet did a community any harm
to clean up the ofilcial nests of cor
ruption although it may “disgust”
some of the crowned heads.
Western Rancher: Once more the
press of the nation is obliged to record
stories of hungry, drifting herds of
cattle in the west, and the loss from a
commercial view is generally deplored.
The recurrence every few years of a
storm period in the west should teach
men that it is not safe to depend upon
open grazing for winter. The govern
ment should in some way put a stop
to the inhuman practice of ranging
cattle in winter without provision foi
storm periods. Commercially the loss
should Invoke no sympathy in the face
of the suffering that is entailed.
Senator Gilltgan got an amendment
attached to a bill relating to bank
examiners that will strike a respons
ive chord in a good many breasts
around O’Neill Just now. The Lincoln
Star of Tuesday says: “Senator Gil
ligan of Bolt county caused surprise
yesterday afternoon while the billol
Senator Good, senate file No. 112, was
under discussion. This fixes the
salaries of bank examiners. Senatoi
Gliligan wanted an examiner ‘fired
when a bank that he approved failed
within six months, The amendment
was heartily approved by a number 01
senators and was Incorporated in the
biil.” ,
It seems that the Immaculate Mr
Folk, governor of Missouri, is not s<
exempt from the corporation class o
politicians after all. A committee o
the Missouri legislature are doing ;
little investigating of the democrat!*
campaign methods previous to thi
last election. According to the testi
mony of E. S. Lewis, treasurer of th*
Folk campaign committee, betweei
920,000 and 930,000 was raised to carr;
on the fight which gave Joseph W
Folk the democratic nomination fo
% governor. Among the contributor
to this fund named by Mi
Lewis were William F. Nolkei
manager of the Brinckwirth
Nolkcr brewery branch of the
St. Louis brewing association,
*2500; Murray Carleton, president of
the United railways company, *2000 to
*3000; A. G. Cochran, general solicitor
of the Missouri Pacific railway, *1500,
and the following in smaller amounts:
J. D. Bascomb, Robert S. Brookings,
G. W. and A. D. Brown, C. E. Udell
B. B. Graham, Ben Edwards and
William IT. Lee, president of the
Merchants-Laclede national bank.
“If there lias been any thing wrong,
the Indepennent would like to see it
righted, but we can find none except
in the head of hot air artist of The
Frontier.” There is an old saying,
you know, that there is none so blind
as those who wont see. The Indepen
dent can’t see through a knot-hole
with the knot pulled out. Since The
Frontier began the agitation for an
investigation of the affairs of Grattan
township the extreasurer has dug up
nearly a thousand dollars of school and
city money that lie has had in his
hands contrary to law for the past
four years. Notwithstanding Pat
Hanley has disgorged $953 since being
cornered, the Independent, the great
champion of honesty in government,
has the monumental gall to face its
readers and say it “can see nothing
wrong” in the transactions.
A report from Chicago of the effects
of the cold wave that has swept over
the entire country says: The loss of
cattle on the ranges, particularly on
those lying in the northern part of
the southern states, will be very
heavy. W. E. Bolton, secretary of the
Oklahoma Live Stock association,
declared tonight that the live stock
losses in the present cold weather will
be the greatest since the great bliz
zard of 1896. He places the number of
head lost on the range in western
Kansas, western Oklahoma and the
Panhandle of Texas at 50,000 head.
Further north in Nebraska and the
Dakotas and Montana the stockmen
are better prepared to shelter their
stock, the stock is better insured and
it is not expected the loss will bo any
were so heavy as those on the ranges
further to the south.
Sterling Sun: Among other
appropriations asked at the hands
of the legislature, is one of 825,000,
for permanent buildings at the state
fair grounds. This along with a good
many others asked for public build
ings, should be promptly turned down
for the present. It will be all right
to make this improvement when the
state has paid some of its floating
debt. The fair Is permanently located
at Lincoln, and has done nicely and
will continue to do so a few years long
er. It is a mighty easy matter to ask
for a few thousand to a few hundred
thousond dollars to build new build
ings to help out some town which has
succeeded in getting some public in
stitution located there, more to help
the town than to meet the needs of
the institution. The people are forc
ed to pay for all these things by in
creased taxes; and the legislators will
act wisely if they grant only such as
are actually needed.
Stuart Ledger: The Nlcollzach
trials have cost the county between
$6000 and $9000. The Slattery case
cost almost $10,000. These long-drawn
out cases have depleted the general
fund, and people honestly employed in
behalf of the county, must wait for
their pay, or take it out in chips and
whetstones. The money spent in one
year for mileage, jurors, bailiffs and
lawyers, would pay the mammoth fee
of transcribing the records for a new
county.
If the parceling up of territory
would do away with crime and
criminals and the items of expense
incident to the maintenanceof courts of
justice there might be some soundness
in the foregoing logic. Of the two
cases cited neither would come under
the jurisdiction of Holt county, had
the county been parceled up into three
i as provided by the specifications last
' fall, at the time they were tried.
' Both burdens of expense would have
: come upon the shoulders of the tax
! payers in a new and minature county
s with a treasury without funds. As
■ it is the whole population contributes
s but a mite each. With over $700,000
i on hand and more than $3,000
r in the general fund the county
. treasury is in on sense “depleted,’
r and nobody with a legal claim
i against the county has any trouble ir
. getting their money as soon as the
, claim is audited in due form.
The people of Kansas are just now
having a lit'le txp< rience with the
Standard Oil octopni that is interest
ing to outsiders. A l ill was introduc
ed in the Kansu? legislature to estab
lish a see oil refinery. Standard Oil
steps in and undertakes to bring
pressure to bear that will defeat any
such legislation. While the majority
of the Kansas oil wells are owned by
private or independent concerns, the
Standard people control the output of
all the wellsby owning all of the refin
eries. They now refuse to buy the
products of the wells because the state
is considering the proposition of put
ting in a refinery. This of course
shuts off operation of the oil wells and
brings the industry to a standstill.
The Kansas legislature should lose no
time in passing the bill. It is their
opportunity to give an immense in
dustry an immense boost and in a
small degree at least curb the word
wide power of Standard Oil. It is
significent that the attitude of the
Standard Oil company only enlarges
the sentiment in favor of the state re
finery in the oil producing sections.
Believes Each Equally Implicated
Dorsey, Neb., Feb. 11,1905.—Editor
Frontier: It appears to me as a de
positor that the time lias arrived that
as depositors of the defunct Elkliorn
Valley bank we should come to an
understanding among ourselves and
save a little from the wreck.
It seems that the officials have
nothing to offer in settlement but
property which is mortgaged to the
extent of its value, and consequently
we will have nothing in the end but
the sack, while the officials go free
with all our hard-earned savings.
As a depositor, 1 am of the opinion
that all the bank officials should be
prosecuted alike, making no destinct
ion whatever, and complaints filed
against the whole gang. The vice
president of this institution is, in my
opinion, equally as guility as the pres
ident and cashier, and there should
certainly be a law to hold her equally
so, as she no doubt has shared the
benefits of the wrecked institution.
The sooner this matter is brought
to a focus the better for all concerned,
as the expense is getting larger each
day and the assets less. These officials
should be treated as common robbers
and their personal feelings should be
a secondary consideration. What
cared they for the feelings of the
people whose confidence they gained
only to get their money?
I sincerely trust that proceedings
will be instituted to further this end
at once. J. B. Torbert.
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Official : Publication : of : Proceeding
O’Neill, Neb., Jan. 31,1905.—Board
called to order, at nine o’clock a. m.
Present: Biglin, Clark, Keyes, Kram
er, Reuting, Skidmore and Phillips.
Minutes of previous session were
read and approved.
The Board then went into commit
tee of the whole with O. F. Biglin in
the chair for the purpose of continu
ing settlement with county officers.
At 12 o’clock the committee arose at
which time the board adjourned until
1 o’clock p. m.
One o’clock p. m.—Board called to
order, all members present.
On motion a refund warrant was
granted to O. M. McKnight for $4.65
error in taxes in 1904.
On motion the following bonds were
approved:
Fred Kiltz, road overseer, district
No. 38.
John Leinhart,road overseer district
No. 39.
Chas. F. Johnson, road overseer
district No. 10.
W. J. Doherty, justice of peace,
Chambers township.
Thos. S. Roche, township clerk,
Iowa township.
On motion the contract for building
the bridge across the Elkhorn river
near Inman was awarked to E. R.
Townsend at $7 per foot.
On motion the contract for building
the bridge across Eagle creek was
awarded to Louis Stebner at $5.60 per
foot.
On motion a refund was granted to
Geo. W. Parnell, error in assessment
in Atkinson Village 1904, amount
$8.72.
On motion a refund was granted to
D. J. Cronin for $10.75 to correct error
on NWJ 21-29-10, year 1903.
Petition for license to sell liquor
in the Village of Emmet was read
from Clarence Tenborg.
A remonstrance against the grant,
ing of said license was read, signed by
T. B. Maring and others.
On motion the clerk was instructed
to notify both the petitioner and the
remonstrators that said petition
would be considered on Thursday,
Feb. 9, at 10 o’clock a. m.
Petition was read from Henry Mart'
feldt and others asking the county to
employ counsel to assest the county
attorney in the Emmet road case.
The following road was declared to
be a public road:
Commencing at a point where road
No. 12 intersects the half section line
on the west side of section 35-27-9,
thence running east on half section
line through sections 35 and 36, to the
east side of section 36, and the county
surveyor was instructed to plat the
same on the road plat book.
Petition was read from Elkhorn
Valley Lodge No. 57 asking for adjust
ment of taxes on lot 23, block 22.
On motion the petition was granted
Petition was read from same party
asking for a division of taxes on lots
3 and 4, block 22.
a etiuiuu waa ^lauicu.
Petition was read from C. H.
Cheever asking for a refund of $6.30
for taxes erroneously assessed to him
in Deloit township for the year 1904.
The above petition was referred to
tax committee.
On motion the following refunds
were granted, the parties having paid
their labor tax both in cash and labor:
John Dobias,Green;Valley township,
1904. Joe Dobias, Green Valley town
ship, 1904. Persy Randell, McClure
township, 1901.
On motion the county treasurer was
instructed to transfer the excess fees
paid him by the county clerk, amount
ing to $1571.36,to the general fund 1904.
On motion the following claims
were allowed upon the road fund:
C E Hall.$11.25 & $40.75
Jacob Rocke.$50.00
Jack Warner.$4.00
(Continued on next page.)
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