The Frontier
Pnbliihed by D. H. CRONIN.
rtOMAINE SAUNDERS. Assistant Editor
and Manager.
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Official paper of O'Neill and Holt county.
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Address the office or the publisher.
Pat Crowe lias returned to Omaha,
but Pat Hagerty has not showed up in
O’Neill yet.
The lumber trust announces an ad
vance of 50 cents a thousand on all
grades of lumber.
Another year of careful manage
ment of municipal affairs will put
O’Neill out of warrant indebtedness, a
consumation devoutly to be wished.
The community that escapes the
devastations of the tornado can show
their gratitude by extending the hand
of benevolence to those less fortunate.
When you see a busy little honey bee
buzzing around, remember there are
•200,000 worth of them in the state
producing annually over *100,000 in
sweets.
An exchange says a botanical wiz
ard has originated a potato that grows
the crop aboveground, but thinks a
device to grow the potato bug ten feet
under ground would be more appre
ciated.
A single tree recently cut in Oregon
turned out over #1,000 worth of lum
ber, there being 21,483 feet board
measure. IIow many years this
monarch of the forest was growing in
to this price is not stated.
Wisconsin encourages matrimony by
Imposing a tax on bachelors. There
is no danger of it coming to this in
Nebraska, where the girls are charm
ing enough to prevent the bachelor
question becoming of state import
ance. _
Ninty-four billion dollars is the pres
ent wealth of the United States. This
sum, if stacked in a pile of one dollar
bills, one on the other, would reach
into the heayens a distance greater
than from Alaska to Florida. Yet
with all our wealth there is scarcely a
state or municipality but what carries
a bonded indebtedness.
State Treasurer Mortesen, at a
meeting of the state board of equaliza
tion, demanded in a resolution that
“all property, moneys or credits owned
by mutual or fraternal insurance
companies, lodges, societies or asso
ciations,’’ be listed for taxation. The
resolution was adopted and the county
assessors will be instructed to assess
all such property.
There has been a rumor to the
effect that a part of the Great North
ern round house at O’Neill was to be
removed. Now it is being published
around as a fact that the whole
structure excepting one or two stalls
Is to be taken away. As published be
fore in The Frontier, there is talk of
moving eight of the thirteen stalls,
leaving a round house of live stalls
here. There never has been, nor prob
able never will be, any need of such a
mammoth round house as stands in
the Great Northern yards here. It is
a part of the dream of the promoter
of the old Short Line and portions of
the building have been falling into
decay along with the dreams of the
departed Donald McLean.
Teddy says he won’t have It again.
Maybe lie will have to take It.
France, by a violation of neutrality
In allowing the Russian Baltic fleet to
take on supplies at a French port in
Indo-China, seems to have put her
foot in it. The little brown Asiatics
are bristling with indignation and
hints are made that Japan will call
upon Great Britain to meet her ob
ligations as an ally. In which case
there will be events of greater inter
est and importance than anything yet
in the far east. •
If the attorney-editors of the H. C. I.
persist in the degrading and offensive
practice of mud thrownlng it may be
come The Frontier’s duty to skin a
few skunks in that notorious nest of
“varmints.” We have preferred to
discuss the acts of the bank wreckers
and their accessories in the light of
facts disclosed by the records. The
only answer we can get is the most
offensive slander. The gang, their
Stuart assistant and a few more will
get a jarring that will put them to sleep
if they insist on being indecent.
To meet the exigency brought on by
the decision of the United States
supreme court that Indians who have
received their allotments are entitled
to all the liquor they want, the citi
zens of Homer, on the Winnebago
reservation border, have united to
keep out saloons. It is generally con
sidered that free access to liquor fore
shadows the early finish of the Winne
bagos as a tribe. No licenses for
saloons will be granted on the reserva
tion border.
There is talk of a special session of
the legislature to enact a commodity
freight rate bill, to which Governor
Mickey is favorably disposed. That
there is need of such legislation is ap
parent to all. If the legislature Is
called together and enacts a freight
rate law that will give the people a
measure of relief a double purpose will
be served. Along with the benefits to
accrue from reasonable railroad legis
lation would come a partial redemp
tion of the bad legislative record last
winter, the need of which is also
manifest to all.
The public highway leading straight
south of O’Neill to the river has be
come the hold of every foul and hate
ful thing. It is strewn with the
bones of dead beats and the most un
sightly and unsanitary rubbish. The
board of supervisors would confer a
great favor on the community by pro
hibiting the dumping of garbbage
along the highways. The road south
of town is one of the most extensively
traveled of any leading to O’Neill and
the authorities should relieve us of a
condition that Is of doubtful advant
age to the few, and unquestionably an
unmitigated nuisance to the many.
The last census shows that women
are engaged in every line of industrial
pursuits in the United States. It is
surprising to And in the blacksmith
list that 193 American women wear
the leathern apron and make the
anvil ring with blows of the sledgeham
mer; that 571 are listed as machinists,
177 engineers and Aremen, 890 brass
workers, 1,786 wire workers and 2,320
in other lines of metal work. There
are also many women butchers,mi llers,
cabinet makers, coopers, carpenters,
masons, paper hangers, plasterers, and
in fact about the only places the
women are not represented are the
army and navy and telephone linemen
—they will do anything but go to war
or climb telephone poles. As a matter
of fact, the women could get along
pretty well without us.
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World-Herald: William J. Bryan,
in a recent contribution to Public
Opinion, raised the question whether
President Roosevelt has the courage
to be a true reformer. He cited the
fact that the president is largely in
debted to the railroads, the trusts
and tariff beneficiaries, and questions
whether he is strong enough, and
courageous enough, to withstand their
appeals to his sense of gratitude and
party loyalty.
It ill becomes Mr. Bryan to raise
the question of courage. When the
Saint Louis platform, embodying prin
ciples exactly opposite to wttat Mr.
Bryan had advocated for ten years,
was made known to an anxious public,
he had not the courage to set principle
above “party loyalty.” When the
United States senate committee in
vited Mr. Bryan to come before the
committee with evidence to aid in
the adjustment of railroad rates and
to prove his oft repeated assertions
either an absence of courage or some
thing else caused him to decline. If
any lack of courage should be manifest
in the career of President Roosevelt,
Col. Bryan should be the last man to
call attention to it.
Justice and Politics in Brown
Ainsworth Star-Journal: One now
adays is frequently hearing the wish
expressed that the present term of
court should see the end of the Hans
trial. Brown county is bearing its
share of the penalty for the Luse kill
ing, whatever may be the merits of
the case as to any individual. The peo
ple will never be satisfied with a con
viction which may be obtained while
politics seems to be the animating
force. On the other hand no good
citizen desires to have a guilty man
escape but the proof of guilt must be
positive and unmistakable. When a
juror admits whithin an hour after
the verdict of conviction is returned,
as was the case after the former trial,
that tjie evidence was not satisfactory
to him, it is evident that influences
other than a desire for justice obtains
in certain quarters. The whole case
might be valuable as evidence of the
care of the law for human life if the
suspicion was not so rife that some
thing else was using the law as a cloak.
While the expense for the county is
an almost unbearable burden, the
final verdict would not cost too much
if all these suspicions were allayed,
and exact justice obtained acccording
to the forms of law. Any other result
however obtained will be an outrage,
and the effect upon the people’s res
pect for the law will be very unhappy.
Hill’s Defense of Rebates.
Chicago Inter Ocean: President
James J. Hill of the Great Northern
railway made before the senate com
mittee on Wednesday what he seemed
to think an ingenious and complete
defense of discrimination rebating in
railway rates. The facts of the case
that he cited were briefly as follows:
When the Great Northern reach the
state of Washington it was found
that the chief product for interstate
commerce there was lumber. The
rate was then 10 cents, and the
Washington producers could not
reach the eastern market. Mr.
Hill cut the rate to 40 cents, thereby
obtaining eastward freight for his
cars and open an eastern market for
Washington lumber.
This was a discrimination, Mr. Hill
says, against the lumber producers at
the eastern end of his road. They
were charged more for hauling the
same weight lumber an equal distance.
In effect, a rebate was granted to the
Washington lumbermen. But not
only the railway, but the whole
country benefited by the increased
supply of lumber thus made generally
availabe.
All of which is true enough as far
as it goes. But this is not the kind
of discrimination and rebating to
which the .public objects. It was not
a stifling of competition, but an es
tablishment of competition. It did not
drive the Minnesota lumbermen out
of the market. It merely let the
Washington lumbermen into the
markets.
The kind of discrimination and re
bating to which the public objects,
and which makes it feel that there
ought to be government regulation of
railway rates, is that practiced by the
Santa Fe. There railway revenue
was not increased, but diminished.
There competitors of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company were not let
into a market. There competition
was not established with benefit to
the public, but killed to the public
injury.
The sooner such large-sized men as
Mr. Hill cease trying to confuse the
public by calling different things by
the same name—the sooner also Mr.
Hill gets out of the delusion that any
body is trying to take his property
away from him, and so ceases to make
remarks about “strewing the country
with corpses’’-r-the better for the
country, for railway interests, and
especially for railway magnates.
Wanted. Cattle to Pasture $1.25
per head for the season. Inquire of
Joseph Obermire, O’Neill or Emmet,
Neb. 45-3
Gem, $10; Standard, $20
Home, $30
Call and hear them. If you have
one send me your name and ad
dress and I will send you record
list.
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checks are as good as gold anywhere
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For prices, terms, etc., on above, and
other Nebraska lands, address,
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A Startling Test.
To save a life, Dr. T. G. Merritt, of
No. Mehoopany, Pa., made a starting
test resulting in a wonderful cure.
He writes, “a patient was attacked
with violent hemorrhages, caused by
ul deration of the stomach. I had often
found Electric Bitters excellent for
acute stomach and liver troubles so I
prescribed them. The patient gained
from the first, and has not had
an attack in 14 months.” Electric
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was twice in the hospital from a severe
case of piles causing 24 tumors. After
doctors and all remedies failed, Buck
len’s Arnica Salve quickly arrested
further inflammation and cured him.
It conquers aches and kills pain 25c.
P. C. Corrigan, Druggist.
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Via the North-Western Line, will
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9, limited to return until May 13, in
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Will stand at my place north of town as usual this season.
TERMS—Percheron, $12.50 to insure with special and lower rate if service
is required for several mares; Hambletonian and Jack, $8 each. Fee becomes
due if mares are sold or removed from the county.
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