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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1906)
The Frontier Published by D. H. CHON IK. KOMAINE SAONDEKS. Assistant Editor and Manager. •150 the Year. 75 Gents Six Months Official paper of O'Neill and Holt county. ADVERTISING RATES: Display advertlstnents on pages 4, 6 and 8 are charged for on a basis of w cents an inch one column width) per month; on page 1 the charge is II an inch per month. Docal ad vertisements, 6 cents per line each insertion. Address the office or the publisher. Next time the Chicago bankers will take a peep into Mr. Mclleynold’s grain bins. Having had no winter yet, the weather prophets are sure it will arrive this month. The Independent shows signs of mellowing. Last week it admitted that If McGreevy and Hagerty stole the depositors’ money they should pay the penalty. As long as one set of federal officers can handle the business, why divide the state in two judicial districts? We seem to be getting along pretty well with o le court and as long as that is true it is folly to incur a double expense on the tax payers. A conviction has been a long while coming, but it has come at last and Justice has at least been satisfied if it be a very meger penalty for so fearful a loss. W. H. Van Schaick, master of the excursion steamer General Solcum in which a thousand lives were lost nearly two years ago near New York, has been sentenced to ten years im prisonment. Alferd Belt, the South African min ing king, is said to be richer even than Rockefeller. Half the mines in South Africa belong to him, includ ing the fabulous wealth of Kimber ley’s diamond output. The aggregate of his wealth cannot be stated, but a rough estimate places it at $1,000,000, 000. Ills yearly income is $52,500,000, which means that he gets $100 every minute of his life, or, to put it another way, $1,000,000 a week. The registershlp of the Valentine land office, declined by Rev. A. R. Julian, has been tendered to L. M. Bates, editor of the Long Pine Jour ' nal. It is safe to say the office will have to hunt no further for the man, and also safe to say Editor Bates will make a first elass official. The receiv er ship of the O’Neill land office goes to Sanford Parker, well known all over north Nebraska, and a man who has had many years experience in an offi cial capacity. If the indictments contained in pro tests filed with the state auditor .are upheld by the evidence, ten fire insur ance companies will have to evacuate Nebraska. The protests demand that the .companies be denied licenses to operate further in ithis state on the grounds that they have entered into a combination for the purpose of con trolling and maintaining high prices tor insurance in violation of the anti compact law. An insurance scandal may develop in Nebraska, too. George G. Ware, the Episcopal rector, has been convicted of conspir acy to secure public lands. The evi dence at the trial was unmistakable and convincing that the reverend gentleman took advantage of the Kinkaid homestead law to gobble up government land. Mr. Ware is rector of an Episcopal church at Deadwood and also has a ranch in western Ne braska. When the Kinkaid law be came effective he set out to secure filings by having old soldiers file on lands to be subsequently deeded to him. It seems that while his intent ions were alright to secure thousands of acres in this way, he was able to secure title to only one section be fore being nabbed up by the authori ties. His greed and anxiety for land cost him several thousand dollars for which he has only one section of sand hills to show, it cost him a good name and did irreparable damage to the sacred cause he was supposed to espouse, and will also doubtless land him In prison for a term of years. A preacher sometimes learn needs to the lesson that honesty is the best policy. One of the most cheerful grafts The Frontier knows of is the loaning of county money to banks at a normlnal rate of interest. It gives the banker every advantage over other business men. The banker is able to get money belonging to the tax payers at 2 per cent and turn right around and loan it to his neighbors at 10 per cent. Why should not the merchant or farm er, by putting up a sufficient indem nity bond, be given an eaual show with the banker? Any reputable business man or farmer who has occasion to borrow money would be glad to pay three times the rate of in terest for county money that the banks pay. “White pine lumber is today selling for five times more than it did in 1865, and unless the timber men plant trees, as the government advises, there will soon be no lumber of that kind at all,” says a prominent lumberman. “In 1865 white pine lumber was sold at from 81.25 to 85 a thousand feet; in 1906|it is selling at from 815 to 825 a thousand feet, according to the grade. And at that price it is mighty hard to get. In regard to hemlock lumber, the situation is almost the same as re gards the supply that can be had to day. There is a good lot of this tim ber in the country, much of it in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and the South. But it is being bought up rapidly for speculation by men who can offord to have their money tied up for several years. They are simply waiting for their price, and they are going to come c at handsomely on the deal, too.” The theory of ending the lives by painless process of those afflicted with incurable disease is gaining daily re cruits and has reached a stage in some states where it is proposed to enact laws to that effect. The sentiment still largely predominates, however, that no human being has a right tc take the life of another under any cir cumstance. With the widely differ ent views in the realm of medical science it is difficult to determine when a person is incurably ill. The fact is it can not be positively stated that any known disease is incurable. Medical science may pronounce a case incurable and yet the patient lives on for years. Again a physician may pro nounce a case only a mild attack from which no serious consequence will re sult and the patient be dead within twenty-four hours. The life and death of murderers is the only class which the law can legitimately regulate. The Lincoln Journal wants a return of the old proxy sytem In state con ventions and sets forth some reason able claims in behalf of the system. It says: “It is a common thing for counties with fifteen votes In a con vention to be represented by no more than five men. The five cast fifteen votes, often contrary to the sentim ents of the ten men who have remain ed at home, because they have not been offered free transportation or have refused to accept it. If the use of proxies were permitted the ten could chip In and send one of their number to Lincoln provided with authority to cast the ten votes. Many a convention would be changed from misrepresentative to a representative body if the absentees could be voted by men of their choice and not by men selected by the accident of theh presence in the convention city.’ While it is true that these conditions exist lit is doubtful if the proxy sys tem would better it any. On the con trary experiences of the past teact that the proxy system serves as s means of the worst sort of factions domination in conventions. Nebraska editors have been carriec 1 off their feet by the Norris Browr • senatorial boom. The attorney-gen i eral has been plodding straight ahead ' and doing some good work, but thal ' is what he was elected for. The peo ' pie have been so accustomed to elect 1 in* men to that office and getting m ‘ returns that when a man was electee l who for once fulfilled the mission foi 1 which the office was created the peo 1 pie—or a least the republican editor 1 —are ready to send him to the Unitec 1 States senate right away. Worthy as Mr. Brown is, The Frontier does not believe that he could do the busi ness for Nebraska in Washington that Rosewater could. Rosewater, it should be remembered, not officially and as a sworn duty, has many times stood up for the interests of the tax payers of this strte, even when he had to go Into court at his own expense to do it. It was largely through his ef forts that the state board raised the railroad assessment. For net results In the national senate, we don’t be lieve Nebraska can send a better man than the Bee editor. CONTEMPORARY COMMENT. The only objection that the Lynch Journal has against Attorney Gener al Norris Brown for United States senator is the fact that he is a South Platte man and the office in justice ought to come north of the line. How ever that can under proper conditions be overlooked. But the northern part of the state has many able and honor able sons. Our balance of trade in the calendar year 1904 was $415,400,550, and our ex cess exports of gold amounted to $36, 408,593, says a radical tariff exchange. During 1905 our balance of trade was $447,603,497, and our excess imports of gold amounted to $3,452,097. The in crease m excess exports of merchandise was $32,000,000 and an excess export of $36,000,000 in gold was changed to an excess of imports of gold to the value of $30,000,000. It would seem, then, that a balance of trade amounting to about $450,000,000 was necessary to pay Uncle Sam’s foreign bill each year. An exchange dealing in statistics gives a summary of occurances in New York City. It gives from a point of view some conception of the magni tude of the metropolis of this nation and what a conception of things doing in a great city brings about. This is the record of New York activity: Every 40 seconds an immigrant ar rives; every 3 minutes someone is ar rested; every 6 minutes a child is born; every 7 minutes there is a funeral; every 13 minutes a couple get married; every 42 minutes a new business firm starts up; every 48 minutes a building catches fire; every 48 minutes a snip leaves the harbor; every 51 minutes a new building is erected; every 1J hours some one is killed by accident; every 7 hours some one fails in business; every 8 hours an attempt to kill some one is made; every 81 hours some couple is divorced; every 10 hours some one commits suicide; every 2 days some one is murdered. Have you, who possess comfortable homes, kind husbands, and children, ever thought what it means to have to work at hard manual labor to sup port yourself and children? asks the editor of the Stuart Ledger, who, by the way, is a woman and is writing some able “stuff”in defense of woman kind. Talk of herosim! The com mander of a great battle has small courage compared to she delicate wo man, who bravely faces the disgrace of a truant husband, takes up the wash-tub, or the hardest labor to get bread for herself and children. This western country has a number of these brave women, who live lives of virtue and self-denial in order to give the children a chance with the child dren of others. No sickness, no hard ships, no poverty could compel them to part with the treasures they Tvalue above everything else in the world. And in every case, these women are materially rewarded, sooner or later. Their children have grown up an hon or to themselves and their mother. What would you do, if disgrace and poverty came to you? Meet it like a hero or run like a coward? You had better think twice, young lady, before passing up the plodder for the swell fellow, says one of our ex changes. The plodder may be a little off in the cut of his clothes, and he may not shine at the party like your swell man. But he is saving his wind and will come down the home stretch so fast that he will throw dust all over the other fellow. Poke fun at him now if you chose, but some day you will have to get a spy-glass to see him, he will stand so far above you. The swell fellow treats you lovely now; tells you that you are pretty, dance lovely; buys you icecream and takes you buggy riding. Then he has shot his bolt. He is all in; the buggy rides are a thing of the past. He will be lying around living oif of your folks or his own, while the plodder will be building a new house, buying another farm or two and planning to take his wife on a big trip back east to the place where her father and mother did their sparking. The plodder in youth is a pretty good sort of a fellow to tie to. True, some of them remain plodders all their lives, but a majority of them eventually acquire speed. The swell fellow goes so fast when he is young that he has no wind for the latter part of life’s race. Representative Kinkaid has intro duced a bili providing for the grant ' ing of grazing privileges to homestead settlers on leases of school and (other lands granted by the government for Light bread is digestible. Sweet bread is nutritious. Wonderful bread — light and sweet, is made with YEAST FOAM Yeast Foam is the wonderful yeast that took the First Grand Prize at the St. Louis Exposi tion and is sold by all grocers at 5c. a package—enough to make 40 loaves. Send a postal card for our new illustrated book “Good Bread: Howto Make It.’’ NORTHWESTERN YEAST GO. CHICACO. ILL. educational or other purposes and owners of land in freehold in the arid and semi-arid regions in the states of Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Kansas, Indian Territory, or in longi tude west thereof, fit for grazing of live stock, says the Gothenbarg Unde pendent. The leases are to be obtain ed through means of an auction and granted to the highest responsible bidder. No lease shall be granted at a figure less than 1 cent per acre per annum and these leases shall run for a period of not more than twenty years. Payment for leases shall be made to the nearest receiver of public moneys on 15th of each December fol lowing the date'of [execution of lease. The money derived from these leases is to be thus disposed of: One half to be turned into the treasury, to be placed to the credit of the reclamation fund; one-fourth of the remaining half to go to the state or territory in which the leased lands are located, and the other three fourths of the half tolbe deposited with the county treasurers of the states or territories leasing lands. Luckiest Man in Arkansas. “I’m the luckiest man in Arbansas,” writes H. L. Stanley, of Bruno, “since the restoration oi my wife’s health after five years of continous coughing and bleeding from the lungs; and I owe my good fortune to the world’s greatest medicine, Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, which I know from experience will cure con sumption if taken in time. My wife improved with first bottle and twelve bottles completed the cure.” Cures the worst coughs and colds or money refunded. AtP. C. Corrigan’s drug gist. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Homeseeker'g Excursion to the North west, West and Southwest. Via the North-Western Line. Ex cursion tickets at greatly reduced rates are on sale to the territory indi cated above. Standard and Tourist Sleeping Cars, Free Reclining Chairs and “The Best of Everything.” For dates of sale and full particulars apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R’y. THE Strawberry & Raspberry Plants The largest and most complete stock of all kinds of fruit trees that we have ever had to oiler; Crimson Rambler roses and oranmental flowering shrubs of all hardiest kinds; elms, ash, box elder, maple and basswood, 8 to 12 feet tall. Small forest tree seedlings of all kinds for planting groves. We have two varities of raspberries —one red and one black—that are very hardy and prolific and are annual bearers. They have bourne a good crop of berries every year for the last 15 years. Order 100 or 200 of these plants and you will have plants that will bear fruit. $5 per 100delivered at your town. Order at once and pay when you get stock at depot. Call at Nursery and select your trees or send in your order by mail and have it booked for next April delivery. Ad dress, E. D. HAMMOND, Norfolk, Nebraska. POEM OF FACTS] If you want any tool, want it quick, Any tool from a penknife to a pick; Ahodfor the morter, a pail for the water, Or a trowel for laying the brick; A hammer to drive in the tacks, A saw, a hatchet or axe; A shovel, brace, spade— > Any tool that is made I’m giving you only the facts, When Isay that this tool you wil find, In a store that is never behind— That is second to none: That is A Number One; Just fix this idea in your mind. Would you deal with a house that is square, That handles hardware that will wear: That holds all the trade it ever has made: That house holds the record so rare. 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