The Frontier
Published by D. H. CRONIN,
ROMAINE 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.
Klnkald, Phillips, Green, Keyes and
Sturdevant “beat them to it.”
Where is Whelan’s 500 majority?
Fusion boodle has put Stuart pre
cinct to the bad.
Inman precinct did it right for
Keyes and Scotty.
Atkinson always does the right
thing by a home man—98 majority for
Scotty.
If the tariff is the father of trusts
in the United States, what fathers
thorn in England?
We didn’t win, but we’re gaining.
The fusion majority of two years ago
on county attorney had two-thirds
cut off of it.
O’Neill and Grattan township re
publicans—and a good many democrats
—stayed by Scott; the nasty work was
done at Stuart.
A majority of voters in the country
precincts wanted Scott for county at
torney. Stuart held the balance of
power, where boodle was used the
most lavishly.
The fusion roorback on supervisor
sprung in Inman township at the last
minute done great work. The Inman
fellows would have made it unanimous
for Keyes if the fusionists had come a
little earlier.
The Bryan meeting drew a good
cjowd Thursday night liist, but the
attendance from the country was very
small. A delegation from Brown coun
ty were furnished passes to come sev
enty miles to hear their inconsistent
leaders howl about the railroads.
As a sample of how the slander in
dulged in by the strategy board “cut
Ktnkaid’s vote” at home, Grattan
township, which in 1904 gave the fu
sion nominee 40 majority over Kin
kaid, this year gave Kinkaid an
even break with the fusion candidate,
85 votes each.
The fusionists claim to have reduc
ed the republican majority on con
gressman in Ilolt couuty. Kinkaid’s
majority two years ago was 625 and
this year about 400. There were about
600 less votes cast in the county thia
year than in 1904, so that if those who
stayed at home would have gone to
the polls Kinkaid would have had at
least 400 more votes. The percent of
his vote this year in the county is
greater than in 1904.
The World-Herald’s report of the
Bryan meeting at O’Neill last Thurs
day night was about the richest price
of fiction published this season. The
parade of “200 horsemen” consisted of
a half dozen country boys astride their
plow horses. The local managers of
the Bryan meeting had their agents
out in the rural districts for a week
previous to the meeting endeavoring
to work up enthusiasm over the “peer
less” and announced that they would
have a rough rider parade with 500
horsemen in line. Six or eight boys
from the country responded and led
the procession up the street astride
their prancing plow steeds. The
World-IIerald correspondent could just
as well have made it a thousand as
two hundred.
ELECTION RESULTS.
Throughout the length and breadth
of the land the voters have by ballot
expressed their faith in the great po
litical party under which every ad
vance step has been made in the na
tion for the past fifty years.
Nebraska goes republican by 18,000,
Iowa by 20,000, New York by 50,000,
Connecticut, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island, Pennsyl
vanir, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wis
consin, the Dakotas, Kansas, Wyon;
ing—from everywhere comes the word
of sweeping republican victories. The
national congress will again be strong
ly republican with some new timber
to strengthen the Roosevelt policy.
In our own county neither side can
claim a victory, as it is pretty near an
even break between fusionists and re
publicans. Republicans get two super
visors, ond represenative, state senat
or and congressman; the fusionist get
two supervisors, one represenative and
county attorney. The republican vote
was largely increased over two years
ago and withal republicans have rea
sons to feel encouraged over the show
ing made. Had the 600 voters who
stayed at home went to the polls in all
probability there would have been a
republican county attorney during the
next two years.
THANKSGIVING DAY.
November 2U is named as National
Thanksgivingday by presidential proc
lamation, in which ample cause for
giving thanks is stated:
Yet another year of widespread well
being lias passed. Never before in our
history, or in the history of
any other nation, lias a peo
ple emoyed more abounding material
prosperity than is ours; a prosperity
so general that it should arouse in us
no spirit of reckless pride, and, least
of all, a spirit of heedless disregard of
our responsibilities; but rather a sob
er sense of our many blessings, and a
resolute purpose, under Providence,
not to forfeit them by any action of
our own.
Patriotic words wisely and well
spoken. Pride is not reckless that
glories In splendid achievement. All
may be properly proud of what has
been accomplished in the past nine
years of prosperity. Heedless disre
gard of responsibilities it would be if
we were to forget the chief cause of
that prosperity. To forfeit our many
blessings by destroying their source
would be an act of surpreme folly.
As a sample of campaign misrepre
sentation, the Stuart Ledger made
out last week that “The Frontier
says their legislative candidates are
pledged to raise an appropriation for
a normal college at O’Neill.” The
Frontier said no sucli thing. The
Ledger editor should adjust her glasses
and read it again. The Frontier did
not say that “their ledgislative can
didates” were pledged to anything.
The Frontier did say that the re
publican legislative ticket was fav
orable to the proposition—nothing
more, nothing less. The Ledger’s
guess, as to the editorship of “the live
republican papers of llolt county” is
also a good sample of the reliability
of the new apostle of reform, which is
starting out quite as thoroughly un
reliable as tire senior at O'Neill.
Secretary Rootlscverely arraigned VV.
R. Hearst in a speech during the New
York campaign. Mr. Root lays the
blame for the murder of William Mc
Kinley on the Hearst newspapers and
quoted from one of Hearst's papers,
the New York Journal, to sustain his
charges. Mr. Root showed that he
had been sowing the seeds of discord
an anarchy through his newspapers
and had in fact called for the removal
The big Sixth stays in the republi
can column.
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SHELDON GOES IN BY NEARLY" 20,000!
of Mr. McKinley from national politics
by assassination and that McKinley’s
slayer was only answering the call of
Ilearst’s paper when he tired the fatal
shot. That Ilearst represents an
element dangerous to American poli
tics is the verdict of many thoughtful
men. lie would array class against
class and create discord instead of pro
moting the spirit of peace and the
common welfare of all classes.
LABOR SHARES IN PROSPERITY.
Wage Earners Receiving More Pay
and Working Shorter Hours
Than Ever Before.
American wage earners are enjoying
a large share of the general prosperity
of the county, says the New York Sun.
This fact is shown by an analysis of
the recently published report of the
United State Bureau of Labor on
wages, hours of labor and prices of
food. The figures show that the aver
age wage earner is working shorter
hours than ever before, that he is re
ceiving more pay for the short hour
week than he formerly received for
the long hour week, and that the in
crease in his average wage has been
so great that its purchasing power has
risen, notwithstanding the increase
in prices of many commodities. Fin
ally, it shows that there has been an
enormous increase in the number of
persons employed.
The report covers the sixteen year
period beginning with 1890 and ending
with 1905. From 1890 to 1893 the con
dition of the workingman was fairly
good. In the last mentioned year the
general business depression set in and
the wage earner suffered with all oth
er classes. A clear idea of the extent
of the improvement in conditions can
be obtained by comparing 1894 with
1905. Such a comparison shows that
the average wage per hour has increas
ed 21.5 per cent, while the average
wage earner, working shorter hours,
earns 10.7 per cent more per week
than in 1894 and 12.9 per cent more
than in 1890.
In the meantime the average price
of food, weighted according to the
average family consumption in the
families of 2,567 working men, increas
ed 12.7 per cent above 1894 and 9.8 per
cent above 1890. Notwithstanding
tliis increase, the average wage hour
would purchase 7.7 per cent more food
in 1895 than in 1894 and 8.1 per cent
more than in 1890. Still more import
ant has been the increase in the num
ber employed, amounting to 42 per
cent over 1894 and to 40.9 per cent ov
er 1890. The combined effect of the
increase in the average wage and in
the number employed was to increase
the total amount paid in wages per
week by 65.7 per cent above 1894 and
59.1 per cent above 1890.
If the bureau of labor had secured
data as to the total cost of living for
the series of years under consideration
it would have shown a ilarger incease
in the purchasing power of an hour’s
wage than is shown by considering
the price of food alone, for it it true
that while there has been a general
advance in commodity prices since the
beginning of the present era of pros
perity, that advance has been greatest
in the prices of agricultural products
and raw materials generally. The
average increases in prices of manu
factured articles have been much less.
The increase in the price of agricul
tural products, especially meats, lias
advanced the cost of food to a much
greater degree than the prices of cloth
ing and house furnishings have ad
vanced. In some localities the cost of
fuel has gone up and in some localities
house rents are higher, but on the
whole the average cost of living has
not advanced in proportion to the cost
of foods.
That manufactured articles have
not advanced in proportion to the ad
vance in the prices of raw materials
and the wages of labor is due to the
fact that manufacturing establish
ments, especially the larger concerns,
have been able to introduce economies
that have to some degree offset the
greater cost oi labor and materials.
One of the most important factors in
moderating the advance in commodity
prices generally, has been decline in
the cost that enters into the selling
price of practically every commodity.
The average freight charge per ton per
mile for 1905, as reported by the Inter
state Commerce Commission, shows a
decrease of 10.9 per cent as compared
with 1894 and 18.6 per cent as compar
ed with 1890. The figures for 1906 will
show a still further reduction.
This rapid decline in the average
cost of transportation in the face of
greatly increased expenditures for rail
road wages and materials and supplies
of all kinds has been made possible by
the expenditure by the railroads of
hundreds of millions of dollars for the
betterment of tracks and roadbeds,
the elimination of grades and curves
and the purchase of more powerful
engines and larger cars, enabling them
to make large increases from year to
year in the average trainload. These
railroad improvements have contri
buted materially to the general in
crease in prosperity of the whole coun
try, gi vingemployment to many thous
ands of wage earners and distributing
enormous sums of money. This work
of railroad extention and improvement
will continue on an unprecedented
scale for some years to come if it is
not interfered with by radical legisla
tion.
A recent review of the work now in
progress and projected in trunk line
territory alone shows that the roads
in that one section have planned for
the expenditure of not less than $400,
000,000 during this year and 1907. In
the vast region beyond the Mississippi,
between the Canadian border and the
Rio Grande, thousands of miles of
road are under construction and pro
jected, and all over the south existing
lines are being improved and extended.
The Markets
South Omaha, Nov. 7.—Special
market letter from Nye & Buchanan.
—We had a heavy run of cattle Mon
day followed by a light run Tuesday.
Beef steers are slow to a dime lower;
cow stock 10 to 15 cents lower; good
feeders are about steady; light and
medium grades are slow and dull at
last week's decline. It is thought
that on account of lack of railroad fa
cilities that the western run of cattle
will be dragged out a few weeks later
than usual this year. Indications seem
to be for steady to stronger prices for
the balance of this week if receipts
continue light.
We quote—
Choice steers.$5 75(a>6 40
Fair to good. 5 00(a>5 65
Common & warmed up. 4 25(a>4 90
Cows and heifers. 15 00(o)4 50
Thin cows. 1 75(^2 90
Choice heavy feeders. 4 10(« 4 75
Fair to good. 2 00(a4 oo
Light Stockers.. 2 50(aH 25
Bulls. 2 00(a>4 00
Yeal. 2 50(<£6 00
Hogs continue their downward
course with light receipts. Range
$5.80 to $6.05.
The supply of sheep is liberal; mut
ton is about a dime lower; feeder
sheep steady and feeder lambs easier.
To Exchange for Holt County Farms
or Ranches.
307 acre stock and grain farm,
Monona county, la. Well improved,
close to town.
280 acre improved farm in Missouri,
all lies level, an ideal home.
214 acre grain and stock farm in
Monona county, la. Good buildings.
100 acre improved farm in Monona
county, la. All good heavy land, 4
miles to towm.
70|acre home, well improved, joins
a good town in Monona county, la.
Well improved and an ideal home for
the person that wants to retire.
The above described land is all good
and will bear inspection and if you
wish to exchange your farm or ranch
write me fully giving a full descrip
tion of your property and price. I
have a cash customer for a strictly
lirst class ranch. Fred L. Rarclay,
17 4 Stuart, Neb.
Chapped hands are quickly cured by
applying Chamberlain’s Salve. Price,
25 cents. For sale by Gilligan &
Stout. _
Get your typewriter paper at The
Frontier.
[the W. C. T. u. corner]
l,“J<Vr God and Home and Native £o/td'* j
MRS. EMMA KELLEY, SUPT.
Tiie North American Review has
announced itself in favor of woman
suffrage.
The city council should be commend
ed for its wisdom in having curfew
rung at eight o’clock. Children should
be off the street and in the protection
of their homes at that hour.
The great amount of good that is be
ing done for the children fhrough the
juvenile court is tiie subject of much
favorable comment in the daily press.
No effort of recent years has accomp
lished so much for tiie rescue and re.
form of neglected little ones as tiie
juvenile court.
“We are convinced that the time
has arrived when tiie welfare of the
nation would be most effectually con
served by conferring upon women the
privilege of voting and holding poli
tical office. We are satisfied that the
intelectual equipment of the average
American woman is quite equal to
that of man,morally, it is admitted,
she is his superior,and therein lies the
basis of our conviction, that as a mat
ter, not of right, but of policy, she
should be taken into full political
partnership.”—North American Re
view.
A little over a two months ago the
prohibitory proclamation was raised
in San Francisco and the city has
been under high license since that
time. Never in its history has the
city had such a recora of crime as has
been enacted during the last two
months. Unprotected citizens find it
unsafe to be abroad and dealers report
the sale of over nineteen thousand
lirearms. Those who argue for high
license should note the effect in San
Francisco. V»
During the last month the National
and World’s W. C. T. U. conventions
have been held in Hartford and Bos
ton. Never before has there been
such a large attendance. Sixty-two
delegates and members comprised the
party represeniing the British Isles.
Nearly all counties were represented
and great entliusiam was manifested.
No one could read the reports there
given and note the progress that has
been made during the last year and
longer doubt the final triumps of the
temperance cause.
STUART
Mr. Robertson, the postmaster at
Hrodie, sent in two sample potatoes,
each weighing over a pound. One
from the same patch weighed one
pound and eleven ounces.
Mr. and Mrs. Isenhart got home
Monday from Washington where they
have been for a couple of months visit
ing their two sons. They returned by
way of Denver. They are much re
freshed and in a great deal better
health than when leaving Holt
county.—The Ledger.
EWING
Justin Spittler has been down from
O’Neill this week, nursing his right
hand which he severely mashed one
day last week.
Mrs. John Quinn died at her home
in Deloit township last Friday morn
ing, October 20th, and was buried on
Sunday afternoon.
W. E. Hailey is down from the Hills
again, and will take back with him
next Tuesday night, several people
who will no doubt find new homes.
Frank Shober rolled in two potatoes
for us to sample, one being erough for
a meal of a good size family, the two
weighing three and one-half pounds.
Will Gilmour visited with his par
ants at O’Neill last Friday and Satur
day. He has been suffering several
Keyes and Scott lands on ’em in
Inman.
days with his arm which he scalded
with hot grease.
We see by the Norfoik News that
Ed Perry has purchased a farm south
of Norfoik, for which he paid $10,000.
Mr. Perry at one time was the owner
and landlord of the Elkhorn hotel at
Ewing. ITe now runs one of the most
popular restaurants at Norfolk Junc
tion.—The Advocate.
CHAMBERS.
Tuesdayafternoon word was received
from Lyman Waterman that he would
be in Chambers in the evening and
that with him would be a Mr. Switzer
chief engineer from a London, New
York and Minneapolis company with
whom he (Waterman) had signed a
contract for them to build the road
and that Mr. Switzer was desirious of
meeting as many of the residents as
possible. Mr. Switzer stated that his
business was to vertify the report of
the resourses available in the territory
through which the survey passes as
given in by Mr. Waterman, take views
along the route, and complete other
data for his report. In brief the sit
uation is as follows: If the report of
Mr. Switzer veirties the statements
made to the company by Mr. Water
man, then the company is ready to
carry out their part of the contract
and build the road. Waterman agree -
ing on his part to have us do our part
as per our agreement with him in re
gard to bonds, right of way, etc. Mr.
Waterman stated that if it should be
necessary for an extention of time on
the bonds east of Chambers, that they
would bear the election expenses.—
The Bugle.
ATKINSON
Henry Alfs went to Omaha yester
day morning to be with his little boy
who will be operated upon again for a
fractured limb.
Alberta Spindler visited with her
sister, Anna, over Sunday. She re
turned to her duties as assistant coun
tysuperintendent, at O’Neill, Monday
morning.
Mrs. Ed Purdy returned from Omaha
Wednesday night where she has been
in the hospital for the last ten days re
covering from an operation. H'er
friends will be pleased to learn that
she is recovering and that her former
health will soon be restored.
W. L. West, John Henning and Geo.
Raymer, jr., have been appointed by
the county clerk to appraise damages
of adjoining property, by reason of a
road being opened by petition, begin
ning at the northwest corner of sec
tion 32, in this township, thence south
to a line on First street, then east to
the village of Atkinson as far as this
street has been vacated. The Graphic.
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