The Frontier PublUhed by D. H. CRONIN. ROM AINU SAUNDERS. Assistant, editor and Manager. II 50 the Year 75 Cents Six Months Official paper of O'Neill and llolt county, ADVERTISING RATES: Oisp.ay advertlsments on pages 4, 6 and 6 are charged for on a basis of 50 cents an Inoh one column width) per month; on page 1 the obarge Is II an Inch per month. Local ad vertisements, 5 cents per line each Insertion. Address the office or the publisher. A fusion ex-county treasurer has taken the precaution to deed his land to his brother since an expert has been put to work on the treasurer’s books. .. It is difficult to see by what process of reasoning the editor of the Stuart Ledger approves of the publication of stories in which the demimonde figures and condemns stage perform ances of a similar type. -- Mr. Harrington’s official organ assures us that the government owner, ship leagues are proving a howling success. But, by the way, we have only this one paper’s word for it, which is worth less on the market than “Sure Thing” mining stock. The Independent has a good deal to say about the #1200 the county has agreed to pay for the exporting of the records of the county treasurer. It is noted that ft has nothing to say about the #3,810.00 more in salaries paid the fusionists in that office in 1905 than (republicans expended for the same work in 1900. What’s hurting the strategy board is that their records are to be investigated. The Independent assumes the same attitude in the matter of experting the county treasurer’s office it did when a similar work was undertaken on the records of a pop treasurer of Grattan township who stole the tax payers blind. If their records in the county treasurer’s office are straight they have nothing to fear, but from the howl raised by their official organ the suspicion is strengthened that some thing is wrong. The esteemed ' Atkinson Graphic charges that O’Neill citizens are the prime movers in framing a county division bill before the legislature which appears obnoxious to the Graphic. Down in Custer county the (galloway divisionists lav the respon sibility of the bill onto Broken Bow. As the measure originated with a statesman from somewhere up in the west end of the state we think both O'Neill and Broken Bow can prove an alibi. i -■*•*'» Good for Judge Kinkaid. He has shown his colleagues in congress that the Sixth Nebraska district is on the map and that he will not swallow any sort of a dose fixed up for him and his constituency. Congressman Norris had the judicial division lines drawn In fine shape for one-half of the state but a very shabby provision for the other half comprised in the Sixth con gressional district. Kinkaid showed up the inconsistency and unfairness of1 providing for federal court at a dozen different places in one-half of the state and only one place in the other half. The west end of the state is Entitled to all it got. Pat Handley was pronounced an Immaculate official and everybody de nounced as thieves and pass grabbers who questioned his official honesty by the “wise” man of the Independent who had “investigated” Handley’s records. That shining light of reform got away with about $5,500 of the tax payer’s money, as shown by the report of the expert who examined the re cords. Now that the county treas urer’s records are in the hands of an expert the defender of crooked officials and bank wreckers is warming over the editorials printed in defense of Handley and making them do service for its ex-county treasurers. The In dependent evidently fears some such report when Mr. Hovey has finished his work as that in Grattan township. In the language of Shakespeare, It doth protest too much. LESSONS OF A MURDER TRIAL From what has developed thus far in New York’s sensational murder trial, young Thaw appears to be the “whitest” one in the bunch. The artist’s model that unfortunately cap tivated his Idevotions makes a good story teller for a crowd of maudlin rounders, but a larger degree of sym pathy might have been inspired for her had there been no evidence of further llirtations with the one to whom she imputes the theft of her maidenly virtues. The victim of Thaw’s wrath and good pistol was a fair type of numer ous lechereous scoundrels who de bauch society, who after all are not alone in their sins. They are students of human nature and mark as “vic tims” those to whom blighted virtue is not altogether unpleasant. As a general proposition, woman have the remedy for the evils laid bear by the Thaw trial, and the details of which makes decency recoil, in their own hands. Evyeln Nesbit had at least a partial remedy at law after the fatal night In the mirrored studio. By her silence she shielded and thus became accessory of a depraved criminal. If she had claimed her womanly rights and prized her natural heritage by bringing White to the bar of justice In all probability Harry Thaw’s hand’s would not have been stained with blood and her own fair name remained unsullied. If every other girl would do the same with their seducers in stead of continuing the llirtations there would be a speedy social reform ation. While no modification of the con demnation of the deeds of bad men is due, yet let the women, and especially girls bordering on womanhood, take a more decided stand. A lesson too, that comes to fathers and mothers from the Thaw trial is that they have a care to their boys and girls. Be sure that they go to only wholesome public places and are in appropriate company. Certain restrictions are essential to the development of well, balanced characters and to shield them from the snares of a perferse generation, but in future years they will rise up and call you blessed for it. Calls It Favoritism. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: A time ly analysis is going on of a sectional scheme that demands the attention of the American people and that arouses their indignation the more its motives and methods are laid bare. Internal improvements have been organized in to a job to build up the commerce of one part of the country at the expense of the rest. There never was a time when enlarged facilities of transpor tation were as urgently needed as now. Seizing upon this universally admitted fact and the favorable condition of the national treasury, the interests in con trol of the house rivers and harbor committee have quadrupled the ap propriation asked from the present congress. Instead of the average of the past, which is $19,000,000, the rivers and harbors committee has brought in a bill appropriating over $83,000,000. When the light is turned upon the bill it is found to be essenti ally, as far as the interior of the coun try is concerned, a plan to Improve the route eastward from the lake by way of New York, and to turn down the lakes-to-gulf channel, one large section of which, that from St. Louis to the Chicago drainage canal, lias been fav orably reported on, afteran exhaustive survey, by some of the most experienc ed engineers in the government service. Such a conspiracy as the pending riv ers and harbors bill at a time when the people are suffering from freight con gestion is a grave offense, and those who are engaged in it, or silently ac quiescent, will hear from the issue when they present themselves for re election. Allotted to the lakes section in this bill is about $20,000,000 for the lakes, which now have a minimum depth of 20 feet in their channelsand main har bors. Their commerce last year was three or four times as large as that passing through the Suez canal, and was not seriously retarded by any channel difficulties as far as the pub lie is informed. Tiie bill proposes the expenditure of at least $12,000,000 on tiie route used by the steel trust in its transoortation of ore and coal between Lakes Superior and Kne. Last year’s profits of the steel trust were $156,000, 000, which must be what lias fired the imagination of the rivers and harbors committee, inspiring the idea of spend ing $12,000,000 of government funds to further enlarge its already commodi ous waterway. In getting up such a scheme the river and harbors commit tee is aware that it must hand around special favors until it gets votes enough to hold its lines against all reasonable protest. Appropriations for import ant harbors are legitimate, but here again the committee plays favorites. It neglects the Delaware and Phila delphia, and yet slips in an item of more than $1,000,000 for the benefit of a real estate syndicate that has set out to get, at the expense of the people of the United States, a haven for yachts and other pleasure boats at Cape May. Many of tiie items included in the bill are for insignificant streams and inlets that will never amount to any thing in the business of the country. They are put into catch congressional votes on the pork-barrel basis, and al so for the reason that the lake-to-New York route will be additionally helped by wasting the money provided for any other inland section. The bill as reported is a programme of favoritism that scaicely takes the trouble to dis guise itself, feeling sure that its sys tem of getting votes enough in con gress to serve its purpose will render helpless any righteous objections that I may be raised. If the internal im provements of this great country are ever to be conducted on a fair, in telli gent scale, and by straightforward) honorable legislative methods, now is the time to mase a fight for a square deal. An appropriation, increased to $83,000,000 is a big proposition, and when it is observed that the lakes-to gulf channel is shoved out of it entire ly it is time for the people of the Mis sissippi valley, and for others similarly slighted, to wake up. KINKAID BRINGS THBM TO IT. Insists on Recognition of Sixth Dis trict In Judicial Division Bill. The Omaha Bee’s correspondent at Washington sent ills paper the follow ing on Monday: The judicial division bill will be re ported to the full committee of judici ary of the house on Wednesday and a favorable report will be made immed iately thereafter. Judge Moses P. Kinkaid of the Sixth Nebraska dis trict, not being enamored of the man ner in which the judicial division bill was drawn and introduced by Judge Norris, started a crusade against it and by reason of his work with mem bers of the judiciary committee today wrote into the bill a new place in which to hold federal court in the Sixth district, thereby winning a sub stantial victory. When everything seemed to be up in the air after the final conference of the delegation, wherein Judge Kin kaid insisted that some place other than North Platte in the Sixth dis trict court should be held and was outvoted, Judge Kinkaid took up the whole subject of a new judge for Ne braska with the judiciary committee, lie so impressed the committee with his arguments and incidentally worri ed the delegation that it was finnally agreed to leave the whole subject to Senators Millard and Burkett as a subcommittee to endeavor to present the claims of the Sixth district to the subcommittee of the judiciary com mittee of the house. They performed that work today with the result that Chadron was selected as the official place in North Platte district to hold a term of court. Judge Kinkaid insisted that in view of the extent of territory and the number of desirable towns in which court should be held, if an additional judge was to be given to Nebraska that Alliance and Chadron should be considered, lie wanted both, but the subcommittee could not see any rea son why both towns should be includ ed in the new division bill and accord ingly cast their vote for Chadron, and for which Judge Kinkaid has been contending. With Chadron named as one ot the Records special Dozen price, $4.20 Machine $10, $20 and $30. ALSO Victor Records AND MACHINES WM. M. LOCKARD JEWELER & OPTICIAN O’NEILL, NEB. places for holding court in the North Platte territory, some changes had to be made over the bill introduced by Judge Norris so far as the counties at tached to the several district are con cerned. As a result of the realign ment Cherry county is taken out of the Norfolk district and put in the Chadron district. North Platte loses no counties except on the north, Box Butte, Sheridan, Dawes and Sioux I being included in the Chadron district. ! As the bill now stands and which was' reintroduced this evening by Judge Norris, places for holding court in the north half of the state, using the Platte river as a divisional line, are Omaha, Norfolk, Grand Island, North Platte and Chadron. In the south, Lincoln, Hastings and McCook. Fiom the beginning Judge Kinkaid insisted that the proportion of popula tion preponderated for Chadron, and going over the satistics he showed the committee that if the bill was intend to bring relief to the district court of Nebraska and at the same time work out a better condition for those who were compelled to resort to court, that Alliance, Valentine and Chadron were towns to take into consideration. It was early demonstrated that Valen tine could not be considered and it resolved itself into a question of choice of two places—Alliance and Chadron, and Chadron won. PAGE A. D. Palmer arrived Saturday even irg to take his place as bank cashier. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Hess, Thursday, Feb. 7, a nine pound baby girl. Ceila and Lea Hunter and Herbie Stevens left for Lincoln Saturday morning to attend college. C. A. Townsend started for Omaha Monday morning where he goes to at tend the Hardware Dealers’ associa tion.—The Reporter. EWING E. G. Hobart and wife departed for Lin wood, Neb., last Saturday morn ing, where they will make their fu ture home. We understand Kay Bros, have di vided their property interests, John S. Kay of Neligh, retaining all inter est in the horses, and J. C. Kay of Ewing, becoming sole owner of all their property interests at this piece. It is now deflnately settled that Senator Burkett will be the commence ment orator next spring. His date is May 22nd. Begin early and tell your friends about it. We want the house tilled to the doors that night. It was through the efforts of Supt. McBrien that we were able to secure the sena tor. Other requ'sts were made for that date, but Ewing got in on the ground floor.—The Advocate. ATKINSON C. O. Fritchoff left Monday morning for Omaha, where he will resume his position as mail clerk, after a short visit with his parents at Celia. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Roche and Mrs. Alex Hart went to Omaha, Tuesday morning. Mrs. Roche will go to the hospital for an operation and Mrs. Hart will consult a specialist. Mr. Roche expects to return home Friday. An explosion of the gas tank con nected with the lightening plant at Alex Hart’s store, last Friday night, caused considerable excitement and causing the firemen to turn out in force. The fire was extinguished with out the use of water and but little damage was done.—The Graphic. STUART Henry Straka brought eight hogs to the Stuart market which tipped the beam to 2,650 pounds and netted $170.25. The family of Miss Nettie Fisher will leave for Seattle, Washington, in a short time. Miss Fisher’s place in the Krotter Telephone Co. will be tilled by Miss Pearl Shaal. Miss Lura Rhodes went to Crete, Neb., Tuesday to be present at the wedding of her brother who was mar ried to Miss Nettie Hall, formerly of Stuart. Miss Rhodes will visit her uncle’s family and other relatives in Clay county before returning. Murray McCrew brought to Stuart from the McGrew ranch a banner load of hay. The gross weight was 16,650 pounds and was drawn by a Spartan little team that weighed 2,100 pounds. The team had got too frisky and Mur ray loaded them heavy to sober them down a little. Mr. and Mrs. Zink have rented Willowdale farm to Wm. Runge. Mr. Zink will ship the household goods to Peru and settle down in the college town for the benefit of the younger children. Mrs. Zink will go to Okla homa for a visit with relatives before going to Peru. F. C. Harak of Center Point, Iowa, who bought the Bloom & Haisch ranch of 1,520 acres, will take poseSsion of his new ranch the first of next month. At his sale in Iowa, Mr, Harak recent ly sold two teams for $1,000. Mr. Har ak is an experienced stockman with one of the best equipped ranches in the county, he will have a wide scope for the building up of a large stock in dustry.—The Ledger. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy a Fa vorite. “We prefer Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy to any other for children,” says Mr. L. J. Woodbury of Twining, Mich. “It has also done the work for us in hard colds and croup, and we take pleasure in recommending it.” For sale by Gilligan & Stout. Advertised Letters. The following letters remain uncall ed for in the O’Neill postofflce for the week ending Feb. 9,1907: Mr. McGee. In calling for the above please say ‘advertised.” If not called for in two weeks will be sentto dead letter office D. H. Cronin, Postmaster. What To Do When Bilious. The right thing to do when you feel bilious is to take a dose of Chamber lain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. They will cleanse the stomach and re gulate the liver and bowels. Try it. Price, 25 cents. Samples free at Gilli gan & Stout’s drug store._ Break Loose From the I Creamery Trust | Farmers Organize to Manufacture and Market Their Own Product. If you are tired of milking cows and getting small returns; If you want more money for your butter fat; If you want to be freed from the danger of combinations to keep down the price paid you; If you a want to get the most for your cream, and to have a voice in its manu- fl facture and sale, you will join the great movement forCo-OPERATION H that is sweeping over the state like wildfire and become a member of the H Farmers Co-Operative Creamery and Supply Go. S It is your only hope of getting your share of profits from your milch cows. You do the hard work—you ought to reap the profit. Organize! Co-operate! Control the manufacture and sale. That’s the only way. This movement will unite5,000cream producers in a purely co-operative movement. ; The society—incorporated under the law s of Nebraska, has already pur chased the immense plant, equipment and business of the Harding Cream Co., of Omaha, with more than 3.000 patrons and a well established trade. So we start with a growing, paying business. No money need be spent in experimenting or in pioneer work. Our plant lias a capacity of 40,000 I pounds of butter, 5,000 gallons of ice ■ cream, 25 tons of ice per day, and a I good market for every pound we pro- ■ duce. Members of the association not only share in the profits of this entire busi* ness, but also have their butter fat manufactured and marketed at actual cost. Will you, as a cream producer and a $ clear-headed business man, join with us in the movement for co-operation and control of our products? Why not reap our legitimate profits from our cream? Why let them go to enrich a corpora- Jf tion or combination? 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