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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1907)
The Frontier ■4— . - —!-= Pobliahed by D. H. CRONIN. KOMAINE SAUNDERS, Assistant Editor end Manager. >»1 60 the Year 76 Oenta Six Montba Official paper of O'Neill and Holt county. ADVERTISING RATES: Dismay adrerttamenls on pages 4, 6 and » are charged for bn a baala of ftboent* an Inch oneoolumu width) per month; on page 1 the Charge la II an Inch per month. Local ad vertisements, 6 cents per line each Insertion. Address the office or the publisher. The legislature has done a pretty good job of redeeming pledges. Poverty Is no disgrace, especially when the assessor comes around. Mr. Hill values his railroads at $f>0, QdO a mile. Let the assessors bear that in mind. Mr. Burton’s assault on the presi dent might be explained away by the bialn storm experts. ^Ninety-five per cent of the people would do the same that the “criminal ly rich” are being cussed for If they c|uld do it. foepresenattve Cone, the fusion member of the house froth Saunders county, has.beenla |faibhful|ally of the railroads on every measure involving tHelr Interests. The Pennsylvania state house graft investigation discloses some deals whereby the enterprising “captains of industry” mulcted the state out of a profit of 4,000 per cent. JFhe Independent is working over time criticising republicans but \ias nothing t* say of the fusion represen tative from Bolt for voting in sym pathy with the railroads. Chicago going over 13,000 for Busse, tfhe republican candidate for mayor, inchoates that the newspapers wielded some influence. Busse had the press of the city with him, excepting Heart’s y 41ow. t 1 ' 1 - It was predicted that the younger Rosewater would never All the place of his illustrious sire on the Omaha Bee. However, the Bee is buzzing as busily as ever and persistently and in sistently stings all those who obstrep erously oppose any of its pet policies. former Senator Burton of Kansas, Jtfst out of jail, announces that he will start a magazine. The senator re fuses to profit by the experience of other celebrities who have attempted to ride back Into popular favor in a similar way after release from the dutches of the law. ^tijosa Hudspeth’s Ledger has been HMted from Stuart to Atkinson and issued from the latter town last If the standard set by the Ini tfctt number is kept up the Ledger will b^ytght in the forefront. It diSolos |$mrhat the editor can do when she wints to, and also that thero is no use tlijl^ng to run a newspaper without competent printers. 1 Resident Roosevelt politely inti mates that Mi. Harrlman is a liar by saving his statement that the presi had solicited campaign funds . the railroad magnate is a “will itruth that might be charactiz.ed i more ugly word.” The Nebraska {e senator wbo challenged the na tions of a colleague had a- more r. jted way of expressing a similar S^Llment when he said: “You are a dqnberate liar!” ■ ■ 'gillie Hearst has had his feelings tided to the extent of 82,500,000 as ult of the campaign iu Chicago, #h{ch was particular and unusually hWtser. It was much like a political iVjfct in Holt county. Every news pajjer in the town arrayed Itself 'against i the Hearst-Dunne-Examiner Combination. The Journal took an es^cially active part in combatiDg Hearst, who came down from New Yprtc with a squad of lieutenants to tty and pull Mayor Donne through. ThC Journal, therefore, is up against thedsig libel suit, which looks like a joke at this distance. A s trange part of the suit Is that it is brought be cause of the republication of a portion of Secretary Root’s speech in the New York campaign last fall in which Mr. Root mercilessly assailed the Hearst typ^ of extremists. The speech was published all over the country at the time, but Mr. Hearst brought no libel j suits then. Now he has decided that | a reprint of those things was heaping insult upon injury and demands $2,- i 500,000 to sooth his wounded feelings. Mrs. Eddy and her teachings have come Into the limelight again. From a scriptual standpoint the Scientists doctorlne is clearly refuted by the editor of the Christian Advocate of New York city. He contends that neither the Old Testament or the new agrees in any respect with Mrs. Plddy’s theories. He says that every where the Bible refers to health and diseases as conditions of the human body, one as real as the other, with no reference anywhere to the idea that disease in “an error of mortal nind,” “false claim,” “false belief” or an “illusion.” He says Hat the cures made by Christ were instantaneous and that he raised the dead, and with out a single failure when an attempt was made, in all of which respects he thinks Mrs. Eddy is sadly lacking. The difference between the cures wrought by Christ and those wrought by Scientists seems to be that the one was the healing of those who were dis eased, while the other is getting those who think they are sick to think they are well. ^ (_ STATE WIDE PRIMARY. There will be no more gatherings of Die faithful in the Ilolt county court house to ratify the candidates slated for nomination. The fine Italian hand of the political boss will no longer shadow county conventions like the ghost of Caesar the tents of Brutus on the plains of Philippi. Ed Whelan will not have to make speeches of ac ceptance that need explanation and we’ll no longer listen to the stirring eloquence of the tall spire from the Second ward defining “his position.” Those who want to run for office under the state wide primary system will have to do as O’Neill office seek ers do every spring, go around with a petition for signatures. When your petition is signed and tiled the news papers "get a crack” at you as about the first item of expense encountered in getting into office. Each candidate inserts his announcement In a paper to let the people know he is a. candi date. Then comes an election to nominate,each voter declaring himself a member of some political party. This, of course, will work a hardship on the mugwamps. They will either have to get Into some party or keep away from the primaries. The candidates are named by an election and than comes the second or final election for the offices. It is a little early to pass intelligent Judg ment as to whether the primary will be an improvement or not over the present plan. Both parties seem to want it, and It will take actual opera tion of the law to bring out the com mendable as well as detrimental fea tures. COMMENT OF THE PRESS. j Fremont Tribune: Captain Allen G. Fisher appears to have fallen upon evil days, and it is a great pity that he should become an object of suspi cion. Captain Fisher is a man of ma jestic mien, with all the hauteur and stately granduer of an orlgiental prince. He has been a conspicuous and interesting figure in North-West Nebraska since the Sioux Indians abandoned it as a game preserve, tho he is still a comparatively youtig man. But a legislative committee has Been prying into his methods and as a result has tiled instructions to the attorney general to commence disbarment pro ceedings against him. This commit tee was surprised and bewildered by his moccasin tracks in a big claim against the state. Cap. is full of re sources and maybe he can pull out of the hole the house has dug for him, but that the sides of the hole are steep and slippery is unfortunate for Cap: Beatrice Express: A man in ill health who has the prospect of a sur gical operation which he fears will prove fatal, is fighting for life. The world looks good to him and he would gladly forfeit every dollar to his credit if he could restore health and prolong his days on earth. Another man broods over his financial loss until other and greater considerations than wealth are overwhelmed, and he is driven to des pair, mental unbalance and self-de struction. One would give everything to regain health and live. The other sacrifices life because of the loss of ma terial possessions. Thus, too many of us attach pre-eminent importance to wealth, and bee ome so intense in per suit of it that failure to gain crushes the spirit, and the advantages to good health, the beauties of the earth, the PUBLIC SALE] I will sell at public sale at my place 5 miles west of O’Neill, be- B ginning promptly at 1 o’clock, on B MONDAY, APRIL 8th, 1907 The Property Described Below | I E 10 Cows with calves by sides 10 two-year-old Heifers 10 yearling Steers 5 yearling Heifers One team of mares about 10 years old, weight 1400 each. 1 1 Horse 10 years old, weight 1200; 7 head of shoats. 8 JT A n HI AI A nilliimw / cultivator nearly new, 1 hay rack, I1 A HUIi MAI HIIUI"KY J plows, 1 mower nearly new, 1 corn I I HU ill ITIHUnillLR I planter nearly new, 1 new hay rake, ’ wmm———————■ 1 new hay sweep, 1 buggy, 1 Moline gj wagon nearly new, 1 sleigh. 1 BUILDINGS &, FENCES Frame house 14x18, granary 12x16 shingle roof, corn crib 20x8 9 feet high, § cattle shed nearly new, hog yard, fences and sheds. | 500 bushels of oats, a lot of household goods, furniture, etc. | TERMS—12 month’s time will be given on bankable notes at 10 per cent interest on sums over $10. Sums of $10 and under cash. PETER. McMONIGLE nr. M. SULLIVAN, Licensed Auctioneer. JAS. F. O'DONNELL, Clerk. Free Lunch will be Senred value of friendships, and the endear ments of kin are often forgotten. It should not be so. Topaka Journal: There is a lesson for every merchant in the experience told by a representat ive of a Chicago mail order house to a gathering of newspaper men recently. He said the mail order business depended entirely upon advertising. He made one re mark that merchants should heed. He says they take the local papers and di rected their special efforts to com munities where the merchants were not up to date advertisers. If the mail order man finds that any line of business in any town or city is not well advertised as for instance cloth ing, he said that they flood that terri tory with their literature and always with satisfactory results. He believed it true. He said that country mer chants could greatly cripple the mail order houses if they would advertise freely and in the right manner. He said that every advertisement should describe the articles to be sold and state tire prices. Here is food for thought by merchants who fear tire effect of mail order houses. Punishing Big and Little Thieves. The Chicago Tribune makes these observations: Four Nebraska cattlemen who con spired to steal 200,000 acres of govern ment land have been condemned to pay the penalty tor their crimes. Two of them are to pay a fine of $1,500 each and serve one year in a county jail; lwoof them must pay $800 each and spend eight months in jail. It can not be said that this is an excessive punishment for the Itheft of 200,000 acres of land. Suppose that these men had been convicted of stealing $200 in cash or that by force they had held up a citizen and taken a dollar from his pocket they would not have got off so easily. There is a defect in the laws when greater thieves escape with pen alties mild in comparison with those imposed upon lesser thieves. If the man who stole $173,000 from the sub treasurer is found to be a trusted em ploye of the government no greater punishment can be inflicted upon him than upon a sneak thief who takes an overcoat worth $15, while the minimum penalty in the latter case is one year and in the former case six months. Whether viewed from the stand point of punishment or warning the penalty inflicted upon the land thieves is not likely to have a great deterrent effect. To serve one year in a county jail, where money will procure luxuries and where theie is no hard labor to perform, is little enough to pay for the use for years of 200,000 acres of land. The govern ment is making a good beginning in prosecuting the men who seize the public domain, but the next convicted criminals should be given the extreme penalty of the law if the practice is to be rendered unpopular. Edison records are the best and so near like tbe singer or band that one thinks he his listening to the singer or band ana not to a machine. For proof call at Lockard’s jewelry store and hear them. 34-tf Have The Frontier print it for you. [the w. c. t. u. corneFJ « ' " .* 1,1' ' J l God and Home and Native Land"^ MI18. EMMA KELLEY, SUPT. Mrs. Anna R. Simmons, one of our state W. C. T. U. workers will be with us adout the 15 of April. Furth er notice will be given. The meeting of the W. C. T. U. at Mrs. Kline’s March 20, was a very in teresting one. Mrs. Younkin, super intendent of systematic giving presid ing. The topic discussed was syste matic and proportional giving. Capt. Houston was present and gave a very interesting talk,speaking in the high est terms of Miss Willard and her life’s work. There were sixteen ladies pre sent, also Mr. Abbott. The following resolutions were adopted. Resolved, that we, the members of the W. C. T. U. of O’Neill, do hereby tender our heartfelt sympathy to our sister, Mrs. Augusta Martin, and her family, in the loss of their beloved husband and father and be it, Resolved, that she may not only look to us for sympathy but to that great comforter to whom their loved one has gone. Resolved, that a copy of these resolu tions be sent to the family, also a copy to the press for publication. —.. * ■ ..— Have The Frontier print it. 1 MH—K -i S * zSSBIKSMBsSiRii M. DOWLING. President JAS. F. O’DONNELL. Cashier ^ SURPLUS^ $55,000.00 i O’NEILL NAT’L BANK Safety Deposit Boxes tor Rent. This Bank carries no indebtedness of Officers or Stockholders