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RQMAINE SAUNDERS, Assistant Editor
and Manager.
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Official piper of O'Neill and Holt county.
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Olspiay advertlsments on pages ♦, 5 and 8
re charged for on a basis of 50 ceuts an inch
one column width; per month; on page 1 the
oharge is H an inch per month. Local ad
vertisements, 5 cents per line each insertion.
Address the office or the publisher.
Dollar wheat probably means two
dollar flour.
The Atkinson Ledger is just as
“sassy” as it used to be at Stuart.
The Rosebud towns will not have
the looked for rush of reservation
boomers this summer. The opening
in Tripp county has been postponed
UDtll next year.
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■JChe man who shoots to “defend the
sanctity of his home” is getting about
as numerous as the fellows who re
sort to the “insanity” plea to escape
the punishment for crime. It isditll
cult to see where there is any “sanc
tity” to defend. A man will not In
vade the “sanctity” of any home with
out the encouragement and concent
of the mistress of the same, and when
a man finds himself encumbered with
such a wife the sensible course would
be to have her pack up and leave in
stead of committing murder.
Holt county affairs are causing the
recent arrivals of the Butte Register
a great amount of worry. The Fron
tier has nothing to take back, im
plied or alleged, concerning D. J.
Cronin, former county treasurer, who
mysteriously and suddenly disappeared
some months ago and is still “under
cover.” There are some fellows over
in Iowa who would like a little in
formation concerning the whereabouts
of “Honest Dan," a history of whose
late transactions will afford some
booming campaign thunder, if that’s
what the ears of the pops are itching
to hear.
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The state railway commission serves
notice on the railway oflicials that it
will not stand for any funny work in
reporting passes issued. The roads
seemingly regard the anti-pass law as
a joke and their first reports of passes
Issued are not satisfactory to the com
mission. The passes reported were
issued to railroad employes, and in
clude also a few politicians who are
liS^as “stock yard officials.” The
commission has reason to believe that
otlS'fer political wire pullers are riding
on,, passes, and threatens to bring
criminal action against the roads un
leil satisfactory reports are made.
Three churchmen have recently
been brought into unpleasant notar
ietjr., A Brooklyn pastor basked too
in the smiles of another man’s
wife and was named co-respondent in
a utyyorce suit; another of the same
calling eloped with a young girl of
whom he was guardian, and now the
third has fallen a victim to the be
witching charms of a 17-year-old miss.
Tbesp are not the first priest or
preacher to depart from the path of
rectitude. Henry Ward Beecher was
involved in a "scandal,” the widely
known Talmage came near making
a ridiculous spectacle of himself and
on,e of Nebraska’s most celebrated
rethrends died in the embrace of a
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strange woman. While these ex
amples give occasion for the scoffers
to a^icule, the work of the Christian
ministry is not to be judged thereby.
While an occasional individual is
overcome by the nameless influence
and,, insidious power of feminine
chirpas, hundreds are not. Perhaps
the preacher has stronger pressure
brought to bear upon him in this re
spep( than men of other callings. He
mingles more with the women portior
of the population, hence the tempta
tions to mad infatuations are mori
numerous. More subtle dangers lurl
in the pulpit than on the street oftei
times, and the man taking on th
sacred vows of the Christian mlniste
needs to be well fortified against thes
dangers. It is no reflection on th
superstructure of the Christian relig
ion that now and then one of it
propounders go wrong, but it empha
sises the fact that while implicit raitl
may’be lodged in the creed it is no
always safe to trust the one wh
preaches it.
TARIFF THAT MAKES GOOD
St. Louis Globe - Democrat: Ten
years of the Dingley tariff for ns a
record that speaks for itself. The
fiscal year that ends with next month
will show a surplus of about $70,000,
000. This comes at a time when the
government is engaged in more large
enterprises than ever before. It is
building the Panama canal, is devot
ing the proceeds of land sales in the
arid region to irrigation, and at the
last session of congress appropriated
$85,000,000 for river and harbor im
provement. Yet, for the last ten
months the treasury surplus has
averaged $5,000,000 a month. Impor
tations are unusually heavy, but the
increase is lately in foreign materials
that enter into American manufac
tures, the exports of which far exceed
the former amount. For several years
the foreign trade of the United States
has been at the highest mark. The
demand for labor outstrips the supply.
Immigrants have been coming in at
the rate of 1,000,000 a year, and this
average will be much increased in
1907. Railroads are crowded with
business and are in their most pros
erous era. Farm products have been
bringing good prices, and their value
last year approached $7,000,000,000.
It Is needless to go Into the details
of tlie contrast of the business situa
tion ten year ago, when the congress
met in special session and passed the
Dingley tarilT, a measure based on the
protective policy, which was thus
restored as a leading economic feature
In conducting the business of the peo
ple and of the government shaped by
their ballots. The tariH law then
matured, and still in force, had the
benefit of the knowledge and wise
judgment of William McKinley and
Nelson Dingley, both of whom have
passed away, but their works live after
them. Neither they nor any who deal
understandingly with such matters
put forward the claim that any partic
ular schedule is sacred and immutable,
but they held, as the republican party
has held in the past and holds now,
that tire protection of American in
dustries is necessary to the welfare of
the people, with their high standards
of living and enterprise. A ten-years’
demonstration is before the country.
All that was promised by the republi
can party in 1890 has been realized,
and much more. Prosperity has far
surpassed any of the estimates.
Yet it is certain that the democratic
platform of next year will denounce
protection, as usual, and oiler a prom
ise to substitute something better. In
the light of experience and common
sense it would seem that the republi
cans could elect any sound ticket on
this issue alone, for it reaches into the
business interests of every American
nitizftn. Sinr.ft Mip. Dirurlpv law was
passed the government revenue has
exceeded the expenditures by hundreds
of millions, in spite of the cost of a
foreign war. Employment for all has
been abundant at good wages. The
interest-bearing public debt has been
reduced, and so has the rate of inter
est upon it. War upon the Dingley
tariff is not a reasonable proposition
as matters now stand. The affairs of
the people and the government are in
the ascending scale. A year of ex
tremely bad crops might slow up the
present prosperity pace, but there is
nothing Indicating that the highly
favorable conditions of recent years
will not continue or that protection
will ever be less vital. Nagging at
the Dingley law is merely a proof of
democratic folly and recklessness.
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Mob violence is not to be encouraged,
but when the centers of a community
are shook by such a brutal and revolt
ing crime as that committed by L. R.
Higgins, a farm hand, in Thurston
county Monday even the most 'aim
and conservative do not feel like
condemning the lynch spirit. Higgins
killed hi3 employer and wife in cole
, blood and it seems that no punish
ment which might be invented woulc
, furnish adequate retribution.
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The Canadians take a peculiar viev
r of Sunday keeping. Under the nev
i law Sunday papers are not allowed ii
; the dominion, but a force of guard
is kept at work all day Sunday to se<
that no newspapers are brought ii
s from the United States.
1 “We deny that a republican admin
istration has made the prosperou
k times,” shouts a democratic exchange
3 Bob Ingersoll denied that there was ;
God in heaven.
C! ON ALL SIDES
Wants Her Allotment Back.
A Herrick, 8. D., special of the 13th
says: Bankers standing guard all
night over f>00 head of cattle is a part
of chapter No. 2 involving a section of
Gregory county land. There is a his
tory to the story, including a special
act of congress. The section involved
is known as the "I)oc Lewis” ranch.
There is some Indian blood in the
wife of Lewis, whose maiden name
was Iviva Lameroux. Twenty years
ago she married "Doc” Lewis and re
tinqulshed tier allottment in Nebras
ka. Gregory county opened and she
applied for two tine sections just east
of Herrick. Through Receiver San
ford Parker, of O’Neill, who is her
brother-in-law, she secured a special
act of congress which gave her and
her four children two sections of land.
Mrs. Lewis to assist her husband
gave him a deed for one section and
he sold it to the bank of .Spencer,
througli Its president, F. M. Weidner,
of Corning, Iowa, deeded same and
bought $18,000 worth of cattle, giving
a chattel mortgage on them to the
bank.
Mrs. Lewis now enters suit against
iter husband and bank to secure re
conveyance of the land to her. The
bank attempted to take the $18,000
worth of cattle and lock them in the
Herrick stock yards and the bankers
and cashiers stood guard all night.
“Doc” Lewis, througli his attorney,
G. O. Van Meter, began action and at
11 o’clock at nicht secured possession
of 500 cattle, which Lewis now holds
on his ranch.
The bank has telephoned for legal
assistance and a long drawn out con
lllct in the courls is .expected. All
night long could be heard the hallo of
the cowboy, the moving and bellow
ing herd and the werid light of the
bankers’ lanterns gave a grotesque
picture.
Jocular Indians.
Naper News: Four Naper sports
went out to the Indian dance last
Friday night and joined in the festi
vities. They were armed for the oc
casion with a number of bottles of
liquor, and in the course of the even
ing supplied several of the Indians
with liberal drinks, as a result of which
the interpreter at the day school lost
his job. But the joke was not al
together with the white men. The
Indian is a solemn individual, but you
have several guesses coming, if you
think he does not enjoy a practical
joke. The festivities included a dog
feast, something enjoyed occasionally
by the older Indians. The dusky old
jokers, not to be outdone by the men
with the tire water, told them they
had a nice veal stew, and the four
whites tilled up on the “delicacy” and
even wanted to know how the Indians
learned to prepare the meat so it tast
ed so nice. And the solemn jokers
never told the visitors what they had
eaten and they will not know until
they read this that they feasted on
one of the toughest old dogs on the
reservation.
A Child's Iron Nerve.
Verdigre Citizen: While Lilly
Studeny, the three year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Studney, was
playing with her mamma’s sewing
macmne last * riciay, sne nan me mis
fortune to get her hand directly under
the needier bar and when the needle
descended it passed through her little
thumb. It was impossible to release
the thumb without takirg the mach
ine apart, and during the ordeal, the
little girl never uttered a cry of pain
or complained in any way. When the
machine was taken apart and the
hand released, io was found that the
needle was broken and part of it was
in the child’s thumb. Dr.Kucera was
called and in order to extract the
broken needle it was necessary for
him to take the child to his office and
administer an anlsthetic. The doctor
said the little cne stood the operation
splendidly and that she was the pluck
iest child he had ever seen.
Source ol Much Evil.
Oakdale Sentinel: There is no doubt
but that a large percent of the de
gradtion, disgrace, ruin and crime
among the young, springs from the
habit of night prowling, corner loaf
ing and kindred acts by both sexs in
city, town and hamlet all over this
broad country. Any preson who keeps
his or her eyes open knows this.
Hundreds of boys and girls are out at
night, and we all know that many in
tluences for evil and none for good
surround them continually. A curfew
restriction may be derided as old-fash
ioned and Puritanical, but the fact
remains that there is vastly less night
prowling in towns that have a curfew
ordinance and enforce it.
Sore Nipples.
Any mother who has had experience
1 with this distressing ailment will be
* pleased to know that a cure may be
! effected by applying Chamberlain’s
1 Salne as soon as the child is done nurs
ing. Wipe it off with a soft cloth be
fore allowing the babe to nurse,
Nany trained nurses use this salve
5 with best results. For sale by Gillf
‘ gan & Stout.
Have The Frontier print it for you
j Odd Phases of
j Jamestown's Fair.
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WHEN it was decided to hold
an exposition to commemo
rate the tercentennial of the
settlement of Jamestown
from April 20 to Dec. 1, this year, the
promoters of the enterprise set about
the task of making it different from
similar projects of the past. They
were fortunate in receiving the hearty
support of the United States govern
ment for their plans and in obtaining
from a large number of states appropri
ations for buildings and exhibits. The
South American states responded in
most instances to the advances rnnde
by representatives of the exposition, so
that almost all will have some kind of
participation In the tercentennial.
The United States government, in
stead of making a large appropriation
in aid of the fair itself, set apart about
$1,500,000 to be used in the construc
tion of its own buildings at the exposi
tion and in the erection of two exten
sive piers In front of the fair grounds.
It has put forth efforts in furtherance
of the great International naval dis
play, which is to be held under its
auspices beginning May 13 and ending
Nov. 30. President Roosevelt on the
authorization of congress invited all
the nations of the earth to send their
ships of war to participate in this dis
play, and it has been estimated that
the value of the battleships, cruisers,
torpedo boats and other naval craft
taking part will not fall short of $250,
000,000. Besides this there will be a
great assemblage of maritime and
pleasure craft and ships representing
the progress made in maritime indus
tries in the past 300 years. There will
be twenty yacht races on the waters
of Hampton Roads, and one of the
spectacles which will attract the widest
interest will be the reproduction of
the famous contest between the Mer
COKNEK OF MrNES BUILDING AND FRONT
OF AUDITORIUM BUILDING.
rimac and Monitor. The federal gov
ernment has set aside a large portion
of its appropriation for this spectacle,
which will be repeated at stated times
during the exposition season, and the
fight will occur on the exact spot
where the original engagement took
place during the civil war. As it hap
pens. this was precisely in front of the
exposition grounds.
Tlie advantage the exposition pos
sesses by reason of its location on the
shores of Hampton Itoads has been
seized and well utilized in the plan
ning of the grounds and the aquatic
features of the show. The entrance to
the exposition from the direction of the
ocean is under a magnificent arch, illu
minated at night with thousands of
electric lights. Passing under this arch,
the boats enter Smith harbor, named
in honor of Captain John Smith, and
persons on stepping ashore find them
selves in Raleigh square, The basin
known as Smith harbor is formed by
piers extending out into the waters of
Hampton Roads 2,000 feet. They are
200 feet wide, and on the shore line
accommodate handsome passenger
stations. At the farther ends they are
joined by a third pier, arched in the
center, to admit of the passage of wa
ter craft beneath. These farther ends
of the piers contain towers equipped
with wireless telegraph apparatus and
powerful searchlights. The piers were
erected by the government at an ex
pense of $-100,000. The basin formed
by the piers comprises an area of forty
acres and will be used for all sorts of
minor aquatic events. The electric illu
mination of the piers, together with
the subaqueous illumination of the
basin, will form a most brilliant and
novel spectacle.
One of the historical features of the
fair Is the reproduction of the village
of Jamestown ns It. Is supposed to
have appeared in the seventeenth cen
tury, with stockades, forts and Indian
villages. Among the spectacles and
entertainments on the War Fath, the
Jamestown Midway, will be some hav
ing historical themes, one of the latter
being a drama entitled “Pocahontas,’
putting on the boards the romance ol
the Indian princess who saved the life
of Captain John Smith.
The Only Drawback.
Mary—I>id she make a good match'
Ann—Splendid! Rots of money, goec
social position and all that! In fact
the only drawback is the husband.”
SUPERVISOR SESSIONS
Official : Publication : of : Proceeding
O’Neill, Nebraska, April 23, 1907.
—Board met persuant to adjournment
with all members present. Minutes
of last meeting read and approved.
Mr. Anton Tresnak appeared before
the Board in regard to damages sus
tained by him by reason- of defective
bridge west of Atkinson. Board took
the matter under advisement.
Mr. Chairman: I move that the
report of the appraisers on the North
West i of Section 1G, Twp 29 Range
13, for $7.33 per acre, be approved
Motion carried
Mr. Chairman: I move that a refund
of $2.35 erroneous tax sale on lots 1, 2,
3, 4, block 9, village of Page, for 1904
tax, be granted. Motion carried.
Petition of Florence Stllivan. refered
to tax Committee.
Conrad Kramer wants to buy the
County Case, viz, S W 1 of N E J and
S i and S E 1 of S W i of 3, 29, 16.
He will pay all tax and costs now
egainst said land, Mr. Chairman I
move that the above matter be refered
to the County Attirney for hisopinion
as to what it is best to do in this case.
B. E. Sturdevant,
W. S. Roberts.
Motion carried.
Mr. Chairman: I move that a
refund be to G. A. Davis for $s.00, for
the reason that he is over 50 years old
and not subject to poll tax, and he
having paid the same in cash in Conley
township. Motion carried.
The following road overseer bonds
were approved:
Robert Wright, district 61; L. D.
Montgomery, district 31; G. A. Thurs
ton, district 17; R. K. Stevens, dis
trict 23. Bond of Fred E. Harrison,
treasurer Paddock township, approved
On motion the board adjourned un
til 9 o’clock tomorrow morning.
L. E. Skidmore, Chairman.
W. P. Simar, County Clerk.
O’Neill, Neb., April 24.—Board met
and upon motion went into committee
of the whole, continuing such com
mittee until 3 p. m. April 27.
Mr. Chairman: I move that the
personal tax assessed against Florence
Sullivan and paid by him cn January
5,1906, in the sum 'of $13.82, be re
funded for the reason that the essess
ment on said mortgage was erroneous.
The mortgage assessed was paid off on
August 2, 1904, on land in nei of 11-29
11, book 89, page 30.—J. A. Golden, B.
E. Sturdevant. Motion carried.
Mr. Chairman: I move the tax of
$16.46, assessed against Florence Sul
livan for the year 1906, be stricken
from the tax list for the reason that
the tax is based on real estate mortg
age that was paid on August 2, 1904,
on land in nei of 11-29-11, and recorded
in book 87 at page 30.—J. A. Golden,
B. E. Sturdevant. Motion carried.
On motion the claim of E. P. Hovey
for $300 was allowed.
On motion board adjourned until
Tuesday, April 30,1907, at 10 a.m.
L. E. Skidmore, Chairman.
W. P. Simar, Clerk.
O’Neill, Neb., April 7, 10 o’cloca a.
m. —Board called to order, all members
present. The depository bonds of the
Fidelity bank of O’Neill as a deposit
ory for county money, were approved
in the sum of $5,000 each.
Atkinson, Neb., April 15, 1907.—I,
David Wixon, of lawful age, first be
ing duly sworn, depose and say that I
did send six head of cattle, consisting
of four 2-year-old heifers, one 5-year
old cow and one vearliner steer, out to
Gus Seger’s to winter the season of
1905 and 1900. In some way by an
error said cattle were assessed to me
in Sheridan township. I hereby make
oath that 1 gave in all ray property to
the assessor at my home place in
Atkinson township for the year 1900,
and ask the honorable county board of
supervisors to strike from rhe tax list
of Sheridan township for the year 1906
the personal tax assessed against me
in said township, which was errone
ous.—David Wixon. Petition granted.
To the Honorable Board of Super
visors.—Gentlemen: We respectfully
request the refund of village tax for
the village ef Page, Neb., as follows:
Lots 10,11 and 12, block 6 .*0 09
Lots 9 aud 10. block 10 ... .... 0 42
Lots 1, 2. 3, 4. 5 and H, block 9.0 SO
Townsend Bros., personal. ' <*>
C. A. Townsend, personal.
Total. *9 04
The village of Page was never legal
ly incorporated Very respectfully,
Per C. A. T. Townsend Bros.
Petition granted.
On motion bonds of the following
road overseers were approved: R. L.
Butler, district 45; Eugene Ray, dis
19; Joe Timmerman, district 36.
Mr. Chairman: I move that the
petttion of Ernest Beaver and others
asking for the removal of the Whiting
bridge to the vicinity of Paddock, be
laid over, it not being in the power cf
this board to grant the same, as the
contract has already been let for re
building the Whiting bridge. Motion
carried.
Mr. Chairman: I move that J. C
Harnish, c unty treasurer, be and is
hereby instructed to accept affidavit
for poll tax of N. D. Seger, district
No. 50, there being no road overseer in
his district for 1906.—B. E. Sturde
vant, J. C. Clark. Motion carried.
On motion board adjourned until
1 o’clock p. m.__ _
One o’clock p. m.—Board called to
order.
O’Neill, Neb., Feb. 19, 1907.—Hon
orable Chairman Board of Svpervisors
of Holt county, Nebraska.—Dear Sir:
Your petitioner represents that he is
the owner of the nwl of section 13,
township 27, range 13, in Holt county,
Nebraska; that on December 2, 1901,
the county of Holt commenced an
action in the district court to fore
close a lien for taxes: that at the time
of the commencement of said action
the county had no tax sale against
said land for the delinquent taxes;
that at the time of the commence
ment of the action and at the time of
the publication of the notice of the
pending suit George Graves was the
owner of said real estate; that the
said George Graves is, and was at
that time, a married man; that his
wife was not made a party defendant
in the action: that a decree of fore
closure was rendered by the district
court against said George Graves and
against said land on August 20, 1902:
that no order of sale has issued against
said land; that from the act the wife
of George Graves was not made a party
defendant in the action a sale of the
premises under the decree would not
divest her interest therein, therefore
good title can not be obtained by sale
under said decree.
Your petitioner further asserts that
the value of the land does not exceed
the amount of taxes and interest
thereon. Your petition states that
in the event that you will order the
county attorney to dismiss said action
so as to clear the title thereto, that
he will pay all taxes and legal interest
on said taxes tor all the years the
same lias been delinquent, and thus
put said land on a tax paying basis.
Respectfully, T. V. Golden.
Upon advice of the county attorney,
prayer of the petition was granted.
REAR ADMIRAL BROWNSON.
New Chief of the Bureau of Navigation
Is Brave and Cool Headed.
Rear Admiral Willard H. Brownson,
who was recently ordered to Washing
ton to assume the duties of chief of the
bureau of navigation, was last sum
mer honored with the important com
mand of the Asiatic fleet. Present con
ditions have made it desirable that the
officer in charge of the naval force of
the United States stationed in the ori
ent should be a man of exceptional
ability and excellent judgment. Ad
miral Brownson earned promotion by
his wise and tactful course while on
duty in the far east. The admiral,
who was born at Lyons, N. Y., in 1815
and graduated twenty years later from
the Naval academy, Is a good type of
the American naval officer, a type
which has won admiration in all the
countries of the world. He has given
evidence of his nerve and cool headed
ness on several notable occasions. As
a young man of twenty-five he achiev
ed the distinction of ridding the Pa
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BEAU ADMIRAL WILLARD H. BROWNSOH.
cific coast of a band of pirates which
for some time bad terrorized tliat pavt
of the sea. In his encounter with the
Brazilian insurgent, Admiral Mello,
during the revolution of 1893 iii the re
public of Brazil he fired one shot from
the Detroit, which was sufficient to
convince the insurgent commander
that the American officer meant busi
ness and that American interests must
not be imperiled. Twelve years of the
admiral's career have been spent In
teaching aud training the students of
the Naval academy, as Instructor in
mathematics, assistant commandant,
commandant and superintendent. He
commanded the Yankee during the
Spanish war.
Good Words For Chamberlains Cough
Remedy.
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testifying to the good vualities of
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. Mrs.
Edward Philips of Barclay,Md., wriics
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mend Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.
My little gsrl, Catherine, who is two
years old, has been taking this remedy
whenever she has had a cold since she
was two months old. About a month
ago I contracted a dreadful cold my
self, but I took Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy and was soon as well asever.”
This remedy is for sale by Gilligan &
Stout.
Good residence for sale, centrally
located in O’Neill. Good barn and
out-buildings: cement walks. 'Address
Box 191.