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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1907)
The Frontier Pabllihad by D. H. CRONIN. ROMAINE SAUNDERS. Assistant Editor and Manager. • 1 50 the Year 75 (Jenta 81i Months Official paper of O’Neil! and Holt county. ADVBKTISINO KA.TKS: LMau.ay a<1 vortlsmentH on pages 4, 5 and 8 re cnarged for on a basis of f>0 cents au inch one column width) per mouth; on page 1 the charge is $1 an Inch per month. Local ad vertisements, 6 cents per line each Insertion. Address the office or the publisher. REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. COUNTY TICKET Treasurer.J. C. Harnlsh, O’Neill Clerk.W. P. Simar, Atkinson Clerk Court..J. N. Sturdevant, Stuart Sheriff.C. E Hall, O’Neill County Judge... C. J. Malone, Inman SuDt.Florence E. Zink, Stuart Assessor.L. E. Skidmore, Ewing Surveyor.W. W. Page, Page Coroner.Dr. E T. Wilson, O’Neill SUPERVISORS Second District.W. S. Roberts Fourth District.J. L. Roll Sixth District.Rodell Root Seventh District.Jacob Itocke DISTRICT JUDGES J. A. Douglas.Bassett D. B. Jenckes.Ctaadron J, C. Sprecker of the Schuyler Free Lance says: “Well, this editor Is for Judge Reese for the supreme bench and is against Loomis; in fact, would have been against Loomis under any conditions, for lie Is the rankest kind of a railroad tool. The writer served in the legislature witli Loomis and knows whereof tie speaks. These are bad times for men of Loomis’ sort to run for office in Nebraska.” - -»• »- - Strict Integrity, impartiality to those whom lie serves, attention to his official duties and always ready to do his best to run down criminals when a warrant is placed in his hands has made Charley Hall the most popu lar and best sheriff Holt county ever had. The ' majority of voters want economy coupled with efficient services in public officers and they find these qualities in our present sheriff who has given six years of faithful service. -♦ »■.. "‘Honest Bill Simar is good enough for me in the clerk’s office,” remarked a voter from an outlying precinct the other day.. ‘‘He is a man you would not be afraid to trust with your dia monds—if you had any—and is an ac commodating and efficient clerk." The majority of the voters are of the same opinion. When [an official is doing the right tiling by the tax payers it is useless to try an experi ment with another. Miss Zink has done more for the schools of Holt county in the two years of her superintendency than was aocomplisheh in any four years by her predecessors. She is recognized among the prominent educators of the state as one of the foremost of county school superintendents, and Holt county to day, instead of ranking at the bottom in educational matters, is one of the leading counties in the state. From the way our educational interests are being looked after now It would be folly to make a change. The fusion political pluggers know that Holt county is in the best shape it,pver was financially and that there is over $60,000 of county money lying in the banks drawing only two per cent interest, but instead of using this money to pay off some $20,000 in claims they would rather force the county to a registration of warrants that would co$t the county seven per cent inter est. The average tax payer knows little and cares less about the intri cate technicalities of this fund and that fund, but they do know it is not good business policy to pay interest upon an indebtedness when you have mpre than enougli money to pay the debt. Holt county is just in that position today. It has money to pay every claim and then have over $40,000 left. Albion News: It begins to look as if the railroads were going to insist on a tight to a finish with the people of Nebraska. They have gone to the federal court for an injunction re straining the railroad commission from promulgating or putting in force any reduction in freight rates. If the commission cannot do this, then they are powerless to do anything. Gov. Sheldon is showing his backbone by saying that if the commission is tied up, and prevented from performing the duties it was created for, he will call the'legislature in special session * to enact special laws. If this fight has got to come, then the sooner It is begun the better. The governor will find the people are standing behind him in solid phalanx. If there is an) question whether the people can gov ern this state, but must submit to the rule of the railroads, the people want to know it. “Lay on, McDuff, anc damn’d be him that first cries, ‘Hold enough!’ ” OTHERS THAT DON’T WANT CHANGE. The supporters of Judges Harring ton and Westover say that ever} horse thief and cattle thief wants a change In the judiciary. These twe judges are held up as being a terror to criminals. That Westover and Harrington have merely performed the functions of the office for which they draw their salaries in sending certain classes of criminals to the penitentiary is nothing to brag oi nor make a noise about. If some fel low is caught stealing a $150 steer he is usually given the limit of ten years In the pen. Nobody has any objec tion to that and all will say he got what he deserved. There are some other classes or criminals, however, that seem to be Immune frorr^ punishment in the Fif teenth Judicial district, and nobody hears them demanding a change in the judiciary. While the little fel lows are being punished to tlie limit, the big criminals escape punishment altogether and even prosecution against them dumped out of court and soverign citizens of the state who ask that justice be done and crime punished according to the laws are turned from court without a vestage or semblance of justice being done. This is a matter of common knowl edge to the vorers of this district. They know that while a cattle thief who stole a few dollars gets ten years in the pen that bank wreckers and defaulters to the amount of thousands of dollars are not punished. They know that Barney McGreevy, presi dent of the defunct Elkhorn Valley bank and defaulting treasurer of the city of O’Neill and O'Neill school dis trict, was turned loose as soon as he got in court, after tlie county paying a reward for liis apprehension and the expense of bolding hlmseveralmonths for trial. They know that bis bank ing partner was never arrested and brought here for trial, although his signature was obtained so a deed could be made conveying Ilagerty property to the daddy of the then county attorney. They know that Pat Handley stole *5,000 of Grattan township jnoney and because he was one of the chosen pol.tically has never been arrested. They know that mur der after murder has been committed in north and northwest Nebraska and nobody punished for it. But Oh! These things are nothing. Our judges have been sending up cattle thieves to serve ten year terms. THE “DEHORNING BILL.” The fashion of dehorning cattle has grown up among Nebraska stockmen in recent years, the removal of the horned growths with which nature provided the bovine being for the purpose of depriving the animal of his means of destruction. Among a herd of cattle with horns the weaker ones stand no show and often sustain in jury, while a big steer will constitute himself the boss of the whole herd. To prevent this their horns are re moved. The last legislature of Nebraska passed what has become commonly known as the “dehorning bill.” It has nothing to do with dehorning cattle, but relates to judges of the district court. Conditions had reached such a point in the Fifteenth judicial district between Mike and his judge brother that the “consanguinity and affinity” of relationship became a subject of legislation and the last leg islature was pretty nearly as much exercised over It as the 2-cent rail road law. Here is how the “dehorning bill” has amended the law disqualifying district judges, as taken from chapter 42, section 4747 of the session laws Of 1907: • A judge or justice is disqualified from acting as such except by mutual consent of parties in any case wherein he is a party or interested or where he is related to either party by con sanguinity or affinity within the fourth degree or where any attorney I in any cause pending in the district court is related to the judge in the degree of father, son or brother or where tie lias been attorney for either party in the action or proceeding and such mutual consent must be in writ ing and made a part of the record, or where lie lias been attorney for either party in the action or proceedings, or wtiere said judge was in co-partner ship at the lime of his election, in the law business witli a practicing attor ney in the district ill which the said judge was elected and which said co partnership continued in the practice of law in the district aud occupied the same ottice or rooms which were occu pied by the late co-partnership con sisting of the Dresiding judge and his ex-co-partner, at the time of his elec tion, and where said judge or justice continues to occupy the same ottice or rooms with his said ex-co-partner the said judge or justice shall be prohibit ed and disqualified from actingassucli in any proceedings or litigation in with (which) said exco-partner of said judge is retained or in any wise interested, and the said judge or justice shall be disqualified as afore said in all proceedings or litigations in which ex-co-partner is retained or interested so long as said judge or justice occupies tlie same room witli his ex-co-partner which said partner ship occupied prior to said judge’s election. Since the enactment of this law Mike has had to call down the judge from the west end of the district when he had a case in court. The Markets South Omaha, Sept. 25.—Special market letter from Nye Schneider Fowler Co. As was generally expected after our heavy cattle receipts fur the past two weeks this week is quite moderate and with cooler weather and a better eastern demand the market is taking on a much healthier tone as weil as a fair advance in values. Western range beef is in small supply and this makes a much better demand for the natives. Feeders, stockers, butcher stock and all classes of cattle are selling little better than last week. Prices will range as follows— Choice dry lot beef.$6 20(a)7 15 Fair to good. 5 40(<tf(i 10 Common down to. 4 50 Good range beef steers. 4 50(a)5 05 Cows and heifers. 3 00(a;4 00 Canners & cutters. 2 00(a)2 00 Veal calves. 3 50(a)5 75 Bulls. 2 00@4 00 Heavy feeeders. 4 50W5 20 Medium . 3 75@4 40 Stockers. 3 00(a)! 25 Stock heifers . 2 15(a)3 15 The bulk of the hogs has shown a good advance with tops no higher than a week ago. Range $5 70 to $0.30. We have had the heaviest run of sheep on record, there being over 44, 000 here Monday. The market only broke 10 to 15 cents. The demand is great. Surplus Commodities. Bulletin No. li for September of the Burea of Labor and Industrial statis tics contains some interesting figures. In all lines of agricultural pursuits the figuresshow up amazingly large. They show the acerage of crops for 1907, the surplus commodities of the state for 190(3 with orchard statistics for 1907. Holt county is right in the front in the matter of surplus com modities. According to the bulletin shipments of live stock in this county in 1900 were as follows: Cattle, head.13,379 Hogs, head.21,280 Horses, head. 502 Wheat, bushels. 9,204 Oats, bushels.65,351 Rye, bushels.17,667 Hay, tons. 41,079 Flour, pounds.55,100 Mill feed, pounds.24,550 Potatoes, bushels. 4,540 Butter, pounds.57,062 Cream, gallons.19,580 Eggs, dozens.31,720 Live poultry, pounds.85,333 Dressed poultry, pounds.12,515 Holt county leads all others in the shipments of hay with 41,079 tons. Its next nearest competitor is Rock county, with 24,000 tons. Lincoln county has the third place in the ship ment of hay with 21,400 tons. My Hair is Extra L ong Feed your hair; nourish it; give it something to live on. Then it will stop falling, and will grow long and heavy. Ayer’s Hair Vigor is the only hair-food you can buy. For 60 years it has been doing just what we claim it will do. It will not disappoint you. *' My hair used to be very short. Hut after using Ayer’s Hair Vigor short time It began to crow, and novr it is fourteen incites loug. This seems a splendid result to me after being almost without any hair.”— Mas. J. II. Firicu, Frado Springs, Colo. A Made by J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Maas. (ffl| Also manufacturers of 5 sarsaparilla. ijers ^rrvpectoralJ SAVE FUEL DON’T you think a range that cuts your fuel bill in half is worth more than other ranges? THE GREAT MAJESTIC RANGE only uses half the fuel used in other ranges, and gives better satisfaction all around. There is a reason for everything. If you will stop and con sider the fact that the MAJESTIC RANGE, being made of non-breakable Malleable Iron, per mits the manufacturers to cold rivet all the parts together perfectly air-tight; that it is not made of cast-iron and bolted together as other ranges; that the heat cannot escape through cracks or ^ cold air enter range; that the flues are lined with pure asbestos board (not paper), and are con structed in such a manner as to utilize every particle of heat—you will very readily see why the Majestic Range uses so little fuel. I Every user of THE GREAT MAJESTIC RANGE will confirm this statement. riElL HARDWARE DEALER 0»l^EiLL NEJJ. ;j '. ______________- ---■ ---- Supervisor Proceedings. O’Neill, July 19, 7907. To the Hon orable County Board of Supervisor:— Gentlemen: On the 13th day of May, 1905, Thomas Tom jack paid for me the taxes on the southeast quarter of sec. 18, twp. 26, range 10, west, Mc Clure township for the year 1904, see receipt No. 5297. For some reason this tax payment was not entered on the tax list. I called the attention of Treasurer Hamish to this and on the day he made an entry on the tax list. On Sept. 11, 1905, A. J. Hammond paid the taxes on this same land for 1904, see receipt No. 7221. This last payment was an error and the amount paid, $7.95, should be refunded. Therefore your petitioner prays that the sum of $7.95 be refunded to him. Joe Tomjack, Owner of Land. On motion the prayer of the peti tion was granted. Claim of J. J. Harris for $35 dama ges, sustained by reason of the open ing of road along section 29, twp. 26, range 10, same being allowed on road fund. Mr. Chairman: I move you that a committee of three members of this board meet with Boyd county board or a committee of their board for the purpose of looking up the ice break proposition and devising plans for the same. J. A. Golden, C. D. Keyes. Motion carried. The chairman ap pointed Roberts, Clark and Keyes. Mr. Chairman: I move that a com mittee of four members of this board be appointed by the chairman to in vestigate and view and ascertain the advisability of straightening the Elk horn river and other streams in Holt county and that the chairman of the board be chairman of that committee J. A. Golden, C. D. Keyes. Motion was carried and chairman appointed Skidmore, Keyes, Golden and Roberts. Upon motion board adjourned unti next morning at 9 a. m. L. E. Skidmore, Chairman. W. P. Simar, County Clerk. O’Neill, Neb., Aug. 14, 1907 —The board of supervisors met pursuant to adjournment. Members present, Hold en, llocke, Roberts, Root, Keyes and Skidmore. On motion board went into commit tee of the whole for the purpose of auditing claims. O’Neill, Neb., Aug. 15, 1907.—Board met as business board. On motion a contract was drawn and let to the Norfolk Plumbing and Heating company as per plans and specifications now on tile in the county clerk’s office. On motion the board went into com mittee of the whole for the purpose ol auditing claims O’Neill, Neb., Aug. 16, 1907.—Board still continued in committee of the whole. On motion the following claims were allowed on the general fund ol 1906: Alderson, T E.$ 4 0( Alexander, E J. 6 9; Alberts. V. 91 Alfs, John jr. 4 0( Akin, Dell. 144 4; Alfs, John D. 4 01 Allen, H A. 4 0( Atkinson, Mrs Ruby. li 0( Abbott, M J. 25 0< Bitney, Frank. 15 0< Brlttell, Frank. 18 li Bowen’Harry. . 32 1< Butler, N S. 55 6( Burge, Sam. 2 1< Butler, William. 56 9C Bitney, Herb. 8 0( Butler, George L. 10 3( Betnea, W W. 7 0( Bethea, W W •. 30 0< Bartleson. Lars . 10 C( Brokaw, George. 2 9( Boyer, F II. 3 60 Beugtson, It V. 4 10 Boyer, Frank. 3 60 Bruner, G E. 5 00 Boehnie, Conrad. 30 00 Biglin, O. F. 29 00 Briggs, W H. 30 00 Briggs, W H. 25 00 Brodie, Wilson. 3 00 Biglin, O F. 25 80 Biglin, OF. 21 00 Brooks, A P. 10 00 Bissey, Margaret. 2 65 Callerty, T H. 4 00 Cooper, W B. 100 00 Cooper, W B. 100 00 Cooper, W B. 8 10 Clift, Fred. 2 10 Coover, Nels. 7 30 Clark, J J. 3 50 Chapman, LC. 2 10 Callen, PA. 6 40 Cantwell, TO. 3 70 Candee, J E. 3 50 Clark, J C. 40 60 Clark, J C. 38 50 Cooper, W B. 20 75 Cooper, Genevieve. 50 00 Cooper Genevieve. 50 00 Campbell, Nellie. 4 00 Caughlin, Gertrude M. 40 00 Cronin, I) II. 370 16 Cronin, D II. 81 89 Crawford, T W. 1 50 Campbell, Frank. 2 10 Coyle, James. 2 65 Coughlin, Gertrude M. 40 00 Cooper, Geneive. .. 27 30 Coughlin, Gertrude M. 32 00 Conger, Lee. 5 30 Conger, C P. 45 00 Couard, W F. 5 00 Clark, J C. 68 60 Cowperthwalte, J H. 2 65 Clason Map Co. 2 92 Daily, M B. 40 00 Dailey, MB. 31 00 Deuel, C W. 19 50 Deuel, CW. 3 50 Downey & Son, E. 6 03 Dickson, R R. 85 Davidson, James. 22 15 Doherty, J E. 6 10 Erb, John. 5 50 Enbody, L. 3 00 Flynn, P J. 11 00 Finkhouse, A. 3 90 Fraka, Jess. 5 00 Flynn, PJ. 10 00 Fallon, Rose . 3 50 Flynn, PJ. 24 70 Fauquier, Lizzie. 50 00 Fauquier. Lizzie. 50 00 Fauquier, Lizzie. 27 50 Fallon Rose 0. 8 00 Flynn P J . 15 00 Farewell, W F. 15 50 Farrier, CE. 6 10 Best Treatment for a Burn. If for no other reason, Chamber lain’s Salve should be kept in every household on account of its great value in the treatment of burns. It allays the pain almost instantly, and unless the injury is a severe one, heals the parts without leaving a scar. This salve is also unequaled for chapped hands, sore nipples and diseases of the skin. Price, 25 cents. For sale by Gilligan & Stout. A Traveling Man's Experience. “I must tell you my experience on an East bound O. R. & N. R. R train from Pendleton to LeGrande, Ore.,” writes Sam A. Garber, a well known traveling man. “I was in the smok ing department with some other traveling men when one of them went out into the cooch and came back and said, ‘There is a woman sick unto death in the car.’ I at once got up and went out, found her very ill witli cramp colic, her hands and arms were drawn up so you could not straighten them, and with a deathlike look on her face. Two or three ladies were working with her and giving her whiskey. I went to my suit case and got my bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhma Remedy (I never travel without it), ran to the water tank, put a double dose of the medicine in the glass, poured some water into it and stirred it wiuh a pencil; then I had quite a time to get the ladies to let me give it to her, but I succeeded. I could at once see the effect and I worked with her, rubbing her hands, and in twenty minutes I ^ gave her another dose. By this time we were almost into LeGrande, where I was to leave the train. I gave the bottle to the husband to be used in case another dose should be needed, but by the time the train ran into LeGrande she was all right, and I re ceived the thanks of every passenger in the car.” For sale by Gilligan & Stout. _ CALL FOR CAUCUSES. Notice is hereby given that a re publican caucus will be held for Pad- * dock township in the town hall on ^ Monday, September 30, at 1 p. m., to place in nomination candidates for the following township officers; Justice of the peace, treasurer, clerk and road overseers for districts 6 and 13. Also to transact any other busi ness which may come before the caucus. P. J. Lansworth, Uommitteeman. Notice is hereby given that a re publican caucus will be held for Grat tan township in The Frontier office on Saturday, September 28, at 2 p. m., to place in nomination candidates for the following township officers: Justice of the peace, treasurer, clerk and road overseers for districts 4,16 and 26. Also to transact any other business which may come before the caucus. James Crowley, Committeeman. Improved farms in Eastern Ne braska and Iowa, also income pro perty clear of incumbrance to ex change for ranch land. Send me a full description o' your land if you wish to sell or exchange and I will find you a buyer.—Fred L. Barclay, Stuart Nebraska. 11-12 ' I I I ; i i s