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(