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The Frontier
Published by D. H. CRONIN.
KOMAtNK SAUNDERS, Assistant, fcdltor
and Manager.
II SO the Year 7b Oenta Six Month*
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Bryan’s New Paramount
Congressman Henry Sherman Bout
ell of Chicago, commenting on Mr.
Bryan’s speech in Iowa, says:
“Mr. Bryan's question, ‘Shall the
people rule?’ implies that somewhere
iu this country the people do not rule.
The only states where the people do
not rule are the states that are ex
pected to give overwhelming major
ities for the democratic ticket. Per
haps Mr. Bryan thinks that his ques
tion is purely a ‘local issue.’ If he is
sincere, I challenge him to make a
speech in Vicksburg, Miss., on ‘Gov
ernment by the People. ’ Let him re
peat one of his famous anti-imperalist
speeches, simplychanging three words,
Substituting ‘Mississippi’ for‘Philip
pines’ and ‘black brothers’ for ‘tyrown
brothers.’ Let him suggest that we
have as chairman of his meeting John
Sharp Williams, leader of the demo
crats in congress, and as vice-chair
men the other members of the con
gressional delegation from Mississippi.
And after he has made his speech in
Vicksburg, if he shall escape the rule
of the people in that community, I
dare Mr. Bryan to repeat his oration
on popular government in Charleston,
S C , with Senator Tillman as chair
man of his meeting. Mr. Bryan’s
|entiments have a purely geographical
sincerity. His epigrams and startling
conundrums are especially designed to
meet local demands. Of this nature
are all his views on tariff and taxa
tion.
“Mr. Bryan’s proposition that every
time a trust is formed a tariff should
be repealed, and every time a trust is
dissolved a new duty should be added
is too funny even for comic opera.
"If on March 4 next Mr. Bryan
should become president, with a dem
ocratic congress in both houses, and
should actually place upon the statute
books the financial and economic vag
aries delivered by him in his speech
of last Friday, it would plunge the
nation into bankruptcy and bring on
industrial chaos. If he should begin
by repealing the duty on sugar to
punish the sugar trust, he would up
set the national finances by losing
WO,000,000 a year in revenues, and
would stir up a revolution in Louisiana,
Utah, Colorado and Michigan. Then,
if he should repeal the duty on cotton
goods, because some hustling manu
facturers of New England or the Car
ollnas were dumping goods in China
in rivalry with England and Germany
fie would divert other millions from
the treasury and invite still further
industrial ruin.
“But, of course, Mr. Bryan would do
none of these things, any more than
he will invade the solid south and
summon the cohorts of democracy to
the defense of the constitution with
the battle cry, ‘Shall the People Rule?’
Mr. Bryan simply does not mean what
he says. What he utters with Chad
bandian unction in the north he re
pudiates with Pecksnifflan duplicity
In the south."
A politician who has shifted his po
sition faster than can be kept track
bf and who is out every few days with
a new “paramount issue,” Candidate
Bryan makes himself a laughingstock
by such comments as he offers on
President Roosevelt’s letter endorsing
Taft. The “peerless” says the public
bas no definite idea as to what Taft
Stands for.” The public has a very
definite idea of what Taft and repub
licanism stands for, but they haven’t
been able to find Bryan anchored to
one issue long enough at a time to tell
What he stands for. Taft has a record
of achievements In the government
service, while Bryan can show up
bothing but volumes of criticisms and
I a record of repudiated issues.
? J. U. Yantzi, republican candidate
for supervisor in the O’Neill district,
j is one of the strongest candidates
ever put up for that office and will be
j elected. The taxpayers of this com
Imunity will be well represented wltt
Mr. Yantzi on the board.
•y— • -.
Not long ago it was reported that a
woman was the victim of a beastly
assault by a company of soldiers in
one of the Rocky mountain states.
The soldiers were white men and but
little has been heard of the affair.
Had they been black men a cry would
have at once gone up for the exterm
ination of the negroes.
Omaha Bee: Mr. Bryan has refused
to speak at the New York stale fair
because an admission fee is charged.
It makes a difference who gets the
admission fee.
Some difference is noted in the
pictures used in booze advertisements
in newspapers and those on the little
cards passed around on the quiet.
Congressman Longworth says it is a
case of Taft standing on his record
and Bryan running away from his.
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The tragedy in Omaha last week
shows the ultimate result of becoming
infatuated with the fast pace.
R0SEBDDJPER1NG
How to Register for the
Drawing.
Any person desiring to register for
the opening of the Rosebud lands in
South Dakota (Tripp county) under
the president’s recent proclamation,
and instructions issued by the secre
tary of the Instructor, mist go before
a United States commissioner or a
judge or a clerk of a court of record,
or a notary public in one of the follow
ing towns, viz: Chamberlain, Dallas,
Gregory, or Presho in South Dakota,
or O’Neill or Valentine in Nebraska,
and there sign and swear to an ap
plication for registration which will
be furnished by the officer before
whom he makes his oath. This ap
plication must be sworn to between
October 6 and October 17,1908, and
after it is sworn it must be enclosed
unfolded, in an envelope, which will
be furnisned by the officer administer
ing the oath, and the envelope must
be addressed and delivered to "James
W. Witten, Superintendent of Open
ing,” at either Dallas or Gregory,
South Dakota, before 4:30 p. m., on
October 17, and not after that, either
by mail or in person, or otherwise,
but not by registered mail, and the
envelope must qpt have the name of
the applicant written on it.
Sailors and soldiers who served for
ninety days during tlie war of the re.
bellion, the Spanish-American war, or
the Philippine insurrection, will not
be required to go to either of the
above named towns to swear to their
applications, but they may appoint
agents to p-esent their applications
for them, and these appointments
may be made and sworn to in any
state or territory. The appointment
of an agent by a soldier must be made
in writing on a blank form which may
be obtained by writing to "James W.
Witten, General Land Office, Wash
ington, D. C.," prior to September 25,
1908, or'at his headquarters at Dallas,
South Dakota, after that date, or
from the officer in charge of the re
gistration blanks at either of the
towns named above, after October 4.
The appointment must be sworn to by
the soldier, and should not be made
on any form other than the one pre
scribed for that purpose. The agent’s
name must be written into the blank
form of appointment before the soldier
swears to it, as appointments can not
be made out in blank and the agent’s
name subsequently written into them.
The agent must go to one of the
towns above named and swear to an
application for registration, which
will be attached to the soldier’s ap
pointment and he can then deliver
the application and appointment to
the superintendent of the opening, by
mail or otherwise either Dallas or
Gregory, South Dakota. The agent
may register both for himself and one
soldier, but the same person can not
be agent for more than one soldier,
and no person will be permitted to
take part in the drawing who presents
more than one applications in his own
behalf, either in person or through an
agent. A soldier who files by an
agent can not, therefore, tile in per
son. Soldiers who did not serve dur
ing the wars mentioned above have
no greater rights than persons who
have never served in the army at any
time.
A drawing will be held at Dallas, S.
D., on October 19, to determine who
of the persons registered will be given
the right to make entry. If a person
draws a number smaller than 4,001 be
will be notified by mail, addressed to
the postofflee given iu bis application
unless he subsequently gives another,
to appear at some date, probably in
the month of March 1909, when he
will be permittted to enter one quar
ter or less, of these lands, for which
he will be required to pay the usual
fees and commissions and per acre
If the number drawn is between 4,000
and 6,001, the applicant will be noti
fied in the same number of some date
. tx ,i,ii»iTnr ■ «I ■ .
In August, when he can make entry
at *4.50 an acre, if any of the lands
remain unentered at that time. The
fees and commissions and one-tifth of
the purchase money must be paid
when the entry is made, and the re
mainder of the purchase money in five
equal annual payments, without In
terests. At the time he makes final
proof he will be required to pay the
usual fees and commissions required
of homestead entrymen making proof.
If a person enters 100 acres under a
number smaller than 4,001 he must
therefore, pay *192 on the purchase
and $14 as fees and commissions, or a
total of $206, at the time he makes en
try, and he will be required to pay
$153.00 annually thereafter for five
years. If he enters 160 acres under a
number above 4,000 he must pay $144
purchase money and $14 fees and com
missions, or a total of $158, when he
makes entry, ana subsequently he
must pay annual installments of $115.
20 each.
If an entryman fails to make any
annual payment, when itbecomesdue,
or fails to reside on and cultivate the
land as the law requires, his entry
will be canceled, and all former pay
ments made by him will be forfeited.
After an applicant has made entry,
he can obtain patent by complying
with the requirements of the home
stead law, as to residence and cultiva
tion, for five yerrs, and making the
annual payments or after actually re
siding upon and cultivating the land
in good faith for the full period of
fourteen months, he can obtain title
by proving that fact, and paying all
the unpaid purchase money. The re
sidence required upon these lands
means the actual, bona fide making
and maintaining of a home thereon,
to the entire exclusion of a home else
where.
The requirements as to residence,
cultivation, and payment apply to
soldiers as well as to others, except
that a soldier who served during any
of the wars mentioned above may,
after residing on the land for twelve
months, or longer, claim credit for the
period of his military service, added
to the period of residence on the land,
equals five years he will not be requir
ed to longer reside upon or cultivate
the lands, but he must make his in
stallments annually, unless he elects
to make all of the payments at the
time he makes his proof at an earlier
date.
1'ersons are not entitled to register
for this opening if they be under
21 years of age at the time they
apply to make entry or are married
woman, and not heads of families, or
arf not citizens of the United States
and have nut declared their intentions
to become citizens, or are owners of
more than 160 acres of land, or have
obtained title to or claiming three
hundred and twenty acres of land
under entries made under the home
stead, desert-land or]timber and stone
lawB since August 30,1890, or have
already made entry for one hundred
and sixty acres, if the entry has been
patented or canceled for fraud or re
linquished for a valuable considera
tion.
Any person who, prior to February
9,1908, lost, forfeited or abandoned a
homestead entry, made by him, may
make entry of one hundred and sixty
acres of these lands, if his former
entry was not canceled for fraud or
relinquished for a valuable considera
tion. J
A person who has obtained patent
under a homestead entry for less than
one hundered and sixty acres can
enter such area of these lands as will,
when added to the land embraced in
his former entry, amount in the ag
gregate to one hundred and sixty
acres. It will not be necessary for a
person who intends to make either
second or additional entry to mention
that fact in his application for regis
tration, but at the time he applies to
make second or additional entry, he
must furnish the description and date
of the former entry the number of the
entry, the lands entered, and the land
office at which the entry was made, in
the manner prescribed by regulations
governing the making of second and
additional entry.
Every person who files an applica
tion for registration must swear that
he is qualified to make a homestead
entry; that he desires to register for
the sole purpose of securing lands for
his own use, as a home, and for im
provemcnts and cultivation; that he
does not expect or intend to make
entry in the interests of any other
person or for speculative purpose.
From this, it follows that any person
who intends to make entry for the
purpose of speculation by selling his
relinquishment, or by disposing of the
lands at the earliest possible date,
must be gulity of false swearing be
fore he can obtain registration.
These lands embrace eight hundred
and thirty-eight thousand acres, but
I can not, at this time, furnish infor
mation as to the number of quarter
sections which will be subject to en
try, as certain portions of these lands
are being allotted to Indians, and the
the area left subject to homestead en
try cannot be determined until these
allotments have been approved.
These lands are said to be desirable
for farming and grazing, and similar
lands in adjoining counties are selling
for good prices, but this office cannot
undertake to give any information as
to the character or value of these
lands, or as to the characters uantity,
or kind of crops they will produce, or
as to the climate or anual rainfall in
that locality. Very respectfully,
Fred Dennett,
Commissioner.
REGISTER AT O’NEILL
THE OPENING
The large body of over 800,000 acres
of agricultural land in Tripp county
is open for settlement October 24,
1908. It is allotted to those who
qualify as eligible to make a home
stead entry. The allotment is made
by drawing, and to get a number in
the drawing you must appear in per
son at a registration station, qualify,
register and get a number. This
number gives you an equal chance
width others who register to secure a
farm.
The qualifications of an entryman
are the same as those which apply to
homesteaders under the general land
laws. _
REGISTER AT O’NEILL
The United States Land Office at
O’Neill is an official registration sta
tion. It is 100 miles nearer to Ne.
braska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and
all points east of the Missouri river
than any other registry station, as
shown by the following table:
Distance from O'Neill—Valentine— Dallas
Sioux City.129 m. 245 m. 230 m.
Omaha.190 m. 306 m. 295 m.
Lincoln..196 m. 312 m. 300 m.
ADVANTAGES OF O’NEILL
O’Neill has the best accomodations
for your care and comfort while you
are away from home.
O’Neill is thoroughly policed and no
gambling or disorder of any character
will be tolerated.
O’Neill has the best railroad facil
ities of any registration point, being
on the main line of the Chicago &
Northwestern and the terminus of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy from
Sioux City.
O’Neill cordially invites you to come
here and register, and guarantees to
you the best of treatment while in our
city.
Write to the secretary of the O’Neill
Commercial Club for any information
you may want concerning the opening.
O’NEILL
O’Neill is a pretty little city of 2,
500 inhabitants. It is situated in the
beautiful Elkhorn valley, in the heart
of the finest agriculture, stock, dairy
and hay country in Nebraska. Our
crops are fine, our country rapidly
developing and our people are prosper
ous and happy.
It so happens that the registration
days come during O’Neill’s great an
nual carnival and base ball tourna
ment, which will be a most enjoyable
event, and in which all visitors are
cordially invited to participate.
Methodist Church Items.
The very best way in which to begin
the Sabbath is to attend the class
meeting at 10 o’clock in the morning.
We had a very profitable and interest
ing service last Sunday, and we could
but wish that more of our people had
been present to enjoy it with us.
The hour of our morning service has
been changed from 11 o’clock to 10:30.
Subject for morning service next Sun
day, “Gatitude for the Past and
Courage for the Future; ” evening,
“An Important Commission.” This
is the last Sunday of the conference
year, and so far as possible every mem
ber of the church should attend these
services, and we shall be glad to greet
all our friends as well.
Sunday school at the close of the
morning service to which we invite
everybody to remain. We have an
interesting and progressive school and
can find or make a place for everyone.
If not connected with another school
come in with us and we will do you
good.
Junior League service Sunday after
noon at 3 o’clock, to which we most
cordially invite all the boys and girls.
The pastor will have charge of the
Epworth League service next Sunday
evening at 7 o’clock, in exchange with
the appointed leader, as he will be at
the conference session on the 27th,
when he was to lead. The subject for
Sunday evening is, “Christ the Lord
of our intellect.” We especially in
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vite all the young people to attend
this service.
Prayer meeting and bihle study class
ever Thursday evening at 8 o’clock to
which we invite our friends and any
strangers who may be in our city.
T. S. Watson, Pastor.
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The Live Stock Market
Special market letter from Nye
Schneider Fowler Co. Soutli Omaha,
Nebra., Sept. 16, 1908.
This week opened up with the heav
iest run of cattle this season with the
results that the market broke from 25
to 30c on beef steers and cow stock
and the common Stockers and leeders.
Best quality feeders is the only thing
in the cattle line that held anywhere
near steady. There seemed to be an
active demand for them and one fancy
fleshy bunch of several cars, weighing
about 1300 pounds sold for $5.35 out of
first hands. These were bought in
competition with the packers who
wanted them for killers. The greater
portion of receipts are killers and this
of course explains the heavy decline
on this class of cattle. The strong
market of last week was sent broad
cast over the country and is the
cause of the heavy receipts this week.
It is usually the case during this sea
son of the year that a strong market
is followed by a decline the next week
and the reverse for the following week
so we look for a reaction and a strong
er market again next week with light
er receipts.
We quote:—
Choice corn fed beef.$6 75@$7 50
Fair to good. 5 40(a) 6 40
Common. 4 00
Range beef steers . 4 00@ 5 50
Cows and heifers. 4 00(^ 4 50
Fair to good butcher. 3 00(g) 3 5o
Banners and cutters. 2 00(g) 2 75
Veal calves . 4 00(B) 6 00
Bulls, stags, etc. 2 25(g) 3 25
Choice stockers & feeders 4 25(g) 4 75
Fair grades . 3 65(do 4 10
Stock heifers. 2 75(a) 3 25
The hog market has made a sharp
advance this week owing to the light
receipts and the sharp spurt upwards
in the provisions market. PrOpects
seem to be for continued high priced
hogs this fall. Bulk today $6.80 to $7.
Notwithstanding the continued
heavy run of sheep there is an active
demand with the barn full of pros
pective feeders buyers and the prices
are holding up fairly well especially on
the desirable kind.
- Mrs."Kate Wagner returned to her
home at Stanton Sunday.
AN EFFECTIVE SERMON.
Trumpet Blatt That Drove the People
to Repentance.
Old Peter Cartwright was a famous
preacher and circuit rider many years
ago.
The exhorter was holding a camp
meeting in Ohio. There was a great
number of campers on the field, and
the eccentric speaker addressed vast
concourses at every service, but he
thought too few were being converted.
He felt that something should be done
to stir the sinners to repentance, so
he prepared a strong sermon on the
second coming of Christ He told how
the world would go on in its sin and
wickedness and at last Gabriel would
sound his trumpet and time would
come to an end. He described the
horrors of the lost and the Joys of
those who were saved. The sermon
grew in intensity, and he brought his
people up to a grand climax, when sud
denly the sound of a trumpet smote
the ears of the anxious throng.
There was a great sensation, and
many fell upon their knees in terror
and began to repent and pray. Women
screamed and strong men groaned.
Pandemonium was let loose for a few
minutes. After the terror had some
what ceased the preacher called to a
man up a tree, and he descended with
a long tin horn in his hand. The
speaker then turned in fierce wrath
and upbraided the people. He cried
out in stentorian tones that, if a man
with a tin horn up a tree could
frighten them so, how would it be in
the last great end when Gabriel’s
trumpet sounded the knell of the world!
The sermon had a great effect upon
the vast audience, and many hundreds
flocked to the front and were con
verted.
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Exciting Hotel Incident In Bar Har
bor’s Early Days.
“In the prehistoric days at Bar Har
bor." said a Boston inan. "before the
dress suit had cast its blighting shad
ow there and when Itodick’s and the
‘fish pond' were the center of all the
gayety, life was pleasant, even though
many of the conveniences which we
now demand were wholly lackiug. Ito
dick’s was a barn of a place with no
elevator and innocent of electric bells.
One man in imminent need of ice wa
ter once obtained it, however, by going
into the hall and yelling ‘Murder!’ at
the top of his lungs. He gathered to
gether most of the hotel guests and
finally got the lee water of his soul's
desire, but his success did not seem
to establish a precedent.
“The fire department was, so to
speak, in embryo. In the Itodick at
the head of each stairway there used
to stand a large hogshead of water for
use in au emergency, and thereby
hangs the tale I am about to tell you.
“Late of an evening there entered
the deserted ‘fish pond’ a young man
whose fixed and glassy eye and wan
dering smile betrayed what his even
ing’s occupation had been. In order
to settle any lingering doubt as to his
condition, however, he proceeded to
emit a series of blood curdling shrieks,
which called forth a hasty and em
phatic protest from the night clerk,
who on advancing upon the inebriat
ed one was promptly laid low by a
right hander. The night force in an
angry array promptly went to the
succor of the night clerk, whereat his
assailant retreated upstairs, closely
followed by his pursuers.
“Reaching the landing, he espied the
hogshead of water, which he promptly
heaved down the stairway upon his
opponents, who, drenched by the wa
ter and carried off their feet by the
butt itself, in a wild state of rage
renewed the attack, only to be treat
ed to the same dose on the second
flight of stairs and yet again on the
third, at which point, his ammunition
being exhausted, they captured and
got even with the belligerent one.
“In the morning great was the anger
and loud the lamentations of Herr
Rodick at the state of his stairway and
the damaged condition of his night
force, but he who had accomplished the
outrage was rich in this world’s goods,
from part of which he was made to
separate for divers ruined carpets, sun
dry abrasions and for giving five men
three baths apiece at $1 a bath, the
regular rate at that time In Bar Har
bor.’*
Lace Made From Hair.
The most curious lace is called point
tresse. It is very rare and was made
of human hair. French collectors say
that it exists in the present day only
in their cabinets. It was confined to
the early part of the sixteenth century
Margaret, countess of Lennox, the
mother of the wretched Darnley, sent
from the tower, where she was im
prisoned when her son, Lord Charles
Lennox, married the daughter of Bess
of Hardwicke, a bit of this kind of
lace to Mary, queen of Scots. This Is
a very strong proof of her belief in the
queen’s innocence of the guilt that had
been imputed to her. The little square
of point tresse was worked by the old
countess’ own hands from her own ,
gray hair. It was, in fact hair mixed
with fine flax.—London Express.
Knew He Was Dead.
Some time after the occupation of
Manila by the American forces one of
the army officers was shown through
the old Spanish prison in that city. He
noticed a small ope through a
brick wall. Upon as., ,.g its use he
was told that prisoners were placed In
a cell behind it and walled up alive.
“You see, senor,” said the guide, "as
long as the prisoner lived his food was
handed in on a plate, and he handed
the empty plate back, but when he
handed the plate back with the food
on it untouched, then the jailer knew
he was dead and didn’t give him any
more.”
Not Listening.
She was a very little girl, but not so
small that she did not recognize swear
ing as something very wrong or that if
other people used bad language it was
her place to close her ears to It. She
was on the street with her mother, and
as they passed a group of men talking
In loud tones the passersby heard the
small girl exclaim in shocked tones,
“Oh, isn’t that awful?” And then, as
If suddenly remembering, "But I’m not
listening.”—New York Times.
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Unterrified.
The traveler was hurrying along the
unfamiliar trail that led in the gen
eral direction of his destination, when
suddenly a large abyss yawned before
him.
He was not in the least perturbed.
He was a lecturer, between travels,
and was accustomed to have things
yawn before him.—Chicago News.
Cares Redoubled.
“My time,” said Mr. Dustin Stax, “is
very valuable.”
“That’s what makes me doubt the
benefit of vast wealth,” replied the
easy going acquaintance. “It’s bud
enough to be bothered by the wasting
of a few dollars without being worried
sick every time you lose five minutes.”
—Washington Star.
Johnny’s Definition.
"What is the meaning of the word
tantalizing?” asked his teacher.
“Please, ma’am,” spoke up little
Johnny Holcomb, “it means a circus
procession passing the school and the
scholars not allowed to look out.”
Genius is a combination of aspira
tion and inspiration.—Irish Proverb.
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