The Frontier
Publish'd by 0. H. CB0NIH,
KOMAINE 8ADNDKBS. Assistant Bdltor
snd Manager.
|1 50 the Year 75 Dents Sir Month*
Official paper of O'Neill and Holt county.
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ing The Frontier sent to your address.
If the bandits keep at it Nebraska
will need a guarantee law against
safe blowers.
The esteemed Independent should
note that the administration of Holt
county’s affairs by a republican board
closes without a bond Issue.
On the authority oi Mr. Bryan the
Nebraska legislature will redeem the
democratic pledges. It remains to be
seen if the “peerless” can make them
doit> 11 (
Having been a railroad lawyer all
his life, the railroad magnates are
probably not losing any sleep over
what Cummins of Iowa will do in the
senate. t _
Admiral Dewey, who made himself
famous at Manila, celebrated his
71st birthday the day after Christmas.
He thinks he is good for another
similar naval stunt.
The Fremont Tribune tells of a
Saunders county woman who recently
sold an 80-acre farm for 88,800 which
cost her 8200 fifty years ago. That’s a
long time to wait even for so large
profits. ___
John Golden, by virtue of his tenure
of office, will probably be made dean
of the board of supervisors. John
would fill the place with becoming
dignity and inasmuch as a democrat is
to be made chairman we hope he will
win. ,
Teddy the President hasoomeout
with flying colors in every encounter
so far, and he has tackled propositions
and combinations of power that no
American president for years has had
the nerve to go against. The mem
bers of congress who feel themselves
insulted by the president, while they
assume an offended air, are wise
enough not to stir up the president
further lest they land out in the cold
with Foraker and Haskell.
More than half his weight in sugar
is what the average American eats in
a year, according to estimates of the
Bureau, of Statistics. The total con
sumption of sugar in 1907 was 7,089,
668,975 pounds. Of this amount 21.3
per cent was of home production and
17.6 per cent was brought from our
insular possessions, the remaining 61
per cent coming from foreign coun
tries. At the same time we exported
43.000. 000 pounds. For the first time
the production of beet sugar in the
United States exceeded thatofoane
sugar. The produce of the latter was
544.000. 000 pounds and of the former
967.000. 000 pounds. The world’s pro
duction of sugar has nearly doubled in
the last twenty years, the total for
last year being 32,000,000,000 pounds.
Morris & Co., a large packing con
cern of Chicago, announces an elabor
ate system of pensions and profit
sharing for its employes, to be put
in operation on January 1. Edward
Morris, president of the company, is
credited with devising the plan which
is expected to affect no less than 10,
000 workers. The pension fund is to
be raised by the voluntary surrender
of 3 per cent of the wages of those who
wish to take part in the scheme and
by the donation of 825,000 each year
from the company until the fund
reaches 8500,000. Participants must
have been with the company for six
months and draw a minium wage of
810 a week. None may pay on an
amount to exceed 87,500. Subsidiary
companies must contribute to the
fuod in the same proportion to the
main company that the investment
of their employes bears to those em
ployed by the main company.
INJUSTICE TO WIDOWS.
Among tbe needed reforms in this
state that the legislature which meets
soon would do well to take action on
is a revision of the statute relative to
estates. There is manifest injustice
done to widows whose husbands die
intestate, leaving property to be dis
posed of by the probate court accord
ing to the specifications of the statute.
Until the last session of the legislature
the widow had no right In her hus
band's property at his death and if he
died leaving no will the property
went to the childern and if there were
no surviving children then it went to
his next nearest kin. Probate judges
were confronted daily with the in
justice of taking the property of a
deceased husband away from the
widow, who often times had been
largely instrumental in accumulating
it, and give it to a brother, sister or
some other relative of the deceased
who had nothing at all to do with the
acquiring of the property and had no
shadow of right to take it from the
widow.
Our last legislature made a begin
ning toward rectifying this injustice,
but did not go far enough. The wife
is now given a dowry right to the
amount of $500 in her husband’s prop
erty. This is a little better than
formerly and perhaps meets the ends
of justice in very rare and extreme
cases. But what Is to be done for the
old lady who for forty or fifty years
has fought the battles of life with her
husband and had an equal share in
accumulating the property? There
are many instances in every county
of aged widows being deprived of prop
erty which rightfully belongs to them
through the operation of our present
probate laws. It is a gross injustice
to take the property that has been ac
cumulated by tbe efforts of both
husband and wife and, on the death
of the husband, give it to those who
had no part in acquiring it.
The law should be changed to give
the wife at least one-half of the prop
erty on the death of tbe husband and
their children the other half. In the
event there is no issue the wife should
come into full posession.
A large portion of the comment on
ttie decision of the District of Colum
bia judge who sentenced the labor
leaders shows quite a different spirit
than that brought forth when a rep
resentative of some outlawed octupus
is “pinched.” The “molders of
thought” evidently regard it as a
ticklish proposition as the expression
of a frank and open oplon is hard to
find among all the comment. Bryan
lines up on the side of the convicted
men and condemns the decision of the
court. Qompers was the real offender
in this case because it was at his in
stance that the order of the trial court
was ignored. The expressions of
sympathy* over the conviction are
significant and show that it is not
justioe the agitators of the Bryan
school want. The defendants were
enjoined by a legally constituted tri
bunal from enforcing an illegal boy
cott and were convicted before a leg
ally constituted tribunal of violating
the injunction. If they regarded the
injunction unconstitutional there was
a lawful way of determing that ques
tion. But to set themselves up as
superior to the courts and above the
law is a bad example from the leaders
of a great body of men who in-the
main are lawabldlng.
The Norfolk News wants a change
in the state game laws. The only
change worth making is the repeal of
the whole batch. The law is a farce
and saddles the expense of game ward
ens on the people to no purpose. The
only arrests made for shooting birds
unlawfully are among farmers from
whose crops the chickens fatten. The
prairie chicken is doomed in Nebraska
—law or no law. They are demlnish
ing in numbers rapidly and soon will
be extinct in this state. There isn’t
one bird today where there were
hundreds twenty years ago. At one
time the prairies of Illinois abounded
with wild chicken but they have all
disappeared. The same is true of
Iowa. And it is fast becoming true
on the plains of Nebraska—and no law
can prevent it. The state had better
use the money paid to game wardens
to pay bounties on wolf and jackrabbit
pelts. _
The long battfe against bribery and
corruption in San Franciso in which
Abraham Ruef was the principal
figure, ends with a fourteen-year pris
on term for the prince of bribers.
Graft and corruption may flourish for
a season, but right triumphs in the
end. _
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Record of the Official Proceedings of
That Body.
O’Neill, Nebr., Dec. 21, 1908, 10
o’clock a. m.—Board met pursuant to
adjournment, members present were
Golden, Rocke, Hickman and Keyes
No quorum present board adjourned
until 1 o’clock p. m.
W. P. Simar, County Clerk
C. D. Keyes, Chairman
O’Neill, Nebr., Dec. 21, 1908, 1
o’clock p, m.—Board called to order,
members present were Golden, Rocke,
Roberts, Hickman and Keyes.
Mr. Chairman—I move that the
following official bonds be and hereby
are approved.
S. A. Hickman
J. A. Golden
Motion carried.
TOWNSHIP CLERK ONE YEAH.
C. F. Adams, Dustin; Charles Fau
quiar, Conley; E. P. Stringfield, Me
Clure; Henry Storjohan, Saratoga;
Charles Brockman, Shamrock; D. A.
Goree, Inman; II. F. White, Wyom
ing; H. W. Stanton, Ewing; Fred
Schlindler, Deloit; W. I. Chapman,
Atkinson.
TOWNSHIP TREASURER ONE YEAR.
C. C. Jones, Shamrock: W. R. John
son, Rock Falls; G. W. Green, Inman;
Thomas Dobrovolny, Francis; John
Ziska, Green Valley; D. D. Smith;
Willowdale; William Gumb, Wyom
ing; J. S. Axtell, Dustin; W. E. Wulf,
Deloit.
ROAD OVERSEERS ONE YEAR.
Henry Losher, Dist. No 22; J. F.
Morey, Dist. No. 8; F. O. Hammer
berg, Dist. No. 47; W. B. Cooper, Dist.
No. 54; A, L. Evans, Dist. No. 64:
John Walter, Dist. No. 61; Jesse
Friend, Dist. No. 7; Jochim Wabs,
Dist. No. 21; James Coventry, Dist.
No. 35; Simon P. Banish, Dist. No. 27;
James Nightengale,. Dist. INo. 33;
Henry Werner, Dist. No. 63; A. G.
West, Dist. No. 3; H Scafe, Dist. No.
40; O. L. Hansen, DiSt. No. 52; Elias
Clark, Dist. No. 43: J. J. Binkerd)
Dist. No. 5; Geo. Stevens, Dist. No.
23; Henry Alfs, Dist. No. 46.
The State of Nebraska, County of
Holt, ss.
Anna Gapter being sworn, depose
and say that John Gapter was a resi
dent of Road Dist. No. 54, Chambers
Township, Holt coudty, Nebraska,
during the year 1908 and is erroneously
charged with poll tax for said year,
being only 20 years of age, I have this
day paid said tax of 2.50 receipt No.
1323 and ask for refund of that
amount see his (2) assessment sched
ules. Anna Gapter.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 19th day of Dec. 1908.
(Seal) W. P. Simar. County Clerk
On motion the prayer of the peti
tion was granted.
O’Neill Nebr., Dec. 19th, 1908.
To the Honorable Board of Supervis
ors of Holt County. Nebraska.
Gentlemen—Your petitioner repre
sents that he is a resident of Willow
dale township and was assessed for
personal property in same. In making
up his assessments he has two wagons
assessed at $65. but they were put on
the tax list at $165 there having been
a figure one placed there and then
partly erased. Your petitioner asks to
have the sum of $1 refunded to him.
Respectfully,
W. H. Chase.
On motion the prayer of the petition
was granted.
On motion the petition of Leo Men
ney was referred to the county super
intendent for to act on the same.
On motion the petition of P. H.
Whitney attorney for C. & NW R. R.
Co. was referred to S. A. Hickman,
Supervisor of 6th distrist, for investi
gation.
On motion the board adjourned un
til 9 o’clock tomorrow mooning.
W. P. Simar, County Clerk
C, D. Keyes, Chairman
In an article from Dallas, S. D
which appeared in the daily press
the other day, the statement was
made that not over forty percent of
those that were successful in the
Trippcountyland drawingwould file on
the land. This estimate was made
by real estate dealers who interviewd
several hundred of the successful ones
who have visited Tripp county the
past month looking over the land.
While not dissatisfied with the land
the conditions which they have to
meet to acquire title thereto is un
satisfactory to a large number of
prospective homesteaders.
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Having rented my farm, I will sell at public sale at my place 7 miles
north and 7 miles east of O'Neill and 3 miles east of Disney, all the
property described herein, commencing promptly at 1 o’clock p. m , on
Wed., Jan’y. 13, 191 >9
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11 Head of Horses and Colts
I span of mares, 12 and 13 years old 1 pony mare, with foal, 4 years old
1 span of mares, ages 5 and 6 years 1 brown mare, with foal, 8 years old
1 gelding 4 years old I yearling mare colt, 3 colts coming yearlings
10 cows, fram 4 to 6 years old, some fresh soon; 3 steers 2 years old;
2 yearling heifers; 5 last spring calves.
8 head of shoats, average 50 to 75 pounds; several dozen chickens.
MACHINERY—1 Champion binder, 1 six-foot mower, 1 hay stacker, 1 hay
sweep, 1 sixteen •inch walking plow, 2 fourteen-inch stirring plows, 1 corn
planter with check row and 140 rods of wire, 1 riding lister, 1 grind stone. 1
three-inch wagon, 1 low wagon with hay rack, 1 spring wagon. Also all my
household goods, and many other articles.
All amounts up to $10 cash; amounts over $10- one year’s time on
bankable notes bearing 10 per cent interest.
S°J. ^WEEKES, %ierk. W. W. MILLS, Owner |
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