The Frontier
Pabll*h*d by D. H. CROHIH.
ROMAINE SAUNDERS. Aaalatant Editor
and Manager.
II 50 the Year 15 Oenta 81* Month*
Official paper of O'Neill and Holt county.
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REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
JUDGE! SUPREME COURT
John B. Barnes.Norfolk
Jacob L. Fawcett....
Samuel H. Sedgwick.York
UNIVERSITY REGENTS
CharlesS. Allen (long term)...Lincoln
W. G. Whitmore (long term).. .Valley
Frank L. Haller (short term). .Omaha
COUNTY TICKET
Treasurer—J. C. Harnlsh.... O’Neill
Clerk—W. P. Simar.Atk'nsoj)
Sheriff—H. D. Grady.O Neill
Judge—C. J. Malone.Inman
Supt.—Floience E. Zink.
Coroner-Dr. E. T. Wilson....O’Neill
Surveyor—M. F. Norton.Bliss
SUPERVISORS
2d dist—J. M. Hunter. .Middle Baanch
4th dist-Th D. Severs......... Ewing
8th dist—F. Dobrovoloney.Tonawanda
The country will probably move
along with or without Mr. Harrlman,
Aldrich represents a little Btate
but he pulls off some pretty big jobs,
The street carnivals are getting tc
be somewhat monotonous, to say the
least. _f (
It Is not necessary to take chancei
in the government land lotteries wher
Nebraska offers better inducement!
to homeseekers.
The fusion nominee for sheriff wll
discover after election the differenci
between a man’s own estimate of hi
popularity and that placed upon it b;
the voters._
The local democratic committei
might be able to raise some funds fo
the fall campaign by puttlpg a bund
of Clipper stock on the market durlni
these prosperous and speculativ
times.
Speaker Cannon lets off a little pro
fane wratb in referring to Congress
man Fowler’s attack, but says he wll
not answer It. Tire speaker adds
however, by way of retort, that Fow
ler Is regarded in congress as a "Joke.
Henry Grady’s candidacy for sheril
meets with pretty general approva
and many fusion ists are volunteerini
their support. Henry will get th
solid republican vote of the countj
which will give him an easy vlctorj
Leavenworth, Kan., is the home c
a man measuring 7 feet 4 Inches ii
height. He was recently a guest at
St. Louis hotel, where they hadn’t:
bed big enough for him. The wisdon
of Nebraska’s 9-foot bed sheet lai
will yet be vindicated.
'the New York man who killed hi
wife because she ran away with anotb
er man and admits the crime, says hi
has no defense and asks to be hum
probably has a better ohance of belni
freed because of questionable sanit;
than if he had undertook suoh i
defense.
The local democratic machine is nol
such a powerful political weapon attei
all. They beat Hickman for the nom
ination for clerk by only sixty-nine
votes. If Hickman’s supporters fiac
put forth half the effort ln'the countrj
precincts that MoNichols’ friends did
here they would have broke the ma'
chine wide open.
The oposltlon, while conceding llu
re-election of J. 0. Harnlsh, the best
treasurer Holt county ever had, did
not want to leave the ticket blank
aud turned the job of securing a can
didate over to an O'Neill undertaker,
whose retention on the county com
mittee would probably prove hand)
after election.
The prolonged spell of excessive
beat this summer was not without it!
blessings. It is reported from Texai
and Oklahoma that the beat destroyed
more than 99 per cent of the bol
weevils and rendered the cotton croi
ready to pick unusually early. A gov
ernment expert elves it as his oplnlor
that nature has provided an opportun
ity to completely destroy the bol
weevil in Texas and advises the plant
era to burn the cotton plants aftei
they have gathered the crop.
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There appears to be a determined
effort, on the part of the war depart
ment, supported by the president, to
put a stop to the barbarity of hazing
at the West Point military academy.
Several cadets were recently dlmissed
from the academy and all efforts to
secure their re-instatement have met
with failure.
If figures count for anything, the
state normal board can do nothing
else than locate the new state norma!
at O’Neill. A little investigation will
show that a state school here would
serve double the number of students
that any other point would. It is
easily reached from all directions and
is centrally located in a largely popu
lated territory.
There is little or no interest in pol
itics just now. In fact the indications
are that the campaign will be less
boistrous this fall in this county. The
tax payers in general are well satisfied
with present conditions and want no
change. The efficient administration
of county offices by the republican
officials is a guarantee of a continu
ance of the present good condition
while they remain in office.
Secretary of Arglculture Wilson
reports that the total farm value of
the crops produced In thlB country
last year was #7,788,000,000. This was
a gain of #290,000,000 over the total
farm value of the crops for 1907 and
#3,061,000,000 above the census total
of crop values In 1899. At the head
i of the .crop list stands corn, which
last year was worth #1,615,000,000. For
the first time, the value of cotton ex
1 ceoded that of hay.
i The most stringent prohibition law
' thus far devised is found away down
In Alabama, the blackest spot of all
, the south’s black belt. Py the provis
r ions of this drastic law, not only Is the
( sale of liquors prohibited, but
, their advertisement may not appear
’ in any newspaper or upon any bill
board, and no train may leave a car
containing liquor on any track in the
- state. No place selling apysoitol
- goods may be called a sploon, and
1 officers may raid places on suspicion
, and destroy goods fqund. Corpora
- tions must promise not tq bring In
’ liquors, on penalty of having theli
licenses revoked.
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1 “Art Mullen can't frame up a ticket
i for me to vote,” declared a somewhat
i radical but indignant democrat the
, othei day. "Mullen spent two weekf
. In O’Neill framing up the democratic
county ticket when he was supposed
f to be down at Lincoln earning hie
1 salary, and I suppose figures on run
1 nlng the county campaign if ‘the gov
1 ernor’s’ office oan get along without
1 him.” It is the same situation again
' in this county that has elected a re
publican ticket the last two campaigns
. —too much Mullen. Democracy |s sup
, posed to “let the people rule,” jiut in
, this county it is one-man rule.
An Alliance paper quotes ^n “ex
' change” as saying: “A dispatch from
Washington says there are 332 special
' agents now roaming about the count
ry investigating alleged land frauds.
, There are, of course some cases that
demand investigation, but the special
agents must make a show of earning
their salaries and often contests are
entered against homesteaders who are
doing their best to carry out their
contract with the government, while
others who make no pretense of doing
right are left to prove up unmolested.
The special agent plan of dealing with
fraudulent land entries is certainly
very crude and unsatisfactory.”
It will be & long time before the
schools of Holt county have a more
efficient head than the present imcum
bent of the superintendent’s office.
When Miss Zink took charge four
years ago the educational interests of
the county were in deplorable condi
tion. The finances of many districts
were running behind and only a few
weeks of school could be had. The
superintendent’s office had been made
into a political machine and teachers’
i certificates issued without regard to
qualifications. Miss Zink established
order out of caos. The schools during
the past four years have been brought
up to such a high standard of pro
flcency that the state department of
1 education reoognizes them as among
the best in the state. We do not be*
lieve any voter in this county wants
these conditions changed and will see
that they are continued by re-electing
Florence E. Zink.
Judge Malone is not much of a
bluffer, but he makes and retains
friendships. He has conducted the
county judge’s office on the square
deal plan and has made friends of all
but an occasional designing politician
who have had business in the probate
court. With an increasing number of
important estate cases, the county
judge’s office is one of the most im
portant in this county and every tax
payer is interested in maintaining the
efficiency of that office, which can be
done by the re-election of the present
Incumbent.
When Will Simar “gets out among
them” the fusion forces will discover
that they have something to do if
they make even a respectable showing
in the race for county clerk. Mr.
Simar is not only personally popular
with the voters, but has a record as
county clerk which commends him for
their support. By methods of economy
hundreds of dollars have been saved
to the county since Mr. Simar has
been clerk. He has been doing the
same work at a cost of from $400 to
$700 a year less to the county than
formerly. Men are needed in office
who do not try to make a graft out of
it and Mr. Simar is that kind.
The Fremont Tribune says that
Judge J. J. Sullivan, fusion candidate
for justice of the supreme court, has
been employed to attack the corpora
tion-tax law enacted at the last ses
sion of the legislature. Evidently
feeling the embarrassment of stand
ing as a candidate on his party ticket
while thus undertaking to nullify
about the only remaining law of im
portance placed on the books by bis
party, he sought to cover his blushes
by Indulgence in a bit of pleasantry.
He said “there are only two laws
passed by the last legislature not yet
declared unconstitutional. These are
the corporation-tax law and the 9-foot
bed sheet law. I therefore had only
two from which to select to make
attack and I chose the corporation
tax law.” In this facetious reference
the judge brought a keen indictment
against Ins party. In it he gave em
phasis to the objectionable record of
tbe legislature which, in its effort to
manipulate the laws so as to leave no
spoils in any but democratic hands,
bungled nearly all its work. Also it
will be observed that Judge Sullivan
appears in behalf of the corporations.
Whatever genius he possesses In the
law rs at their service. That they
feel kindly toward him Is evident, and
has been for years. It is probable
that in the campaign now on be will
be heralded as a Simon-pure progress
ive and antl-monop, so let us observe
some things in passing.
The Man Behind the Plow.
Trade Review: The late heated
term that has brought much discus
sion as to damage to corn has illustrat
ed anew that it is the man behind the
crop more than the degree of temper
ature that counts most in the volume
of production. In three-fourths of the
state, in the natural corn belt, the
farmer who has farmed, who has
tilled the soil enthusiastically and
thoroughly with all his might,
has little to fear because of the
long strenuous heated term. The
corn that is seriously damaged is in
fields that were poorly prepared for
the crop, poorly cultivated, planted
too late, and left full of weeds that
choked the corn and took more moist
ure from the soil for their own susten
ance than the corn itself required.
Across the road where the farmer
farmed, who thoroughly prepared his
ground, planted early, cultivated often
and left his corn in the tassel free
from weeds, there is the man who is
not worrying over the weather and
who will harvest an average crop
without something entirely destruct
ive comes along.
There are a great many good farmers
in the state and, because there are,
the damage to the corn crop in its
entirety, is nothing so great as it ap
pears at casual glance. The bad fields
choked and burned because of slovenly
farming injures the general appear
ance of the entire crop, but the well
cared for fields are abundant and they
are not the fields nearest to town and
seen most. _ __
Looking Westward.
Lincoln News: A remarkable edi
torial in this week’s Harper’s is that
dealing with the coming western trip
of President Taft. Mr. Harvey be
lieves that this will mark the begin
ning of a new era in the history of
the republican party. Heretofore
‘‘apparent leaders from west of the
ADeghanies have been but as pawns,
restive at times, but invariably sub
servient in the end to the stronger
authority of a few men capable of
weilding with skill the adhesive power
of party unification.” In the new era
about to open it will be the west that
will command. The west, according
to this eastern editor, looks to Taft to
embrace the splendid opportunity be
fore him of assuming the real leader
ship of a new and determined move
ment within the party to eliminate
narrowness and install breadth of
authority in the vital affairs of govern
ment.
Mr. Harvey wants the president not
to mistake western hospitality for ap
proval of what congress|has done. He
rightly says that the west will give no
Indication of dissent from whatever
President Taft may say or do, but the
reckoning will come later. “However
favorable the impression he may real
ize he is making while striving to pac
ify and conciliate, he ought not to
forget for a moment that a great ma
jority of his fellow countrymen have
come to regard the tariff as a moral
issue. It is no longer a question of
protection vs. free trade, but of right
vs. wrong. And when that idea be
comes fixed in the minds of the Amer
ican people it is there to stay until
right has triumphed.”
Harper s rases rne ground tnar me
time has passed when there can be
any compromise between two factions
thinking apart on an issue of that
kind. Temporizing, it says will no
longer serve, and it is the sense of not
only the west, it adds, but of the
great mass of republican consumers
in the east, that the spirit of greed
personified by Aldrich and written by
him upon the statute books must be
beaten to a pulp. Otherwise, warns
the editor, Taft will drop out at the
end of his term and Roosevelt will
succeed him.
Whether or not the president will
rise to the opportunity before him is a
problem. He essayed to secure his
wishes in the matter of the tariff
with the party leaders, Aldrich in the
senate and Cannon in the house, hut
they betrayed his confidence and fixed
up a deal whereby he failed in getting
some of the things he desired This
ought to show to him the futility of
such a course with such men, and we
earnestly hope that he will take up
the burden of leadership for the new
republicanism, which will insist upon
treating such great issues as the tariff
honestly and as the party has pledged
itself to do. The Roosevelt spectre
ought not to disturb or distract him.
Roosevelt did not possess his courage
in tackling the tariff question, but be
did have the intuition which taught
him that the way to get what he
wanted was not to treat with the
representatives in congress of special
interests, but to appeal to the people.
Ewing.
Miss Fannie Millard of O’Neill,
visited last Saturday with Mrs. E. L.
Davies.
Fourteen boys, accompanied by A.
B. Holloway, secretary of the Y. M.
C. A. in the Wayne, Wakefield and
Laurel district, are camped this week
at Slevers’ lake, where they are hav
ing an enjoyable time.
Dr. Talboy sold his ranch (formerly
the Baker ranch) 3 miles southwest of
Ewing, last week to parties in Iowa,
for #41,000. We understand that the
purchasers will take possession next
October and proceed to stock the
ranch and otherwise develop its re
sources.
Arrangements are being made to or
ganize a stock company to bore for oil
near Ewing. It is believed from in
dications that oil can be obtained by
going after it and a few of our enter
prising business men have already
taken steps to bring about an in
vestigation.—The Advocate.
FREE LANDS IN WYOMING.
Chicago & North Western Ry.
Send for booklet telling how to
secure 320 acres of U. S. Government
lands in Wyoming free of cost, and
describing various irrigation projects
and the most approved methods of
scientific dry farming. Homeseekers’
rates. Direct train service from
Omaha and the East, S. F. Miller, G.
F. & P. A., Neb. & Wyo, Div’s
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PRAISE FOR NORTH NEBRASKA
Greatest Corn Producing Territory
in the year 1909.
Lincoln Journal: “The builders of
the state at one time rejected one
of the foundation stones as practically
worthless,” said R. W. McGinnis, but
it has been proved that the one re
jected was about the best in the
bunch. You ought to see the fields
of Holt county now. More than that,
you ought to see the Elkhorn valley
from Fremont to O’Neill and beyond.
They have had too much rain up that
way. The grass is rank and green;
the farmers have made good in every
sense and North Nebraska is prosper
ous. The heat was a mighty good
thing up there, because along with
heat rain fell and soaked the
ground.”
Mr. McGinnis has just returned
from a visit to O’Neill and Amelia in
Holt county, where he has extensive
creamery and ranch interests. When
he got off the train at O’Neill last
Saturday night it was raining and
the streets were muddy. An inch of
rain fell that night. The next day he
drove to Amelia, twenty-eight miles
away, and saw the country looking at
its best. Sunday night a three-inch
rain fell at Amelia.
“We have flowing wells in that
country,” said Mr. McGinnis, “and
wherever we want water in out pas
tures we drive a well and place a half
barrel in the ground for a tank. The
water w ill rise to a height of from
four to eight feet above the ground if
piped.”
inis water couiu ue useu iur irri
gating purposes, then?”
“It could be,” but who wants to Ir
rigate in a country where there is no
droughth, no hot winds, no crop fail
ures. Holt county is one of the great
est producing counties in the state
now, in proportion to population, and
population is growing rapidly there
now. One new farmer is now milk
ing twenty cows and has raised a big
crop. Next year he will milk fifty
cows and do more farming.
“Land can be bought in northern
Nebraska for less money than Texas
land is being offered for, and to my
mind, the Nebraska farmer who is
moving to Texas or Alberta is mak
ing a mistake. North Nebraska is
now offering land , for from $5 to $25
per acre that can’t be beat any place
you may go. The people are finding
it out, too, and new settlers are more
numerous in North Nebraska now
than they were a few years ago.”
F. E. CLARK, MANAGER R. W. MCGINNIS, PROP.
McGinnis Creamery Co.
For the convenience of all Cream Patrons we have opened a
Cream Station in the building known as the Yantzi Butter and Egg
Store. Mr. Yantzi will be in charge and will weigh and test your
cream and pay you the cash for it; also pay cash for Poultry. You
will get as much for your cream at the Station as we pay at the
Creamery.
Will keep a supply of fresh butter milk on hand all the time so
anyone wanting butter milk can get same at 5 cents per gallon, or
all you can drink for 5 cents.
Now that we have « station down town and will pay you the
same price there as at the Creamery, we want every cream patron
to give us a trial, for we are doing this for yonr own good.
Thanking you very truly,
McGinnis Creamery Co.
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One and a half million acres of farm
ing and gaazing land will be opened
for settlement in the Cheyenne river
and Standing Rock Indian reserva
tions, October 4th to 23d. Registra
tion to be made at Aberdeen, and at
Pierre, the capital of the state.
Fast daily through trains via direct
lines to Pierre and Aberdeen via the
Chicago & Northwestern railway.
For full information regarding rates,
with pamphlets, telling how to secure
a homestead of 160 acres from the
Government, apply to any ticket agent
the Northwestern Line.
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