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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1911)
The Frontier Fablishsd by D. H. CEONINi * 1150 the Year 75 Cents Six Months Official paper of O'Neill and Holt county. ADVERTISING RATES: Dtepmy advertlsments on pages 4, 5 and 8 re charged for on a basis of 60 cents »n Inch oneoolumn width) per month; on page 1 the charge is II an inch per month. Local aa ▼ertlseznents, 6 oents per line eaoh insertion Address the office or the publisher. There must be some considerable number of veterans of the civil war left yet. This year It will require *200,000,000 to pay the pensions. It appears that the assault on Booker Washington was principally because he is a “nigger.” A black man can get a beating most any old time on slight provocation or none at all. __ A Nebraska jury recently found a woman guilty of murder and the court sentenced her for life for killing a man whom she claimed had wronged her on a promise of marriage. Men are gradually coming into their rights in these "love affairs. ” The Pennsylvania legislature pro poses a bond Issue of $50,000,000 to be spent on building roads and Improv ing the highways. It would require considerably less than that to make great changes on the highways In Ne braska. The Iowa legislature has spent all Winter trying to elect a senator and is as far from it now as in in the be gining. Some good political ideas have originated in Iowa, but what that state has been in need of this winter is the "Nebraska Idea" of electing senators. Mr. Bryan’s anniversary dinner at Lincoln the other day did not take the prominence In the newspaper dis patches that slmlliar functions have heretofore. However, a few of the country’s notables were present, among them Champ Clark, the next speaker in the lower house of congress. There is evidently something in the socialistic rule of Milwaukee that does not appeal to the women, as 10,000 of them turned out at the school electiou and defeated twelve of the fourteen socialist candidates. Just what the status of woman is in the socialist creed we do not know, but the indications are that it is not agreeable to them as applied in Mil waukee. Kearney Hub: Here 13 a sad story from a Lincoln newspaper: "After voting $2,500 to Governor Aldrich for ‘board’ for himself and his family and servants, the honse of representatives Tuesday morning decided that the state could not afford to spend $3,000 for taking up the old flagstones around the oapitol and replacing them with cement walks." But as a matter of fact why should the "old flagstones" be removed, when they are good for many years wear and as long as they will be needed. Cement walks would practically last forever, and that is a great deal longer than they will be re quired surrounding the capttol at its present location. An appropriation barely sufficient to keep the present capitol building from falling down, until a new state house is built in central Nebraska, Is probably advis able, but beyond that there is no war rant for pouring any money into the oapitol rat-hole until the people of the state have had a chance to vote on the whole question. Missouri Bourbons On a Spree. This dispatch from Jefferson City, which, if its appearanoe had not been In the trustworthy St. Louis Globe Democrat, might be questioned as to accuraoy, oonveys the impression that civilization has not attained protec tion in Missouri. The same day it occurred the Globe-Democrat corres pondent sent out this report; A Sunday debauch, without a par allel in the Capital City of Missouri, and which followed a rough-and-tum ble fight on the floor of the House this afternoon, ended tonight when a mob of inebriated Democrats from the House stormed the Senate and force it to adjourn. The Democratic carouse commem orated the humiliation of Jesse A. Tolerton, state game and fish warden, which was brought about by methods heretofore unheard of in Missouri politics. The revelry was begun a few’ hours after the pastor of the Presbyterian church had referred to the lawmakers in his prayer, which opened the Sun day morning services, and it continu ed until midnight. Every Democratic who partakes of alcoholic beverages had an opportun ity to do so to his full capacity, and many of the Bourbons in the House consumed as much as they could carry. The carousal was in celebration of a victory over a state official for whom | the legislators had a strong dislike, and practically rendered his office nlll by defeating the appropriation bill for the maintenance of the same. It is a wide departure from the ligiti mate functions of government when a law making body employs that authority to vindictively gratify per sonal vengeance and then go on a big spree. Squeeze Out the Water. Omaha Bee: All butter containing sixteen or more per cent of moisture will after May 1 be classed as an ad ulterated product and all makers of It will be required to pay into the inter nal revenue office the manufacturers’ taxe of *600 a year. Collector Hammond has just receiv ed a decision from Washington to the effect that the office will not enter tain or consider the plea of butter manufacturers that the incorporation of 16 or more per cent of moisture was accidental, but that in every case where it is shown that the product contains excessive moisture all taxes Incurred will be assessed and collected. It Is further set out in the decision that forfeiture proceeding and crim inal prosecutions will be instituted in all cases where facts demand such action. The decision is the outcome of the suit brought by the West Point Creamery company against Collector Hammond, in which the plaintiff sought to avoid paying the manufac tures’ tax which is imposed upon pro ducers of adulterated butter. It is set Torth in the decision that a great many analysis of butter have been made and that the average moisture ranges from 11 to 14 per cent. There fore IS per cent was fixed as a maxim um, which it is thought will not work a hardship on any manufacturer of unadulterated butter. The Legislature Lincoln, Neb., March 20—The past week in the legislature has been not able for final agreement upon and the passage of an Initiative and referend um law; the selection of sifting com mittees in both senate and house, which is an unfailing sign of the rapid approaoh of the end of the session, and for a momentary sensation caused by the discoverylat the time the Ollls stock yards regulation bill, 8. F. 115, was before the house for consideration after having passed the senate, that a clerical error in the bill would render it invalid and of no force and effect, even if passed by both senate and house and approved by the governor. Thursday the element in the house favoring stook yards regulation as pro vided in S. F. 115, gained a victory at the end of an hour's hard fought bat tle which resulted In making the Ollls bill the “special order of business” for Friday morning, by the narrow mar gin of one vote. In reality opposed to this bill Is the house bill, H. R 82 by Taylor of Hitchcock, covering the same subject but in a radically different way, and which has already passed the house and was on Thursday passed by the senate. The Taylor bill declares the stock yards to be “Public Markets” places them under the regulation of tne railway commission; the Ollis bill declares them “common oarriers” plac es them under the railway commis sion, subjects them to the “common carrier” laws already enacted, so far as they may be applicable, and is a more comprehensive measure than the Taylor bill. Friday the Ollis stock yards bill was taken up as a "special order” and con sideration only commenced when a member pointed out the fact that the "enacting clause” required by the state constitution in every law enact ed by the legislature was missing from the written copy of the bill sent over from the senate, thus rendering the bill invalid If passed. Consternatiou reigned for a moment among the sup porters of the bill and the question uppermost in many minds was wheth er an honest error had occurred or had someone been guilty of crooked work. The house decided that the bill was not a "bill for a law" and ceased consideration of It. The condition of affairs quiokly reached the knowledge of the senate which was In session and creat ed a sensation there, resulting In some quick work by that body. The bill was hastily recalled by the senate, recommitted to the commit tee of the whole for amendment, the enacting clause inserted, the hill again placed on third reading, passed again by the senate and returned to the clerk of the house at 2:15 in the after noon. The parlimentary question here arose as to whether this bill had ever been before the house and could Popular Priced Wall Papers All our prices on wall papers are popular and the more they are inves tigated and compared the more popular they be come. But we have special reference to our line of lower priced papers such as are needed for ordinary requirements. We have there in im mense variety and every one of the papers is a bar gain at the price. We can save you money and also provide so large an assortment of new de signs that selection be comes a pleasure. We are pleased to show papers any time whether you are ready to buy or not. Gilligan & Stout be placed on passage or whether it must, as the constitution requires, “be read at large on three separate days,” as a “new” bill. For technical safety, should the bill be passed, it was decided to begin at the beginning and the bill in consequence placed on first reading. Under the decision it will be impossible to put the bill on final passage before next Tuesday at the earliest. This bill has been the hardest fought of any measure appearing at this session and at the first announce ment of the pecular "error” that had happened to ifta matter not entirely unknown in the long past days of cor poration domination of legislatures, there was a belief in many quarters some crooked work had been done somewhere, but as the facts were ob tained in full the conclusion generally reached is that the matter was an honest oversight, though happening to an important and hard-fought measure. On Monday the senate indulged in a wordy war over the long pending item of the selection of a “sifting commit tee” and for two hours the air was filled with flashing battle axes wielded by democratic senators and directed in the main toward their fellow dem ocrats. After two hours of heated oratory between the democratic senators, the slate proposed by Tanner, Tibbetts and Albert, naming as the sifting committee, Tanner, Talcott, Albert, Lee, Banning ond Kohl, democrats, and Bartllng, McGraw and Smith of Boone, republicans, was confirmed by a vote of 22 to 11, three of the original opponents voting with the victors when further opposition was useless. Sklles and Ollis voted against the new democratic slate to the last. The house waited until Wednesday to thresh out the sifting committee problem and did it with little friction The proposal that the speaker should appoint the committee met with some opposition, which was lightly brushed away. Speaker Kuhl appointed the following as members of the commit tee, twelve of whom were selected from the congressional districts and three at large as follows: 1st dlst. Gerdes and Potts; 2nd dlst. Liver and McArdle; 3rd dist; Reagan and Lawr ence; 4th dist. Eggenberger and Mur phy; 5th dist. Taylor of Hitchcock and Sink of Hall; 6th dist. Fries and Bail ey; at large, Eager, Baker and Haller, the{latter three republicans. The com mittee shows a working majority of "wets,” so far as previous ailments on issues of that character are concerned, and 12 out of 15 are democrats. Agree, menton the conflicting views of the senate and house of initiativo and ref erendum was reached Friday by the conference committee and the compro mise ratified by both houses. This in dicates that Sklles' S F 1, as now amended, will become the law. As finally agreed, the persentage of petit ioners required to invoke the law are as follows; 10 per cent to initiate stat utes, 15 per cent for conditional amendments, 10 per cent for referend um, 35 per cent of total vote at the election must be cast affirmatively to carry all questions, which must also be a majority of the votes on the ques tion. Counting of straight party votes for submitted questions is abolished. In general the law as framed is a vic tory for the conservative element among the supporters of the measure. In the general malntainance appro priation bill appeared an item of #2, 500 for “board of the governor’s im mediate family.” Many members supported the appropriation on the reasonable ground that the governor must entertain the guests of the state at any and all times and that the official salary is ridiculously small. To the general deficiency appropri ation bill the house added an item of #29,000 for the payment of bounties on wolf-scalps which had accrued prior to the repeal of the bounty law two ysara ago. The senate has passed H. R. 2 by Eastman, appropriating #100,000 for a school of agriculture in the southwest section of the state. Both houses have passed the bill and it now awaits action by the governor. The senate has recommended for passage H. R. 274 by Cronin, providing state aid for building bridges over streams 175 feet and more in with. H. R. 82 by Taylor of Hitchcock, regulating stock yards companies, pas sed the senate Thursday by a vote of 20 to 12. Housh’s bill prohibiting trad ing stamps and gift enterprises also passed. On Friday the house took up con sideration of the four house bills deal ing with the subject of board of con trol for all state institutions of a pen al, reformatory and charitable char acter. The bills are H. R. 87 by Pr'uce; 118 by Norton; 132 by Matrou and 87 by Mockett. All four bills were dis cussed before the house made any at tempt to choose between them, and then selected H R. 27 by Prince as the one to recommend for passage. The Prince bill provides for three elective commissioners with a term of of 6 years, to be elected in 1912 if the constitutional amendment is approv ed by the people at the election of next fall. The Matrou bill provides for three commissioners to be-appoint ed by the governor in 1913. The Hor ton bill was indefinite, simply offer ing the constitutional amendment and leaving the commission and all the detail to be created by some suc ceeding legislature. The Mockett bill provided for a commission of three to be appointed by the governor. Fully nine out of every ten cases ol rhematism is simply rheumatism of the muscles due to cold or damp, or chronio rheumatism, neither of which require any internal treatment. All that is needed to afford relief Is the free application of Chamberlain’s Lin iment. Give it a trial. You are cer tain to be pleased with the quick re lief which it affords. Sold by all deal ers. _ Supervisors Proceedings. Disbursements: By state treasurer’s re ceipts consolidated state $15,022 69 By state treasure] s re ceipts, university land 2,125 24 By state treasurer’s re ceipts, school land 9,311 24 Labor receipts. 3 00 Soldier relief warrants paid 575 00 County general fund war rants paid. 33,544 47 County bridge fund war rants paid. 14,735 39 County road fuud warrants paid. 1.457 15 Water bond warrants paid 3,25o 40 School district orders paid 33,239 97 School district boDds and coupons paid . 1,934 36 School judgements daid— 787 65 Township warrants paid... 29,818 91 Village warrants paid. 1,621 17 O’Neill R. R. bonds and coupons paid. 7,594 68 Grattan R. R. bonds cou pons paid. 41975 Speoial stdewalkjwar rants paid.. 419 75 Redemptions. 3,652 59 Refunds, order of county board. 181 10 Salaries paid. 18110 High school warrants paid 434 97 Special road warrants paid 500 66 Paid clerk of district court 7,150 00 Emergency bridge war rants. 3,030 00 Center preccnct court house warrants paid. 84 55 To cash on hand. 87,761 26 Total.$323,008 29 balances: University land.. .$ 208 90 School land. 5,208 26 Consolidated state. 4,083 05 County general fund. 2,705 33 County bridge fund. 1,849 57 Soldiers relief fund. 426 73 County judgment. 409 28 County school. 20 66 County road. 405 15 County funding. 38 57 Water bond. 724 04 District school.35,556 79 School bond . 7,944 75 Special school. 1,390 26 Township.15,863 45 O’Neill judgment. 104 05 Village. 1,954 07 Central precinct court house 51 10 O’Neill railroad. 626 44 Irrigation. ...—. 190 56 Grattan railroad bond. 1,518 28 Grattan judgment. 4 51 — ■«. ——■ ■ — ■ —-1T—WI—mmmmm—mmmm mm, m m...... yf WE desire to call your atten tion to the fact that we have in stock the best line of Plows, Cultivators, Discs, Har rows, Corn Planters and 2-row Lister Cultivators that can be found in the markets, Moline and —--a Emerson Goods Monitor Drills, Great Western Manure Spreaders, Henney Bug gies, Mandt Wagons, McCormick Mowers and Binders. 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TheArmy Swiss hides, which cost double the price of Duck linings cost twice as much as ordinary lin ordinary hides. The uppers are from Paris ings. The uppers are sewed together by lock Veals — the toughest and best raw materials stitch machines using the very highest grade procurable. silk thread. Lightest—Neatest—Most Stylish “Six Months” Shoes not only have wearing ticular dresser. No shoes selling at anywhere Qualities that will surprise the hardest shoe near the prico can compare with them in ap wearers on earth, but they have a beautiful pearance. No one can find a shoe at any style and finish that will delight the most par- price that will give as much satisfaction. A Qtvla fnp Fvapv Pivrano* Desnoyers “Six Months” Shoes are made for dress, £* Jiyie E2E **very EJEKSS business or work. There’s a style for every purpose and the best styles of each to choose from. You can’t lose on “Six Months” Shoes, so don’t hesitate. Make your investigation now while we can show you a big assortment. (18) Albert’s Harness and Shoe Store W. B- GRAVES I have moved my stock of Jewelry to the building just south of the postoffice, formerly occupied by John Skirving. I carry a nice line of Watches, Clocks, Silverware, Kodaks, etc. Repairing a specialty NEXT DOOR TO POSTOFFICE Sidewalk'. 319 85 Railroad sinking. 622 99 Atkinson judgment. 57 87 High school.2,231 44 Special road. 83 68 Redemption. 1,497 21 Advertising. 422 93 Refund order of oounty board 24 47 Permanent road. 29 60 Special emergency bridge— 1,725 95 Sewer bond. 471 01 Excess fees. 1,294 92 Total.$90,065 72 CASH BALANCES ON HAND: In First National bank O’Neill.$12,728 95 In O’Neill National bank.. 13,000 00 Ia Citizens bank Stuart. 13,000 00 In First National bank Stuart. 6,500 00 In First National bank At kinson . 6,500 00 In Atkinson National bank 6,500 00 In Fidelity bank O’Neill.... 6,500 00 l.j Chambers State bank.... 3,000 00 Jn Ewing State bank. 5,000 OO In Pioneer bank Ewing. 3,000 00 In l iman State bank. 2,600 00 In Page State bank. 2,500 00 In Emmet State bank. 1,300 00 In cash in office.. 4,732 31 Total.*87,761 26 Due from Elkborn Valley bank.*2,263 61