1__—I1UWMIU m.. —n-m The Frontier Pibllshsd by D. H. CROW IN, IIU the Tear 75 Cent* Sir Month! OlBolal paper of O'Neill and Holt county. % - h ADVERTISING KATES: Dtaptay advert lamenW on pages t, Sand 8 re charged for on a basis of 60 oents an Inch eqe oelumn width) per month; on page l the •bergs la 11 an Inch per month. Local ad rertuetnenta, S sent! per line each Insertion Address the office or the publisher, "■"■fy. -'•'■■■ "'■» — Wonder Jf the Wall street brokers recently arrested for selling fraudulent stocks had any shares in the Clipper? The New York legislature has final ly succeeded In electing a United States senator, Judge James A. O’Gorman, a Tammany democrat. Congress convened in extra session Tuesday and now our democratic friends have a chance to fulfill a long Cherished desire to monkey with the tariff. Tbe average man will fail to iee the need of a law prohibiting merchants from giving away premiums. Most of us think we’ve been paying for what we have been getting right along. _ As usual people got scared too soon. Some were predicting in midwinter a dry season this year The clouds and rain April brings in put a pretty sure promise on a reasonable harvest for another year. Democrats talking courageously of a presidential victory next year. That Is a democratic characteristic that Is manifest once every four years. Dem ocratic chances of successs will not be so glittering after congress adjourns. Tbe retail merchants the country over have been fighting the catalogue houses for a long time, but the in croachmeats of the catalogue business are beoomlng more marked each year. Buying direct from the factories and the right sort of publicity Is what makes the catalogue business success ful They might supply the missing links in the retail business. ^Cearney Hub: RepresenrattveCron i In; of Hqlt, did a good job in getting through both houses his bill providing that the state pay one-half the cost ol building bridges over streams more than one hundred and seventy-five feet in length. This act will in a few years solve a great many bridge prob lems in the JFlatte valley where the river is of unusual width, the bridge at Kearney for instance spanning one mile from shore to shore. Its a peculiar sort of newspaper ethics adopted by tbe Chicago editor whocarged in his paper that there was a slush fund of 1100,000 to bring about the election of Senator Lorlmer and then refuse to give the evidence that might send somebody to jal! and oust Lorlmer his seat In tbe senate. One of the greatest obstacles in the way of clean government these days is tbe apparent determination of those otherwise regarded honest to seal their lips when the vital facts are I needed to convict tbe boodlers. Fremont Tribune: At last South Omaha stools yards are put with tbe railroads in the hands of the state commission. The Ollls bill, Just en acted by the legislature, gives the people some dlreot oontrol of this big corporation, so that Its rates and its practioes may come under the juris diction of tiie authorities controlling corporations dealing with tbe public service. For a long time the stock y*rds company has successfully resist ed legislation for oontrol, and but for the decisive action of Governor Ald J|cb, it would have passed through the present session unseatbed. Having lived ajpply a life full of ex perience! calculated to develop all aides of bumgn nature, the president \ of a big eastern railroad now retires to s farm and philosophizes on rural blessings, "Back to the soil,” he says, “IS not a movement, it is an lnstinot —the ln*tl»ct of every normal man. The simple life it not a slogan, but an inbred sentiment- Tbe rounding out of tbe cycle of ambitions of tbe normal mao leads back to mother earth, whence we all spring.” But we shouldn’t forget that it is "back to the soil” that fetches the charm. To stay there from the cradle to the grave Is the prospect that drives the youth from the farm to the city. He wishes to "round out the cycle of his ambitions," too. Can he do it raising corn? Agriculture as. a final stage of man’s activities might be universally welcome; but not until he has found the width of his pinions and their up bearing capacity. Back to the soil, truly enough, if one can’t discern what he is in search of in the more complex world of men; but no philos ophy will make young men contented in not trying. Our esteemed but envious contem porary says of the passage of the bill providing state aid for bridges that tc Senator Lee "is due the credit for its passage more than to anyone else.” It would not be expected of a politi cal bigot and narrow contrac'ed in dividual like the Independent editor to give credit to a fellow townsman and neighbor for doing anything if he happened to be a republican. Senator Lee is entitled to credit for what he did toward its passage in the sen ate, but the republican member from this county, who is the author of the bill, might have at least been given credit by this oracle of democracy over at the Independent for having in troduced the bill and secured Its pas sage in the house first. The fact is, it was Mr. Cronin’s bill and was passed by the house first and then by the sen ate and signed by the governor. The public was quick to take sides against Mr. Ballinger and a general satisfaction was felt when that gentle man retired lrom the president’s cabinet to his home In the far north west. Since the retirement, however, there is some indication that the for mer secretary his many friends among the able writers of the country, oi rather friends of the policies ror which he stood so long against bitter assault When you come to think of It, the things for which Ballinger stood re specting the development of nature resources have been the policy of oui government since the revolution Capital has always been invited to gc Into the regions rich in mineral anc forests and aid labor to develop them In the matter of the -Alaskan coa fields, for which the former secretary wasso bitterly assailed, the folly o hauling coal clear across the contlnem from the Atlantic sea board whet there is any quantity of it right ai hand for the Pacific coast stoves ant •furnaces is now pointed out. The re sources of Alaska have scarcely beet touched yet and there will not b< further extensive development then until capital is allowed a reasonably free hand to bring the products oul for use. __ Roosevelt On the Lorimer Case. Col. Roosevelt says that the senator! voted out of congress were responsible for some of the strange things lr Washington last winter. He said lr a recent speeoh: "1 will call your attention to two 01 three features connected with th< Lorimer vote in the United State: senate, because the senators who ar< no longer senators, when they had bul forty-eight hours more to serve, sale he oould continue after they left. A majority of the present ooileagues ol Mr. Lorimer voted against him. He was kept in his seat by the senator: whom the people bad deoided they nc longer wished to see in the senate ol the United States. "And again, the statement wa: made in debating the proposed amend ment to provide for the election ol United States senators by popular vot< that we would destroy the cliaractei of the United States senate If w: altered the present method of electing senators. "Good. Now I will call your atten tion to this fact in the vote: Five sixth of the senators who voted against the popular electlou of United State: senators voted for Mr. Lorimer, whi had been chosen under the very worsl system that can obtain under the ole rules in a state legislature." Bad Roads Costly. Omaha News: Just a few figures Wagon roads in the United States 2,151,570 miles. Improved (faced with gravel o: something better)—175,429 miles. Per cent of Improved roads—8.2. Each year 255,000,000 tons of farm and forest products are hauled to mar ket or to railway stations over Amer ican roads. This hauling costs <432,000,000, or mtrnmt,■•Mg* iywrTCignarirrir ~~r. i-Tacaa 23 cents per ton per mile. It costs about 10 cents per ton per mile to haul freight over an improved road. Thus, if all our roads were improv ed it would mean a saving of $200,000, ooo a year in hauling alone. It will cost fully $3,000,000,000 to put all the mud roads in America In fair shape—to make them merely good gravel roads. Three billion dollars is a big sum— yet *200,000,000 per year for fifteen years would settle the bill. This country of ours Is the richest in the world—yet the poorest, most tax burdened country in Europe can boast better roads than can we. Odd, Isn’t it? Supervisors Proceedings. The northeast quarter of the south east quarter of section thirteen and the south half of the southeast quarier of the northeast quarter of section thirteen and the south half of northeast quarter of tile southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirteen and the north half of the north half of the southeast quarter of the sontheast quarter of section thirteen and the east half of the east half of the north east quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirteen and the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirteen all in township twenty-eight north of range ten and the south half of the north half of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section thirteen and the south half of the southwest qtarter of the northwest quarter of section eighteen and the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section eighteen and the south half of the southwest quarter of the south east quarter of the northwest quarter of section eighteen all in township twenty-eight north of range nine be ing more particularly described by meles and bounds as follows: Commencing at the southeast coi ner of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 13. in the township 28, south of range 10, west of sixth principal meridian, thence due south 20 rods, thence due west 80 rods thence due north 20 rods, thence due west twenty rods, thence due north 100 rods, thence due east twenty rods, thence due north 20 rods, thence due east 48 rods, thence due north 20 rods, thence due east one hundred twelve rods thence due south 40 rods, thence due east 40 rods thence due south 20 rods, thence due west 40 rods thence due south eighty rods thence due west 80 rods to the place of beginning. And your pari It toners pray that the said described territory may be duly Incorporated as a village under the i laws of Nebraska.and that said village may be named the village of Page. And your petitioners further pray and petition your honorable body that you will appoint five competent, qualified and suitable persons to act as trustees and for said village of Page, who will bold their office and perform all the duties required by them by law until their successors may be elected and 1 quallged, and for such other and fur ther proceedings In the matter as may be lust and proper for the incorpor ation of said territory as a village and i the government thereof. All of whice is respectfully submit ted. Wilton Hayne, Mrs. Bertha Down ey, Mrs. Ella Bild, Mrs. Ella Town send, C. A. Auten, J. F. Swain, P. E. Chase, E J Bild, Geo. W McCalm, Geo Brechler, Edith L McCalm, H. Pennivell, C. M. Newton, Geo. Kliae tab, Thos. Wade, Peter Larson E. H. Hoshaw, John W Koel, Mrs Anna Coover, C. G. Campbell, Daniel L. CrelUn, Samuel G. Coover, J. C. Ad dison, J. J. Smith, G. L. Beberge A B MoOlure Wm. H. Benson''John W. Shanks, W. H Tucker, W. H. Boyer, B. Blain, H. A. Rakow, L. Johnson, R. MoCiaran, L. H. Downey, L. R. Riley, R. A. Baket, Mrs. T P Wade. R. C. Howard, R. A. Sarchet, Mrs Mary Miller, Hehry Hoffman, N B Coover, P. T. Stevens F. O. Clyde A J. Langaston, D. H. Clausod Joseph Staf ford Geo. Ord, John Haffuer, G. H. Sherry, Wm. Haynes, O. A. Towesend L. H Moore, John G. Timmermier, A. W, Townsend, Mrs. B. Kohl, Dan Qdren. Mr. Chairman: 1 iriove that It is the sense of this board and the hading of this board that there are one hundred and htteen bona fide taxable Inhabitants in the territory asked and petitions to be in 1 corporated as the village of Page, and i that there are more than two hundred , actual bona hde residents and inhabit ants living and residing within the coniines of the territory embodied and described in the petition of N B. Cojv er and 63 others hied March lith 1011, and that the board find that said petition is signed by more than a ma jority of the actual bona tide taxable Inhabitants or said described territory and that said petition is a valid petit ion. Th. 1). Sievers, mover M. P. Sullivan, seconder The ayes and nays being called for resulted as follows: J.M. Hunter aye, Th. D. Sievers, aye, M. P. Sullivan aye, Anton Prusa. F. C. H*• * FULL STOCK GROCERIES ' ® | ^ 8 Bars “Diamond G" Soap for 25c ^ □" A. SAl’NTO :: O’NEILL, NEBRASKA "□ ar, aye, J. D. Grimes, aye, nays none. Mr. Chairman:— I move that the petition for the in corporation of the village of Page sign ed by N. B. Cooverand 63 others, filled in the office of the county clerk, on the ilth day of March, 1911, be granted and that the territory described as follows, to wit: The northeast quarter of i he south east quarter of section thirteen and the south half of the southeast quar ter of the northeast quarter of section 13 and the south half of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section thir teen 13, and the north half of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 13, and the east half Of the east half of the northwest quar ter of section 13, and the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 13, all in township 28 north of range 10, and the soutn half of the north hal f of the southwest quarter of the north west quarter of section 18, and the south half of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section eight een, and the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 18, and the south halt of the southwest quar ter of southeast quarter of the north west quarter of section 18, all in town ship 28, north of range 8, being more particularly described by the metes and bounds as follows; Commencing at the southeast cor ner of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 13 in township 28, north of range 10, west of the 6th prin. m. thence due south 120 rods, thence due west 90 rods, thence due north 20 rods, thence due west 20 rods, thence due west twenty rods, thence due north 100 rods, theuce due east 20 rods, thence due due north 20 rods, thence due east 48 rods, theuce due north 20 rods, thence due east one hundred and twelve rods, thence due south 40 rods, thence due south 20 rods, thence due west 40 rods thenoe due south 80 rods, thence due west 80 rods to the place of beginning, be and the same hereby is declared incorpor ated as a village and that said village be and the same hereby is named and designated the village or Page, and that the territory above described by metes and bounds be and the same hereby is declared to be an incorpor ated village under the laws of Nebras Tb. D. Sievers. Mr. Chairman: 1 second the motiou. M. D. Sullivan. Mr. Chairman: 1 ask that an aye and nay vote be taken on the foregoing motion. J. M. Hunter. The foregoing motion being duly sub mitted by the chairman, and the aye and nay vote being taken, resulted as follows: Ayes, Hunter, Sievers, Sullivan, Prusa, Hammerburg, Slmar, and Grimes. Nays, none. Motion declared duly carried by the cbairman Page. Nebraska, March 10th, 1911.— To the Honorable Board of Supervis ors, O'Neill, Nebraska.—Gentlemen: We reccomend the following names to be appointed as trustees of the vil lage of Page, Nebraska. C. A. Town send, T. P. Wade, R. A. Sarchet, S. G. Coover, P. E. Chase. Signed: Lewis H. Downey. G. H. Cherry T. P. Wade requested to he left off and G. H. Cherry was substituted by the board. Mr. Chairman: I move that the fol'owing named five persons, towit: C A Townsend, R A Sarohet, S G Coover, P E Chase and G H Cherry, who have reached the age of 21 years and are male citi zens of the state of Nebraska, and of the United States, and who have been inhabitants and tax payers of the ter ritory embraced in the corporate limits of the Village of Page for more than three months next preceeding this date be and the same hereby are appointed as trustees for the Village of Page to hold their office until the 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 Emerson Goods Monitor Drills, Great Western Manure Spreaders, Henney Bug gies, Mandt Wagons, McCormick Mowers and Binders. Can you beat it? O. F. BIGLIN See Us Before You Bug ^FLOUR^ We have several brands, all of them good, and will make the lowrest prices to you. All Kinds of Grain and Feed Agents for all maker, of Cream Sep- | arators. Bring us your Cream as we pay the hignest price, Zimmerman # Conklin SUCCESSORS TO J. H. WISE