The Frontier
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The United States senate Is ready
to amend the laws relative to the
election of most any official but mem
bers of that body.
Much of the modern political pro
positions point more in the direction
of anarchy than safe and sound pro
gressive legislation.
Now it transpires that our railway
commission has to be Investigated.
The legislature has named a com
mittee to see why the commission has
done nothing to relieve the grain rate
situation on shipments from Omaha
to Chicago which is taking about $2,
000,000, annually out of the pockets of
grain producers and shippers of this
state.
With the recall, initiative and re
ferendum, woman’s suffrage, pres
idential term of six years and only one
of them for any aspirant, primary
election of postmasters and various
other revolutionary proposals, the
original builders of tbe government
bulwarks would have a hard time
tracing out their plans in the present
day structure If all the proposed
changes become effective.
The fellows who sit In steam heated
offices and write classic editorials on
how the farmer should farm bis farm
have sprung their annual nightmare
about seed corn. Whether the agri
cultural writers are in league with the
seed houses or merely writing to fill
space we don't know. We believe,
however, that the fellows next to the
soil know more about seed corn than
those that farm with a typewriter.
The men on the farms keep on grow
ing bumper orops of corn season after
season regardless of the annual pro
nouncement of the so called experts
that the bulk of the seed corn Is
worthless.
It appears that the medical
scientists are finally able to furnish
relieve from the ravages of the great
white pleague, tuberculosis, in its
various forms. An eminent German
doctor recently announced the dis
covery of a serum that, so far as ex
periments have gone, anlhllates the
deadly tuberoular germs. An Ameri
can doctor,' one J. H. Burgan of Min
neapolis, oomes forth now with the
announcement of a similar disoovery.
He says his serum is obtained from
the hog and has effected an absolute
cure in each case tried. While none
but millionaires will be able to pay
the price of the German cure, the
Minneapolis doctor says his discovery
is cheap as dirt and offers it to all
the hospitals of the country at cost of
production.
Ool. Roosevelt’s candidacy still
rankles sorely in the minds of many
republican editors who tire not of re
peating the accusation that the pro
gressive leader was responsible for the
republican downfall. It Is nearer the
truth to say that the lnsistanoy of
President Taft’s candidacy was the
real Cause of the republican oalamity.
But it is time to forget both. The in
tervening years before another election
should be a time for reflection aud
reconstruction, out of which the re
publican party no doubt will emerge
with a stronger claim on popular
approval than ever. If the democrats
fail to make good, which Is more than
likely according to all prescedent,
there will be a general demand for a
return to the usual sane and safe re
publican policies.
THE LEGISLATURE
What's Being Done by the State Law
Unking Body at the Capital.
Lincoln Feb. 3.—Amoung the
new measures offered during the
past week in the house the follow
ing are of general importance:
373 by Yates, requires owners of
motor vehicles to give a bond of
$2,500 as guarantee of damages
inflicted by their machine; 383
by Brott, appropriates $8,000 for
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sinking an artesian well in the
territory between the North Platt
river and Lodge Pole creek; 390
by Losey, appropriates $20,000
to be used in the purchase of a
farm for the benefit of the widow
of Usher Heilman, who was kill
ed during the penitentiary out
brake of last winter; 395 by
Brott, a bill regulating the
charges of stock yards, and live
stock commission bogses; 402
by five members, repeals open
season on prairie chickens, grouse
and quail to Nov. 1, 191; 411
by Stebbins, appropriates $100,
000 for experimental deep wells;
422 by McCarthy of Greeley, a
minimum wage bill for adult
labor in stores, factories, shops
packing houses, etc., placing
minimum at $9 per week; 437
by Buckner, a county option bill
on the subject of paying bounty
for the destruction of gophers;
454 by Scott, state aid for the
support of mothers, whose hus
bands are dead or imprisoned and
who have children up ;o 14 years
of age; 461 by Brain, a pure
cotton goods bill; 470 by Busch;
amends Oregon plan to effect that
legislator’s district shall be con
sidered the governing vote instead
of entire state vote; 482 by Mur
phy appropriates $5,000 for a
bog serum plant; 494 by Hub
bard makes Lincoln’s birthday a
legal holiday; 509 by Trumbull,
abolishes elective road overseers,
substitutes authority of county
commissioner; 514 by Anderson
of Boyd, provides for sale of the
state’s school land; 515 by Mc
Carthy of Cumming, requires
school district to furnish clothing
for destitute school children; 518
by Keckley, reducing freight
rates 20 per cent on car loads of
grain, fruit, potatoes, live stock,
coal lumber, building material,
etc., until railway commission can
hear and determine the equity of
this reduction; 528 by Regan,
provides for credit of $3 against
labor tax for voting at primary or
election; 530 by Foster, provides
railway passes for all state officers;
553 by Sugarman, a non-partisan
system of electing judicial offices;
567 by McKissick, appropriates
$150,000 for a Nebraska exhibit
at the San Francisco exposition
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In the senate among the bills
that may attract generul interest
are: S. F. 169 by Dodge, re
moving party circle from the
ballot; 189 by Bartling, requir
ing automatic danger signals at
all railway crossings; 195 by
Dodge, regulates the charges of
newspapers for political advertis
ing; 196 by Wolz, provides for a
commission and an examining
board for barbers; 205 by
Kiechel repeals the state aid
bridge law for building bridges
over streams over 175 ft. in
widths; 221 by Marshall, permits
banking board to refuse charter
to bank in town where board
considers there are enough banks;
235 by Shumway, a system of
state life insurance; 246 by
West, requires train sheds on
opposite side of tracks where
system is double tracked; 270
by Krumbach, abolishes the
present prison board and board pf
pardons, and transfers these
duties to the proposed new board
of control which will be in charge
of state institution after July 1.
On Monday the senate passed
S. F. 27 by an unanimous vote.
The bill provided for teaching of
agriculture in high and rural
schools. The measure was very
popular, was well drawn, and re
ceived unanimous support.
An emergency clause was also
added to Bartling’s bill permitting
the playing of base ball on Sun
day. This will make the law
immediately available if passed at
this session. The bill was re
commended to the general file for
passage by the committee of the
whole, though some attempt was
made was made to amend it in
committee, but without success.
The bill was ready for final
passage during the latter days of
the week, but owing to the
absence of several senators known
to be in favor of the bill Senator
Bartling had further action de
ferred until the fill crops of
senators could be present. The
coming week will no doubt note
the passage of the bill and its
transmission to the house for con
sideration there.
In the hodse Norton’s so called
“log rolling” bill was considered
in committee of the whole and
recommended for passage by a
vote of 76 to 18. This bill is
designed to prohibit the trading
of votes for favored measures be*
tween members. The opponents
of the bill foeght it on the pro
position that it invaded the con
stitutional rights of a member to
endeavor in every legitimate way
to secure the passage of legisla
tion which met his approval.
This theory was advanced with
out avail and the bill now goes
on its final passage. On Tues
day the house decided to listen to
an address by former Warden
Codding of Kansas on prison
reform. It decided that a com
mittee of three each from the five
committees of the house interested
in similar subjects should visit the
state institutions. This makes a
total of 15 house members to
travel this year as against a total
of about 35 under the old system.
I'earson of Furnace and Scheuth
of Platt offered a resolution in the
house to the effect that the Slocum
law was about all right as it stood
and declaring for no furthei
legislation along that line at this
session. At the request of the
introducers the resolution went
over to Friday for consideration,
and was then laid on the table at
the request of the introducer leav
ing the question as to the temper
of the house on liquor legislation
as much of an uncertainity as it
had been at any time. The house
recommended for passage its own
bill No. 51 making the peniten
tiars offense to furnish liquor or
drugs to an inmate of the peniten
tiary.
Un Wednesday the house re
commended for passage the fol
lowing measures: 59 by Keckley,
placing employees ot the state
under a civil service law and re
quiring an examination of appli
cants as to their fitness; H. R. 3
by Fuller, providing a county
levy to create a county telephone
system. This bill was bitterly
opposed by members not believ
ing that the business could be
made successful in the narrow
field of a single county, but they
were out voted on every point, the
bill going forward to final read
ing.
On a committee report the
house decided to oppose the pro
posed merger of the soldiers
home at Milford and Grand
Island. The house also by vote
refused to hear a speaker from
San Francisco advocate the
glories of the coming exposition
at that city, and to request an
appropriation. In the senate
Smith’s bill to repeal the bounties
for killing prairie dogs was re
commended for passage.
On Thursday the house in
committee of the whole recom
mended for passage the bill per
mitting creditor to garnishee 10
per cent of wages due, also re
commending for passage the bill
providing for the commission
form of government for cities
from 2,000 to 5,000. In the after
noon the senate at the request ol
the chancellor gave a visit to the
university campus, both city and
farm, with a view to senators
both taking a personal view ol
the situation as it relates to the
important subject of univeristy
removal. This issue will be the
hardest fought subject before this
session of the legislature, and at
present a pole of opinion indicat
ing results is absolutely impossible
to obtain.
On Friday the house recom
mended for passage the bill per
mitting five sixths of a jury tc
render verdicts in civil or mis
demeanor cases, and among
others also the bill providing
pensions for widows of Omaha
policemen.
The senate passed the bill mak
ing it a felony to introduce liquor
or dope into the state penitentiary
and recommended for passage
the Krumbach bill abolishing the
present state hoard of pardons
and placing this item in the hands
of the state board of control,
which is yet to be appointed.
Helvet News Bureau.
Supervisors Proceedings.
(Continued from last week.)
John Johnson, road overseer dist 31
0 P Morse, township treasurer
M S Conover, road overseer dist 11
F P Otter, township clerk
John A Wood, township treasurer
S Harkins, road overseer
Oney Anderson, road overseer
Henry Straka, road overseer
C F Naughton, township clerk.
A Fauquier, road overseer
Henry Hennings, road overseer
Sam McClellan, road overseer
T F Donohoe, township clerk
E 0 Wertz township clerk
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C F W Lehmann, township treasurer
Fred Jungbluth, justice of the peace
Frank O’Connell, township treasurer
John Daniels, township treasurer
J J Nachtman, township clerk
John Moler, township treasurer
J O Graver, justice of the peace
O O Newman, justice of the peace
Amelia, Nebr, Dec 27, 1912.
To the Honorable Board of Super
visors, Holt county, Nebraska.
We, the undersigned free holders to
the number of ten requests your Hon.
! body to employ E H Whelan as
assistant counsel in the Supreme
court in the case of Joe. Miles,
Appellee vs. the County of Holt,
Appellant. J H Meredith
O N George
H D Grady
S J Weekes
C P Hancock
J B Mel lor
Frank Phalen
J >bn Sullivan
Tom Enright
C E Stuart
R J Marsh
Mr. Chairman I move that E H
Whelan, be employed as additional
counsel to represent the County of
Holt, together with the county attor
ney in the case of Geo A. Miles,
Appellee vs the County of Holt, ap
pellent in the Supreme court, said
employment not to began until Jan.
9, 1913.
H W Tomlinson
J O Hubbell.
Motion carried.
Moved that the Court house com
mlttee enter into a lease with M P
Kinkaid for the use of his law office
in the Nebraska State Bank building
for the use of the County attorney for
the term of two years from Jan 9,1913
at the agreed sum per year of $16.00
H W Tomlinson
JO Hubbell
To the Honorable Board of Super
visors of Holt county, Nebraska.
Your petitioner, mary A Dwyer,
respectfully showeth to ydur honorable
body that she is the owner and holder
of a illegal tax title range 14, west of
the sixth p m in Holt county, Ne
braska, covering taxes for the year
1889, 1890 and 1891.
Your petitioner states that said
land was not taxable for any of the
above described years, wherefore your
petitioner pray that you instruct the
county treasurer and refund to her
the amount paid on said erroneous
tax sale and taxt deed.
lours very respecnuny,
Mary A Dwyer
By A J Hammond.
On motion prayer of petition was
denied.
Mr. Chairman: Owing to the loss
of a bridge and the outting away of
road bed in section 2, township 32,
range 11, west. Same being on road
No 2. It was thought best to relocate
a part of same road so as to shorten
the same and obtain a better site for
a county bridge and whereas the pew
line of proposed road was property
surveyed and staked and the owners
e terrible grip
of misfortune has few terrors
to the man who has saved*
Your misfortune will come. Open a bank
account here today. A dollar will do it.
Acquire an easy mind about the future.
NEBRASKA STATE BANK
JAMES F. O’DONNELL, Cashier
S PER CENT INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPdSITS
l^TThe depositors of this bank are protected by the deposi
tors' guarantee fund of the state of Nebraska.
S. S. Welpton. President. O. F. Biglin. Vice President
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Closing Out
SALE
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Going1 Out of Business
On and after December 1st I will sell my en
tire stock of Shoes, Hats, Caps,Dry Goods and
Furnishings at COST, many things less than
cost.
SPECIAL SALE ON CLOTHING
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GROCERIES, lO PER CENT. DISCOUNT
Sale will continue urvtil all goods
a.re sold.
JOHN SKIRVING
O’Neill, Nebr. Emmet, Nebr.