The Frontier
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The real hero In Mexico seems to be
Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson.
Mr. Wilson is keeping his adminis
trative plans mighty close to himself
—a pretty good thing to do.
A lot of bravery and heroism has
been sacrificed in polar explditions
that have added little or nothing to
the welfare of man.
Thirty-six thousand Americans set
tled in western Canada last year.
Seventy-five per cent of these came
from Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and the
Dakotas.
It is pretty well understood that
W. J. B. is to be secretary of state. It
is better understood that Nebraska
democrats still remember his betrayal
of them at Baltimore.
An authority that claims to know
says not to call him Hu-er-ta. Accord
ing to Spanish usage it is pronounced
Wear-ta. Whatever the spelling, it
would be more appropriate to call him
a butcher.
One branoh of the legislature in
both Kansas and Nebraska have gone
on record in favor of the sterilization
of confirmed criminals. As these
fellows are usually in custody of a
prison guard the adoption of this
measure seems supertlous.
An extra session of congress Is
scheduled for April 1. Mr. Wilson
proposes to effect some tariff legisla
tion and will call congress together
for that purpose. It will be remem
bered that Mr. McKinley oalled con
gress together In extra session for
tariff legislation which raised the
tariff and eliminated the need of
further bond issues.
Senator Boot of New York Is quoted
In a Washington interview as favor
, lng the convening of a special nation
al convention of the republican party
at Ohioago this year for the purpose
of changing the rules In two import
ant respects, as follows: First, to
make representation in national con
ventions proportionate to the repub
lican vote and thus abolish the system
of Southern state delegations; and,
second, to permit each state to decide
for itself the manner of selecting dele
gates to national conventions.
The Immigration bill with the lit
eracy lest, urged In the interest of
organized labor, which was vetoed by
President Taft after passing both
branches of Congress, was repassed by
the Senate on Tuesday by the over
whelming vote or 12 to 18 and its
friends fully expected that the House
also would overcome the veto of the
president by more than the required
two-thirds majority. But suoh was
not the result. When the measure
came up in the House Wednesday, the
vote for the bill was 213 to 114, not
enough to overcome the veto.
The brutal assassination of the two
late executive officials of Mexico adds
another tragic chapter to a continual
stream of disquieting reports from
that turbulant country. Not satisfied
with the overthrow of the Madero ad
ministration the deposed ruler with
the vice president have been ruthless
ly slain In a way that Indicates that
the affair had been planned by the
fellows for the time being in com
mand. When old General Diaz was
deposed after maintaining a peaceful
and stable government for many years
It looked like the Mexicans had been
seeking needed reforms, but one
revolution has followed another so
fast that it looks now that they are
nothing less than manifestations of a
lost for blood. The duty of the United
States as a next door neighbor Is not
exactly clear. The Invasion by Ameri
can troops would probably be the
^ signal for a wholesale massacre of
Americans In Mexico. President Taft
evidently does not want to start a
foreign war in the closing hours of
his administration to hand over to bis
soon coming successor.
The Columbus Telegram presents
an able and more or less eloquent
editorial on the white slave business
in which It denounces one or two
prominent churchmen for holding to
the “proscribed district” view. Pros
titution is as old as human history
and no satisfactory regulation has
ever been nor probably ever will be
found. One theory is as good or. as
bad as another. The Telegram offers
no remedy or means of eliminating a
thing it barshly condemns. Perhaps
it would favor lining up the scarlet
clad women and turning a machine
gun loose at them. They could be
killed off, but that looks brutal in a
civilized age. The “proscribed dis
trict” is perhaps the best thing at
hand just at present.
THE LEGISLATURE.
What's Being Done by the State Law
Making Body at the Capital.
Lincoln, Feb. 25.—The house
apparently dissatisfied with some
of the past record of the State
railway commission appointed a
committee of three to investigate
the work of the commission par
ticularly as regards mergers and
the issue of stocks and bonds by
corporations. The committee is
holding sessions and examining
members and employees of the
commission but is not yet ready
to formulate a report.
The house approved the Cor
bin resolution providing for the
appointment of a committee to
examine into the lagal and validity
of the offer of $200,000 by the
Lincoln City Council to be used
in the extension of the down town
University campus if removal
was defeated in the legislature.
The resolution also included
similar action bo the senate, but
on the appearance of the resolu
tion in the senate that body re
fused to concur by a vote of 21
to 9, thus killing the joint effort
at inquiry along this line and re
flecting the very apparent fact
that so far as the senate is con
cerried its members by a very
large majority favor removal of
the State University from the
Lincoln City Campus to the
State farm two miles east of this
city.
On Wednesday in committei
of the whole the house deali
severely with S. W. 28, the Sun
day base ball bill by Bartling,
recently passed in the senate.
The bill was amended in the
house in a manner to directly re
verse the responsibility for Sun
day ball as it was received fron
the senate. The bill a& passed
by the senate permitted Sunday
bull in all incorporated cities and
villages and in the country
districts unless forbidden by
official action or a referendum
vote. The house amendments
turned the matter directly around
and forbid Sunday base ball un
less the issue had first been sub
mitted to a referendum vote at
the hands of the electors interest
ed. This action means that Sun
day ball as an issue will finally go
into a conference committee of
both houses and the result cannot
at this time be even gussed.
The house has recommended
for passage the bill regulating
hotels, rooming houses, and
restaurants,but refused to approve
it until its most drastic provisions
were eliminated.
The bill as it now stands is but
little in advance of the present
hotel laws and provides largely
for a more comprehensive in
spection than heretofore.
The standing committee on
railroads has sent to the general
file of the house, without recom
mendation, the bill by Keckley of
York, which provides for a
horizontal reduction of 20 pei
cent of freight tariff in Nebrask.
on coal, lumber, live stock, grai
and most of the products of the
form. The bill ,was stoutly con
tested in the committee by re
presentatives of the railroads but
was sent to the general file of the
house without recommendation
for full discussion.
The senate has recommended
for passage a proposed law to
abolish contract labor at the state
penitentiary. The judiciary com
mittee of the house has recom
mended for passage the bill bv
Regan which increased the
penalty for selling cigarettes to
minors, but permitts the sale to
persons over 21 years of age.
In the house the bill by Hasik,
which was drawn, to prohibit
electioneering by any body, any
where, on election day was killed
by indifinite postponment. The
house bill permitting the reorgani
zation ol mutial insurance com
panies as stock companies pre
cipitated a warm contest in
committee of the whole. Nichols
of Madison, led the attack on the
bill pointed out that the bill did
not carry adequate protection for
the policy holdei who at the time
ot the reorganization might from
age or disability be an undesirable
risk and thereby denied protection
by the reorganized company.
The issue was'left hanging in the
air when the house adjurned at
the end of the week.
A standing committee of the
senate has recommended for
passage the house bill by Fuller
giving counties the right to levy<
a general tax,to establish a county
telephone systen. The bill has
already passed the house, and the
indications seem to be in favor of
its passage in the senate.
More than 30 bills received
final approval of the senate dur
ing the week were passed and
sent to the house for concurrance,
among these that are of larger
public interest are S. F. 118 by
Spirk, prohibiting the sale of fire
arms to minors under 18 years of
age; 132 by Heasty, providing
for the sterilization of confirmed
criminals. This bill received 28
affirmative votes two in the nega
tive; 232 by Hoagland of Lan
caster prohibiting the use of
arsenic and strychnine in embalm
ing fluid. The senate saw fit to
recommend for passage the bill to
prohibit newspapers to charge a
higher rate for political advertis
ing than is charged for other
current advertising, except certain
proprietary articles named.
The senate surprised itself
early in the week, by defeating
the bill by Kemp S. F, 160 pro
viding for a constitutional con
vention by a vote of 19 against to
13 for the bill, as the bill has gone
to third reading without active
opposition the result was some
what of a surprise.
During the week the house
killed a number of measures
mostly by indifinate postponment
at the hands of standing com
mutes, among these were the bill
to license non-medical healers; to
provide annual conventions for
county and city superintendents;
changing time of holding county
conventions; telephone poles to
be set on property line; making
county high schools compulsory
in certain counties; to permit
hunting and fishing in one’s home
county without license; requiring
a marPlift m all elevators; annual
assessment of real estate; increas
ed salary for county judges and
clerks; increased salary for county
superintendents in small counties;
preliminary educational require
ments for students in law school.
H. R. 108 by Bolen, a bill pro
viding for future constitutional
amendments by a non-partisan,
separate ballot rejuiring only a
majority of votes cast on amend
ments to carry and providing for
the publication of amendments in
pamphlets instead of newspapers
was once lost and sgain resuced
during the week and again stands
on the general file.
After the bill was defeated 52
to 38, a recondideration was had
and the bill recommitted to the
committee of the whole for the
specific amendment of eliminating
the publication of amendments in
pamphlet form. With this feature
eliminated it will again come up
for passage.
During the week the house put
final seal of approval on the
followimg bills presented for
final passage: 109 by Gates per
mitting saloon license ‘to be issued
near Ft. Omaha. Such license
is prohibited by present statute;
76 by Anderson of Kearney pro
hibits marriage between Whites,
Japanese and Chinese; 17 by
Busch declaring felony to destroy
property over $35.00; 20 by
Richardson, permitting railroads
and express companies to trans
port household goods of em
ployees free of charge; 124 by
Nichols, repeals -law requiring
printed abstract in supreme court,
122 by Buckner, prohibits drink
ing cups in public places; 42 by
Hardin, provides a hen on dam as
well as get for live stock services
494 Hubbard declares Lincoln’s
birthday a holiday; 210 by Pal
mer, constitutional amendment
giving governor one term of four
FISHERS
Big Closing Out Sale
Furniture and Hardware
As my lease on the building we are now occupying will expire on May ist of this year, and |
we have decided to change our location we are going to close out our immense stock at a great S
sacrifice to us. Our stock is too large to move and we could not afford to move it anyway. So
we have concluded to give the people the benefit by slaughtering profits on the goods. "These
articles must be sold before May ist, and we are going to make prices on them that will make it
an object to the buying public to carry them away. Our stock is all up-to-date stuff and clean 1
and each department carries a complete line. We are not quoting any prices as we want you to
see the goods and examine the quality before we astonish you with the low prices We are putting
on them. a
These Goods Must go Regardless of Our'Profits
I Below we list some of the hi tides we are offering, but everything in the store is on the list 1
Read them over and see if there isn t some thing in the list you need, then come in and let us give P
you our price: ” 6
Stoves Forks Springs f]
Ranges Spades Mattresses “
Heaters Shovels Sanitary Couches j
Oil Heaters . Bolts Spring Cots i
Stove Pipe Screws Couches
Tin Ware American Woven Window Shades
Granite Ware Wire Fence Curtain Rods !
Aluminum Ware Steel Posts Wall Molding i
Wash Boilers Farm Gates Plate Moulding
Wash Tubs Barn Door Tracks Clothes Racks
Oil Cans Paints Ironing Boards
Mail Boxes Varnishes Pictures G !
Clothes Baskets White Lead Linoleum |:j
Cutlery Linseed Oil ' Matting |
Tools Machine Oil Rugs 1
Ammunition Washing Machines Kitchen Cabinets 1
Guns Clothes Wringers Garden Seed
Rope Window Glass x
T T—% I \ We feel that we are offering the public a great opportunity to save
II 1.1 I l*|#l y I money as ail our goods are seasonable. The goods must be sold by
M May 1st and it will be your fault if you do not get what you need
T J. *1 By the first of May we shall have made arrangement for our new
^1 ri III 3 y I location and the rich bargains we are now offering will be a thing
* of the past. Call and investigate the purchasing power of your dollar
Never before have we offered such bargains as we are now offering. The short time we have to close
this stock makes it necessary for sweeping reduction in prices. The opportunity is yours at our expense
FISHER FURNITURE & HARDWARE CO.
i ;z-_,-r
years at $5000 per year; 130 by
Mockett, provides for the teach
ing of modern foreign languages
in public schools where sufficient
number of patrons requested.
Hklvet News Bureau.
Inman Items.
W. W. Watson is here from
Lincoln transacting business.
C. H. A. Smith of Atkinson
w&s in town on business Tuesday.
Ed. F. Gallagher of O’Neill
was here on business last Mon
day.
John M. Gallagher went to
Emmet to attend a sale which
took place there Tuesday.
Geo. Davis who has been in
Omaha and Missouri the past
week returned home Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Tavenor
visited with their daughter Mrs.
Lewis Downey of Page, on Mon
day.
John J. Hancock was here from
Newman’s Grove Saturday visit
ng relatives. He returned Satur
day.
Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Thomas
went to Page Monday to make a
visit with Rev. and Mrs Murton,
af that place.
Mrs. C. J. Malone and daughter
Mildred went to Plainview Satur
day to visit with relatives, return
ng Tuesday.
A miscellaneous shower was
£iven in honor of Miss Lena
Fowler at her home Wednesday.
i\. host of friends were present
md she received many useful and
neautiful gifts.
Methodist Minister Recommends
Chamberlain’s Congh Remedy
Rev. James A, Lewis, Milaca, Minn.,
writes: “Chamberlain’s Cough Reme
ly has been a needed and weloome
(uest in our home' for a number of
rears. I highly recommend it to my
Fellows as being a medicine worthy of
trial in cases of colds, coughs and
:roup.” Give Ghrmberlain’a Cough
Remedy a trial and we are convinced
pou will find it very effectual and con
tinue to use it as occasion requires
For years to come, as- many others
have done. For sale by all dealers, adv
John Moler’s
Big Closing Out Sale!
16 miles north and 2 west of O’Neill, 3 1-2
miles west and 1-2 south of Meek, on
Tues., March 11th
12 head of Horses, 26 head of Cattle,
28 head of Hogs, farm machinery,
30 tons of hay in stack, 300
bu. corn, 300 bu. side oats
everything will be
sold, no by-biddidg.
Stock Sale Postponed!
Will be held at farm 22 miles east of O’
Neill, 10 miles north of Orchard, on
Friday, March 7th
30 head of Pure Bred Poland China Gilts.
This is an exceptionally fine lot and bred to Big Boy, a son of Long
Boy, one of the best and largest boars ever bred by Peter Mouw.
2 Percheron Stallions, Registered.
20 head of Horses and Mules.
We invite you to come and inspect the offering and feel confident that
you will not be disappointed.
Free conveyance from Orchard for parties arriving by train.
LLOYD COATES
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