The Frontier
Published by D. H. CRONIN
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Every man has his day. Carter
Harrison tried it once too often.
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Now the Allies, in retaliation for
the German submarine activity, pro
poses to starve the Tutons out by a
blockade of all ports where food stuffs
can be conveyed to the Germans.
Germany proposes to match this pro
position by starving the prisoners of
the allies first. War is something of
a game of cunning moves as well as
remorseless bloodshed.
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The Bee devoted about half of its
last Sunday edition to Omaha’s new
hotel. Its a fine lay-out, as hotels go,
according to the Bee, but there is al
ways going to be a goodly number of
the old fashioned fellows that think
there is no place like home, even if
that home were only sod walls out in
the homestead district. These fancy
hotels is what is getting in the work
on the American- home idea in the
big centers of population.
Former army, navy and malitia
men- propose to insure America’s bet
ter defense in the event of the pres
ent war spirit igniting on our shores
and have organized the American
Legion in which they group together
260,000 former soldiers. Col. Roos
evelt and his four sons want in on it
and the colonel wants to raise a di
vision of cavalry. The raising of a
volunteer army is about the easy thing
our government ever undertook, and
at that some people are always wor
rying about the insufficiency of our
standing army.
Former President Roosevelt, in the
March1 number of Metropolitan, in a
long and interesting sketch on the sit
uation in Mexico, indulges some caus
tic comments on President Wilson and
Secretary Bryan’s course with refer
ence to* the treatment of Americans
in that anarchistic republic. He says
that something like 200 American
men- have been murdered and Ameri
can' Women and girls ravished by
Mexican bandit officials without a
finger being raised by our adminis
tration1 demanding reparation and
. cessation of such oatesges. The colo
nel wteldh the pen in his usual vig
orous style and sets forth a picture
of barbarous outrages which, if it fails
to ardttee public sentiment, will be
because public sentiment has become
callus from repeated tales of human
suffering throughout the world.
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Here is something that may put a
bit in the mouths of those who de
light to spread a false report: Charles
J. Duepree is given the power by a
decision of the supreme court to col
lect $3,000 from the members of the
village board of Orchard, Antelope
comity, together with several citizens
thereof, the same being the amount of
dathages he secured in a jury trial.
The defendants had signed a written
statement to the effect that Deupree
was conducting a house of ill fame
and asking him to leave town within
10* days. At the time Deupree, his
wife and daughter were operating a
hotel and he alleged a conspiracy to
drive him out of business. The de
fendants denied a conspiracy existed,
bub the court says that a mere tacit
understanding to work to a common
unlawful purpose is all that is essen
tial to a guilty combination.
Omaha Nebraskan: One rather in
teresting fight was staged last week
in the house. Taylor of Custer has
befen fathering a bill to do away with
thb fees received by court reporters.
Etery court reporter for miles around
Lincoln rushed into the capital to as
sign in the defeat of this bill. On the
first attempt the motion to indefinitely
postpone was lost. When the bill
came before the committee of the
whole a second time Lanigan, a brill
iant yound lawyer from Greely, rose
to'his feet and denounced Taylor as a
despot who was trying to run the
hotise as Joe Cannon ran the national
hoUse. Cronin of Holt took up the
fight with the worthy gentleman of
wofds from Custer. The majority of the
members of the house fearful of being
aceosed of bowing to the will of a dic
tator took “French leave” from the
camp of Custer and hurriedly joined
forces under the banner of the gentle
man of Holt. The measure was de
feated and Cronin is being congratu- j
lated for having accomplished its de
feat. Taylor is one of the very
strongest men in the house and it is
considered to be quite a feather in the
cap of the republican gentleman from
Holt to have defeated him.
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The Cheap Skates.
Globe Democrat. One hundred
women in Pike County, Ky., have been
indicted on a charge of selling their
votes, at a school election. An in
dictment is, of course, not a conviction
of guilt, but there is much strong prc
sumptive evidence in this case, in the
number of indictments brought that
some of the accused have actually let
their palms be crossed with the price
of a vote, that those advocates of wo
man suffrage who have maintained
that it would purify elections must
reel under the blow.
The further statement is made that
the Kentucky women sold their votes
at $1 apiece, only half as much as
the indicted men charged and were
paid for voting in the same way. This
is the real gravamen of the charge
from the sociological point of view.
How can fair woman hope ever to
reach a wage equality with man when
for work she does which could not
possibly be more unworthy'than the
same work done by him, she accepts
only half price? She can offer no
possible defense against such “scab
bing” as this. The ballot she cast in
exchange for a dollar had an equal
counting value with the one cast by
him for $2. In no possible way could
its value have been less to the buyer,
yet the women, if this story 'is to be
accepted, undercut by 50 per cent the
ruling masculine price for work so
dirty that nobody willing to do it at
all could possibly do it less worthily
than others. The fact, if it be a fact,
will be seized on by all suffrage op
ponents as evidence that woman feels
her inferiority in the industrial world
so keenly that she voluntarily dis
counts her services when it could com
mand a par with that of male bipeds.
What effect these revalations are to
have upon the cause it would be folly
to even guess. We do not think that
honest men can be made to believe
that any appreciable percentage of
womankind are of this type. One
possible effect we may see even now.
Should it be established in court that
the Kentucky women who sold their
votes really did cut the standard male
price, it may lead to the organization
of that class of males, in all of the
states, to stand as a unit against in
troducing into the electorate an ele
ment which will cheapen the price of
votes. Such men must stand together
in a form of trades unionism. How
far their hostile influence might ex
tend it is impossible to say, but revel
ations in recent years show their
number to be much greater than un
sophisticated people had formerly
imagined.
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AT LINCOLN
Grind of Legislation Going On In
House and Senate.
Lincoln, Neb., March 2.—After a
fight consuming the greater part of
two legislative days, Taylor of Custer
finally lost the fight he has waged un
ceasingly for a separation of the ap
propriations for the support of the
university and the agricultural school
at the farm campus. The question
was up on a reconsideration of the
motion by which Taylor was defeated
at the end of the first contest when
the House refused to instruct his com
mittee in control of educational ap
propriations to make a report which
the majority of the committee was
not yet ready to formulate. Taylor
made a desperate effort to have this
matter reconsidered and the commit
tee instructed by the House according
to his wishes. The greater part of
two days was consumed in the various
phases of this effort. Counting legis
lative salaries alone, the time spent
in this contest represents an outlay
by the state of $1,000 per day and
if legislative expenses are added
Taylor’s effort to reconsider may be
fairly said to have cost around
$3,000. At the conclusion of all the
oratory Taylor was beaten by a vote
of 51 to 41 and immediately tendered
his resignation as chairman of the
committee, as he had threatened to
do. After some delay to give Taylor
a chance to reconsider, which he re
fused to do, the House accepted the
resignation and Orr of Burt was se
’ected to this chairmanship. All this
seems to forcast that the House is de
termined that the appropriation for
university purposes shall not be spe
"i flic ally divided between the down
town school and the farm campus, but
that both shall be jioned in a common
fund for support.
Elme lund’s House bill providing for
the holding of the guarantee fund of
any state bank going out of business
by the State Banking Board perma
nently was killed in the House after
considerable debate. The Senate bill
for the consolidation of Omaha and all
suburban villages, including South
Omaha, has had another hearing in
the House, but no final action pre
dicting the ultimate fate of the bill
has yet been recorded. There is a
question whether a “Greater Omaha”
will result from the action of the
present session.
The big appropriation bills for offi
cial salaries and for maintainance of
all state departments and divisions of
the government were reported to the
House from the committee on ways
and means during the week. While
the grand total shows a reduction of
about three-quarters of a million from
the totals of the last session, it is still
in excess of the amount appropriated
six years ago by the 1909 session.
A number of the official depart
ments show a serious cut under the
last appropriation bill. The most
noticable of these being the appro
priation for the Railway Commission,
which totals many thousand dollars
less than gi^en the commission by the
GALLEY—10
last session. As the issues must all
run the gauntlet of the Senate, it is
impossible to predict what the bills
may total when they reach the Gov
ernor for signature.
The House during the week killed
the Senate bill by Gates, providing
for the issue of liquor licenses at the
village of Fort Crook on the same
terms as the Slocum Law provides for
other localities in Nebraska. The bill
was killed in the standing committee
and did not come before the House
for a general vote.
During the week the House passed
thirty-six bills, many of which were
technical amendments to court proce
dure fathered by the lawyers of the
House, and a considerable number
covering appropriations for additional
lands at a number of the state insti
tutions.
Among tne bills passed oi general
public interest were H. R. 8, Lindsey,
which permits the sale of school lands
of the state; 105, Reiche, requiring
hedges to be cut annually to four feet;
160, Dolby, making a felony with
prison sentance for stealing automo
bile or motorcycle; 195, Hutton, pro
hibiting the use of embalming fluids
containing arsenic or strychnine; 248,
Fries, making it a felony to sell fish
or flesh of animals diseased or other
wise unfit; 191, prohibiting baseball
on the Sabboth day called Memorial
Sunday; 222, adoption of the Torrens
system of land title; 308., Dreusdow,
electric light companies must file a
rate of charges and stick to it under
penalty of heavy fine.
The senate passed an uneventful
week without much oratory, confining
its labors to a steady grind of routine
business. Thirty-eight Senate bills
were approved on final passage and
twelve sent to the legislative bone
yard. Among those passed of general
interest were S. F. 6, authorizing the
Omaha Water Board to enter the elec
tric lighting and power field in Omaha
and adjacent territory; S. F. 9, Shum
way, authorizing the sterilization of
certain incompetents, defectives, and
habitual criminals; 35, Beal, giving
legal status and regulation to the
chiropractors; 46, Howell, uniform
rates for fire insurance; 62, Spirk, a
county road overseer instead of the
present district system of overseers;
89, Dodge, forbidding political adver
tising by anonymous circulars, letters,
and newspaper articles; 101, Sandall,
new rule covring embezzlement, anso
102, extends crime of forgery to let
ters, documents, etc., 119, Ruden,
written notice to dealer must have
been filed in saloon damage cases;
120, Ruden, authorizes the compromis
ing of claims and judgment against
county by the commissiorpjs; 121, by
Wilson of Dodge, elestion of supreme
court justices by congressional dis
tricts and chief justice by the state at
large; 126, Bushee, candidate at pri
mary when defeated forbidden to run
for same office by petition; 138, Mar
shall, penalties for maliciously cir
culating rumors derogatory to banks;
148, Bookly, establishing colleg of
pharmacy at state university; 162, re
incorporates grand lodge of Masons;
189, Marshall, Lincoln’s birthday a
public holiday; 199, Beal, additional
penalties on liquor dealers selling to
a student who is a minor; 223, Kohl
and Sprink, memorial toCongressurg
ing passage of bill restricting Union
Pacific right-of-way in Nebraska to
200 feet instead of 400 feet, as in the
original grant by Congress.
Among the Senate bills killed were
two proposals for constitutional
amendments. 104, Hoagland, addi
tional restrictions on foreign-born
voters, and 143, Spirk, reducing size of
the legislature; also 87, Dodge, divid
ing Douglas county into legislative
districts; 187, Shumway, docking hogs;
200, Beal, cutting communication and
knowledge, of whereabouts between
adopted children and their parents;
253, Quinby, limiting all franchises to
twenty-five years.
The Senate reconsidered three bills
once killed and put them back on the
calander for further action. These
were Keichel’s bill requiring three
fifths frontage to pave in villages and
second class cities; Sandall’s bill
abolishing county assesors in coun
ties under 19,00 population, and
Keiihcel’s bill providing for more rigid
inspection of dairy products and mak-1
! ing new rules for the buyers and sell
ing of such products.
Both houses seem jealous of their
own “right of way” and have so far
paid but little attention to bills that
have passed the other house. Up to
date the.Senate has passed only three
House Rolls, two of which were ap
propriations, and have killed two
House bills on third reading, one of
which was a bill to abolish Col. T. J.
Majors as a member of the State Nor
mal Board.
On Monday the Senate held only
an afternoon session devoted largely
to routine business, the House hold
ing a full day’s sesion of the same
character. Of general interest in the
House routine was the practically
unanimous approval by the committee
of the whole of H. R .10, the bill pro
posing a consittutional amendment
providing for the recall of every elec
tive officer in the state from the road
overseer to the Governor and from
the Justice of the Peace to and in
cluding the supreme court of the state.
A little joker in this bill lies in the
fact that while certain progressive
House members were boasting that
the recall includes members of the
legislature, it was pointed out that the
bill provides that no recall action can
be brought until six months after the
individual has begun his term of of
fice. In practical application this
would leave the legislator immune, as
his active service in the session would
probably1 have expired some three
calander months before the action of
recall could be commenced under this
amendment.
TEACHERS’ MEETING
The meeting of Holt county school
teachers which was to have been held
February 6, but was postponed on ac
count of the deep snows at that time,
will be held in O’Neill next Saturday.
The program follows:
Forenoon Session 10:30 to 12.
Recitation, Miss Hammond, St.
Mary’s Academy.
Vocal Training, Edith Killinger,
Inman.
Agriculture in the Rural Schools, E.
J. Taylor, O’Neill.
The Teachers and the Community,
Mrs. Alice McGrane, Stafford.
Domestic Science Demonstration,
O’Neill 12th Grade, Marne Mullen,
Teacher.
Sewing Exhibit, O’Neill Public
School.
Afternoon Session 1:30 to 4.
Recitation, Frank Harrington,
O’Neill High School.
Defective Sight and Hearing, Dr. J.
P. Gilligan, O’Neill.
Playground Supervision, Supt. F. E.
Weyer, Atkinson.
Playground Apparatus, Supt. E. C.
Nyrop, Ewing.
Improvement of Small Town
Schools, Supt. G. V. Oberlender, Stu
art.
Lecture and Moving Pictures, at the
Royal theatre, Dr. G. E. Condra,
Lincoln.
The meeting will be held in the
assembly room of the high school.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES
February 26, 1915.—The Holt County
Teachers’ Asociation which was plan
ned for February 6th was postponed
until March 6th. I trust that teach
ers, patrons and directors will make a
special effort to attend.
Miss Huldah Peterson of the Uni
versity farm who has charge of the
Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs writes that the
state is promoting the following lines
of club work for 1915: Corn, potato,
gardening and canning, pig club work,
sewing and cooking. Each child can
choose one or more of these activities
Club rules and application cards will
be sent to any one who wishes them.
Hary E. Harvey, who taught a rural
school in Holt County four years ago,
graduated from the Peru State Nor
mal in January. He was soon after
elected to fill a' vacancy in the West
Point High School.
Those of theteachers of Holt County
who were so fortunate as to be able to
attend the concert given by the com
mercial club of Omaha in honor of the
visiting teachers at the recent state
teachers’ association learned with re
gret of the death of Mme. Gerville
Reache. Mme. Reache was an artist
of unique ability, and in a compara
tively short career had reached great
heights. Her death is a loss to the
world of music.
All rural teachers who expect to re
new their certificates would do the
leading circle work and pass an ex
amination in “Better Rural Schools.”
All village, town or city teachers
will be requested to pass an examina
tion in “Elementary School Stand
ards,” for renewal. Reading Circle
examinations will be given in April
and May.
Minnie B. Miller, Co. Supt.
The Library.
Following is the report of the city
library for the month of February:
No. of books in library.1,210
No. of books added.142
No. of readers.665
No. of readers added.40
Circulation for month.1,000
Juvenile.318
Adult._..682
Petty cash received.$5.41
Petty cash expended. 3.55
Petty cash on hand. 4.77
Mayme Coffey, Librarian.
FARM SALE
I will offer the below named articles at my farm, 5 miles north andl
mile east of Emmet, 6 miles north and 6 west of O’Neill, 10 east
and 1 north of Atkinson, commencing at 10 o’clock a. m., on
TUESDAY, MAR. 9
5 Head of Horses
1 bay mare, 6 years old, weight 1300; 1 bay mare, 7 years old, weight
1400; 1 bay gelding, 6 years old, weight 1100; 1 sorrel gelding, 3
years old, weight 1000; 1 bay mare, 4 years old, weight 1109.
28 Head of Cattls
2 cows; 1 3-year-old steer; 2 yearling heifers; 23 2-year-old heifers,
coming 3, some carrying calves.
50 Head of Hogs
22 sows carrying pigs; 28 head of barrows; 1 Poland China Boar.
MACHINERY
1 Hoosier Press drill; 1 1-horse drill; 1 50-gallon feed cooker; 1 fan'
ning mill; 1 Clover Leaf manure spreader; 1 2-hole corn shelter ;1 top
buggy; 1 single buggy harness; 1 coach double set of harness, and
1 some household goods.
Plenty of Free Lunch Served at Noon
TERMS:—One year’s time on all sums of $10 and over with 10
per cent interest and approved security. Sums under $10 cash. All
property to be settled for before removal from the premises.
JOSEPH WINKLER
Col. Barney Corrigan, Auctioneer. W. P. Daly, Clerk
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50 Thoroughbred I
AMPSHIRE HOGS
AT PUBLIC SALK
We are announcing our first Hampshire Public Sale. We have s|
found the Hampshire the most profitable hog to raise from the pack' S
•ers’ standpoint that we have ever raised in our many years of hog pro
duction. While we have sold a number of choice Boars and other
breeding hogs at private treaty, this is the first lot that we have ever p
offered at public sale.
This'sale will be held at the barn just east of the O’Neill Garage
in O’Neill, Nebraska, on
Monday, March 15th
In sleeting the offering of bred sows for this sale it was our pur
pose to present an array of show and breeding stock that will be of j
the greatest possible benefit to our customers, as well as a credit to p
the breed and ourselves. This offering, as to type, character and
breeding quality, cannot fail to please the most exacting and dis
criminating buyer.
A large number of these sows are sired by NEBRASKA LAD; he
by BLYTHDALE JIM, which at once brings him into prominence
from his most fashionable, large type family. He is a brother to
LOOKOUT. We have a Herd Boar known as CHEROKEE’S BEST,
to which a large portion of this offering has been mated. There are
also some which are sired by CHEROKEE LAD himself.
Animals of quility, breeding and much individual merit will be
presented in this sale. In fact we cannot recommend to you too |
strongly the most excellent breeding and exceeding high quality that
will appear at this sale. Field men who have visited our farm have 1;
paid us such high compliments on the offering that we are presenting g
that we feel the most discriminating buyer will find many animals of
the most choice quality in this offering. g
We extend to all a most cordial invitation to attend this sale and ;
be our guests on Monday, March 15.
| TERMS OF SALE CASH. |
J. E. HARDINC & SONS
Cols. T. E. Deem and Jas. Moore, Auctioneers. J. F. O’Donnell, Clerk. j|
POSTPONED
PUBLIC SALE
At my residence 15'/2 miles north and 2'/2 miles east of Page, 4'/2 miles
south and l'/2 miles west of Dorsey, l'/2 west and l'/2 miles north of Star,
Tuesday, March 9
Sales commences at 10 o’clock, Free Lunch at Noon, seeved by Frink
14 HORSES AND MULES
32 COWS —11 cows, some fresh
now and some fresh soon; 21 coming
yearling steers and heifers.
119 HOGS—90 head of shoats, some
brood sows to farrow in early summer
—3 big sows with pigs at side.
3 dozen Plymouth Rock chickens.
500 bushels ear corn, some hay.
MACHINERY—New Grand Detour
14-16 disc with trucks, Osborne 16-16
disc with trucks—new, new John Deer
2-row eli, 2-row lay-by cultivator, new
4-shovel Twentieth Century cultivator
—John Deere lister, set of bobsleighs,
wagon and rack, wagon and box, new
Great Western cream separator, set 1
and ‘A inch, set 1% inch, set 1 Yj inch
harness. Household goods.
TERMS—$10 and under cash; 12 month’s time at 10 per cent, approved
security. No property to be removed until settled for.
J. W. ANDERSON
BARNEY STEWART AND BOV S. J. WEEKES, Clerk.
WANSER, Auctioneers.
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tisements say what you mean and mean what you say. Then have them
published, not where you get the most “space” for the money, but where
you get a class of readers that look for and read their paper. The Frontier
is such a paper.