The Frontier
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Economic Highlights
The political battle lines are taking
definite shape now—and what promises
to be the fight of the century is in the
ofling. Beginning next November and
continuing until the Presidential elec
tion of 1930, the campaigns will be the
biterest in many years.
Within a recent ten days two events
of exceptional political importance and
interest occurred. First was the meet
ing of the Republican Central Com
mitttee, its election of a national
party chairman, and its declaration of
policy, after a year in which it has
done but little but mark time. Second,
was Mr. Roosevelt’s June 8th message
to Congress, in which he outlined his
plans for the future.
New Republican Chairman is Henry
P. Fletcher of Pennsylvania. Not
widely known to the general public,
he has long been a political power in
his region, is astute, capable and re
presentative of conservative sentiment
in the industrial east. His job is to
attempt to swing public sentiment into
line behind a policy which is the time
honored one of the Republican party—
with one or two vital exceptions. The
committee’s statement calls for a
“back to the constitution” movement,
asks that the sovereignty of the states
be restored, holds that the present ad
ministration threatens individual and
corporate liberties and even menaces
the right of free speech. It makes a
bow, however, to present trends, by
saying that the nation has been back
ward in social legislation, and that
the Federal government must exercise
a measure of control over industrial
competition. In this particular re
gard, it apparently differs only in de
gree from the stand of Mr. Roosevelt,
thru the NRA.
One difficulty the Republicans still
face is dissension within the party.
Western Republicans believe that they
usually get the short-end of the deal
in party councils. Minority leader
McNary of Oregon, who with Senator
Reed of Pennsylvania, is generally re
garded as his party’s smartest Con
gressman, was opposed to the selec
tion of Mr. Fletcher, and recently told
a radio audience that the ‘‘industrial
east must make concessions to the Re
publicans of the more liberal and less
populous west and midwest.” How
ever, nil the Republicans, with three
possible exceptions, will doubtless be
found in line when election time coipes
'round, as will all democrats who
count.
Mr. Roosevelt’s message laid down
severul principles for his party to fol
low both in fighting for recovery and
in making election campaigns, lie
said that detailed plans would be sub
mitted to the next Congress, and that
he especially desired the planned use
of natural resources, provisions against
unemployment and old age, and bet
ter housing for the American people.
Most striking thing si that in his ad
vocacy of social insurance—something
no other president has ever done. He
said also that he believed the insur
ance should not be paid for by in
creased taxation, but by contribution.
In the meantime, the Administration
program is undegoing some interest
ing changes. The NR A is about to
drop its attempts to fix prices—con
sumers and small business men were
aggressively opposed to this code pro
vision. That is a retreat, and the Re
publicans will do a lot of talking ubout
it, will use it in seeking to persuade
the voters that the recovery program
has failed.
At the close of 1933, according to
the Annalist, the world at large had
recovered 40 per cent of the ground
lost during the preceding years of de
pression. Late figures show that world
industrial production has continued to
advance, and is well above 1933 fig
ures.
Recent reports from England and
Germany are extremely encouraging.
Two of the most important barometers
of business—pig iron and ste« 1 ingot
production—are up. In England, steel
ingot production during April was 97
per cent above the low established in
December, 1930, and only 19 per cent
below the high reached in August,
1929,
Exceptional improvement has like
wise been shown in Russia and Japan.
In the case of the latter, recovery has
been most pronounced of any natior
on earth, though a set-back recentl>
appeared.
So far as the United States is con
cerned, industry has made compar
atively small gains since last March,
Steel has produced the best record,
The textile industry, which has made
a striking advance in the past, is
showing signs of curtailment.
Labor troubles continue to be the
thom-in-the-side of industry as a
whole. A number of important busi
nesses, notably shipping, are tied up
solid in various parts of the country,
and threats of a general strike are
being made. Local authorities are
impotent—all eyes are looking to
Washington to provide a settlement.
As yet, the Federal government has
made few moves, seems to be between
the devil and the deep blue sea.
IN DISTRICT COURT
The Comerical Mutual Surety Com
pany has brought suit in the district
court against Marty Caroline Dim
mitt, et. al., to foreclose o mortgage
for $3,500 given on May 10, 1927, on
the Northwest quarter of section 19,
township 29, range 9 west of the 6th
P. M. In their petition they allege
that the mortgage was given to the
Lincoln Trust company and later as
signed to the plaintiff. They further
allege that they failed to pay the
interest coupon for $210 due on May
I, 1932, and thut they failed to pay
the taxes for the years 1930 to 1932
inclusive, and that there is now due
and unpaid the sum of $3,710. They
ask the court to determine the amount
due and that if same is not paid with
in a reasonable time that the land
be sold.
The Occidental Building & Loan As
sociation has (brought suit against
Monica Bazelman, et al., to foreclose
a mortgage for $3,000 given on Jan
uary 4, 1920, by George W. Bradt on
lots 16, 17 and 18, in Block H. Fahy’s
Second addition to the city of O’Neill.
They allege that the property was
later sold and assigned to Monica
Bazelman and she is now the owner
thereof. They allege that there is now
due and unpaid the sum of $1,363.91.
They ask the court to determine the
amount due and if same is not paid
within a reasonable time that the land
be sold.
The Occidental Building and Loan
Association has brought suit against
J. T. Thompson, et al., to foreclose a
mortgage for $1,000 given on October
8, 1927, on lot 6, and south half of
lot 4, in Block 5, Western Town lot
company’s first addition to the village,
of Inman. They allege that there is
now due and unpaid the sum of
$719.94. They ask the court to de
termine the amount due and if same
is not paid within reasonable time that
the property be sold.
Alma B. llaffner has brought suit
against Annie L. Leonard and Camelia
L. Rose, et al., to quiet title to the
southeast quarter of nection 17, town
ship 25, range 12. She alleges that
she and those under whom she claims
title have had possession of the prop
erty for ten years, and slip asks the
court to quiet the title in her name.
The Fremont Joint Stock Land bank
has brought suit against Sadie PL
Shanner and the southeast quarter of
section 3, in township 29, north of
range 9 west. They allege that on
October 6, 1912, James D. McNabb
and wife gave them a mortgage for
$3,000 on the above described land.
They allege that McNabb lost title to
the land under foreclosure and that
Sadie E. Shnnner is now the owner.
They allege that there is now due the
sum of $2,661.25 and that if same is
not paid in a reasonable time that
the land be sold.
Crain and Forage Sorghums
There still seems to be some mis
understanding as to the definition of
Grain and Forage Sorghums. The
following may not be planted on the
contracted acres but may be planted
on other idle ground. Corn of any
kind for fodder, feteria, grohoma,
legari, all the kafirs and all milos.
The following list of sorghums had
previously been announced by the
corn-hog section in Washington as
forage sorghums and may be planted
on the contracted acres: Atlas Sor
go, Black Amber, Early Sumac, Kan
sas Orange, Leoti Red, Sudan, Red
Amber, Honey, Gooseneck, Sourless,
Denton, Red X, Colman, McLean, Fol
ger, Sapling, Planter and Waconia
Amber.
Any other variety locally grown
should be classified according to the
use that is commonly made of it. Mix
tures of grain and forage sorghums
must be classified as grain sorghums.
Excavation Shows Holt
County Was Once The
Home of Many Indians
By J. B. O’Sullivan
(Continued from last week.)
Not far from the city of Sterling,
Colo., at a point called Summit
Springs, on July 12, 18C9, the Pawnee
Scouts in company with the Fifth
Cavalry under Carr, under a plan of
attack and approach devised by the
Pawnee, crept up on the camp of the
Cheyennes under the dominion of Chief
Tall Bull, and when the melee was
over not one of the Cheyennes was
alive to tell what had occurred. That
band was one of the worst offenders
at waylaying wagon trains, picking
off railway workers and wrecking and
slaughtering in abandon and cold
blood, and when the Pawnee laid down
their cards under encouragement of
their white friends they struck a blow
that was a finality.
The Chief of the Cheyennes, Tall
Bull, almost got away from the
slaughter place, a meandered canyon,
and he was shot to death only after
he narrowly missed a shot he took at
Major Frank North, a famous plains
man and scout long dead and whose
brother, Captain Luther North, visited
O’Neill only last summer.
The Pawnee fell in with the white
man like a long lost brother and the
Sioux must have regretted they ever
were so shortsighted as to permit hate
to brew where brotherly love would
have made the right combination of
prairie Indians almost impossible of
whipping. Two of the North brothers,
Luther and Frank, camped on the
Niobrara river and with 49 of the best
fighting and scouting men of the
Pawnee battalion, under cover of the
night, marched about 70 miles thru
the heart of the Pine Ridge country
without any sort of trail, to carry out
a pre-arranged plan to strike a heavy
blow at two arch chiefs of the war
against the whites.
On Chadron creek, just at the break
of day, this party crept up on the
camp of two wiley and competent men,
Red Cloud and Swift Bear, and a then
unknown number of fierce warriors.
The day was October 23, 1876.
The most surprising thing about
this foray is that both chiefs were
taken prisoners without the firing of
a shot. In the roundup the whites
and Pawnee captured 722 Indian
ponies belonging to the prisoners.
While making a trip thru this part
of the country last summer Captain
! North sought out descendents of Red
! Cloud and other noted fighters and
1 met them personally and there was
warm handshaking and much smoking
! of the pipe of peace instead of scurry
ing for cover and spilling of each
| other’s blood. Captain North found
and identified for a certainty the spot
where the captures were made and
a marker was set there while the
tobacco smoke rolled away in a balmy
breeze.
One of the last feats of which the
Pawnee had a leading part in the sub
duing of the Sioux-Cheyennc difficulty
was a long march under General Mc
Kenzie to the Big Horn mountain
country in Wyoming where another
surprise party had been planned on a
camp of the Cheyennes who were be
ing directed by Chief Dull Knife.
The Pawnee and whites knocked the
fight out of the enemy in very short
order, destroying their village and left
the Cheyennes running around naked
in the month of December. The rout
was so complete it resulted in the
surrender of Chief Crazy Horse in
the spring of 1877.
Pawnee fighting against the Chey
enne-Sioux was of such a high order
that the work of the scouts from the
year 18G4 to 1877 resulted in the death
of but one of them and that death
no credit to the enemy because the
scout died of an accident.
It is only the truth to say that were
it not for this sterling work on the
part of the Pawnee, and of course the
whites who equipped and fought with
them, there would have been no com
pleted Union Pacific, no farms and
ranches, no towns and no civilization
because of the Cheyenne-Sioux wars
on the prairies of Nebraska. All
credit for the work must go to the
North brothers and, the Pawnee scouts.
While here last summer Captain
North said when he campaigned
against the Red Cloud band in 187G
there was not even one residence be
tween Neligh and Fort Laramie, in
Wyoming and again in a raid after
Chief Dull Knife in 1877 there was no
sign of a house between Laramie and
Sidney, Nebraska.
The scenes in and around the great
Pawnee republic at the time of the
white man’s coming must have been
thrilling. We think of our times as
the most glamorous in the history of
the world, and we think of ourselves
(Continued on page 4, column 4.)
Nebraska News Items
William Deck, farmer living near
Hoskins, and his hired man, Joseph
Miller, and the former’s son, Norman,
are in a hospital at Norfolk, the men
being in a critical condition, as the
result of an automobile crash Satur
day night. Deck, who is suffering
from a brain contusion, was still un
conscious Monday. Miller is para
lyzed from the arms down as the re
sult of an apparent crushed, vertebra
and indications are that he is perman
ently paralyzed, the attending physi
cian stated. Young Deck has a scalp
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According to State Engineer Coch
ran the Nebraska read program faces
a fifty per cent reduction for the com
ing year, on account of the reduced
federal appropriation. Last year Ne
braska had $7,828,000 for road work
while Cochran says it will get only
$3,900,000 from the new appropriation
for this year.
Petitions to recall Police Commis
sioner Myers, of Omaha, are being
circulated in that city and will be filed
with the election commissioner next
Monday. Approximately 15,000 sign
atures are required on the petitions,
and those advocating the recall say
they have 19,000 now and will have
25,000 before the filing of the petition
next Monday.
Charles A. McCloud, 74, of York,
republican national committeeman and
prominent banker, submitted to the
amputation of his left leg at a hospit
al at York Sunday morning. Physic
ians said that on account of his ad
vanced age his condition was serious.
Gangrene of tbe foot necessitated the
operation.
The board of county commissioners
of Pawnee county were expected to
sign an agreement Tuesday which will
mean the return of federal emergency
relief aid to the county’s needy. Com
missioners indicated Saturday that
they would sign the proposal follow
ing a meeting of about 200 taxpayers
of the county. They voted that the
agreement be signed to obtain aid for
the present.
George Heinke, county attorney of
Otoe county, has announced his accept
ance of petitions nominating him for
candidate for attorney general on the
republican primary ballot.
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