OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
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ST AT IS.
_. ....John M. Thaver
.T. J. Major!*
" .J. C. Allen
' .J. E. Hill
George H. Hastings
,,,,.. ... .„ .Thomas 11. Hon ton
si lie •V,'t u‘ lnd Bulling*..Soorgo Humphrey
0<:»- Instruction.A. K. Goudy
UNIVERSITY.
Leavitt Burnham,
MoCook; George
Morrill, Strouis
ll<1 p'nlls'iin'iBullli
'■"I"' VA,bile instruction.
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ii cJore, Lincoln:
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Brighton; C'has. H
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CONGRESSIONAL.
, riots. F. Mandersou, of Omaha;
‘'lir'',Vu Paddock, of Beatrice.
\ 1 i_reri"1 u ■ - *.Myes—wm. Bryan, Lincoln; O,
Broken Bow; Wm. Mclvel-h-,n. tied
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111,(1 • COUNTY.
nork ,,f the District Court....
Johit JuciitliiG
..E. M. Lowe
,iinl.ixe • • • .. .Barrett Scott
Tirusurtt. .John S.Weeke9
.. G. C. llazelot
clock .. ;.C.E. Butler
I'l l11!/. .H. C. McEvony
Si" "1;. .E. J. Mack
setiiVols ..H. W. Dudley
.t . ..Mrs. H. W. Dudley
.distant. Dr. 0. E. Fort
1 .'..W. W. Page
AtuirneyV.V.V.V.V.V.'.... E. W. Adams
SUPERVISORS._.
SAME
< K M—Chm
IIIt lum. W W
Crow, Johr.
('niiger^L
rU'velund B F
r raw ford John
rnmin Dan
Duncan John
Gray Robert
liilson S
Urritf James
limlirkin II
linniheek M V
Howard 8 H
!innterJ M
lluiirh W B
Haves W T
.iilison L A
Kelley l*
Kline E
l.. at Herman J
Mullen J l*
MeElhiineyW V
Miller Howard
Moss C W
NulkiiinperWm
IVrkius K E
ParkerS
Smith J R
Smith C iVl
Wine 11 0
TOWNSHIP
Green Valley
Fairview
Deloit
Cleveland
Tnman
Ewing
Sand Creek
Shields
Chambers
Verdigris
Francis
Rock Falla
Haddock
Dustin
Grattan
Willowdale
Emmet
Sheridan
Stuart
Scott
Lake
Turtle Creek
Pleasnntview
Steel Creek
Atkinson
Wyoming
Saratoga
McClure
O’Neill
Iowa
Conley
Swan
Atkinson
Inez
Ewing
Stuart
Inman
Ewing
Atkinson
O’Neill
Chambers
Page
Atkinson
Turner
Leonia
Badger
O’Neill
Minneola
Atkinson
Atkinson
Stuart
Scottville
Bliss
Grand Rapids
Emmet
Star
Atkinson
Amelia
Turner
Little
O’Neill
Lambert
Harold
Swan
GRATTAN TO WN8HIP.
Supervisor. S. B. Howard; Treasurer, J. 0.
Haves; Clerk, N. Martin; Assessor, S. F.
MeNiehols; Justices, M. Slatterly and Chas.
imrersoll; Constables, Perkins Brooks and
Will Stmnskie; Road overseer, dist. 26, Theo
il, re Otto; dist. No. 4, P. Barrett, sr.
CITY OF CTNEILL.
Supervisor, Sanford Parker; Justices, J. J.
Kingunn J. P. O’Donnell; Constables, John
Luppan and W. F. Keeley.
COUNCIIiMBN—FIRST WARD.
Tor two years.—Ben DeYarman. For one
year—David Stannard.
SECOND WARD.
For two years—Fred Gatz. For one year—
II. Mullen.
THIRD WARD.
For two years—Barrett Scott. For one year
-C. C. Millard.
CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor, 0. F. Biglin; Clerk,Thos. Campbell;
Treasurer, David Adams; City Engineer,
Sumner Adams; Police Judge, N. Martin;
chief of Police, John Lappan; Attorney,
Thos. Carlon; Weighmastor, Ed. M.Bride;
Street Commissioner. O. E. Davidson.
JUDICIARY.
Chief Justice.Amasa Cobb
Associates.. .Samuel Maxwell and T. L. Norval
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
Judge.M. P. Klnkaid. of O’Neill
kcr-orter.A. L. Warrick, of Ainsworth
Judge.A. W. Criteg, of Chadron
Reporter.H. L. Laird, of Chadron
LAND OFFICES.
O’NEILL.
Register.B. S. Gillespie
Receiver..A. L. Towle.
KELIQH.
Register.. .0. W. Robinson
Receiver ’.W. B. Lambert
SOLDIERS' RELIEF CGMNISSION.
Regular meeting first Monday in Febru
ary of each yem> and at such other times as
is deemed necessary. Robt. Gallagher, Page,
tluiirumn; Win. Bowen, Atkinson, secretary;
A. K. Haskins, Cleveland.
)tiT. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH.
►-/ Services every Sabbath at 10 :B0 o'clock.
y*ry Rev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school
immediately following services.
\ 5 KTHODI9T CHURCH. Preaching
idLevery Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
Sunday school at 12 m. Class Meeting ap 10:80
-i- ni. Tuesday—Young people’s meeting, 8
p. in. Wednesday—Children’s meeting, 4 p
m. Prayer meeting, 8 p. m. Thursday—La
ii:es aid society, 2 p. in. E. E. Wilson. Pas.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Services
a every Sunday morning at 11 o’clock,
suuday school at 10 a. in.
Rev. N. S. Lowrik, Pastor.
(i A-H-POST, NO. 86. The Gon. John
, * 0 Neill Post, No. 86, Department of Ne
braska G. A. R., will meet the first and third
evening of each month in Masonic
hull O'Neill. S. J. Smiih, Com.
UUUIOKX VALIEY’LODGE.I. o. o
i n ,,Meet8 every Wednesday evening ii
i i1fellows’ hall. Visiting brothers cordiall;
111'7ted to attend.
U'i, tA1 LTZ» St,c- A. H. Gorbett, N. G.
t. II. Bentley. R. S. D. L. Dark. P. 8
E. II. Thompson, Treas.
(JARFIELD CHAPTER, R. A. M
„ ,°tn first and third Thursday of eac
»» Masonic hall.
JR Dobhs, See. J. C. Harnish, H, P
K 9? ^HELMET LODGE. U. I
ni in nK??11 every Monday at 8 oJclock i
™d!ul!y1nvite0d?W8' V,8ltlnS breth6r
r v .. _ E. M. Ghady, C. C.
fc-E. Evans, K. of li. and 8.
ALLIANCE NO. 481
loiirtii a . Alliance moots every second an
invherf S'1,tV,rafty « a p. m. Visiting membei
memWo 1 K°od farmers urged to beoom
Cha,^0«,«m*, 8eoJN°- Fallox’Pre8t’
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0’*oKALJJ ENCAMPMENT NO. 30.
Krid,lY,• m®ets every second and four
(i W* cach month in Odd Fellows’ Hr
“-mai.evkland, S. S. Wolf, C. P
lipVtFV Fr?°* 41’ UA.UC1HTE1
I'ridttvnf„ 1, KAH, meets every 1st and
J 01 Cllch nionth in Odd Fellows’ Hall
Ei.r , ,, Alice Adams, N. G
‘-‘•i.A iiAim. Secretary.
Ulietnu^n !> JA>1»GJ£, NO.W5,P.<te A
on or tS ™ cpmmumeatlons Thursday nlj
w t iP™the lul1 ot the moo
a.ns, Sue. A. I,. Ti
moon.
Towle, W. M
ALLIANCE, NO.
oi each S?ct,nd and fourth Satun
S. n at Uriah Fellows’.
r>,Vff^ MVAHD ^ec- U. Fellers, Pi
REPUBLICAN ch
'Iruirsi,,. hre located over Morris & Ci
uptfi.4,°“ Douglas street. The rooms i
’o visit '! tones. Republicans are invii
>,hLii..ort'A vtp°;ns at any and all tiro
"nki'tlui’"! ,elu the city are invited
llusi.,,,"0 t'tub rooms their headquarU
third s.^„"1.wth,sr of the club the first f
•luirduy evening of cach month.
'-,^:H>(;gs,Su4LJOW-E' Pre8lde
POSTOFFICE DIRCETORY
Arrival of Mails
Everv rtj5,'. ® M- y. n. a.—fhom the east.
Sunday Included ot.5:10
Svrrvs,,,. o the west.
> <•>»>, Sunday Included at.9:3t
Arriv,,, *‘a,iific shout line.
hepar a day except Sunday at 9:00
8 •• “ 6:0(
hsparla v,„°,NK'LL and CHELSEA.
irruilSrjl<i'thay, Wod. and Friday at 7:(X
Tuesday,Thurs.and Sat. at..1:01
‘Sparta v e keill and paddock.
irriv^rn’Ctthay. Wed.and Friday at. .7:01
lutsday, Thurs. and Sat. at..4:3C
■Parta \r„ N,Kn'[' and NionuAHA.
‘hire*? ! ?“>'■ Wed- ani1 Fri. at... .7:00
C8 niesday, Thurs. and Sat. at.. ,4:0C
Arrive. \ AND cdmminbville.
Haru ''eh- Fridays at. ..11:00
Mon., Wed. and Friday at.1:«
haunted.
In that last hour -.vber.! w > stood,
Day was gliding iiv.o night;
With that tender, dying ;l.i;\ *
From my soul wont all its light.
Boses shivered in the breath
Of the zephyr as it passed
Borrow shrieked into my saui,
“Parting time has oonio at last!’*
You are with mo still, niv sweet,
I am haunted, and will l,o,
Till these tired eyos are closed
« In death’s calm eternity.
BURIED ALIVE.
The guests filed slowly into the great
dining hall of the hotol and sat down
at their places. Tho waiters began
their serving quito leisurely, in order
to give tho belated ones time to arrive
and to Bave themselves tho trouble of
bringing back tho dishes; the old
bathers, with whom tho season was far
advanced, kept an alert watch upon
the door each timo it was opened,
hoping for the appearance of fresh
face3.
mere came only two, but very
strange ones, those of a man and a
woman—father and daughter. The
gentleman was very tall and spare,
slightly bent, with hair quite white,
too white for his still young counte
nance; there was in his earriago and
about his person the serious air of
austerity that bespeaks the Puritan.
The daughter was, perhaps, about 24
or 25 years of age. She was small
and emaciated, and her exceedingly
fale face wore a languid, spiritless ex
pression. We sometimes encounter
people who appear too weak for the
cares and demands of life, too feeble
to move, to do the things we must do
every day. ( This girl was pretty, with
the transparent beauty of an appari
tion; she ate with extreme slowness,
as if she were almost incapable of
moving her arms.
It was she undoubtedly who came
for the benefit of the waters.
They happened to bo opposite me on
the other side of the table, and I im
mediately noticed that the father had
a very singular nervous affliction.
Whenever ho was about to reach for
anything, his hand, with a quick jerk,
described a sort of fluttering zigzag,
before he was able to touch what he
was after. In a few moments this
motion annoyed me so much that I
turned away my head in order not to
see him.
I also observed that the young girl
kept a glove on her loft hand while
she ate.
After dinner I went out to take a
turn in the park belonging to the
water-curo establishment. It extend
ed to the little station hidden in a
gorge at the foot of a high mountain,
from which runs so many bubbling
springs, hot from the deep furnace of
old volcanoes. Over there, beyond
us, the domes, extinct craters, raised
their mutilated heads above the long
chain. Chatel-Guyon begins the land
of “Domes.”
Beyond the “domes” are two other
distinct regions, the one of needle-Mke
peaks and the other of abrupt precip
itous mountains.
It was very warm that evening. I
was walking back and forth in the
shady path, listening to the music
pouring forth from the casino on a
mound that overlooked the park.
I perceived the father and daughter
coming toward me with slow steps. I
saluted them, as in watering places
one salutes his hotel companions. The
gentleman, stopping immediately, in
quired of me:
“Pardon me, sir; may I ask if you
can direct us to a short, walk, easy and
pretty, if possible?”
I offered to conduct them myself, to
the valley through which the slender
river flows—a deep, narrow gorge be
tween two great declivities, rocky and
wooded.
They accepted.
And, naturally enough, we spoke of
the virtues of the mineral waters.
“Ah, yes,” said he, 'my daughter
has a strange malady, the seat of
which her physicians are unable to de
termine. She suffers from incompre
hensible nervous symptoms. Some
times they think her afflicted with
heart disease, sometimes with liver
complaint, and sometimes with spinal
difficulty. At present they attribute
to the stomach, which is the great
motor and prime regulator of the body,
this Proteus-like malady of a thousand
forms, a thousand modes of attack.
That is why we are here. I am my
self rather of the opinion that it is her
nerves. In any case it is very sad.”
That reminded me immediately of
the violent jerking of the hand, and I
asked:
“But is not that hereditary? Are
not your own nerves a little affected?”
Tranquilly he answered:
“Mine? Oh, no; I have always pos
sessed very calm nerves.”
Then suddenly, after a pause, he re
marked:
“Ah, yes! You refer to the action
of my hand Whenever I reach for an
object? That is the result of a terrible
shock I once had. Imagine, sir, this
child has been buried alive!”
I could And nothing to say, except
“Ah!” with emotion and surprise.
He went on: Here is the story. It
is simple. Juliette had for some time
seemed subject to disordered action of
the heart We were sure she suffered
from some disease of this organ and
expected the worst.
One day she was brought in lifeless
—dead. She had fallen dead whilo
walking in the garden. The phy
sician issued a certificate of death. I
watched beside her for a day and two
nights. I myself placed her in tho
coffin, which I followed to the ceme
tery, where she was laid in the family
vault. It waif in tho country, in
Lorraine.
I had wished that sho should be
buried with her jewels, bracelets,
necklaces, ring#, all the presents that j
i
I had given her, and her lirst boll
dress.
You ci»h imagine the' state of my
heart on returning home. She was ail
I had, my wife having been dead for
many years. Stunned and half mad, I
shut myself alone in my room and fell
into an armed-chair, almost senseloss,
unable to move. I was merely a
wretched, breathing wreck.
My old valet, Prosper, who had
helped mo place Juliette in her coffin
and lay her away for her last rest, en
tered noiselessly and asked:
* ‘Monsieur, will you not oat some
thing?" I shook my head, without
speaking.
He persisted:
"Monsieur is wrong. This will make
him ill. Would monsieur like me to
put him to bed?”
I answered: ‘
"No; let mo alone.”
And he withdrew.
How many hours may have passed I
know not Oh! what a night! What a
night! It was cold, my firo had burned
out in the great fireplace, and the wind,
a wintry gale, charged with ioy frost,
was howling without and rapping at
my window with a peculiarly sinister
sound.
Long hours rolled away. I sat there,
wide-awake, prostrated and over
whelmed, my eyes were open, but my
body was nerveless, dead, and my soul
was ingulfed in despair. Suddenly
the great hall bell rang out.
I gave such a start that my chair
creaked under me. The slow, solemn
sound vibrated in the empty house.
I looked to see the hour by the clock.
It was 2 in the morning. Who could
be coming at such an hour?
And, abruptly, the bell rang twice
again. The servants, certainly, would
not dare answer it. I took a candle
and descended. I was about to de
mand ■
“Who is there?”
Then, ashamed of this weakness, I
slowly drew back the heavy bolts. My
heart throbbed; I was afraid. I open
ed the door brusquely, and descried
in the gloom a shape like a ph antom,
dressed in white.
I recoiled, impotent with anguish,
and stammered:
‘Who—who—who are youP’
A voice answered:
‘It is I, father. ’
It was my daughter.
Really I thought myself mad and I
shrank away, retreating backward be
fore the specter as it entered, gesticu
lating with my hand, as if to ward oil
the apparition. The gesture has never
left me.
The phantom spoke again:
‘Have no fear, papa; I was not dead.
Some one has stolen my rings and has
cut off my finger; the blood began to
flow and that has revived me.’
And I observed, then, that she was
covered with blood.
I fell to my knees, gasping, sobbing
hysterically.
As soon as I had partly recovered
my senses, so dazed still that I hardly
comprehended the terrible happiness
that had come to me, I made her go
up to my room and placed her in my
armchair; then I rang sharply for
Prosper, that he might rekindle the
Are, prepare a warm drink for her and
summon a physician.
The man entered, gazed at my
daughter, opened his mouth with a
spasm of fright and horror, then fell
back, stark dead.
It was ho who had opened the vault,
Who had mutilated and then abandoned
my child, for he could not efface the
traces of his robbery; he had not even
taken the pains to place the coffin back
in its case, certain, moreover, of not
being suspected by me, who trusted
him fully.
“You see, monsieur, that we are
very unfortunate people. ”
He was silent. ®
Night had come on. shrouding with
its gloom the sad and solitary little
vale and a kind of mysterious dread
seized me at finding myself alone with
these uncanny beings—this corpse
come to life and this father with his
appalling gestures.
I could find nothing to say, but stam
mered:
“What a horrible thing!'’
Then, after awhile, I added:
“Let us return! The night hag
grown chill.”
And we walked back toward the
hotel.
P. I). A J. F. MULLEN,
PROPRIETORS OP THE
RED - FRON
rn
GOOD TEAMS, NEW RIGS
Prices Reasonable.
East of McCilfferto’s. O’NEILL, NEB.
A SALOON
Where the best
WINES,
LIQUORS
AND CIGARS
Can Always be Had
Is located opposite Tint Itkm
O’NEILL,
PAT GIBBONS, Prop.
Deyarman Brothers,
l’KOHKIETORB OF TUB
Cfiecker Livery, Feed&Sale Stable
O’NEILL NEB
Finest turnouts In theolty. Good, oare
ful drivers when wanted. Also run the
O’Neill Omnibus Line
Commercial Trade a Specialty
Have ohnrireo ot IMoCafTnrty's Hearse. All
orders will roaolve careful and prompt attend
R.R DICKSOi'J&CO..
8UOOE88QR8 TO
T. V. GOLDEN A CO.,
Title Abstracters/Conveyancers,
TAXES PAID FOR NON-RESIDENTS.
FARM LANDS •
-i
• /AND TOWN LOTS
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.
Farm Loans Necotlatcd on tho Most
Reasonable Terms.
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A. H. CORBETT
WILL ATTEND TO YOUH
DENTISTRY
IN FIUST-ClASS SHAPE.
® PHOTOGRAPHY®
OP ALL KINDS
Fromptlr and Satisfactorily Executed.
Office end (fainry on Fourth stroet
east orHolt County Dank.
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FRED C. GATZ
HBSMMn OliaMHM *
- 'DEALER IN—
Fresh, Dried and Salt Meats,
~7T;T
Sugar-cured Ham, 'Breakfast Bacon,
Sides, Spice roll bacon, al i kinds of sausages,
O'NEILL, NEB,
Hotel Evans.
FORMERLY EUROPEAN.
Enlarg ed,
Refurnish eel
-AND
REFITTED,
Only First Class Hotel in City,
W. T. EVANS, Prop.
EMIL SNIGGS,
Gensta! Blacksmith,
, ,f)’NEILL, NEB*
Wagon and Carriage Repair
ing Done to Perfection.
Plow Work and Horse Shoe*
ing a Specialty.
Hand Made Siioes Made to any Order
We stop Interfering and suceesssully treat
quarter Cracks and Contracting Feet, and
cure Corns, where our directions are^strictly
followed.
Carry a Line of Carriage, Wagon and* lo
stock. Work done on short, notice. XI-P32
DEAFNESS,
IIS CSUSES BED GORE
Scientifically treated by an surlst of world
wide reputation. Deafness eradicated and en
tirely cured, of from ‘20 to :sc years’ standing,
1 after all other treatments have failed. How
, the difllculty Is reached and cause removed,
fully explained In circulars, with allidavits and
testimonials of cures from prominent people
mailed free. DK. A. FONTAINE,
1 Tacoma, Wash.
First National Bank.
Authorised Capital, $100,000.
TOAD. J BERMINQHAM, Prki.
ED F. GALLAGHER. CAShiEK.
J. P. MANN, Vick Piubs.
FRED II. SWINGLEY, Asbt. Oashikb.
Mone^ Loaned on Personal Security omtlie Most Favorable
Terms. Issue* Time Certificates Bearing Interest.
Buy and Sell Foreign «fe Domestic Exchange, j
DIRECTORS:
P. J. McManus M. Cayanauou. T. F. Bbrminoiiam. J. P. ManmI
E. W. Montcomkiiy. Ed. F. Gallaohrii. Tuad. J. Brrminoiiau.
:*!«
O’NEILL • NEBRASKA.
Paid-Up Capital. $60,000. Surplus, $2o,ooo.
; 4
Holt county bank,
o’neill, Nebraska.
DAVID ADAMS, President. D. L. DARR, Cashier.
♦ Wm, Adams, Asst. Cashier.
A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED.
Agents for the Cunard, North German Lloyd. American and Rod Star lines of
American Steamships. Buy and Bell drafts drawn on principal cltlesof
Europe and America. Accounts of Arms and Individuals solicited.
Collections Made and Remited on the Day ot Payment.
JOHN J. McCAFFERTY.
-=DEALER IN——
HARDWARE
Tinware, Farm Implements,
Furniture, Woodenware, Wagons, Corn-Shellers,
Coffins and Undertaking Supplies,,
O'NEILL, HOLT CO., NEB.
MOSES CAMPBELL’S
Sewing Machines and Organs.
.M
I keep constantly on hand the WHITE sewing machines,
walnut, oak or mahogany. The new Rotary Shuttle is the
lightest running, most noiseless and fastest sewer of any ma
chine ever made. I have the ESFEY Organ always in stock.
All mucicians know this to be one of the best Organs made
by any manufacturers. If you want a Sewing Machine Or an
Organ don’t let some traveling sharper take you in. He will *
be sure to charge you two prices for inferior goods. No mat
ter what guarantees he will give you they are not as good
you can get from a permanent dealer in your own locality. I
d-,.l
will take orders for Pianos and give the very lowest prices
and most liberal terms.
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MOSES CAMPBELL, OM Id
P
IONEER HARDWARE DEALER
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I carry the largest stock of
Hardware, Tinware,
V-.-v'
Copper &. Graniteware,
In North ebraska, and make a specialty of
Superior
Barbed 'Wire.
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IN IMPLEMENTS I CARRY THE BEST MADE
BRADLEY & CO. AND PERU CITY- PLOWS.
Harrows, Challenge Planters, Flying Dutchman,
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SU LKY*PLOWS.*PERU * CITY*CULTI VATORS
BLISTERS AND DRILLS.*
Call and see me before you make your purchases aa 1' can ;s
save you some money.
NEIL BRENNAN, O’Neill Neb, il
