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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1892)
First National Bank, O’NEILL - NEBRASKA. Paid-Up Capital. $5o,ooo. Surplus, $2o,ooo> Authorised Capital, $100,000. THAD. J. BERMINGHAM, Pres. ED F. GALLAGHER. Cashier. J. P. MANN, Vice Pres. FRED H. SWINGLEY, Asst. Cashier. Money Loaned on Personal Security on the Most Favorable lerms. Issue Time Certificates Bearing Interest. Buy and Sell Foreign <fc Domestic Exchange. DIRECTORS: P. J. McManus M. Cavanaugh. T. F. E. VV. Montgomery. Ed. F. Gallagher. Bermingham. J. P. Mann Tiiad. J. Bermingham. HOLT III GOUNTY III BANK, O’neill, Nebraska. {• ; DAVID ADAMS, President. D. L. DARR, Cashier. Wm. Adams, Asst. Cashier. A GENERAUBANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. Agents for the Cunard. North German Lloyd, American and Red Star lines of American Steamships. Buy and sell drafts drawn on principal cities of Europe and America. Accounts of firms and individuals solicited. Collections Made and Remited on the Day of Payment. J. W. THOMAS, President. G. W. WATTLES, Vic-Pres. JOHN McHUGH, Cashier. THE ■ STATE • BANK OF CNBlW" ——DEALER IN— H ARDW ARE, _Farm Implements, Tinware, Farm Implements, Furniture, Wooden* are, Wagons, .Com^ ^ Coffins and Undertakes Supples, o-neilvhomc^neb. r«—-2^sr"“ „ 9,-^Vr e ELI BARBED WIRE 9 Ivatore, Flying Dutchman Sulhy j _ ICity Cultivators. 1 LISTERS and ©RILLS Call aDd see me before you make your purchases as I can save you some money. NEIL BRENNAN, O’Neill Neb. Highest of all in Leavening Power.~Latest U. S. Gov’t Report GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY, Eastern Railway Co., of Minnesota, SOLID - TRAINS —BETWEEN— St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and West Superior. Buffet Parlor Cars on all day trains. W. A. CARPENTER, Gen’l. Pass. Agent, St. Paul, Minn. O'CONNOR & GALLAGHER DEALERS IN Of all kinds. A specialty made of FINE CIGARS. If you want a drink of Rood liquor do not full to cull on us. Martin'. Old Stand, O'Neill, Neb. Hotel Evans. _ FORMERLY EUROPEAN. Enlarg ed, Refurnished -AND REFITTED. Only First Class Hotel in City, W. T. EVANS, Prop. EMIL SNIGGS, Gensral Blacksmith, O’NEILL, NEB-' Wagon and Carriage Repair* ing Done to Perfection. Plow Work and Horse Shoe ing a Specialty. Hand-Made Shoes Made to any Order Wc stop Interfering and successsully treat quarter Cracks and Contracting Feet, and cure Corns, where our directions are'strlctly followed. Catry a Line of Carriage, Wagon andA lo stock. Work done on short notice. XI-P1J2 JONES & M'CUICHEOE PROPRIETORS OP | - CENTRAL - Livery Barn. O'NEILL, NEB. NEW BUGGIES W NEW TEAMS. Everything Firpt-Claps. Burn Opposite Campbell’s Implement House m THROUGH DAILY TRAINS —BETWEEN— SIOUX CITY & ST. PA UL. —PASSING— Doon. Garretson, Pipestone, Marshall, Will mur, Litchfield, Lake Minnetlmka and Minneapolis. —BEACHING A LI. POINTS IN— MINNESOTA, THE DAKOTAS, MONTANA AND MANITOBA. AND ALL PACIFC COAST AND PUOET SOUND POINTS. Also all Soo Line and Crnada Pacific points east. Connects at Sioux City with all the great Diverging Lines. -THE PACIFIC SHORT LINE. (S. C., O’N & W. RY.) Through Northeastern Nebraska. (The Land of Jhe Golden Ear), —BETWEEN— Sioax City, Jackson, Allen, Dixon, Ran dolph, Otmond, Plainview, Brunswick and O’Neill. THE SHORT LINE, via. O’Neill, from all ' points between I BLACK HILLS AND SIOUX CITY, j Three Hours Quicker time than via. any I other line. ; Golden opportunities along these lines for hoiueseekers. For full particulars write to | F.C. IliLL. W. B."McNIDER, Pres, and Gen’l. Mgr. Gen’l. Pass. Agt. j. w. firesaUgh, agt., O’NEILL, NEB£ SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY. IS IT A . CRAZB OR A GREAT DISCOVERY? BOSTON il ST AT PRESENT DIS CUSSING IT. Some Spirit Photographs on Exhi bition and Said To Be Genuine— If They Are l'akee the Proeeea Can Not be Explained. Spirit photography la the reigning sensation in cultured Boston. The old puritanical citv has gone wild, so to speak over this new phenomena. The greatest minds in this modern Athens have become a prev to the mysteries of tho beyond. Spiritualism is being discussed at the loading liter ary clubs and societies. The editions of three or four of the leading daily journals (to Bay nothing of the complete conversion of the editor of the Arena) have become greatly inter ested in the subject. A local camera artist makes a regular business of photographing spirits of departed friends of those who can afford to pay for tho luxury. There is no city in tho country so thoroughly taken un with spiritualism as Boston. That it iR principally con fined to the educated portion of the community is an evidence that the theory of communion with [the spirits of those departed has come to stay. It was thought for a while that when the photographic "racket" was exposed all spiritualism would he laughed out of existence. But if there is any fake about spirit photog raphy the greatest scientists and Scholars of Boston have failed to dis cover it. The fact that it has stood the test intensifies the interest, and it is said that hundreds of converts are being made every week. The craze has also spread to New York and rapid progress is being made there, too, it is said. But X began to write about spirit photography. It is a subject that muBt interest all. It is now seven years since Madame Comstock of Boston became the agency through which this marvellous won der which has astonished everybody who has suffocated prejudice long enough to give it thought. Mrs. Com stock was what is known as a “med ium.’’ Hho kept a little notion shop, and, among other things, made a busi ness of weaving hair into mementos of friends living and dead. The idea being new she secured quite a custom especially from the wealthier folk. One day a request came to have a locket made from the hair of a dead girl photographed that it might be sent to friends in England. She secured an electric camera and retiring to a dark room proceeded to take the likeness. It seems that the camera refused to do the work properly and she called in a Mr. Martin, then an engraver in one of the leading jewelry - houses, who had a knowledge of the art. Mr. Martin first experimented on an easy chair. His consternation can be bet ter imagined than described when he developed the plate and found that the chair was represented as being filled by a human being dimly out lined. As he looked at it closer he per ceived the image of a cousin who had long since departed. Mrs. Comstock pronounced it as the photograph of a spirit who had sought this means of communicating with mortals. Other experiments were made and so thoroughly satisfied did Mr. Martin be come that a new light had dawned upon the world that he did not hesi tate to establish himself in the busi ness and has since made it legitimate. Others have followed suit in New York and other places and according to spiritualists it is a pretty wicked spirit that cannot communicate with living spirits. Of thd many photographs taken many have been preserved. Some of them are copied here. They all present likenesses of living persons, which look exactly as ordi nary photographs do, being, indeed, taken in the regular Way. But behind photo. or it one side of the living sitter op peers sometimes only a bead, some* times a head and shoulders, and some times the full length, of another per son, rather indistinct and shadowy, but still in many eases clearly enough defined for a likeness to be recognized. One of the most remarkable of these strange pieces of work is a picture taken for ex-Banker Marsh of New York city. Some years ago he lost a wife to whom he was greatly attaohed, and who, as he believes, has never ceased to be present in her spiritual form with him. On a certain occasion he sat to Mr. Marsh aud on the plate these came along with his an image of a lady, which he aad his friends all declare to bo a oorreot likeness of hla deceased wife. The face In perfectly distinct; one arm is thrown round her' husband's neck, so that her hand, hold ing a branch of what seems to be lilacs. comes in front of his breast. Another picture being taken, the same figure appeared in a different atti tude, pointing with ono hand upward. On a third triul, however, this figure disappeared, and the head of an un known child came instead. Another picture is that of a well known real-estate broker of Now York, near whom appears a lovely child's faco, fit for ono of Raphael's cherubs. Mr. M-could not tell, however, of whom It was a likeness. One particularly touching picture was taken for a mother who, not long ago, lost a darling boy. As sho sat before the camera she- mentally said, “Willie, I wish you would ooihe aud place yourself as you used to when you said vour prayers to me" and in rcsponBo to her silent wish there ap pears a child resting his head upon her bosom, which she avers is a perfect likeness of her boy. At a spiritual seance held recently a message was received, purporting to be from the uhild just mentioned, to the effect that, if his father would sit to Mr. M-, a better picture of him still would be obtained. Ills father accordingly came and sat, and in the picture obtained there appears within the father's arms a charming boy of apparently lo-yearB of ago, which is said by both father and mother to be their child beyond a doubt. An elderly gentleman having sat for his likeness, found it accompanied by that of a lady to whom lie had beon engaged twenty years ago, and of whose relation with him Ids own fam ily had not been aware. Sitting a sec ond time, he gdt the likeness of a son who was killed several years ugo In Arkansas. A distinguished miniature artist of New York city having tried the exper iment, was rewarded with u portrait of his aged mother. Kvcrybodv will ask this question, and answer it according to Ids own notions. Skeptics will insist that there is some trick, and that the ghost figures are obtained by using lay figures or old photograph negatives, •r by other expedient of that kind. The great dilllcu.ty in the way of this explanation (says a photographer whom wo will call Hrown. and who, if we gave his real name, would be in stantly recognized as excellent author ity on the subject) is that there is no process known to the trauu by which the process could be done by any un fair means without its being instantly found out. A prepared plifte must lie used within five minutes after it comes out of the nitrate-of silver bath, so that It is impossible that an imago could be clearly impressed on it, and yet leave It so tlint the living sitter could bo taken as clearly as lie is. The most peculiar case of “spiritual photography” which has come light occurred at a liroadwuy photogra pher's in New York. The circum stances of the case, which are exceed-, ingly strange ana startlingly roman tic, are vouched for by tlio photog rapher. A young man (a son of a wealthy flour merehunt) about thirty years of age, and about to be married J Ji' Photo. to the daughter of a retired mer chant, visited the photographer one afternoon about half-past three o’clock, and sat for his picture which he had promisad to present to his fair fiancee on the eve of their approaching marriage. The pict ure was taken in the usual manner, without any extraordinary event or ac cident; but, to the surprise [and terror of the photographer, when the plate was examined it was found to contain two portraits, or at least two figures, one a male, the other a female, dimly, shadowly but plainly discernible—one the young man himself, the other a young and beautiful woman, seated tenderly yet lightly on the lap of the young man, crazing upon him with a look of mimrled love. repr ach and sorrow. The terror and wonder of the artist were more than shared by the young man himself. On examining the plate he recog nized the features of her whom he had wronged. There was no mistake about it. Ills emotions knew no bounds. "My God, what have I done.” he exclaimed These were the last words he uttered intelligibly. The photographer, who still preserves the remarkable likeness, vouches for the story that the victim of the 'visitation died a raving maniac in a New York insane asylum. With sucli evidence as is offered above it is not strange that the theory of communication with spirits is find ing favor with even the most intel lectual. What the future progress of spiritualism will be remains to be seen. Jas. II. Meai>. CJlrl In a Trance. A Michigan school teacher, it is al leged, has been in a trance-like state for 130 days, and has wasted away to a skeleton. The young woman is 10 years of age, and when awake weighed 140 pounds and baa excellent health. The long sleep came on her without warning. Liquid refreshment is ad ministered, but of late siie does not seem to have the power to assimilate it. The doctors are puzzled. Brides of Illnd'ostau. A native bride in iiindostan is loaded down with all the jewelry she can get. She has a girdle at the waist, numer ous rings, anklets, bracelets and bells, and decorations for the hair. Although she has never seen her intended hus band. she goes and sits beside him the day of the ceremony. The priest takes a corner of the bride’s veil and ties it to the groom’s shawl, and they are married. TOLD OF WILD BILL. SCENES PROM THE LIFE OF A DESPERADO. Ha Killed a Large Number of Men In HI* Day and Finally Died with Ills Own Boots On—He Ouoe Threw Up Hla Handa. { Among1 tho prominent citizen* of Hayes City In the fast days of Kansas railroad building was “Wild Bill” (William Hickok) who had been a serv iceable scout in the Union army along the Arkansas border during the war. Sfil came to Hayes City with the pres tige of having killed nine men, unas sisted, who had corralled him during the war intent upon Ms death. lie, too, had followed “the K. Kv railroad along evory inch of its con struction from Manhattan. His per HOLDING UP WILD BILL. •ounl appearance and the complexion of hla white-handled revolvers had be* come quite familllar all along the road, and especially at Abilene, during Its days an the terminus of the Texas eat; tie drive, where, as City Marshal, there was never a cowboy who got “the drop” on Bill. “Wild lllll" In those days was "the Slade” of Western Kansas, the man who Mark Twain says in “Houghing It” was respected In Nevada for having "killed his man.” In physique, as the writer remembers him, he was as per fect a specimen of manhood as ever walked in moccasins or wore a pair of cavalry boots, and Bill was a dandy at times in attire—a regular frontier dude. Ho stood about six feet two inches tall, had a lithe waist, and loins, broad shoulders, Binall feet, bony and sup* pie hands, with tapering fingers, quick to feel the cards or pull the trigger of a revolver. His hair was auburn in hue, of the tint brightened but not reddened by the sunlight. Ho had a dean, clear-cut ft.ee, clean shaven, except a thin, drooping, sandy-brown mustache, which he wore and twirled with no success, even, in getting an upward twist at either end. Brown-haired as he was, ho had clear gray eyes. He had a splendid countenance, amiable in look, but firm withal. His luxuriant growth of hair fell in ringlets over his shoulders. There was nothing in his appearance to betoken the dead-shot and frequent murderer—except his tread. He walked like a tiger, and aroused he was as ferocious and piti less as one. Bill’s means of livelihood at the time he was in Hayes City went unques tioned, and there is no reason fog Ml; tating the subject at this late day. Is, t “a killer,” however, Bill put himself record very shortly after coming t§ s Hayes City. His first exploit wan % ; double shot, a right-and-left fusUtnAn. ' The writer witnessed the affair. • , Two men'eame out of Tom Drantff saloon and walked toward the uSTTlj built depot, surrounded by a reiaM platform. Each man haa a plstnl drawn, when suddenly from a group of four or five “crack! crack!” went twe : pistol shots, and Wild Bill stood tm the & edge of the platform with a smoking.' bone-handled revolver in each hnwC and the two men who had boon ups , preaching the plartform were seen to totter, stumble forward and Ml, Death was instantaneous in each ease, as if Jove had hurled a bolt at thessen* A row over cards the night before caused the double death, and a double funeral as soon as the corpses ooeld be ^ prepared for interment. . It was only “a few moons” after^fhe obsequies following tlfe demise of the - two gentlemen, whose sudden tsUw off has just been recorded, that WQa Bill came very near furnishing, in hie own person, the subject for a “Bret - class funeral.” He was ssnnteriim ] west on Front street (traversed by the railroad), when, near the corner of Feel: street (the avenue leading toward Fort Hayea), a small man, an Irishman of the name of Sullivan, jumped oatta ' front of Bill with cocked revolver, as* . olaiming: “I have got you! Hold up yoifr hands. I am going to kill you, you Up went Bill’s hands, Sullivan hav- : ing “ the drop” on him. Sullivan then started into a gloating dissertation about killing him, wbilo Bill stood be fore him as rigid as the Apollo Belve dere. Opening his eyes wide and frowning, Bill in a few moments ut tered in expostulatory tones—looking over Sullivan’s head: ” For God’s sake, don't stab the man in the back! Give him a chance for his life.” Sullivan turned to see his enemy in the rear—and his funeral came off next day, Strange to say, several years af ter the death of Sullivan, Wild Bill “ died with his boots on” in Wyoming while at a game of cards, a brother of the Hayos City Sullivan proving an avenger._ The Alpine Flower. The government of the Tyroll has passed a bill, imposing heavy fines on persons who may be caught while selling samples of the beautiful and rare Alpine flower called edelweiss, which has been pulled up by the roots OD the mountains to such an extent that there is danger of the plant be coming extinct. The people complain that tourists are rapidly killing out that and other Alpine plants, and Ens best on money-making have d on the destruction by gathering _ lanes for travelers.