PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER RRINTINO CO.
VOLUME XIII.
SUBSCRIPTION, SI.60 PER ANNUM.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA. AUGUST 11, 1892.
CLYDE KINO AND D. H. CRONIN, MANAGERS
NUMBER 5.
,OCAL NEWS ITEMIZED
lie Local News of O’Neill as Caught
by the “Kids.”
LATHER INTERESTING NOTES
•narsl Items of Interest Published While
Hews Is Still Hews.
Work on the mill is progressing rap
idly. _
Work has commenced on the water
works.
Attorney Atwood, of Fremont, had
business in the city Tuesday.
Sam Bolon of Sioux City, is visiting
relatives in the city this week.
O’Neill will miss the festive school
mamma when she is no more.
Tlio roll at the institute will reach one
: hundred and sixty this week.
Mrs. Ed. Buttler is confined to the
the house this week with a severe cold .*
Mike Dee, the popular representative
of the State Journal, was in the city
yesterday. _
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Slaugh
ter last Tuesday, at Stanton, a girl, of
usual weight. _
Artist Austin got the school mams in
line yesterday and took a snap shot at
them with his camera. j
Billie Roughler of Omaha, an old line
democrat and a man who takes great
pride in the fact, was in the city Wed
nesday., _
The hammock social given in Mr.
Kinch’s grove last evening was an enjoy
able affair and netted some money for
\ the Presbyterians.
Marlin J. Sweeley of’ Sioux City, at
torney for -Farmers’ Loan and Trust
company of that city, was in O’Neill
Tuesday on business.
** Joe Hershiser, Frank Mann, D. H.
Cronin and Clyde King
Mann, D,
. „......0 rode their bi
| eyles to Atkinson last Snnday morning,
' returning on the passenger.
(The Republican Statesman, Bassett,
kvertises for a small pig. This is an
egant opportunity for the Page News
an to dispose of himself.
P. Mann is building a 80-fdot ed
ition to his store. We are pleased to
|te this evidence of Mr. Mann’s pros
rity and increasing business.
There Will be a dance at the rink to
>rrow (Friday) evening. The hop
In honor of the school teachers who
(soon—too sodn—will leave the city.
lohnnie Weeks and Dr. Wells accom
Inied the congressional delegation to
(ndron Tuesday evening. Besides
ting in the convention they will see
i races. _
[.essinger is silent on the subject of (
rling for the would-be assassin of
rjk. The adage, "silence is golden,’’
i find here beautifully illustrated and
stically demonstrated.
/ait until Holt county needs more
In and then engage Melbourn and if
[ succeeds in bringing it let it go foi
anted that he produced Tuesday’s
In and pay him for it.
fed. Thompson, John Planck, Ben
|Yarman, Bob and Frank McWhorter,
Hileman and Jockey, Muggins, are
(iking after O’Neill’s reputation in the
bed ring at Chadron this week.
telbourn or no Melbourn it rained.
Itbough crops would have been bene
jted a great deal more had it rained a
onth ago the lest sprinklfe has placed
em beyond all danger of a failure.
[ If the Page News man finds any par
fcular enjoyment in misquoting
peeches made at the republican con
imtion we don’t suppose the misrepre
bnted persons will worry themselves to
uy great extent over the matter.
E. M. Clarke, of Ottumwa, Kansas, is
the city writing a local story. Mr.
tlarke lays his scene in O’Neill and
nakes use of O’Neill characters. It
p-omises to be interesting and will
Irobably appear in Tiie Frontier next
leek. * •
■ The farewell party given Tuesday
Hvening at the residence of Mr. Clear in
^ponor of Mrs. Thos. Clear of Chicago,
Bwho has been visiting relatives here for
Eome time, was a very pleasant affair,
’as all entertainments at the Clear man
sion are, and will long be remembered
by those who were fortunate enough to
attend. _
Wo will bet dollars to cockles that Harry
MathewB, oue of the boys in this office, can
fold more papers than any print. In town.—
Tribune.
TnE Frontier was never known to
take a bluff in a case of this kind. Let
the Trib. get a little money in sight and
've will bet two to one that its judgment
is no good.
Will Adams wont up to Stuart Sun
day evening where he will remain a
couple of weeks.
Dan Holland came up from Butler
county Sunday evening and will visit
with bis parents here for several days.
On account of the fire which destroyed
my entire stock I desire to close up my
business and request all those who are
indebted to me to call and settle.
8-tl J. L. Mack
Married, last Saturday evening by
Juege Bowen, Daniel W. Knight to Mrs.
Helen Manny. The contracting parties
have been residents of this city for a
couple of years and are well known.
The Frontier congratulates.
The New York Central railway, in its
exhibit at the world’s fair, will strikingly
illustrate the wonderful improvements
that have been made in railway trans
portation by showing a magnificient
complete vestibuled traid and along side
of it a reproduction of the first train ot
cars used in this country, the cars of
which resembled old-fashioned stage
coaches.
Walt Mason lias at divers times in
{jellibly stamped hit' disapproval upon
the young man or old man or middle
aged man who "accepts a situation,"
and upon the newspaper which so far
forgets itself as to record the fact in those
words and it was with wonder, surprise
and sorrow that we noticed in a recent
issue of the valuablo paper with which
he is connected that a certain gentleman
had “accepted a situation as book
keeper.” _
Died, Friday August 5, of material
fever, at his home near Spencer, Q. O,
Cross, aged 44. His remains were
brought in to O'Neill the evening of his
death and embalmed at McCafferty’s
undertaking rooms preparatory to ship
ping to his old home in Utica, Neb.,
Saturday morning. Mr. Cross leaves a
wife and four children. He was form
erly a resident of this county, residing
near Chambers. His brother, W. M.
Cross, of Utica, together with the wife
and children of the deceased accompan
ied the remains.
Last week Planck and Thompson
shipped the following swift horses to
Chadron to enter in the black Hills cir
cuit, the first meeting being at Chadron
this week: Newton B, record 2:17f;
Demonstrator; 2:29}; Lucky Sweep
stakes, Elsie Sweepstakes and one other
horse. DeYarman Bros., shipped in
‘the same car, Coramont and Kay S, two
promising Hambictonians. Al. Hilc
man also shipped his running horse,
Dan Wagner. This is a fine aggregation
of horseflesh and the horsemen of the
northwest' need to keep their weather
eye open if they expect to win any races.
The World-Herald speaks thusly of
Holt’s candidates and delegates and
and relates an incident of the trip:
“Four years ago Holt county went down
with a gaily decorated train and pre
sented Bartley’s name for state treasurer.
This time Holt county went down with
blood in its eyes and succeeded. The
Holt county delegation was the rustler
of the convention. Its forces were led
by such men as A. L. Towle, Jim Perry,
C. Selah, J. M. McArthur and Sheriff
McEvony. The rank and file of the
delegation comprised men no less ener
getic and enthusiastic. On the way
down a colored man attempted to beat
his way and was thrown off the train
half a dozen times. The Holt county
crowd captured the colored brother and
' paid his fare to Lincoln. They deter
mined to use him as a mascot. At Fre
mont they rigged him up in anew suitof
clothes and at .Lincoln they fed him on
the fat of the land. The colored man
lived high and he. was kept with the
Holt county delegation until Bartley
was nominated. But no sooner had
Bartley won than the colored brother
took to the woods He never stopped
until he reached Crete, and then he sat
down and wrote a postal card to Jim
Perry, postmaster at Atkinson, as
follows:
mistur jim perri:
dere sur—1 takes my pen in hand to
tell you that I had to sliatce you holt co.
gentlemens. I was sorry to leave you,
but you were too rioh for my blood.
Give mistur hartley my love and tell
him if he cant get there without me I’ll
come up and give him a lift. But I
want you to feed me on corn bread for
awhile. Yours.
WANTED—Local and traveling dep
uties for the Eclectic Assembly. Face
of certificates from $300 to $3,000; lim
ited assessment; no double headers;
splendid commission to organizers.
Write at once.
State Deputy, Mits. L. Adam,
6-m Lock Box 77, O’Neill, Neb.
We Yearn a Little Yearn.
Oh, for a carload of Ice cream
And a lake of lemonade.
A million fans all run by steam,
A county or two of ghude;
Clothing as thin as gauzy tales
Of husbands who hate strayed.
Oh. for the blast from polar vales,
Or the grace of a lloston maid.
—Cluclnatl Commercial Gazette.
J
Pronounce* it Safa.
In accordance with instructions given
at the last school election the board en
gaged an architect, James Martin, of
Sioux City, to examine the building and
following is his report:
O’Neill, Nebraska. Aug, 0, 1892.
To the President and Board of
Directors, School District No. 7,
O'Neill, Nebraska:
Ueutlemen—Having been appointed
so make an examination of your high
tcbool building and to report on its
condition I would respectfully submit
the following report:
After a careful examination at all
available points 1 do not hesitate to
pronounce your building perfectly safe
under all ordinary conditions if put in a
proper state of repair. The foundations
are good and are amply sufficient to
carry tbe superstructure. The cracks
in the walls of the superstructure are
clue to unequal settlement of the walls
and are not in anyway dangerous.
Those in the east and west walls of the
north room are due to tha foundation
wall extending some twelve feet beyond
unacuicill wail, 111 us iorming n
sharply defined line of light and heavy
pressure. The other cracks in the walls
are due to unequal settlement caused by
the erection of the building at different
times and after the older portion had
thoroughly compressed the soil under
lying it. The rods that have been
placed about the main building do no
harm but might have been dispensed
with. When the rods were put in no
provision was made for expansion and
contraction and the result is that they
have opened the joints between the
main walls and the buttresses. It has
been stated to me that the building
trembles during high winds, which I do
not doubt in the leaBt for it is some
thing unusual to find a public building
of this character that does not shake a
little when exposed to the full force of
our prairie winds. There is one point
about your building that 1 do consider
dangerous, viz, the defective condition
of the plastering. In the front ball in
both stories and In the school rooms in
main building the ceilings are in such a
condition that portions are liable to
drop at any time and do serious injury
to the pupils or worse still create a panic
in whicn many might be hurt. I had
no means of reaching the roof of the
building but it is very evident that it is
in a very leaky condition and should be
repaired. Iam informed that the gut
ters do not have proper fall towards the
points of discharge; if this is the case it
should be remedied. The condition of
the building is such that i would rec
ommend to the board of directors the
following;
1. That the roof be put in thorough
repair.
2. That all defective plastering be re
moved, the lath thoroughly cleaned and
new plastering put on.
3. That the cracks in the exterior
walls be cleaned and slopped with oil
cement so exclude water.
4. That the outside walls be pointed
up where the morter is 'worn away and
that the broken brick in the arch over
the basement doors be repaired.
If the above suggestions are carried
out and your building properly cared
for .thereafter, there is no reason why
it should not be a good school building
for the next twenty years, unless de
stroyed by tornado, fire, or some similar
cause outside of the ordinary wear.
Trusting that the above will cover all
the points desired, I have the honor to
remain, very respectfully yours,
James W. Martin, Architect.
Death of Henry 0. Cross.
We chronicle with much sorrow the
death of Henry O. Cross, of Boyd
county, formerly of Chambers, Holt
county. He was in his 45th year.
Henry Cross was born in Iowa in 1848,
removed to Holt county in 1884. He
was a member of the Bethany Presby
terian church of which he was an hon
onea elder for several years.
Mr. Cross was largely instrumental in
building the Presbyterian courch at that
place. He was also very useful as a
Sunday School superintendent.
He is greatly missed among his old
friends and neighbors in Holt county
where he was recognized as a sincere
and happy Christian gentleman.
Last spring he took a claim in Boyd
county and removed his family there.
He was sick about six weeks and bore
his affliction with wonderful patience
and resignation.
He found excellent neighbors in Boyd
county who did all in their power to
help his family in their trouble.
His was a triumphant Christian death.
He said he never had happier hours in
his life than on his bed of sickness.
Death seemed to him merely passing
over. He said: "Death like a narrow
stream divides that heavenly land from
He died August 5, as the sun was set
ting in the west, and took bis flight to
tiie “Land that is fairer than day.”
Loving brothers bore him to his final
resting place in the cemetery at Utica,
Nebraska.
His pastor, Rev. N. 8. Lowrie,
preached his funeral sermon before a
large audience in the Presbyterian
church at Utica, and at the setting of
the sun we laid him to rest among his
kindred to await the resurrection of the
just.
“The memory of the just is blessed.”
“How blest the righteous when he
dies.”
“Let me die the death of the righteous
and let my last end be like his.”
A beloved wife and four children re
main to mourn the loss of a kind hus
band and father.
AND THENJT RAINED
The Flood Oates Were Opened But
Melbonrn Gets No Money.
EIGHT HOURS BEHIND TIME
Xolbourn Tskw Ths Credit But AU Do Not
Think Ho Deserves It.
That grand old man, Melbourn, ar
rived In O’Neill last Thursday evening
with a grip full of thunder and light
ning and several sample cases with
specimens of rain and remarked loud
enough to be beard that for $3,000 he
would cause Jupiter Pluvius to open up
the flood gates and sprinkle a long suf
fering people. His liberal oiler was
accepted. Numerous conveyances
were dispatched to homes of the super
visors to ascertain whether or not they
imagined the county would be willing
to diminish its exchequer to that extent
for such a visitation. They thought it
would and a contract was entered into
and the grand old man turned himself
loose in the 'cupola of the court house
at midnight. He had been at work not
more, than six hours when a severe storm
of thunder, lightning and wind was
upon us. Ho said he was not respon
sible for that. It looked slightly rainy
at times Friday, Saturday, Sunday and
Monday, but the clouds refused to re
spond to his squeezing and as time
swiftly sped by as swiftly vanished
prospects of his 43,000. lie had agreed
that it should rain within four days, but
the time passed with nothing more than
a mere sprinkle, but Tuesday morning
be said he would not givo up, pay or no
pay, and continued camping in the
cupola until about 7 o’clock when he
came down and Baid a shower would
soon be upon us, and so it was. As
nice a shower as one could wish to sec,
but it appears to have been a general
rain from the Black Hills to Omaha.
Public opinion is greatly divided upon
the question of whether or not Mel
bourn was responsible for the shower.
In fact that has been the all absorbing
topic of conversation since the gentle
man arrived in the city. Some posi
tively assert that it was Melbourn’s
rain and others just as positively assert
that It was not. Of course no man
knows, not even Melbourn himself. It.
may be that he has a cinch on the
atmosphere but Tub Frontier is loth
to see its'accepted theories of the origin
of rain all go up in a tea-cup full of
Melbourn’s gas. However, Mr. Mel
bourn seems to have implicit faith in
his ability to produce moistnre and of
fers to irrigate Holt and four ad
joining counties the year round for 10
cents per acre, no rain no pay. This is
a fair offer and The Frontier would
be in favor of testing the scheme.
The character ot Tuesday’s rain is a
point that argues strongly in Melbourn’s
favor. It came with very little thunder
and lightning and no wind, something
that is very unusal in this country dur
ing the summer months. The clouds
originally came lazily drifting from
the northwest in broken masses, re
sembling white caps on a ruffled sea
and had no indication whatever of rain
but about 1 a. u. Tuesday they settled
back again in the north and by 8 o’clock
the entire sky was of a leaden hue and a
gentle rain began fallingwhich continued
until the guages registered a little over
an inch. But on the other hand it
seems that the rain extended along the
whole valley from east to west and it
would seem that the terirtority was too
large to be covered by any artificial
means of production. Tiie Frontier
believes that rain can be produced and
would like to see a contract made with
Melbourn for an entire season in order
to more fully test the efficiency of his
work.
Holt countv has bad rain this season
rft every point in the county more
plentiful than in O'Neill. Promising
clouds would frequently appear but
woull always drift around in one di
rection or another, caused probably
by the variable winds prevailing, which
Melbourn says was a great draw-baek
to bis experiments here,the wind chang
ing as many as seven times in one day.
He had agreed to furnish Knox county
‘with rain also from his seat of operation
in O’Neill and we understand it did
rain but not to the satisfaction of the
people who now decline to remunerate
him.
Melbourn himself might as well be
dead and concealed In a winding sheet
so far as the newspaper reporter is
concerned. He will not talk about his
business and efforts to draw him out are
futile. But his business manager, Mr.
Jones, although reticent, occasionally
allows himself to converse a little on the
weather and his man Melbourn. In a
conversation with a Frontier reporter
last night he said that Mr. Melbourn
wm a scientific gentleman and advanced
the prediction that "within live years
his name would be as famllar to the
scientific world as that if Edison. Not
only in the artificial production of rain
but in other and more difficult lines.”
He asserted that Melbourn is oven now
engaged in the work and would be
hoard from in the Immediate future. He
feels hiithiy gratified with Melbourn's
success hero and says it is the grandest
experiment he hns yet made, notwlth
standing ho does not get a cent for his
work. He says the conditions were un
favorable and laughs at the general
rain of which we speak above, declaring
that it Is all Melbourn's and further
more that he is ready and willing to
contract to cover a tract 100 miles square
any time.
Will W« Repreientt
Omaha, Nebr., July 30, 1803.
To the Presidents end Secretaries of the
Local Branches of the Nebraska State
Business Men's Association, and to
others who are interested in the wel
fare of Nebraska.
The Advisory Board of the Nebraska
State Business Men's Association held a
special incenlng in this city Monday
evening, July 35, to make arrangements
to send an exhibit train with the pro
ducts of Nebraska east this season, and
after a thorough discussion of the sub
ject, it was decided to take a train, same
to leave Omaha, September 10, 1803.
Each county taking part in this exhibit
train will bo required to pay $300 CHsh
into tho train fund not later than the
35r.h of August, with the exception of
- Lancaster county, which must pay $850
and Douglas county $500. This will
entitle each county to one delegate who
can accompany this train, and have his
railroad fare, sleeping car and hotel ex
penses all paid while-on this trip. The
duties of the dclcgato will be to adver
tise his own county with such advertis
ing matter as may be prepared for him
by his county, and each county taking
part in the exhibit train is required to
furnish not less than 15,000 pieces of
descriptive advertising matter. Coun
ties desiring to send an extra delegate
along with the train can do so by pay
ing an extra $150.
The train will consist of one baggage
car, three exhibit cars and one sleeper.
The number of counties that will be
permitted to take part In this exhibit
will be limited to thirty counties, and
will be accepted in the order of their
application, which must be made to me
here at Omaha, and tho cash Bent to F.
M. More, treasurer, Kearney, Neb.
Counties expecting to take part must
act promptly, as it is expected that ten
days at the outside will see the entire
space taken up.
Application can be made to me, certi
fied to by three representative business
men, that they will guarantee the cash
to be in the hands of the treasurer not
later than the date above mentioned.
Counties must remember that “first
come first served."
Credentials: Each county sending
one or more delegates is required to mail
to my address a duplicate credential
signed by the president and secretary of
their local association, or in counties not
organized, by the president of the citi
zens’ committee. Use the following
form:
This is to certify that.lias
been selected as delegate to represent
*.county on the Nebraska
Exhibit train, No. 3, under the super
vision of the advisory board of the Ne
braska State Business Men’s Associa
tion.
Signed.President,
.Secretary.
DECORATION OK THE TRAIN.
Counties will not be required to
bring but a limited amount of sheaf
grains and grasses, as the board, have
already contracted with W. F. Coole,
of Lincoln, to arrange tine panels made
of all the different grasses and grains
grown in the state, and each exhibit
will be properly decorated and arranged
by the time your small grains and veg
etables will be ready for shipment to
the train.
Exhibits must reacn umana reaay to
be placed iu their respective positions
not later than two days after the close
of the state fair; that will be the limit
of the time until Sept. 12. Counties not
taking part in the state fair, it is advisa
ble for them to 'send their exhibits to
Omaha not later than the Oth of Sep
tember. The exhibits shipped to Omaha
either direct from the county or from
the state fair, must be marked “R. F. 1
llodgin, Omaha, Nebraska, care John
son Bros.” The Burlington, Elkhorn,
and Union Pacific roads have all granted
free transportation on all exhibits sent
marked as above described, and any
county desiring to send a party to
Omaha to help arrange their exhibit in
the cars, by applying to me I will send
them free transportation for such party
to Omaha and return, but exhbitsent is
will be arrrngcd in the cars eyen if no
i one is sent to attend it.
Any county having extra fine sheaf
atufl or graaaoa, and would like aame
apecially arranged to go over their own
county, had better expreaa them at an
early date to W. P. Coole, Lincoln Neb,
The adviaory board will iaaue a cata- ‘
logue of the train, which will give a full
deacription of the atate and a general
write-up of each county that accompan
ies the train. Each county will be en
titled to not to exceed 8,000 worda.
Such manuscript copy must be sent me
bv Animat 85.
When a county has railed their money
notice muit be sent me, either by letter
or by wire, stating who the treasurer
can make sight draft on for the same.
Upon receipt of your notice I will notify
the treasurer, charging his account wjjh
the amount of your assessment, and
notifying him to make sight draft.
Counties must remember that the funds
must be in the hands of the treasurer
not later than the 85th of August.
The exhibit train will leave Omaha «
the afternoon of September 15 by the
way of tho Burlington road to Chicago.
From there over the Lake Shore, and
will not exhibit until they reaoh eastern
Ohio; then the train will exhibit from
there on to Albany N. Y.;and from
there on to Boston, Mass., returning
southwest from Boston, over the Boston
road, until the Brio line is reached and
returns through southern Massachusetts,
central Neiy York, northern Ohio •
through to Chicago, returning home
from Chicago via the Northwestein R,
R. The train wilt be gone atleast thirty
days.
Two advance agents will leave for •
the oast September 1 advertising the
train and contracting with the hotels for
meals only. - /S
Bach county will be given ten feet of
space on one side of the car for the ar
rangement of their exhibit. Small *
grains and seeds should be placed in
jars not to exceed a quart or a half gal
lon. Vegetables not to exceed one peck
of each kind. In packing the vegeta
bles they should be sent in small sacks
or tied up securely in cloths so that they
will not become mixed. Small baskets
will be furnished by the,board and the 1
vegetables properly arranged when re
ceived.
Bspeclal attention should be given to
the selection of good corn and potatoes
and winter wheat.
Cuunties desiring to show the thick
ness of their soil should make a box at
least eight inches square, and the length
to be according to the depth of their soil,
and maka one side of the box with a
glass cover. It is clearly proven that on
the exhibit train last year the thickness
of the soil was a great drawing card.
The arrangement of the. box is very |
cheap and no county should be without '
one. - • ly
Bach county sending a delegate
should provide them with sufficient
funds for necessary expenses which are
naturally incurred on a trip of this kind,
so that no delegate, whatever position
he may be placed in while on this trip,
but what will be able to show that Ne
braska is strictly in it in every sense of .
the word.
For further information, address,
R. F. UoofliN, General Manager,
Rooms 549 and 550 Board of Trade,
Omaha, Neb.
A Literary Find.
Mr. Bok has succeeded in unearthing
a quantity of unpublished material by
Henry Ward Beecher, which will shortly
be published as a series of articles in
the Ladies’ Home Journal. The mater
ial is espicially valuable since it deals
with a range of topics both varied and
timely, and will advance for the first
time in print, the great preacher’s views
on a number of snch interesting ques
tions as marriage, home government,
woman in public and private life,
politics, etc. Mr. Bok has secured the |
co-operation of Mrs. Beecher and Pro
fessor Ellinwood, Mr. Beecher's private
reporter, in the editing of the material.
TIPS TO PURCHASERS.
FOR SALE—500 acres of the best
bay on dry creek; six miles frbm O’Neill.
Inquire of F. R. Stannard. 3-3
_ Cabinet photos $3 per dozen at Aus
tin’s gallery for a short time. Those
attending the teachers, institute will
likely take advantage of this nnparaleled
price of photos. 4-3
Stock Cattle!
We have on hand and are prepared to
furnish stock cattle of all ages and in
numbers to suit purchasers.' Time given
on approved security. Call at section
13, township 28, range 13, or address,
Frank Anderson Co.,
39-tf O’Neill, Neb.
We will pay Sioux City prioesforl50
head of thin, dry cows. 'j£
Frank Anderson a Co.
44-tf O’Neill, Neb.
For sale or rent at a bargain 380 acres
of good grass for hay 8 miles southwest
of Atkinson, Neb. Will let on shares
or sell. Address, O. W. Meals,
O'Neill Neb.
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