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AT AIK. Il0ri,n*o Crpunsd
.T. J. Majors
.. j. c. Allen
... .J. 8. Bartley
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■''-rS^arrY.
NTS sTATB j Leavitt Burnham,
;ere. l-!":vlV|„ ,- F,. P. Holmes,
M. Hiatt. Alma,. J' M. J, Hull,
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^THJtrDICIALDICTRl^.
. ,1. J. King of O Neill
.a L. Bartow of C hadron
.A. L. Warrick, of O’Neill
USD OFFICES.
O'NKILL. B g G1|tegple
A. L. Towle.
NKLIOII.
C. W. Robinson
.’.W.B. Lambert
VOUNTT.
Wm Bowen
e iiistrict Court ... .John Skirvliw
P. DeLanoe
Barrett Scott
John S. Weekes
.C. E. Butler
. .J. C. Harnlgu
.. ....H. C. McEvony
TC. Me.-rlman
HlKllS..
K. Me.rlnian
'....H. W. Dudley
'.Mrs. H. W. Dudley
Dr. H. A. Skelton
.W. W. Pane
' ...H. E. Murphy
SUPERVISORS.
township
Ipleuaantview
IDeloit
Cleveland
Verdigris
Inman
John Hand Creek
Bock Fulls
Conley
i Falrvlew
I Dustin
Green Volley
John Shields
Francis
l iEmmet
1 Sheridan
Stuart
Swan
er iSeott
Lake
!eo Haddock
lO’Neill
li jChambera
Atkinson
M H Saratoga
auk Steel Creek
Ervlng
H iWillowdale
Wyoming
[ McClure
K ilowa
Grattan
ADDRESS
Bay
Ewing .
H radio
Page
Inman
Atkinson
Turner
Chambers
Amelia
Dustin
Atkinson
O’Neill
Atkinson
Atkinson
Atkinson
Stuart
Swan
ScottvlUe
Bliss
olackblrd
O’Neill
Chambers
Atkinson
Saratoga
Star
Ewing
uilnneola
Amella'I
Little
Page
O’Neill
'll 7 OF Of NEILL.
>r, M. 1>. Long; Justices, E. H.
ind B. Welton; Constables, John
(I Perkins Brooks. . fr
[Il’KCILMEN—FIRST WARD,
years.—Ben DeYarman. For one
d Smnnard.
SECOND WARD.
ycars-Fred Oatz. For one year—
THIRD WARD. • '
earsi-Barrett Scott. For ob» year
CITY OFFICERS.
F. Biglln i Clerk, Thos. Campbell;
David Adams; City Endneer,
dams; Police Judge. N. Martin;
Police, Charlie Hall; Attorney,
on; Wetghmaster, Ed. M'.Bride;
missioner, O. E. Davidson.
I AT TAN TOWNSHIP.
or, John Winn; Trearurer. Jobn
’rk. D. 11. Cronin: Assessor. Mose
Justices, M. Castello and Chas.
Justices, Perkins Brooks and Will
wind overseer dist. ‘J6, Allen Brown
John Enright.
R.V RELIEF C0MNI8SI0N.
meeting first Monday in Febru
> year, and at such other times as
ltobt. Gallagher, Page,
a ,-1°went O’Neill, secretary;
». Atkinson.
HICK’S CATHOLIC CHITBCH.
p« every Sabbath at 10:80 o’clock,
i Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath sehool
y following services.
||DIST CHURCH. Seivicei
Punday morning at 11 o’olook, lm
showed by Sunday school. Preach
tveniug atSo’clock. Prayer meeting
f e™nil>E at 8 o’olock. Epwortt
'otional meeting Sunday evenins
F. Ellis, Pastor. -
lI®?IAN CHURCH Servloei
u ocrviuei
morning at 11 o’olock
looi at 10 a. m.
Rev. N. 8. Lowrie, Pastor.
Tlie °®n- J°
A a wiii0’ *’ ^apartment of 1
S'U.,will meet the first and th
'eolng of each month ltf Maso
S. J. Smith, Con
l^’^ALEEY LODGE,I. O.
aA- ». Corbett, N.
II Jli'S. D. L.Darr.1
* «■ Thompson, Treas. *
Sec. J. C. Harsibh, H, B
iention?,f'MST LODGB. V. D.
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ivited.
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A. H, Corbet, C. P.
BbEKai?2* 41> daughters
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-— A. L. Towle, W. M
—• W. J. Hayes, V,
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Snperritort’ Proceedin^t.
CONTINUED TBOM LAST WEEK.
1891
VILLAGE TAX.
To tax due ablaut settlement
To Int. collected
To excess
4525 80
73 65
37 «8 4037 13
By tax collected
By Int.
By error
3312 48
73 63
40 3380 SS
Hal really delinquent
Bal personally delinquent
875 47
an 13 1340 6»
TOWNSHIP.
To tax due at last settlement
To Int collected
To excess
12530 00
218 03
41 63 12830 33
By tax collected
By Int collected
By error
Boyd Co. trans. (Turtle)
11160 96
.248 03
93 26
212 86 11722 01
Bal delinquent realty
Bal delinquent personalty
381 10
727 02 1106 21
0’Nmt.li R. K. BOND.
To tax due at last settlement 2412 22
Tarlnt collected 37 20
To excess 28 00 2477 48
By tax collected
By Int collected
By error
1671 02
37 20
40 1706 I
Bal delinquent realty
Bal delinquent personalty
533 03
835 23
768 86
ORATTAN It. B. BOND.
To tax due at last settlement 3651 95
Int collected „ 65 75
By excess 23 67 3741 27
By tax collected
By Int collected
By error
05 15
1 04 3027 47
Bal delinquent realty
Bal delinquent personalty
475 70
238 14
713 90
SIDEWALK.
To tax due at last lettlement
To lot collected
To excess
441 74
4 35
3 51 449 60
Bv tax collected
By int collected
m 33
4 33
196 67
Bal delinquent tax
250 03
JUDGMENT DI8TBICT 44.
To tax due at last settlement
To Int collected
Excess In tax list
493 69
9 38
2 43
605 49
By tax collected
By lot collected
419 47
9 38
428 86
Bal delinquent realty
Bal delinquent personalty
34 65
41 99
76 64
ADVERTISING.
To tax due at last settlement 1139 20 1439 20
To Int collected
By tax collected . 1439 20
Bal still due
Bal delinquent
Bal delinquent
Bal delinquent
To tax list
By amt col
COUNTY FUNDING BOND.
To amt tax list
By tax col
Bal delinquent
To amt tax list
By tax col
Bal delinquent
5319
Bal delinquent
Bal delinquent
CENTER PRECINCT BOND.
To amt of tax list
By amt col
Bal dellnqusnt
To amt of tax list
By amt tax col
VILLAGE,
Bal delinquent
To amt of tax list
By amt col
TOWNSHIP.
165 80
1893
CONSOLIDATED STATE.
To amt of tax list 19131 23
By amt collected 337 67
18793 56
COUNTY GENERAL.
To amt of tax Hat 27009 97
By amt collected 476 73
36533 24
1892
COUNTY BRIDGE.
To amt of tax list cooe 00
By tax col • los 93
6896 16
3001
52 97
Bal delinquent 2948 03
SOLDIER’S RELIEF
960 01
15 89
884 12
6352 00
33 00
DISTRICT SCHOOL.
To amt of tax list 45139 43
By tax col 741 69
44398 34
SCHOOL ROND.
To amt of tax list 10538 22
By amt collected 188 91
10349 31.
1640 31
2t 84
1618 47
4328 21
68 73
4250 48
12426 90
202 53
Bal delinquent 12224 37
GUATTAN It. B. BONO.
To amt tax list 3693 02
By amt col 4S 70
Bal delinquent 3617 32
O’NBILr, B. K. BONO.
To ai|f; of tax list. . f 2322 36
By amt collected 42 as
Bal delinquent 2279 78
8IDKWALK.
To amt of tax list 99 89
By amt col 7«
Bal delinquent 1 9914
liPXCIAL. SOHOOll
To amt of tax list 148 os
Upon motion adjourned until February
16, 1893, at 9 o’clock a. x.
Febbuabt 16,1893, 9 o’clock A. x.
Board met pursuant to adjournment
with all members present except Kline.
Moved seconded and carried that the
following report ot Frank Phillips, com
mittee to investigate O’Neill Water Works
be adopted:
Your committee on condition of the
$1,000 voted to the Artesian Water Works
Co., beg leave to report as follows: Said
appropriation was made February 19.
1891. Warrant was issued for the full
amount on same day and was paid to the
treasurer of the said company on Febru
ary 28, 1891. 1 find upon examination
that no written proposition was msde to'
the county board by said Artesian Water
| Works Co., and that the resolution passed
by the county board and also the bond
| given to the county oontains no provision
I for refunding to the eonnty any part of
the •1,000 except la eeae the arteaian veil
ahoald be ■ saeeees.
Fun Fnum, Com.
Moved seconded end oarnod, that the
overeeera of eaeh read dietriot in Holt
eoanty be required to work one-half of
the preeiuot linee to be agreed upon by
the several aopervieore of the adjoining
towaehlpe.
Petition of B. P. Neher et al for an ex
tenaion of 260 feet to the bridge aeeroaa
the Elkhorn river between aeetiona 81 and
82 township 80, range 14 weet'waa npon
motion laid over.
Upon motion the following olaima were
allowed on the general fond of 1891.
mono*.
John S LeU |
Cal Moffltt
Alex Bearl
Christ Kiekertx
N U BowVn
• Japer Waldron
J S Dennis
E W'A dams
Thomas W Cook
E H Benediot
N C Johnson
v H M Bradstre^
John Carton
J M Jackman
Oeo A McOuteheon
Eli Trnllinger
8 F Hibbard
V V Rosenkrans
M T Elliott
B Welton
John Alfa Jr
E Kline
L C Riohmond
School Dirtriot Ho 11
V V Hayes
J A Trommershansser
H Bradley
> Peter Greeley
J 8 Hoffman
W L Jillson
DeYarman Bros
T H Berry
T J Gallagher
School District Ho 4
GH Cherry
8 D Dntton
Jacob Geise
A A Antrim
W H Beeman
. C L Morse
t WPPnrdy - ^
It Ross
Warren Gillman
G C Short
R J Bryan
J E Andres
J R Pointer
F A Austin
W 8 Berry
W H Bedford
C E Farrier
W T Fisher
C Bigler
Thomas Cain
A B Caldwell
J H Tallis
Franklin Moore
James Peterson
W H Perry
GW Meals
Thomas McMath
Fred Sohmadoke
E H Thompson
D B Perkins
A Sammons
Hiram 8terna
James Gibson
J W Holden
O H Spaldin
John Nolan
Anton Prnsa
O M Andrns
H K Dayton
J L Maok
RC Wry
H A Hostetler
8 M Alridge
James Seageser
Thomas Tisrney
.8 J Griffith
J H Hertal
F Bradley
Z Dickenson
8 J Stein
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WL McFarland
J 8 Bonp
O J Hahn
GO Primus
L A Oldaoker
j James Sullivan
Leopold Ulrich
E J LaBue
Levi J Trullinger
, 8 Chaterton
D C Beve
William Veal
Henry Kilts
J G flotaling
’ i Wilson Hoxie
' D E Eiesley
L H Hill
F A Bower.
M O Bishop
W W Page
L B Maben
L P Boy
M O’Malley
John T Pronty
C Finney
A A Bruce
F Sohmadeke
C E Howe
' Peter Wynn
W A Wilson
EH Smith ,
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Wilson Brodie
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James J Jennings 4
Otto H Milts 4
John M Jones 4
0 L Bright
W M Porter
Byron Parker
O W Eekley
I BO Ontton
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Moses Campbell
O E Davidson
H E Henderson
Otto U Milts
Leo IiOggerwell
8 H Trassell
O J Hahn
J H Tallis
i John Anten
Nicholas Grass
C E Barngrover
I Frank Campbell
W TJordan
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8 J Doud
B D Dntton
J B Donohoe
B Gilson
T V Golden *
W B Haigh
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E H Kline
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George Kennedy
M D Long
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B Maenmber
M H McCarthy
F W Phillips
C M Smith
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John E White
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E M Merrlman, depnty adariff $ 88
W R Stitt, expert aot 166
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3 0 Morrow, assistant 169 80
u 46 95
John Shirring olerk diet court 100 87
WHH Clark, soldier's relif 4
“ 91
Robert Gallagher, soldier’s relief 99
R J Hayes Attorney’s fees 95 >
E H Benedict " 910
3 3 MoCafferty, supplies 69 81
“ relief of destitute 89
Phil Shanborn, painting 981 45
O’Neill Electric! Light Company 181 95
Galena Lumber Company coal 155 90
P F Thompson, jnstioe oourt 6 40
John Lappan, Justice court 8 85
u 8 95
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Anthony Knife, justice oourt 9 10
Amos Oarliss “ 5
Charles Schwering, mis 6 99
Barrett Hcott 9 99
W T Widman, bridge 112 50
O W Hagensiok 8 50
W Krotttr A Co 47 06
O O Snyder 3c Co 18 82
Galena Lumber Co 70
Niel Brennan . 19 42
Vanaant Broa 62 90
Fred Bnckner 8 75
Chas Bigler 84
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G F Smith 2
J A Liddburg 8
S Scrlpter ’ 8
J T Young .10
Lorenso Roes 9
W P Stratton 2
Emil Snlggs 6 10
J G Hotaling 8 ,
J M Cannon i,;, 14 75
J 8 Van Zandt 82 20
W H Van Court ! 8
G. W. Blake 9927
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E M Waring , 62 96
O O Primus 4
Frank B Johnson, election $6 allowed |8
L S Boiler 6 5
E Wiley 11 9
Sohool district No 86 6 8
H Behoof 5 S
Thos A Phillips 4 76 4
School district No 190 6 8
Upon motion, adjourned until 1 o’clock
M.
Fan. 16,1893, 1 O’CLOCK P. M,
Board met pursuant to adjournment,
all members present except Kline.
Mr. Chairman—We, yoor committee
appointed to investigate and report in
regard to olerk hire of the sheriff, would
respectfully report that in our opinion
it is impossible for the sheriff and one
deputy to perform all the duties of that
oflloe; therefore would recommend that
he be allowed the sum of $400 as clerk
hire for the year 1892. L. A. Jillsok,
W. T. Hatus.
Mr. Chairman—We, your oommittee
appointed to investigate and report in
regard to clerk hire of the sheriff, would
reapeotfully report that in our opinion
it is impossible for the sheriff and one
deputy to perform all the duties of that
oflloe; therefore would recommend that he
be allowed one olerk at a salary of |60
per month for the year 1892.
• BOWUD NILLU.
W. B. Haioh.
Mr. Chairman—I, #a member of eom
mittee appointed to investigate and re
port in regard to clerk hire of the eberifra
office, beg leave to report that in my
opinion there ie no neceuity for the
county to pay for any clerk in said office.
H. K. Daxtoh.
Moved, seconded and carried to reject
the reporte of the committee.
k Moved and seconded that Sheriff be
allowed $600 for clerk hire for the year
1892. The ayea and nayea being de
manded resulted as follows:
Ayes—Bryan, Bradley, Clevish, Calkins,
Patton, Pond, Gilson, Heigh, Jones,
Pong, Miller, Phillips, Trnllinger, Wilson,
Wynn, (16).
Nayes—Alfa, Brodie, Crawford, Payton,
Ponohoe, Hayes, Jillson, Kelley, Kennedy,
Macnmber, McCarthy, Roll, White, War.
ing, (14), montion oarried.
Moved by Kelley to reconsider the re
qusitions allowed county officers in Jan
uary.
Moved by Clevish to table Kelley’s
motion, the ayes and nayes being de
manded resulted ea follows:
Ayes—Alfa, Bryan, Bradley, Crawford,
Clevish, Calkins, Putton. Pond, Gilson,
Hsigh, Jones, Pong, Miller, Trnllinger,
Wilson, Wynn, (id). . . , . .
■ Nayes—Brodie, Payton, • Ponohoe,
[OOMLIBIB MXX waits.]
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FED WITH A FUNNEL,
Vks of Mur ■nrgteal Opnm
UoaSt
Lying on » oot in the $an Franolaoo
olty hospital, ia the form of ft heairlly
built man who has, within the laat tea
months, gone through enough phyaioal
pain to cause him to oare little for life,
yet he hangs on to existence with ft
persistency that ia astonishing. J >
i nomas ouiiivan u his name' nd 1m
admitted suffering from ft cancer
of the lower Jaw. After eome‘ time
the sturgeon in charge of the cast do*
elded to amputate the lower Jaw, Hop*
Intr to arrest the progress of the can*
oer, but it did not hare that result, and
five suooewive operations have been
performed up to date, with the nsult
that the lower jaw, tongue and soft
parts of the throat hare been out
away, tearing nothing but the upper
palate and uvula suspended over the
cavity which extends down to. the
larynx, almost to the junetlon of the
neck and the breast.
Respiration la effected directly
through the throat, the nose being use
less for breathing, and is in no way
connected with the organs whtoh It
was originally Intended to supply with
air. Food Is oondueted to the stomach
by means of a funnel and soft rubber
tube.
Notwithstanding' this terrible ex
perience Mr. Sullivan Is of a cheerful
disposition, and whiles away the time
reading. He makes futile attempts at
talking, but as nothing other than a '
mumbling sound escapes him he has to
convey a knowledge of his wants by
means of pencil and paper.
But for waste from inactivity his ap
pearance is quite healthy, except
when looking at his head, whleh is
covered with bandagos extending
around his upper jaw to hide the
ghastliness of his face. He is about M
years old, a native of Ireland and a
miner by trade. He has no relatives
that are known of on the ooast
queer theory or leprosy,.
I* Is Propagated bp Cannibalism in Oae
" antes.
Mr. Boyle visited Burmah, the Malay
native- states, Sumatra, Slam, Borneo,
Java, Australia, New Zealand, Samoa,
the Sandwich Islands and America.
Of all the facts noted by him as a
sanitarian, the moot remarkable are
those relating to leprosy, a disease
which he believes to be spreading to
an alarming extent all over the world.
'■ He was particularly strusk by the:
gigantic proportions the evil has
assumed in Burmah. The steps of the
great Shwedagon pagoda at Rangoon,
the Mecca of the Indo-Chinese Bud
dhists, he found to be "olosely lined
from top to bottom with lepers, suffer
ing from that loathsome disease in its
worst forms and most advanced
stages.” A number of the viotimft
examined by Mr. Boyle “presented *
most sickening spectacle.” Yet no>
provision worthy of the name appeare>
to be made for the maintenance or
treatment of these poor lepers, who
are thus compelled to resort to begging
to keep themselves in existence.
In the Sandwich islands, Mr. Boyle
was strongly impressed by the terrible'
effects of the curse of leprosy, whioh,
he says, has nearly decimated the na
tive population.
He has a curious theory to the offset
that the propagation of leprosy haa
been to a large extent connected with
cannibalism, the disease “being spread
wholesale through the eating of in
fected bodies.” He haa frequently
seen in New Caledonia and the South
Sea islands human bodies “hanging
up in the native huts, intended for fu
ture repasts, though then in an ad
vanced stage of decomposition and ex
haling a sickening odor.”
THE WORD “8NOLLYOOSTBR.**
Vint Deed la IMS by a Vlgerras OMt|ls
Campaign Orator.
The word “Snollygoster" was first
osed to describe a place-hunting dema
gogue, says Colonel Ham, of Georgia,
back in 1848, when the Niagara inci
dent threatened war with England.
There was a joint debate that year in
a Georgia town between John Kelly
and Jonas Gaines, rival candidates for
the legislature, and Kelly spoke first.
The chief plank of his platform, by the
way, was that the president should
seize all the roads to Liverpool so as to
prevent a salt famine in case of wan
After he had declaimed with great
effect on the necessity of plenty of
salt, Gaines arose and spoke these
well-remembered words: “Fellow-elt
zens, ef there’s anything on top side
of earth that makes me mad, it’s ter
see a snollygoster of a feller a contin
ually a swipin’ aroun’ after the ortho
graphy ov a little office what he lcain’t
never git, and hain’t got sense enough
to fill if he could git it” Finally he
reached the salt question, and raising
himself on his tiptoes, he yelled. “Liv
erpool—h—1—North Carolina salt is a
durned sight sal ter, and there’s a dozen
roads to the works.” Gaines won the
debate and was elected.
* Hiklif Ante UufaL
“One year,’* says a Florida orange
grower, “when few of my trees bore
much fruit on account of insect rav
ages, I secured a large crop, I in
duced the ants to frequent my trees by
syringing the trees with a strong solu
tion of syrup and water. The solution
dried, leaving a saccharine substance
adhering to the leaves, twigs and
branches of the trees, in seeking which
the ants killed the insects which in
fested the trees."
An Old Saying
Mr. Charles O. Leland traces the ,
origin of the saying in reference to a
small place “there is not room enough
to swing a cat" to a superstition cur
rent in Transylvania. In this country,
it is said, if a cat runs away, when re
covered she must be swung three times %
around to attach her to the dwelling.
The same is done with a stolen eat by .
a thief if he would retain it.
