The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, August 31, 1893, Image 1

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CLYDE KINO AND D. H. CRONIN, EDITORS AND MANAQKRt.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 31, 1893.
NUMBER 8.
hear that the boys and girls had a
gay lime at the dance Tuesday
"S' _
at fail to attend the annual fall
ng at J. P. Mann’s. Saturday,
mber9. . 8-3
t greatest clearing sale ever in
iil. will be at the Emporium Sep
er 4,5 and 6.
wy Carr is expected home from
and about August 5. He will
a bride with him.
n't miss the remnant sale at the
trium. Three days only, Monday,
lay and Wednesday.
ner Merriman has been appointed
if sheriff to aid in the work inci
to the coming term of court.
Mirer _ Hayes says the distress
tats of Holt county cover enough
to replace Scott’s shortage.
st week Tiie Frontier will as
tiie Independent’s apology for the
tnce of the supervisor system.
^ J. P. Mann’s opening, Satur
•ePtembcr 9, see the new styles
ate a 6°°<1 time. Everybody in
8-2
and bearing sale at> tb
next week promises to be
ieir*-ll0a t0 lllose wl*° are buj
■*eir winter’s supply.
K»te Cavanaugh returned Tues
’ming from Sioux City where she
Siting with her brother James.
Independent should know that
Kinkaid did not declare a tor
1 of Barrett Scott’s appearance
* onerickson cut her right arm
severely last Friday on a broken
W jSne' ®r- Trueblood dressed
'onnd.
■ Mann returned from Chicago
I y evening, and is now busily en
iav »?-S,Preparalions for his faH
lcn ia set for September 9.
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hoesaud notions if yo
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next Monday> Tu^a
^MMico wy “?re “ringers” i
'Prison cells i?ganlhey are plac<
they 1'**ey flnd 11 difficult startii
Charieg, P &Ced *“ thoee prist
5,0 mako SCe wllere the con
sale eertifi UDVlllin? by cant
knveto' ?te30fl8!)3- Thee
that aoBrpUnd ,he m,,neV rei
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T. A. Thompson, with the Reliance
Trust Company, Sioux City, was in the
city last Friday looking after his Holt
county interests. He was accompanied
by Attorney Milquist.
Chas. H. Odell will be in O'Neill on
or about September 5, and will be
pleased to see all parties who anticipate
a trip south. He expects to accompany
the party and looa after their comforts,
etc.
It . will be a difficult matter in.the
future to sell tax titles in Holt county.
Investors will not tumble over them
selves to buy titles that are cancelled at
the whim of a lot of populists just for
amusement. _
pick Townley, secretary of the state
banking board, and Bank Examiner
Cowderly came up from Lincoln Tues
day and went over to Boyd county yes
terday on a hunt. Bank Examiner
Cline accompanied them.
Andy Morgan, of Stafford, was in the
city last Tuesday and informed Thb
Frontier that Manus O’Donnell, of
that place, lost his barn and sheds Mon
day by fire. The loss will amount to
about $1,200, partly covered by insur
ance. ‘_,
The Ladies’ Ideal company was on
the boards at the opera house* Monday
and Tuesday night under the auspices
of the cornet band. Their performance
was neither captivating or entertaining
and the band boys lost money on the
venture, having made them a liberal
guarantee. _
The school board held a meeting
Mondav evening and elected B. S. Gil
lespie treasurer to fill vacancy caused by
the failure of David Adams to qualify.
Miss Maud Gillespie was elected teacher
to fill vacancy caused by the resigna
tion of Miss Howard. It was decided
to have a vjfhe months’ term.
When McHugh'sits with becoming
dignity in the council of the state cen
tral committee he smoles 4 democratic
smile, but when this same McHugh re
turns to his sanctum in the sub office he
smiles a populistic smole, thus demon
strating that he is an hermaphrodite
smole-smiler.—Graphic.
When Mr. Kautzman attempts to
array the business men against Tub
Frontikb by calling on his readers to
patronize those who advertise with him,
he should be informed that his alliance
once upon a time inaugurated a regular
oid fashioned boycot on this paper
with gratifying results to the paper’s
owners. _
The fool killer, after disposing of the
Wandering Jew, will undoubtedly turn
his attention to the people who call at
newspaper headquarters when the editor
is out, mount the tripod, spill the ink,
dull the scissors and finally walk away
with the most valuable exchanges. We
like to be accommodating, but our good
nature is not boundless.
The independents held their primaries
! last Saturday and elected the following
delegates: First ward, John Lappan,
Tom Birmingham and P. D. Mullen;
Second ward, Judge Roberts and Bar
ney McGreevey; Third ward, Mose
Campbell and Jim Harrington; town
ship, Sam Howard, Pat Huges, Chas.
Wilcox, Ben Johring and Mike Holland.
J. J. McCafferty’s commodious barn
in the northern p||| of the city was
burned to the ground Monday after
noon. A team of horses belonging to
Dan Stewart were burned, and also a
pony belonging to Mr. McCafferty.
The fire companies responded to the
alarm quickly but could avail nothing
more than to prevent the fire from
spreading. _
Some of the O’Neill papers, the Inde
pendent in particular, started the divis
1 ion ball to rolling two weeks ago. and
to the surprise and disgust of the citi
zens of O’Neill the people-have again
taken the matter up, and after the next
election what is known as Holt county
will compose four good, prosperous
counties, three of which will be free
from the “O’Neill thieving ring” and
such blackmailing character assassins as
Ham Kautzman.—Ewing Democrat.
The Sun of last week in its comments
on the Holt County Bank was nothing
if not unfair. The depositors upon
whom the Sun calls to hold indignation
meetings, are themselves responsible for
the delay. £5 per cent, of them asked
the state board to allow the bank to
resume business and it necessarily took
time to examine into the affairs of the
bank and decide whether or not such a
course would be advisable, and from the
fact that the board has appointed O.O.
Snyder receiver, we take it that it waa
not satisfied with the bank’s methods of
doing business. The efforts of the Sun
to cast aspersion on Bank Examiner
Cline is not an index to the popular feel
ing in O’Neill in regard to that gentle
man. He has been very courteous and
obliging in answering problems pro
pounded by depositors, and we believe
he bears the ill will of n me of them.
' Dr. Edward McGlynn frees his mind
la the September Forum with regard to
the present relations of the Vatican and
the United. States. He AVongly upholds
Leo XIII. apd Mgr. Satolll in their'
efforts to pacify unruly or over-zealous
priests and bishops, and recites incident
ally the exact language of his remark
able personal conversation with the
Pope at Rome a few months ago. The
article conveys a striking impression of
the Pope’s vigorous will and dominant
intellectuality.
The O’Neill Frontier having entered
upon its fourteenth year, thinks it has
the right to remark that It is no spring
chicken. The writer hereof saw the
first issue of Thb Frontier, and what
it was then and is now is much to its
credit. Right in the midst of the lead
ing weekly publications of Nebraska, it
rightly holds a place that has been won
by constant effort and untiring dili
gence in behalf of the people of O’Neill
and Holt county.—Printers’ Auxiliary,
Omaha. _
The deputy sheriff ands* large herd of
legal luminaries from O’Neill were in
Atkinson Tuesday in search of any loose
property that might be in possession of
certain parties who are sureties on the
bond of Treasurer Soott. This sudden
invasion is prima facie evidence that the
O’Neill sureties on the same instrument
are worthless, or that a spirit of malice
prompted the county attorney and his
legal advisor, M. F. Harrington, to bar
rass the Atkinson contingent on the
bond.—Graphic.
Writing of the Independent’s assertion
to the effect that Joe Bartley had trans
ferred his property to escape liability on
Scott’s bond, the Amelia Journal says:
“It is a lie from beginning to end and
just the kind of business that Kautzman
is capable of doing. Mr. Bartley in
forms the Journal that he neyer enter
tained such an idea, and there is not the
least foundation for such a rumor. The
malicious, cowardly sneak was well
aware of it at the time it was penned.
Give the fool a little more rope and he’ll
hang himself, or go to jail, where he
properly tjelongs, for criminal libel.
It may not alleviate hard times to read
these figures, but nevertheless they are
interesting, says the State Journal:
There 3,000 state and 1,300 private banks
in the United States, a total of 8,000,
somewhat diminished since May by
isolated suspensions and insolvencies,
but still in excess of 7,800, several sus
pended banks having, after suspension,
resumed. The gross deposits in nation
al banks of the United States amount to
$1,500,000,000; in state banks to $650,
000,000, and in private banks to $100,
000,000, a total of $3,250,000,000. The
gross deposits in American banks are 50
per cent, greater than the national debt,
and equal to. about 60 per cent, of all the
gold coin in the Wtirld.
A prarie fire nearly caused the destruc
tion of the chicory factory yesterday.
Young Gillespie of the Ponca reserva
tion, son of B. S. Gillespie of O’Neill,
was again attacked last week by the
same Indian named Campbell who«wav
laid him about two months ago and
Gillespie shot in self defenbe. Camp
bell had recovered from his wounds and
started out to hunt Gillispie down. He
found a hiding place in the grass near
the road where Gillespie generally trav
eled and when he came along the Indian
leveled bis Winchester on his game and
fired. The bullet passed through Gilles
pie’s hat, and, kjnowing what kind of a
man he had to deal with, Gillespie fell
from his horse as though killed. The
Indian immediately started towards his
victim and when within a few feet ot
him, the supposed dead man raised and
sent a bullet through tbo would-be
assassin. Campbell will undoubtedly
die.—Creighton Courier.
The celebrated actors, Fredrick and
Jean Renolds, will appear at the opera
house, Friday, September 1, in the
screaming farce comedy, “Woman’s
Rights.” The company comes highly
endorsed by the eastern press. They
are now on their way to Chicago where
they play eight weeks. Jean Renolds is
acknowledged to be one of the most
beautiful women on the stage. She
moves in the best society of Boston,
Washington and New York. This
will be the opening of the regular
season and as everything promises to be
first-class the house no doubt will be
crowded. We clip the following from
the Deadwood Pioneer of July 23:
Fredrick Renolds and his beautiful
and accomplished wife. Jean Cowgill,
were greeted by a large and appreciative
audience at the opera-house last evening.
"Woman’s Rights” is an excellent com
edy and the company did full justice to
their parts. The whole constituted an
evening of delightful entertainment.
Both Mr. and Mr. Renolds posessability
of a rare order, and will ever be wel
come to the dramatic stage of this
city. _
Purely vegetable. Hood’s pills.
25c. 52-52
What the Independent Wante to Know.
In Its issue of August 18, the Inde
pendent propounded a few Interrogations
to The Frontier in regard to the pres
ent condition of the Holt County bank
and its methods of doing business. We
have carefully investigated the affair
and are able this week to give our read
ers a fair understanding of the case,
especially the Jew’s questions where
they were intelligent enough to be un
derstood. The Introduction to his in
terrogations we omit, as it is nothing
but abuse of Tna Frontier editors and
has no bearing on the question. Below
each question will be- found the condi
tion of things as a careful investigation
has proven to us:
NUMBER ONE.
Why doesn't the bank examiner make
a report?
The bank examiner, like Mr. Kautz
man, is working under instructions. It
is not customary for the examiner to re
port to any one but the state banking
board, which he did in tbiB case within
two weeks, but the board delayed action
at the request of the depositors who
asked that they be given time to show
cause .why Mr. Adams should be allowed
to resume business. A petition to this
effect was gjgned by 85 per cent, of the
depositors. This accounts fo the delay.
NUMBER TWO.
And why have men been duned to call
and pay notes “on the side" since .the
bank closed?
We are perfectly safe in saying that
no man has been called upon to pay
Holt County bank notes since the bank
closed. The bank loaned large amounts
of money for private individuals and
took notes payable to the private indi
viduals and not to the bank, and it is
these same notes that are now in the
bands of attorneys for collection. The
notes were at no time figured imwithr
the assets of the bank. ‘
NUMBER THREE.
And why did Mr. Adams send for
men to surrender their certificates of
deposit and take his individual notes?
If we are expected to answer questions
we must have names, and dates. We
cannot guess at covert insinuations. Be
mnrn nvnlinif Ms* TZ milkman
NUMBER FOUR.
And why did the bank receive depos
its after its manager knew it wt^uld
close?
It Was after banking hours when the
bank’s officers new that it must close.
They confidently expected 910,000
by the evening express.
NUMBER FIVE.
And why did he make so many trans
fers of his property just before he locked
the doors and fastened in depositors'
money?
Bo far as we can ascertain he made
but two transfers. One *of those was a
brick block in this city owned by Adams
& Darr, (who, as wilj be seen by the
county records, have been doing a co
partnership busines), and the other was
to quit claim some tax titles. Money to
buy these tax titles was furnished Mr.
Adams for thdl special purpose, as the
records will show, and instead of buy
ing them in ' the name of the person
furnishing the money, he bought them
in his own name, and when the crash
came he simply gave a quit claim to
right the error. The transfer was per
fectly honorable and not made to secure
any funds that were to be counted as
bank assets.
NUMBER SIX.
And why did that bank take money
in payment for a note which it had dis
posed of to eastern parties under the
pretense that the management could not
"find the . note just then,” but gave a
deposit check with the assurance that
the note would be cancelled as soon as
it could be found, and returned on the
receipt of the deposit certificate, but
locked up bis money and let eastern
parties, to whom the note bad been
transferred, come on to him for pay
ment? Was that some of the paraded
“honor and integrity” those yawpers
are howling about? Was that obtain
ing money under false pretenses? Per
haps the grand jury will unearth some
startling things which will make very
interesting reading.
Again we must call for names and
dates. Who bas the deposit check, and
what is the amount, and who holds the
note and when was the money depos
ited? If we are to furnish you informa
tion, Mr. Kautzman, please Vasist us by
making your wants known in a less
general way. We are laboring for the
enlightenment of just such block-heads
as you but we are no necromancer,
interpreter of parables or reader of
dreams.
Two More Grand Harvest Excursions,
September 13 and October 10. Leave
Omaha via. the Missouri Pacific railway
for the Cherokee strip, Oklahoma and
all poiuts in Arkansas and Texas. A
rare chance to get a home in the sunny
south. One fare plus 12 for the round
trip. _ Two million acres of good timber,
farming and fruit land in Arkansas and
Texas for sale by this company. T'or
full particulars, maps, circulars, etc.,
write Chas. H. Odell, district land agent,
Peoria, III., or O’Neill, Neb.; Geo. E.
Dorrington, traveling pass, agent; Thos.
F. Godfry, pass, and ticket agent, north
east corner 13th and Farnam streets,
[Omaha.
no HAITI COLUMN.
A preacher at La Fayette, Ind„ re
cently tald, while delivering an elegant
sermon: "God made the earth In six
days and then He rested; then He made
man and rested again; thon He made
woman, and since that time neither God
nor man has rested.”
"Fools not all dead yet,” says the Jew.
The declaration is entirely superfluous.
A very casual perusal of Kautzraan’s
editorials establishes that fact far be
yond the idea of contradiction.
"The coming man,” observes Inven
tion, has been a great deal talked about
and a long time coming, and it seems
now that when he does arrive he will be
bald headed. That is Prof. Drum
mond’s opinion; nor does the loss of
hair by any means exhaust the list of
unnecessary organs which man, In the
process of evolution, will get rid of.
Other scientists say that they tend more
and tnbre to disappear, the nails grow
ing weaker, and the now useless divis
ion of the foot into toes shows signs of
vanishing. The coming man will, it Is
therefore anticipated, be a short, bald
headed, toothless, nailless, toeless crea
ture, with much brain and little muscle!
If the coming man is to be so terribly
mangled, we tremble violently for the
doming woman.
It is said that Ross Hammond is presi
dent of the Fremont Bicycle club. Ross
may have wheels in his head but they
are ball bearing.
They were sitting In the twilight,
Where the waves break on the sand,
And an arm was wound around her,
They were clasping hand to hand;
And she bent a little closer,
Towards a faoe sun-klBsed with tan,
And to Susie Mamie whispered;
' TDon'fyou wish we'd see a man?”
—[Nsw York World.
A party of straw riders last week went
out to the Michigan settlement to attend
a dance and were warmly greeted with
stale eggs and last years’ vegetables.
No bipod was spilled but the invaders
had an eventful trip. With the bom
bardment from without and fire in thfeir
straw, they could easily imagine them
selves between the devil and the deep
blue sea.
John Mann bag returned from Chicago.
He did not bring his long and flowing
auburn-hued mustache back with him,
but that fact does not cause yain regret
among his relatives and friends as he is
a handsomer man since shorn of facial
hirsute. '
Hail ye Harrington as chief, and ye
will do well to call him chief I Any
man who can become county attorney
by absorption and run a board of su
pervisors Just for after dinner diversion
Is deserving of the appellation.
“Several literary critics are pointing
out to Congressman Bryan that he got
bis metaphors mixed- in bis silvery
speech when he spoke af the mute
appeals of the dust begrimed, whose
cries beat in vain against the outer
walls," says the Fremont Tribune. “A
mute cry, you see, would be something
Worth going miles and miles to see or
hear. What Mr. Brya^ doubtless meant
to say was that jbere were hot icicles
hanging on the outer walls.”
The board of independent supervisors
have up to date driven Scott and the
people’s money from the county, over*
burdened the people with taxes to pay
their salaries, ruined the county’s repu
tation abroad, cancelled about $25,000
worth of tax certificates that the county
must pay and when it is completed will
have spent about $600 in salaries in
approving Hayes’ bond, and still the
grand old ship of reform holds proudly
on her way.
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Supervisors Meet.
The board of supervisors met in ad*
journed session at the vcourt house
August 80.
After minutes of previous meeting
were read and approved the following
motion was introduced by John Winn,,
and carried by a vote of 18 to 4:
I move you that the county treasurer
be, and hereby is, instructed to cancel,
and mark cancelled on his official books
and records, all tax sales and tax sale
certificates made by Barrett Scott, ex
county treasurer, in the year 1892, for
the reason that said sales were neither
made nor completed in accordance
with law.
The bond of Treasurer Hayes was
referred to the bond committee and that
his bondsmen be required to come in
and justify.
This is the business transacted yester
day, but the board are preparing to go
into session at this writing (11 a. k.) It
is not known what is on the tapis to-day.
After Breakfkst
to purify, vitalize and enrich the blood,
and give nerve, bodily «nd digestive
strength, take Hood's sarsaparilla. Con
tinue the medicine after every meal
for a month or two.
Obituary.
KIL0MURRY—At South Omaha, on
Monday, August 38, 1808, of typhoid
fever, Henry Killmurry, aged 88 years.
The sad intelligence above was con*
veyed by telegram to O'Neill Monday
evening and caused universal sorrow and
regret. Deceased had spent the greater
portion of his life in O’Neill, going to
South Omaha about 8 years ago, where
he worked in the packing house up to
the time of his death. Ha was sick but
a very short time, having entered the
hospital only the day before his demise.
John Mollride went down to Omaha
Tuesday morning, bringing the remains
up Wednesday evening. The A. 0. U.
W. lodge, of which deoeased was an
honored member, together with a large
delegation of pitlaens, met them at the
depot and oonveyed the remains to the
home of his father, Richard Kill*
murry.
The funeral occurred this morning
from the Catholic church and the large
concourse of friends which followed
the remains to their last resting plaoe
bespoke the love and esteem in which
he was held in this city, his old home.
Tbs Erontikh extends Its sympathy
to the bereaved parents and relatives, •
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County Division.
Petitions for county division were
filed this morning in the county clerk’s "V
office, Below we give an outline of the 1
proposed cut: , Vj
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the F. E. and M. V. Ry. Ticket* on aid*
July 24, good to return July 28 or Aug.
4. Ticket* on tale July 81, good to
return Aug. 4 or 11. Ticket* on aale
Aug. 7, good to return Aug. 11 or 18.
Theie tickets will not be honored on
any other days.
W. J. Dobbs, Agent.
GREAT
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REMNANT
AND
CLEARING
SALE AT
THE
EMPORIUM
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WlDMUDAV
September 4,8 sad 6.
This will be the greatest sale of
the kind ever held in O’Neill.
Remnants of ribbons, laces, em
broideries, calicoes, ginghams,
shirtings' and dress goods. All
the remnants that have accumlat
ed in our stock for' thg* past yegr
will be thrown on our counters
for less than half price.
Odd pairs of pants, overalls,
shirts, boots, ladies’, children and
men’s shoes will also be on our
remnant counters at less than half
price.
mens ana Dora shirts (food
quality; 35c.
Men’a overall*, 35c.
Men’* plow ahoea, 78c.
Boys’ plow ahoea, 70c.
1000
corresponding pri<
other articles
too numerou*
_ _ to mention at
correaponding price*.
1000
dozen buttons
repreaentlnf
_ _ _ about 50 atvlea
o( jets, steel fronts and others;
fine dress buttons that sell from
10 to 30 cent a dozen, all will be
placed on onr counter for 8 cents
per dozen. This ia leaa than one
third of manufacture prices.
All our 0 and 7 cent calicoes (in
cluding indigo-blues) for 4 -and 5
cents a yard.
All our 0 and 10 cent dress ging
hams for 7 cents a yard.
Many other great bargains too
numerous to mention.
You can’t afford in these hard
times to miss this great sale. Three
day's only—September 4, 5, 0.
THE...
Emporium
Two doors south
Of postoffice.
A. B. NEWELL, Prop,
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