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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1894)
'-Ai' ; :>'■• .'Vvj ■ ittfi r^Av-t ■■-<.-hy,;*« ' :<>. ;y«f. •■' '"' -:•' -/ . ' ".r^i fi , '. v •■.!: ',? ; ■•' :; *>■? ■■ '-■■ ;■;■'■■!■■l-5' tf/f'f'.w&rV-fy VOLUME XIV, O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA. FEBRUARY 15, 1894. ‘V. NUMBER 32. yv* JCAL NEWSJTEMIZED ke Local News of O’Neill u Caught by the "Kids.” ither INTERESTING NOTES p, of General Interest Published While News Is Still News. (, D. Long visited Sioux City Satur iy. - l L. Tingle, of Basset, is in the city »iay- -- Geo. Butler, of Ewing, is in the city e-day- - pell Akin is in the city attending »rt. _,_ Get your Hour at McManus’. as he tops the best. 81-2 Tns Frontier and New York Trib ie both for $1.60. Attorney Rice was down from Stuart loud ay attending court. . Mrs. 6. C. Hazelet went down to imx City yesterday morning. We have a full line of all kinds of fish (popular prices. 53-2 O’Nbill Grocery Co. Rev. J. M. Bates will hold Episcopal {trices at the Presbyterian church next ttday evening. S. M. Wagers and wife and Mrs. John aBue returned from their eastern visit st Monday evening. Tbe Bartley guards have been assigned I tbe second regiment and given the •sition of company F. District court convened this morning dtb Judge Kinkaid on the bench. Tbe iry is called lor the 19th inst. | £d Bulter, Hez Chambers and Mr. hirdy came down from Atkinson yester by to see the wrestling match. Miss Qrace Adams gave a farewell arty last evening to a large number of to young friends. A very pleasant Smeis reported. When in need of coal go to Biglin’s ml yard. He keeps the best coal in m and his prices are reasonable. 26 tf Cbas. B. Leis, of Murdock, and Miss lama Mikel, of Emmet, yesterday se yed the county judge’s consent to wed. FOR SALE—10 head of farm horses, hut to close them out at once; will til them for $30 to $70 per bead. Edgar Thompson. Col. Neil Brennan went down to iucoln Wednesday per special in vi sion to attend the 25th anniversary of 1( Nebraska State University. Parties wishing to purchase flour in M or 1000 pound lots will do well to “P. J. McManus before purchasing iiewbere. 31-2 Wove sale Saturday, Feb. 17. Entire *®e of ladies’ and gent.’s gloves at cut (rices. One day only. 313 _J. P. Maun | Back Berry was in from Paddock yes ikrday. He reports bis son, Tommy, ^covering from his attack of typhoid lever. ■ ^UE Frontier's remarks regarding jHe principal seem to have performed j3' functions of a lasative and trans | °nneil his constipation of ideas into a fijeentery of words. i *3ave just received a car load of flour i^lucli consists of two grades, full pat **• Crown, and straight grade, Kitchen « KverV sack wairanted. i31-3 P. J. McManus. i Parker, of Scottville, will sell Public sale on Tuesday, February 27, B entire outflt of farm machinery, oosehold goods, stock, etc., to the •ighest bidder. Cbever Hazelet and Col. Brennan >ed Chambers Saturday in the in **•18 of the German Chicory Co. It is eintention of the company to erect a ?,ng kiln at that point this year. For sale or rent, on easy terms, a good r“:160 acres, four miles from O’Neill; “liable land, 115 acres were under e plow last year. For terms and fur er Particulars address, Wilbur Seed eMCo-. Milwaukee, Wls. 30lf Graphic: It is reported that the high °°1 at O’Neill has been turned into a ihit'8aU *orum- This is an inovation will not oonduce to harmony or a liii*Per develoP®ent in the legitimate i.,CS instruction under our school Wem. , independent last week donated h 'v ** 8n<3 ^ inches of space to [qi • a°NTIKH’ i°r which we are grate ipt m l'roP°rtion to the value of the „ ?e i°r advertising purposes, which 'uiagine is in the neighborhood of 0r BO cenu. Hood's Pills are purely vegetable.care fully prepared from the be8t ingredients1. 25 cents. Conrad Grebe, of Emmet, called Sat urday and relieved the financial strin gency at this office somewhat. The blood is the source of health. Keep it pure by taking Hood’s Sarsa parilla, which is peculiar to itself, and superior in strength, economy and me dicinal merit. Last Friday Miss Fannie O’Neill closed n very successful term of school In Dis trict 156. Miss O’Neill expects to leave in a few days to visit with friends in Sioux City and Omaha. The wrestling match last night be tween McDermot and 8impson was patronized by a 8150 house and gave general satisfaction. Simpson - won three out of fiye falls and was declared winner by Referee Purdy, of Atkinson. Kautzy, old boy, doesn’t defend the First National Bnnk with that old-time enthusiasm. Perhaps those articles libeling Tnn Fhontihr don’t come of ten enough to satisfy the cashier. Time was, you know, when Gallagher paid 81.50 per week for them. Mrs. L. E. Whltehorn will give a term of eighteen lessons in vocal music for $1. Beginning February 19. Class meet at residence in the northwestern part of town, at 4:80 p, m., Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Instrumental lessons 88 per terip. 32tf The communication published last week in the Independent and signed "B. F. 8.” was written by Kautzman. “B. F. 8.” is so very illiterate that he can not write anything. As a rule that is the class of men you will find flocking around Eautzman’s standard, however. Probably the first orange ever raised in Holt county was plucked last Satnr day from a tree grown by Charlie Mil lard, the half of which The Frontier acknowledges receipt of. It was of a fair size, looked all right, smelled delic ious and was flavored like—a pumpkin. The Sun received the contract for furnishing county stationery. It is to be hoped McHugh will give full count this year as the county is too hard up to be cheated. The last time the Sun had the contract 600 letter beads would go very nicely for 1000. This was by actual count. John Tomsick, residing near Atkin son, was before County Judge McCutch an last week on the charge of adultery, flled by one Mary Confal. The case was continued to March 12. Those who have a cultivated taste for rich and racy mat ters of this particular brand will do well to be on hand. All persons holding tickets on J. P. Mann’s parlor set are invited to be present Thursday, February 22, at 2 p. si. to witness the manner of awarding same. Should the set not be claimed or called foi in 30 days after being awarded we will repeat the program March 22. 3o save your tickets as you may need themtlien. J. P. Mann. Butte Gazette: The dance .given by the A. O. U. W. lodge last Friday even ing was one of the finest ever given in Butte. The music for the occasion Was furnished by the Spencer orchestra, which, under the leadership of Sanford Parker is one of the finest in the west. The hall was crowded and all report a most enjoyable time. Edward Bok’s successful article in the January Cosmopolitan on the “Young Han in Business” has been reprinted in a tasteful and handy booklet form at 10 cents by the Curtis Publishing company, of Philadelphia. To this reprint Mr. Bok has added some fourteen pages of editorial matter answering “Three Un certain Young Men."_ The county board adjourned Saturday. Outside of the Skirving case nothing of particular interest was transacted. The settlement committee made report, various road and tax matters were acted upon, printing contract let and the county attorney instructed to bring suit against A. J. Meals and his bonds men to recover a judgment of $3,000, Now that Professor—God save the mark—Morrow has proven to his own satisfaction that Tub Frontier editors don’t cut much figure anyway, perhaps he can find time to tell us whv it is that parents from every portion of the county who were once anxious to send their children to O’Neill’s justly celebrated schools are now either sending them to country districts or other cities? Goods at less than wholesale prices at the Golden Investment company’s store, O’Neill. Two-piece bedroom set, $9 50, wholesale price in Omaha, $10. Mat tress, $1.25, wholesale price, $2. Woven wire spring, $1.25, wholesale, $1.50. Dining room chairs, $4, one-half dozen, wholesale price, $6. Rocking chairs, $1, wholesale, $1.50. Carpet per yard, .20, cost, .80. Blankets, sheets pillows, etc., in proportion. *w In the case from Boyd county, where in a woman was arrested and brought to O’Neill for stealing a pair of mules, H- E. Murphy nolleprossed her and let her go.—Independent. “Nolleprossed:" wonder what in thun der that means. We’ll bet It’s some mean trick, though. “Nolleprossed her and let her go.” We thought Henry had reformed since his election, but there’s no measuring the extent of a woman’s influence. Our advice to Henry would be to not do it again, however. Doc Mathews returned Sunday even ing from his trip to California. He fell in love with tho country and pur chased 10 acres of land near Madera, at which place the Holt county colony Is located. Mr. Mathews will probably express his views of the country in his own language through these columns next week. He carried with him a small camera and took a large number of views, among them Scottie’s prison in Juarez, Mex., also some of his chums in that place. * rarties intending to buy flour in 500 or 1,000 9b lots want to distinctly under* stand that we will allow no outfit to sell the same grades of flour for less money tban we do, and as for having the best flour in the market, all we have to say is the G. A. A„ Patent and Daisy Straight are too well known to need any comment, and the manufacturer was never known to he driven from the market on account of prices, so remem ber we are doing business at the old stand. 82-2 O’Nkili, Grocbhy Co. Judge Keysor came up from Omaha Sunday evening to hear the numerous bond cases Monday. Nothing was done, however. As the last session of court adjourned to no particular day or month, Attorney Uttley raised the question of jurisdiction and was sustained by the court, and adjournment taken. The judge held substantially that when district court adjourns it must be to some particular day and hour. In view of this decision we are reminded of the forfeiture of Scott’s first appearance bond, which was taken at special session and not at a session called for any par ticular day. The state has got.its for feiture in this case, now why doesn’t it proceed to collect it? Advertising, judicious and persistent, always pays. A New York dry goods house disbelieved the axiom and so a resort was made to the use of printer’s ink in the established daily papers.. The first advertisement brought a crowd of customers and the firm was forced to close its doors. Two hundred new salespeople were employed, more adver tising done, ' and the house has been doing more than a satisfactory business. This truth is told by the firm. It always works that way. The reading public scans the newspaper columns, and it generally goes where it is inyited. A pretty show window catches the attention of the passerby. But those who I travel on another street look to their t morning and evening papers for offers of bargains. Obituary of Oliver T. Jones. Deceased wag born in St Clair county, Illinois, June 4, 1825, and died at Dor sey, Nebraska, February 4,1894, being therefore over 69 years of age at tbe time of his death. He was married to Miss E. E. Lancaster, of the same coun ty, in April 1847, and moved to Hasting, I Minnesota, in 1856, thence to Union county, Dakota in 1872, and to Holt county 1878, where he resided utatil tbe time of his death, which was 12 o’clock noon, February 4, 1894, in the Presby terian church, while attending Sabbath school. Funeral services were held at the church where he died,Tuesday,February 0, at 12 o’clock, conducted by Mrs. JeDnle Fryer, assisted by Elder Rosen crance. The scripture lesson was taken from the fourteenth chapter of Job,tenth verse: "Man dieth and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?” He was a good soldier for his country, which the following will show: He en listed in company A, Second regulars of Sharpshooters, volunteers on October 2, 1861, and was discharged in Novem ber, 1862, after being three times severe ly wounded. ^ He was held in high esteem by all who knew him, as was clearly seen by the large concourse of people that came to the funeral. The church was entire ly too small for the people to get it. He will be greatly missed in the vicinity for his sterling worth as a citizen and a neighbor. In the last month he has been greatly interested in spiritual things and with the last few days of bis life gave evidence of his expcetance of Christ. He leaves a wife, three sons and three daughters to mourn his loss. Dorsey, Neb., February 7, 1894. ,*« Stock Cattle! I am prepared to furnish stock cattle of all ages, or will buy on contract or commission. Frank Anderson, 32if U. B. Yds., Sioux City, Iowa. A Psdantio Pedagogue. Tuk Frontier's mild critioism of fjro* feasor Morrow’s method, or rather lack of method, of conducting our publio school, seems to have deeply stirred that gentleman’s slumbering passions and successfully urged him to scrawl a pair of screeds and appear before the public In the Sun and Independent simultaneously. Ue filled over a column with verbiage that resounded with the ring of the counterfeit and bore all of the essential earmarks of a labored literary effort. If we followed correctly hit tiresome meandering, and giasped the idoas he sought to convey, his article was for the purpose of convincing the public that Tub Frostier is presided over by illit erate and malicious individuals; end in that perhaps he Is correct. We have no desire whatever to discuss the point, as it is entirely foreign to the subject in hand. If we are ignorant it is no excuse for Mr. Morrow being found in the same lamentable and barbarous condition. He is professor of a high school, once cele brated throughout the state for its learn ing, and is theiefore supposed to know something. We are simply editors of a "boodle organ" and defenders of "rob bers" and "venal vampires" and "cor poration cormorants," which duties do not necessitate the assistance of educa tion. We do not hold a first grade cer tificate and consequently are not obliged to suffer the excruciating humiliation of publicly defending our Ignorance. If we wrote "inculcate into,” we were wrong in the technical meaning of the term; but when he wrote in correction, "inculcate upon,” he was wiong. The one is incorrect, the other was obsolete years bofore this teacher of "current events" had graduated from the nursery. But perhaps be doesn't know this, so we will not dwell upon the subject. Personally we have no particular war to make npon the professor, and what we have said has been for the good of our schools and not because we took ex ceptions to the pedagogue’s political principles, "which we knew to be false.” The board made a grave error when they employed a person without ability or ex perience, and it is to be hoped they have profited by tbe results. Our school is in a sorry plight. The chief instructor has not the respect of his co-workers, his pupils or his patrons. It was only last fall that this monument of conceit and ignorance essayed to read "current events" from a newspaper to a small audience upon the street corner. His delivery was so wretched, his pronuncia tion so inexcusably rank that a member of tbe school board within hearing probed a finger into either ear and re treated to a distance where the atmos phere was unruffled by tbe sound waves of that uncultured voice prompted to vibration by an uncultured and neglect ed mind. We say it is a sad circum stance that our principal, (the person who should command by his ability the respect of all) should go from room to room in the school house using such ex pressions as "I have saw" and "I seed," and defacing the blackboard with words so incorrectly spelled that he becomes the laughing stock of his pupils in tbe primary department. And it is no less painful to see him turn to his able as sistant in the recitation room and re quest her to explain this or that point, as "I am somewhat rusty." It is with reluctance that we expose to the public the true state of affairs ex isting in our temple of learning, and it is with regret we anticipate that it will take some competent scholar years to right the wrong that has been dune and re establish the reputation we have lost. The school board is not particularly at fault in this matter, as they certainly had reason to expect better things, but they can endear themselves everlastingly to the hearts of their countrymen by not being mistaken a second time. Mr. Morrow should remember that philosophical studies are beset by one peril, that a person easily brings himself to think that ho thinks; and a smatter ing of science encourages conceit, and a communication written in tbe language of a blackguard is a boomerang that is sure to crack the head of tbe twirler. Obituary. MAYNE—Samuel, on Monday morn* log, Febiuary 12, 1804, at bis home 3 miles-jsoutheast of O’Neill, of cancer; age 58 years. Deceased was born in Ireland and came to this country in 1874. Mr. Mayne was a prosperous and energetic farmer, owning one of the best farms in the county, and has many friends who mourn his death. He leaves a wife snd two sons. The funeral took place yesterday, services being held in the church at Inman. The Frontier tenders its sympathy to the family of the deceased. Letter List. Following Is the list of letters remaining In the postofllce at O'Neill, Neb., unclaimed, for the week ending February 41, ISM: Miss Lillian Tinas Miss Mary Galllager Thomas McDonald Jess Stalling ' In calling for the above please say “adver. Used." If not called for In two weeks they will be sent to the dead letter office. J. U. BioosP. M. The Shirring Impeaohmsnt. A* was Indicated In these columns a short time ago, the independents are now at work with their impeachment machine—the board of supervisors. This maohlno is a peouliar instru ment of exclusive populistic appli cation and Is embellished with modern improvements upon which they hold either copy-right or letters-patent'. The Holt county alliance, which is by satanlc conception the unnatural parent of tho independent r arty, has through its secretarv, one John A. Robertson, trumped up a few charges against District Clerk Sklrvlng, acting upon which the Independent board of super visors has placed the clerk upon trial for his official head. The case came on for bearing Satur day morning but was continued by agreement to March 6. M. F. Harrington Is attorney for the complainant and R. R. Dickson, N. D.1 Jackson and T. V. Golden for the de fendant. me complainant alleges as MS OIUN of action in substance m follows: That in 1891 John Sklrving waa elected clerk of the diatrict court) and that he atill holds the office by virtue of such election. That plaintiff la a resident tax-payer of Holt county, Nebraska. That the said clerk haa neglected hla dutiea by willfully and wrongfully absenting himaelf from hla office for more than half of the dayswlnce hla election. That on the 19tb day of August, 1898, the ncounty of Holt brought an action in attachment In the diatrict court against Barrett Scott; and that on the ■ame day a aimilar action waa brought by the Union National bank of Omaha against Barrett Scott; and that the aald clerk refused to approve the bond offered by Holt eounty or issue an at tachment until after the bond offered by the bank had been approved and attachment issued. Which action, com plainant alleges, knocked the county out of something like $1,800. That the clerk wrongfully aptiroved the bond of William McWhorter in the matter of enjoining the treaaurer and the First National bank from paying Sheriff Cunningham hla reward, to which complainant takes occaalon to aav be waa justly entitled. That the clerk haa taken illegal fees in four or five foreclosure cases. That be unlawfully certified E, H. Benedict to be a justice of the peace. To all of the above charges Clerk Skirving pleads not guilty. What the outcome will be of course is somewhat problematical, although it Is pretty safe to guess that the ring will carry out the wish of Harrington, who is too foxy to start a case of this kind unless he was confident that he could command the votes to successfully terminate it at the proper time. Hr. Emery on Irrigation, [The following is a synopsis of the speech made by Judge Emery, of Kan sas, before the. North Nebraska Irriga tion convention, at O’Neill, last month. The entire speech is quite lengthy, but is full of valuable irrigation Information and we will give it to our readers on the installment plan, a couple of columns each week until completed.] Ladies and gentlemen of Nebraska— This subject is so large and has so many sides to it that sometimes in talking about it I am a little at loss to know where to begin. Some parts of arid America have interests peculiar to them selves; not all of arid America is alike, so what interests some parts would not be interesting to other parts, but 1 feel today more as if I were going to address a Krnsas audience on the question of ir rigation, because your interests in Ne braska are like our interests in Kansas. We have much the same surface, much the ssme water supply and much the same people. If yon will recall the geography of these two states you will find your north line about as far from the British possessions as our south line ii from New Mexico, so that it is a square piece of country lying in the western belt of the arid region of Amer ica. Our products are the same, you raise cattle, wheat, corn, and hogs. We raise the same. You are engaged in much the same kind of wealth that we are in Kansas, the same condition of climate and I think that Kansas and Ne braska have about the best climate in the world, taking the twelve months to gether, the same railroad facilities. We are much the same people, our history came much at the same time. The time that you settled Nebraska forty years ago next September, we settled Kansas forty years ago next September so that to you people I think I see my way very clear to talk very much as I would in Kansas. My first idea will be to present a little historical glance at our condition. What made Kansas and Nebraska settle? I am not going to speak of the social, conditiou forty years past but some ot you are as old as Lam myself and you will recall that m ’54 when yoqr state and mine were settling, immigration west was resting on the line of four states and one territory, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisana, and the terri tory of Minnesota. The great army of immigration was sort of stopping at ..."T" that line; and we didn't know madt about It; theie were no settlementt r weet of that line except Texae and tbe :f; Mormon population at Salt Lake. All weet of that line was an unknown coun try filled with Indiana and Mexleans. And going back on the Pacific coast all west of these lines was an unknown country; people knew nothing about It; people didn’t ask questions about, It and the young men those days were settling Iowa, Missouri,, Minnesota and settling along tbe Missouri riser. Kow you V old men know what I am talking about, tbe attempt of slavery to go west of that line together with the discovery of gold y In California were two forces that cans* ■ ed immigration, caused that army all « at once to cross the Missouri riser. I crossed it with a hundred and twenty young men at Kansas City, you crossed it where the city of Omaha now stands, and Nebraska City now stands, and we begun the settlement of thle country and it was opened and settled In a day. The most of these settlers settled in eastern Nebraska and eastern Kansas. Now my friends, and perhaps you, Mr. President, all of us who were in that army at that time, we never asked our* :'; selses anything about what kind of a country we were going Into. I never -Jj, heard the question of irrigation till within the last few years, we never asked ourselves whether this was an arid country or not, we didn't know | whether it was a country filled with ' minerals or not, we came in here be cause we wanted a free state here, wanted a free state there, and the ex-oitement took place and It Is a long and dresry chapter In his* ' tory. It was turmoil and trouble and ; disturbance from ’04 to tbe time of the surrender of Appomattox. Now what baa been the condition ; <o here ainceT |We built rallroada, Uncle Sam Rave away an empire of land in building rallroada acroaa the continent, we founded towna, we made cltiea, we yr inverted in landa, and we opened tarma in tbe weat part of the United Staten which Ilea In the region we are talking about. It waa aettled in a hurry, no man aaking himaelf much about it. What haa been the condition In thle country ainceT What la the condition of the great plalna today T It ie an open country, got a aettled population. Now California la pretty denaely aettled In portiona, and we have admitted thirteen atatea ainoe that time, and we have made biatory very faat aince we came acroaa that line and have been ao en* gaged In tbe agricultural and general development of tbe country that we haven’t thought much about the coun try u a farmer’! home, as a home for farmer’a to gain a eucceaeful livelihood. We in Kansas have never been willing to admit that our atate te good for noth* ing and you people in Nebraska have been much in the aame fix. You have thought and we have thought and geog-» raphera have told ue that aa the popula- - tion went weatward the rain fall would go weatward, but we have found out that that ia a delualon. It ia now Mien* tiflcally declared that your rainfall haa not gone weat at all eo that we havn been hugging thia delusion that we havn got a good country for farmera to live in. A man that sits over here told an . that be settled out here some fourtnan years ago and is here now. Whan hn first settled here his bouse was the only bouse, then he got so he could see tbrsn houses from his, then eo he could son fourteen bouses, today he says he anna / eight houses from his. That’s tha bin- ’ tory of this country in a nutshell. Yon have gone weat and tried to get a living f: in western Kansas and Nebraska and you have been worn out: you bars taken down your house and gone back 7 because you couldn’t get a living, and you have made a discovery and that dis- * covery is this that this whole country is goolbutfor but very little. Taking farm lands one year with another there M is nothing certain about it, unless we v have more water. Now look what Un* cle Sam has done: he sold you western farming lands at the regular price. Ten years ago Uncle Sam went down to the - west point of the Qulf of Mexico, and If you will go with me in your mind and stiek a stake in the warm sands of Mex ico, Uncle Sam has drawn a line clear : into Canada and then run that line twelve hundred miles west on the Can ada line until he came to western Ore gon, then runs it down the tope of those mountains past San Francisco, then around the coast to Mexico and south to Arizona and down the Rio Orande to the west Gulf until he comes to this state. Run a red line around the maps of this country and what has he v>: told you? Be has told you that all the '.and within that line is arid, that’s thia geographical survey. Now these boys and girts, and I see some of them here, and I am glad to see them, you want to understand that line embraces two-fifths of our land, exclod [CORTINUBD OR LAST PAGB. J ^