The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, February 22, 1894, Image 1
- ’-'.I •■•.>..?■■■* ‘A-IS* c , ' '■'!-iW ' i■■■ »;■. ,:»v: - ■' ■ - : The ,-v "i\ ' \ ;/ri!,S-r Frontier ' <•, rj ; ' ‘ -V%«; I'' ■' ! ,V \ j^r fohyi 1 * * published by the frontier PRINTING CO. SUBSCRIPTION, ai.BO PER ANNUM. VOLUME XIV. CLYDE KINO AND D. H. ORONIN, EDITORS AND MANAGERS. O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FEBRUARY 22, 1894. NUMBER 33. Ill NEWS ITEMIZED y ^cal News of O’Neill u Caught by the “Ki4a.” iathee interesting notes goi Of General Intemt Published While New* I* Kill Hew*. Otto Miltz and Cal Mofflt visited Boyd aunty last week._ Tub Fisontibb and New York Trib ue both for #1.60. Miu Mamie Burke came np from lioux City Saturday evening. D. L. Darr returned Sunday evening [rum a business trip to Omaha. We have a full line of all kinds of fish it popular prices. 32-3 O’Nbili, Gbocbby Co. Mrs. Joe West, of Rushvil'e, is in the jty visiting her son, Oene Cress. Hood's Pills are purely vegetable,care fnllv prepared from the beet ingredients. !5 cents. _ Carl J. Windtfleldt took out naturaii ntion papers before the district court psterday. _ That promised letter from Doc lithewa will be found on our fifth page this week. Don’t miss the underwear sale at lum's next Saturday and Monday if ion want bargains. Dell Akin is in the city today to de und trial on indictment found against sb by the grand jury last fall. Have yon seen those elegant samples -latest styles—of wall paper at the Bolden Investment Co.’s store? 83-2 When in need of coal go to Biglin’s sal yard, ale keeps the beet coal in own and his prices are reasonable. 26 tf "Monkey" King would admonish the lew that it is neither necesssry nor vise to draw any ladies into this news taper controversy. The revival meetings now being held it the Methodist church are gathering Ibe sinners into the fold at a rate that is very encouraging. Professor Morrow was admitted to ibe bar last Saturday. Thus has another tewer of wood been spoiled with a nattering of Blackstone. The Sun last week informed the pub ic that Chairman Wilson is sick. It’s is wonder he's sick. His tariff bill baa i side the whole country sick. Place your order tor wall paper with be Golden Investment Co.’e store, in fate for spring cleaning. No old, dead *ocb, but the latest styles on the nrket._33-2 The earlier symptoms of dpspepsia, »ch as distress after eating, heartburn, ud occasional headaches, should not be Neglected. Take Hood’s sarsaparilla lljou wish to be cured. Jesse Mellor entertained a limited •ember of his male friends at his rooms Tuesday eveuing. Whist, refreshments •ed incidentals familiar to bachelorism furnished amusement for the guests. Graphic: The sports who went down 15 the emerald tinted city yesterday to •‘•ness a scrapping match, now wish at they hail served their God with the zeal that they served the devil “n that trip. G. Palmanteer, of Oakland, Cal., W’ed in the city last Saturday night “e business before the district court * has numerous warm friends here in .* borne who are pleased to greet ten once nfore. or sale or rent, on easy terms, a good 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 "wlCo., Milwaukee, Wis. 30lf le®r1, L. E. Whitehorn will give a ® of eighteen lessons in yocal music *' beginning February 19. Class ee' at resiaence in the northwestern «!n of '°wn, at 430 p. m., Monaav, e "eaday, and Friday. Instrumental ,80“8 $8 per term. 32tf ® ^ eill sport who will now argue B tlle Simpson-McDermot wrestling "a was not a fake is hard to And. ef wrestled in Atkinson Saturday trnoon and it is said thoroughly dis ever/one. The twain were fel travelers on Supday morning’s ,lJQ!n Gulden forwarded a brace of fine l #rs l0 'Ids office last Thursday aven ue Dot necessarily for publication but I, guarantee that a child was bom. It <'r> ai*d weighed about 18 pounds. ! *ra»d babe are doing nicely and j . doesn’t seem to care a snap whether ela the land office or not. Harry Bronpe of Omaha, Mr. Fisher, of Chadron and A. L. Tingle, of Bassett, are among the foreign attorneys doing business before the present session of qpurt. Miss Delia Halloran and Fred Downey were married yesterday evening at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Halloran, at Inman. See our special drive on rice, syrup and jelly. We can save vou money. 33-3 O’Neill Grocery Company. Mrs. Jud<?e Bowen's mother is very ill at her daughter’s home iu this city, and it is quite probable will th»t she will have passed “beyond the limit” before this issue reaches our readers. The Nebraska teachers’ association will hold their eighth annual session at Columbus, on the 27tb, 88th and 29th of March. A flag will be voted to the county sending the greatest per cent, of teachers to the meeting. Graphic: The Frontier in now ber ing besieged by a pedagogue. There are a multitude of calamities with which the press has to contend, but when a pedagogue cyclone hits it, the terror is only equaled by the verbosity of the "blow.” _ Shorts and chop feed at reduced prices. We are the people. See us be fore buying. 83-2 O’Neill Grocery Company. The Ewing Advocate's county print ing argument is so disgustingly ridicu lous that no fair minded man could give it a moment’s thought. It says that the supervisors who voted against the tax list steal are dishonest cusses and should bo sent to the rear in disgrace. Graphic: McHugh denies that he is a son of a female dog, because be is of respectable parentage. That is all true. It is his second birth, the result of the marital relations consummated between Harrington and the populists, that gave Doyle reason to classify him with the cur family. The Chadron Signal says “the people of Dawes county ought to take early measures to secure the use of all the water needed in the Niobrara valley.” The Chadron people don’t seem to know that the Niobrara River Irrigation and Power Company has a squatter’s right on those waters. Freddie Hatchet, of Stuart, aged 13 years, this morning went to the home for the feeble-minded at Beatrice, under a decree of Judge McCutclian. Appli cation was made by the boy’s mother through County Attorney Murphy, who alleged that the child is feeble-minded and deaf and “dum.” The Sun and Independent combined do not publish as many columns of proceedings as Tre Frontier did last year when it held the contract. The board compelled us to publish four columns per week, and the question that occurs to us is, why does it not compel the official papers to do so this year? _ District court convened last Thursday with Judge Kinkaid on the bench, and has turned out considerable business, but nothing of interest to the general public. The numerous political cases have not yet come up for hearing, but probably will before this time next week. Scott’s attorneys have filed a petition asking for a change of venue, which has not yet been heard. The professor’s public speeches con vince all within hearing of his rasping voice that Tiie Frontier's charge of incompetency is absolutely correct. “They is” and “he are” would sound all right coming from people iu positions where the pedagogue should be, but tbe expressions do not sound at all becom ing when used by a person who has charge of “chaining up young ideas in the way they should go.” Parties intending to buy flour in 500 or 1,000 lb lots want to distinctly under stand that we will allow no outfit to sell the same grades of flour for less money than we do, and as for having the best flour in the market, all we have to say is the G. A. R., Patent and Daisy Straight are too well known to need any comment, and the manufacturer was never known to be driven from the market on account of prices, so remem ber we are doing business at the old stand. 32-3 O’Neii.l Grocery Cq. The Omaha Bee, truthful for once, says: “The township organisation law for the government of counties has not proven an unmixed blessing in Ne braska. To saddle a small legislature upon the tax payers of a county in which three commissioners could do the work as efficiently and as honestly is of doubtful expediency.” Now will some of the defenders of this outrageous system in this county who think the sun of wisdom rises and sets in the Bee's editoiial rooms put this in their pipes and puff at it a while? Frank Darr, of Scottvllle.left Tuesday morning for Downey, Cal., where he will make his future home, having ad* vantageously disposed of bis llolt county interests at public sale last week. Frank is a good citizen and Holt county is the loser by his removal. Tub Fron tier will visit him weekly in his new home. Register Mathews has appointee! Miss Teas Harrington clerk at the land office. The department allowed an extra clerk on account of the additional work caused by the consolidation with the Neligli office. There is no doubt that Miss Harrington, like Doc’s other ap pointee, will make an efficient clerk, but there is also no doubt that she, like Doc’s other appointee, is entitled to no 8900 position under a republican. J. P. Mann Informs us that the crowd at his special sale last Saturday was so large that his force of clerks was taxed to its utmost the entire day. Mr. Mann credits the phenomenal success of these “special” days to printers’ ink and the fact that the .public has long since learned that he always does exactly as he advertises. Judicious advertising is twice blessed. It blesseth him that advertiseth and it blesseth him that printeth. _ Sun: The Frontier claims the credit of having Reporter King to vtake down the speeches of Judge Emery and Mr. Moses and asks the public to give it credit for such enterprise. The facts are. Reporter King was hired by the local irrigation committee. Now let Tub Frontier pay Reporter King. This is a sample of the truthfulness of the Scott organ. Don’t get excited, Charles. Tub Frontier paid Reporter King more for a copy of the speeches than the society did for the original. The Knights of Pythias Monday even ing celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of their order by inviting a large number of their friends to meet with them in their hall and spend an evening in pleasant social intercourse. The invi tation was accepted by a goodly number of genial souls and a very pleasant evening spent. The entertainment was opened by a few introductory remarks by Q. C. Hazelet, followed with a solo by Mrs. Hazelet, after which Prof. Morrow addressed the guests upon the benefits of the order. Dancing and card playing, interrupted by an elegant lunch, fur nished amusement for the guests. The following from the pen of Doc Bixby, with the State Journal, we know will strike a responsive chord in the hearts of full many a patron of the O'Neill public school: "Children in our public schools are learning to read notes and draw fig leaves in crayon when they can’t repeat the multiplica tion table up to and including the ‘sixes.’ I love to hear the children sing and know that they can paint a chigger, but mathematics is the thing to serve them when they want to ‘figger.’ I wish they’d drop the useless fads that take up time without requiting, and give our little girls and lads instructions in the art of writing. If teachers do not like to be so criticised in public places, I pray that they will come to me and let me roast them to their faces. A pupil ot these schools of late, who hopes some day to go to college, is bent of form anl bald of pate awaiting rudi mental knowledge. He learns to march, to mould in clay, and sing—that fact there is no dodging—His parents then grown old and gray, depend on him for food and lodging.” Anaconda (Mont.) Standard: One of the happiest marriages that ever took place in Butte was the one at St. Pat rick’s church at 9:30 this morning, when James McNichols, city marshal of Butte, and Miss Sadie Dolan, one of Butte’s most popular young ladies, were made man and wife. The marshal for years was engineer at the Anaconda mine, resigning his position last spring to serve the city and take charge of the police fotce. His fair bride is daughter of William Dolan, foreman of the Wake-Up-Jim mine. The lovely bride was most attractively attired. Joe Dolan, her brother, was best man and Miss Stacy Kane, neice of Paddy Kane, superintendent of the Anaconda mine, was bridesmaid. The ceremony was performed by Father Baten, and was followed by an elegant wedding break fast. The happy couple had intended making a tour of Montana cities, and had planned leaving far Helena this this afternoon. The lamentable and sudden death this morning of the bride’s nephew caused a postponement of the trip, Mr. and Mrs. McNichols will be at home after February 10, at No. 17 Ohio avenue. The groom is a son of Pat McNichols who resides about 3 miles west of O’Neill and is quite well known in this city, having made a visit of about two months with his parents here about five years ago. His friends wish him happiness. Notice. There will be a meeting of the officers and members of the Holt County Agri cultural society at Frank Campbell’s office in O'Neill, March 3, 1894, at 1 r. m. All are requested to be present. Business of importance. H. Hodgkins, Pres. Taking Tangible Form. The following article* of incorpora tion have been filed by the Niobrara River Irrigation and Power Company: We, the undersigned subscriber*, hereby associate and Incorporate ourselves under the following articles of Incorporation: ARTICLE I. The name of this corporation ahall be the Niobrara Blver Irrigation and Power Com pany. ARTIOLE It. The principal place of doing business shall be at the olty of O’Neill, county of Holt and state of Nebraska. ARTICLE III. The general nature of the business of thl* corporation shall bo to promote Irrigation and to develop and utilize water power In the state of Nebraska; to locate, construct, devolop and Improve canals, ditches and water oourses, and to operate the same; to construct water courses, dams, flumes, races, water-gates and such other Improvements as may be necessary from time to time to oarry out the general purposes of the corporation; to acquire water rights, powers and privileges as well as such mill sites and other power sites as may be found beneficial and advis able; to utilise and apply such waterpower and water for Irrigation purposes; to pur chase, construct, own and operate suoh ma chinery, plants and appllanoes as may be deemed beneflolal and profltable .for the pur pose of furnishing, applying and utilising suuh water; to sell, convey or lease water rights for Irrigation purposes, and to sell, convey and lease such power In different localities to consumers thereof for mechani cal and other purposes; to acquire, purchase, hold, encumber and convey such real estate and interest therein, and othor property as may be found necessary In and about said business, us well as such real estate and othor property as may be deemed beneflclal and profltable to acquire, purchase, hold, en cumber and convey from time to time; to ac quire such rights of way and other rights as It may be found necessary or advisable to acquire from time to time by statutory pro ceedings. ARTICLE iv. The authorized capital stock of this cor poration shall be two million five hundred thousand (3,fi00,000) dollars In shares of one hundred (100) dollars each. Ten thousand dollars of which shall be paid In before the commencement of business. The remainder of the stock shall be Issued as ordered by the board of directors. No stock shall be Issued until the same be paid for In full. article v. This corporation shall commence April 8, 18M, and shall continue nlnetr-nlne years unless sooner dissolved by voluntaryllqulda tlon or by due proceedings at law. ARTICLE VI. The highest amount of Indebtedness to which this corporation may at any time sub ject Itself shall not exceed two-thirds of Its capital stock. ARTICLE VII. The business of the corporation shall be managed by a board of directors, to consist of not less than seven nor more than elven stock holders to be elected by the stock holders prior to the commencement of busi ness, ana at each regular meeting thereafter. Each stock holder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock he represents. Vacancies shall be filled In the board of directors by the board of directors. ARTICLE VIII. The directors shall choose from their num bers a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. ARTICLE IX. The annual meeting of the stock holders shall be held In the city of O'Neill, Nebraska, on tho first Monday of April of each year. ARTICLE X. The board of directors shall have general charge and control of the property and busi ness of the corporation and may adopt such 1 by-laws not inconsistent with these artloles, as they may deem proper. ARTICLE XI. The corporation shall have a seal, which shall have engraved thereon the words, “The Niobrara River Irrigation and Power Com pany. Corporate Seal.” ARTICLE XII. The capital stock of this corporation may be Increased from time to time upon the rote of two-thirds of the stock holders, vot ing by shares. ARTICLE XIII. These articles of Incorporation may be altered or amended at any annual meeting by a vote of two-thirds of the stock holders voting by shares of stock, but notice of the proposed amendment must be given all of the stock holders by mailing same to each of them at their last post office address as shown by the books of the corporation, at least ten days before the meeting, which notice must specify the article to amended and contain the language of the article If amended as proposed. In witness whereof we have caused our names to be hereto affixed on this 10th day of February, 1861. In presence.of; A. J. Ham nurd. A. C. Morris. J. L. McDonald. 11. A. Allen. K. ;K. Dickson. J. F. Mann. O. F. Biolin. T. V. COLDER. C. O. Haze let. Neil Brennan. J. A. Testman. *2 DAYS! BIG SPEGIAL SALE All Kinds of U NDERWEAR. Saturday, Fel). 24. and Mon day, Feb. 26, we will offer special cut prices on every thin!; in the line of under wear—including ladies’, gents’ and children’s winter weights and our full line of muslin garments. i J. P. Mann. Mr. Emery on Irrigation. [CONTINUED MOM LAST WEEK.] up in the morning. Paris Just as bad, Qlassgow just as bad, and there is one acre in the center of New York that holds more human souls than any acre on this planet. You know how it Is, Mr. President, your young men have been running off to Omaha, New York, Kansas City and Chicago. Your cities are congested. You are feeding your poor in Omaha. They were telling the people to go into their garrets and get their old clothes and give them to the poor. Don’t say "tramps.” It Is a great army of young men,most of whom I think want work and can't get it. What are you going to do about itT Don’t say you are not going to do any thin? about it. for if too don’t rio an mo. thing about it, it will do something with you. (Loud nod prolonged ap- ■ plauae.) You can’t forever feed the great army in Omaha. What caused that army to go there? Because we are entering on a new civilization and be cause we have no more open unimproved lands for your young men to go to. We have come to a new condition of things and that new condition is full of good things and is centrally situated. And how? It is arid America. Why Kan sas and Nebraska, if settled as thickly as England and Wales, would hold all the population of the United States. We have immense room in the west but the trouble is it is semi-arid and arid. Now my cure for this is the opening of arid America so that our young men and these Americans that are out of work can come out here and get homes. Not a home of 100 acres; Irrigation means small homes. The curse of Kan sas and Nebraska has been that we have all sought to be large farmers and we have had poor farming. Irrigation means small farms and good farming. A man don’t need 100 acres to get a living off of, and he won’t have it in the future. Now I want to Invite your at tention to the question of irrigation for a minute and what it is going to do for us. It means for you to go into the the Platte valley and take a pump or some cheap power and raise the water from that inexhaustable bed of sand and irrigate. The first year if you can’t do much, irrigate a half acre; next year make it an acre and when you have got five acres irrigated in the Platte valley you are rich. Ten makes a man rich in California today, and why isn’t an acre in the Platte valley as good? Irrigation then means small farms and getting three crops of alfalfa a year and two crops of something else a year. In California it means to get five crops of alfalfa a year. You have got to make this land do all it is capable of doing. Your work is a work of education. I don’t know how to farm by irrigation and you don’t know, but »e have got to learn it; it is an art. Irrigation now in California is carried to such perfection that they understand it pretty well. They know how to handle water. We don’t know how much we are going to need. Some years we don’t need a great deal and some years we need more; and I have another question: I will come to it presently. I want your son that has nothing before him and has a stout heart and strong arms to come out here and get ten acres of land, put up a wind mill or a pump, or tap one of your rivers and irrigate a garden. Hake a beginning and he will soon learn how moch water he needs on that spot of earth from year to year and presently you will have rows of farms very differ ent from your present modes of farming. You know about Greely in California. A potato acre of land is worth more than any acre of land in the United States today. There is mure money in TAiainf? nnUtOPA than nnvthin<r pIua wo have. I went through one potato field south of Los Angeles where they had taken off the second crop and they bad taken 500 bushels of potatoes this year, so you let a young man get his farm, go to farming by irrigation and it is a sure thing. It’s like life insurance. A farmer said to me last night: “I bare been here nine years and hare raised some decent crops but the balance have been failures.” That’s the story of all semi arid lands the world over. We have read about famine in India. England some years ago went to spending money to save the population when there came a dry year, and now India has becomes great wheat growing county all brought about by this art of irrigation. The next thought that I want to bring out on this question of irrigation is that it is to be small farms. Then a man won’t be discouraged. I don’t blame a woman for not wanting to be shut off from neighbors. If you have a farm of ten or twenty acres you see that feeling is at once done away with. We men get into our buggies or ,on horse-back and go off and smoke our cigars and come back and the woman has been in that house all day, (loud applause) and she has become uneasy and her man is uneasy and be sells out and goes back to bis wife's people. Now bow ere you going to irrigate? Qoiog to erect great ' plant!? Well tbia ia tbe way tbey talk about It to me; Where are you going to get tbe water? Tbey think they have f me where tbe Yankee had tbe aonr apple tree. Now you bare more water than we hare in Kanaaa. The flrat thing is to use all tbe water in your running stroams; draw out your running water, use It up. We haven’t got much running water in Kansas to use up. Uae op ? your running water, that’s oneway. Another way is to store your water—you know that’s a very sensible thing to do. If you apply tbe law of economy to water as we do everything else, there ia water enough running down tbe Uic sourl and Mississippi. Tbe second method is by storing water. Hardly a farm on tbe western plains but has little inundations and you can make a dam. Do It and let your neighbor do It on bin farm and percolation takes place, but store that water and then neat July when you want it drawn off onto » garden you can do it. On a hundred and slaty you couldn’t do it if you wanted to. One man will be busy tbs year round and ten acres keeps him hopping. You want to give up Irrigat ing a hundred and sixty. Now I say build storages for storm water. That is wbat they are now doing In the moun tains and that Is what we want the gen* eral government to do by way of a gen* eral survey. That is what the general 1 government is doing. These resorvolrs | in the mountains are very costly. They cost a great deal of money—a hundred thousand dollars—but they irrigate the whole country so that tboy pay for the investment. We on the plains have no such reservoirs to build, but we have smaller ones so that we can store. We don’t need as much as they do. In Cali fornia it is sand. Water and sand will produce anything on earth. It does in California. Some one spoke of 0 per cent, being Irrigated, but only 2 per cent, of California is Irrigated today. You irrigate that much and we see the results. You see the population that it will sustain. Now these reservoirs which I want to call your attention to i and this is what we are aiming at. Uncle Sam is making an irrigation sur vey in theomountain states he has that laid off as I read here. (Here reads from paper.) A hundred and forty-seven reservoir cites. California has thirty three of these, Colorada forty-six, Mon tana twenty-seven, New Mexico thirty nine, Nevada two, your state has not got one, my state has not got one. There is none of this work being done east of the Rocky mountains. You will not get any of this work done until you ask him to do it and make him do it. Now what does it mean to make these reservoir sites? They discover where •• there is a catch-basin of low land run ning down hill, they make a survey and learn how much water is caught on the land that runs into that particular place and then lay out a reservoir and take all that water that goes down that catch basin, then they withdraw from public sale all the lands within that reservoir site and you can’t buy them. They may be a few fellows living there but they will have to be bought out. You can take your capital and make one of yoor reservoirs, take your surveyor there and he will survey and you take your pri vate capital and go to work, you can do it alone. For some it would be very ex pensive but wbat we want is for Uncle Sam to carry that survey all over the country and we want him to do it now. We need it for reasons that I have re ferred to in my remarks. So that my first method is to use all your running water by ditches. Second—Build reser voirs. In one county in my state they are now building only one reservoir. In the county of Finney in the valley of the Arkansas one man put In a little reservoir heie, another there. He goes down a little ways in the sand and gets water plenty, and he’s making a demon stration. We have got to learn yet how to do this. Yoor Platte valley is to be a great garden yet and it is not to be done by reservoirs but by water lifting; that is the great source of supply, because there is more of it there than anywhere else. Did you ever think that the land, much of it, between the Arkanaas and Platte valley ia lower than either of these two rivers. They were once deep canyons. We have surveyed 800 feet In the Arkansas and the rod has gone through nothing but sand and water. I don’t know how deep your Platte valley is but it is immense and the water all lies within a short distance of the surface of the ground. Now yon are to lift that water up. How are you going to lift it? Why, lift it by wind power or by electricity before these boys are old men. One fellow says bow are yon going to do it? the wind don’t blow half the time, you can’t get water enough to water a garden. We are all looking out fotthetrnth. I will tell you what I [CONTINUED NEXT WSIK,]