01 OFFICIAL DIRECTORY STATE. Loren to Crounse .. .T. J. Majors .J. 0. Allen Governor... Ln'»*ntritiite...... .j. v. Alien frtttfy uf„r t .J- 8. Bartley ‘if1 "'i'v H ral.George H. Hastings ■S-ruey *V r ...Eugene Moore *“■; nril and Bullings..George Humphrey V imMUj Instruction.A. K. A .Samuel Maxwell k!e< Jfu;“t ce' '' judge Post and T. L. Norval pocifttes. rriTPENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. FIFTEEN m p KiQkald, of Q., ...J. J. King of O’h ji|* pnorter tit* tporter rNeffl ..... J'Nelll A. L. Bartow of Chadron .A. L. Warrick, of O'Neill land offices. o hmx. .W. D. Mathews, #i»ter-...A. L. Towle. ! .. nmuoh. .C. W. Robinson ..W. B. Lambert .. r COUNTY. Geo McCutcheon ffa the i» court...'J*-™"** tputy-;;.. .I. P. Mullen if»urer. ..Sam Howard ....BUI Bethea If'11,..Mike McCarthy T^J. .Chas Hamilton .. .Chas O’Neill , .Dr. Trueblood ...M. F. Norton .H. B. Murphy iBtant" iruner... jrveyor.. tioruey. SUPERVISORS. >kl”? fj. .Wilson Brodle .'. ....’.Willie Calkins *?,l,ers. Fred Schindler *..J. S. Dennis »ni9w-...H. B. Kelly EnViiliev" . B. Slaymaker *™Valley. .E.M. Waring !*„..8. L. Conger ?? . .John Hodge RSr.;::.v:.v..v.v.v^ “v.'phiiupl .j.peterKouy “ijcreek.V.V.'.V.’.'.John Crawford _ „ ...H.O. Wine S“D..J. B. Donohoe . Tjoming... fillowdale.. ".“S i'chmis'..W. H. Jacks n iplf„t ...........—“rs. W. B. Jackson . j. E. White . D. Trulllnger CUT OP & NEILL. upervisor, John Murphy; Justices, E. H. nedlct and B. Welton; Constables, John ppau andjjerklns Brooks. COWtCIUIRN—FIRST WARD. 'or two years.—Ben DeYarman. For one ir-Davld Stannard. SECOND WARD. or two years—Fred Gatz. For one year— lullen. THIRD WARD. or two years—J. C Smoot. For one year— 1. Waiters. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor, R. E. Dickson; Clerk, N. Martin; Veaaurer, David Adams; City Engineer, olm Horrlsky; Police Judge, N. Martin; lief of Police, Charlie Hall; Attorney, i.H. Benedict; welghmaster, Joe Miller. OR ATT AN TOWNSHIP. Supervisor, John Winn: Trearurer. John layer; Clerk, D. H. Cronin; Assessor, Mose iippbell; Justices, M. Castello and Chas. igorsoll; .1 usticos, Perkins Brooks and Will tanskie; Hoad overseer dist. 20, Allen Brown in. No. 4, Johu Enright. SOLDIERS’ RELIEF COMNISSION. Regular meeting first Monday In Febru rjof each year, and at such other times as ideemed necessary. Robt. Gallagher, Page, (airman; Wm. Bowen, O'NeUl, secretary; 1. U. Clark, Atkinson. Br i'ATHICK’S CATHODIC CHDBCH. Services every Sabbath at 10:80 o’elook. 'try Her, Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school, mediately following services. JETHODIST CHURCH. Services fievery Sunday morning at 11 o’olook, lm aiiatel followed by Sunday school. Preach - [Sin the evening atSo'clock. Prayer meeting •Mnesday evening at 8 o’clock. Epworth Ague devotional meeting Sunday evening ••;*) o'clock. F. Ennis, Pastor. V M. C. A. Bible study and consecration J* meeting every Monday evening In ware room, M.B. church. Winn Lowrie, Secretary. 1 A. E. POST, NO. 86. The Gen. John Neill Post, No. 86, Department of Ne Jhka G. A. E., will meet the first and third •jiraay evening of each month In Masonlo ■10 Neill 8. J. Smith, Com. .kiioex VALLE! DODGE, I. o. o. r. Meets every Wednesday evening In Mows' hall, visiting brothers cordially kd to attend. “• BitiaiiT, N. G. E. W. Adams, Sec. [JARFIKLD CHAPTER, B. A. ] first and third Thursday of eai “‘th in Musonlo hall. Uobhs Sec. J. C. Harnish, H, P K OFP—helmet dodge, u. d. . convention nvnrv MonHnv at. H o’clock p. c“°TOntl°n eveiy Monday at 8 c Odd Fellows’ halL Visiting brethern WWly invited. Err.. „ E. M. Grady, C. C. 11. Evans, K. of R. and 8. uWW ENCAMPMENT NO. 80. I. IrM,. o* v. meets every second and fourth ™“fs of each month in Odd Fellows’ Hall. Scribe, O. L. Bright, IV m?n\9,DQE WO. 41, DAUGHTERS JtEIlEKAH, meets every 1st and 3d ““f of each month In Odd Fellows’ Hall. Am,,- „ Lizzie Smith, N. G. E Hershiser, Secretary. &t?£?EL1> LODGE, NO. 95.F.& A.M. HorhSf ®r opmmunloatlons Thursday nights Wt L®rc the full °f the moon. Seo. A. L. Towlz, W. M. uS»F'l'AMP NO. 1710, M. W. OF A. Sch m?.t.s.?n,lne first and third Tuesday In "5“ month In the Masonic hall. “• Cronin, clerk. R. J. Hayes, V. 0. 'V. no. 158. Meets seoond ke Masonic* hl,t\p‘u<*8<*ay ot eacb ln C IlTi, “an. ' McHugh, Rec. O. W. Meals, M. A, T POSTOFFICE DIRCETORY Arrival ofMalls l»ervrt„„ %*■ y- a- R.—mpM the bast. Ia*y, Sunday Included at.6:15 pm l»ervj„„ - vrom the west. ,oay, Sunday Included at.9:46 am Irrivp. PApmo short line. every except Sunday at 11:35 p m “ *• “ 9:56 a ro Wt. \t ON RILL AND CHELSEA. (^Monday,Wed.and Friday at7:00am 1381uesday,Thurs.and Sat. at..l:00pm ° NEILL AND PADDOCK. lhS,i!onLL AND NIOBRARA, hrire, ^0n2ay. Wed. and Fri. at... .7:00 a m 68 lue»day,Thurs. and Sat. at...4:00 p m htive. S NEIJfJ' AND OUMMINSVILLB. Wu0,l-'y„ed. and Fridays at...ll:30p __ Mon., Wed, and Friday at.1:00 pm That Promised Utter. O’Nbiul, Nbb., February 18, 1894. Esitobs Fbomtiu—A* I was about to take the train enroate to California on the morning of January li, I asked you if you wanted to hear from me for publi cation. Ton replied that you did, pro viding what I said was not favorable to the coast country. Admiring your loyalty to your home country, and appre ciating the fact that you did not wish to publish correspondence delineating the good points of other localities that your own might suffer in comparison, I at I once decided to write nothing at all. And I was surprised upon my return to learn that you had promised the readers of Tan Faotmia a series of letters from the pen of its first editor and i founder. It is always a sincere pleasure to me to talk through Fboktixb columns. 1 enjoy it whether the reader does or not. I feel that I am speaking to oldt tried and true friends. Under the oironmstanoes I propose to be very brief, and deal very little with the country I have visited, referring more to the people I met and the things I notioed. It would be impossible, however, for any one to make a visit of a couple of weeks in the land of sunshine, flowers and fruit and not beoome somewhat enthusiastic. The change at this time of year from this climate to that, is so marked that one is impressed to a great degree with the equisite tingling of eostatio pleasure that permeates bis entire anatomy, and he is foroed to enjoy himself, as I did, every moment of the time. When I say that I had no use for overcoat or rain-coat,over shoes or gloves, while on the coast, you oan imagine what brand of weather was on tap. It was sunshine and calm every day. Now, reader, do not understand that I say these things because I have concluded that California is the best plaoe in the world to live, and that I want to boom that country. Not so. Nebraska is all right, and the man who is settled here, either on farm or in town, would be foolish to make a change. It might be disastrous, and without doubt in nine oases out of ten would prove so. Let well enough alone. Stand by Nebraska and yon are all right. I haw been asked many times, “would you like to live in California f” Frankly I reply that I think I would, providing I was sufficiently provided with this world’s goods to be able to do so in comfort. The olimate is oapitavating, her people are hospitable and devoid of that codfish aristocracy that to me is detestable, and there is an atmosphere of liberality and freedom of thought that is commendable, and the soil is capable of producing almost any thing that grows anywhere. And in parenthesis I want to remark that it is irrigation that makes California. The soil is no better than ours, perpaps not as good, but the immense systems of irrigation ditches and canals have made the once barren wastes of sandy land to “blossom as the rose.” What were a few years ago sheep pastures have been transformed by plenty of water diverted from the mountain Btreams and rivers, into veritable gardens, where orchards of decidious and other frnits, as well as all kinds of grain and vegetables, are sure crops. There are no failures where there is water. And if we oan secure irrigation I in Holt oounty, and it seems to be pretty well demonstrated that it oan be done, no man will have occasion to seek a home elsewhere, because we have all the ele ments for wealth, and what is paramount to all else health, right here. So let ns not de discouraged, but keep in view the fact that what has been done in California and other plaoes where the rainfall is in sufficient oan be done here. If we oan bring this about we will all be rich and there will be no grounds for oomplaint about Holt county and Northern Ne braska. But about my trip. I bought a ticket over the Santa Fe, and accompanied a party that started from Ewing, consisting of Q. W. French, W. F. French, Irve French and wire, Mrs. O. W. Farrell and two children, Link Shannon, wife and three children and his father and mother, C. Thede wife and three children. We had a tourist oar all to ourselves, and the trip was very enjoyable indeed; at least to the writer. The tourist car is the way to travel on one of these long journeys, for somehow the Pullman appears stiff and precise, while the tourist oar is demo cratic and you feel more at ease, witn a party of acquaintances there is no for mality, and doing your own cooking on the oar makes the expense very moderate. The Santa Fe route is a good one this time of year, as the cold weather and storms are avoided. Of oourse there is not muoh to see of an agreeable nature through Arizona and New Mexico. It is desert all the time until you cross the Mjava desert in California. Then all at onoe you come out of the mountains into what seems like Paradise. You have seen so much God-forsaken barren waste for the past three days that the ohange strikes you as most wonderful. From sand, oactus and grease wood to roses, orange groves and beautiful foliage of all kinds forces the contrast depioted by the word pictures so often pain ted of hell and heaven. Feelings of disgust are supplanted by feelings of eostacy and admiration. It is really a good thing for California that so much poor country must be passed over to reach one of so muoh beauty and grandeur. Our car was switched oft at the beauti ful city of Madera, the county seat of Madera county, at about 4 o’clock on Sunday morning, January 21st. We were all up to see the sun rise, and as even that event waa something novel to me I was filled with anticipation' But what a sunrise 1 It had rained the might before, and the atmosphere was laden with some thing that smelled and tasted good. It was warm and balmy like a May morning in Nebraska. We soon vacated the car that had boen a comfortable home for us for nearly a week, and the pleasant asso ciations connected with it made us just a little regretful after all. It looked so homelike. A first-class breakfast at the oommodious Yosemite hotel and then a tramp around town made all feel better, although Mrs. Farrell, whose husband was back in Nebraska attending to F, E. and M. V, business at Ewing, looked a feeling of homesickness even if she did not ex press it. But all in all we were a jolly party. ihe mam objeet of moat of the patty was to boy a home in California, and they were induced to make the trip by W. F. Frenoh, representing the Howard and Wilson Colony company. On Mon day, in company with Mr. Ogston, the local secretary, I examined the lands. In some respects I was disappointed. There was not as much improvements made as I expeoted. It was a newer country than I looked for. But when I considered that less than three years had elapsed since the first tree was planted, and the Irri gating canal had only recently been com pleted, and I compared the country that had been developed with it, together with prioes, ete., I eonoluded that if a man wanted to invest in California this lay-out was about right and perhaps as good as could be found. However I did not reach this conclusion until I had visited north to San Francisco and south to Los Angeles. Land $800 to $2,000 per acre at other plaoes (improved of oourse) and | here it appeared equally as good and could be had unimproved at $60 to $80, and planted, (three years in the spring) at from $140 to $200. The Shannons, Frenoh and Thede bought in oolony number 2, four miles from Madera, at $65 per aore, and' were building houses and going to work with smiles on their faces and their sleeves rolled up. Their land has been cultivated for years, and they are putting in crops of grain and vege tables, and with the aid of their oows and chiokens expect to make expenses from the start. No doubt they will. I finally bought a ten-acre traot in colony number one, one and a half miles from town, which is planted to prunes, peaohes, pears and raisins. I have oontraoted to have some of the prunes replaced with orange, cherry, walnut, lemon, fig, almond, palm umbrella, oypress and other trees, and sometime in the dim future I may have an attractive little “farm” in California. It oost, or will whon paid for, $1,600. Perhaps it was a foolish speculation, but if it is it is not the first one I ever made. It does not appear to me that it can be worth any less, and to judge from the history of other portions of the state that are already made and where lands are selling for so very muoh more, it looks as though it would be a good investment, Madera is a rattling good town of 2,000 population, uicely located, and it strikes me has a bright future, if her people are the right brand, and they appear to be. The town needs a little more vigorous blood and will probably get it as it is at tracting considerable attention. My visit at San Franoisco and Ookland was most enjoyable. Mr. W. O. Palm an teer, formerly president of the First National bank of O’Neill, insisted on my stopping with him, and while it is against a long established rule of mine I was in duced to acquiesce, and I am very glad that I did, as Pal and his estimable wife made me feel perfectly at home, and with out any ostentatious attempt to do so made my stay of three days with them very pleasant, and feel I under obligations for the courtesies so freely extended. Mr. Palmanteer’s long residence in California and his position as manager of one of the’ largest banks in the state, gives him an expended acquaintance and hh was able to show me all that could be seen in that limited < time. We visited some of the finest surburban residences around Oak land, and I thought I had never seen flowers and plants before. I could fill your paper with aooounts and descrip tions, but must desist, as I promised to be brief and say but little of California. (Quess I have proven myself a prevari cator already.) We were on the go all the time, and I was always exclaiming, “Say, if my wife could see those plants and flowers she would go crazy.” It was a poem all the time. The evidences of stability in and around Oakland are many, and I believe it is really the best part of the state to bank on. I was pleased to note that Mr. Palmanteer oooupied a position clear at the top in financial circles. The Central Bank has a capital of $1,000,000, deposits of $1, 600,000, and elegantly and modemly fitted quarters second to none in the state. To look after so vast an institu tion as this surely reflects oredit on our former townsman. Mr. Palmanteer, his cashier Mr. Yatesa (by the way one of the finest and most oompanionable men I have seen in many a day) and myself visited the Midwinter Fair on opening day, January 27. There was an immenoe crowd, the displays and buildings are fine, and altogether the enterprise is a success and reflects great credit on Ban Francisco and California On this day I caught my first glimpse of the Paoifio ocean from the Cliff house out to the beautiful Golden Gate. Of Golden Gate park, Sutrof park, the Chinamen quarters and other interesting things I must not attempt to speak. I wanted to visit oar old and rsspaoted fellow townsman, Michael Cavanangh, bat really had no time. He lives 70 miles from Oakland, and as my leave of absence was limited I oonldn't get there. 1 am satisfied friend Oavonangh made the greatest deal of his life, and has a home good enoogh for anyone. Hs made $10,000 slick and clean, in the exohange, It was a lnoky strike, and no one bat. Mike woald have tumbled onto It. On my return south I met D. L. Cramer and 0. W. Farrell at Madera. They had jast come from Ewing. Mr. Farrell had come to stay, and as he is a reliable railroad man, worthy and well qaaliAed, no donbt by this time has seeared a position. He and his sstimable wife will always have my best wishes for success and happiness. Cramer came to see the ooontry, sd he and I went to Los Angeles. Before I left home Barney Byan told me he had a brother living at Los Angeles, so we proceeded to look him np. Inquiring for William A. Ryan we were directed to the aonrt-honse,and com fortably esoonoed in the district attorney’s office we found a pleasant appearing gentleman, with a sedate and solemn countenance, who confessed to the cob nomen of Ryan. Introducing ourselves as pilgrims from cold Nebraska we were warmly greeted. After snowing ns over the most magnifleent court-house we have ever seen, taking in the grand view from the tower with the rest, the Judge (that is what everyone calls him) pro ceeded to show us around town a little. And say I Well, guess we haden’t better say very muoh about it. Only this: That Judge Ryan knows everybody and every place in Los Angeles and enrivions, and he seemed imbued with the idea that he must make Cramer and I aa familiar with people, places and things generally as he was, and if he did not suooeed it is not hii fault by any means. We kept our Bkates on all the time, night and day, although we had to get them sharpened occasionally in order to keep up with the procession. Judge Ryan appears to be one of the most popular men in the oity with all olasses, occupies a position that requires ability and sagacity, is a ptinoe of good fellows, and the future before him is indeed bright. Cramer and I will never forget his kindness to us, and there is nothing too good in this worlp that we do not wish him. 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