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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1894)
& „ -t - ' ‘ : ■ "■ % ... - ’ . -■ ' 1 - , ".S'. ■ r-f. ' m ■ ’ .■ / -J * i;4. .■■S' $ . v:-;v.;;, V; Frontier ® lilli «wrts; m ’ 3 ..• PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. •UMORIPTION, tl.SO PER ANNUM. VOLUME XIV. CLYDE KIND AND D. H. CRONIN. EDITOR* «ND MANAOERB. O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, MARCH 8, 1894. Vi y:jg f-4' NUMBER 35. 7 [fAL NEWS ITEMIZED fte Local News of O’Neill as Caught by the “Kids.” jather interesting NOTES mrcu of General Interest Fnbliehed While News Is Still News. The Fkontibb and New York Trib |De both for $1.50._ P. j. McManus returned from Chieago Wednesday evening. jickson Wiley was in from the north (ountry yesterday and called. W. It. Parker, of Scottville, is think ing of moving to town this spring. The Jew’s last issue was the vilest tiling we ever saw—barring its editor. The Degree of Honor will give a panel ball at the rink on Easter Monday. Hood’s pills cure all liver ills, bllidus iess, jaundice, indigestion, sick head iche. _ Hr. and Mrs. Garrison last Saturday loaning returned to their home in Custer county. Hike Flannigan arrived in O'Neill Tuesday evening from Minneapolis. He went west tonight. Attend the lecture to be given by Father llarrington, in the opera-house, is this city, on March 17. Clian DeLance arrived in the city (May to testify in behalf of the de fendant in the Skirving impeachment trill. _ ; If you want to see fine, pure bred- 8. C. Brown Leghorns, visit pens of J. H. Higgs, south of Checker bard. Eggs, 81 |*r 13. _ 34-8 Hrs. Williams, formerly Mrs. Lamb, kljidg very low at her home east of town, and it is doabtful if she can re cover. __ Next week ws will publish an irri tation article by H. E. Bowden, which las been laid over from time-'to time for tone weeks on account of lack of space. Tried and true is the verdict of people who take Hood’s Sarsaparilla. The good elects of this medicine are soda felt in tie nerve strength restored, appetite Heated and health given. > 6. A. Still, night operator at Hay Springs, was assassinated Sunday nignt Wile on duty, by some unknown shoot ing him through the window, the ball kking effect near the heart. ■ Ewing Democrat: What is the name it the prominent independent who went O’Neill and by all kinds of thieats [ttd intimidations tried to induce Greg •all to vote to rob the taxpayers of ,8,000? The Antelope Tribune botttfs that it hs a subscriber whose subscription is W up to’96. That’s nothing! The jhoNTiKR has on its list a man who Inscribed in ’91 and is paid up to Ihauary 1, ’98. 0il cake $2 00 @ 100. 8bo«s 75 @ 100. CboI> feed 80 @ 100. BrM 65 @ 100. Special prices on ton lots. 35-2 O’Neim, Grocery Co. Miss Teas Dykeman is conducting a M'ate school at her residence in the •erthern part of the city. She has *g|heen pupils. Miss Dykeman is a good ler and we understand is giying good "•“faction. ,ur fresh garden seeds are now all ,e an'l open for inspection. We *r»ntee them to be all strictly new resli, and in onion sets we have the ,est J‘UI ever saw. Try us before ?ln&. Bo-4 O’Neill Grocery Co. J^rsale or rent, on easy terms, a good >160 acres, four miles from O'Neill; tillable land, 115 teres were under 'Plow last year. For terms and fur L^ Pwticulan address, Wilbur Seed ■ Co-> Milwaukee, Wis. 30tf I,corn lands in Charles Mix county, ■ -“"H r'ver county in South Dakota °f the north line of Iowa. For ,culars and for map address 34 3 ClUULKS Mlx Co. Land Co., -Edgerton, South Dakota. foil notice the teams coming and ^jtg from the O’Neill Grocery Co., k &ving from two to twenty sacks kisfiUr ahoard? Why is it? Because l rst-class and at the bottom price. | Us before buying. 85-3 O’Neill Grocery Co. I If K( ^utzinan’s friends relish the rot he ;aeu w«ekly and weakly dishes up, ^ lru|y it may be said their literary 1,. 8 ar,; wonderfully made. His “resUaKC W0U*^ n°t he tolerated iu a I, Jflec,l'lile” bawdy house, therefore it <trlv'r l° presume that he received his education in a coon diae. T. P. Galbraith, of Albion, was in the city Saturday talking politics with the boys. Our county officials to a man refused to take any stock in the irrigation company. These fellows need no irri gation to successfully work their present farms. Marriage license was issued Monday by Judge McCutcheon to M. J. Spindler and Harriett Devol, of Turner, and Tuesday to R. P. Hamelton, of Chase county, and Jessie Tennent, of Atkin son. Mrs. Bull, who has been visiting heft parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilcox, the past month, left Tuesday mornidg for home in northwest Canada. She was accompanied by her sister, Miss Anna Eliza Wilcox, who will spend a few months visiting in that northern clime. Graphic: ‘•Make," said John Craw ford to Judge Bowen, "Akin’s bond so high that he will have to go to jail, and we will re-elect you sure.” Under the present aspect of affairs it looks as though the bridge boss is more liable to find penal quarters in the jail than is Akin. Tomorrow evening J. P. Mann will return from Chicago, where he went a week ago to purchase his spring and summer stock. Mr. Mapn has written home to make ready to receive the stock and he says he has purchased the largest spring and summer stock ever brought to north Nebraska, which shall be open to the public on March 17. All those who are desirous of purchasing should attend the opening day. Stuart Ledger: The last week’s Fhon titb coptains a highly interesting and readable letter from the pen of W. D. Mathews, giving his opinions and im pressions of^ California. to which country he recently made a pilgrimage bent on business, sight-seeing and pleasure. The author of "Beautiful Snow” is fickle. The flowers of that sunny clime have captivated him and he intends to be come a California lotus eater. A special from Holdredge to the dailies last week said: "Sheriff Knud son returned from Denison, Tex., bring ing with him ex-Sheriff Conley of this county. Conley was the alliance sheriff for two years and last fall skipped out before his term had expired, leaving his bondsmen in the hole about $1,100. When found he was running a saloon in Denison and was living with a picked up woman. He has a nice wife and family here.” Journal: A great boom for Long Pine is growing out of the excitement of irriga tion in the northwest. There will be an irrigation meeting at the opera-house March 9 at 1 o’clock p. m. A letter re ceived from T. V. Golden, secretary of the Holt County Irrigation society, that they will be here and deliver a lecture on irrigation. It is desired that the farmers and business men turn out and assist in this movement which is being talked all along the line. The people of Sioux City have deter mined upon holding an inter-state fair this year for the purpose of advertising more fully the resources oft the great northwest. In this enterprise they should certainly receive the hearty sup port of this section of Nebraska, and it is earnestly hoped that our citizens will aid the movement as much as lies in their power. We all know the aid of judicious advertising to any country or business and now is a good opportunity to accomplish a whole lot of good for this country without a great deal of ex pense. _ Graphic: If you have a secret you don’t desire kept, deposit it with the First National bank at O’Neill. That institution has a tongue that will double discount the babble of any old tattling gossip in the land. True, ’tie pity. The cashier of this institution has been known on several different occasions to take checks,drawn on his bank, out into the streets, byways and hedges and exhibit them promis cuously. A man who will in that heath enish manner rupture a business prin ciple held invariably by ail men of sense and honor needs to advertise no key to his character or principle, as he has neither. ___ Ainsworth Star-Journal: If the statements of the O’Neill Frontier, Atkinson Graphic and Stuart Ledger be true, and we have every reason to be lieve they are, Holt county is being in vested with a set of official thieves floating under the alliance banner, whose hides ought to be bung on the fence and their carcasses patched in the penitentiary. A board of supervisors who would steal in open day $1,650 of that already debt burdened county’s money is a hundred fold more danger ous to a community than Scott and all the Shylocks in hell. Give the fools rope and they will hang themselves. Impeachment Proceedings. Something like an hundred years ago, a French queen stretched her graceful neck across the block of the executioner and as the glistening blade was fondly' caressed by the individual whose office it was to sever heads from bodies, spoke words that have since lingered in the minds of men and will continue to linger, no doubt, until the lime shall arrive, if it ever does, when men have no minds in which they may find a lingering foot-hold. She said: "0! liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name!” As we sat in the court room last Tues day and saw the opening and heard the testimony in the Skirving impeachment case, the words of the executed queen came vividly to our memory and we thought how appropriate it would have been had she only added: “0, justice! what outrages are attempted in thy name!” But w e presume the public is more in terested in tbe proceedings of the case than in any sentimental reverie that might have grown from tbe sight, so we hasten to the facts; The board met at 1:30 p, sr. as per adjournment and proceeded at once to business by roll call, which showed a full house. Clerk McCarthy commenced reading the minutes of the las* meeting but was interrupted by a motion from Supervisor Hayes who thought that the work was not very interesting and that further reading might well be postponed. A majority of the board, scenting fresh blood, thought likewise, the motion prevailed and on they hastened to the slaughter. Mr. Skirving was there with his attorneys Jackson, Golden and Dickson. The plaintiff, Robertson, was there with his attorneys, Harrington and Roberts. The plaintiff filed a motion asking leave to amend his original petition and verify the same, which was gtanted. Defendant here moved the board that the case be dismissed on the grounds that the board had no jurisdiction over the subject matter in the case, and for the further reason that the cause was not being prosecuted by the proper authorities. Overruled. Harrington then opened the case for the state by making a statement to the board of the charges and what he would try to prove. He said that the defend ant had taken illegal fees; been absent from his office for more than half of the days since his election; had failed to approve a bond and issue an attachment for Holt county in the Scott case until he had issued a like writ in favor of an Omaha bank, thus shutting the county out. Upon these charges the prose cution based the cause of action and felt conflcent that it would be able to prove them by a great array of testimony. Mr. Jackson, speaking for the defend ant, said they would deny,and he thought successfully establish the fact, that each and every allegation was false. He said that defendant had not been absent from his office as cbarg ed, but if he had been the fact could not constitute suffi cient grounds for impeachment. That in tbe bond case Harringtou had asked defendant to approve a bond in the sum of $180,000, defendant said he would if board of supervisors would sign it, but this they refused to do and when it was presented to him the only signatures it bore were those of tbe chairman of the board and the county attorney. This he was urged to approve, not on the grounds that the sureties were sufficient, but that, as Harrington claimed, the county did not, as a matter of latf have to give a bond in ap attachment wherein it was plaintiff. This was about 4 o’clock p. m. Skirving said he would have to satisfy himself upon this point before he would approve it, and went to Mr, Dsckson’s office for advice, also to Judge Kinkaid, who said that owing to his official position he cou Id not advise him, but cautioned him to proceed with due deliberation as it was an important matter. While all this was taking place the Union National bank dropped in and secured an attachment from Deputy Collins and that was the plaintiff’s only grounds for the allegation. In othe matter of illegal fees coun sel stated that it was not the custom or the practice in any county in the state to count the words in every instrument filed, but on the other hand the number of words was always computed by esti mate, and that to make that grounds for removal plaintiff would be compelled to prove that defendant overcharged with criminal intent. Here the defendant objected to the introduction of any testimony in sup port of any count of the information, which objection was promptly over ruled and the complaining witness sworn. His testimony was to the effect that he was a citizen of the county and secretary of the Holt county alliance, and that the proceedings at bar were instituted by him on request of the alliance. • Mr. Bradley, ex-supervisoi from In man, was then placed In the witness chair. In the matter of the bond he said that Skirving offered to approve it if all - of the supervisors would sign It, but they refused. He was not postlve on any particular point, but swore principally that Harrington had said so and so, and that was about the extent of his testi mony. Ex-Deputy Sheriff McBride being sworn said that about 11 o’clock a. m. on the day In question he received a writ of attachment in the case of the Omaha bank, and about 5 p. m, he re ceived a second writ in the same case; that about 0 o’clock p. m. be received a wrii in tnecase wnerein uoit county was plaintiff. Plaintiff attempted to estab lish by McBride, the number of days Skirving had been absent from his office, but the witness stated that defendant was generally there whenever he (the witness) had any business with that office. Never had any trouble in getting his business promptly attended to. W. T: Hayes, supervisor, swore that Skirving said he would approve the bond if all of the board would sign it, but some of the members objected, him self among the number. County Attorney Murphy was sworn. He didn’t know much about the matter as he was at the depot sending telegrams in the Scott case. He said that his intention when he signed the bond was to bind the county and not himself in dividually. He thought that perhaps he was worth a couple of thousand dollars, and that the other signer, Mr. Bethea, wits probably worth about four thousand, making in all six thousand on a one hundred and eighty thousand dollar bond, which the clerk refused to ap prove. He said further that with this exception Skirving had made a good clerk. Gene Cress, being first duly sworn', said he had counted the words in four cases to see if illegal fees had been taken, and he found that more fees had been collected than were allowed by law. He said- that be had worked as clerk in different offices of the county and had been deputy county clerk, that it was not the practice to count the words, but rather to estimate them; that it was an easy matter to make mistakes, although a very close estimate could be made. Will McBride, former employe in the clerk’s office, said that contrary to plain tiff’s petition, the clerk had been in his office more (ban half th e days since his election. Ed Gallagher was sworn for the pur pose of proving at what time the notice of injunction was served on him in the Cunningham reward case: it was be tween 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning. It now being 5 r. m. the board ad journed until 8:30 o’clock Wednesday morning. WEDNESDAY MOKNINU. • Harrington introduced a lot of testi mony tending to convict Barrett Scott, stating as his reason that it was neces sary to show that Scott did owe the county and that the county had been prejudiced by the alleged action of the clerk in refusing to issue attachment. He seemed to think that if Scott did not owe the county then the clerk had com mitted no crime, hut if Scott did owe. the county then Skirving was guilty as charged.' Queer proposition of law that. The forenoon wore itself out with a rehash of testimony not unlike that of the day before, the plaintiff up to this time having established nothing but that defendant was elected to his office, which allegation-defendant admitted. -AFTEKNOON. A large number of witnesses were examined yesterday afternoon, but the trend of the testimony was just about the same as narrated in the foregoing. We have not attempted to mention all of the witnesses called, or to give the testimony in full, but rather to give only that of interest or relevoncy to the alle gations in the complaint. r rank Canif bell, state’s agent in the Scott case, was put upon the stand and in answer to questions propounded testi fied substantially as follows: That Scott was not willing to return with Cunning ham, although he (Scott) said he would return with witness. Heard conver sation between Scott and Skirving when they got off of the train at O'Neill. Skirving took Scott by the hand and said: “The d—n s—of b-to put a cripple in ironB.” That Cunningam took railroad ticket away from Scott, but saw him take no other papers. That Scott was handcuffed by Cunningham near Inman; witness said he, himself, did not think that was necessary. Didn’t know 'whether or not Scolt was under arrest in Mexico. If anyone can see any relation between this testimony and the charges filed against Skirving they have keener perception than that possessed by Tub Frontier. This ended the case as far as the prose cution was concerned and (be plaintiff rested. The Arts witness called by the defense was C. P. DeLance,former deputy under Skirvlng. He testified that the cases cited in the complaint where defendant bad taken illegal fees were cases that he had looked after, computed the oosts and did all of the work and Sklrving had nothing whatever to do with them. When questioned as to the method employed in ascertaining the number of words in an Instrument upon which to base charges for filing, he said it was tho universal rule to count the first page and estimate the balance. In one instance he had counted the number of words in a case, since this case arosfe, and found where the clerk had not charged enough by 93.60. ■ Said that Sklrving had cautioned him to be very careful in esti mating costs and make no over chargos. In regard to the defendants absence from his office ho testified that he was on duty a greater part of the time. Rody Hayes, deputy under McBride, swore that under his administration he always estimated the number of words and believed that to be the rule. Ed Butler, who had been in tbe clerk’s office for six years, said it was the practice to estimate the number of words. Nr. Mathews, register of the United States land office, said the custom In his office wan to estimate rather than count. Judge Kfnkaid was sworn for the pur pose of showing that defendant exer cised due caution in not approving bond in question until be bad sought advice. He said that in regard to the bond in ques tion defendant bad come to his office and asked his opinion in the premises, but that be declined to advise him on account of his official position, but told him to consult some attorney, and pro ceed with due caution in the premises, as it was an important matter and no doubt would result in litigation. In re gard to the defendant’s reputation for honesty he had never heard it questioned. Mr. Bethea, present county clerk, said it was his practice to estimate the num ber of words. He did not count them. Deputy District Clerk Collins said that in the matter of the bond in attachment the one in favor of the Omaha bank had issued before the county attorney offered to file papers or demanded attachment. Ex-Sheriff McEvony was sworn and said that he generally found the clerk in his office when he called there, and never had any difficulty in getting his official business promptly attended to. The defendant, Mr. Bkirving, was then put npon the stand and recited the whole circumstances. His statement did not differ materially from the other evidence, only that he said Harrington had Jold him that if he did not approve the bond he would have trouble. From subsequent events it would seem that Harrington is a prophet, for of course be bad nothing to do with incit ing these proceedings. After Mr. Skirving's testimony bad been taken the defense rested, and as it was then six o’clock the board sdjourned until nine o’clock this morning. At this writing, ten o’clock, the attorneys are making their argument to the board and will not let the matter go to a vote be fore sometime this afternoon. Of course no one can tell what the result will be, but from the testimony we do not see how the board can find Skirving guilty as charged. [Later]—The arguments closed about four o’clock and Crawford immediately made a motion to find defendant guilty as charged. His motion wus duly sec onded and the vote stood thirteen for conviction and fifteen against; two mem bers npt voting. A motion was then made and seconded that he be found not guilty but was laid upon the table by » tie vote, fifteen to fifteen, the chair cast ing the deciding vote. This is the way the case stands as we go to press. The probabilities are that to-morrow a motion will be made to reconsider, which may be done by a majority vote, sixteen. We take it that to-day’s vote does not indicate anything, unless it should be that Skirving will be found guilty upon reconsideration, which may be done by the two members not"votlng to-day voting to-morrow for conviction, the chair deciding the tie as was done in the vote to lay on table. Members to-day voting for conviction are, of course, populists. Notice. O’Neill, Neb., MarchS, 1894. Headquarters Gen. John O’Neill) Post No. 86 Dept, of Neb. ) To the Officers and Members of Com pany F, 2d Regiment, Nebraska Na tional Guards: Dear Sirs—Post No. 96 G. A. R. here by tender you a vole of thanks for your assistance in the burial of Comrade Barnabus Welton. Now therefore he it known. That you are each and all expected to assist us on the 80th day of May, 1893, to decorate the graves of our deceased comrades. We congratulate you upon your first appearance in public, and again we thank you. J. L. Mack, Commander. I E. 8. Kinch, Adjutant. MO HAITI COtUKM, No Man make* bis Appearance again this week after a foroed rest of some '; moons. The vacation was not one of any particular pleasure or profit to blm, but was enforced by a rush of matters of more importance to the reading ,i public. Mike Harrington bears about the same relation to a brilliant attornev that a lightning bug bears to an arc light. Mary Lease claims to have taken the first nthree degrees of Masonry, at the age of 10, through a key-hole in the door. Mrs. Lease is very fortunate that at 10, with her Inquisitorial propensities, she did not get three degrees of any thing worse than Masonry through a key-hole In a door. She doesn’t seem to know that no woman can be a Mason, but It Is a fact and If she will drop a Has to this department, enclosing stamp for reply, we will tell her the reason that it Is thus. If 1 could tiling a lien as pena have been ilanf bofore, I would write two pages for t'..la sheet, and then I'd write two pagea more! My theme would* not be metered to "gentle aprlng, ethereal intldneaa come/' Or to blooming buda, moonlit even or the fly that 'round me huma. I would aorawl a pleaalng acreed to the honeat men our oounty brlnga. And aee that they were given more tuneful 'lyrea than thoao oomtnon aupervlaor thlnga. For truly within her bordera some honeat people dwell, And aodly, on her broad acrea llveaome folka who would dlagraoe-well. It beoomea me not here to name the place where they will go for endleaa apaoe, But true it la that no ellme could well be too hot for men who Boldly stole two thouaand cold for a beaatly f beggarly Jew. Editor Wertz last week dedicated a sarcastical aatirlcal combination of rhyming euphoneoua words to "K.” Now as it haopens that among the brethren are found two disciples with names Initialed with the eleventh letter, No Mam deems it to be no more than right that Editor Wertz should print an explanation and a key, thereby boldly and unreservedly Informing the public whether he meant Beast Kautzman or "Monkey King. If he shot the shaft at the former it is good and appropriate, but ft aimed at the latter it Is vile stuff and must be retracted or these virgin prairies may be irrigated with the warm blood of two noble shearers and tripod mounters. Did you ever pause in your wild rash to harvest a mantle and a shroud, Hora tious, and reflect upon the prevailing custom of humanity to lend an open ear to recitals of scandal and turn a muffled drum when a saint essays to relate a living virtue? If you have been thosly touched by a reproachful thought, yon may understand my grief and are quali fied to mourn with me; sigh as I sigh and mingle your tears with mine. Wa will not attempt to explain why it is that this is thus, suffice it that we realize that thus it is. Why it is that a whole con gregation will close their eyes in refresh ing slumber when we tell of the good someone has done, and set up the cigars when we expatiate upon deeds of evil, is no doubt something that will remain a m/stery until the dead and the deep give ud their secrets. Let us say that it is human nature. Human nature in the abstract is wrong, all wrong, and being aware of that fact let- us be on our guard against ourselves and plant In ear hearts a slip of charity. Plant it deep and nurse it lovingly. It is a tender attribute of divine origin, one that ie easily withered and blasted by the fires of hate and intolerance which generate simoons in the human breast, but when once its roots are mulched with the softening essentials of forgiveness it makes its possessor the salt of the earth and causes us and others to feel that perhaps life is worth the living after all, and causes us to heave a sigh of regret when the hour of dissolution comes, even though we go as does the. faithful , servant who "wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down as to pleasant dreams:’’ When we hear a tale of good about someone, Horatlous, let us believe it; we may be deceived but it will not hurt us. When we bear a tale of evil about someone, let us pass it by; we may be deceived but it will not hurt us. While these things, and more, are true of your fellow man, Horatious, even so and more are they true of your fellow sister. Even as death loves a shining mark, so loves scandal a target crowned with a wreath of virtue. Tell nothing you know and believe nothing you hear, Horatious, and always bear in mind that the grave alone can reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on woman's Xotioa Is hereby given I forbid all persons from driving, herding horses, cattle, ' bogs, mules or asses on east half of section eight (8). town thirty-one (81), < range nine (9) west, under the penalty , of the law. 85-6 Jamks H. Phis. ~ .