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•UMORIPTION, tl.SO PER ANNUM.
VOLUME XIV.
CLYDE KIND AND D. H. CRONIN. EDITOR* «ND MANAOERB.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, MARCH 8, 1894.
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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. ~ .
