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CLYDE KING AND D. M. CRONIN, EDITORS AND MANAGERS.
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VOLUME XIV.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY. NEBRASKA. MARCH 29.1894. NUMBER 38.
IflCAL NEWSJTEMIZED
Local News of O’Neill u Caught
by the “Kide.”
jATHER INTERESTING NOTES
jtini of General Internet Published While
News Is Still News.
John McHugh visited Osmond Wed
sesilay- ._.
Jake Roll, of EwiDg, was in the city
Monday. _ _
The Frontier and New York Trib
aoe both for $1.50.
X. J. Planck, ot Pierce, Neb., was in
the city last week visiting his brother
Jobn. _'
Frank Pbillips, of Star, was in town
Saturday and tarried for a few moments
la this office._
Tbe entertainment given by Oitchell’s
eomedy company Tuesday and Wednes
day evenings was fairly well patronized
and gave good satisfaction.
The German Chicory Company this
seek received a very fine diploma from
the slate fair association as a first
fremium on granulated chicory.
Get your flour at McManus’. Crown
full patent, Kitchen Queen strait grade,
tbe best grades in the city. Every sack
yirranted or money refunded. 36-tf
| The High Tea social given at the
lome of Mrs. Kinch Tuesday night by
the Ladies’ Aid was a very pleasant
affair and quite well attended.
i Do not put off taking a spring medicine
hat take Hood’s sarsaparilla now. It
till purify your blood, strengthen your
aerves and give you a good appitite.
The O'Neill Flour and Feed Company
iupply the trade with flour, etc., at
wholesale prices. Give them a trial.
Nest to McCafferty’s hardware store.
[ Jack Davis, of Norfolk, and J. W.
Simpson will have a sparing match at
the opera-house Saturday evening,
April 7. Davis agrees to stop Simpson
in ten rounds or forfeit $50.
The Hemingford Guide ventures the
opinion that when it comes to getting
ip political excitement Holt county can
give the balance of the state cards and
spades.
The Degree of Honor ball at the rink
list Monday evening was a pleasant and
profitable affair. We understand that
the ball netted the society $50. The
Mes who had the affair in charge are
to be congratulated upon its success.
: The case of Mrs. Joe Miller vs. John
iHynes, in which the plaintiff got judg
ment for $1,000, was recently settled tor
■ft Granny Roberts, the widows’ and
orphans’ friend and associate counsel in
!he case, died an attorney’s lien for $125.
Our fresh garden seeds are now all
lere and open for inspection. We
guarantee them to be all strictly new
tad fresh, and in onion sets we have the
Auest you ever saw. Try us before
guying. 35.4 O’Neill Gbocery Co.
■ Tor sale or rent, on easy terms, a good
jtrm, 160 acres, four miles from O’Neill;
tillable land, 115 acres were under
•$e plow last year. For terms 'and fur
^er Particulars address, Wilbur Seed
■Meal Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 30tf
| What is the use of planting those
;Bued beans one year after another
LjeB von can get pure Navy beans
i. us' that will be in demand when
Try a few!
I 37 2 O’Neill Gboceby Co.
^°a know that cup of coffee you got
? ***e dinning-car and smacked your
Plover? Well, we have the agency
■M the coffee from which it was made.
llisPutup in l|fi> cloth sacks at 50c.
’VSck- Try°“*>
1 * O'Neill Grocery Co.
• A- Price, formerly general freight
yt for the Short Line, has been ap
ointed assistant general freight agent
°r the Wisconsin Central lines, with
■‘‘dquarter at Milwaukee. Mr. Price
M many friends in O’Neill who will
to learn of his promotion.
soon be time to get out that
**°line stove. We have now on hand
jJWantity of the purest deodorized
^°>ine and will keep it in stock this
season. Avoid danger by using
Cans called for and delivered.
O’Nkili. Grocery Co.
wateur autbors will be interested to
that the new illustrated $1.50
I and Monthly,* published at Des
“llles, announces a series ot quarterly
In 1,eur contests in literature, the first
^ 086 APH1 1. The Midland will pay
ii.,C8sl1 f°r the best original, unpub
8’,,ry. and $10 cash for the best
#ti8inal
Actual
unpublished poem entered. All
Steals.
subscribers are eligible to these
Another steal is added to the list this
week.
James DeYarman visited Norfolk last
week.
P. J. Lansworth was in the city Mon
day and called. * .
Ale* Boyd visited with his family in
O Neill the fore part of the week.
The irrigationists returned Friday
evening from the Omaha convention.
John E. Kearns returned last Saturday
evening from a two month’s trip on the
coast.
Hood’s pills are the best after dinner
pills, assist digestion, cure headache.
Try a box, 25c.
Chever Hazelet went up to Gorden
Sunday evening in the interests of his
chicory company.
John Halloran, of Inman, was in the
city Monday add called to pay his
respects to The Froni'ibii.
Fred Stannard returned Tuesday
morning from the Black Hills where he
bad been spending the winter.
For flour, corn, brad and all kinds of
teed go to the O’Neill Flour & Feed Co.,
J.L. Mack Manager. 38-tf
Robert T. Hart, of Atkinson, died at
that place on the 18th inat. He was an
old and respected citizen of that place.
Judge Kinkaid and Reporter King
are holding court in Valentine this
week, haying gone up last Sunday even
ing.
The Frontier neglected to mention
last week that Charlie Hall had been
elected to the position of first lieutenant,
Bartley Guards.
Ben DeYarman left Sunday morning
for Independence, lo., to get a fine
horse for which he he has traded. He
expects to return some time this week.
We have just received an exception
ally fine stock of dried fruits, dried fish
etc. When you want something nice
in this line give us a call.
8-2 J. P. MaNn.
John Trommershausser and daughter
Lena and son Nute, Dan Dowd. Lee
Hewett and Miss Mary Eddleblute, of
Ewing, attended the Degree of Honor
ball in this city Monday evening.
We carry four grades of flour and can
not be beaten on prices. Figure with
us on flour and get the best at lowest
prices, quality considered.
88-2 J. P. Mann.
Civil Engineer Campbell went up the
road last Friday night and is now work
jug back over the line of the proposed
ditch. He is expected to arrive here
about mondy when he will make report
and settle all uncertainties.
WANTED—To trade for residence
property. Will trade my equity in
quarter section good land within three
miles of O'Neill, for good residence
in town. Address, W. W. McG.
38-4 Hartley, O’Brion county, Io.
Graphic: Well, McHugh’s appoint
ment did not rank first in the recog
nition of the president in considering
the claims of Holt county applicants;
but this is-not strange, as Charlie was
never known to be first in anything.
The Graphic is in error. Tiie Fron
tier can call to mind several instances
wherein McHugh has been first—into
the soup tureen.
The Frontier would warn the city
fathers to beware of abolishing the city
scales. There is no question but at the
present time O’Neill is getting her share
of stock and other produce and the
farmers are satisfied with the present
condition of things. Abolish the scales
and you will immediately antagonize
the farmers and increase the business of
other towns. It might be a good idea to
provide means for weighing hogs on
foot, but if we do away with the scales
entirely it will be to the city's detriment.
How about your spring suit? Of
course you will need one and perhaps
you are thinking of sending away tor it.
Now this is often unsatisfactory when
you receive the goods and if you can do
as well at home is it not to your interest
to buy here? You can do as well and if
you will come and se'e our immense stock
and get our low figures you will be con
vinced. We are also doing a large
business in tailor made clothing and
would be pleased to quote you prices on
first-class work. Yours truly,
88 2 J- P- Mann.
As no Indication of our probable
success in securing funds for irrigation
purposes, providing the survy is satis
factory, we quote a New York special of
the21inst: “Parlies here having tbe
placing of money for eastern capitalists
are awakening considerable interest in
Irrigation enterprises in tbe arid west,
and particularly in central western Ne
braska. This fact, taken in connection
with tbe earnest movement on tbe part
of tbe people in Nebraska and elsewhere
seems to indicate the opening of a new
er* of prosperity for Nebraska and the
west. Kerr & Van Volkenburgh of 261
Broadway, corporation attorneys and
irrigation specialists, have interested
some New York capitalists in tbe irri
gation plant and '•Setter power at Mc
Cook, Neb., and a representative of tbe
syndicate will investigate this property
in a few days. If this property proves
satisfactory on examination tbe same
syndicate will be open to investment in
other irrigation projects of similar char
acter and promise. The people in the
east are just awakening to the fact that
irrigation bonds are the best securities
that are offered where the enterprise is
intelligently laid out and honestly con
ducted, and as a consequence those who
have heretofore been investing in farm
mortgages are now turning their at
tention to irrigation bonds and projects.”
The Pot Boiteth.
It may now be said that the issues are
made up and the lines indelibly traced,
but what they are we cannot for tbe
life of us tell.
Clarence Selah opposes Mr. Dickson
for mayor, but why he does so we do
not know.
N. Martin has no opposition on the
ticket for clerk, but Pat Biglin has
stripped himself for tbe race and says
be wants enough of his friends and
enemies to write his name in a sufficient
number of times to elect him.
The fight for treasurer is between
John McHugh, Cashier of the State
bank, and Fred Swingley, assistant
cashier of tbe First Nationul.
The offices of city engineer and police
judge are seeking tbe man. 1 No nomi
nations were made, by petition or other
wise.
The candidates for councilmen in the
various wards are paiied off this way:
First—John McBride vs. B. T. True
blood.
Second—Bill Fallon vs. Jacob Pfund.
Third—Elmer Merriman vs. O. E.
Davidson.
Will Adam* Return?
Id accordance with instructions from
the board of supervisors the following
notice has been issued to the depositors
of the Holt County Bank:
O’Neill, Neb , March 29, 1894.
To the depositors of the Holt Couuty
Bank—On March 10. 1894, the board of
supervisors of Holt county, appropriated
$250 to secure the return to Holt county
for trial of David Adams, president of
the Holt County Band, who is charged
with defrauding depositors of sail bank.
Said $250 being appropriated on con
dition that the depositors of said bank
raise an equal amount to be used for the
same purpose.
At the same time the board appointed
F. W. Phillips, who is a membei of
said board and also a depositor of'said
bank, as a committee of one to act in
conjunction with H. E. Murphy, county
attorney, to assist in the matter.
Therefore we. deeming it best, do
hereby call a meetieg of the depositors
of said bank, to be held in the court
room in O’Neill, on Saturday, April 7,
1894, at 10 o’clock a. m., to take such
action in the matter as seems to them
best. The attendance of each and every
one interested is earnestly requested.
H. E. Murphy, County Attorney.
F. W. PniLLiPS, Member Board.
It would seem that the board has
learned nothing from its experience with
the Scott reward offer. The law very
plainly and distinctly says the board
may offer reward for return and con
viction, but it nowhere authorizes a
reward for the return alone. If the
depositors offer an additional reward of
$250 of course they will be obliged to
pay it but the county never will and the
depositors will be left with the bag to
hold.
If Dave Adams has defrauded the
depositors and violated the laws of the
state, the state is the proper party to
prosecute and it is neither fair nor right
to ask men who lost money in the bank
to now come in and dig up another $250.
Notes From the Temple of Learning.
Dr. Cronnin and John L. Sullivan
were among Mrs. Taylor’s distinguished
guests on last Tuesday.
Wouldn’t you like to be acquainted
with this gentlemanly butcher of syntax?
The subject of next Friday’s debate—
“Resolved That the Governor Should
Be Elected for Four Years"—will be
negatively discuseed by Misses Hawk
and Cronin and Byron Freeland, and
affiimatively bv Misses Dwyre and Clark
and Tim Dwyre.
It is a remarkable fact, though nohe
the less true, that in almost every school
in the United States, at least one of the
classes is led by an auburn-haired scion
of humanity. O’Neill is not behind in
this respect, and it is with pride that
Miss Carlon and her assistant, T. M.
Morrow L. L. D., point to the ablest
scholar in the junior class, who is no
less a personage than the Hon. Will
Lowrie M. D.
The rresnmen may ue all right, out
when they imitate Jessie James and
steal fifty or sixty pages ahead of the
Sophomore algebra class they should
not allow their rienry Le Carons to
partake of the secret.
By order of the board, school was
closed on Tuesday and was not opened
again until Monday.
What is the matter with formings
Latin class. Schoolboy,
MANDAMUS DEFEATED
Mandamus Cut of Outer Dismissed
by Plaintiff.
DEFECTIVE RECORD THE CAUSE
Xadlsss Xzpsass Incurred and no Btneflt
Derived.
The story Is short. Judge Marshal
came* up from Fremont Friday night
and heard the case Saturday, The hear
ing was occasioned by the board's ap
pointee, Mr. Henry, asking to have a
mandamus issue compelling Clerk Sklrv
Ing to turn over the office.
To this the defendant demurred upon
the ground that be had not been law
fully dethroned for the reason that he
bad committed no impeachable offense,
that he being an officer ot the court the
board had no jurisdiction; that the
trial was not conducted by the proper
authorities; that the board finding him
not guilty upon the first ballot had no
legal right to reconsider their judgment,
and for various other errors in the pro
ceedings.
Our readers will remember that we
called attention to the fact some time
ago that the record as it was made had
convicted him of nothing but certifying
to the Benedict warrant, although the
board thought it had convicted him on
the bond count also, but failed to do so
through error in calling for the previous
question. The supervisors’ record as kept
the clerk failed to disclose the oversight.
Evidence was taken on behalf of the
plaintiff to prove his appointment, eligi
bility and other minor points, but noth
ing of interest was developed until the
defendant introduced testimony to im
peach the reconLin regard to the bond
count. Harrington denied the right of
the defendant to do this, claiming that
the record was the best evidence of what
the board had done, but at this time
the attention of Mr. Bethea was called
to the error and he picked up his little
pen and corrected it to conform to the
facts and in so doing knocked Mr. Har
rington’s case into smithereens and he
immedeately dismissed the case without
prejudice.
Whether Mr. Harrington will call the
board together to patch up their record
or try Skirving over again is a question
that remains to be seen.
A decision is expected the third of
next month from the supreme court in
the ease brought by Skirving to compel
Clerk Bethea to approve his. appeal
bond. That decision may have some
bearing upon the future action of the
board in the case.
This case has cost the tax payers lots
of money.
A Reform Reformer.
Editobs Fbontieb—I have read the
harrangue in the last week’s Beacon
Light. Ham must have as much gall as
a big ox to write such tomfoolery and
send it out to an intelligent public.
Everybody knows what his record was
prior to the time that he came to O’Neill
and took the. Keeley cure a few months
ago, which was, perhaps, the only noble
and wise thing he ever did in bis life.
But to read his history written by him
self one would think him to be a spot
less lamb from his youth up. If so the'
innocent lamb fell among wolves,
thieves, liars, perjurers, etc.
But behold the lamb after years of
dissipation! It looks to me as though
he is trying to manufacture sympathy to
cover up the $1,500 tax list steal. And
again.be charges the press with slander
ing his family. This is false in every
particular. There is no one living who
knows the circumstances but has the
deepest sympathy for the good mother
and the unfortunate boy, but at the
same time they do think that it is a
clear case of the sins of a dissipated
father being visited down upon the
child as set forth in holy writ.
Ham ought to blush for shame when
he calls men “hump-back," “blearcyed,”
■‘stumpfooted," “bald headed,” and a
score of other low names. I know a
number of good homes that his Beacon
Light is not allowed to enter on account
of its filthiness.
We want reform in morals as well as
in other things.
A llRFOIlMKK ON ALL LINKS.
Stock Cattle!
I am prepared to furnish stock cattle
of all. ages, or will buy on contract or
commission. . Frank Anderson,
32tf U. 8. Yds., Sioux City, Iowa.
The Valuation.
Following li the (ohedule adopted by
the aaieuore at their annua) meeting
laat week:
Atkinson.....
Chambers....
Conley.
Cleveland.
Dustin.
Delolt.
Ewing.
Emmet.
Francis.
Falrvlew..
O rattan.
Green Valley.
Iowa.
Inman.
Lake..
McClure.
Rook Falls....
Paddock .
Ploasantvtow
Steel Creek...
Soott.
Saratoga.
Sand Creek...
Stuart.
Shields.
Swan.
Sheridan.
Verdigris.
Wyoming.
Wlllowdale...
URAL RSTATB.
■1
1136 to la oo
1 10 to 2 30
. 1 10 to 3 00
1 10 to 3 00
1 lOto 3 00
1 10 to 3 40
. 1 30 to 3 60
1 90 to 3 60
1 10 to 3 00
1 10 to 9 40
1 80tO 3 00
1 10 to 8 40
, 1 10 to 8 40
. 1 DO to 3 00
1 10 to 3 40
, 1 10 to 8 40
1 10 to 3 60
. 1 10 to 8 40
. 1 10 to 3 40
. 1 10 to 2 40
. 1 10 to 3 40
. 1 10 to 8 40
. 1 10 to 2 40
. 1 10 to 2 00
. 1 10 to 8 00
1 10 to 2 30
. 1 10 to 3 00
l 10 to 2 40
. 1 10 to 3 30
. 1 10 to 2 40
All lands within one mile of any line of
railroad. 11 to 14 per aero; within one mile of
Ewing, 13.40 to 10; Inman. 13.40 to 10; O'Neill,
•0.60 to 120; Atkinson. <6 to 116; Stuart, 13.60
10; Page. 13.60 to M.
Merchandise one-third of the aotual cash
value.
PERSONAL.
Horses, Imported and pedigreed..ISO 00 to 1130
Horses, first class. 31 00 to IB
Horses, second class. 5 00 to 0
Horses, third class. 100 to 4
Colts. 3 years old and under. 1 00
Mules and asses. 4 00 to 30
Thoroughbred bulls. 8 00 to 33
Thoroughbred cows. 5 00 to 14
Common cows. 1 00 to 4
Cdmmon bulls. 1 00 to T
8 year old fat steers. 7 00 to 8
3 year old fat steers... 1 00 to 4
2 year old fat heifer... 100 to 0
Calves, 0 months to 1 year. SO to 1
Sheep (each). 30
Hogs, per 100 Sts. 35
Steam engines with bolters. 38 00 to 337
Fire and burgular proof safes... 9 00 to 180
Billiard, pigeon-hole, bagatelle.
or other like tables..
Carriages and wagons.
' Busses and hearses .
Gold watohes.
Pianofortes.
Melodeons and organs,
47 00 to lt*0
4 00 to 18
38 00 to 14 2
4 00 to 23
AGRICULTURAL TOOLS, IMPLEMENTS AND MA
CHINERY.
Reapers.84 00 to 818
Mowers. 1 00 to 4
Bulky plows. 1 00 to 14
Horse planters and check rowers... 1 00 to 8
Grain drills und seeders. 1 00 to 8
BANKERS, BROKERS AND STOCK JOBBERS.
Assessors shall be governed by section 8830
of the compiled statutes of Nebraska.
Chas. Potts, Chairman.
W. S. Miller, Secretary.
Open Letter the Third.
Greg Boll writes another open letter to
the tax list thieves, which was published
in last week’s Ewing Democrat:
When pap-sucker Cole couldn’t speak,
his ass tried to speak for him. Cole and
Primus said in their answer to my first
letter, that if they had the religious
belief that Greg Roll had, they would
be ashamed of the oath of office a man
must take In the big county of Holt.
I suppose this novus homo will say
that this emanated from the great white
throne.
If pap-sucker Cole does not wish
any thing personal he should not have
commenced using personalities; he that
lives in a glass house should never
throw the first stone. I should think
pap sucker Cole would be ashamed to
accuse any one of working for revenue
only, after his pooling with the Holt
County Independent to beat the county
out of twelve hundred dollars on the
delinquent tax list. A member of the
board of supervisors asked pap sucker
why be didn’t bid on the county print
ing, and he replied “that hi was get
ting MORE OUT OF IT NOT TO BID." NOW
this is the kind of an old reprobate that
is accusing me of working for revenue,
taking false oaths, and working
mercenary schemes. If the government
ever rewards “damphools" or liars pap
sucker Cole will never need any
witnesses to prove his disabilities.
What a pitiful plea they set up for
boodiing the county out of twelve hun
dred dollars. They said it was a steal
for other papers to boodle the county,
but when they get in the ring of bood
lers it is all right, and any one that
objects to their boodle schemes, is call
ed a bold faced Roman nosed prevar
icator. That is a way they have of
screening themselves. It was some of
our leading independents that broke the
old combination on county printing by
letting it to the lowest bidder, and to
this we all said amen. Every body
supposed it would be the same this year.
The night before the printing was let,
these same lerding independents went
into a caucus with the independent
members of the board of supervisors
and persuaded them to ignore the bids
of other papers, which were lower, and
give the county printing to the Holt
County Independent thereby beating
the county out of about twelve hundred
dollars, and to this pap sucker Cole says,
amen. If these men were honest when
they were breaking up the old combi
nation, what is the mattei with them
now? Why are they not willing to still
give it to the lowest bidder? It seems
that the color of the horse has changed
in the last year or two. We broke up
one combination and formed a new one
bigger than the first and have wrapped
It in a cloak of pretended reform.
~ R. G. Roll.
SOUS*
Is hereby given I forbid all persons
from driving, herding horses, cattle,
bogs, males or asses on east.half of
section eight (8). town thirty-one (31),
range nine (9) west, un ier the penalty
of the law. 85-3 Jambs H. Puts.
MO HAM’S COLUMN.
Madeline abould not hare toyed with
tbe colonel during bte week end slofql
moment*.
Nothing *o dearly demonatratea the
need of reformation aa a promlee. of
reform. The Jew haa promlaed twice .
within the paat three montha to mend
hie way*. ^
An editor of one of oar exchanges .
adviees the editor of another of our ex*
change* to bury hlmaelf in a llmberger
oheeae to eacape detection. We could
never advlae Outxman to do that. We
have too much reapect for the cheese. >
Journal: A little daughter came to
dwell in the home of Mr. and Mrs. ^
Lemen early last Sunday morning. ISd ''
think* thia la the choicest Lemen In tbe
whole box.
Yes, and when it gete ripe enough to
squeeze some fortunate swain will no
doubt agree with him.
Gutzman: While King is to tbe mode
of writing "gelding" soliloquies, lie
should write one upon tbe young men
who had his trunk burnt in tbe bawdy
bouse while he was acting as "solid''
man, and one upon the "Joe dandy" who
stole Hagerty’s fence posts. They would
be interesting reading and cure that
"tired” feeling the Ah Bln of that dud
ling sheet prates 40 much about.
Gutzman, while mentioning King,
evidently Intended to refer to an article
of No Man’s, published a couple of
weeks ago. In tbe first place tbe com
piler of this column asked tbe Beacon
Light for no advice as to what be should
or should not write, but since it baa
been vouchsafed we will stoop to notice'
it. To begin with, No Man pens no
soliloquies except their subjects ere
based upon a foundation of facts, hence
the story of the trunk having been con
sumed in a bawdy-house fire has escaped
due consideration from us. But then,
Gutzy, these are old stories. In the first 1;
instance we refer you to the files of Ttra
Frontier for March, *01; and In the
second instance we refer you to the
flies of tbe same Journal at different
periods for tbe past ten years. That
will bring it to about the period you
were girding up your loins to make
that famous board bill jump at Stuart.
Each vioe shall bear a prloe
And virtue a drug beoomo.
—[Honan**.
O’Neill is to have, and in fact has, a
new business venture. It is a nest of
iniquity presided over by a bird of
bright and beautiful plumage, known to
tbe initiated as the "bird of paradise."
She is one of the unfortunate beings
that Mayor Wier, of Lincoln, scourged
to the city limits and kicked a last fare
well to the air of ta-ra-ra-boom-de-aye.
She has been in the city some time look
ing for a location but could find no one
with so much business and little sense
as to rent her a house, until she bumped
up against tbe guileless Roberts, who
located her very nicely in the western
part of tbe city among a congregation
of respectable dwellings. While we
have always given the judge credit with
being a gay deceiver, we hardly looked
for the day to come when he would
take vice by the hand and together
wander down the shady aisles once trod
by the youth whom the judge bas
always been pleased to say lost his trunk
and clothes by the burning of a similar
institution. This last concern should
not be allowed to gain a foothold in the '
city, even under the paternal wing of a
granny. If we must have these places
let them be as far removed as possible
from the eyes of the young and in
nocent.
goods;
goods:
by THE CAR
LOAD AT
BRENNAN'S
John Deere Plows and
Cultivators—riding and
walking—they are the
best. .* .* .•
Also a nice lot of garden
seeds—the very best mon
ey could buy. Millet
on hand. ^ .• .* .•