PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO.
SUBSCRIPTION, SI.BO PER ANNUM.
CLYDE KINO AND t>. H. CRONIN, EDITORS
VOLUME XIV.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, APRIL 26, 1894.
NUMBER 42
LOCAL MSJTEMIZED
The Local News of O’Neill as Caught
by the “Kids.”
BATHES INTERESTING NOTES
Items of General Interest Published While
Hews Is Still Hews.
Geo. McArthur was in the city Fridav.
Mrs. G. C. Hazelet visited Omaha last
week.
8. J. Weekes had business up the road
last Monday.
,1. A. Huddleson, of Lincoln, is in the
city on business. ,
Reporter King spent Arbor day in
O'Neill with his family.
Mrs. G. W. Smith yisited friends in
Sioux City last Saturday.
Orange Brittel, of Antelope, was in
the city last Thursday evening.
The Misses Teas and Alice Dykeman
visited Atkinson last Saturday.
John Skirvlng returned last Thursday
night from a business trip to Sioux
City. _
Hood’s Pills do not 'Weaken, but aid
digestion and tone the stomach. Try
them. __
Andy Gallagher and Ed Thompson
went down to Missouri Valley last
Thursday. -_
Mrs. O. C. Snyder went down to
Allen last Saturday to visit relatives for
a few days.
For flour, corn, bran and all kinds of
feed go to the O’Neill Flour & Feed Co.,
.l.L. Mack Manager. 33-tf
P. J. Donohoe, traveling freight
agent of the Pacific Short Line, was in
the city last Tuesday.
G. C. Hazelet and T. V. Golden went
down to Omaha last Thursday in the
interests of irrigation.
Mrs. Anderson has been appointed
post master at Amelia. Poor old Holt
will now have a democratic organ.
We have a great drive on cigars, 10
for 25 cents, also 15 for 25 cents. See
them. 42-2 O’Neill Grocery Co.
The best mutual insurance policy
against attacks of sickness is to be found
in taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. If you
are weak it will make you strong.
Mrs. Husted died at the residence of
her son, Elmer Husted, near Chambers
last Thursday evening and was buried
in the Chambers cemetery Saturday.
Get your flour at McManus’. Crown
full patent, Kitchen Queen strait grade,
the best grades in the city. Every sack
warranted or money refunded. 86-tf
Graphic: James DeYarman, the
O'Neill liveryman, made the Graphic a
Pleasant call yesterday, enroute home
from the north and west part of the
county.
Judge Kinkaid came down from Rush
Tille, where he had been holding court,
Sunday morning, and went down to
Norfolk Monday, returning to Rushville
in the eveninir.
Barrett Scott is again in O’Neill.
About thirty Holt countyites went down
to Neligh last Thursday and furnished
bond for his appearance for trial at that
Place next September.
Graphic: If Clyde King had formally
qualified as police judge of O'Neill he
would now hold the enviable diploma of
Hon.” But in fact, if not in title, all
Iepublican editors are honorable.
When you want good flour and are
tired trying cheap patents that are no
jitter than a good straight grade, go to
Mann's and get White Satin. It has no
e,lual- _ 41-2
Prevention is better than cure, and
f°u may prevent that tired feeling by
taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which will
keep your blood pure and free from acid
■aint and germs of disease.
Heave your orders with us for pure
gasoline, also kerosene oil. We will
call and get your cans and deliver them
to You promptly. 42-4
O’Neill Grocery Co.
^ ork has commenced on the survey
°r the southern ditch, that is the one
or the completion of which a company
*&8 organized last week. It is estimated
1 at the cost of this project will not
e*ceed $10,000.
550 Reward—For information that
lead to the arrest of the party who
®'°le L). a. Doyle’s saddle from his
stable, in this city, on Wednesday even
DK. at about 8 o’clock. The saddle is
*n extra good one and on the back left
baud
corner was stamped the owner’s
address and name. Address all inform
11,on 'o D. A. Doyle,
O’Neill, Neb.
’• •. .
Barry Mathews, of Butte, is in the
city to-day.
Del Akin came down from Atkinson
this morning.
Ed Evans, of Sioux City, is in town
this week renewing old acquaintances.
John McCann returned to this city
last week from Iowa where has resided
the past two years.
Judge Bowen joined his family in
Lincoln last Thursday. The judge will
[ be missed in O’Neill.
Col. Doyle has not aB yet found any
trace of his valuable saddle, purloined
from his stable last week.
Our gain is your loss said a prominent
Nelighite in conversation with a Fron
tier representative regarding the rene
gade Jew. „_
If Gutzman saved this countv as he
says he did, how comes it that McHugh |
is harvesting the bulk of the sheriff
sales?
Charles Nippelle, of Niobrara, county
surveyor for his county, has been in
O’Neill for the past several days on
business.
Mr. Roach, of Grand Forks, N. D.,
who represents the Walter A. Wood
Machince Co., is in the city visiting his
cousin, Mrs. Corrigan.
I It begins to look as though McHugh
had secured a quit claim deed to the
greater part of Gutzman’s “diamond
field." Thus does a perfidious democrat
reap the reward of his perflidy.
It makes us pant to see those pants J.
P. Mann is selling at $5; all wool
western cassimere and made to measure
if he can’t fit you from stock. We don’t
see how he can afford it but he is doing
it just the same. 43-1
Now is the season to buy scrub
brushes, brooms, tubs, pails, wire
clothes lines, washboards, and we have
a full line of all kinds of woodenware..
When in need of any see us. 42-3
O’Neill Grocery Co.
Neligh Advocate: Mr. King, one of
the editors of the O’Neill Frontier,
was in the city yesterday, and made a
pleasant fraternal call at this office. The
Frontier is one of the ablest edited
papers on our exchange list.
Frontier advertisers need give them
selves no uneasiness on account of the
Jew’s “largest circulation” sophistry.
Persons who advertised their liquor
notices in this paper have complied
with the law and will be protected.
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.
Plans are materalizing for another
irrigation ditch. It seems that a stocK
company has been organized near Page
for the purpose of tapping the Elkhorn
at the end of the O’Neill mill race and
conduct it in an easterly direction until
Antelope county is reached.
Have you seen the new line of $5
pants at Mann’s? J, P. says they are
the best bargain he has ever had in the
line of clothing,strictly all wool, western
made cassimere and if you are hard to
fit he will have a pair made to order for
you at the same price. This looks like
a big offer; better look it up when you
want pants.
The cause leading up to the great
dissatisfaction regarding the city scales
has at last been discovered. The stock
buyers were in the habit of verifying
city weights by re-weighing at the stock
yards and almost invariably reported
short weight. A thorough investigation
has disclosed the fact that the stock
yard scales are thoroughly unreliable.
This vindicates the city weighmaster.
The junior editor of this “boodle
organ” had the pleasure of visiting the
thriving little city of Neligh last Thurs
day and becoming acquainted with
many of her citizens. The thing that
struck us most forcibly down there was
the universal dislike the people have for
our own Gutzman. They know him by
but one name, and that is not of the
class of English that The Frontier
delights to print.
A. J. Faulk, of Sioux City, was in the
city last Saturday in the interests of the
inter-state fair that is proposed being
held at Sioux City in the fall. The ob
ject of his visit here was to interest Holt
county in the scheme. The following
named gentlemen will go to Sioux City
on May 1 for the puipose of looking the
field over and deci4e whether or not
Holt county should take any part: John
Tromraershausser, of the Ewing fair as
sociation; Lile McRobert, Hi Hodgkins,
Ben DeYarman and Frank Campbell, of
the Holt county fair association; R. C.
Wry, of the Chambers fair association;
A. C. Powell, of Stuart; Mayor Dickson
and Ed Gallagher, of O’Neill.
Graphic: Harry Mathews came over
from Butte yesterday after Dr..Black
burn to attend his baby which is danger
ously ill again. The doctor and Harry
started for the metropolis of Boyd about
6 p. m.
A. Mr. Tucker, of Niobrara, was in
the city last Monday seeking some trace
of bis 16 year-old daughter who the day
before had ]oined heart and hand with
a reservation half-breed and it was
thought they had flown this way. It is
said that the couple were seen in O'Neill
that day but the griet-stricken father
was unable to locate them and returned
to his homo a yery sad man. People
acquainted with the girl speak of her as
a bright, pretty and accomplished little
lady and it teems really too bad that
her idea of the romantic got the better
df her. . _
A small boy on a small hotse ran over
a small girl on the street near the post
office Saturday evening. The child was
not seriously injured but she certainly
had a very narrow escape. There is a
moral attached to this little accident:
Parents should not allow their young
sters to parade the streets astride unruly
mustangs, neither should other parents
permit their little tots to make a play
ground of the public highways. It is a
dangerous practice and will certainly
sooner or later result in a mishap that is
likely to cast a gloom over the entire
ooinmunity. _
A number of Odd Fellows from O'Neill
went up to Ainsworth Monday evening
to confer degrees upon several candi
dates at that place. The party consisted
of the following named gentlemen; H.
M. Uttley, A. H. Corbett, H. DeYarman,
J. C. Harnish, O. O. Snyder. S. O.
Smith, Q. W. Smith, Fred Pfunder, C.
W. Hagensick, 0. L. Bright, J. L. Mack,
C. H. Bentley, Hank Mills, E. W. Essex,
J* P. Gilligan and C. Selah. The work
kept the lodge in session nearly all night
but the boys report a good time withal.
A splendid banquet at midnight was an
agreeable feature of the labor.
The May Midland blossoms out in blue
and gold cover, the corn stalk in gold.
The beauty and simplicity of the design
command general admiration, Among
the many good things inside the cover is
a story by a niece of General Sherman,
a pleasing instalment of Beatrice, an in
side story of a railroad wreck, an ele
gantly illustrated article on Iowa col
lege, Grinnell, a delightful picture of
Scottish scenery, a thrilling story of
Russia during the famine, illustrated
with Russian views, an illustrated article
on Dakota, an article of rare historic
value and a group of London pictures
This is a surprisingly brilliant number.
The city council last Tuesday night
leased of the Electric Light Co., its
entire plant, including the franchise,
agreeing to pay therefor the sum of
$250 per month. The terms of the
lease are such that at the expiration of
five years the city will own the plant.
This paper is inclined to think this a
wise move for these reasons: The city
has been paying monthly for lights and
pumping purposes $109, and now by
adding $141 per month the city will own
the plant and save the $109 per month,
which otherwise it would have nothing
to show for. Besides this the plant is
making a monthly profit, which of
course will be applied on the payments.
The plant is in good condition and by
judicious management may be made a
good piece of city property.
The 8ionx City Weekly Journal
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point of news service and other special
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Letter List
Following Is the list ot letters remaining in
the postoffice at O'Neill, Neb., unclaimed, for
the week ending April 25,1894:
Mrs Itoxanna Arnold K E Bvrnes
K M Johnson Thos A. Klnkaid
A H Marshal Joseph Riley
In calling for the above please say “adver
tised." If not called for In two weeks they
will be sent to the dead letter office.
J. II. UiuasP. M.
Klkhorn Elver Irrigation Company.
A new irrigation company was organ
ised at this place Friday last and is
known as tbe Klkborn Irrigation Com
pany. It proposes' taking tbe water
out of tbe Elkhorn river at or near the
town of Emmet and bringing it down
along tLe south side of tbe river skirting
tbe bluffs to a point south of O’Neill,
and then bearing off in a southerly
direction.
The length of this ditch will be about
10 miles.
When Donald Campbell was here
making his report on the big ditch, he
viewed tho route of the one covered by
the new company and pronounced it
entirely practicable.
The estimated cost of this ditch is
$10,000, and this amount it is thought
can easily be raised in Holt county.
The stock soliciting committee have so
far met with good success, and entertain
no doubt as to their being able to secure
the entire amount necessary to push the
project to speedy completion.
Tbe directors of the new company are
Sam Howard, Chas. Hemstreet, Clarence
Selah, M. F. Harrington, E. F. Gal
lagher. Bernard McGrecvey, Frank
Campbell. Tbe officers are as follows:
President, Sam Howard; vice-president,
Chas. Hemstreet; Secretary, Clarence
Selah; treasurer, Bernard McQreevey.
A contract has been made with Mr.
Van Etta, of Scott’s Bluffs county, to
survey the line, and work will begin this
week.
The success of this enterprise means
much for the country through which
the ditch will run, as well as the city of
O'Neill. The territory covered by it is
all tributary to O’Neill, and much of it
is at present unoccupied and unde
veloped. The value of the land under
irrigation will be increased many fold.
The Company estimates that 12,000 or
15,000 acres of land can he irrigated by
their ditch. If our readers will take a
pencil with us here they will find that
this means over 180 farms of 80 acres
each, which under the high state of
cultivation that irrigation makes pos
sible means much for all concerned.
Let everybody drop politics and per
sonal spites and with unity of purpose
assist and encourage this enterprise in
every way passible as well as all like en
terprises. Where the town and county’s
general interests are concerned there
should be no division and contention.
Entertainment May 4.
The ladies of. the Episcopal church
will hold a bazar at the rink on Friday,
May 4. Children’s entertainment 8:30.
Admission 10 cents. Following is the
program:
Rainbow Festival I _
Weaving of the May Polo f..Children
Solso.Beta Clear
_ __ IEmma Weekea
The Three Wishes. Kitty Mathews
(Flora Lowrle
Counting the Eggs.Lady and gentleman
Solo.Flora Lowrle
Night Dress Parade.The Children
Refreshments..
Wagons.
Just received a car load of Studebaker
wagons. These wagons are made of the
best timber season-dried from three to
ten years. There is no kiln dried
lumber in their construction. The iron
work is 25 per cent, heavier than is used
in any other wagon made. They are
the best wagons made today and an in
spection of them will convince you of
this fact. Moses Campbell.
42-4 O’Neill, Neb.
Notice.
Proposals for board and care of the
destitute poor of Grattan township will
be received at my office until Saturday,
May 5, 1894, at 2 o’clock p. m., at which
time a contract for one year will be
awarded the most suitable bidder.
Dated April 24, 1894. 42-2
R. J. Haves, Supervisor.
MILITIA T|ANCE...
• • MAY 1
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EVERYBODY INVITED
S'?- .’- , 1 ,
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Mr. Campbell'! Report.
The following letter from Engineer
Campbell, of Denver, to Dr. Morris, of
O'Neill, we clip from the Atkinson
Graphic of last week. The only excuse
Tub Frontier has to offer for not
publishing this roport while as a matter
of news it was still news Is that the
officers of the company denied us the
privilege of taking a copy. But
strangers have been kinder than kindred
and friends and we are allowed to plod
along In the rear of the procession:
« Denver, Cot.., April 5.1804.
A. U. Morris .Esc*., President Niobrara
Irrigation and Power Co.
Dear Sir—I have visited the country
over which it is proposed to build your
irrigation canal and have taken recog
nizance of the land to be irrigated, and
the sources of water supply, and am of
the opinion, prima facie, that the enter
prise is a very good one and offers an
opportunity for profitable investment
whilst conferring a great benefit on tho
country.
On the route taken, there are some of
the finest storage reservoir sites that I
am acquainted with, .which are capable
of improvement at a very small expense.
This one feature of the enterprise is of
itself sufficient to insure the success of
the enterprise, if developed on business
lines.
The land to be irrigated is generally
of the usual fertile sandy loam of the
western prairies, which requires only
moisture in season to yield beneficial
crops. It is on the whole area a high
class farm region and is well worthy ot
the enterprise.
The water supply as examined is
ample,, with the help of storage, to
supply waterduring tho months of July,
August. September and October, , for
300,000 acres of land.
I recommend you to proceed with the
enterprise and believe with good man
agement that it will be made a decided
success. Yours truly,
Donald W. Campbell.
NOTES TBOK THE TEMPLE OP LEARNING
Some man. woman, or child, whose
bump of generosity corresponds with
other peoples' bump of damphoolidneBS
enclosed a penny ring in a cheap envel
ope upon which was inscribed the name
of School-boy, following au exhaustive
description of the golden enclosure, and
forwarded it by mail to Thomas Aquinos
Morrow. The ring is said to be an
exact duplicate of the diamond Bet circlet
awarded to Tom by the Wizard oil
people for his extreme facial beauty and
the matchless perfectness of his shape.
While we admire the spirit of liberality
and unselfishness which prompted the
sender to aocomplish such a magnani
mous action, we cannot refrain from ex
pressing our dissatisfaction at at his, or
her, forgery of our own and only cog
nomen. Positively, we did not send the
ring. We have not had the pleasure of
feasting our eyes on a penny since last
Fourth of July, and we think that the
fellow who sent it might have built a
more lasting monument to his bound
less generosity—but a fool and his
money are soon parted.
Byron Freeland went out to Scottvill e
last Friday for a week's visit with bis
folks. We are told that on the morn
ing succeeding bis departure a high
school girl was seen shedding copious
tears. The hard times were probably
the cause of her affliction.
The pupils guessed another Scoool
boy last week, but were farther away
from the real than ever.
The pupils of the civics class had
another debate last Monday, the subject
of which was: Resolved, "That the
President of the United States should be
elected by direct vote of the people."
It was affirmatively discussed by Misses
Hawk, Norvall and Culled, and nega
tively by Misses Cronin, Clark and
Dwyer. The affirmative side won by a
small majority.
It is some time since we suggested the
formation of a Latin Club in the high
school, the object of which would be to
assist the pupils in mastering the tongue,
but as no steps have been yet made in
that direction, we think they are
ashamed to air their smattering of hog
iatin which Morrow only, is capable of
teaching.
Charlie Meals informs us that he will
remain at home next week to plant some
potatoes. We have always believed
Charlie to be a generous little fellow, so
we called him aside and endeavored to
get from him the promise of a job pick
ing the bugs from them, as soon as they
will have reached the first stage of
buginess, but he informed us in mild
accents, garnished with bitter regrets,
that Tommy Morrow had already
secured the job.
On next Monday there will be a
debate entitled, Resolved: That the
term of the president should be extended
over six years.”
We are pleased to see that the “Black
Brothers” will pay no more attention to
those unsignificant pups who have been
tantalizing them.
Schoolboy.
Pot Your Money in the Ground
In the form of
Landreths Seeds.
Always fresh and reliable; none better
few as good, and in price cheaper than
packet seeds. Morris & Co. carry.a full
line. 40-5
BO KAN’S COLUMN.
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TOlM'niNO LINES.
“Who touohed mo 111 tho twilight dim
I UIMMIII inoinont nt hur side.
Admiring hur. ho swcul mid prim.
And loving lior with lionoHt pride.
*«,J*«***>tl mo. With a feverish nmh
1 ho lilood Into my fnuo did floe.
My hourt bout fntt, then Hunk In hush,
because she touohod tne for a V."
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The KitONTtKn this week received a
letter from Iowa containing a draft for S3
payment in full of two years’ sub
scription to this journal. Tnere Is noth
ing peculiar or startling about this little
occurrence as we often receive money in
that way, but this draft had a string
tied to it. The Bonder said: “I enclose
draft No. 10,800 toi $8. Please credit.
It you cannot make No Man’s column
somewhat livelier than It has boon of
late you may return my credit and dis
continue my paper.’’ Now, gentle
reader, what do you think of that? We
have been roasted and turned and re
roasted by some people for giving No
Man space In tbeso columns and now
that wo have quieted htm down a little,
taken the wire edge off as it were, here
comes a mao with the long green and
demands that we reinstate him In the
full glory of his sensationalism or lose
money. Now Tim Fuontikh Is not In
business for the purpose of iosingmoney,
neither does It pay No Man with that
object in vlow; but fact Is the compiler
of the bright gems that stud this space
is not a creature gifted with a fertile Im
agination, but on tho contrary requires
actual occurrences to sot his pen to ex
patiating, and to the lack of these
perhaps, rather than to the pious In
clinations of the writer, may be ascribed
the above mentioned dullness of this
column. Things are not what they used
to be. Several of the boys have married
and more of them are considering the
advisability of taking the step; the
married men are walking in the oaths of
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rectituue, ana consequently things racy
are rare. However we promise our
friend that If anything in our line should
bo discovered we will paint It in colors as
vivid ns are consistent with our fine
sense of propriety, but we must decline
and strive against obscenity. If the
doctor insists on • vulgarity we will
return his money and let him subscribe
for the Beacon Light.
“{•low, blow, thou wintry wind!
Thou art not ho unkind
As man'H tnirratltude;
Thy tooth Is not so koeu,
Because thou art not Hoen,
Although thy breath be rude."
If man's ingratitude is more harsh
than the wind that surprised a certain
O’Neill man—no, we cannot call him
man, we’ll Just say fellow—last week wo
do not foster any desire to probe man's
ingratitude to the boundaries of its al
most Infinite Immensity. The ingratitude
of that relic of bipedology known as
man may be and certainly is fearful to
contemplate; but think how ungracious
the wind must be to go squarely back
on an old triend and companion, a
friend who had been ruptured, shot
once and stabbed twice. We say he
was an old friend of the wind’s because
they were always together and each
partook of the nature of the other; they
were, as people say now a-days, con
genial spirits. Where the thing went
there also went the wind. It toyed with
his bristle beard and fanned bis fevered
brow and when he lay down in the
gutter to sleep the wind carried leaves
and hay and mud and manure and
covered him over and sang dirges soft
and low until he was found by a copper
and placed in durance vile, and even
then the wind would whistle through
the bars to keep bis courage up. But in
endeavoring to show the close relation
ship existing between the two we havft
wandered from our subject. We have
heard of the canine that was forced
from the wagon of intestines on account
of the intolerable stench arising froth
the putrid mess, but this is the first case
to our recollection of out buildings
arising in disgust and soaring away
when entered by a thing resembling
humanity. Eh, Israelite?
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
I on hand, ^.g .• .• .•
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