VOLUME XIV. •' ** O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, JULY 5, 1894. NUMBER 52 NEWS SAEWHISKERS Items of Interest Told As They Are Told to Us. WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED local Happening* Portrayed Por General Edification and Amusement. All quiet on the Niobrara. Harry Mathews is in the city today. Harry Gillespie was pleased on bail today. _ Editor Meere, of Page, visited the city Tuesday. __• Mat Daugherty, of Ogalla, is in the city today. __ Tom Morris spent the Fourth at Bone steel, S. D. __ H. A. Polk, of Agee, called at this office Monday. Mrs. Dr. Shore visited friends in Ewing Tuesday. J. C. Yokum, of Cherokee, Io., was in the city Tuesday. John McCafferty made a business trip to Omaha this week. Sanford Parker and Geo. Evans were over from Spencer Friday. Petty thieving in this neighbohood is getting altogether too common. Joe Bartley was in O’Neill Monday shaking hands with old friends. Hood’s Pills do not weaken, but aid digestion and tone the stomach. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. King attended the O. A. R. reunion at Neligh Tuesday. A large number of our townspeople heard the eagle scream in Atkinson yesterday. Attorney Lowe and Editor Murphy, of Spencer were in the city Saturday, of last week. Attorney Benedict is able to be around again after his accident of some weeks ago. Charlie Towle and Jim Harrington were among Ann Arbor’s 689 graduates last Thursday. * Eternal vigilance is the price of a good school. If at first you don’t suc ceed, try again. For flour, corn, bran and all kinds of teed go to the O'Neill Flour & Feed£o., J.L. Mack Manager. 38-tf , A. O. Perry has sold the O’Neill and Boyd county stage line, to Messrs. Town send & Son, of Butte. Col. Towle is no JongeT in the land office, Receiver Williams having taken possession of liis seat Monday. Mr. DeLand, of Sioux City, represent ing Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, s. was in the city Sunday and Monday. Misses Welnga.rtnerfrotu Racine, Wis., will have dressmaking parlors over Campbell’s store. Call and see them., Sanford Parker came over from Spencer today. He says that the cele . bration at Spencer was a grand success. Pat Bigfin will deliver kerosene and gasoline at your residence or place of business. . His wagon makes the rounds every day. __ 47 -tf The Bartley guards leave. O’Neill on Monday, August 13, for Burlington beach, Lincoln, to attend the state en campment. , 1_■ Ewing Advocate: Mrs. A. L. Towle, of O’Neill, was a pleasant caller at R. P. Hart’s, Wednesday. She is an aunt | °f Mrs..Hart. | Grant Sanders came up from Sioux i City Saturday evening to attend the i bedside of his dying brother. He re turned yesterday morning. Mrs. Superintendent Jackson, Mrs. Hosman and Mrs. James DeYarman went up to Long Pine Tuesday evening for a week’s camping at the Chautauqua. |. When you want machine oil remem | her we keep both castor and red lubri eating,' and will sell it to you at bed [ r°ck prices. 51-8 * O’Neili, Gborbbt Co. j Mr. Barnett, formerly of O'Neill, but ■ now°f McCook, stopped over in O’Neill i today on bis way home from his annual pilgrimage to the Long Pine chau j tauqug, | Although the chicory crop in the vi cinity of' O’Neill is suffering greatly for want of rain, advice from Gordon and Chambers is to the effect that the yield will be good, ! We will, during hot weather, keep a i full line of salt and smoked meat and salt fish, such as dry salt pork, sugar j cured bapdn, California hams, white HsU herring and maSkerel. Look them °ver when in need of any. 51-8 ^4; - O’Nbili. Gbocbby Co. • .Mi While out hunting last Sunday Geo. Merritt ran across an old skunk with six young ones. Dust thou art to dust returneth was spoken of the skunk. They are all dead. What manner of man is he who goes squarely back on pledges made in a little school election? Verily every man has his price and even $800 will grab one once in awhile. Another open letter from Morrow to the editors of this paper is now in order, j Poor, ill-advised Morrowl Let us hope that bis little experience here will be to his verdancy what salt is to fresh pork. The suit brought by Holt county against ex-Clerk'Hazelet to compel him to account for the full $2 in making sheriff certificates has' been decided by the supreme court in favor of the plaintiff. Jim Harrington returned last Thurs day night from Ann Arbor, at which place he has graduated and is now a licensed Blackstoner. James is com posed of the material that makes good attorneys. Rushville Standard: Gene Cress drop ped in to see this populist headquarters, this morning. He is on his way home from a trip to Douglas, Wyoming, and will remain in Rushville to hearTlen. Weaver on the Fourth. We understand a petition is in circu latipn protesting against the employment of certain teachers. It will do no good. A board that was mean enough to em ploy them in the first place will be mean enongh to insist that their action was right. _, Chambers Bugle: • Grandma Sackett, the Misses Grimes and Miss Gertrude Norvefl, constituted a gay party of ex cursionists to O’Neill, Tuesday. Miss Jennie Norvell returned with the party in the evening, while Miss Gertrude re mained in O’Neill. Chicago Record: The most costly of all metals, save only gallium, which is worth $3,000 an ounce, is germanium, which is quoted at $1,135 an ounce. Rhodium is worth $113.50 an ounce; ruthenium, $90 an ounce; iridium, $37.50 an ounce; osmium, $36 an ounce, and palladium, $35 an ounce. Those of our citizens who turned out to the school election and made a hard fight for Judge Gillespie, under promise of reform, might better have remained at home. So far as results are con cerned there is no material difference between men surrendering the works themselves and'electing men to do it. It is reported this morning that all F. E. operators have been laid off by the road and orders received by all agents to receive no freight. ’ Section hands have been discharged along the line and things begin to look as though the F. E. would soon be tied up on account of the strike. The Short Line is still running on time. _ The church picnic at Wynn’s grove yesterday drew a large crowd, which seemed to enjoy itself. The O’Neill band furnished excellent music, and a liberal sprinkling oh athletic sports lent spice to the program of the day. A game of ball between O’Neill and Shields interested a large crowd in the afternooon. At the finish the score stood 14 to 16 in favor of O’Neill. An exchange publishes the following very sensible article, and it is to be hoped it will be put iuto use in all sec tions: "Publishing cards of thanks in newspapers for attention shown rela tives during the illness to fatality is now considered in bad taste; ahd, in the cast especially, is almost obsolete. It is tbe duty of friends and neighbors at such a time to do all in their power, and for such attendance no thanks are due, much less to air the proceedings through the paper. Fred Swingley’s new buggy was stolen from bis barn in this city last Sunday night. No trace of it was found until Tuesday ‘night, when Fred received word from Butte that a man by the name of John Walk had been arrested at that place with tbo buggy in his pos session. Deputy Sheriff O’Neill and Mr. Swingley went over yesterday and returned in the evening with the buggy and the thief, who now languishes. Mr. Walk is a Boyd county farmer, residing north of Butte. Grady & Mathews’ magic lantern ex hibition at the opera-house last Saturday night drew a good house, and a house that was well pleased with the entertain ment. A great many of the scenes were 'local, snap shots taken on the streets and elsewhere; and then Mr. Mathews had a number taken by him self while on the coast and in Mexico, •and Mr. Grady furnished an interesting collection taken while ‘wandering over the highlandways of the Black Hills. For the first* performance it was decided ly good. »' Beacon Light: Notwithstanding the croaking of Tub Frontier the old school board was indorsed by the people of O’Neill. Well, now isn’t that gall supreme! No one worked harder for the re-eleclion of Messrs. Milliard and Gillespie than the editors of The Frontier, and no one worked harder to encompass their defeat than the friends of Morrow and the Beacon Light. In fact you might say the line was drawn exactly there. If Tom Morrow and the Beacon Light can make salve for their sqres out of the result of the election they have the consent of this journal to manufacture and apply it in liberal po.tions. The Beacon Light must be sat upon hard indeed before it will acknowledge defeat. It counts no battle lost and claims victory even while its camp is being pillaged by the enemy. The foolish talk it has engaged in, relative to the Hcott bond case, was continued last week with much gust on account of the action of Judge Chapman in setting the case for August 27. ' His honor stated from the bench that his object in setting it for.trial on that date was because he would not have time to try it later in the fall. Katitzman’s driveling utterances in regard to the matter bear about the same relation to the date of trial that a brick of limberger cheese does to the moon. Our School "Baform.” “Confidently expect every man to do right, and with all of your expectations expect to be disappointed,” is an old saying that was never more pertinent than at this time, when contemplating the action of the school board last Saturday. During the last year the condition of our school was simply deplorable; incompetency stalked brazenly through every department and ignorance was at a premium. Dissatisfied and disgusted with the downward tendencies of our educational interests our citizens turned out en masse at the late school election, determined if possible to work a change for the better. But did they do it? But partially. ' The result of the election of teachers shows conclusively that paternalism, favoritism and jobbery has not lost its place in the meeting when the board is in sessiou. Three teachere were re-employed who have never even graduated from the school, in fact hardly graduated from the departments in which they are to serve as instructors. There is no argu ment that may be advanced in justifi cation of this wrong. Reason, common sense and every thing else is against such pernicious methods. Tub Frontier has nothing personal against any of the teachers employed and in criticizing the action of the board does it merely for the benefit of the schools, and in this, we are supported by the best element in the city—those who believe the education of their children is an issue paramount to phi lanthropy and jobbery. > . One good thing, however, was done: that man Morrow, the nondescript, was retired from the professorship. We may be thankful, perhaps, for that. For principal the borrd selected Professor McGuire, of Adams county, Mr. McGuire is very prepossessing in appearance and comes well recom mended and there can be no possible doubt that at the worst he will be a big improvement over the retiring principal. The other teachers are all from O’Neill and are as follows: Miss Carlon. Miss Lowrie. Mrs. George Clark. Miss Murphy. Miss McMauus. Miss Gillespie. Mrs. Taylor. Choice 80 Acre* for Sale.. I hereby offer for sale the south half of the northwest quarter of section 5, in township 29, north of range }1, west of the Cth F. M., 4 miles from O’Neill. The above described farm is practi cally all tillable and a very desirable eighty. It is admitted to, be 'Jtrorth by the best judges from $18 to $22 an acre, and was at one time sold for $2,500. The undersigned hereby offers this property for $950 and will take $500 cash and a mortgage back on the property at 6 per cent, for five years.' Address, John E. Bubton, 4(p8 Milwaukee St., Milwaukee, Wis, We are pleased to be abbs to announce that the publisher of the Inter Ocean has made a special offer on the weekly edition of that paper during the present political campaign. He will send the Weekly Inter Ocean for six months to any subscriber on receipt of 30 cents. This is a very low price for one of the best and ablest republican papers in the country. Subscriptions will be received at this pi ice from June 1 to August 1. After that the regular prices will Ce restored. Tub Fkoktikr for one year and the Inter Ocean for six month*, $1.50. A REIGNJF TEfiROU Evil Doers Along the River Trem bling in Their Boots. RALPH HILL AND BON HISSING Vigllanos Committee Helds High Carnival Along the Hlitorio Hlobrsrn. Mrs. Ralph Hill, who resides on Turkey creek, near (he Niobrara river, arrived in the city Sunday evening in a state of some excitement and told a tale that carried our citizens away to pioneer days when law and order were scarcer than horse theives and cattle rustlers ornamenting available trees and tele graph poles. , She said that last Friday afternoon Constable Bigler and Jim Greig came to their house with warrants for the arrest of old qian Hill, his son Charlie, the hired mail and Fuller upon the charge of cattle stealing. Fuller 'was not to be found, but .the other three were duly arrested and taken away on the road to Esquire Putnam’s. That when the party arrived at a point opposite Bur bank’s grove they were held up bv a company of men, booted and spurred like Mexican brigands, who took the prisoners from the officers and that was the last heard from them, except she had beard it rumored that the hired man had been seeq leaving the country by order of the committee, and that when last seen he was not standing upon the order of going but was going as fast as convenient under a forced march. Mrs. Hill was not os nervous as most women would be under similar circum stances and bitterly bewailed the fact that her husband and son had not been given a chance to fight for their lives. That they were dead she did not appear to question. Sheriff Hamilton and County At torney Murphy left early Monday morn ing for the scene of the reported lynch ing and till they returned Tuesday night the air was full of flying rumors of great magnitude, as is generally the case. Mr. Murphy informed a Frontier reporter that the facts as he found them were about as stated by Mrs. Hill. While traveling over the road said to have been taken by the vigilante Mr. Murphy found two promissory notes signed by Ralph Hill in favor of the First National bank of this city, one for $20 and the other for $80. Both had been paid, and finding them at that place was pretty good evidence that the committee hed taken the men to the river. Numerous tracks on the river bank, tend to confirm this opinion, although whether the men were drowned, hung and buried is still a mystery. They have disappeared as completely as though one of the yawn ing canyons of the Niobrara had swal lowed them. Mr. Murphy does not doubt that the men are dead. The sheriff and county attorney ar rived at the river Monday in time to attend a mass meeting of the stockmen who live along the river. There were about seventy-five present and Peter Greeley1? an old and respected citizen of the county, was president of the meet ing. No mention was made of the affair of the Friday before, but resolu tions were adopted ordering Fuller and young Hunt to leave the county in stanter and advising Charlie Keeler to mend his ways under penelty of being dealt with according to law. The law mentioned, under the surrounding cir cumstances, has peculiar significance. The history of the Niobrara river is full of occurrences of this kind, but since the great cleaning up made by the vigilants of 10 or 13 years ago every thing has been pretty quiet. An organ ized gang of petty thieves has, however, been making it unpleasant for honest people in that neighborhood with the above result. While this paper is earn estly opposed to taking human life for trivial offenses it realizes that the gang must be cleaned out and hopes the vigilants will be successful in they efforts. Mob law is seldom justifiable, but in this case it may be so. The past lyis demonstrated that these fellows cannot be convicted in court as they are always able to prove an alibi by schew ing pals. Since the ’ above was put in type we are in receipt of a copy of the reso .lutions mentioned in the foregoing. They read as follows: Sakatooa, Neb., July 3, 1894. • We, the undersigned, knowning be yond a doubt that you; presence is a detriment and is dangerous to the community, as a favor to us and a ben efit to yourselves, would request you to leave Holt and Iioyd counties. This request is directed to HENRY HUNT and J. H. FULLER. You will please go immediately or you will be dealt with according to law. We. the undersigned of Holt and adjdining counties, hereby notify you, CUAR.LES KEELER, r-' to quit associating, abbetting and en couraging with the Hills and known thieves, under penalty ot being expelled from the community. i l'eter Ureeley W. A. McCarthy J. Kinnaley John Moler Emery Waldron David Kite E. L. Coburn Ralph Coburn 8. P. Miller Dan Cameron W. P. McMath Denj McKathnie Freman Waldron John Hunt John Rhode Archie Anderson Frank Jensen David Lewis • M. Langon I. W. Bhelden Thos. Coleman Albert Waldron W. F. Rich Jasper Waldron II. Hartland John Henning Charles Bigler Ray Coburn C. Christensen M. Christensen A. MtCathnie John Gordon O. M. Porter J. W. Hunt J. M. Putman Loula Stenvner A. Hynes L. Flnnnigan Stephen Donlln liana Storjohan •Jaa. Grets W. B. Weston Tom Donlln K. L. Leslie Bernard Hynea P. A. Kinney J. B. Borry R. Jepperaon John Alfa, Jr R. Wilkinson Thoa. MoMath Hugh O’Neill Sherry Leslie Otto Nilson J. H. Hopkins B. F. Stockwoll George Kirkland lira X. Bandera. Passed over to the Grent Beyond, on Sunday afternoon, July 1, 1894, Ezra E. Sanders, aged 80 years, 11 months and 26 days. Sixteen years ago, on a bright May morning, there appeared in my printing office in Monroe, Wisconsin, a youth just turned fifteen, clean of face and keen of eye, and from appearances surely ‘‘to fortune and fame unknown." The boy stated that he had walked in from his father’s farm, some twenty miles, in order to answer an advertise ment of “boy wanted to learn the print ers’ trade. ” Attracted by his appearance of honesty and willingness to submit to all my propositions, I took him in on probation, and for years Ezra Sanders remained in my employ, filling positions of responsibility and trust well and faithfully. As one of the family we all became greatly attached to him, and we felt that bis interests were ours. Short ly after I removed to Nebraska Ezra came on and askumed his old position in the printing office, and as the material in the old Wisconsin shop had been brought along he filled in nicely, in O'Neill and Holt county be made many friends, and when he essayed to en gage in business for himself as publisher of the Dustin Dispatch, he secured sub stantial encouragement, and made a success of the venture, his conscientious regard for the rights of others and appreciating his own responsibilities as an editor and governing himBelf accord ingly, won him tho esteem and confi dence of the community. Ezra was married to Lola Addison on February 21, 1686, and in his home life and news paper work she proved a helpmeet in deed, and faithfully aided him in every way. When bis health commenced failing him about seven years ago Lola was equal to the emergency, and as sumed cheerfully responsibilities that would have disharlened most women. They removed to California for a change of climate, then back to O’Neill, (for a time publishing the Item) Ezra’s health all the time failing, and some four years ago as a last resort going to Colorado. Here it seemed there was a marked im provement, but that dread disease, consumption, was all the time at work, and a few months ago Ezra returned to his mother’s home here, and gradually the attacks of the grim monster became more marked. Attended by his faithful wife and devoted mother his last days were made as comfortable as possible, and when the final summons came it found him prepared and willing, his perfect faith