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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1894)
ILISHCD BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO, LUME XV. O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 9, 1894. NUMBER 5. 1 SANS WHISKERS Interest Told Ae They Are Told to Ue. LND HOW IT HAPPENED Ippeningt Portrayed For General Edification and Amusement. Jobb, of Star, was In the city rice's cream baking powder forty ke standard. ’rice’s cream baking powder the Irfect made. [Mary McGee, of Randolph, is in 1 visiting friends. [delegates to the congressional lion returned Sunday. John McHugh has been visiting lu Iowa the past week. jce Hersliiser is enjoying a visit r brother, Mr. Axelson. 'rice's cream baking powder a* ipe cream of tarter powder. lurley returned Saturday inorn n a month’s work at Crawford. — 's j5ills cure all liver ills, bilious undice, indigestion, sick kead ipson & Son have leased their ant to Mrs. Lowe, who now has ion. J. E. Shore and two, little boys it week for their borne in Mt , Wash. ral Pfunder returned last Sunday Valentine where be has been the past year. flour, corn, bran and all kinds of i to' the O'Neill Flour & Feed Co., tack Manager. 88-tf ) Haley and George Elliott were 'from Valentine Monday attending rigation meeting. pertinent communication from L. py is crowded out this week but bpear in our next. i best mutual insurance policy ! attacks of sickness is to be found Ing Hood’s Sarsuparilla. |oiph Times: Ralph Evans and ster, of O’Neill, were in the city Jours between trains Monday. Stglin will deliver kerosene and at your residence or place of His wagon makes the rounds pay. ■ 47-tf fts of O’Neill when on the street ble to Encounter worse things than 3reen Tree club: the Jew for ce. | line of fine toilet soaps was never complete, fine soaps at all prices cents to 25 per cake. Call and Inethem. 4-1 O’Nrilt, Grocery Co. ke Courant: Miss A. Mullen and [H. McCarthy, of O’Neill, were the of Miss Tillie Mullen, of this I last Tuesday. Episcopalians will hold services jSahbath school hereafter in the I room over Morris’ drug store, to be rn as the Ladies' Guild Rooms. c Mathews left yesterday morning prospecting tour through Missouri Arkansas. If be finds another i’s Country” it .is his intention to e. . estnut bells are considered out ot everywhere but in O’Neill, and here by all but Outzman. He bas that be calls the Beacon Light that B*every Friday. ik Frontier acknowledges receipt complimentary ticket to the eleventh ml fair of the Knox County Agri lral Association, to be held on ember 4, 5, 6, 1894. r. Chas. Wilcox and-daughter Louise yesterday morning for Oregon, re Howard Wilcox is lying very low ' typhoid fever. The Frontier bs for a speedy recovery. lie F. E. and M. V railroad will sell nd trip tickets O’Neill to Hot ings. H. D., for #10.65 every Friday II August 81. Good to return fifteen s from date of sale. I J. W. Dobbs, Agt. |ie junior pencil pusher of this rnal returned last Thursday from a through Iowa and South Dakota, ssys that with the exception of sruaU u he saw no crops better than are to <>und in Holt.« hna Oil,, buttermilk and glycerine shined, make the finest toilet soap introduced. Makes the skin soft as 'nt, just the thing for oily skin. Try >x only 25 cents. 14-2 O’Neill Grocery Co. Mies Fannie Mathews, of Butte, ar-, rived in the city Tuesday night from Sioux City, via the Short Line, where she had been visiting relatives. Ewing Democrat: George Brlon went down to Oakdale Wednesday to consult Dr. Minton as to the probable result of the hit ho received in the eye on last Saturday at O'Neill. Mr. Cantrall, district Sunday school missionary, re-organized the Presbyter ian Sunday school at this place last Sunday. School next Sunday at 1 o'clock. Sundays thereafter at 11:45. Remember when you want a sack or a ton of flour that we are selling the "Daisy” and G. A. R., flour at prices that you'ean afford to pay, and as to quality there are none to equal. See us. 4-2 O’Neill Ghocbuy Co . Butte Gazette: His bonot, Judge Skuse, has adjourned court, pardoned all criminals in his district and is hilar ious w<th joy, all over the arrival of a son and heir, at his home, Wednesday morning. And the joke of it is the kid is bald-headed like his dad. Boyd County Register: The Grady & Mathews'show billed for last Saturday night failed to materialize. The gentle men were on hand with their outfit, but “Doc” Mathews was so disgusted with the proceedings of the convention that be declared the engagement of. The Review of Reviews for August contnins a timely article by Prof. Hetary C. Adams on “Tbe Railway Situation.” The writer, from his connection with the Interstate Commerce Commission, is well qualified to write on this-subject with discrimination and authority. Friday and Saturday of this week will be busy ones at J. P. Mann’s store as all summer goods will be sold at 35 per cent discount. Don’t miss this sale if you want anything in tbe line of cotton dress goods, trimmings, laces, embroid eries, parasols, fans or straw hats. Do not fail to visit J. P. Mann’s store Friday and Saturday, August 10 and 11, as on those dates he intends giving his customers the benefit of a 35 per cent, discount on anything desired from his line of summer goods. Anyone taking advantage of this ^sale will be sure to save money. 4-2 The Iowa delegation to the independ ent county convention will come in structed for Bob Gallagher for repre sentative, Mr. Gallagher is a repre sentative citizen, barring his political idiosyncrasies, and we would rather support him for office than some other people we know. Beacon Light: The monkey and parot of The Frontibh are away this week and Clarence Selali is doing the local pencil act. This accounts for the decency of the news. Yes, indeed! Very strange, when we consider that the paper was edited be fore the “monkey and parot" left the city. _ There will be a question ? sociable held at Dr. Trueblood's Friday evening August 10. Bach guest as they come please present themselves at the front door that they may receive their ques tions. Much fun is expected. Refresh ments will be served at nine. Proceeds to be used to help pay tbe pastor’s salary. _ The Missses Maggie and Tess Bairing ton, Mary McGinnis, Mrs. Ray and Constance and Georgie Harrington, and Jim Harrington, Pat Mullen and frill Lowrie returned last Thursday night from a week’s camping at Paddock. They report an exceedingly pleasant time, and it would be strange indeed if the report is not correct. Spencer Advocate: Tlie stereoptican exhibition of Grady <& Mathews in town on Friday night was well worth seeing and quite a number of our citizens availed themselves of the opportunity. Views of California scenery and that of the Elkhorn Valley were exceptionally fine. The local bits were good and created no little merriment- especially when accompanied tjy the characteristic remarks of Doc Mathews. We received a letter the past week from a man in an adjacent county ask ing for a little information in regard to “earigation.” What could we say? No matter what we might have mud, what, we did write him was in effect that we knew very little about it That we had never practiced it, and probably never would, as the necessary water supply and energy required for main ditch and laterals would tax our means and time beyond endurance. We certainly have an elegant field to work on, hut that don't cut any figure these hot days, and anyway, we aro opposed to water in such close proximity to the head, or pimple on the shoulders, or whatever one is pleased to call it. We are strictly opposed to “earigation W. S. Griffith and wife were in the city last Saturday on their way to Swan Lake, for a few day's visit with fnenda. Mr. Griffith made this office a pleasant call and exchanged a few ideas on the political situation. He coincides with Thk Frontier in the expectation that Ewing and Atkinson will .stick a knife in his heart about election time, but says he has no intention ojt withdrawing from the race. In this determination we think he is right. It will afford a splendid opportunity to put some people on record. Spencer Advocate: Spencer waa enlivened on Monday afternoon by the presence of a number ot O’Neill gentle men and ladies who for some time had been rusticating on the banks of Pad dock or some stream near by, if there is one. The party consisted of J. P. Mann, Jim Harrington, Tess Harringtou, his sister, and P. D. Mullen and wife. These parties have the veritable look that one has when the seas have been sailed over. They enjoyed camping out, had a good time and go home much improved in health. A prairie fire south of town Tuesday, which Is supposed to have been started by some parties front this city who were out hunting, destroyed a large amount of hay. The following parties lost from i 50 to 150 tons: James Sullivan, James Shea, Henry *Hoxie, Tim Hanley and Daniel Cronin. The fire also destroyed a fine grove on Mr. Cronin’s tree claim. A large amount of the hay had not been cut but was so dry that the fire burned rapidly. The loss is about $2,500. This matter should be investigated and the party or parties who were the cause of the fire should be prosecuted. York Times: Up in Holt county the supervisors have passed ringing reso lutions endorsing the mob violence, arson, insurrection and murder in and around Chicago, and denouncing govern, ment for doing anything to check the vicious and awful destruction of life and .property. If Coxeyism and such crimes as these are to beetle the creed of the populist party it is even'Uidangerous and vicious than anyone had though;. The Times refuses to believe that the intelligent farmers of this county, who have embraced the populist taith will sanction for a moment destruction of life and property and defiance of law and order. When the time comes, if it ever does, that the government cannot protect people and property, anarchy will reign and peaceable citizens will be obliged to band themselves together as of old for mutual protection against murderers and robbers. Perhaps no man but the yroot reader is aware of the possibilities that often lie in the mere changing of a letter in a word. It has been said that from the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step— the proof reader knows that it is noth ing more than a typographical error. We have all read of the printer that in speaking o( a lady’s beautiful “plants" inadvertently left out the “1" and made it “pants,” but a case came under the personal observation of this department not long ago that was even better, although in a more solemn strain. It was in an obituary notice and the editor had written: “The remains were fol lowed to their last resting place by a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends,’’ but the compositor got in his work and made it say “roasting place.” This reminds us of another in stance: Not many weeks ago we wrote a little item saying that Mr. and Mrs. so and so were the parents of a female “gender," while the intelligent printer perverted it into “gander.” And so it goes. Half of the amusing incidents of newspaper life never see the light of day. Report was current upon our streets Monday of an attempt to assassinate Sheriff Hamilton while be was returning from Boyd county with a prisoner by name of duller—well known in this county. A Frontier reporter at once started out to run the rumor down and succeeded by getting an interview with the sheriff himself. Mr. Hamilton said that pursuant to warrant issued on com plaint filed by Jim Pinkerman he went over to Boyd county in company with Pinkerman and found Fuller near Butte, to which place he was taken. Arriving there he was told that the prosecution and defendant had agreed to settle the difficulty—which bad arisen over a cattle deal—and accordingly turned the prisoner loose. He did not settle how ever, as he took the shortest road out of town. A number of people in Butte and vicinity when Fuller was arrested told the Sheriff that he could not take his prisoner across the Niobrara as they were afraid of the vigilance committee. Had it not been ' for the promise of settlement, however, It is quite likely that (the prisoner would have come acro^ the line Holt county sheriffs as a Ttwe are not of the kind that will take a biff. ENTHUSIASTIC HBBTIN6 North Nebraska, Irrigationists Meat in O'Neill. DEFINITE ACTION WAS TAKEN Bspressntatlves Were Present From leek, Brown, Cherry end Boyd Counties. In the absence of Judge M. P. Klnkaid, president of the association, the meet ing was called to order at 10 a. m. last Monday by T. V. Golden, secretary. The object of the meeting was stated, which in effect was that the convention bad been called for the purpose of bear ing the proposition of Mr. Kerr, of New .York, which was to be made to the Nio brara River Irrigation and Power Com pany, concerning the construction of the canal. Upon motion Captain Frank Whlta more, of Long Pine, was made chair man of the meeting and T. V. Golden, secretary. Xlie Niobrara River Irrigation and Power Company, through it* secretary, then made a report to tbu convention, Mating what had been done by It toward securing right of way and necessary construction to obtain and control the water right on the Niobrara and Snake rivers and the reservoir sites. After this report was made and under stood by the meeting, convention ad journed until afternoon, when Mr. Kerr’s proposition was submitted. AFTERNOON SESSION. At 3 o’clock p. m. the meeting recon vened and was addressed by Messrs. B. S. Gillespie, Esquire Smith of Brown, Tbos. Carlon and others. Mr. Kerr was introduced and his prop osition stated to the meeting. The prop osition, which appears below iu full, was accepted unanimously by those present. A committae MMisting of T. V. Gol den, Ben IHwrtMmd, H, R. He®ry, John Crawford mad Id. Qrahaa was ap pointed for tko porpoM of Mtoodinf to the' details looking op to the voting of Ui« l3«*d^>f|(or vkMi the meeting ndjotmod. -- • The contention wnnimry enthoelastle and was one of the most succeestiil that has ever been held here. In the neigh borhood of a hundred delegates were present from western countlps. MR. JCgRR ■ PROPOSITION. O’Neill: Neb, Augusts, 1804. T. V. Golden, Esq., Secretary Niobrara River Irrigation and Power Company: Dear Sir—After having gone carefully over the entire line of the proposed canal and reservoir sifb of your com pany, and having examined carefully into the enterprise, I am favorably im pressed therewith. There is an abund ance of good land in Holt, Rock and Brown counties, which can readily be watered by storing water in.the natural reservoir found in Cherry county. The capacity of the reservoir site is not definitely known, but is amply sufficient to water fully 500,000 acres. The water shed is sufficiently extensive to readily supply amply the water required, by the melting of the snows and the spring floods. The waters of the Niobrara and the Snake rivers can be turned into this reservoir and will not only counter balance any evaporation therefrom, but will supply a substantial volume of water from which to draw in order to water land under the canal. The construction of the reservoir and of the canal requisite to put the waters conserved in the reservoir upon the lands can readily be accomplished, pro I vided the people in the counties named | and along the line of the proposed canal will furnish the necessary aid to justify outside capital in taking up the enter prise and expending the millions of dol lars that will be required to construct the reservoir, the canals and flumes re quired to take water out of the Niobrara and Snake rivers, and lequisite to put the water on the land. We will construct Ibe reservoir and enough canal and laterals to supply water to at least 100,000 acres of land in the counties of Holt. Rock and Brown, provided the people of those counties will vote bonds to the amount of 9250, 000 to aid in the preliminary work and the work of construction of the reser voir, canal and laterals, and enter into contracts to make permanent water rights for at least 100,000 acres ot lands uqder the canal and capable of being readily watered therefrom, giving for such permanent water rights ten dollars ($10) per acre, payable in ten or more years with 7 per cent, interest, payable .semi-annually, and pay an annual rental ,nf one dollar a.id twenty-five cents ($1.25) an acre for each acre of land watered; conditioned, however, that the farmers are not to be required to com mence taking water until such time as they shall need it for their crops, and they are to be the sole judges as to when they shall need it To secure the payment of the money for the permanent water right upon any given piece of land, a mortgage will be given running ten years or more, and hearing 7 per cent., as above stated. In those cases where the land is already mortgaged, a second mortgage will be taken, with conditions requiring the mortgageor to pay all taxes and assess ments. and all interests and insurance annually from the crops raised on the land, or otherwise, and in. addition thereto to pay to a designated depository such sum on the principal of the first mortgage as will llqmiate or pay off auoh first mortgage before the maturing of the mortgage given to secure the money agreed to be paid for the perms* nent water right. In those oases where there Is already a mortgage upon the land to be watered, a condition of the sale of a permanent water right will be that the title of such water right shall not pass and the purchaser shall not be entitled to his water deed, until he shall have fully complied with the terms and con ditions of his mortgage given therefor in respect to the payment of the taxes and assessments, Interest and Insurance, and the payment of the stipulated sum on the principal; and on failure to com* ply with any of these conditions the purchaser shall forfeit bis right, and the same shall revert to the company at its option. This proposition does not involve the expenditure of any money by the people at the present time or until ten years from this time, except the payment of the taxes upon the bonds and the Inter est upon the permanent water rights. On the other hand the farmers and the people of the counties through which the canals nnd laterals are constructed will derive a present benefit If they do the construction work and receive the pay therefor. Some Idea of this benefit may be gained from .the following com putation based upon amount of canal, cost of construction, proportionate amount of water rights to be taken and the amount of bonds to be voted, furnished to me by the representative of the company. This compntation gives the following results: ts w 2.1 8 «• I * Counties to be watered. | Proportionate amount of land JP o> _to be watered._ Canal. g I ft I 81 L‘ttcrttl11 Canal. Laterals. is I Total ooetof oonstruotlon In county Si 8 Hi Bonds to be voted In county. Amount of water right to be taken btoounty. The fact that ao money ie to be paM, aaidafrom the iatereet and aannai real* jala when water rights are taken, mast not be teat sight of. This will, on the basis of computation famished, give to the counties in case appfoxinotabr the following sums: r Brown county $700,000, or $1,100 for c&cii voter. Rock county $018,000, or $1,400 for each voter. Holt county $1,066,000, or $506 for each voter. If this proposition is accepted, the bonds voted and tbe contracts for the permanent water rights taken, the pre liminary work on tbe enterprise will be begun at once, and the excavation on the canal and laterals commenced as soon as the lines can be ran and the stakes set. If prompt action is taken so as to enable tbe work to be begun within six weeks from this time, the reservoir can be linished and the canal and laterals constructed in time to furnish water for 100,000 acres for next year’s crops. The bonds to be voted by the various counties are to be converted into cash and placed in the bands of an agreed depository, to be paid out only on proper certificate, to pay the running expenses of tbe oompany, tbe cost of survey and the cost of construction of the reservoir and the excavation of the canal and laterals, and the building of necessary flumes. Respectfully submitted, Jambs M. Kerb. AN EXPLANATION. O’Neill. Neb , Aug- 7, 1884. T V. Golden, E&q., Secretary Niobrara River Irrigation and Power Company: Dear Sir—I desire to explain tbe prop osition submitted to you yesterday by saying in regard to tbe last paragraph thereof the following, to-wit: Tbe bonds to be vottd by tbe various counties are to be placed in some re sponsible bank, trust company or other financial insti'ution mutually satisfac tory to tbe parties, and the proceeds thereof at par to be paid out as follows, to-wit: One-third of tbe amount of the bonds voted by each county to be paid out for preliminary and running ex penses of tbe company, if so much is re quired therefore, no money to be paid out by such depository except on tbe order of tbe board of trustees of the companv upon duly audited bills, ac companied in each instance by the proper voucher or vouchers; and the other two-thirds, or balance, whatever it may be, to be paid upon the comple tion of sufficient of the main canal and laterals to put water upon 100,000 acres of land under the cAnal Respectfully submitted, James M. Kerb. Letter list. Following Is tbe list of letters remaining In the postoffleeat O'Neill, Neb., unclaimed, foi the week ending August 8. ISM: Mrs. fioorge Haynes Retta Hulflsh Joseph Heaton M O Olure W A Kiieoo Mrs Anna Timlin Edwin Wroth In calling for the above please say "adver tised." If not called for in two weeks they will be sent to the dead letter offloe. J. H. BxooeP. M. Wonder what the street commissioner’s idea is in building culverts and digging ditches. Does he imagine it will evei rain again? It May Una Somuihlag. ’ Lut Friday afternoon a apaolal ar- ' rived In ONelil over the Short Line ' having on board prominent men from Sioux City and Colorado, among whom < were: Ex-Governor Evana, of Colorado; Rob* ert W. Bonynge, attorney, of Denver; Receiver Hills, Claim Agent Seaman, Paaecnger Agent MoNider, Roadmaater Sboeley, Superintendent Ackley, Sur* voyor Wakeflela, Receiver Beale, of the ■ Sioux City and Northern and Ed A. Uanklnson and A. W. Gilbert, promin ent Sioux City men, , ' -I Thla prominent party of railroad and bunneaa men came over the line for the purpose of viewing the country to the end of extending the Short Line to Julesburg, Col., there to connect with I. the Denver and Gulf line, of which Governor Evans was the promoter, The Sioux City Journal devoted con* siderable space to this subject when the gentlemen first arrived In Sioux City, \ among other things saying: me ex-governor, wuo la getting wen nlong in years, but who la atlll a vigor* oua thinker and quick of perception, said to a reporter that the route of the new line baa not been fully determined upon, but the company would like to come direct to Sioux City and tbua have an independent dlreot route to the gulf. He alao eald that if the people of Sioux City will give him 1 per cent, of the benefit the line will be to them he will build it right away. lie further aald: "We have found In Sioux City an able, organised and healthy co operation, and from here to Superior and Duluth, to Mlnneapolla and St Paul, to Mlllwaukee by way of Prairie du Ohlen and Madison, and to Chicago by way. of Fort Dodge and Dubuque, we find direct connections by railroads already built, under control of separate companlea having no connec tion of their own with the Rocky moun tains to prevent their oo-operatlon with us. From O’Neill to Julesburg we have but a little over 200 miles of road to build, and the construction will be easy and cheap, sa it runa through a rich farm ing country. Thto, with lta connections with the wbole^Drtbweat, as you say, but northeast as we say In Denver, and its direct connections by the Gulf line with tbewhole Rocky mountain country from the arid fields of Wyoming via Cheyenne. Greeley, Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Trinidad, will give direct routea between them. It will alao give a route to the Gulf of Mexico and thence by steamship- to Atlantic jnkHu Thle win give our line a paying business from'tfcf moment of Me., open ing, and it onglrt-JM take both lamp months . and a medaifulh-—*—> .. fm?: capital to aooompllab it." n ^ nothing ne£H» ;3 am who* not Incflneh to talk and Further than this learned of them while here. They WnrtK-si^ not Inclined to talk and leautneC : - twenty-five minutes in the aUf. . The Convention. The congressional convention for the Sixth district, which was held at Broken Bow last Thursday, was largely attended and was perhaps the most spirited con ygption ever held In the state. There were four cannidates before the conven tion, Matt Daugherty, of Keith county; M. P. Kinkaid, of Holt; Henry St. Uavner.of Cheyenne; F. M. Dorrington, of Box Butte. I It was the supposition that Kinkaid* would he nominated on the fifth or sixth ballot, but the other candidates combined against him and he was de- ; feated. j The convention was called to order at • * 8 p. u. and about 8:80 the balloting was commenced. By referring to the ballots which are given below it will be noticed that there was not much of a change until the thirty-second ballot, when Dawes and Box Butte counties, who had been voting for Dorrington, changed to Daugherty. Had this strength gone to Kinkaid he would haye been nominated; but Daugherty still lacked thirteen votes and it was, not until the thirty-sixth ballot, when St. Rgyner turned his strength over to Daugherty, that he was nominated, 2 o'clock Friday, morn ing. Kinkaid's forces stayed together and would have remained as solid as a stone wail had they balloted a week. After tbe nomination Mr. Daugherty was called up and made an eloquent speech, which brought forth loud ap plauses from the convention. Henry - St. Rayner and Judge Kinkaid followed with neat and appropriate addresses, pledging their support to the nominee. Following is tbe vote by ballot; - BALLOT. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six... Seven.. Eight.. Nine.. Ten. Eleven. Twelve. Thirteen. . Fourteen. Fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen. Eighteen. Nineteen. Twenty. Twenty-one..... Twenty-two.... Twenty-three.. Twenty-four... Twenty-five... Twenty-six. Twenty-eeven . Twenty-eight.. Twenty-nine .. Thirty. Thirty-one. Thirty-two .... Thirty-three... Thirty-four.... Thirty-five. Thirty-six. 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