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BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO.
E XV.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 20, 1894.
NUMBER 11;
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SUBSCRIPTION. SI.SO PBR ANNUM.
CLYDE KING AND D. H. CRONIN. EDITORS AND MANAOERB.
IS WHISKERS
Told As They Are
to Us.
tOW IT HAPPENED
Portrayed Per General
and Amusement.
[of Butte, bad business
►y
Inry DeYarman are in
ecling.
knd
Jake Hershiser spent
andolph.
er, of Chadron, was an
fueeday.
[has returned from heri
tbe east.
fcrshausser, of Ewing,
[esterday. . (
son, of Sioux City, was
Bay on business.
If the Merchant’s hotel,
the city last week.
Odd Fellow’s watch
be of Captain Marlow.
ros., of Atkinson, were
irday on legal business.
Ion, of Neligh, played
boys in O’Neill Tuesday I
i who has been for several
sick list, is improving
I again on earth, having
Recovered from his re
1, bran and all kinds of
leill Flour & Feed Co.,
ter. 88-tf
>nce, representing the
d Trust Co., of Sioux
(ess in O’Neill Saturday.
and
ill deliver kerosene
bur residence or place of
wagon makes the rounds
47-tf
cure all liver ills, bilious
indigestion, sick head
and E. L. Brownlee, of
n the city Tuesday and
moments at this office.
er, of Spencer, Sundayed
ily in O'Neill and went
,d Monday morning on
By Mrs. E. Williams, a
leral housework. Good
laid to a competent girl,
id apply.
B. W. C. washing com
McManus’. It excells all
dry and toilet use. Will
st delicate color without
10-3
■Farm land in exchange
uilding lots in best suburb j
Address Owner, 44 Elaine I
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obneon are the best col
layers traveling. Don’t
i of tbe season Tuesday
pera house.
ishville Students, the best
et traveling. Wallie Smith,
it colored soprano, is with
pern next Tuesday night,
i Nashville Students at the
text Tuesday night. With
e oldest, largest and best
traveling. Really a fifty
It 25 and 85 cents.. Don’t
Itudents band parade at 3
lead ay. Good band, good
t at the opera house. Now
i been wanting something
go. Price reduced to 25
[Allen and W. E Reed, of
re in the city Saturday to
[of Sturdevant Bros. & Co.
Is et. al. A portion of the
Its heard and the case con
November 8.
kocate: Mr. King, the tal
feditor of the O’Neill Fron
Neligh the first of the week
pnce in tbe Barrett Scott
bdnesday favored the Advo
lleasan; social call.
in went up to Atkinson
ing in answer to a telegram
s services. A young man
Varner, residing near that
lidentally shot himself tbe
bile out hunting pigeons,
ok effect under the right
id upward into the shoul
sible that amputation of
trove necessary.
Beautiful souvenirs and a pleasant
time at Mann’s opening next Thursday.
Everybody invited to attend.
The ball given by the Bartley Guards
Wednesday evening was a success, both
socially and financially, and the supper
furnished by the ladies was immense.
The Nashville Students’ entertain
ment at the opera house next Tuesday
night promises to be entertaining. This
company has been in O’Neill before and
have always giyen good satisfaction.
General Miles, Senator Sherman and
Dan Lamont passed through O’Neill
last week on their way heme from the
wilds of the west. They had been hunt
ing in the hills and Inspecting forts to
break the monotony.
One of Joe McCaffery’s boys was in
jured last Saturday by falling in front
of a mowing machine which he was
operating. He was brought to town by
Harry Mathews and treated by Dr.
Gilligan. The wound was not danger
ous. _
Stuart Ledger: Among the bright
and promising young newspaper.men of
Nebraska, Cly^e King of the O’Neill
Frontier is not the least. The facts
are, that boy is getting to the front as a
writer with rapid strides. Now we do
not want to flatter him, but if be keeps
a level head and keeps pecking away,
there is a bright future in store for him.
Mrs. Will Gray, while herding sheep
Tuesday, discovered a wolf perambulat
ing about the prairie, and gave chase
with her pony, gray hound and shep
herd dogs. The race was an exciting
one, the wolf being captured after a two
mile chase. Mrs. Gray, in true western
style, dispatched tbe brute with a picket
pin, and Amazon-like, threw him across
her saddle and bore him home, a trophy
of her prowess.
Neligh Advocate: Jas. H. Riggs,
O’Neill’s postmaster, and former editor
and proprietor of the O’Neill Frontier,
has purchased the Randolph Times, and
will take personal charge ot the plant as
soon as Grover relieves him of his job.
Mr. Riggs is one of the best newspaper
men in the state, and the Advocate con
gratulates him upon his good fortune in
securing the best patronized weekly
paper in north Nebraska.
The ball games at Neligh last Friday
and Saturday between O’Neill and
Neligh were the warmest games our boys
played this year. On Friday six in
nings were played, tbe score standing
Neligh 12; O’Neill 3. A nine inning
game was played on Friday resulting in
a score of 13 to 12 in favor of O'Neill.
The Neligh boys will probably come up
and play a return game during the races
next month.
On Thursday, Sept. 27, we will baye
our fall opening, when we can show our
customers a full and complete new line
of dress goods, cloaks, trimmings and
winter goods. Our stock this season
has been carefully bought with a view
of being able to give our customers better
bargains then ever before. We hope to
merit your patronage this season and
will be pleased to see you at our
opening. Yours respectfully,
10 2 J. P. Mann.
A petition with the following heading
is in circulation in the city this week,
and is being generally signed:
To the Postmaster General- of the
United States of America—We, the un
dersigned, patrons of the postoffice of
O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, respect
fully petition that mail route No. 57,300,
running from Dorsey to Minneola, be
extended to O’Neill. The mail to leaye
Dorsey on Monday, Wednesday and
Friday of each week, and return from
O'Neill Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day of each week.
The postofflce department should give
this matter prompt attention. The way
the matter now stands it takes from two
to three days to get mail a distance of 20
miles in iloit county. Changing the
route in the first place was ill-advised,
and we do not believe the postal author
ities had a correct understanding of the
case. _
The diidoo of The Frontieb went
down to Neiigh Tuesday to encourage
old Barrett by shaking hands with him
and throwing that cold, cramy, sickly
smile that occasionally radiates his,
Aiaky countenance.—Beacon Light.
The hand of the "diidoo’’ is his own,
nnd never shall in friendly grasp such
as the band of Gutzman clasp. We
would go farther than to Neiigh to shake
old Scotty’s hand and whisper words of
encouragement in his darkest hour,
realizing that away down in the bottom
of his big, generous, honest heart that
he is innocent of any intention to wrong
his tellowman. He is the victim of a
sensitive nature that could not with
stand the appeals of the distressed, and
wherever we meet him, though it. be in
the confines of the penetentiary, we
will greet him with the same warm
friendship that we did before his name
[ was blackened by the malice of his
| enemies, and a happy home made de«o
| late by persecution almost unequalled.
The testimony of Finch, at the Scott
trial, which was so generously aired in
the Beacon Light and Sun last week,
was successfully contradicted by reli
able witnesses. Finch swore positively
that he saw Barrett Scott In Atkinson
on a certain day in *93. That Scott’s
name appeared on the register immedi
ately under his; that he overheard Scott
talking with some one-eyed man after
they had retired and that Scott said that
he had been advised by some of his
friends to take the money and leave the
country; that he heard their names,
among them an attorney of O’Neill, but
he could not remember who they were
at the time he was testifying. Now
that was, In substance, Finch's testi
mony and it was reported correctly In
neither paper. Their malicious, lying
propensities would not allow them to
give even the devil his due. Finch did
not testify that Dickson advised him to
do that. He swore that he did not re
member the attorney’s name. But it
does not matter what he swore to as it
was proven that he did not know to
what he was testifying. The hotel reg
ister was produced in court and the
name of Finch found upon it, but that
of Scott did not appear. It was further
shown that John McNichoIs was the
one-eyed man and he testified that he
and Attorney Pierce were in Atkinson
at that time and slept in a room adjoin
ing that occupied by Finch and that
they had during the night talked over
the Scott matter. Finch may have been
deceived by the resemblance existing
between Pierce and Scott, or he may
have been paid to swear as he did. H6
is entitled to the benefit of the doubt.
The Sun and Beacon Light are entitled
to contempt for their misrepresentation.
Another Session of the Boitrd.
The board met Tuesday forenoon in
special session to again consider the ad
visability of submitting to an election
the question of bonding the county for
irrigation purposes.
The board was pretty well represent
ed, as it generally is when any per diem
is in sight.
In the forenoon session nothing was
done but discuss again the situation.
After an endless amount of wasted wind,
wind enough if directed at a' good sized
windmill, to pump water sufficient to
irrigate the state, the board adjourned,
but not until after listening to a speech
from Bartley Blain, who is “ferninst”
the irrigation proposition for the reason
that if we had irrigation it would take
so much more labor to keep the weeds
out of the crops.
After dinner, while waiting for the
board to convene. Phelps found a sec
tion in the statute touching on the water
question and he immediately planted
his flag and filed a claim upon it by
right of discovery, fle took the posi
tion that it would not be necessary for a
man to contract for water,for if tho ditch
was built the land adjacent to the canal
would have a right to water anyway.
It aroused a spirited discussion and John
McCafferty died fighting in the last ditch
to disprove the premise. While the
argument was at white heat, old Honest
John Crawford, pop candidate for the
senate, drew on his oil room for a sack
of candy hearts with various legends
thereon, and passed them around.
Some of them read: “Bemember me;’’
“When may I kiss you?” “Forget me
not;” “Will you love me in November?’’
“Roses are red and violets blue, sugar is
sweet and so are you;” and many other
passages of even more tender import.
Before John had gotten well around
with the candy, Tom Cain got into a lit
tle discussion and the meeting was
called to order while John McCafferty
was attempting to drive an idea into
Tout’s head with a sledge hammer.
After roll call T. v. uouen came m
and said tliat the company bad decided
to withdraw all of its propositions, for
the reason that it was plain that the
county did not intend to vote bonds,
and the company could not legally
tiansfer its rights to the county. That
the company would do its best to hold
its rights so far as the water was con
cerned, until after the next legislature
should haye an opportunity to pass a
law authorizing counties to own and
operate irrigation canals, and in the
event of such a bill becoming a law the
irrigation company would turn over its
rights upon payment of amount actually
invested. In case the law is not
passed, then, Mr. Golden stated, the
Irrigation company will again come
before the people of Holt county and
ask tor a bonus of $150,000 to assist in
building the canal. Mr. Golden said
further that it was too bad and a matter
to be regretted,that- the county had been
put to so much expense in the matter of
board meetings, but it was done in the
interests of the people and if blame
attached to anyone it was to him alone.
Aftpr the board adjourned a little irri
gation Beance was held, in which the
leading spirits were McCafferty and Gol
den, who talked in regard to the kind of
a law that is needed. They both
[ denounced the Wright law of California.
i
Barrett Scott Found Guilty.
Tbe Scott trial came to a close last
Friday morning by the jury briuglng in
a verdict of guilty, after 86 hours delib
eration.
The verdict vm quite a surprise to
both prosecution and defense, as neither
looked for tbe jury to agree, especially
after they had been out for one day.
A motion for new trial was filed and
set down for bearing on October 10. If
the motion is overruled, which it prob
ably will be, he will be sentenced at that
time.
The penalty for the offense of which
he is found guilty, Is not less than one,
nor more than twenty-one years in the
penetentiary, and a fine of twice tbe
amount of the embezzlement, which in
this case the jury decided was 832,000.
The case that has drawn so much
attention and interest from the people
of this county and the entire state, for
that matter, is now practically settled.
The attention of the people has not been
rivited upon this case for the enormity
of tbe crime alleged alone, but upon
many other features connected with the
history of tbe proceedure of prosecu
tion from itsinceipiency.
ine minus ui our puopie naturally re
vert to the atitue when Barrett Scott
came in from the country u representa
tive of the sturdy yeomanry, the brain
and brawn of the rural districts. Their
memory will go with him through the
stormy days of ’03, when the board of
supervisors followed him in their official
capacity with all the venom, malice and
malevolence capable of being conceived
and contained In the human mind. In
this they were assisted and goaded on
by legal shysters and heartless Sbylocka.
Never was a plan more adroitly drawn
and as faithfully executed to destroy a
human being, a fellow man and a good
citizen, rob him of his fair name, hia
wotdly possession's, and to throw the
veil of infamy and dishonor heavily over
an estimable family.
Never was a man so pursued, bar
rassed and aggravated by political and
personal enemies, in the name of the
law. They followed him by day and
slept upon his trail by night. And why?
Simply because he had defeated the
peach of the populist party for the office
of county treasurer and those cohorts
and concubines of his satanic majesty
desired his downfall and they turned
every stone to accomplish their ends.
They succeeded in stealing from him
his office but they have not yet
estranged his friends, driven him to the
grave, although the gates of the pene
tentiary open to receive him.
The Fbontier has never in the past,
nor does it now, uphold Barrett Scott in
all of his maneuvers as county treasurer,
but we have always firmly believed in
his integrity and honesty of purpose,
and further, that had his foes from with
out and within kept their treacheruus
hands off, he would have gone out of
office a respected citizen instead of now
wearing a felon's garb.
He is the victim of his own generosity
and the never to be forgotten financial
panic of '03. But for the never-sleeping
eye of his deadly enemies, this calamity
would not have overtaken him. We
say he was the victim of his own gener
osity, and so he was. The people of the
county were sorely pressed financially
and they came to him with their tales of
woe and he responded with county
funds and tided them across the bar, out
upon the high seas of prosperity. These
people were confined to no political
party. Independents as well as others
borrowed the money, and the financial
crash coming on they were unable to
repay. Along with that came the fail
ure of the Holt County bank, in which
considerable money was deposited,
leaving him without a cent with which
to conduct the business of bis office.
His enemies, ever alert, seized the op
portunity and forced him to the wall.
With the events that followed our
readers are familiar. It is a case where
an almost innocent man suffers.
ueatn oi jonn notuvan.
John Sullivan, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Florence Sullivan, died at the borne of
his parents, six miles northeast of
O'Neill, last Saturday, at the age of 28
years.
Mr. Sullivan came home from Mon
tana three years ago very sick, and
though the change of climate greatly
relieved him, he never fully recovered,
his ailment finally terminating in con
sumption, which was the immediate
cause of bis death.
Deceased was a yuuug man of excel
lent character, and numbeted among bis
acquaintances none but friends.
The funeral occurred Monday frotp
the Catholic church, where high mass
was said, after which the remaius were
interred in the Catholic cemetery.
Tub Frontier, along with other
friends, extends its sympathy to the
bereaved family.
Dr. Price’s Cream baking powder the
most perfect made.
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County Demooratio Oonvsntlon,
The convention vu called to order
about 10:80 yesterday, aa per call of the
central committee, Levi Van Valken
burg, chairman of the central committee,
presiding. After reading the call, the
chairman aaked what waa the further
pleasure of the convention, and the con
vention responded by making A. L,'
Morse, of Atkinson, temporary chair
man, and Prank Campbell, of O’Neill,
temporary secretary,
The work of organization proceeded
by appointing the following committees:
Credentials—P. Peterson, C. Parker
and J. P. O'Donnell.
Resolutions—D. A. Doyle, Thos. Doo
little and H. Hodgkins.
Order of business—L. B. Mabin, J. 8.
Walker and 8. H. Bowls.
Permanent organization—N. B. Chap
man, C. Sticklemeyer and W. C. Town
send.
After the announcement of the com
mittees the convention adjoruned until 9
o'clock p. m.
Tim Frontier predicted laat week
that at this convention the “fur would
fly,” but up to the hour of adjournment
everything was lovely and the troubled
waters of Holt county democracy seemed
to have been smoothed *oy the pouring
on of somo mystic oil. Whether it waa
the oil of administration numerical
strength remained to be seen upon the
re convening of the convention in the
afternoon.
Levi Van Valkenburg, whose reign as
chairman of the central committee was
so very, very short, was not a member
of this deliberative body. The bour
bons of his township, In their wisdom,
caprice, or fealty to Grover, put a blue
pencil mark upon him by a vote of six
to one.
AFTERNOON.
Although the convention adjourned
until two o’clock, it was 8:80 before the
afternoon sossion was called to order.
The committee on credentials was the
first to report. The report was accepted
without a dissenting voice, although
a double header on from Stuart was on
The report of the committee on order
of business was read and adopted, and
the business of the meeting carried out
on the lines laid down in the report.
The committee on permanent organ
ization reported that .. the temporary
organization be made permanent, and
the report was adopted.
A committee of was selected with John
Harmon as chairman, to select delegates
to the congressional state and senatorial
conventions.
The nomination of representatives
was then announced and N. B. Chap
man placed Thos. Doolittle in nomi
nation. Thos. was a nominee of the non
partisan convention held in Atkinson
some months ago.
Qua Doyle placed in nomination J. P.
O’Donell, of O'Neill. Mr. O’Donell said
he was not a candidate, hut Gus took
him into the ante-room and where he
changed bis mind and was willing
to bleed for his party. This awakened
the drat enthusiasm of the convention
and as there were no other nominations
Doolittle and O’Donell were nominated
by acclamation.
• u. uun^uiou tv on uuuiiunicu iur
county attorney, but be declined tbe
nomination because be bad not been in
the state long enough.
Henry Murphy was nominated, not
withstanding he is already candidate on
tbe populist ticket. Mr. Chapman
wanted the chair to ascertain if the man
who made that motion was a delegate,
as he did not think it proper for anyone
to perpetrate any jokes. The man was
found to have his credentials. Gus
Doyle arose to a point of order and de
sired to know if Murphy was a democrat,
as, he said, this was a democratic gath
ering and was nominating none but
democrats. He was followed by another
gentleman who moved that Dick John
son, of Stuart, be nominated by accla
mation, which motion was unanimously
carried. This vote may properly be
taken as an index of the feeling of the
democrats.
S. M. Wagers was made chairman of
the county central committee, Mike
Long seeretary and Gus Doyle chairman
of the state delegation.
Taken all around it may be said to
have been a very much Harmon-ized
gathering.
Is Hot Taking That Class.
Neligh Advocate: Doc Mathews, of
O’Neill, has secured tbe position of land
commissioner of the Stuttgart & Arkan
sas railroad in Arkansas, and is making
arrangements to run excursion trains
from the Klkhorn valley. If Doc will
take out all tbe shiftless farmers from
the valley and leave the good ones he
will be entitled to rank as a public
benefactor.
From Arkansas.
The following from Stuttgart, Ark.,
was received this morning by telegram:
Arkansas grand prairie superior in all
respects than represented by Doc Math
I ews. Signed by John Flanery, F. E.
Hauton, Tbos Morrow, Jasen Alts Jr.,
Jas. DeYarman, Henry DeYartnan, A.
L Morres, G. J. Anderson and N. P.
McMath.
Big Raos Masting.
The Holt County Agricultural society
haa decided to bold a county fair tbla
year, notwlthatanding the poor crops.
While a liberal appropriation baa been
made for the agricultural dlaplay, the 5
aociety Intenda to make Ootober 4, tba
second day, the big day of the fair. 1800
have been appropriated for that day’a
racing, the program being aa foil owe:
Free for all trot or pace, purae 1180.
Half mile running race, purae 180.
Pony race, half mile, purae IIS.
Three minute trot or pace, purae 180.
One hundred yard foot race, 110 to
the winner.
One hundrod yard boya' foot race. ’
Oral S3, aecoud II.
Bicycle race, half mile, purae I10|
drat 17, aecond 18.
Bicycle race for boya under 18 years*
Firat 18, aecond $9.
In addition to the raolng the aaaocl*
atlon will give a grand barbecue and
free dinner on that day.
The fair commencea on October 8 and
enda on October 8.
John Xarley Deed.
John Marley died at hla home near ;j
Inman, laat Thursday, after an Illness of j;
but a few days, at the age of 67 years. if -
He was born In Ireland In the year
1887, Immigrating to America at the : ■ii
breaking out of the war of the rebellion, l,5;\
in which he took an active part and loy- ’•
ally served the oountry of hla adoption
until the close of that terrible struggle.
He was married In 1889 to Mary Ryan
and of the union aeven children were
born.
Mr. Marley was an old resident of this
county and one that had carved a home
and fortune out of the vicissitudes of
pioneer life. « • h. *
The funeral occurred Saturday frOm:
the Catholic church at this place, and
the remains were followed to their last
resting place by a large concourse of
relativea and neighbors.
Upon the Death of John Xarley.
Died, at Inman, Sept. 18, John Mar*
ley, native of Ireland. Burn at Bally*
ligue, Qlenhest, Parish of Adragoole,
Barony of Tyrawle, County of Mayo.
The deceased leaves a wife and seven A.
children to deplore bis loss, three boys /
and four girls, Two of the girls teach
school and are cultured ladies. • ...
The birth place of the deceased as
above stated, is bounded on the north
by the rugged mountains of Erris, on
the south by the beautiful lake of Beltrs.
On the north Is located the old home
stead of Paddy McHale, the venerable
father of. the "Lion of The Fold of
Judah," where he first inhaled the balmy
air of mountain Nepbin. On the west
the ancient patrimony of the O’Malleys’,
who were lords of Murrlsk and Burres*
hoole seven hundred years ago. This t
portion of Mayo angelicized. Tyrawly
belonged to Ovly, son of Cun na ghed
Caha in the second century. Here, sur*
rounded by gentle hills, extensive plains,*
majestic mountains, running rivers,
gurgling brooks, sparkling fountains
Druidie Comleacbs, leaping rills and
foaming cataracts, the ancestere of the
deceased lived. Driven from the plains
to these wilds by the Anglo-Norman
invaders, again by the steel hearted ex
terminator, Cromwell. Here, among
these vales, glens and mountains, the
ancient muse is still preserved in its
primitive purity, and cherished with
greater veneration than the Lyrice of *
Annecreon, and Pinder on the slopes
and valleys of Parnassass, or the lays of
the Scottish bard on the banks of the
Ayr. Ninety-nine per cent, of the In
habitants still belong to the old church
of which the great McAuly said: "She
will live and exist when a traveler from *
New Zealand may take his stand in the
midst of a vast solitude, on a broken
arch of London bridge, to sketch the
ruins of St. Paul.” #*#
Prevention i* better than cure, and
you may prevent that tired feeling by
taking Hood’a Sarsaparilla, which will
keep your blood pure and free from
acid taint and germa of disease.
NEW STOCK AND NEW PRICES.
I will say to the patrons of
O’Neill that I have now in readiness
a large new stock and a good selec
tion at free trade prices, and I will
assure you that goods will be sold
for less money this fall than ever
before, as I am going to keep with
the times. Old stocks will have to
suffer a big loss in order to com
pete with new goods this fait, as
the tariff reform is a direct benefit
to the consumer. So remember
the place to get new goods is at
P. J. McMANUS’.
Will Fay Cask.
Poultry, game, furs, skins, wool, but- ‘
ter, eggs. Hiram P. Ballard ft Co.
89 £ 88th St., Chicago.