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O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 27, 1894.
NUMBER 12.
■t Told A* They Are
[d to Us.
IOW IT HAPPENED
■ Portrayed tor General
n and Amusement.
I Is seriously ill.
r is very ill.
sks go to McManus’. 12-9
inell is on the sick roll.
Boyd county, Intends to
Lew Scbillenger went to
lay._
had business down the
:he week.
I and Jesse Mellor spent
p Atkinson.
I
ad see my line of cloaks,
get your choice.
P. J. McManus.
Liorge, of Randolph, is in
[ her daughter, Mrs. D. H.
let went down the road
lorning, returning in the
iLee Hershiser entertained
ly of friends Wedneaday
Shellhart returned laat
rom a visit with frienda
pm, bran and all kinds of
jjNeill Flour & Feed Co.,
Sger. i ■ a 88-tf
, . •: • i
he date of -the Holt
Btober 3, 4 and S. The
f exciting races.
, of Lusk, Wyoming, ia
ing relatives. Mr. Brooks
py of the F. E. railroad.
r from Omaha brings the
lhat the democratic con
endorsed Holcomb and
ser is no longer an em
orrigan’s drug store, a fact
' that establishment will be
aid and Reporter King
?aha county Monday night
I term of court. They, re
nting.
ill deliver kerosene and
our residence or place of
, wagon makes the rounds
47-tf
lire is working up a
it in a library for the free
t>ols and others contribut
erprise.
-By Mrs. B. Williams, a
tneral housework. Good
paid to a competent girl,
teed apply.
le state where the pops are
subsidize the pop press by
unty work at enormous
as they do in Holt.
•tainwent given in this city
ening by the Nashville
a attended by a full house,
n was pleasant and enter
d gave general satisfaction.
the B. W. C. washing com
J. McManus’. It excells all
sundry and toilet use. Will
most delicate color without
| ___ 10-3
igberty came down from the
K morning and started im
for Boyd county, where he
ipeeches: one at Spencer and
te.
large stock of ladies’cloaks
be sold cheap for cash. My
new; no old goods on hand,
see me before buying else
12 2 P. J. McMakpb.
krrell came up from Allen
ighl and visited with Miss
irke Tuesday at W. 1>. Math
tnce. She lost her purse and
hes in the fire that consumed
Tuesday.
relsh visited last Sunday in
tnd brought home with him
specimens of corn and turnips
that vicinity. Tom says it is
issry to go to California or
to get samples of grain, even
ir of drouth.
, '
Parker returned laBt Thurs
t irom Omaha, where he at
Deeting of the republican state
inraittee. Sanford says that
barters there is no doubt but
faska will go republican irom
k>t of the state ticket.
The Chambers creamery was awarded
second premium at the state fair,.
J. P. Mann’s store today has the ap
pearance of an oriental bazar in point
of artistic decoration and display of
merchandise, the occasion being his
fall opening.
Mat Daugherty came over from Boyd
county Wednesday evening and will
remain until Saturday morning, when
he will go to Omaha. Mat says that
affairs political are looking like success.
A pocket book was found and left at
this office Tuesday. It contains nothing
of intrinsic value, although in it are
some letters written in what one—at a
casual glance—would call a female
hand. The book and contents may be
bad by owner calling at this office, prov
ing property and depositing 50 cents as
a guarantee of good faith.
Butte Gazette: In a row at Spencer
last Sunday over tbe settlement of an
account, Bob Pearsall stabbed James
Verely in the breast. Pearsall was ar
rested and bis trial came off before
Judge Skuse Tuesday* last and resulted
in a continuance of thirty days. Verely
is reported to be getting along all right
and not seriously injured.
A telegram has been received from C.
H. Martin, secretary of tbe Inter-State
Fair association, stating that Robert J'
and Joe Patcben will race on their
track October 11. We understand it
cost the management $6,000 to get these
horses. Tbe race will be one of the
chief attractions at tbe fair and it will
be worth tbe trip down to see them go.
Mrs. Dell Folsom, nee Perry, died at
ber home in Tilden last Monday after
an illness of but a few hours. Mrs.
Folsom was tbe daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James Perry,formerly of Atkinson,
and bad many friends in this county.
Tbe remains were taken to her old home,
Atkinson, and buried Tuesday. The
Frontier tenders itssincerest sympathy
to the bereaved family.
Jim Slowey, a young man in the
employ of tbe Checkered barn, while on
his way to Chambers last Saturday ran
into a barbed wire fence stretched across
a much-traveled road and cut his left leg
from the knee to the ankle in a horrible
manner. He was on horseback, riding
along on a canter and failed to notice
the obstruction. He was on his way to
Chambers to drive some cattle to this
city, and nothwithstanding his severe
injuries continued on his journey and
did not arrive in O'Neill until Monday
night, when his wounds were dressed by
Dr. Gillagan. Although now confined
ko his bed he is resting quite comfortably.
The October Midland Monthly (Des
Moines) promises to catch and hold
public attention. The first really good
picturing of the Hinckley holocaust
(eight views), with vivid description;
the prize story, poem and club paper;
the first of a Midland series of illustrated
war articles; the first of the “Midland
Delegations to Congress" (with ten por
traits of tbe Iowa delegation) ; social
papers, poems, stories, home themes,
scenes from Alaska and the English
lake country—these help make the
October a good number with which to
begin the winter campaign of reading.
Send $1.50, either through this paper or
direct to tbe publisher.
State Journal: The poker experts are
discussing with irreat gusto the proposi
tion to hold a great national jackpot
carnival in the near future. It is to
begin with modest little games played
simultaneously all over the country.
The winners in the preliminary skirmish
then arrange for a meeting and the pro
cess is kept up up,lil one lucky man
finally opens a pot large enough, as one
enthusiast puts it, to enable him to
"write bis check in eight figures on vel
vet." If this ambitious project is not
carried out there will be poker players
in every township in the United States
who will insist that a great opportunity
for adding to the scientific knowledge
of tbe race has been ignorantly and wil
fully neglected.
A telegram was received in this city
yesterday announcing the death of
Louise Wilcox at Union, Oregon, on
that date. Miss Wilcox went to that
place in company with her father to at
tend tbe bedside of her brother. Howard,
who was suffering from an attack of
typhoid fever, and it was there that she
contracted tbe same malady.and although
a letter was received by friends here
yesterday stating that she was recover
ing nicely, tbe disease took a turn for
the worse with results as above stated.
In deference to her own wish she will
be buried at Union, the place of her
death. Miss Wilcox was the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilcox of this
city, and the news of her demise will
carry sorrow to the hearts of her many
friends here.
Dr. Price’s Cream baking powder tbs
most perfect made.
Xathaws’ Dwelling Burned.
During the very high wind lent Tues
day afternoon W. D. Mathews’ fine
residence in the western party of the
city caught on fire in some unaccount
able manner and was burned to the
ground in a short time. The fire com
pany responded quickly to the call but
were unable to do much as the flames
were through the roof when they
arrived, and fanned by a strong south
wind, it took but a few minutes for the
fire to do its worst.
But little was saved. .A piano and a
few pieces of furniture was all. It was
only last winter that the same house was
reduced to a skeleton by fire, and was
repaired and refurnished at considerable
cost.
Mr. and Mra. Mathews were in Arkan
aaa at the time of the fire, and being tele
graphed, atarted at once for home and
are expected to arrive thia evening.
The house was occupied by Miss Mamie
Burke who was looking after things
and keeping house for the children
during the absence of Mra. Mathewa.
She lost her clothes, aa did also Mra.
Farrell, of Allen, who was visiting there.
We are unable to learn the oxact
amount of insurance carried by Mr.
Mathews, but it ia rumored that he has
a $3,400 policy. The house and contents
were worth not less than $5,000.
The fire was communicated from the
house to the pralrie'and for a time threat
ened several dwellings in the vicinity of
the graveyard. Two small barns in its
path were*consumed. The Protestant
cemetery was considerably damaged,
everything of a combustible nature
being more or less injured.
In Memory of Mra. Bitters.
A loved one from us is gone;
A voice we loved Is still.
A place Is vaoant in our house
Which never can be filled.
Dear mother, thou art gone to rest,
’Tie sad to part with thee.
Thy hands are folded on thy breast;
Ah, thou on earth no more we'll see.
Dear mother, thou hast loved ones
Who were waiting there for thee.
But now thou hast gone to glory
And with them will ever be.
Dear mother, thou hast suffered much,
But now thy suffering Is o'or.
With God’s help we will try to meet you
On that bright oelestlal shore.
—[FCORENGB.
FOR SALE—cheap1—A soft coal beat
ing stove. 13-3 B. J. Rxan.
Jake Hersbiser, John Weekea and
Clyde King spent a few hours in Neligh
last Sunday.
Mrs. Barrett Scott and daughter Fan
nie, and Miss McWhorter, returned
Sunday night from a few days visit in
Neligh. _
Dr. Norval and family have removed
to their farm on the South Fork. It
did not take Mullen a great while to
discharge that political obligation.
E. Frank Hawkins and his merry
company at the rink tonight and Fri
day qnd Saturday nights. Admission
10, 30 and 30 cents. They ure worth
seeing. _
In looking through the bills allowed
by the county board during the year
1893 a Frontibb reporter found the fol
lowing:
To attorney fee for services rendered
as deputy county attorney during the
year 1893, $90. Tnos. Cablon.
This seems to be a new departure.
We did not know before that the statute
authorized the employment of a deputy
county attorney to be paid out of the
county funds.
Perhaps more than anyone else the
editor is made to know and feel the
weaknesses and idiosyncrasies of our
American life. The editorial waste
basket is a perfect Pandora’s box con
taining every conceivable thing from a
rejected poem on “Spring” or the
“Driven Snow,” inflicted on a merciful
public by some sweet singer in Israel or
Michigan, to a 20-page closely written
manuscript with the author’s name omit
ted and a request to publish in your next
issue without fail. Obituaries and per
sonal notices, queries, communications
gotten up in every style of chirograpby
and in all meters—mostly long meter—
are found there in profusion. The
editor’s waste basket, what protection it
affords to the public: what a safeguard
to the moral, religious and social inter
ests of the people. And yet how ignor
ant are the people of this powerful
agent, working so surely but silently for
the safety, peace and happiness of every
community. Could this incongruous
mass of literary twaddle, Blander, abuse
and egotism find the light of day, how
many amiable dispositions would be
utterly ruined, how many sweet tempers
would be forever soured, how many bit
ter eumities engendered, to say nothing
of .the positive acts of violence that
would ensue? But the editor stops it all
With his little hatchet he cuts from
time to time the dead and worthless
branches that encumber the tree of
journalism: he waters the roots, be
protects it from worms and iusects, he
keeps the bark bright, clean and healthy,
he makes it beautiful to look upon and
useful in its harvest of ripe and health
ful fruit The eidtor does all this and
the waste basket is the receptacle for the
worthless trash,and the people are the
benefleigries.—W. H. Edgar.
A Mott Unwarranted Attack.
The libelous article published In the
Beacon Light last week should meet the
censure of every honest man in llolt
county. That attack upon the presid
ing Judge is as false as it is unwise both
for the interests of Holt county in the
litigation now pending as well as in
behalf of the reputation of the people of
this oouuty. ;
The presiding Judge was calle'd here
from abroad to relieve Judges Kinkaid
and Bartow and because objections
were made to their competency to sit in
the case by those representing Holt
county. Judge Chapmans' reputation aa
a Jurist is so high that no political
attack can reach or smirch it. The
case was heard in open court in the
presence of the public and decided fear
lessly and promptly. It turned upon a
purely legal question which the court
had to meet and was forced to decide
against the county solely on account of
the action of the county attorney and
his assistant. The presiding judge
urged that counsel for county amend
their petition so as to save the people’s
rights. There was an agreement be
tween counsel for the county and for
the bondsmen that the question decided
should be immediately carried to the
supreme court and an early decision
obtained, counsel for Barrett Scott’s
bondsmen agreeing * to enter an ap
pearance, waive all technicalities and
assist in immediately advancing the
case upon the supreme court docket for
immediate argument and decision. We
are informed by the official court stenog
rapher that his bill of exceptions has
been prepared for some days and he has
furnished us at our request a copy of
that portion of the bill, published here
with, which should forever silence the
Beacon Light and Messrs. Harrington
and Murphy, at least until the case is
beard and decided in the supreme court.
The attack upon the court and counsel
engaged in the case is so thoroughly
dishonest that we publish this record
not for the purpose of vindicating the
court, for it needs no vindication, but
for the purpose of letting the people of
Holt county know exactly where Messrs.
Harrington and Murphy stand in the
case' as well as to show the animus of
the Beacon Smudge in its attempt to
make political capital for the populist
party out of the blunders of its own
populist supervisors and their legal
advisors.
The certified copy of the court pro
ceedings, which we here publish, shows,
exactly what did pass between the
guardians of our county’s interests and
the judge who heard the case, and it
shows that the court weut as far as it
dared go to protect the interests of Holt
county. It shows further that if the
county’s rights are lost the blame should
rest in all human probability with its
lawyers and the fool supervisors who
unlawfully ordered and permitted the
treasurers’ bond to. be altered and
changed: .
MOTION OF THE ANSWERING DEFENDANT
SURETIES*
The plaintiff having rested, the
answering defendants now renew their
objection to the introduction of the
bond marked exhibit “A" for the reas
ons already given and move that the
jury be directed to return a verdict for
them because the plaintiff has failed to
establish its case, and for the further
reason that there is a variance in ' the
proffered proof and petition, for it is
not the instrument set forth in the
petition and it shows upon its face that
it has been interlined and altered by the
plaintiff since the same was approved
and accented by the plaintiff, and with
out the consent of Joseph Bartley or
any of the other sureties, and that said
interlineations and alterations have not
been explained by the plaintiff; and in
the absence of such explanation the law
presumes that such interlineations and
alterations were made by plaintiff; and
for the further reasons that the statutes
being a part of the contract of the
sureties shows that the plaintiff has not
complied with its part of the said con
tract and that the undisputed evidence
shows that said plaintiff induced and
wag privy to the breach of said bond
complained of.
Whereupon, after argument by coun
sel, the court sustained the objection to
the undertaking to which the plaintiff
duly excepted.
By the court—Mr. Harrington, in my
view of this matter, theie is a fatal
variance between your petition and the
proof. You seek to introduce as evi
dence by this undertaking and I feel
inclined to allow you to amend your
petition, owing to the importance of
this litigation; or I would suggest, as
this is a very serious question, in my
view, you may withdraw a juror and
amend your petition if you see fit. and
the cause may, in such event, stand
continued until next term.
Mr. Harrington—I think, your honor,
we will amend, and ask for twenty
minutes in which to do so.
By the court—You may have such
time.
Whereupon, afterwards counsel for
plaintiff announced upon coming into
court; "Your honor, we elect to stand
upon our petition and proof as it is.”
By the court—That being the case
•nd taking the view of the law and
practice I do, there is nothing left for
the court to do but to sustain the motion
of the answering sureties defendants
which is accordingly done. Whereupon
a verdict against Barrett Scott, prinolpal,
and in favor of the answering sureties
defendants was directed by the court.
To the verdict In favor of the answering
sureties defendants and to the sustain*
ing of the defendant's motion the plaint
iff duly excepted.
We are informed that the supreme
court Is now in seislon; that the bonds
men's attorneys are willing andf anxious
to have this ease heard and decided at
the present term; hence there can be no
excuse for Messrs. Harrington and
Murphy permitting the case to be de
layed or go by default against the
county, to be threshed over In a politi
cal campaign as populistic ammunition.
That the object of the Smudge In its
attack upon the court and Joseph Bart
ley is for a political purpose is so trans
parent that no one need be fooled by it
for a moment.
Solid Sooth.
The following preia 'dispatch from
New Orleans to Tuesday\dailles give*
a little evidence of the dismemberment
of the democratic party m the south.
The planter* are for protection:
The sugar planter*' convention at
Washington artillery hall was a large
and very enthusiastic assemblage. The
hall, one of th'e largest and most com
modious in the city, was crowded to the
doors while the session lasted, and there
were present not only the leading plant
ers of Louisiana, but some of the most
representative men of New Orleans.
The convention went over to the nation
al republican party In a body.
K. N. Pugh called the meeting to
order and Executive Officer Kernochan
was made temporary chairman and ex
Mayor Behan permanent chairman of
the organization, all of these gentlemen
having been heretofore prominent dem
ocrats. There was considerable speech
making, in which prominent flguros on
the floor took part, and the walls of the
hall were freely ornamented with plac
ards bearing mottoes of republican doo
trine. A representative body was In
trusted with the resolution, which were
adopted by an overwhelming vote of the
convention. The resolutions indorse
the platform of the meeting in this
city; express belief in the doctrine of
protection to all American industiles;
declare that the the people had never
asked‘congress for a bounty, but that
when the bounty law was passed it was
regarded as a pledge for fifteen years
and caused the mortgaging of planta
tions and expenditure of immense sums
of money in the purchase of modern
machinery and in making elaborate im
provements for the manufacture of
sugar; urges the organization of clubs,
committees and convention, throughout
the state with a view to electing mem
bers of congress who will stand by the
national republican party in the organ
ization of the house, and finally declar
ing that causes which led to the inaugu
ration of this movement are of a finan
cial and industrial nature and that the
character and standing of its leaders is a
sufficient guarantee that that party will
ever advocate good government for the
whole people of this state.
A resolution also demands fair elec
tions and an honest count, and demands
at the hands of Governor Foster a fair
representation for the planters on all
boards of registration and election. The
president is directed to appoint a com
mittee or thirty-five, with the full
powers of convention, to be known as
“the state committee of the national
republican party.”
▼•rjr Open Latter.
Neligji, Nrb., Sept. 23,1894.
C. C. McHugh, Publisher Sun, O’Neill,
Neb.:
I am constrained to reply to your
letter addressed to me in your Issue of
the 90th Inst.
It is in one of your happiest veins. It
was evidently intended to cheer up and
' to smooth the pathway of a fallen
fellow man. It is very doubtful if
another man could be found in this
state, that has the savage brutality nec
essary to write such a letter. I did not
tbinkyou ever would make such an ex
bU>Kion of your heartlessness.
•’xou offered to support me in my
troubles with the county board after
they had been fighting me for more than
six months if I would giye you the pub
lishing of one of my semi-annual state
ments. I refused tn buy you then and I
have never been sorry for it. You had
the contract at one time from the county
to furnish stationery for my office, you
no doubt remember. You undertook to
deliver two-thirds to three-fourths the
number of sheets of paper or envelopes
you filed your claim for.
You also remember one time I bought
500 stamped ^envelopes for you to print
return cards on. You returned them
twenty-five stamped envelopes short.
It is strange such as you would blat
about other people’s dishonesty.
According to your letter a term of
seventy-four years in the penitentiary
“toiling under a guard who will treat
me like a dog” is the very least I can
expect. All this punishment for tire
crime ot trying to tide some of the
citizens of Holt county over a financial
crisis. In all your vicious spoutings
about my case you and others have al
ways persisted in claiming someone else
had this money. You cite me to the
fact that my only hope of reducing this
fearful sentence is to turh these un
fortunate men over to the tender mercies
of the “county board and the prose
| cuting attorneys” and am advised that
you believe "they will meet me in a
true Christian eplrlt.” Thanks, Mr. Mc
Hugh, I have met them.
j Would you think for a minute that T
would turn a oltizen of Holt county
over to auch a man aa H. F. Barrington?
A man who a ahort time ago, according
to the statement of a lady under oath,
forged her name to a mortgage for a
large amount, covering a farm—the
home of this same lady—and when hie
fiaud was about to he made public be
fled to Illinois, (this was Just after my
first Impeachment trial) and there re
mained in hiding taking care of a large
stallion until his friends raised the
mcney to pay oil the fraudulent mort
gage.
I was aaked at that tlma to furnish
thla money for him. It waa finally'
borrowed, or at leaat the larger portion
of It, from the Holt County bank and at ,
the time of the failure of the bank he
still owed It. He has epent daya ez~
plaining to the depositor* of that bank
bow I broke it, in the face of such:
racts, and when sensible, fair-minded
men know I was the greatest loser by
that unhappy failure, not only losing
the money entrusted to my care, but
principally through it I have finally lost
my liberty, and as you put It, “will be
driven like a dog to toll” for seventy-,
four years. Ho! Mr. McHugh, a thous
and times no! lean face grief, humil
iation, stigma and Imprisonment, but I
could never put any human being Into
such hands.
You say tome: “Exposeevery man *
who borrowed from you the people’s
money.” “They laugh while you are in *
prison.” “They are all as guilty as you '
are.” ... ,.'4*
1 know Torn Carlon eald before me
and in the presence of friende who ap
peared before the court logo bail for
my appearance, “that no person would
sign my bond who bad any respeet for
themselves or regard for their property.’*
At ’.his same time he owed me 1100. Has
he "laughed at me in prison f” Has he |
“spent the money In saloonsorat balls?”
He still owes the money.
I know that Dick Pointer, of Scott
vllle, through long sickness in his;
family, which finally resulted in the
death of several members, used the!
money of the school district four miles “
east of Scottyille, of which he wasH
treasurer. He could not raise it when
be went out of office. Coming to me
with-tears in hia eyes and anguish in his*
heart telling me of bis troubles, I let *
him have the money to make good hie f
shortage, something more than 1100. I
know he was secretary of a meeting of I
independents at Scottviile, called for the
purpose of endorsing the part taken by
Mr. Kelly, the supervisor for Scott,
township, in one of my trials of im
peachment, and to severely criticise and
censure me. You remember you pub
lished the resolutions adopted at thla
meeting over his signature. At this 4
time be still had this money. Has he
been laughing at me or at my “wife and ;
bright little girl" because I am In prison?
He still owes the money.
Ask your brother-in-law if he ever got
hard up and got 935 from me. Do you
think he deserves seventy-four years,
“driven like a dogf" I still have the ;
evidence positive.
Now, Me., I mention these few to you
confidentially for the reason that yon
"have bad a complete list submitted to
you” and to beg of you mercy for such
unfortunates. They could not help being
at the mercy of banks and money sharks,
but they mutt not “laugh at me tor be
ing in prison" nor offer any indignity to
my family. You also seem to be im
pressed with the mistaken Idea that only
political or personal friends bad been
favored by me. I only mention a few
because in your capacity as collector for
me I desire to give you an easy task,
promising to give you a much larger
list as soon as you have collected all Ala
and received the proper reduction from
the “prosecutors."
I don’t, however, want to invite too *
much intimacy from you in this matter,
aud assure you I still consider these
men named as much above you—and
others I could name—as Christ above
Pilate.
Seventeen years ago I came to Holt
county. I tried at all times to do my
duty as a citizen. But enough! enough!
You can’t understand that a man could
be actuated by other than vile motives.
Be gone, brlndle brute!
Barrett Soott.
Until Altar Elsetloa.
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interest to Nebraskans. Not only will a
full set of state officers be elected, but a
legislature will be elected that will
choose a United States senator. The
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give you all this news more fully and
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until after election for only 35 cents.
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