IE XV._ O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY. NEBRASKA. OCTOBER 4, 1894. NUMBER 13.
S WHISKERS
■t Told A* They Are
id to Us.
lOW IT HAPPENED
|t Portrayed Tor Ooaorsl
in and Amniamont.
inks go to McManus'. 12-9
Mathews returned Fri
isas.
of Springfield, O., is in
ness.
in, of Neligh, is in the
ourt.
sds to ship a car load of
las nest week.
mt down to Lincoln
og last evening.
nt cork ready for Mon
rybody black up.
re went down to Lincoln
bn educational business.
[.cheap—A soft coal hcat
! 12-2 B. J. Ryan.
rt convened in O’Neill
ge Einkaid on the bench.
Id has opened up a lunch
'’Connor & Gallagher’s
nd see my line of cloaks.
I get your choice.
| P. J. McManus.
chellingor,of*lowa,are in
.with the family of their
if rain within a week
Und in condition for
McGinnis is
flie Wrede’s
leill.
teaching
district,
|s. Martin Gallagher are
lints of a bouncing baby
(week.
r, of Atkinson, was in the
and favored Thb Fbon
|hort call.
—
sted trotting horse, Max,
inck and Carr, of Stafford,
races here at the fair.
corn, bran and all kinds of
O’Neill Flour & Feed Co.,
matter. 88-tf
i went down to Randolph
ling, where his wife is
i home of her parents.
Butterick patterns order
lann and save postage
fashion plates free. 13-4
son and Kellie B. Howard,
married Tuesday evening
agers at his home in this
heastern Kansas to ex
iolt county land. Land
ferred.
£. H. Benedict.
returned Saturday night
er protracted visit in Iowa
again on duty at the Hotel
rker was in the city Tues
iy to Omaha to attend a
e republican central corn
cake will be given to the
il couple at the cake walk
>all Monday evening. Don’t
e, of Butte, was in the city
(his way to Garfield and
i brace up his political en
will deliver kerosene and
your residence or place of
[is wagon makes the rounds
_ 47-tf
r Mrs. E. Williams, a
general housework. Good
j* Paid to a competent girl,
heed apply.
!er Advocate, although dem
•litics, will support Daugh
imple in preference to Kem
d. And why not?
'oster, formerly an O'Neill
it for the last two years a
Iowa, is in the city this
g after business interests.
the B. W. C. washing cotn
J• McManus’. It excells all
tundry and toilet use. Will
most delicate color without
_10-3
ant: We are making ar
to leave here on the 6th of
during our week’s absence
ewe, of O’Neill, will push
lessengers of thought into
hop.
Mrs. Ed Ward, mentioned iu these
columns last week as being ill, is not
materially better at this writing. The
news of the death of her sister—Miss
Wilcox—which occurred in Oregon last
week, prostrated her.
Mrs. Sanders had the misfortune
Saturday morning to fall down a flight
of stairs at her home. Although no
bones were broken she was confined to
her bed several days as a result of the
severe shaking up received.
We understand that Jim and Henry
DeYarman will locate in Arkansas.
Henry will engage in the livery business
and Jim in the hotel business. Tnn
Frontier wishes the boys the biggest
kind of success in their new home.
The Holt county fair, which started
yesterday, is not meeting with the
greatest success, although the attend
ance is quite large today. The free-for
all trot, unfortunately, was declared off
this morning oil account of a lack of
entries.
All of the men who have been chief
of the O’Neill fire department were on
band at the Monday morning blaze.
There were Sam Sample, of Butte, the
first chief, Odie Biglin, Tom Golden and
Doc Mathews, besides John Murphy,
the present incumbent.
E. Frank Hawkins and his Merry
Company, which entertnined the show
going people of this city Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday nights of last week,
will appear again at the opera-house
Friday night, where, we predict, they
will be greeted by a full house.
General Slocum, formerly of this
county, died at his home in Ashland,
O., on September 23, aged 74 years. In
speaking of his death the Ashland says:
.“No man in Ashland was more prom
inent in the history of Ashland county
than the gallant soldier who has gone to
join the great commander.”
Mr. Eli Hershiser and Miss Jennie
Storts were married last evening at the
home of Judge McCutcheon in this city.
The bride and groom arc both well and
favorably know in this community and
a host of friends will wish them plenty
of good things in this life. The Fron
tier herewith tenders its congratula
tions.
Spencer Advocate: Mrs. John Murphy,
Maggie Gibbons, last but not least in
importance, Master Gen. Milton
Murphy, have been the guests of their
brother and uncle, Pat Gibbons for tho
past week. These parties are all from
O’Neill, and have enjoyed themselves
by visiting Ft. liandall and socially
amongst friends.
At a special meeting Saturday night
the school board employed Miss Kittie
Dwyer to teach music and drawing. In
the face of a depleted school treasury
this new departure looks more like a
|Iuxury than a hard times necessity, but
if we must have it, why then we sup
pose we must. Miss Dwyer will no
doubt give eminent satisfaction.
Clarence Selah’s thirty-seventh turn
around the race track of time was cel
ebrated at his home Monday evening by
a goodly number of his friends dropping
around in a body to surprise him. The
surprise was complete and the evening
greatly enjoyed by the invaders, who
departed in the small hours wishing
that Mr. Selah might live an hundred
and fifty years.
There will be a cake walk and color
ed ball at the opera house on Monday
evening, October 8th. A charity fund
will be organized, and the proceeds of
this ball will be placed in the hands of
a committee for the relief of the worthy
poor of this community. All are invit
ed to take part in this grand cake walk
and colored ball. Each lady will take
a basket of lunch for herself and part
ner. Tickets for ball 75 cents per couple.
O’Neill will be represented on the
race track at the inter-state fair at Sioux
City next week by Ed Thompson and B.
A. DeYarman. Mr. Thompson has en
tered Fremont in the 2:35 and 2:40 trot,
while Mr. DeYarman has entered K S
in the 30 class and Burtwood in the
3 minute and 2:40 pace. All three
horses are standardbred and full of
speed. It need surprise no one to see
these horses each get a slice of the
money.
Barney Ryan received from Omaha
Sunday an animal purporting to be a
dog. It may be a dog but nothing like
it has ever been seen on earth—that is,
in the possession of a man who is
acknowledged to be authority on canine
ology. It is a conglomeration of hair,
hide, bones, appetite and growl, and
possesses no qualities that point to
breeding. It is just dog and looks it,
every inch. However, Barney says
that it is of the watchful order, and as
such knows its business. Patrons of
Barney's coal-house will take notice and
govern themselves accordingly.
I have a large stock of ladies' cloaks
which will be sold cheap for cash. My
stock is all new; no old goods on band.
Come and see me before buying else
where. 13 8 P. J. McManus.
Spontaneous combustion in the coal
sheds of the Chicago Lumber company
Monday morning was cause for turning
In a Are alarm. The fire company was
on the ground in a remarkably short
time and had the blaze extinguished
before Smoot had time to get excited.
It was fortunate for the lumber com
pany that the conflagration was nipped
in the bud. _
The Lincoln school board has sum
moned all of its teachers to appear be
fore it and stand examination. There
are no exceptions; they must all pass an
examination, and the teacher who falls
below 60 on any one subject must pack
up and get. The general average must
not fall below 70. It might be a good
idea—but then it is utterly useless to
make any suggestion to the O’Neill
school board.
John Darr, of Scottyille, on the 9th
Inst, will sell at public auction bis per
sonal effects at his farm. John intends
leaving Holt county, but he has not yet
fully made up his mind as to his new
location, being on the fence between
Missouri, Arkansas and Illinois. He
will make a tour of those states and
settle in the one that to his mind pre
sents the best inducements. Mr. Darr
says he is not leaving Holt county
because he cannot make a living here,
but because he is sick at heart and dis
gusted with the way politics are conduct
ed. He thinks—and rightly, too—that
populist supervisor rule has run the
county into the bottomless pit of debt and
the farmer or city resident who pays his
taxes will in the future be called upon
to give up not a tithe, but a half. Mr.
Darr is a good citizen and a thorough
gentleman and the community in which
he decides to locate will be fortunate.
The Influence of Alcohol.
The British medical association, wish
ing an exact statement of the influence
ot alcohol over the duration of life,
charged a commission with the inquiry
in three classes of subiucts:
1. Total abstainers.
2. Moderate drinkers.
3. Excessive drinkers.
Observation included 4,234 cases of
death in five categories of individuals,
and below is the average attained by
each class:
1. Abstainers—Fifty-one years and
one month.
2. Moderate drinkers—Sixty-three
years and one-half month.
3. Occassional drinkers—Fifty nine
years and two months.
4. Habitual drinkers—Fifty-seven
years and two months.
5. Drunkards—Fifty-three years and
one-half month.
The most advanced age is attained by
moderate drinkers, and the minimum by
abstainers.
The Fbontier does not publish this
statement for the purpose of teaching
the young that the only way to proloug
their stay on earth is to be on terms of
intimacy with the flowing bowl, but
rather as a scientific fact of interest,
and a fact that somewhat combats
hygienic teachings. The statement of
the commission charged with this im
portant undertaking is not as complete
and extensive as we would have liked.
It should have gone further into details.
It should have givan us the comparative
degree of intelligence attained in the
different classes from the abstainer to
the habitual drunkard. While the tip
pler may live out bis full number of
days, be undoubtedly does it with a
clouded intellect and at the same time
advances the lower attributes of his
nature, while the abstainer lives a life
of brightened faculties, although statis
tics say that by failing to deaden his
sensibilities with strong drink he burns
out his candle of life without economy.
Although the habitual drunkard, in the
cases reported, lives two years longer
than the abstainer, we believe that if the
investigators .had carefully figured out
the number of days he bad been drunk
and the number of weeks he hdd been
incapacitated on account of debauches
they would have found that in reality
the drunkard bad lived a fewer number
of years than the abstainer.
Water Works Bonds.
A meeting of the taxpayers of O'Neill
is hereby called to meet at the court
house, at 7:80 p. m., on Monday, Octo
ber 15, 1894, to consider proposals to
refund water bonds at a lower rate of
interest. All persons interested are
requested to attend promptly.
By order of the mayor.
O'Neill, Oct. 8, 1891.
Hood’s pills are the beat after dinner
pills, assist digestion, cure headache.
Try a bbs, 35c.
13-2
N. Martin, Clerk.
The Populist Record,
State Journal: For the past two years
a great deal of space in the populist
press has been devoted to wholesale
denunciations of the republican party
for the alleged reason that the "ex
travagance" and "misconduct” ot the
republican officials in the state house
and the "mismanagement" of state
institutions under a republican admin
istration bas saddled a state debt of
nearly a million dollars on the voters of
this commonwealth.
It has been repeatedly asserted and
frequently reiterated that the policy of
the republican party in Nebraska and
the actions of its official representatives
at the capital were solely responsible for
the indebtedness that hnngs over the
state today, and a strenuous effort has
been made to make this alleged con
dition of affairs a leading issue in the
present campaign.
With a lond-beating of tom-toms and
persistent sounding of the anarchistic
hewgag, frenzied appeals have been
made to the voters to rally round the
standard of flatlsm, incendiarism and
vagarisin, and "redeem Nebraska from
the fearful blight of republican mis
rule.” The stump disseminators of po
litical quackery have been quick to take
their cue from this bald misstatement of
fact, and a systematic course of truth
distortion and misrepresentation has
been inaugurated. Along this same
line, too, are being directed the efforts
of divers political Bashi-Bazouks, who,
while seeking revenge on the republi
cans wbo for years have kept them at a
safe distance from the public money
drawer and as persistently denied them
the power they, coveted, are jointly
watching an opportunity to seeure con
trol or plunder the campaign caravan
while they prate of loyalty, honesty and
the need of good government. They
parade their bogus devotion to principle
with as sublime a nerve and as con
temptible hypocrisy as ever character
ized that other patriot for revenue only
—Benedict Arnold, whose assumed sin
cerity in his advocacy of honesty served
only to cloak the secret conferences
with Major Andre while contemplating
the assassination of friends and the
betrayal of country.
It is nothing more nor less than an
attempt to politically hoodwink the
people of Nebraska in order to enable
populism to wipe of the slate and start
anew with a clean bill of health without
having to face the danunuing record of
inefficiency and incompetency made in
1891, when it had an opportunity to ex
hibit itself and show the taxpayers wiiat
it could do.
Unfortunately for the populist party
it has an ineffaceable record in Nebras
ka, as well as in Kansas, Colorado and
Oregan, and so long as public docu
ments are preserved so'that he who runs
may read the slate platform of populism
will not “point with pride” to that
record.
True it is that Nebraska has a stale
indebtedness of hundreds of thousands
of dollars, but equally true is it that this
indebtedness was saddled on the statu
by the populist legislature of 1891. Tin
facts are plain, the record is official,
and right here in the midst of a cam
paign of state issues is as good a time as
any for the thinking voter to sit down
aud recall a little all-wool-and-yard-wide
arithmetic of bis youth. Let him ponder
well these official figures and then de
cide with sober sense and business
judgment whether he is financially able
to indulge in the questionable luxury of
two years of "reform” administration of
that type. And that, too, without such
a palliating circumstance as republicans
in office to set the breaks when the pace
of reokless inexperience gets so hot that
it threatens to land the ship of state on
the rocks.
That the legislature of 1891 was clear
ly populist admits of no question. That
party had fifty-four of the one hundred
members of the bouse and eighteen of
the thirty-three senators, including the
evanescent Taylor, who rgn away dur
ing the fight over the maximum freight
rate bill and whose form has never since
that day CASt its shadow across Nebras
ka's prairies. The populists organized
both houses, controlling each with a
good working majority, and in the
language of those of their own party
faith is written the official story of their
shame. Here are the figures that tell
the tale:
Amount of appropriations in ex- I H :®
cess of taxes levied. j £
Total appropriation of legislature
for biennial period.
rotal amount of taxes assessed.
g§|
Total levy in mills.
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General fund levy in mills.
Total assessed value of all proper
ty in Nebraska.
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Each session of the legislature covers
a biennial period. The last republican
legislature was in 1880 aud 1800, whilo
the first, last and it is to be hoped the
only populist legislature tho state ever
will have was In session in 1801, cover
ing the years 1801-00. These two ses
sions offer a splendid opportunity (or a
fair comparison, besides showing the
real fact relating to the subject of exist
ing state indebtedness.
With the natural constant increase in
the wealth of the state the populist
legislature of 1801 found a grenter
assessed valuation of property subject
to its taxation than bad ever before
been the case. With such a condition
.of affairs and an honest determination
to economize, combined with the busi
ness ability to carry that determination
into execution, the natural result would
have been a reduction of tax levy.
Did that legislature give any evidence
of such retrenchment? Not to an extent•
visible to the naked eye. There was
neither retrenchment nor economy, but
there was populist “reform” with a
vengeance. Instead of reducing the tax
levy, that legislature crowded it up to
the 5 mills for general fund purposos,
the maximum limit under the constitu
tion, thus combining the highest valu
ation in the history of the state with tho
highest possible levy in mills.
lie u remembered that tuis was ex
clusive o( the regular special taxes called
for at that time by the legislation of
former lawmaking bodies of the state,
and which swelled the total levy to 0 0-8
mills for 1891 and 6 68-100 mills for 1802.
Be it understood, however, that these
special taxes were not an unusual feat
ure, as they provided for the following
funds: University, sinking, school,
state relief and institute for the feeble
minded. Special taxes nre ordered in
the bills creating certain of the state
institutions, to provide for maintenance
or for discharging the original indebted
ness, and these taxes were pratically the
same in 1889 and 1891.
The general fund levy represents the
actual operating expenses of the state
government and the reedrd shows that
the republicans conducted it on a levy
ot from 4| to 4 8-9 mills, while the pop
ulists made it 5 mills, evcii with an in
crease of sevcrnl millions in the assessed
valuation. The republican legislature
levied taxes on the slate amounting to
$3,303,156 and appropriated against that
levy $2,391,410, an excess of $18,254
over taxes levied; while tbe populist
legislature levied taxes amounting to
$2,458,344, and then appropriated
$2,886,575, spending $428,036 that there
was obviously nothing iu sight with
which to pay. In other words, the
populist legislature deliberately spent
nearly half a million dollars that it did
not have and could not get, thus trans
acting its business at the expense of the
state's credit and necessitating the issu
ance of warrants at 7 per cent., which
are still drawing interest at the tax
payer’s expense.
Bight on the face of things the slate
was being put in the hole to the tune of
$428,000, white in reality it was almost
twice as much as that. It is a matter of
general knowledge that 80 per cent,
covers the amount of taxes generally
collected, but conceding that 85 per
cent, of the lh'Jl and 1892 was collect
able, thus placing the populists in the
most favorable light possible, even then
they are proven guilty of placing an in
debtedness of $896,983 on the state.
This is the indebtedness that the pop
ulists have been and still are charging
up to republican "mismanagement” and
“extravagance,*” when the official figures
and records of the populist clerk of the
house and populist secretary of the
senate in 1891 show incontrovertibly
that it was legislated upon the state by
the populist majorities in those bodies.
Had the republican legislature of 1889
made the levy 5 mills, as did the pop
ulists in 1891, their record would have
shown a surplus of over $100,000 above
the appropriations, as compared with
an indebtedness of $800,000, which is
the record of the “reformers.”
In other words, the little experiment |
of electing a populist legislature cost the
taxpayers of Nebraska nearly a million
dollars more than a republican legislat
ure would have cost. What wonder,
then, is it that many a taxpayer who is
finding it difficult to pay his share of the
expenses of operating the government
has concluded that populist control is
altogether too high-priced a luxury for
this yeat of hard times. Tho populist
leaders realized this and in desperation
are seeking to befog the'issucs and mis
state facts.
It is not strange that they should seek
to disguise the truth, tor it is not likely i
to help their campaign. But their!
efforts to shirk the responsibility will j
not succeed. They will be required to
give a more satisfactory account of their
stewardship than has yet been or can be
done before receiving further trust or
confidence. If they are dishonest in I
in their representations of actual con-1
ditiona exulting today, how much more
honest would they be It they could*
secure official control of the state?
These facts and figures are submitted
to the thinking voter without passion or
prejudice. The purpose has been to
not extenuate nor set down aught in
malice, but to set forth the simple truth
with a view to correcting populist mis
representations and presenting the real
history of the Indebtedness that hangs
over Nebraska today.
Important Vesting.
O'NniUi, Neb,, Oct. 1, 1894.—To iht
Editor8,—What is every persons' business
in general is no person's business in
particular. A consideration of this fact
under existing circumstances in the this
county at the present time should cause
some move toward united action on the
part of the county in providing some
means of relief for the very needy of
the county in the coming winter. Never,
in the history of the county, have the
people of this county faced winter
under such trying circumstances as that
which confronts them at the present
time.
With the object in view of causing
united action in this matter, we, the
persons whose names appear as signers
of this notice, would recommend that a
meeting of the people of this county
be held at the conrt-house on the 15th
of Cctober for the purpose of organiz
ing in some manner that will assure
relief for the needy of the county during
the coming winter. We would particu
larly Impress on our supervisors the
necessity of their presence at this
meeting.
J. P. Mullen, Treasurer.
W. W. Bethea, Clerk.
Q. A. McCutciieon, Judge.
C. W. Hamilton, Sheriff.
W. K. Jackson. Superintendent.
■ 8. B. Howabd, Deputy Treasurer,
M. H. McCahthy, Deputy Clerk.
John Skibvino, Clerk District Court.
O. M. Collins, Deputy District Clerk.
J. E. Allison, Cash'r Exchange Bank.
John McUhide, Councilman.
"Moved that the county clerk be and
he hereby is directed to issue a warrant
in the sum of $500 payable to the chair
man of the legal committee, to defray
the expenses of litigation lu which Holt
county is engaged.” That was the
motion made ami carried immediately
after the board had refused an offer of
$0u,000 to settle with Scott's bondsmen.
Letter List.
Following Is the list of letters rcninlnlng tn
the postollleeat O’Neill, Nob., un 'lalined, for
the week ending October 3. 18114:
.Joe Allen Ethel Bjrlew O l! Conrad
Bernard Henbabnrsh AE Morton
ltoob Starr A V Wlcdel
lu calling for the above please say ‘'adver
tised.” If not called for in t wo weeks they
will be sent to the dead letter uflioo.
.1. H. Bums P. M.
Bryan Becomes Editor.
Bv a master stroke of enterprise the
Omaha World—Herald, ever in the front
rank of western journalism, has made
the popular young congressman, W.
J. Bryan, its editor-in-chief, the change
taking place September]. Ur. Bryan's
political convictions are clearly defined
am! well known. T he paper will vigor
ously advocate has views.
A fluent writer of vast resources, and
a candidate at this lime fot election to
the United States senate, his paper will
be read during iIn* e.ouiiig campaign
with peculiar interest People of all
parties will seek the World-Herald first
for political information. Its genera,
news service, too, is unrivaled, and its
twice a-week edition at $1 a year u
growing rapidly in popular favor. But
greater conquests are planned. To put
a "trial subscription" within the reach
of everybody, even in these hard times,
an unprecedented offer is now made.
The twice-a-week edition will be sent to
new subscribers from now to January 1,
1895, for only 20 cents. Daily World
Herald 50 cents a month. Remit to
World-Herald, Omaha. Neb. 10-9
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