||l8|§f§|$ \r" '•'t :_'• . \‘ it..."-- v -• V>:'-'•*- f1' (* if\v^< *r$, *> •»■ ■ • ' * ■ ■ '■•■• ; • , ■M'$ $')[■;%" :'a‘‘*X [THE FRONTIER PRINTING 60. SUBSCRIPTION, SI.SO PER ANNUM. CLYDE KING AND D. H. CRONIN, EDITORS AND MANAGERS. O'NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 18, 1894. NUMBER 15. ? . >.v .. t, i; Pold Aa They, Are Ue. IT HAPPENED eyed for General . Amassment. tlie city yesterday. las in from Star Mon i up from Ewing last down from Atkin »f Butte, was in the of Stuart) was in business. of Boston, Mass., htel Evans Monday. [of Atkinson, was in O’Neill yester be best after dinner Ion, cure headache. Jackson is building a immediately west of Oonneatville, Pa., | the fore part of tho art. bran And all kinds of 11 Flour & Feed Co., 88-tf bard wheat flour; ill Grocbky Co. ob Marsh, Billie Iten and others took bity Saturday. pterick patterns order and save postage lion plates free. 13 4 noot’s tonsorial artist, home near Inman serious illness of his turned Saturday night t which place he bad the grand lodge of the and family, of Boyd brought O’Neill Tues iy to Michigan, where eir future borne. iad of chopped wheat ices that will fit a Holt k. See us I INkill Guoceby Co. formerly of this place l, was in the city last ired that while here he ng which is now oc tor & Gallagher. has rented a farm in 1 remove to that state | Mr. Fallon has resided lor twenty years. We bber of our best farmers 'ill furnish you all kinds rioad lots or in small can also furnish you d gasoline by the gallon bis prices before buying 15tf ind maple syrup are now ter. Our new pancake i boney and pure maple r ready to be digested, i your next order. O’Nbili, Grocery Co. > of the Boyd County in the city Wednesday called at this office Al Ics the Advocate is dem urs are warm supporters of Sample. w has been nominated »rney by tbe pops of Box They must be hard up it there. Tom was but a o admitted to the bar and ase in bis life. f tbe Presbyterian church Halloween supper and sale at tbe rink. Wednee il- Come and see the dis i. Each one of the United lave one for sale. Hard )g, editor of that popular orts Afield, which is pub aneously in Denver and in the city Monday circu his subscribers. Mr. King, who bear his name, is a nan. He made numerous and took several subscrip aper. cream baking powder—tbe nade. Mr. and Mn. Bowen went up to At kinson last Friday evening, to which place they were called by the serious illness of their daughter, Mrs. W. E. Scott. They will also visit friends a few days in this city before returning to their home at Lincoln. Orant Hatfield has opened up a lunch Counter in O'Connor St Gallagher's sa loon, where he is always prepared to dish up a good meal or lunch on short notice and at all hours. Fresh oysters always on hand. He solicits your pat ronage, and while he does not guarantee to refund any money, he will do his best to give satisfaction. Try him once. County Judge McCutcheon has been confined to the house the greater part of the past week, in consequence of a little experience as tamer of untamed horses. While driving a colt he was thrown from his cart and landed up against a fence post, with sufficient force to jar loose a rib or two. Tub Fhontier trusts that he may recover without serious consequence. Stuttgart (Ark.) Chronicle: James DeYarman, late of O’Neill, Neb., has purchased the furniture, etc., of' the Metropolitan hotel and assumed charge Monday. Mr. DeYarman comes to our city highly recommended- He is a man of Vim and enterprise and we'bespeak for him a first-class business from the start. We join his many friends in wishing him unbounded success. -Mrs. Chan Lowe died in this city this morning, of typhoid fever, after an' ill* ness of several weeks. The remains will be taken for burial to Ceder Rapids, the former home of the deceased. Mrs. Lowe was a widow lady of about 30 years of age and leaves three children to mourn her early demise. One of the children, a bright little girl of three years, is in the city, the filter two being in Iowa attending school. Kautzman prides himself upon tbe habit he has acquired of finding and publishing other men’s private corres pondence. It is a matter of nor import ance to him that the letters reflect no light on questions in which the people are interested or have right to learn. Tbe editor tklio thus breaks tbe secrecy of the seal and publishes letters of a private nature must surely be treading on dangerous ground. Ground just as dangerous as that of advising his readers that they have a right to resist an officer in the discharge of his duty. Chambers Bugle: S. C. Sample of Boyd county, candidate for senator on the republican ticket, in company with Mr. Harrison tarried over Saturday night at' the Wintcrmote hotel. The gentlemen were returning from Wheeler, and Garfield counties, where they had been looking after the political situ ation, and were highly pleased with the outlook. Mr. Sample is making a vig orous canvass and is meeting with evi dent success. He is just the sort of man Nebraska needs at this critical time in her history. He is a gentleman of intelligence, honesty and practical busi ness experience and is worthy the con fidence of bis constituents. But few were present at the meeting at the court-house Monday evening, called for the purpose of getting an ex pression from the people on the ques tion of refunding water bonds, and the matter was continued until the next regular meeting of the couucil, at which time definite action will be taken. Property owners should make it a point to be present at that time, as it is a mat ter of great importance. Interest on water bonds is due; if it is not paid it will be collected by suit and judgment levy of tax; there is no money with which to pay the interest and the only thing that can be done is to take up the old bonds and issue new ones at a lower rate of interest, to which proposition the present holders of the bonds will agree. Give this matter a little atten tion. It was rumored on the streets last week that it was the intention of the Smudge to give Sam Sample a knock out blow, in fact hit him so unmerciful ly hard that be would not recover until after election. It did devote about half a column to him, but after carefully reading it over we fail to find anything that need throw one in convulsions, unless, perhaps it might be the terrible and excruciating language used by Kautzman. The only direct charge he makes against Mr. Sample is that when in O’Neill be has bad associates. We do not know how that is, we are sure. When in O’Neill be always seems to enjoy the friendship and esteem of such men as Ed Gallagher, Odie Biglin and J. P. Mann and others. If associating with such men as those is, in the Jew’s mind, cause for defeat, why we suppose the republican nominee for senator will plead guilty and withdraw from the race. __ Dr. Price’s cream baking powder—a i pure grape cream of tarter powder. MoCaffsrty to tho OoTornor. Not many days ago tbe World-Herald published a synopsia of a communica tion from William Reece, of Falla City, sent to the governor of Nebraska, pur porting to be the views of that gentlt man regarding the beat meant of avoid ing the customary hot winda which visit tbe state and sometimes do great damage to crops. The following is an other communication to Governor Crounse In refutation of Mr. Reece’s "aerial Irrigation” idea, and was pub lished In the World-Herald, date of October 10: - To His Excellency, Governor Crounse —Honored Sir: I wish to call your ex cellency’s attention, and that of the public, to the report of Denver's Inter state irrigation convention as presented l to you and the people of Nebraska by William Reece, of Falls City. I also wish to say a few words on his peculiar and erroneous views on "aerial irriga tion.” I thought that that part of our education looking to the utility and de sirability of using up all our available running water had been finally disposed of and settled at former conventions. I deny the truth of Mr. Reece's assertion when he says that "in four out cf every five years the natural rainfall of Kansas and Nebraska is sufficient for the rais ing of ordinary crops." It is a well es tablished fact that it takes an average annual rainfall of thirty-five inches to raise and muture our ‘‘ordinary crops.” Our rainfall in this part of the state don’t average twenty inches. In 1803 it was about thirteen inches, and this year up to September 1,1894, it slightly ex ceeded eight inches. I am speaking of my own local conditions and surround ings, but I don’t think other parts of tbe state fared touch better, If we except some fortunately low situated and shel tered valleys along our eastern border. And I presume that tbe conditions are the same and that Kansas is in our own "peculiar fix.” in diagnosing our case we should make sure that we not only find out the nature of our malady, but also its cause. With thus correctly starting and an in telligent pursuit of the object sought, under the scientific light of the age we live in, the correct solution of this great problem should be, and certainly is, within our reach. But one misdi rected step may ruin the entire project. When attending school I was taught, but had afterward to unlearn, some of Mr. Reece's antiquated theories on "aerial irrigation.” Up to a few years ago 1 thought that large bodies of water under the powerful rays of a hot, burn ing snn, “evaporated” sufficient water to return to and thoroughly dampen and irrigate the soil by copious showers caused bv the cooling atmospheric changes met with in strange careening currents of air. It was a great schock to my school boy store of knowledge to read of the drougth conditions resulting in the finest system of canal irrigation in the world along the sea-swept shores of Italy, where they do not have a shower of rain for years at a time. I was born and educated in a laud of mists and fogs, where it rained almost every day, and if the strange conditions of rainless Italy perplexed me, I was simply dumbfounded on reading of seven years without a shower in Sonora and San Aloa on the Gulf of California Now let us turn our attention to the investigation of these destructive hot winds, the origin of which Mr. Reese locates in New Mexico, though Prof. Augby says they otiginate on the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Reese invites the people of Kansas and Nebraska to build a few frog or fish ponds (a very good idea as far as it goes) for the primary purpose of “evaporating, cooling and dampen ing” the atmosphere, and thereby pre paring the way for copious rains, as he seems to think these naughty winds, after blowing over such considerable bodies of water, will be surcharged and loaded with the needed moisture for "making rain.” Heat is the prime cause of all our winds, as warm air is lighter than cold, and in proportion to its specific gravity, it will, therefore. raise by tbe laws or nature, and tbe cooler surrounding air will rush in to fill up or ratber prevent a vacuum. In this way we get action on the almost phere and get the mass of air in motion and cull it wiud. Altitude bas much to do witKtbe production of rain; us most continental countries are higher to the west than to the east, tbe west gets less and tbe east more rains. Knowing that tba beat produces wind, I’ll invite the attention of Jlr. Reese and the reader to the burning sands of the Arabian deserts on tbe Quid of Aden, which is the very hottest place in all Asia and the birth place of our “hot winds" and tbe “trade winds” combined, for they are one and the same thing or a continued subject. The beat generated by the burning sun shining on those hot sands is lifted up and set in motion by the laws of gravi tation, the higher the dryer, and take an easterly course along the line of the * ' * ^ & 1v:i ' - it ■■; .• ■ JOHN BRENNAN7 or SIOUX CITY, 10., Will address republicans O'Neill' at tbe oourt (i nouse in this city, next | ( ; THURSDAY EYE, OCT 25. 11 Itfr. Brennan is an Irish 1J tdpubllcan of more than * ( hatlonal reputation, and | I bn the date above men* Jjiioned will give reasons for the political faith that < | is in him. | ^ O'Neill citizens have (l oftq.n tried to secure a visit from the noted ora tor and editor and now that their hopes are to be realized they should greet him with a large and rep resentative audience. While be will speak from a republican stand* $ point his remarks will in terest all. 1 tropic of Cancer and pass over the Arabian sea, which is some larger than any fish pond we cun hope to build in the next few years; and yet these winds strike the western shores of Central Bindoostan without much apparent moisture gained by hugging and kissing that beautiful part of the queenly Iudlan ocean, certainly not enough to make very much rain along that promontory of land about and south of Bombay. As these winds descend over tbe low lands near the eastern shore on their course to the Bay of Bengal we witness an Increase of rain. And now these winds take another dip and sweep along tbe surface of the bay until they reach Burmah and northern Siam, but, strange they gathered no rain in the process of skimming the big Bengal fish pond, as we know that the English planters dry and cure “As-am tea” in the open air for nine months in tbe year. Well, our hot winds blow along tbe Laos and Tung King countries and"over southern China, and now agaiu. take water and should evaporate und absorb in the Chinn sea, but they don’t, nor do they lift much irrigation matter as they cross the wide expanse of waters in the north Pacific ocean and strike the high lands and mountains of Northern Mexico with sufficient elemental force and fury to shatfet and jar and shake apart the atoms of matter and cause precipitation of rain, if my old and Mr, Reece’s pres ent theory was only a fact. These old and dying theories are not facts, and we witness the winds, as we track them from their very inception in southwestern Asia over land and moun tain, ocean and sea. till they are turned out of their easterly course by the very force with which they strike the stupend ous mountains of Old Mexico, and are veered to the north and enter into and blow over New Mexico and continue in a northeasterly direction, still maintain ing their voracious hunger for moisture and so devour every particle of humidity in our high land atmosphere. Another very strange thing ia that these moisture-absorbing hot winds are dissolved and lost when descending to an altitude of less than 1.000 feet. You may depend upon it that these are facta, and only reversed in countries fortunate ly lashed by the waters of the gulf stream. Does any sane man pretend to believe that the building of a few fish ponds is a safe and sufficient remedy against our hot winds and protracted drouths? Or, will our comiug legislature take a step in the right direction to solve this ques tion ty passing good and suitable laws for irrigation and appropriating ample funds for the conversion of our running streams into irrigation canals? This thing can be done now for a double purpose—one to frutify our fields, the other to furnish work and bread to the needy poor who otherwise must starve. Yours truly, J. J. McCaffebty. E. M. Cravatb, of New York City, arrived in O’Neill yesterday with twenty one head of thoroughbred Shorthorn cattle which he delivered to Jim Mc Alister on a sale previously made. Mr. Cravatb started this morning on his return trip to New York. For The Campaign, The campaign this fall will be of the greatest interest to all the citizens of Nebraska. The Omaha Weekly Bee will handle all the issues of importance during the campaign in its usual able manner and proposes to make a price of 20 cents for the balance of this year to all Nebraska subscribers who may desire to keep thoroughly posted on the im portant issues that will be discussed Send us 20 cents in silver or stamps for the 12-page Weekly Bee up to Jan uary 1, 1895. Address, The Omaha Bee, Omaha, Neb. MERCHANT TAILOR_ D. H. Garbart has opened up to do a general Mer chant tailoring business in O’Neill. He will be found in the Mack building 4 doors east of dote! Evans, where he will be pleased to show you samples and take orders for new suits. Repairing and cleaning done neatly and promptly. D. H. QARUART. -• v .ief* •i -r.-jr-.-1, i. u. Oka herty in O’Neill. The republican rally in O'Neill Tuex day night, although hardly widely enough advertised, drew a full houae. The O’Neill cornet band furnished the music for the occasion, playing a few selections on the street, afterwards marching to the court-house, where Mr. Daugherty was heartily welcomed. He spoke for an hour and a half and held the attention of his audience to the last. Kem’s official record was carefully and politely reviewed, showing that bo had been recreant to the trust placed In him by the people of the Sixth congressional district. It did not take a great deal of the speaker's time to review what Kem had done while in congress, but the evening was far too short to tell what he had not done. The Wilson bill received considerable attention aud the votes of the pop members, on the questions most directly interesting the people of this section, were shown to have been cast on the Bide of the plutocratic trusts rather than on the side of the common people. Although Mr. Daugherty’s voice was somewhat telescoped on account of making so many speeches, his address was well received and mado him many friends and several votes. Court Proceedings. Since our last Issue a number of cases have been disposed of, among the more important, the following: County of Holt vs. Barrett Scott on his first bond, now being tried. Harrington vs. Saxton for attorney fees, verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of 8640. This case grew out of the foreclosure of the mortgage on the Bridges mill, Harriugton being attorney for Saxton. Motion for new trial filed Lamont vs. Constable Uorrisky, dam age, was tried to jury, but defendant drew a juror on account of surprise in tbe evidence, and the case was con tinued, to be tried at a later date of this term. Hannah Gibbons vs. Riley Bros., re plevin, verdict for plaintiff. Stale vs. John llayes, ex township treasurer, and Neil Brennan tils bonds man, was tried Saturday, '.be jury re turning a verdict of “no cause of action.” The amount claimed was $2, 400. This case was rather mixed There docs not seem to be much question but that llayes v as short, but the plaintiff was unable to prove in which term the shortage occurred, owing,perhaps,to the miserably poor book-keeping of the ex treasurer. It appears that in his second term he gave no bond at all to the town ship and was allowed to serve bis time, probably through an oversight of Bam Howard, who was at that time township supervisor. Mr. Breuuau was on the bond for the first term and was the only answering defendant. The prosecution attempted to fix the shortage within the time Mr. Brennan was holden, but failed by the verdict as above stated. Scott vs. Cunningham, damage, dis missed by plaintiff. F. C. Mills vs. F. D. Adams, trespass, verdict of one cent for plaintiff. The costs were $87.78. It was simply a matter of one man’s cow getting on another man's premises and could have been settled in its infancy by the pay ment of 50 cents Augusta Welton vs. Union Telegraph company, damage, verdict of $28.60 for plaintiff. This case started by the tele graph company getting mixed up on a telegram and delivering it to Mrs. Welton instead of the right party, caus ing her a trip to the Black Hills in an swer to a message that was intended for some one else. Populists’ Bally. The independent rally that was adver tised to take place at the court house in this city last Saturday came off in due form and was fairly well attended, there being present probably 230 people, in cluding men, women and children. Judge Roberts was master of ceremon ies, and Messrs. Kem and Carey were the principal speakers, around and be tween whom were sandwitebed a few local lights nr uarey, wuose home is in rrernont, was the first speaker He gave a very entertaining address and was greatly admired for the gentlemanly manner in which he handled those who do not agree with him in politics. He seemed to make an effort to be fair and argue his question from his party platform, and although he made many assertions to which republicans could easily take exceptions, and we believe successfully combat, he mads no enemies among those of bis own faith. With Kem it was somewhat different. In his opening remarks he said that he had not come to tell our people any thing new, and so far as we were able to judge he religiously kept his word. He re-hashed bis oft-told vagaries and again laid the misfortunes and reverses of the human race at the door of the old parties i and exhorted bis bearers to continue ; , . .. '. .. . . " A' . .V* «. . . ,«Cs&If'S-vi ■ - —- — ‘T .V ft£}jj voting for him and those of his ilk ufitll Nebraska hot winds should change Into 1 „ refreshing dews, cyclones into gentle , ^ zephyrs and everybody would be happy and worth a cool million apiece. Ha recklessly Invited inspection of his con* , gresslonal record, although we do not believe that be meant that, or else he did not give his audience credit with .enough Intelligence to understand it , after they had given It a dose Inapec* tion. An inspection of his record would do him no good. i Tom Qolden also made a short talk, fj * declaring that he would vote for Kent. Tom Is now out of the woods. People know where he is. He took occasion to reler to Charley MoHugh and in the course of his remarks said that he dls* ^j:f| liked to leave his old friend supporting the rump ticket. He could not under* ' >» stand why the Sun was supporting the rumps unless it was from a mercenary , motive. Tom might know that It was from a mercenary motive. Who ever •; heard of McHugh being actuated by | anything else? s'" Council Proceedings. At a special meeting called after the public meeting in the court-house, October 15,1894, the following business >V.I was transacted: Moved by Wagers, seconded by Gats, that the city attorney be Instructed to '■'> prepare and present at nest meeting of council proper .end nefcessary papers to submit the question of refunding water ' bonds\of tb«‘ city of O’Neill, Neb., to , _ *■ the voters of said city. Council all voted yea. Adjourned to meet In the council room on Monday, November 6, 1894. Tax payers are Invited to be present • and express their views. By order, .Vi N. Maktin, City Clerk. Belief Veering. In response to a cull tanned iyit week ' by the county offlcera quite a meeting wan held Monday afternoon at the court house for the pur rose of ascertaining if Uolt county citizeus were liable to need any assistance during the coming winter and if so. to devise wnyn and means to provide for their aasistec «. The meet* Ing may bo