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CLYDE KINO AND D. H. CRONIN, EDITORS AND MANAGERS.
olume XV.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, DECEMBER 27, 1894.
NUMBER 25.
l0f interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
JS and how it happened
Happenings Portrayed For General
IdiScation and Amuaement.
Ige Kinkaul went flown to Omaha
■rijay. returning Monday evening.
and Mrs. Arthur Hammond are
parents of ft hftby girl, born last
liyan is up from Omaha to spend
olidays. lie is attending college at
etropolis.__
■ flour, corn, bran and all kinds of
(o to the O'Neill Flour & Feed Co.,
Hack Manager. 38-tf
n. Mullen and wife, of CusterS. D.,
down Monday morning to spend
tmas with relatives.
ie Sullivan came up Friday from
y to spend the holidays with his
v. lie will return after New
hough the north wind has been
iriy tempered to the shorn lambs
fall, no fears are entertained as to
te crop.
and Mrs. Ed Gallagher’s little son,
ird, was quite sick the fore part of
irk but recovered nicely under Dr.
tan's care.
ne of the vocalists of the Green
club were discoursing music, sweet
herwise, at one of our popular re
Christmas night.
s reported that Judge Einkaid has
i 119 his decision that as Barrett
has been convicted Cunningham
itly entitled to the reward.
I. Hayes left for Lincoln Wednes
norning to attend the grand lodge,
'■ of A., as a delegate from JUolt
of this city. He expects to re
Saturday.
r Father Cassidy was agreeably sur
last Monday evening by three of
lumbers of his congregation calling
him and presenting him with #115
Christmas preseut.
e firemen of Atkinson are making
getuents to give a grand Fourth
versary hall on New Year’s eve, at
ink in that city, to which they hear
rteiui invitation to our citizens.
A parable worth the reading,
Mike we might have read,
if Christ had come to Chicago —
But the devil came in Stead.
—[Judge.
e banquet and entertainment given
16 rink last Friday night by the
men of the high school was a very
!8nt affair, although not as numer
' attended as it should have been.
N'1)66,1 officially announced that
"hose other name is Smoot, has
deposed as chief custodian of “de
P, his successor to be appointed
E next r6®ulHr meeting of the club.
Corrigan is just recovering
’SC6ss un<ler his chin. This tr
to be epidemic here: 0
1 B. Uagerty and others h
*" up for repairs from the
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Wi‘‘fur,lisb you all kinds
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«, *“ ^oline by the gallon
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U &Jove results.
Harry Dowling left Sunday morning
for North Bend to spend Christmas with
his parents and best girl.
Eastern money to loan on Holt and
Boyd county farms. Low rates ot
interest. William Famiis, Agt.
22-tf. O’Neill Neb.
Miss Annie Hanley, sister of Tim
Hanley, arrived in the city last Friday
evening and will visit relatives here for
a few months. Miss Hanley left here
about six years ago and has since lived
with a sister at Butte, Montana.
We have the largest, best and greatest
variety of candies and nuts ever brought
to O’Neill for the holiday trade. Sun
day schools will do well to look over
our stock and prices. Respectfully,
22-tf J. Bently.
Dates of terms of court in the fifteenth
judicial district ot Nebraska, for 1895:
Holt county, February 7, jury 11, Sep
tember 18, jury 23. Boyd county, May
7, October 22. Rock county, March 11,
September 16; Brown county, March 4,
November 11; Keya Paha'county, May
14, September 24; Cherry county, March
25, October 7: Sheridian county, April
15, October 14, jury 15; Dawes county,
Fepruary 15, jury 18'JSeptember 3, jury
4; Box Butte county, April 2, November
19; Sioux county, April 8, November 25.
ibe subject of irrigation is attracting
unusual attention. At the Hutchinson,
(Kans.) irrigation convention, held No
vember 23-24, there were more practical
irrigators in attendance than ever before
assembled at an irrigation convention in
the Udited States. The discussions were
all very practical an instructive. They
will be reproduced in full in the Decem
ber number of of the Irrigation Farmer.
Every farmer in this country should
have a copy of this paper. It is the
only paper that is devoted wholly to the
subject of irrigation farming. It costs
only 91.00 a year, and whether you ex
pect to irrigate or not you cannot afford
to be without it. Send to the Irrigation
Farmer, Salina, Kansas, for a sample
copy and examine it for your self.
“Ray R. Towner, a youth of 18 years,
was pardoned yesterday by Governor
Crounse,” says Sunday’s State Journal.
“He was sentenced to one year in the
penitentiary for burglary, and was re
ceived at the prison Nov. 13. He lived
at Norden, Keya Paha county, where he
fell into bad company and, with others
stole goods from a store. He took a
pair of mittens and two pairs of shoes,
but returned the property and confessed.
He received a minimum sentence, owing
to the circumstances. The boy’s moth
er, who is a widow with an infant child,
was dependent upon him for support,
and she visited the governor Friday and
pleaded for bis liberty. It was granted
unconditionally and to-day the boy is
free.” Towner was one of the men who
was sentenced at O’Neill last month by
Judge Kinkaid,
The Pacific Short Line has recently
made a change in their time card which
is of great benefit to all those having
occasion to travel between the Black
Hills and Sioux City and points in South
Dakota. By the new arrangement a
train leaves Sioux City at 4:15 r. m. im
mediately after the arrival of the C. M.
and S. P. train from Mitchell, and
arrives Ht O’Neill in time to connect
with train for the Hills, thus avoiding
the all night lay over in Sioux City.
The east bound train will continue to
leave O’Neill as usual after the arrival
of train from the Black Hills, arriving
in Sioux City over two hours earlier
than via any other line, and making ell
connections north and east. Passen
gers should purchase tickets to O’Neill
and rebuy there, thus getting advantage
of the lowest rate.
“Last Thursday the state banking
board met and formally took charge of
the Stuart state bank by applying to the
supreme court for the appointment of :t
temporary receiver,” says the Journal.
“B. R. Cowdery, one of the state bank
examiners, received the appointment and
will have charge until his successor is
appointed. From a report of an exami
nation made by Mr. Cowdery, In which
he says the bank is insolvent, the board
decided to close it up and wind up its af
fairs. The bank is located at Stuart,
Holt county. Henry Brockman is pres
ident and George Bowering is cashier.
According to Mr. Cowdery’s report, made
Oct. 30, the resources include notes and
'-'ills, discounted $38,544, with a proba
ble loss of $16,000; overdrafts, $1,160,
mostly good. The capital stock is $10,
000 and the deposits amount to $49,791.
Sunday dailies gave the following ac
count of an adventure of Congressman
Mickeljohn’s in Washington; “Mrs.
Annie L. Leahy was murdered by her
step-father, Joseph A. Bean, astairbuild
er. at her home in this city shortly after
3 ° c'oclc this afternoon. The murderer
shot the woman five times and after she
had fallen dead at his feet kicked her
time and again. Then loading the
re
volver he drove back a policeman who
attempted to arrest him, and sped out on
the street threatening to shoot anyone
who attempted to interfere with him.
Representative George D. Meiklejohn of
Nebraska, who was directly in Bean’s
path, grappled with him, disarming him
in a trice, and turned him over to the po
liceman. The congressman who is 87
years old, is a much smeller man than
the murderer, but he caught the latter
in such a manner as to pinion his arms
to his sides. Bean saw that a fight was
impossible and noticing representative
Meiklejohn's watch chain, gasped:
"Are you a Mason?”
“Yes,” said the congressman, ‘‘what
have you done?”
The murderer then told of his crime
and allowed Mr. Meiklejohn to take his
revolver and accompanied a police offi
cer to the station without resistance.
Bean's wife drove him from home some
weeks ago, and ho accused his step-1
daughter of influencing her, and .finally
became so incensed over the matter that
he decided to kill her.
Oar city schools seem to be in another
paoxysm ofj boil and bubble, toil and
trouble. The cause, as gathered from
the strret corners, is because tbe board
refuses to act upon the recommendation
of the principal andd iscbarge a teacher
whom he avers is utterly incapable of
teaching the young mind how to shoot
with any degree of accuracy or certain
ty. In fact the contest is said to have
reaobed the parting of the ways—tbe :
professor insisting upon the discharge of |
the teacher, the refusal of which will
draw forth his own resignation. As tbe
teacher in question is one to which (he
people so earnestly protested against at
the school election and before the board
after election, this paper is constrained
to uphold the principal in bis efforts for
her removal. That she is incompetent
and has failed to make a success of her
department is not a matter subject to
debate. It is admitted by everybody,
but a majority of the school board, and
why that majority insists that black is
white is a mystery ofatbe secret ballot
that finds favor at their meetings. We
do not look for any good results to come
from our schools while the present
board continues in power. Members of
the board commenced their term of office
by violating pledges made before and
after their election and now indicate
that they propose to continue the same
until their terms expire. Our schools
will never be wbat they should be until
we have a board that will refuse to turn
itself into a relief commission. The
favoritism shown by the board says in
spirit, if not in words, Shrader-like,
that the will of the people be damned.
There is a hereafter, however, so let ail
of ye wrathful citizens bide a wee and
wail for the time when the people will
get this board on the hip.
Ceremony of Inauguration.
A meeting of the state officers elect
was held yesterday for the purpose of
arranging the outlines of the inaugural
ceremony. The gathering was arranged
by Adjutant-General Gage and was held
at the Lindell hotel at 2 o’clock. Those
present were Governor Holcomb, Treas
urer Bartley, Auditor Moore, Superin
tendent Corbett, Attorney-General
Churchill and Adjutant-Gage. The oth
er two offlcers-elect, Secretary of State
Piper and Land Commissioner Bussell,
were not able to be present, but they
had both conferred with the incoming
governor the day before. It was decid
ed to have the most simple service possi
ble with a compliance with the law.
The details have been delegated to a
committee. It is announced that the in
auguration will of course take place on
Thursday afternoon. The oath of office
will be administered to Mr.. Holcomb by
Chief Justice Norval and the bond ap
proved. Afterward the oilier state offi
cers will take the oath and be duly in
ducted into office with ceremony. In the
evening there will be a reception in the
senate chamber, to which the public is
to be invited. All the state officers will
be present with their ladies and every
one will have a chance to shake hands
and become accquainted. Music is to
be furnished by the Second regiment
band, Nebraska national guard, known
as the Nebraska state band.
Mr. Holcomb remained at the Lindell
hotel yesterday, but before leaving in the
evening for his home at Broken Bow be
broke the ice and made a selection. It
was announced that he had appointed
Benton Maret of Dawson county as pri
vate secretary. Mr. Maret was after
ward introduced at the governor's office
as the new secretary, so that there is no
doubt about the authenticity of the re
port. He is the voting muu who had
charge of the independent headquarters
at Omaha during the campaign. He is
said to be a distant relative of the new
governor and has been with him since
the election in the capacity of secretary.
J. W. iKdgerton, secietary of the state
central committee was considered a close
second for the place, and now it is said
that he will get something just as good.
Jules Schocnheit. a young attorney of
Falls City, is said to be the choice of the
new governor for clerk and Dan Athen
is mentioned as his selection for a place
in the office.—Slate Journal, Dec. 27.
1 - Y. • I
TEN DAYS ONLY
In order to reduce our stock prepara
tory to invoicing and also to stimulate
trade during a usually dull season will
have a grand clearing sale commencing
January 3, and ending January 13.
This sale will include every article in
our dry goods, clothing and shoe stock.
The discounts will vary from 10 per
cent, on fur coats, wool boots and over
shoes to BO per cent, on special articles
to close them out.
Dress goods, Blankets, Cloaks, Suits,
Overcoats, Boots, Shoes, Hats and Caps
will all be sold at 30 per cent, discount
except where better discount is giyen on
special drives.
A job lot of 00 pairs pants will be
selected from our stock and sold at one
third off.
Twenty-five pairs Misses Kid Shoes
sizes 13 to 1 worth $1.75 to $3.30 will all
be sold at the uniform price of $1.00 per
pair.
Fifty pairs mens shoes worth from
$3.00 to $7.00 at half price.
A big line of Ladle's, Men's and Child
ren’s underwear at 30 per cent, discount.
One thousand yards outing flannell
worth 131 at 10 cents. This is a great
drive.
Best dress prints only 0 cents.
Remember the date. Don’t get left.
35-3 Respectfully,
J. P. MANN.
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W. Young, West Liberty, W. Va. The
prompt relief it affords is alone worth
many times the cost, 50 cents. Its con
tinued use will effect a permanent cure.
For sale by P. C. Corrigan, Druggist.
Mr. Ira P. Wetmore, a prominent real
estate agent of San Angelo. Texas, has
used Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhcoa Remedy in his family for
several years as occasion required, and
always with perfect success. He says:
"I find it a perfect cure for our baby
when troubled with colic or dysentery.
I now feel that my outfit Is not complete
without a bottle ot this remedy at home
or on a trip away from home. For sale
by P. C. Corrigon, druggist,
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
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It is guaranteed to give perfect satis
faction or money refunded. Price 25c.
per box. For sale by P. C. Cor
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D. W. Fuller, o( Canajoliare, N. Y.,
says that be always keeps Dr. King’s
New Discovery in tbe bouse and bis
family bas always found the very best
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Dykeman Druggist, Catskill, New York,
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Specimen Cases.
8. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis., was
troubled with Neuralgia and Rheuma
tism, bis Stomach was disordered, his
Liver was affected to an alarming degree
appetite fell away, and he was terribly
reduced in flesh and strength. Three
bottles of Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepard, Harrisburg, III.,
had a running sore ou bis leg of eight
years’ standing. Used three bottles of
Electric Bitters and seven boxes of
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, and his leg is
sound and well. John Speaker,
Catawba, O., had five large Fever sores
on bis leg, doctors said he was incurable.
One bottle Electric Bitters and one box
Bucklin’s Arnica Salve cured him
entirely. Sold by P. C. Corrigan.
Hake an Offer.
Your price goes. We must sell west i
lot 4 O’Neill. Write us.
H. E. Coi.b Co.,
Real Estate & Rental Agts..
23-3 106 N. 15th, Omaha, Neb.
F. E. and K. T. Ey.
Change of time of passenger trains
No. 3 and 4 to connect with tbe flyer on
the C. and N. W. for Chicago and points
east. A dining car will be put on tbe
Northwestern train so that passengers
can get supper leaving the Valley, also
breakfast going into Chicago on "A La
Carte” plan, passengers to pay for what
they get. Passengers going to Omaha
can do so and get borne in two days in
stead of three as heretofore.
W. J. Dobbs, Agent.
PERTAINING TO IRRIGATION.
[To our readers: It Is the intention of
tbe editors of Tur Khontieu to devote
a column or so of space each week to
the sub|ect or irrigation. Considering
that a great number of our farmer read
ers will do a little experimenting the
coming seasomwe shall endeavor to oc
casionally drop a few hints of value to
the novice, besides keeping everybody
thoroughly posted as to local irrigation
matters. We feel oonfldent that this
new departure will be heartily appre
ciated by our friends and patrons ]
"Water is the God of the harvest.”
Another season like the one just past
I and, well, it will be a case of going to
your wife's folks sure.
L. Helmer, of Valparlso, and a gen
tleman by the same name, of Minnesota,
were in town last week negotiating with
the irrigation company for water rights
for their lands.
When the big ditch is successfully
completed wo may truthfully say of Holt
county: "A valley reclaimed from na
ture's vast domain, that will blossom
with orchards ripe and golden grain.”
: At Greeley, Col., it will take five
months to ship out their crop of pota
toes and they are loading and shipping
eighty car loads every day. We can do
this at O'Neill when we get tbe land
watered.
When anyone tells you that the "big
ditch” or the "little ditch” will fill up
with sand ask them why the Niobrara
and Elkhorn rivers and the numerous
creeks have not filled up. They have
kept open through the sand storms of
many hundred years.
Think of the prospects ahead of us
with the successful building of the "big
ditch”: bountiful crops, splendid rail
way facilities, within easy reach of the
big commercial centers, one of the finest
climates to be found, fertile soil. What
more can we ask?
It is not thought that the Ewing irri
gation ditch will be constructed the
coming season. The land along the
proposed ditch is owned by five or six
gentlemen, who decline to contract for
water, but say that they will construct
the ditch themselves if the organized
company will release its rights.
W. H. Newman, who resides near
Dorsey, this county, was in the citv last
Friday figuring on buying an hydraulic
ram with which to elevate water from
Steele Creek, for irrigation purposes,
upon the table lands. He expects to ir
rigate only about five acres in the valley
the coming season and while in the city
purchased tiling of Mr. Brennan for
that purpose.
We learn from the irrigation company
that they are succeeding beyond their
expectation in getting water rights, and
that the construction of the ditch will
commence in the early spring, from
which time it will be pushel to comple
tion without delay. They say that non
residents are taking water rights faster
than the farmers of our own county. It
is immaterial to the company who takes
the water, but we would prefer to see
i our own people wake up before it is too
late.
Mr. Stapleton, of Omaha, represent
ing a great deal of land in the countiea
west of us, as well as in Holt, was in
town and tells us that be wants water
for all of their land under the plan of
the irrigation company. He thinks this
is going to be a great thing for tbo loan
companies that were forced to take land,
and instead of losing on their holdings,
as they anticipated, they believe that
with a water right and a chance to get
water on the land they will realize a
profit instead of a loss.
It is important to every business man
of O'Neill and to every farmer and land
owner, that every foot of the land tribu
tary to O’Neill be supplied with water.
Without water we know only too well
the consequence. With water it has
been demonstrated that the soil will pro
duce a big crop. This water cannot be
had unless spoken for in time. Sign a
contract to take water while you have
the opportunity, and get in before the
150,000 acres are taken. Signing the
contract won’t hurt you, it means simply
that if the irrigation company gets
water on your land you will pay for it,
nnd every farmer says the price is a fair
one. If they fail to give you water and
sufficient of it you pay nothing. This
is plain and easy.
Mr. Fred Feltz, of Ewing, was in the
city last week and called at this office
Mr. Feltz has travelled a great deal
through the irrigated west—Colorado,
Idaho, California and other states ad
vanced in the art—and after a careful
study of the workings .-of irrigation in
those status advances the Idea that no
locality visited by him is as fortunately
situated for irrigation at a low figure as
our own county, and that the soil in
those states whero such fabulous crops
are said to be raised Is teally Inferior to
our own. He told us of reservoirs visit*
ed by him that cost many thousands of
dollars to construct and their only
source of supply was the seepage from
mountain snows. Of course in those
localities water rights are very high,
three limes as much In many places as Is
asked in Holt county.
The prospect now is that the greater
part of the land under the south irriga
tion ditch will be broken up and cropped
next season. Mannger Selah informs us
that several qua"ter sections of the un
developed land either have or are about
to pass into the possession of exper
ienced farmers, who will settle and im
prove them at once. Some of them are
men experienced in farming under Irri
gation canals elsewhere and will bring
knowledge and Intelligence %lth them,
which will guarantee the best possible
results. The company also contem
plates breaking and planting to flax a
number of acres of this land, or causing
it to be done by farmers, In forty and
eighty acre tracts. Tnn Frontiir
hopes to see all of this land under culti
vation next season. With water assur
ed, as it now is, nothing but hall and
laziness can prevent a bountiful yield.
The former can be Insured against; the
latter we hope the company will guard
against locating there as best it can.
With the 0,000 acres under this canal
in a high state of cultivation, O'Neill
and Holt county will have secured a
factor in their upbuilding of great and
lasting importance, for at least 800
families can be accommodated with
good sized farms upon this land.
Tub Fkontibu yeuturei to say that
few of the people of O’Neill and Holt
county have attempted to eitlmate what
the two Irrigation dltchei now under
way, mean to this locality. With the
little ditch south of ust already com*
pleted, watering some 10,000 acres, and
the big ditch north of us, for which
water rights are now being secured,
furnishing water for from fifty to sev
enty-five thousand acres of as fertile
land as ever laid out of doors, an empire
in small territorial compass will be de
veloped here in a very few years, and
the city of O’Neill will swell in size,
wealth and importance in a correspond
ing ratio. Agricultural prosperity is
the key to general prosperity. Where
the farmers produce abundantly and
constantly the gods of commerce estab
lish abiding places and ply their avoca
tions to the up building of large cillea
and towns. The busy wheels of indus
try ever move in harmony with the
tramp of the farmer’s team, and where
the fatted ox, the well-fed swine, lue- ■
cious fruits and golden grains reward
the farmer for his unrequited toil mills
and factories, stores, churches, achoola
etc. at once spring up to supply the
other needs of human life and a com
mon center is created, a city Is bullded
with railways and other highways link
ing it in eternal embrace with prosper
ous and happy surroundings. When we
make of the country around O’Neill a
farmer’s paradise, as with irrigation we
doubtless will, this little straggling and
struggling city will number her citlzena
by the tens of thousands, every avenue
of business will take on new life, the
energy of human entei prise and activity
will give evidences of their presence
through towering monuments of brick
and stone, more factories, more rail
roads, more stores, more churchea,
more schools, more handsome residences
and comfortable homes. We know no
reason why O’Neill should not occupy
the proud position of first city in the
northern part of this state. The only
obstacle in her way in the past has been
the tendency to drouth in this locality
and now with this oyercome, as it prac
tically is, nothing should be permitted
to interfere with her rapid and positive
progress to the front ranks of Nebraska
towns. The energy and enterprise are
here to consummate this, and they
should be forced to the accomplishment
of the greatest and best results.
any one wno nag children will rejoice
with L. li. Mulford, of Plainfield, N. J.
His little boy, five yearg of age, waggick
with croup. For two dayg and nights
he tried various remedies recommended
by friends and neighbors, He says: “I
thought sure I would lose him. I had
seen Chamberlain's Cough Remedy ad
vertised and thought I woult try it as a
last hope and am happy to Bay that after
two doses he slept until morning. I
gave it to him next day and a cure was
effected. I keep this remedy in the
house now and as soon as any of my
children show signs of croup I give it to
them and that is the last of it." 25 and >i
50 cen bottles for sale by P. C. Corrigan V*
Druggist.
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