lishcd st the frontier printing co. ILUME XV. SUMORIPTION. II.NPtR ANNUM. O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, MARCH 7, 1895 CLVDK RING ANO O. H. CRONIN. EDITOR* AND MANAGERS, -?|l NUMBER 35. s SANS WHISKERS of Internet Told As They Are Told to Us. N AND how it happened Happenings Fortrsjsd Tot General Edification end Amassment. O'Neill Batter & Egg company jsed its door*. Thompson, of Sioux City, was city last night. er Williams is in Omaha attending ting of the Shriners. ig yoor Butter and Eggs to the sn Mercantile Co. 85-8. of Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff’s little s sick with the measles. (V. McClure, of Sioux City, was in tv the first of the week. >. Mann returned Sunday evening a business trip to Chicago. Sullivan Mercantile Co. take But d Eggs in trade for goods. 85-8. rio of pure Indian game chickens ile, price $6. 85-1 J. H. Riggs. Ige Maxwell has'sustained a decis iade by the Jew in the Gillespie iday’s blizzard, although of short ion, sufficed to remind one of old J. Dobbs went down to Omaha sorning to attend a meeting of the era. _ ssrs. Wertz and Krotter, of Stuart, id between trains in O’Neill last day. _ e bill allowing the state to take a ;e of venue in'state cases passed the # Tuesday. Iter not read this! Adam & Co. lell Kerosene Oil on Saturday next Sc per gallon. One day only. is Mattie Mann left O'Neill this ing for Chicago, where she will re-« several months visiting friends. S. Bartlett, editor of Nebraska e Journal, Omaha, and wife, were this week visiting the family of mce Selah. le First National bank sued the ty last week and recoved Judgment 111,000, warrants drawn on the 1892 and held by it. dge Klnk&id is holding court in worth. He will return in time to in church next Sabbath. The morn lervice will be at 10:30 and the eve nt 730. All are invited. lt Biglin was confined to his bed the Part of the week but at the present >ng is able to be out again. It’s 1 to keep a good man down. n Dolan, who has been in the city “pie of weeks visiting her parents, and Mrs. Alex Boyd, returned Sun morning to her home in Omaha. M. KlnOPrir a# A __« - £Mh; of Baswtt, were in the city “esday on business with the Nio fa Hirer Irrigation and Power Com r,/. gu'ar meeting of the Bartiey d l&8t Saturday night Jack Welton Ppomted first sergeant to act dur >t»na^8enCe °f 8ergeant Sullivan in wneV o* JT attempt* t0 ensure bere mri ?6fa Churchill for coming CS rttifogeing”inthe scm. »ested in H°eS h® that he was or? do 80 by a populist gov been in tt ofherhn»KWeekl,’i8i,ing ““'an loB( ' 'hr, Homer- wiU return . >CcL , kal°0M- 10 • ‘horror e&ndr?mainedUr“ ,B a aho: remain during the summer. 1 T T, .. -- coal, fn V" furni8h y°u *11 kin amities. ,,8r oad l°te or in sm lh c« he ‘‘ 8.®8,al°gued fail a“aittee*. feminst” vigiii W .V . r ' . if The Academy Dramatic Company have decided to put the "Lancashire Lass” upon the boards on Easter Mon day, April 15, instead of March 17, as announced a couple of weeks ago. The Frontier monkey was exhibit ing a pistol in each of his pants pockets in a saloon not long since to Jas. Oreig. —Beacon Light. .1 lm stood In front of the bar at midnight, as drunk asason-of-a-gun: Two pistols came out of a pocket, where In fact there was but one. The officers of the Episcopal church have rented the building reoently vaca ted by the United States land office and will occupy it for religious purposes. Charlie Davis is making some needed improvements in the woodwork, while Dan Thompson is re-papering and paint ing the interior. Wbeu' completed it will make an excellent building for church purposes. This organization is gaining quite a membership in O'Neill. I am now displaying a full line of Spring and Summer Goods in all lines. As I have in the past placed before the I trade the best values that have ever been on this market. I intend to place all goods on a basis with the times. I am convinced that good goods and low val ues will cause quick .sales. You will re member the place—fourth door south of the postoffice. P. J. McManus. 35-2 _ The deputy county treasurer had an other hundred dollars tacked onto - his salary the first of the year. We have a distinct recollection of the populists say ing—when the republicans were in pow er— that if the people would only elect them and give them a chance once they would show a set of assistants who would be willing to work for the salary stipulated by law. Reform before elec tion and reform after election are two different things. Kautzman has succeeded in getting fonr weak-kneed fellows to take their names off of the Robertson petition. He first tried to scare people into remov ing their names and finding that would not work personal solicitation was adopted. It was necessary that his bluff have some result even if a man must be nent out canvassing. If any one took any interest in the matter it would be an easy task to secure an hundred new new names to take the place of those four who withdrew. Dr. Gilligan started yesterday morn ing for Onawa, la. He got as far as Sioux City, where he was intercepted by a telegram from W. E. McRobert, who desired bis professional services at his home at Leonia, where his 18-year old son, Chester, is lying very sick with ty phoid fever. The doctor returned on the evening train and went out to Mr. McRobert’s that night. From O'Neill to Sioux City and back to Leonia in one day is a pretty fair trip for a doctor, but the Hawkshaw physician is equal to al most any emergency. It was rumored upon our streets last Saturday that smallpox had appealed upon the South Fork, south of town, but we have been unable to verify the report. It was said the disease had been brought into the country in old clothing shipped to the relief commission. While we trust this may be a false alarm, tso hnno tho nnoaihilitv nf a 11 oli a tViirwv occurring will awake the relief commit tees to a ftalization of the fact that all goods passing through their hands should be thoroughly fumigated. It would require but little extra labor and would be a very wise precaution. The deadly slingshot has added an other victim to its long list. One of Mose Campbell’s little boyB was acci dentally shot in the eye by a playmate last week. Dr. Gilligan treated the wound and says while the boy will prob ably not loose the sight of the eye, the iris was ruptured and may never entirely recover. The slingshot should be sup pressed by ordinance and the eternal vigilance of parents. They are a source of great amusement to the war-like youth, but at the same time tbey are a menace to the well-being and safety of the multitudes. Tbe county judge has been doing a land office business in marriage licenses the past week. Last Saturday a license was issued to David Wixon, (aged 63,) of Atkinson, and Susan Stewart, (aged 50.) of the same place. Also to Robert E. Marshall and Virginia Bohme, of At kinson. On Tuesday two couples were united by the arm of the law: J. A. Hollenbeck and Belle Ratberan, of Clearwater. Also Chas. Joidan, of Bliss, and Mary Bautner, of Deloit. Li censes are out for the marriage of Wm. Bradstreet, of Black Bird, and Bertha Blitzaie, of Turner, and also for Chas. Fay, of Spencer, and Libbie Blitzkie, of Turner. These two prospective brides are sisters and tbe wedding ceremony will be performed at tbe home of their parents at Turner, on March 20, by County Judge McCutcban. All of our readers who took any inter est at all in last fall’s campaign remem ber the quartet of embryo stumpists wbo spoke in several school houses in the county and by sorcery and witchcraft made a few voters believe that their taxes were being reduced under populist rule. Yes. Well, the other day wo met one of those same individuals on 'the street and he held in his hand a county claim for which the First National bank had offered to barter him seventy-five cents upon the dollar. Of course we smiled. We reminded him of a couple of years ago when the same claim would have been worth at least ninety-five cents, under republican administration, and told him that the difference was his reward for being abase, ignoble deceiver and he appreciated our remarks to the extent of twenty cents on every dollar his claim represented. And then he said he would go and “stuff” his claim to cover the discount, which we would do If we were in his place. The case of Willis vs. Brodac and oth ers was settled last week by Judge Kin kaid granting plaintiff judgment for 93,000. This case had been on the docket for several years. About fire years ago, Willis, who. was a stranger, stopped over night at the farm house of Brodac, in Iowa township. After his departure Brodac missed his pocket book, containing some $80, and nat urally, suspected bis guest of the night previous. He organized a little vigi lance committee from among his neigh bors, overtook Willis and attempted to exact a confession and return of the money by tbe good old-fasbioned way of the vigilantes. It is claimed that a rope was used. While these interesting proceedings were in progress the money was found in Brodac’s boot, where it was supposed that he himself had placed it for safe keeping. Of course Willis was released and profuse apologies made, but they did not heal bis physical wounds or assuage his troubled spirit. He preferred that compensation be made in coin of the realm and Instituted proceedings with results as above stated. L. L. Hay & Co., seed growers of St. Paul, Minn., write The Frontier that they aie not donating trial packages of Sacallne to all, who request it, .as per our statement of a conpie of weeks ago. They say that they have had doz misstatement and that as the seed is worth $30 per pound they would like to be relieved from embarrassment by hav ing us set the matter right before our readets. When any person places an order with them for seed—they do not stipulate any amount—they agree to “throw in” a trial package of Sacaline. But Frontier readers who desirs to try the plant, for which so much is claimed, can procure the seed with less trouble by calling upon Morris & Co., druggists, O’Neill, and purchasing a ten cent pack age. There are some grave doubts about the advisability of farmers plant ing the seed, however, some first class agricultural authorities claim that it Is a pest equal to the Russian thistle and that after it once gains a foothold the absorbing question will then be how to kill it off. However, great things are claimed for it and if it will grow where nothing has ever grown before we don’t believe it will do anv lasting harm. Kautzman never lele clip an oppor tunity to «ay a mean thing about anyone —and more eepecially a county official, whose political complexion happens to be a few shades lighter than his own. If a truthful statement in regard to a man’s acts—official or otherwise—is not bad enough, he allows no conscientious scruples to stand in the way of supply ing from his imagination material enough to make it so. In the last issue of the Beacon Light he charges Supervisor Phillips—who is a member of the relief codftnission—with dishonesty and favor itism in the distribution of a few bushels of corn, which, as relief goods, were turned over to him by the commission to be distributed among the needy of his district. Now the truth in regard to this matter is that Mr. Phillips was at home and bad nothing to do with the corn whatever. It was hauled to Steel Creek by Jim Binkerd and Henry Har ris and by them distributed to those ap plying therefor. The “poor widows,” of whom there were two, were not over looked but came in for a liberal share. Nor did John Menzie get four bushels of the precious grain; one measure only, would be accept, and that be said should be returned as soon as his grain—now on the road—arrived. We are loth to turn this sweet morsel to ashes in thy mouth, Jew, but in Justice to Mr. Phil lips and others it becomes to us an imper ative duty. “What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.” We are prepared to furnish the material to make the sauce at prices ranging from 5c per fi> up, and invite an inspection of our dried fruits. 35 2 O’Nriu. Grocxry Co. John Mcliugli, secretary of the Nio brara Hirer Irrigation and Power Com pany, returned last Thursday from New York, where he went on business con nected with his company. Mr. McHugh says that the enterprise is favorably looked npon down there, and that ar rangements hare been made for a meet ing of New York and Chloago parties In Chicago within a few days. At soon as that meeting Is held It will be known definitely whether the enterprise can be gotten under way. Mr. MoHugh says that he has every confidence In the building of the ditch and that he be lieves it could not be in the hands of better promoters. That the plan bas been ably presented in the east and were it not tor the hard times and the uneasiness in financial circles it would now be well under way. Mr. McHugh will attend the meeting at Chicago and Is daily expecting summons by wire. The following poem—although the author does not so state—was inspired by Tom Cooke's story of an old couple coming into O’Neill to secure aid and being robbed of an even hundred which they had left at home: With money at home and in bank Arrayed In the garments of grief, They went to the oity to yank Freeh meat from the oar of relief. The woman put up a sad face And shed a few tears when she told That theirs was a genuine ease Of permanent hunger and uold. Of opurse the Cummlttee felt bad At such destitution as that. And gave them the best to be had— The old man a coat and a hat. The woman received a now dress And shoes for the feet that the wore; The value of “made-up" distress Was thirty-five dollars or more. But while on this mission of greed. Back home on the farm that they left, A tramp of the burglary breed Aeoompllshed a real clover theft. Two suits of good olothlng, not old, (Tho stuff that he left was but trash) A watoh, eighteen karats tine gold And Just a cold hundred In cash. And when they went home what a sight The house was for them to behold! The poor woman wept all the night The husband stayed out In the cold. Out in the oold barnyard alone -- He sat on a cottonwood Jog, , And murmured with many a groan— i ,‘fUdgn’tpay tobead—dbag." „ » ii jou uuu i suit you c»u i reap, ne h«M received part of our invoice of fresh Garden Seeds and will handle only first class seeds in bulk and packages which we will sell at hard times prices. We also have a nice lot of Onion Sets. No “Scullions.’’ 85-8 O’NniLt, Gbocbbt Co. “Pa, where.ls Arkansas, of which I read so much in Mathew’s Free Press?” “My son, although that country—which is now a part of the United States—was colonized by the French early in the eighteenth century, very little is now known concerning its interior. It is sit uated directly south of Missouri and is bounded on the east by Tennessee and Mississippi, on the south by Louisiana and on the west by Texas and the Indian Territory. We have but meagre infor mation relative to its inhabitants, but it is said that the interior is peopled by a race of men who are long and lean, with thin Jaws and cadaverous complexions. They make a livelihood by hunting, fish ing and trading with the negroes, who form the greater part of the population. They have no money there but uae in its stead ooon skins and clam shells. It is noted for nothing in particular but its heavy rains and high water and the large number of people who are afflicted with chills and fever. Besides these it is also occasionally mentioned on account of its miles and miles of levees which occas ionally wash away and the water that escapes at those times feed the dense forests, make impenetrable cypress and tamarack swamps and fill to their ut most unhealthy flats, lazy streams and dismal lagoons." "But Pa, has the coun try nothing to recommend it?" "Oh, yes, my son. Now and then some brave man returns from the interior and tells stories of mountain ranges filled with valuable ores, and of virgin farm land whose bosom has not as yet been tickled by the husbandman’s plow. And trom there also come legends of wondrously luxuriant fruits and numerous other things good for man.” "Pa, what is Mathews doing there?" "He is a fore runner of civilization, my boy, and claims a portion of the country by right of discovery. He is running a newspa per, which by the way is a model one, and is attempting^to induce immigration and get a class of settlers who will sub due the country aad make it a desirable place for man to live.” "But, Pa, didn’t he try the same thing up here in Holt county?” "Yes, yes; he did try it in Holt county, hut he hopes to have better success down there.” We have a nice lot of Early Rose po tatoes for Seed. They were raised in Nebraska and are suited to this soil. Remember us when you want to plant. 35-2 O’Nbill Gbocbby Co. Somebody Knit Bin Paid Iuh. The board met main Tueiday. It la getting ao now that every time any taxes are paid Into the county treaaury the board holda a session and fllea bill* to cover the amount. Thie time they anticipated that the bonda might carry and arranged thia meeting for the purpoae of taking care of the bonda, and incidentally the 100, 000 that would accrue therefrom. But the bonda were voted down, and ae the meeting wee etmply an adjournment of the January eeaalon, other bualneaa waa done. They met at 10 o'clock in the morning but did nothing of importance more than paaa a revolution to the effect that the county will build no new brldgea during the year 1800. Thia will make the office of chairman of the bridge com mittee leaa dealrable than of yore. Old Honest John got out juat in the nick of time. The county attorney waa authorized by motion to commence any and all ao tlona, and to intervene in any and all actlona, aud to file pleadings therein In the United States circuit court, or any other court outside the state of Ne braska, that he may deem neoeasary to collect the taxes duo the county of Holt from the Nebraska and Western Railway company. In the afternoon the board took a re cess in order that a number of lta mem bers might meet officially with the county relief commission. After the relief commission had com pleted its deliberations the board pulled ttaelf together and the wheels com menced to revolve again. Some time was spent on uninteresting motions and looking after tax matera. About the flrat thing of interest was the report of the legal committee which was filed. Unless Thu Frontier misses its guess by a considerable the report waa written on Mike Harrigton’a type writer and the language used was that of the oily Italian. In fact it was the assistant attorney's report Below we give the report in full: The legal committee instituted and tried a case against T. A. Thompson and won the same, and the judgment ren dered was settled by this board for $6, 800, which was paid Into the treasury. toe legal committee litigated with if. R. Dickson the tax sale certificates and receipts issued to him, and which were not paid for, and won the same, and thereby saved the county 94,180. The legal committee prosecuted a suit against Barrett Soott and his bondsmen during his first term, and recovered a Judgment of nearly 80,000, and which interest exceeds 86,000; 91,000 of this amount was paid into the treasury yes terday, and the balance will be paid in installments in the next 60 or 00 days. The legal committee won a suit against the Holt County bank and its bondsmen, and got judgment for 87,700; pf this amount $700 has been paid into the treasury by the bank, and it is ex pected that 9700 more will be realized from the bank. There are several bonds men, and one of them, Timothy Dwyer, offers to gitps security for 81.000 to be released, and the other bondsmen will contribute something, including Ed ward Adams, who will probably be able to secure 8G00.before the next meeting of the board. This makes it reasonably certain that the county will realize 84,000 from this claim. The legal committee instituted the suit against D. L. Darr on which 8300 has been recovered, and this after the former corrupt administration had Dtr mttted bim to steal MOO, to which every person knew he was not entitled. The legal committee has maintained two actions against G. C. Hazlett and bis bondsmen, and has secured verdicts to the amount of 13,580, which amount must be collected and certainly will be, as the bonds ate considered good. The legal committee has instituted suit against the Stuart State bank to re cover$2,500 of the stolen money of Holt county—deposited in that bank. This case is not yet tried. The legal committee has a suit pend ing against two of the former county commissioners, to recover a steal of 81, 500, in the sale of the county bonds of 1885. The legal committee has a suit pend log against M! D. Long, ez-county clerk for his shortage in his office. The legal committee intends lo bring another suit against G. C. Hazeiet and bis bondsmen for fees for making the tax list of 1891, and which be bas never accounted for. This document, so wonderfully and fearfully made—for campaign purposes— caused some of the members of the board to wonder how much in cash it had cost the county to do these great things, and to the end that this might be ascertained Frank Phillips made the following mo motion: Mr. Chairman—I move you that the legal committee be required to make a detailed report to the board, in writing, as to the amount of expense incurred bv said committee, both paid and now un paid, and to amounts paid and to whom paid, and for what services. Mr. Phillip’s motion was carried and the committee given until July to report. This report, if honestly and not am biguously made, will be interesting. The committee, in detailing its good offi ces, has commenced at the birth of the committee, and now to make things bal ance it should date its expenditures from the same time. Our readers will of court# notice from till# report tbet the legal committee bee ueurped the func tion# of the county Attorney. The oom mute# report# nothing done but whet ■bould here been done by the oounty Attorney. The lew mekee it hie duty to look After thete cnee#, end It eppcAn pleln to ue tbet either the committee or the Attorney thould be nbollebed. They are not both neceuery. After extending a vote of thnnke to the county relief commlulon, portion* lerly to President Lowrle, the board ad journed sine die. »(' The Bond Elestlon. Below are the official returns of the vote cost last Friday at the bond elec tion: ' '•*0: Townships. . ,>• ■' Atkinson Cleveland Conley... Chambers Delolt. Dustin .... Emmet.... Ewing..., Frauds.,. Falrvlew... Green Valley.,, Iowa. Inman. take..... McClure.... O'Neill, First ward. Second ward. _ . Third ward. Paddook.. Pleasantvlew. Bock Falls. Steel Creek.;.„. Scott Saratoga.... Sand Creek. Stuart. Swan.. Sheridan. Shields. Verdigris... Wyoming..., WlUowdala. Total.. 878 MSB *8 IS Ml U SB « J8 m 91 88 u 81 4ft a as 48 m se 84 81 88 87 88 1 80 88 18 Belief Commission Meets. The county relief commission met in the court house Tuesday afternoon with the following members present: Rev. Lowrle, E. Kline, Ohas. McHugh, 8. L. Conger, Frank Moore, Frank Phillips, Wilson Brodle, Wm. Lsll and W. W. Bethea. The meeting was for the purpose of systematizing the work and hearing re port of sub-committees upon destitution existing dn the different townships. t Wm. MoNiab, et. al„ of Shield*, pre sented a petition preying that Ed. Gra ham, ar., be relieved from bl* duties at1 member of tbe sub committee of bis township. They thought favoritism bad been shown by him. Upon request of Mr. Graham the name of John Carton was substituted for that of bis. It was decided that there should be but one point of distribution in each , township. Also that the county com mission will pay no expenses incurred in transporting the goods from the railroad to points in the outlying districts. It was the sense of tbe meeting that the several townships pay expenses so Incur red. Mr. Kline was authorized to notify sub-committees when supplies here were ready for distribution. Tbe different committeemen agreed hr vote that only the beads of families would be recognized in distributing sup plies. This was done to shut off peo- ' pie of t swinish disposition. In some cases reported families with grown sons puv hi n^^iiLiiwuuB lur me iruiiij and each me S ber of voting age. A car load of supplies that had bees npon the side track for several daft waiting for height charges to be liqui dated, was released yesterday morning. Hotic* to Batter Kaksrs. As the O’Neill Butter & Egg Co. baa failed and closed its doors, you will And a market for your butter and eggs at my ':.T store, where you will receive the highest market price. P. J, McMauus. ; 85-2 ___ District court last Saturday tried the case of Patrick Hagerty, administrator, 0 vs. Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Co., of New York. Patrick Hagerty, as ad ministrator of the estate of P. C. Mur- y phy, sued the insurance company for 81,200 on a policy for 82,000 issued to deceased. The administrator having previously compromised with the com pany for $800 which the company had paid. The suit was brought without tendering back the 8800 and brought fourteen months after proof of loss; the application and policy stipulating that suit must be brought within one year. On demurer by the company the court held that inasmuch as the company had denied any liability whatever and com promised with plaintiff for 8800 that plaintiff could not maintain the action without first offering back and tender ing the 8800 and that for this reason and others, sustained the demurer, and gaigB plaintiff permission to amend. : " y We have some special drives that are worth your while to examine into, such as Rice, Crackers, Syrup, Dried Fruits etc. 85-2 O’Neill Gboceby Co. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder -f—-— ~r‘ r