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O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, MARCH 21, 1895.
NUMBER 37.
te SANS WHISKERS
| of Interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
AND HOW IT HAPPENED
I Happenings Portrayed Tor General
Edification end Amusement.
Little is visiting, friends In Iowa.
| Gallagher had business in Stuart
jay night._
Ucrshiser has been sick of the
say this week.
j J. P. Spittler, of Ewing, hadbusi
|n the city last week.
. Doyle expepts to take charge of
nstofflce about April 1.
Hayes is in Chicago this week.
| expected to return Sunday.
> Sullivan Mercantile Co. take But
Ld Eggs in trade for goods. 35-3.
Ing yoor Butter and Eggs to the
pan Mercantile Co. 35-3.
|ifornia Oranges on Saturday next,
cr dozen, O’Neill Gbocebt Co.
|G. C’ortelyou, of Omaha, was in the
1 Monday on business before the
lening display of Spring and Sum
IMillinery at Mrs. Nichols, March
Id 30. _
If. Biglin and Wm. Laviolette went
loux City Monday, returning Tues
pvening.
, G. Scott and Hez Chambers were
|he city Monday on business before
county court.
burt re-convened last Wednesday,
Ve Kinkaid presiding. The jury
tned Thursday.
. 0. Snyder and J. P. Mann are in
boln again this week. They went
In Monday morning.
be Misses Murtha and Smith, of
Ing, are in the city visiting the
fly of Mr. Clarence Selah.
utter and Eggs wanted at J. P.
bn's in exchange for Dry Goods,
[tiling, Groceries, etc. 86-2
. M. Hull, of Norfolk, representing
lHatch Hotel Register Co., of Des
pnes, la., is in the city this week.
the neighborhood of seventy-five
s were in from Boyd Monday for
| purpose of transporting seed grain.
l new mie oi uned Fruits, Fish and
is just received. Try our Sugar
use Molases at 35c per gallon.
i_J. P. Mann.
tomaine Saunders took a lay-off
nday on account of a sore eye.
mer Newell took his place as news
!nt on the Short Line.
•Irs. Clarence Selah returned Monday
:ht from the southern part of the
>e. where she went to attend the
leral of her mother.
The Frontier does not desire the
* t0 p»y ofl a mortgage that does
1 Mist. If he will only bequeath to
1116 whiskers we will be content.
Keep your eye on our bulletin board,
»eu you come to town for special
"es; we are in the grocery business
a uon t forget it.
36 3 O’Nkill Grocery Co.
I, r “ ,lggs 18 building an addition to
Plow factory and blacksmith shop.
dditinnT8 haa 80 increased that the
0DerlvieCwme DeceesarT in ord«>- ‘o
m Poriy look after the wants of his pa
l«DhiCMcArthur’ of the a‘Mmoh
Z 8hor* **me to re
ope8 Z J* fa“ny*° Oregon. He
ealth in ,v,18 ,Wlf® may enjoy better
oast. ,h* 8alubrl0U8 climate of the
Olden m 8n<1 family have moved
hssed a farm° * jhe.r.e lbey haT* pur
ore home t and_wiH make their fa
he®weeklvT !LFB0HT1EB W,U Tl8il
Uw Beet
re,k>ng away and .h® d',Ch Pr°ject
hinine the snn will soon bt
day called ,,/R«TIKR reP°rter yester
latest. Thu* ’ and mquired for tbs
C0mP8ayhadbeenntrman 8aid tha‘th<
•'ontempiatedi* t d,8appointed •“ i‘i
,Chi««o pJ52;%.0fNw Y°rk and
of °Pe of the p,. Ica6°t on account
‘bsent from the p.T.8^ genUemen bein*
®ent9 had almost be1 bUt that arran8e
Donald W f,en comPleted where
C;vil engineer ’JCamp'oel‘. ‘he notec
cb&rge of the <11,DenTer’ w°uld taki
Confident work l S and lha‘ he wai
0n fewest end nr»Td be oommencec
“““<>* later than May 1.
We are reliably informed that a big
alfalfa farm will be opened out under
the; Elkhorn ditch thia summer. Let
the good work go on.
Charles Hemstreet has leased twenty
acres of his irrigated farm under the
Elkhorn ditch to a Ur. Babcock. Ur.
Babcock will put in twenty acres of po
tatoes, four acres of cabbages and one
acre of onions.
The North Nebraska Teachers’Asso
ciation will hold their ninth annual
meeting at Norfolk, April 3, 4 and 5. A
930.00 silk flag will be presented' to the
county haying the largest percentage of
its teachers who are in actual service,
present at the meeting. Special rates at
all hotels. _
Sanford Parker and Cal Uoffat came
over from Spencer last Saturday to see
the glove contest that was advertised to
come off in the rink in the evening. The
match had been indefinitely postponed
and the Boyd county sports were disap
pointed. They returned home Monday
afternoon. _
Our attention has been called to an ar
ticle in a late issue of the Marengo, III.,
Republican, wherein one, Mrs. J. Hew
itt Broaddus, of Ewing, represents her
self as local agent of the state relief
commission and calls vociferously for
aid, to be shipped to her address. The
Frontier is authorized by Ewing par
ties to state that Mrs. Broaddus is not a
member of the state relief commission.
Ail supplies shipped into the state
should be shipped direct to headquar
ters at Lincoln, or to the county relief
commission, to be found at county seats
always. _
A young man of some twenty-two or
twenty-three years sauntered into the
electric light plant the other evening,
and after gazing intently about for a few
minutes, approached Electrician Her
shiser and said: “Say mister, I’ve heard
a good deal about electric light plants
and I’d like to see one growing. Where
do you keep the plant in this establish
ment?” Mr. Hershiser is afflicted with
heart failure anyway and he swooned
away upon the spot. However, he fell
where the fly-wheel fanned him into
consciousness again, when he informed
the gentleman that he was in the center
of the blossom and surrounded by the
calyx of the posey.
Cattle rustlers in Eeya Paha county
last Thursday murdered a woman by the
name of Holten. It is thought that she
knew a little too much in regard to the
operations of the gang, and was willing
to tell it in court. She lived alone on a
farm, her husband being confined in the
insane asylum at .Norfolk. The body
was not found until Saturday. Death
had been caused by strangulation after
the mob had maltreated the woman in
the most brutal and lustful manner.
Two men named Hiller and Hunt are
under arrest charged with the crime.
Attorney General Churchill received a
telegram from the governor Tuesday
requesting him to proceed to the scene
of the crime and make an investigation.
It is high time these proceedings re
ceived a quietus.
A class of the high school will give
an oratorical contest in the rink Tuesday
evening March 26. The following
members of the school will take part:
Miss Tess O’Sullivan, Miss Maggie
Hurley, Miss Alice Cronin, Miss Pearl
Hawk, Miss Lettie Gillespie, Will
Lowrie, Charles Meals and Parnell
Golden. The recitations will come
under tbe head of oratorical, dramatic
and humorous. The object is to select
two representatives to attend tbe North
Nebraska Oratorical contest which
takes place at Norfolk April 5. The
two contestants receiving the highest
marking will be selected to represent
the O’Neill school. Admission 25 cents.
Proceeds above expenses to go to school
library. All patrons of tbe school
should attend.
Our widely known citizen, Mr. Henry
Haynes, has returned from a tour through
south Mississippi, where he visited bis
lately acquired farm. He reports most
favorably on that section, and says: "I
was most hospitably received and enter
tained by the people of Summit, Miss.,
near which little city is located my farm.
They gave ample evidence that they
would cordially greet and lend every
enegry to the desirable locating of tbe
right sort of people. The land is good
and adapted to a variety of crops, and
the price of land is low. To those of
my friends who desire to make enquiries
we can cheerfully recommend tbe firm
of J. H. Ryan & Co., which showed me
various courtesies. I enjoyed several
amusinR war talks with men who had
been in battles with me—on the other
side. Any imformation desired that we
can give will be cheerfully given by me
to all who address me at Inman, Neb.”
Mr. Haynes will soon move his family
to Summit, Miss.
Dr. Price’s Cream Bakins Powdei
Awwdad Gold M«U MidwtaUr Paif( Jn Franchc*.
Following are the prices which the
Elkhorn Irrigation company will aak for
water the coming aeaaon: To parties
owning a water right, 81.00 per acre.
No water will be sold to parties owning
land under the ditch and not buying a
water right. Those owning 180 acres of
land or more must own water right on
not leas than 130 acres in order to buy
water. Those owning less than 120
acres of land must own water right on
whatever number of acres of land they
own. Water for wild hay or pasture
land will be sold at 60c- per acre. The
company builds no laterals or lateral
boxes except at the expense of the par
ties using the water.
Barney Ryan, manager of the O’Neill
Grocery Co., is a persistent and Judi
cious advertiser and makes money by
the liberal use of printers’ ink. Last
week he inserted a little two-line local
in The Frontier, announcing a "drive’’
on oranges for the following Saturday,
and in consequence thereof disposed of
over 1,800 on that day, and it wasn’t a
busy day either. People of to-day are
newspaper readers and always watch the
columns of their local paper for bar
gains. The wide-awake business man
who knows how and when to place the
advantages of his wares before the pub
lic is the man who knows that advertis
ing pays. The man who has no induce
ments to offer the trade ii always firm in
the belief thnt "it don’t pay to advertise”
and looks upon the local paper as an
eleemosynary institution and therefore
without intention or ability to give value
received for money invested in its ad
vertising columns. Cobwebs and must
can always be found on the goods of
such business men.
It is said that a meeting of the Holt
county vigilance committee was held at
Eagle Mills last Saturday, and that Geo.
Mullihan presided. A delegation from
the Boyd county association was there
for the purpose—we understand—-of
forming an alliance between the twn,
but when the chairman read the iron
clad oath and other obligations which
they would be compelled to take in or
der to form the combination and make
it co-operative the Boyd county “outfit”
weakened—they didn’t care to obligate
themselves to cut a throat or assist at a
lynching at the behest of their more
blood-thirsty associates—and hastened
to place the ghostly valley and rapid
waters of the Niobrara between them
and their would-be brothers. They
reported to parties on the other side that
a Winchester rifle occnpied the place of
a gavel on the table of the chairman,
that armed guards were stationed about
the building and that every member was
well “heeled’’ with death-dealing weap
ons. How long are the state authorities
oging to allow this state of affair to ex
ist? _
Waterloo Courier: Mr. Conrad Wet
lauffer and Mr. M. F. Harrington, both
«» V wuu LUVUlUQiO U1 iUl.ai
relief committees, ask the charitable
people of Waterloo and surrounding
country to send them anything in the
way of clothing, food or grain, but would
prefer a car of corn. They say that peo
ple there are destitute and have not
money to pay even freight on supplies,
and request that if anything be sent
them, the freight be paid here. Water
loo has contributed liberally to the suf
ferers in Nebraska, but there may be
some yet who can spare something for
those who are in dire want and distress.
O, rust from the widow’s mite I Mike
Harrington a member of the local relief
committee 1 The only work of that na
ture that he is now engaged in is in re
lieving the county treasury of money to
pay his attorney fees. Car loads of grain
—freight prepaid—might be properly
distributed by him and again they might
not be. While it is true that such pro
visions may be needed in this section,
it is also true that the county has com
mittees organized under state laws, with
headquarters in O’Neill, to whom all do
nations should be shipped.
Now that the jew is devoting so much
of his “valuable apace” to besmirch
I Water Commissioner Hall, it is amusing
to glance back over the flies of the
Smudge and note how its editor has
become entangled in a web of his own
weaving. In his issue of June 15, ’94, he
said:
The critios who have so freely combed
Chas. Hall for performing labor on Sun
day will undoubtedly at this time see the
necessity for such work being attended
to promptly. He worked hard all day
Sunday putting in a broken water gate
in the main running east from the school 1
house, and it was only by his good
judgment in doing so that the fire com
pany was able to utilize the waterworks
in the destructive blaze of Sunday night.
Water Commissioner Hall is all right.
Now since the publication of that
article Mr. Hall has attended as strictly
and faithfully to bis duties as before,
but incurred the Jew’s ill-will by exert
ing himself in an effort to uphold the
law of the land by apprehending the
murderers of Barrett Scott. In so doing
of course Mr. Hall thought he was right,
and there differed from the Jew, who
thinks such things are wrong. He must
think such commendable actions wrong,
otherwise he would not use them as an
argument against Mr. Hall, in the face
of the following sentiment expressed by
him in his paper:
The wise man will, think twice before
he indorses a thing he knows to be
wrong, just because it is being used to
help his side of the controversy.
SCOTT CASE DISMISSED
Attorney General Diuniaaea the
Murder Caaea.
COUNTY ATTORNEY OBJECTS
Murphy leya Churchill Hu Hot the Power
to Promote,
A not unexpected move in the Scott
murder trial was made Tuesday. Attor
ney General Churchill arrived in the city
during the afternoon, and court being in
session, filed the following motion:
MOTION TO ANNUL TUB PROSECUTION
In the district court of ilolt county,
Neb.—The State of Nebraska vs. George
Mullihan, Moses T. Elliott, Merto Roy
and Alfred Harris.
Now comes the State of Nebraska and
moves the dismissal of the above'cause
for the reason that upon investigation of
the whole question of facts and the law
a conviction cannot be had in Holt
county. A. S. Churchill, Atty. Gen.
This motion was filed by the attorney
general without consulting the county
attorney, Mr. Murphy not being in the
court-room. When Mr. Murphy learned
of the proceeding he was very indig
nant. It was a matter of great surprise
to him that an insignificant attorney of
a little state like Nebraska should come
up here and ignore the great and mighty
lawyer of a big county like Holt, so he
immediately filed a motion to quash the
attorney general—to have him enjoined
from taking charge of the cue and
usurping and exercising the duties of
the county attorney. His motion is al
together too long for publication, but it
ended with the following paragraph:
Wherefore I, H. E. Murphy, as county
attorney of Holt county, Nebraska,
move the court to make an order prohib
iting and restraining tbe said A. S.
Churchill from taking charge, control
and management of the prosecution on
the trial of tbe above action on the part
of the state, I further moves the court
to make an order prohibiting and res
training tbe said A. 8. Churchill from
usurping and exercising the duties and
functions of the office of county attor
ney of Holt counry Nebraska, and from
interfering with said officer in the per
formance of bis official duties in tbe
prosecution cf this cue.
Another motion was also filed by the
county attorney, which objected to the
dismissal of the case for the reuon that
the attorney general wu not the county
attorney and wu not authorized by law
to dismiss the cue over the objection of
the county attorney; and for the further
reuon that he had in his posseuion con
elusive evidence mat tbe crime bad been
committed in Holt county! and the evi
dence wag sufficient upon which to base
a prosecution and conviction.
An evening session was held for Mr.
Murphy to conclude his argument in the
premises, in reply to which the attorney
general briefly stated that he was here
at the request of the governor and sen
ate, and in accordance with the statute,
and that was all he had to say. The sec
tion of the statute giving him authority
to appear in the case was published in
The Frontieb last week.
In rendering his decision Judge Kin
kaid said it was indeed unfortunate that
trouble had arisen in the camp of the
prosecution, and that it was a matter
that ought to have been settled among
vucuiseivcB, mill iu inui » queauon ue
should not have been called upon to de
cide. But the county attorney having
refused the court’s suggestion to confer
with the attorney general, left a ques
tion for him to decide and he would de
cide it. He called attention to the tact
that Mr. Churchill has had charge of the
case from the beginning without objec
tion from the county attorney up to the
time of postponement last month. He
reviewed the law briefly and gave it as
his decision that the attorney general
had a legal right to take charge of the
prosecution, therefore had a right to
enter a nolle prosequi, and the motion j
to annul was sustained, the defendants
dismissed and their bondsmen released
from further responsibility.
'While making his decision the judge
chose an opportune moment to correct a
mistaken idea that had arisen among a
portion of the public in regard to ad
Journments in criminal cases. He re
ferred to the law covering the matter
which may be found in chapter 88, Secs.
889, 390, 391 and 393, of the Nebraska
statutes.
WILL TAKE THEM TO BOTD.
From subsequent developments it ap
pears that it was not the intention of the
attorney general that the accused should
go hence without day. He had been
over to Boyd county and secured war
rants for the defendants, and we are in
formed, several others not heretofore
implicated. Sheriff Staniford, ot Boyd,
arrived in the city Tuesday afternoon
with several deputies. It was his inten
tion to arrest the men as soon as they
were released, but when they were dis
charged they were not in court and none
but friends knew of their whereabouts.
However, Wednesday morning they
were found In jail.
Moat diligent search and inquiry failed
to reveal upon whose complaint they
were arrested. County Attorney Mur
phy denied any knowledge or complic
ity In the affair. This move, of course,
was made to prevent an arrest by Boyd
oounty authorities.
Harry Stanton, the man who was
working for Harris at the time the crime
was committed, was arrested Wednes
day, together with Jim Plnkerman and
August Oberle and taken by the Boyd
county sheriff to that county.
The attorneys for the prosecution and
defense came to an understanding last
night and an agreement was reached
whereby the prisoners were turned over
to the Boyd oounty sheriff, who started
for Butte with them this morning. The
agreement was that they should be re
leased on 85,000 bail. ,
O’Neill Explains.
Chelsea, Neb., March 11, '05.
Editors Frontier—Gentlemen: I
notice in your last issue you accuse me
of writing some of the different articles
which appeared in the Beacon Light.
I have and am still writing the "Age of
Thought" and have never tried to con
ceal the fact.
I never wrote an article against any
person or paper for publication, only
those which I wrote condemning Lessen
ger, (the editor of the Independent three
years ago;) one of the articles was pub
lished in your paper the other one was
published in the Alliance Tribune. I
have never published, or written for
publication, one word against either of
the editors of The Frontier, or
against The Frontier either, or any
other person, for if I had anything to
say against anyone, it would suit me
better to say it to them.
Now on the Scott business: In the
article "Leather Stockings" he, Scott,
is severely condemned and so are all
secret socioties.
Again, Mr. Frontier, I never de
nounced secret societies, or wrote one
word against them. It is a rule of mine
not to condemn what I do not under
stand, nor do I ever shield my Ignor
ance behind an insinuation, or seek
refuge behind a "nom de plume."
In Barrett Scott’s election or cam
paign, I guess it is well known, I voted
for him and did what I could for his
election. My enemies then said he bad
"hired me, and that 1 had sold out.”
The assertion was untrue; he did not
have to buy me nor did he try to in
that campaign. It was said that Joe
Bartley and Cheve Hazelet made the
trade with me and paid me 8500, Ask
Cheve the truth of that report.
If I ever received any of the county
money, it was long after Scott was
elected, and through the control of a
bank by its claim on deposits, and I was
a third party to the loan while the bank
and I arranged the conditions and inter
not nnA Skin T ADn I----.
able men as are in Holt county, and I
will not go out of Scott’s circle of
friends or tbe republican party either to
find them. In regard to Scott, further,
I was his friend before election; I was
his friend after election up to his death,
and I am his friend yet, and no man can
truthfully say he ever heard me de
nounce him.
It matters not to me what reason the
author of “Leather Stockings’’ had to
write so severely against Barrett Scott, I
at least had no right to do so, and, for
this reason I never did. Barrett Scott
always treated me friendly and no per
son outside his family circle in Holt
county, was any more anxious for his
successful release from prison or danger
than I, and I can, without much trouble,
prove this also by his best and most
respectable friends, and by what you
consider, apparently, some of his bitter
est enemies.
When a person’s sentiments are
■ipuKeu, i cgoruicsu ui wiio mey please or
displease, there are always enough
people, who are truthfully inclined, to
acknowledge his position, and I hope
those friends and the family of Barrett,
for whom I entertain a regard, will not
think that now, when he is dead, I
would be base enough to hide behind a
“notp de plume” and abuse his memory
to their mortification.
My sentiments were freely spoken at
all times, and were always spoken with
the same import. I did not subside into
silence when among his enemies, for
fear of gaining their ill will; not were
my expostulations against his enemies
the loudest, when among his friends,
for the sake of gaining their good will.
I draw my own conclusions from
surrounding circumstances, and I exer
cise the right of their expression regard
less of friend or foe, on all subjects, be
they theological, political, partisan or
factional. I am never aggressive in con
tention and assail none who do not
assail me, and believe that truth and
civility can be exercised, without either
threat or insinuation. In regard to the
article “Old Settler,” I have nothing to
say only if there are any errors there let
them be exposed and the proper author
may defend them.
In yonr publications of the past, you
refer to mv efforts to side with the
majority. I would prefer to have that
decided by those who know from ex
perience whether I shield myself behind
a majority or not. Some of those who
are not very friendly toward me now.
might, from personal knowledge, decide
that question.
Complete exposure is right in all
things. I court no silence or dread no
craftiness. If, on investigation, you
find you have been misinformed, please
to state the samefbutif, on the contrary,
vour suspicions are well founded, and
those insinuations you have made, are
all based on truth, please so state it, but
try and get your information from those
who are acquainted with the truth.
Yours etc.,
Hush O’Nkill.
"The Lancashire Um," ,
On April 10, the Academy Dramatic -
Company will preaent the celebrated
drama entitled the “Lancaablre Lass," or
"Tempted, Tried and True,” a domeatio
melodrama in a prologue and four acta,
by Henrv J. Bryon. The following ii
the caat of obaractera:
Robert Redburn (an Adventurer^—Comedy
Ned <Jlayton"(a Youug ICngineerh-ohmedy*0
Johnson (Character Lead)’......' Robert Marsh
Spotty (let Low Comedy).A.Mullen
Danville (Old Man).......... .John A. Harmon
Kirby (A ymmuin-Old Man)...... Deni* Hunt
Jelllck(1st.old Man).Timothy Dwyer
Beraeant Donovan (Irishman)..M. P. Brennan
Phil Andrew* (Utility).Leaholm Nannerb
M Ider (IH IItv)..Michael Brennan
Kltely (Utility). ...Leaholm Nannerb
Poatman (UtUlty)..... M. Patrick Brennan
Ruth Kirby (Lead).. .Mtia Maggie Harrington
Kate Uarstono (let Comedy). ..Mrs. T. Hanley
Fannie Danville (Walking Lady).1
.Mlaa Mamie Oullen
Sled In Teneineia.
Mrs. M. V. Chatterton, of Auburn, N.
Y., formerly of Cortland county, died
In Maracaibo, Venezuela, 8. A., Febru
ary 8, 1805, after a flvo days’Illness
from congeetion or the lunge. . She
went there In November with bar hue
band who waa eent by Molntoeh, Bey- -
mour and Co., of Auburn, to eet up one
of their engines in an electric light
station in that place. She was the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Qreenman,
former residents of Truxton. Her si
father died January 15, 1805, from In- *
Juries produced from being run over by
a log sled in Evansville, WIs., an
account of the accident being published
In the Standard. Her mother still re
sides in Evansville. Mrs. Chatterton
was burled in Venezuela and her hus
band has retured to the United States
and is now In Cortland, which waa his
former home.—Cortland Evening Stand
ard. f
Mrs. Chatterton resided in O’Neill
about three years ago; her husband
worked at the round honse. They
built the cottage in Fahy's Park. She
was also a class-mate of Prof. Jaokson.
Her many friends will learn with sorrow
of her sudden demise.
Presented With a Watch.
M. Stafford, formerly road master on
this division of the F. E. and M. V.,
but lately transferred to another divis
ion, wea presented with a handsome
watch by the railroad boys of his old di
vision. The following lines accompan
ied the present:
Tlie foreman of euoh section,
« From Nellgh to Long Pine,
’Has shown a kind affection,
To a master of tbolr line.
They say he was so pleasant
And never made a botch;
They owed to him a present
And bought for him a watch.
The present they hare offered,
As pure as they could And.
Thejr gave It to M. Stafford,
no used them all so kind.
It^lves those foremen pleasure
ro speak In compliment.
And argue at their leisure
Of where their master went.
They tent the present to him,
Down on the Bcrlbner line,
And others who may know him
May see hit golden sign.
MfnMd to Explain,
Stab, Ned., Mabch 18, 1890.
Editors Frontier.—Dear Sirs—A '
few days ego I wrote a letter to the
Beacon Light in reply to an article I saw S
therein in regard to some relief corn
that was distributed in this precinct.
The Beacon Light did not publish the
letter, but made some comments upon it
in a way which leads me to think that
its editor does not care to publish the
truth in regard to the matter, although
he says he has often warned his corres
pondents to give him nothing but facte
for publication. Now, here is the letter
which was given the Beacon Light for
publication: t
STAR, «EB. MARCH 7, 18#5.
Editor Bkacon Light.—Dear Sir:—I
■ee in your issue of the Beacon Light of
March 1st, an article in which you say
Frank Phillips is a very “smooth duck,"
etc., and that the last “grand coup of
this eminent time-server of boodleism”
was when he had charge, in his official
capacity, of the distribution of about
seventy-flve bushels of relief corn. You %
also say: “we are informed that the poor
widows did not get a kernel while able
bodied men were given two bushels
each, and such ‘walking cyclones’ as
John Menzie got four." Now, as I was
one of the men that handed out that
corn 1 wish to say that those statements
are misleading. In the first place Frank
Phillips was at O’Neill at the time the
oorn was given out, be having turned it
over to a member of the township relief
committee to distribute. There was no \
orders from Mr. Phillips except that the
corn be given to those who most needed
it for bread and other uses. The corn
was taken to Dorsey and there distribu
ted without regard to party or creed.
I am glad to say that the people over
this way are able-bodied and one of the
most able-bodied ones shouldered a sack
of the corn and took it over to the grist
mill and gave orders that it be ground
for the only widow now living at Dor
sey. There are other widows living in
the township. I don’t know whether
they wanted any of the corn or not. If
they had it seems likely that the relief
committee would have been notified of
the fact, as they all have teams and some
of them have boys at home. It is safe |
to say that there is not one person in
this community but that could have had
some of that corn for the asking. As to
the amount given each applicant: two
bushels was the average. There were a
few people, however, who only got one
bushel each, and one of those was the
"walking cyclone” whom ytfu referred
to as walking off with four bushels.
Now, if all the statements in the Beacon
Light are as true as the above, which all .
of us pops agree to be correct, I am
afraid that if we should get to that good
place you spoke of first there would be
no room for the other fellows.
Henhy Harris.