. ,, • . Mi -I '' *•* . f*v$ 17,, ^ : ' ‘•'rY:'' * 7. V • , ... "' • • ‘ . 5 * * “t > ,-V. i tmi v* ■ w,?V' w "V-."'"-.,.'',"," \v-''^ /.: ■■ - . j.^ ^ m ■777 ■ " V: ::" ' 77 ■ ■:- >. :7777 m£vr;:: ’iSSSi Frontier. f.y.\: ,ji ;/£ W' > s 777. i ■■ 17Afe'i 7,i7 *777i7'®fi 7 •UMORIPTION, *1.60 PIU ANNUM. CLYDE KIND AND D. N. CRONIN, EDM —■in - 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