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CLYDE KING AND D. H. CRONIN. EDITOR* AND MANAGERS.
ME XV.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, APRIL 11, 1895.
NUMBER 40.
SANS WHISKERS
iterest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
ID HOW IT HAPPENED
Kings Portrayed For General
cation and Amusement.
;kson had business in Ewing
. Hayes is visiting her par
tkis week.
nisli returned from a visit at
Lincoln Monday night.
[eiil orchestra will give a
the play Monday night.
Harrington went west Mon
>n business, returning Tues
:ourt is in session at Harrison,
ity. Judge Kinkaid is pre
git Lowrie attended the ineet
tli Nebraska teachers at Nor
eek.
Id like a copy of The Fron
of March 7, 1893. We want
our files complete.
make and save money in hard
r buying your grain and seed
Barnard & Co.
pient conflagration in Mike
kitchen was extinguished by
cal engine Thursday night.
leblood returned last week
winter’s sojourn in Missouri
in on duty at the old stand.
id J.F. Mullen have removed
ry stock to the old Central
re they will be pleased to meet
ustomers.
Wertz, Shank and Krotter
n from Stuart Sunday, They
tar-chamber session with the
onnl bank divisionists.
r of fine white seed oats are
t, do not miss the opportunity
e some of these fine oats at
Barnard & Co.
inck was in the city last Friday
ox of nice fish caught in the
ive Ewing. He had fifteen
that would average twelve
piece.
tkodist revivalists held short
in the First National bank cor
lay evening, after which the
tion repaired to the church and
iteresting meeting.
g from the amount of seed grain
led from O’Neill to Boyd county
tepast month, it will be the
lie weather clerk if that locality
present a golden picture whpn
est moon is full. jk £
iliolars of the Presbyterian Sun
l<>1 l"'Te arranged to appropri
ebrate Easter. The programme
'fist of songs and recitations.
Jes will give a short address in
nillK. Regular services in the
®ister, don’t you know
C°., will pay y0U a cent .
'nd f“r butter than any one
« fact so don’t let any
fle.,®’1} §r°ceries for Satui
ani Teas. Seed Sweet
m Adam &(
lrO\ who has been in O’Nei
settling up business matters
f Wlth Lis family for No:
secured an interest in a c:
'• start the summer’s cam
“Ik about May 1. We hope
U iuTl Association of North
CveDif 8. 0ls met a‘ Norfolk,
Dse to niPT ° . IlWasa P,ea8‘
had bee -, le,‘chera’ Association
Sunt r , SCS81on three Jays,
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'untlred » bad been held
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8cll°ol and to J, 8Dddid credi‘
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hom®endation w‘h.ey reeeived
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Uivisionists from up the road are nu
merous in O'Neill these days. A few
men in O’Neill have made a tie-up with
Stuart and Chambers in a three-county
division. Atkinson will be left in Holt,
while Ewing will go in with Chambers.
This division, from the legislative lobby
to the present time, seems to be one of
First National bank origin. The Fron
tier does not enjoy the confidence of
these fellows, and is therefore enabled
to give the news only as it can be gath
ered from those fortunate enough to se
cure reserved seats in the star-chamber.
The Frontier, as well as others
has a pecuuiary interest in divis
ion, and when the proper time ai rives
will have something to say regarding
the lines.
The Norfolk Journal uses some lan
guage regarding the condition of side
walks in its city that is very appropriate
to O’Neill's highways: "The sidewalks;
are in bad shape on many streets and lot
owners seem little inclined to repair
them. Some walks ought to be con
demned. It is running a great deal of
risk to allow this condition to continue,
vet it is hard to see how the city is going'
to help it. Funds are short and there is
not a brilliant prospect that any large
amount of taxes will be paid until after
a harvest is secured and business getB
better. In many respects the present
law regarding sidewalks is a serious bur
den. If walks are not repaired or new
ones built by lot-owners, the city must
repair or build them and be out the use
of the money until it finds its way back ]
into the treasury by slow and tortuous
I process of levying a special assessment.
The city is already carrying a heavy bur
den of this kind and it cannot afford to
increase that burden. Still, if the side
walks are not kept in good condition
the risk of damage suits is increased. In
this matter the council has before it a
serious problem, and one for which it
will require much care and thought to
find a happy solution.”
The O’Neill Tribune has suspended
publication. The Frontier dislikes to
note the failure of any business enter
prise in O’Neill, but the fact is there has
never been room for so many newspa
pers here. The history of the Tribune
runs back a good many years. It was
established in 1881 by T. V. Golden,
since which time changes in ownership
have been frequent. Mr. Golden trans
ferred his interest t* Mayes and Mc
Donough, the latter named gentleman
finally assuming entire control. Mr.
McDonough sold his interest to Bohon
and Killoran and accepted a position on
the Omaha Herald, under the regime of
Doc Miller. Mr. Bohon was not a news
paper man by education or intuition and
soon disposed of his interest to Pat Kil
loran. The paper suspended a short
time before the sad death of Jim Killor
an, who had editorial management, and
uuder whose control it reached its high
I cat point of briliancy, which never was
ptjj'*«3mean order. Up to this time its
palt^csY*ad always been relentlessly
detaoc'fatic and the influence exerted by
it over those of the faith in this locality
was not inconsiderable. In 1890 the
plant was purchased by C. S. Evans &
Son. who conducted it to its grave.
Under their management it was popu
listic in tendencies, but failed at all
times to secure the recognition to which
it was entitled. As a populist paper,
standing squarely upon its party’s plat
form, it was the peer of any country
publication of its faith in the state.
But parties are as ungrateful as individ
uals, and it was forced into alliances
that caused it to lose its prestige, and its
being. Had it stooped to the level of its
party leaders, and fawned at the feet of
its party’s corruption, it mignt be alive
to-day, enjoying the spoils that are flow
ing into the coffers of the Beacon Light
for like services ably and unscrupulous
ly performed. Better that it should die
as it did.
John Kellar, of Chambers, left this
morning for Illinois, where lie expects
to reside in the future.
Notice.
All those knowing themselves in
debted to me will please call and make
arrangements for settlement within the
next two weeks and thereby save extra
expense for costs.
Dated March 28, 1895.
39-2 J. P. Qilligan.
Letter Ltet.
Following; is the list of letters remaining In
the postoffioeat O’Neill, NsV, unclaimed, for
the week ending April to, 1895:
Jonathan Crockett John L. Sanders
Mrs. Mary Watford
In calling for the above please say “adver
t'sed." If not called for In two weeks they
will be sent to the dead letter office.
D. A. Doyle, P. m.
Notice.
Taken up by the undersigned on sec
tion 14, township 31, range 11, on
November 1, 1894, one white yearling
steer. Also on February 4, 1895, one
calf, color, red and white. Owners can
have same by proving property, paying
for keeping and advertising.
40-2 H. Hodgkins. Leonia, Neb.
Irrigation Kitten.
Monday was pretty much irrigation
day in O'Neill. The Niobrara Irriga
tion and Power company held a meet
ing in the afternoon, at which the fol
lowihg named gentlemen, members of
the company, met with the resident
members: Dr. Dodd, Newport; Messrs.
Smith and Ulrich, Long Pine; Messrs.
Sherwood, Morse, Allen and Allison,
Atkinson. Those present at the meet
ing when interviewed by a Frontier
reporter said as to the object and re
sult of the meeting they had nothing
to say for publication, except that they
still have confidence in getting the
work started by May 1.
FOR DISTRICT ORGANIZATION.
Meeting number two was held at the
court-house ond partook of the nature
of a mass convention. Its object was
a district organization under the new
irrigation law. Speeches were made by
Messers. Qillispie, Golden and others,
and committees appointed. A commit
tee, whose duty it is to locate and sug
gest boundary lines for the district, was
appointed, and is as follows: Tom Gol
den, Thos. Carlon, J. H. Hopkins, 11.
R. Henry, J, B. Donohoe, H. A. Allen,
D. C. Blondin and B. S. Gillespie.
A committee of three was also ap
pointed, which will correspond with
eastern capitalists in regard to dispos
ing of the bonds after the preliminaries
are successfully arranged.
The meeting adjourned to convene
again on Saturday, April 20, at 2 o’clock.
This will also be a mass meeting and all
are urgently invited to attend.
The committees will meet on April 17.
Matters are somewhat complicated for
the district organization, as the Niobrara
River Irrigation and Power company
hold water lights on the best water sup
ply, although it is thought that no
trouble will accrue from that source.
The gentlemen composing this company
are public spirited and are probably
more interested in seeing irrigation
come in any form than they are in
operating a canal with all its financial
uncertainties.
If they find upon further investiga
tion that for any reason they cannot
proceed with their undertaking, they
will no doubt gladly dispose of their
interests for a very reasonable sum.
Water is what people want and they
are not particular where it comes from
or who gives it to them.
That State Relief.
Counties are still clamoring for pur
chasers for warrants issued under the
3200,000 relief bill. Eastern brokers
have refused to take them, and yester
day a settlement was expected, but dur
ing the afternoon word came again by
wire that the warrants would not be
bought until the legality of the act ap
propriating money direct to a select
number of counties is passed upon by a
competent court. This causes aanother
delay, as the supreme court does not
meet until one week from to-day.
Last week local brokers talked of get
ting a decision by enjoining Auditor
Moore from issuing warrants, but noth
ing came of it.
At the state house yesterday morning
it was reported that Representative Lam
born had found a purchaser for $50,000
of the warrants at par. Later in the day
a refusal is said to have been sent by the
firm which proposed to buy, so the re
port concerning Mr. Lamborn’s ability
is now denied.
Only one warrant has* been sent east.
I Custer county’s warrant was forwarded
I Saturday through the First National
bank of Lincoln, but several days must
elapse before an answer can be received.
There is still talk of the state board of
educational lands and funds investing
the permanent school fund in these war
rants if brokers do not buy, and as in
the past some believe it cannot be done
legally, because there is no levy behind
the warrants. Governor Holcomb rec
ommended such investment in his mes
sage.
Whatever is to be done must be done
quickly, as seed has been bought by
' county agents and planting time is draw
, ing near. Dozens of teleg rams reached
the state house yesterday making inquir
ies about the prospects of realizing
money on warrants.
The theory that brokers* are playing
to get warrants at a discount is combat
ted. They could have got them yestei
| day at any reasonable discount, so anx
i ious are county relief committees to
secure supplies.
Deputy Attorney General Summers
was frequently called on yesterday and
in reply to inquiries be gave it as his
opinion that the relief act is constitu
tional, and will be so held by the su
preme court. He cites the case of Sayre
vs. Auditor Moore, 40 Neb. p40, involv
ing an act appropriating $7,495 for the
relief of Scott’s Bluff county, to
reimburse that county for expenses in
cured in the Arnold murder trial.—
State Journal.
Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
Awarded Gold Medal Midwinter Fair. San Francisco.
Reform in July.
Of all (be laws enacted by tbe legis
lature just adjourned, none pleases us so
well as tbe one requring counties with
Uiore than seven supervisors to cut tbe
districts down to that number at their
first meeting in July.
we nave not Dcen lavorea will) ft copy
of the bill, but our underfttandinir of the
matter is this: Instead of tbirty-oue,
our county will have a board of seven
members, elected from districts. Im
mediately after the law goes into effect,
which will be about July 5, the county
clerk is required to call a meeting of the
board. At this meeting the supervisors
shall divide the county Into seven dis
tricts and the supervisors of the new
districts shall cast lots to determine
which one of them shall serve out the
remainder of the term of office. When
an election ocours the voters of each
district bominate and elect. The pay
of the members remains the same, 88
per day and mileage. The bill does not
effect township organization, as it pro
vides for township boards, clerk and
treasurer. The adoption of this law is
not optional but mandatory.
Considering the fight Tits Frontier
has made on the system in this county,
the new law affords us considerable sat
isfaction. The board of Holt county’s
representation being as large as the state
senate was to us always a thing of hor
ror. This law cannot but result in a
great saving to this county, and the fact
will be felt almost immediately by the
tax payers.
Our board haying a populist majority
will of course gerrymander the districts
so that at each election a populist will
be chosen, but then, even with populist
reform, the saving must be considerable.
From Shields,
The farmers of Shields huge new life
since the rain and all are preparing to
put in big crops.
Tom Donohoe and Pat McGinnis left
Sunday for Edgerton, S. D„ where they
will remain during the summer.
Miss Lizzie O’Malley is enjoying a va
cation by visiting in the village.
Peter Donohoe is putting in a big dam
on the Blackbird, for the purpose of
making a fish pond.
Rodger Grasper McGinnis is fre
quently seen around Donohoeville. Of
course he comes to see John.
The latest thing on tap by the pops in
Shields is that they are going to bold an
other relief meeting and pass resolntions
denouncing Cleveland’s administration.
J. T. O’Malley will depart Wednesday
for Dakota. We wisli the young gentle
man abundant success on his journey.
Ed. Kilmurry delivered a fine lecture
on pills at our last literary. He informs
the writer that he is making big sales
since.
Some ill-reared scamps broke into the
school-house in district 17, and destroy
ed ail of the furniture. Those boys will
be found out and punished to the full
extent of the law.
Quite a number of the boys in Shields
attended the entertainment in the Mich
igan settlement Wednesday evening,
which consisted of dialogues, declama
tions, etc. All was appreciated by the
audience, especially the vocal music
which was well rendered by Miss Kittie
Dwyer.
P. F. Donohoe, the sharp-shooter of
Shields, killed three geese last week and
shipped them to his mother-in-law in
Iowa.
Miss Nell Colburt has returned from
her week's visit at Earnest.
The smiling face of Miss Mamie Don
ohoe is seen in Sunnyside again after her
visit at Hopkins.
Mike McCarthy, in company with oth
ers, was out in Shields last Friday spread
ing political molasses to catch flies. If
the party does not like the way they
were treated they should postpone their
next visit until an Invitation is received.
, Bio Chief.
“The Lancashire Last.”
On April 15, the Academy Dramatic
Company will present the celebrated
drama entitled the “Lancashire Lass,” or
“Tempted, Tried and True," a domestic
melodrama in a prologue and four acts,
by Henrv J. Bryon. The following is
the cast of characters:
Robert Redburn (an Adventurer)—Comedy
.D. H. Cronin
Ned Clayton (a Young Engineer)—Comedy
T v..O.F. Blglln
Johnson (Character Lead).Robert Marsh
Spotty (1st Low Comedy).A.Mullen
Danville (Old Man).John A. Harmon
Kirby (A Yoeman—Old Man).Denis Hunt
Jelliek (1st Old Man).Timothy Dwyer
Sergeant Donovan (Irishman)..M. P. Brennan
Phil Andrews (Utility).Leahctrn Nanncrb
Milder (Utility).Michael Brennan
Kitely (Utitlty).Leahcim Nannerb
Postman (Utility).M. Patrick Brennan
Ruth Kirby (Lead).. .Miss Maggie Harrington
Kate Oarstone 11st Comedy)...Mrs. T. Hunlcy
Fannie Danville (Walking Lady).
.Miss Mamie Cullen
To Oar Delinquents,
We have several hundred subscribers,
throughout the county, who owe us
from two to five years subscription.
We are aware of the fact that times are
hard, but as this is the first time we haye
ever appealed to our subscribers, we
trust they will respond liberally as we
are greatly in need of money and muet
have it. We trust that all who owe us
will please call and pay a part, even it
, they can not pay it all.
Honorable Whiskers.
If our renders will pardon a brief In
fringement upon their patience and our
apace, we desire to make a little com
pariaon that will be odious to somebody.
At the city election last week the editor
of the Swine Light received torty-nine
votes for the office of police judge.
There was no candidate on the ticket,
and voters, some sincerely, some sarcas
tically and others maliciously, wrote the
name of whiskers in to the extent
mentioned and he was elected. In the
issue of the Smudge following this, to
him, importent event, he published the
following:
No nomination! were made for police
Judge, and It waa surmised that the gang
had planned that if Wagora failed to
defeat N. Martin for cleric he would hold
over aa police judge, ao to unhorse thia
pre-concerted plan, many friends of the
editor of the Beacon Light begun to
write hla name in the ticket. The
writer had no knowledge of the mntter
until noon, ile made a roar against it,
but it waa useless, and the honor was
absolutely thrust upon him.
We take pleasure in introducing to
you O'NeiU's new police judge.
Following the above burst of self
adulation was a picture of himself minus
the whiskers. The contemporaneous
paragraphs below certainly indicate that
the gentleman intends taking advantage
of his forty-nlne-voto election and
qualify:
It shall be understood that the police
court is higher than tho district court
four inches higher.
Offer no contempt to the police court,
under penalty of being ducked three
times in the big ditch.
Gentlemen, come into court. Tho
Judge will unpire the game, just as lie
does base ball, or edits the Beacon Light
—without the fear or favor of any man.
Anticipating that move on his part we
call attention to the fact that one year
ago Editor King of The Frontier was
elected to the same office by a vote of
seventy-one, or about a third of the
number of votes polled. The Hmudge
Light then published the following:
The Sun should give itself no uneasi
ness as to whether King will qualify as
police judge or not. No official "posish”
is so small that he would not “go after”
it like a trout after a June bug, else
why was the scheme to elect him sneaked
through on tho sly? Only a few of the
strikers voted him in while hardly any
person paid any attention to the ticket
in blank. It is possible that some more
bogus warrants will be needed with
which to “follow and pursue” some one
into foreign countries to prevent some
gang shark from being returned by law
ful authority—some one would say “we
would rather he would remain where he
Is; in fact I, myself, don’t want him
back here!” Doesn’t the Sun see the
point? Then the p. j.-sbip will be a
kind of protection to the diminutive lit
tle cuss from the several young country
fellows who might have it in for him
for the miserable falsehoods be has
published.
When the time arrived for King to
qualify, he declinccd in the language
below:
The Kid informs us that he will not
accept the responsible position. Not
that he in any degree fails to appreciate
the compliment tendered, and the trust
reposed in him by a plurality of his
countrymen, but thut he feels the duties
of a rigorous magistrate and a vigorous
newsprper writer to be incompatible:
that it would not look becoming to roast
some miscreant through the press and
then be called upon to interpret law in
the same case, and perhaps in the end
And him not guilty. Besides, he deeply
feels that his tender years would in no
wise bring to or maintain any surperflu
ous dignity in the vicinity of the bench,
and for these and other reasons he will
allow the mayor to choose by appoint
ment some personage worthy and capa
ble by virtue of his years and experience
Now The Frontier is an enterprising
newspaper, and it don’t propose that
the Jew shall out-do us, so wo too have
prepared a picture and take “pleasure
in introducing to you O'NeiU's new
police juduis.”
Of course this is uot the same view he
published. The picture published in
the Smudge shows what he himself
thinks he is. This shows what the peo
ple think he is.
Senator Frye believes in the virility
of the republican party. A few days
ago he uttered this prophecy and prom
ise: “Give us republican rule for a
single decade, unlimited, uncrippled
power, and we will show the people the
beneficence of republican legislation.
Every man who wants work will have
it, and at the wages of the crowning
year of republican rule—1892. We will
place our flag on all the seas of the
earth, restore the merchant marine to
its place, and will increase our white,
strong-armed squadrons so that they
will command the respect of all nations.
We will annex the Hawaiian islands,
fortify Pearl harbor, build the Nicaragua
canal and marry two oceans. We will
show people a foreign policy that is
American in every fiber, and hoist the
American flag on what ever island we
think best, and no hand shall ever pull
it down."
PERTAINING TO IRRIGATION.
The It. M. llaskill, taken front the
Uennesy Clipper, has some good ideas
on putting in an irrigation plant: “If I
were going to irrigate ton acres of level
land I would make my reservoir in the
center extending from one side to the
other, excavating about twenty feet wide
raising the embankments about four
feet above the level. After the oxcava
lion was completed I would thoroughly
pulvorlzo the Inaido surface of the reser
voir, then let in water enough to make a
stiff mortar, with which I would puddle
tho bottom and sides of the part exca
vated. The embankment will not need
puddling, as it will bo sutllclently solidi
fied by process of placing It. I would
then situato a twelve-foot vanelcss fold
ing mill at each end of the reservoir,
with a tour-inch cylinder, and a two
inch discharge pipe, and would conneot
a float to the throw-out wire of the mill,
so that when tho reservoir is full the
mill will go out of the wind, and when
the water recodes it wlfl commenco op
erating again. At intervals of two hun
dred foot I would locato at either side of
the reservoir box outlets, not less than
four Inches inside dimensions, which
should be six inches above the level of
the land to be Irrigated and connected
with the elevated ditches. The elevated
ditches must be at right anglos with the
reservoir, and the crop planted at right
angles with the ditch. The water should
be permitted to run to the end of the ele
vated ditch, then open it between the
rows to be Irrigated; the flow from a
four-inch stream of water will carry
force enough to extend to the end of the
rows. When sufficiently watered dam
up the elevated ditch and so continue
until that portion of the field is properly
watered, and you will then know how to
treat the balance."
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Field end Farm facte and figures,
which will no doubt bo appreciated by
our farmer readers: "Distances apart
for planting various garden crops: Beans,
dwarf, in drills three feet apart and
eight inches apart In the drill, one and
one-half bushels to the acre; one quart
to 100 feet drill. Beans, pole, in hllle
three feet apart both ways, 10 to 13 qts.
per acre, six seeds to the hill. Beets,
table varieties, in rows 14 Inches apart,
six to eight pounds; one ounce will sow
a fifty-foot drill. Cabbage In beds, one
ounce will produce 3,000 plants, it will
take 6,GOO plants for an acre, with rows
three feet apart, and the plants two feet
apart in the row. With seed sown in
the field, thinning out to a single plant,
with six seeds planted to the hill, two
pounds will be required. Carrots, with
rows twelve inches apart, three pounds.
One ounce will sow 100 feet of drill.
Cauliflower, the same as cabbage. Cel
ery, one ounce will produce 4,00O plants. *
One and one-half pounds will be required
for drilling in the field."
Egypt has spent on public Irrigation?
chiefly in canals and drains, nine hun
dred and fifty thousand pounds or about
four and one-half million dollars since
1883. The Egytian government is now
preparing to expend thirty million dol
lars in the building of reservoirs for irri
gation purposes.
The Junction City Union says: "The
irrigation sentiment is beginning to
come to the surface all over the county.
There is the deepest interest manifest by
the more progressive of our farmers,
who are not slow about grasping the
fact that five acres of land under success
ful irrigation will provide a living for
the average family and some to spare.
If five acres had been so handled last
year, or any series of three years during
the past ten, the proceeds in any one of
the average years would have paid for
any $2,500 quarter section in the coun
try. After the vegetables are gathered,
irrigated rye on that many acres would
provide pasture for fifty hogs for at
least four months, which means some
thing like $150 in most years. A series
of good years such as we are certain to
have, may cool the ardor of irrigatlon
ists, or check the spread of the enthusi
asm, but we have never had a year when
an irrigation plant would not have paid
interest on the investment."
The German Chicory Company will
plant 100 acres of chicory on land under
the little ditch.
The day is near at hand when the
western farmer will till forty acres of
irrigated land and realize greater results
than he now realizes from a half section
of land that depends upon rain for its
moisture.
The experience of Greeley, Colo., dem
onstrates that it is poor policy for one
man to attempt to attend to a section of
irrigated land. Forty acres well tilled
will produee more than eighty acres
only half attended to by the owner.
Mike Mullen is thinking seriously of
putting in a two-acre irrigation plant this
season.
