5f,rt;r n <■■■■■■ r-t - f'tf. ,*».7^ ;;f! ED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. SUBSCRIPTION, SI.SO PER ANNUM. 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, iful of r f, Said’ was the most 'untlred » bad been held id and rnn tf‘y ,eachers were ID eo' ny able P^ers were t*,' ITT'*™*'*™ w«e estants representing 1 Auth or ,M °'Xelila"d as far ui.si,r-" — “ Prize on Tacoma took '."in ,h“ *efuust°theCartha ftook first " a iCal Cla88' k "TingerellaZ” 'v I)ramatic i'n ,he humorist ^eb®b took Arst t Society - t ' SS8; ‘‘Tbe De 1 »"d impartial J!!'effthelaUrel,. lgh 8Cbo01 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." 'i '■'si 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.