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UME XV.
O'NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, APRIL 18, 1895. NUMBER 41.
SAB WHISKERS
Interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
kND HOW IT HAPPENED
pilings Portrayed For General
liication and Amusement.
fut was over from Boyd Tues
Umiu! left Friday morning for
fust installment of seed corn
O’Neill this week.
Martin is making liis annual
Hi assessors’ schedules.
untj relief commission met
at the county clerk’s office.
court will convene in Boyd
May 7, instead of the 35th.
rst National bank has pur
olt county’s state warrant at
■. Connolv returned to the city
ulay night and will reside here
ure:
kemlall went up to Atkinson
light to accept a position on
iic. _
Uastedo and Roland were over
Ite Monday and Tuesday on
iness.
Wertz was down from Stuart
attending the meeting of the
lief commission.
County Clerk McCarthy, is on
n, having fully recovered from
of the mumps.
rill be quarterly meeting at the
thtirch on April 20, at 3 o'clock
ie following Sunday at 11.
. Butler, Drayton and Benson
rom Ewing last Thursday and
iking county division with our
tntague arrived from New York
and is now at work for' the
Chicory Co., in the capacity of
of the factory.
lit not be a bad play on words
lat the Boyd county farmers
il a ‘-seedy” appearance. Three
wagon loads of it.
Kinkaid and Reporter King
Saturday morning from Sioux
where they had been holding
They go next to Boyd on May
who “fish by the signs" should
eparationa for next Monday and
■ Those will be the only two
this month that the indications
rented the Murphy pastures
st of O’Neill and will take colts
“re for the season. Running
pasture.
P. H. McNicholl.
■scorning on nicely in this see
the ground is said to be in finer
ln tban 't has been for three
““everything is a month ahead
fear.
Mo^dlSiT members o
V relief purchasing committee
« buying grain. We under
bu* -bout twenty ca
d'CforMve rStaff°rd and fami:
N°rf°,k Tuesday whe
Pcttomaketheir fulure hom
shesfor‘tT-a L08t °f friends
for this very estimable fat
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Miss Edna Saunders, of Randolph,
was In the city the first of the week, the
guest of Mrs. D. H. Cronin. She re
turned home this morning. *
Miss Herrick gave to '‘men only”—at
the rink last night—a good healthy talk
on morality. Miss Herrick need not
concern herself as to the grounds of pro
priety; all right thinking people will
sustain her; The other class don’t cut
much of a figure anyway.
Sioux Co. Journal: After an absence
of two Tears it is evident that 'Judge
Kinkaid is as popular as a presiding
judge o^d as a man as he ever was here.
Ills reporter, J. J. King, made his first
visit here this term and his conduct and
attention to duty has made him many
friends. _
The new supervisor law largelv in
creases the powet of the township
board. It gives them power to purchase
real estate and personal property, to
maintain public wells, plant trees in
highways and protect their growth and
to operate a pound for the care of
stock left running at large.
A large and enthusiafic audience
witnessed the production of the "Lan
cashire Lass" at the Opera house Mon
day night, by the Academy Dramatic
Co., under the management of O. F.
Biglin. The performers displayed con
siderable talent in their several parts and
the play was a success. The net pro
ceeds were about $100.
Three hundred men and as many
teams from Boyd county were in O’Nelil
j Sunday, Monday and Tuesday for relief
I seed grain. Seven car loads were deliv
ered upon the track here, Monday, by
Wm. Krotter, of Stuart, but consider
able trouble and delay was caused by
the failure of the Boyd county authori
ties to dispose of their state warrant.
Sam Sample was in Lincoln with the
warrant, and word was received from
him Tuesday morning that arrange
ments had been made and the grain was
accordingly released.
The case of Hudson vs. the lodges of
Oddfellows and Knights of Pythias,
was tried Monday afternoon in county
Court. The case grew out of the reward
offered by these lodges for the recovery
of Scott’s body. Mr. Hudson was the
gentleman who first hooked into the
body in the river. Some sixteen or
or eighteen others who were assisting
in the search intervened in the case and
asked that the reward of $200 be pro
rated, but the jury decided that the
plaintiff was entitled to the full amount
and brought in a verdict accordingly.
The jury was composed of the following
named gentlemen: J. J. McCafferty,
Ben Transue, Wm. Laviollette, John
Nolan and Perkins Brooks. The case
will be appealed.
Tuesday afternoon and evening was
decidedly drizzly and uncomfortable for
those whose business compelled them
to be away from fire and shelter. The
vast influx of Boyd county farmers ren
dered it extremely difficult for our hotel
men to provide for and make them com
fortable, and as a result thereof, the
saloons entertained their full quota. A
Frontier reporter, in quest of notes,
dropped into one of these resorts, and
in casting his eagle eye over the motley
group espied the familiar faces of Jim
Pinkerman and Mose Elliott. The form
of the latter being propped up against
the bar, ostensibly to keep the same
in an upright position, while Jim was
circulating among the throng and in
modulated tones inviting everybody
from Boyd county to come up and drink.
This looks peculiar, to say the least; but
we opine that the evidence in the case
will have a greater influence in deciding
the verdict of the jury than all the beer
and hail-fellowship which can be
brought to bear upon it.
llev. Hosman, assisted by -Miss Lida
M. Herrick, deaconess of the Methodist
hospital, Omaha, and Miss M. E. Brown,
vocalist, have for the past two weeks
been conducting a series of revival meet
ings at the M. E. church. Mr. Hosman
informs us that up to date there have
bqen about thirty-five conversions, prin
cipally among the young ladies and gen
temen of the city. These good people
have gone out upon the highways, and
with their prayers and songs and logic
succeeded in awakening some of
the people of O’Neill to a realizing sense
of their spiritual need*. Miss Herrick
is a very quiet, unassuming lady—a rea
soner—and has a way, peculiarly her
own of presenting her arguments and
compelling her listeners to turn the
searchlight of investigation upon their
own as well as their neighbors’ acts.
Miss Brown, the singer, is possessed of
an uncommonly sweet voice, and has
dedicated it to a good cause. Her beau
tiful songs, both in the open air and in
the sanctuary have been instrumental in
stirring up many an old sinner to a sense
of the duty be owes to his Creator, his
family and his fellow man.
Obltnary.
KEARNBJf--At his home about three
miles north of O'Neill, on Monday, of
pneumonia, Patrick Carney, aged 59
years.
Decoased was born in Kerry county,
Ireland, in 1887, and came to America in
1850. He came to this county and set
tled on the farm where he died, in 1870,
and has been a resident of this county
ever since. He was sick only about a
week. Deceased leaves a wife and six
children, four boys and two girls, to
mourn his loss. The funeral services
were held at the Catholic church, Wed
nesday morning and tlie remains were
interred in the Catholic cemetery. Tub
Frontier tenders its condolence to the
family of the deceased.
Notice.
The following townships will receive
their seed grain and potatoes at O'Neill
on the following dates:
Qrattan, 272 bushels potatoes, 685
bushels of corn; April 16-20; Shields.
200 bushels of potatoes, 780 bushels of
corn, April, 19-20; Emmet, 04 bushels
potatoes, 283 bushels of corn, April 19
20.
Saratoga, 100 bushels potatoes and 240
bushels of corn, April 22; Scott, 140
bushels of potatoes and 836 bushels of
corn, April 22; Rock Falls, 140 bushels
of potatoes and 837 bushels of corn,
April 22.
Chambers, 105 bushels of potatoes and
680 bushels of corn, April 23; Conley.
100 bushels of potatoes and 485 boshels
of corn, April 23; Fairview, 100 bushels
of potatoes and 315 bushels of corn,
April 23; Swan, 52 bushels of potatoes
and 165 bushels of corn, April 23.
Willowdale, 80 bushels of potatoes
and 343 bushels of corn, April 24; Iowa,
105 bushels of potatoes and 310 bushels
of corn, Apail 24; Verdigris, 185 bush
els of potatoes and 690 bushels of corn,
April 24.
Steel Creek, 160 bushels of potatoes
and 535 bushels of corn, April 25; Pad
dock, 217 bushels of potatoes and 550
bushels of corn, April 25. Committee.
Card of Thanks.
To the people of Sumner, Tripoli,
Westgate, Hawkeye, Maxfleld, Knittel,
Buck Creek, Waterloo and vicinities,
who so cheerfully and liberally contribu
ted grain, moner and clothing to the
poor people of Shields township, Holt
county Nebraska, I wish to express my
heartfelt thanks and the thanks of the
p’oor people here who received a portion
of the relief. Particularly do I extend
thanks to all churches for their valuable
aid, and also to my warm-hearted friend,
D. R. Littell and his good wife who
cared for me as if I were an own brother.
May the good Lord blese you all, and
may your reward be increased by the
thankfulness of those whom you so
kihdly benefit ted.
Conrad Wbttlaufer.
Mr. Wettlaufer called at Tbe Fron
tier office yesterday and gaye us a list
of the names of the donators which he
had promised to have published for the
benefit of his Iowa friends. On account
of lack of space in this issue tbe list
will appear next week.
Mr. Wettlauffer did a month’s bard
work and collected about 8600 worth in
all.
He Is, however, very much dissatis
fied over the way the grain was distrib
uted, that part of the work being done
by M. F. Harrington before Mr. Wett
laufer's return. He says the people of
his township who most needed relief
received the least.
Weather Indication* for April.
Following i* what Dr. Hartor’s alma
nac ears about the indication* for April:
“April arrives with tbe last storm* of
March, passing onward to the east.,
Cool, pleasant weather during the first,
day* of the month, growing warmer,
with reactionary storms about the fifth
and sixth. April showers, with warmer
weather, follow. The first regular storm
period of the month will originate in the
west on the ninth, taking its course
across the continent, and reaching the
Atlantic about the twelfth. During the
progress of these storms, there will be
heavy rains with hail in some sections.
In the north snow, followed by freezing.
At the south rapid and violent changes
in temperature. Electrical phenomena.
Frequent local showers. Cool to warmer
weather will follow, with scattering
storms on the sixteenth and seventeenth,
then pleasant April weather. Mercury
on the twentieth will aggravate the sec
ond regular storm period, originating in
the west on the twenty-first, and new
moon on the twenty-fourth, will increase
the heavy down-pour of rain and hail.
A very warm. atmotphere with electric cloud*
give warning of approaching danger. Coo)
pleasant weather will lollow, growing
warmer with local storms on the twenty
eighth and twenty-ninth. April will
end with pleasant weather with increas
ing warmth and scattering April show
ers.” < _
Katies.
Taken up by the undersigned on sec
tion 14, township 31, range 11, on
November 1, 1894, odc white yearling
steer. Also on February 4. 1895, one
calf, color, red and white. Owner* can
have same by proving property, paying
for keeping and advertising.
40-2 II. Hodgkins. Leonia, Neb.
The "Port’’ on "Coin."
The New York Evening Post bns felt
called upon to take up the statements
and arguments of the pamphlet now
being widely circulated by the free coin
age, 10 to 1 propagandists and silver
mine owners, called "Coin's Financial
School,” and to treat them at length in a
series of articles in its somewhat ponder
ous English manner. The Post has
taken the pains to trace up the state
ments, historical and otherwise, to their
lair and demonstrate their folly and
falseness, a task that has seemed super
ogatory to most of the opponents of free
coinage without an international agree
ment, because no intelligent man ought
to be misled by these insane chestnuts.
Here ere some ot the allegations ot
“Coin" that the Post riddles.
The first is the assertion that the sil
ver dollar was the unit of money in this
country from 1793 until 1878. This is
wholly false. The congress of the con
federation did make the silver dollar the
unit in 1875. It provided a silver legal
tender dollar and a silver one only. But
in 1703 the congress of the constitution
made the dollar to consist of two differ
ent things, two “units" If you please,
one a dollar of twenty-three and three
fourths grains of pure gold and the other
a dollar of 371} grains of pure silver. It
called them both units in a loose way
and provided that the eagle should con
tain ten ot these units or dollars.
“Coin” throws a little dust by stating
that the act said that -the eagle was to be
“of the the value of ten dollars or units,”
which is not true. It was that it should
“consist” of ten units or dollars.
In the same act it was provided that
the silver dollar was to be “of the value
of a Spanish milled dollar as the same is
now current," but having made a slight
mistake in the computation of the grains
the silver dollar coined under this act
was worth a cent more than the Spanish
milled dollar, and as the Spanish milled
dollar was a legal tender by act of con
gress, it drove the congressional dollars
out and they could not be kept in circu
lation, but were exported to be melted
back into bullion. '
So in 1805 President Jefferson of
sainted memory issued an order stop
ping the coinage of the congressional
silver dollar and not another one was
minted in this country until 1838. So
the alleged “unit” of the free coinage
orators was utterly ignored nine years
after the passage of the coinage law,
and was repudiated by all administra
tions until thirty-one years later.
The next misstatement of “Coin” no
ticed by the Post is that "congress had
passed a law making all foreign silver
coins legal tender in this country.” This
lie is handy for the purpose of proving
the the theory of the silver free coinage
lunatics that it is law and not intrinsic
value that makes a dollar worth a dollar.
The fact is that only two foreign coins
were ever made a legal tender by con
gress, the Spanish milled dollar and the
French five-frank piece or crown.
But all this time up to 1881, when all
coin left our circulation, over two bun
ded foreign silver coins circulated with
out trouble in this country. Subse
quently, when the South American
states became indeoendent of Soain. hut
continued to coin the standard Spanish
dollar, their dollara were made legal ten
der in this country, being precisely the
same as the Spanish dollar. Congress
made the Spanish dollar and the French
I five-frank piece legal tender because
| they constituted the bulk of the coin
then in circulation in the country.
The French and Spanish and Spanish
American silver coins less than a dollar
were always in circulation and did most
of the store ‘‘trading" of the country all
these years without ever being a legal
tender for debt. So did those of Ger
many! Austria, Holland, Uelgium and
Denmark, which were not legal tender,
circulate without question because of
their intrinsic value.
The next statement of the twelve
year-old suckling who answers to tbe
name of ‘‘Coin’ is that the “coinage act
of 1973. which demonetized silver went
through congress like the stealthy tread
of the cat.” It was more like the
stealthy tread of an elephant, for tbe
proceeding on tbe bill occupy 144 col
umns of the Congressional Record, and
the bill itself was printed thirteen dif
ferent times before tbs vote was taken
on its passage.
This act provided that “the silver
coins of the United States shall be a dol
lar, a half-dollar, or fifty-cent piece; a
quarter-dollar, or twenty-five cent piece;
a dime, or ten-cent piece; and the weight
of the dollar shall be 384 grains—which
coins shall be a legal tender lor their
nominal value for any amount not ex
ceeding five dollars in any one payment."
Another section provined that no other
silver coin should be issued from the
mint. A third section provided that the
gold dollar should be tbe unit of value.
There was nothing “covered up" in the
bill If ono understands tlie rudiments of
the English language.
The particular part of the bill that
omitted the silver dollar as a unit of
value was discussed on the floor by four
members of the house. Secretary Bout
well called attention particularly to this
feature of the bill and his documents
were printed and laid on t\ie desk of
every senator and congressman. They
were also sent to boards of trade, col
lege professors and all persons thought
to be Interested, to provoke discussion
and get the sense of the country.
me senate struck out “884' as the
number of grains in the silver dollar
that made it equivalent to a French five
frank piece and just equal to two half
dollars, and inserted "430” and thus cre
ated the “trade dollar" that was after
I wards used in China and the east, So
the senate must have known something
about the change that was being made
in the “unit.” But the silver dollar was
then an obsolete coin and nobody wanted
it for business. The trade dollar was
put in its place for our Asiatic custom
ers who used silver almost exclusively.
All debts, public and private, have
been contracted on the basis of the act
of ’78, that is, the gold basis. The na
tional debt, previously contracted prac
tically on the gold basis If not legally,
has all been refunded since thnt year,
innd is legally ou the gold basis. But
since that time the silver dollar of 1703
has depreciated in value to SO cents all
over the world, except where it is le
deemable in a gold dollar. The govern
ment has simply chosen the most stable
metal for its unit or dollar and all con
tracts are for dollars of that unit.
The Post elides to other subsidiary
lies in the pamphlet. For Instance a
quotation purporting to be the words of
“Lyman J. Gage, of Chicago, at a lec
ture in the Art institute." Mr. Gage not
only repudiates the quotation, but de
clares that he never attended any such
lecture.
It also notices the allegd report of the
monetary commission of 1878 attached
to a picture of “Columbus discovering
America," in which the point is endeav ■
ored to be made that Columbus, by “re
storing tbe volume of precious metals,”
lifted the world from misery to prosper
ity. There is no such passage in the re
port of tbe monetary commission of
1878. friere is found a part of it in the
report of Senator Jones, of Nevada, of
the commission of 1878, but nothing
about Christopher Columbus and the
discovery of America, which gives the
quotation all its point. Another phase
in the quotation, sub-quoting from
“Adam Smith,” is also found to be a for
gery by the Post.
It also refers to the pictures, “Bimet
allsm in 1§71" and “Monometalism in
1894,” one a picture of thrift and pros
perity and the other of poverty and mis
ery. But of course as there wusn’t u dol
lar in either gold or silver current in the
United States in 1872 there was no “bl
metalism" then or for seven years there
after. Furthermore, tbe “prosperity”
of 1873 was a hollow shell. Tbe year
after a panic occurred, worse than the
“monometallic” panic of 1898-4 that
brought poverty and misery to thou
sands of households. And we had bi
raetalism in 1894 as we have never had
it before.
The Post discusses at some length the
silly twaddle of the fool schoolboy
"Coin" about gold being “the money of
the rich and silver the money of the
poor,” which is an insult of course to
the laboring man, as it pretends that a
50-cent dollar is good enough for him,
while the “rich” man grinds him down
to powder by trying to make him take a
gold dollar when he pays bis his wages.
But such stuff is beneath contempt.
As the Post shows incidentally, the
only real dynamic force behind these
lies and forgeries is the covert sugges
tion to the man in debt that if the silver
mine owner is permitted to have his 50
cents worth of bullion made into a legal
tender dollar he will double his debt pay
ing power and the consequence may be
that other debtors may get some of these
dollars "cheap” with which to swindle
their creditors also from whom they
borrowed gold dollars or tbeir equiva
lent a day or a week or a year before.
The Journal apologizes for synopsiz
ing the Post's articles because they cover
too much space to be quoted in full.
But it has presented the principal points,
briefly and plainly. It shows that the
pamphlet was written by a gross liar
and a bold forger, and that it intends
thus to deceive the ignorant and the un
wary. In this respect, however, it
merely follows the method of every
prominent free coinage stumper and
writer in the land. None of them dare
tell the truth at any stage of tbeir mo
notonous screeds. The truth would
“down” them, and so they carefully es
chew it.—State Journal.
To insure your corn crop buy Holt
county seed corn of
41-3 Barnard 4s Co
PERTAINING TO IRRIGATION,
To make a reservoir, first select
s suitable location, one that will occupy
the land as high, or higher, In elevation
than any of the land you wish to Irrl*
gate; then lay off the lines marking Its
dimensions. If the land on which the
reservoir Is to bo built be of fresh sod,
It will bo necessary to plow up or re
move all of the sod from the ground on
which the embankments are to be con
structed, otherwise there would always
remain a seam through which the water
wouia escape from tue reservoir, aa sod
la not fit material to use in the construe*
tion of embankment*, It should not be
used when building them up to their re*
qulred heights. When the outline* of
tho embankment* are established and
the sod removed, as before stated, then
plow within the lines of the proposed
embankments and with a scraper draw
the earth from the inside of tho reser
voir to build up the walls with. The
walls should be not less than five feet in
height, measuring on the outside, and
very wide or thick at the ground level.
The wall should be so carried up that
the slope from the Insldo will be very
gradual, not abrupt, for the reason that
if the walls are nearly perpendicular,
waves of the water will destroy them,
hence the avantage of making the walls
very sloping from the inside; the outer
walls may be made more perpendicular,
because there is no water from the out
side to Injure them. Having built the
walls by using the earth from the inside
of the reservoir, and everthlng ready
Mr puddling tho earth to hold water,
the first thing in order is to plow up all
of the land over the whole bottom sur
face of the reseryolr, four or five inches
deep, then with a harrow or drag, or
other suitable Implement, reduce the
earth to a very fine pulverization, and
after this shall have been done, and
thoroughly done, the next thing in or
der is to make ready to puddle.
Having your team and that of your
neighbor, if you can secure his service*,
with drags or harrows, or Inverted scrap
ers, or other tools that will be best
adapted for working fine earth into mor
tar. Now., all ready to puddle, turn the
water into the reservoir and begin to
puddle at one edge, puddling carefully
along this edge until the earth shall have
been reduced to perfect mortar and con
tinue to work toward the other side un
til yOu have completed the entire bottom
of the reservoir as far up on the embank
ment as yothcan work to good advant
age with your team.
If you have done the work thoroughly
and without stopping after you have
once commenced, until It is finished,
your reservoir will then cement into a
good solid bottom that will hold very
well. After you have your reservoir
thus made and puddled, the next thing
is to provide some means to prevent the
embankment from being washed down
by the continuous waves of water which
are caused by the wind. Many different
schemes have been devised for this pur
pose and none of them with that degree
of success that it is hoped will be ob
tained by further experimenting in the
near future. Home of the irrigators use
sod for protecting the walls on in the
inside by laying the sodded blocks in
the same manner now employed by
landscape gaadenera in sodding lawns
and houseyards.
ii stone can De nau tne better way
will be to rip-rap the embankment on
'the inside, as it would be tile more per
manent and as n rule give better satis
faction. Some irrigators have used
planks thrown onto the water, which
will float and be driven by the wind
to the opposite side of the reservoir
from which the wind blows, the planks
acting as a break-water to prevent the
walls from being destroyed.
When the wind changes these planks ,
blow to the other side again and thus
continue to protect the walls, no matter
from which direction the wind blows.
This last plan—of using planks—is not
as good as the sodding in the estimation
of many who have used both systems.
Another plan is to rip-rap the inside
walls witfc brush and weight them down
with stone, or hold them down by sta‘ •
ing them. In this case the twigs and
limbs of small trees and bushes are laid
down against the wall in a compact
mass, and in as thick a mass as the sup
ply of the material will permit. This
has been found to give very good results.
If the walls have been sodded inside
instead of being protected by boards,
brush, or stone rip-rap, it will be well if
some water-grass can be procured from
sloughs and planted in scams between
the blocks ot sod, so that by the time
the sod rots out, the water-grass may
have taken firm root so as to afford a
living peotection to the embankment.
The outside walls of the embankment
may be sodded, or they may be planted
with Bnch grass as irrigators prefer,
such as blue grass or other tame grasses.
To maintain your reservoir in good or
der never allow it to go dry. If you do
the bottom will dry out and crack open,
which will require it to be re-plowed
and re-puddled, requiring just as much
work to make it bold now as it did to
make it hold in the beginning; for the
same reason do not allow the ground to
freeze. Freezing is just about as bad as
leaving it go dry. To avoid freezing
always keep about two feet of water' in
your reservoir during the winter.
