HED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO.
JME XV.___
SUBSCRIPTION, SI.SO PER ANNUM.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, MAY 23, 1895.
CLYDE KINO AND D. N. CRONIN, EDITORS AND MANAGERS.
NUMBER 46
SANS WHISKERS
nterest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
ND HOW IT HAPPENED
goings Portrayed For General
ication and Amusement.
Hall is expected homo by the
ie. _
nkaid went down to Lincoln
irning._
;gs was visiting friends in
s first of the week.
L’ttley returned Friday night
isiness trip to Chicago.
irris went down the road 8un
ig, returning Monday night.
D. Janzing and May Weber,
O’Neill, secured marriage
isday.
tiglin fell down and Injured
>e while on his way to the
morning,
ilev, Lew Combs and John
rere up from .Ewing Monday
ted over night.
darkey with a plantation
rupon the charitably inclined
r a few nickles.
win went down to Omaha
lorning for medical treatment,
accompanied her.
lorbett went down to Norfolk
lorning to attend the meeting
e Dental Association.
Irwin has opened up a barber
he Fahy building, next door
1'Connor & Gallagher’s.
gant oak bar in Wm. Lav
tloon shows off nicely since
baptism with oil and varnish.
|ad made by Mrs. Cress beats
; We sell it.
O’Neill Grocery Co.
I -
‘Pittman, representing the
jy Newspaper Union, was in
Friday, and while here made a
| office.
; Dramatic Company at the
y and Saturday nights. This
las been here before and gave
taction.
tallagher Monday disposed of
black Percheron stallion to a
of Knox county, for a valu
lieration.
0 an increase of business the
1 barn has rented the Fallon
of this office and will use it in
a the Checker.
ather Cassidy returned from
buraday evening, where he
attending the national conven
i Catholic Knights.
for strawberries and all kinds
tuits and vegetables.
O’Neill Grocery Co.
ledger: Sheriff Hamilton and
Maud, came up from O’Neill
,e"mS- The latter attended
!rs assnojotirv« _
Campbell and C. C. McHugh
Thursday night from Kearney
lev were attending the grand
0{ the the A. C. 0. W.
fried beef thin and nice.
\ ’ We a!so sell dry salt and
bacon and California hams.
0 Neill Grocbby Co.
Hail has traded for a merry
aail will run it in the eastern
la,e ,bis summer. Elliot
uompson will accompany
krdertf' U'0ka la8t Sunday took
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'***s~on~exhU,ilion in hil
C °ck of the Patern of the
h?J °! the one uaed bj
f-*^ea”:XW00dtbr0ngh
fctaat ,“r Co>kendall. c
-s aid up this week W;
Dr M,.n‘ng "icely under t
► “TiT flshin*
'Sue, corn h r °f DOtted h
'kins and m Sardine8. fa
evv 1XeJ Pickl«.
Grocery Ci
^'tent^j bn o family> equi|
An individual representing himself to
be a "human ostrich,’’ was in the city
Monday devouring glass, scrap iron,
nails and knife blades. He exhibited
upon the street corner and passed the
hat by way of diversion.
O’Neill Furniture Company are agents
in Holt county for the Western Cottage
Organ and will make you figures that
will surprise you. Call at the store and
examine goods, or drop us a line and we
will send our Mr. Reed to see you. 46-3
The following agricultural item is now
going the rounds: “When a young man
tells his best girl that he is a regular self
binder though he may be a rake,” he
proceeds to binder In his embrace and
she instead of being disgusted calls for
mower. _
Attorneys Uttley and Dickson were in
Lincoln Tuesday on business before the
supreme court. While there they ar
gued and submitted the convent case
and Mr. Dickson says a decision wifi
probably be handed down within the
next two weeks.
ii space in the frontier is valuable
for the publication of notice and pro
gram of a meeting of the Holt county
Teachers’ Association it is also worthy
of a report of the meeting after it has
been held. The secretary of the asso
ciation should peruse James G. Blaine’s
great ideas of reciprocity.
The dance given Tuesday night by the
Modern Woodmen of America was not
as much of a success financially as so
cially. The proceeds just about balan
ced tip the expenditures. Music was
furnished by the O’Neill orchestra. The
supper was served at the New Ogden
and was a perfect one in every respect.
Come to me sweet Marie,
Sweet Marie come to me;
Not because your face is fair,
Love to see.
But those shoes upon your feet
Make your outfit look complete,
They’re from Mann’s and cant be beat,
Sweet Marie.
Henry Murphy went down to Lincoln
Monday morning. He went for the
purpose of having the supreme court
determine which is the greater office,
that of county attorney or attorney
general. As Henry holds to the former
proposition we look for him to come
home a wiser, and therefore that much
better attorney.
Gordon Journal: A Rushville school
maanm asked her reading class to spell
and define hab-i-ta-tion. It proved a
stunner for the class. To illustrate she
asked: “Suppose I should get married
and settle down in Rushville, what
wpuld I have?” The prompt answer
given by a bright urchin, brought the
crimson to the young lady'B cheeks.
Judge Valentine, ot West Point, was
in the city Monday on business. Mr.
Valentine wps the first judge of this dis
trict and also served as congressman for
three terms. He has many friends here
who are always pleased to see him and
hear him relate in his fascinating style
reminiscences of pioneer life in this
part of the state.
State Superintendent Corbett handed
down an opinion last week on the ques
tion of school boards hiring teachers
before they retire from office and their
successors qualify and take their seats.
He gives it out that the old board can
hire teachers and transact any and all
business for the coming year which will
in any manner be beneficial to the dis
trict. _
Jackson Wiley was in the city Mon
day evening to procure a coffin for the
burial of Mrs. Hariette Darr. wife of
G. Darr, who died that day at her home
near Scotlville, after a continued illness
of several years. The funeral occurred
Tuesday from the Scottvile church and
the remains interred in the cemetery at
that place. Deceased was in the neigh
borhood of seventy-five years of age.
Further particulars next week.
Superintendent Jackson’s barn was
discovered to be on fire last Friday
morning and an alarm was promptly
turned in. The fire company responded
in the course of time and the flames
were subdued after tbe barn was de
stroyed. Other barns and outbuildings
in the immediate vicinity were saved.
The loss will probably not exceed a
couple of hundred* dollars. No insur
ance.
H. O. Taylor, superintendent of
agencies for the Union Life Insurance
Company of Omaha, was in the city last
Thursday. He was here for the sole
purpose of tendering an important sal
aried position to John Golden. The
situation, which was accepted by Mr.
Golden, is a sort of special agency with
territory in Nebraska west of O’Neill.
John has quite a reputation in insurance
circles as a first class man and this
paper is pleased that he has at last been
substantially recognized.
Prepare to observe Decoration day.
The commencement exercises of the
high school will be held this evening,
instead of tomorrow evening, as first
announced. _
John McKernan, an rold soldier
crippled with disease contracted in the
army, is lying quite ill at his home back
of this office. Here is an opportunity
for'those charitably inclined to do some
good. _
O’Neill’s fire department was never in
a more dilapidated condition than at
present. There seems to be no recog
nized head or tail to it—just a sort of a
go-as-you-please concern. It needs
another reorganization.
Deputy District Clerk Collins is m St.
Louis attending a meeting of telegraph
ers. He will visit his mother at Sedalia,
Mo., and possibly the O. A. R. colony
In Georgia, before his return, which will
be in about three weeks.
uscar Haven, a tnirteen-year old boy
of Fremont, fell under a train Wednes
day evening, and bad botb his legs
crushed, the shock of which caused his
death. There Is a moral to this sad acci
dent that should be learned by O’Neill
youngsters, forcibly impressed upon
their minds by parents. A number of
our boys are addicted to this dangerous
practice of boarding moving trains, just
as young Haven was <Joing.
It is now'almost acertainity that the
Jew will start a new band. The other
day we noticed three of the long-eared,
small-bodied, big-headed and coarse
voiced gentry being led through the
street and upon inquiry were informed
that they had come to assist their de
scendant in his band enterprise'. There
will be four of a kind. There’s luck in
odd numbers and the band would do
well, perhaps, to sign the Amelia Journal
quadruped.
An able writer says newspaper sub
scriptions are infallible tests of a man’s
honesty. If he has any dishonest blood
in him he will cheat the printer by any
and every means in his power—declare
that he has paid when he* has not, or
that he has a receipt at home which
shows that he has paid when he has not,
or that the money was lost in the mails.
Many an otherwise honest man is dis
honest in this respect. The printer's
subscription book will tell a fearful tale
on the final day of reckoning.
When we consider that plover are
now in the midst of the laudable Under
taking of increasing their numerical
strength, it seems a shame that four
able-bodied fellows like Frank Mann,
Harry Dowling, Jim O’Donnell and Jim
Gallagher should go out and unmerci
fully slaughter them. The boys men
tions! were out one day this week, a
day that approaches painfully near the
first, and put in the entire time hunting.
They took a picnic dinner with them
and counted on a carnival of blood; but
when they returned in the evening a
close inspection of the game bag re
vealed but a half-dozen lonesome birds.
The postmastesr general has fixed the
question of the holidays on which post
masters are permitted to close their
offices, something about which there
has been considerable diversity of
opinion. The new regulations as an
nounce^ states that postmasters may ob
serve as holidays, January 1, February
23, May 80, July 4, the first Monday in
September known as Labor day, Decem
ber 25, and such other days as the
President of the United Slates or the
governors in their respective states shall
designate as fast or thanksgiving days
or proclaim special holidays. On other
occasions their offices can be closed only
on permission obtained therefor from
the department, to be applied for
through the first assistant postmaster
general. On holidays postofflces must
be opened sufficiently to meet tairly the
public convenience. Mails must be made
up and dispatched as on other days.
When a legal holiday falls upon Sunday
the following Monday may be observed,
unless otherwise specially provided for
by state authority.
Notice.
W. N. Nason, president of tbe state
relief commission was in O’Neill Satur
day and authorized tbe county relief
committee todiscarge all sub-committee*
in the county. In cases of actual need
supervisors are requested to confer with
the county committee.
N. S. Lowrie, Pres.
W. W. Bethea, Vice-Pres.
E. Kline, Treas.
C. C. McHugh, Secy.
Estrar.
Taken up on my farm at Scottville,
one yearling bull, Color, spotted white
and red with a brindle face, hat horns
and a white star in the forehead. Owner
can receive same by paying pasturing
and advertising.
43 3 Peter H eckeL.
Dr. Price’s Cream Bakins Powder
Award'd Gold Medal Midwinter Fair, Sen Franciaco.
IKBIOATION MEETING.
The district irrigation meeting called
(or May 10, at the court-home in this
city met aa per call. Baiaett, Ainawoith
and Stuart were represented by Judge
Morgan, J. E. B. Qood and Wm, Krot
ter, respectively.
The meeting was called to order by
John Hopkins, who presided at the
former meeting. J. P. Mann was unani
mously chosen to preside and Eugene
Cress to fill the position of secretary.
The delegates from the above named
places made short addresses to the audi
ence, giving the views of those inter
ested in their various localities and were
all united Ip favor of forming a district
under the new law and proceeding with
all haste consistent with thorough busi
ness methods to push the enterprise to
a successful termination.
The committee appointed at the last
meeting to look up a new route for a
canal, thinking water might be had in
sufficient quantity to irrigate this county,
or that part of it suscptibie of irrigation,
without having to go to the source of
supply decided upon by the Niobrara
Itiver Irrigation and Power Co., thus
lessening the length and consequently
the expense of constructing the canal,
reported unfavorably.
KUO tuuiujivloo appuiuicu at IUO |not
meeting to draft tbe boundary lines for
the proposed district made its re
port. The territory comprising the die*
trict as reported by tbe committee in
cluded only Holt county territory, leav
ing Rock and Brown out in tbe cold
| and dry. But as this course would ex
hibit too much of the swinish propen
sities of ordinary human nature, and
being likewise contrary to tbe mean
ing and intent of the new law the dis
trict, as drafted by the committee, will
be changed, and Rock and Brown will
supply each a component part thereof.
In making their report the committee
suggested that in circulating tbe petition
for the bond election, the parties circu
lating the same be furnished a bond
properly and legally executed, said bond
to be double the cost of said election,and
that they shall request each and every
signer of the petition to sign the bond as
a guarantee that they will bear their
just proportion of tbe expenses of hold
ing the election, providing it does not
carry, thus releasing the counties com
prising tbe district of the burden.
During a discussion, pro and con, in
regard to including the city of O'Neill
within the boundaries of the irrigation
district Tom Kain took occasion to air
his brogue in opposition, somewhat to
the disgust of the audience. He was
called to order several times and finally
subdued by a call for an officer to eject
him. The general feeling was, however,
that the city should be Included, as in
directly, the property owners of the city
would derive as much benefit' in pro
portion to their holdings as would the
farmer under the ditch.
A motion was made and carried that a
committee of one be appointed from
each of tbe following towns: Ainsworth,
Long Pine, Bassett, Newport, Stuart,
Atkinson and O’Neill for tbe purpose of
circulating petitions and bonds, this
committee to be alse endowed with the
power to appoint necessary sub-com
mittees. The chair named the follow
iug gciiuciucu iu uc represeuieu uu lue
committee:. Ainsworth. J. E. B. Qood;
Long Pine, John Ulrichs; Basseett, T.
N. .Morgan; Newport, E. L. Meyers;
Stuart, Wm. Krotter; Atkinson, Elmer
Allison; O’Neill, T. V. Golden.
A motion was made and oarried that
the above committee take the proper
steps to have a call issued for a special
meeting or the board of supervisors for
the purpose of taking the action neces
sary to place the proposition before the
voters. The committee was also em
powered to act as a soliciting committee
to defray some of the expenses incurred
by former committees. On motion ad
journed sine die.
It is, we understand, the purpose of
the district irrigation board to re-im
burse the Niobrara River Irrigation and
Power Co., for the outlay they have
sustained in locating, taking and holding
their water rights, providing said com
pany are willing that the said rights
shall revert to the district board. This
proposition will doubtless meet with the
approval of that company, as they prob
ably have no interest in the matter
further than that which is universal—
the desire to see the enterprise comple
ted.
Largest Circulation in Nebraska.
It isn’t much wonder that The Plate
Journal now has the largest circulation
in Nebraska. It has-reduced its price to
65 cents a month with Sunday, or 50
cents without Sunday. It has been
spending more money for Nebraska
news than any other paper; it has on its
staff such men as Bixby, Walt Mason
and Annin. The Journal is being push
ed at every point and is climbing stead
ily and surely away ahead of the other
state dailies. People like a Lincoln pa
per. Especially when it is as good as
The Journal.
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» xixoriak.
John O'Hsill Peat Will Olmm Decoration
D*r
On Thursday, May 80, the beautiful
ceremonies of decorating the graves of
those heroes who, after battling for the
liberties we now enjoy, have passed
away at taps and been summoned be
fore the grand commander at reveille,
will be observed by John O’Neill post
at O'Neill.
The exercises will commence at the
court-house at 9 o’clock r. m. sharp,
under the direction of John O'Neill
post, with the opening ceremonies of
the G. A. R., by the post. „
PBOQHAK.
Bone.By the Choir.
Address.T. V. Golden.
“The Littlo Blaek-eyed Hebei"
Recitation.Maud Pfunder.
Oration...Parnell Ooldon.
“The Drummer Boy's Burial".
.Rom Fallon.
Recitation.John Blglln.
“Tho Challenge":.Susie Gillespie
Hong.Mike and John Sullivan.
Oration—“Our Heroes".Nellie KUruurry.
“Tho Night After Shiloh"....Betty Gillespie.
Song.By the Choir.
Benediction.G. A. B. Chaplain.
At the conclusion of the ceremonies
in the hail the procession will form
with the tight on Benton street facing
east, the left on Fourth avenue. The
order of formation will be ad follows:
O'Neill Silver Cornet Band.
Members of Q. A. R.
Co. F, Second Regiment N. N. Q.
Flower Girls. •
Mayor and City Council.
All Other Carriages.'
The line of march will be east to
Fifth avenue, south to Douglas street,
west to First avenue and north to cem
etery.
The procession will be under the di
rection of John Skirvlng, marshal of
the day.
The committee extends an invitation
to the mayor and council, all societies
and every soldier and citizen to partici
pate in this beautiful ceremony.
All persons having flowers to donate
will please consult Comrade Kincb.
By order of Committee: *“
Michael Slattery.
F. Ppundku.
James Hardino.
LABOR AND THE WORLD LAUHOB WITH
YOB.
With the most of us It’s pretty
Generally agreed,
’Tls time a man was planted
When he has gorie to seed,
—Detroit Tribune.
Nothing disgusts a young lady more
than to have some awkward fellow step
on the train of her bloomer.—Galveston
News.
Pluto—Ah, what drings you down
here? Your crimes I daresay.
Napoleon—Not on your life. A fad is
what has run me into the ground.—
Detroit Tribune.
Ford—Your lawyer made some pretty
severe charges against the other fellow,
didn’t he7
Small wort—Y-e-e-s, but you ought to
see how he charged me.—Cincinnati
Tribune. _____
Jones—I see the silver men are getting
more and more fanatical?
Smith—How’s that?
Jones—Why, they refuse to recognize
the golden rule.—Waterbury.
*»•« uiti|iuo uuatu uu ill ill uiu UttU""
Home baee at last was nigh.
He left this rude, terrestrial ball
And went up on the fly;
—Atlanta Constitution.
‘‘I am thine," protested the duke.
"It is too late," the heiress replied,
sadly.
"Another has inticipated me?”
"No; the banks are closed."
However, enough change was found
in the house to bind the bargain.—
Detroit Tribune.
Tommy—Paw, what is an egotist?
Mr. Figg—He is a man who thinks he
is smarter than any one else.
Mrs. Figg—My dear, you have that
wrong. The egotist is the man who
says he is smarter than any one else.
All men think that way.—Indian
apolis Journal.
"Doctor, I have an important physio
logical question to ask you. When I
stand on my head the blood rushes into
my head. Now, when I stand on my
feet, why does it not rush into my feet?"
"Because your feet are not hollow."—
New York World.
Editor-in-chief—In your leader today,
Mr. Grinder, you say, " ‘In the multi
tude of counselers there is safety,' as we
learn from a certain book.” Why did
you not say, "as we learn from the
Bible?”
Editorial Writer—You forget, sir,
that it is our rulo never to mention the
name of a rival publication.—Boston
Transcript.
Dr. Price’s Cream Bakins Powder
Avantal (Ml (Udal Midwiatar Pair. San Prandat*.
B1UXF FAXIBS.
President Nason, of the State Relief
Commission, was In the olty Friday to ^
hold a post mortem examination of the
“gaunt wolf of distrese and starvation’* v
that (Mrs. Broaddus insists infests this < <
county.
The county relief association held a
meeting on that day by making and
causing to be published the following
etatement:
Holt county has passed beyond the
period of destitution and distrese, and
has no further need of relief from other
states,
And we deprecate the efforts of cer
tain localities, especially certain Indi
viduals, who publish outrageous and
scandalous reports of destitution and
suffering which are not true and have
no existence here.
Farmers are mostly through seeding,
the weather has been very favorable,
crops are looking fine. Holt county
never had better prospects, and the days
of adversity are passed, and while we
are very grateful for the assistance of
the east, we want it broadly known and
distinctly understood that we need no
further assistance, and desire to save
benevolent people from imposition.
All worthy cases of need will be cared
for by this commission from supplies on
band and obtainable from the State
Relief Commission. Imposters are here
by warned to desist from their unworthy
and unnecessary efforts, and thus evade
prosecution.
OHtntOH MOTH.
Thu young people of the Preabyterlan
church met on Wednesday evening of
lest week, and organised themaelvea
Into a band of Cbrlatian Endeavorecs.
The meeting wae well attended and a
great deal of intereat manifeited. There
la a great work to be done for Chrlat and
the church that muat be done by the
young people, and It la to be hoped that
the young people of O'Neill will be
awake to their dutiea and reaponaiblli
tiea along thla line.
The preaching aervicea were well at*
tended both'morning and evening. The
mualc waa especially good. 'f
Attention ia called to the prayer and
praiae aervlce on Wednesday evening
of each week, beginning at 8 o'clock.
Preaching aervlce on Sabbath begin
ing at 10:80 in the morning and 8o’clock
In the evening. Sabbath achool directly
after the morning sermon. Cbrlatian
Endeavor meets at 7 o'clock in the even
ing.
Subject for May 80: "Christ’s Cross
My Croas.” You are invited to all the
meetings.
8. E. Lbh Haves, Pastor.
While in Stockton, ‘Cal., aome time
ago, Thoa. F. Langan, of Loa Banoa, >;
that state, was taken very severely with
crampa and diarrhoea. He chanced to
meet Mr. C. M. Carter, who was simi
larly afflicted. He says: "I told him
of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy, and he went to the
Holeen drug store and procured a bottle
of it. It gave Mr. Harter prompt relief
and I can vouch for its having cured
me." For sale by P. C. Corrigan,
Whooping Cough.
There is no danger trom tbia disease
when Chamberlain’n Cough Remedy ia
freely given. It liquefies the tough
mucus and aids its expectoration. It
also lessens the severity and frequency
bf paroxysms of coughing, and insures
a speedy recovery. There is not the
least danger in giving the remedy to
children or babies, as it contains no in
jurious substance. For sale by P. 0.
Corrigan, druggist. 48-4
Anyone who has ever had an attack
of inflammatory rheumatism will rejoice
with Mr. J. A. Stumm, 220 Boyle
Heights, Los Angeles, over bis fortu- .
nate escape from a siege of that dis
coursging ailment. Mr. Stumm is fore
man of Merriman's confectionery es
tablishment. Some months ago, on
leaving the heated work room to run
-across the street on an errand, he was
caught out in the rain. The result was
that when ready to go home that night
he was unable to walk, owing to in
flammatory rheumatism, ' He was taken
home, and on arrival was placed in
front of a good fire and thoroughly rub
bed with Chamberlain’s Pain Balm.
During the evening and night he was
repeatedly bathed with this liniment,
and by morning was relieved of all
rheumatic pains. He now takes espec
ial pains in praising Chamberlain’s
Pain Balm, and always keeps a bottle
of it in the house. For sale by P. C.
Corrigan, druggist. 43-4 *
Short Lins Tims Card.
Passenger leaves 9:35 a. m., arrives
9:07 p. it.; freight-leaves 9:07 p. m., ar
rives 7 p. k. Daily except Sunday.
Motion.
Strayed from P. F. Thompson’s, four
miles south of Swan Lake, March 21,
1895, one sorrel horse, white face, three
white feet, weight 750. When last seen
had halter on and was shod all ’round.
A liberal reward will be given for
same by D. F. Fklton,
45-3 Swan, Holt county*Neb.
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