Nebraska Newspapers

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SUBSCRIPTION. SI.SO PCS Annum.
VOLUME XVI.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 24, 1895.
NUMBER 16.
NEWS SANS WHISKERS
Items of Interest Told As They Are
Tpld to Us.
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
Local Happenings Portrayed Be General
Edification end Amusement.
Labor Commissioner Powers was in
O'Neill last Thursday night.
Mrs. Conger, of Lincoln, is in the city'
visiting her sister, Mrs. Lee Hershiser.
M. P. Brennan, who has been working
Cin Deadwood, S. D., returned homeSijn
day morning.
Sum Barnard and Sam Thompson have
leased the billard room of Dave Stannard
and commenced business last week.'1
Thad Birmingham, of Galena,' 111.'r
was in the city the first of theweek
•looking after his business interests.
At the grand lodge session I. O. O. F.,
held at Omaha last week, O. O. Snyder,
of this city, was elected grand conductor.
Judge Ambrose, of Omaha, was in tjie
city last Saturday and set the county'di
vision case down for hearing on Oct
tober 29. __
P. M. Weidner. of Corning, Iowa, one
of the’principal stock-holders in the
irrigation ditch south of town, is in the
city this week.
Bev. Bates will hold Episcopal services
in O’Neill on Sunday, October 27, at
10:80 o’clock: baptism and communion.
, Preaching in the evening at 7:30.
Bob Marsh has resigned his position
with Steve McNicboIs and accepted one
with William Laviollette. Miles Gibbons
now fills Bob’s old position with Mr.
McNichols.
\
- Charley Bright and James Harnish
were delegates to the grand lodge I. O.
O. F. at Omaha last week. Mrs. Bright
was a delegate to the Rebekah grand
lodge which convened at the same time
and place.
John Brady was down from Atkinson
last Sunday circulating Among bis
numerous friends, John is receiving a
cordial support in this vicinity and'wlien
the votes are counted will make De
ficiency Hamilton wonder where he is at.
R. D. Saunders, who was foreman of
this office for three years, is now editor
of the Leigh World aud has converted
it from a pop to a republican paper.
’’Pete” is a thorough printer and a good
rustler and we predict he will give the
people ot Leigh a good live newspaper.
The Frontier wishes him success.
Dennis Lyons died at his home in this
city yesterday' afternoon at 4 o’clock.
The deceased had been ailing for the
past year. and during the last eight
months was confined to the house. De
sed was about 65 years old. The
funeral will take place tomorrow morn
L.„ :-.t 10 o’clock from the Catholic
church.
The ladies of the Presby terian church
society are arranging for a chrysanthe
mum show to be given the evening of
the 18th and the afternoon and evening
of the 14th of November. A supper will
Jie served the evening of the 13tb, com
mencing at 6 o'clock aud continuing as
long as there are any hungry people
around. The evening of the 14th
oysters will be served in any style. A
short musicial program will be rendered
each evening at 8:30. Chrysanthemum
plants and cut flowers will be on sale
during the show. Watch for further
notice.
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Haywood’s Celebreties and Say L.
Royce will give an entertainment in the
opera-house in O’Neill, Saturday, NoJ
vember 2 The company has per
formed in nearly every state, and has
been in Nebraska many times. This
will be the first appearance of the com
pany in O’Neill, with the exception of
Ray L. Royce, who has been here sever
al times and always gave the best of
satisfaction. The exchanges we have
received speak of the Hey wood Celebre
ties in the highest praise. Every seat
was taken at Norfolk. At Humphrey
the St. Francis school guaranteed the
company and the Democrat states
they cleared 925.50 and that the enter
tainment wan of an exceptionally high
grade and all who attended were pleased
with the program. The Wisner Chroni
cle gives words of praise to all the art
ists and states: “It is seldom that our
town is favored with an entertainment
as satisfactory as that of the Hey wood
Celebreties, and if they come this way
again they will be sore of a cordial wel
come and liberal patronage." Success
has greeted this company and flattering
reports come from all sides, and O’Neill
t
will have the pleasure Saturday evening,
November 2, of listening to opera,
comedy and concert, by the famous
Heywood Celebreties. Reserved seats
o^ sale Saturday, October 26.
SEVER TIKES A UAB.
The utterly ridiculous charge made
week before last in the Beacon Light
that Frank Phillips neglected to provide
aid for the widow of a soldier, is as
false as the mind of the rebel who wrote
the charges against him, and persuaded
Mrs. Bader to publish them, could con
ceive.
Frank Phillips is not only the son of
a veteran but grandson of a veteran; his
father served three years in the Thirty
eighth Iowa. His grandfather on his
mother’s side, died in service a member
of the Seventh Iowa Iufantry. Two
uncles and two cousins also served with
his father in the same company and
regiment; two more uncles served in the
Ninth Iowa. Eight, in all, of his rela
tives went from the same county; every
one in fact that was old enough or
young enough to be accepted. Four of
them were killed or died in service and
today are sleeping under the stars and
stripes in national cemeteries in the
south. Can any pop candidate make
such a family showing? Frank was
only threo years old when the rebellion
commenced.
As to the politics of Mr. Bader: He has
not lived in Holt county for three years
or longer, but when he lived here he was
always a republican. He is now in
Wyoming.
Mr. Samuel Monroe, who died last
winter,was always a republican.
These charges were not published
until after Mrs. Bader Lad left Holt
county. She is now on her way to'
Wyoming to join her husband.
The Frontier has taken the trouble
to procure a few affidavits from reliable
men, which completely refute the
Beacon Mghi’s charge. If Kautzman
were a man instead of a monk, he would
apologize after reading these testi
monials:
I hereby certify that 1 am clerk of
Steele creek township and know all the
particulars in the case of Mrs. Sarah
Monroe, of this township, and know
that the charges made by Mrs. Lois
Bader against Frank Phillips, supervisor
of this township, which were published
in the Beacon Light, are utterly false,
and believe it to have been concocted
by his political enemies, as there is not
one partiele of truth in the charges. All
the bills for supplies furnished Mrs.
Monroe are now on file in my hands and
show that she was much better supplied
! than the most,of us farmers are able to
supply ourselves. -
I went with Mr. Phillips to see about
Mrs. Monroe’s case and we were told
that they had plenty of everything, and
in my hearing Mr. Phillips told Mrs.
Bader that the township would supply
them with all they needed to make them
comfortable. Wm. Welch,
Clerk of Steele Creek Twp.
We hereby certify that the above is a
true statement of the case.
J. B. Freeland,
Justice of the Peace Steele Creek Twp,'
Ester Connaughton,
Treasurer Steele Creek Twp.
Holt county, Nebr., Oct. 16, 1895.
State op Nebraska, 1
Holt County 1 B8‘
John Emerson being first sworn de
poses and says: I have lived in Steele
Creek township for fifteen years last
past: I am well acquainted with Mrs.
Samuel Monroe, also Mrs. Lois Bader
and Frank Phillips..
I first informed Mr. Phillips, who was
our supervisor at that time, January 28,
1995, that Mrs. Monroe needed help, and
he went the same day to William David
son, the merchant at Dorsey, and made
arrangements with him to provide her
with whatever was necessary for her
comfort, and I know that they were
well provided for, and lived as well or
better than they ever had in the past
thirty years that I have known them. I
know that the lived better than my
family did, and I know that Mr. Phillips
did his full duty, and more, in this case
faithfully and well.
I live within 200 yards of Mrs Monroe
and know all about the case, and know
that the charges against Mr. Phillips are
totally false and wholly malicious.
John Emerson,
Company H, First Minnesota Heavy
Artillery.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 16th day of October. 1895.
[seal] Daniel Binkkrd.
Notary Public.
My commission expires March 24, 1899.
STATE OF .NEBRASKA, I
Holt County' (
Wm. Davidson being first duly sworn
deposes and says: I am keeper of a i
general merchandise store at Dorsey, in
Steele Creek township, Holt county Ne
braska. That on January 28, 1895,Frank
Frank Phillips, supervisor of Steele
Creek township, came to me and ordered
me to furnish to Mrs. Louis Bader, for
herself and her mother. Mrs. Samuel
Monroe, whatever goods, provisions and
medicines they needed for their sup
port. And that I furnished everything
called for by them and charged the same
to the township. And further, I know
from personal knowledge that Mr.
Phillips did attend to the matter prompt
ly, and I believe that Mrs. Monroe lived
as well as any family in the township.
Wm Davidson.
Subscribed end sworn to before me
this 16th day of October, 1895.
[seal] Daniel Binketid.
Notary Public.
Commission expires March 24, 1899
State of Nebraska, )
Holt county. f88,
Wm. Hudson being duly sworn de
poses and says: I live within 100 yards
of Mrs. Samuel Monroe’s place and know
all about her circumstances. I know
that the affidavit of Mrs. Lola Bader,
which waa published in the Beacon
Light, against Frank Phillips is totally
false. I know that Mr. Phillips provided
Mrs. Monroa with everything she needed,
and I know that the charges made
against Mr. Phillips are purely malicious
and that they were made ■ at the . insti
gation of hla political enemies.
Wh. Hudson,
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 16th day of October, 1866.
[seal] Daniel Binkbrd,
Notary Public.
Commission expires March 84,1889.
THE BBAOT-XILLES CHECKS.
The Sun end Beacon Light of last
week, owing to their abnormal bump of
perception, discovered that the checks
given by Scott to Brady & Miller and
those given by Brady & Miller to
Scott did hot - dove-tail exactly as to
dates. Tun Frontier discovered this
discrepancy in dates before it made the
fac-similes, and allowed them to go un
remarked for the siihple reason that It
knew there was nothing in it that could
not he instantly explained to the entire
satisfaction of any fair-minded indi
vidual.
In the first place the-Beacon Light
published checks to the amovnt of $1,700
issued by Scott to Brady & Miller.
Then, to show that Brady - & Miller
were not indebted to Scott The Fron
tier published checks of the same
amount issued by Brady & Miller to
Scott. Now where the opposition seeks
to make a point is in the dates of the
two $1,000 'checks. They discovered
that Brady & Miller paid Scott $1,000
before Scott paid them his $1,000. This
is a fact and they discovered nothing
that was untrue. Thh Frontier, or
Mr. Brady, has nothing to conceal in
regard to his relations with Barrett
Scott, and the facts in relation to this
particular check are simply this: The
$1,000 check to Scott was drawn by
Howard Miller on the 9th day of Feb
ruary, 1899, and repaid by Scott on
February 18. Ail this was done by
Miller without the knowledge or consent
of Brady and he knew nothing of the
transaction until after its consummation.
Miller did in truth and in fact loan that
$1,000 to Scott for four days. Brady
was in no manner or form connected,
except that Miller signed the firm name
to the check.
The opposition . realizes that a check
shows nothing,' is no evidence of in
debtedness, but thev must howl about
something and it might as well be this
as something else. They make all sorts
of c absurd statements, the cbiefest of
which is that The Frontier checks are
“trumped up ones.” Mr. Brady was in
O’Neill last Monday morning and took
the $1,000 check in question over to the
First National bank and in the presence
of many witnesses, asked Gallagher if
bis signature on the back of the check
was genuine, and Gallagher said Vyes."
Judge Roberts was among those present.
The facts, after all this controversy,
are that Brady does not owe Scott one
cent, and the Sun and Beacon Light
know it as well as The Frontier does
SPEAKS FOB HIMSELF.
Whitbwood, 8. D., Oct. 11, 1895.
Ham Kautzman:
I see in The Frontier about a note
given by Arthur Mullen to BarrettScott.
I gave that note to him, but I was work
ing for Scott before and after, and the
debt was settled, but Barrett did not
have my note with him at the time, and
was not taken up. My bill was over
$210. I can show my bill and will take
oath to the same.—Beacon Light.
Yours truly,
Arthur Mullen. -
1U« raunem kiuu or a laaei lie
reader will notice tbat the above note is
dated at Whitewood, October 11. Thb
Frontier was not issued until the 11th
inst. and it is absolutely impossible that
Mullen could bare received a copy in
time to write the denial on the 11th. It
is a clear case of fake and deception, like
everything else the paper has sprung in
the campaign.
Storm sash of all sizes at O. O.
Snyder & Co.’s. 16-tf
If you want kick clean fresh coal go
to O. O. Snyder’s. 16-tf
Buy storm sash of O. O. Snyder & Qo.
and reduce the cost, of your winter’s
coal. 16-tf
Bring in your good butter and fresh
eggs and we will pay the highest price
for them. 16-2 O’Neill Grocery Co.
Geo, Raymer, auctioneer. Twenty
years of ezperieoce, will give satisfact
ion; speaks German and English. Post
office Atkinson, Neb. 16-4
Read thd advertisement of the Sullivan
Mercantile Company this week and note
the liberal premiums given away. 14-8
For a limited time the Sullivan Mer
cantile Company are giving away sugar
free of charge. Read their ad in another
column this week. 14-8
As the Butter and Egg Co., have
closed their business for the season, we
will buy butter and eggs at our store,
paying the top price for No. 1 stock.
14-8 O’Neill Grocery Co.
' tO THX VOTIBO PUBLIC:
Editors Frontier—Genllemen: The
Beacon Light and Sun of laet week
contained a communication from
John J. McCafferty which referred to
me in a Very vicious manner. Tbua far
In the eiunpaign I have endeavored to
refrain from saying anything derogatory
to the character of my opponent, James
P. Mullen, or any other man/ Therefore I
cannot understand why this man Mc
Cafferty Bliould assail me through the
press, fie makes the statement that I
object to him doing business in his
wife’s name He is mistaken. How or
why he Conducts his business is no con*
uwu wi uiiuc. uc nisu ui kilos iuc aiuie*
ment I Un done business in my wife’s
name for (be purpose of defrauding my
creditor*. This is a deliberate falsehood.
When 1 disposed of my goods and
chattels several years ago every dollar I
had on ekrth went to my honest credi
tors, and Only a short time ago I paid
off nearly 12,000 of debts, as the records
of tbe county will corroborate.
' In regard to Mr. McCafferty having a
claim against me for MS. my books
show that he and the firm of McOaSerty
* Connolly owe me the neat little sum
of 1120.
And now in regard to my purchasing
coffins for eighteen cents apiece: When
McCafferty says that be was instructed
fo bid on those coffins be tells what Is
not true. . It was to my Interest to have
those goods bring every dollar they were
worth, and the house from whom they
were purchased never sued me, and they
were paid dollar for dollar for tbe goods.
Now fhr the last charge, to tbe effect j
that goods were shipped to me on com
mission and I pocketed the proceeds: He
is again a prevaricator and I demand the
proof, the failure to produce which will
leave the gentleman convicted as a
scoundrel in the eyes of good citizens.
Now Mr. McCafferty, I am the sole
owner and proprietor of my business,
and ask ’.all good citizens to come and
purchase goods from the undersigned.
O. J*. Biolih.
I ssnomoT hakiltov.
Sheriff Hamilton seems to be doing a
land office business in the deficiency
judgment line. It would seem that he
has an idea that Holt county land is not
worth a great deal, as ho appraises « at -i
a very low figure. The Phoenix Insur
ance Company seems to stand in particu
larly well with Hamilton. They get
more deficiency judgments than any
either company. This lit the same com
pany that Sheriff McEvony had so much
trouble with. McEvony appraised land
at something near what it was worth.
They could not get any deficiency judg
ments. McEvony said the company
offered to make it an object to him if he
would cut down appraisements. When
Hamilton first went into office he had
trouble with this company, but all of a
sudden the cruel war closed and the
company commenced to secure de
ficiencies. Some people say that the
company contributed money to Hamil
ton’s campaign fund. We don’t know
that this is true, but we do knop that
they get what they want in the line of
deficiencies. We call to mind at pres
ent seven vases that McEvony appraised
four times without making a sale. Tbe
company said tbe appraisements were to
high and would not bid on the land.
Since Hamilton went into office the
lands have again been appraised, and
sold. None of them sold for near
enough to pay the mortgage and costs.
The cases referred to are:
Phoenix Insurance Co, vs. H. Jorgena
DEFICIENCY.
.9683.94
Ole Torgerson.,.688.41
Toy Torgerson...693.49
Miles Jorgerson.887.8?
Lovens Nissan.678 09
Cbas. Mills.595.19
Cbas. Pearl...456.79
It makes a great difference when they
both love, doesn't it? But the cases
cited above are not all. Below we give
a few more of a long list on record:
John Holland vs. O. W. Marsden, el al.
deficiency.
.$11.05
H. B. Scott vs. Fred Miller et al. ..35.74
Hugh W. Baxter vs. B. J. Percival.83.34
John Addison.383 00
J. A. Robertson et al.171.04
Samuel Taggert...18-49
W. A. Brown.83.89
H. P. Biddle vs. P. D. Mullen_140.54
Isaac G. Ogden vs. W. J. May... .165.88
Herow Stone vs. Wm. Shell.109.03
Lyman W. Lacy vs. U. S. Adams.1508.65
Mary Hughes vs. Holt Co. Ag. Ass.503.03
Robert Osgood vs. Michael Lyons. 134.86
ALL THUS.
The O’Neill Fkonniek is making a
vigorous warfare on the pops and vigi
lante of Holt county, devoting almost
its entire space last week to the rotten
ness ' in political matters there. The
election of the entire republican ticket
is an assured thing if decency holds
away and one-tsnth of the charges made
by the Frontier be true. It will be a
landslide and the blood curdling pops
will fall down in a heap. Honest popu
lists are quitting their party there In
blocks of ten, as elsewhere, and are
working for the republican ticket.
‘‘Turn on the lights."—Ainsworth Star
Journal.
SYMPATHETIC JOB*.
O'Nniiti, Kn., Oot. 31,1896.
John J. MoCafferty, O’Neill, Nebraska:
Dear John—Yours of October 17, in the
O’Neill Bun, before me and contents fully
noted. Well, John, I am surprised. Lit
tle did I think years ago when you and 1
shared the same blanket, and slept under
I the same^over (the blue sky) and on the
same bed (mother earth) that you would
ever become such a tool in the hands of
designing men as yon now confess yon
were. I am even mors surprised to think
that you will now allow your name to bs
connected with, and will further the cause
of a olass of men who made one wife,
yours, t widow and loft his only child
an orphan. Aye, I am even more
surprised when I hear that yon are
supporting a man on the populist ticket
who brought shame and dishoner to hie
own sister-in-law and sent her from hie
home among strangers and made her an
outcast on the fane of the earth. John,it
grieves me muoh to think that yon know
all this and will permit yourself to be
made a tool of by such men as you take
up the pen to defend. Moreover, John, 1
am still more surprised to think that e
man with your reputation in this com
munity and elsewhere would rush head
long into print and ask to be judged and
have judgment pronounced on you. You
should have considered well what you
were about to do, and I understand you
did, as I learn that you submitted your
letter to Harrington and others before il
went to the printers. When you penned
your letter you and your many populist
friends did not consider the results that
would surely follow. '
Pardon me, John, if I coll your atten
tion, and the attention of some of your
friends, te some matters mehtioned in
your letter. You say, “I have not always
done the proper thing.” Yes, John,
many of your neighbors, and some peo
ple who are not, will bear you out in this
honest admission. John, did you do
right when you borrowed that 96,560
from the Holt County bankf If yon did
are - you doing right in not paying it
back? But .1 think I hear you say it is
because of sympathy for your old neigh
bor depositors that you do not pay. But
John, your old fanner friends that you
jue trying to convince of your-honesty
and to go* to swallow the populist whale
well remember your transactions with ths
Holt County bank. Yes, John, the wid
ows and orphans, the old men and
women, your neighbors and onoe friends,
did remember you last winter when they
sat down to their rough tables, that yon
would not allow in your palace home, to
partake of corn bread and water. Did
they think of you when they huddled
around, the hay burner half-starved, half
dad and half-frosen, with the snow and
sand drifting under the door? And why
were many in this condition last winter I
Simply beoauao you and your like not only
failed but refused to pay your honest ob
ligations to the bank. But honest John,
what a different home had youl You, a
bankrupt, not daring to own even a
grave-yard lot in your own name for fear
of your many creditors. You live and
lived in an iron-dad house, one of the
best in O’Neil], worth not less than $6000,
and built with money that an honest man
would have used to pay his debts. Not
heated by hay, cornstalks or buffalo
chips, but warmed by a furnanee fed by
hard coal at a cost of ten to eleven dol
lars a ton, and you doing business in ont
of the finest store-rooms in the city, sell
ing goods that you never paid for, so fai
as your neignbors con learn. And John,
I saw you when your day’s work was
dona retiring to your palaoe home, dress
ed in furs and flannels. You were met ai
the gate, not by half-fed, half-dad and
half-frosen wife and babes, as many i
depositor of the Holt County bank met
bis who ana nine ones, mn dj a wire anc
children dressed equal to a Gould. Yoi
ate yonr 4 o’eloek dinner of sirloin steal
with yonr feet nnder a fifty dollar table
drank not water ont of vtin cup, bnt sip
ped yonr tea from a ohina mug, ont yoni
steak, not with an iron knife, bnt witl
polished steel and silver, and after yoi
and yonrs finished yonr snmptnons meal
retired, not to hnddle aronnd a hay bnr
ner, but to the finest parlor in O’Neill
and yon sat yonr honest bones down in t
spring-bottomed arm chair, pat yoni
velvet-covered feet over the hot air regia'
ter and read the Beacon Light and Holl
Connty Independent (consolidated) ver
sion of Soott’s death at the hands ol
those who had his money in their inside
pockets, and to this day yon have nevei
said nay, and when overcome by remorse
ot conscience yon retired to yonr bed
robed in flannels and covered to yonr eare
with fine linen,yon slumbered and dream
ed of yonr honesty. While yon and
yonrs were in sleep lost to the world, pro
tected without and within, and yon witl
$800 of Boott’s money in yonr pocket
and yoi responsible, or partly so, for hit
ruin and downfall. With yonr wife anc
little ones safe from danger, jnst think 01
the prayers of the wife and ehild tha
went np to Heaven asking protection foi
111 1 .. 1 ■■■ »l . y-i.'.
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the husband and ’ father, rad while yon 1':€
slumbered and dreamed of year honeatgr
poor Soott paaaed from earth to eternity, . *1’
These thoughts must and will haoat yon
to your grave. Bat I notiee yon My V&'M
deeded to Scott in settlement of- -MmI'S %
|800 a block of property. Tee, John,
this is another sample of yonr honesty, %
not only with Boot! bat with the greet %
ooanty of Bolt. Bat how did yotdO H»- ’.v
Did Scott agree to take the property hk’,-.. ■
payment of the debtf Yon know ae Odd
is yonr judge that he did not, and that ho J
knew nothing about the deeds for months >
after. Yon My n block of nrowHyr-’K
why not be honest tod My a half bloek, ■
nine lots, Jut salt of the graveyard^!
worth than and sow not to ssoosd §UM)||j<,|
And yon ask ths intelligent to tors of this
eonnty to believe that this property watPv.X
aooepted in payment of ths debt! Why.
John, yon know better. .
Dear John, yon say it was “iympathy,*®|
that kept yon away from Nohgh. No,-H!
John, that was not ths reason. - Yon Imfra!
been falls to your (riend In assd, Scott j
yon had told Forger Mike all yon knaw
and more too and yon knew that every
man with a spark of manhood in Me^s*
body, whether friend or foe to 8eott»|J|f
away down in his heart wonld prononnee ’ if
yon a traitor and an informer. Besides,
dear John, yon well knew yon had hie
money and had not paid It book, and that $
yon would not look well tolling a Jury of |fj!
Antelope ooonty farmers that Boott was .a
thief. In, John, It was fear that kepi / 7;
yon away, but yon feared not the court,
but yon feared the disgrace and dishonor
that wonld fall on yon, a betrayer of yonr 4 'i
friend. But what etas is to be expected $fl
of a man that will not let the dead be at :r%
reetf Yon say that yonr connections f
with Scott'and bis friends Mused yon to
break np In business. Well, John, yon
know better, and why not toll the truth? v:;
’Please toll the dear people how much yon |?
ever paid to the eonnty on aoeonat of Jj
Scott or his frienda. Yon will not do so
and I know ik
Mow, John, let me toll them some ;
things, and when yon read, if I toll the fi
truth be man enough to admit it. You' i
signed Scott’s bond and yon never paid a ||
cent and you know it. And by the way, "A
John, did yon eve* pay to Snott or the , ;
eonnty the fiM that you owe for latest
Yon may say "I did not renumber that
transaction or I would have, dandled him. %
some more grave-yard lots to pay that." -
Whan you write yonr swxt letter tail the
people how, in October, 1899. you had
Seott write you up tax receipts on all
yonr property and had him hold them. |
And tell them that you never paid bins, 4
and that yon never paid tue al
though the books show the taxes paid; „
and My to them that you have had the
benefit of these receipts; although you
have never had them in yonr possession ■
and never paid for them; and toll the ' |
people that Mike Barrington did not
advise the board to oaneel them. Well,
John, bow did the breaking up businem" '4
eome about, and what did you dof I 4a
guess I better tell that as it no doubt it, .
and for some time will be, a delicate story 4%
for yon to relate. Now, John, listen:
When the Holt County bank went to the
wall yonr notoa were held in about eyery
state in the Union. Yon owed them over
96,000 and you knew the jig wu up and
that you could not pay, and what did you
dof You employed the eonnty attorney— ‘
no, I am wrong, it wu Mike Harrington
and you first turned over to yonr wife
your $10,000 stock of hardware and fur
niture in O’Neill; then your double store
worth at least $6,000, and in considera
tion of love and affection yon gave her
yonr $10,000 CMtle on block 47 in yonr
second addition. This was all yon oould
,put in her name of record, but yon did ■
give her your book accounts and notes;
did yon not?: Then for another place to
salt some more. ItwM convenient to
mm • father-in-law and in your cun yon
tamed over to him yoar 92,000 atom
building and (5,000 stock of goods in'
Hpeneer, Boyd eonnty, Nebraska, and
notes and aooonnto without number which
you gathered up and collected, and poor
Bennett Martin got nothing for two
year’s work but a bare tiring. Yon own •
these etoeks and stores and houses to-day
if you would tell the truth. If yon do
not, tell your creditors if you dare (and f '
you may hare to some day) what Murphy ' ’
has to do with the Bpenoer business. Who
buys the goodst who pays fQr them? who
banks the money? John J. MoCafferty.
And the same in O’Neill in truth and in
faot. When and where did you get this
money from your wife and daddy-in-lawf
How much did you owe them? Bobo an
swers, “nothing.” In all your credit
statements did you ever say you owed
your wife or Murphy one cent? No, John,
No. Do you remember when you strutted
along the atrseta of O’Neill and proudly
proclaimed to the world that you were
worth $90,000? And what did yon do
with it? Gave it about all to wife and
father-in-law, except a few worthless and
mortgagsd grave-yard lots, and these MM/
1 wholesale houses got at four timss their
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