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PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO
VOLUME XVI.
8UB8ORIPTION, 81.80 PER ANNUM.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 14, 1895.
NUMBER 19.
CLYDE KINO AND 0. H. ONCNIN, KDITORD AND MANADCIID.
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MEWS SANS WEB
Items of Interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
total Happening* Portrayed For General
Edification end Amusement.
Judge Eioksid .is holding court nt
Ainsworth. _
H. M. Uttley is attending court at
Neligh this week.
Storm sash of all sizes at O. O
Snyder A Co.’s. fi 16-tf
Jim Davidson has returned from a
week’s visit in the Black Hills.
If you want nick clean fresh coal go
to O. O. Snyder’s. 10-tf
oauy uwin nas returned irom tne
harvest fields of North Dakota
Miss Nellie Daly has accepted the
position of assistant postmistress.
Jack Sullivan and John Dwyer left
Sunday morning for Butte,Mont., where
■ they will work in the mines.
Buy storm sash of O. O. Snyder & Co.
and reduce the cost of your winter's
coal. . _ 16-tf
- - E. P. Hicks broke his collar bone last
’ Friday while lifting a can of lard into
the refrigerator in his meat market.
Mrs. John Gibbons left last SundayJ
for Lewiston, Mont, to join her husband
who went to that place in the spring.
Head the article from Arkansas and
make up your mind to Btay in old Holt.
Even vigilanters are better than fever
and ague.
• Geo, Raymer, auctioneer. Twenty
years of experieoce, will give satisfact
ion ; speaks German and English. Post
office Atkinson, Neb. 16-4
A. B. Cliarde, formerly register of the
land office in this city, but now a resi
dent pf Wayne, was in the city renewing
acquaintances last week.
,'S . On tap again—and old friend—Duffy’s
pure York State Cider; nothing like it.
Try a gallon.
19-1 O’Neill Grocery Co.
The passenger going west will arrive
in O’Neill at 6 p. m., commencing next
Sunday. Our citizens are much pleased
with the proposed change.
. It is a sad commentary on somebody
when the best newspaper in Holt county
uses space for an Omaha firm that should
be occupied by home merchants.
When you want to sell a load of good
corn call and see us before selling.
19-1 O’Neill Grocery Co.
Gus Doyle has purchased the Fahy
building and lot now occupied by the
Sun, and about the first of April will re
.- move the postofflee to that place.
^ i iiuuj ur. lsimgan removea a
small tumor from Mike Welsh’s neck.
Mike refused to- take chloroform and
stood the cold steel without a shiver.
We have fresh oysters once a week
and keep only the best grade. When
you want any try them.
19-2 O’Nbim, Gbocery Co. .
Pat McCarthy, of Leadville, Col., and
Jerry McCarthy, of Butte, Mont., arrived
in the city last Saturday to attend the
funeral of their mother, which occurred
Sunday. _
Nest
week The Frontier will give
the official returns of the late election in
tabulated form. A rush of work made
it impossible for us to prepare it in time
for publication this week.
Past Master
J. J. King of Garfield
lodge went down to Ewing last Saturday
to install the officers of Pythagoras lodge
A. P. and A. M. under special dispen
sation from the M. W. G. M.
On Friday evening November 15, at
the rink, Mrs. Irene Hernandez and her
elocution class will give a dramatic en
tertainment. This will be one of the
best entertainments ever given in
O’Neill.
Our new buckwheat, maple syrup,
honey, figs, hickory nuts, walnuts mince
meat, dried fruits, sorghum and many
other goods are now in aud at reason
able prices. Come in and look them
over. 19-2 O’Neili, Grocery Co.
A few of the boys have organized a
club known as the O’Neill Dancing
Club, which will give a series of dances
during the winter. The first entertain
ment will be given on Thanksgiving
night, November 28. A cordial invi
tation is extended to the nubile.
Now bring up county division and let
us settle it st a special election. A mid
winter election would be better than an
ice palace, and then the heat of the
campaign might have a softening effect
on the cold northwest winder Let us
have a special election by all means.
Dan Binkerd and family left Wednes
day morning for Lexington, Neb.,'where
they will remain until spring, when they
expect to return to their farm at Dorsey.
The managers of the Elkkom Irri
gation Company haye a large force of
men at work on their land adjoining the
ditch constructing laterals. They have
about 30 miles of laterals already com
pleted, which cover about 5,000 acres of
land. It is the intention of the company
to complete 50 miles more of laterals
this fall if the weather remains favor
able. _
Pat Fahy and son Paul lett yesterday
morning for Denver. Mr. Faby has
been an invalid for several years and
goes to Denver to try the virtue of
Schlatter’s healing. Schlatter claims to
be the Messiah and has been operating
in Denver for some weeks and has been
visited by thousands daily and great
claims are made for him. We trust that
Mr. Fahy’s expectations may be fully
realized.
Our clothing trade this season con*
▼inces us that our patrons appreciate the
effort we have made this season to com*
pete with the large city houses who have
flooded thecouutry with their catalogues.
Our 95.50, $7.50, 88.50 and $10.00 men’s
suits are as good bargains as any house
in the cities are showing tor the money
and you have the advantage of seeing
your goods before you buy them and
getting a better At. In fur coats we are
handling the celebrated St. Paul goods
and have cut prices to the very bottom.
Overcoats and nlBters in all grades from
$5.00 to $15 00. Our $8.75 beaver Is a
dandy, and our $10.00 ultter cannot be
beaten. 18-2 J.P. Mann.
November Ladies' Home Journal:
Of the many siyles that afford a gen
erous amouut and great variety of pretty
designs for embroidery work the colon
ial is one of the most attractive, owing
in a great measure, to its dainty sim
plicity. The colonial style is one of
distinctly American Origin—a purely
American creation, and for that reason
is our own, and one which we take pride
in employing when decorating and fur
nishing our homes. It was first used in
the architecture of houses and churches
erected during the later years of the last
century and the early years of this, and
was at the height of its greatfpopularity
during Washington’s administration,
which was known as the colonial period.
That the colonial is a very popular style
at this time is shown by the general in
terest taken in it. It is much easier to
find furniture, draperies and wall papers
in a variety of designs in the colonial
than in any othei style.
Republicans should commence now to
make tbe fight for the next campaign.
Work it every day. There is nothing
disheartening in our last defeat in this
county, in fact everything points to a
republican victory in the next campaign.
Nearly every township shows a repub
lican gain, and the more populists in a
township the more the republican gain.
To be sure this last contest went against
us, but we see encouragement even in
our defeat. The election was carried by
boodle and bribery and tbe pops prob
ably spent their first year’s salary to'se
cure the offices. This is more thnn they
are worth and we consider they drove
a mighty poor bargain. Two years
hence the pops will nominate an entirely
new set of men; they will not have the
pull that an incumbent always has; they
will not have the treasury behind them
as they did in this campaign and there
fore will not have the cash at their com
mand to buy three or four hundred vot
ers. In the mean time the honest and
conscientious voters in their party will
learn more about their disreputable
methods and at the polls will vote to re
buke them. Thus, we sav, the future is
full of promise. Republicans should
not grieve over the past, but turn their
faceB to the future. The past is useful
for the experience it gives and the pit
falls it discloses, but we have now to
deal with the future and to the end that
success may crown our .efforts each and
all should miss no opportunity to strike
a telling blow whenever au opportunity
presents itself.
THE COUNTY BOARD.
The official count gives tbe county
board to the populists by one majority.
In the First district Blondin was elected
over Emerson by a majority of 17; in the
Second district Hopkins was elected
over Hodgkin by a majority of 18; in
the Third district Mack was elected over
McGreevy by a majority of 4; in the
Fourth district Combs was elected over
Butler by a majority of 108; in the Fifth
district Stillwell was elected over Eisele
by a majority of 12; in the Sixth district
Moss ’•.■as elected over White by a major
ity of 1; in the Seventh district Moore
was elected over Flannery by a majority
of 1. __
DoWitt’s Sarsaparilla is prepared for
cleansing the blood. It builds up and
strengthens constitutions impaired by
disease. For sale by Morris and Co>
Druggists.
THE CBEAHEBY.
The meeting called for last Wednes
day at the court-house to consider the
Question of a creamery in O’Neill, did
not materialize, owing to the fact that
no farmers were interested enough to at
tend and it looks as though they are
satisfied with the present system of bar
tering their buttet for goods. -It this is
the case we suppose a creamery would
be no object to them, but it is more than
likely that they would all take an inters
est if they realized that they must do so
to secure the enterprise. Casper En
glehaupt met the business men the same
evening aud stated his proposition,
which is, that if he is provided with a
suitable building he will put in a new
outfit Of first-class machinery, gather
cream within 20 miles-of O’Neill and
pay patrons promptly every two weeks;
and further, that the title of building
shall remain in trust for three years,
at the end of which time he is to receive
a deed; but if he fails to run the busi
ness successfully for that time the prop
erty reverts to the doners.
A committee selected for the purpose
ascertained that a suitable building can
be obtained for $700, and also that $400
can be raised in O’Neill for the purpose,
thus leaving a very small amount for the
farmers to raise.
We know that a great many people
hereabouts have had costly experience
with creameries, but that should not
deter them from accepting this offer as
tue investment Is so small and there are
no cliances to run. If be succeeds it
will be a great thing for this country; if
he fails he gets nothing.
Another meeting is called for Satur
day, November 23, at the court-house at
2 o’clock, to finally decide the question.
If the farmers fail to show any interest
then the matter will be dropped, as there
is no one to be interested if they are
not. '
Mr. Englehaupt as manager of the
Amelia creamery last year paid to its
patrons nearly 910,000 in cast and gave
general satisfaction to everyone con
cerned.
If the farmers ot this community
fail to apccpt this offer they will prob
ably never have as good a one made to
them again, os the cost of securing
creameries generally runs into the
thousands.
LECTURE OH MAMMOTH CAVE.
We would like to see a good turn out
to bear Prof. L. A. Ostien deliver bis
lecture. Mammoth Gave, Saturday even
ing November 23, at tbe court-house.
This lecture ia given under the auspices
of tbe high school and tbe net proceeds
are to go toward securing more books
for the library and some needed appa
ratus. This is certainly a most worthy
cause and one in which every person in
town ought to take an interest.
The professor is a warm personal
friend of Prof. Anderson’s and comes to
us highly recommended by eminent edu
cators and tbe press generally. He is a
ripe scholar’ being a graduate of the
University of Kentucky,and having since
been engaged in school work in the
south, in Montana and in Nebraska.
His lecture is spoken of in the highest
terms by such men as Supt. R. G.
Young, of Helena, Mont., Prof. R. N.
Roark, principal State Normal, Lexing
ton, Ky., Supt. J. F' Saylor and others.
OBITUARY.
Died, at the residence of her son, in
this city, last Wednesday night, Novem
ber 6, Mrs. McCarthy, aged 74 years.
The deceased was one of the early
settlers of this county, having resided
here for seventeen years. Her son
P. C' came from Leadville, Col., his
present home, to attend the funeral, and
Jerry came from Butte Mont., where he
has been the past three months.
The funerOl occurred Sunday from the
Catholic church and the remains were
followed to the cemetery by a large con
course of friends and relatives.
CARD OF THANKS.
To the neighbors and kind friends who
so kindly assisted us through the sick
ness and death jlof our beloved mother
we desire to extend our heartfelt thanks
and assure you that your kind actions
will long be remembered.
J. McCarthy and Family.
P. C. McCarthy and Eamily.
A EAMILY PRESENT.
The O’Neil Grocery Co., have on ex
hibition, in their show window, one .of
the latest cold water, oil, heating stoves.
It is tbe handiest stove out, as it can be
moved from one room to another in an
iastant, as it is on casters. It is abso
lutely as safe as any lamp, and it is
something that tbe whole family can
enjoy. They will give it away January
1st, to those who buy goods from them
for cash. Call and get particulars.
Pure blood means good health.
DeWitt’s Sarsaparilla purifies the blood,
cures Eruptions, Eczema, Scrofula, and
all diseases arising from impure blood.
For sale by Morris and Co. Druggists.
GBKAT M ARKANSAS.
The State Journal has a special corres
pondent In Arkansas writing up the
great inducements that state offers to the
homeseeker.. In view of the fact that a
great many Holt county citizens have
moved to that state—and nearly a!l of
them moved back to Holt—and a few
more are thinking of seeking fortune in
darkest Arkansas, we publish a few ex
tracts from the Journal’s correspondence.
The letters quoted from are written from
Stuttgart, the home of Doc Mathews:
"This town is fifty miles southeast of
Little Rock, half way from that city to
the Mississippi river. It la situated near
the centre of what they call the Grand
Prairie. Arkansas is such a woody,rocky
billy, swampy country, that one single
little bit of smooth prairie land is a curi
osity, and so they call this the Grand
Prairih. This little strip of prairie land
is about fifteen miles wide and seventy
five miles long,lying southwest and north
east. It is a litrle the flattest prairie I
ever saw. When the rain falls in this
prairie the water don’t know which way
to run and standing a long while on the
ground it makes it soft and spongy, and
so when 1 saw the farm wagons at Stutt
gart having tires six inches wide 1 under
stood that they were built that way on
the same principle that the trappers of
north Minnesota wore snow shoes in
win tar
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“Stuttgart like all the rest of ihe Ar
k an sat towns has been handicapped.
The country here baa never produced
anything much to send out and conse
quently has not been able to ship much
in, and so Stuttgart has had a hard time
to get its head up in the world, so that it
could see out, out beyond the little strip
sf flat, spongy prairie and out beyond
the world of swampy timber which sur
rounds it on every side. The business
men of Stuttgart are enterprising enough
and if the surrounding country would
produce any surplus product to ship out
so that something could be shipped in,
this prqwess of shipping in and out
would breathe some vitality into the
stagnant energies of Stuttgart. There
are three or four business men here from
Nebraska who would help to make this
a good town if there was. half a show.
Now in speaking of this strip of prairie,
I said it was remarkable to find a patch
of prairie land in this state. And you
might think from that that when this
prairie was first discovered some two or
three hundred years ago, that it was
greedily seized by settlers as an easy
place to make farm homes.
“But the exact opposite is true. The
native Arkansans who settled in the
damp woods around this prairie fifty
years before Nebraska, was born, avoid
ed this prairie land. They would toil in
the deep woods and clear little patches
of timber land, but not one of them
would settle on the prairie, because the
soil 1b white and like ashes and yields
crop in scant quantity and then only
with incessant toil, which is necessary
during the c.op season to keep down the
obnoxious growth of black weeds and
‘crop grass’ which always goes with
white thin soil. This grand prairie re
mained unsettled until about twelve
years ago when the railroad was built
through it, some wealthy capitalists from
Freeport, 111., bought up this prairie for
a song and undertook to establish here a
colony of Germans from Freeport and
Peoria. Now whoever knows the Free
port German and understands his traits,
knows that he will work and save and
manage and dig out a living where an
ordinary man would starve to death.
And so a few of these Germans have
succeeded here fairly well but I notice
there are only a few of them here and '
no new ones are coming any more. It is
only by cultivating in small fields and
by heavy mulching and enriching the
soil that a fair yield of corn can be pro
duced and corn and oats are tbe only
things of special value that will grow on
tthis prairie. I saw several fields of good
corn among these Germans, but the
fields were small and they told me that
it required twice as much work to make
an acre of good corn here as it does in
Illinois. Outside of these German farms
there is no good corn in the fields and
tbe farmers are poor and discouraged.
Whatever corn is raised here by these
few Germans is sold right here for home
use in the little town of Stuttgart and to
the other farmers who are not able to
produce corn, in little dribs, bartered
and traded by the few bushels or the
small wagon load.”
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“To be poor here is to be always poor.
And because this southern poverty stays
with it victims till they die; therefore
there is in these faces that look of hope
lessness that when once seen can never
be forgotten. Tbe poor people here are
called poor white trash on account of
the very humiliated look they all wear
on their faces. This peculiar Arkansas
poverty look comes partlv from the
effects of sickness which la prevalent
most in eyery farm home during the
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summer and fall. To understand this
malaria-charged climate you must know
that this prairie la on a very low alti
tude. that it la very flat, that ita surface
by reason of standing water is in a mushy,
spongy condition a large part of the
time, and that this condition alone is
sufficient to produce malarial effect.
But in addition to the low altitude, the
spongy, water-soaked soil, this prairie
is surrounded by hundreds of miles of
heavy forest marshes, where green scum
bayous of stagnant water send out their
poisonous vapors continually. They
have made appropriations for the build
ing of dykes along the Misssippi to pre
vent its annual overflow, and they tell
you, these boomers, that this dyke build
ing is now going on, but when you ride
on the train through these deep forest
swamps, for hours where the train runs
on high, wooden trestlework, sometimes
twenty feet from the ground, curving
and winding round and through these
marshes and across the bayous of stag
nant water, then you listen no more to
these sprightl/ romances about the dyke
building on the Missippi, for you know
that no matter what appropriations are
made or what dykes are built this fifty
miles of low, swamp forest land lying
between the grand prairie and the Mis
sissippi river will never be materially
changed from its present malarial con
dition. This dyke building and the ap
propriations for dyke building is one of
the fads of these Mississippi river states
and is used by politicians and land
speculators chiefly for ita effect, on
elections and on the sales of real estate,
rather than for any practical good which
can come from it to change the un
healthy condition of this Mississippi
valley or make farm life here more
tnlerahln.
“AH theae unfavorable condition! with
all their distressing effects to produce
and maintain poverty and sickness
among the people are endured by the
old settlers much better than by the new.
A northern man with a strong constitu
tion coming here can stand up against
this debilitating climate for a year or
two before his strength and vitality give
way. But if he works hard, as northern
men generally do when they settle in a
new place, he will in a few months begin
to feel that yawning and chilly sensation
and the aching in his joints and limbs
which is always the sign of chills and
fever, and in a year or two of hard
work on the farm he gradually succumbs
to the inevitable and his face begins to
show the hard lines and the pinched and
hopeless look which marks the faces of
this people. A young man got on the
train at one of these little dismal stations.
He stood a moment in the front part of
the car as if almost afraid to enter it,
although he had bought a ticket and
was entitled to a ride. As he moved
slowly along the aisle of the car looking
for a seat, looking timidly into the face
of each passenger as if to find one
friendly eye, I noticed that be put out
his hands on the ends of the seats as he
patted along, that hit hand* were tremb
ling and hit face had in it that painful
look which told me that he waa tick.
Now tick facet are familiar tighti here
and- the condition of thia twenty-year
old boy brought no autwering tympathy
from the pastengera. When be reached
that part of the car in which I waa ait
ting I moved over and invited him to ait
down. It waa a little thing on my part
and it waa only fair, for he waa aa much
entitled to a teat aa anyone, but he
aecmed surprised at even thia little act
of kindnesa and smiling hia thanks to me
in an embarrassed way he sank heavily
into hia place and then lood around aa
if to see if he had attracted any any un
favorable attention. Oh, how aickneas
and poverty unmana a man. Now he
told me hia atory and I knew from the
place where he waa born that he had
been a boy of energy and pluck.
“He waa born and raised at Boone,
la. If you know that country you will
be aurprjaed that anyone living there
should ever be ao fooliah aa to leave it
for thia malaria-atricken land, but thia
boy’s parents were poor, they were rent
ers on an Iowa farm and the rents were
so high and the prospects seemed so dis
couraging for the young man to get a
start in life on that rented farm, and he
had read ao much of the boom storiea of
these land speculators, of how times
were good and money plenty here, and
of ohow these woods were full of deer
and bear and other game, that he came
here and joined himself to a party of
wood choppers in one of these lumber
camps. ‘My folks would hardly
know me now,’ he said, trying to
smile. ‘When I came down here my
face was red an’ I weighed a hundred
and forty pounds.' He told me bow he
had worked in the woods with a crowd
of rough, hard men, how he bad slept in
damp' beds in the frame shanties add
had eaten the unhealty food of these
cheap boarding houses until at laat hia
strength gave way and be had lain sick
several weeks, lost hia job, but was re
covering he thought The doctor had
M
! I have to-day purchas
; ed from the O’Neill Fur
\ niture Co. its entire stock
of furniture, which will
be combined with my
own. In order to make
room in my store for this
I large addition, on next
Monday I will commence
a great
SACRIFICE SALE
I And invite my friends
and my enemies to call
I and inspect the goods,
which will be offered at
prices never before heard
of in O’Neill.
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advised him to move on a station or two
where it was a little higher ground and
further away from the big lake where he
had (been at work. ‘Why don't you'
leave the country entirely and go home
to Iowa?’ I asked. Butlwaa ltnmedl*
ately sorry for the remark, because it
compelled him to disclose the rest of. his
story, to the effect that he was nearly
out of money; that he had only a dollar
two or two left and that ha hoped to get.
some light work at the next town, to
that he could earn and save money
enough to get home.
“You can see hundreds of these sick
boys in a day’s travel on one of these
trains. You can see them standing in
rows at these little stations, lookingly
appealingly up as the train moves by as
if they wanted to go. I have but little
sympathy for the long, lank Arkansan
who is innured by heredity and by a
lifutime to this climate, but it is a painful
and pitiful sight to see these people from
the north, when they have once sunk
into this helpless condition, looking up
at you from their hopeless faces as if
they would be glad to get away if they
had the money. Thr.se are hard times
all over the country. Poor people find
ii difficult to get a start in life eves
where they are healthy and strong. But
when you add sickness to poverty add
the lonliness and desolation of the woods
and this fiat prairie of black weeks, and
surround the northern man with all the
disagreeable social conditions of this
ignorant south, it makes a poor man's
life accursed beyond all words to des
cribe. The saddest facts you see here
are the faces of disapointed northern
people.”'
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MEATH OF KAXIS JOXES.
Mamie E. Jones, daughter of Mn. G. ■»/%
W. Jones, waa born in Crawford county,
Wisconsin, February 8, 1877; and died
in O’Neill, November 8, 1895.
Deceaaed was a young lady who bad
manv friends in the city, where she re*
sided with her parents for many years,
and the sad circumstances surrounding
her taking off makes the affliction doubly
hard for her relatives and friends to '
bear. About three weeks ago the Valla
family, all bed fast of typhoid fever. { ^
were removed from the country to this
city in order that they might receive ^
more careful attention, and deceased
was engaged in the capacity of nurse.
For several days she was a constant at
tendant at the bedside of the sick, and
so devoted was she to the unfortunate
family that she contracted the dread .► &.J■,
disease and died in a few days. It does
seem that she sacrificed her young life
in the cause of humanity.
The remains were interred in the
Protestant cemetery in O'Neill and the
last sad rites were attended by a large
concourse of relatives and friends.
BICYCLE TUI. ^
On January 1st 1895, we will give to
our customers free, a fine high grade
8100 ladies’ or gent’s bicycle. This offer
applies to all departments. Inquire for
particulars. J. P. Mann. IMf t' jfel
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THE LATEST TBOX CH1CAOO. ' H
We have been'advised by Pershing
A Anderson to reduce the prloee on their
line of tailor made clothing, and for the
rest of the season can give you the low
est prices you ever heard of on first
class tailor made suite and overcoats.
19-3 J. P. Max*.
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