THE FRONTIER. ' V. . » «*. •< “ ..... ' • • •' |S v.* •, ■t ■; - •' '■p'ffii :■ '.'-r ‘.f '. v® JL. PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. r.M v 8UB8ORIPTION, 81.60 PER ANNUM. CLYDE KINO AND D. H. CRONIN. EDITORS AND MANAGERS. $ VOLUME XVI. O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, MARCH 5, 1896. NUMBER 85. NEWS SANS WHISKERS Items of Interest Told As They Are Told to Us. WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED Local Happenings Portrayed For General Edification and Amusement. Spring opening at J. P. Mann’s March 17. __ 85 2 Jack Welton has returned from Spen cer. _ Mayor Bigiin is in Scranton, Pa., on business. __ J. B. Berry was in from Paddock last ^ Monday. _ Arthur Coykendall is numbered with the sick this week. One of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Thomp son's little boys is very sick. Judge Kinkaid and Reporter King are holding court in Brown county. J. L. Mack and wife have returned from their winter's visit in Indiana. Bentley will give you value received and a music box and a watch be sides. _ 20-tf. The sports are trying to arrange a glove contest between a couple of local boxers. __ Be sure and get Sioux City seeds. -They are the best. For sale by Neil Brennan. 35tf. The working society will met with Mrs. John Hazelet Wednesday, March 11, 2 p. m. _ John Newman went down O Omaha Tuesday morning. He expects to go from there to Montana. Cheve Hazelet went down the road rriuay on Dustness connecteu wim tne German Chicory Company. Will Mullen went down to Lincoln Tuesday morning, where be will take a course in the Normal school. E. M. Lowe is very sick at his home _ at Spencer. His daughter, who resides r at Michigan City, Ind., is with him. Henry Watterman, a former resident of this couuty, but now of Topeka, Kansas, is iu the city visiting friends. Buy the best garden seeds; the best are the cheapest. None better than the Sioux City seeds, sold by Neil Brennan. Byron Freeland, who has been em ployed by the O’Neill Grocery Co., as salesman, resigned his position the first of the present month. Rev. Win. Eadie, of Omaha, will pruach in the Presbyterian church next Sabbath, Match 8. Services 10:30 a. m , 8 r. m. ; Christian Endeavor 7. S. C. Woodruff, proprietor of the Gresham Review and Stromsburg News, was in the city Wednesday and made The Fiiontieh a very pleasant fraternal cail. _ One day last week Chever Hazelet sent a telegram from O’Neill to Germany and received a reply m three hours. Time and space are defied by modern inventions. The two childreu of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest, reported last week as sick of diphtheria, have both died. Every pre caution should be taken to prevent the spread of the disease. Sanford Parker came over from Spen cer Tuesday. He had an important con test case before the United State land office Wednesday, in which the title to valuable land in Cedar county is at stake. Ira Lappan, who has successfully con ducted the Tavern for some time past, has leased the New Ogden hotel, and moved into it Inst week. This gives Mr. Lappan much more commodious Itio. Butte Gazette: They say there are three grades of vigilantes in Holt county; the conservative, the radical and the coyote. The conservatives wink at the deviltry, the radicals shield the devils and the coyotes do the work. The Bridges Bro.’s Convention Co , of the Chicago Music Co., will give a free concert in the M. E. church Monday evening, March 9, for the purpose of organing a singing class. O'Neill needs musical revival and this the opportunity. They ask especially to have all those present at the concert that are interested in voice culture. Geneva Gazette: Stephen McGinnis, who was arrested last week as belonging to the parly of vigilantes who were in the hold-up week before last in Holt county was tried Tuesday end the jury found him “not guilty,” although he admitted he was within a mile of the scene of trouble. The jury was prob ably afraid to decide otherwise fearing if they did the same or a worse fate might befall them. We are receiving the prettiest line of spring and summer dress goods and trimmings ever shown in the city. Our wraps, gloves, shoes, etc., are strictly up to date. Wait for our spring open ing March 17, and see the latest. 35-2 J. P. Mann. A petition addressed to the honorable board of Holt county supervisors was in circulation in O’Neill a short time ago, the object and prayer of which were that Mike Harrington be employed to assist the county attorney in the prosecution of the men charged with cattle stealing. Jim Pinkerman had charge of the docu ment in transit. Mr. Harrington was not employed, however, but Attorney Carton assisted in the work. An exchange says “e” is the most un fortunate letter in the English alphabet, because it is never in cash, never out of debt, and never out of danger. The aforesaid exchange forgets that the letter "e” is never in war, but always in peace. It is the beginning of existence, the com mencement of ease and the end of trouble. Without it there would b8 no bread, no meat, no meal, no water, no beer, no gospel, ho hell, no heaven, no newspapers and no advertising. It is always in marriage, and yet remains in single blessedness. Norfolk News: Ab Wilcox has re turned from O’Neill, where had been to look after his farm which is north of that town. He formerly lived in Holt county and was one of Barrett Scott’s bondsmen, when that gentleman was county treasurer. During this trip while at O’Neill lie was advised by several of his friends not to venture nut to his farm alone, as the cbanceB were that he would be held up. He did not accept the advice of his friends, which was un doubtedly intended for his good, but when he drove out to his farm he went prepared to give any man or set of men who interfered with him a very warm reception. The Sun's “excess fees" howl of last week made us exceedinuly tired. Truly enough, however, McHugh’s hoggish idol reported some excess fees, but how? He and his deputy worked nights, and probably Sundays, to do the extra work of two men of families, whom he dis charged and threw out of work in mid winter in order to boom his own hoggish self-aggrandizement. It matters not if laboring men and their families suffer if McHugh's idol can keep up his political boom, remain perpetually in office and find places for his relatives and tools like the Sun. The credit hitched to “excess” of this particular variety can not “carry up” to any great extent in honest eyes, and that this is the way it was brought about there is no room for doubt. £. Kline and Dr. Noryell were turned out of employment to make this “excess” possible and to hatch out a great, big political mare’s egg for Joss Mullen, while a strippHng, an inferror slip of humanity, or the “long green” who deems himself competent to swing the populist party of the county into line with the democratic jumpin^jack of the Sun, still holds his job. Encour aging, isn’t it? State Journal: Col. O. C. Bates, the veteran journalist of the west, was in the city yesterday for the first time dur ing a residence in Nebraska of eight years. Mr. Bates is no spring chicken in journalism, having mounted the tripod in Pennsylvania forty-seven years ago. He finally drifted west and in 1867 started the Northern Vindicator at Estherville, Iowa. One blustering day, a local genius by the name of Ellis, who from being the slowest man to move then in existence, was dubbed “Lightuing,” came into the office and remarked in his drawling way that it wmb a unz/.uru ui a Kitty ouisuie. lie unconsciously coined a word that wag destined to come into general use. Mr. Bates wrote au article under the bead of “A Northern Blizzard,” describing the, fury of the storms of wind and snow then prevalent in that region, and the word was passed from one end of the continent to the other and finally drop ped into the dictionary, where it is de fined as “a gale of piercing cold wind, etc.” Mr. Bates is entitled to all the credit for the publicity given the new coined phrase, but over the grave of “Lightning Ellis” on a granite slab should be inscribed: Here lies a man Wlio could not plan A full day’s work to save Ills gizzard. But one day found. When moping 'round. And brought to light a northern blizzard. Too slow to learn* Ho couldn't earn Enough to feed the pigs and chickens. But coined a word. You all have heard. Expressive as the very dickens. • Quick in effect, heals and leaves no scar. Burning, scaly skin eruptions quickly cured by DeWitt’s Witch tlazel Salve Applied to burns, scalds, old sores, it is magical in effect. Always cures piles. Morris & Co. COURT MATTERS. Tlie jury in the Carberry case, which wag on trial when we went to pregg last week, brought in a verdict of guilty as charged, but recommended the defendant to the clemency of the court. The jury was out almost twenty-four hours. They came in once and told the court they did not think they could agree, but the judge sent them back again and in about four hours they came to an agreement. Notice waB given that a motion for a new trial would be filed and sentence was deferred pending the hearing of the same. Carberry was released on $300 bond. The verdict was a surprise to a great many spectators who heard the evidence. The sheriff was ordered to make a deed to Mary J. Fuller, covering the northwest quarter of 18-27-10. Upon application of Receiver Snyder, of the Holt County bank, it was ordered that he execute a deed, upon the pay ment of $25, to the holder of the mort gage upon thesw of 8-29-12, it appearing to the court that such action would be to the benefit of the depositors of the defunct institution. Frederick S. Johnson vs J. H. Pine, motion to vacate order of sale overruled. Marietta S. Prouty vs. Wesley J. Gray et. al., injunction; case was set down for hearing March 12, and temporary, injunction issued restraining defendants from interfering with plaintiff in the possession of property, in controversy. Plaintiff was required to execute a bond of $200. In the matter of the county of Holt vs. G. C. Hazeiet, plaintiff remitted from the verdict the sum of $398.88 and $142.05 and interest thereon, amounting in all to $542.53. The court accepted said offer and plaintiff excepted. Motion for new trial was overruled and judg ment entered for $1,508.01. Defendant was given forty days in which to file bill of exceptions. Besides this work a number of decrees of foreclosure were taken. i..,i it.,. Dunham case to quash the panel, was withdrawn upon the state agreeing to a continuance. Owing to the dates set for court in other counties in the district it was nec essary to adjourn the Holt county term Saturday night. The Prouty injunction case being set for March 12, we presume that is the date upon which court will reconvene. FHOBRAM. Of the Holt County Teachers’ Associa tion to be held at Ewiug, Nebraska, Saturday, March 14, 189G. commencing at 10:40 a. m. in the school house: uustc. Paper—The Teachers'Responsibility— Pearl 8. Kelley. Discussion. Annie Cowrie and P. E. Chase. Music. AFTERNOON SESSlOff. Singing. Paper—Language: What May Reason ably be Expected Prom Teachers— C. L. Anderson. Discussion. J. M. Morgan and C. J. Malone. Instrumental Music. Maud Gillespie. Paper—The Class Recitation—... Mamie McManus. Discussion. Minnie Guyer and Maud Gillespie. Solo. 8. W. Green. Paper—Marking Pupils—. L. W. Worel. Discussion. R. F. Cross and Addie M. Clark. Recitation—“Lost in the Mountains”— Lena Klingeman. Paper—What Constitutes Success in Teaching—. Sarah Davies. Discussion. J. Y. Ashton and Susie Quilty. Song—America—. By the Teachers. Teachers, school officers and all oth ers interested are invited to be present and participate in the discussions. Come prepared to enter into the dis cussions whether your name appears | upon the program or not. W. R. Jackson, Pres. S. L. Anderson, Sec. PROUTY AND THE VIGILAHTES. The difficulty between Mr. Proutyand the vigilantes has at Inst gotten into the district court, where it is to be hoped the matter will be settled finally. The court issued a temporary injunc tion restraining Geo. D. Mullihan, Joe Crawford, Charles Clyde and William Gray from in any manner, at any time, andurderany circumstances, entering upon the possessions of plaintiff, or in any manner interfering, annoying or disturbing the land; or in interfering with the plaintiff in the proper and necessary cultivation of the same. We are informed that since the issu ance of the injunction one or two of the men included in the list persist in their depredations. THE ATTEHTION OF TRAVELERS Is called to the fact that the route yia O’Neill, Neb., and the Pacific 8bort Line is the shortest, cheapest aud best to Northern Nebraska, Sioux City and the east. AN UNDERSTANDING. So much talk having been indulged in by the press regarding Senator Mander son’s late announcement of his candi dacy for the presidency, and the events lending up thereto,, we believe a few statements by those meat directly con cerned may be read with profit. A special from Washington to the Lincoln Journul, date of February 27, gives Mr. Mandenftra position pretty clearly: - " General Manderson leaves for Ne braska within a few days, stopping at Chicago on the way. He states that be has heard nothing or rend nothing from Nebraska within the past two weeks which will induce him to withdraw his name as a candidate for the presidency through the suffrage of the delegation. He declares that a number of statements which have been brought to his atention regarding his refusal to consider such a proposition and his assumed caudidacy as a stalking horse for other candidates are absolutely false; without the shadow of foundation and promulgated with* an evident intention to deceive his friends. General Manderson is in the race to stay. He has received a number of assurances of support as second choice from promi nent eastern politicians and republican lenders and believes that if selected by the Nebraska delegation as their choice in the convention, and if earnestly sup ported by Nebraska republicans at St. Louis be will be able to make a showing which will evidence much more strength than some of those who are now Cppos ing him believe that he can secure, with as good a chanoe as any other dark horse to get first under the string. On February 28 Senator Thurston caused to be published an interview, an extract of which is given below: In order that no wrong impression may be created ns to the Nebraska presi dential situation, I desire to state that I have not made, have not intended to make, and do not desire to be understood as making any charges whatever against or to cast anv reflection upon General Manderson or Mr. Hamer in the entire matter. 1 have not questioned and do not question the good faith of either of these gentlemen. Mr. Hainer and myself, to gether with the other republican mem bers of cur delegation, have been at all times agreed upon all matters of our state politics, except as some of us have uiiiviku vw piLoiuciliini bUWIl/Gi Then comes Congressman Hainer with a flat and caustic denial of the charge that Manderson is a candidate in the in terests of any man but himself. The entire article hv Mr. Hainer is too long for us to reproduce, hut we extract a few of its most salient paragraphs. The general circulation m our state and elsewhere of gross misstatements concerning the presidential candidacy of General Manderson and my connection with it renders it due to myself, as well as to all concerned, that the real facts be given to the public. It is broadly charged that the candi dacy of General Manderson is a plot, hatched iu Washington and managed be me, in the interest of Mr. Reed, to thwart the wishes of our people and take Nebraska from the McKinley column; that General Manderson, by delaying until this time, and perhaps otherwise, has estopped himself from announcing his candidacy; that is therefore in bad faith, and that Nebraska has by some process been pledged to McKinley. All sorts of insinuations are thrown out re garding the recent meeting of the state central committee. These charges are each without foundation in fact. The truth is General Manderson became a candidate for exactly the same reason that others arc candidates for the same place. His many friends in Nebraska and elsewhere believe that in point of fitness and availability he stands second to none of the great men whose splendid services have endeared them to republi cans everywhere, and whose loyal con stituences have presented them with enthusiasm and justifiable pride as can didates before the ensuing national re publican convention. They recognize the sterling character,genial personality, general popularity he possesses, his splendid record as a soldier und a sen ator; and that while of the west, he en joys in a large measure the confidence and esteem of the people of the whole United States. He is the first presi dential candidate from west of the Missouri. He is, and always has been, safe and sound on all great questions, lie has never trimmed his sails to carry a passing breeze, or attempted to make a cheap reputation by the arts of oratory or by any of the small tricks of the The friends of General Manderson have only words of praise for every other candidate. Whoever is nominated at St. Louis will receive (heir loyal sup port. They recognize, however, as a practical fact that in all probabilities there will he a deadlock between the two h ading candidates, and that the final problem for the St. Louis conven tion will be to select some other sound and available man. That man, we believe, will be General Manderson. No better or more available candidate can be found. His friends brought him out. He did not seek the distinction. He will cheerfully abide the iudgment of bis party. His course has been throughout dignified, straightforward and in every way comporting with the high office with which his name has been coupled. I am for him. I am not for Mr. Reed or for any other candidate than General Manderson. This is and has been long well known to every gentleman with whom I have conversed or to whom I have written on the sub ject. No man who values his word or judg ment will question the integrity and truthfulness of General Manderson. He announces his candidacy. That ought to and does settle that fact in the mind of every fair man. His character and whole life are conclusive evidence of his good faith, and that he could not be used as a stalking horse for any man. It is a gratuitous insult, doing small credit to him who oilers it, to make this charge. If possible, even more con* temptibly silly is the other charge that I am managing this affair for Mr. Reed in reward for the place given me on committee, or for Any purpose. It is a well known fact that I did not secure the committee place I desired, and that the place I did obtain came unsought. Is my reputation so low that any sane per-' son believes I would barter my convic tions for a place on a committee, and is the reputation of - our entire delegation in the house of representatives, and the reputation of General Manderson so much lower that it would be believed they would lend themselves to anyone in such political prostitution? The state of Nebraska may or may not be for McKinley. It may or tna/ not be for General Manderson. The question will be determined by the republican voters in county, district and state con ventions, and they alone have the power to decide. We all agree that no man— I care not what may be his position— has the authority to deliver our state to any presidential candidate. No man has been invested with authority to place Nebraska on the presidential bargain counter or in the delivery wagon to be hawked about to appease the vanity or vaulting ambition of anyone. No man has the right to foreclose the right of any other eligible citizen to aspire to the presidency, and to deny to him the right to make his announcement of a candi dacy unless made four months prior to the nominating convention, it an at tempt to fix a statute of limitations— which is simply ridiculous. Garfield was not a candidate until days after the national convention nomin ating him had its first meeting. Blaine's candidacy in 1992 was only announced after the delegates were enroute for Minneapolis. Neither has It ever been considered as a political or moral sin to advocate one other than a numerically strong candidate. Lincoln was scarcely thought of as a presidential candidate and yet defeated Seward in 1860. Grant opposed Blaine, the stronger candidate, in 1876, and succeeded in defeating him. Harrison was one of the weaker candi dates in 1888, but won. Blaine, the strong candidate in 1884. waa, it is true, nominated, but defeated at the polls. As a r'ule, the numerically strong candi dates are the weakest and seldom win. Every student of politics knows this. It is follv to cIobb one’s eves to the facts. Many of tbe most prominent republican* of Nebraska seriously questioned tbe wisdom of nominating Harrison in 1892, and some of them lost no opportunity to disparage bis personal qualities and bis availibiifty, altbougb our state instructed her delegates for bfm. No one ques tioned their right to this, or tbeir good faitb. Wbat was right and proper then is right and proper now.' Every man has tbe right to bis preference of candi dates, and it is bis duty to exercise that right. No honorable man will consent to have that right abridged in the least. If, as claimed by eome, the republi cans of Nebraska have reached a final conclusion that they are no longer open to argument, there is no occasion for any excitement over the submission to them of a new name, Any exhibition of either hysterics or intolerance and any beating of the tomtom or tearing the hair, is uncalled for. Tbe majority of Nebraska needs no guardian ad litum. it has never suffered, and will not suffer dictation. No one is attempting it. It I is idle to charge me with any attempt at boBsism. 1 am in Washington. I have no hypnotic powers with which at this distance I can accomplish the undoing of any majority. It is proper in this connection to add that in his latest utterance Senator Thurston disclaims having made, in tended to make, or desired to be under stood as making any charge whatever against either General Manderson or myself. This should eliminate from the issue all personal or factional consider ations, leaving the simple question of presidential preference uncomplicated by any other element to be determined. For my part l believe a great oppor tunity is presented to the republicans of our state. The circumstances and signs of the times are favorable. We should have the courage and the good judgment to make the most of our opportunity. We have a candidate of whom we mav all well be proud. His candidacy will be be largely wbat we choose to make it. Love of our state, a laudable pride in her brainy son, love of section and of country all combine to make strong the candidacy of General Manderson. In no desire to tear down any other candi date. in no spirit of jealousy, but with a proud conviction of his just deserts. Nebraska may present to the St. Louis convention a man who, in the presiden tial office, would reflect glory, not upon his state alone, but upon the nation. 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Passenger leaves O'Neill, Neb. at 10:05 a. jt.. immediately after arrival of train from Black Hills, reaching Sioux City at 2:35 p. m., giving three hours time. Lowest rates. Purchase local tickets to O’Neill and re-buy there. '‘I v