GEN’L OFFICIAL DIRECTORY 'f STATU. Governor.Silas Holcomb Lieutenant Governor.R. E. Moore Secretary of State.J. A. Piper State Treasurer.J. S. Bartley State Auditor. .Eugene Moore Attorney General.A. S. Churchill Com. Lands and Buildings.C. 11. Bussell Sunt. Public Instruction. H. 14. Corbett REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY. Ohas. H. Gere. Lincoln: Leavitt Burnham, Omaha; .1 M. Hiatt, Alma: E. P. Holmes, Pierce; J. T. Mallateu, Kearney; M. J-Hull. Edgar. CONGRESSIONAL. Senators—W. V. Allen, of Madison; John M. Thurston, of Omaha. Representatives—First Distrlot, J. B StrotK? Second, D H. Mercer; Third, Geo. D. Mikel john; Fourth — Hainer; Fifth, W. E. And rews; Sixth; O. M. Kem. JUDICIARY. Chief Justloe....A. **. Post Associates...T.O. Harrison and T. L.Norvall FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. Judge.M.P. Kinkald, of O’Neil] Reporter.J. J. King of O’Neill Judge.W. H. Westover, of Rushville Reporter.John Maher, of Rushville. LAND OFFICES. O’NEILL. Register.John A. Harmon. Receiver.Elmer Williams. COUNTY. judge.Geo McCutcheon Clerk of the District Court.John Sklrving Deputy.O. M. Collins Treasurer.P. Mullen Deputy.Sam Howard Clerk ..Bill Bethea Deputy.Mike McCarthy Sheriff.. Sheriff..Ohas Hamilton Deputy..’..'.'.OhasO' N eill Supt. of Schools.W. H. Jackson .. Assistant.Mrs. \V. R. Jackson > Coroner.Dr. Trueblood ,M. F. Norton Surveyor. - Attorney...II* K. Murphy SUPERVISORS. FIRST DISTRICT. Cleveland, Sand Creek. Dustin, Saratoga, ock Falls and Pleasantview—J. 0. Blondln. — SECOND DISTRICT. Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, Wil lowdale and Iowa—J. 11. Hopkins. THIRD DISTRICT. Grattan and O’Neill—E. J. Mack. FOURTH DISTRICT. Ewing, Verdigris and Deloit—L. C. Combs. FIFTH DISTRICT, Chambers, Conley, Lake, ineClure and Inman—E. Stillwell. SIXTH DISTRICT. Swan. Wyoming, Fairview, Francis. Green Valley, Sherldau and Emmet—C. W. Moss. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Atkinson and Stuart—Frank Moore. CUT OF O’NEILL. Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justices, E. H. Benedict and S. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed. McBride and Perkins Brooks. CODNCIUIEK—IIRST WARD. For two years.—D. H. Cronin. For one year—Ii. C. McEvony. 8IOOHD WARD. For two years—Alexander Marlow. For 4 one year—Jake Pfund. I THIRD WARD. 1 For two years—Charles Davis. For oue v year—Elmer Merrlman. * city orriceRS. Mayor, O. F. Btglin; Clerk, N. Martin; Treasurer, John McHugh; City Engineer John Horrisky; Police Judge, H. Kautzman; Chief of Police, Charlie Hall; Attorney, Thus. Carlon; Woighmaster, Joe Miller. " GRATTAN TOWNSHIP. Supervisor, K. J. Hayes; Trearuror. Barney MeGreevy; Clerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor Ben Johring: Justices, M, Castello and Chas. Wilcox; Constables, John Horrisky and Ed. McBride; Hoad overseer dist. 28, Allen Brown dist. No. 4,Jobu Enright. SOLDIERS’ RELIEF COMNISSION. Hegular meeting first Monday in Febru ary of each year, and at such other times as is deemed necc-ssary. Uobt. Gallagher, Page, chairman; Wm. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary; H. H. Clark Atkinson. ST.PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHUKCH. Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock. Very Hev. Cassidy, Pastor. Sabbath sohool Immediately following services. Vi ETHOU1ST CHUKCH. Sunday lU. services—Preaching 10:30 A. M. and 7:30 p. m. Class No. 1 0:30 A. M. Class No. 2 (Ep worth League! 6:30 p. M. Class No. 3 < Child rens) 3:00 p. M. Mind-week services—General prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m. All will be made welcome, especially strangers. E. T. GEOltGK, Pastor. GA. K. POST, NO. 86. The Gen. John • O’Neill Post, No. 36, Department of Ne braska G. A. U., will meet the first and third Saturday evening of each month In Masonic hall O’Neill S. J. Smith, Com. IJILKHORN VALLEY LODGE, I. O. O. J F. Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd Fellows' ball, visiting brothers cordially Invited to attend. W. H. Mason, N. G. 0. L. Bright. Sec. GAS', JTELD CHAPTER, R. A. M iMeets on first and third Thursday of eaoh month in Masanio ball. W. J. Dobhs Sou. J. C. Harnish, H, P KOFP.—HELMET LODGE, U. D. • Convention every Monday at 8 o cloek p. m. in Odd Fellows’ hall. Visiting brethern oordlally invited. J. P. Gilligan, C. C. E. J. Mack. K. of H. and S. O’NEILL. ENCAMPMENT NO. 30.1. O. O. F. meets every seoond and fourth Fridays of each month In Odd Fellows' Hall. Ohas. IIhiqht, H. P. H. M. Tttley, Scribe L'RBN LODGE NO. 41, DAUGHTERS Hi OF ItEUEKAH, meets every 1st and iid Friday of each month In Odd Fellows’ llall, Flo Bentley, N. G. Kittle Bhight. Sec. Garfield lodge, no.ob.f.&a.m. Regular communications Thursday nights on or before the full of the moon. W. J. Dobbs, See. E. H. Benedict, W. M. HOLTTAMP NO. 1710. M. W. OF A. Meets on tne first and third Tuesday In each month in the Masonic hall. C. W. Hagensick, V. O. D. H. Cronin, Clerk AC. W. NO. 153, Meets second • and fourth Tudsday. of each month in Masonic haU. C. Bright, Bee. S. ft. Howard. M, W. INP»FlK^,I?»DENT. WORKMEN OF M AMbKICA, meet every first and third Friday of each mouth. u .. McCutchan, Q. M. S. M. Wagers, See. PQ8TOFPICE DIRCETORY Arrival ofMails r. E. A M. V. R. E-tSOS THE EAST. Kvery day,Sunday inoluded at.5:16 p nos THE went. ■very day, Sunday included at.9:68 am pacific short line. Passenger-leaves —' to narm me, ahoy I have never harmed him.” ■* Jealousy, Leon; jealousy. I saw his eye kindle with the venomous light of a snake’s yesterday, when you heat him in throwing the bolas. You did do wonderfully well after so little prac tice.” “It was an accident, Arlo. I could not do it again if I should try a thou sand times.” “Well, accident or not, it came in at the right time, and it is no wonder Tip po envies you your victory. But beware of him as you would of a puma.” The youthful speakers, neither being over 18, were cantering leisurely across that remarkable pampa region lying be tween the Parana and Paraguay rivers, the Oran Chaco. They were on the ex treme southern border belonging to the vast estate of Manuel Strain, who lay claim to the ownership of more than a thousand horses, forty thousand head of cattle and nearly a hundred thousand sheep, feeding at will on his domain of pampas. Arlo Strain was this wealthy estan clero’s only son, and his companion, Leon Lyons, was an American boy, whom Arlo had met and formed a strong attachment for while he was in this country getting his education. The grandfather of Arlo had gone from the United States to settle in the country north of Buenos Ayres. Leon had been glad to accept an in vitation to visit his South' American friend, and never had he enjoyed him self better than on his wild rides over the pampas. How he slept at night! And he often declared that he had never known what it rras to have an appetite before! It was then the season for “rounding up” the cattle. At first he had to con leni mmseit wiyi seeing tne gauchos, or herdsmen, as they rode down and las soed the animals, but finally he had ventured to join his companion in the exhilarating work. It was wonderful how these sons of the pampas performed their feats of lance and lasso, but when Arlo ex plained that they had been trained to it from infancy; that long lines were given them to practice throwing, and that by the time they were 4 years old they were put on the back of a spirited horse, with a genuine lasso to use, he did not marvel so much at their skill. Arlo had acquired a good deal of that s^ill and Leon was fain to believe that few of the gauchos could outdo him, but when he said as much the other laughed, saying; “Wait till you see what Tippo can do. He can throw a lance farther and a lasso surer than anyone on the es tancias.” The gaucho Guieslppo, whose name had been corrupted into Tippo, was a tall, swarthy, flerce-looking native, whom few liked, but many feared, fie was known to be a desperate fellow when aroused, and his passionate na ture would brook little or no opposition. It was he that Arlo meant in his warn ing to Leon, for it had been the latter’s misfortune to incur the enmity of Tip po at a game of bolas the day before, when, quite accidentally, the American lad had won the laurels from the boast ful gaucho. Little dreaming of what was likely RIDING LIKE THE WIND, to follow the simple affair, however, Leon joined enthusiastically in the wild work of cattle-hunting on the pampas. He had never known such sport before, and feeling his blood tingle under the excitement of the mad races, he dashed hither and thither, with more pluck than prudence. It was the agreement that he and Arlo should keep together, but it is not always easy to carry out the plans on such occasions. Thus, toward midday, as the latter dashed through a clump of date palms to head off a bunch of cat tle, he suddenly missed his companion. Knowing the importance of quick action then, he wheeled his horse and glanced hurriedly over the scene. He did not look in vain, for away to his right he saw Leon standing over the dead body of his horse. What had happened to bring about this calamity he did not have time to consider, for at that very mo ment a more startling aspect was lent to the scene. From Leon’s left, concealed from him no doubt by the tall grass, was one of the old bulls that were the terror of the herds sweeping furiously toward the dismounted boy. It was doubtful If the enraged animal had seen the help less victim in his pathway yet, but that fact could not change the inevitable result, for he was sure to catch sight of him soon. Arlo was about to shout to Leon of his peril and dash to his rescue, when the cry froze on his lips at the sightim A I ' beheld on the other hand. The second peril was nothing less than Tlppo, rid ing like the wind down upon the boy, with his lance poised to be hurled at his head the moment he should get near enough to be sure of his aim. A dense clump of mimosa concealed the ap proaching bull from the sight of the gaucho. If Arlo failed to give his warning cry to his friend, he did not remain inac tive, but urged his horse ahead at the top of its speed, and so evenly were these onsets made that It seemed cer tain that a triple meeting would take place at the converging point. But Arlo realized that this must prove fatal to his friend If not to him self, and he suddenly raised his lasso, and with that quick, dexterous move ment peculiar to the master of this pliant weapon, he sent the long line whirring through the air, the noose at Its end settMng over Leon’s shoulders, Jilst as a loud bellow from the bull an nounced that It had seen him. , At the same moment Tlppo threw his lance. Arlo turned his horse sharply to the right, and as the taut lasso jerked Leon forward upon the ground, Tippo’s lance whizzed harmlessly over him. And then, before the would-be mur derer was aware of his peril, the mad dened bull was upon him, goring and trampling him to death. Having wreaked his vengeance upon the enemy that he had found In his path, the brute dashed on across the pampas, leaving the two boys unhurt. Tou may be sure that they were thank ful for their deliverance, in spite of Tippo’s awful fate. ANOTHER SNAKE STORY. A Point In Dtepnte Which I* Awaiting Settlement. A rather sunburnt but good-looking farmer made his way up to the Snake editor’s desk in the Washington Star office and stood there waiting to be heard. The snake editor looked up in to his kindly face with its far-away gaze and smiled a welcome in spite of himself. "Good morning,” he said, as pleasant ly as if his visitor had money. “How are j'ou?" responded the visi tor. “I’m from Montgomery County." “Is that so?” greeted the editor. mVdq tJiot'a on ” olid thn trialfr»r* mi 11 - lng up a chair and gazing far away. “What I come in for,” he went on murmnrously, “was to ask you a ques tion. You are the snake editor, they told me downstairs.” "That’s right. What can I do for you?” “I don’t know. P’raps you can an swer my question an* p'raps you can’t.” “What is it?” “You’re the man that Loudoun Coun ty’s been posting on her snake crop, ain’t you?” "Yes.” “I thought so. Well, we’ve got snakes in Montgomery county as well as they have in Loudoun.” "Do you want to get up a competitive exhibition?” “Oh, no,” he said, gently as a ring dove’s coo. “I only want to tell how we are fixed on snakes just now in Montgomery and submit a question. You see, it’s this way: We catched a snake on our place yesterday—or ruther, we partly did, for he ain’t all catched yet, and-” “Hold on,” exclaimed the editor, “how can that be?” “It’s just the way we are doing it in Montgomery,” said the visitor, calmly. “We found him coming out of a hole in the rocks and there was eighteen feet of him out of the hole at the time we seen him. The rest of him was p’lntin’ underground towards Loudoun and, judging from where we stopped him coming out, the other end of him will likely reach clean across the river over into Loudoun. If he’s all in Montgomery it’s all right and we’ll pull him on out but If tbe biggest half of him is over in Loudoun and he’s a Loudoun County snake, by gum, we propose to shove him back and let them Loudoun ers take care of their own. The ques tion I want you to settle is, which county ought to have the credit of the snake?” The visitor’s far-away look changed into one of pained perplexity and the snake editor asked for further time. One Wav of Arousing Lodgers. Umpire Bill Hayes, of the Windsor, has invented a new system of calling sleepy guests. Its very simplicity is its supreme attraction. The other night a newspaper man went to the Windsor, and being desir ous of being called at an early hour, left instructions with Umpire Hayes to do the work. Satisfied that everything would be lovely, the scribe retired and slept. 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