The Frontier
PUBLI8HED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO.
VOLUME XVI.
SUBSCRIPTION, SI.SO PER ANNUM.
O’NEILL. HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, MARCH 26, 1896.
CLYDE KINO AND D. H. CRONIN, EDITORS AND MANAOERS.
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NUMBER 38.
NEWS SANS WHISKERS
Items of Interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
Loeal Happenings Portrayed Por General
Edifloation and Amusement.
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H. A. Allen was in the city Sunday.
Neil Brennan will make a good mayo$.
John Oolden is visiting his family in
this city. _
John Darr was in from Middle Branch
last week.
Pack Reed and wife, of Page, were in
O’Neill yesterday.
P. F. Thompson is laid up this week
with a severe attack of rheumatism.
Bentley will give you value received
and a music box and a watch be
sides. __" 80-tf.
R. J. Hayes left Tuesday morning for
Butte, Mont., where he expects to
S;-:. locate.
H. M. Uttley spent the fore part of
the week transacting business in Boyd
county.
Be sure and get Sioux City seeds.
They are the best. For sale by Neil
Brennan. 35tf.
The small child of Mrs. Geo. Clark,
which has been ill of typhoid fever, is
reported to be improving.
James £. Harris and Lydia Eckley,
of Chambers, were married in O’Neill
Tuesday by Judge McCutchan.
Buy the best garden seeds; the best
are the cheapest. None better than the
Sioux City seeds, sold by Neil Brennan.
Corbett’s photo studio and denta
parlors will be open from April 3 to the
9th, inclusive. 36-5 A. H. Corbett.
Elmer Mcrriman has changed his mind
about removing to Laural and will stay
in O’Neill, a fact that his friends here
will note with pleasure.
- J. P. Mann syill give his customers
another high grade, first-class 9100.00
bicycle this spring, commencing Tues
day. See the' wheel; it’s a beauty.
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William Beck was up from Ewing
Tuesday on business. He reported that
at the time he left home Oc Wallace was
dangerously ill and not expected to live.
Landretb’s garden seeds have been
sown for 112 years and have never been
surpassed for excellence. We have a
full line of them.
’ 37-tf. Morris & Co.
Eight men were put off the east bound
freight at O’Neill Wednesday morning.
They dame from the Hills and were
beating there way east.
Stephen Boynton, ot Sioux Rapids,
Io., and Lillie Rathburn, of O’Neill,
were married at the Methodist church
Wednesday evening, Rev. George
officiating. _
A new romance by Anthony Hope
begins in the „April McClure’s. It is a
tale of novel and thrilling adventure,
like the “Prisoner of Zenda,” and is
said to be even more engaging than that,
in both character and incident.
Landreth's vegetable seeds are fresh—
pure and true to name and will satisfy
the most critical demands of those - who
want the best and nothing but the best.
These high grade seeds are carried in
stock by 37-tf. Morsis & Co.
The best display of produce at the
Sioux City Exposition last year was
raised and sent there by Neil Brennan
and he raised them from Sioux City
garden seeds. So if you want the best
seed call at his place and buy your seeds
for this season. 37tf
Landreth’s celebrated gftrden seed.
We purchase these seeds direct and
guarantee them fresh and true to name.
They should not be classed with the
common run of seeds left with dealers
on commission. Use Landretb’s seed,
and a good vegetable garden is assured.
37-tf. Morris & Co.
Dave Stannard was exercising his colt
on the end of a 20-foot rope one day last
week when the animal got away and ran
out into the north country. He after
wards found the horse, but the harness
she had on at the time of her escape was
missing. Chances are some vigilanter
got the harness.
A couple of small boys who reside
over near Creighton. were ar
rested at the F. E. depot Tues
day night by Marshall Hall, as they
were about to board the train for Long
Pine. They came that evening on the
Short Line freight. The youngsters
were running away from home, but a
telegram from their father intercepted
them. They returned to their home
Wednesday morning.
Fred Stafford, of Lincoln, is in the
city visitiDg his brothec-in -law, Elmer
Mernman. _
Judge Kinkaid is holding court in
Rushville. It will probably be a.two
weeks’ term._
Dr. Sturdevant, H. U. Clark aud
Charles Bitney, of Atkinson, had busi
ness in O’Neill Wednesday.
Little Ross and Ed Welton have been
quite aeriously ill this week, the same
resulting from a bad cold, and later an
I attack of tonsilitis.
Dr. McDonald, of Atkinson, has an
nounced himself as a candidate for dele
gate from this district to the national
republican couvention.
The play “Strife’’ will be presented by
the Columbia Literary Society of the
'Atkinson high school on next' Saturday
evening, at the opera-house in that city.
Mrs. Annie Frederick, a widow lady
who resided twelve miles southwest of
Chambers, died last Friday and was
buried Sunday at Chambers. Dave
Eisele came in Friday to procure a coffin.
Mrs. R. R. Dickson and Miss Jennie
Dickson entertained a number of friends
last Thursday evening. It was a fare
well party for Miss Dickson, who re
turned Tuesday morning to her home in
Iowa.
What's the matter with the city
council passing a curfew ordinance re
quiring kids under » certain age to be
off the streets after a certain hour at
night? O’Neill needs such a law badly.
Nearly every other town in the state has
one. _
Qeorge Clark died last Friday at his
home in this city, of typhoid fever, after
an illness of about a week. The funeral
took place Saturday afternoon, the re
mains being interred in the Protestant
cemetery. Deceased leaves a wife and
several children to mourn his untimely
death. _
Dave Darr and family have tired of the
land of thh red apple and sunshine, we
shauld judge, as last week they passed
through O’Neill on their way to Hot
Springs, S. D., where they expect to
reside in the future. When Mr. Darr
quits the south in disgust it is a good
place for other people to stay away from.
Here are President Cleveland's meas
urements, taken from a Washington
tailor’s books:
Waist.
Around hips.
Thigh.
Leg, inside...
Chest.
Arm, inside..
Arm, outside
1895.
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now many of our readers are ac
quainted with the statutory provisions
requiring county treasurers to publish a
semi-annual statement of the condition
of the various funds? And how many
can cal) to memory seeing such at any
time during the first year of Jim Mullen’s
first term in office? There was no show
ing made during his first year, notwith
standing the statute is mandatory in pro
viding for the same. This is some more
political economy that McHugh will
produce when his nibs is properly
groomed for congress.
Hartington Herald: Ever/ time I see
a paper from O’Neill I am filled with
something akin to envy. Opportunities
that are priceless for gathering news
linger within the grasp of the Holt
county boys, while I frequently have to
pursue the phantom form of an item
over the hills and dales of a whole town
ship. Up there the vigilantes furnish a
never-ending source of the most exciting
kind of news. A Holt county editor has
simply to go out on the street and re
mark that “news is a little shy this
week,” when a horde of vigilantes will
congregate and hang some inoffensive
person. Meanwhile the editor returns
to his sanctum and placidly gathers the
items a from the yells of the mob, and
people like his paper because it is
“newsy.” Editing in Holt county is a
sinecure, after the editor learns to shoot
quickly and accurately.
The fishermen of Holt county will
read with pleasure the following extract
from the State Journal: “J. S. Kirk
patrick, president of the state fish com
mission, announces that the commission
has commenced a campaign to secure
the construction of fish ladders in every
dam in the state where such a thing does
not exist. The supreme court recently
handed down a deciston upholding the
constitutionality of the statute requiring
owners of dams to put in ladders so that
the fish can pass up stream in the proper
season. Acting under this decision the
commission has?written to county at
torneys in all the counties urging them
to ask owners to comply with the law,
and if the work is not done within a
reasonable time, to commence prose
cutions. The commission labors under
the disadvantage of being without funds
prosecute violaters of the game law, but
in the work of securing fish ladders in
dams there will be little or no expense in
prosecuting.
The Frontier is always pleased to
give an obituary notice containing the
full facts concerning the life and works
of the deceased, but its time is too valu
able and the demands of the living too
urgent to allow us to spend a half day
in each case to procure them. If the
friends or the relatives of those who
depnrt from among us would kindly
mail us the necessary data we would
esteem it a favor.
If you wake up in the night, so says
an exehange, and hear you child strug
gling with croup, just get two pieces of
an old wollen undershirt, wring one out
of hot water, place it on the throat and
upper chest of the kid, as hot as can be
borne; then wet the other piece and
wring it out and change for the first.
You won’t change the cloths half a
dozen times till that croup will be much
blitter. The trouble with croup is it
generally comes when you haven’t a
thing in the house to administer. But
you can alwayB find an old piece of
flannel and some hot water.
Whatever thoso who visited this old
home upon the Potomac may have
thought of the life there, it was ever the
dearest spot upon earfh to its master and
mistress. General Washington wrote
in his diary, wh~n quitting his home in
April, 1789, to enter upon his duties as
chief executive of the new nation,
“about 10 o’clock I bade adieu to Mount
Vernon, to private life, and to domestic
felicity, and, with a mind oppressed
witn more anxious and painful sen
sations than I have words to express, set
out for New York,” while Mrs. Wash
ington always spoke of the days spent
away from home amid the stir and ex
citement of public life as “lost days.”—
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, in April
Lippincott’s.
"The reason kissing is so pleasnnt,”
says Doc Mathews, that oscillatory ex
pert of scientific tendencies, “is because
the teeth, jaw bones and lips are full of
nerves and when the lips of persons
meet an electric current is generated and
you don't have to have a dynamo ma
chine nor a battery in the house, nor a
call box. nor a button to touch to ring
up the central office, and there is no
patent on it and, the poorest person in
the world can enjoy the electric current
better than the millionaire, and it never
gets out of order If Edison had in
vented kissing it would cost $100 a year
like the telephone, and then extra kiss
ing would be charged up extra, and if
you didn’t pay for it they would take out
your kissaphone and disconnect you
from the central office.”
The meeting of the county central
committee in the office of Chairman
Weeks last Saturday afternoon was
quite well attended. There were present:
R. H. Jenness, Atkinson; T. B. Maring,
Emmett; A. A. Ege, Ewing; L. P. Roy.
Fairview; George Cherry, Iowa; S. H.
Trussed, McClure; W. It. Johnson,
Rock Falls; O. B. Long, Scott; H. A
Polk, Shields; Charles Tullis, Willow
dale. O’Neill was represented by J. L.
and E. J. Mack, besides Chairman
Weekes and Secretary King. B. W.
Johnson was present from Green Valley
and in the absence of Committeeman
Ogle, represented that township. The
meeting was full of interest and har
monious. The republicans from the
different parts of the county are very
sanguine of success this fail in national,
state and local affairs and are taking
hold of the work with commendable
energy. __
P. C. Corrigan, druggist desires us to
publish the following extract from a
letter of Chas. M. Gutfeld, of Reedley,
Fresno Co., Cal., as he handles the rem
edy referred to and wants his customers
to know what a splendid medicine it is:
‘Tt is with pleasure I tell you that by
one day’s use of Chamberlain’s Cough
remedy I was relieved of a very severe
cold. My head was completely stopped
up and I could not sleep at night. I can
recommend this remedy.” A cold
nearly always starts in the head and af
terwards extends to the throat and
lungs. By using this remedy freely as
soon as the cold has been contracted it
will cure the cold and prevent it from
extending to the lungs.
In the fall of 1898 a son of Mr. T. A.
McFarland, a prominent merchant of
Live Oak, Sutter Co., Cal , was taken
with a very heavy cold, The pains in
his chest were so severe that he had
spasms and was threatenad with pneu
monia. His father gave him several
large dors of Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy which broke up the cough and
dured. Mr. McFarland says whenever
his children have croup he invariably
gives them Chamberlain’s Cough Reme
dy and it cures them. He considers it
the best cough remedy in the market.
For sale by P. C. Coirigan, druggist.
A large assortment of all kinds of
seeds in bulk at low rate for Nebraska
grown seed. Look them over,
i 30-3 O’Nkili. Gkockky Co.
REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES.
The republican electors of the First
Ward in the city of O’Neill, are hereby
notified that on Thursday, April 3, 1896,
at 2 o'clock p. m.. there will be held a
primary meeting at The Frontier office
in said ward, for the purpose of electing
five delegates to attend the republican
county convention to be held in O'Neill
on Saturday, April 4, 1806.
David Stannard,
Committeeman.
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The republican voters of the Second
ward' in the city of O'Neill are hereby
notified that on Thursday April 2, 1896,
at 2 o’clock p. m., there will be held a
primary meeting in the Mack building
in said ward, for the purpose of electing
four delegates to attend the republican
county convention to be held in O'Neill
on Saturday, April 4,1896.
Neil Brennan,
Committeeman.
The republican electors of the Third
ward of the city of O’Neill are hereby
notified that on Thursday April 2, 1896,
at 2 o'clock p. m., there will be held a
primary meeting in the engine house in
said ward, for the purpose of electing
five delegates to attend the republican
county convention to be held in O’Neill
on Saturday, April 4, 1896.
! E. J. Mack,
Committeeman.
The republican voters of Grattan
township are hereby notified that on
Thursday, April 2, 1896, at 2 o’clock p.
m., there will be held a primary meeting
at my shop in O’Neill, for the purpose
of electing six delegates to attend the
republican county convention to be held
in O’Neill on Saturday, April 4, 1896.
Michael Slattery,
Committeeman.
THE POLITICAL POT.
« Although somewhat slow in getting
up steam, the city political pot may now
be said to be boiling, or rather just sim
mering. There is a dearth of candidates.
Neil Brennan is the only man in the
field for mayor and it is not thought he
will have opposition. It would seem
that the populists are weary of fighting
for places in the city government.
In the First ward C. W. Uagensick is
a candidate for councilman, to fill the
place made vacant by the removal of II.
C. McEvony.
In the Second ward John Nolan is a
candidate, far Mr. Pfund’s place.
In the Third Ellsworth Mack is trying
on Elmer Mernman’s shoes; he thinks he
can wear them.
The only contest in sight at this writ
ing is for the office of city clerk. Charlie
Bright will try to defeat N. Martin, the
present incumbent. Tins Frontier
hopes he may he successful.
The time for filing nominations by
petition expires Saturday night.
DEMOCRATIC MA3S CONVENTION.
A moss convention of the democrats
of Holt county in hereby called to meet
in Atkinson on Saturday, April 11, 1800,
at 2 v. m., at the Millard hotel for the
purpose of selecting ten delegates to
the state democratic convention which
will meet in Lincoln April 22, and for
the transaction of such other business
as may properly come before it. We
invite all democratic citizens of this
county, without respect to past political
association of differences, to unite in
sending delegates to this convention.
By order of the democratic county
central committee. E. Lkkk, Cbm.
U. O. Baluss, Sec.
PHOENIX* ITEMS.
The people enjoyed a grand exhibition
and basket supper at Sunneyiew church
last Friday night. It was the closing
entertainment of a four mouths’ term of
school taught by Ralph Coburn. A
large crown from Paddock were present.
This kind of weather makes the frogs
jump in and out of the water as fast as
they can.
The latest news of the work on the
dam is that it is nearly finished, and that
makes Peter smile.
Miss Lizzie Bartels returned home last
Friday from Black Bird, where she has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Sptndler.
Patty.
It is a fixed and immutable law that
to have good, sound health one must
have pure, rich and abundant blood.
There is no shorter nor surer route than
by a course of DeWitt’s Sarsaprilla.
Morris & Co.
A high liver with a torpid liver will
not be a long liver. Correct the liver
with DeWitt’8 Little Early Risers, littlb
pills that cure dyspepsia and constipa
tion. Morris <St Co. 'i
WHY
WALK?
Are you going to ride this Me
lon? Do you went to buy e
wheel for cuh or on the in
staument plan? We sell them for 850, #60, $70 and WO. You can pay (or it ;
by degrees if you wish, with money that you will not miss. Don’t west* i
your good money on cheap wheels advertised as high grade. You will And ■
when too late it is a poor investment. Imperial* are standard and you ran no :
risk when you buy one. You had better think It over; we can save yon
money on a first class wheel. On July Fourth we will give one of theee ex*
cellent wheels (ladies’ or gent’s) to our customers free of charge.
J. P. MANN.
- TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION.
The executive committee hu obtained
a rate of one and one-third fare for the
round trip to the North Nebraska
Terchera’ Aaaociation to be held at Fre
mont from April 1 to 3, 1896.
With the low hotel and railroad ratea
we hope for a large attendance to hear
Smith, Bryan, an excellent program,
and other good things provided for that
meeting.
Let all of the Holt county teachers
that can, attend this meeting.
W. R. Jackson.
RESOLUTIONS OF CONDOLENCE.
Resolutions passed by the O'Neill
High School, March 94, 1896:
Whereas: The Almighty God has in
His infinite wisdom removed from our
midst, a worthy and esteemed school
mate, Rosamond E. Clarke; and
Whereas, The cheerful readiness
with which she has ever performed her
part'ln the High School, makes it fitting
that we record our appreciation of her
worth; therefore be it
Resolved, That the sudden removal of
such a classmate from our school leaves
a vacancy that will be deeply felt by her
classmates and friends, knowing that all
who came in contact with her pure
young life were made better by It; and
that we extend to the bereaved family
and friends of the deceased, our heart
felt sympathy and condolence; and be it
further
Resolved, That a copy of these reso
lutions be sent to the family of the de
ceased, and to each of the O’Neill papers
for publication.
CUE AH UP.
Clean ud? Yea clean up. Clean up
your yards; clean up Ibe alleys; clean up
the streets; clean up everywhere. The
health of the city demands that a cru
sade be made against filth.
During the past six months there have
been about forty cases of typhoid fever
in the city, resulting In several deaths.
There have been no cases to speak of in
the surrounding country and neighbor
ing towns, which would indicate that
there is some local cause for the preva
lence of the disease in O’Neill. There is
some local cause and competent opinion
Is that our people are altogether too
careless with their garbage.
Clean out your cellars, burn up your
trash; use disinfectants liberally, they
don’t cost nearly as much as a doctor;
look after your sewerage, dig new
vaults and fill up the old ones and get
your premises in a sanitary condition
generally. Get a move on you; don’t be
a clam, or you may be a corpse.
The Frontier trusts it may not have
occasion to again refer to this matter.
TIME EXTENDED.
The Nebraska Club announces an ex
tension of time to April 1, next, within
which the articles for prizes offered may
be submitted. This action is prompted
by parties desiring to contest and who
were unable to prepare their contri
butions, owing to the short notice given
last month. The conditions of the con
test are as follows: The articles shall be
on the subject of Nebraska, its resources
and the advantages it offers to the home
seeke’r. They must not exceed 1000
words in length; must be accompanied
by $1.00 for subscription to one share of
the club entitling the subscriber to a
membership; shall become the property
of the club, and must be sent to the sec
cretary of the club. Bee building,
Omaha, Neb., on or before April l.next.
The articles will be submitted to the
publication committee of the club and
cash prizes awarded as follows: $15.00
for the best article; $10 00 tor the second
best and $5.00 for the third best. The
publication committee consists of Ross
L. Hammond, of Fremont, ex-Governor
Furnas, of Brownville, and Hon. C. H.
Morrill, of Lincoln.
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NOTICE.
Los', stayed or stolen, on the 10th
of February, a bay pony weight about
BOO pounds; with white face, white spot
on side and white feet.
37-2 Trace Gwinn,
O’Neill, Neb.
WHTIU HOmUTT.
Orest it the weit; great in the atrong
fiber of ita men at well at In the atrength
of ita soil. A year ago or thereabonte
tome grain merohanta and bankera of
Chicago advanced, or at they then
thought, gave, tl5,805 to purchase teed
corn and wheat for the farmera who
had been brought to suffering by drought
in weatern Kantaa and Xaatern Ne
braska. Today the beneficiaries of what
was intended by the contributors to bo
a gift, but which waa received as a loan,
have placed $0,122 in the hands of the
aecretaiy of the Chicago board of trade
ai the first installment of payment.
It atandt without necessity of specifi
cation that a man or a community of
men is not entitled to enthusiastic com
mendation for performance of the plain
duty of debt-paying. Nevertheless, in ,
these days, in which there is a tendenvy
toward regarding everything as a gift or
an accommodation that is not made to
appear as a specific contract, it is worthy
of notice that the men of Nebraska and
Kansas have not waited for a return of
“good times” to make payment of that
which the law could not compel them to
pay. There is something of the heroie
in the voluntary submission of these
men to the prolonged pinch of poverty
in order that they may make a partial
liquidation of a debt of honor. Stales
peopled by men of such a type cannot‘> '■
fail of ultimate prosperity. In theee
rugged pioneers of what not long ago
waa mapped as the “American desert1*
there is a fine mixture of the old-time
conscientiousness of the Puritan fathers
with the dash and vim of the weettrn
exDlorer.
The circumstance stands in some sort
as a vindication of the soli, as well as
of the men, of Kansas and Nebraska.
Scanty harvests at, times are reaped
everywhere. In old countries the sur*
plus of good seasons is drawn upon to
make good the deficits of poor cropa;
but in a new country there cannot be a
surplus. The proceeds of a good crop
necessarily are used for house building,
for purchase of stock, for payment on
land, for school building, or for some of
the thousand exigencies of a pioneer
stage. It is in no wise apparent that
western Kansas and Nebraska are anb
ject to more frequent agricultural mis
fortune* than have fallen to the lot of
all regions in process of reclamation , .
from the prairie or “the forest primeval.*’
-Inter-Ocean.
A VISION.
Ah! how lovely to me It does eeetn,
That beautiful, beautiful dream.
I did not dream, that I was Queen Bright,
And the bravest man in the land was my
knight.
That the people drank to the king's and my
health;
And monarehs, of other nations envied our
wealth,
Nor did I dream I was a lovely, and winsome
maiden,
And my noble, and gallant, lover oame laden
With flowers and wreaths to deck me with.
Ah, no! far better was my beautiful myth.
And I ponder,and ponder, on that dream and
feel.
That such a vision will sometime be real.
I dream't that I stood on a high and lofty hill
And all the country below me lay as still.
And quiet, and peaceful, as the stillest of
nights,
Before dawn brings to It the eastern lights.
And when I gazed, on all that country below.
Its waving fields of grain, its wealth, and to!
A soft breeze whslpered.lt wgs the rains of US,
That got Holt oounty in sueh a prosperousflz.
WANTED.
Lady or gentlemen to take charge of
installment business, and collect in this
county. Salary tlo per week to begin
with. Address enclosing stamp for
reply. J. E. Camphbm.& Co,
88-3 Kansas City, Mo.
THE ATTENTION OF TEATS LEES
Is called to the fact that the route yia
O'Neill, Neb., and the Pacific Short Line
is the shortest, cheapest and best to
Northern Nebraska, Sioux City and the
east.
Mrs. L. R. Patton, Rockford, 111.,
writes: “From personal experience I
can recommend De Witt's Sarsaprilla, a
cure for impure blood and general de
bility." Morris & Co.
