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. -- -- » —— -- - - 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. _____ it 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. i K l 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. 51'/, 58'/. .29 .SO .50'', ..50 ../HU 1890. 53?* (ill SO so 50 Y, SO Oiu 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. ■>' - 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 '■ 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.