THE FRONTIER. rVBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY By In Fkowtikb Piuwtiwq Co. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA. f NEBRASKA. f The telephone line has been extendet from Ashland to Wahoo. The Sterling band have ordered uni torms and will soon appear to good ad •vantage Grand Army day at the North Platt Irrigation fair brought out a grea crowd of old veterans 1 Ed Arnold of South Omaha is suffer ing from a broken leg caused by belnf ■mixed up in a runaway. South Omaha will reorganize ib aboard of charities for the winter am endeavor to look after the poor of th‘ city. ' Five covered wagons passed througl Antelope recently headed for Perkin: county, where they left over a yeai ago for Missouri. Thieves entered Dr. Aitkin's drug store at Waverly some time during thi night A lady’s gold watch and a sil ver watch were taken. August Hult of Osceola, who had In jnred his hand, was attacked by look jaw, and died before medical help ar rived, lie was 57 years old. *' At Lyons Ford's dry goods store, J. Thomas’ hardware and Enfield's druj store were entered by burglars and i large quantity of goods stolen. ■ While Mr. Mizner, living near Area dia, while drawing a load from a shot gun the opposite barrel was dischargee badly mutilating his right hand. Someone placed a lot of old hors< shoes and other old iron in a sheaf o: .wheat near Sterling last week witl the intention of ruining the machini that was doing the threshing. ‘ Joe Lawson had quite an experienct while threshing near Humboldt. Twc bundles of grain had been loaded witl add iron, and did some damage to hk machine. Luckily no one was hurt xne larm bouse belonging to Jobt Veils, north of Swan too, was destroyed ■by fire. A 4-year-old boy was burned to death. The mother and little girl ■were badly injured but will recover. { Thomas K. Tonge, a mining expert from Denver, is in Stanton for the pur pose of ascertaining whether or not the gold taken fijom that neighborhood will warrant the. expense of working The farm house of I* J. Jones, twt and a half miles west of Clarks, wai destroyed by fire. A child being sic! Mr. Jones arose and started a fire, anc it is thought a defective due was t< blame. The fortieth annual meeting of th< general association of Congregations churches of Nebraska is in session at Harvard, and will cobtlnue several , days. Each church is entitled to twc delegates besides its pastor. “Guilty of murder in the first de „ gree" was the verdict brought in by the jury at McCook in the case of Ed ward Larense for the murder of Mich ael Travera The jury fixed the pen alty at imprisonment for life. - Arthur Stull, alias McCay, and A. J Bauer were arrested in Grand Islanc as the suspected robbers of the Banli of Shelby, and the men who attempted to rob the bank at Ilrainard. They are being held for identification. Citizens of Eight Mile Grove precinct. Cass county, are going to have anothei vote at carrying an election for th< issuance of 84,000 for the erection anc maintenance of a free wagon bridge across the Platte river at Cedar Creek. The new Methodist church at Yorl, was dedicated last week. Itlshop Me Cabe officiating. The edifice was buili to take the place of the one destroyed by fire a year ago. A debt of 82,00( was lifted by subscription of those present. Jacob Kicewonger, an aged farmei from Pickerell, had his pocket picked while en route at Beatrice on a U. 1*. -train. He lost 810, a note for 8100 and a number of receipta A stranger wlu oat beside him in the car did th« sinoothjob. ibe farmers around Julian are mak ing preparations for gathering the im mense crop of corn now ready for crib bins'. Kvery duy lumber is being bought to build new cribs. The crop is not only unusually large, but is ol extra quality. Jacob Oergens, a prosperous German farmer living near Humboldt, was at tacked by a vicious ox while herding cattle near his house, and had several ribs broken. Fortunately the animal was a muley or he might have gored the man to death. The jewelry store of Neihart & Co., at Elmwood, was entered and about •00 worth of jewelry, optical goods, etc., taken. The money drawer was -broken open and 40 cents taken. All the gold watches and snore valuable goods were In the safe. The Oakland Independent says: “The price of coal has gone down <1 a ton, but that it will have to go down sever al more before the people living in that locality will buy to any extent, as the *^n,es tf* hard and corn cheap, and they will use the latter as fuel” The wheat crop in the territory about Shickley is pretty nearly all threshed out and the quality is far su perior to that which we have had for ' the past three years. The yield of Dour is not as large as it has ‘been in some years past, but the quality is ex ceptionally fine. Two farmers living near Arapahoe, -being jubilant over their large crons of corn, continued the campaign of ed -ucation by a discussion of the low price of their product. They could not agree . whether it was due to attempted free A* trade or the crime of ’73. The justice jS' settled it by fining them S3 each. v E. M. Burke, an implement dealer of York, has failed. The principal credi . tors are the Peru Plow company of Council Bluffs, the Union Transfer sompany of the same city, and the I.ee, "Clark Andreson hardware firm of Omaha Mr. Burke has turned over -bis stock to these firms The liabili Hies are about *2,000, Two business men of Tekamtt being anxious to bet a hat on election, and both being' in need of a hat, but nei ther being able to buy two hats, fixed it up so that the winner is to wear a new hat at the expense of the loser and the loser is to go bareheaded. The preliminary examination of Roy Napier on the charge of breaking into Shields & Newman's store at Nicker son and stealing S400 worth of goods, , was held before Justice YVintersteen at Fremont, lie pleaded guilty and was bound over to the district court in the sum of Sl.ooa He went to jaiL An unsuccessful attempt was made to rob the bunk of Douglas The cracksmen puttied the vault door and then made two discharges, breaking off the combination of the vault. Then i they proceeded to blow out the inner door of the vault, but were either un successful or were disturbed in their work. Recently while Mr. Klttridge of Greeley county was at church, light ning struck his barn which was burned ' with all his small grain, his horses, | harness and about 30 head of hogs. His wife was at the well when the bolt, struck and was knocked down by the shock. When she recovered the barn was so enveloped in flames that noth ing was saved. The supreme court madeanorder per mitting the attorneys for J. C. Dahl man, chairman of the democratic state central committee, to file their applica tion for a writ of mandamuB to compel the secretary of state to leave off the Fuel id Martin pretended democratic ticket from the official ballot The court also permitted the filing of the papers in the case of the Fourth and Fifth congressional districts In many of our exchanges, says the Sterling Sun, we note the return to | Nebraska, from week to week, of those who emigrated a year ago to Missouri and Arkansas. They are, probably, both good states, but not better than Nebraska. Resides the climate, soil and society are so different from that in this state that but few families would be satisfied to live there after having lived in Nebraska for a consid erable length of time. ino iarm nome oi i eter ranter, iwo miles west of Hooper, was burglar ized Sunday night after the family re tired. The thief touched nothing on the first floor, but went to Nicholas I'arker’a room up stairs and rifled his clothing, and got a watch and 810. lie then went to the barn loft, where Jake Dennis lodges, and took what money he had. It is thought the job was committed by a hired man who has since been conspicuous by his absence. An Omaha paper says that the freight car fnmine is assuming alarming pro portions in the west. The Missouri Pacific is short over COO cars north, oi Kansas City and the Union Pacific, Burlington, Omaha, Elkhorn and Itock Island are far behind in the number oi cars required in Nebraska, while the famine in Iowa and Kansas is even worse. The roads have need of cars for extra freight, for all the wheat in the country is being rushed to market during the present high price. A strip of country approximating 30 miles in length and several miles in width, skirting the river valley north and east of North Loup, was swept by a fierce prairie fire and a great deal oi damage was done. Owing to the heavy winds und the extremely dry condition of the rank vegetation, ordinary fire guards proved of but little avail. Geo. Baker, living four miles east of North Loup, lost all his hay and grain in stack, and the bridge on the road be tween there and Ureetey was burned. A bold robbery occurred at Hastings, the robber getting away with $150 and three watches. At 7 p. m. Nellis, bookkeeper at Falk's clothing store, entered the place to do somo work on the books. When near the rear end of the store he was accosted by a negro, who demanded to be let out Mr. Nel lis started to comply with the request and was knocked senseless by a blow on the head with a billy, or club, re ceiving a bad wound. The negro went through the safe, taking all the money and watebea , While J. C. Hutchinson, . who Uvea twelve miles southeast of Kearney, was returning home with his hired man, they were overtaken by Clarence Ting ley, with whom there had been hard feelings for some time. A tight took place and the hired inan was knocked down. Tingley then made for llutch inscn, who, being weak from long sick ness, picked up the gun and began to step backward, at the same time tell ing him to keep Sway or he would shoot. Tineley made a grab for the gun, when Hutchinson shot him in the abdomen. The full charge going clear through him. lie died in about an hour. Hutchinson gave himself up to the sheriff. Regarding the Nebraska exhibits that were displayed by the H. & M. at a number of county fairs in Illinois and Indiana this fall, the Corn Kelt of Chi cago has this to say in its October is sue: “Nebraska has been in much and gratifying evidence throughout the central states this season. Her mag nificent exhibits of agricultural pro ducts have adorned many of the coun ty fairs of Illinois and Indiana. They were the admiration of good farmers who were to." the first time in their lives, perhaps, forced to realize that, though proud of their own state, they have to admit that it has a young but eminently successful rival in Nebraska. There is hardly, if anything, grown in | these states that cannot be as success fully raised iu Nebraska, and more be sides." The meeting of the Nebraska beet sugar association, which will be held at Grand Island, on Nov. 1? and is, ac according to present indications, prom ises to be one of the most important and interesting meetings held "by the association since its organization and ought to have delegates from every community in the state interested in the rapid development of this impor tant industry. The experimental pe riod is past and it has been clearly demonstrated that the soil and climate of Nebraska are as suitable for the pr.> duction of sugar beets as any territory in the United States or Europe, where sugar has been successfully produced. DEATH WAS SUDDEN. * -> ’_ - ; ,i •/ *'v': h: \ EX-SPEAKER CRISP DIES FROM HEART DISEASE. *v Twice Prenidlng Officer of the KntMnal House of Representatives, and Long a Leader of the Democratic Party— Would Have Been Elected Senator from Georgia Had He Lived. , / Death of Ex-Speaker Crisp. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 24.—Charles F. Crisp, the ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives, (lied here this after* noon very suddenly and unexpectedly, lie had long been troubled with heart disease, but had not recently been in bad health. ’ Charles Frederick Crisp was born in Sheffield, England, January' 2tt, 1843, while his parents were on a theatrical trip abroad, both being actors. He ob tained his education in the Georgia public schools and served in the Con* federate army from tee outbreak of the rebellion till he was made a prisoner of war in 18841 At the close of the war he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1860, and in 1872 was appointed solicitor general of the Southwestern judicial district of Georgia. In 1877 he was appointed judge of the superior court, which position he filled for sev eral years. In 1882 he resigned to go to Congress. The principal work done by Mr. Crisp during his first tet‘m in Congress, which went for nothing at the time, was to apply himself most diligently to acquiring an extended knowledge of the business of the House. At the opening of the Forty-ninth Congress Mr. Crisp was assigned to the second place on the committee on Pacific railroads and to the third place on the committee on commerce. His' capacity for hard work may be judged from the fact that lie • made during this Congress forty-six reports from the commerce committee, three from the Pacific railroads committee and five conference reports. The most im- • portant of these >vas the conference report on the interstate commerce bill, which finally became a law. Mr. Crisp was chosen Speaker of the Fifty-second Congress after such a long and rather animated contest with as pirants of his own party in caucus that the election was not made until after the House's session began. When the Fifty-third Congress convened he wus re-elected without opposition. Mr. Crisp was as cool and collected as Mr. Reed. Generally he spoke in a low tone save when in a hurst of eloquence he drew a peroration. When the Speaker ruled against him he would, if an urguing chance existed, differ with the Speaker, and appeal from the de cision of the chuir. IIis points of order he made clearly and forcibly, but calmly. He did not storm at the Speaker, lie did not raise his voice in anger. Rut with all his nerves well in hand, he would wait until the hubbub subsided and the crowd around him, resentful of the arbitrary rulings of the Speaker, had quieted down, anil then, like a judge charging a jury and equally unimpassioned, he would make his point. Mr. Reed often sought £o taunt Mr. Crisp into anger, but the sar casm of the Maine man, which had proved too much for so many other Democrats, produced no appreciable' effect on the Georgian. Mr. Crisp's death was not altogether a surprise in political circles, for he had had several spells of illness in Washington. He suffered from asthma, and later from heart trouble. His ill health, however, did not become a matter of public notoriety until last spring, when he was compelled to abandon a series of joint debates ar ranged with ex-Secretary Hoke Smith because of the advice of his physician that it would imperil his life for him to continue the debate, which had at tracted state as well as national inter est, by reason of the fact that it in volved the position of the Democratic party of the state on the silver ques tion, as well as the senatorship from Georgia, for which the ex-speakcr was an active candidate. The silver men won their tight, and Mr. Crisp, had lie lived, would have been the’nextsen ator from Georgia. < i ' JONES FOR CONCESSION, »1« AtlvUti Giving: Away to Georgia Pop ulists, Atlanta. (la.. Got. 2*.—It is learned hciv on what is 'believed to be unim peachable authority that fusion was agreed on at Chicago yesterday be tween Senator Jones and I’opulist Com mitteeman Wushburne, and as a result Washbuvne left Chicago for Nashville and H. W. Heed left Atlanta last night for the same place, where they will meet Mr. Watson. Senator Jones wired his representa tive here in substunee as follows: "We must accede to the demands of the Pop ulists for fusion in Georgia." The reply was: “The Populists of Georgia don't want fusion; they de mand a surrender." To this Senator Jones responded: ‘"If these are tin: facts, use your own judgment." It appears from this that a general plan of fusion satisfactory to the Pop ulists has been agreed on between Washburne and Jones and that Georgia alone stands in the wav of consumma tion. ,' . - ,, v Itrltlsli 1’aprni for Mr. Olnejr. Wasiiinuton, Oct. "4.—Sir Julian I’auueefote. Hritlsh ambassador, called at the State department to-day for the 1 purpose of presenting to Secretary Olney certain propositions regarding the Venezuelan controversy, but this being Cabinet day. the two had only ten miuutes oonferenee. Fort Kmltli flail Hlr Fggs—Fresh. 14 @ 15 Poultry—Live hens,per lb. 5 © 51. spring Chickens. 554'ui 1; 'prlngRucks.. 7 © s turkeys. s 10 Lemons—Choice Messlnas. 5 00 @ 5 50 ltoncy—Fancy White. 14 © is Unions, per bu. .35 © 40 cranberries—Cupe Cod, bbl ... 0 00 (7h c 50 Potatoes... .10 © ;ij -wt'et Potatoes per bbl. 1 75 ® 2 00 Oranges—Per box . 4 00 a 4 75 Hay—Upland, per ton. 4 50 @ 5 Of) \pples—Per bbl. 1 50 St 2 50 SOUTH OMAHA STOCK MARKET. 35 Ho;rs—Light Mixed.... 3 HO Hops—Heavy Weights. 3 20 Meet—Steers. 3 50 Bulls. 1 25 Milkers and springers.25 00 "lags. 2 '0 Oalvcs.. 2 25 Jovrs . 1 75 Heifers. 2 f>0 Stockers and Feeders. 2 50 ’attle—Westerns. 2 50 *heep—Native. I 10 Sheep—Lambs. 2 05 CHICAGO. Wheat—No. 2Spring... 7G Horn—For bu. 24 Oats—Per bu. 19 Pork...*...: 7 10 hard. 4 HO battle—Prime steers. H 00 Western Bunge steers.3 25 Hogs—Medium mixed..... a 25 sheep—Lambs . 8 00 Sheep—Western ra^e-e. 2 25 NEW YORK. Wheat—No. 1, hard.*.. 87 ; 2 Pa 17‘, 20 95 70 U 234 174 riO r. 5 25 50 A Flag Proclamation In Colorado. Denver. Col., Oct. 22.—In accord ance with the suggestions of Mr. Jh-yar and Chairman Jones of the Democratic national committee. Governor Mclntirt 1 to-day issued a proclamation calling upon all good citizens, irrespective oi political affiliations, to 'display tht national flag October 31. Regarding Chairman Hanna’s original suggestion I of a flag day. he says: "It is my opin ion that the attempt of Mr. Hanna tc debase the national colors of the United States is unpatriotic and impertinent and should be resented by all gooc Americans,:’ ADVICE TO FARMERS, By II• II. Carr £ Co., the I'limier’ii Cosh mission House. We are In the midst of an exciting political campaign; the great cities are stirred by monster demonstrations. The great orators hold forth every night in halls, wigwams, and tents. Po litical leaders are busy figuring out the result In advance of the elbctlbn. Thou sands of men in the employ of the na tional committees are ascertaining as near as possible how each city ward, how each branch of organized labor. 4 how each city will vote. One thing no man, no set of men, no campaign com mittee, no political party can tell in advance, that is, how the farmers of'' • s the country will vote. The one great ■: j: question to-day is: How do the farm- 4 '1 era feel about it? We mention this only to illustrate a point in practical business matters. t , i 7 Agricultural workers are learning their power in politics. They Cart make or unmake state legislatures. They do it by Imitating the methods of labor in cities, by working together. They , do not need local unions. They can • "" work in our grand intellectual union for their common good. They have done it in demanding legislation. They ” are doing it now in a way that makes leaders tremble. They will act more intelligently and united in the future. They find other things than politics to call for their decision. They produce what the world needs. They are study- ■ ! lng new methods of giving the fruit of ' their labors to the world. Recently an. '■ >'■ army of 100,000 men marched through j, Chicago’s streets celebrating the twen ty-fifth anniversary of the great fire. The farmers have for years fed a much greater army; not only fed, but ihade‘:e’A s rich, presented with grain elevators, private banks, fine houses, costly lux uries. the old-time, ever-present army of middlemen. But there is a revolt " against dividing profits with this, army . between the farm and the world’s big markets. This independent action began with this pioneer farmer’s commission house. It is assuming proportions which make the easy money-makers (professional shippers) at the stations over a dozen ■ states tributary to Chicago tremble. The question: "What are the farmers. • 1 going to do?” bothers not politicians, alone, but all those who have been getting something for nothing. Farm- > ers are going to ship their own grdin —not a few or a hundred, but an army ■ of thousands. They know how, they have tried it, it pays. That is' one question answered by farmers. ■"* >> b See what a few’ farmers say who have tried shipping: > Rock Valley, Iowa, Sept. 2D, 1896.— Messrs. H. H. Carr & Co., Chicago, III.: —Gentlemen: Your favor of the 24th 1 1,1 ‘ Instant, with account sale and draft In settlement for car wheat No. 8002' . tP at hand. I am well pleased with the results and thank you very much for your promptness. You will surely re- >•!' ' ceive a large number of shipments from this neighborhood. Yours truly. 1 FRED KOCK. Marcus, Iowa, Sept. 2, 1896.—Messrs. H. H. Carr & Co., Chicago, 111.:—Gen— 'iii-1 tlemen: On the two cars of oats I sent to you last winter I made about J42 •’ S' by shipping it. Thanking you for past, favors, I remain. Yours truly. RUDOLPH ZANGGER. 1 - FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. It is estimated that 130,000,000 oysters'., „ are yearly received at Liverpool from abroad. A Baltimore young man forgot his. wedding day and attended a game o£. base ball. . Pulaski county, Missouri, presents as a candidate for the leadership of the J populists a man whose beard is nearly / five feet long. President Krueger of late has been; getting very deaf. The malady is, in the opinion of his medical advisers,, due to excessive smoking. Henceforth the Ameer of Afghanis* tan is to be known as the “Light of the World.” His majesty is having a gold coin struck to commemorate his new dignity. Having taken his bride’s name upon, marriage, a Topeka man who is suing for divorce wants now to regain the untarnished name of his heyday.—New York Sun., , "There is something strange about these seismic disturbances,” said the thoughtful man; “the earth yawns, you know, when It is most active.”— Boston Transcript. >< * H. P. Clyde, of Savannah, Ga., who some years ago took a deed for 100 acres of land for a debt of $140. has discovered a line deposit of blue grained marble on it. One lady said to another, “Have yon been to church today? We had a most beautiful sermon on training children.’*" “No, I was at home doing it,” was the reply.—London Tit-Bits. The late Duke of Marlborough, in allying to the size of Blenheim pal ace, used to say, by way of a joke, that it was the only residence in England which required $4,000 worth of putty a year to keep the window panes in order. At Bowling Green (Fla.), the irate father of a schoolboy who had been whipped by the teacher met the peda gogue on the street and cursed him, whereupon the wielder of the ferule had him arrested, and the justice lined him $5 and costs. Mrs. Western—Did you meet the Rushmeres at the seaside this summer? Mrs. Gotham—Yes, they were at the same hotel we were. They are one of our first families. “Yes, I noticed they were always the first at the table.”— Yonkers Statesman. An untamed swallow, which had it* nest in a farm near Chetwynd. in Shropshire, was caught and taken in a . cage to London, where it was released. It returned to Its nest in eighty min utes, having accomplished a distance of 145 miles at the rate of nearly two miles a minute. > CHARACTER IN WALKING. t Quick steps are indicative of "nerzr and agitation. Tip-toe walking symbolizes surprise curiosity, discretion or mystery. ' Turned-in toes are often found with preoccupied, absent-minded persons. The miser’s walk is represented as stooping and noiseless, with short ner vous, anxious steps. The proud step is slow and measur ed; the toes are conspicuously turned out, the legs straightened.