VOLUME XVII. O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA* NOVEMBER 19, 1896. NUMBER 20 NEWS SANS WHISKERS Items of Intoroit Told Aa They Are Told to Ua. WHIM AND HOW IT HAPPENED Laaal Happenings Portrayed lor General Idifleatien and Amusement. Attend the Firemen’a ball. John Carr was up from Stafford Monday. _ P. H. Parker waa in from Dorsey Monday. _ " J. S. Kay, of Ewing, was in the city Monday. _ Z. T. Funk, of Laurel, was in the city Monday. _ B. A. Allen was down from Atkinson last Friday. _ R. F. Cross, of Atkinson, spent Sun day in the city. Thanksgiving ball at the rink next Thursday night. O. F. Biglin transacted business in Omaha last week. Sanford Parker was over from Spen cer the first of the week. W. J. Hahn, of Stuart, was an O’Neill visitor last Sunday. Sheriff Hamilton returned from his Iowa visit Saturday. A. C. Mohr and son, Charles, were up from Page Tuesday. . Attending court in this city, Attorney N. B. Chapman, of Atkinson. Ira Burleson and Alex Searl were down from Atkinson Monday. . Supervisor C. W. Moss and son were np from Amelia last Monday. Albert Ege and John Trommershaus; ser were up from Ewing Monday. County Attorney Wills, of Boyd county was in the city Tuesday. geo. A. Fie^d, of Rapid City. g. D., W3S ftt the Hotel Evans last Saturday. FOB BENT—Corbett house of 7 Joins. Enquire of E- 8. Rincb, W. R. Scott, of Atkinson, was in the tv attending court the first of the week. _______ Mrs. Lorge, of Randolph, mother of Mrs. D. H. Cronin, is in the city visiting. _ The Elkhorn Valley bank is now located in the Holt County bank build ing. _ F. W. Boggs, of Spencer, county attorney elect of Boyd county, was in the city last Sunday. Attorneys R. M. Johnson and J. A. Rice were down from Stuart attending court last Friday. O. H. Olive and A. E. Anderson, of Genoa, Neb., were registered at the Hotel Evans last Friday. R. galbraith, of ^lbion, deputy fWPHP poljeptof (op tt)jc digtpipt, vyfts fitthe Hotel Irani Tuesday. The Ladies Working society will meet with Mrs. N. 8. Lowrie next Wednesday Nov. 25, at 2 p. m. sharp. Attorneys W. H. England and Joseph )Werburg, of Lincoln, were in this city attending court the first of the week. R. R. Dickson returned from Chicago Monday evening, where he had taken his father for medical treatment. Clarence Selah was in Norfolk last Friday and Saturday organizing a lodge of tjie gusjness Reus’ fraternity. Wbe BusinpsTWeSi’- fraternity is grow ing rapidly. Seven new members joined the organisation Monday night. Tracy Qwinn, who has been working in South Dakota the past summer, returned to O’Neill last Saturday night. DeWitt’s Sarsaparilla Is prepared for cleaning the blood. It builds up and strengthens constitutions impaired by disease. Morris & Co. YM1?* fflowd into |belr ndw quarters Tuesday, where 'tbe aMhaim aI I a 1 •«» • 1 * i* **k officers of thkt institution wi}l be pleased jo meet thpjj customers. •JoJ»n ^en$ie wag in from f)orspy lgst Friday. He |n^offflSf| u$ thgt a paqp pj Wbfl'TR Wooflmep was organised there last week with about thirty members. William B. Stevenson, of Carthrage, III., add Kellie I. Harrison, of Black bird, Neb., were granted license to wed bf County Judge McCutchan last Sat «. urday. _ Our line of extra quatity canned corn, tomatoes, peas and also of preserved peacheg, strawberries, and other fine needing any thing in this line come in 19-2. O’Nuu, Gbocbby Co R. H. Harris, clerk of the district court of Knox county, was in the city yesterday. Although living in a popu list county Mr. Harris is a republican. Now is the season of the year when holiday goods are in demand. If you have goods to sell try an ad in these columns and note the effect. It will pay you. _ The old lady was right when she said the child might die if they waited for the doctor. She saved the little one's life with a few doses of One Minute Cough Cure. Morris & Co. The Oakes company showed in the opera house last Thursday night to a fair audiance. Some parts of the show was very good, but the jokes of their young man were very stale. Soothing, and not irritating, strength ening, and not weakening, small, but effective—such are the qualities of DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, the famous little pills. Morris & Co. i ue tengin oi me may be increased by lessening its dangers. The majority of people die from lung troubles. These may be averted by promptly using One Minute Cough Cure. Morris & Co. Popcorn, hickory nuts, red apples and "Duffy’s” pure apple cider. How does this strike you for a winter night? You all know about Duffy’s cider. Try a gallon. 19-2 O’Neill Grocery Co.' William Fallon was made very happy last Sunday. It was the first time we have seen him smile since election. The arrival of a Bryan voter at his house Saturday night was the cause .of the smiles. _ It is a fixed and immutable law ,that to have good Bound health, one must have pure, rich and abundant blood. There is no shorter nor surer route than by a course of DeWitt's Sarsaparilla. Morris & Co. Frank Glassner, of Stuart, the artistic typographical artist of the ledger, was in the city a few days last week assisting the typos in this office. Frank says there sre so many pretty girls in O’Neill that he would like to remain here. Scaly eruptions on the head, chapped hands and lips, cuts, bruises, scalds, burns, are quickly cured by DeWit’s Witch Hazel Salve. It is at present the article most used for piles, and it always cures them. Morris 4k Co. See J. P. Mann’s ad an another page, wherein he offers some of the best bar* gains ever offered in O’Neill, or, in fact, west of Omaha. Read his ad and then call at his store and take advantage of the great bargains to be found there. Flap jack flour, buck wheat,- pure maple surup and a cup of our famous Mocha and Java coffee, how is that for a cold morning? Let us put you up a prescription of the above. 19*2 O’Neill Grocery Co. Now is the season when you want a good gun and want it cheap. I have a line of guns that cannot be beaten any* wheje and going to seii them cheap. Cftme early and get first choice, i also have hunting coats and sell them cheap. ?tf Neil Brennan. One of the finest scales in the city is that now used in the grocery depart ment of the Sullivan Mercantile com pany’s store. They are so arranged that the price of the article bought or sold is shown on the beam along with the weight. It is not necessary to know how to "Agger” to sell goods. The Spencer orchestra will not eat any delicious turkey in O’Neill Thanks giving d»y. h“l in Meq thereof will set dpwu tft an unsavory mesa of crow at Spencer, and be thankful that the peo ple of Boyd county are permitted to frequent the good town of O’Neill. Orciiestra. Judge C. J. Skuse, of Butte, arrived in the city Tuesday evening on his way home from Alaska, where he went last April. The judge spent bis time in that country prospecting, and believes that he has a claim that will pay well. He expects to retpfit' ’ ttye spring. T«k j^oiraiER trusts tfiat his fondest hopes will be realised. ' Ejutte Gazette- Eloper O. Blake, formerly postmaster of Butte, is again under arrest for lbs s^optagp in his ecpopntg yfhilp fp office. lfe was brought before Judge Woolsen, at Omaha, the fore part of this week, and pleaded not guilty to the charges, and his trial was put off until next week. The shortage was over 8600. Plainview News: He was an earnest minister, and one morning in the course of a sermon on the significance of little things, he said: "The hand which made the mighty heaven*; made a grain ?,? cap^ ryhfpli mapp the lofty mau'm I taiga made a drop of water; which made | you made the grass of the field; which ' made me made a daisy!" WEIGHT LAW STANDS Supreme Court Decides That it Is Constitutional. SYNOPSIS OF THK OPINION Presetted Irrigation Xawrprtets Will Now le Completed. .WASHINGTON, Not. 1«.—After lit igation extending o?er a period of fire or ilx year*, the California etatute known as the Wright irrigation law has been pronounced to be constltunal and ralid by the supreme court of the United States, and the validity of 118,000,006 of bonds issued thereunder is affirmed. The decision was announced in the nupreme court today by Justice Peckham in the case of the Faibrook Irrigation district et al„ vs. Haria King Bradley and husband, appealing from the circuit court for the southern district of Cali fornia. There was another appeal be fore the court, also involving the ssme law, disposed of at today’s session of the supreme court, which came from the supreme court of the state—William Tregea vs. the Modesto Irrigation dist rict. The courts below entered diamet rically opposite judgments, the circuit court holding that the law was uncon stitutional and the supreme court of the state holding that it was constitutional. Tregea case had been before the supreme court of the United States for more than two years, anA after having been argued once was assigned for another argument in connection with the Fai brook. The argument took place last April, ex-Preaident Harrison supporting the law. The complaints in the two cases attacked the law on the ground that it was unconstitutional, violating both the state and federal constitutions, the lat ter in that in effect it took away private property without due process of law. Judge McKenna of the circuit court de cided that the act did practically take the property of the Bradleys, who are alien residents of San Diego county, without due prooess of law and granted the in)unction asked for. In the opinion disposing of the case, Justice Peckham refers to the vast extent of the “arid region,” and the great importance to those residing in it, of the scheme to improve its condition by irrigation. Taking the California law as a model, he said, seven or eight other states in the arid belt had passed similar laws, to assess lands for the cost of constructing irrigation works and condemming other lands for right of way of these works, proceedings under which were awaiting the result of the pending litigation. One of the points made by counsel was that the irrigation of arid lands was not a public purpose and t^a Vf^t dis cussed in the o^inhw M \wgtb in con nection with the power of the legisla ture to pass a law providing for the accomplishment of that purpose. The supreme aourt found no difficulty, Jus tice Peckham said, in coming to the ssme conclusion reached by the Califor nia state court, that the irrigation of arid land is a public purpose; that the water thus used is put to a public use, and that an act providing for irrigation is a valid exercise of the legislative power. a. bbuouu oDjecuon urgea py me property owners wu that ojpe^at^on^ o.f the act need not b,e’ United to rid W0» productive lands, hut might include within ita poaaibilitiea all lands, no mat ter how fertile or productive, so long as they are succeptible "in their natural state” to one mode of irrigation from a common source, the special point being that it was unlawful to include the city of Modesta in an irrigation district. But the supreme court of California said it was undoubtedly Intended by the legislature that cities and towns iq proper cases should be Inclined i^n st^c^ districts ai\d, ttyat t^a act' thus cpnatrued did not yiojatf thq st^e constitution, and tha^ view of the law the supreme court of the ignited States adopted. As to the construction o| the apt upon the third point raised, the aupren\e court of the United States held that it provid ed for a hearing of the land owner hath as to the question whether hia land would be hene|tted by the proposed Irrigation. As to other matter, the district could be created without notice to any one. "Our couclusiou is that the act, as con strued, with reference to the objections considered until this third head, is unassailable.” The fourth and final'objection was as to the basis of assessing ty^oq t^e lands benefltted, the tak ing'o< the property of the eitlaan with out due process of Isw. Regarding this, the opinion says: "The method of assessment here provided for may be the best which could have been adopted I in order to accomplish the most equa and exact justice which the nature ol the case permits. But none the less w« are unable to say .that it runs counter tc any provision of the federal constitution and we must tor that reason hold the objection here cottsidered to be unten' able. I The judgment of the circuit court was therefore overruled and the case re manded for further proceeding not Inconsistent with the opinion of the supreme court of the United States. Chief Justice Fuller aqd Justice Field, it was announced, dissented from the oploiqn of the court. The decision of the court in . the Mo dests case* which dame from the supreme court of the itnte, was announced by Justice grower. The constitutionality of the law| he 4|td, had been settled by the decision lin^he Falbrook case, and the Moildsta case was disposed of briefly on the ground that it presented no questio'n for the supreme court of the United States to decide. The proceed ings which Tregea appealed from simply gave thf jdirectore of the irrigation dis trict authority to issue bonds. "As ho bonds were issued,"said: Justice Brew er, “ana the proceeding* does not com pel the issue of any, and they ■ may not be issued at all, no such suit is presented as calls for consideration and decision by this court. For this reason the appeal will be dismissed. Justices Har lan, Gray and Brown, however,” he continued, “are of the opinion that as ,the judgment of the state court was against a right and privilege, specially set up and' claimed by the plaintiff in error Under the constitution of the United, States, such judgment, if not modified or revised, will include him, if not all, holders of taxable property in the Modests irrigation district in respect of the federal right and privilege so alleged. Consequently it is the duty of this oourt to determine, upon its merits, the federal question so raised by the pleadings, and determined by the judgment of the state court. They are also of the opinion that the principles announced in the Falbrook case sustain the conclusion of the state court upon this federal question and require the affirmative of its judgment.”—Slate Journal. . ' DISTRICT COURT. District court convened in this city lMt IMdijr with Judge Kinkaid on the bench. > John Giblin and 11. P. Brennan were appointed baliffs. The following cases have been dis posed of: Thayer County bank vs. H. B. Hud dleson, continued until next term by mutual agreement. Frank Dobney vs. the Farmers and Merchants Insurance company: the jury returned a verdict for Dobney for fKft and costs. The plaintiffs hftUS®>, which was injured in the company K was de coyed by «re last Maiob, and the pasties not being able to settle the case went into eounty court and from there to the district court. In the case of Jacob Humpal vs. the Farmers and Merchants Insurance com panf, the court decided the case on a point of law in favor of the company. In the case of Large and Amsden vs. Samuel Nott & Son, Jandt & Tompkins intervened and got judgment against the plaintiff for the value of the prop erty sold, amounting to 9406.15. The case of G. W. ya Krank Campbell administrator of the Connolly eatatfc was dismissed at the plaintiffs cost. This oase was a suit on a bill plaintiff had against the estate. The case of the county of Holt against the Stuart State bank, growing out of the failure of the Holt County bank, was dismissed and the costs taxed to plaintiff. The divorce case of Christian Dahlin vs John Dahlin was dismissed by mutual agreement. Mary Ella Gray sued ^et husband James D. Gray fpy diw^e and the res .t&qtaA n»«dd.«h naw>, Mary ijjjlla i\nperson, wbi would reach it and shake it for him. On that you can bet your glg-lampe.” ;■$* Morria ft Co._ •: ^ Dr. Corbett wishes to atate that he will be in O’Neill for one week about j the laat of each month. Datea always in the papers. And that he makes his work good if it fails. Can stay longer when necessary. For Xmas photos hie gallery will be open from Nov. 18 to Dec. 4, and if you want crayons you ' ■;* can get them any size at any price, and not loose the picture and 60 cents also, as has been done lately. Uie dental office will be open Nov. 18 to 25. Michigan was one of the atatea ^ Bryan wu going to carry, according to the sllveritee, and in the upper peninaula was where he wu to get the heavy vote. In Houghton county McKinley received 0,140 votes, and Bryan, 1.008. The city of Calumet, in Houghton county, gave McKinley 2,451, Bryan 407 and Palmer 44. In Keweenaw county Mc Kinley roceived 410, Bryan 42 and Palmer 45. Several Holt county citi una were former residents of the >bove counties, and the above will be of inter est to them. The laboring men in that section have no use for free silver. Bow to kill a newapaper. Just let your aubacrlption so. It’a only a dollar or two—the publiaher don’t need it. It be taka you for It, iuat get aa mad aa you can and tell him to atop the paper— you never read it. Then go and borrow your neighbor’a paper. When the re porter cornea alwaya be buay. Make him feel as if he were intruding. When the advertiaing and Job man cornea, tell him you don’t need to advertise—every body known your that you will try to> I get along without any printed atation ary—it’a too expensive-, you muat econo mize. Never drop in to aee the editor’ unleaa you want a free complimentary notice, or a lengthy obituary for a beloved relative. Never recommend the paper to anybody. When you apeak of it aay, "Yea, we have a little I aheet, but it don’t amount to much.” Keep it up a year or two, and you will have a dead newapaper, a deadaetof merchanta and a dead town.—Ex. Beattie Bitten, Electric Bittera ia a medicine anited for any aeaaon, but perhape more gener ally needed, when the languid *x hauated feelinga prevail*, when the liver ia torpid and sluggish and the need of a tonic and alterative ia felt. A prompt uae of thia medicine haa often averted long and perhapa fatal bilioua fevera. No medicine will act more surely in counteracting and freeing the ayatem from the malarial poiaon. Headache, indigeation, conatipation, dizziness, yield to Electric Bittera. 50 centa and •1.00 per botttle at P. C. Corrigan’* Drug Store. ■i < Ballard’s Hsrshond Syrup. We guerrentee this to be the beet Cough Syrup manufactured in the whole wide , world. Thia ia laying a great deal, but > ' it ia true. For consumption, cougbi, coldi, aore throat, lore chest,pneumonia, broncbitii, asthma, croup, whooping . cough, and all diseases of the throat and lungs, we poeitively guarantee Ballard’# Horehound Syrup to be without an equal on the whole face of the globe. In support of this statement we refer to - La’ every individual who has ever used it, and to every druggist who has eyer sold '' it. Such evidence is indisputable. Price . 35 and 50 cants. Free sample boitlee at P. C. Corrigan’s. Ballard’s anew lnimsot. This wonderful liniment is known from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the lakes to the gulf. It is the » most penetrating liniment in the world. It will cure rheumatism, neuralgia, cuts, sprains, bruises, wounds, old sores, burns, sciatica, sore throat, aore chest and all inflamation alter all others have failed. It will cure barbed wire cuts and hea) ail wounds where proud flesh haa set In. It is equally efficient for an* imale. Try it and you will not be with— ' s ont it. Price 50 cents, at Corrigan’s.