PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. vi»-> • **-*-»- *-A.«W- • • 4vS»“Wx* »***«'•<*'•,•«* **.. ■>».■.(■■ <•» ■''■•*■•« 'y'raai ’ sms tm ~vL . j -•MifisM.i p V*{ .**’•**%’: * >« .1, -i it*:. Hus • h-f-. NUMBER 32 JEWS SAM WHISKERS Items of Interest Told As They Are V • Told to Us. WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED toesl Happening* Portrayed For General Edification and Amusement. Colored Boys tomorrow night. 'Hear Leora Lane next Thursday. 8. 8. Riley was up from Amelia last .Saturday;.. . * Wm. Krotter was down front Stuart Monday. ", :"r:" / ‘ ' Go to Mrs. Cress’ for choice candies ’"'and cigars. 31-2 Ira J. Burleson was down from Atkinson last Friday. R. M. Johnson, Stuart’s legal light, was in the city Tuesday. Ex-Supervisor Frank Moore was down from Atkinson Monday. For good flour, feed, or corn meal, go to Keyes’ Flour and Feed Store. 80-4 WANTED—Good girl for general housework. Mns. R. R. Dickson. B.j; Ryan is confined'tO the house this week with an attack of the grip. , P. J. Lana worth, of Agee, was is caller at these religious headquarters yester day. V : . ' W. J. Dobbs is confined to the house, suffering from that common ailment, the grip. j* ■rr."* £*•'-. $ J. AT. Plannigan, pt Stuart, was ■ Ailnn KnnSnnaa * a! 4m transacting business in 'this city Saturday. j _r * #5. Mrs. Mitchell, of Morse Bluffs,' Neb., I* in-the city ▼isiting her sister, Mrs. £. Williams. • ;;C John Skirvtng, R. R. Dickson and S. J. Weekes went down to Omaha Tues day morning. When you want fresh oysters and a good square meal' go to Mrs, Cress' fpstan'ranf. ;• ^ -'“81-l‘ Nigbtwatcb Hough, who has been ill with the grip for over a week, is able to be on dutv again. Mrs. Plusser, of Turner, was taken to the Norfolk insane asylum by Sheriff Hamilton last Friday. Geo. Mead, secretary of the American Chicory company, was in the city -on ■business last Monday. ' Norris Bowen came up from Lincoln Mast Wednesday and will visit friends in this‘section for several weeks. / J G. Cramer arrived in the city Mon Bay from Deadwood, S. D., and is visit ing friends here for a few days. John Carr was up from Stafford yes terday and while in the city dropped r|:$1.5Q;In our subscription fund."" . Charles Bright is employed by the f; ;QT»eill Grocery Go/ thin weekywing |o th£ enforced absence t>fM*v3ty ah!"' :V'Bid Tremain, of Blair, arrived in this -felly Monday evening, and; ha*accepted j a positiou in Maylotr Prlee’s barber i-’kllAn .y* vav.v. .rw v.*. -shop. _ H F. D. Braley and Miss Bell Riley, - both of Hot.Springs, S. D. were granted |a marriage license by Judge McCutchan jjjjj We are now receiving our spring line pf geiitB' shoes, hats and caps, and Can .flhdWyou the latest styles in these lines. J.;P;:Manw. p Judge Jackson of Neligh, transacted business in this city last Friday. While hjere tbeiudge taade thi*. o®ce a pleas utm ' Lee Hershiser arrived in the city last Friday evening from Waterloo, la., and will visit bis parents here for a couple of weeks. _ DeWitt’s Sarsaparilla is prepared for cleanrig • the blood. - It builds up and strengthens constitutions impaired by disease. Morris '<& Crt. Say, you remember Leora Lane? ■J Well she is coining bock again on the 18th of February. New people, new ; songs and new plays. *• Soothing;, and not irritating, strength . ;- I (yl S kjij rri "i-—■' .•3 " | Perry Miller was over from.. Phoenix last Saturday. He will read The Fbontiku in the future, and keep posted on county seat affairs. There is always room for one more and now is the time to subscribe. World*Herald: A dispatch from Sioux City says, that Donald McLean, the Pacific Short Line magnate, writes that work -will .soon .be begun on the road fro® O’Neillweatto (he coast. He says they are waiting for the sale of the Union Pacific. Now is the season when you want a good gun and want it cheap. I have a line of guns that cannot be1 beaten any where and 'am going to sell them cheap. Come early and get first choice. .1 also have hunting coats and sell them cheap. Ttf Neil Bre’nnan. “Excuse me,” observed the man in spectatles, “but I am a surgeon and that is not where the liver is.” “Never yen mind where his liver is,” retorted the other, “if it was in his big toe or his ieft ear DeWitt’s Little Early Bisere would reach it and shake it for him. On that you can bet your gig-lamps." Morris* CO. \ -.I.—. \,..i M I cz o;; 1 Manager Evans has been fortunate in securing the Leora Lane company for a short engagement, commencing Thurs day, Feb. 18. The theater loving peo ple of O’Neill will doubtless remember Leora Lane who was here about 4 years ago..with her, excellent company. Miss Lane is an actress that has received the bigheay?rais%qj the press wherever JlH | Receiver Williams and Register Har mon returned from Burwell Saturday evening, where they went last week to ■sell ihe bid Hartsuff : mllttary: reservaH Hon. They sold 960 acres of the tract and received therefor $1,660. Thereat of tjie land was occupied by squatters, who have lived there - for eig^ and ten years, and who did not bid f the land. It will probably be appraised, and sold at some bt|as$ R I have given CbamberlaineV Cough Kemedy a fair test andcooslderltoue of the very best remedels for croup that 1 hate every found. One dose has been' sufficient, although I use it freely. Any cold tny children contract yields very readily to this medicine. I can con scientiously recommend . it for croup and colds in children—Geo. E. Wolff, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Feruandina, Fla. Sold by P. C. Corrigan. Helmet lodge, No. 43, Knights of Pythias, on last Tuesday morning paid to M. F. Harrington, attorney for Wm. Hudson, the reward,of,tlftO qfl^ed.byi that lodge for the recovery of the body' of Barrett Scott. After the body was found, the lodge was teady and trilling to pay the reward, but were not certain who to pay it to as there were two claimants. There were about twenty five persons present when the body was found, and they claim the reward should be prorated, but Hudson, who dis covered the body, claims the entire reward. The case was taken to the county court and Hudson won. The lodge was then ready to pay the reward to Hudson, but the intervenors appeared and carried the case to the district court where it was tried twice, Hudson receiv ing the verdict in both trials, The Odd Fellows offeree! a reward of $100 at the same time, and the two cases were car ried through the courts together, but we understand that their case will be taken to the supreme court. 1 * ' 0 FACTS ABJM CHICORY A Great Money Maker For Thoee BETTER THAN 25-CENT CORN. The Future Greet Crop for Thie Country, et a Rome Market end Feotory. i,. ' The Frontier desires, in ell earnest* ness, to cell the ettention of the termers end others interested in the growing of crops in this codntfr' to the* fact that there is a very strong probability that the chicory factory. no\y located ,he^ will be taken down and moved to some other point. • f It also wishes tooaUtheir attention to the t feet that if the factory is taken away from here it closes a market uythn farmers for what we believe,, from be investigation we have made, would prove a very profitable crop for them to' cultivate. In substantiation of our^ be liefs in this we refer to the further feet that at many other pieces throughout the state farmers and business men to gether are offering inducements for the building of factories, thus creating markets such as we have and such as wp are about to let slip through our fingei^ through a lack of Interest.’ " „ |. we submjt afew facts v«»fl, Ug ures gleaned from those having to do with chicory raising during the past few aeasonB, and we think that a careful pe rusal of them will convince the most skeptical farmer that it. would he- well worth his while to try a few acres dur ing the coming season, or in other words that there is-something in it and a good thing,, too, it a little work and energjr are joined together to makeit a OucessSi Ninety acres adjoining the sputh line of the town was planted to chicory last year and the yield was approximately 4} tons to the acre. The amount paid by the chicory company for the yield -of this 90 acres was about $3,100. The cost of cultivating the crop, including $3 per acre rent for the land and all work hired done, amounted to about $3,400, leaving a profit of $700, or nearly $8 per acre. What other product ot the farm has netted the farmer $8 per acre this year? Corn at 40 bushels to the acre, 13 cents pef bushel er even 35 cents per bushel, would not be as profit? able as chicory raising. Neither would oats, wheat or rye.. Then it must be remembered that 4J ions to the acre is a small yieldi '♦.'Mr. Bezel man, *bf■ O’Neill, informs us that he raised 13 tons to the acre. Farmers near Fremont last year raised 10 tons to the acre, and it was their drat experience with it, and so Well pleasedwfere they With the result that they wish to increase the acreage this year. Others around North Bend raised 8 tons to (he acre, so that it fa lair to as sume that the yield here was a minimum one. It should also be remembered that the parties working llm 90 acrei were dbligecl to^hire kll theiPWork dom i whereas a farmer -with a family pouh easily rtakeoare; of 5 or 10 acres withou the outlay M a 'cent for labdr.'Thisj also, pay $3 per acre rent^fof ttii land, which is an expense that no farmei around here need to have._ _ Another favorable feature of the cull tivation of chicory is that there is a manufacturing company waiting ready to take it from the.producer as soon as practicable after ;lt is harvested, at aij agreed price per ton according to a con* tract that they „;$uter into with thy farmer wbe*, be g^-bis^seedf "Tbi^ price, we undetwputd ,1s W^5&’-^etlon,j and there is no egsoisnoon made as tcj grade or quality as is the case with suga^ beets. A market "is therefore assured! Incidentally we might say that we are reliably informed t|i'at farmers near Tilt den arp willing to raise chicory and make contracts to do so and sell foij 87.50 per ton and pay cost of trass porta-i tion to the ^Q’NeiU factory out of this price. j ; j Ti>e ‘ qhi^ory industry; has assumed large proportions throughout rthe stafej and it bids fair to outstrip the beet sugar industry that has done so much foij Norfolk and other towns and put so' many good dollars into the .pockets of; industrious farmers adjacent* to those places. Monied men have been attracted by the opportunities for safe investment that this industry has furnisbfcd/ehd we; uow flnd Omaha and othef tqwns vieing with each other to secure the establish ment of what factories will be put up this year, or, in other words* these towns are making strong efforts to se cure for their farmers and their com munities • what we are liable, to lose! tbrongh our lack of realization Of the! importance of the enterprise. To the business men of . O’Neill we wish to say that the Chicory Company; iy paying out 91,000nef unontp for tybpr at the factory, and has paid out up wards of 910,000 since the beginning of the last season. If the factory is closed and taken away from here some of our people who now find profitable employ ment in It will go, and thla means a de crease in our population, which small though it may be, means a decreased demand for1 the gooda we have to sell and the home demand for the products of the farm. Some of our farmers may fear a dry season, but in this connection we would suggest that land and water can be had under the little irrigation ditch for <3 per acre or one-fourth of the crop de livered at the factory. This la a very reasonable price, and with sufficient moisture assured a good profitable crop could be growp,' , We would, like to see the farmers oi Bolt county, take hold of chic'ory ratsing'in earnest, as we believe it to be1 the -mdst profitable crop that L’ can be grown, taking into consideration the atppu^t; i jOf, labor necessary to prp !•> pvrf "ISXl Ofi-i " i The Company is not at all partlcul whether any chicory is grown In Holt county or whether they leave thbir fab-1 tory here, as thdr have all the acreage they iyant >nd mqre than they want* pledged this year in other places, but as the factory . js here if they are assured( to that there wlll be enough roots here operate the factory they will not take it awyy< : - ,ui mU si t The following;Is. a {copy of, the cod-. iruci iuav me company agrees 10 enter into to purchase the product of tpon engaged in the growing of Chicory: : TheAmerieau Chicory' Go. agrees to purchase front. • • -any and; all ohloorjy beets grown on.... mere? of ground in section.... township.. ..range.. i, of the Oth r. m. in.....county, Nebraska, foor' which the . said company agrees to pay the sum of Seven and 50-100 dollars per ton for all cbipory. beets delivered at ltg factory at.... prpvided that the said chicory beets shall be delivered to the said American Chicory Company in the condition and upon tbe terms following to-trit: Said beetsto be free front frost, the tops closely and squarely, cat off, at the base of the bottom leaf, in a mer chantable Condition, - and aiiy chicory beets not properly cut or trimmed ae re quired by said company or with dirt clinging to them, may be cleaned and cut and tbe cost and tare thereof deduct ed from tbe price per ton paid for said beets. Said-American Chicory Coin* pany also agree with die said abovp mamed part., to furnish,,seed for the .price1 of Sixty cenW per pound upon con dition that the-... above named shall not give or sell to any perfon any seed so furnished... .by the company nor to plant any chicory seed under this corn tract except that furnished by the said Chicory Company, nor to sublet any portion of the crop to be grown under tbis. contract, without tbe written con sent of the American Chicory Company; It is further agreed that....will keep — chicory crop free from seed stalks, if they appear, by pulling them out of the ground. It is further, conditioned that the.above named_will silo one* half of... .crop at.....own expehse And risk in a careful, hosbandllke manner and deliver the same at the factory aforesaid upon the order of the Amerif can Chicory Company or ita imanaiging agent, at any time or times, not later than January 15,1808) upon five days notice to-... .by mail, It is farther con* ditioned that.,. .shall deliver the. other one half of. . . .crop as the said Chicory .Company may direct by notice as. afort! Cember 1, 1897. In case of damage by ftreor other accident fcakpaUttstlbg tbe the company from, .drying pr .iquiujAc] 'taring the crop,'-it is agreed that tb! time for delivery Of, beett shall be ex* tepded..by siljoing.tbftaipHt .nptil, repairs of damages'shall be ‘completed. It is ‘farther *gredd>"'that oeaidl'j-y,shall give written no^eado, ,jthe,Obicwjr. CbfflP W on the 15th a&y of August or. the numi be# of ar.ree ^leh' Mid.i.ihai' dnder cultivation. Nq-ageabhaa authority |o change the terms'of this, contract. It is 1 agreed that payment! fot dhfeofy ’ beets shall.be m*yfiiftMfcfth4&c«c SihftrU.ifot pit 9'Neill *y>oir*snve three hours time it lieimrtietrr^^ni^^t >VI««ltfl>bfoiMh yoi| h ptetftshkH;&0'«< wrtasi *Ji vr«n* *.«jy $ i | BisrtatirHiiwitt'Mi ©%«mmi^ity jghbrorf’*' *>**v 'aji***KqsJSjianage,«-yaet' n|e pLaurel; Advocate. aodthctBlade, with |eut i»,jteyaiee,> pobUeheft ia long list ;of the .pricer of the fakira.amii also of jfhehbhiemerchaat to lh*i:,cWdlt"of Hbe ^ettee^f Instead of tcping *o eureka* salt -water. foantaip?«n tfib bordeerofiOmaha reaerTatico betatiieof this loss* to the ■business. nsen.thoBlade ought®to be jkiatorng^he bsels .together aid* yetting ••‘good enough fir them.-* The «Oltimns of the Blade' do notsbow a single ad vertisement of a grocery flrihj' '•hof* hny Indication thal'-any body "has inny such filing as groceries* in Bancroft, much tOss for ealfe,‘*andbwt 'prieiefr tharwould successfully meet 1 fakir ‘ competition. IBs* them eric bahts publishedtheir price jistbeforehtstnad^ after tbe'tlsit of the Cnkir ‘*l ‘!s> probable that the $800 (frotrt'd1’ htt^e-Keen" sited Vh‘ the toWn, fiie profit of thb' nile* wotiid’ bare'paid for a handsomesd for a long time. pay to advertise.” AT THE PACIFIC END :■ »*?**$$$ ;f I Donald McLean Conferring With iT- * ' Jli* < ■ ■ ■ il ■ >. ^ ** * -. * ' ■ i' * a i California Aiiociates. .,'i" •»» ■ «“ - ■ ' "M . . -: f ■'! WORKING FOR BECKWITH BASS And Will Undoubtedly Secure The Right of " Wot With Little Trouble. “’Au {1 m i .. ..■■ . i >',• i Sioux City Times; Donald McLean, promoter of the Sioux City and Western railway, .is,at the little hamlet' of Beclr with, la the heart of, the Beckwith pads, In conference with Mrs. Jane Beckwith, widow of the man who bequeathed the staryey orthisfimoUspadsof the Rockies. From Sait Lake Mr.McLeaa went to Safe Francisoo, where he.mitt «»en who are,to be aasociatedwlth him in completing this, traus-conUnenthl •'1! L^ F. Wakefield, chief englneer of thy Sioux City and Wedterti, said yesterday that information; from Mr; McLean la to the.effect that the details of arrange ment are being rapidly and satisfactory tally completed. The survey in Cali fornia' through ' the Becltwlfh' {phis undoubtedly wTR fee' deeured.',i:iif^ Beckwith; andfedr •; legal advisor afe bearUlyinsympatby with Mr. McLean and^hiii^hierfirjse, Thie. near is nay#** troubled with snow, and will permltthd saving of millions of dollars for tfaht ■ sheda. *«'] ora ho:-M i jnr., jncLiean writes mat only a ie r more prelimihkries remain t6 tie accbni tilfthed; ^rilliyiWi ''"ts* Sloux Citf. - » Ohifll oi ax * Ainrotrvckiicxirt'ikTKAOt&nrAXt. \ The 0*NMW OttlOred 'Hidrtrttt^iW 1 hold tbe boards at tbe opera house Fri day evening, Feb. 13,lp97, and will rei - der tbe the finest, mqst, laughable, enter-, taining and elevating minstrel program ever given in thid city. They have en gaged alllhe prominent talent obtaina ble for this occasion, ; ' ; ;i, 5a I : Among the celebreties engaged are the Misses “Dinah APPlebloaaom,". "Mina Merrigold,” “Arrsbella Jones," "Susan Snowball." ‘‘Aina Merrigold," ‘‘Peachy Primrose/' and "Angelina Phllomena Honeysuckle” ’ and Madame "Adelina Paul Hawkins,” the celebrated cornetislj, together withj Mesa«.“Tnmbo/’/‘Jenk[' ins,** "Jobnsing,” and the renowned ‘■‘Granger Bros1." ‘'Coffee Broa." (Mocha and Java), "Waffle Bros./* and the emi nent "Prof. Rastui Ratberatone.” They have arranged with the police to promptly care for bellgerent persona in the audience who may. take exceptions to any part of the program, and have engaged,the services of “Dr. .Cronin" to administer chloroform to any who “can’t stand the pressure,” or who may become affected by the cbbwebs'brushed from •iaiejokes. odi iliiw'i*j ... .Opera: glasses with? x-Sa/ attachments will be,excluded fr.om thersom. , ''wMr&W'tagHf# W"Bv,stftfj> (e ■ biuat),ayeairdierexie ndbodythereba [We Mftitotwnu 0.1 walixs fiii!:?1? *R V > years 10 cents,. , , ,, ,1 Everyijody'i?nyiteci'‘/a^ so”miicl?per In null fifiA ,i«r,«rrA 1‘< ■'MUi-nw Anr ■ O£0 ' |l o«BuWrtSFHtX&jif.-AWWWtaiiMUJ wMfce’iitirdy efithePnft {iartsaft ibahl,j 4Lo#ed>miliMry nwwtsowWfcb.tabespW*^ $$Na flu ff.ww.P'JiifVto i Wtaw W j remineecence of the eetA.blifhment.ofi !tlfiet,orf,1 writVeh' by T.'f*reejahd, who I 'Mt'%at TtMe"Kbi! tV miWre»\mt6t iGaeflet&adUBtyv’v/ mua r’tt ^nilinvni | j The early history 0f,,$pr!iB«rtahfM« closely conneoted-wiUi the early settle! meni^df -' (he ^IRfftil 4jd«tb>Waliyir, anq (jiarheld apuatyf in particular- sm-A-) | i-tafff'WA tyMPWW10* | erment troops were statjoned at a point about'iwd mites above where Port Hartj in® WoW btatidS on the soUth side of tlie tfortb Loup> river, end die fidllohringi fall the erection* of the tort was, begun, -and ■tivwem my#t.ow- -.totfWtyw were completed the following year (1875)! The walls were of c'dncreie, the 'gravel for which was obtained about ftftfr miles below, the fort, at-Gravel creek, or, a* if yrastben ceUed,Wg IaJjwtd'icreeJhr^vv.* ] t „. Mitiyr, pf, tbq .ojd Artless *1}! remem-! ber the1 “gravel pit*' where, during thd winters of ’74 and ’75, they shoveled !gravel fbf a Hvinqi'i** * j The roofs, doors, floors,' ‘etc,, werq made, of. lumber, obtained.in the cedai; canyons of Garfield coupty, pigbt miles abovp the fort. A saw mill wps. placed at the fort and the logs hauled to It with wagons, and by tbiB means many of tl/q settlers made a living. sAddf) •«•»*{ ! rtt 'sSdir In this fUWMC.1. dpaae audahUr* WifeX may Wtloqyp'**9* XMteWh** Prom the Jonet canyoh abdlU1 trihu* 1 - — V. »SW, ( naans a* taries the following eaflhtfeti hf'lkmber. etc., removed. n:^hkde from a I observation1,11 K! aoa/sS Lumber, feet, l. .'iW/V. .vftSll*. Bridge spiles.......a .$■} -wKimj .a100,000 Fence poete.. .800.000 Cords of weWm^.SW&«&?*rt%*» Telegraph polee.T... ;v;.. 000 Shingleh. ivrii;.. ;uin'j ;v«,;ut mrid iUoBf- • I'/nlnrifbhMfQhttaiMDaihmairio Itoref iatpnQOitOi!an<.WNcle,natichJeppeaeaiin last week’s issue of the Sun,,pbont_a certain wife beats!, (J.H. Walton) «hsimi*g tbnrjihtsifkidgasnKhild^ttiihold Mm An Me eeJJ deedM wlAamyfcho has wikto. Jtf fkbf t^hm”cothUeh(wd”^tb »oiedingaMe 8fPfngSuit out Pfun&Q otmpftepami> / ‘ mtU Guarantee you a Ftt*to'exery‘n v&ipwpe&f wum* ,n will of my business,, andyou will see that I have the largest and < beef up to-dmtaiine ip thr eountyyandean Mttnybody-fram 4too>£& um ,4% & fwMm M.sf m winter slock such. as. rubbers, aritios, -dioakC uhiiml 'bfdhtiels andundetuman which 7 tvllisellat 20 per ceot. effi. , ,[