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PUBLISHED BY THE EBON-TIER PRINTING CO.
VOLUME XVII.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA,.FEBRUARY 18,1897.
NUMBER 38.
NEWS SANS WHISKERS
Items of Interest Told As They Are
' ■ Told to Us. -' '' v
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
Loss! Happenings Portrayed For General
Edification mad Amusement.
I/ Dr. McDonald was in the city
Wednesday. ___
Miss Kate Mann was over from Spen
- cer Monday.
- Representative Grimes was up from
Lincoln Saturday.
John McNichols was down from
►^Atkinson yesterday.
O. O. Snyder transacted business in
V Osmond last Monday.
G. C. Haaelet went down to Omaha
Wednesday morning.
John Brady, the genial Atkinsonite,
. was in the city Monday.
Dr. Caldwell returned to liiB .home in
Chicago Monday morning.
The Working society will meet with
Mrs, Moore Wednesday, Feb. 24.
WANTED—Good girl for general
housework. Mbs. R. R. Dickson.
i Will Purdy, Ed Purdy and N. C.
’ Johnson were up from Swan Tuesday.*
Jud Hurdle and Orra Porter, both of
Little, were married yesterday in this
city. __
James Mathews and Mary Carney, of
Ewing, were granted a marriage last
Tuesday. ■ _
When you want fresh oysters and a
good square meal go to Mrs. Cress
restaurant. _■ 812 V
Editor Eves, who is home from Lin
coln on a vacation, was in this city
Tuesday. _
Judge Kinkaid returned from a two
week’s visit with relatives in West Viri
ginia last Saturday evening. '
•.•fit Thomas McDonough, who resides on
M "he Fahy farm northeast of this city, is
/vvVery sick with pneumonia.
John Skirving, John Weekes and R.
R. Dickson returned from their trip to
Omaha last Friday evening.
Louie ■ and Qeorge Blinco left last
'' week-for Missouri, where they will look
after their fruit farm this summer.
We sell good flour, corn meal, graham,
V-- bran, shorts, corn, oats, etc., at gold
standard prices. 38-tf L. Keyes.
Charles Hall left last week tor Omaha
where he went to take a position with a
bridge gang on the Elkhorn railroad.
We n'ow have on hand new oil meal
for stock—don’t you want some?
83-1 O’Neill Grocery Co.
Nathan M. Harvey and Miss Emma
Flannigan were granted a marriage
license by the county judge last week.
WANTED—Ten young cows, at the
school section, 4 miles north of O’Neill,
for cash. 83-2 W. C. Fawkes.
Mrs. Homer Garretson returned to her
home at Worthington, Minn., last Fri
day, after a protracted visit with friends
and relatives here.
DeWitt’s Sarsaparilla is prepared for
cleaning the blood. It builds up and
strengthens constitutions impaired by
disease. Morris & Co.
Jake Hershiser came up from Norfolk
Saturday evenfng and visited friends
and relatives over Sunday, returning
home Wednesday morning.
) WANTED—Heavy span of brood
- mares, 8 set of heavy harness, and
wagon, for cash, 4 miles north of
O’Neill. 88-2 W. O. FawkES.
u. m. yuigiey, wno nas been on The
Frontier force for the past six weeks,
. left for Iowa last Saturday, where be
expects to go into the newspaper
business. _
Jacob Pfund left for Monroe, Wis.,
last Frida; morning in answer to a
telegram announcing the serious illness
of his father. He expect; to be absent
about ten days.
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.
The length of life may be Increased
by lessening its dangers. The majority
■ of people die from lung troubles. These
i may be averted by promptly using One
\ Minute Cough Cure. Morris & Co ‘,
District court will convene tomorrow
with Judge Kinkaid on the bench. The
docket for this term Is smaller than it
has been for years. There are forty
nine law cases, eighteen equity cases
and five criminal cases.
F. A. Seaman, of Sioux City, claim
agent for the Sioux City, O’Neill and
Western railroad, was in the city last
Friday. _^
N. Q. Hardy and Mrs. Mary J. Potter,
of Chambers, were married by Judge
McCutchan, at the Ogden hotel in this
city, last Tuesday evening.
C. A. Monson, of Mt. Pleasant, la.,
and Miss Grace A. Conger, of Inman,
were married at the home ot the bride
yesterday, Rev. Lowrie officiating.
Let us figure with you whenv you
want a bill of groceries, we have the
stock and prices.
33-2 O’Neili. Grocery Co.
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. \
Donald Campbell, the consulting
engineer in charge of the work on the
big ditch, was an east-bound passenger
yesterday morning. He says work on
the survey is progressing rapidly.
E. B. Brain, secretary of the Golden
Irrigation district, moved his family to
this city from Bassett, last Tuesday, and
is now comfortably located in Barney
Mullen’s house on east Benton street.
Thomas Crow, one of Holt county’s
'most prosperous farmers, who resides
near Dorsey, was in the city yesterday.
While in the city be called at this office
and squared up his subscription to this
great family journal.
The Modern Woodmen and the Royal
Neighbors are making great-prepara
tions for the ball which they propose to
give on March 1. It is the intention of
the management to make thisxone of
the finest affairs ever given in the city.
Now is the season when yott want a
good gun and want it cheap. I have a
line of guns that cannot be beaten any
where and am going to sell them cheap.
Come early and get first choice. I also
have hunting coats and sell them cheap.
?tf Neil Brennan.
We understand that several farmers
are making arrangements to Vent the 90
acres pj land south of the railroad tract
and plant the same to chicory this sea
son. Several others along the Elkhorn
are going to cultivate five and ten acre
tracts.
The Working society of the Presby
terian church will give a supper and
entertainment at the rink, Wednesday,
Feb. 34, from 5:30 till 9 o’clock. The
guessing on the quilt will then close and
the quilt will be given to the fortunate
guesser. Supper and entertainment 35
cents. All are invited. Seo.
“Excuse me," observed the man in
spectatles, “but I am a surgeon and that
is not where the liver is.” “Never you
mind where his liver is,” retorted the
other, “if it was in his big toe or his
ieft ear DeWitt’s Little Early Risers
would reach it and shake it for. him.
On that you can bet your gig-lamps."
Morris & Co. ' *
Elmer Merriman and family moved
into town Monday and are again estab
lished in their residence in the western
part of the city. Elmer will re-establish
his bottling works here and will run
them on a more extensive scale than
heretofore. The Frontier Is pleased
to welcome Mr. and Mrs. Merriman
back to O’Neill.
A gentleman from Iowa came into our
office Monday and asked us if there
were any real estate men in this city.
We replied in the affirmative. “Why,”
said he, “I looked all through The
Frontier over at the hotel, and failed
to find a card of any man in that busi
ness in your paper, and concluded that
there were none in the city." Real
estate men, as well as all others, should
advertise.
I have given Chamberlaine’a Cough
Remedy a fair teat and consider it one
of the very best remedeis for croup that
1 have every found. One dose has been
sufficient, although I use it freely. Any
cold my 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, Fernandina,
Fla. Sold by P. C. Corrigan.
The Standard Designer for March
already begins to herald the approach of
spring, not only in various seasonable
articles and picturesque millinary, but
in fashions for ladies, misses, and little
people of both sexes. Fancy work flori
culture, art, literature, bicycling and
cookery are all paid due attention, and
it would indeed be a difficult matter to
find more really good information and
matters of interest collected under one
head than there-are in this issue. To
those who are contemplating a new
spring outfit, or who wish to spend an
improving hour or two, we heartily
commend this number of this popular
magozine.
State Journal: One farmer down in
Kansas has been figuring and be says
that a hen is equal to an acre of land.
His acre of land he says produces
twenty bushels of corn worth 13, while
his hen lays ten dozen eggs worth II.SO.
The 50 cents difference is saved in labor.
And yet the Nebraska legislature de
clined to make the stealing,of fowl
worth an acre of land a felony. ..
The Leora Lane company, which was
billed to play here the last three nights
of this week, will not be able to reach
this point until the first of March, at
which time they will entertain the
theatre-going people of O'Neill with
some of the best plays ever put on the
boards in this city. Failure to make
the necessary train connections is the
cause of their inability to reach here at
the time advertised.
A story is going the rounds about a
farmer who went into a drug atore and
saw for the first time a phonograph.
He was told to drop a nickle into the
slot and hear the music. The farmer,
doubting, dropped In a nickle and put
the tubes to his ears; then suddraly
dropping them he rushed to the door
exclaiming, "gosh all fish hooks! here
comes a brass band, and I have left my
mules unhitched.”
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Hicks returned
Monday evening from Stuttgart, Ark.,
where they have been visiting their
daughter, Mrs. Henry PeYarman and
family the past six weekq. Zeke is not
in love with Arkansas, and says he
could not be hired to live there. All of
the O’Neill people there are well, but he
is of the opinion that they would like to
get back. Let them return, there is lots
of room in "God’s country" for them.
The Academy Dramatic Company
presented the melo-drama entitled
” Botany Bay,” to a crowded
house last night. By their rendition of
this difficult drama the eompany demon
strated their ability to successfully en
tertain theatre-goers, for, from the mo
ment the curtain was "rung up” in the
first act to the end of the play, about
two hours afterward, they had the close
attention of the audience. Critics pro
nounce Ji^ne of the best plays ever pre
sented by this company.
With the advent of spring and good
crops comes the “fakir,” who expects to
tap the farmers. During hard times and
no crops where was he? He has no use
for the man who plows and sows and
mows, unless he has the “coin.” He
don’t want the strong butter and dirty
eggs, not he. But the regular mer
chant has to Stay it out, through adver
sity and prosperity, trade his goods for
anything the farmer has. Yet, when
the “fakir” comes along with his siren
song, the farmer forgets the old deals
and gives him the coin. His old dealer
cad have the butter and eggs. It wip
ever thus An Observer.
Omaha Bee: Paul Alexander John
stone, now under arrest at Cedar Bapids
la., charged with conspiracy, is well
known in Omaha, having been here
upon several occasions during the past
decade. The last time that he was in
this city was some four years ago, when
he gave several exhibitions as a mind
reader, and also posed as one of the
summer attractions at Oourtland beach.
At that time he allowed an individual to
hide an article. Johnstone then took
passage in a cab and at a breakneck rate
of speed drove through the streets to
the place where the article was located.
.He also allowed a parcel to be placed in
the bottom of Cut-off lake. After this
was done, blindfolded, be went to the
lake, dove down and fished out the
article, thus attracting considerable
attention. While here he never had
anything to do with prescribing for per
sons afflicted with disease, nor did he
tie up with any of the doctors, simply
posing at a mind reader.
The article in last week’s Fhontieb,
on the chicory industry, has been pro
ductive of much good, an(j several
farmers have expressed their willingness
to raise chicory beets the coming sum
mer. We are glad to see that the farm
ers of Holt county are beginning to
realize the value of chicory raising, and
mean to give it a trial. They will find
it one of the most profitable crops that
can be raised, and we honestly believe
that if they once get started raising
chicory they will continue to do so, and
will make it one of their leading crops.
The company are desirous of ascertain
ing at once whether the required acreage
can be secured .here, so they can mak«
arrangements in regard to the factory,
and all persons who desire to raise
chicory this year are requested to send
their names and the amount of acres
they will plant to any of the following
named gentlemen, who will report the
same to the company: J. P. Mann. Neil
Brennan, B. J. Ryan, \T. J. Dobbs, B.
A. DeYarman, Bernard McQreevey, T.
W aimer.
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* LxoiiL&Tm Donew.
Ti« fusion majority still flounders
along in the toils of the ring. The fifty
negative men la the bouse remain sub
missive. They are not bad men, but
merely negative men. They do not
seek out the unscrupulous ring leaders
and ask to be manipulated, bat when
thp ring leaders seek them out and whip
them into: the caucus, they have no
ppwer to resist. I have said these fifty
negative men are putty. I say so yet.
They will remain so to the end of this
session. These fifty men are neither
fools or knaves. They are fairly good
men. In the main they desire to pass
only, just measures. Hduse roll No. 5,
which is intended as a legal excuse for
the perpetration of a crime against the
constitution, is not approved by the
copsolence of these fifty men. It was
not, it is not, their deliberate purpose to
to do, or attempt to do, an unlawful act
which will go into history as revolution
ary and criminal. They did not think it
out. It was thought out by the ring of
manipulators who had absolute control
of the fusion party and this fusion
majority in the legislature long before
either or these fifty men had reached the
state Capitol to take their seats.
These fifty putty men who voted
against their conscience for house roll
No. 5, which gives the governor power
to accomplish this criminal purpose in'
the interest of his brother-in-law, are
not a' part of the crime only to the
extent that they consented to it. The
¥attk and file of populists and free silver
democrats in this state will be a part of
this wicked scheme only so far as they
endorse it now and in the future. If
honest populists in the rural districts
rests^ and denounce this attempted out
rage On the constitution, resist it now
and denounce it from the very begin
ning, the effect will be to purge the
party to some extent before it must meet
the people and the public conscience in
the next general election. But if this
little coterie of political schemers which
concoted this bold measure and wbich
hypnotized and bulldozed the tame
members into its support can also hyp
notise and bulldoze the rank and file of
the populists and free silver democrats
islefiis belief tbat-thia kind of business
ii reform, then each populist victory at
the polls is one step nearer resolution.
If there had>been one strong man in the
house or senate to have given voice and
force to the higher conscience which
was in the breasts of most of the mem
bers. the dark purpose of this bill would
have risen up like a ghost at a banquet
and the conspirators would have slunk
away into the bil inspector’s oil room,
which is now the nesting place where
the ring hatches out its conspiracies.
When will the people learn that hon
est government and good law-making is
not a matter of honest intentions such
as we find in goody goody, easy going
men, but is also a matter of mental
strength and character force? The
weak men who. participate! in this
infamous measure because they were
weak, and because there was no one in
the house or senate of sufficient force to
stir their better manhood into action,
will remain weak to the end, and the
blame for their weak acts must rest with
the mass of voters, who, in the midst of
a feverish and frenzied campaign,
selected pine sticks when they ought to
have selected oak beams.
I could say some good things of the
republican members, and some of the
populists, whose voices were husky
with emotion when they uttered their
weak protest in the caucus against
house toll No. 5. But I have not space
to deal in personalities. House roll No.
5 will henceforth haunt the populist
party like a damned spectre, emphasiz
ing the unscrupulous character of its
leaders and the weakness of its
followers.
narei, me governors private secre
tary. as noiseless and agile as a weasel,
whips in and out of a doaen different
places at once as the errand boy of the
ring, conveying the desires of the gov
ernor to the ring, of the ring to the
caucus, and of the caucus to the loiter
ing member, on whose neck the caucus
yoke rests heavily. Now you seethe
nimble little secretary whispering over
the railing to one of the bosses in the
house, who is about to crack the party
whip. Now you see him beckoning a
senator into the hall. Now you see
him rounding up the fifty putty men
into a caucus, and now you see him
whispering cautiously in a dark corner
to Bill Paxton, president of the Omaha
stock yards.
It is interesting to see this big, burly
man of money and power looking down
on the weasely little secretary in the
dark corner, and it is interesting to
know that the little^seeretary and his
coterie of well dressed* chums, the "new
blood,” who have secured the soft snaps
at the capltol, find time to meet these
men of money and corporation power
several times each day and make report
of how the work of regulation and
reform Is progressing.
Perhaps I ought not to speak of this.
8urely these smooth younn men, most
of whom hare become reformers in the
last few months, have a right to hold
the soft places, and to make a few deals
,on the side, seeing they hare taken
upon themselves the responsibility of
directing the reform movement. Many
an honest, husky old pop journeys to
the state house, and sits hour after hour
In the waiting room of the executive
office. He sits and waits, and as he sits
he sees the picture of the sainted Silas
on the wall, and he feels the soft touch
of .the brussels carpet under his feet,
hut where is the governor and where is
the secretary who should answer hla
call? Wait on, old man, you of the old
guard who rallied about Bill MbReighan
at Willsonvllle in 1890, and who fol
lowed the clarion voice of Kem from
Hell to Broken Bow. Sit still, old man,
and wait. Roll your quiet eyes about
the room and look at the pictures of
Silas on the wall. This ta enough for
you. .
Tou cannot expect the work of reform
to stop long enough to hear your modest
plea. The secretary is busy with Bill
Paxton, and the governor is busy with
.Kirkpatrick consulting as to the further
progress of house roll No. 5. When
your understanding, if it ever does,
grasps the true inwardness of what is
now going on at this capitol among the
men you have' trusted and believed in,
you will go home to your farm with the
scales dropped from your eyes and with
more good sense in four head than has
been there for several years.
J. W. Jomrson.
noeum
Of the Holt County Teacher*’ aaeoeU
ation, to be held at Atkinson, Neb.,
Saturday, Feb. 37, 1897, commencing at
10 a. m., in {he high echool building.
Music.
Paper—"Why and How Should
Arithmetic be Taught?"—L. W. Worrel.
Discussion—Minnie Daley and Anna
Slaymaker.
Paper—"When and How Should
Language Be Taught?”—Ina Orcutt.
DiscussioU—Lillie Gallaher and Mamie
McManus.
^EBHoojk session. 1:80f.,ii.
(School Officers Section.)
Music.
Paper—"How Can Business Men Pro*
mote the Efficiency of the Schools?”—
T.V. Golden.
Discussion—B. E. Sturdevant aniJ.
M. Stewart.
Paper—"How Can We Secure Greater
Co-operation of Parents and Teachers?”
—W. E. Scott.
Discussion—C. L. Anderson and R.
H. Jenness.
TEACHBBS’ SECTION.
Music.
Paper—“The Proa and Cone of the
’Source Method’ in History."—H. 0.
White.
Discussion—R. F. Cross and Sarah
Davies.
Paper—"How Should Geography Be
Taught in the Rural Schools?’—B. B.
Kelley.
Discussion—Julia Stafford and Will
iam Morrow.
Song by the Audience.
Teachers, school officers and patrons
are earnestly requested to attend and
participate in these discussions. Come
prepared to discuss the subjects whether
your name is on the program or not.
J. C. Mobrow, President.
Sabah Davies, Vice President.
What is a Oarantset
It is this. It you have a cough or
cold, a tickling in the throat, which
keeps you constantly coughing, or if
you are afflicted with any chest, throat
or lung trouble, whooping cough etc.,
and you use Ballard’s Hoarhound Syrup
as directed, giving it a fair trial, and no
benefit is experienced we authorize our
advertised agent to refund your money
on return of bottle. It never fails to
give satisfaction. It promptly relieves
bronchitis. Price 8S and 50 cents.
Free sample bottles at P. 0. Corrigan’s.
BOIL C0LTOBI.
H. W. Campbell, editor of Campbell’a
Soil Culture, will be here Marcb 3 to
confer with the farmer* of this vicinity
in regard to putting in an experimental
farming station to test the new soil cul
ture theory. Great inducements are
offered to the farmers by this process,
and all who can should attend this meet
ing. This soil culture, while compara
tively a new theory^ has met with much
success where it has been given a trial,
and tbe farmers of Holt county will dc
well to attend the meeting March 3 and
hear Mr. Campbell explain bis theory in
regard to practical farming and how to
make it pay. These experimental
farms have been in process by the B. &
M. and other railroad systems in the
arid districts, and the efforts so far have
assumed unqualified success. An ex
perimental farm of this nature would be
of much benefit to the agricultural
interests of this country, and we cannot
too strongly urge our readers to attend
the meeting and lend their aid to its
establishment at O'Neill.
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A Sweet Drive.
We want to reduce pur stook of
Syrups before the warm weather
comes, and will offer until stock Is
well reduced the following: '
Best sugar drips per' gal. 25
cents, formerly 85 cents. ;f
Vermont maple per gal. 60 tints,
formerly 76 cents.
Nice New Orleans per gal. 80}
cents, formerly 40 cents.
New sorghum per gal. 85 cents,'
formerly 40 cents.
Yoe’s pure maple per gal, can t
91.10, formerly $1.85.
Yoe's pure maple per one-half
gal. can '60 cents, formerly 75
cents.
38-2 O'NEILL GROCERY 00.
The Western Kansu girt la practical
if she is anything. The other night at*
ter a Ford county youth had pusioa*
ately kissed his companion* six time
in succession, he paused to catch hie
breath and tenderly inquired if she loved
him. “Young man," said the girl u she
rolled her gum into a wad preparatory
to sticking it under the table, “do you
think I’m enduring all this for my-*
healthT—Topeka Mall and Brseae.
Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will And
the true remedy la Electric Bitters. This
medicine doss not stimulate and con*
tains no whiskey nor other intoxicant,
but acts u a tonic and alterative. It
sets mildly on the stomach and bowels
by adding strength and giving tons to
the organs, thereby aiding nature in the
performance of the functions. Electric
Bitters is an excellent appetiser and aids
digestion. Old people find it Just exact*
It what they need. Prim SOe audit
per bottle at Corrigan's. , .
Mr. Ward L. Smith, of Fredericks*
town, Mo., «m troubled with obtoalo
dierrhcee (or oyer thirty years. He had
become fully satisfied that It waa only
a question of a abort time unto he would
bare to give up. He had bean treated
by torn# of the beat physicians la Europe
and American {but got no permanents
relief. One day he pichad up a news
paper and chanced to read anadvsr*
tiaement of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy. He got a bottle
of it, the ilrat dose helped him and tie
continued uae cured him.. For sale by i
P. C. Corrigan.
The minstrel entertainment give* by
the musical union laat Friday evening'1
was a success in every particular. The
songs were generally new negro songs,
interspersed with soma old onea fanan
iar to all lovers of plantation melodies.
Their program opened with a regulation
negro minstrel circle composed' of thir
teen gentlemen and eight ladles, all
trimmed out in the blackest of black
and costumed equal to the awplleet of
swell negro minstrel troupes. We have
witnessed many minstrel shows from
our youth up, but have never seen a
program better rendered than our own
home talent gave us on this occasion.
It is difficult to mention any numbers
better than the otheys, as they were all
well handled, but will mention that the
selection of "Brudder Tam bo” and
“Jenkins” for end men and “Bnfddar
Cotton” as middle man were happy
selections as they appear to be aptly
fitted to uphold the dignity of these '
positions with ease. Nearly all the
-joBw sprung on n unsuspecting
public were original and cut to fit soma
of the audience with precision. Among
the aongs aung we wish to mention
"Reams on Parade" by Messrs O'Don
nell and Dowling, "In The Shadow of
the Pines” by. Mias Porter, “Elite Rhea"
by Mias Lettle OUlespie, "The Lulu
Song? by Will Davis, "Pansy Does Ton
Love Tour BabyT" by Mr. Stout, "All
Coons Look Alike to Me” by Ralph
Evans, "Call Me Back” by Miss Teae
O'Sullivan, "My Gal is a High Born
Lady" by Mr. Dowling. “The New
Bully" by Messrs. Stout and Evans
deserves special mention, as does also
the cornet solo by Miss Leone Serving
who surprised and delighted her Mends
by the manner in which she rnylered
the selection, while the skirt dance,
executed by Miss Mae Skirving and
"Bailie” Gwin was the crowning effort
of the program, which was happily
terminated by a grand “cake walk.”
This program was rendered to a crowd* '
ed and enthusiastic audience, and we
bear nothing but words of praise for
them on the street. The musical union f
are to be congratulated on the excellent
entertainments they have been giving
us, and we understand they nre' to be
continued during the balance of the
winter and spring. We also learn they
are thinging of taking thia program to
Atkinson in a couple of weeks. We
speak success for them should they do .