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VOLUME XVII.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, MARCH 4, 1897.
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NUMBER 35.
NEWS SANS WHISKERS
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
Local Happening! Portrayed For General
Edification and Amueement.
"J. D. Selah was up from Ewing last
Saturday.
See the vitascope at the rink Saturday
evening. _
Dr. Blackburn was down from Atkin
son yesterday.
Col. B. W. Johnson was courting in
^ the cilv last Saturday.
Attorney O. H. Scott, of Hebron, is
in the city attending court.'
Claim Agent Seamen, of the Pacific
- Short Line, was in the city Monday.
1 J. P. Mann returned from his eastern
purchasing trip Monday evening.
R. E. Chittick, W. Erotter and H.
Shank Were down from Stuart Tuesday.
The ladies’ working society will meet
with Mrs. R. R. Dickson next Wednes
day.
Charles Baker left last week fot Coop
er, la., where he will make his future
home.
B. E. Sturdevant was’ down from
Atkinson last Friday as a witness in the
Musser case.
John M. Cotton, representing the
World-Herald, was in the city last Sat
urday and Sunday.
H. W. McClure was up from Sioux
City Monday, looking after his business
interests in this county.
Items of Interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
- John Davidson came up from Norfolk
k Saturday evening and spent Sunday in
this city visiting bis parents.
W. D. Gailbraitb, cashier of tbe
Thayer County Bank, of Hebron, is in
tbe city attending court.
For teeth or photos, go to Dr. Cor
jJsett's parlors, 23rd to 30th of each
| Mr. until. Photographs $1 per dozen.
We sell good flour, corn meal, graham,
bran, shorts, corn, oats, etc., at gold
standard prices. 83-tf L. Keyes.
Barred Plymouth Rock cockerels,
pure and fine, for sale by H. M. Uttley,
O’Neill. Write him for prices. 34-4
Wm. Kelley, of the firm of Garrow,
Kelly & Co., commission merchants of
South Omaha, is in tbe city attending
:r\ court.
The Holt County Teachers’ associa
tion held a very interesting and
instructive session at Atkinson last
Saturday.
C. C. Crosford, of Omaha, govern
< ment meat inspector in Cuddahy’s pack
^ ing house, is in the city this week
attending court.
DeWitt’s Sarsaparilla is prepared for
cleaning the blood. It builds up and
strengthens constitutions impaired by
disease. Morris & Co.
The ball at the rink last Monday
evening, given by the Modern Wood
's, men and Royal Neighbors, was an
i enjoyable affair although not largely
I attended.
J E. O. Root, of Inman, sold in this
city last week three hogs, the average
weight of which were 510 pounds each.
That is the kind of stock that it pays to
feed 12 cent corn to.
. 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 old lady was right when she said
U the child might die if they waited for
v the doctor. She saved the little one’s
life with a few doses of One Minute
Cough Cure. Morris & Co.
The length of life 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
The vitascope show at the rink Satur
day evening will be something worth
seeing. The objects thrown on the
screen having such a lifelike appearance
as to make them veritable “living
pictures." _
Delegations from Stuart and Atkinson
were before the county board Tuesday
and Wednesday. The question of the
removal of the Grand Rapids bridge
f the magnet that drew our western
^neighbors to the city,
J. B. Anderson, of Star, was a caller
last Monday and paid his subscription
to January 1, 1898. If the rest of our
subscribers would follow John’s exam
f our financial condition would
improve considerably.
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
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.
The damage case of Benedict against
the City of O’Neill is now on trial in the
district court. This is the third trial of
this case. In the first trial a verdict
was given for the city. A new trial
was then secured on error, and the jury
failed to agree.
Stuttgart Free Press: Charlie Odell
was prancing around like a brindle two
year old colt in a forty-acre blue-grass
pasture, early Monday morning, and all
because be was made a papa for the
first time. He can’t name the new
comer George Washington, ’cause it
ain’t built that way.
Lead (8. D.) Call: Last eveninir at
the vitascope show there were nine bald
heads sitting close to the foot lights.
When the ballot girl did her act accom
panied by Prof Windolph on the piano,
the scene was so real that all those bald
heads strentched their necks to get a
better view of the lady. Although it
was only a shadow that was dancing,
force of habit made the bald heads
“rubber neck.”
C. N. Biglow and Miss Belle Eldridge,
of Stuart, were united in marriage last
Tuesday evening by County Judge
McCutchan at the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. John Skirving, in this city.
William Krotter, of Stuart, was grooms
man, and Miss Mae Skirving, of this
city was ' bridesmaid. The young
couple took the evening train for their
home in Stuart. We extend congratu
lations.
Our spring stock is now arriving and
in a few days we can show you a beau
tiful assortment of late style suitings,
and all fiie new things in spring and
summer dress goods, capes, skirts, suits
etc. In our clothing department we
will have some extra good values in
cheap and medium priced suits for
summer wear, and we feel confident we
can sell you if you give us a chance, as
prices will compare with any you can
get. J. P. Mann.
Mrs. Higgins, of Columbus, sued the
A. O. U, W. for $3,000 on a beneficiary
certificate issued to her husband in her
favor. She got a judgment for the full
amount and costs. It did not appear on
the lodge records that the last assess
ment previous to the death of her hus
band had been paid, but she proved in
court that it bad been paid, which
entitled her to the judgment. It will
undoubtedly be paid, as the order wants
to pay every beneficiary when they can
legally.
Mr. Ward L. Smith, of Fredericks
town, Mo., was troubled witl) chronic
diarrhoea for over thirty years. He had
become fully satisfied that it was only
a question of a short time until he would
have to give up. He had been treated
by some of the best physicians in Europe
and American' but got no permanent
relief. One day he picked up a news
paper and chanced to read an adver
tisement of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera
a'bd Diarrhoea Remedy. He got a bottle
of it, the firBt dose helped him and its
continued use cured him. For sale by
P. C. Corrigan.
Nebraska Editor: Such papers as the
Broken Bow Chief, Central City Demo
crat, Fremont Tribune, Grand Island In
dependent, Papillion Times, York Re
publican, O'Neill FnoNTiEK, McCook
Tribune, Red Cloud Argus, Uartington
Herald, Norfolk News, Schuller Quill,
West Point Republican, Madison
Chronicle, Ord Quiz.Tecumseh Cbieftan,
Sterling Sun, Nebraska City News,
Geneva Signal, Trenton Register, Falls
City Journal, Pawnee City Press, Hold
redge Citizen, Central City Nonpariel,
Crete Vidette, and all the other papers
of Nebraska are hard to equal in any
state in the union, size of towns con
sidered. _
If girls only knew that the habit of
chewing gum was productive of wrink
les they wouldn’t do it. Yet it is a stern
fact, according to the statement of a
well-known Philadelphia physician.
“The incessant action of the jaws,” he
said, “throws the mouth out of shape,
and must, sooner or later, bring out the
wrinkles on the face. The first to |
appear are the little fine lines just below
the temples. Then a deep, ugly line
begins to make up a permanent resi
denc about the corners of the mouth and
next in the cheeks. The plumpest cheek
that ever bore a rose will soon wrinkle
under the force of this ugly gum chew
ing habit. As to whether gum chewing
‘aids digestion,’ or is good for the throat
I am not arguing. Any girl who doubts
this assertion may consult her mirror or
the faces of some of her tutti-frutti
friends.”
HTJS8EB CONVICTED. |
We, the jury in this case, being duly
impaneled and sworn, do find the de
fendant, Raymond Musser, not guilty
of murder in the first degree, as charged
in the information, but do find him
guilty of manslaughter.
The above was the verdict of the jury
that tried Raymond Musser, in the
district court before Judge Kinkaid, for
the murder of Geo. A. Spence, after
being out about four hours.
The case was hotly contested by the
attorneys on both sides. M. F. and J.
J. Harrington represented the defend
ant, while Hi E. Murphy and the county
attorney prosecuted.
The instructions of the court were
lengthy, plain and explicit, and covered
every possible point. They were cal
culated to make the duty of the jury
plain.
From the evidence it waB shown that
Musser rented his farm to Mrs. Spence
for her son-in-law, Mr. Huston, on
April 5, 1896, and she was to pay for
rent of said land 925, said money to be
paid in June before lease was signed.
Huston could not get here in time to
crop the^land, and Spence put in the
crop for him. Mrs. Huston came here
from Montana the fore part of July.
Mrs. Spence went to Mrs. Musser and
asked for the key to the house. Mrs.
Musser refused to give her possession of
the place until the rent was paid, which
they had agreed to pay in June. She
said she could not pay the rent and
asked Musser to release her from the
verbal contract, which he agreed to.
Then to Bettle the matter, Musser agreed
to take a share of the crop, and told
Spence that as soon as the corn was
picked that would settle ic.
In December Mrs. Musser rented the
land to J. M. Campbell. The lease was
dated December 1, 1896, and was to run
to March 1, 1898. In July Spence sold
the cornstalks to Albert Swering. This
was before the question of rent was
settled between Musser and Spence.
Musser told Spence that he had rented
the place to Campbell and requested
him to keep his cattle off. As Campbell
had taken possession of the place
December 1, he also notified Swering to
keep his tattle off. Swering paid no
attention to the request. On December
11. the day of the shooting, Musser
went out to the place to repair the house
and to get some corn that he had stored
there. On his way to the house
he saw Spence’s and Swering driving
toward the field with cattle. He then
drove into the field and waited for them
to come up, as he says he wanted to see
whether they would go into the field or
drive by. They held the cattle back
and George Spence drove up to within
about six rods of where Musser was and
■aid:
“I rented this place.”
Musser replied, “You are a liar.”
Spence replied. “You are foliar,” and
added some other insulting epithets.
Musser then told him to quit using
such language and to keep off his place,
and then there would be no trouble.
Spence replied he would not go until
be got ready, and stood up in the buggy
and shook his fist at Musser.
Musser then fired, as he claimed,
between the horses and the dash board,
part of the charge taking effect in
Spence’s legs.
The shooting occurred on December
11, and on January 15 Spence died.
A coroner's jury was impaneled and
they decided that the immediate cause
of his death was pneumonia superin
duced by a gunshot wound in the legs;
that on account of his enfeebled con
dition he failed to rally from the shock
of such wound.
A motion will be made for a new trial.
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“A FISHEBMAITS LUCK.”
This laughable comedy drama will be
presented by the Academy Dramatic
Company at the opera-house on March
17. It is one of the best comedy dramas
ever presented in this city, and is sure
to please. Following is the cast of
characters:
Tom Manly, a poor fisherman.
.M. H. McCarthy.
William Farren, alias Squire Ham
mond. Art Mullen.
James Hammond, Parren’s son.
.D. H. Cronin.
David Morris, known as Uncle Davie..
.Tim Dwyeb.
Silas Kidder, stage-struck.It. J. Marsh.
Rev. George Medhurst.A. Marlow.
Rose Prescott, Hammond’s ward.
.Nellie Daley.
Mrs. Manley, Tom.s mother.
.Mrs. T. D. Hanley.
Ruth Manley, Tom's sister... Alice cronin.
Little Nellie, a waif of the ocean.
.Loretta Sullivan.
Rheumatism Quickly Cured.
After having been confined to the
house for eleven days and paying out
$35 in doctor bills without benefit, Mr.
Frank Dolson of Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich., was cured by one bottle of Cham
berlain’s Pain Balm, costing 25 cents,
and hag not since been troubled with
that complaint. For sale by P. C.
Corrigan.
Leora Lane Company held down the
boards at the opera-house Tuesday and
Wednesday. Last night it was good.
Those persons who are desirous of
securing cockerls to mate up their poul
try for the season, can secure choice
barred Plymouth Rocks from H. M.
Valley, O'Neill. Write him for prices.
To cure all old sores, to heal an indo
lent ulcer, or to speedily cure piles, you
need simply apply DeWltt's Witch
Bezel salve according to directions. Its
magic-llke action will surprise you.
Morris & Co.
“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
left ear DeWitt’s Little Early Risers
would reach it and shake it for him.
On that you can bet your gig-lamps.”
Morris & Co._
The story is told by an exchange of
how a bunch of school boys and girls
were at the depot last week, and one of
them, in a casual way, lamented that all
the scientific problems had bean solved
before they could have a chance to show
their hands on such things, when a com
mercial man broke in about as follows:
“Don’t get clear down in the mouth
children. Try your hands on what
makes the sky blue, and bow a hen
makes yolk and shell from the same
grub. Tell me why there is never an
ear of corn with an odd number qt rows
of corn on it, or how lightening bugs
make light without any heat. And
while you are about it. tell me how the
lightening bug can live 1,000 years, or
foreyer, for that matter, on nothing, or
why my hair is block and yours is red.”
Atkinson Plain Dealer: Kollins’
Komic Kolored Kommedlans made their
anxiously looked (or appearance before
a $47 house in Atkinson Saturday night.
The public had been led to expect great
things from this aggregation, and they
were not disappointed, although the
unfortunate occurance of the train being
four hours late delayed the .arrival of a
portion of the troupe until half past
nine. Notwithstanding the inconven
ience of coming right from the train
wiijiout any preparation, they gave an
entertainment that might put to shame
many traveling aggregations. The
orchestra, especially, was excellent.
And should our O’Neill friends ever
again visit Atkinson under more favor
able circumstances, we bespeak for
them * good house. * * *
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Hicks returned
Monday evening from Stuttgart, Ark.,
where they have been visiting their
daughter, Mrs. Henry DeYarman and
family the past six weeks. 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 set back. Let them return. There
is lots of room in “God’s country” for
them.—O’Neill, Nebraska Frontier.
Well, well, well, but wouldn’t that
cork ye? We can hardly credit the
truth of tbe above item, in view of the
way both Mr. and Mrs. Hicks spoke of
this country while here. They ex
pressed themselves as more than pleased,
as being delighted with the country,
and tbe last thing that Zeke said at
parting was that the O'Neill people
would hear nothing but good words of
Arkansas and Stuttgart—that he was
glad be came and found out that some
people had lied about our country and
our people. Henry DeYarman is so
mad at the above item that he has writ
ten to his daddy-in-law for an explana
tion. Zeke, old man, if you have
maligned us, (mind you we use the word
"if”) why in all sincerity did you flatter
us all when here, and say you wish you
could be one of us. but that O’Neill
people held out too big inducements to
keep you up there to think of leaving
just at present?—Stuttgart Free Press.
Mr. Hicks enjoyed a good laugh when
he read the above effusion from the pen
of Doc the boomer. He says that
Arkansas is a good country for water,
you can find it all oyer. It is also a
good place for timber, whiskey, quinine
and razor-back hogs, and that he
wants none of it In his’n.
THE HEW BRIDGE AT SIOUX CITY.
Will be used by the Pacific Short
Lino exclusively, commencing March 1.
This will enable that company to oiler
its patrons the best of service, as there
will be no delays caused by other trains.
Remember by taking that line at
O’Neill you save three hours time to
Sioux City.
Dangers of the Grip.
The greatest danger from la grippe is
of its resulting in pneumonia. If
reasonable care is nsed, however, and
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy taken, all
danger will be avoided. Among the
tens of thousands wno have used this
remedy for la grippe, we have yet to
learn of a single case having resulted in
pneumonia, which shows conclusively
that this remedy is a certain preventa
tive of that dread disease. It will effect
a permanent cure in less time than any
other treatment. The 25 and 50 cent
sizes for sale by P. C. Corrigan.
THE BIXO BULBS.
Lincoln, Neb., March 8.—Special
corretpondence: There ia no aenaation
at the capitol. Events are aenaational
in their character. Ordinarily, thia
preaent history, this tangled web of
embezzlement, bold plots and criminal
conspiracies, aa it ia being unwound,
revealing the crimes of those who have
gone out and the contemplated crimes
of thoae who have come in, would make
the publtc mind dizzy with sensation
and stir the blood of a betrayed people.
But the public is so stunned and sated
with all the aenaation and misfortune of
the last few years that it has lost its
power to feel the deep thrusts of those
who assissinate confidence, or to discern
the dark stains that are being put upon
its honor. We entered this slough of
despond in 1890. We have bean wal
lowing in its mire for six years. Ood
only knows when we will emerge. The
public looks on as spectators at this
play of slate government, dazed and
doubting, silent and stoical, as if it
would say to the actcrs, “Go on with
your play and get through with It!”
The arrest of the ex-auditor for em
bezzlement, the embarrassed condition
of the state treasury, the bold plot of
the governor to commit a crime in the
interest of his family relatives, the
expenditure of $80,000 in this session
with no result except the passing of
House Roll No. 5. the complete subju
gation of the fusion majority to an
unscrupulous ring of selfish plotters,
and the complete abandonment by the
“reformers” of all that they had prom
ised the people, all these things which
would ordinarily arouse the public are
received with indifference, without sur
prise, as If it was just what was
expected. Tbe people, baffled and bul
lied by the bossism which controlled the
old party, seeing the new party wound
and bound in the same toils, seem in
doubt which way to turn.
Republicans are humiliated by tbe
defaults of the ex-auditor, while tbe
populists are humiliated that the gover
nor, who was bis intimate friend, who
knew the law and that those fees were
being unlawfully held, had not the
honor of a friend, saying nothing of his
higher duty to the public, to say to the
auditor, "Put that money where it
belongs.”
The governor had shrewdly appropri
ated to himself and his party the effect
of the many grand-stand plays of which
the auditor had been accused. It was
the proud boast of the governor in his
public speeohes and in his private talks
that there was one republican official
with whom he could counsel in his pious
zeal for the public good. Be stood
with Moore as long as Moore stood up
and played into his hand. But when
Moore was about to fall, and when the
governor was privately informed of the
report that was about to be made by the
investigating committee, the governor
stopped the committee and availed him
self of the forced opportunity to pounce
upon the falling man with a special
message, as if he were the faithful
watch-dog of the public money. It is
but just to say that most of the fusion
members in both houses recognize the
selfish cunning manifested in the gover
nor’s message. 1 have talked with many
republicans, and I have not found one
wno wanted to excuse or palliate the
least iota of guilt in republican officials.
There is a fixed determination in the
minds of republicans to put the party in
the future, untramelled and unbossed,
on the higher ground that will bring
back to the state the honest government
it gave the people for twenty-five years,
when republican state officers went out
of the state house door with every dol
lar of the public money in its place.
Populism brought with it into this
state a system of brass band honesty
and sham pretenses that fooled the
people and beguiled the weak politician.
The mediocre man, poor In ability but
rich in self conceit and bold in effront
ery, seeing others of like charaoter
suddenly lifted from obscurity into daz
zling notoriety by loud pretenses of
personal honesty, became an apt and
cunning manipulator of public confi
dence. Barnum originated the idea
that people wanted to be fooled. Every
cheap John rushed into politics and
wanted a state office. When Eem from
bis seven hundred a year clerkship at
Broken Bow, was suddenly boosted
into congress with a whoop, it was a
sign that Barnum had a great head, and
that an era of cheap pretentions, cheap
politics and cheap statesmen had set In.
The mellenium of ragtag and bobtail
politics had come, and every windy
blow-hard who could toot the horn of
personal honestg and "reform” could
get an office. The public had become
alienated from the substantial citizen
and turned its confidence foolishly and
blindly to the man who could prove his
honesty by his pretentions and his
poverty. Every man and everything
I that was real and worthy of confidence
' 'I? mi
Ion confidence, while every sham and
■ham reformer rode high upon the wave
of popular favor. " -
The chaperone* of the republican
party beguiled it into competition with
populism in thii game of ragtag and
bobtail politic*. They aald, “We can't
elect men who are of the higher grade.
We mu*t go into the highway* and by
way* and get ‘common fellera'. wbo
■tend in with the common people.”
That was an awful comment on the
character of our eitimnahlp, but the
following which populiim obtained by
that method seemed to Justify .it and 4
make it a logical argument. Little by
little the competition between republl- - |
can* and populist* in this game of rag
tag and bobtail ’ politics haa lowered the
publlo standard of men., We can all see . * -
the mistake now. Republicans are
blushing for the put, and populists are
blushing for the pruent Every selfish,
petty, political trick practiced by repub
licans is now duplicated and doubly
discounted by the oil room clique of the ^
populists. To show how the character
of the executive office hu steadily
declined we need only to refer to the
one fact that the governor, through hie
henchmen, hu held this session forty
days at an expenu ot 180,000, and that
every meuure of reform hu'been held,
or smothered, while houu rail No. B
wu rushed through under the crack of (
the party whip.
What does this meuure propou to do?
It proposes to count in the supreme
Judge amendment, notwithstanding it
lacked over 80,000 votes. And who Is
the beneficiary of this crime which is
proposed? Lawyer Kirkpatrick. ,. .
And who in Kirkpatrick? Thn farm- : ^
era in the country, reading ot the Judge
who is to be aeated by house roll No. 5, Cp
ask each other whan they meet, “Who . ^
is this Kirkpatrick? Who haahe beao?
Where has he been? What has ha done? :S:;
Where is he now? What la he doing V '
now, and bow did he get mixed up In
this deal, anyway r* Populists all over
the sute, as they read, tbeae lines, will .
bear me out in the statement that they
themselves in their state convention last
summer knew nothing ot Kirkpatrick, ,
never had seen him, never had heard of
him, and when his name was proposed _
for supreme Judge they went about ask- ' ^ j
ing each other, “Who Is Kirkpatrick r , "
They did not know him. They only
knew that It was being whispered from
ear to ear, by the ring, that the gover
nor wanted some man by the name of
Kirkpatrick nominated for attorney
general if It could be done, but it not,
then for supreme Judge. Well, here's
information for you, brother populist.
Kirkpatrick was one of the firm of
Kirkpatrick & Holcomb, la the chattel
mortgage business at Broken Bow, and
is related to the governor by marriage.
It seems the governor in two years, as
chief ekeeutivrf, had begun to feel bis
power over the populists. He said to '
Kirkpatrick, “If you will go with me to
the state convention and say that you
are a populist, I will see that you get a
nomination.” Kirkpatrick, who had
never been a populist, but who did not
care particularly, only so he got on In
life, being assured by the governor that
the Bryan and free silver craze would ^-1
pull the fusion ticket through in this
state, consented, went, and waa nomin
ated. The amendment which provided
for the two extra seats on the supreme
bench lacked 80,000 votes of being
carried. The governor, to force his
plans at all hazard, has held every
reform measure in abeyance to this one
purpose at cost to the state of 880,000.
If it does not cost the fusion party 80,000
votes, it will be because the rank and
file of the party are too blind to see the
bossism put upon them by the governor
and because their morality is too dor
mant to comprehend a crime against the
constitution. J. W, Johnson.
ItnCrinhCwk.
After the big fire in Cripple Creek, I
took e very severe cold end tried many
remedies without help, the cold only
becoming more eettled. After ueing
three email bottles of Chamberlain'e
Cough Remedy, both the cough and
cold left me, and in thie high altitude it
takes a meritorious cough remedy to do
any good.— G. B. Hkndebsoh, editor
Daily Advertison. For Bale by P. C.
Corrigan.
XI settle Utters.
Electric Bitters is a medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps more gener
ally needed, when the languid ax* -
hausted feelinga prevails, when the liver
is torpid and sluggish and the need of a
tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt
use of this medicine has often averted
long and perhape fatal bilious fevers.
No medicine will act more surely in
counteracting and freeing the eyeless
from the malarial poison. Headache,
indigestion, constipation, diaaineee.
yield to Electric Bitters. 00 eents and
91.00 per botttle at P. C. Corrigan’s
Drugstore. ‘