■J? , , :>.« *• sumtsmi^ *ywmwMm ssts«*. O . t.V* . S . , - ^ . •„*. .i-.v*;- ’ Vl- -.*■ ' i ' * „ ~ ^ {- f * '•: , i r ‘ ' f ^ ^ '**■-•."'■ * 5 •' I •. 1 »■ k » .-M' RWT , ■ - ■» ; ' / >■ .’ , '■ * i'-' .'‘t ’*,?. %§.: - w ; * -v ** < ■ , - <■ * ''ftatf#*. -*‘v V , .•-:'-'-.„i/v - yvv;' ■ fid ;-':m,' .-- .-.tv O. H. CRONIN, EDITOR ANDMANAOCR. VOLUME XVII O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, APRIL 8, 1897 NUMBER 40. NEWS SANTWHISOBS Items of Interest Told As They Are Told to Us. f i'Jrr. .V: . v-v r:'"-,—’"v.cv^; WHEN AMO BOW IT HAPPENED . <; ' —■» I."... ■■ "head Happenings Portrayal For General v Sdlflwtlen sad Amusement. - ______ Bentley’s for Croekery end glassware. The battle is over, and—well we did ;!■ ; not win. - • ' Councilman-elect Hicks ran like a race horse. . _. H. A. Allen was down from Atkinson j, last Friday._ ■ ■ . ^ Sam Thompson spent Wednesday night in Atkinson. Sanford Parker spent Sunday in the _ city with his family. ‘ , When in need of lead pencils or tab lets, call at Mrs. Cress'. Miss Blanche Adams was down from Stuart Sunday visiting friends. Jim Harrington went up to Valentine Tuesday evening on legal business. J. J. King was down from Chadron Sunday, returning in the evening. The ladies working society will meet with Mrs. C. E. Moore on Wednesday, ' April 14. __ Prof. Anderson went up to Hot Springs Tuesday evening for a few days visit. The total precipitation for the week ending Monday, April 5. was 5.27 • inches. _ , The ground was never in better shape for seeding, in this section, than it is this Bpring. _ If you want some of the best bread you ever ate you can get it at Bentley’s '> City Bakery. 30-8 Frank Woods, of Spencer, visited friends in O’Neill several days the first. , ;s of,the week._- ■ l Dr. A. T. Blackburn was down from Atkinson Wednesday and dropped 81.50. & in our .subscription fund. Jake Hershiser returned to Norfolk yesterday morning to look after his business interests there. Is O’Neill going to have a champion ball team this season? If we are it is about time to organize. Down in “Darkest Arkansaw"lhe peo ple are suffering untold hardships on account of the high water. It will be nearly three months before we have another election. Politicians will be a little out of practice. - The board of directors of the Golden Irrigation district held their regular monthly meeting last Tuesday. How about rock salt? We have it in any quantity. 39-2 O’Neill Grocery Co. For teeth or photos, go to Dr. Cor bett’s parlors, 23rd to 30th of each month. Photographs 81 per dozen. We sell good flour, corn meal, graham, bran, shorts, corn, oats, etc., at gold standard prices. 83-tf L. Keyes. When needing corn, oats, shorts or oil cake, see us. We have it at living prices. 2 O’Neill Grocery Co. There is no school this week. The school board ordered a vacation for a week in order to keep the measles from spreading. __ Jim Harrington purchased the build ing now occupied by Dr. Trueblood as . an office, at the Morris estate sale last Monday, for 842. James Trigg and Sam Thompson have formed a partnership and expect to open up a first-claBs paint shop in this city. See there ad in another column. We have Alfalfa, Red Clover and Kentucky blue grass and they are fresh and niee. See them. 89-8 O’Neill Grocery Co. Elijah Babcock and Mias Teasie Mar* ley were married by County Judge McGutchan last Thursday. The Fron* tier congratulates the young couple. Our spring stock is a sight worth see ing. Call and get our prices. We sell cheap for cash. 40-3 Sullivan Mercantile Co. Charlie Mall has purchased Sam Thompson’s interest in the restaurant, and the firm name is now Hatfield & Hall. We wish the new firm success. Shoes! Shoes! If you want to save money on shoes you muss buy them at our store. 40-8 Sullivan Mercantile Co. In spite of the bad weather last Sat urday the Episcopal ladies did very well with their exchange, and they will hold another April 10 for the same purpose. Joe Horriskey was around town Fri day for the first time since his recent illness. As a result of his illness he is nOw eligible 4o the featherweight class. The hew drug firm, HersbiSer & Gil ligan, expect to have a full and com plete stock of all goods to be found in a first-class drug store, in about ten days. A. L. Wyman, of Shelton, Neb., is in the city this week for the purpose of organizing a lodge of the Loyal Mystic Legions of America, a fraternal benefi ciary order. '_ Bentley’s new stock,of crockery and glassware is just immense. If you want any dishes don’t fail to see their pure white semi-porclean. They are so cheap. __ 89-8 At the Morris estate sale Monday, Jess Mellor purchased about $1,700 worth of notes and accounts for $150. He had ought to open up a collection agency. _ Hershiser & Gilligan’s is the best place to buy first class paints, oils and wall paper at prices to suit the times. Pure drugs dispensed' with care. Choice tobacco and cigars in stock. <40 tf Joseph Price, father of Maylon. Price of this city, returned Sunday evening from a protracted visit with relatives in Illnois. Mr. Price is now convinced that Holt county is the place to live. The Norfolk News is of the opinion that Parnell Golden was entitled to first place in the declamatory contest at that place last week. It is very often the case that the deserving does not win. Daniel Horgan returned Tuesday evening from Ireland, where he has been visiting relatives for a year and a | half. He left Queenstown one week I ago last Sunday. Mr. Horgan looks hale and hearty after his long ocean voyage. __ An exchange defines a ‘‘sucker" as a business man who sends his job work to some printer out of town and expects his home paper to blow up the town and benefit him as well as his enter prising neighbors. There are a few of them even in O’Neill. Having purchased the* drug stook of Morris d; Co., we wish to announce to the public that we aim to give you the attention in the future that was given in this place during the past. 40-tf Sincerely yours, Hehshiseb & Gilligan. Stuttgart Free Press: Stuttgart is fortunate in having five of the best physicians, and most thorough gentle men withal, in the state of Arkansas. You must have a very healthy (?) country, Doc, when! a little town of 1,000 inhabitants can support five of the “best physicians in the state.” Having purchased the drug stock of Morris & Co., we are now ready to give you the best for your money, and invite you to come in when you are in town, where you will be courteously treated. Truly yours, 40-tf Hehshiseb & Gilligan. F. W. Anthony, who left Laurel, Neb., for Denver for the benefit of his health, returned to O’Neill Tuesday evening. His health has greatly im proved since going'to the mountains, and the pure air of Holt county will soon return the bloom of health to his cheeks. Last week the Sullivan Mercantile company billed two car loads of pota toes to Galveston, Texas, from which place they will be shipped to Cuba. We hope they will strengthen the muscles of the patriots and thus assist them in breaking the chain that holds them bound to the Spanish tyrants. Neligh Advocate: Will Moss, the college student from Atkinson, is still very sick. He was getting along nipely and improving until Tuesday, when he suffered a relapse, and was for awhile in a very critical condition. His father and mother came down and are at his bedside. The suit of Mrs. Mary Tierney vs. Grattan township, for nursing Mr. Hayes in 1894, was tried to a jury in Judge McCutchan’s court last Friday. Suit was brought for $100. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $42. Mrs. Taylor was attorney for the plaintiff, and J. J. Harrington for the defendant. A Kansas editor went to Mexico on an editorial excursion recently, says the Norfolk News, leaving his daughter, 17 years old, to get out the paper during his absence. The first issue under the new woman regime contained this notice at the head of the editorial col umn: "Pa is in Mexico. I received a letter from him this morning. He has got.ma with him and is haying a darn good time, I guess. I wish be was home, as it is lonesome to be editor-in chief all alone. .Pa and ma went to church and a bull fight last Sunday. Go well together, pa and ma, church and a bull fight.” Sheriff Hamilton took Raymond Mus ser down to Lincoln last Sunday, where be entered upon an eight-year sentence for shooting Geo. A. Spence last Decem ber. The supreme court fixed bis appeal bond at $8,000 and gave him until April IS to file it. Munser made no attempt to secure the bond but expects to try and secure a commutation of the sen tence in about a year Dixon Tribune: Lightening mean dered around over Wayne a short time ago, and passing seven saloon keepers, the county commissioners, all the news paper men anrj C. J. Rundell, flopped down on a poor Inoffensive preacher and knocked the whey out of him. Someway Wayne’s lightening does not seem to care about the moral as taught in the Sunday school books of our youth. Two years ago R, J. Warren, a drug gist at Pleasant Brook, N. Y., bought a small supply of Chamberlain’s Cough remedy. He sums up the result as follows: “At that time the goods were unknown in this section; today Cham berlain’s Cough remedy is a household world.” It Is the same in hundreds of communities. Where ever the good qualities of Chamberlain’s Cough rem edy become known th'e people will have nothing else. For sale by P. C. Corrigan. The following special to the State Journal from Blair, Neb., will be of Interest to our citizens, as Mr. Cain re sided north of this city for several years: "Thomas Cain fell’down the cellar stairs at the residence of his son-in-law, Harry Higley,, last evening at 5 o’clock, and sustained serious injuries. A gash about four inches long was cut in his head,and some internal injuries resulted from the fall. Dr. Meecher is not able to tell at the present time whether or not they will result fatally.” The musical union will hold a special meeting at the rink Friday night to which the public are invited to discus* the question of securing the service* of an instructor for the musical classes. The union has the promise of the ser vices of an eminent Instructor if the proper arrangements can be made, fie will want to organize a private class in voice culture, outside of the union ant) all who have an interest in such matters are urged to attend this meeting and hear the question discussed. The anti-irrigationists were not in it to any great extent yesterday. In this, the First district, the vote is very close. With Emmett to hear from Leeper has a majority of two over Hopkins. It is the opinion of those familiar with the sentiment in that precinct that it will give Hopkins a majority of five or six. If so, he will be elected. In the Second district Dodd bad no opposition, while in the Third Mr. Hall was re-elected by a majority oyer Mr. Sission, the Ains worth candidate. Sam Nelson is elected assessor by a good majority over John Kelly. Fred Whittemore was re-elected treasurer without opposition. The city election prssed off very quietly last Tuesday, the result being a great surprise to us as well as a large number of others. B. S. Gillespie was elected mayor over John Skirving by a majority of 23. The vote on mayor in the several wards was as follows: First ward, Gillespie 40; Skirving 28. Second ward, Gillespie 37; Skirving 25. Third ward, Gillespie 30; Skirving 37. So it will be seen by the above that the bloody Third was the only one in the city which gave a majority for Skirving. N. Mar tin was elected city clerk and B. Me Greevy city treasurer without opposi sition. In the First ward E. P. Hicks received a majority of 30 over Ernest Adams for councilman. E. S. Kinch was elected to the council from the Sec ond ward without opposition, as was also Emil Sniggs from the Third. The political complexion of the council is five republicans and one old-time democrat. A chronic politician haa thus written to a lady whom he sought to marry: “My dear, I hereby announce myself as a candidate for your hand, and I shall use all fair and honorable means to secure the nomination. I know there ere many candidates in the field, and I hesitated long before entering the race, but now I am in to stay. My views on matrimony have often been expressed in your hearing, and I need not express them here. You know I favor the gold standard of love and the maintenance of that standard after marriage. If you decide to confer upon me the honor I seek, please fix the date for a caucus with your mother. I've no objections to her acting as chairman, provided it is clearly understood I am to be chairman of the permanent organization. Should the result of the caucus be satisfactory we can soon bold the primaries and select the date and place of the conven tion.” The following brief telegram answered it: “Caucus unnecessary. Nomination unanimous. Come at once and fix date of ratification.” Mr*. A. Inveen, residing at 72 where his deputy and his clerks had gone in and out, where Maret and the oil room gang had flitted in and out, where Edmundson had solemnly walked in and out. where the "guard” had been in and out, where God only knows who had been in and out when the people of Lincoln were asleep, and the first sol emn act of the new committee when they reached the haunted chamber was to lock the two outside doors and place a guard at the inside door. isacn memoer or me new counting committee protested vigorously to everyone whom he met, "These ballots will be counted now and counted hon estly.” I don’t know why these popu list manipulators (eel called upon at all times, in all places and under all cir cumstances, to atop every man they meet and explain that they are honest. Their honesty seems to be of a kind that requires constant advertising and pushing to keep it before the public. There’s a theory among the mental science people that if you earnestly desire something, which you are greatly in need of, all that is necessary is to constantly assert that you have it, and by the very force of the positive state ment repeated over and over again, you will bring to yourself the desired thing. If this theory is correct, I know of a number of prominent populists wbo have reached that stage in sanctified honesty where they can do no wrong. Whenever they, in their enthusiasm for reform, run up against a law or a con stitution, that’s a sign that the constitu tion is wrong and ought to be set aside. "You can’t criticise this recount any more now,” said one of the legislative committee, as he stood in the hall, outside of the counting room with the door locked behind him, "for we’re going to do this ourselves.” "You bet,” said a hard-looking citizen who stood near and who has been one of the bang ers on and one of the helpers. "You bet,” he continued to ejaculate, as the member reiterated over and over again that the members themselves were going to do the job aud nobody could question their honesty. "You bet they can’t,” repeated the banger-on, "an’ the peo ple’s with us.” I have noticed all through this session that whenever you meet one of the “push” in this recount business, he wants to explain that he, himself, is perfectly honest, is entirely disinterest ed, and there’s always one of these cheap job-hunters standing at his elbow ready to ejaculate and vouch without recourse for every word. "You can’t kick on this recount now,” said one of the committee to an old acquaintance, "for I’m going to look after it myself. You’ve know’d me for twenty years and you’ve always know’d me as bein’ honest.” "I always think of your honesty whenever 1 see you,” retorted the acquaintance, "because you are always thoughtful enough to mention it.” It’s an era of pretentions and tin horn honesty. It’s the millenium for quacks and humbugs. The shoddy mills are running night and day to supply the demands of that part of a greedy public that wants to be flimflammed and flat tered with the very latest pattern of fashion, frivolity and fraud. Even the farmer, who is ordinarily staid and steady in his mind, has become rattled by the weird strains that come from the wheezing bag-pipe of populism. Everything goes that has the pop and bluster of “honesty” in it. Every man with a hysterical brain, if he %as a frousily head and a lubricated mouth, if he has grass' colored whiskers and an old buggy, if he neglects hit home, his family, and his business, and l chases year in and year out for an office can get one if he continually wall* oaf the whang doodle song of personal ' honesty. Peffer was elected because k a wae “poor but hoaaot." Because b*V; railed against greed, but be came home; to Kansas rich. Bryan got a nominal tion because he railed against injunc tions, and now, by reason of an injunc tion, be baa a monopoly which brings him in SIC,000 a inontb, and this be religiously divides with tbe cause." The siren of railroad influence with' ’’ the twang of her light guitar and the fetching seductiveness of her song has lured many a republican politician to his ruin, but never a pop. The causes 'and effects which regulate the standing of ordinary men have no influence upon tbe destiny of the populists. Before the ‘ election, each of these reform members went about among his neighbors bins tenng and bragging about what railroad reforms he would inaugurate when he got to the legislature. The locomotives:; as they flew across the state would toot in a different key and the if heels would ■ revolve in the opposite direction. Freight rates were to be reduced to so low a figure that corn fodder could be ‘, shipped from Benkleman to Boston and passenger rates were to be put down so that the farmers of the state cooM afford to ride over the country just for" fun. Passes were to be prohibited. In l their speeches before election these members announced over and over again that they would lock their Upe too close to speak a lie and wash their hands too clean to touch a bribe or a railroad pass. Now their pockets are bulging out with passes, and now, if what they ' say of each other Is true, there Is not one of them that would believe the other under oath. Bach one, when he speaks of himself, is “honest,” but when' tbe other is mentioned he shakes his.. bead and looka suspicious. They've buried every railroad measure, which they introduced but never Intended to pass, so deep that the “whits faced oxen with red ears” couldn’t pull one of them out into the daylight, and the “liver colored mole with one eye* couldn’t kick the anti-pass bill loose . from tbe grip of the reform sifting committee. After the legislative committee had looked themselvee in a haH-day or so, f* “fixing up for the recount,” as they, gave out, they opened the doors and pretended that tbe oount was open to/ the public. The parties who ware ^ expected to do the slight of hand bust-' ness have been hindered some and I cannot now prophesy the result J. W. Johmo*. • XICTOLI RU On July 4th wg will gin our cdstom era i high grade Imperial ladle* or genta wheel. Share* will be given for sales, and collection* of account* note* or school order*. 89-tf . J. P. Manr. U IMPOXTAXT HAITI*. Before planting garden it is important to get good freah seed*. We have never been better prepared to furniih strictly first-class, fresh seeds, than we are this spring.''Before baying, look them over and you will be convinced that w* are headquarters for good seeds. 80-8 O’NaiUi Gbocbby Co. J. P. Mann’s Spring Announcement! / „ ■ ■ * ’ NEW DRESS GOODS. J§ -All the latest novelties in worsted' suitings, Organdies, Laperts, Grena dines, Brodis, Picritines, Malls end Percales. And a (nil line of the latest trimmings. MEW CLOTHING. Beautiful stylish plaid salts, all wool. >8 and t8.50. Cheaper ones 95, M, and •6.75. Block Clay worsteds, all wool, •7.75, 99 and MO, as good values as can - be found la the United States. Good salts for boys 4 to 14, 91.50 and •1.75, Fine ones for 92 and 92.50, and an extra good one for 93, HEW SHOES. And more of them than ever. Ladles', men's and children's. All the new things in high and low shoes. Ox ‘ Bloods, Tans and Blacks. We have some cheap shoes, but prefer to see how good a shoe we can sell you, not how cheap a one, as the best shoe Is ; .always the cheapest. New Capes, New Skirts, New Wrap pers. New Ties.' New Hats,' New Cape, and the finest line of shirt waists and fine shirts in this part of Nebraska. McDonald’s celebrated work shirt ^ overalls and pants in endless variety. j. p. riANN. v: