The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, April 22, 1897, Image 1
. PUBLISHED BY THE PRONTIER PRINTING CO. ' S> SUBSCRIPTION, SI.80 PER ANNUM. VOLUME XVII. O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, APRIL 22, 1897. iSSsil ¥■' V,v f ' 'V*' ‘ ' ; • A' « w >* *4 ~-<i v-s it W • 1 ■ - •• v ■■ Q 0. vf# V*'" ■5." v'' T-r «■ »,e^ yv"i k d. h. ei V ,1 HTOR AND MANAGER. NUMBER 42.; NEWS SANTWHISKEBS Items of Interest Told As They Are .Told to Us. '■; WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED teesl Hsppsaiags Portrayed For Qeneral Edification sad Amusement. _ Arbor day._ Did you plant trees? How are the roads? Otto Milts was over from Spencer last Sunday. _' Col. Johnson was down from Atkin son Wednesday.. E E. Hubbard, of Jackson, was in the city last Friday. Miss Bessie Jacobs is dangerously ill with the measles. When in need of lead pencils or tab lets, call at Mrs. Cress'. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Pasche were over from Butte last Tuesday. F. 8. Sanders, of Badger, was at the Hotel Evans last Friday. S. M. Wagers was transacting busi ness in Boyd county last week. Miss Bertba Brown, of Atkinson, is in the city, the guest of Mrs. C. E. Hall. The ladies’ working society will meet with Mrs. Cress next Wednesday, April 88. ' ' _ Attorney J. A. Douglas was down from the county seat of Rock county last Friday. _ Paper hanging 15 cents a roll. Satis faction guaranteed by George Triggs and Sam Thompson. 43-8 The best line of wall paper in Holt county, cheaper than you can steal it, at Hershiser & Gilligan’s. 43-tf The youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Meals, whose life was dispaired of last week, is recovering. Charlie Cole, who has spent the past two years in Illinois and Indiania, re turned to O’Neill last night. , .. F. W. Ackley, trainmaster of the Sioux City, O’Neill and Western rail road, was in the city Tuesday. Rev. N. S. Lowrie went down to Randolph Wednesday morning to attend the Presbytery meeting. Joe Mann came over from Spencer Saturday, and spent Sunday visiting friends and relatives in this city. It is to the interest of the business men of O’Neill to see that the roads are graded and the bridges repaired. The High. School Literary Society have a very interesting program which they will render tomorrow evening. For teeth or photos, go to Dr. Cor bett's parlors, S3rd to 30th of each month. Photographs 81 per dozen. J. E. Stillwell and son left Wednes day morning for England, where they will spend the summer visiting relatives. We sell good flour, corn meal, graham, bran, shorts, corn, oats, etc., at gold standard prices. 38-tf L. Keyes. The best line of cigars, wall paper and paints at Hershiser & Gilligan’s. Give us a call before you .buy wall paper. ' 43-tf H. C. Kelso, of Winterset, la., was in the city last Friday and Saturday. Mr. Kelso is an old-time friend of O. O. Snyder. _ The children of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Williams have been quite ill with the measles the past week, but are now improving. __ Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dobbs went down to Norfolk last Sunday morning to attend a special Easter service of the Knight Tern piers. R. H. McGee, of Oakdale, who waa a member of the laat aeaaion of the Nebraska legislature, was in the city last Thursday. Judge McCutchan has granted license to Mrs. Knight as administratrix, to dispose of the personal property of her deceased husband. Our spring stock is a eight worth see ing. Call and get our prices. We sell cheap for cash. 40-8 Sullivan Mercantile Co. O. M. Collins, observer for the weather bureau, reports the precipation the past week to have been eleven-hundretbs of an inch. _ H. W. Campbell, of Sioux City, the gentleman who established the experi mental soil culture station at this place, spent Sunday in the city. Shoes!- Shoes! If you want to save money on shoes you muss buy them at our store. 40-8 , Sullivan Mercantile Co: Mrs. D. H. Cronin and children are yiBiting relatives In Randolph. M. D. Long is now city weigmater, Dave Stannard having resigned. Back Berry was a caller Wednesday and contributed to the subscription account. __ The McCoy residence west of this city was destroyed by fire,Tuesday night. It was occupied by Mrs. Gallagher, who lost all her household goods. No in surance. If you have paper hanging, painting, or calcimining to be done, it will pay you to call on George Triggs and Sam Thompson, as they will give you prices to suit the times. 42 2 Exchange: By putting an advertise ment in the papers, an Indiana man got four wives, and on his way to the peni tentiary be said he didn’t know whether advertising paid or not. P. Donohoe went to Omaha last Sun day morning with a car load of sheep. He returned Tuesday evening and re ports the market good, having received a better price for bis sheep than he exDected. - A Butler county visitor to this city on Monday evening fell and struck his nose against the 12th street barber pole, says the Columbus Times. Straighten ing himself up he muttered "I didn’t say nossin to that girl with striped stockings; what did she kick me for?'* 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. Itf Neii. Brennan. The Lincoln Journal says a subscri ber asked tbe origin of the phrase, “he isn’t in it.’’ It was first used by an editor who died and went to heaven and looking around for the man who took his paper for three years and then left it at the poBtofflce marked “refused," and “he wasn’t in it.” Norfolk Journal: C. C. McNish will move from Wisner to Fremont, where he and Andrew Oleson will succeed to the law Jmsineas of Frick & Dolezal. Mac is not only one of tbe best fellows, but is one of the best lawyers in the state, and the new firm will occupy front seats among the Fremont bar. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Boggs and Miss Bessie Calloway drove over from Spen cer last Saturday night, Mrs. Boggs and Miss Calloway taking the train the next morning for Neligh on a visit to their parents. Mr. Boggs remained in O’Neill where he is ’ engaged in a contest case before the United States land office. Capt. John Carmichael, government land office inspector, while inspecting the land office here last Tuesday, received a telegran requesting him to send in his resignation, to take effect April 20. Mr. Carmichael left lor his home in Virginia Friday morning. He was supposed to be in the classified service. __ Dean’s Presentation Party have been entertaining O’Neill theatre people the past two nights. They are all right. The show is very good, better than any for the same admission that has ever been in the city. In fact it excells most of the 35-cent shows that have visited this section since the elevation of Crover II to the executive chair. O. M. Collins, voluntary observer for the weather bureau, informs us that be has ordered some display flags from the weather bureau, and when they arrive will display them from the flag pole on the court house. They will be placed on the pole about 10 o’clock in the morning, and will inform. O’Neillites of the kind of weather expected for the next twenty-four or thirty-six hours. The Yankton press tells the following good story on a Swedish farmer who bought a good farm and paid cash for it. When the papers were made out conveying the property to him be said: “I want a mortgage for the farm.” "No, you don’t,” said, the attorney who was doing the writing, “you want a warranty deed.” “No, I don’t,” quoted the Swede, “I want a mortgage, I had a warranty deed to a farm before. Another man bad a mortgage and he got the farm." Mrs. A. In vetn, residing at 720 Henry St., Alton, 111., suffered with sciatic rheumatism for over eight months. She doctored for it nearly the whole of this time, using yarious remedies recom mended by friends, and was treated by the physicians, but received no relief. She then used one and a half bottles of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, which effect ed a complete cure. This is published at her request, as she wants others simi larly afflicted to know wbat cured her. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by P. C. Corrigan. THX K11T0TXB8. Lincoln, April 17, 1807: Special Correspondence: It is said that mis* fortune never comes single handed. When a man finds himself envlrened by some great trouble, he becomes a mag net to attract all other trouble, and new gflef comes each day to meet him at every turn. What is true in this re* spect of one man is true of a body of men, of a political party acting in an individual capacity. When the fusionists by accident and impulse set up W. J. Bryan with all his boyish recklessness and inconsistency to be the central figure of the fusion cause, and when in Nebraska they sat up Silas Holcomb with all his blunder ing mediocrity, with all his cheap cun ning and selfishness to be the central figure of fusion state government, and when the individual minds and wills of the fusion legislators at the very begin ning of the session become merged into the will of the governor and the cabinetj of young and reckless plotters with ! which he had surrounded himself, then the whole state government became a magnet of evil, attracting to itself the trouble and disgrace which always fol lows selfishness and conspiracy. And so it is, that the recount scheme which is being permanently fixed in the public mind with all the disgrace that must forever surround it, is to be followed by other disclosures which still further emphasize what a dirty mess men can make of legislation and government, when they surrender themselves to a clique of plotters who know no law but opportunity. SCHWIND: That’s a new name to the populist farmers of Nebraska. They never saw or heard or him until it was announced last summer that Bryan had discovered a "shrewd young man by the name of Schwind to act as bis personal repre rentative and private secretary.” ▲ few weeks after this announcement was made, Bourke Cochran, whom Bryan hated personally, spoke at Omaha. The people of Nebraska remember bow Schwind went to Omaha and organized a gang of rowdies who shouted and hissed the speaker until the meeting was almost turned into a riot. The next shrewd work of Schwind was his organ ization throughout the state of a plan among the populists to wear McKinley badges and attend McKinley clubs. I need not say this "shrewd” measure was Bryan’s idea. The people well know, how, after he had worked this on the quiet for several weeks, he came out openly at the last and advised the work ingmen and farmers to practice this deception and to put this seif-humiliat ing lie upon their consciences. It was the Bryan idea of personal honor. It was a method adapted to such politi cians as Schwind. It was a plan suited to those who root in the lower strata, who stir up prejudice and appeal to jealousy and deceit. There was another young man named Sager, who had never been heard of until it was whispered that the governor and Maret wanted him to be general director of the populist cause in Lan caster county. There were men of standing and character, such as Jay Burrows, William Lease and others, but this young man Eager, this political "kid" with his glib tongue and aggres sive boyish ways, flitted suddenly into view, like an unexpected bird in early spring, and began to chirp about what the “people,” and especially what the farmers and laboring men, needed. It is worthy to be considered by all people who renect, woo think in an analytical and serious manner, that neither Mr. Bryan or Governor Holcomb have ever formed personal friendships or close relations with the stronger, more permanent and better types of Nebraska men. But let that pass. When the legislature met to organize, all competition for the chief clerkship of the house and the chief secretaryship of the senate was brushed aside and silenced by the whispered announce ment that Bryan wanted Schwind to be chief secretary and that Holcomb want ed Eager to be chief clerk. That settled these matters, just as the governor's whispered wishes settled a great many other appointments and a great many other more important matters, leaving most of the fusion representatives of the people to sit like little dumb wooden figures upon the governor's chessboard. Schwind had gathered the idea from Mr. Bryan that statesmanship consisted in noisy bluster about whatever hap pened to be temporarily catchy and popular, and that practical politics con sisted in cheap tricks and deceptions. Eager had gathered from the gover nor that there were some things which were required to be done at this session by hook or crook, and so these two young sprigs of reform, being prepared both by instinct and education, set about their work with the one single idea that "results” was what was wanted. Bryan had not cared what deceptions were practiced or whatlieshis individ ual followers pat upon their consciences only so he got results. Holcomb did not cere what criminal plans were nec essary end what effect the carrying out of these , plans would have upon the reputation of his party or his state, only so he got results for his own personal schemes and those of his family con nections. Now these two political twigs, Eager and Schwlnd, being inclined in the direction which the inspiration of Bryan and Holcomb had pointed them, set about to make laws themselves, regardless of the wishes of those who bad been elected to make the laws, and of the rules prescribed by the constitu tion. Generally, they were able, by shrewd manipulation and slight-of-hand per formances to burry forward or retard such measures as tbey were interested in. It was easy for them, when they wanted to hasten the progress of a par ticular measure, to slip it from the bottom to the top of the pile, and hasti ly reading it, bnrry it on its way unobserved by the careless and inex perieaced members. But when they were not able to accomplished all that tbey desired by these sllght-of-hand performances, then they did not hesi tate to- tread right along dose to the danger line of criminality and fraud. There was one enactment which they wanted above all others. These two younffi' men have a newspaper at Lin coln, hnd this young newspaper needed the legal advertising which has been held some weeks at the state house waiting for tbe repeal of the old law which requires a newspaper to be a year old and to have a general circulation before it can be used as a legal advertis ing medium. H. B, 241 would render the necessary relief to the young pro prietors of the young newspaper, but do what they would, in the slipping up and slipping down game they were not able to get this measure through, it being indefinitely postponed in the senate. Now what,do you suppose happened to that bill? You say it was dead of course and was ready to be buried in the waste basket because the constitu tion says that both houses must pass a biff^ifcfoiw- it can- become a law. But don’t you know, good people of Nebras ka, that these young men, and all other young men in this state, are constantly being taught that the means is always justified by the end, provided the end to be attained is the desire of some good honest populist? And what would you expect these two young deciples of pop ulism to do in an emergency like this? Hadn’t Bryan taught the populists that it would be right for them to lie during the campaign, and hadn’t Holcomb shown himself ready to commit an in famous fraud on the ballot in order to seize the supreme couit seat for his , family connection ? And wouldn’t it be right along in this same line of conduct for these two young men to just fix up this bill, get it signed by the two pre siding ofecers and by the governor, as if it had really passed, and nobody would be tbe wiser. And tbey did fix it up, and after the legislature had adjourned, lo and behold, H. R. 241 bobbed up in the hands of the governor, all cut and dried, all snug and complete as a new Easter bonnet. S. F. 298, the school book bill, was also manipulated in the same manner and sent to the governor as having been regularly passed. Some republicans here who knew of a great deal more than will appear later, made the exposure so hot that the governor was obliged to veto these two measures in bis pious and patronizing phraseology giving as a reason that they had not been properly passed. 8. F. 169, which created an office for one of the gover nor's friends in Valley county, was fixed up in the same criminal manner and this the governor signed, explaining afterwards that he did not discover the fraud until after his signature had been attached.. Did the governor reprove these tricksters? Did he? Did he refer their crookedness to the Investigating committee with its $10,000 appropria tion? Did he reprove or investigate the first recount committee? Did he ask for a comparison of the tally sheets of the first recount with the tally sheets of the second recount to see if Hedlund’s charges were true? Will he produce these tally sheets? I make the point that the governor, more than any other one man, is responsible for the criminal recklessness of this session, that he has winked at fraud, that he has brought moral depravity into the high places, that bis selfishness utterly unfits him to be the instrument of reform, that his leadership, instead of bringing conser vative and business-like methods, has brought reckless and criminal methods, which has already appeared and will still further appear, as the facta in detail are made public. J. W. Johnson. Dr. McDonald was down from Atkin son Tuesday. PROGRAM. The following is the program of the Holt county Sunder School Con* ventlon to be held on Mtr 97, 1897, at O'Neill, Nebraska: MORN IHO SESSION, 0:46—Bong and Praise Service..Rev. George, 10Paper:“Material for BuildingOharaoter.” O. O. Snyder. Dieoutslon.Rev. A. Bishop and B. R. Henry 10:80—Address: “The Dnty of the Teacher to Lead the Pupil to Jesus"... . Rev. 0. F. Smith. Discussion. Mrs. L. B. Blackburn and A. S. Eby. 11:00—Paper: "Christ as a Teacher” Rev. N. S. Lowrie. Dlsousalon:....Rev. BUI and Wilson Brodle. 11:80—Appointing oommlttles on Resolu tions and nominations. ArrnRNOON session. • 1:30—Devotional Rxerolses.. Mrs. A. C. Crossman. 1:4S—Reports of Superintendents and Dele gates. 8:80—Address: Rev. 8. F.Sharpless. 8:00—Paper: “Reform in Sunday Bohool” Mrs. 0. L, Anderson. Discussion: J. S.Hoffman and V. V. Rosenkrans. 8:80—Paper: “How to Prepare the Lesson" Rev. Beck. Discussion: Thos. Rider and O. M. Collins. 4:0O—Missionary Work of the Sunday Bohool, Rev. E. T. George. Discussion: A. O. Croesman and Giles Phelps 4:30—Election of offloers. EV1NINO SESSION. 7:30—Praise and Song Service,....M. Miller. 7:45—Chorus....O'Neill Musical Union 8:10—Address..Rev. Wm.Gorat 9:00—Resolutions. The session will be held in the Presby terian church. Papers to be discussed will be limited to twedty minutes. Every school In the county should be represented. Entertainment will be furnished pastors, superintendents and a delegate from each Sunday School. Pray for the success of the convention. J. 0. Harnisr, E. H. Benedict, Secretary. Pres. ProTem. bio nrovoravn vox caix txasx. Permit tie to hand you one of our Premium Purcbue Ticket* which fully explains the unprecedented offer we wish to make you as an inducement to do your trading—not part, .but all of it —with us. These portraits we offer you FREE when your purchases reach the amount of $10. This gives each cus tomer the inducements for cash trade. They are the new electrio or water color tints in life size, reproducing the color of .your hair and, eyjs, hence, most life like, and will be made for you free' from any picture you treasure sufficient ly to have enlarged. We make you this special offer as we have a contract with the largest portrait and frame company in the country to furnish us with a large number of frames at a very low price, end we also give you the benefit of this, carrying a stock of assorted styles tS that yon can select the kind you desire. We furnish one with each picture aU the lowest possible price. We trust you will take advantage of this offer, and favor us by calling at once. Very respectfully yours. 48-2 P. J. McManus. .»■«■-. Condensed Testimony. Cbas. B. Hood, broker and manu facturer’s agent, Columbus, Ohio, certi fies that Dr. King’s new discovery has no equal as a cough remedy. J. D. Brown, proprietor St. James hotel. Ft. Wayne, Ind., testified that he was cured of a cough of two years' standing,caused by la grippe, by Dr. King’s New Dis covery. B. F. Merrill, Baldwinisville, Mass., says that he has used and recom mended it and never knew it to fail and would rather have it than any doctor, because it always cures. Mrs. Hemming 222 E 25th St., Chicago, always keeps it at hand and has no fear of croup, be cause it instantly relieves. Free trial bottles at P. G. Corrigan’s drug store. TO SIOUX OITT ABB BACK IV OVB BAT | By taking the Pacific Short Line at O'Neill. Train arrives at Sioux City at 3:40 v ■»., returning leaves at 0 p. m., making dose connections at O’Neill in both directions. Connections also made with trains to and from Yankton, Sioux Falls, Mitchell, etc. Buy local tickets to O’Neill. Ballard’s Snow Linunsnt. This invaluable remedy is one that ought to be in every household. It will cure your rheumatism, neuraliga, sprains, cuts, bruises, burns, frosted feet and ears, sore throat and sore chest. It you have lame back it will cure it. It penetrates to the seat of the' disease. It will cure stiff joints and contracted muscles after all other remedies have failed. Those who have been cripples for years have used Ballard’s Snow Liniment and thrown away their crutches and been able to walk as well as ever. It will cure you. Price 60 cents. Free trial bottles at P., C. Corrigan’s._ ■■ ? * BICYOLK BBBB.. . , On July 4th we will give our custom ers a high grade Imperial ladies or gents wheel. Shares will be given for sales, and collections of accounts notes or school orders. * 30-tf • J. P. Mash. Norfolk Journal: The body of Henry J, Favllle. who was drowned in the North Fork, near the Butterfield ranch in Knox count/, waa recovered lut Wed* neaday, and wae taken eaat by relative** for burial. A quid of tobacco Waa found in the throat of the dead man, and It la auppoaed that the audden precipitation - into the cold water earned him to draw in hla breath violently, carrying the tobacco into hie throat and producing death by etrangulatlon. Lake City, Got., a pedal in Denver Republican: P, 0. McCarthy, one of the ownera of the Hidden Treaanve . mine, adjoining the Ute and Clay, came in from Leadville laat night. Mr. McCarthy expects to spend at least a. month in lake City looking after hie Interests. Men are at prevent working v In aeyen different portioue id thla mine, ‘ and thev are all in good ore, too. Ship* menta will aoon commence. - Jeffenon Bee: A careleej newapaper man a feu countiaa north of oe, noting theaigna of apring, among other evi dences noted the bicycle riders, and , mentioned that M1m Jonea lookad cute on her wheel in her abort akirt. In aome way an “h" had wandered into the “k" box, and the typo got an h instead, of a k, and the proof reader waa blind. The poor innocent aditor lost fifteen V: subscribers in leaa than twenty minutae after the paper waa issued.,, The women ’ •aid it was real mean. ; And It was. Butte Quetta: Ex-Judge Skuae left - tor Alaska Wednesday, when lie ex?a! pact* to remain permanently. Ifn / Bkuee wae one of the pioaeere of title .f part of Nebraska, having settled in Turtle Greek preolnot eome fifteen years “ ago. He studied law in his log eabin | under the direction of Judge Kinkald,' and In 1892 was admitted to the bar. - The same year he was appointed county * judge, and in 1898 he was elected to that office. He made ah efficient judge a and retired with the esteem and respect of all. We wish him success in his new ’ home..> ' . v. Big Sale of Big Bargains./ We have a lot of desirable summer dress goods that we are anxious to dose ' out, and make the following low prices ' oh them! ■“ .. Fine wool suiting worth 91 at 68 cents/ Fine wool suiting worth 85 cents at 87 'M cents. A large line of white goods worth 15, 20 and 80 cents, will be dosed out at 10, 12 and 18 cents. 1000 yards of good styles in Dimites, Agra linens, figured Lapperts, Typrs and fine ginghams, light and dark colors, will be sold as follows: v All 10 cent goods in this lot 7 cents. *j All 18 cent goods in this lot 9 cents. All 15 cent goods in this lot 10 cents./ All 18 and 80 cent gdods in this lot 12 ’ cents. All 25 cent goods in this lot 15 cents/.' 50 pdr ladies low shoes worth from 81.50 to 88 per pair will be closed at 91-/ per pdr, J. P. ILunr. *hs Disesrery tant Us Uh. Mr. G. Catllouette, druggist, Beavers- ■ ville. 111., says: “To Dr. King's Hew Discovery I owe my life. Wss taken with lagrippe and tried dl the physio-'1 lans for miles about, but was of no avail and was given up and told 1 could not live. Having Dr. King’s New Die* ' covery in my store I sent for a bottle and began Its use and from the first dose began to get better, and aitei using three bottles was up and about again. It, is worth its weight in gdd. We won’t ’ keep store or house without it” Get |§i free trial at Corrigan’s drug store. . Ballard's feuv Liaimaet Mr*. Hamilton, Cambridge, III., says. I bad the rheumatiam ao bad I could not raiae my hand to my head. BaUar&t' Brum Liniment haa entirely cured me.' I take pleasure in informing my neigh bors and friends what it haa done for me. Chas. Handley, clerk for Lay and Lyman, Kewanee, Ilia,, advises na Snow Liniment cared him of rheumatiam. Why not try it? It will aurely do you good.. It onrea all inflamation, wounds, sores, cuts, sprains, eta Price SO centa. Free trial bottlea at P. C. Corrigan's. What a Prominent lasuraaae Man lays. - H. H. Bloasom, senior member of H. H. Bloasom & Co., SI? N. 3rd St. Louis writes: I had been left with a very dis tressing cough, the result of influenza, ' which nothing seemed to relieve, until I took Ballard’s Horebound Syrup. One bottle completely cured me. I sent one f bottle to my sister who had a severe cough, and she experienced Immediate relief. I always recommended this syrup to my friends, John Cranston S08 Hampshire Street,' Quincy, 111., writes: I have found Ballard’s Horebound Syrup superior to ' any other cough medicine I have ever known. It never disappoints. Price 25 and 50 cents. Free sample bottles at P. ~ C. Corrigan's.