GEN’L OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
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STATE.
Governor.Silas Holcomb
Lieutenant Governor..V' ,!ur.„
Secretary of State...; ..- W ui. 1*. t ”i toi
State Treasurer.!.John U Meservr
Attorney General.... .,•••••*• il-Smythc
Com. Lunds and Buildings.
sunt. Public Instruction. WvH. Jackson
REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY.
Chas. 11. Gere. Lincoln; Leavitt Burnbaiii.
Omaha; J M. Hiatt, Alina; E. I\ Uolmes.
Pierce; .1. T. Mallaiou. Kearney; M. .1. Hull,
Edgar.
Representatives First Ulsirb t. J. b Slrod1.
Second. It. l>. Mereer, lbird. S. Maxwell,
Fen rib. \V, L. Stark, Filth, it. *>• Sutherland.
Sixth, W. L. Green.
CONOKESSWA'A /..
Senators— A'. V. Allen, of Madison; Joiiu
M. Thurston, of Omaha.
JUDICIAL )’.
.o: Harrison and T^. No^mi
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTKICT.
Inrtire .M. P- Kinkaid, of O Neill
Henorter.. . . ..7 J- J- King of O’Neill
Judge "" .W. H. Westover.tjf Bushville
Reporter .. .. .__ 'bn Malier. of Kushvillo.
LAND OFFICES.
O’XlItL
Register..
Receiver...
.John A. Harmon.
...Elmer Williams.
COUNTY.
.;.Geo McCutoheon
c“er* oi the District Court • • J°h». Sklrvlng
Deputy.. xfvii|eil
Detmty181.1.""".".’.’.VV.Sam Howard
3 • ■ ■■. . .Chas O’Neill
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DeputyVw, H. Jackson
Assistant .•• Mrh. W. B. Jackson
nnniner .......Dr. Trueblood
(jOron6r..tt<< «. Tjt TMnpt.on
Supt.
Anrvavnr .M. F. Norton
ourvcyur.t... w ■> Hntier
Attorney. ...w K* Kuuer
SUPERVISORS.
T1KS? DISTRICT.
Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga,
Bock Falls and Pleasantvlew:J. A. Bobertson
SECOND DI8TBICT.
Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, W il
owdale and Iowa—J. H, Hopkins.
THIRD DISTRICT
Grattan and O’Neill—Mosses Campbell.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Ewing, Verdigris andDeloit—L. 0. Combs
FIFTH DISTRICT,
Chambers, Conlev, Lake, UoClure and
I nman—S. L. Conger.
. SIXTH DISTRICT. '
Swan. Wyoming, Fairvlew, Francis. Green
Valley, Sheridan and Emrnet—U. W. Moss.
SEVENTH DISTRICT. .
Atkinson and Stuart—W. N. Coats.
GUT OF or NEILL.
Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justices, E. H.
Benedict and 8. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed.
McBride and Perkins Brooks.
CODNCIDMEN-IIRST WARD.
For two years.—D. H. Cronin. For one
year—C. W. Hagenslok.
SECOND WARD. '
For two years—Alexander Marlow. For
one year—W. T. Evans.
THIRD WARD. .
For two yearn—Charles Davis. For one
year—E. J. Mack.
CITY OINflOERS.
Mayor, H. E. Murphy; Clerk, N. Martin,
Treasurer,' John McHugh; City Engineer
John Uorrisky; Police Juuge, H. Kautzman,
.tulef of Police, P. J. Bigliu; Attorney,
iXbos. Carlon; Weighmaster, D, Stanuard.
Gil ATT AN TOWN SlllP:
Supervisor, it. Jl Hayes; Treasurer. Barney
McGreevy; Clerk, J. sulllvan; Assessor Be*
Juhring: Justices, M. Costello and Chos.
Wilcox; Constables, John H or risky and hd.
McBride; Hoad overseer dist. sW* AJlen Brown
uist. No- 4 John Upright,
SOLDI EllS’ RELIEF COMNISSION:
Uegular meeting first Monday in Febru
ary^Ot each year, And at Such other times as
fs Seenftd Jcesskry.- BobcBaUagher fagf,.
efiairmnn; W lii . Bowen, U Neill, secretary,
H , Hi Clark Atkinson. •
ajT.PATRlfcK- 8 CATHOLIO®HlIKCH.
B Services every- Sabbath at 10:BU o clook.
Very Kev. Cassidy,'Postor.',,Sabbath school
iintueiilatcly following services.
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LKTHODI8T CHUltCU. Sunday
services—Preaching 10:30 A. M. and HiUO
e.M. Class Np. 1 0:30 A. M. Class No. 2 (Ep
worth League) 7:0t) P, M. Class No. d I CblM
rens) 3:00 p. m. Mind-week services—Gen*r*l
prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 i\ m. All will
ne made welcome,
i 1 A. U. POST, NO. 86. The Gen. John
VX. O’Neill Post, No. 86, department Dl Ne
braska G. A. B., will meet the first and third
Saturday eveuing of each month in Masonic
hall O’Neill S- J• Smi 1H< Com*
LUKHOBN VALLEY LODGE, I. O. O.
EaF, Meets every Wednesday evening in
Odd Fellows’ hall, visiting brothers cordially
invited to attend. . ^
W. H. Mason. N. G. 0. L. Bright, 6>ec.
C1ABF1KLB CIIAPTEB, R. A. M
WMeets on first and third Thursday of each
month In Masonic hall.
W. J.Dobrs Sec. J. C. HARNiSH, li. P
K
OF P.—HELMET LODGE. V. D.
X__*1_, nnnrv MnrtflRV at. H DC lock D.
Convention every Monday at 8 cr clock p.
In Odd Fellows’ nail. Visiting brethern
cordially i*wlt«\RTHUR CoyKes]1AU„ c. C.
E. J. Mack. K. of K. and 8.
O-NEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 30. L
- O. O. F. meets every seoond and fourth
Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows Hail.
OHAsf Bright, H. P. H. M. Tttdey, scribe
Eden lodge no. 41, daughters
OF RBBEKAH, meets every 1st and 3d
Friday of each month in Odd Fellows Hall.
’ AgnesT. Benti.ey. N. G.
DORA Davidsof, Sec.
/■'t ARF1KI.1) LODGE, N0.95,F.«fc A.M.
Vx Regular communications Thursday nights
on or before the full of theynoon.^^ w M
O. O. Snyder, Sec.
Holt-cam pko.it 10. m .w. ofa.
Meets on tne first and third Tuesday In
each month in the Masonic hall.
Neil. Bkennan, V. C. D. 11. Cronin, Clerk
AO. TJ. W. NO. 153. Meets second
• and fourth Tudsday of each month In
Masonic hall. „ .
0. Bbioht, Bee. 8. B. HOWARD, M. W.
iNDEPKNDENT WORKMEN OF
AMERICA, meet every first and third
Friday of each month.
Geo. McCutchan, N. M.
J. H. Welton, Sec.
POSTOFFICE D1RCETORY
Arrival of Malls
r.». a m. v. a. r.—from the bast.
day,Sunday Included at. 9:40 p n>
PROM THE WEST
very day, Sunday included at... ...1C:04 am
J PACiriC SHORT DINE.
F Passenger-leaves 10:05a. m. Arrives 11:55 p.m.
I Freight—leaves 9:07 P. M. Arrives 7:00 p. M.
Dally except Sunday.
O’NEltL AND CHELSEA.
Departs Monday, Wed. and Friday at T :00 a m
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at..1:00pm
O’NEILL AND PADDOCK.
Departs Monday. Wed. and Friday at.. T :00 a m
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at..4:30p m
O’NEILL AND NIOBRARA.
Departs Monday. Wed. and Fri. at... .7:00 a m
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at...4:00p m
O’NEILL AND CUMMIN8VILLS.
Arrives Mon.,Wed. and Fridays a .. H :30 p.m
Departs Bon., Wed. andFriday at i :00 p.m
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[Copyright, 1894, by J. B. Llppincott Company.]
M,
brain. Pardon me; lmve you a little
brandy? or whisky?”
“There isn’t a drop in the house,”
said Miss Walton, piteously. “We had
some, that had been in the cellar for
years', that mother hid during the war;
but—you—it was being stolen, or some
thing—and she sold what was left.”
Hums quickly left the room. When
lie returned, a few minutes later, he
held forth a little flask. Mrs. Walton
still lay senseless, and her condition
was alarming to.one and all. Lambert
poured out a stiff dose. “Make her take
it all, little .by little,” he whispered to
Miss Wall on, and then, with calm de
cision, stooped, and, encircling the
slender waist of the younger girl with
his arm, quickly lifted her to her feet.
A tress of her rich, red-brown hair was
■ >a tight in his shoulder-strap, but neither
noticed it'. Such was the patient’s
prostration that for a moment even
brandy failed of its stimulating effect.
Not until several spoonfuls had been
forced between her blue lips did there
•onie that shivering sigh that tells of
eviving consciousness. The white
hands began feebly to pluck at her
Iress and the heavy eyelids to open
-lowly. “We will fall back,” whispered
bamibert. “I’ll wait in the hall.”
But- when he turned to tiptoe away, a
very tousled, tangled, dishevelled, but
Bore the limp shape Into the nearest room.
pretty head bad'.to. come, too. There
was too much of that fine, shining', shim
mering tress to let. go. Hums was al
ready creaking oilt into the dark pas
sage. Miss Walton was absorbed in her
mother’s face. Miss Katherine’s round
ed check had flushed as red as the in
valid’s was- white, and both her tiny
hands were, madly tugging and pulling
at the offending tendrils; butwhocouhl
work to advantage with the back or side
of one’s head practically clamped to the
work bench ? Miss Katherine could not
1 ear herself loose except at the risk of
carrying away a square inch or more
of scalp, for t he strap would not yield,
and its wearer could not help ro long
as her own, hands were 1 tigging. There
u as every likelihood, therefore, that the
tableau on which Mme. Walton's open
ing eyes-should gaze would be about
Hie very lost she would care to see—the
bonnie head of her precious child re
posing, to all appearance, on a shoulder
in Yankee blue—when Lambert, alive
1o the desperate nature of the situation,
quickly gust loope the two or three
buttons of the flannel sack coat then so
much in vogue, and, slipping out of that
and into the - ball, rejoined his imper
turbable sergeant.
“I hope the lieutenant will pardon my
taking bis flask. I saw it in the tent
this evening, sir, and the captain didn’t
leave the key of the medical chest—with
me. leastwise.”
"You did right. That was some good
cognac t.liey got for me in New Orleans.
T hope it will revive her. Ought we not
to send for Dr. Hand?”
"No, sir,” whispered Bums. “She
wouldn’t have him for one of her niggers
—and be damned to them. I knownow
;vhere Riggs had been getting his
liquor, and-where our coffee and sugar
lias been going; He’s bribed these'
thieving servants of hers to steal that
I irt-cious bra ndy, and those damn scoun
drels broke into the cellar to-night to
get more.”
“But they must have been drinking
in the first place. Where could they
have got that. liquor? Ilers was gone—
sold.”
“In t,o\vn,-somewhere. I’ll find out—”
But here the lieutenantehecked him. A
feeble voice was just audible in the ad
joining room:
"Have they gone? Have I been ill?
Ksther—daughter, see that—No! I
must see that young officer, at once.”
“Not to-night, mother,” answered the
cider girl, pleadingly. “Not to-night.
To-morrow; you’ll be rested then.”
“That may be too late. Whatever
happens, there must, lie no court-mar
tial. He said 1 should have* to testi
I fy; so would you. You saw, Ksther,
and if under oath we should have to I
tell—” —
“Quick! Come out of thip!” whis
pered Lambert, hoarsely, and dragged
the sergeant after him to the dark and
wind-swept shadows of the yard.
IX.
Sunday morning came, gloomy,
cloudy, with the wind still moaning
among the’ almost leafless branches and
whirling dust-clouds from the crooked
rpad. After a night of so much excite
ment camp slept late. Lambert was
aroused somewhere about seven by a
scratching at the tent flap, and Sergt.
Hums, answering the summons to
“come in,” poked his freshly shaved fact
through a framing of white canvas to
ask if he might send the lieutenant-some
breakfast from the eook-flre. It was
barely 24 hours since his arrival in camp,
and so crowded had these hours been
with event, experience and novelty that
the young officer seemed to feel he had
been a month on duty. There lay his
blue flannel blouse at the foot of his cot.
Unseen hands had tossed it from the
window at which on his first appear
ance t he previous night a slender, white
robed form had been piteously crying
for help. He drew it to him and
searched the left shoulder strap. Yes!
Even now three or four curlihg hairs
were twining like the tendrils of a vine
about its dead-gold border and across
the field of sky-blue velvet—another
vogue to the day. “She had time to dis
entangle the mass, but could not see
these fine filaments in so dim a light,”
he laughed to himself. “Only fancy
what my Merrimac madre would say if
she were to hear that a pretty head—a
southern girl’s head—had been resting
on my shoulder the very first night I
got here! Only fancy what the damsel
herself would say, if she had a chance to
say anything! And as her mamma—
well, what- wouldn’t she say 7”
Lambert had lots to think of as he
made his soldier toilet and'came forth
into the gloomy, moisture-laiden air,
for the southeasterly wind was sweep
ing the rain clouds up from the distant
gulf, and nature looked bleak and dis
mal. Two items occurred to give him
comfort. No sooner had he stepped out
into the open spade than the one sentry
at the other end of the camp shouted:
“Turn out the guard—commanding of
ficer!’ which was unnecessary at the
distance and under the circumstances,
yet clearly proved that the disposition
among the men was to “brace up” in
recognition of the arrival of an officer
who knew what discipline meant.
And then, looking suspiciously as
though he had been waiting for a chance
to undo the ill effect of his blunder of
the. previous day. there in 1 front of
Burns’ tentstood Corporal Cunningham,
company clerk; and the salute with
which he honored the camp commander
was as pregnant with good intent as it
was clumsy in execution. Somebody
had placed an empty clothing box by
the side of the tent, covered it with can
vas fly, and set this improvised table for
one with the best tins the company mess
afforded. Somebody else had carefully
blacked the lieutenant’s boots and shoes,
and presently up came a young German
soldier bearing the lieutenant’s break
fast on the .company cook’s breadboard,
which was covered with a clean white
towel.
“Burns is one of the oaks, atany rate,”
thought Lambert, as the sergeant fol
lowed to see that all was in proper order.
Ham and eggs, “soldier coffee,” a can of
milk, corn-bread and hardtack, were set
before him with pardonable pride and
Burns explained that they bought eggs,
milk, and corn-bread of an old darky
who came over from the village almost
every day. Then Lambert bethought
him of his captured pail of butter, and
brought it from the tent. “This does
not belong to me,” he said. “It rolled
out from the Walton hedge last evening.
Do you know who their regular cus
tomer is?”
“I don’t, sir. Yet I know McBride
and others sometimes had butter—good
butter too, like this. The captain
doesn’t buy any, and wouldn’t allow the
company to buy any there. Not that he
cared, sir; only the old lady was so up
pish and made such a row when any of
our fellows were seen even talking to
her people that he gave regular orders
forbidding it. No one from the Walton
place dare set foot inside camp, and he’ll
make it hot for Biggs when he gets
back. Murphy is less to blame, but will
have to go to Ship island all the same, 1
reckon.”
“How are those two this morning?”
“Biggs is stupid drunk yet, but Mur
phy swears he’d only gone to try to get
Biggs out of trouble; he’d hardly been
drinking at all. He begs to see the lieu
tenant, sir. He says he can explain the
whole thing.”
And so, later that morning, after
Lambert had given his> men a further
lesson by inspecting both company and
camp and pointing out no end of things
which could not, he said, be tolerated
in future, Murphy was brought to his
tent. His face and hands were badly
cut in places, but his bruises were ol'
little account. With the best inten
tions in the world, the good lady hat!
[ not. the strength for the trouncing the
. fellow had deserved at her hands. The
j story he told was hardly credible. Lam
bert could have ordered him back with I
sharp rebuke for his falsifications, but !
a glance at Burns’ war-worn face,
clouded and perplexed, inode the young
commander pause. “Do you really ex
pect me to believe this?” he asked, and
MuVpiiy answered: “Pm ready to make ,
oath to it before the praste, sorr."
And this, in effect, was tin- Irishman's
tale: llehadknown his “hunky"-—Biggs
—only since that worthy’s enlistment
in the company the previous winter,
hilt this much of Biggs almost every
body knew; that he had been a ser
geant during the war days and was
serving an enlistment in the regular
cavalry when deprived, for persistent
drinking, of his chevrons. The troop
to which he wns attached had been sta
tioned at Quitman and in this section of
the south for a year or more, but was
ordered to the Indian country just
about the time of Riggs’ discharge by
expiration of term of service. Then,
after a protracted spree in New Or
leans, he turned up at the barracks and
“took on” again in the infantry, and in
the very company which, oddly enough,
was so soon ordered up to the region he
knew so well. Indeed, Biggs claimed
when drinking to have acquaintance
not only with the Walton ladies, but
with some of tlif most prominent, men
in Quitman county, and frequently
boasted of the good times he would have
could he only get over there. Another
thing abont Biggs: lie had twice got
Murphy to go ns his substitute on cer
tain detachment or posse dirty, offering
as excuse that marching wore him oat,
yet admitting to Murphy that there
were other reasons. "There are men in
this section who’d shoot me on sight—
get the drop on me—pick me off from
the woods or fences,” 'he had explained.
Morphy believed him, and believed, too,
his statement that he had powerful
friends even amonjf officers and gentle
men who had fought through the war
on the southern side. “He got money
when he needed it, and spent it like a
gentleman,” said Murphy; which,-be
ing interpreted, meant that he liberally
squandered it oh his comrades.
But lliggs had of late been out of
money; he “couldn’t hear from his
friends,” said Murphy, and was getting
in trouble. lie owed poker debts in
the company and liquor debts in town.
He couldn’t, get a drink on trust and
the men were shy of playing with him;
but he Had always been liberal to Mur
phy when in funds, and Murphy stood
by him now. About nine o’clock, there
fore, the previous evening, he noticed
that Biggs was greatly excited when an
old darky came shambling in and gave
him a little note. The negro had oc
casionally come before, and. did not
seem to belong either in town or alt the
Walton place. Riggs stole out to the
road, despite Murphy’s warning, and
came back in ten minutes, bidding Mur
phy in eager whisper to be quick and
come with him. It was evident even
then that Riggs had had a drink or two.
Murphy reminded him of the lieuten
ant’s orders and begged him to run no
risk; and then Riggs broke out and
told him that, come what might, he'd
simply got to go to town, and Murphy
with him. He would explain when they
got out of camp, but there wasn’t a
minute to lose; and Murphy Went along,
“just to keep him out of trouble.” Out
in the darkness a stranger joined them,
gave Riggs some low-toned orders, but
refused to let him have another drink.
They Wdre stealing along the road to
gether, trying to dodge the dickering
firelight, when it suddenly flared up
and must have betrayed them, for a mo
ment later they heard Burns shouting
after them. Then the stranger “lept
the fence" into the Walton place; Riggs
darted away and ran like a streak, so
he followed Riggs.
When at safe distance from camp
Riggs slowed up and told what he had.
agreed to do. At Cohen’s store was a
box containing some) expensive wine
and cordials which had been prescribed
for Mrs. Walton two weeks before by
their old family physician, and ordered
sent from New Orleans. It was one of
the sad coses common in the south in
those hard times. Miss Walton, who
wrote the order without her mother’s
knowledge, had no money to send, and
the Arm had none to lose. She explained
that the wine was needed at once, and
the money would be at hand ini the
course of ten days. The wine was sent,
care of Clohen & Co., with instructions
to collect first; and not until this night
had there been money enough to pay for
it. Now “a gentleman,” whom Riggs
knew well, liad brought them help;
but he himself could not go to Tugaloo
because of certain past events with
which he was intimately connected, and
none, of the Walton servants dared go,
because of the tremendous stories in cir
culation concerning the events of the
day. Tlia gentleman had come a long
distance at big risk to see the lady,
Riggs declared, and must getaway that
night.
In. this dilemma Riggs was called on
for help. Hi* chivalric nature was
aroused—presumably; or possibly “the
tiger had tasted’ blood” and needed more.
Riggs hud got the gentleman’s last
drink, and the money for more was now
in his hands. But the gentleman had
stipulated that a reliable man must go
with him to fetch the precious packet
in case Riggs “got full;” and Murphy
was the man. “We got the box, sorr,
(To be continued.)
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