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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1897)
PUBLISHED by the frontier PRINTING CO. SUBSCRIPTION. SI.SO PER ANNUM. D. H. CRONIN. EDI yOLUME XVIII. • O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, JULY 22, 1897. NUMBER 3 ;a: NEWS SANS WHISKERS Items of Interest Told As They Are Told to Us. WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED Lsesl Happening* Portrayed For General Edification sad Amusement. The pension board met yesterday. J. P. Mann spent Sunday in Spencer. J. S. Walker was up from Page Friday. _ F. L. Sanders was down from Badger Friday. _ SjT* Peter Kelley was in from Scottville v Tuesday. ___ J. H. Rodgers, of Fremont, was in the city Tuesday. Charlie Farrier was up from Cham bers Monday. Dr. McDonald was down from Atkin son yesterday. Wm. Krotter was down from Stuart last Saturday. U. A. Alien, of Atkinson, was in Q’Neill Monday. Mrs. E. D. Eareld, of Ponca, was in O’Neill Saturday. Frank Anderson, of Neligh, was in O'Neill Tuesday. —JL t W. C. VanDervoort, of Omaha, was in the city Tuesday. Dr. Blackburn, of Atkinson, was in the city Wednesday. D. O. Roll and E. S. Gilmore were up from Ewing Sunday. John Huffman, of Stuart, was a guest at the evins Monday. ^ Arthur Coykendall visited friends in Atkinson over Sunday. Newton Carson and John Brady were in from Dorsey Monday. Fred Bitney, of Atkinson, was an will visitor yesterday. to •r. Berry and Jim Pinkerman went tovd county Sunday. J. C. Richmond, of Fort Scott, Kan., was at the Evans Tuesday. James Cronk, of Emporia, was an O’Neill visitor last Friday. Geo. J. Miekel, of Carroll, la., was an O'Neill visitor last Saturday. S. Backey, of Ainsworth, transacted business in O’Neill last Tuesday. . J. C. Blenkiron, of Belden, was regis tered at the Hotel Evans Saturday. John A.. Golden has accepted a position in the First National bank. E. S. Kinch has been on the sick list since his return from camp meeting. Miss Jennie Puzer, of Lincoln, is in the city visiting Miss Maud Hamilton. The rainfall Monday was general from central Garfield county to the Niobrara river. Fred Pfunder went down to Norfolk Tuesday morning returning in the evening. _ Miss Cross, of Atkinson, was in the city last week visiting Miss Lavina Morrow. W. 8. Cranford and Albert Cool were Sioux Cityites registered at the Evans Monday. _■ E. Gisner, Lawerence Evans and Gus Kloke, of West Point, were in the city Monday. _ Use H. & G. remedy for black leg, as preventative. For sale by Hershiser & Gilligan. _ 50 tf Miss Jessie Brady, of Atkinson, visited Miss Nellie Skirving Saturday and Sunday. These hot days nothing so refreshing as Hershiser & Gilligan’s soda water. Try it. Always cool. 50-tf G. W. Eblln, the republican war horse from Cleveland township, was in »- the city last Friday. ‘‘Oh, but that is good I" iB what the ladies say when they drink soda water at Hershiser & Gilligan’s. M. H. Sheeley, P. J. Donohoe, E. C. Blondell and F. A.* Seaman, of the Short Line, were in the city Monday. Miss Julia Stafford, of Norfolk, was in O’Neill last Saturday, taking the examination for a teacher’s certificate. Vhe only shoulder brace that is not uncomfortable when you ‘‘brace up." sale by Hershiser & Gilligan, O'Neill, N*. _ 50-tf Mrs. W. T. Evans entertained a party of friends at Dobbs’ park Tuesday even ing. A pleasant time is reported. For teeth or photos, go to Dr. Cor bett’s parlors, 23rd to 80th of each month. Photographs I 1 per dozen. Mrs. Charlie Hall, who has been quite ill the past two weeks, is improving slowly. _ H. B. Kelly, of Inez, an ex-member of the Holt county legislature, was in the city Monday. Martin Wintermote was up from Chambers Monday and made this office a pleasant call. Mr. and Mrs. Kinch returned from Neligh Friday evening, where they had been attending the G. A. R. reunion. We sell good flour, corn meal, graham, bran, shorts, corn, oats, etc., at gold standard prices. 33-tf L. Keybs. J. M. Alderson was up from Cham bers Monday- He says that crops are looking fine in the South Fork country. We sell the machine castor oil of the finest quality. Try a gallon. 8-1 CNeill Grocery Co. Quite a number of O’Neillites visited the reunion at Neligh last week, and all report a large attendance and a good time. ' Do not let the black leg get into your herd. Prevent it by using the H. & G. remedy lor black leg, sold by Hershiser & Gilligan. SO-tf Father Janette, of Omaha, was in the city W ednesday soliciting subscriptions to the Western Chronicle, of which he Is manager. , O. M. Collins, who was confined to the house by illness all of last week, is again able to resume his duties in the district clerk’s office. Lawn sociable at the residence of E. S. Kinch Friday evening by the Epworth League. Ice cream and cake will be served any time after 7 a. m. J. J. King and family will leave tomorrow for Long Pine, where they will enjoy an outing for a month on the beautiful Chautauqua grounds. When figuring out a bill of goods for harvest see us. We can fit you out at gold standard prices. 3-2 O’Neill Grocery Co. j Mrs. Bert Garrison, of West Union, Custer county, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ham Kautzman, came up Tuesday to visit her mother for several weeks. We have a nice lot of dry salt and sugar cured bacon, California hams and dried beef. They are seasonable goods. Buy some. 1 O’Neill Grocery Co. M. D. Long returned last week from Ponca where he had been looking after some railroad matters. He says that the towns along the line are very enthusi astic over the prospects for the road. The "shouting” Methodists are hold ing a revival in O’Neill this week. They occupy a large tent in the central part of the city, and come prepared to create sad havoc among the ranks of the unrighteous. You may hunt the world over and you will not find another medicine equal to Chamberlan’e Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy for bowel complaints. It is pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale by P. C. Corrigan. J. Y. Wolfe, commissioner of public lands and buildings, and Alex Schlagel, on employee of his office, were in the city Monday selling the school lands. About 12,000 acres were sold, or about one-third of what was offered. Sardines, potted ham, canned beef, chipped beef, sweet and sour pickles, cakes and wafers, and in fact a full line of picnic or camping out goods. See us before fitting out. 3 2 O’Neill Grocery Co. A daughter of Peter Stafford, road master of this division, of the F. E., and who resides in Norfolk, ate some' poisoned fly paper last Saturday. Efforts to counteract the poison proved unavailing, and she died during the night. Will Harvey made this office a pleas ant call yesterday. Will says that be never saw a better outlook for a big crop than he has on his farm over on the Niobrara river. And that is tbe wav tbe reports are coming in from all over the county. "Last summer one of our grand-child ren was sick with a severe bowel trouble,” says Mrs. E. G. Gregory, of Frederickstown, Mo. “Our doctor's remedy bad failed, then we tried Cham berlan’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which gave very speedy relief.” For sale by P. C. Corrigan. Attornev-General Smythe was in the city Tuesday and filed in the office of the clerk of the district court a tran script of tbe judgment obtained against J. S. Bartley in the district court of Douglas county. This judgment is holding against any property of J. S. Bartley’s to be found in this county. Stock sheep for sale. Address, - 3-3 Fbbd Hoyt. Gordon, Neb. The board of supervisors appointed Clerk Bethea, John Hopkins and W. N. Coats as a committee to meet the state board of equilizatlon at Lincoln and endeavor to have the taxes of Holt county reduced. They went to Lincoln Sunday morning. Collector North has completed his report for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1807, and it shows the total collections of internal revenue to hive been 01,813, 881.81, an increase of 0686,780.10 over | the collections of the previous year, i This looks as if prosperity was returning. The kid ball team went to Atkinson last Friday and crossed bats with the kids at that plaoe. The score was 18 to 10 in favor of Atkinson. Now as each team has won a game another will be played in the near future to decide 1 which is the best team. Wayne Republican: One of the heart less railroad eompanies has issued an order forbidding trainmen to flirt with female passengers, or wave their hats in response to handkerchief greetings of smiling maidens standing in doorways of houses along the line. Oh, the ouas edness of these soulless corporations. The depositors of the defunct Ex change bank, of Atkinson, have employed M, F. Harrington to look after their interests. If it could be [shown that the state has no claim on the $55,000 deposited in the bank in Bartley’s name, the depositors would be paid in full, outside of Bartley, and they think it is worth lighting for. The ladies of the Catholic church served ice cream and cake in the new grocery room that P. J. McManus has fitted up in the basement under his store, Tuesday evening. A laage crowd was in attendance and a neat sum was netted. Later in the evening music was procured and the lovers of the masy whirl enjoyed themselves until a late hour, _ There will be a meeting of the old band at Emil Sniggs' office on Saturday evening at 0 o’clock, sharp, for the pur pose of making arrangements to take in about a dozen new members. All mem bers are requested to be present. The new members are also requested to attend, so that all arrangements may be perfected and practicing can be begun at once. _ A small party of invited guests gath ered at the residence of O. O. Snyder last Monday evening to witness the blooming of a night-blooming cereus. The flower measured about eight inches in diameter, and was a beautiful thing. The following day it was placed on exhibition at Hershiser and Gilligan’s drug store, where it was greatly admired by all who saw it. Gospel tent meeting at northwest corner of National bank block under the auspices of the Fiee Methodist church. Elder T. J. Gates, state evan gelist of Iowit will be with us during the meeting. District Elder Rev. E. Ballen ger and local preachers will assist. Everybody cordially Invited to attend. W. P. Lasswell, Pastor in Charge. On July 13 the supervisors met and the petition of Peter Greely and 70 others asking that the Badger bridge, across the Niobrara river be remoyed to a point on said river known as Dodge’s ferry, was taken up. On motion the county clerk was instructed to write the county clerk of Boyd county to see if a like petition was on file in said county and what action the county board had taken in regard to same. The ball games that were to have taken place in this city the last of the week between Laurel and O’Neill have been declared off on account of a little difficulty in reaching a financial agree ment on a gold basis. We trust that matters will be so arranged that the games will take place in the near future. The ball at the rink, which was to have taken place on Friday evening, has also been declared off for the time being. In Illinois last week a judge held that poker chips were the same as money, and fined a man for playing cards for them. On the strength of this decision the prisoner offered to pay his fine with the chips. The judge was in a quandrv. He could not take the chips because the court would not take them as money, and if he didn’t accept them he was flatly contradicting his own decision. As the easiest way out of the dilema he dismissed the case. State Journal: County Clerk W. W. Bethea of Holt county, J. H. Hopkins and W. N. Coats, members of the county board, appeared before the state board yesterday. Last year the state tax for Holt county was six and six eighths mills, but this year the assessors have made an increase of (60,000 in the assessed valuation of the county. The county officers want the rate of taxation reduced so that the people will not have to pay more than they did last year. Lut week Mike Flannigan offered Charlie Wrede $15,000 (or his ranch north ot thia city. This place was pur* chaaed by Mr. Wrede from Flannigan about 15 yeara ago. It ia very evident that Mike haa a warm spot in hia heart for the old homeatead, but if he wiahea to ba again the owner of it we are of the opinion that he muat raise the offer several thousand dollars. It la one of the flpaat ranches In .the county, and as Charlie does not know of any place wherehecouldgo to better himself, ha ia not anxious to dispose of it. Pierce Oall: A lady asks us whether etiquette requires one to knock at the door of an editors aanctum jieforeenter ing. We hasten to reply: 3f vyou are coming to pay your subscription or bring a nice juicy item of news, don't stop to knock but just walk right in as if you owned the place. If on the other hand, yoh are on a collection tour, you should make the fact known through the window, and then knock at the door till the editor opens It. You may sink from exhaustion before he does, but you will be adhering to office etlqutte, and that is bound to please the average editor, i The general passenger agent of one of the Chicago trank lines received a letter from a Kansas man the other day requesting a pass for himself to Chicago and return. There was nothing about the letter to Indicate that the writer had any claim whatsoever to the courtesy he requested, but the railway man thought that perhapa the Kansan had some connection with the road in some way, possibly as a local freight agent. So he wrote back: “Please state ex plicitly on what account you request transportation.” By return mail came this reply: “I’ve got to go to Chicago some way. and I don’t want to walk.” Will O’Conner met with a serious accident last Sunday morning which will probably cost him bis right eye. He want to the saloon and took some beer out of the cellar to put in the ice box. While putting a bottle in tbe box It exploded* a piece of tbe glass out of the side of the bottle striking him in tbe eye, cutting the lids and penetrating the ball. Dr. Gilligan was called and he removed the glass and dressed the wound and Will took the freight that evening for Sioux City to be treated by an optician. Reports received from Sioux City last night state that if he pulled through today all right they would be able to save the eye. The school board held a meeting last Tuesday evening and elected the following teachers for the ensuing year: Ed H. Whalen, principal; Miss Cora A. Thompson, assistant principal; Miss Minnie Daly, Miss Tillie Mullen, Miss Lavlna Morrow, Miss Susie Quilty, Mrs. Addie Clark and Mr. R, S. Kelly. The principal is from West Point and comes highly recommended as an educator. The assistant principal, Miss Thompson, is from Ord and has had considerable experience in school work. The rest are all residents of the county and have had some experience In school work, three of them having taught last year in the O’Neill schools. The board was instructed at the annual school meeting to employ no teachers but those having first grade certificates, and we can see no reason why they did not live up to tbe instructions, but they didn't. Exchange; A Boston printer went to hear Sam Jones one Sunday recently. Next day the Globe typos were enter tained by the following description: “Why, boys, that man ain’t made up right. His foot stick pinches the col umn rule the whole length. Half his matter was pll its feet and didn’t come up. He set his main head in nonpariel and his sub heads in eighteen point poster. He then started out in the reg ular bod/ type, and I made up my mind he was going to justify all right after all. Then he braced up, and the next type ne set was m agate. Then be set two or three lines of body type In lower case, then small caps, then caps, and I’ll be banged if he didn’t finish the para* graph with the spread eagle in wood. When he got back to body type he squared away for a stick or two pretty well, but kept sticking in italic and bold face in the most unexpected places, and putting in ornaments right in the middle of sentences whether they lined or not. He kept this going for about half an hour, and I thought to goodness every time he dumped his stick he’d pi the whole blamed galley." WE WAKT THE PEOPLE To know that by taking the Pacific Short Line they can get through from Yankton, Sioux Falls, Mitchell and other South Dakota points without lay ing over twenty-four hours in Sioux City. Train leaves Sioux City at 5 p. m., j making close connections at O’Neill; daily, except Sunday. Buy tickets to O’Neill. 1 On l&it Thursday evening the State bank, of O’Neill, notified its depositors that it had concluded to retire from the banking business and the depositors could hare their money on demand. This action of the bank was hardly a surprise to the public, as it was gener ally understood that it had not been trying to get new business for the past j two years. In these times, with the j tightness of money and the general depression, to receive such a notice from a bank in Holt county was a source of great gratification to the de positors who had entrusted their savings to its keeping. This method of going out of the banking business basnot been the one pursued, in most cases, since the democratic blight of '93 struck the country, and is quite a contrast to the Holt county bank which went under the first year of Grover’s second reign. The State bank of O’Neill has been under the management of John Mc Hugh since 1898. His object, and the object of those with whom he has been connected, bas been to finally wind up the affairs of the bank in such a manner that it would eventually pay all its depositors without having to be too severe on those who were in debt to the benk. Tp have succeeded so well ss to bring about this end, at this time, reflects great credit on his ability as a financier, and has proven to the publio that the confidence they bad In him was not misplaced. He will remain in O’Neill and will use the bank as an office while he is closing up the affairs of that Institution, which will probably occupy his time for several months. Since his residence in this city Mr. McHugh has been one of our most pro gressive and energetic business men and has labored assiduously for everything that would tend to advance the inter ests of O'Neill or Holt county, and The Frontier hopes that he will decide to make his future home in this city. NOT ENOUGH WATER. TO THE TAXPATERB OF THE QOLDEN Irrigation district: ■ r-The board of directors are now in possession of sufficient information as to the supply of water in the Niobrara and Snake rivers to enable us to pass intelli gently on the feasibility of building the proposed ditch and laterals. The full report of the engineer will be published as soon as completed, which will be within a few days, but from the infor mation at hand we know there is not sufficient water to irrigate the entire district and justify the property owners in constructing the ditch. With the scant supply of water, as shown by recent guagings, the project must be abandoned, and the affairs of the dis trict closed up in the manner provided by law. There will be no further ex penditures except such as may be nec essarily incurred in an election to dis continue the district, and whatever work may be necessary in closing up the affairs of the district. No other tax levy will be made. As soon as the tax heretofore levied is paid, the debts of the district will be paid in full, and we will call an election to disorganize the district. But these debts having been incurred in accordance with law, and at the request of those who «lgned the petition to organize the district origin ally, must be paid. In the neighbor hood of Ainsworth an effort is being made by certain parties to escape the payment of these taxes by paying them to the treasurer and then getting the county board to order them refunded. If this should succeed, then great injust ice would be done to the people in other parts of the district who do pay their taxes. The debts incurred must be paid, and if the warrants were not paid out of the present levy a judgment tax would have to be levied to make up for the taxes which these people at Ainsworth did not pay. We desire to treat all portions of the district with absolute justice, and in so far as we have the power we intend to have the people in the vicinity of Ainsworth pay their taxes the same as the people in the other parts of the district. To see that one taxpayer is not compelled to pay his taxes while a taxpayer in another *MW UIDMIW1 VBVO|IVD iUUUt V* his taxes, we have requited M. F. Har rington to represent the district in any contest that may arise as to these taxes, which certain parties near Ainsworth refuse to pay, and Mr. Harrington has agreed to do all that he can in a legal way to see that no portion of the dis trict escapes payment of the tax levied while other portions have to pay. If these people surrounding Ainsworth will join with the people in other parts of the district in paying their irrigation taxes, we can in a short time pay off the warrants and disorganize the dis trict. Dated at O’Neill, Neb., this 21st day of July, 1897. J. H. Hopkins, R. 8. Hall, E. F. Dodd, Board of Directors. ;-V.. : I.-. THX SHOBT UII Philadelphia, July 17.—Special to Sioux City Journal: During, the laat few day* an old familiar face haa been aeen in the rotundas of the Philadelphia hotels and in the Union Leegue olub.. , On the Continental hotel register la the name of, and domiciled In parlor 7, the largeat and best that the house affords, is Donald McLean, the old time railroad contractor, and undoubtedly the best known man In his business In the United States. Be has received a warm welcome from his friends here and in New Toth and Boston, where he has recently been on businesa connected with hi* enterprise of building a railroad from Ponca, on the Missouri river, to the Paciilo coast. While his friends here have long missed him, they aU knew from put experience that he would turn up smiling u usual, and la the van of the proceaaion of men who have done so much to unite the differ ent sections of this country. Surround ed by representatives of numerous companies manufacturing railroad ma terials, bridgu, etc., and doing his usual amount of good natured joking, your correspondent, who has known him for years, recognised the same merry twinkle in his eye that be exhib- , ; iiea twenty yean ago. With the preeent cofcsolldation of nearly ell the roeda into two powerful eomblnee, ia it any wonder that thia man McLean, with hla eight aeeing abilitiea walk* in upon the etage to eee juat what part each railroad magnate la playing and how he playe it? With a 4 road from the Mlaaour! river to the Pacific coast with the fixed chargee - down to $1,000 per mile, aa McLean 4 claima he will have, and no one hen doubts hia ability to make it, the part ha ■'& la likely to play will be mighty Intereet ing to thoae whoae roada moat earn four five and alx thonaand in fixed chargee - before dividends can be thought of. Hone have been hfard of thua far. Bnt McLean amllea and looka happy. He has cheered hia friends, and aofaraa equipping hia road for operation la bon* earned; be waa offered today-enough to ~ equip a road clear across the continent. It really does one good to ape a man meet with auoh proffers, as it looka as though prosperous times wen again at hand. No one in Philadelphia wishes . Donald McLean other than success in thia his pet acheme. Success attends him at this end, surely. BAJUTT7H * BAILXT’B CIBOTi. The Paciflo Short Line will run' a special excursion train from O’Neill to Sioux City Monday, July 96, leaving O'Neill at 5:80 a. m., and arriving at Sioux City at 10 a. m. Fare 88 for the round trip. Oo and see the greatest show on earth. Tou will arrive in time for the stnet parade. O. W. Smith, Ticket Agent. Usctrle litters. Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for any season, but perhapa more gener ally needed, when the languid ex hausted feelings 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 perhaps fatal bilious fevers. Ho medicine will act more surely in counteracting and freeing the system from the malarial poison. Headache, indigestion, constipation, dizziness, yield to Electric Bitters. 50 cents and 81.00 per bottlle at P. O. Corrigan’ : Drug Store. Ballard’s Snow latmeat. This invaluable remedy ia 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 aory chest. If 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 50 cents. Free trial bottles at P. C. Corrigan’s. A Good Chance. To buu good shoes cheap for SO days, JULY 10 to AUGUST T, four weeks, our entire stock of colored and lout shoes at TWENTY PER CENT DI8C0UNT. This sale includes all men’s women's, misses’ and children’s colored shoes above No. 8 and every thing in low shoes black or colored, women’8 misses’ and children’s, above $7. Our line of children’s colored shoes from 9 to 2 is very large, and you can find some excel lent bargains in them. i-3 J. P. MANN.