VOLUME XVIII. O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 5. 1897. NUMBER 5,
NEWS SANS WHISKERS
Item* of Interest Told They Are
Told to Vs.
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
l>OMl Happenings Portrayed Per General
Xdlfleation and Amusement.
Hogs brought $3.20 yesterday.
Miss Kate Mann is visiting in the city.
Miss Barnum was over from Speneei
Friday. _
• Phil Parker was in from Dorsey
Tuesday. _ _
It wasn’t right, anyhow, to kill the
pigeons. _
^ Lawn tennis is getting to be very pop
lar here.
* Mrs. C. W. Hamilton is visiting at
Long Pine.
Frank Phillips was in the city
yesterday. __
Cy Greek, of Genoa, was in the city
Tuesday.
John Duncan was up from Chambers
Tuesday.
John Menzie was in from Dorsey
Wednesday._
H. W, Campbell was up from Sioux
City Tuesday.
F. A. Huston, of Ewing, was in the
city yesterday.
Grandpa Binkard, of Dorsey, was in
O’Neill yesterday.
J. W. Harmon, of Osmond, was in
the city last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Evans went up to
Long Pine yesterday.
J. C. Mann, of Oakland, was a guest
at the Evans Tuesday.
V.
Mrs. Tom DeLong, of Sioux City,
spent Sunday in the citv.
W. W. Watson and C..D. Keyes were
up from Inman Wednesday.
' C. C. Spaulding, of Ord, was regis
tered at the Evans Tuesday.
Merrit Martin is acting "newsy” on
|e Short Line in the absence of Newt.
^iStock sheep for sale. Address,
3-8 Fred Hoyt, Gordon, Neb.
Ted Woods, of Laurel, was in the city
Monday on bis way to Atkinson to visit
relatives.
G. T. Kelley and G. P. Watson, of
Inman, were registered at the Evans
Tuesday.
Use H. & G. remedy for black leg, as
preventative. For sale by Hershiser &
Gilligan. _ 60 tf
Newton Carson, John Brady and John
and Will Carson, of Dorsey, were iu the
city yesterday.
Gene Smith, of Page, and James
Cronk, of Emporia, were in the city
t last Saturday.
Miss Maud Hamilton and Miss Jennie
Pentzer went up to Long Pine Tuesday
for a few days visit.
Dr. Withers, Omaha painless dentist,
at O'Neill again August 25 and 26.
Office at Evans’ hotel. 5-3
These hot days nothing so refreshing
as Hershiser & Gilligan’s soda water.
■—Try it. Always cool. 50-tf
"Oh, but that is good!" is what the
ladles say when they drink soda water
at Hershiser & Gilligan’s.
Superintendent Morrow went up to
Atkinson yesterday. We presume he is
repairing his political fences.
Don't forget the four Scandinavian Sis
ter* at the opera-house tomorrow night,
August 6. Everybody come.
If you want dental work done by an
experienced dentist, and at Omaha
prices, wait for Dr. Withers. 5-8
Ur. and Mrs. Will Gray returned last
week from a protracted visit with rel
atives at Michigan City, Ind.
Harry Dowling returned from North
Bend last Thursday evening, where he
had been visiting his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Williams left yester
day morning for Long Pine, where- they
will enjoy a two weeks outing.
Miss Mary Hurley, who has been
visiting at Valentine for several weeks,
returned home Monday morning.
We sell good flour, corn meal, graham,
bran, shorts, corn, oats, etc., at gold
standard prices. 33-tf L. Keyes.
» The only shoulder brace that is not
J uncomfortable when you “brace up."
f For sale by Hershiser & Gilligan, O’Neill,
( Neb. _ 60-tf
Austin Butler, of Atkinson, was in
the city Tuesday with a load ot flour
from the Atkinson mills for T. Walmer,
who handles that make.
Mrs. Bran came up from Omaha
Sunday evening end will visit relative*
here for eeveral weeks.
John Alderson was up from Chambers
Monday looking for farm hands to
assist him through haying.
Miss Whitney, of Tilden, arrived in
the city Tuesday evening and will visit
several days with the Misses Gillespie.
16 to 20 is all I can be here during
August. In September it will by my
old dates, 23 to 30. A. H. Corbett.
The rainfall Sunday night was 1.68
inches. This insures Holt county the
largest corn crop ever known in her
history, _
David Stannard, sr., returned Monday
evening from California, where he had
been visiting relatives the past eight
months. __
C. H. Gardiner, formerly a banker in
this city, died Sunday morning in Reno,
Nevada, while on his way east from
California. _
Do not let the black leg get into your
herd. Prevent it by using the H. & G.
remedy for black leg, sold by Hershiser
& Gilligan. 50-tf
The 3-year old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. -Sam Burge died this morning
about 10 o’clock. She had been ill
about ten days.
J. Ryan returned from Kansas City
Sunday night. He has been attending a
medical school there and has just com
pleted a course in chemistry.
Hiss Maud Stout, of Tekamah, sister
of Charlie Stout, arrived in the city last
Monday evening and has accepted a
position on the Independent.
Mrs. Dan Gallagher, of Stafford, died
this morning after an illness of a few
days. The remains will be taken to
Wilmington, Del., for interment.
Leo, the infant and only son of Mi;?
and Mrs. Thomas Tierney, died Sunday
evening at 0 o’clock, and was buried in
the Catholic cemetery Monday after
noon. _
D. C. Harrison was up from Emporia
last Saturday. Mr. Harrison says the
crops in his section were never in better
condition than they are at the present
time. _
We understand that John, Moser,
living near Dorsey, was waylaid and
seriously injured last Friday evening on
his way home from the Dorsey post
office.
Remember Dr. Withers’ dates. He
will make a set of teeth for $5, extract
teeth without pain, do all kinds of
filling and crown work at very reason
able rates. _ 5-3
Mr. B. A. Wilson, of Danville, 111.,
cousin of G. W. Smith, arrived in the
city Saturday evening and will visit
for a few weeks with Mr. Smith and
family.
Newt Mullendore left Tuesday morn
ing for Trago, Maryland, where he will
spend several weeks visiting his mother
and the friends of his childhood. We
hope that he will enjoy his visit.
Reopening service in connection with
the quarterly meeting at the M. E.
church next Sunday at 10:30 a. m. Rev.
Wm. Gorst will have charge of the ser
vices. All are invited to these services
M. M. Sullivan, manager of the Sulli
van Mercantile Co., informs us that they
are going to open up a salesroom at
Lynch, Boyd county, to sell goods they
are handling on commission for eastern
factories.
You mar bunt tbe world over and you
will not find another medicine equal to
Cbamberlan’s Colic, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy for bowel complaints. It
is pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale
by P. C. Corrigan.
Bob Marsh has organized a base ball
team and expects to get the scalps of
the kid nine next Sunday. We under
stand that Bob and Jim Connolly will
do tbe batterr act. The game promises
to be an interesting one.
Mrs. McMahan and daughter, of Blue
Hill, Neb., mother and sister of Mrs.
Chas. Hall, arrived in the city Monday
evening, called here by the illness of
Mrs. Hall, who, we are pleased to state,
is somewhat better at this writing.
Exchange: What does anybody in
this country want to' tear down an Irish
I flag for? The beautiful green banner
with a golden harp upon it does not
represent any nation. It only stands
for lost hopes and dreams. It cannot
be offensive to any human being who
has good sense.
"Last summer one of our grand-child
ren was sick with a severe bowel
trouble," says Mrs. E. Q. Gregory, of
Frederickstown, Mo. “Our doctor’s
remedy had failed, then we tried Cham
berIan’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, which gave very speedy relief.”
For sale by P. C. Corrigan.
State Journal, July 89: Mr. Korrla U.
Bowen, eon of ex-County Judge Bowen,
of Holt county, and Mlaa Belma L.
Tibbils, of Llnooln, were united in mar
riage Tuesday afternoon by Judge]
Cochran. Mr. and Mra. Bowen have
gone to Seward to spend a few days and
will be at home to their friends at
Twenty-eighth and Hitchcock streets
after July 80.
John Hazelet has accepted a position
as traveling salesman for the American
Chicory company and commenced his
duties Monday. He will make all the
towns on the Eikhorn and will then
probably be sent to Iowa to work that
state. We congratulate John upon
having secured such a good position,
and believe that he will by a valuable
man to the company.
The kid ball team played a nine
picked from the O’Neill fire department
last Sunday afternoon. The score was
13 to SO in fayor of the kids. The
youngsters put up a good game and
demonstrated to those in attendance
that although they were several yeais
younger than the F. D. boys, they could
play better ball. The conquered team
say they are going to practice up a little
and get their scalp next Sunday.
neiore maaiug your nil purcnases
get prices on all kinds of goods at the
Sullivan Mercantile and Commission
company’s store. We are the onir
house in Nebraska that handles dry
goods, boots, shoes and clothing on
commission, and we sell everything for
cash. Call at our store and we will
convince you that our prices are right.
Sullivan Mercantile and Commis
sion Co. 5-3
Exchange: When the dust is on the
counter and the cobweb's on the shelf,
and there isn’t anybody in the store
besides yourself, and the stock i! getting
shelf worn and the groceries are stale,
and bills enough are coming due to
make a banker pale; oh, then’s the time
the merchant’s feeling kind o’ bine, and
is puzzled by the idea of the proper
thing to do. But in such a situation
one sure remedy applies, if you want to
get the customers you’ve got to advertise.
We were informed the other day by a
gentlemen who lives in the eastern part
of the state, that, .while the country
surrounding this city is not nearly so
thickly settled and consequently not" so
well off financially as it is down where
he lives, O’Neill is away ahead of the
towns down there in appearance, and
that it was the shade trees and well kept
lawns that gave it this appearance.
Now this is no news to us, but it is
gratifying to hear it from an outsider
just the same.
Mrs. J. A. Testman entertained a
large party of friends at her residence
on North Fifth street last Thursday
evening, in honor of her niece, Miss
Tillie Huff, of Wiener. Dancing on the
lawn, which was beautifully lighted up
with Japanese lanterns, to the inspiring
strains of music furnished by Smithies’
orchestra, was the program for the
evening, and a most enjoyable one it
was. A tasty lunch was served at mid
night, after which the dancing was
continued till a late hour.
The editor of the American Monthly
Review of Reviews, in his department
entitled “The Progress of the World,"
discusses harvest and trade prospects,
the new tariff, the coal strike, American
annexation policies, our diplomacy on
the seal question, Japan and Hawaii,
British interests in Canada, European
politics, and many other timely topics.
In connection with matter on the Klon
dype gold fields an excellent map of
Alaska is published. In the same
department appear interesting views of
important British colonial capitals.
xne 4 year oia son or Jim urimbie
comb, who lives on the Sam Howard
place five miles south of town, fell Into
the irrigation ditch, which runs near
there, last night and came very near
drowning. When he fell in another
little child who was with him ran nearly
two hundred yards to the barn for
assistance, and by the time the men
reached the spot the body had sunk in
about four feet of water. It was soon
found, however, and carried to the
house and a messenger dispatched for
Ur. Gilligan, who succeeded in restoring
tM little one to consciousness, and he is
now in a fair way to complete recovery.
Grand Island Democrat: A gentle
man from Crown Point, Indiana, who
has been in Alaska for the past year,
thus writes about the big gold finds
being reported: “I would not advise
anybody to come here under any cir
cumstances. There have been no strikes
of any consequence made since last
summer, although miners have been try
ing to get up some excitement on Lynx
creek, but it will not amount to any
thing. Everything is staked out from
the sea to the top of the mountains and
everybody wants to sell. There are
more liars here to the square foot than
there are in the infernal regions."
The Sullivan Mercantile Co. has just
received the largeit invoice of good*
thie Week that has come to O’Neill for
many a day. Our store la a eight
worth aeeing, the good* are piled in all
directions. These goods are direct from
the mills and manufactories for which
we are agent and we will sell them at
manufacturer's prices. Tou can save
money by getting our prices before send
ing away for your goods. We have all
kinds of dry goods, clothing, boots,
shoes, hate and caps. We handle all
tbeselyoods on commission, and there- j
fore «re compelled to sell for cash, but
you Will Save money by getting our
prices on your fall bills. When in
O’Neill come in and see our stock.
ftoUiiVAlr MnncAOTTLn aid Cokius
Sion Co. , 5-8
Lynch Journal: Ploren Thayer, liv
ing five miles south of here in Holt
county, died on Monday afternoon, July
88,1897, from the effects of an Injury
received a week previous in mounting a
horse. As he started to get into his
saddle the horse Jumped, landing young
Thayer behind instead of in the saddle.
The.pony pitched with him for a while,
but after a little he succeeded in getting
settled and assisted in driving some
cattle two or three miles, and seemed
none the worse for his mishap. The
next aiorning he was sick and a doctor
was summoned, but little was thought
of his injuries until a week after he had
been hurt, when he became quite ill.
Though medical advice was called in
and all possible done for him the young
man died on Monday afternoon and was
buried yesterday.
The ScudliiTlu Slaters at the opera
house tomorrow night will giro O’Neill
lovers of. music and comic entertain
ment a rare treat, and it you don't go
you will regret it. They come highly
recommended by the prese of the state
where they have appeared. They are
ail graduates in music of the Wesleyan
University at Lincoln, and Miss Francis
is claimed to be quite phenominal in her
ability to sing a heavy bass, while Miss
Marin is able to reach the higher notes
with ease. While their program is
replete with all the newest music, they
sing plainly and with distinctness.
Their musical program Is interspersed
with humorous and select readings by
.Mr., AJK, Turner, graduate of the same
oolleg* Sir oratory and elocution, and
you will be pleased with his readings.
Tickets now on sale at Hershiser SB
Gilligan’s at 85, 25 and 15 cents.
Sooysmith SB Co., the New York
bridge builders who built the substruc
ture of the combination bridge, have
furnished their estimate for the entire
construcaion of the bridge at Ponca to
be used by Donald McLean's proposed
transcontinental railway. The esti
mated cost .of construction made by
Sooysmith & Co. is 1375,000. Private
advices received from Mr. McLean state
that he will be at Saratoga this week
and a part of next week. At this water
ing place will be assembled the directors
of two great railways and the president
of one of these roads. They are the
men who have been behind Mr. McLean
in bis preliminary work. The two
roads are outside of the Vanderbilt syn
dicate, and for a long time have been
interested in a trans-Missouri connection
not controlled by J. Pierpont Morgan.
That Donald McLean will be engaged in
the actual work of construction this
fall now seems highly probable.
With five delightful etories in the
August Cosmopolitan, one might judge
that it was intended solely for light
reading in midsummer; but a second
glance shows that it contains as well
much of serious interest. The second
paper by the special commissioner sent
by the Cosmopolitan to India tells a tale,
the like of which has never before
appeared in any periodical. We have in
histories second-hand accounts of great
famines, but they lack that startling
distinctness which comes from behold
ing at first band the sights described.
Twenty millions of people sldwly starv
ing to death, many of them in sight of
the railways! No American can form
any idea of the state of affairs now
existing in India. Mr. Hawthorne has
gone into the interior and stood amongst
the dead and dying. It is the first time
that we have had an American investi
gation of the condition of affairs in
India. The report will open the eyes
not only of the civilized world, but of
the English parliment and the queen
herself to the necessity of extraordinary
exertion in behalf of these unfortunate
millions. _
The Holt count/ prohibition conven
tion will meet in the M. E. church in
O’Neill Tuesday, August 10, at 10 a. m.,
to nominate a county ticket and to
transact any other business which may
properly come before us. All enemies
of the liquor traffic are invited to take
part with us. N. S. Lowbib,
E. T. Qborqb, Chairman.
Secretary,
A process has been discovered for
making sugar out of watermelon!, and
the World-Herald commenta on It in the
following manner: “Nothing seems too
aacred for the sacrilegious hand of com
mercialism. A oongresa owned body
and aoul by the tariff barons has placed
a tax upon the holy scriptures; the stage
has been prostituted to the point of
being an advertising medium for short
haired pugs, and now an inventive
genius has discovered a formula for
extracting sugar from watermelons, and
claims thst he can make more commer
cial sugar from an acre of the lucious
fiult than can be made from an acre of
the best sugar beets. It is high time
that a halt be called upon the commer
cialism of the present generation. We
can stand a great many things, but
when it cornea to laying the unholy
hands of commercialism upon the water
melon and debasing it to uses not .con
templated by the laws of nature, we
insist that the line must be drawn. The
watermelon is the greatest fruit within
the ken of man. Its rich, red, Juicy
heart contains the panacea for all earth
ly ills, the supreme joys of gastronomy
and the acme of earthly bliss. To grind
up that lucious heart, pound it to a
pulp, boil it to afraxsle and reduce it to
plain, ordinary sugar, is a perversion of
nature, an act of sacrilege that should
not be tolerated. We can extract sugar
from beets, from cane and from grapes.
We can, if necessary, do without sugar,
or we can depend upon that hideous but
intensely sweet extract of coal tar, sac
charine, for the sweetening for our
coffee and the basis for our confections.
But it is anarchy, socialism, atheism,
cosmos and chaos to prostitute the lusci
ous watermelon to such base usage
merely to secure gold that la craved by
the sordid. Lay not the unholy hands
of commercialism upon the watermelon.
Let it remain forever as it has been in
the past, the best product of the field,
the greatest refresher of tired mankind,
liar not its cooling green rind nor the
velvety smoothness of its core for sordid
gain. Anything but that.
There hu been a tendency generally
among our farmer* In the laat two yean
to let their grain atand and thresh it out
of the shock. They claim it saves time
and money, says the Nebraska Farmer.
We do not claim that all of onr farmers
do this, but 4t teems that* debts have
compelled them to dispose of their grain
as soon as possible. This is really the
cause that has brought around this cus
tom. AH who Ijave ever noticed, find
that grain is fn much better condition
when it has'btea stacked and thorough*
ly dried out, coming out in much better
condition than where it has stood in the
shock and been bleached out by the
weather and rain. Taking the grain ont
out of the shock and hauling it to the
threshing machine requires an army of
men and teams to do t|jjjr work. Then
should a storm or shower come up all
hands will lose from one-half to a day
waiting for the shocks to dry out. And
these are not all of the drawbacks. The
grain when sent to market is docked on
account of the condition it is in, it caus
ing the elevator men to keep the grain
moving till it dries out, or in other
words goes through the sweat, and we
believe that grains like oats and barley
that have not been stacked and gone
through the curing process are not good
feed for horses. There is always a dust
that nothing but the straw can take out
of the hulls or shuck. We have often
heard the remark, “I oannot see why
my horses cough so badly, I have been
very careful about not feeding to much
hay.” The cause was in the oats. If
grain could all be carefully stacked and
not threshed till it is thoroughly dried
out, and not put on the market in poor
condition, we would not have such
breaks in the market as we now have.
There is another fact that we are afraid
of that is often overlooked in stacking
and that is stacks and ricks are made too
small. If a person has grain enough to
make good sized ricks it should be done
for this reason if for no other. When
your rick is finished it has settled and is
not so easily moved by the wind or wet
in by rain and you do not have so much
grain exposed to the weather. We have
dropped these thoughts because we
think they are overlooked in the rush
that harvest usually causes, it coming so
close to corn plowing.
mews to us.
Randolph Times: The Times cannot
vouch (or the truthfulness of the fol
lowing horrible story of religious fanati
cism, which is reported from O'Neill,
and comes by way of the New York
Tribune: “The Rev. Reuben Beakim,
the pastor of a negro church near that
town, is urging his hearers to pot out
one of their eyes, and in order to em
phasize his teachings has put out one of
his own eyes, fie declares that the
Lord approves of one-eyed men In
Mathew vi, 23-23, in which it is stated
that 'if thine eye be single, then shall
thy whole body be filled with light.*"
We had a floe shower at Middle
Branch laat Sunday evening which wan
needed very much.
The boye played a game of ball at
Haineeville laat Saturday.
A. G. Anaon, of Venna, waa at Middle
Branch laat Tueaday.
The eon of Mr. Tbyre, while running
horaea laat week, waa thrown off and
killed inatantly.
Mr. and Mra. Frank Butterfleld visited
at Middle Branch laat Sunday.
Xd Bright, who haa been ataying at
Mr. Finney’a, returned home Sunday.
The baby of John Dart's haa been
quite ill the put week.
William Bruce apent Saturday and
Sunday at E. G. Garter's.
Mra. Emerson, of Dorsey, ia visiting
hat daughter, Mra. M. L. Bright, who is
quite ill. '
lOTOS FAMOUS.
H. W. Campbell will lecture on the
method of the Campbell Boll Culture at
the court houu in O'Neil], August 18,
1897, afternoon and evening. It ia
dealred that all fanners attend. Come
prepared to uk questions.
W. J. Dobbs,
Agent F. B. and M. V. By.
CAIDOT THANK*
Mb. Editob: ;v
We with to express through the col
umm ot your paper oar alner* thanks
to the good people of O’Neill for the
friendly meaner in which they receive#
ae end for the hoepltelity rendered an
daring the tabernacle meeting in thg
city. Aleowethenk the eathoritiee for
the prompt manner in which they pro*
tec ted ae from moleetetion.
W. P. Lasswbu*
Peetor in Charge.
The Blseevery eared lb
Mr. O. Oallloaette, draggiat, Beavers
▼ille, 111., taye: "To Dr. Xing's New
Discovery I owe my life. Wee taken
with legrlppe and tried all the nhvsio
iane for mllea about, but woe of no
avail and woe given ap and told 1 coaid
not live. Having Dr. King’e New Die*
covery in my etore I lent for a bottle
and began ite nee and from the first doee
began to get better, and after uling
three bottles woe up and about again. It
is worth ite weight in gold. We won't
keep store or bonce without it” Get a
I free trial at Ooirignn*odrag etcee.
arsmun.
The Holt county teachers’ institate
will commence in O’Neill on Monday,
August 10, and continue for two weeks.
The annual examination will be held on
Friday, and Saturday, August IS and 14,
in the high school building. All those
intending to teach this year are earnes
ly requested to attend.
J. C. Monnow,
•v County Superintendent.
Xlsetris Bitters.
Electric Bitters is a medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps 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.
No medicine will act mors sorely In
counteracting and freeing the system
from the malarial poison. Headache,
indigestion, constipation, diszinese,
yield to Electrio Bitters. 50 cents and
11.00 per bottlle at P. C. Corrigan*
Drag Store.
Ballard's laow lnUatat.
This invaluable remedy ie one that
ought to be in every household. It will
cure your rheumatism, neurallga,
apraiot, cuts, bruiaea, burna, frosted
feet and eara, aore throat and aore cheat.
If you have lame back it will cure It
It penetratea to the aeat of the diaeaae.
It will cure etifl jolnta and contracted
mueclea after ail other remedlea have
failed. Thoae who have been cripplea
for yeara have uaed Ballard’a Snow
Liniment and thrown away their
crutchea and been able to walk aa well
aa ever. It will care yon. Price 60
centa. Free trial bottlea at P. C.
Corrigan’a.
A MIDSUMMER
PICNIC.
For the next two weeka we will cut
prices on all Summer Dress Goods, Shirt
Waists, Paraaola, Ladies* Suita and
Wraps, Hen’s Straw Hats and Summer
Coats and Vesta and all Ladies* and
Children’s Low Shoes. Our discounts
will range from 20 to 50 per cent,
and aa the summer ia but half apent you
can make aome very profitable invest*
ments. We want to close out every
dolla. worth of summer goods we can
to make room for our new fall stock
which will be bigger and better than
ever. Yours truly,
J. P. MANN.