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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1897)
VOLUME XVIII. O’NtlLL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA. SEPTEMBER 23. 1897. NUMBER 12. mm SANS WHISKERS Items of Interest Told As They Are Told to Us. WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED I<om1 Happenings Portrayed Per General Xdifieatlon and Amusement. P. C. Corrigan is in Omaha this week. Alex Bear] was down from Atkinson yesterday. _ 8. J. Weeks is attending the state fair at Omaha. D. C. Harrison was up from Emporia Wednesday. D. 0. Harrison was up from Emporia I last evening._' Col. Johnson was down from Atkin son last Monday. J. M. Flannigan, of Stuart, was in O’Neill Monday. Guy Hamilton went down to Omaha Tuesday morning. R- R. Dickson went down to Omaha yesterday morning. Win. Dickerson was in the city for a short time yesterday. V. Alberts returned from his eastern trip last Monday night. Charlie Biglow, of Stuart, took dinner at the Hotel Evans Sunday. N. D. Jackson, of Neligh, transacted legal business in O’Neill Monday. O. 0. Snyder is in Minneapolis pur chasing lumber to supply his yards. " C. W. Hennah, sheriff of Garfield county, was in the city last Friday. John E. Kearns left yesterday morn ing for Minneapolis, where he thinks of locating. _/ Miss Flo Bentley is assisting in J. P. * Mann’s store in the absence of Miss Skirving. B. J. Ryan went down to-(Omaba Tuesday morning and will take in the eWte fair. _ /A. J. Hammond and T. V. Golden are Among the iP’Neillites attending the statdffair. ._ Mike Brennan and Pat Gallaghet went down to Omaha yesterday morning to take in the fair. Mrs. Frank Campbell and Mrs. W. J. Dobbs went to Omaha Tuesday morn ing to attend the fair. Sheriff Standiford, of Boyd county, was in the city Tuesday on bis way'to Omaha to attend the fair. Steve Gaghan went down to Norfolk yesterday morning, where he expects to remain for a couple of months. The Woodmen picnic at Stuart last Saturday was a great success. R. R. Dickerson was one of the speakers. For teeth or photos, go to Dr. Cor bett’s parlors, 23rd to 30lh of each month. Photographs $1 per dozen. i We sell good flour, corn meal, graham, bran, shorts, corn, oats, etc., at gold standard prices. 33-tt L. Keyes. Miss Etfle Skirving, of Dows. Iowa, arrived in O’Neill Monday evening and Will visit relatives here for a short time. Mike Welsh went down to Omaha Tuesday morning and will take in the 4 sights on the fair grounds for a few days. John E. Kearns returned from Park City, Utah, last Thursday evening and will spend a few days visiting relatives .here. i Miss Mary Sulliyan left Tuesday morning for Anaconda, Mont., where •he will visit her brother for several months. Ed Grady is enjoying a visit from h*s sister, Miss Emma Grady, who arrived from Waterloo, Iowa, last Tuesday evening. East Monday Walter McKay and Miss Clara Olson, both of Atkinson, were granted a marriage license by Judge McCutchan. Tom Morris, Mrs. Morris and Miss Leone Skirving went down to Omaha last Monday morning. They will take in the fair. Mr. and Mrs. J. Morrison, of St, Louis, who have been visiting relatives hern the past three weeks., returned home yesterday morning. The greatest success of the season ic the sale of the Hart Schaffner & Mart clotthing at P. J. McManus’. A fine joke bd^k presented to all callers. j M and Ed Purdy were in rJ Swan Monday. Will informed us tl tllA himttiw* n. the hunting party got a lot of dui while out there, but owing to the h f were unable to keep them and brl V‘heta home as evidence of their prow* A trial subscription to tbv Semi Weekly State Journal from now until January 1,1898, only costa twenty-five cents. You can send stamps. ■ The Hart Schaffner & Mart clothing at P. J. McManus’ is a success. See the clothing go! He will present you with a joke book if you call at his store. Friday September 8th will be Wood men day at the Mondamin Carnival Sioux City, Iowa. All Woodmen are invited to attend and join the grand parade. Milton W. Hunt, of Baker, Neb., and May C. Johnson, of Cripple Creek, Colo., were granted a marriage license by County Judge McCutchan last Tues day. About half the town is in Omaha this week attending the state fair, and the other half spend most of their time wishing the cares of business would permit them to attend. F. A. Webster, one of Burwell’s most prosperous business men and chairman of the republican county central com mittee, was in O’Neill last Friday on business before the land office. Fred Alberts mounted his bicycle Tuesday morning and started for Omaha. He expects to make the trip in two days and vill visit relatives there for about a month before returning. When needing a lamp of any descrip tion, call in and look our new stock over. We have them from 20 cts. to 84.00 Also a full line of dishes—semi-porce lain, White Granite, and decorated ware. 1 11-2 O’Neill Grocery Co. Elmer Merrimau and family left yes terday morning for Ewing, their future home. We are sorry to see Elmer leave O’Neill, but we hope that he will be prosperous in his new home and con vert some of the' Ewing populists to the principles of republicanism. The office of the Golden irrigation company has been closed and the books and records removed to the court-house in O’Neill at which place the board of directors will hold their meetings quar teriy, as provided by law, until the affairs of the district are closed. Small precautions often prevent great mischiefs. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers are very small pills in size, but are most effective in preventing the most serious forms of liver and stomach troublee. They cure constipation and headache and regulate the bowels. Hbrsbisbr & Gilligan. Alliance Guide: Herman Peters and Chas. Weston, of Hay Springs, and £ Williams, of O’Neill, drove back from Okas. Cook’s sheep ranch on Red Wil low canyon, Monday, after having purchased of Mr. Cook twenty-eight choice rams. Mr. Peters and Mr. Weston own ranches on the Running Water, and have about 4,000 sheep between them. Bee, Sept. 21: A well-dressed, sharp eyed man called on Assistant General Freight Agent Wood, of the Union Pacific, yesterday, and, after introduc ing himself as the game warden, pro ceeded to tell the railroad official that under the provisions of the new game law of the state of Nebraska, now in effect, shipments of game shot in this state destined for points in the state and points out of the state, on the Union Pacific and all other roads must cease at once. It appears that the various sports men’s clubs in the state have started a crusade against the railroad campanies and against the express companies that handle shipments of game shot or caught in Nebraska. It is stated that an exception may be made in the case of a huntsman who desires to send a few birds to his own home after having shot them, but all such shipments must be accompanied br an affidavit to the effect hat the gam e is not to be sold. Whether shipments of game to the sportsmen’s friends may be made is a mooted point. The desire is to break up the big shipments of game and flab caught for the market. The railroads and the express companies have just been warned that if they act as carriers for any shipments of this character they will be compelled to pay a fine for every bird shipped on their line. Hereafter gunners will bring their own birds in with them, or else remain on the hunt ing ground and eat the fowls on the spot.___ NOTICE. Notioe is hereby given that we, the undersigned board of directors of the Golden irrigation district, will sell at public sale at Long Pine, Neb., on Tuesday, September 28,1897, at 1 o’clock p. m., the tent, stores, saddle, bridle and other camp utensils too numerous to mention, the property belonging to the Golden irrigation district. By order of the board of directors, E. B. Bbain, Secretary. Dated at O’Neill, Neb., Sept. 14,1897. thi urmrxoATOM. Lincoln, Nkb , Sift. 91 at 1897. A word about the 910,000 investigat ing committee. On the opening dap of the session of the last legislature, In the senate, there arose a pious looking man whom the presiding officer recognised te “the senator from Key a Paha.” It was the Honorable Otto Main. Nobody had ever seen or heard of him before. There was no occasion for any one present to have any preconceived opinions either for or against Mr. Mute, and yet he seemed by latnllion to recog nize that some explanation was neces sary and so commenced his flrat speech to the senate by a fervid ayowal of his personal honesty as a man, his nonpart isan fairness as a citizen and his dis interestedness as a public official., Others might be dishonest, others might be partisan, others might be selflsb, using for themselves and families the petty oportunitles that go with office holding, but the Honorable Mulz wanted it understood once for all that there was one man who was too highminded to stoop to these pettty things. All through the session this honorable gentleman haranged the senate at every opportunity on every question, exhorting the senate, the galleries and the people of the whole state to be honest, to be nonpartisan, to he unselfish, and it was observed that be closed each fervid appeal with the oft repeated avowal that he himself was a living manifestation of the high doc-' trines which he taught. Mr. Mutz had reached that period of sanctified dis interestedness where even a rail road pass had no temptations for him. Within a week after his arrival in Lincoln the honorable Mute had made three or four of these self-laudatory speeches, in each of which he exhorted tiis colleagues to beware of temptation, which he said was lurking in every corner of the state house, and especially must they keep an eye out for the cor poration capper who was perhaps at that very moment skulking through the lobby, watching for an opportunity to lure some servant of the people into his toils. Within this same week this high minded, unselfish servant of the public, had sought out and held up every cor poration agent that he could And tor all the passes he could get, incidentally side-tracking several poor boys from Key a Paha county who were applicants for positions, securing for his own son the position of page, the only patronage in that line alloted to his locality. When the first recess was taken by the senate the honorable Mutz, instead of visiting his constituents in Key a Paha, boarded the train with bis wife and son for a visit to some relatives in the south east corner of the state. When the conductor appealed the honorable Mutz flashed up a pass reading, “Otto Mutz and wife and son.” “Where did you get this pass?" asked the conductor. "From some one connected with the Missouri Pacific ” said Mutz. “It’s a forgery,” said the conductor. “They don’t make out passes this way, ‘Otto Mulz and wife and. son.’ You have added this ‘and son’ yourself. “I am the state senator from Keys Paha," said Mutz, with some show of dignity. “1 don’t care who you are, whether you are from Keya Paha or Hah-ha pah key. I am in charge of this train and am instructed to take up all trans portation that has been changed or tampered with and you must pay or get off,” said the conductor as he put the forged pass into his pocket. The conductor went on to explain that each pass, when it was returned to headquarters, was submitted to a microscopical test and if the forgery was plaiu, as this one was, the conductor accepting it would be charged up with the amount of the fare besides being liable to dismissal. “But I am a senator,” urged the hon orable Mutz. ‘‘You don’t dare to put me off and beside* my wife is here. You dassent put off a woman. Your company dassent kink on me.” “But they’ll kick on me,” said the conductor, and while bolding onto the pass he also held onto bis temper, ex plaining to the honorable senator that it would cost him his position to pass that pass. After considerable parley tne‘ honorable Keya Pahan paid the three fares, but afterwards demanded from the company and received a rebate for the full amount of the trip. During the second week of the session the honorable Mutz, besides making several self laudatory speeches each day and securing more passes, assisted in putting on foot the infamous recount conspiracy which ousted four republican members from the bouse and one from the senate, securing for himself a place on the recount commission and some 970 extra pay on that account. A little later he helped to inaugurate the invest igating Committee with its 910,000 appropriation, which Rare five members of the legislature a two years’ job at $6 a ■day, 91,600 per annum, each, himself 'assuring the chairmanship of the com mittee. As soon as the legislature adjourned he so arranged the pretended work of tbl^ committee as to give himself the job qf investigating the books of the state institutions, for there was free board there. His first job of, Investi gation was a Beatrice institution, where be quartered himself for two or three months, resulted in placing one of his daughters on the state pay roll there with a salary of 91,000 or 91.S00 a year. Neither Muts himself or any of the five members who saw him draw this 91,000 a year know anything about the work they have in charge, and so they hire the work done at the state’s addi tional expense. 1 challenge these five members to show that either of them have done five dollars worth of actual work of any kind, although they are drawing 90 a day. They have an apartment at the state house where they pretend to work, but they do nothing. For several weeks last past, Muts, with a hired man, has been loafing around the deaf and dumb institute at Omaha, pretending to examine the accounts of Dr. Gillespie, the superin tendent. These accounts run back for twenty years. They excluded the doc tor from their investigations, reported a defcrepancy of some 91,900, refusing to lei the doctor see their figures or their report, which they said the law required them ip make to the next legislature. Muts loafed around the institution, while his hired helper did the work; loafed around with an air of authority, , drooling out wheraver he went, to who ever would listen, the same hypocralical drivel with which be had sickened his associates in the senate, feeding bis hungry stomach on such luxuries as he could exact from the institution, abus ing and misusing his authority just as he bad abused the forced courtesy of the railroad by raising the pass which he had obtained for himself and wife. Without any exhibit of balance sheets, without any evidence except the word °* *!“**«. th*Hu.Vhq twcuty years of Dr. Gillespie's bookkeeping there was a discrepancy, the governor removed Dr. Gillespie, not in an open, manly way, alleging a reason, but with that same double dealing, shuffling whine so chat acteristic of him and of the sham re formers who gather about him, which is accepted by credulous people as the sign of honesty, but is despised by all high minded men as the sign of mediocrity, venality and hypocrisy. I have not space to describe fully this investigating machine and its methods. Mutz is a type of its personel and his methods are characteristic of its operations. It was created to make five places at 91,600 a year each, and to trump up political capital. Next week I will show a con spiracy which wilt put two state house officials in the public view alongside of Joseph 8. Bartley, the ex-state treasurer. The state has suffered many wrongs in the past. All good citizens are crying out for better government. The effort made for reform was honestly made by the rank and file who supported the fusion ticket last fall. Before thirty days it will appear that the honest fusionist was deceived and that those in power are not reformers. Mutz is a type of the petty conspirator. There are others on a larger scale. i ‘ J. W. Johnson. TENTH AIHTVSB9AXY. The tenth anniversary, camp fire and picnic of Post No 261, G. A. R , will be held at Leonia on the 9th day of Octo ber, 1897. A general invitation is ex tended to ail, and a fine entertainment will be given. T. B. Habrison, R. E. Bowdbn, Adjutant. Commander. UIUT NOTICE. Strayed, from my place at Rochester, Boyd county, about August 13, 1897, the following described horses: One gray, three years old; one gray, two years old; one black, one year old; and one light bay, one year old. A liberal reward will be given for information leading to their recovery. H. C. Baker, Rochester, Neb. Condensed Testimony. Chas. 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, Maes., says that he has used and recom mended it and never knew it to fail and would rather have jt than any doctor, because it always cures. Mrs. Hemming 223 £ 23th St., Chicago, always keeps it at hand and has no fear of croup, be cause it instantly relieves. Free trial bottlys at P. G. Corrigan’s drug store. TEX SCHEME DEVELOPED. At last tbe well-laid plan of the court house "ring" to get rid of Ham Kautz man has been fully developed. After this week tbe Sun and Indepencent will be consolidated, and C. C. McHugh will preside as eJitor-in-chief. After the "ring” found that Kautz man would not be subservient to their slightest wish and do all their dirty work and take all the blame, while they divided tbe profits among themselves, they decided that he must be gotten rid of, bat that was easier said than done. Ham wasn’t ready to be kicked out Just as he was about to reap the reward for services ably performed, and wouldn’t go. And right then was concocted the scheme to get rid of him which at last succeeded, and has resulted in the con solidation of the two papers. Ham wouldn’t sell out to them, or any of their agents, and they knew it. But after long watching they at last caught him off his guard,' and one of their agents bought him out. Hot wishing, however, to be too precipitate in devel oping the scheme, for fear the people would see the hand of the "ring” in the deal, tbe paper was run by their agent until the people got over their surprise and their suspicions had been lulled to rest. Then they ware ready tor the next change, which took place this week, as above stated. There is an old and true saying that "you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” Wrll, if the remarks that are current everywhere upon the streets are any indication of the true feeling that exists among the pops over the change, the "ring” will find that it is a whole lot easier to con solidate the two papers than it is to make the party satisfied with the change. In other words, the "ring” may force McHugh onto the pop party, but they can’t make the pop party swallow MoHugh. fbotegtimg the gams. For some time the authorities here hate been on the alert to prevent viola tion of the game laws. It was rumored that chickens were being shipped out of the state and that the. law was being violated. So last Monday it came to the acute ears of Sheriff Hamilitdn that there were some chickens on the morn ing train, shipped from Ainsworth and consigned to a Chicago commission firm, he went down and found a barrel containing 95 prarie chickens, 8 quails, 6 teal duck and 6 jack snipes. The officer took possession of them and dis tributed them to tbe people around town. A complaint was then sworn out by W. R. Butler charging the F. E. and M. V. Railroad Company, American Express Company and J. H. Morgan an employe thereof, with having viola ted the game laws. Mr. Morgan who lives at Missouri Valley heard that he was wanted here and came up Tuesday evening with N. D. Jackson, of Neligb, his attorney. When the case came up in County Court Wednesday morning he waived prelimnary examination and was bound over to the district court in the sum of 8500. It the compsny has to pay 85 a piece for each bird found in their possession it will be rather an expensive consignment. Following is the complaint sworn out by Mr. Butler. State of Nebraska, ) Holt County. f The complaint of W. R. Butler of Holt County Nebr., before Q. A.McCut chan. County Judge of said county, who being first duly sworn, upon his oath says that tbe Fremont Elkborn and Missouri Valley Railroad Company, and the American Express Company, and J. H. Morgan, a servant and employee of the said American Express Company, and each of them, did on the 30th day of Sept. 1897, and within the County of Holt and atate of Nebraska, have, and bad, in their possession and in the poaaeaaion of each of them in the county and atate aforeaald, 95 prairie chickena, 0 quail, 6 teal ducka and 8 jack anipea, and were unlawfully trans porting and carrying contrary to law, aa expreaa matter aaid above deacribed prarie ebickena, ducka, quaila and Jack anipea, out of the atate of Nebraaka, to to and into the city of Chicago, in the atate of Illinoia, conaigned to H. 8 Brown ft 8on produce commiaion mer chants, of 825 ft 237 Southwater St. Chicago, 111., the same being conaigned by Brigga Broa. of Alnaworth, Brown County Nebr. to aaid H. S. Brown it Son of Chicago 111., contrary to the etatutea in auch cases made and provided and againat the peace and dignity of the state of Nebraaka. W. R. Bdtlrb. •' Subacribed and aworn to before me this 20th day of September, A. D., 1897. [seal] G. A. McCutchan. County Judge. SsWmusmsmsimihsimmssmmsi HOLD ON! HOLD ON! STOP, STOP, 9 I aayl writing that order for a auit of that Nebraaka clothing houae. There ia no uae talking. P, ,T. McManus has Juat opened up a new atock of clothing that *xcells any thing I ever saw since r' left the city of New York. Scotch chevlott suits, clay worsted suits, flue beaver cloth suits and beaver over coata. Irish * frelse over coats, youth’s three piece suits and boys two pciee suits. Child’s two piece auits, also child’a three piece auits and I feel satisfied that I can clothe my family for lees money at I4. J. McManus store than at any other store ia the weat. And you would be auprised to aee the atock of dreaa gooda. The latest novelties in the market. Trimmings of all description, you can also suit youraelf in the latest up to data hat at his store. For aboes, I never saw a finer atock. All sizes from A to EE in all shades. I also note you that his basement store for I' grocery department is second to none that I viaited in the city. It is well stocked, arranged hi a neat and tasty manner and would impress you that the proprietor knowa hia busineaa. Truly yours, A VISITING FBIBMD. Running sores, Indolent ulcers and similar troubles, even though of many years standing, may be cured by uaing DeWJtt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It aooths, strengthens and heals. It la the great pile cure. Hbbshibeb ft Gilugah. Twenty-five cents will pay for the Twice-a-Week State Journal from now until January 1, 1898. The State Jour* nal is Nebraaka’a greatest paper and gives more state capital news than all other atate papers combined. Our special brand of Mocha and Java will fill that long felt want for a good cup of coffee. Remember there are plenty of “so called’’ Mocha and Java coffees' sold that are only common Rio. 11 2 O’Neill Gbockby Co. t If you have ever seen a little child in a paroxysm of whooping cough, or if you have been annoyed by a constant tickling in the throat, you can appreci ate the value of Cne Minute Cough Cure, which gives quick relief. Hbbshibeb ft Gilliuak. Dress Shoes— It's always well to have aa extra pair. If you think you can't afford it. suppose you re flect that it costs you no more, for when the work-a-day shoes are worn out the extras fall into their place and the new pair is kept for dress. There's plenty of topm for of style and we will satisfy your own taste at littlest expense. Calf, Kid, Cordovan, tan or patent leather—take your choke, but bear in mind that you ret the benefit of all our ■hoe experience in buying of us and that we are laying our plans to sell you shoes as long as you live. We’d rather have little profits all your life than a big profit just once* That means little prices ana big satisfaction. SEE “Selz”«tieSole of the shoes that you buy. Selz Shoes ■akcyogfcdffri . . J. P. Mann. •