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.
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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.
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