VOLUME XVIII. O'NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER clO. 1897. NIIMRWR iq
Items of Interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
Loesl Happening* Portrayed For General
KdiSeatioa and Amusement.
John Alderaon was in the city Tues
day. ' _
C. L. Davis returned from Omaha last
evening.
Dick Killmurray was up from Ewing
Tuesday. _■ ■
Tbeo. Walmer spent Sunday in
Atkinson.
Dr. Blackburn wos down from Atkin
K-^Bon yesterday._•_ •
jpN Mrs. Laura Cress came up from Pre
mont last night.
W. J Courtright is up Fremont attend
ing district court. *
John Trommershausser was up from
Ewing yesterday.
Attorney ,01e8on, of Fremont, is in
the city today on legal business.
Frankie Smith visited with friends in
Atkinson several days last week.
Sheriff Hamilton returned last evening
from a trip down the Short Line.
Bert Hoileubeck, of Page, made this
office a short call Tuesday morning. -
WANTED—To buy a good fresh milch
cow. ! 18-2 Mrs. Scott Hough.
S. D. Orcutt, of Atkinson, was an
O’Neill visitor between trains Monday...
Eber Leek, of Atkinson, was talking
democratic politics in O’Neill yesterday.
Mrs. ranme OLynn, the celebrated j
Cbadron lawyer, wag in the city last
Friday. _
If you want to keep posted read The
Frontier. We have no peta and the
truth must prevail.
Remember Dr. Benedict, the optician,
will be at Corrigan’s drug store October
3rd to lOtb. Examination free.
Jphas. E. Verity, representihg the
Chicago Newspaper Union, of Sioux
City, was in the city last Sunday.
For teeth or, photos, go to Dr. Cor
bett’s parlors, 23rd to 30th of each
month. Photographs $1 per dozen.
We sell good flour, corn meal, graham,
bran, shorts, corn, oats, etc., at gold
standard prices. 83-tf L. Keyes.
FOR SALE—Three full blood Merino
bucks, will shear 30 pounds. Will sell
cheap. Peter Donohoe,
13-2 O’Neill, Neb.
<jhs. i. lhkc, oi iuwing, and Alary H.
Jensen, of Brunswick, were united in
marriage by Judge McCutchan last
Friday morning.
i The Epworth League gave a hay rack
party last week and drove out to the
Fox ranch, where a very enjoyable
evening was spent.
The O’Neill visitors to the state fair
have all returned. They report the fair
not as good as it was last year, but the
parades were better.
V Dr. Benedict, the eminent optician,
l3 at Corrigan’s drug store, October 3rd to
10th. Don’t fail to see him if you need
anything in his line.
The greatest success of the season is
the sale of the Hart Schaffner & Mart
clothing at P. J. McManus’. A fine joke
book presented to all callers.
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.
G. W. Bradt called Monday and paid
his subscription to Jan. 1, 1898. We
1 have several hundred subscribers who,
^ we hope, will emulate his example.
Miss Edna Hamilton arrived from
Michigan City, Ind., last evening, and
will visit with her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. L. Mack, for several weeks.
Mrs. McAllister, mother of James
McAllister, of Agee, died last Sunday
morning, at the advanced age of 70
years. The funeral was held Tuesday
afternoon.
District court convened today with
Judge Kinkaid on the bench. The only
important cases on the docket are the
Stewart divorce case and the Keya Paha
murder case.
John Menzie was in from Dorsey
Tuesday. John is making arrangements
to sell off his personal effects as he
tends going on the road organizing
Woodmen Lodges.
■ P. C. Kelly and Michael McCoy of
O Neill called at this office Monday and
ordered this great family journal sent to
r,their address for the next year. Now is
the time to subscribe.
H. A, Walker, of Stuart, waa in the
city yesterday and made this office a
pleasant call. Mr. Walker ia thinking
of removing to O’Neill in the courae of
the next couple of montha.
Mrs. Q. W. Bradt was taken suddenly
ill while in O’Neill last Saturday. Dr.
Trueblood was called and under hia
care she recovered sufficiently to be
taken homh in the evening.
Frank Torbet, of Dorsey, called
Tuesday and bad his name enrolled
upon The Frontier’s subscription list.
He also ordered a copy aent to bis father
at Coney Kas. And still they come.
B. J. Ryan is now the proud possessor
of a Shetland pony and a little buggy
to “yoke” it to. He promises to give
the editor a ride some evening, and we
can tell you more about it after that
event. __
Last Friday the county judge issued a
marriage license to Oliver Connor and
W. W. Hohman, both of Ewing. There
seems to be a marriage epidemic in that
I vicinity since Raker joined the
Benedict’s. _
Editor Raker was up from Ewing
yesterday and made this office a call.
Judging from his language be is not
very enthusiastic over the idea of C. C.
McHugh running the populist party’s
leading organ.
Judge Gillespie returned front Minne
apolis Monday evening. The judge
informs us that Harry is getting along
as well as could be expected since the
operation was performed, although he
is still very weak.
Lewis G. Coburn, of Phoenix, called
Monday and paid $1,50 and ordered the
best paper in Holt County sent to his
address for the next vear. You might
as well get in the band wagon, they all
want The Frontier.
Peter Sodersien, the popular section
foremen of the F. E. & 11. V. will
read Tub Frontier hereafter and keep
posted on the happenings in Holt.
He had his name enrolled upon our
subscription list last Monday.
Winter blooming bulbs for sale,
among them the genuine Chinese sacred
lilly. Mammoth bulbs, they .grow in
water and grave], and* bloom in from
four to six weeks from planting.
13-2 Hershisek & Qilligan.
Twenty-five cents will pay for the
Twice-a-Week State Journal from now
until January 1, 1898. The State Jour
nal is Nebraska's greatest paper and
gives more state capital news than all
other state 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. Grocery Co.
Jim McAllister, of Agee, took five
first prizes at the state fair on stock.
That’s the way to stand up for Holt
county. Show her catural resources to
outsiders, and they will flock here like
bees around a honeysuckle.
Running sores, indolent ulcers and
similar troubles, even though of many
years standing, may be cured by using
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It Booths,
strengthens and heals. It is the great
pile cure. Hkrsuiser & Gii.ligan.
Miss Maud Stout resigned her position
on the Independent and returned to her
home at Tekamah last Saturday morn
ing. Miss Stout made many friends
during her short stay here who regret to
see her leave, aud should she ever return
she can rest assured of a hearty
welcome.
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.
Hbrshiser & Gii.ua an.
Coleridge Blade: Wilber F. Bryant of
Hartington, went to Lincoln last week
to secure the pardon of John J. Dunham
for rustling in Holt county. The
governor paroled Dunham upon Mr.
Bryant agreeing to be responsible for
his correct conduct. The consideration
of the pardon was reserved.
Prof. Schubert, of the O’Neill con
servatory of music, will give an opening
concert at the rink on Saturday, Octo
ber 0, 1897. He will be assisted by Bees
Huston, soprano, and Celia Rundquist,
violinist. Patronize the concert and
assist in building up the conservatory.
Admission 25 cents. Reserved seats 35
cents.
—
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 & Girligan.
C. P. DeLance of Boone, Iowa, is in
the city this week visiting friends.
Chan was deputy clerk of the district
court in 1898 and ’98. until be removed
to Boone and went into the boot and
shoe business. He baa since quit that
>and is now one of the most prosperous
life insurance agents. His many triends
iu H|lt will be pleased to learn of bis
success.
The great catch made by Meredith at
tbe Short Line depot on last Monday'
night is deserving of special mention.
Single handed and alone he held the
crowd back until he succeded in local*
ing his birds. Tbe birds were not
feathered as well as Joe wished but the
cheer the crowd gavo him for bis heroic
labors in making the capture served to
bring a hectic flush to the hunters game
brow.
A Mrs. Hamlin, of Boyd county, was
seriously injured by being thrown from
a wagon down at the stock yards, last
Thursday evening. She was taken to
the residence of O. E. Davidson, where
she lay unconscious for over four hours.
She has not Improved to any great
extent at this date, and as she is quite
an old lady her recovery is doubtful.
She is the mother of Mrs. Will Hoye, of
Sioux City, whose husband is a fireman
on the Short Line.
Judge McCutchan informs us that he
would like to have 'the several parties
send in their recommendations for clerks
and judges of election from the several
townships. So far only two or three
townships have llled their recommend
ations. When selecting candidates for
this position the fact should be borne in
mind that unless they can speak, read
and write the English language they are
ineligible to appointment. In town*
ships where .the republicans have a
majority they are entitled to two judges
and one clerk, and the pops one judge
and one clerk. Where tbe pops have a
majority they are entitled to two judges
and one clerk, and the. republicans one
judge and one clerk.
Dr. M. G. Benedict, the eminent
optician of Cleveland, Ohio, who spent
a week in this city in August, has
decided to spend one week in the city
on his return from the Black HtUa, and
he will be at Corrigan’s drug store from
October 8rd to 10th. The doctor comes
highly recommended and will make a
thorough examination of the eyes free
of charge. To those needing the ser
vices of an optician this is a rate oppor
tunity, and should be apprecisted by
tbe spectacle wearers in this commu;
nity. Any changes required in the
glasses fitted by Dr. Benedict will be
made free of charge. Remember the
date and place, Cr. Corrigan’s drug
store, October 3rd to 10th.
Anaconda Standard: The report of
what indicates a great copper strike in
Madison count/ was brought to Butte
yesterday, and if the discovery is what
it is claimed to be the report will be
good news to the people of that part of
the state. About three months ago
John W. Coughla'n, cashier of the
Mountain Con office in Butte; Richard
J. Dwyer, manager for Pat Mullins, and
John S. McGroarty, superintendent of
the electric light, railway and townsite
company of Anaconda, took a lease and
bond for $1,100 on the group of mining
claims in Madison county known as the
Bluff property, owned by Thomas Bluff,
VVm. Lamb, Jane Bluff and Thomas S.
Bayliis. The bonded claims are - the
Copper Belle, Populist, Silver Crown,
Manhattan and George Washington,
and are. located on the Madison river
about four miles from Norris and two
and a half miles from Red Bluff. The
leasers organized themselves into the
Silver Crown mining company, and for
three months have been prosecuting
development work on the properties.
Shortly after commencing work they
uncovered a lead-silver ledge, but at a
depth of fifteen feet the ledge scattered.
They then sunk on the vein with the
hope of striking the lost ledge and in
doing so uncovered the hanging wall of
a coper vein, and then drifted thirty-five
feet before reaching the footwall, The
ledge matter shows three feet of copper
talc on both walls, and the intervening
strata is good lead matter, thoroughly
materialized. The discovery is claimed
to be the first of the extent in Madison
county where pyrites of copper shows
at a depth of thirty-five feet, and the
leasers have faith in their property that
it will some day develop into a second
Anaconda, 'and especially as the indi
cations so far are alledged to be identi
cal with the early showings of the great
Anaconda property. The copper pyrites
taken from the discovery assay 20 per
cent, copper, 12 per cent, silver and $8
in gold. A contract lias been let to
sink ISO feet from the present 85-foot
level, and at that depth the expectant
leasers hope to have their fondest hopes
realized. Mr. Coughlan and Pat Mul
lins own all the adjoining claims for a
distance of two miles.
j HOLCOMB’S XBTHOBS. ■
Lihcoln, Nkb„ Sept. 20,1807—Special
Correspondence: For several year*
Nebraska people bare been on the rack
at to the condition of their state treas
ury. The state treasurers bad drawn
interest from the banks where the state
funds were deposited, and had kept this
Interest themselves as a part of their
compensation for the risk which they
assumed as holders of the public money.
For twenty-flye years under this system
not a ^dollar bad been lost to the state.
Bitch treasurer himself had suffered
losses by reason of occasional bank
failures, but each treasurer in all these
twenty fire years, base use he had had
control of the funds, was liable for each
depoal which he made in banks, be
cause he* kept for himself the interest on
these deposits, and because he had been
paid for the bank risk, had also assumed
all losses under the bank risk, so that
whenever there was a loss on one of
these bank deposits it was the treasurer's
individual loss and not the state’s loss.
Generally the treasurers had made but
little above their regular salaries, 82,500
a year, but there was a suspicion that
they had made big money, and this
suspicion caused a jealousy and a de
mand that the state should get the
Interest on the deposits. In 1891 the
populist legislature enacted that the
treasurer should deposit with whoever
gave a deposit bond, and that the state
should -get the interest. Close on the
heels of; this enactment.came the Mosher
bank failure and the 8285,000 whs lost
to the state, because it had regulated
the deposit and had assumed the risk.
This was the first loss to the state. It
was a populist loss because it was a
populist law. under which the loss
occurred, and by which the treasurer
and bis sureties were relieved from the
responsibility of the deposit. The
Mosht»r hjjsk had been secretly rotten,
but the treasurer's bond was sound and
would k^^itrheld for the loss had
the depdllt been made as the treasurer’s
deposit and not as the state’s deposit.
The state cannot dictate to a treasurer
where and how he shall deposit money
and then hold him responsible.
Whoever controls the depositing of
money.g*d get# the .interest on. the
deposit must bear whatever losses occur.
This logic is sound. Whoever disputes
it is weak, either in intellect or morality.
Whoever stands on the street corners in
this state, or on the public rostrums, or
whoever prints and publishes in the
newspapers that the Mosher loss was a
republican loss is promulgating a false
hood that is as illogical and as naked of
truth as were the anti-pass pretentions
of the present state house gang by
which they beguile'd the honest farmer
voters of this state.
But if you say the Mother deposit
bond web approved by republican
officials, then I say there would have
been no opportunity for a mistake in
Mosher’s deposit bond if the fool legis
lature had not enacted the fool law
which released the one state bond and
opened the door for hundreds of deposit
bonds making the chances for design
and mistake hundreds of times greater
than they were before. But to pass on
to the next loss. Governor Crounse had
taken the precaution to require of Bart
ley in his tint bond half a million more
in sureties than was designated in the
bond. When Bartley presented his
second bond to Holcomb the sureties
were incompetent because they were
already t pledged on the former bond.
Ho governor has a right to accept a
surety on an important bond whose
estate is already liable and held under a
former obligation. This principle is
plain to an ordinary man, even to a
republican, and how much easier it
must have been for an extraordinary
man, a populist, a reform- governor, to
have recognized it and put it into force,
right in the very vestibule of bis first
administration, while he was yet fresh
from the very loins of the people, un
contaminated with pass junkets and the
allurements of political spoils.
Bartley’s second bond was rotten
when be laid it before Governor Hol
comb for his approval. To have re
jected the spurious bond and required a
sound one would have saved the state
from any loss even if Bartley afterward
turned out to be a defaulter. The
people had selected Bartley. That was
their business. But now it was tbe
business of tbe governor to select the
bond. Hot that he was to procure the
sureties, but he was to pass upon, to
sift each one, to know, not to guess,
that they were competent. He had
promised to do it. He had sworn to do
it. Tbe law was mandatory and unmis
takable, that he should require of the
treasurer, not a spurious bond, not a
pretended bond, concocted between the
conspiring treasurer and his first bonds
men who took no risk in the second
bond because they were already mulct
in the first, but a bond whose sureties
without perjury could qualify that they
were worth the amount over and above
all prior liabilities. Read the law, sec
tions 10 and 17, in chaprer 10, Not
only must the governor require new,
clean, unpledged, sound bondsmen, but
he must count the money and the secu
rities over which the new treasurer
assumes control.
Not a dollar could have been lost to
the state it the governor had done his
duty. A treasurer might steal, but
there eould have been no loss to the
state unless the governor was also in the
conspiracy, either as the innocent,
ineompent tool of the treuurer, or
otherwise.
But the half million of Bartley’s
default Is lost. It is not only stolen by
Bar.tley but lost to the taxpayers. The
stealing was Bartley’s act. The loss to
the taxpayers was the governor’s act.
Was it an act of negligence or incom
petency, or was it a part of the Bartley
conspiracy? You answer that, you, my
populist friend, you who have lauded
this reform governor, who is such a
brave reformer in the presence of farm
ers at the country picnics, but who was
so pliant in the presence of Joe Bartley
and in the presence of the railroad
corporations.
You who publish the populist press,
you chaperones and defenders of the
taxpayers, you who defended Me
Keighan and Bill Green and Kern and
Schwlnd and Edgar and Mutz, you who
defended the recount fraud, who wanted
the railroads to pay their “sheer o” the
tax, who were so conspicuously loud
against passes before election, but have
been so conspicuously silent on that
question since election, you defend the
governor for his part in the half million
loss if you can. And when you have
explained why this reform governor
defaulted and betrayed the people in the
first and most important act of hie first
reform administration, then we’ll ask
you to explain the first and most im
portant act of his second reform admin*
iatration, which approved a second rot
ten bond, and which leaves the state
treasury today secured by a third mort
gage on nothing. J. W. Johnson.
SIXTH DISTXICT COXYIXTIOV.
The convention was called to onjet
by District Committeeman Marlng*
Upon motion Hr. Houlton, of Sheri
dan, was elected chairman, and O. C.
Sammons, secretary.
Moved, seconded and carried that the
chair appoint a committee of three on
credentials. Chair appointed W. Car
penter, 8. A. Hiatt and J. B. Haring.
After the committee on credentials
reported it was moved, seconded and
carried that the report of the committee
be received and that the delegates pres
ent cast the entire vose of the townships.
Nominations for supervisor were then
in order, and C. W. Moss was placed in
nomination. Mr. Moss declined the
nomination, saying that he had repre
sented the people of that section upon
the county board for about six years
and he thought it was about time for
him to retire and give some other repub
lican a chance. It was then moved,
seconded and carried that an informal
ballot be taken for supervisor, and Hr,
Hiatt and Mr. Ogle were selected at
tellers.
Upon the Informal ballot, T. Phillips,
of Bberldan, received 18 votes, and it
was moved, seconded and carried that
he be declared the nominee of the con
vention by acclamation.
Upon motion C. W. Moss was elected
chairman of the Sixth supervisor dist
rict.
It was upon motion decided that the
committeemen appointed by the republi
can county convention be the committee
men for the Sixth supervisor district.
Convention then adjourned.
O. C. Sammons, C. Houlton,
Secretary. Chairman.
UTXAY NOTICE.
Strayed, from my place at Rochester,
Boyd county, about August 18, 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, Ne'o.
What a Prominent Insurance Han Says.
H. H. Blossom, senior member of H.
M. Blossom & Co., 317 N. 3rd St. Louis
writes: I had beeir left with a very dis
tressing cough, the result of influenza,
which nothing seemed to relieve, until I
took Ballard’s Horehound Syrup. One
bottle completely cured me. I sent one
bottle to my sister who had a severe
cough, and she experienced immediate
relief. I always recommended this
syrup to my friends.
John Cranston 908 Hampshire Street,
Quincy, III., writes: I have found
Ballard's Horehound Syrup superior to
any other cough medicine I have ever
known. It never disappoints. Price 25
and 50 cents. Free sample bottles at P.
C. Corrigan’s.
E9VCATX0BA1 BOTH.
O’NEILL CITY SCHOOLS.
The enrollment at the end of the
lecond week wu 359; 168 boys, 108
girls. In the lower rooms, except Mias
Morrow's, the boys and girls are equally
iivlded; in the grammar room the girls
liate a majority of 15; while In the high
ichool to every boy there are five girls,
rhia plainly indicates that our boys do
aot get the same opportunity for edu
ction as do our girls, or if they do, they
make no effort to avail themselves of
their opportunity. *
Some neceeaary new books and appar
atus have been bought, and a quantity
of supplies is on the road for the equip
ment of a chemical laboratory. Educa
tors have decided that sciences should
be taught with the aid of laboratories,
and it is one of the ninety-nine wonders
of the world why they were ever taught
otherwise. Now that the supplies an
on the way for its equipment, onr
teacher of chemistry is patiently await
ing the growth of a laboratory. A ■mail
frame building, bought and moved upon
the grounds, would both relieve crowd*
Ing in the primary rooms and afford Z
space for a necessary laboratory.
The problem that the teachers of our
city schools have this year set before
them is a very simple, and a very diffi
cult one. It is very simple in the under
standing, very difficult in the attain
ment. It is to teach their pupils to
think—and to think rightly, believing
that the end of teaching Is to increase
the power to think, and that all knowl
edge which does not make the pupil
think is like so much undigested food
on an overloaded stomach. #%
tiachxw uAonrs outcu.
A meeting for the purpose of organ
izing the local Teachers' Reading Girds
was held in the school house Saturday
afternoon, September 18. The meeting
was called to order by the manager,
Edward H. Whalan. The following
officers were elected: President, Ralph
Kelley; secretary Cora A. Thompson.
The work for October was assigned as
follows: The Last Institute, (a) Criti
cisms, Anna Donahue, (b) Benefits, Mr.
Ashton. Physiology and Hygiene, (a)
The Object. Mr. W. Morrow. <b) Whew
Bqgln the Study, Mias Ddey, (e)
Methods, Mr. Kelley; History, chapters '
1 and hy Miss Thompson, chapter 8, Mrs.
Clark; Ciljpnt Events, Miss Quilty,
Miss Mullen. Those
Miss Morro
belonging
remember the
on the third
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TUTH1
The tenth annri
picnic of Poet No 1
held nt Leonia oni
her, 1897. A geq
tended to all, and
will be given.
T. B. Harrison,
Adjutant.
iroTicx to ;
A epecial meeting!
Department baa bee^
evening, October 1, at
at the chemical engi^
member Is requested
there is business of <
transact. Jambs DaI
The "Bicycliat’a Besfl
familiar name for DeWi J
Salve, always ready f<l
While a specific for piles,]
ly relieves and cures cui
rheum, eczema and all aff<
skin. It never fails.
Certainly you don’t wi
with dyspepsia, constipatu
ache, sallow akin and ini
You have never tried Di
Early Risers for these com,
would have been cured. 1
pills but great regulators.
To heal the broken and S
sues, to soothe the irritated I
instantly relieve and to (H
cure is the mission of De^H
Hazel Salve. Hrkshiskr& <9
No man or woman can el
accomplish much in this w9
suffering from a torpid liver/
Little Early Risers, the pills th
that organ quickly.
Moments are useless if tri{
and they are ilangerously wast
sumed by delay in cases w
Minute Cough Cure would brii
Herbhiskr
Hersuiser &
Hershiser & Oi
diate relief. Hkrshisbr & Gib
