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. 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.