VOLUME XVIII._ O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 7. 1897. NUMBER 14.
MS SANS WHISKERS
Items of Interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
„ Loesl Happenings Portrays* Por General
Edification end Amusement.
Wm. Krotter was down from Stusrl
Monday. __
J. W. Werlz was down from Stuait
yesterday. • _
William 0111. of Stuart, was an O’Neill
visitor Monday.
John Flannigan was down from
Stuart^Sunday.
Dan Coburn, of Laurel, was in O’Neill
the first of the week.
Rev. Blackburn, of Atkinson, was in
O’Neill last Friday.
Mrs. Della M. Stewart and children
are down from Atkinson today.
James Connolly and wife went down
to Sioux City Monday morning.
WANTED—To buy a good fresh milch
cow. 18-2 Mbs. Scott Hough.
Pete Donahoe and John Nolan went
down to Sioux City Wednesday morn
ing. _
Attorney C. M. Herrig, of Neligh,
was in the city attending court last
Friday. __
Don’t fail to attend the concert by
Prof. Schubert at the rink Saturday
evening.
Mrs. Jerry McCarthy and Miss Kittie
Dwyer went down to Omaha Sundsy
morning. _
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gatz went down to
Sioux City Wednesday to see the carni
val sights.
Mrs. Bennett Martin and Mrs. I. R.
Smith went down to Sioux city Tues
day morning.
Attorneys Scott and Searla are down
from Atkinson today on business before
tbe district court.
i Jack Fagan, of Atkinson, the best
natured fellow on earth, visited friends
in O’Neill Monday.
Little Walter, the five-year old son of
Pat McNichols, is reported very sick
with malerial fever.
S. D. Thornton, one of Antelope’s
leading legal lights, wae in tbe city Fri
day attending district court.
R. H. Jenness has purchased the
Jones residence and expects to move his
family down about November 1st.
Mrs. P. H. McNichols, who has been
very sick the past month with typhoid
malerial fever, is slowly recovering.
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. 33-tf L. Keyes.
Harry J. Bright, of Middle Branch,
and Miss Florence J. Butterfield were
married by Judge McCutchan last
Monday.
O. E. Davidson has been appointed
police judge to fill the vacancy caused
by the removal of Judge Kautzman
from the state.
Yesterday and today the district court
has been busy trying to secure a jury in
the murder case of the State of Nebraska
vs McAllister.
Mrs. R. J. Marsh went down to Sioux
City Monday morning where she will
visit friends during the week and wit
ness the carnival.
FOR SALE—Three full blood Merino
bucks, will shear 30 pounds. Will sell
cheap. Peteu Donohoe,
18-2 _O’Neill, Neb.
we haueRecEived anew typewriter,
and thE boyswiLl nou beadle toRaed
the capyFurnished. as thes is oUr first
attempt pleasE exCuse errors.
Frank Emerson, of Catalpa, was in
O’Neill last Friday. He reports the
outlook for a republican victory this
fall in his part of the county as being
very good. _
Homer Garretson arrived in O’Neill
Saturday evening and spent Sunday and
Monday in the city visiting friends.
He left for his home at Worthington,
Minn., Tuesday morning.
Miss Anna Murphy came down from
Valentine Saturday morning and visited
I relatives over Sunday, returning to.
' Valentine Sunday evening, at which
place she is teaching school.
Moments are useless if trifled away;
and they are dangerously wasted if con
sumed by delay in cases where One
Minute Cough Cure would bring imme
diate relief. Hebshisbr & Gilligan.
Miss Ethel Morse and brother Clark,
of Atkinson, passed through O’Neill
last evening on their way home from
SiouxCity, where they had been visit
ing relatives for several days.
York Republican: Will Cooney is
now at work as salesman for W. K.
Williams in the Chicago clothing house.
Will goes in to take the place of Earl
Williams, who is at Lincoln attending
the state university.
Winter blooming bulbs for sale,
among them the genuine Chinese sacred
lilly. Mammoth bulbs, they grow in
water and gravel, and bloom in from
four to six weeks from planting.
13-2 Hkrshiskr & Giixigan.
H. A. Allen came down from Atkin
son Tuesday morning and took the
train for Sioux City to attend the carni
val. From Sioux City he goes to
Omaha, he having been drawn upon the
United States federal jury.
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 cau appreci
ate the value of Cne Minute Cough Cure,
Which gives quick relief.
Urrshiser & Gillioan,
An exchange tells of a merchant who
handles housekeeper’s supplies, but does
not advertise. The other day a brilliant
thought struck him and he hung out a
sign which read as follows:* “Get
married and call on us. we’ll do the rest.
Running sores, indolent ulcers and
similar troubles, even though of many
years standing, may be cured by using
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It sooths,
strengthens and heals. It is the great
pile cure. Hrrsbisbr & Gilligan.
Prof. Schubert, of the O’Neill con
servatory of music, will give a concert
at the rink on Saturday evening, Octo
ber 9. He will be assisted by Bess
Huston, soprano, and Celia Rundquist,
violinist. They are all skilled musicians
and it will be a treat to hear them.
Reserved seats now on sale.
AiDion .News: uuev Bros, shipped
down a car load of fine Shorthorn cattle
this week from their ranch in Holt
county to exhibit at the fair next week.
They hare been breeding Shorthorns
for several years and have a large herd
of strictly blue blood stock. They can
be seen at the fair next week.
Small precautions often prevent great
mischiefs. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers
are very small pills in size, but are moat
effective in preventing the most serious
forms of liver and stomach troublee.
They cure constipation and headache
and regulate the bowels.
Hkrshiskr 8s Gilligan.
Mrs. C. E. Hall left Tuesday morning
for Sioux City, Iowa, where she goes to
take a three months course of treatment
for her lungs, which are seriously
affected. She will be treated by Dr.
Herman, the famous lung specialist,
who makes use of the X-ray treatment
altogether, and with unfailing success.
George O. Glavis, of Washington, D.
C., arrived in this city last evening, and
this morning entered upon his dutiep as
Indian commission clerk in the land
office here. He was appointed to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Harry Dowling. Mr. Glavis expectB
to move his family to O’Neill in a short
time. _
It is unlucky to fall out of a third
story window on Monday, says an ex
change; to meet a red headed woman on
Tuesday; to break a forty dollar mirror
on Wednesday; to dream you see red
snakes and green monkeys on Thursday;
to get hung on Friday; to lose 92.50 on
Saturday or to get locked up on Sunday.
Paste this in your hat.
“If you lose the risk your after, there
a<-e others; if you are anped by liars
rare, don’t succumb to foul dispair, nor
your costly clothing tear—there are
others. If your best friend deserts and
mocks you, there are others; if your
best girl flirts or sacks you, there are
others; you are not the only jay whose
been treated the same way. just look at
her and gaily say—there are others."
“Maud Muller on a summer’s night
was riding her wheel without a light,
with graceful hump and cycle face she
scorched along at a merry pace; when
across her path there loomed a man, and
into him Maud straightway ran. But
alas! to her sorrow he proved to be a
police court judge of stern decree; and
she sighed next day as he fined her ten,
’stead of 90.98—as it might have been.”
“Many have said their children would
have died of croup, if Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy had not been given,”
writes Kellara & Ourren, druggists,
Seaview, Va. “People come Worn far
and near to get it and speak of it in the
highest terms." This is equally true of
this remedy in every Community where
it is known. Buy a bottle at P. C. Cor
rigan’s drug store and test it for yourself.
Albert Wlmton, of Glltedge, Mont.,
wu in the city Tuesday. Mr. Winston
is a neighbor ‘and intimate friend of
Hank McEvony, and a* be bad some
business at Neligb, at Hank’s request he
came up here to see Mrs. McEvonv and
Hank's numerous friends. He reports
that Mr. McEvony and famity are well
and prospering in his new home. Mr.
Winton left for Montana Wednesday
morning. __
The “Bicyclist’s Best Friend” is a
familiar name for DeWUt’s Witch Hazel j
Salve, always ready for emergencies.'
While a specific for piles, it also instant*
ly relieves and cures cuts, bruises, salt
rheum, eczema and all affections of thai
skin. It never fails. /
HKBSBI8BB & QIU.IQ&N.
“My friends,” exclaimed the eloquent
minister, “were the average man to turn!
and look himself squarely in the eyes,
and ask himself what he really needed
most, what would be the first reply
suggested to hie mindf” "A rubber,
neck!” shouted the precocious urahin in
the rear of the church; and in the con
fusion which followed, the good mats
lost his place in his manuscript and
began over again.
OrdQuiz: George Raymer, of Holt
county, drove into this vicinity last
Saturday with his wife and children on
a visit with relatives here, and his
brothers-in>law, Sol Brox and Ed Van
Slyke, escorted him into the Quiz office
Monday for a little chat. Mr. Raymer
believes that Holt will redeem herself
politically this fall and dust the popu
lists from office. The Raymers will
remain yet a tew daiys but the work at
home will make them hasten home soon.
Certainly you don’t want to suffer
with dyspepsia, constipation, sick head
ache. sallow skin and loss of appetite.
You have never tried DeWitt’s Little
Early Risers for these complaints or you
would have been cured. They ere smell
pills but great regulators.
Hebshiszb & Gillioan.
Business was rushing at the land
office last Monday. On that day about
18,000 acrea of Uncle Sam’s domain was
opened for settlement, which formerly
comprised the Fort Randall military
reservation. About all the land fh the
reserve is settled, and 10,000 was filed
upon Monday and about the ’ same
amount was rejected. The latter com
prises the odd numbered sections which
were reserved for the state as school
indemnity lands, the; settlers merely
presenting their applications to protect
their rights. The rest of the land
which was opened for settlement will
probably be filed upon during the
month. _
“I can’t see how any family lives
without Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy,” says J. R.
Adams, a well known druggist of
Geneva, Ala., In a letter inquiring the
price of a dozen bottles, that be might
not only have it for use in his own
family, but supply it to his neighbors.
The reason some people get along with
out it is because they do not know its
value, and what a vast amount of suffer
ing it will save. Wherever it becomes
known and used, it is recognized as a
necessity, for it is the only remedy that
can always be depended upon for bowel
complaints, both for children and
adults. For sale by P. C. Corrigan.
Tbe Sunday World-Herald baa the
following to say of the collection of
drawings exhibited by Mrs. C. J. Schu
bert at the state fair. Mrs. Schubert is
the wife of Prof. C. J. Schubert, who
recently located in O’Neill and has
opened up a conservatory of music:
“Mrs. C. J. Schubert, of Neligh, Neb.,
had a large collection of drawings that
showed the careful training she received
at a Munich art school. She taught
drawing in Chicago for several years
and was honored at the Columbian fair.
Her studies of heads, from life and casts,
her careful drawings of flowers and her
colored designs for wall paper were
exceptionally good. One of her flower
studies, a pencil drawing of a rose, was
the most exquisite thing the writer ever
saw." _
Exchange: Where now are the suck
er farmers who left Nebraska fairT
They are on the stage of action God
only knows where. They pulled out
from Nebraska to the wetness of the
south, and they sold their smiling home
steads in this barren land of drouth.
Their pockets then were bulging for
they sold off all their goods, now
they’ve blowed their little fortune in the
damp and muddy woods where the
swamps are full of serpents,, the mos
quitos full of tunes and the climate full
of ague and the people full of prunes.
How they’ll tear their hair and grapple
with tbe problem to get back, when
they hear of Nebraska’s wheat crop
when it’s all put in the sack. But, dear
friends, be on the lookout, for they'll
come back on the dance, and among the
things most needed will be a pair of
pants.
VOWUPLAI*.
Lincoln, Nkb., Oct. <1, 1897.—Special
Correspondence: The tearing down of
that which ii built up !■ juetiflable when
the thing built up !■ on a falae bull and
ia inimical to the public good. If the
present state administration bu built
Itself upon reform that wu only pre
tended and never to be carried out, then
they are justified who tear it down with
published truth, that sham reform may
be put aside and real reform put In its
stead. Not only did the governor
default when he approved Bartley’s
second bond which wu rotten when it
*u presented for his approval, but he
continued this default and neglect of
duty on through the two years while
Bartley wu plundering the treuury.
The Governor wu a defaulter in his
I duty and subject to Impeachment either
for neglect or conspiracy every hour
from the time he approved that rotten
bond to the end of his first term in
office, becauu every hour of that two
years the treuurery wu without that
protection which the governor Is re
quired by law to put around it. But
not only wu the governor liable to and
deserving of Impeachment for his
neglect or conspiracy with Bartley
during thue two years of his first and
Bartley’s second term, but on entering
his second term u executive, u a reform
executive, as the watch dog of the
treasury, u the self adveitiud guard
ian of the people, he committed a
second act of neglect, or conspiracy,
more flagrant than the first, because
it was wrong heaped upon wrong,
neglect added to neglect, and if conspir
acy, then conspiracy added to conspir
acy. Meserve laid down before the
governor u his treasurery bond, the
same old squeezed lemons which had
been already used, the same worthless
estates which had already been pledged
by Bartley and against whom Butley’s
half million defalcation already rested,
bear in mind thue sureties were
notoriously insolvent u well u already
pledged, when Meserve offered them to
the governor. It may seem cruel and
vicious to drag these sureties before the
public and expose them u financial
skeletons, but how else can the public
know the truth which it has a right to
’know, and who can blame the truth or
the one that utters it, if it is told not
maliciously, but for the purpose of
showing the public what it ought to
know.
Meserve offered no ezceee of surety as
required of Bartlev by Governor
Crounse, barely enough to fill the re
quirement, and the requirement in the
bond was a million dollars less tban it
ought to have been under the law.
Nearly half of the $3,000,000 which
Meserve pretends is security is lap over
security already mulct in Bartley default
and already squeezed into nothing.
Nearly a million is a third lien on
nothing. Two-thirds of the Meserve
bond is worthless, and the state to-day
has only $400,000 or $500,000 as passable
security where it should have $8,000,000.
Several of Meserve’a larger suieties have
left the state never to return, leaving
behind them not a dollar of assets.
Mrs. John R. Clark has gone to
Europe permanently. Cook has re
moved permanently to the Paciflic
coast. Another left Lincoln without a
dollar to his name, and is in an eastern
city. Paxton baa disposed of all his
property. If these sureties made pre
tense of solvency when they signed,
they have now thrown off all disguise,
and the bond, the treasurer who gave it,
and the governor who approved it, are
all hi default as to these, if all else is
secure. I could mention other names
and other conditions in detail that
would make tbis bond smell to heaven,
and would startle the innocent Swedes
of Saunders and Polk counties who
have been inveigled into more respon
sibility than they ever intended to as
sume, but let others who are interested
tske up the investigation where 1 leave
off, and they’ll find plenty of cause for
the swift impeachment of the governor
and treasurer of this state.
"But,” says the populist politician
and professional reformer, “Meserve is
honest, and needs no bonds.” Very
well. I attack no mans private char
acter. All professional reformers are
honest. Each one has a brand of
superior honesty peculiar to himself,
and each one has connected to his
honesty a brass band attachment whose
horns toot incessantly in the public ear
year in and year out.
But there is a story, and it is legi
mate to print it, because it is gossiped
publicly by those who are in a position
to know, because it shows the starting
point of Meserve’s public career, and
because his act in putting up a spurious
bond and continuing it, right in the
midst of a blazing fire of reform, pre
cludes him from all claim to common
ordinary honesty, to any kind of honesty
except professional brass band reform
honesty, and precludes him from the
reactionary benefits of self appropriated
martyrdom, while hie hlatory end hie
cherecter ere being enelyeed. The
atory gossiped here ie that he owed 118,
000 more then he could pay to a bank In
McCook and it waa becauae of tbia 818,
000 that intereated partiea there pro*
cured by manipulation hie county
treeeurerahlp of Red Willow county,
while the innocent popullat farmere
thought that they were hia discoverers.
They flret procured hia nomination by
the popullata, but the procuring hurt
him in the race and he waa defeated.
In a few montha hia aucceaaful opponent
died, .and then they, procured hia
appointment by the county oommission
era. Once in, he waa able to aecure a
aecond term by election, for auceeea
curea defecta, and he wu able in hia
aecond term to aaaume high and patriotic
pretantlona aa a reaaon for entering
politico. There’a other talk, but let
Meaerye flrat explain aa far aa we're got,
and then well take another hitch. He!
bowed hia head under the yoke which
aome MoCook boaaea put upon him and
they hare cracked the boaa whip, the
bank whip, the railroad whip, and the
whip of the apurioua bond auretiea over
him every hour he haa been in the state
houae. Hia entrance into politico at
McCook waa not a reform impulae, but
the very opposite. It waa a conspiracy
between him and hia creditors to
ahoulder his private debt onto Red
Willow county just as hia putting up
of the apurioua state bond waa a con
spiracy with Bartley and hia sucked out
sureties whereby the state la again in |
jeopardy with only a tail end of small
auretiea, innocent Swedes, to stand for
the 88,000,000 which should be secured
under the law. If to those who have
believed in Meaerve the disclosures seem
like an unwarranted attack, let them re
member that this ia no private assault.
This ia no idle campaign chatter, j
These are aerious things. The public
did not look to Bartley's personal hon
esty for their security. They looked to
the bond. The people now are not
looking to Meaerye’s personal honesty.
They are looking to his bond, and
looking they find no bond. The
Governor cannot untangle himaelf from
the preaent apurloua bond let him at
. once require a new bond. The treasurer
should be stopped from handling
another dollar until the law la complied
with in spirit and in fact, not in empty
and fraudulent formality. Nearly half
of Meserve’s bondsmen were on Bartley’s
bond, had shifted their property out of
their hands while Bartley was shifting
the public funds into bis pocket, and
the Governor knew it. He could not
help knowing it. It was his business to
know it. Every businessman in Lincoln
and Omaha knew it, but it was not their
business, it was the Governor’s business.
Whatever has happened in the past the
treasurery is unprotected now. Wbat
will the Governor do! What will the
tax payers do at this election? Are the
populist voters honest? Will they
continue the stultification of their man
hood by endorsing this rotten conspiracy
called reform? J. W. Johnson.
OlLUQAg—aTOVT.
Married, at the residence of the
bride’s brother, James Stout, in Teka
mah, Neb., at 13 o'clock m., Rev. Lewis
T. Watson, of Omaha, officiating, Miss
Maud E. Stout, of Tekamab, and Dr. J.
P. GUligan, of this city.
Only the relatives of the bride and a
few intimate friends of the groom were
present, among them being J. L. Her
shiser, of Norfolk.
The bride during her short residence
of two months in this city, has won the
admiration and respect of all who have
met her, and it is with pleasure that we
welcome her as a permanent resident to
O’Neill.
The groom, who has resided in O’Neill
for the past six years, is a rising physi
cian, who has already reached a goodly
height on the ladder of fame, in his
chosen profession, and numbers as his
friends all who know him.
Tbis'young couple enter upon the
journey of life together under the most
auspicious circumstances, and it is the
sincere wish of their many friends that
the goddess of good fortune may con
tinue to smile upon them all through
the journey as favorably as she does at
the commencement.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilligan returned from
Tekamah Tuesday evening, and were
met at the depot by the band and a large
crowd of friends armed with Roman
candles, who gave them a royal wel
come. They immediately entered a
carriage and were driven to the resi
dence of Mr. Hicks, where more friends
and an elegant lunch awaited them.
They will commence house keeping in
their residence in the north part of
town in the near future.
I. P. Gage, grand secretary of the I.
O. O. F., accompanied by several mem
bers of Elkborn Valley lodge, of this
city, will go to Butte Friday where they
will organise a lodge.
mmtvcTrar im.
A very disasterous and destructive Are i
oceured In this city Tuesday afternoon,
in which the livery barns of H. M. Brad
street and J. W. McLaughlin were
destroyed, and the Connolly saloon was
•o badly burned as to make it unlit for
further use. The Are started In the hay
loft of the Bradstreet barn, but In just
what manner is a matter of conjecture,
and by the time the Are department got
* stream on the Are it had gained such
headway that it was at once evident that
It was impossible to save either of the
barns and it was only by the untiring
efforts of the Are department and that
of several of our citizens that of
the other buildings were aaved.
At the time the Are started both barn
were Ailed with teams, most of which ■:
belonged to farmers, and the Are spread
so rapidly that It was almost impossible
It0 the animals out, several of which
! were cut loose sod driven out only to
rush back again to get out of the smoke.
Some of our oltlsens rushed la and eat '
horses loose, and as they were unable to
drive these out of the yard they rushed
back again and perished In the Aames,
As near Is we can learn the following
persona lost horses in the Are, all of
which were in the Bradstreet barn:
J. Peters, O’Neill, Ave horses with *
harness.
,. J*be Becker, Spencer, one wagon, set
of double harneea and a plow, which he
had just purchased.
Ben Stockwell, Paddock, team, and V
set of harness.
Sam Wolf, O’Neill, horse end single
harness.
J. Hoffman, Chambers, three horses.
Van Hart, Lynch, team, wagon, and
harness.
M. Gaughenbaugb, Emmet, horse and .
harness.
Wler, O’Neill, one horse.
Frank Darr, Paddock, team and har
ness.
H. M. Bradstreet, one Jack, valued at.
MOO, y
The total number of horses burned
was twenty-four.
The barns were owned by H. M. Brad-.,
street and J. W. McLaughlin and at
there was no insurance It is a tot^-losa
to them. The Are department done'
valiant work at the Are and we heard
several visitors say that O’Neill had a -
ought to be proud of them, and we are.
The city loet a section of hose, valued at
MO.
"DiUBI UXilUT."
Osceola, Aik., Ootober 4—Special to
world-Herald: Owing to the long con
tlnued drouth io this section, wells and
springs have gone entirely dry, and the-,
people are compelled to boy water for
drinking purposes. Water sells rapidly
at 5 cents a quart, and the demand
greatly exceeds the supply.
Never in its dryest days oould the
above be said of Holt county, and wo
hereby extend our sympathy—and n
cordial Invitation to return to the land
of 75 cent wheat, 140 per head steers,
and plenty of corn, hay and water to
keep them on—to the Nebraska people
down-there. After being need to the
pure cold water of Holt county, and ell
they wanted of it free, it must come
pretty hard on them to buy river water
at 5 cents per quart—all except Doc
Mathews, he’ll never be caught digging
up a nickel for a drink of water. As a
matter of fact we don’t believe he even
knows that water is scarce down there,
MTSAY ■OTICI
Strayed, from my place at Rochester,
Boyd county, abont August 18.1897, the
following described horses: One gray,
three years old; one gray, two yean 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. 0. Baud, :»
Rochester, Neb.
Atkinson, Neb., Oct 5—Special to
State Journal: John Stewart, jr., the
15-year old son of J. M. Stewart, the
populist candidate for sheriff in Holt
county, accidentally shot himself this
morning through the calf of the leg
while handling a thirty-two calibre
revolver. The ball made a serious
wound about eight to ten inches in
length. It passed in a slanting course
between the two bones of the leg.
As long as parents permit young boys
to carry revolvers, just so long will
accidents like the above be of frequent
occurrence. All boys, after they reach
the age of 12 years, are possessed with a
desire to carry a revolver and be
‘‘tough,” and their parents are occasion
ally foolish enough to permit it. The
result is always the same, they either
shoot themselves or someone else. This
is the boy, it will be remembered by
Thb Fbontixb readers, who attempted
to stab young McKathnie during a
quarrel a short time ago, and it la
undoubtedly a fortunate thing that the
accident occurred as it did, otherwise he '
would most likely have shot some Of hie
playmates during some schoolboy
quarrel. .