VOLUME XVIII._ O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA. OCTOBER 14. 1897. NUMBER 15. 5 NEWS SANS HESS Items of Interest Told As They Are Told to Us. WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED I>s Saturday. Rev. J. Crews, the “new” Methodist minister, preached bis first sermon Sunday morning. H. M. Bradatreet is again in the livery business, having rented the Fallon barn next to this office. The business man who advertises in The Fmontikr is sure to prosper. Try it and be convinced. .# T. M. Morris and -B. A. DeYarman were among (be O’Neillites who were in Sioux City Saturday. Dick Eilmurry came up from Ewing Saturday evening and spent Sunday in the bosom of his family. lon't fail to buy a ticket to the fire* en’s ball. It is for a worthy cause and should be patronized. Use U and G remedy for black leg. As a preventative it has no equal. Sold by Hershiser & Gilligan. 15 tf Miss Lettie Gillespie, who was seri ously ill the first of the week, is some what better at this writing. Several O’Neillites attended the car nival at Sioux City last week and all report having a pleasant time. Miss Maud Gillespie came over from Ppencer. where she is teaching, last Friday evening, returning Sunday. Fred C. Wilson and May Trussell, of Little, were granted a marriage license by Judge McCutchan last Monday. Prof. Schubert will move his family to this city tomorrow and will reside in the Jackson house on Fourth street. For teeth or photos, go to Dr. Cor bett’s parlors, 23rd to 80th 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. Do not let the black leg into your herd. Prevent it by using H and G. Sold by Hershiser & Gilligan. 15-tf Mrs. Fred Van Fleet and children, of Atkinson, visited relatives in this city last Saturday, returning home in the evening. ’ Mrs. J. H. Meredith left yesterday morning for her old home in Iowa, where she will visit her parents for a C few weeks. Editor Sturdevant, of (be Stuart Ledger, was in the city yesterday. John is making tbe Ledger a red hot sheet these davs. If black leg gets a start in your herd it is hard to check it. The best remedy known is H and G. For sale by Her shtser & Gilligan. 15-tf The night of the Are some person took Bcatt Hough’s dark lantern from tbe engine house and he would be pleased to have the person who took it return it to him. Peter Sodersten has resigned his position as section foreman for the F. E. railroad at this place, and will move onto his farm in the north part of the couoty. Certainly you don’t want to suffer wWjfc dyspepsia, constipation, sick head aelK 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 are small pills but great regulators. Hbbshisxb & Gilligan. Judging from the amount of lumber being hauled out of O’Neill these days it seems as if prosperity had struck the nation, but onr populist' friends will not admit it. Michael O’Uooliban, (Price Jamison) grand state organizer of Tammany lodges, with headquarters at Butte, honored this city by his presence here last Tuesday. An old bachelor says, “The fascina tion for kissing cannot be explained, but it is supposed to be the same born instinct that induces one calf to suck another calf’s ear.” Charlie Barrett, of Yankton, S. D., visited friends and relatives in this city over Sunday, returning to Yankton Monday morning, where he is employed on the Beacon Light. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Butler, of Wood Lake, Neb , were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Will Messner a couple of days the first of the week. They returned |n their home Tuesday evening. Mrs. G. W. Smith left Wednesday morning for Chicago, where she will remain some time. She will also visit her father, J. P. Blanchard, at Danville, 111., before she returns home. Fremont Tribune: Mrs. Laura Cress is packing her confectionery goods this afternoon and shipping them to O'Neill. Mrs. Cress, however, expects to remain in Fremont this winter at least. Charlie Hough and ltuben Ward, both former Holt' county boys, but now of Correctionville, Iowa, arrived in this city Friday evening and will visit friends and relatives here for a abort time. Ed Graham, jr., was in town Satur day passing around the cigars on account of the arrival of a daughter at his home Thursday evening. We smoked to the health of the little one. Moments are useless if trifled away; abd they are dangerously wasted if con sumed by delay in cases where One Minute Cough Cure would bring imme diate relief. Hebsiiiseh & Gilligan. Mrs. Fred Swingley passed through O’Neill Sunday evening en route to Atkinson from her old home in Leaf River, III., where she has been visiting her parents and old friends for some time. __ The geese have commenced their annual trip to the south and a warmer climate, and the hunters are hurrying them up on the trip by ’’cutting loose" at them with “any old thing" that will shoot. _ Winter blooming bulbs for sale, among them the genuine Chinese sacred lilty. Mammoth bulbs, they grow in water and gravel, and bloom in from four to six weeks from planting. 13-3 Hbrshiser & Gilligan. Michael Sullivan, of Park City, Utah, wbo was called here last week on account of the serious illness of bis mother, left for home Tuesday morning. Mrs. Sullivan has recovered sufficiently to be able to be around again. 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. Hekshiber & Gilligan. The Are department will give a ball at the rink tomorrow evening. At the fire last week the fire apparatus was damaged to the extent of $75, and this dance is given to help raise money to repair the loss. Everyone should turn out and assist in making it a rousing success. Running sores, indolent ulcers and similar troubles, even though of many years standing, may be cured by using DeWilt’a Witch Hazel Salve. It sooths, strengthens and heals. It is the great pile cure. Hershiser & Gilligan. Mr. and Mrs. John McHugh went down to Sioux City last Friday. From there Mrs. 'McHugh will go to Carrol, Iowa, where she will visit for a few weeks with relatives. John will look after some business in the eastern part of the state and wiil return to O'Neill the latter part of the week. Small precautions often prevent great mischiefs. DeWitt’a Little Early Risers are very small pills in size, but are moat effective in preventing the most serious forms of liver and stomach tronblee. They cure constipation and headache and regulate the bowels. Hbrshiseb & Gilligan. "Many have said their children would have died of croup, if Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy had not been given,” writes Kellam & Ourren, druggists, Seaview, Va. "People come from 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 teat it for yourself. U. S. Adams and wife of Spencer, were in the city Tuesday on tbeir way to Chambers where they will visit relatives for a few days. From there they go to Douglas, Otoe county, where Mr' Adams has secured a position in a hardware store. Their many friends in this city wish them success in their new home. The "Bicyclist’s Best Friend” is a familiar name for DeWitt’s Witch Hazel 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 the skin. It never fails. Hsbshiseb A Gilligak. Bur well Mascot: The town board at an adjourned meeting, by a vote of two to three, refused to grant liquor licence to M. J. Welsh, who had applied for the same. This, of course, the board had a perfect right to do, and their action pleases a considerable number of the citizens of the town and displeases others, as is always the case , in such matters. _ 6. O. Snyder, H. M. Uttley, J. C. Harnish, J. Bentley, J. F. Pfnnder, C. W. Hagensick, B. Martin, H. Zimmer man, C. L Bright and J. L. Mack went over to Butte last Friday where they organized a lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with twenty-one charter members. H. M. Uttley acting as deputy grand master had charge of the work. Never since the booming day* of ’84 to ’88 has there been so much lumber hauled ont of O'Neill aa there is this fall. Scarcely a day passes that there is not half dozen large loads taken out of the town. It may be tbe farmers in India creates tbe demand and it may be that Mark Hanna furnishes the money wherewith to purchase it, but we labor under the impression that it is an indica tion that tbe prosperity promised by tbe republican party has come, and has come to stay. Stand up for Nebraska; for republicanism and Holt county. Stolen: Backward, turn backward, O time in your flight, make us all young again just for tonight. Let us forget that we ever were old; lived when old milch eows were butchered and sold; passed o’er the counter for A No. 1, bring me my gun mister, bring me my gun. Take us once more to the days of our youth, do it before I have lost every tooth; chewing up leather baa shortened my years, darkened my pathway, bedewed it with tears. Shoot tbe “old heifer” and chop her in halves, mother of fifteen or twenty fine calves. Pitch the vile stuff in a deep burning lake, give us some steak, mister, give us some steak. A western Kansas newspaper prints tbe following marriage tale: “Wilt thou take her for thy pard, for better or for worse, to have to fondly hold till hauled off in a hearse? Wilt thou let her have her way, consult her many wishes, make the fire every day and help her wash the dishes? Wilt thou give her all the 'stuff’ her little purse will pack, buy a boa and a muff, a little seal skin sacque? Wilt thou comfort and support her father and her mother, Aunt Jemima, Uncle John, three sisters and a brother?” .And his face grew pale and blank; it was to late to jilt; as through the door be sank, he sadly said, “I wilt.” “I can’t see bow 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 tbe price of a dozen bottles, that he 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 hot 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. G. Corrigan. The concert at the rink laat Saturday evening by Pror. Schubert, assisted by Miss Bess Huston and Miss Celia Blind quist was well attended and highly appreciated by all. Prof. Schubert.is certainly a master of the piano, and the grand march of his own composition, was one of the swellest things we have listened to for a long time. Miss Huston’s sioging was greatly enjoyed by all, especially "The Old Kentucky Home" which was sung with a pathos that touched the hearts of all present. Ml— Rundquist is to be congratulated upon her proficiency on the violin. She has a natural talent in that direction, which has been well cultivated, and she is the best lady violinist we eVer listened to. Taken as a whole the concert was a great success and the professor is to be congratulated upon the interest mani fested in the success of his conservatory of music. M’ALLISTER ACQUITTED The Jury Decides After ft Boors Deliberation. SELF DEFENSE THE PLEA Cass Was Stubbornly Contested Throughout But the State's Mnolpal Witaeaaee Were Kissing. After a trial lasting over a week, the jury la the case of the State of Nebraska vs William McAllister, charged with the killing of Frank Gole near Stuart last spring, returned a verdict of “not guilty” after about nine hours deliber ation. On Wednesday, October 0, the case of the State of Nebraska vs William Mc Allister was called. McAllister was duly arraigned and the information was read to him by County Attorney Butler, whereupon the defendant plead “not guilty." County Attorney Butler and R. R. Dickson looked after the interests of the state, while ti. F. Harrington, J. J. Harrington and C. I. Lear, of Keya Paha county, conducted the defense. Considerable difficulty was encoun tered in securing a Jury. The regular panel was exhausted and about seventy talesmen examined before the jury was completed, which was Friday noon. The following is the jury selected: M. Keefe, J. S. Snyder, Dennis Handley, M. Hurley, W. Lackey, W. W. Beck, John Dierks, Carl Crocker, Patrick Murphy, William Sexton, H. W. Shaw and Theodore Lull. Altar dinner Friday tba state began the introduction of evidence which wae about the seme as that introduced at the coroner’s inquest, which was published in Thb Fbontibb last spring at the time of the killing. The defense set up the plea op'self defense" and introduced a couple of witnesses who swore that they saw Cole and Robinson, or one of them, shoot nt McAllister before he (McAllis ter) shot at them. The s^idooce wee all in Tuesday noon I and after dinner Attorney Butler made his plea for the state and the able man net in which he presented the case was a surprise to many and won for him golden opinions from those who heard him. Then the defense had their innings, J. J. Harrington, C. E. Lear and M. F. Harrington appeared for their side of the case, and they of course done the best they conld to make their client out a hero. They each made able addresses and clearly demonstrated that they had carefully studied the evidence and done the best they could to masticate that part that was injurious to their client. R. R. Dickson closed the case for the state and he went after a couple of the j states witnesses barefooted and without gloves. He carefully dissected the evi dence of the defence and in clear, concise and logical English presented to the jury the most potent evidence intro duced by the prosecution. He made by tar the best plea we have ever heard him make in any case. The Instructions of Judge Kinkaid were lengthy covering every possible phase of the case, giving the jury a clear understanding of the points of law in volved leaving the questions of fact for their exclusive determination. We select the following as having the most bearing upon the points of law involved: 14— The jury are instructed by the court it is proyided by our statute any person not an officer may, without a warrant, arrest any person, |t a “good man, better than hia party.” And now with thia aenaation that the ' governor waa in complicity with Bart ley, cornea an additional aenaation about Meaerve, the preaent treaaurer, that not only waa hia induction into the county treaaurerahip at McCook a buainaaa plan between him and hia creditor* there, not only did he put up the aama atraw bond deal with the governor that Bartley had played ao aucceaafully, but it now oomea to light, through an examination of the county record* at McCook, that Meaerve, in the apace of about a year while he waa county treaaurer, waa able to pay oil CM,000 of hia debta, although hia salary waa only 90,000 a year. Where tbie indebtedness now reel* could be ehown if the governor would demand of Meaerve a new bond and - require of him a showing of hie condi tion. It ie hinted by populiat officiate at the atate houae, who are alarmed at the eltuatlon, that the governor on hie return from the aouthern iunket, in order to V ward off enepietion, will orderlfhtz, the ioTeatigator, to go through one of hie perlavering performances and make a report on the etate treasurer. It is t': further hinted that Meeerre, who haa ! _ been making some hurried tripe to McCook lately will leaue through the influence of hla former creditors there some aort of pronunciamento which will tide him over in the confidence of his party until after eleotion. It’a a tangled web, and the toils are tightening every hour. Whether the governor on hie return will demand of Meaerve a new bond I cannot say, but in case he refuses, or attempts to soothe the public with one > of hla open letter explanations, either from himself, Meaerve, or Muta, then there la a little cloud on the horizen of the populiat aky, for there is a wheel within the wheels of the state houae machine that ia not moving in harmony and there ia an official there who haa been goaaiped about and spit on by the ~ gang until he is tired. One of the state officers, while the aenaation which occured at the bond trial in Omaha was being read out loud to a group of bystanders, said, “The governor must explain thia. We can’t stand it.” And then there followed a conference among aome of the officials at which it was discussed that the gov ernor should be called upon to clear up the chargee made by Benator Raneem and to take some steps towards putting the affairs of state treasurer Meaerve on a eater basis before the public. It oegms to dawn on me populist officials that the governor's connection with these straw bonds is a serious matter. Heretofore Edmundson and the populist officers have appeared to be utterly indifferent as to criticism. They seemed to have considered that their place in the confidence of the public was absolutely secure. Bartley’s defalcation was the cloud behind which all populist deform ity could hide from public view. Bear in mind that when Senator Ransom made this sweeping charge against the governor, he was at that very moment acting governor of the state, for Governor Holcomb and Lieut. Governor Harris were both out of the state, and Ramson, as pro tern, of the senate was the acting governor. Here then is Acting Governor Ramson charg ing in open court that Governor Holcomb was knowing to Bartley’s shortage at the time he was approving his second bond, and that such innocent sureties as John H. Ames were induced to sign the bond by the fraudulent pre tense of the governor that he had examined the treasurery as provided by law and that it was in sound conditions As I close this letter I learn that an informal meeting was held today at the state house, of the populist officials there, at which it was decided to urge upon the governor and if possible force upon him prompt action as soon as he returns from his southernJunket '• •> J. W. JOHHSOH.