•UMONINTION, NI.M MR ANNUM.
VOLUME XVIII.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 25. 1897.
NEWS SANS WHISKERS
Items of Zatoront Told Aa They Are
Told to Ui.
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
Low Happening* Portrayed tor Omni
MMwtloe and AmiiimwL
Bell et the rink, tonight.
Cell in end pey yonr aubtcriprion.
. Diek Milmurrey U op from Ewing
*°*W. _
Tour anbacription in doe. Cell end
■eitte.* '
D. A. Doyle went to Omaha Sunday
morning.
Diek Johnson was down from Stuart
last Friday.
Bail ties and wire always on hand at
. Neil Brennan’s. lft-tf
John Flannlgan was down from
Stuart Wednesday.
Geo. Brooks, of Bazile Kills, was in
| O’Neill last Friday.
Harry Gillespie returned from Minne
apolis last Friday evening.
Newton Trommershausser, of Ewing,
was in O’Neill last Saturday,
Mrs. Fort and Nil. Conrad, of Stuart,
were O’Neill visitors last Saturday.
Fob Rbht—House of sin rooms, rent
reasonable. Enquire of Mr. Doyle. 18tf
FOR SALE—One good, six-year-old
j* horse. Inquire of Robert Marsh. 21-tf.
Walt Townsand has recovered from
’ his recent illness, and was in the city
Tuesday. _
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Swingley, of
Atkinson, visited friends in O’Neill
- Sunday. _
Miss Alice Stewart and Miss Mae
Neeley, of Atkinson, were O’Neill visit
ors last Saturday.
Jerry Sullivan left Tuesday morning
for Park City, Utah, where he expects
to remain this winter.
\ Use H and G remedy for black leg.
tJdls a preventative it has no equal. Sold
Jjg nj Hersbiser ft Gilligan. 15 tf
' Do not let the black leg into your
herd. Prevent it by using H and G.
Sold by Hersbiser & Gilllgan. 15-tf
Miss Lettie Gillespie went over to
Spencer Monday morning on a short
visit to her stster, Miss Maude.
Dr. F. G. Van Densen, of Chicago,
representing the Hobbs Remedy com
pany, was in the city last week.
For teeth or photos, go to Dr. Cor
bett’s parlors, 28td to 80th of each
month. Photographs 81 per dozen.
Mrs. W. T. Evans went to Omaha
Saturday morning to visit relatives.
She will be absent a couple of weeks.
FOR SALE—Thirty head of white
face Hereford young bulls.
17tf Jacob Kbaxt, Stuart, Neb.
We understand that Art F. Mullen has
been offered and accepted the position
of deputy county treasurer under Treas
urer-elect Henry,
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
7 shiser ft Gilligan. 15-tf
* , Small plil, safe pill, best pill.
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers cure bilious
ness, constipation, sick headache.
Hersbiser ft Gilligan.
Joe Mann was over from Spencer
7 Sunday. He reports business being so
rushing in his store at that place as to
compel him to keep four clerks.
M. Walrath, of Arlington, Iowa, was
in O’Neill lost week looking over Holt
county land with a view to purchasing.
We acknowledge a pleasant call.
Don’t you want a nice bauquet or
vase lamp, or any priced lamp, from 25
cents up. We can fix you out. See
them. 21-2 O’Nxiu. Gbocbby Co.
Mr*. JohnS. Sullivan was a caller at
this office iHt Saturday. She baa com
pletely recovered from her recent 111
and looks as bale and bearty as of
old. • _
New raisins, currants, citron, lemon
peel, New York cider and mince meat.
Don’t you need some?
21 >a O'Neill Qbocbby Co.
Miss Nellie Daley, tbe popular assist
ant postmistress, wbo has been nursing
* sprained ankle for a couple of weeks
past, has nearly recovered from the
^ injury. __
You can't cure consumption but you
nan avoid it and cure every other form
of throat or lung trouble by the use of
One Minute Cough Cure. Hershiser &
Oilligan.
Jim Gallagher, operator at the F. E.
depot, went to Stuart last Friday morn
ing and relieved the agent at that place
tor a couple of days, returning Sunday
morning. _
Mra. Freeman, of Little Falla, Minn.,
who came to thie city a couple of weeke
ago, to attend the funeral of her brother
William O'Neill, returned to her home
aat Friday morning.
"A man never gate so old but what he
can learn something,*’ remarked a prom
inent populist last Tuesday. He had
just began to realise that the syndicate
is in good working order.
Disfigurement for life by burns or
scalds may be avoided by using DeWltt’s
Witch Hasel Salve, the great remedy for
piles and for all kinds of sores and skin
troubles. Hershiser A Gilligan.
Thera le no. need of little children
being tortured by ecmld heed, eczeme
end ehln eruptions. DeWitt’s Witch
Heeel Selve gives instent relief end
cures permenently. Hershiser & Gilli
gen. _______
It is reported that Cesper Engleheupt,
of Amelia, will be deputy county clerk
under Clerk-elect Leis, end thet M. H.
McCarthy, the present deputy county
clerk will be deputy sheriff efter the first
of the yeer. _
Tour ettention is celled to the adver
tisement of Hershiser end Oilligen upon
enotber pege of this issue. They heve
e very lerge stock of holidey goods end
era firm blievers in the liberal use of
printers ink.
Oil ceke season is et bend end we ere
“hooked up" for it. We heve it by the
seek or pound, also bran, shorts, chop
feed, corn end oats. Remember us
when needing any.
21-1 O’Neill Grocery Co.
“Mamma," said little Jack, “did Ood
ever make anyone with one blue eye
end one black?” “I never heard of any
one thet was so," said hie mother.
“Well, then, you lust look et Tommy
Jones the next time you see him, end
just see whet I can do.”
E. J. Spencer, agent °r the F. E. rail
road at Stuart, and also owner of the
telephone line running from that place
to Fairfax, 8. D., was in O’Neill Satur
day looking after hie interests in the
injunction case which was commenced
here Thursday of last week.
How about pure buckwheat flout?
You know there is buckwheat and then
there is so-called buckwheat. Try a
sack of ours and you will have no other.
We have maple syrup in bulk and cans
at reasonable prices. Buy some.
21-1 O’Neill Gbocebt Co.
Warming—Persons who suffer from
coughs and colds should heed the warn
ings of danger and save themselves
suffering and fatal results by using One
Minute Cough Cure. It is an infallible
remedy for coughs, colds, croup and all
throat and lung troubles. Hershiser &
Gilllgan. _
Neligh Toeman: Word comes from
Iron Mountain, Mich., that Earl Graham
of Savage, Neb., was found (lead in his
room last Friday morning, supposed to
have commirted suicide. We have not
been able to learn particulars. Graham |
was well known in base ball circles in
North Nebraska.
J. M. Thirswend, of Grosbeck, Tex.
says that when he has a bad spell of
indigestion, and feels bad and sluggish,
he takes two of DeWitt’s Little Early
Risers at night, and he is all right the
next morning. Many thousands of
others do the same thing. Do you?
Hershiser Si Gilllgan.
In first-class canned fruits and vege
tables, we play second fiddle to no one.
Our Niagara brand of corn, tomatoes,
June peas, preserved strawberries and
red raspberries are not equaled in the
city. We have cheaper brands, to.
When needing any come in.
21-1 O'Neill Grocery Co.
An exchange hit* the nail squarely on
the heed in the following argument:
“When a hen lays an egg abe cackles.
When a man geta in a new stock of
goods it is human for him to crow over
it. When a hen cackles, people know
that she haa laid in some stock and feels
proud of it. When a merchant opens
his new styles and blows bis trumpet in
a newspaper, people know that he has
something on hand worth advertising,
and patronize, him accordingly.”
The question is often asked, “Why
didn’t the editor write up this or that
social gathering, wedding, etc?” Why,
bless your souls, how could he write up
what he didn’t know? He wasn’t there,
didn’t have an invitation, is no mind
reader, no one told him anything about
it, and maybe he thought you didn’t
want it known. When you have a
social gathering or anything else, and
the editor is not present, give him the
particulars, and he will heartily appre
ciate the favor.
Exchange: An eastern mathematical
editor propounds the following query:
A boy ten years old has a little sister
who weighs sixteen pounds, and he
gets tired holding her in five minutes.
When he is twice as old how long will
it take him to get tired holding some
one else's sister who weighs 106 pounds.
When it comes to fishing, Wes Evans
is the luckiest mortal on earth. Last
Friday he and Jess liellor went opt
on the Esgle and oaught twenty-one
speckled trout, the string weighing
eighteen pounds, and they were beauties
to, some of them being over a foot in
length. We didn’t take his word for it;
either, as we saw them ourselves.
J. C. Berry, one of the beat known
citisene of Spencer, Mo., teatiflee that
he cured himself of the woret kind of
pilea by using a few bozea of DeWitt’e
Witch Hazel 8alve. He had been
troubled with pilea for over thirty yeare
and bad used many difierent kinds of
so-called cures; but DeWitt’s was the
one that did the work and he will verify
this statement if anyone wishes to write <
him. Hershiaer Se Gllligan.
▲n eastern editor says that a man in
Hew Tork got himself into trouble by
marrying two wives. A western editor
replied that a good many had done the
same thing by marrying one. A north*
era editor says that quite a number of
his acquaintances found trouble through
barely promising to marry, and not
going any farther. A southern editor
says a friend of his was bothered
enough when he was simply found in
I company with another man’s wife.
In the trial of the State of Nebraska
vs. B. 8. Kelley, which was tried to a
jury in Justice Slattery’s court, the Jury
returned a verdict of not guilty. J. J.
McCafferty swore out a warrant for Mr.
Kelley, who is one of the teachers in the
O’Neill schools, charging him with
assault upon the person of his son John,
a youth about 13 years old. The case
occupied the attention of the court all
day Wednesday, the jury returning the
above verdict on the first ballot. So
far as we can learn the verdict gives
universal satisfaction.
A. B. Starke, of Bodkia, Loup county,
was In O’Neill last week on business
before the land office. Mr. Starke is
general manager of the Jewel oattle
company, one of the largest stock firms
doing business in the state. Mr. Starke
is also a politician of some note, being
one of the leaders of the Palmer and
Buckner democracy. He was a mem
ber of the legislature when W. V. Allen
was elected United States senator, and
was one of the democrats who voted for
him, but since that time free silver has
made a chasm between them, and we
do not believe he would vote for him
again if given the opportunity. Mr.
Starke is a whole-souled genial gentle
man and made many friends during his
brief visit in this city.
It’s a mighty chilly day when Stuart
can’t find some cause of complaint
against her sister town of Atkinson, and
just now she is sweating great drops of
blood for fear that the long distance
telephone line connecting that place
with Butte and Fairfax, 8. D., will be
extended to Atkinson, and possibly
O’Neill. To prevent the occurrence of
such a dire catastrophe, William Krot
ter, R. E. Chittlck, William Gill and C.
N. Biglow appeared before the district
court last Thursday and asked for an
injunction restraining E. J. Spencer,
owner and proprietor of said telephone
line, from extending or permitting the
extension of said line or permitting any
connection to be made with said line by
any outside parties; as such extension
or connection would seriously cripple
their business interests, owing to the
fact that they get the greater part of
their business as a direct result of
Stuart being the only railroad terminus
of said telephone line. They further
represent that if said line were to be
extended to Atkinson and O'Neill that
it would take away the greater part of
the trade of the town of Stuart and give
it to the towns of Atkinson and O'Neill.
In the absence of Judges Kinkaid and
Westover, County Judge McCutchan
lasued a temporary injunction, restrain
ing the defendant, E. J. Spencer, from
taking any further action toward the
extension of said line until a hearing
could be had in the district court proper.
What action Atkinson msy have taken
toward the securing of an extension of
the telephone line, we are unable to
state; but this is the first intimation we j
hare received of any attempt on the
part of O’Neill toward that end, and
while the connection with our sister
county seat of Butte would be a very
convenient and pleasing arrangement,
still we don’t believe it would bring
twenty five dollars' worth more trade to
O’Neill in a year, or take that much
away from Stuart. As it appears to us
it is only a breaking out in a pew spot
of the old fight between the towns of
Stuart and Atkinson, and that O’Neill
is not concerned in the matter at all.
VOBTSKf ACTION.
Lincoln, Nbb., Not. SO, 1897.—-Special
Corretpondance: TLe secretary of
state is still this week as he was last
week the most conspicuous before the
public of all the officials at the state
house.
Last week the secretary got himself
Into an awkward situation by opening
the sealed returns of the late election.
When the newspaper reporters ques
tioned the secretary aa to his unlawful
acts and pointed out to him the law
which prohibits anyone but the oan
yqsslng board from opening and exam
ining these returns, the secretary
declared, "That law is no good. It is
obsolete like a good many other laws,
r We can’t hare reform unless we hare
reform."
The proposition that reform consists
In setting aside law and that the officers
who are charged with enforcing the
station laws should openly violate
u«m and should whenever they see lit,
declare them "obsolete" and “no good,"
was so startling that Secretary Porter
by the assistance of some of the other
state house offlciSls was able at last to
realize dimly that he had got himself
very close to a hornet’s nest.
It is absolutely impossible for Secre
tary. Porter to comprehend fully the
serious complications that would have
•risen by bis acta if this were a close
election so that these returns would be
challenged in a court of law when they
came at last to the canvassing board.
He has sent back the returns to some
thirty or forty counties for the correc
tion of errors which he pretends to have
discovered, although he has no more
right to pass upon the correctness of
these returns than has the Janitor who
sweeps his office or the carrier who
handles the mall between the post office
and the state house.
The question now arises, what shape
will these returns be in when they get
back from the counties to which they
have been sent for correction f Who
will make the corrections which this
law-breaking secretary has ordered to
be made? Will the county clerks do it?
They have no right to change a single
figure, letter or aylable of these returns
except in the presence and by direction
of; the county boards which made the
returns in the first place.
Suppose some citizen - should now
.question these returns and enjoin the
canvassing board from declaring the
result on the ground that they had been
unlawfully opened and tampered with,
both by this peeping secretary of state,
his peeping deputy, his clerks and the
various county clerks to which they
have been sent for correction.
It will not avail for these law breakers
when their acts are challenged to cry
out "Down with the courts and down
with injunctions!" Such anarchistic
talk may be catchy among nervous
people who do not stop to consider, but
there is in this Nebraska community a
deep seated law abiding sentiment
which is and always will be strong
enough to dominate the state when it is
fully aroused, and this element of our
society is not yet ready to tear down
the courts, to set aside the election laws,
and to have them deolared "no good"
and "obsolete" by a swaggering secre
tary of state whose prior business ex
perience was limited to a dismal failure
in the management of an eighty acre
weed grown farm in Merrick county,
where pigs rooted at will around the
neglected treeless home, while the
owner, loaded with unwilling trans
portation which he had rung from the
corporations was chasing the country
over from year to year in search of
office as a reformer. There was a time,
not long ago, and it may not yet be
fully passed, when ignorant, bluffy,
swaggering, loud talking men with the
audacity and impudence of Secretary
Porter, having light regard for law.
could make themselves popular with the
masses by reason of these very charac
teristics. The confidence of the people
had been abused. Their pride in the
state had changed into contempt for
public officials and for law, and being
themselves in straightened circumstan
ces where they dreaded the operation of
law, some of them cried out "D—n the
constitution, D—n the courts and down
with law and legal technicalities."
But the people are paying off their
debts. They are becoming the ownera
of unmortgaged homes and property.
As these conditions enlarge, the senti
ment for law and order will grow.
They will learn to detect the perlaver
ing, flattering, farmer friend, who rails
against the corporations while bis
poekets are bulging with free passes and
meal tickets, and the people will demand
for the public honors which they be
stow, and for the salaries which they
pay, that public officials shall respect
the law, respect the reforms which they
have promised and bring with them
into public office such qualifications as
will make the law and those who en
force it respectable, giving the people a
■tale government which will not occa*
•ion constant humiliation and apology.
I have teen an ill favored and friend*
leas dog with tall between hla legs,
yelping through the weeds of a vacant
lot, dodging tin cans and brick bata,
into thia alley and that, while the big
boys roared with laughter at the epecta
ole. I meet men every day here at
Linooln who practice their witlciame on
the secretary and regard hia fantastic
capers aa a good Joke on the state. 1
admit that hia actions would be funny
if hia position did not render them eer*
loua. I admit that there is strong
provocation for jokes and laughter to
see the awkward secretary dodging the
newspaper reporters, explaining one
day, "That law halnt no good,” explain
ing the next day that "It was the deputy
and the clerks who opened the sealed
returns,” explaining the next day, "It
don’t make no difference nohow, ’cauee
you fallen, you republican! done the
■erne thing,” and then at laat, after
tampering with the returns from nearly
every county, admitting that he reck
oned he hadn’t ort to done it. "An* if
there’s foln’ to be so much shootln’ off
and rag chawin’ about it I won’t open
up no more of 'em.
It may be funny to see a dog pelted
with tin cans. It may be laughable to
put a bull into a china store and see
him smash the wares while thestore
heeper prods him •with a pitchfork.
But it is expensive entertainment when
a secretary of state indulges his itching
curiosity by opening the sealed returns
contrary to law and then amuses the
publle with his dodging explanations.
It was by Just such men as Secretary
Porter and by just such lawless acts as
his and such methods as were adopted
last winter -in the recount fraud that
Mississippi, Arkansas and other south
ern states, over thirty years ago, went
into a system of election frauds from
which they have not yet recovered and
which still hangs over their communi
ties like a pestilence.
Mo man wants to settle or live in a
state where ballots and election returns
are tampered with and where the law is
flippantly set aside by the highest offici
als in the state. J. W. Johnson.
Baskin’s Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for cuts,
I bruises, sons, ulcers, salt rheum, fens
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and post
| lively cures piles, or no pay required.
It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For tale by P. 0. Corrigan.
BUT TXKICKS’ FATTKNS,
About November 22 we will receive a
complete stock of all staple patterns,
and keep a full supply on hand there
after, receiving the patterns monthly as
shown in the Delineator.
Grand Album of Fashion, Delineator
and Mirror of Fashion on sale at 25,15
and 5 cents per copy. J. P. MANN.
XIiOKSIXX GOLD.
Is “not in it” at this time of year,
compared with our new Klondike glass
sets, in canary and blue colors. They
must be seen to be appreciated. We
never have had such a nice assortment
of china cups, fruit plates, berry sets,
water sets, and four piece sets, as we
have on sale this season. Come in and
look them over, they will please you,
sure. 21-1 O’Nxn-L Gbocnby Co.
| A Clever Trick.
It certainly looks like it, but there Is
really no trick about it. Anybody can
try it who has lame back and weak
kidneys, malaria or nervous troubles.
We mean he can cure himself right
away, by taking Electric Bitters. This
medicine tones up the whole system,
acts as a stimulent to the liver and kid
neys, is a blood purifier and nerve tonic.
It cures constipation, headache, fainting
spells, sleeplessness and melancholy.
It is purely vegetable, a mild laxative,
and restores the system to its natural
vigor. Try Electric Bitters and be con
| vinced that they are a miracle worker.
Every bottle guaranteed. Only (A cents
a bottle at P. C. Corrigan’s drug store.
The GTMtMt Disoovsrv Yet.
W. M. Repine, editor Tiekilwe, 111.,
Chief, esyi: "We won’t keep house
without Dr. King’s New Discovery for
consumption, coughs and colds. Ex
perimented with many others, but never
got the true remedy until we used Dr.
King’s New Discovery. No other
remedy can take its place In our borne,
as in it we have a certain and sure cure
for coughs, colds, whooping cough,
etc.” It is idle to experiment with other
remedies, even if they ere urged on you
ss just as good as Dr. King’s New Dis
covery. They are not as good, because
this remedy has a record of cures and
besides is guaranteed. It never fails to
satisfy. Trial bottles free at P. C. Cor
rigan’s drug store.
xxthoos of mnvonoir.
While In Atkinson last Friday we had
the pleasure of listening to a program of ^
more than ordinary note which was ^
rendered by the Columbian literary
society of the Atkinson high ,'if
school. The successful feature of the Ml
program was a criminal trial conducted
in all its detail by the members of the
high school department. The partieir
pants in the main part of the program
were Arlelgh Moore and Win Whitney.
who acted as attorneys for the prosecu
tion, and Harry Prouty and Morton
Greeley for the defense.
The case was entirely original in all
its features, as we understand a sham < i
fight was resorted to on election day'.Sjl
between a populist and republican to
a foundation for the trial. This bai^g
done the trial was commenced by one of
the aggrieved parties, we believe by the
populist, as you know a pop is always : ,;V
looking for trouble. The trial was con
ducted from beginning to dose In a ^
very able manner by Ira l. Burleson, Jr.,
acting as Judge. ;
Old attorney! were anrprlaed at the %
keen examination of witnaaaea by Mae*
are. Prouty and Moore, and their tech
nical summing op of the evadence In the
eaae to the Jury, which beapeaka for ^ ^
theae yonng men a brilliant future in
whatever pursuit they undertake. Mr, ,
Whitney waa no lean noticiable for hi*
wary obaeryation of the case, and Mr.
Greeley for hia profound logic and
touching plea to the Jury, arguing aelf
defenae for hia client. The Jury, com*
poaed of people from the audience,
deliberated on the caae for aomo time,
when a dlaagreemeut waa reached, the
Jury ataadlng four for acquittal and two
for conyietion.
With aueh interoet do the people of ;
Atkinaon attend theao meetinga of the
literary aoclety, that from 100 to MO are
preaent at the regular meetinga every
two weeka, but on thia oocaaion many
were compelled to leave for want of
atanding room.
Thia la aurely a new departure in the ^
line of practical education, elnoe from
oloae queationlng of the forty pupila in
the high aohool room only, only four
had ever aeen a trial conducted. How
neceaaary It la, therefore? that educa
tion ahould be made practical, whereby
pupila may be able to deal with every
day life if auddenly called upon. Three
yeara qgo the' achoola of Atkinaon <B4 '
not ahow thia marked progress, nor wee
auch deep lntereat manlfeeted by the
people. Never before m the hiatory of
the aohool have the people oome forth
from their homea in auch numbera to
witneaa the work of the scholars, and
never before have the pupila ahown
auch ability in practical education.
In the high ichool of Atkinaon the
practical method of teaching hiatory,
that ia the ’Source Method’ lint had Its
birth in Holt county, and a new system
I of book-keying haa been introduced '
[which glvea the pupil In elx months
time a better bualneaa education than
any of the buaineaa oollegea of the atate.
Ia it to be wondered at then, that the
achoola of Atkinaon rank among the ^
Drat of the achoola of northern Nebraaka
on the accredited liat of the atate uni
veraity, and make a oloae race with the
leading high achoola of the atateT
If we want our own achoola to
advance, there muat be the aame dlaplay
of energy by the teachere, and the aame
lntereat manlfeated by the parent! aa
will ahow they are alive to the beat •
inteieata of the pupila and the. advance
ment of the community. Unleaa thia ia
the caae no achool can riae from the old
rut to that higher plane of educational
advancement; and, furthermore, let
achool offlcera keep abreaat of the timea
as well aa the teacher, for It ia their
doty to know what ia for the good of
the achool, and thia they cannot know
unleaa they keep in touch with the
rapid progreaa of education. See to
thia, achool offlcera, or leave your place
to energetic men, aa teachera muat do
when they are deficient in that which
makes a achool—Godlike energy.
TO WHOM IT MAT CONCERN:
The rental and sale of all properties
in Holt county, Neb., owned or con*
trolled by us, hare been placed for the
present in charge of Mr. M. Lyons, of
Emmet. Neb., and no other resident of
Holt county is authorized to represent
us in such matters. The properties we
control are principally such as hare
been acquired under mortgages negoti
ated by the Lombard Investment com
pany and others, either by foreclosure
or voluntary deed from the borrower.
We represent a large majority of the
holders of Lombard mortgages and of
the lands acquired under them in Holt
county. All tenants upon such lands
or anyone who may desire to become
tenants or purchasers may corrsspond
or confer with Mr. Lyons in reference
thereto.
Kansas City, October 1, 1897.
Concordia Loan and Trust Com
pany. 90-3
