•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