PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. •UMORIPTION, «|.C0 PER ANNUM. VOLUME XVIII. O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, DCEEMBER 2. 1897. 0. N. i s=±= idmMrAqer. NUMBER 22. MS SANSJU Items: of Iatereet Told As They Are Told to Us. WHIN AMD HOW IT EAPPKNHD lorn Happenings Portrayed Tar Smttl Burly to bed and early to rise. Stick to buslneaSi and advertise. Joesey-Herrin next week. Cell aid pay your aubecription. The coal dealers haivest hu arrived. H. A. Allen waa loathe city Tuesday. P. J. Donohoe was in the city last Friday. ' . Richard Moon, of Stuart, waa in town Tuesday. John J. Halloran waa up from Intnan Tuesday. _ W. J. Hahn wpa down from Stuart last Saturday. r J. E. Evans, of Norfolk, «u in the city Tuesday. Ball ties and wire always on hand at Mail Brennan’s. 16-tf WANTED—A quarter of good beef, on subscription. Prof. Richard Cross was down'from Atkinson Saturday. J. Kraft, of Stuart, had businessfe this citylast Monday. A. Riley, ofOmaha.wasregiSMma at the Evans last Sunday. r |/*a! C. W. Hall, of Newport, .wae.'nn O’Neill visitor Monday. E. A. Chase, who. bails from Oasaka, Neb., was In O’Neill Tuesday.. C. L. McElhaney and W. A. Olds. , of Star, were in the city yesterday. About eight inches; of enow on the ground at noon andei‘11 falUng. *. O. H. Wertz, of Creighton,..; was registered at the Evens Monday. J. N. Hovey, of Stuart, was seen on Uie streets of O’Neill last Monday. Say, is your subscription paid tip to hi If not catl around and settle. J. W. Wood, of Independence, Mo., was a guest at the Evans Tuesday. If you want to reach the people plant your holiday ads in Tits Fnoariau. “Braving the World” at the opera* house next Thursday evening, Dec. 9. Fob Rest—Hoaeeof six rooms, rent reasonable. Enquire of Mr. Doyle. lOtf FOR SALE—One good, six-year-old horse. Inquire of Robert Marsh. 21-tf, Fairfax, 8. D„ was represented in O’Neill last Monday by Orion and Kirk Porter. _ Mrs. A. J. Watson, of Coleridge, was in the city Sunday visiting old time friends. ' Ira S. Puckett and Laura E. Roberts were married by Judge McCutehan last Thursday. ueo. r. &uop, ol Butte, wu in O’Neiil lut week on bueineee before the land office. - _ 8. J. Weekee returned lut Frida; evening from a visit with relatives at Waterloo, Iowa. , FOR SALE—A good team of horses, harness and buggy. Will be sold cheap. Inquire at this office. 23-8 w . *, For teelh or photos, go to Dr.Cor betl’s ps-iors, 23rd to 80th of each month. Photographs 81 per dozen. . FOR BALE—Thi.ly head of white face He eford young bulls. ITtf Jacob- Kcaft. Stuart, Neb. H. W. McClure, of Sioux City, wu in the city several days lut week looking || after his busineu Interests here. w Don’t forget to attend the bargain sale for the next thirty days at 22-8 Sdllivsn Mbrcabtilb Co’s. Judge Kinkaid came down from Cbadron Sunday morning, where he had been hoiding court the past four weeks. William Lord and Mary Pettit, of Page, were married last Thursday, at the above piece, by Rev. Bartley Blain. Walter Clements, of Wayne, Neb., and Emma Barnes, of Marysville, Neb., lit were married by the county Judge last ;' .. _ week. On November 20 Judge McCutchan iuued a marriage license to Fra-ik 0. Urbon, of Little, and Mattie Porter, of *a Chambers. There is no need of little children being tortured by sca’d head, eczema “d »kin eruptions. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve gives instant relief and curu permanently. Hershieer AGilli gan. New raising, currants, citron, lemott peel, New York cider and mince meat. Don’t yon need some? • 21.2 O’Nbill Gbocbbt Co. O. N. Kane, a cattleman from Wie ner, was in this section several days last week purchasing stock. He bought a a conple of car loada. Don’t you want a nice banquet or ▼ase lamp, or any priced lamp, from 26 cents up. We can fix you out. Bee them. 21-2 O’Nbtu, Gbocbbt Co. James Ryan, Jr., left for Fremont Tuesday morning, where he goee to complete a course of studies at the Fremont normal and business college. You can’t cure consumption but you can avoid it and cu e every other form of throat or lung trouble by tbe use of One Minute Cough Cu,e Hersh’aer & Gllligan. _ Hiss Kirk Porter, from Fairfax, 8. D.» is in town and has enrolled as a pupil of the O’Neill conservatory of music. Her special studies will be piano and vnftal. County Clerk Bethea hae been down on the farm several days the paet two weeki getting things in shape to more back when he goes out of office next month. _ Jossey-Marvin theatrical company at the rink next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Complete change of program each evening. Eleven people in the troupe. _ i Disflgnmmetitf otlife by-bevas or soalds may ha avoided by asint DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Saiva.lbegivut remedy for pilee and for ell klade bfsoeeaad skin troubles. Heivk'ser A Cili’yaa. : Fremont Tribune: A Baltimore woman is getting a goodxdeal of news* paper notoriety by having her teeth, whan filled, set with diamonds. She oughttoihe a briilieht conversationalist. Wabbisg—Pe.sone who' suffer from coughs and ooWs should beed the warn ings of . danger and save tbemael ves suffering snd'fatal results by using’One Minute Cough Cure. Itie- as infe llble remedy for eougbs, colds, croup and all throat and lung troubles. Hexthiser & Oilligan. _ MissTlllle Nightingale, of’Atkinson, was in the city yesterday, the guest of Mrs, R. H. Jenness. Miss Nightingale has just completed a very successful term of school at Chambers, end is enjoying a well-earned yecation of a week before commencing on th^long winter term. _ J. M. Thhswend, of Grosbeck, Tex. says that when be has a bad spe'l of indigestion, and feels bad and sluggish, he takes two of DeWilt’s Little Early Risers at nigbt, and he is ell right the next morning. Many thousands of others do the same thing. Do you? Heishiser & Origan. The Jossey-Marvin theatrical com pany will appear at the opera-house the lest three days of next week, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. This company is reported first-class in every respect and are descrying of liberal patronage. Tickets 10, 20 and 80 cents. Reserved •eats on sale at Hershiser & Gilligan’s. Ur. and Mr*. O. Sammons, of Amelia, spent Tbankagiqing in tbla city, the guest* of Mrs. Sammons’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Cole. Mr. Sammons was a caller at this office on Friday and informed us that.business was better in the" South Fork valley this fail than it has been for several years, and still there area “f8w"pop* in that section. J. C. Berry, one of the best known citizens of Spencer, Mo., testifies that he cured himself pf the worst kind of piles by using a few botes of DeW'tt’s Witch Hazel Salve. He bad been tioubled with piles for over th'ny years and had used many diflerent kinds of so-called cures; but DeWitts was tbe one that did the work and he will verify th>a statement if anyone wisoes to write him. He'sblser A Gilligan. According to an exchange here is the way one farmer’s Wife treated a patent churn agent. It was undoubtedly a Nebraska farmer’s wife. An agent for a new fangled churn stopped at a farm house and insisted that his churn would get two pounds more butter out of a certain amount of cream than any other. Tho lady of the house, to get rid of him, told him that he could come around the next morning and try the churn and if what he said was true she would buy. In the meantime she churned the cream, and when he came she poured the buttermilk into his churn. He churned for an hour and then told her that there was no butter fat in the cream. “I know it.” she said, “for I churned it last night and left the buttermilk for you to get your extra two pounds from.” And the agent was mad. It was a fair test, but that agent will never again attempt to sell another churn to that lady. Mlaa Celia Rundquiat, a yiollniat of exceptional ability, who haa been en gaged by Prof. Schnbert to take charge of the violin data in the O'Neill con* aervatory of mnaic, airived Monday evening, and will enter upon her dntiea at once. Thla )a a grand opportunity for thoae who wiah inatructlon upon the king of muaical inatrumenta. Mlaa Rundquiat will be remembered aa the lady yioliniat whoae playing waa ao greatly enjoyed by thoae who attended j the concert at the opera houae a couple ofmonthaago. Here ia a atraight tip from a newapa* per called Bralna: “There ia only one right way to advert'ae, and that ia to hammer your name, your location, your buaineaa ao conatantly, aoperaiatently, ao thoroughly 'nlo the people'a head that if they walk in their aleep they will con* atantly turn their atepa toward your atore. The newapaper ia your friend in apite of your criliciam. It helpa to build' up the community that aupporta you. When the day cornea that the newa* papera are dead the people ire on the edge of the grave with nobody to write the eoitaDh.” The 'O’Neill* conservatory of music announces a chorus class> of four months' duration, beginning the first Friday in January, 1898, and lasting until the month of May. Applications should be made now. so as to complete the organisation by January 1. Terms; (strictly in advance) for four months’ instruction including chorus and oper etta books, 92.75. Where there are more then one from a family a reduc tion will be made accordingly. For members of the O’Neill conservatory, tuition free. Books extra. C. J. Schcbbbt, Director. There was a "hot time in the old town” last Thursday night at' the Thanksgiving ball, given-by the Spencer orchestra. Notwithstanding the fact that it was a cold stormy evening, there were about forty couples present, and every one of them was there for the purpose of having a good time. And we rather guess they had it. The musio was all that could be desired for danc ing purposes, all the latest and most popular airs, and they were served up in two-forty time. From the start to the finish it was a neck and neck con test between the dancers and the musicians to see which could kill the other off, and in the final wind-up the( musicians came out about three lap* ahead. In fact, they played a little bit too fast, for they set the rink on fire; at least the roof over the stage wher* they were sitting was discovered to bet on fire about 11:30 and Sanford Parker* insists that it was his "hot orchestra” that did it, although a few irrelevant ones say that it caught from a defective stove pipe, and the claim of an auburn haired young lady that she set it afire* with her golden (f) tresses, found sup-: port among her intimate friends. The majority of those present, though, give all the credit to the orchestra. No great amount of damage was done by the fire, as the fire department was promptly on hand with the chemical engine and extinguished the blaze be fore it had gained much headway. A little thing like the building catching on are u not allowed to interfere with a dance in O’Neill, however, and the dancing was interrupted only long* enough to give the musicians time to move out of range of the etreama of water. A little after midnight the crowd adjourned to the Hotel Evans and partook of an oyster supper served; up in Wes' best style. No one seemed disposed to linger at the supper tables,i though, for it was dancing they wanted,s and all hurried back to the rink as soon as possible to again join in the dizzy * whirl. About two o’clock the business1 of the evening was again interrupted to give those present an opportunity to witness a little mill, a la Corbett-Fltz., between a couple of the gentlemen present; but even that could not long attract the attention of the crowd, and they were again pursuing the sweet strains of music : around the room— while the mill ground on. At three o'clock *.the musicians were declared 'winners in' the contest, for the dancers “gave • u(/.the ghost” and donned their wraps for the homeward trip, ’‘while the band played on.” Sanford has been telling us for a long time past that he had a hummer of an orchestra hid over in the gulches in Boyd county, and now we believe him, and if they ever again come to O’N eiil they caw rest assured of liberal patronage. Clearing Out Sale For thirty days at Sullivan Mercantile Co’s, store. Our entire stock of cloth ing, overcoats, genu furnishing goods, caps, gloves, mittens, flannels, and all kinds of winter goods, including shoes for men, women and children, at a bar gain for thirty days only at I Sullivan Mercantile Go’s, 82-8 O’Neill, Neb. j A VBATOVUtlT CAHYA8S. Lnrcour, Nxb., Not. 87,1897—Special Correspondence: The atate officers were two days in the aweat box thla week. The elate canyaaslng board con sists of the governor, the auditor, the treaaurer, the attomey-general and the secretary of atate. It ia the duty of tf>ia board to meet on 'the third Monday aftei^election, to open the eealed returna, canvass them and declare the reault. No one but thla board aaaembled at the proper time has a right to open theae sealed returna. * - When thia board met at the aecretary’s ofitae on Monday of thla week, purauant tot law, there crowded into the office about fifty officials and under officiate of the atate house,- and about the name number from the penitentiary and the insane hospital. Besides these hundred reform-officials there were two republl mffis, Ed. R. Siser and Frank J. Kelley, too were not there from idle curiosity, ba to present a written protest against lip Porter method of tampering with the returns. Porter, contrary to law, without waiting for the board, had opened me eeama returns m rut u they bad come into {iis office, bad examined and tabulated them, had manipulated tbbm back and forth between himaelf and tbe various county derke through out the state, and it wu for the purpoee of protesting against this unlawful tampering of Porter that the two repub licans appeared before the board. The whole populist colony seem to hare had a tip that something unusual was about to happen. As they elbowed each other into the office, packed in like sardines, they whispered earnestly, looking now at the two republicans and now at the board, desiring to catch every word and wondering what would happen. Wherever (Ire-eating populism hu had anything to do with govern ment, whether in Kansu, in Co'orado or Nebraska, such scenes u these have occurred, each one being the occasion of some high handed outrage and each one serving as a mile stone to mark the ebb and flow of restrained anarchy and to point out some broken law. T'hey all knew that vhe> law had been violated in a matter of very serious im port, that this wu the second revolu tionary criaocommittedby this admin istration within this year, and as tbe crowd of idle pap suckers huddle closer and closer together, eying the two republicans, the members of the board shuffled uneully in their seats, tbe governor effecting calmness and deliber ation trying to look u if he were un ; conscious of all this unusual tension. Mr. Kelley, on behalf of tbe Lincoln citizens who had signed the protest, asked leave to present it with its speclflo charge that the returns had been unlaw fully tampered with, and that being tainted with law breaking they should' not be recognized or declared by the board, but that tbe various county boards should be required to reassemble and make new returns. It would be aqme expense to the taxpayers to have this work ail done over again, but the cost would be insignificant compared with what the state would lose in tbe moral force of its laws if such a bold outrage as this were overlooked or sanctioned by the highest officers of the state. Mississippi bad done such things as this thirty yean ago. The precedent once established, had remained, growing stronger and stronger each year, weak ening the moral force of government, hatching out feuds and local dlssentton, deadening the higher sensibilities of the people, degrading the state in its repu tation and the character of its inhabi tants, inviting and establishing state government by force and fraud, disfran chising five-sixths of the voting popula tion. Of the 000,000 voters in Mississippi only 80,000 vote annually because such methods as these are practiced. The peace loving people of that state shun evsrything pertaining to elections as they would a tainting and troublesome contageon. Whoever meets a Missis sippi politician of the dominating clique looks upon him as a conspirator who ^ would violate an election law with as little compunction as a burgler would crack a safe. When the civil war broke out by tbei rebellion of the law breaking, slave! holding south, the common people of Tennessee being loyal, desired to have! their state remain in the union. When i the proposition was submitted to a vote the unionists carried the election by a i large majority. But the state offlceis, who were rebels, pretending that the vote bad not been honestly counted, sent out and brought in the ballots, just I »■ the recount commission of last winter J did in this state, counted them over | again and declared that the rebel vote j had carried the election. Every student knows of this incident in the history of Tennessee. I do not pretend to say what the populist voters of Nebraska think now of these Tennessee methods, but I feel sure the time will ootnewheh ••eh will deny that he had ever had Any sympathy with inch buelneu. For two days theae two republicans atood before thie board and the Idlb eiowd which aurrounded it, urging thal these Porter methods abould be rebuked and not be act up as precedent. Twh weeka ago Porter had the relume tabu lated from the offlcW packages uh’ch he had opened and ever? Jaokey in thd state home had been running In and out reporting the result. The dally presi bad published Porter’* tabulations and everybody knew it. Porter had openly and impudently admitted it. boasted of it, declaring that the law waa “no good* and that it waa “obsolete.’' “We can’t have icform unless we have reform,* •e'd Porter then. Now, when be rea* listed that the matter was serious, hoi with the other members of thh'bosrdj pretended that he did not know whether he had opened the sealed packages of noli or how many of them he ba4 opened, or whether he had now brought to the board (he origtjeaie or the dupll4 cates. He tried to know nothing and the board tried to look innocent as it they were ignorant Of What had been "Prow your charges,” said the attor-j ney-geaeral, with a look at the crowd] aa much u to icy, "I’m a lawyer, I’ll make these republleini prove theit ease.” "Wall iwear Porter and hia deputy and prove It by them.” laid Salley, and ha did. Potter wriggled and squirmed and hli deputy triad to know nothing, hot Kelley wormed It out of them little by little until the board finally admitted that the retnrna had been unlawfully opened, "But,” they laid, “We have nothin* to do with that. Our business ia to declare theee returns aa we find them," and they did. It is a precedent now, sanctioned by the governor and other-officers of the state. It Is history now/lust as there IS history in Tennessee/1 What will Por» ter do with the election returns next year if the election is closet What wilt happen in the county elections if thy law is "no good” and -if Porter'S methods are imitated! ■ J. W.Jonxsox. 1 acsooL inn The total enrollment is now 895. The, subject for composition in the) rhetoric class this week is "How l'Spent Thanksgiving)” The high school has two new pupilsj Clarence Campbell and Llzsle Harte.' Miss Harte has just finished teaching a fall terra, and-entered school to improve her vacation. If, on Friday afternoons is heard the cry, ."Arm, arm, It is—it is the cannon’s opening roar,” do not be alarmed, it IS only the elocution class in the high school reciting the "Battle of Waterloo.”! All of the grades are preparing for the public entertainment to be given at the link, on Friday afternoon of next week, fo.‘ the benefit - of the library fund.> Several Weeks -ago1 a contribution waS taken in each roam, end the result has encouraged the teachers to try to start a The members In the evening after Un Oya ter topper th*ee piotufeewitlbe et>ld,fhe prdeCed* to go to the church. The pictures era by enoh-ertkts u Edward A. Abbey, RdbertBlewvB. 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