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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1897)
VOLUME XVIII. O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, DECEMBER 9. 1897. NUMBER 23. NEWS SANS WHISKERS Items of Interest Told As They Are Told to Us. WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED lees Happenings Portrayed For Otnsrsl Kdiflestlon end Amusement. Call and pay your subscription. J. J. Stillwell was up from Little Monday. Editor Eves was down from Atkinson Monday. _ Bail ties and wire always on hand at Nell Brennan’s. 16-tf WANTED—A quarter of good beef, on subscription. Mrs, Kearney, of this city, died Wednesday noon. California white grapes, always fresh, at Hatfield A Hall’s. 28-8 J. 8. Bart, of Butte, was an O’Neill ' visitor last Saturday. One Minute Cough Cure cures quickly. That’s what you want! Rev. 8. P. Sharpless, of Norfolk, was in the city last Sunday. Miss Lon Earl, of E mmet, was shop ping in O’Neill Tuesday. Fresh California celery always on hand, at Hatfield A Hall’s. 28 8 For Christmas candies go to the Gem bakery. Hatfield & Hall. 28-8 Miss Lillian Lamoureux was visiting relatives in this city Monday. A. R. Wert* and A. S. Robinson, of Star, were in the city Monday. Say, is your subscription paid up to date? If not call around and settie. If you want to reach the people plant your holiday ads in The Frontier. Don’t forget to call at P. C. Corrigan’s and set a ticket on their big doll. 23tf H. H. -DeFail and wife, of Omaha, were registered at the Evans last Friday. X FOR SALE—One good, six-year-old Toys! Toysl Toys! At P. C. Corri gan’s, Everybody come and examine R. M. Roskhow, of Rockford, 111., was among the guests at the Evans last f, Friday. Editor McHugh is attending the deep water convention at Houston, Texas, this week. _ Earnest Adams is salesman for Stark Bros, whole root fruit trees. See him before buying. ' 23-1 Call at P. C. Corrigan’s and get prices on holliday goods before purchasing holiday gifts._ 23tf P. C. Corrigan has got the largest line of Christmas presents ever displayed in Holt county._ 28tf FOR SALE—A good team of horses, harness and buggy. Will be sold cheap. Inquire at this office. 22-3 William Griffith died at his home near 5v. Turner last Saturday, aged 63 years. Obituary next week. The finest line of Candies, nuts, oranges, banannas and lemons in the city at Hatfield A Hall’s. 23-8 John M. Lowrie and Jessie Tibbits, both of Chambers, were granted a mar riage license last Tuesday. When you want a good cigar or a bice package of smoking tobacco, go to the Gem bakery. Hatfield A Hall. 23-3 Mrs. W. T. Evans returned Saturday evening from Omaha, where she had been visiting the paBt two weeks. Inquire of Robert Marsh. 21-tf. them. 28 tf A new counter has been placed in the First National bank, greatly improving the apperance of that institution. W. 8. Moss, ot Omaha, F. W. Taylor, of Chicago, and F. C. Hurse, of Fre mont, were at the Evans Sunday. For teeth or photos, go to Dr. Cor bett’s parlors, 28rd to 30tb of each month. Photographs #1 per dozen. FOR SALE—Thirty head of white face Hereford young bulls. 17tf Jacob Kraft, Stuart, Neb. Don’t forget to attend the bargain sale for the next thirty days at 23-8 Sullivan Mercantile Co’s. Given away, at P. C. Corrigan’s, a - ticket on a twenty dollar doll with every SO cents worth of holiday goods. 23tf Miss Sadie Skirving returned Tuesday morning from Stuart where she had been visiting friends for about ten days. Fremont Tribune: Saturday after noon Judge Plambeck issued a license •nd joined in wedlock Chas. L. Young, of Schuyler, and Miss Phebe Storts of O’Neill. Mr.'and Mrs. M. F. Kirwin are rejoic ing over the arrival of a baby girl, who arrived last Monday morning. Mother and child doing well. The Schlitz brewing company is building a new beer vault near the Short Line tracks west of the depot. It will be in charge of Thomas Campbell. The Chinook wind last Saturday and the warm weather which followed just about paralyzed the sleighing. It is the first Chinook wind that has visited this section in ten years. F. C. Gatz has purchased the old Schlitz beer vault and will use it for an ice house. It will hold about 600 tons and the old ice bouse holds about 300, so this winter Fred will be able to put up ice enough to supply the town. Eddie Welton, 6-year old son of J. H. Welton, has about recovered from a serious illness which seems to be going the rounds among children. Excessive vomiting and high fever appear to be the strong points of the malady. Mica Allie Hugea, Norfolk, Va., was frightfully burned on the face and neck. Pain was inatantly relieved by DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve, which healed the injury without leaving a scar. It la the famoua pile remedy.—Herahiaer & Gilli gan. _ l Proaperity cornea quickest to the man whose liver is in good con iition. De Witt's Little Early Risers are famous little pills for constipation, biliousness, indigestion and all stomach and liver troubles.—Hershiser & Gilligan. The case of Carl Pettijohn, charged with grand larceny, came up before Judge Kinkaid last Saturday. Defend ant pled “not guilty” and was placed under 8200 bonds to appear on the first day of the next term of court. He was allowed to give his own recognizance. It is easy to catch a cold and just as easy to get rid of it if you commence early to use One Minute Cough Cure. It cures coughs, colds, brodchitis, pneu monia gnd all throat and lung troubles. It is pleasant to take, safe to use and sure to cure.—Hershiser & Gilligan. Yesterday the land office was moved from the rooms over Corrigan’s to the State hank building. The interior has been nicely papered and the servents of Uncle Sam now have very neat quarters for the transaction of business, besides having a vault in which to keep the records. __ County-Attorney Butler went down to Norfolk Monday morning and made arrangements with the authorities of the insane asylum to receive Herman Kow atzki, who was adjudged insane last July, since which time he has been an inmate of the county jail, on account of the crowded condition of the institution at Norfolk. _ A. J. Meals is making arrangements to start for the'Klondike country about January 15. Another resident of this county will accompany him, and it will probably be W. F. Eeeley. They are going as representatives of a company which has been organized in Omaha and will prospect for rich finds along the Yukon. Jack has agreed to write a series of letters for The Frontier, descriptive of that famous section, after he becomes acclimated. They will no doubt be interesting reading. The report which was printed in The Frontier a couple of weeks ago to the effect that Earl Graham had committed suicide seems to be unfounded, as the following from the Neligh Yoeman shows: “The Yoeman is pleased to state that the report from the Michigan paper stating that Earl Graham had committed suicide Is without foundation. From what we can learn Earl is all right, enjoying good health, and will be able to hold down the pitcher’s box next season along with the rest of ’em.” luesuay evening, aDOUt 1U:8U, while the members of Holt camp No. 1710 were busily engaged in innitiating a couple of candidates into the myster ies of woodcraft, an unusual noise was heard out in the .waiting room. The active ‘‘billy goat" was bustled out of sight and a committee started to make an investigation as to the cause of alarm, but upon opening the door the members of the Royal Neighbors flocked in loaded with baskets and kindred nicknacks, all of which were overflow ing with good things to eat. Venerable Counsel Brennan, who is the presiding officer, welcomed the ladies in a tew well chosen words, after which the sisters passed around the tempting viands to the hungry “wood choppers.” After supper several of the members of both orders made pleasing and appro priate talks until about 11:30, when the ladies left tor home. The Woodmen hope the ladies will give them many pleasant surprises during the winter. tlOO Will buy six steer calves and one heifer calf. Enquire at DeYarman’s barn. . * * . • . , ... ' JOHKKH’B LXTTIB. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 4.1897.—Special Correspondence: About 10 o’clock In' the forenoon in Judge Cornish’s court at Lincoln, ex-Auditor Eugene Moore stood up to receive his sentence.. The court-room was crowded with specta tors. The only woman in the house was Mrs. Moore, the brave little wife who has stood by her husband with a woman’s true devotion through all his troubles. No one knew what was tn the judge’s mind; whether he would pronounce the word “guilty" or “innocent.” Be bad had the case under advisement for several days and now the day, the hour, the moment had come for him to indi cate his decision. So still was the scene that you could hear the big clock tick and the rustling of an envelope of a sheet of paper on the clerk’s desk made a noise which was audible to every spectator. ■ ^ ' Mrs. Moore eat with her arm around her husband looking soarchingly at the judge, as if to read his thoughts, while the accused leaned forward, his face in his hands, swaying his body to and fro as if the tension of anxiety was moving him to vibrations. "Have you any thing to say—” but before the judge had finished the formal question a wave of deep breathings swept over the assem bled crowd for they knew it meant a sentence. The ex-auditor etood before the judge and with his whole frame shivering from emotion, with the tears streaming down his face, sobbed out the story of bis fall. He made no pretense of denial, but pleaded that financial reverses had over whelmed both he and his friends and prevented the return of the money, as he intended. When his statement was concluded and he had seated himself in a chair before the bar of the court, Mrs. Moore, moving around the lawyers’ table, again took a seat beside her hus band, as much as to say, "Though all men forsook, yet will I cling to thee.” There’s a touch of the divine in the true woman which suggests the far-reaching mercy of the Nazarine. When the judge, in pronouncing the sentence, had progressed to the words; “ten years’* the loving wife involuntarily threw up her right hand as if to wave oft the t<de of retribution, crying out. "Oh judge! Be merciful! Be merciful!” For days the judge had listened to the arguments of the pleaders, cool and deliberate, unmoved by prejudice and unswayed by sympathy. But now this woman’s voice reached the humanity cord which please Qod may never cease to vibrate so long as men with human weaknesses are judged by human law. At this writing the case still hangs on the usual dilatory motions, but the sun light from Nebraska’s sky looks in through iron bars on two ex-state officers whose glory was as fleeting as it was disastrous. So much for retribution. Like an avenging Nemesis it follows the trail of every wrongdoer, and though he ride on the swift wings of popular applause, it overtakes and strangles him at last. So much for the vindication of justice upon republican officials through repub lican courts, so much for the swinging of the pendulum that is bringing ub back into an era of the enforcement of law against offenders, and so much for the uncertainty of popular judgment that permits itself to be wheedled and to put forward and follow unfit men. If this man was weak, too small for a big place, then those who are hired to manipulate conventions, to put up weak men and pull down strong uien, to select material that can be tampered with, then they must bear a part of this guilty business although the law can never reach them. For several years the political con ventions of this state have been manip ulated by hired political managers. They fly from town to town and tip-toe through convention halls pointing out the coming man. They pull down this man because he is strong and put up that man because he is weak. They want material that can be available in case of an emergency. Eugene Moore was an honest and a happy man when he was stenographer at Norfolk, but a state office was beyond his depth. The same manipulators who searched out and put him up because he was weak, pulled down such men as Judge Hayward because they were strong. The same influence that selected Eugene Moore selected Silas A. Hol comb, for they knew that he could carry more passes and appropriate more junkets than any former executive. Holcomb could have saved Moore. He could have saved the half million Bart ley loss. He could have prevented tbe recount fraud and stopped Porter from tampering with returns. He could re quire Meserve to make good the straw bond. But Governor Holcomb and his colleagues are creatures of the same influence that took Eugene Moore from bis honest calling and started him on the road that will end la the penitentiary. If we are to evolve oat of this era of defaulting officials, of straw bonds, of tampering with election returns, of pass grabbing and junketing, out of sham reform into real reform, the better ele ! meat must take more interest in politics. The biggest men must attend the small | est caucus, for there is where the mis chief begins. ' Not the political wind bags, but high minded, level headed, disinterested men both from town and country must he sent to the state conventions and the legislature. The man who is too small to pay his railroad fare Is too small for the place and too weak to trust. I gather from republicans that they are seeing the mistakes of the past and raalising the necessities of the future. I gather from these populist officials that they are puffed up with conceit and enjoying the salaries, perquisites and passes. When their forgotten promises knock at the door they answer, "Go thy way for a time. At a more con venient season we will call for thee.” J. W. Johnson. A raw 0009 THING! NON CHBIITMA!. Fine box candy 85, 40, 00 cents and tl per box. Pure maple syrup guaranteed. ' Choice comb honey. Fine mixed nuts. . Dill pickles. Choice California bell flower apples. 83 3 at J. P. MANN’S. TBAraUNO W WINTIK. Is very unpleasant, and one is always anxious to gel to his destination as quickly as possible. Passengers to and from the Black Hills will, therefore, appreciate the fact that they can saye oyer two hours’ time in each direction, to and from Sioux City, by going via O’Neill and the Pacific Short Line. Connections daily except Sunday. Buy local tickets to and front O’Neill. Same fare. t - i — i — Bhsomatiaia Cored in a Day. "Mystic Cure” for rheumatism and neuralgia radically cures in from one to ■ three days. Its action upon the system is remarkable and mysterious. It re moves at once tbe cause, and the disease 'Immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits. 76 cents. Sold by P. C. Corrigan, druggist, O’Neill, Neb. Free Fills. Send your address to H. B. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King’s New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of the'r merits. These pills are easy in action and are particu larly effective in the cure of constipa tion and sick headache. For maleria and liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weaken by their action, but by giving tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Regular size 85 cents per box. Sold by P. C. Corrigan, druggist. PBOGBAX. Of the Holt county teachers’ associa tion, to be held at O’Neill, Neb., December 18, 1897, at 10 o’clock a. m , in the high school building. Music. Paper—"Drawing in the Public Schools.”.B. B. Smith. Discussion. Minnie Miller and Gertrude Leeper. Paper—“The Work in Civil Government.”.L. W. Worrel. Discussion. .. F. K. Chase and William Morrow. AFTERNOON SESSION, 1 P. M. Paper—"Does Education Pay ?’’ .O. R. Bowen. Discussion. .Dora Hunt and Anna Hopkins. Paper—"Ideal Relations of a Community to Its Public Schools.” .Cora Thompson. Discussion. Minnie Daley and D. H. Thurston. Paper—“Modem Psychology and Its Contributions to Educa tion.".Edward H. Whelan. Discussion. Mrs. Addie Clark and Vira Burgess. Paper—"Barriers to Educational Advancement.”.R, F. Cross. Discussion. — Mae Perciyal and L. E. Huston. An effert will be made to have State Superintendent Jackson and Chancellor McLean lecture in the evening. Notice of the lectures will be given later through the papers. Every teacher in the county is earn estly requested to be present and make this a successful and profitable meeting. J. C. Morrow, President. Clearing: Out Sale For thirty days at Sullivan Mercantile Co’s, stpre. Our entire stock of cloth* lng, overcoats, gents furnishing goods, caps, gloves, mittens, flannels, and all kinds of |rinter goods, including shoes for men, women and children, at a bar gain for thirty days only at Sullivan Mkrcaktilk Go’s, 88-3 O’Neill, Neb. HI1UTUI THOUGHTS BT AX IKBXL XVAXT F1LL0W. Poet* may sing of their eholoeet flowed, The lily, the deity, end fair summer bowers, Rut Guy will ever aver in metre emphatic, That tor buds that are rare—and feelings ecstatic— Journey where yon may—wherever you go There's nothing so fair as the Rose In the snow, _____ It the old slgna do not deceive ne we ere going to have a long cold winter. The houee of the muikrat la built in a manner that indicatea It. The corn ahuck la leafy and thick; the gronae are feathered to their toenails and the geese have flown. Besides these time honored signs we have here on December 2 about two feet of snow, which is admitted by all to be the best evidence. After a careful study of the condltlqps of the present and with an eye to the future Ed Ward has made a pair of snow shoes longer than any sentence Grover Cleve land ever wrote for publication. . They are of tbe genuine old Canadian style, and while they do not open up an avenue for the display of Delsarte move ments they are a convenience and sweet boon. It is a great deal more comfort able to skate about with a 18-foot fence board on either foot than it is to wade around through snow up to the bridles. The etorm of the peel week hes driven game of ell klnde to the shelter of the timber end brush slons the river, end the hunters hsve been on hend with desth deeling eontrivenoes to welcome them with bloody bends to bospiteble Krsves. Did it ever occur to you how some men will cerry e ten pound shot gun ell dsy, go without dinner, wede rivers of ice thet would mske the heert of e boy Wsshlngton queil, trail e Jeck rebbit to Klondike, end return in the evening more weery then men ever wes of workT And thet, too, without enough geme to cover the bottom of efi-cent frying pen? But every town hns its full quote of such men end boys. Meny of them will slem the door ofl its hinges when their wives or tired old mothers gently esk them to fetch e hod of coel or throw e few esre of corn to the speckled cow. _ The Bore ceme into the country printing office efter dinner es usuel end set down et the editor’s right hend. He telked- for fifteen minutes without re ceiving e reply end then picked up e peper end commenced reeding eloud. Bightpoints, the compoiitor, turned eround on his stool end glered et him e moment. Then in tonee of deepest interest softlr snid: "Do yon see ut* ’ thing in there nbont the men that wee killed for reading ont load in n printing offlcef’ The guileless Bore not knowing that n boose had fallen on him said, "no." "Well,” remarked Eightpoiats, “it will appear tomorrow,” and he pro ceeded to examine the priming ofhia side arms. A tomb-like alienee reigned and ' still is reigning. KHOOL irons. A new pnpit entered Mlse Daly's room Monday. The storm windows have been pnt on . t this week. Snowballing is - the principal sport since the storm. Stocks and bonds are of “interest” to ~i the class la arithmetic at present The class In English lltsratnre is read log "The Lady of the Lake,” by Walter Scott. The grammar dan has not yet began ' the study of botany although they are studying "room” and "stems.” A pupil who haa been neither absent nor tardy since she commenced her school life, was absent one day this week. . Aa the rink has baaa engaged bye theatrical troupe for several eveelnge next week, the school entertainment has been postponed till the week following. Did you ever uotloe boys tad girls snowballing? The boys stead the attack like breve soldiers, bat the girls beet s hasty retreat into the school S house. The number present in each room on last Friday, the day of the storm, was as follows: Mrs. Clark's, 0; Mias Quilty's, 10; Miss MnUen's, 88; Miss ’ Morrow's, 84; Mr. Kelley's, 87; Mias Daly's, 88; high school, 18. The chemistry class mads nitric acid a few days ago. Several tests ware made, such aa action on copper, caldom carbonate, and the brown ring with ferrous sulphate. Its discolorislng ' power was accidentally tested on a blue - dress. Mrs. Mary Bird, Harrisburg, Pa., says, "My child is worth millions to me, yet I would have lost her by cronp had 1 not"': ;: invested twenty-live cents in a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure." It cures coughs, colds and all throat and lung troubles.—Herahiser 4k Gilligan. CUT PRICE SALE . ■ r •; u/v,> Clothing, Overcoats and Cloaks. In order to reduce our etock before our January Invoice we have decided to give our cuetomera the greateat opportunity we have ever offered them to bay eeemn able gooda at reduced price*. Our good* were all marked lower thi* eeaaon ^ ever before and the price* offered below bring many of them down to the whole* aale price*: Cloaks. Here i* a chance to buy a beautiful stylish cloak at greatly reduced prlcea and In time for you to get the full benefit of it this season. fi 4.00 cloaks for.$ 8.20 4. BO cloaks for. 8.00 4 75 cloaks for. 8.70 ■ 5.00 cloaks for.. 8.95 5.50 cloaks for. 4.40 6.00 desks for. 4.80 7.50cloaks for....... 5.95 8.50 cloaks for... 6.80 9.00 cloaks for..... 7.20 9.50 cloaks for. 7.60 10.00 cloaks for. 7.95 11.50 cloaks for.1. 9.80 12.00cloaks for.... 9.60 18.50cloaks for...... 10.80 15.00 cloaks for.11.95 16.50 cloaks for. 18.20 17.50 cloaks for.18.95 We hare a large line of Miasesa cloaks for young ladies 14,16 and 18 yeara old that are included in the above. Boys and Children’s Suits Worth 61.50 for.fl.20 Worth 1.75 for... 1.40 Worth 2.00 for.... 1.60 Worth 2.50 for.... 1.95 Worth 2.75 for. 2.20 Worth 2.95 for. 2.40 • 3 50 suits for... 2.80 4 00suits for. 8.20 4.50 suits for... 3.60 5.00 suits for... 8.95 Overcoats and Ulsters THAT WERE 15.00 reduced to. 08.95 5.75 reduced to.. 4.80 8.75 reduced to. 5.40 7.00reduced to.. 5.80 7.50 reduced to. 5.95 8.00 reduced to. 8.40 8.50reduced to............ 8.80 9.00reduced to.... 7.20 10.00 reduced to..... 7.95 12.00 reduced to. 9.00 15.00 reduced to...11.95 Fur coate ere not included in thie list m we here almoat uloeed out our flret itock end have ordered e second large Invoice to arrive toon. Men’s Suits. On all our winter men’a day woreteda ■uita worth 89.00, 810.00 and 813.00 we offer ten per cent discount, and on all other euite we will tell: I 4.50 suite for. 88.80 5.00 euite for. 8.95 5.50 euite for.....'... 4.40 6.00 euite for. 4J0 6.50 euite for.. 5.80 7.50 euite for. 5.95 8.00 suite for. 6.40 8.50 suite for. 6.80 9.00 suite for. 7.20 10.00 suite for.. 7.95 Odd Pants. All odd panto above 91.50, 90 per cent, discount. Tbia sale will last only till January 1, and we can positively say we are giving you more for your money than we ever have before and hope to make tbia the most aucceaafu) sale we have ever had for ourselves as well as for yon. J.. P. MANN. " i V2 V-*-.-: V - -.^Vi . .V ;