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.
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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
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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.
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