PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO.
SUBSCRIPTION. SI.SO PER ANNUM.
O. H.
I VOLUME XVIII.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, DECEMBER 23. 1897. NUMBER 25.
NEWS SANS WHISKERS
Items of Interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
r.oes Happenings Portrayed For General
Edification and Amusement.
John Drayton is up from Ewing today.
Frank Emerson was in the city Tues
day.
,, Judge Westover was in the city last
Friday. __
Peter Greeley was over from Phoenix
Saturday; _ ^
Bail ties and wire always on hand at
ftNeil Brennan’s. 16-tf
| WANTED—A quarter of good beef,
P^n subscription.
W. R. Butler went down to Omaha
Monday morning.
California white grapes, always fresh,
Judge A. S. Tibbets, of Lincoln, was
in the city Tuesday.
Judge McCutchan was in Sioux City
on business Monday.
One Minute Cough Cure cures quickly.
That’s what you wantl
Q- H. Cherry and Henry Julius were
in from Iowa yesterday.
W. H. Green, of Creighton, was an
O'Neill visitor last Friday.
: Fresh California celery always on
hand, at Hatfield & Hall's. 33 3
Miss Ona Skirving spent Sunday in
Atkinson visiting friends.
For Christmas candies go to the Gem
bakery. Hatfield & Hall. 33-3
J. A. Douglas, of Bassett, was in the
city Friday on legal business.
v, Messrs. Searl and Allen, of Atkinson,
were in O’Neill last Saturday.
The county officers elect take charge
of affairs on Thursday, January 6.
iy, is your subscription paid up to
deli? If not call around and settle.
Attorney 8. D. Thornton, of Neligb,
If you want to reach the people plant
your holiday ads in Thk Frontier.
FOR SALE—A good second hand
corn planter. Call on Robert Marsh.
Don’t forget to call at P. C. Corrigan’s
and get a ticket on their big doll. 3 tf
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Zimmerman are
the parents of a boy, bom last Friday.
FOR SALE—One good, six-year-old
horse. Inquire of Robert Marsh. 31-tf.
Otto Tappert, the Standard Oil repre
sentative, was in the city last Tuesday.
Deputy United States Marshal Acker
man, of Stanton, was in O’Neill Friday.
■ Toys! Toys! Toys! At P. C. Corri
gan’s. Everybody come and examine
them. _ 33tf
We have a large assortment of ladies
cards on hand. Call around and see
them.
Call at P. C. Corrigan’s and get prices
N °n holliday goods before purchasing
holiday gifts._ 33tf
at Hatfield & Hall’s.
33-8
was in the city Monday on business.
P. C. Corrigan baa got the largest line
of Christmas presents ever displayed in
Holt county._ 28tf
Prof. Cross and sister, of Atkinson,
were in the city Saturday, attending the
teachers’ meeting.
Ralph Evans is expected home from
Omaha this evening to spend Christmas
with bis parents.
LOST—A lady’s gold chain with
postoffice key attached. Finder please
leave at this office.
i F. H. Goldbraith, of Albion, deputy
revenue collector for this district, was
in the city Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Mullen are rejoic
ing over the arrival of a young son at
their home last Fridav.
The finest line of candies, nuts,
oranges, banannas and lemons in the
city at Hatfield & Hall’s. 23-3
When you want a good cigar or a nice
package of smoking tobacco, go to the
Gem bakery. Hatfield & Hall. 23-3
J. F. Gallagher and “angel,” and A.
: E. Gwinn were registered at the Hotel
Evans Sunday.
For teeth or photos, go to Dr. Cor
' bett's parlors, 23rd to 80th of each
. month. Photographs 91 per dozen.
/*. Don’t forget to attend the bargain
x for the next thirty days at
23-3 Sdllivan Mercantile Co’s.
, Given away, at P. C. Corrigan’s, a
ticket on a twenty dollar doll with every
60 cents worth of holiday goods. 23tf
Hotel Evans will serve luncheon at
12:30 and dinner at 6 p. m. on Christmas
day. _
Andy Gallagher came up from Laurel
last Thursday evening and spent a few
days visiting friends in this city. 9
Mrs. C. E. Hall returned to Sioux
City last Friday to resume the course
of medical treatment she is taking.
F. M. Weidner, of Corning, Iowa,
was looking after bis business interests
in this section the first of the week.
Merry Christmas! We hope that all
our readers will have a merry Christmas
and many, many happy New Years.
Geo. Garrison, who formerly conduct
ed a populist paper at Butte, is now
city editor of the Chadron Recorder.
Mr. and Mrs. John O’Neill left Satur
day morning for a protracted visit with
their daughter, Mrs. Ryan, at Omaha.
R. H. Jenness. receiver of the United
States land ofllce, was looking after
business matters in Omaha last Monday.
It la rumored that J. A. Trommer
shausser, of Ewing, contemplates com
ing to this city and opening a law
office. _
Tom DeLong, T. D. Hanley, Robert
Marsh, Joe Meredith, Tom Tierney and
the writer visited friends in Ewing last
Sunday. _
Jack Davidson was up from Norfolk a
couple of days the first of the week and
gave the boyB a few pointers on killing
cotton tails._
There will be a Christmas tree and
entertainment at the Presbyterian
church on Friday evening. All are
invited. _
Tom Malloy, of Emmet, went down to
Omaha last Sunday where he expects to
engage in the commission business,
making a specialty of hay.
H. E. Murphy arrived in the city
Tuesday evening from Chicago, and
expects to remain a few days looking
after business matters here.
Don’t forget we are the people for
mixed nuts, candies, oranges, grapes
and big red apples.
34-2 O’Neill Guocebt Co.
Dennis Hunt called at this office yes
terday and gave the whole force some
good cigars and announced that a young
heir made his appearance at their home
Monday morning.'
W. H. Copple, of Bancroft, defeated
W. C. Ross, of Council Bluffs, in a 100
yard foot race at the latter place last
week. The Nebraska man was an easy
winner by eight feet. Time :10J.
The youngster who is the possessor of
a good team and cutter stands ace high
with the girls tLese days. We have the
cutter (paper cutter) but not the team;
but then the devil might supply that.
The crew on the Short Line passen
ger, a week ago yesterday, had quite a
thrilling experience and the boys can
now regale their friends with the stories
of “ill-fated No. 13’’ on that wild but
lucky ride. _
Henry E. Bonesteel, of Niobrara, and
well known to a large number of the old
residents of this county, died at San
Diego, Cal., last week, where he went a
couple of weeks ago for the benefit of
his health.
prosperity comes quickest to the man
whose liver is in good condition. De
Witt’s Little Early Risers are famous
little pills for constipation, biliousness,
indigestion and all stomach and liver
troubles.—Hershiser & Gilligan.
The Hotel Evans was visited by an
“angel” in disguise last Sunday. And
the disguise was so perfect that no one
would ever have suspected her of being
an angel had it not been for the fact
that she was so registered at the desk.
What about some of that pure juice
cider, old fashioned maple syrup, honey,
mince meat, and all the good things that
go to make life worth living. Where
else but at the
24-3 O’Neill Grocery Co.
Miss Allie Huges, Norfolk, Va., was
frightfully burned on tbe face and neck.
Pain was instantly relieved by DeWitt’s
Witch Hazel Salve, which healed tbe
injury without leaving a scar. It is the
famous pile remedy.—Hershiser & Gilli
gan. _
Mr. Dan Duffey and wife (nee Fannie
O’Neill) of West Superior, Wis , who
have been visiting relatives in this city
the past two weekes, left for Omaha
Saturday morning where they will visit
for a few days before proceeding to
their home.
J. R. Kennedy, of Fremont, died at
his home in that city last week. Mr.
Kennedy was a former resident of Holt
county, and has a son residing in Verdi-'
gris township. It was while on a visit
to bis son last fall that Mr. Kennedy
received the injury—a broken hip—
which ultimately caused his death.
State Journal: The Addyson Pipe
and Steel company, of Ohio, has filed in
the federal court at Omaha a suit
against the city of O’Neill for $3,330.93
for pipe furnished it for water mains.
The plaintiff holds twelve city warrant!
on O’Neill, unpaid for want of funds.
The Frontier must be authority on
neat and artistic advertisements. We
notice several papers throughout the
state have copied the ad of Hershiser &
Gilligan, changing only the names. If
our merchants would only advertise
more we could get up a neat, artlstlo
and original ad every week.
A Tecumseh woman who is mortally
afraid of fire, has invented a device by
means of which the pulling of a string
will release every fastening of her gar*
ments and allow them to drop from her,
If she is prudent, when she goes out on
the street she will not leave her "latch
string dangling on the outside.”
Last Friday night the old creamery
building owned and used by Bernard
McGreevy as a grain storehouse burned
to the ground. We understand there
was about $7,000 worth of wheat, rye,
oats and corn in the building. The
contents was insured for $6,000 and we
understand the building was insured,
but have not ascertained the exact
amount.
John Brown, of Burlington, sheriff of
Ceder county, was in the city Tuesday
having in custody Blanche HiWbrand,
a young woman who disappeared from
Hartington some time ago. She was
the principal witness in the case of the
State of Nebraska vs. her father, who
whs charged with incest. The sheriff
found her at Lynch, Boyd county, and
took her back to Ceder county Tuesday.
Last Friday evening Grattan- lodge
No. 14, Independent Workmen of Amer
ica elected the following officers for the
ensuiugyear: C. W. Hagensick, Noble
Master; Neil Brennan, noble vioe; Pgt
Hagerty, noble treasurer; Mike Kirwin,
noble secretary; A. Marlow, noble escort;
F. F. Thompson, noble inner guard;
Willinm Messner, noble outer guard; Ira
Lapham, director; Owen S. O’Neill,
physician.
Cbadron Recorder; John Benhett,
Nels Shold's popular tailor, left Tues
day night for O’Neill,- where he will
remain permanently. He has purchased
a half interest in the only tailoring
establishment in O’Neill, and will do a
thriving business. Johnnie has been
one of Chadron’s standbys for a number
of years and all are sorry to have him
go. Mrs. Bennett will remain in Cbad
ron for a time and will then rejoin her
husband. _
An exchange speaks of a man who, it
id said, always pays for his local paper
in advance. As a result, he has never
been sick a day in his life, never had
any corns on his toes or the toothache,
his potatoes never rot; his oats never
rust; the weasel never kills his chickens;
the frost never kills his beans; his
babies never cry at night, and his wife
never scolds. When he dies he will get
a free editorial pass to the New
Jerusalem. _
Upon application of Receiver Snyder,
of the Holt County bank, Judge West
over, on last Friday, made an order
authorizing him to pay a final dividend
of five per cent, to the creditors of that
institution. The dividend would have
been paid at an earlier date but for the
fact of a time certificate of deposit held
by the receiver under an order of the
court. But Judge Westovcr, in this
order, made it so that the clerk of the
district court holds $900 on judgment
against J. S. Bartley as Scott’s bonds
man. This and the county claim makes
$1,375.61 turned over by Receiver Snyder
to the county.
IT MAT BE YOU.
Some one will get the hundred dollar
music box New Years and we wish to
remind you that we give tickets on all
collections. 25-3 J. P. Mann.
OBITUARY,
Mrs. Margaret (O’Dowd) Kearney,
who died at the home of Mrs. Mike
Tierney, on Wednesday, December 8,
and was buried from the Catholic
church at 10 o’clock a. m. the following
Friday, was 68 years old, and was born
in County Cligo, Ireland, but came to
this country when very young. She
was married in Pennsylvania, in 1855, to
John Kearney with whom, and three
sons and one daughter, she came to
Holt county about twenty years ago.
Since coming here her husband and one
son have died, and she is mourned by
two sons, Joan, of Houston, Mont., and
Tom, who is in Dakota, and one daugh
ter. Mrs. Fred Griffith, of Madison
county, Neb.., who, with her two sons,
attended the funeral and who takes this
opportunity of thanking the kind
neighbors and friends, and particularly
the Tierneys, for their attention and
care in mother’s sicknes and death. ***
CONCEBltlKG ABKABSA8.
Clyde King last Tuesday received a
letter from George Merritt, formerly of
O'Neill, later of Stuttgart, Ark., now of
Tacoma, Wash. The letter, containing
valuable information concerning Arkan
sas, to which state many of our citizens
emigrated a few years ago in the hope
of bettering their conditions, Mr. King
hands us for publication, hoping that he
violates no confidence in so doing. It
is as follows:
Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 13,1807.
Friend Kino: Well, Clyde, here I
Bin in paradise No. 3. As Odell terms
O’Neill paradise No. 1 and Stuttgart No.
9, Tacoma must be No. 3. Charlie says
I, wouldn't be satisfied it I were in—
paradise.
I imagined Nebraska was getting
worse every year, with drouth, the hard
times we had during the latter part ot
the time I spent there, but when I
arrived in the SOUTH, (that’s the way
Charlie spells it) the beautiful south,
the land ot corn, potatoes, and every
thing plenty, niggers included, the
beautiful flowers, and such fruits;
peaches, plums and grapes. Whew!
You can’t imagine how I felt. I
thought, of course, my days of worry
were over, that I had indeed found the
long wished for land, where every
thing was plenty and cheap. Well,
friend King, can you blame me for
venting my wrath on some one when
the reaction came? No work, except in
hay fields, with niggers for partners, for
from six to eight bits a day, and board
yourself. Potatoes from 81 to $1.50
per bushel, all shipped in, and the corn
that Charlie told you all about was a
myth. The corn was all shipped in.
Flour was 81.50 to $1.65 per fifty
pounds. The peaches were plenty but
wouldn’t keep over night; the grapes—
while some of them on a bunch were
green, others were ripe and rotten; the
flowerB were plenty and beautiful, if
oise could only eat them, and all other
features that were so fine about that
grand southern country. Their main
crop was hay, and it was controlled by
one Reinch, grocer, and a Mr. Porter,
lumber man. They issued checks or
orders and that is the money of the
beautiful Stuttgart Mr. Mathews and
Odell and others spout so much about.
Clyde, 1 wouldn’t give O'Neill and the
surrounding country for the whole d—n
Grand Prairie. Good country for ducks
and niggers, but there is nothing there.
The soil is cold and clammy, and if
they don’t use fertilizer they can’t ra’se
beans. That was paradise No. 2.
Now No. 3 is not quite in a compari
son with No. 2. Nor have I been here
losa enough to talk intelligently of it,
although the shipment of wheat from
here iB something remarkable. Living
is very reasonable, fruits or ail kinds
are very cheap and fine. Flour, the
best patent, is $1.20 ner 100 nounds.
fish and clams are very cheap and, of
course, plenty.
The outlook for Tacoma Is very
bright. This Klondike business helps
this little city out, but work here for
mechanics is all overdone. Work is
scarce and will be more so before spring.
I want to go to Skaguay in March.
Will put up shoeing shop. They pay 86
per horse for shoeing. Can go. from
here for about 818. 80 per ton for
freight.
If there is anything concerning this
country that I can enlighten you on
just let me know, and I will gladly do it.
Regards to enquiring friends.
Yours respectfully,
George H. Merrit,
“The Village Smithy.”
SCHOOL NOTES.
The elocution class of -the high school
are now learning Webster’s address at
the dedication of the Bunker Hill
monument.
Several high school pupils attended
the teachers’ association last Saturday,
and one was heard to say that she didn’t
know teachers’ meetings were so inter
esting.
The following is from a geography
recitation in one of the intermediate
grades: Teacher—"What peninsula in
the northern part of Asia?” Pupil—
"Ham Kautzman." (Kamtchatka.)
Helen and Flora Lowrle, Lettie Gil
lespie, Martha Cress, Ada Mills. Ruth
Evans and Lind Trueblood furnished
the music at the teachers’ association.
Not long ago in one of the grades a
test was made to ascertain some of the
likes and dislikes of the pupils. It was
found that in colors the boys preferred
blue and green; the girls, red; stories,
boys liked war adventures and travel;
girls, stories of home life; professions,
boys to be a doctor or lawyer or some
thing to make money; girls, to teach
music, painting and drawing. It was a
noticible fact that the boyB wanted
money for their own individual inter
ests, while the girls desired money for
charitable purposes.
The eighth grade recently wrote com
positions on “Three Wishes.” One girl
wished for wisdom, so she could get her
arithmetic lesson and write better com
positions, another wanted to go to
Klondike and take provisions. Several
wanted to take a trip around the world,
and one paper contained the following:
"I have always wished for a good
education, and were I given my choice 1
wonld choose this in preference to all
others, for the reason that an education
is something that cannot be taken
away. Even though men and women
are cast upon the world, the/ still have
something to rely upon, and will not be
long without an opportunity of earning
something." This is certainly a most
admirable wish, and we would that it
were the desire of many more.
IRRELEVANT THOUGHTS BT AH IRREL
EVAHT BELLOW.
And now, to All a mammoth gaping sock,
Many a family gem gets Into endless hock.
The days of the newspaperman upon
earth are many, unfortunately for him,
and full of vigorous, robust trouble.
Unless bis press Is subsidised and his
editorials written in the counting room
by the business manager he has a life
long struggle with giant despair, and
keeps the sheriff away from his door
only by dint of ceaseless vigil and untir
ing rustling. He generally has all he
can do meeting legitimate competition
without being handicapped by an in
junction restraining him from writing
and his employes from talking, an was
done to the World-Herald.
We have a profound respect for law
and courts and judges but Keysor’s
latest injunction seems to us to be, to
use the mildest term possible, silly. The
bill of rights covers the case fully when
it says “Congress shall make no law
abridging the freedom of speech or of
the press.” _
Nest spring will see a great rush for
the Alaska gold fields. It is estimated
that 100,000 men will be on the way as
soon as the weather loosens up, and
some of them tyefore. It is useless to
moralize or philosophize on the matter,
or to point out what the same energy
and money might do if egpended at
home. This hundred thousand seekers
for sudden wealth will go just the same.
Some of them will be fortunate. Some
of them will fill icy graves and same of
them will wearily drag themselves back
to the states after years of fruitless en
deavor, to pass their remaining days
nursing aches, pains and regrets. The
writer saw a particularly touching illus
tration of the sad ending of ambition’s
fierce dream one day last spring. The
Fast Mail, still damp with the fog of the
Golden Gate, steamed up the entrancing
valley of the Sacramento river through
the sunshine and the flowers and the
fruit and stopped beneath the iron dome
of the shed at the neat little depot of
the Southern Pacific at Sacramento, Cal.
All was hustle and bustle. Many pas
sengers were boarding the train for
eastern points. Among them was an
old man. There was something pathetic
in his appearance and after an hour or so
the writer dropped down in the seat be
side him and engaged him in conver
sation. He looked so sad and forlorn
and utterly friendless that our sympathy
went out to him. The old man aald he ,
wae thinking of the paet. That starting.»
eaet over the plains had opened the
flood-gatee of hie memory and bore him
down in a trough of reflection. He told
us hie history, which would only inter
est our readers in a boiled down form.
In his youth he had lived In old Pike
county, Ho. He caught the fever of '49
and was one of a party that crossed the
plains to California. Crossing the plains
is a phrase that has a romantic ring and
stirs a something in the adventuresome
breast when read by the glowing hearth,
but only those who have passed over
that dreary, desolate and bluee-produc
ing desert are qualified to form even a
faint idea of the horrors of the trip In
the early days. Compared to it a viait
to Dawson City by the most difllcult'
route would be but a holiday excursion.
Arriving on the coast he learned the sad
truth that so many have yet to learn,
that ie that only one man in a hundred
can succeed. For years he hung on to
the tail end of bonanxa excitements
making merely enough to keep him afloat.
Word came from home'that his sweet*
heart had grown weary of waiting or
had forgotten him and married the
other fellow. Following swift upon the
heels of this disaster came the intelli
gence that his parents had passed into
the great beyond. Bowed down by
grief, ambition deserted him, hope grew
gray and despondent. Fortune that had so
long eluded him was no longer sought.
He simply lived the long years through
and now he was going back to his old
home to spend his last years with a
brother who had kindly sent him the
money to pay for his return trip.
And thus will many a poor Klondlker
return.
Some terribly misinformed but no
doubt well meaning Individual started
the story Tuesday that a telegram had
been received stating that a record
breaking blizzard was bowling along
from the northwest but sixty miles
away. The town was full of farmers
and their wives buying Christmas pres
ents for the little ones. The merchants
were all busy and clerks were knocking
out shoe leather at a fearful rate. There
was not a cloud in sight. Old Sol was
shooting slanting. beams from the
southern sky in his most benign manner,
but it mattered not. Teams'were hur
riedly hitched up and the farmers hustled
out into the rural districts and left the
town in a sort of presto change state.
Ire filled the breasts of the merchants,
and the clerks swapped yarns about the
stove the rest of the day.
CUT PRICE SALE
Clothing, Overcoats and Cloaks.
In order to reduce our stock before our January invoice we have decided to give
our customers the greatest opportunity we have ever offered them to buy season
able goods at ieduced prices. Our goods were all marked lower this —von than
ever before and the prices offered below bring many of them down to the whole
Cloaks.
Here is a chance to buy a beautiful
stylish cloak at greatly reduced pricee
and in time for you to get the fu\
benefit of it this season.
$ 4.00 cloaks for.Q 8.20
4.50 cloaks for. 8.60
4 75 cloaks for. 8.70
5.00 cloaks for. 8.95
5.50 cloaks for. 4.40
6.00 cleaks for. 4.80
7.50 cloaks 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. 9.30
12.00 cloake for.... 9.60
18.50 cloaks for. 10.80 ]
15.00 cloaks for. 11.95
16.50 cloaks for. 13.20
17.50 cloaks for. 18.95
We have a large line of Uissess cloaks
for yoong ladies 14,16 and 18 years old
that are included in the above.
Boys and Children’s
Suits
Worth $1.50 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
$ 8 50 suits for. 2.80
4 00 suits for. 8.20
4.50 suits for. 3.60
5.00 suits for... 8.96
Overcoats and Ulsters
THAT WERE!
•5.00 reduced to.$8.05
5.75 reduced to. 4,00
6.75 reduced to. 5.40
7.00 reduced to... 5.60
7.50 reduced to. 5,95
8.00 reduced to. 6.40
8.50 reduced to.,.... 6.80
9.00 reduced to. 7.20
10.00 reduced to. 7.95
13.00 reduced to. 9.00
15.00 reduced to. H.95
Fur coate are not included In this Hat
aa we have almoat cloaed out our flrat
atock and have ordered a second large
invoice to arrive soon.
Men’s Suits.
On all our winter men’s claj worsteds
suits worth <9.00,110.00 and 813.00 we
offer ten per cent discount, and on all
other suits we will sell:
$ 4.50 suits for. $3.60
5.00 suits for. 8.95
5.50 suits for. 4.40
6.00 suits for. 4.80
6.50 suits for..... 5.80
7.50 suits for. 5.95
8.00 suits for. 6.40
8.50 8u!ta for. 6.80
9.00 suits for. 7.20
. 10.00 suits for.*... 7.95
Odd Pants.
All odd pants above tl.50, 20 per cent,
discount.
This sale will last only till January 1, and we can positively say we are giving
you more (or your money than we ever have before and hope to make this the
most successful sale we have ever had for ourselves as well as for you.
J. P. MANN.