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• ,.:>V7 "A-. - ‘f • i ? ^ ' ?>.. • PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. VOLUME XVIII. SUBSCRIPTION, SI.SO PER ANNUM. O'NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, JUNE 23. 1898 D. H. CRONIN, EDITOR AND MANAOER. NUMBER 51. • i . . " Items of Interest Told As They Are Told to Us. WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED v Loos Happenings Portrayed Por General ' Edification and Amassment. W. W. Sacket was up from Chambers Tuesday. _ ■ ■ . Bail ties and wire always on hand at Neil Brennan’s. 16-tf Bowery dancing day and night at O’Neill, July 4. Frank Mann was over from Spencer the first of the week. Keep your eagle eye on O'Neill, July 4 and hear her scream. t. ' Fred Hebert, of Sioux City, is now an employee of the Independent. ’ Miss Maggie Horiskey returned to her home at Norfolk Wednesday morning. Mrs. B. J. Ryan and children were visiting friends in Atkinson the first of the week. __ Dr. O’Neill retnrned from Omaha Friday night where he has been taking in th<) sights._ The "program of the 4th of July cele bration' to be held at O’Neill will be given next week. The precinct sending in the largest delegation on July 4, will be presented with a Cuban flag. Edward E. James, of Stuart, and May Eby, of Dustin, were granted amarriage license last Tuesday. . | Arthur Cruise was down from Atkin son Tuesday visiting his son who is a j member of company M. -;- \ 4 Frank VVelton and wife arrived Sun day evening from Norfolk and will spend a few days with relatives. Geo. Raker, of the Advocate, was up from Ewing Monday evening, visiting the boys at Camp Marlowe. Miss, Flo McDonald and Miss Maud Walker, of Atkinson, were visiting with Mrs, R. U. Jeness last Sunday. Full blooded,registered Hereford bulls cows and heifers for sale by W. O. Fawkes, 4 miles north of O’Neill. 44-tf For teeth or photos go to Dr. Cor bett’s parlors, 20th to 30th of each month. Photographs $1 per dozen. Norval Pfunder, of Valentine, who was visiting his parents in this city for several weeks returned home last week. E. H. Benedict went down to Lincoln Monday morning. He will visit Omaha and take in the exposition before return ing. _ The editorial family feasted on straw* berries last Sunday which were presented by Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Snyder. They weie delicious. STRAYED—From my farm at Ray, Nebraska, 2 yearling steers, circle brand on left hip 3 to 5 inches across. Write C. J. Viquist. 50-tf. Mrs. P. C. McCarthy, who has been visiting friends in this city the past month, left for her home in Colorada Tuesday morning. June 30 is the date set for an excellent opportunity for everybody to enjoy an evening of high grade music without any expenses except reserved seats. FOR SALE—NE* 13-30-13-160. Hay and water. Price $450; $250 cash, $200 in one year. M. Lyons, Emmet. Nebr. B. J. Ryan came in Monday evening tpd will spend a few days with his fam He reports everything in a pros ! condition in the western part of rs. O. M. Colliins are re arrival of an eight-pound O. M. 6ays the best po good for his friends at Newcastle, shattered by the cracker which it to be a I and Miss e granted a kiay. The i C. Wry, The committee on fire works have spared no pains or expenae to make the tire works display the finest ever seen iu Ilolt county. Come to O'Neill the fourth and enjoy yourself. Do not forget that 1 am headquarters for gasoline and kerosene, and the best machine oil on the market. The only Blossburg blacksmith coal in the city. Call at the coal yard. P. J. Biglin, Thirty-five years make a generation. That is how' long Adolph Fisher, of Zanesyille, O., suffered from piles. He was cured by using three boxeB of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve.—J. P. Gilligan Co. _ The graduating exercises of the O’Neill conservatory of music will be free to the public, however the small amount of 10 cents will be charged for reserved seats. ThiB is done in order to defray expenses of the class. C. S. Eves, of the North Loup Loy alist, was in the city last Saturday. Judd Woods, of the Plain Dealer, ex pects to go to the front with company M., and Mr. Eves will probably resume i control of the Plain Dealer. The flag purchased by the supervisors was presented to company M. last Tues day evening. The presdnlation speech was made by John H. Hopkins and Captain Cross in an appropriate address ' accepted the flag on behalf of the com pany. _ Plain Dealer: Monday John D. Airs, of Pleasentview, bought 240 acres of land from J. P. Mann of O’Neill, con sideration 81150. Mr. Alfs owned land lying on both sides of the tract which he purchased of Mr. Mann and needed this tract to make his farm in one piece. A Jersey farmer visiting New York, says Fashions, stood looking at a sign in a "bookstore window, "Dickens’ Works All This Week for $2.00.” "Wal.” he remarked, "my 'pinion is that that Dickens feller is either a poor workman or else he’s confounded hard up fer a job.” _ Thomas Carlon went down to Omaha last week where he had a suit of con siderable importance befa*#-' the federal oourf. From Omaha he went to Lincoln 'where he1 appeared before the supreme court and argued one of the city’s cases. He returned home Wednesday evening. •_ C. C. Leonard, formerly of the Boyd County Advocate at Spencer, came over Monday and took the morning train for eastern Iowa where he will spend a couple of weeks with relatives, returning by way of Omaha to view the Trans Mississppt. Mrs. Leonard, who has been in Iowa the past month, will return home with him. Company M. new has a mascot. It is a large eagle that was presented to the company by George Raker, of £ wing, and the emblem of liberty now occupies a position on top of the captain’s tent where it is viewed by hundreds of sight seers every day. The boys hope to be able to take it to Cuba with them so I that the proud old bird might perch upon Morro castle after they have driven Blanco and his subordinates from the fort. _ ■ We are under obligations to R ev. Crews and wife for a mess of new po tatoes which he presented us Wednesday. They are the first new potatoes we have seen this year and are of good size and quality. They are a very early potatoe and are the first ever raised in this sec tion of the country as Mr. Crews brought the seed with him from England. As the soil here seems to be adapted to them there will probably be a good many of them planted here next season, — Plain Dealer: Swan Johnson, an old man living near Celia was brutally as saulted last Saturday morning by a couple of men who a^U freighting be tween here and Butte.'The freighters had turned their horses to graze and they wandered onto Mr. Johnson’s land. He asked them to take them off. One started to comply, the other re fused. Mr. Johnson then started to take the horses off himself and this provoked the assault. We did not learn the names ot the parties but they are not known around here. Maylon Price met with a serious ac cident last Monday morning. He was driving to town from bis farm and bad a cow tied behind the wagou. In some manner the bovine upset the wagon throwing Maylon into the ditch, the wagon box falling on his left leg break ing some of the bones above the ankle. He came to town and had the injured member dressed and is now getting along nicely, but it will probably a month or so before be is able to attend to Lis duties in the shop. He is stop ping at Charley Moore’s. ABOUT THE BONOS. Treasury Department, { Office of Secretary \ Washington, D. C.. June 14, 1898. The Secretary of the Treasury invites subscriptions from the people of the United Slates for $200,000,000 of the bonds of the the 3 per cent loan author ized by the act of congress to provide ways and mean: to meet war expend itures. Subscriptions will be received at par for a period of thirty-two days, the subscription being open from this date to 3 o'clock p, in. on the 14th day of July, 1898. The bonds will be issued in both coupon and registered form, the coupon bonds in denominations of $20, $100, $500, and $1,000, and the registered bonds in denominations of $20, $100, $500, $1,000 and $10,000. They will be dated August l, 1898, and, by their terms, will be redeemable in coin at the pleasure of the United States'after ten years from the date ot their issue, and due and payable August 1, 1918. The bonds will bear interest at the rate of 3 per cent per annum, payable quarterly; the interest on the coupon bonds will be paid by means of coupons, to be detached from the bonds as the iuterest becomes due, and the interest on the registered bouds will be paid by checks drawn to the order of the payees, and mailed to their addresses. The law authorizing this issue oi bonds provides that in allotting said bonds the several subscriptions of indi viduals shall be first accepted, and the subscriptions of the lowest amounts shall be first allotted. In accordance with that provision allotments to all Individual subscribers will be made be fore any bonds will be allotted to other than individuals. All individual sub: scriptions for $500 or less will be slotted in full as they are received, and such subscriptions must be paid in full at the time the subscription is made. If the total sum subscribed for in amounts of $500 or less should exceed $200,000,000 the allotments will be made according to the priority of the receipt of the sub scriptions. ' Allotments on subscriptions for over $500 will not be made until the subscrip tion closes, July 14th, and will then be made inversely according to the size of. the subscription, the smallest subscrip tion being first allotted, then the next in size next, and so on, preference being given to individual subscriptions. Per sons subscribing for more than $500 mnst send in cash or certified checks to the amount of 2 per cent of the sum subscribed for, such deposit to consti tute a partial payment and to be for feited to the United States in the event of failure on the subscriber’s part to make full payment for his subscription, according to the terms of the circular. Allotments to subscribers for more than $500 will be made as soon as possible after the subscription closes. In order to avoid a too rapid absorp tion of funds into the treasury, with a possible consequent evil effect on in dustry and commerce, any subscriber for more than $500 will be permitted to take iiis allotment of bonds in instal ments *of 20 per cent, taking the first instalment within ten days after the notice of the allotment, and the balance at four equal intervals at forty days each, in four instalments each of 20 per cent of the bonds allotted. Delivery of bonds will be made In instalments as payment for them is received, and pay ment must in all cases be made in full as the bonds are taken. The 2 per cent deposit will apply on the final instal ment. Any subscriber may pay for the whole amount allotted him within pay ment, whether paid in one sum or in instalments as permitted. Sep erate subscriptions from one indi vidual, although made from time to time, will be aggregated aud considered as one subscription for this issue of bonds. The secretary of treasury will receive in payment for the bonds post-otflee money orders payable at Washington D. C., and checks, bank drafts, and express money orders collectible in the cities of New York, Boston, Philadel phia, Baltimore, Washington, (Jhucin nati, Chicago, St. Louis, New OUeittf. San Francisco. All money orders and bauk drafts must be drawn in favor ot the treasurer of the United States. The money orders and bank checks so re ceived will be forwarded for colleetion by the department, and as soon as re j turns are obtained the subscriber will be credited with the amount of his sub scription as of the date of collection. The secretary will also receive in pay ment for the bonds certificates of de posit issued by the treasurer of United States in the above named cities. These certificates of deposit may be obtained from any assistant treasurer in ex change for gold coin, gold certificate^ standard silver dollars, silver certifi cates, United States notes, treasury notes 1S90, aud national . bank notes; ani the subscriber will be credited with the amount of his subscription as of tne # date Of the certificate of deposit. The secretary will also receive currency sent by registered mail or by express direct to the treasury department. For the mutual convenience of the subscriber and. the department, a blank form of letter to accompany re mittances has beetl prepared, and it may be obtained at the offices of national and state banks generally, at the sev eral sub-treasuries of the United States, at a money-order post-office, and at any express office. ^ The bonds Will.^be dated August 1, 1898, And they Will be forwarded to subscribers at the address designated by them free of texpenso of transportation as soon after date as possible. The bonds will be accompanied by a check for the amount of interest due the sub scriber at the rate of 3 per cent from the date of bis payment to August 1. 1898. All remittances and other commun ications relative to this loan should be addressed to the secretary of the treas ury, division of loans and currency, Washington, D. C. All subscriptions must be received at the treasury department, Washington, I). 0.,.not later than 3 o’clock p. m„ Thursday, July 14, 1898. No subscrip ions received nfter that date and hour will be considered. L. J. Gagk, Secretary. COMPANY M. About 100 members of Company M. Third regiment, Nebraska volunteer infantry are now camped here waiting orders to move to Omaha to be mustered into the service of the United 8tates. Last week Captain Cross received a message from the governor ordering him to have his company in this city ready to move last Tuesday morning and a good many of the boys expected to get away that day, but the expected orders failed to arrive. It looks now as if the company would not get away from here brfor'e next week. The time spent here is not wasted, at the boys put in four | and six hours every day drilling and are now able to make a good appearence in company drill. Captain Cress has appointed the non* commissioned officers and a list of the officers and members of the company are as follows: Captain R. F. Cross. First lieutenant, C. E. Hall. Second Lieutenant, J. W. Wertz. First Sargent, M. A. Coykendall. Quartermaster Sargent, Judd Woods. Sargents—Jiid. Walker, H. Prouty, Wilbur Horton, Hay McClure. Corporals—Will Gallagher, Martin, Cronin. Wallace Morril, George Butler, O. P. List, Charles Harding, W. F. 8. Ayers, Robert Bitney, Geo Lo;d, John Sturdevant, Ernest Nyrup and Walter King. Thomas Lynch, Neil Bennett, Will Eisele, Jay Farnsworth. George Bigelow, Walter Clark, Fred Gossman, John Oleson, Eltan Lord. Nat Lucia, Sid Smith, A. D. Moore, U. E. Pearson, M. 8. Canovens, C. Allen, C. E. Wilson, D. Zink, Ernest Adams, C. Chase, R. D. Doyle, Henry Werner, Lloyd Shaffer, Lester Porter, M. J. Sherry, Joseph Verzal, Joe Spencer, L. Li. Whalen. F. S. Eaten, C. C. Barber, W. T. Houseman, Thomas Crotty, Charles Norton, Will Coleman, O. E. Clevish. John Cruise, F. L. G. Fox, J. G. RoS8, Alva 8. Liken, Fred Walker, A. W. Campbell, Chas Madden, Fred Bitney, V. E. Barker, M. E. Klinsmith, Frank Judd, R. D. James, Pat Canden, Henry Fleming, Elmer Wise, Fred Foster, Hany Leanard James Updike, John Edwards, James McLaughlin Wallace Fullerton, Lewis Slaymaker, Frank Anmous, J amcs Cole, Frank Sheldon, Justin Boehme, T. J. Cornell, Edward Moran, O. Wilson, Alfred Timmans, Dan Cameron, John Slaymaker, James Weaverling, Elmer Fennant, Warren Galleber, Gottfried Wyss, Will Hackett, J. U. Marring, James D. Brown, Will Ripp, i Plain Dealer: Thursday night the board elected the following teachers for the ensuing year: Principal, Ora R. Bowen; grammar department Minnie Miller; intermediate department, Rose Sturdevant; 2nd primary, InaOrcutt; 1st primary, Florence McDonald. Owing to the large enrollment in the primary department the board thought best to employ an additional teacher. The principal receives $65 per month, the other teachers $35. Conrad Boehme was employed as janitor at $18 per month, Prof. Cross who Las filled the position as principal for three years, contemplated attending the law depart ment of Harvard University, but it is more than probable now that he will go soldiering1. WE WILL CELEBRATE JULY 4 In Grand Style and Will Introduce Many New Sports that day., v f) lion. Cord C- Wright, of Omaha, Nebr^ will be orator of the day. ' : ^ v-:.v Everybody invited to come to O’Neill and join us in' inak* ing this the best celebration O’Neill has ever had^ ;v»« Grand display of fire works in the evening. Last Sunday morning Alderman Thomas Tierney made his appearance upon the streets with his face wreathed in smiles and held his head so high that he imagined he could look over the largest buildings in the city. (Many guesses were made as to the cause of his joy, some of the boys being so un kind as to ask him if the councilman had raised their salary the night before in order that he might be happy. Tom was very indignant and forcible In re plying and said, “No Sir! No Sir!! 1 have a big ten-pound boy up at my house,” and then walked away whistling "Hush a Bye Baby.” / * State Journal: The police have two girls giving their age as eighteen yearn bebinJ the bars for being In Lincoln in the company of Belle Qlover, a woman who has operated a bouse in Council Bluffs. They were seen in her company and followed and taken in a place near Ninth and P streets, At the station they gave their names as Blanche Wilson and Aliie Brunswick, the former from St. Joe and the latter from near O’Neill' One of them appears to be more aban doned than the other. They will be given into the care of the police matron today and if possible they will be taken out of the hands of unsafe companions. Maurice Mnlloy,' of Emmet, met with a distressing accident Monday morning which caused the loss of the big toe on his left foot. About 4 o’clock in the morning he was awakened by a noise in the chicken yard. He got up, took h!s shotgun and went out to investigate. He failed to discover any suspicious signs and stood for a while near the chicken coop listening for snspicious sounds. Wbiie standing there he rested the muzzle of the gun upon his left foot and leaned upon the stock. In some manner the gun was discharged carrying away the big toe. He was brought to this city and the injured member care fully dressed by Or. Gilligan and is now getting along nicely, ■ * ■ ■ —■ ' V": Last Tuesday morning Richard Kil- i inurry, of Ewing, and Miss Kate Hurley, of this city, were united in marriage at the Catholic church in this city, Rev. M. F. Cassidy officiating. Patrick Gap lagher, of this city, was groomsman and Miss Maggie Horiskey, of Norfolk cousin of the bride was bridesmaid. As; the bride and groom have lived here from infancy they have numerous friends in this city and throughout the county who wish them a happy and prosperous journey through life. TimmP, day afternoon they left for Ewing, their future home, where the groom kali*' comfortable home prepared for his bride. Tnn Frontik hopes that trouble nor sorrow will never cross their pathway. Platte County Times: Young lady—■ you that is gadding and flirting on the streets half the time—these lines are for you. Away back when you was a little red-faced, pug-nosed, homely little thing, your mother kissed and fondled you when no one else was tempted to; you were not so attractive then as you are now. Through all the years of childish sunshine and shadows, she has been the best friend you ever had, and her magic love and kisses have smoothed your pathway in this rough old world. Of course she is not so pretty and kissable for brainless fops, as you are now, but if you had only done your share of the work for the past ten years, your beauty would pale into insignificance by the side of her’s. Her face has more wrink les than your’s, but you have caused them, and the time will come when each one of them will be a bitter torture to your memory. She will leave you one of these days—all too soon for your peace on earth. Her burdens will break her down. The rough, hard hands that have slaved for you, wrlll^: be crossed upon her lifeless breast. Those neg lected lips that gave you your first baby kiss will be forever mute, and those sad, tired eyes will have opened in eternity, and then you will sob iu vain for the mother that you do not now appreciate. _ Legal blanks at this office. 4 Beernet Republican: “Mr. Thomas Probert, of Beemer. Nebraskp, and Miss Mary Dougherty, of Stafford, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony June IS. The bride is a Holt countv | teacher while the groom is a stockman of this place. The bride wore a beauti ful white figured silk and the groom a oonvenietly ligbt suit After the mar riage a delicious wedding dinner was served at the home of a friend of the groom. When the many congratula tions and numerous presents were re ceived the happy couple departed for - their home at Beemer, where they are held in the highest esteem, and were greeted by the band. The Republican wishes them a happy future. ” The bride almost grew womanhood in this county and has a host of friends who will be pleased to know of her connubial ven ture. Thu Frontier extends congratu lations. Ewing Adroc&te: Cornelioua Chase, known here abouts aa Tean, George But* ler Jr., Wilbur Horton and Oacar Llat, boarded tbe west bound train this morn ing enroute for O’Neill where they go to join company M. of tbe Third Nebraaka volunteer infantry. These boya are all well known and well liked in this- part of the county, and we expect they will with the rest of company M. make the Spaniards hard to catch. This company of Holt county boya will go to Omaha Tuesday and be mustered into the ser vice of the United States Wednesday, the boya will write us a letter once a month for publication to keep their *c quaintenances informed as -to their whereabouts. They expect that their regiment will go to the Phillipine islands. We wish them success in their new vocation and we hope they, will he with us again when their terms of enlist-, ment expires._ ; . ".>i. Plain Dealer: M. Campbell's family ; narrowly escaped destruction Sunday : night by lightning. The house was struch en the north-east corner and the electricity seemed to travel to every nook and corner of the house. Several windows were completely shattered. A large section of plastering in tbe dining room waa knocked off, also in the north west corner bedroom upstairs. The ex | posedpart of the chimney on the main building wan completely demolished. There were one ’ or Hwo holes in the waliB of the dlping room, large-enough to put in his two - fists.' Mr/ Campbell also thinks that Mrs. Campbell and his boy were slightly shocied as when he called |0 them they did not answer for -. some time. ‘Thedog- whichWkn sleep-, ing under the kitchen porch was kilted. There were no marks of lightning any where about the porch but; the dog was badly burned.;__ ~ Patrick Murray, aged 50 yearn of age died at hia home near Slocum last Mon- < day morning, of dropsy. Mr. Murray came here from Colfax county in the spring of ’07 and that year lived pn the farm of J. P. Mullen, near Emmet. Last spring he moved to the farm near Slocum where be resided up to the time of his death. Deceased was a native of Ireland but left his native land many years ago and served in the ranks dur ing the war of rebellion. He had always enjoyed good health until last fall whejw he was taken sick and since thnf'fftn* he had been ailing. About a month ago he went to Columbus' and entered the . the hospital there thinking to secure re- ^ lief, but after staying there ten days jf and finding that medical skill could do.7 nothing for him he returned home and *• kept gradually sinking until the end ’ came last Monday morning. Deceased leaves a wife and five children, three boys and two. girls all of whooi^were ^ present at the funeral. He was a mem-N her of the Jdodern Woodmen of America, in which >e carried $3,000 insurance and ^ -also of /the Ancient Order of United A Workmen in which he carried $3,000 in- , surance and the pall bearers were A; selected from these orders. Tplie funeral whs held from the Catholic 'church Tuesday morning and was largely at tended, the remains being interred in the Catholic cemetery. Tun Fkontibr tenders its condolence to the family of the deceased. *