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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1898)
r t VOLUME XIX. O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, JULY 28. 1898. ^ -NUMBER 4. Items of Interest Told As They Are Told to Us. WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED Loca Hagyronga Portrayed Per General Edification and Amusement. ) Price Jamison was over from Butte Monday. _ G. W. Dorothy was from Spencer Saturday. ________ ’ , Nets Tuller was down from Atkinson yesterday. __ ‘ ■ O. M. Collins was down from Atkin son 8unday. Bail ties and wire alw ays on hand a Neil Brennan’s. 16-tf William Bokhoff, was down from At kinson Monday. Newt Mullendore took in the sights at Ewing Sunday. Rev. M. F. Cassidy went down to Omaha Monday. James Gallagher took in the sights at Ewing Sunday. Ed Loucks was up from Inman the last of the week. J. J. King went down * to Sioux City Tuesday mbrning. Dick Johnson was down from Stuart the last of the week. Art Mullen .visited his friends and parents at Page Sunday. Dr. Blackburn, of Atkinson, had bus iness in O’Neill Saturday. George Raker, of the Ewing Advocate, ' was in the city yesterday. C. W. Hamilton and son, Roy, were down the last of the week. Patsy Gallagher took in the Chau ’ ” tauqua at Long Pine Sunday, i Mrs. Sanford Parker was over from Spencer the first of the week. Miss Helen O’Sullivan was over from ftpencer visiting relatives Sunday. ' John Harmon transacted business at Hartington, Cedar county, last week. Miss Grace Mosley, of Fremont, is in . the city visiting Miss Sadie Skirving. Rev. S. F. Sharpless conducted Pres by terian services in this city last Sunday. W. R. Scott, of Atkinson, was attend ing to business at the capitol Saturday. John McHugh transacted business in . Sioux City, Iowa, and Yankton, S. D., last week. _■ Hon. A1 Tingle, one of the leading legal lights of Butte, was in O’Neill last week. __ Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kerber, of Norfolk, are visiting with Mrs. Testman of this city this week. s Miss Bee O'Donnell went up the road /Saturday night to- visit',at the chau vtgpqua g,few. days. <-:/*• rjugf5' >Judge Kinkaid left: f0£ Chicago last ^ Sunday where he will visit with his ;7"“'slster for a few days. ■>>4 . - For ieetlf'o? photos go to Dr. Cor bett’s parlors, 23rd to 80th of each month. Photographs.gl per dozen. ;|y; 7; FOR SALE—Span_of four-year old " mules. Call at my place two miles east1 ij -if!:o£ O’Neill. Pkm Toohill. ' ■ Full blooded,registered Hereford bulls cows and heifers for sale by W. C. Fawkes, 4 miles north of O’Neill. 44-tf Miss Annie Brennan, of South Omaha, “ who had been visiting relatives here for about ten days returned home last week. -u., Mrs. Emma Walker left Monday morn ing for Omaha where she will visit her mother, Mrs. Nicholas, for a few weeks. A. Wandering Willie who has been play ing the guitar for the amusement of the t boys, was the only excitement this week. The rain that we had Monday night was needed, as the ground was dry and t>! the corn In some localities had began to curl. --- iji C. A. Boies and Maude Shobe, both of V .Stafford, were granted a marriage ; a marriage license by Ju^lge 8elah last ( week. ,... , • •' i<ii, J. Pierson, of Randolph, was in the , city last week selling a patent right and \ incidently purchasing a few head of ,,,, cattle. _ >• Bentley’s is the place to go for fresh fruits and fresh groceries and for -f crockery and glassware. They cannot • be beat. 1 ' Bob Moore, of La Fayette, Indiana, says that for constipation he has found DeWitt’s- Little Early Risers to be per fect. They never gripe. Try them for .!>'? ftptnach and liver troubles.—I. P. Gil ligan. . ^2* i t «e -.f * • Frank - Smolik, of Ainsworth, 'kbd Miss Mary Woodrouk; of. Atkinson, were granted a marriage license by the county judge last Thursday. James O’Donnell went up to Atkinson Tuesday night to take charge pf the bank there while the cashier, O. M. Collins, goes to Omaha to take in the exposition. _ We hear that Dr. O’Neill has pur chased the drug store at Spencer which was formerly owned by C. C. Leonard and expects to make a first-class drug store out of it. James Davidson and a choice crew of fire or aix went out in the south country Saturday night and caught about one hundred and twenty-five pounds of pickerel and bass. Mrs. Beener, sister of Mrs. V. Alberts, and son Oeorge, who bad been visiting in the city the past three weeks, returned to their home in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin Tuesday morning. - < We understand that George Glavis, formerly clerk in the United States land office in this city has received an ap pointment as clerk in the postofflee at Washington, D. C. T. H. Doran and daughter, C. J. Bragg, John Kail and William Stevens, of Burwell, Neb., were in the city last week on business before the United States land office. Mrs. J. J. King and daughter/'May, left Tuesday morning for Leavenworth, Washington, where they will visit Mrs. King’s daughter, Mis. J. E. Shore, for | a couple of months. South Sioux City Argus: Misses Bessie and Myrtle Deyarnam, of O’Neill, came in on the Short Line Wednesday evening for a visjt/jwjth their friend Miss Goldie Middleton. >■ - —— Chicago Inter-Ocean: Every time General :Shafter found it necessary to change General Toral’s mind, he sig naled Admiral Sampson and the latter 1 passed a shell into town A torpid liver robs you of ambition , and ruins your health. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers cleanse the liver, cure con stipation and all stomach and liver troubles.—J. P. Cilligan Co. Thousands of persons have been cured of piles by using DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It heals promptly and cures ec zema and all Bkin diseases, | It gives mmediate relief.—J. P. Gilligan. 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. MaroaNews: “With Dewey safe on third," says the Washington Post, “Sampson at the bat and Schley on deck and nobody out, it is no wonder that the Spanish pitcher shows that tired feel ing.” ’ _ Mrs. Joseph Naylor, of Boston, Mass., arrived in O’Neill last Thursday night and will spend the summer in this city visiting her sisters, Mrs. John Hoff, Mrs. Laura Cress and Mrs. Grant Hat field. Norfolk News: Miss Mary Horiskey is visiting tbe family of her uncle, Jas. Horiskey. She is on her way to O’Neill from northwestern Iowa, where she has been teaching school the past three years. _■ Harvesting is now in fall blast and the grain requires more pounds of twine to the acre than ever before and the farmers are happy. Holt county will be able to furnish enough wheat to Bupply the state. __ 1 ■ ~ •' Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McDonald, of Laurel, are in the city visiting relatives. . Mr. McDonald was formerly a resident of this county and be says he never seen crops look better in old Holt than they do today, _ Win your battles against disease by acting promptly. One Minute Coilgh Cure produces immediate results. When taken early it prevents consumption. And in later stages it furnishes prompt relief.—J. P. Gilligan. Prof. E. C. Hendershot, formerly leader of the O’Neill band, has decided to locate in Albion, so says the News of that city. Mr. Hendershot gave good satisfaction to the band boys here who regret that they were unable to retain him. _ ; While in Omaha last week we met J. W. Thomas who was cashier of the State bank of O’Neill m 1891. Mr. Thomas is now cashier of the Union National bank, of Omaha, and looks as healthy and good-natured as when a resident of O’Neill. Harrison Press: Attorney M. F. Har rington, of O’Neill, one of the most prominent lawyers in the state, was here Wednesday on legal business. We understand he has taken hold of the cases in which Cap’t Fisher was counsel, among them the Gilmore murder case. E. C. Blanks, of Lewisville, Texas, writes that one box of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve was worth $50 to him. It cured his piles of ten years standing. He advises others to try it. It also cures eczema, skin diseases and obstinate sores.—J. P. Gilligan. i Charles Turner, of Sioux City, la., arrived in the city last Saturday even ing and spent Sunday visiting his wife at the home of her parents, Mr, and Mrs. I. R. Smith, south of this city. Mr. Turner is an employee of Davidson Bros., and returned to the city Monday Jas. Coibett and Kid McCoy will get together August 27, 1808, and battle tor a $20,000 purse to decide which is the greatest thumper of the two. We are of the opinion that they would be of greater service if they would go to Cuba and try their powers upon the Spaniards. Ex: A negro blacksmith at Kirksville, Missouri, announced a change in his business as follows: '*Notis-~De' co partnership heretofore resisting between me and Mose Skinner is hereby resolved. Dem what owes the de firm will settle wid me, and dem what the de firm owes will settle wid Mose.” Niobrara Tribune: Miss Alta Welton left Wednesday evening for Verdigre where she took the train to PlainvieW to attend the reunion and from there left for O’Neill where she spent several davs visiting with friends and relatives,, re turning to our city on Wednesday afternoon. . _; William Davidson was In from Dorsey Tuesday and while in town made this office a .pleasant call. Mr. - Davidson in formed us «that he and his family will leave in about two weekes for England where they will spend the winter visiting relatives, Theyrexpect to return, to Holt county next spring. Nebraska Eagle: When’ a merchant decides to go into advertising he should regard it as a campaign to be carried on with the strategy and persevance of a military movement. It may be along march but there are many interesting incidents on the way, and the objective point is certainly worth all the trouble. . An exchange which can see new beauties in the internal revenue stamp at each examination, gets off the follow ing: “What does this I. R. in red on the war revenue stamps mean?” asked the Anxious Inquirer, “The battle cry is ‘Remember the Maine,’ ” said the Som bre-Eyed man, “and the I. R. means ‘I, Remember.’ ” Frauk Ellis returned from Omaha Monday evening where he had been with four cars of cattle and stopped off in this city to complete-a deal for 160 acres of land adjoining his ranch north of Atkinson. He paid 8500 for the tract and considers it a rare bargain com pared with the present price of real estate in this county. O. C. Bates was down from Atkinson last week in attendance at the demo cratic pow wow. Democrats were so scarce that the -Colonel spent the great est part of the time seeking a microscope in order to look for the O’Neill dem ocrats. Before evening he found a couple, they held their convention and the Colonel returned home happy and contented. • ... A party of O’Neill sportsmen went Out south the other evening to enjoy a few hours sport among the "stubble duck” and kindred game. - While crossing a field a few miles south of town the owner got after them and after threaten ing them with all manners of dire calam ities finally succeeded in getting them to start for home. > The "boys” say they do not propose .to go: into that section egain for some time. According to the Nashville, Tenn.. papers the members of the Third regi ment Nebraska Volunteer infantry were wined and dined by the citizens of that city iVhile on their way to Jacksonville, Florida. After feeding the boys the pretty southern lassies pinned a bouquet of roses upon the coat of each soldier and report says that many of the boys expressed the wish that they might be allowed to remain in Nashville, but the fortunes of war would not allow it and they left with longing, pleasent memories and eouveniers of the beautiful southern city and Its people. Niobrara Pioneer: Hugh Augus, of Ewing sold a hog to Vanzandt Bros the other day with a record that actually made Hugh blush giving it. He pur chased the hog some three years ago, paying $4.00 for it, and since that time it has devoured $10.50 worth of chickens, $60 worth of turkeys and at the present prices at least least $10 worth of corn. It was buried in a snowdrift for five days and after that was knocked in the head four times with an ax, all of which was to no avail, and hence be was compelled to sell the beast. It weighed ninety seven pounds and brought $1.50. ‘ ♦ ‘' ’ f Servant Coykendall Tells of Their trip to the Sooth. ' BOYS ALL IN GOOD HEALTH. Many Humors as to tho Disposition of the “ Third Beglment. Panama Pawn, Jacksonville, Fla., ,ti ~... ‘ , IJuly .84,1898. Editor Fbontikr: Here we are at last, in Camp Cuba Libre, Pan am a Park, Florida, seven miles from Jacksonville, and seventeen miles frbm the sea. We are right on tbe bank of the St. Johns riyet and the boy* have elegant baths in •alt water. ,1<Uk We left Fort Omaha Monday' after noon about 2 o'clock, but did not get away from Omaha until about 8 in tbe evening. We were sent, over three dif ferent routes, the {.first battalion going Over the North-Western, the second over the Missouri Pacific, and the third over the Rock Island. We are in the third battallion and went over tne Rock Is land. All along the line crowds met us at the depots and presented us with flowers, fruit and pleasent looks—mostly pleasant looks. The boys also collected souveniers from the ladies, usually bits ot / ribbon and hat pins, but "every old, thing” went. Some of the more successful ones had their haversacks nearly full when we reached here. The ladies were just as crasty to get souveiiiers from the boys, and all wanted buttons, but would, compromise on taffy or a pleasant look if they couldn’t do better. Not many buttons were given away as it means five days in the guard house for every button gone, ‘ ; 1 ' We crossed the Mississippi rlvor, at Davenport, at about 9:30 Tuesday morn lug. 1 ' Crops through western and central Iowa are fine, but in eastern Iowa and Western Illnois they are poor, not nearly as good as they are in Holt county. In southern Illnois thiey get pretty good, but are not as good as Nebraska crops are, and the general appearance of the country indicates that times are not as good as they are in Nebraska. At La Salle, Illnois we were trans ferred to tbe Illnois Central and went to Cairo, which place we reached at about 6 o’clock Wednesday morning. We did not pass through the city, but crossed the Ohio river about one mile from the city. I was surprised to find that the t-iver at that place is not as large as the Missouri at Omaha. ‘ From Cairo we went over the Illnois Central to Martin, Tenn., where we were tfansferred to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, which road took us to Atlanta, Georgia. At Nashville, Tenn„ we were given a royal reception. As we pulled into the depdt we were met by the mayor, a large delegation of prominent citizens and a band and escorted to a large building where a supper was awaiting us. After supper each man was pre sented with a box of lunch, a bouquet and a fan, and sent on his way rejoicing. The Nashville people have a very warm place in their hearts for the Nebraska boys, on account of the kind treatment accorded the Tennesee regiment when it passed through our state, and also on account of the respect in which they hold Col. Brynn. We passed Chattanooga at daybreak Thursday morning. Lookout mountain loomed up in the distance, but too far away to give us much of a view. We passed s five miles from the park where our troops are camped and I don't believe there was a man in the regiment who breathed freely until we were fairly passed, for fear we would be switched off there. We made slow progress from Chattanooga, on account of the reunion of old soldiers which was being held at the latter place. Here we saw the rebel flag and uniform in' pro fusion and found that the old rebs haven’t any too much love for the boys in blue, even in this war, at least they were not at all cordial in their greetings We lay in Atlanta over two hours, but not a single old soldier visited us. We reached Macon at about four in< the afternoon and were held there until nearly nine owing to an accident. A switch engine ,going at full speed ran into us as we were backing up; the result was that a caboose on the rear of our train waS smashed into kindling wood, and the officers Bleeper Was badly wrecked. Fortunately no one was hurt, but it was a narrow escape. We reached Jacksonville at about 10 o’clock Friday morning and were brought out here to camp. There are only three regiments in camp here—a Mississippi regiment, .Torrey’s rough riders and ours. There arc nine more regiments in Jacksonville and Qen. Lee lias his headquarters there. " ‘ Panama Park greatly resembles the sand bills of Holt county, flattened out I and thinuly studded with small tree*. Before we nrrived here we beard that it rained every day and was very muddy, but although it clouds up and thunders •very afternoon; it basn‘t rained yet, and as for mud—well, it could ram here for a week, and dry up in a hour. The thermometer stood at 108 degrees in tbc shade this afternoon ’and not a breath of air. It reminds me of the dry summer of lour years ago. However, the boys all stand the Jieat pretty, well, better than was expected. • ( The south ia all right for those tha Jike.lt, as far myself,I do not like it all. The, fruit is all right, but a man needs about as much money to get It as it does in the north, amr^ eymthing else is on about the same seaW- Tbe | work ia all done by “nfggabs,!.' ■ as they call, them, and they are a shiftless set; so are the whites. I haven’t Been- a dozen white men at work since, yve Jeff, northern Tennesee. 1 can’t nndentaj^ bow they 11 vevnit strikes me that the cotton crop,is going to be a poor one 1 this year, it may come on later, but ' now most of it is short and thin,. *; v The work is done in a very , immature manner, a single shovel plow-'and one mule being the usual outfit seen in the fields, and the harness consists mostly of1 rope. Niggar women go out in the fields with the men and do their share of the work with the hoe. I haven’t had much chance to enquire Into the daily life of the people here, but will do so at the first opportunity and describe it in my next letter. We know nothing of our future move meats, although the camp is a regular hot*bed for rumors, and they take us from here to Manilla, Havana and Pqrto Rico at least a dozen times a day. When Dame Rumor is not chasing us around over the country, she is going to “pay us off tomorrow.” but "tomorrow” never comes, and noitIVer does the pay master. There isn't over twenty cents in the compuny and water ' melons galore at five cents each. Sherman said “war la bell,” and I guess he knew. A., ,, .AnTUUR COYKKNDALL, First Sergeant, Co. M, Third Neb. Vol. GOING TO>6ETOBICO. World-Herald Special, July 26.—Gen eral Fitzhugh Lee’s entire army corps haa been ordered to Porto Rico. The Third Nebraska, Colonel Bryan’s regiment is a part of Lee’s corps and, if the foregoing is carried out it means that Nebraska’s latest volunteers will see ,the service at the front that they have wished in short order. Tom DeLong,Ben Smith, Ed Wooden James Davidson, J. McLaughlin, Jack Yielaod and John McCafferty jr., went down to the lakes about ten miles east of town last Saturday night on a fishing excursion. The boys camped at the lakes and were fishing at daybreak. They caught about 100 pounds of fish, pickerel and bass, but to Tom Delong fell the honor of capturing the biggest fish, a pickerel weighing five pounds. It broke the pole and as Tom was prepar ing to jump In after it he received assistance and after some work finally succeeded in landing his catch, and it was a beauty. Tom feels so good over it that be can now spin better fishing yarns than any man in town. NOTICE. - A meoting of the republicans of Emmet township will bsbeltj at Emmett school-house on Saturday, July 80, for the purpose of electing delegates to at tend the county contention and transact such, other' business as may come up, j; ■- J-Mabino, Ch’m. i < NoVlOE. To the republic^, voters of the Third ward of O’Neill, fylfc,, There will be a meeting at the office of Emil Sniggs In said ward at 7 o’clock pi. m . on July DO, 1898, for the- purpose- of ’'electing four delegates,to the county: convention on August,®, 189$ «n,ip*a i..ut •v i . - r-.;<nHKhBDmt, . Committeeman. T.ke.9^le?.^'}r6.cM ot Alllesburg, Pa., El.ltle Early JUeera are the best pills he.ever used ln’ WfHmily dur ing forty years of hoi|8ehee4>ing. They cure constipation, shk headacho and .stomach and liver troubles. Small In *sft»W'gfau i» resolta.-*J. P. Gilligan. A man iu Virginia, rode forty miles, to Fairfax station, for the express pur pose of getting.. Chain plain’s Cough * Remedy, ah^ took home with him, a t dozen bottles of (be 'medicine. The * druggist who relates the incident, adds. "Your remedy seem*.,to..be a general .fay*?rUf Wl»^s»ver jknMift&viM effects are indeed wonderful iu all lung and thrbat troubles. Procure a bottle at P. C. Corrigan's drug store.1”'" The body of'Bill ^futham, of Bone steel, 8: D., was fbtrba A'week ago last Sunday in «n old wellhbout three miles northwest of Butte, NefehWhen found the body . was < bloated, disfigured and decomposed and it ia supposed that he had been dead for some' dgys. A bullet hole through hlttfbdy gave evidence of .the manner in . whieh-ihe ’had quitted life. The Butte Gaaettu*. says he was recognised as a ",bad mag and that hia taking off waa the, natural end of a man whti goes through life with a chip on bis shoulder and his hip pbekets full of pistolst" :-ui .The Democrat at iCbbrbkee, Iowa, says when the nurse got ready to wash the new baby.bqrn to a Cherokee couple on Friday, she found a two cent revenue stamp pasted on that part of the baby’s anatomy to be uVed to sit dbtVta on when the youngster gets old enoagh to whittle ■dry gooda boxes. It atfirtt* btartled the nurse, but the jocular doctor soon put In an appearance and explained,the matter. He said he pnderstood that Everything Issued on and after July 1, was required to have a stamp affixed, so he had taken a few stamps along with hith to prevent any mistakes being'made. Hon. C. B. Bush, president of the Gilmer county (W. Va.) Court, aaye that he has had three cases of flux in his family, during the past summer, which he cured in less than a week with Chamberlain's Colie. Cholera and Diarr hoea Remedy. Mr.'Bush "also states, that in some instances there were twenty hemorrages a day.—Glen villa W. Va. Pathfinder. This remedy has been used in nine epidemics of Buz and one of cholera, with 'perfect success. It can Always be depended ■> upon > for bowel! complaint, even,. la>.,Rs most severe forms. Every family should keep it at hand. YheSS and 50 cent bottles for ,S4\e by J?, C. Corrigan, druggist. A GOOD TIM E .. i-.titill vns.H'iV V To buy summer goods. It is jnst the time to wear them and jjrou get the benefit of oar anxiety to close them out, many of ttem below cost. Summer Dress uoods. *. { Fine Ginghams for waists that we sold at 50 cents now 38 cents. Thirty cent organdies and all other cotton goods reduced to 19 cents. Twenty-five cent lawns and eterni ties now 17 cents. .,,, „. • All 20 cent summes , dress goods only 17 cents. All 15-cent summer dress goods il cents. Ul. .... , ^ All 12$- qent summer dress goods 9 cents. . t.M‘ All 10-cent summer dress goods 7 cents. , ,; ...... • ,a v . • ... Organdie lining worth 9o now Gc. All ous soft front shirt waists 25 per cent discount. * ' „ All parasols‘ and fine umbrellas 20 per cent.'discount.. All our late styles sapes and jack ets 33?j per cent, discount. We have 25 old style jackets worth from $5.00 to $10.00 that you oan buy for $1.50 each. Assorted lob ladies’ vests worth JO to 65 cents each to be closed at 25 cents each. Ladies Oxford ties ^ lathst styles: ■ Worth $3.7 5 now $2.48.'liv Worth $3.00 fid* $8.25: ■••• Worth $2.50 noW’$L05,. lU! Worth' $1.50 now $1.18*' Big line of old style pxfords worth from $1.50 to' $3.00 to close ,,t . ...1 ••• * I ii, *• at 98 cents. • t * *. .. - . ‘ V It; u . ^ ;.0 ' Good line \of childs' and misses tan button shoes to dose at 50 per cent, discount, best value'. in the house at the price. - ; : We are closing a line of'jnisses heavy button shoes/best >;qhiality, at 33 1 per cent discount, * * . . , » . 4* Mil > A-.i 1 For the Men: Twenty-five per ' cent discount. The remainder of our stock pf light weight summer clothing, ii Thirty-three and one>ihird per cent discount on all our men's and and boy’s straw-hats. * ^ 't;" i V( J. P MANN.