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PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. SUBaORIPTION. SI.80 PER ANNUM. O. H. CRONIN EDITOR AND MANAGER.
VOLUME XX. O’NEILL. HOLT COUNTY. NEBRASKA, AUGUST 17, 1899. NUMBER 7.
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Judge Kinkaid is on the sick iist.
Ed Purdy was up from Swan Monday.
Buy your machine oil of Gilligan &
Stout. 6tf
John Brady was down from Atkinson
Tuesday.
J. J. King went down the road this
morning.
Nye Dobbs was down from Atkinson
Tuesday. __
We want to sell you machine oil Gil
ligun & Stout. 6tf
John Flannigan, of Stuart, was in
town Wednesday.
S. B. Morehead, of Albion, was in
the city Sunday.
Miss Helen Luce, of Erie, Pa., is vis
iting the family of E. R. Adams.
W. J. Dobbs was down from Atkin
son Sunday visiting old friends.
E. H. Benedict has flr9t-class Building
and Loan stock for sale or can make you
a loan. 46-tf
For teeth and photos, go to Dr. Cor
bett’s parlors 23rd to 30tb, cf each
month. 30tf
Mies Maggie Meilor and Miss Jacknon,
of Sioux City, are visiting Mrs. J. B.
Meilor, this week.
Be sure and attend B. A. DeYar
man's sale of buggies and horses Satur
day, September 2.
—
O. F. Biglin is in Omaha this week
taking an examination before the Ne
braska embalming board.
Miss Sadie Cain, of Blair, who has
been visiting her sisters here a couple of
weeks returned home last week.
Ladies wishing sewing done by the
day, please call on or address Miss Ser
sen, at Mrs. Dunbar’s residence. 6 2wp
John Hoffman and family came in
from Keya Paha county last week, and
are living in the Keys’ building.
Miss Martha Cress returned Tuesday
ifrom JlushyjHe, where she has been on
an extended visit to her grandparents.
Several of the sports put in consider
able time these days hunting “stubble
duck.” Hundreds of them have been
killed. _
Tom DeLong is ngain knight of the
punch and tickets on the Short Line
passenger, after a vacation of three j
weeks.
Mrs Jerry McCarthy returned Tues
day evening from Denver where she
had been visiting relatives the past
month.
Art Coykendall went to Valentine
Tuesday in response to a call for a
printer to assist on one of the papers at
that place.
A fine line of buggies and carriages,
fully warranted throughout. Call and
see them if you want a good bargain.
Neil Brennan.
_
Chadron Journal: Mrs. Albert Niles
left for O’Neill Saturday night, at which
place she will visit friends and relatives
for two weeks.
Mark Murphy, living northeast of
town, last week purchased the N. S.
Lowric farm adjoining him on the east.
Consideration $1,450.00.
Peter Donahue has been appointed
director of ihe Golden Irrigation dis
trict to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Johu Hopkins.
Coin Harvey will speak in Norfolk to
morrow if a circus or some other greater
drawing card doesn’t come along and
cause the committee to change the date.
C. E Hall is renovating the building
next to Keys’ feed store preparatory to
opening a first class restaurant therein.
He expects to begin feeding the hungry
people next week.
Mrs. J. E. Shore and children, who
have been visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. King, in this city the past six
weeks, left for her home at Leaven
worth, Wash., this morning.
Will Lowrie is home on a vacation.
About a month ago be graduated from
the state university and expects to
start for Princeton next month where
he will take a three years’ course.
A free and easy expectoration is pro
duced by a few doses of BALLARD'S
HOREHOUND SYRUP, in all cases of
hoarseness, sore throat, or difficulty in
breathing. Price 25 ard 50 cts. P. C.
Corrigan.
Our Emmet correspondent was in errc r
last week statins that Air. Pucket was
presented with a team by Mr. Wendel.
Mr. Pucket purchased and paid for them
himself and we regret that our corres
pondent had thetl.em as it appeared.
The pretty school teachers have pos
session of the town this week, and all
the men folk, young arid old, wear their
best smiles.
The Epworth League social at Mrs.
Blinco’s residence Monday evening,
August 21, at 8 p.m. Ice cream, cake
and coffee. All invited.
Dixon Tribune: Don Sullivan has re
signed his position at the Short Line
depot in Laurel and accepted a more lu
crative one in O’Neill.
BALLARD’S SNOW LINIMENT
gives instant relief in cases of bleeding,
burns, bruises, scalds, cuts, etc. Price
25 and 50 cts. P. C. Corrigan.
It pays to get your buggies where you
know goods are always as represented.
Neil Brennan’s guarantee is always good
and his line of goods the best. See him
before buying. 3tT
Miss Susie McManus returned from
Chicago last Saturday evening, where
she visited relatives for a month. The
two children of her brother, James, ac
companied her and will remain in
O'Neill this summer,
The Norfolk and Yankton rail road is
now looked upon as a sure thing, as the
contractors are getting ready for work,
and the right of way is being contracted
for at prices of $75 to $80 per acre.
IIEUBINE is well adapted to tbe cure
of fevers of all kinds, because it
thoroughly cleanses the stomach and
bowels of all bilious humors, and expels
all impure secretions of the body. P;ice
SOcts. P. C. Corrigan.
B. A. DeYarman has decided not to
rebuild his livery barn recently destroy
ed by fire and has accepted a position as
salesman for A. 8. Wendall of the
Sioux City stock yards. Bis head
quarters will be O'Neill.
Taken up on my farm, eight miles
northwest of O’Neill, on August 1 or 2,
1890, one sorrel mare, weight about
1100. Owner can have same by proving
property and paying expenses.
6 G D. JANZING.
The Lady Highlanders will give an
entertainment in the D. A. Doyle grove,
west of town, Wednesday, August
23 Supper will be served at 6 o’clock,
and a program of music and recitations
will follow. A bowery will be erected
and dancing will be one of the features
of the evening.
Rev. L. Channell, of Omaha, grand
chaplain of the I. O. O. F. Nebtaska
and general agent for the Odd Fellows
Aunuity Association, of Des Moines,
was in the city over Suuday. Be gave
an interesting lecture at the M. E.
church Sunday evening. Be left for
Schuyler Monday morning.
Olaf Wilson, who for the past eight
years has had charge of the Short Line
section at this place has been trans
ferred to Jackson and his family left for
that town this morning. Thomas
Moran who has had charge of the
Jackson section will come to O’Neill.
The Frontier regrets to see Mr. Wilson
and family leave O’Neill but wish them
good luck in their new home.
Tbe Ewing Advocate chimes out with
the following, which encourages us to
remark ‘ now yer a talkin’.” “O’Neill,
defeated Atkinson Wednesday on the
hub’s grounds to the tune of 16 to 4
Atkinson must certainly have went up
against the real thing. A shortage of
players is claimed by (Atkinson. We
agree with them. It takes ball tossers
to cope with the Irish aggregation. See?”
Atkinson Camp, No. 186, Woodmen
of the World, was organized last week
by Deputy Adams with 22 charter mem
bers. The following were elected
officers; Consul Commander, Lee W.
Henry; Adviser Lieut., E. E. Carter;
Banker, Fred Bitney; Clerk, M. B.
Walrath; Escort, Abe London; Watch
man; Henry Mathias; Sentinel, Ollie
Campbell; Managers, E. E. Carter, John
Mathias and Henry Werner.
Madison Star: One of the features of
the county fair will be an exhibit ot Fil
ipino curiosities. Secretary Iiynearson
is making an effort to secure for this
purpose all the Filipino souvenirs now
here, and all which the returning mem
bers of Company F may bring with
them. Ample space in the floral hall
will be given of this exhibit, and it will
be placed in charge of a man who is
familiar with everything on exhibition.
One hundred teachers have enrolled
at the Holt county institute this week,
and education is receiving an awakening
in our midst. The instructors neyer
have been better, and the methods of
Prof. Wbeelan, Prof. Woolary and Mijs
McNair are thoroughly scientific and
progressive. The teachers are eager for
all tlie helps that are offered, realizing
that the teacher’s profession is not at
tained without some effort and that
honorable distinction is not the result
of chance. Prof. Davidson’s lecture
Tuesday evening on the “Ideals in Edu
cation” was very much enjoyed. He is
a m in of broad culture and very popular
with our teachers. ***
Where the digestion is good, and the
general powers of the system in a healthy
state, worms can find no habitation in
the human body. WHITE’S CREAM
VERMIFUGE not only destroys every
worm, but corrects all derangements of
the digestive organs. Price 25 cts. P.
C. Corrigan.
No one knows the unbearable torture,
the peculiar and agonizing pain, caused
by files, unless they have suffered from
them. Many believe them incurable.
This is a mistake. Proper treatment
will cure them. TABLER’S BUCKEYE
PILE OINTMENT is an infallible cure.
Price 50 ots in bottles, tubes 75 els. P.
C. Corrigan.
Next week, Prof. 8. S. Hamil and
daughter, of Chicago, will be present
at the teachers' institute and give in
structions in elocution. It was from
him W. J. Bryan received his first and
only instruction in elocution and ora
tory. Do not forget his two readings
which will be hel d at the court house
the evenings of August 22 and 24.
Eweing Advocate: Martin Cronin of
O’Neill, who for the last quite a while
has been slinging type in this office and
incidently holding down left field in our
ball nine, severtd his connection with
same last Saturday evening and went
home for a vacation. Martin mado a
host of friends while here who were se
verely pained on learning of his depar
ture.
The Rev. W. B. Coetley, of Stock
bridge, Ga , while attending to his pas
toral duties at Ellenwood that state, was
attacked by cholera morbus. He says:
“By chance I happened to get hold of a
bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy, and I think it
was the means of saving my life. It re
lieved me at once.” For sale by P. C.
Corrigan. _
Valentine Republican: J. F. Pfunder’s
family came up from O’Neill last Fri
day morning and are now comfortably
located in the residence recentlv erected
by Miss McCloud in tbe northeast part
of the city. Mr. Pfunder is occupied in
<f. W. Williams’ harness shop and de
cided it would be of mutual advantage
to himself and family to have them here
with him. The Republican is always
glad to chronicle such accessions to tbe
town. _
Sioux City Tribune: Osmond, Neb.,
Aug. 15.—It now seems very probable
that Pierce county will soon add a new
town to her sisterhood of thriving young
cities. Theodore Morrow, of Audubon,
who has large land interests here, is the
man back of the plan to lay out a new
town near the Sioux City, O’Neill and
Western, and midway between Osmond
and Randolph. In spite of the great
remonstrance of Randolph business men
who declare they will desert the Short
Line and receive goods over the Omaha
line, the Sioux City, O’Neill and West
ern commenced work this week putting
in sidetracks and depot for the new
town. A surveying party is now laying
out the town, and it seems that a town
will be started despite all the protests
of surrounding towns.
Norfolk News: About eight weeks
ago a strange woman drove up to the
home of H. H. Luke, corner of First and
Main Btre°ts, with a little boy about four
years of agb There was no one at the
Lube home but the children, but the
woman evidently thought they could
attend to the matter as well as anyone
and said she was going to leave the boy
with them and would pay his board
every week. She instructed them not
to allow anyone to take him and not to
take him away from Norfolk, and then
went away, and when Mr. and Mrs.
Luke came home they found the new
boarder. They received no word from
the woman until a few days ago, when
she finally sent some money for his
board after repeated requests and threats
from the Luke family. The woman
claims to live in Holt county and left
that as her address. The boy says he
has brothers and sisters, and gives bis
name as Clarence. Part of the time he
gives his last name as Macy and other
times as Meyers. It is rather a strange
way to dispose of a child, to say the
least. The woman may be canvassing
or working for a living and unable to
care for the lad, in which case she is
probably doing the best she can by him.
But naturally other suspicions arise and
it has been intimated that she may have
no right to the child.
BASE BALL.
The O’Neill ball team went down to
Neligh last Friday to try conclusions
with the Neligh team. The entiifc
team were unable to go and some of
those who accompanied the boys wet©
put into play. The game was dull and
uninteresting throughout as the Ante
lope county boys were unable to stt p
anything, and could hardly hold the
ball if handed to the » At the eid of
nine innings the score stood as follows:
O'Neill G 3 6 0 5 0 0 1 13-33.
Neligh 2 1 1 0 0 5 0 0 0 —9.
THE POPS ASSEMBLE
In A Dull and Uninteresting Meet
ing and Nominate a Ticket.
ODD-TIME ENTHUSIASM ABSENT
Bat the Slate Woe There and Never Was In
Sanger of JEven a Crack.
The Holt county populist convention
was called to order at 11 a. m., last Sat
urday, by M. H. McCarty. The call for
convention was read by See. Engle
haupt, after which Wm. Hayes, of At
kinson, was elected temporary Ichair
man, and Lee Henry, temporary secre
tary. E. S. Eves was chosen assistant
secretary.
Tiie regular committees were appoint
ed and then Eves arose and moved tbe
appointment of a committee of live to
confer with the view of tusion. The
motion was carried, but did not seem
to suit all present, and Norval moved a
reconsideration. This was not in accord
with the slate, so McCarthy jumped up
and moved that the question be tabled.
The vote by ayes and nays was very
close; so close that to an .ordinary ear
lt was a tie, but Chairman Liayes has a
very keen ear—to the wishes of the ring
—and he decided the motion to table
was carried. However, that did not suit
Norval and he demanded a division of
the house. The ring’s organization was
well perfected, however, and the motion
was tabled. After a little further talk
the convention adjourned to meet at
2 p. m.
Convention was called to order
promptly at 2 o’clock.
The committee on organization re
ported in favor of making the tempo
rary organization permanent, thus scor
ing one point for the fusionists.
The committee on resolutions then re
ported by reading several pages of type
written matter, that sounded strangely
like one of Mike Harrington's impas
sioned addresses to a jury of vigilanters.
The reader was occasionally interrupted
by boisterous cheers and yells from a
doz^cHHerent persons scattered judi
ciously around the room. Here ex-judge
McCutcheon, who the leading pops a
year ago claimed was a republican, but
by some book or crook or magical per
formance secured a seat in the conven
tion, arose and announced that the silver
republicans were present and that one
Simmons, who represented them, desir
ed to say something. Simmons stood
up, and amidst a silence that was not
very impressive, mumbled a few words
which we understood meant about the
following: The silver republicans, Sim
mons and Ernest Adams, asked for
nothing, but “we” promise to support
any "good” bimetallic ticket that you
nominate. A couple of yelps greeted
the announcement, and the convention
again got down to business, when the
recent republican—so claimed by the
pop leaders—McCutcheon, announced
that tbe democratic conference commit
tee would shortly be ready to report.
H. It. Henry was then nominated Jfor
county treasurer by acclamation. He
was called for and made a few' remarks,
telling the convention how “good” he
had .been, and saying that whatever
measure of success he was entitled to for
conducting the office should in a meas
ure be tendered to his efficient help, and
to his predecessor in office who turned
oyer the office to him in good condition.
He wound up by stating that part of
his "pile” was ready to be put into the
campaign fund to assist in the election
of the ticket.
Chairman Hayes then called for nom
inations for the office of county clerk,
and Delegate Madden, of tiratton, "took
the floor” aud nominated John M. Stew
art. It was seconded with a whoop,
and he was nominated by acclamation
for the office of county clerk, while
broad grins overspread the counte
nances of the spectators and numerous
delegates at the the error. But in ac
cepting the nomination Stewart accept
ed the nomination for sheriff, although
nominated for county clerk, through
error, and everything was again serene.
John Leis was nominated for county
cleik by acclamation and accepted the
nomination in a few words that neither
enthused or excited the delegates to any
perceptible degree. Leis was eyidently
afraid the "gang” was "agin” him, for
he informed the convention that if they
regretted their action or were not satis
fied with his conduct of the office, they
had better nominate some other candi
date. It was like a dose of cold water
to the convention—a surprise—the del
egates sank a little lower in their seats
and said nothing.
The next on the program was the
nomination of a candidate for county
judge, and for this position Judge Selah
was renominated by acclamation. He
was called upon for a two minute talk
anil stretched it Into ten. Ilia mutter
ings consisted in a bitter denunciation
of the parly, under whoso administra
tion he had one of the fattest govern
ment positions for four years. Although
since listening to his harangue we have
wondered how he could have thought
so little of himself as to belong to that
party which he accused of almost all
the crimes in the calendar of sin. But
perhaps it was the itch for office.
Chairman liayes then announced that
the next thing on the slate was the nom
ination of a clerk of the district court.
At this point Eves again bobbed up, and
staled that the conference committee
had not yet reported and that a wait
would be advisable—in order to ascer
tain the wishes of their friends, the
democrats. McQreevy then moved a
recess of thirty minutes, to give the
“push” time to inquire into the cause of
the unexpected delay in the proceed
ings, which had heretofore gone oO so
smoothly. The motion was put, and all
the faithful voted “aye,” amounting to
fifteen or twenty “ayes.” The “nays”
were then called for, merely as a matter
of form, when a perfect storm of “no's”
burst forth all over the room. The
chairman, puzzled for a moment, paus
ed, uncertain what to do, when Mc
Cutchcon came to his rescue by remark
ing, “they don’t mean it, for those same
fellows voted yes;” and the meeting was'
forthwith declared adjourned for half
an hour.
At the end of half an hour the con
vention was called to order, and the
conference committee not being ready
to report, a motion was made and carri
ed that the convention proceed to the
nomination of coroner and surveyor.
Wm. Lell, who can not tell a compass
from a grappling book, was nominated
for surveyor, and created a laugh by
stating he would conduct the office in
the interests of the tax payers.
The names of O. F, Biglin and Dr.
Berry were presented for ^the position
of coroner, but, knowing Berry’s pugi
listic propensities, and fearing that he
would make too many subjects to sit
on, Mike McCarthy withdrew his name,
and Biglin was nominated.
The committee appointed to confer
with the democrats as to the best meth
ods to fuse, then reported through J. P.
Mullen. The committee reported that
the democratic convention offered three
names to the populist convention for
the nomination for clerk of the district
court, namely; Q. W. Bmith, James
Morgan and John A. Harmon. The
spokesman further said that the name
of the man whom the populists thought
would have been presented, John Kay,
of Ewimr, was not mentioned, and the
committee would make no recommenda
tions but allow the convention to de
cide the matter themselves. It was then
moved and seconded t lat one place on
the ticket be given to the democrats.
About eight delegates voted in favor of
the motion, and, fudging from the noise
of the same number against. The mo
tion was declared carried, and the as
pirations of numerous candidates were
knocked in the head. The convention
then took an informal ballot for clerk
of the district court, which resulted as
follows:
Kay. 69
Robertson. 19
Englehaupt.13
Harmon. 3
Morgan. 4
Norvall. 1
Wheeler. 1
The informal ballot was upon motion
make formal and John Kay was declar
ed the nominee of the convention. The
democrats who were present hoping the
nomination might look for one of them,
left the convention in disgust, saying
they could not be forced to support a
pop even if he did sail under the name
of a democrat.
John Morrow was then nominated for
county superintendent by acclamation.
Mr. Morrow took the floor and stated
that on account of personal reasons he
was unable to accept the nomination.
The previous motion was then reconsid
ered and an informal ballot taken for
county superintendent, which resulted
as follows:
Norvall. 45
Lowrie. 24
Kelly. 16
Coppoc. 16
Hoffman. 3
Wheeler. 3
Whalen.;..v.r..... 2
Morrow. 1
The convention then proceeded to a
formal ballot which landed Mr. Norvall
under the wire, winner by the following
vote:
Norvall. 62
Lowrie.. • • • 27
Kelly. 18
Hoffman. 3
Whalen. 1
Ur. Norvall having received a major
ity of all votes cast was declared the
nominee much to the disgust and aha
grin of some of the populiata from hia
own locality.
The next order of buaineaa waa the
election of delegatea to the judicial con
vention, and here this great reform
party followed in the footatepa of the
two old partiea the democrata and re
publicans, and upon motion allowed J.
J. Harrington to select hia own delegate
to the judicial convention. He accepted
the honor in a short speech during which,
according to some of hia populist audi
tors, he stepped upon himself a few
times. About the only thing he could
talk about waa McKinley and Mark
Hanna. He severely censured the war
in the Pbilipines, although the great
Nebraska apostle of populism, W. V.
Allen, claimed several months ago that
his voice waa the first raised in favor of
the war with Spain, of which the Phili
pine war was the sequence. When Mr*
Harrington said "Place McKinly and
Mark Hanna upon the firing line and
the war will end shortly” some of the
convention cheered, while others hung
their heads with shame as the full mean
ing of his words burst upon them. Such
language might be all right for a "cheap
skate” pop campaigner but for a man
who aspires to a seat upon the district
bench, whose duty it will be to try cases
in which (expansionists and anti-expan
sionists are litigants, it grated upon del
icate ear drums as vulgar and cold
blooded. If his remarks were the key
note to bis campaign the republicans
will have little to fear in the Fifteenth
district.
M. H. McCarthy was elected chairman
of the county commitey after which the
convention adjourned.
STRAIGHT DEMOCRACY.
The unadulterated bourbous of Holt
county held their convention in Frank
Campbell’s office last Saturday after
noon. The convention was fairly well
attended and much interest manifested.
Some of those present wanted to recom
mend John Kay, of Ewing, to the pop
ulist county convention for nomination
as clerk of the district court, but after
several hours wrangling and “chewing"
the gentleman from Ewing was turned
under and the convention recommended
the names of Q. W. Smith, of O'Neill;
James Morgan, of Atkinson, and John a|
Harmon, of O'Neill, any of whom they
stated would be satisfactory. But al
though the pops decided to give the
place to a democrat they also reserved
the right to select that democrat (T) and
they turned down the men who were
the choice of the democratic conven
tion and nominated Kay whom the
democrats claim is a pop.
After the pops had tossed the demo
crats in the air and made a few passes
at their mangled remains the boys left
the court house hot and again reas
sembled and nominated a straight
democratic ticket as rollows:
Treasurer, Levi Van Valkenburg, of
Inman.
Sheriff, J. D. Jones, of Swan.
County Clerk, Wheeler, of Chambers.
Clerk of District Court, G. W. Smith,
of O’Neill.
Superintendent, J. N. Morgan, of At
kinson.
County Judge, Vaughn, ■ —- ■.
Coroner, P. J, Flynn, of O’Neill.
Surveyor, P. H. Parker, of Dorsey.
Frank Campbell was then elected
chairman of the county central commit
tee and Mr. Wheeler secretary. The
delegates said they were going to make
a hot fight and show the pops that It
was necessary to secure democratic
votes in order to win. Their ticket is
composed of good representative men
and should make a good showing at the
polls this fall.
PITCHER'S
CASTORIA
TEE KIND TOU HAVE ALWAYS BOUGHT
We have but a feu) pairs of
Ladies' 98c Shoes left; but have
added one hundred pairs of Misses'
in heavy and light weights to close
at the ridiculous price of 98c. They
will make excellent school shoes at
the lowest price you have ever
bought shoes worth $1.50, $1.75,
$2.00 and $2.50.
J.P.MANN