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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1899)
The OldJRellable Dealerjfor HARDWARE *np farm machinery In the Retail Battle for Life we always lead, be cause we sell Good Goods at prices that defy compe tition. The Majestic Range leads them all and is a household necessity. The Anti-Rust T inware is another standby, and one the people all admire. For Barb Wire we take a back seat for no one, because we always did and always will handle the best goods and at prices none can excel. When you are ready to start your Fall plowing come and get one of the John Deere new improved riding plows and the rest will be easy. Genuine Moline and Birdsell wagons, the best on the market. NEIL BRENNAN. SaHi UNION MEAT MARKET, CHOICE LINE OF FRESH AND SALT MEATS. GAME IN B SEASON" FRED C. GATZ, PROP. H X Purohai* Tickets and Consign you Freight via the I-'. Ii.& M.V.andS. C.& P RAILROADS. TRAINS DEPART: GOING HART. Passenger east. No. 4. Freight east. No. 24, Freight east, No. 28, GOING WKBT 9.57 a m 12 :01 P. M 2:35 P. M. Passenger west. No. 3, 9:40 p. m Freiglit west. No. 27, 9:15 P. m Freight. No, 23 Local 4:10 r. m. The Klkhorn Line ie now running Reclining Chair Cars dally, between Omaha and Dead - wood, jree to holders of Brst-class transpor tatlon. Per anv Information call on Ea R ADAMS, Aot. O’NEILL. NEB Palace Meat Market. E. P. HICKS, Prop. Fresh and salt meats always on hand. Oys ters and vegetables in season.... TOP PRICE PAID FOR HIDES. _ _SECRET Yet eve ry&ody * does notcAo. know That the New Home Sewing Machine Company of Orange, Mass., TLelr No. 18 New Home Drop Head la Selling like Hot Cakea. SEE IT BEFORE YOU BUY ANY OTHER! makes and sells more machines every day than nearly all the other compa nies combined. It is the most handsome machine you ever saw. It is entirely automatic—cannot get out of order. Double feed with SCIENTIFIC TREADLE MOTION that does not make your bark ache. No other kind Just as good. Steel bearings. Will last a life-time. It runs easier and costs no more than a common everyday machine. VO other kinds from (18.00 up. We discount all Big Bar gain prices. Why not buy where you can get the most for your money! * Every Machine fully guaranteed. Needles, Oil and Repairs for any machine. Send for ppecial list, or call on our agent. SHI NEW HOKE SEWUT9 MACHIHS CO.. St. Louli. Ho. O FBI GUN, WE WANT MSS Stock. Best Wages. Pay Weekly. THE JEWELL NURSERY CO., Lake City, Mlai. Detireen Arts. Little 5-year-old Willie had hern t the theater and upon his retur ’u j mother asked him how he like■’ i play. "Oh,” he replied, “the pis; i all right, but I didn’t get to se- i all of it.” Why, how did tha pen?” asked his mother. "Be answered Willie, “the roller mu i h been broke for the window bi nd rd down two or three times.” Delivered llie ... The statement that ltudyard Kir ling had received a shilling a w • for a story in an English mag a 1 induced a wag to .write him and :> close a shilling postal order. "Her. a that wisdom was being retailed a shilling a word,” writes the Joker. Inclose a shilling for a sample.” Kit ling kept the order and sent back th word “Thanks.” STAFFORD SAYINGS. Ole Anderson is working at Bergstrom’s. Tom McGrane now sees with a glass eye. John Carr went to Omaha Fri day with some cattle. Horton brothers are plastering their house as they do not intend to freeze this winter. Melvin Hagerman and Tom Barret will take in the Exposition this week. Dan McGrane attended a meet ing of the Highlanders at Page Saturday eveving. Nels Bergstrom and family spent Sunday at Inman, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fowler. Mr. Patterson, of Omaha, was buying hay here Saturday. C. F. Smith and wife returned from the exposition Saturday. Jack McGrane came up Satur day and spent Sunday at home. Miss Mainwaring will give a lecture on Temperance Friday evening at the school house. We have no saloons at Stafford, how ever the lecture will do no harm. Mr. Posson has just completed a large cattle shed for T. Brown. Mr. Brown has one of the best equipped farms in this locality. Miss Edith Larson has a new buggy and now drives to and from her school. INMAN Aarry Van Valkenburg will return to Omaha soon. When Gen. Hancock led only 5,000 men at “Mary’s Heights,” the killed was half as many as in the entire “Dewey Island” war. The stockholders of the Inman separator company will meet in Tompkin’s store November 2. Why are Bryan’s speeches like Shakespeare’s works? Because in both there is “Much ado about nothing.” In the absence of Mr. Peterson Mr. Cates has charge of the sep arator. Ma. Thompson is adding 30 feet to Downey & Watson’s store. Everybody is well pleased with Rev. Kliver. He preached two strong sermons Sunday from the texts, John 12532, and Rom. 1516. Mr. Sylvanus will goto Wayne and Mr. Dodge to Tilden to husk corn. lteporter. PAGE ITEMS. Mr. Leonard Hess went to Omaha Tuesday morning. Mr. Smith has his new barn completed and painted. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder go to Tecumseh Tuesday to make it their future home. John Gray is now a partner in the firm of Hunter & Gray, and has moved his family to the store building, while George Hunter moves his family back to his farm, and E. E. Hunter occupies the Gray homestead. A lot of our young folks trip ped the light fantastic toe in Mr. Smith’s new barn Friday eve. Mrs. Townsend is adding some improvements to her home. James Moffit is now at home after several years absence in Oklahoma. Charles Allen, the well digger, has been helping Win. Lord and Wilsie Stewart to find water on their respective homesteads with fairly good results. Some of the wells have a fashion of going dry unless dug to “sheet” water. A. A. Wagers has moved his family to the Snyder place this week. ARE YOU GOING ABROAD? Ifjou contemplatea trip to Europe during ttie summer, please remember ibat any ticket agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Si Paul R'y can furnish you rates, tickets anil up to date inform ation, as well as reserved berths on ocean steamers—all lines—in advance of sailing. Gen. H. Ueafiord, Gen. Pass. Agt , Old Colony Building, Chicago, III. W. N Day. D P. A. 415 4th. st Sioux City. THE MADSTONE SELDOM FAILS Wonderful Properties tlulmul for » Memphis 1'osiesnlon. From the St. Louis Post-Dispaieh: There is In the house of Mrs. H. It. Beebe of 73 Dunlap street, Memphis, Tenn., a wonderful madstone, which for 75 years has enjoyed the reputa tion of performing wonderful cures of hydrophobia. Mrs. John Shelton, the sister of Mrs. Beebe, Is the owner of the stone. It was willed to her by her father, a minister In the Chris tian church, to whom It was presented by a poor German woman In his par ish. The pastor made good use of It for more than half a century. In all those years only two persons treated with the stone failed to recover. One of these had let the wound go un attended for over nine days; the other was a farmer, too busy with his crop to permit of the applications which were considered necessary. Mrs. Shel ton lost her father twenty -years ago. She has used the madstone constantly since and has never either lost a case or made a charge for treating. People come from far and near to be treated. In many instances dumb brutes that have been bitten by rabid dogs have died, while people bitten by the same logs have recovered, showing con clusively that the animals were mad. The stone Is broken in several pieces and has something the appearance of a piece of coral. It is porous and absorbs the poison when applied to the wound. It was broken by being gnawed by a valuable dog. The dog was being treated for hydrophobia. He had been bitten and the stone was bound to his wound. He not only gnawed the stone off, but tried to chew it into bits. The stone is applied by being first put In hot water for a few minutes. Then it is taken out and placed, as hot as can be borne, upon the wound. This is repeated hourly for twelve hours. If there is more than one wound the treatment is extended to twenty-four hours. Lottery Scheme for Spain. Under the auspices of the Spanish government a great lottery scheme will be launched in Madrid August 1, the receipts of which, minus the prizes, will be turned over to the government for its most pressing needs. It is thought that by September the sala ries of civil and military servants re cently suspended can then be made good. Circulars are being sent out i all over Europe, and it la expected I that 500,000,000 pesetas, or about $100, 000,000, will be netted by the govern ment. There are five capital prizes of 500,000 pesetas each. The lottery i Is now new in Spain, but Spanish lot ! tery has never been popular in other states of Europe, investors preferring to take their chances with the Dutch or Prussian lotteries. The Spanish lottery In 1897 brought tha treasury 3,000,000 pesetas, In the same year the Portuguese lottery gained 1,760,000 milrels (nearly $2,000,000). The lot tery is authorized in other countries of Europe. In Italy last year the government gained 62,000,000 lire ($12, 400,000), showing that the poor lazza rone was not without his savings. In Holland the official lotteries gained $300,000; in Denmark the winnings amounted to about half a million more. But the Prussian lottery, which is annually operated under the direct authority of the state. Is the most pop ular. There are a number of prizes of 500,000 marks every year, and in 1897 the receipts of the treasurei amounted to over 100,000,000 marks.— New York Times. Not Infallible). Harriet Martineau, the English au thor, was shrewd and practical, and had what men are pleased to call a “masculine intellect." But she was not always correct in her deductions, a fact illustrated by the following anecdote, told in her “Memoirs” by Sir Charles Murray, who was then the English con sul-general In Egypt: One afternoon we met at the villa of my old friend, S. W. Larking, on the banks of the Mahamoudieh canal. In the course of our stroll through the garden we came to a small gate, the pattern of which was new to Miss Martineau, who was walking in front. She stopped, and looking at the gate in an attitude of intense admiration, exclaimed: “How truly Oriental! What wonderful taste these easterners have in design!” She went on, and as Larking and I followed through the gate, he whispered to me, “I got It out last week from Birming ham." OASTC no fio- The Kind You Have Always Bought limilt ^ TT" ii oa signature of erory wrapper Headache, stopped in 20 minutes by De Milos Bain Finns. “One cent a dose.* (ft, <ft> | MUTUAL INSURANCE. <1> _ <» j tllow Governor Holcomb Defeated| | S It Till He Organized a Company. $ A X <*> <V The remarkable record of Silas A. Holcomb in the matter of insurance leg islation challenges the attention of tho people of the state and leads at once to the inevitable conclusion that it would be unsafe to place such a man on tho supreme bench. A weak inau in tho preseuce of temptation whilo in the gubernatorial chair, what could bo ex pected of him as a judge? What caso would bo safe in his hands? During the legislative session of 1895 there was a determination to pass a law which would allow the organization of mutual companies for the insuring of village and town property. To defeat this there was prosont at the state house an organized lobby, possossod of ample means for oil room purposes. It was well known at tho time that $10,000 in cash was on hand to bo used in defeat ing mutual insurance legislation. On Jan. 17th Mr. Brockman of Rich ardson introduced house roll 246, a bill authorizing tho formation of mutual companies. It was perfectly satisfac tory to tho poople who were demanding mutual insurance. The record of the introduction of the bill is found on page 201 of the house journal. On Feb. 26th the bill was reported to tbe general file a*d was delayed there until March 27tli, when it was taken up in tho committee of the whole and recommended for passage. On March BOth (pngo 1183 of the houso journal) it was passed by unanimous vote. Such reformers as Barry, Hull and Sodorman wero thoro and voted for the bill. The reason for the unanimous vote was that tho insurance boodle had been in sight so notoriously that any man voting against the bill would have been marked at onco as a boodler. Tho lobby concentrated its efforts to defeat tho bill in the senate. Every method of delay was resorted to. At least one prominent clerk was bribed. Money was offered to senators to got them to delay or lose tho bill. At one time the one crooked clerk and one boodling senator carried it away, and wero made to disgorge only after the senate had issued warrants for their arrests. In the senate, as in the house, all the boodle plans failed. The bill passed with but one dissenting vote, and that one senator was politically blacklisted for that act, and has never Bince been allowed to hold office. But the old-lino insurance people knew what they wero doing. They had de layed the final passage of the bill until the last day of the session. They knew what Governor Holcomb would do. They knew that he would wait until after the adjournment of the legislature, when all danger of passing ovor his head was past, and then he would veto the bill. The record shows that on April 5th (page 1359 of the house journal), the bill was presented to tho governor by a joint committee. Until it reached his hands it was carefully guarded to keep the lobbyists and boodlers from stealing it. At that late day one of the clerks was offered $1,000 if he would lose tho bill or allow himself to be held up and robbed of it. After the adjournment of tho legis lature Governor Holcomb carried out his part of tho contract. After numer ous consultations with a Lincoln lob byist ho vetoed tho bill. For this action he was never able to give a docent ex cuse, and left himself open to tho strong suspicion that ho had entered into a satisfactory deal with the boodling lobby. The defeat of this meritorious bill in such a suspicions manner causod much indignation over tho state and tho next legislature met with the determination to pass a mutual insurance bill and pat it through so early that a cowardly gov ernor could not head it off. Jones of Nemaha on the 18th of January, 1897, introduced house roll 183, a bill exactly similar to the Brockman bill, except that it had several more sections relat ing to assessments and other matters, which were also covered in the laws al ready on the statute books. The bill passed the house on tho 13th of March by unanimous vote. It passed tho sen ate on the 2d of April with just one negative vote and was presented to the governor on the 3d of April. For some reason not orally explained, but which is pretty well shown up by the records, Governor Holcomb held the bill until the 8th of April, when he an nounced to the legislature that he had signed it. Now the sequel: That same day tho news was given out that a new insur ance company had been organized under the new law and that Silas A. Holcomb was elected as its president. This action had been taken before the bill was signed and the salary of the president was fixed at $50 per mouth. Comment on this transaction is unnecessary. “Tho records are the best evidence.” From that date to the close of his official term as governor Holcomb drew money every mouth as follows: Salary as governor.$208.SI Salary as insurance president. 60.00 Kako-off in house rent deal. 19.80 $278.13 This was a pretty comfortable salary for a “plain man,” and did not count the other perquisites he might get in the way of railroad passes, assessments from clerks and appointees and other “complimcutaries, ” as O. W. Palm would term them. Silas made the office pay, but tho in surance scandal will be remembered. It will have another chapter. ’Mnr.iii'.iinu,i:,ru:i EB AVeCetablcPrcparationforAs slmHating ihcToodandRcguta ling the Stomachs andBowels of Infants /Children Promotes Digestion,1Cheerful ness and Rcst.Gontalns neither Opium .Morphine nor Mineral. Not Narcotic. P*mfJan S*d' Mx jrnnm - /ttdUUm SJlt - Aaist Sent * SfeU*, (firm Strd - t&$&&&*> A perfect Remedy for Constipa tion. 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