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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1899)
THE FRONTIER. rcBLisnrcn kvkrt thtrsdat bt tmb FRONTIER FR1NT1N0 COMPANT. O'NEILL, * • NEBRASKA. BRIEF TELEGRAMS. s ...... * ' Chicago papers are now insisting that the people of that town are not opera weary. Associate Justice White, of the an* preme court, is confined to his home ■with an attack of the grippe. Senator Mason, of Illinois, nAkes* the startling announcement ttfat he will not resign, at least not just now. The death of Edgar Straus, a violon cellist, well known in America, Europe and Australia, Is reported from Pasa dena, Cal. Edward Judson, a New York con tractor, has filed a petition in bank ruptcy. Liabilities, $648,521, of which $606,087 is secured. At Lockport, N. Y., John C. Lam merts, ex-county treasurer, *-*o had been convicted of misappropriating $2, 549 of public money, was sentenced to seven years at hard labor at Auburn prison. Out of respect to the memory of the late Vice President Hobart the presi dent has cancelled all his social en gagements for the present. The mem bers of the cabinet have done likewise. Victor L. Mason, private secretary to Secretary Root, has resigned to en gage in business with General Russell A. Alger. Mr. Mason served Secretary Alger in the capacity of private secre tary. The assistant attorney general for the postofflee department, reporting for the fiscal year just closed, announc es that out of ninety-nine fraud orders Issued only nine were for lotteries or gife enterprises. Dr. William Brooks, director of Smith observatory, Geneva, N. Y., has Just been awarded by the Paris acad emy of sciences, the grand Lalande prize for his numerous and brilliant astronomical discoveries. Mr. Kurtz, the Ohio member of the national republican committee, is charged with aiding the opposition in the last election and will be called to account for it at the next meeting of the Ohio republican state central com mittee. Admiral Rogers and other members of the inspection board have returned to Washington from Boston, where they went to make the trial of the battleship Kentucky. The board is now preparing the full report upon the trial. Admiral Dewey has submitted to the president that the navy should take precedence over the army, as he ranka General Miles. This raises a question that will be of interest New Year's day at the White House reception. Dr. L. W. Weldon, agent of the slate board of health at Port Tampa City, has wired Dr. J. Y. Porter, state health officer, that the yellow fever quarantine was no longer necessary. The quarantine will be raised at once. Federal officers at Admore, I. T., have been notified of a fight near Col bert between officers under Deputy United States Marshal Davis and a band of moonshiners, one of the latter being killed. The moonshiners are said to be surrounded. Reports to the immigration bureau show that during the last month aliens have been deported from the United States as follows: Public charges,> 301; diseased, 24; Insane, 5; contract laborers, 30; returned within one year after landing, 3. Total, 363. The Sydney. N. 8. W., Herald esti mates that the year's wheat crop will result In a probable exportable surplus of over 3,000,000 bushels, and antici pates that the yield will be 9.8 busfr els per acre, against seven bushels in 1998, giving a total of 13,000,000 bush els, compared with 9,000,000. William A. Goerner, the new general manager of the Chicago & Northwest ern railway, has announced the fol lowing promotions, effective December 1: Sherburn Sanborn, present general superintendent, promoted to the posi tion of assistant general manager, ■with office mt Chicago; Richard H. Aishton, superintendent of the Iowa division, promoted to the position of general superintendent, with office at Chicago. William F. Miller, the New York pro moter of the Franklin syndicate, for whom hundreds of detectives all over the country are on the lookout, is re ported to have passed through Kansas City, en route to Vera Cruz, Mex. Paul J. Mans, a Chicago newspaper man, who is visiting friends in that city, is quoted as having seen and talked with Miller on an incoming Maple Leaf train. Miller apparently took the first train southwest. No further trace of him has been secured. The statements of the republican and democratic state campaign committees of Ohio were filed at the office of the county clerk in Columbus as required by law. The. republican eonftnittee expended, according to its report, $91 123.97. The largest outlay was in the contest of the literary bureau, which furnished every daily and weekly re publican newspaper within the state with plate service and cartoons during the campaign. The democratic com mittee reports receipts 6f $18,149,55, and expenditures of $17,998.68. The job printers, pressmen and bookbinders of Omaha, have decided not to strike, employers having con ceded practically all the men asked. A cable message from Qeneral Brooke, at Havana, announces the death of Quartermaster’s Employe John H. Hurst, who died on the 24th Inst, of typhoid fever. W. H. Reichers, principal if the Ro bertsdale, Ind., schools, was found not guilty of causing death of a pupil by wipping. The war department has discharged from the transport service the Elder and Belgian King. These vessels were used on the Pacific coast. President George Miller of the Ham ilton club has appointed a committee of twenty-five republicans to travel to Washington under the leadership o.' Samuil B. Raymond, December 13. and lay persistent siege to the national committeemen until they consent to nominate the presidential ticket in Chk-arro. THE OFFICIAL VOTE OF NEBRASKA. Figures Verified by State Canvassing Board on the Vote in November. WORK IS DONE OY THE STATE BOARD OF CANVASSERS Total Number Votes Cast, 220,234, Which is One of the Heaviest in the History of the State—Neville’s Major ity in the Sixth District—Many Voters Who Slighted *,he Head of the Ticket—Other Nebraska Matters. NAME OF COUNTY. e AiIaitih . Antelope .... Banner . Blaine . Boone . Box Butte ... Boyd . Brown . Buftnlo . Burt . Butler . Caen . Cedar . Chase . Cherry . Cheyenne .... Clay . Colfax . Cumin* .. Custer . Dakota . Dawes . Dawson . Deuel . Dixon . Dodge . Douglas . Dundy .. Fillmore ..... Franklin .... Frontier .... Furnas . Cage . Gnrlleld . Gosper . Grant . Greeley . Hall . Hamilton .... Harlan . Hayes . Hitchcock ... Holt .. Hooker . Howard . Jefferson .... Johnson . Kearney .... •Keith . Keya Paha . Kimball . Knox . Barn-aster ... l.lncoln . Logan . Loup . McPherson . Madison . Merrick. Nance . Nemaha .... Nuckolls .... Otoe . Pawnee . Perkins . Phelps . Pierce ....... Platte . Polk . Red Willow Richardson . Rock . Saline . Sarpy .,.. Saunders .... Scott's Bluff Sewurd . Sheridan .... Sherman .... Sioux . Stanton . Thayer . Thomas . Thurston ... Valley . Washington Wayne . Webster . Wheeler . York . 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OSCEOLA, Neb.. Nov. 2»— Stephen the 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cunningham, was bitten in the face by a dog Saturday. The boy was delivering milk at the residence of Jo siah Locke, and as he stepped on the porch the dog jumped at him and in jured his face so that he is under the care of the doctor. i Sheldon Men Buy New Mexican Sheep. SHELTON, Neb.. Nov. 29.—H. J. Robbins and M. G. Lee arrived here with twenty-five cars of sheep, 6,000 head of which they intend feeding on their ranches near here. The stock was purchased of the growers in New Mexico. I.lentenaut Osborn Married. BROKEN BOW, Neb., Nov. 29.—W. II. Osborne was married here to Miss Hatty Carr. The wedding, which took place at the M. E. parsonage, was a very Quiet affair, only a few of the closest friends and near relatives being present. Mr. Osborne served in the Spanish-American war in the First Nebraska. He left as first sergeant ! of company M and returned as first | lieutenant of the Thurston rifles. Miss I Carr is the daughter of G. E. Carr, county commissioner. Both are resi dents of this place. Tiro Accident*, One Fatal. NEWPORT, Neb., Nov. 29—Two bad accidents happened yesterday southeast of town. The 4-year-old son of Fritz Newel was playing with the dog, a large, powerful, good-natured animal, and was heard crying in the door yard. On an investigation the little fellow was found to be suffering from the effects of a broken leg. It is thought the boy, who had a rope at tached to the nog, became entangled with the rope and the dog running to free itself, broke the child’s leg. Sunday afternoon John Hagermon was away from home and his two little boys were left to amuse themselves as best they could. They found a bot tle of medicine whic^ their father had procured for summer complaint, com pounded of some preparation of opium, and drank it, not knowing of the dan gerous effects of the medicne. One of the boys vomited me poison up and is living. The other little fellow died. Brings Back a Jail Breaker. GENEVA, Neb., Nov. 29.—Sheriff Ogg returned from Omaha with Herb Cochran, who broke jail here about five years ago. Cochran was brought here and placed In jail, charged with breaking into a store at Fairmont, but not caring to stand trial on the charge cut through the roof of the jail and had not been heard of since until the sheriff was satisfied of his presence in Omaha. Force of a Mauser Rltlc Bullet. COLUMBUS, Neb., Nov. 29.—John R. Brock took a Mauser rifle with him when he went hunting. It was one which his son. Lieutenant John R. Brock, brought from the Philippines. He tried the gu j, and fired a number of shots at a box dder tree at a distance of fifty yards. '. ’ne tree was ten and a half inches in diameter and every ball went through the tree, tearing out chunks of wood. Mr. Brock is a veter an of the civil war, and he says the Mauser is the most destructive shoot ' ing gun he ever saw. THE LATE STATE l L CHON. The State Board Completes the Work of Canvaas'nff tho Tote. LINCOLN, Nob.. Dec. 1.—The state canvassing board has completed the work of canvassing the vote for state officers and the figures on the candi dates for judicial positions are made public. There are fifteen judicial dis tricts in the s.ate and twenty-eight judges were chosen. Of the number elected fifteen were republicans and thirteen fusionists. The duties of the canvassing board were lighter than usual this year, there being only three state officers to be elected. Ordinarily it ta’ies about a week to canvass the vote and dela>s are frequently caused by nistakes of the county clerks in tabulating the vote. This year all countiu reported promptly and it was an easy task for the board to finish the work". The following were elected: John S. Stull (rep), Auburn: Charles B. Let ton (rep), Fairbury; Paul Jessen (rep), Nebraska City; E. P. Holme?. L. Frost, A. J. Cornish (reps), Lincoln; Benjam in S. Baker, Irving S. Baxter, Lee S. Estelle, »acob Fawcett. William W. Keysor, Willard W. Slabaugh (reps), Omaha; Charles T. Dickinson (rep), Tekamah; B. F. Good (fus), Wahoo; S. H. Sornberger (fus), Wahoo; Conrad Hollenbeck (fus), Fremont; James A. Grimison (tus), Schuyler; George W. Stubbs (fus), Superior; Guy T. Graves (fus), Pender; William V. Allen (fus), Madison; Ed. L. Adams (fus), Minden: John R. Thompson (fus), Grand Is land; Charles A. Munn (fus), Ord; Ho mer M. Sullivan (fus), Broken Bow; H. M. Grimes (rep), North Platte; George W. Norris (rep), Beaver City; William H. Westover (fus), Rushville; James J. Harrington (fus), O’Neill. Winter Agricultural Course. LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 2.—The uni versity of Nebraska has issued a circu lar descriptive of the winter course in the school of agriculture The people in charge of the school realize the fact that most farmers’ sons and daughters cannot afford to spend the time and money required in the preparation for and completion of the regular college course and keeping this in view they have prepared a short practical course of three months, beginning January 2, 1900, and ending March 17. It provides for studies of soils, field crops, diseases of farm animals breeding of live stock, feeding of like stock, dairying, horti culture, agriculture, engineering, car pentry and blacksmithing. insects in jurious to crops, plant pests, farm ac counts and English. An explanation given in the circular of the manner in which the instruction is given snows that the student obtains much of it by means of actual practice and observa tion. Not that he will be expected to do the work on the farm wwith which he is already familiar, but such opera tions as stock judging, milk testing, creamery operations, tree grafting, treating sick animals, etc. No exam inations are required for entrance, but a registration fee of $1 is charged. The cost to each student last year for room rent, table board, books, etc., was about ?3G. In preparing the course of instruction the object has been to make it as prac tical as possible, to give the student something that win be of value to him wh.en he returns to the farm. The in struction is given by means of lectures and actual practice. Excellent facili ties have recently been provided at the state farm for giving instruction in the most practical manner. K well equipped building has been* erected, containing a dairy room, a stocK-judg ing room and a laboratory for soil study. The methods of instruction are adapted to students of all ages, those having taken the work varying from 16 to 45 years of age. To Senator and Mrs. Thurston. OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 2.—Among the handsome presents that had found their way to the home of Senator and Mrs. Thurston before their arrival in Omaha, was a set of three massive and ornate silver salvers bearing the con gratulatory cards of Mr. and Mrs. How ard Gould. These had been sent to Omaha instead of Washington, where many costly testimonials of friendship had been bestowed. A carriage stood in front of the residence awaiting the departure of the bridal party for the visit down town. It was a beautiful brougham, with a gilded monogram, “J. M. T.,” upon the doors. A pair of spirited Cleveland bays, resplendent in elaborately mounted harness, stood restlessly awaiting the appearance of their new master. This equipage had been purchased by a number of Sena tor Thurston’s friends in tnis state and presented without ceremony. Cut Ilia Throat on the Train. PLAINVIEW, Neb., Dec. 2.—A man named James Rogers, on the Pacific Short Line passenger, committed sui cide just before the train reached Plainview. He was in charge of Sher iff E. M. Sweeney and a deputy under a sentence for horsestealing and was en route to the Sioux Falls, S. D., pen itentiary, having been convicted at Belle Fourche. He cut his throat with a pen knife and expired in a few mo ments. Burned to Death With Ilia Home. FAIRMONT, Neb., Dec. 2.—News has reached here of the burning to death in a house of W. B. Shanklin at Kel so. Wash. He was formerly a well-to do farmer of Madison precinct, this county. He went to Washington four years ago. His remains were found in the ruins of his home, where he was living alone. The funeral occurred at Roadhouse, 111., where he once lived. Funeral of Mrs. Or'ando Tefft. AVOCA, Neb., Dec. 2.—Funeral ser vices over the remains of Mrs. Tefft, wife of Orlando Tefft, chairman of the state republican committee, were held here at the Congregational church. Rev. C. S. Hsrrison cf York preached the sermon. Mrs. Tefft was formerly Miss Lizzie H. Kirkpatrick, She was born in Wapello, la., January 3. 1849. and came with her parents in 1855 to Nehawka. She was married to Mr. Tefft July 4. 1SCS. She had two sons, Roland, who died young, and Clarence, a graduate of the university, new a lawyer at Weeping Water. GROWTH OF RAILROAD UNITED STATES LEADS ALL OTHER COUNTRIES. Civilization Follows the Locomotive and Vast Wildernesses Are Transformed Into Gardens. Villages and Cities by Its Influence. At the recent International Com mercial Congress, held in Philadelphia, George H. Daniels, general passenger agent of the New York Central and Hudson Rlvei railroad and president of the American Association of Gen eral Passenger Agents, delivered a notable address on our railroads and their relation to commercial, indus trial and agricultural interests. Among other things he said: “One of our great writers has said of this closing period of the nineteenth century, that it is an age of transpor tation. Transportation underlies ma terial prosperity in every department of commerce. Without transportation commerce would be impossible. Those states and nations are rich, powerful and enlightened whose transportation facilities are best and most extended. The dying nations are those with little or no transportation facilities. “In this connection it will be inter esting to note in passing that the sec ond American locomotive was built at the West Point foundry, near Cold Spring, on the Hudson river, and was called the “Best Friend," and from that day to this the locomotive has been one of the best friends of this republic. But it is not alone our loco motives that have attracted the at tention of foreigners who have visited our shores, our railway equipment gen erally has commanded admiration and is now receiving the highest compli ment, namely, imitation by many of our sister nations. “Prince Michel Hilkoff, imperial minister of railways of Russia, has since his visit to the United States a few years ago, constructed a train on much the same lines as the “Limited Trains” of the New York Central and the Pennsylvania. “At times there have been periods of legislation in the United States ad verse to the great transportation in terests of the country, almost invari ably the result of a misunderstanding of the real situation, and the hasty legislation of such times has usually been repealed upon the sober second thought of the people, for in the lan guage of our great Lincoln: ‘You can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all*the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.’ “One hundred years ago the gov ernor of the great state of New York advised his friends not to invest their money or waste their time in aiding the building of railroads, expressing the opinion, that while it was possible that improved methods of construction and perfected machinery might, in the remote future, enable the people to move a car upon a railroad at the rate of five or six miles per hour, he did not believe that they could ever be made of material advantage, and that any attempt to transport passengers and freight by railroad, from one part of the country to another, must result in endless, confusion and loss. The gov ernor died in the belief that the canal was the only means of conveyance for a great commerce. “Notwithstanding his prediction, the railroads have grown to such vast pro portions, that today the world’s entire stock of money, gold, silver and paper, would not purchase one-third of its railroads. The building of the Erie canal, extending from Buffalo to Al bany, a distance of 363 miles, was commenced July 4, 1817. It was com pleted in 1825 at a cost of $7,602,000. In 1896 the state of New York appro priated $9,000,000 for enlarging and improving this canal, and a few figures from the state report on canals may be of interest in this connection: Re liable statistics of its traffic are not obtainable for the earlier years of its operation, but in accordance with the last annual report of the superintend ent of public works of the state of New York, we find that the tonnage of all the property carried on all the canals in both directions, in 1837, was 1,171, 296 tons, valued at $55,809,288. The tonnage and the value increased until 1872, when it amounted to 6,673,370 tons, valued at $220,913,321. From 1872, the tonnage and the value of the property carried decreased, until in 1897 there was only 3,617,804 tons car vied, with a value of $96,063,338. This, in face of the fact that the receipts of grain and flour at Buffalo had in creased from 1,184,685 bushels in 1837 to 242,140,306 bushels in 1897. "In 1875 the states east of the Mis souri river were sending food and clothing to the starving people of Kan sas. Thanks to the facilities afforded by the railroads the com crop of Kan sas this year is three hundred and forty million bushels. It seems but a very few years since I made my first trip to Colorado, and stopped on my way at the home of Buffalo Bill, at North Platte, Neb., on the Union Pa cific. At Ogalalla. fifty-one miles west of North Platte, the Sioux In dians were roaming over the prairies and making more or less trouble for the early settlers who ventured so far out of the beaten paths of civilization. The Nebraska corn crop this year cov ers eight million acres, and the yield is two hundred and ninety million bushels. Previous to the construc tion of the Northern Pacific, the Great j Northern, Northwestern, St. Paul, Bur- i lington, and other railways that trav- | erse that wonderful region known as i the ‘wheat belt,' there was nothing to j be seen but prairie grass and an occa- j sional band of untamed savages, j Minnesota this year will ship ninety j million bushels of wheat, South Da kota forty-five million bushels, North Dakota sixty-five million bushels and Montana four million bushels, “In 1849 there came across the con tinent reports of the discovery of gold in California, but the only means of reaching jts Golden Gate was by sea around Cape Horn, or the long and perilous journey, with ox teams, across the plains, Including what was then styled in our geographies the Ameri can desert, and through the hazardous mountain passes of the western part of the continent. "The completion of the Pacific rail roads changed all this, and opened new fields for all kinds of enterprises, in an unexplored territory stretching over more than two thousand miles to the west, northwest and southwest of the Mississippi river, the products of which region were practically valueless until the means of transporting them were provided by the railroads. "The wheat crop of California this year is 37,000,000 bushels. The largest crop ever produced in California was in 1880, when owing to exceptionally favorable weather conditions that state produced 63,000,000 bushels. The gold output of California for the year 1899 is estimated at $16,000,000. The vine yards and orange groves of California would be of practically little value were it not for the fact that the rail roads, by their trains of refrigerator and ventilated fruit cars, make it pos- ' sible to transport the products of her fertile valleys to all sections of the country. It seems but yesterday that the railroads were completed into Portland, Oregon, Tacoma and Seattle, Washington, and it is marvelous that for the year ended June 30, 1899, there was exported from the Columbia River valley 16,000,000 bushels of wheat and from the Puget Sound region, 10,000, 000 bushels. Oregon and Washington form the northwest corner of the ter ritory of the United States, south or the line of British Columbia, and are directly on the route to our extreme northwest possession. Alaska. The wheat crop of the states of Oregon and Washington for the year 1899 is 48, 600,000 bushels. There was exported during the year ended June 30, 1899, from the Columbia river direct to for eign ports, 1,100,000 barrels of flour, and from Puget sound points 800,000 barrels. Colorado, which, with its in exhaustible mines of gold, silver, lead, iron and coal, forms almost an em pire in itself, will produce this year of 1899 of gold, $24,000,000; of silver, $14, 200,000; of lead, $4,400,000, in addition to a magnificent crop of wheat, fruit, and vegetables. Thanks to her rail road facilities Montana is today the richest mineral region of its size in the world. The latest published sta tistics—those of 1897—give the mineral output of Montana as $54,000,000. Without railroads, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, Colorado, California, Oregon and Washington would still be the home of savages. “Our passenger service is the finest on earth. In the United States last year the first-class rates averaged 2.98 cents per mile, although on some large railways the average was several mills less than two cents per mile; in Eng land the first-class fare is four cents per mile; third-class fare for vastly in ferior service is two cents per mile, but only on certain parliamentary trains. “In Prussia, the fare is three cents per mile; in Austria, 3.05 cents per mile, and in France, 3.36 cents per mile. "Our passenger cars excel those of foreign countries in all that goes to make up the comfort and convenience of a journey. Our sleeping and parlor car system is vastly superior to theirs; our baggage system is Infinitely bet ter than theirs and arranged upon a much more liberal basis. American railroads carry 150 pounds of baggage free, while the German railroads carry only 55 pounds free. The lighting of our trains is superb, while the light ing of trains on most foreign lines is wretched.” What She Mast Know. In a little book of social chatter, comment and advice, which can hardly be called a book of etiquette, says the New York Commercial Advertiser, but ..4 contains many sly reproaches and ad monitions to those who consider them selves “the elect,” the author says of the modern girl: “What about ac complishments? Well, thank goodness, the piano is going out of fashion for girls in the best circles. They are taught just enough of it to let them find out whether or not they have a taste for it; if not, it is given up, to the great easement of humanity. In the same way drawing and painting are no longer considered indispensable to the equipment of a girl living her life. Her chief accomplishments are walzing and tennis playing. To speak French is not exactly regarded as an accomplishment nowadays any more than gloves are considered a luxury. Fluent French has become a necessity in social life of any status.” An Active Youngster. The moment that a young crocodile breaks its shell it is to all intents and purposes as active as at any time dur ing its life. It will make straight for the water, even if it be out of sight and a good distance off, and it will pur sue its prey with eagerness and agility during the first hour of its free exist ence. Kvldently a Liar. Weary Willie—He says he was once an actor and got fifty a week! Do yer believe it? Frosted Feeter—Naw! If he’d ever been an actor he'd have said he got two hundred and fifty per!— Puck.