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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1899)
RoVal Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum* Atom faking powders are (lxpeiiat mcaaccrs to nealth of the present day. _hoy At Emma rowcee ea, wtw vow. The Short Line passenger trlan waa the acene of a terrible tragedy laat Thursday while speeding over the track toward Sioux City. Harry Rogers, a prisoner conviticed of horse stealing in Butte county, South Dakota, slabbed himself to death while in charge of E.M. j Sweeney and his deputy of Belle Fourche He was being taken to the Sioux Falls penitentiary to serve a two years’ term. The prisoner waa known as a dangerous man, who would shoot to kill or resort to any other desperate means to make good an escape, and all the way from Belle Fourche Sheriff Sweeney an 1 the deputy kept the man between them. At O’Neill a change of cars from the Elk horn to the Pacific Short Line was made. Rogers was conducted to a scat in the combination smoking, baggage and mail car, and Sheriff Sweeney took a seat be hind the prisoner and the deputy sat in front of him. All the way from O'Neill Rogers seemed deliriously happy. He sang and whistled constantly slaped the deputy on the back, telling him to cheer up. When the train was a short distance out from Brunswick and Condctor Tom Delong, looking over his ticket stubs was sitting across the isle from the prisoner, Brakeman A. H. Blinco was nodding away in front, and Sheriff Sweeney quietly eying his hilarious prisoner, Rogers suddenly stopped singing and said to deputv: “Say, old pal, lend me your pocketknife. We will be in Sioux City pretty soon and I want to clean my finger nails.” Thoughtlessly the deputy handed back his knife. "Hal” exultantly whooped the prisoner who in asecond had turned to a raving manic, and opening a long blade <he drew it across his neck from his right ear almost to the jugular vein. The blood gushed and spurted and a dozen men were on their feet. Conductor Do Long was the first man Rogors saw, and he lunged across the asile after him. "Hold on therel” shouted Sheriff Sweeney and when the desperado turned he waa looking into the barrels of two guns. Wild eyed, his face ghastly and the blood pumping out of the long gash at every pulsation of the heart, Rogers made a motion of his body forward and then hesitated as though he understood that to adyance ment certain death. He held up his left hand in a deprecating way, which plainly said "Dont shoot,’' and with four terriable stabs in quick succession he sent the knife blade deep into his neck. With an awful, oat that made the blood of the hearers run cold—an oath that was half a wail ordespalr and a curse of hate—he fell on his face and expired. ' The body was taken from the train at Plainvlew, in charge of Sheriff Sweeney and his deputy. Conductor DeLong said the sight of Rogers killing himself was terrible. "The car was pretty well filled under stand,’’ said Hr, DeLong in relating his experience. "Almost every seat was taken. We were speeding along at a good rate and the noise being made by the prisoner had become rather monot onous. His silence attracted more at tention than his singing. I was sitting quite near when he made the first slash at his throat. Then, when he jumped to his feet, all was excitement. Mr. Sweeney had the drop on him in a second and the succeeding seconds were full of motion. Rogers, for the fraction of a twinkle, as he was peering into the barrels of Sweeney’s guns, appeared willing to take a chrnce against them. His mind ah quickly changed and as he made a peculiar gesture he drove the hnife again and again into his neck. Death came quickly. I do not believe he knew anything after he fell to the 'floor. “Sheriff Sweeney thought at first he would take the body to Sioux City,' but as he said he would take it back to Belle JTourehe for interment I advised him to have it prepared for shipment at the first station we would reach. He de cided to do this and the body was re moved at Plainview.” It was said that Rogers, who was a tall, athletic mao, about 85 years of age. was of a good family but that he had gone wild and was reckless and disre gardfut of his relatives and friends. He seemed to be proud of his reputation as a tough man and a gun fighter, and was the hero of many escapades in the Black Hills. i. " u ' • , , , ! TAKING ASTOR DOWN A PEG. ^ Snubbed Gently and Unintentionally by a Dokfi Gardner. William Waldorf Astor, the expatri ated American millionaire, who now resides in London, is the subject of a lengthy biographical sketch in Tit Bits, a publication issued in the Brit ish capital. Incidental to the sketch it Is related how the duchess of Cleve land gently set him down on one occa sion. When his grand estate offices on the Thames embankment were fin ished he gave a magnificent banquet co a number of swells. Showing one of the staircases in the building to the duchess, Mr. Astor is alleged to have asked: "Isn’t that handsome, your grace?” "Yes, it certainly is,” replied the duchess. "Isn’t it more so than any other staircase you ever saw?” Mr. Astor is reported to have persisted. At this the duchess’ back very nat urally got up. “Yes,” she said, gently, “I admire It very much. It is much finer than our old staircase at Battle abbey, which has been spoiled these 200 or 300 years by the spurs of those stupid old knights.” Battle abbey is probably the grand est old place in England, and com pared with Cliveden, Mr. Astor’s coun try house, is like a battle ship to a torpedo boat. Another story with a Bimilar point Is related in the same skech. Mr. As tor, it is averred, was lost in admira tion of the duke of Westminster’s lawn at Cliveden when he first saw it, and, it is said, asked the gardener: “How do you grow turf like that?” “Well, sir,” says the gardener, rub bing his chin and looking very lnno ees>t, Jpm sows yer seed and then 'as it rolled every day for a hundred years or so, sir.” 25 cents for the campaign. The Twice-a-week State Journal, printed every Tuesday and Friday, will be sent postpaid with all of the news of the world from now until after the elec* lion for only 25 cents. It Is worth that much to read about the Fighting First regiment’s return. The Journal, print ed at the state capital, is the leading Nebraska paper and it's mighty cheap at a quarter. THAT RAILROAD TRIP you have to take east tbis spring can be greatly shortened by going via O’Neill and the pacific Short Line. The shortest route to Sioux City; makes close connections at O'Neill in both directons. Quick connections at Sioux City with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. Buy local tickets to and from O’Neill, makes lowest fare. , CHANCE OF AIR. A steadily increasing custom, and one which all interested in matters of health must rejoico at is that of tho annual vacation. It io not only the rich man of leisure, or the well-to-do merchant or professional toller who goes away for a few weeks each year, leaving his work and, as far as may be, his worry behind him; but the clerk and even the artisan have found that the Sunday rest, or more often stagnation, is not enough to keep them in good trim, and so a vacation of at least a week or two each year has come to be regarded as a necessity. It 1b not so much the cessation from labor that is beneficial, for unless the labor is mental and of an exhausting nature, the Sunday recuperation would be sufficient to restore the balance. Let a man, a bank clerk for example, take his two weeks’ rest at homo, sleeping late in the morning, reading a little, smoking more than ususal, tak ing a stroll in the afternoon, or per haps wheeling twenty or thirty miles beyond his average, and the probabil ities are that he will go back to his work no better physically than when he left it, and with simply an increased distaste for the monotony of his dally life. But It this time has been spent in the country, walking, driving or wheel ing; or at the seashr^e, rowing, sailing or fishing; up early or late in the morning, as he may please, early to bed, out all day Inhaling large draughts of tonic air; then his return to busi ness will be with a new zest for work, his rest will have recreated him, and it will be weeks or months before he begins again to (lag and look at life through smoked glass. The greater the change, as a general thing, the more invigorating its effect; and the outing should be planned with this point in view. The dweller at the seashore is bet ter for a stay in the hills, or at least in a region back from the coast, while inland workers are regenerated by a whiff of salt air and a bath in the ocean. But any change is better than none. The baby dying from midsummer heat is brought back to life by a sail on an excursion steamer, or by being taken to some place, perhaps only a few miles from home, where the soil, or the air, or the elevation is slightly different. So even a jaunt to the term inus of some suburban trolley line will often show its good effects in a better appetite and sounder sleep. Tholfco* (teuton of lies tmj WEAK RULERS. Have Seldom Retarded the Program of s Nation. It is a curious fact that several con spicuous examples of nations thriving under weak rulers are to be found in history. To begin with, the Roman empire undoubtedly reached its highest level of commercial and military prosperity during the first 400 years or so of the Christian era, and yet the majority of its rulers during this period displayed very little administrative ability, and many of them were not only weak but absolutely vicious. In this case, how ever, it may be taken that the ac cumulated energy which had been growing up for centuries found its last expression during the rule of the later emperors, and that Rome devel oped rather in spite of them than be cause of them. We have another strik ing example in Russia under Ivan the Terrible, who was undoubtedly the most unmitigated savage that ever oc cupied a European throne. Yet un der him Russia developed in every way as she had never developed before. In fact, it is not too much to say that Ivan the Terrible made possible the work of Peter the Great. The last century of the French monarchy saw its throne occupied by men of small ability and generally considerable vices, whose alleged greatness—as, for instance, Louis XIV.—was due to their ministers, and not to themselves. Yet during this period France undoubted ly became the most powerful of the continental nations. In English his tory we have a striking example In (he reign of the Infamous Charles II., the greatest scoundrel who ever sat on the English throne. In his reign the value of the mercantile marine be came doubled, the excise revenue near ly trebled, and, perhaps most eloquent proof of all, land round the great cities more than trebled in value. So, too, with the first four Georges. They were all weak and most vicious, and yet it was during the period covered by their reigns that the British nation took its final form and laid the foun dation for all of its subsequent tri umphs. FLASHLESS GUNS. Lateftt Artillery Improvement Beats Smokeless Powder. It is reported that the new French rapid-fire gun invented by Colonel Humbert gives no flash or sign of fire. If this be true the French have made an advance in artillery second only in importance to that which marked the introduction by them of smokeless powder, says the Scientific American. In the operations around Santiago the only means by which our men could locate the position of the enemy was l»y the flash. If this should be re moved the art of war, especially on land, will become more difficult than ever, for a masked battery of smoke less powder and flashless guns would bo positively undiscoverable. The only description of the gun that has come to hand is rather obscure; but it would seem that an attempt is made to cool the larger portion of the gases below their flash point before they are allowed to reach the open air. The rate of fire has reached a maximum of 20 shots per minute. To accommo date the Increased expenditure of am munition it is proposed to reduce a single battery from five to four guns, and increase the number of ammuni tion wagons. Worth Millions. There is a 17-year-old boy working in a New York printing office who, this past week, fell heir to $20,000,000, yet he kept right on “carrying copy,” an swering the telephone and running er rands Just as if nothing had happened. There are very few boys of his age who would act so sensibly. His great uncle, Frank A. Mouritzen, one of the wealthiest men in California, and owner of vast estates in Denmark, recently died and left all his property to this young lad, and now William Warren Morrison, who a few days ago was poor and working for $3 a week, is worth many millions, but is not yet spoiled. A reporter went around to see him about it, but his employer was just sending him out with a letter, and he would not stop to talk long. “I can’t stop to loaf around this way,” he said. “I might lose my Job.” One of tbe pop countv officers is prob ably in need os a guardian. Tbe other day he went into a prominent business bouse and signed a memorial to congress praying for certain financial legislation. An hour or so afterwards some of the pop chiefs jumped onto him for his in discretion in signing a republican docu ment and he immediately withdrew his name. _ Notice to Delinquent Tax Payers. After December 15, 1899, 1 will begin issuing distress warrants for all delin quent personal taxes. H. R. Henry, 21-8 Treasurer of Holt County. Thousands of men and women suffer from piles, especially women with fe male weakness have this suffering to contend with in addition to their other pains. Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment will quickly effect a cure. Price 50 cts. in bottles, tubes 75 cts. P. C. Corrigan. Constipatiou means tbe accumulation of waste matter that should be discharg ed daily, and unless this is done the foul matter is absorbed and poisons the sys tem. Use Uerbine to bring about regu larity of the bowels. Price 50cts. P. C. Corrigan. A SLAVE’S EPITAPH. Old New England burying grounds have long been objects of special in vestigation to the antiquary. Tha quaintness of many of the inscriptions found, and the historic Interest of oth ers, me j such places rich storehouses of local history. Once in a while, amid the recorded virtues of departed estimable hpusewives, pious clergy, valiant soldiers and worthy magnates, the curious reader is shocked at some unexpected trace of the institution which it is difficult to believe once ex isted in New England—negro slavery. In one old graveyard, the foot strikes against a small, chipped stone, so low and little that it is at first taken to be a footsione, rather than a headstone; but it is not. It bears the name, al most obliterated, Mingo, and proves to be the tombstone of a black slave baby three months old, a child, no doubt, of some household servant suf ficiently beloved by the family to have been accorded in her grief the favor of such an exceptional memorial. “Fortune, a faithful servant,” in an other graveyard, commemorates in grateful and appreciative terms a slave woman who once belonged to Tristram Dalton, the first United States senator from Massachusetts. Far more striking than any of those is an epitaph In the old cemetery at Concord, Mass., an epitaph which Mr. Abram English Brown, in a recent ad dress before the Bostonian Society, termed the first emancipation proclam ation. It runs thus: “God wills us free, man wills us Blaves, I will as God wills. God’s will be done. Here lies the body of John Ja^k. a native of Africa, who died March, 1773-,- ngcd.. about 60 year*.. Though born in a land of slavery he was born free. Though he lived in a land of liberty, he lived a slave till by his honest though stolen labor he acquired the source of slavery which gave him his freedom. Though not long before death, the tyrant gave him his final emancipation, and put him on a footing with kings. Though a slave to vice, he practiced those virtues without which kings are but slaves.” In Germany and Holland girls ar« chosen In preferencs to young men in all occupations where they can bo ad vantageously employed. M. F. Cronin has taken the agency for that well-known family medicine, TUR TLE OIL. It is the best thing known for sore throat, rlitumatism, and all aches and pains. 50o. Guaranteed. 17-4 For burns, cuts, bruises, lacerations, or injuries of any description, Ballard’s Snow Liniment is a sovereign remedy. It never fails to do good, aud so prompt that its wonderful curative properties frequently create surprise. Price 25 and 50c. P. C. Corrigan. THE SHORTEST ROUTE TO SIOUX CITY is via O’Neill and tbe Pacific Short Line. Connections made both ways daily, except Sunday. No layovers; saves three hours in each direction. Passengers to and from points in Eastern South Dakota make through connec tions, avoiding layovers at Sioux City. , Buy local tickets to and from O’Niell. Makes lowest fare. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department op the Interior. Land Orrics at O’Neill, Neb. November 1, 18H9. Notice Is hereby'glven that the following j named settler has filed notice of his lntent tlon to make final proof In support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the register and receiver at O’Neill. Nebraska, on December 9. 1891). viz: A. CLYDE BROWNLEE, H. E. No. 14738. for the northeast quarter section 31, town ship 21), north range nine west lie names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and culti vation of said land viz: George E. Oandee, L. D. Hunt, a. J. Fleming and E. L. Brown lee, all of Page, Neb. 18-6 8. J. Wbekes, Register. Contest Notice. Department of the Interior, U nited States Land Office, O’Neill, Nebraska, November 11.1809. A sufficient contest affidavit having1 been filed in tills office by John Schneider, con testant, ugaiust timber culture entry No. (WOO, made February 19,1889. for the nei-i sec tion 19, township 81, range 15 \V, by M. H. Hancock, coutestee, in which it is alleged that M. H. Hancock has failed to break or cause to be broken ten acres of said tract and plant the same or cause to be planted to trees, tree seeds or cuttings, said ten acre tract as required by law and cultivate and care for the same as required by law: that at the date of said entry there were no trees standing and growing on said tract: that no improvements of any character were ever made or caused to be made on said tract by the entrynian, except that about eight acres were broken on the same and three aud one half acres were planted to cottonwood timber ail of which timber is now dead except about two hundred trees which average about threel'eet in height: that the said eight acres broken originally have grown up to grass and weeds aud become resodded as thoroughly as In its virgin state, because of necessary cultivation and care: that all of said failures occurred during the first eight years of the life of said entry and still exist, said parties are hereby notified to appear, respond and offer evidence touching said al legation at 10 o’clock, a. m., on December 19, 1809, before the liegister and Keceiver at the United States Land Office in O’Neill, Nebras ka. The said contestant having.'in a proper affidavit, filed November 11, 1899, set forth facts which show that after due diligence, personal service of this notice can not be made, it is hereby ordered and directed that such notice be given by due and proper pub lication. S. J. Weekes, ltegister. 20—4w NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior. Land Office at O’Neill, Neb. Nov. 29,1899.—Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in sup port of Ills claim, aud that said proof will be made before register and receiver at O’Neill, Neb., on January is. 1900. viz: TIMOTHY J. HURLEY. H. E. No. 14714 for the nw1* section 9. township 29 north, rang 10 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon aud cultiva tion of said land, viz: Charles Moore, Flor ence Sullivan, John Horriskey. all of O’Neill, Neb., and Winfield Haines, of Page. Neb. 32-0 S. J. WERkES, Register. Real Estate Bargains N E 20-28 9. 600 acres incultivation Good grove and orchard. $800. W£ se sesw and sw ne 9 26-14. Will cut 100 tons of hay. $7t;0. NJ ne ne nw 20 and sw se 17-32-11. Good grain farm. Engle Creek runs through the land. Price $550. 8w 17 27-10. Good hay aDd grain farm. Price $700. Ne 26-27-10. Se 24-28-12 from O’Neill. N* 20-28-12. Sw 31-80 11. Price $1000. Price $400. Fine hay farm, 5 miles Price $1000, 320 acres Price $1400. 160 acres in cultivation. Ni of ni 3 29-11. $450 buys this farm. W1 sw 17 and n^ nw 20 25-9. $500. $850 buys the nw 15-29-14 with build ings and 70 acres in cultivation. Wi 8 29-15. 120 acres in cultivation. $1500 for this 320 acres close to market. Nw 21-26-12. | mile from Chambers. 30 acres in cultivation and 10 acres of trees. $600. This is a snap. < WJ of section one and nw 12-30-15. Good location for sheep ranch. $1500 will buy this if taken at once. Best stock ranch m the county, known as the Brown ranch, south of Ewing. 480 acres. 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C.. uui Atntu FREE Headache stopped In 20 minutes by Dr Mile-- Pais Pills. “One cent a dose. O’NEILL BUSINESS DIRECTORY J~)U. P. J. FLYNN PHYCIAN AND SURGEON Office over Mann’s store. Night calls promptly attended. J)R. J. P. GILLIGAN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in Holt County Bank building Orders left at our drug store or at my residence first street north and hnlf block east of stand pipe will receive prompt response, as I have telephone connections. O’NEILL, • NEB. J)U. o. M. BERRY, DENTIST AND ORAL SURGEON Graduate of Northwestern University, Chicago, and also of American College of Dental Surgeory. All the latest and improved branches of ' " ’formed. Dentistry carefully per Office over Pfundsstore E.H . BENEDICT, LAWYER, Office tn the Judge Roberts building, north of O. O. Snyder's lumber yard. O NEILL, NBIl^ ’ R. DICKSON ATTORNEY AT LAW Reference First National Bank O'NEILL, NEB. jg ARNEY- STSV/ART,. PRACTICAL AUCTIONEER. Satisfaction guaranteed. Address, Page, Neb. 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