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VOLUME XXI. O’NEILL. HOLT COUNTY. NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 29. 1900. NUMBER 22.
C. W. Hamilton was down from Stuart
Tuesday. __
Barney Stewart was up from Page
Tuesday.
A. M. Sageser of Newport was in the
city .Tuesday.
Editor Oombs of Spencer was in the
city Wednesday.
Of era-house tonight, Lloyd & Gay, in
A Celebrated Case.
Wiliam Laviollelte was in Sioux City
Monday and Tuesdav.
Don’t miss A Celebrated Case at the
J^era-house tonight.
Lae Chapman was down ( torn Atkin
son the first of the week.
Cash paid for poultry after Novem
ber 1, 1900.—F. M. Brittell.
Choice candies and holiday goods, at
Cress. Cali and see them. 21-3
Hiss Mattie Mann visited with friends
in Atkinson last Thursday.
The schools take a vacation until next
week owing to Thanksgiving.
O. O. Snyder was looking after busi
ness matters in Sioux City Monday.
Mrs. Mose Campbell and little daugh
ter of Atkinson are in the city today.
It is safe to assert that Ita Laphatn
does not like to sleep in the court room.
All are invited to attend the Thanks
giving ball, at the rink Thursday even
- ing. ___
Traveling agent of the American
Book compacy visited the city this
week.
£. B. Benedict has first-class Building
and Loan stock for sale or can make you
a loan. __ 46-tf
I keep all kinds of huskers’ supplies.
Now is the time to get your pick. Neil
Brennan. 16-tf
W. A. Rich of Paddock was a caller
Jjfuesday morning and renewed for The
Frontier.
* Miss Anna Hopkins went to Lincoln
yesterday, to spend Thanksgiving with
her parents.
C. W. Moss was in from Amelia Tues
day looking as happy as he did the day
after election.
The Official count gives Neville the
small majority of 209 votes over Kin
kaid for congress.
LOST—In O'Neill, Nov. 21, fountain
pen, reward will be paid to finder bring
ing it to this office. 22-2
P. J. Donohoe was looking afer the
interests of the Great Northern in
O'Niell Tuesday.
Mayor Hugh Gallagher of Darlington,
Wis., is in the city visiting his brother,
Mayor Ed Gallagher.
Mrs. Nicholson of Valentine is visit
ing her mother Mrs. O’Sullivan and
other relatives here.
Rev. Rominger was at Ewing Sunday
assisting in the quarterly meeting of
the Methodist church.
Tbe Thanksgiving ball has been
changed from November 29 to the 80.
All are invited to attend.
„ Until May 1 Dr. Corbett will be in
O'Neill from the 16th to 30th of each
month. Teeth or photographs.
John Weekes attended the ratification
meeting held at Lincoln last Saturday
and reports an excellent time.
Ed Purdy was in from his ranch last
Thursday to get three throughbred rams
which he had shipped up from Kansas.
Bennett Martin has sold his farm of
600 acres in the Redbird country to a
man by name of Roberts living at
Lanrel.
Jim Campbell, an old resident of Holt
county but now living in Sioux City,
came over to O’Neill last night on land
business.
Union Thanksgiving services arc held
this forenoon by the Presbyterian and
Methodists at the place of worship of
the latter.
C. N. Lukes, of Sioux City, represent*
ing the Farmers Loan and Trust com
pany, was in the city the latter part of
last week.
G. C. Hazelett and family and A. J.
Meals arrived in the city last evening,
Messrs. Meals and Hazelett recently
returning from Alaska.
The weather has moderated since last
week—the snow is all gone and the
tempature only lacks a few degrees of
grass-growing waimpth.
V
C. E. Downer, special agent tor Union
Fire Ins. Co., mntua), of Lincoln. All
business in Holt county promptly at
tended to. Address. Hainesville. 18-5
J. M. Alderson was in from the south
country yesterday looking as happy as
a two-year old in a clover patch. And
all republicans look and feel that way
now.
FOR RENT—The farm know as the
Oarlon farm, adjoining O’Neill, (240
acres ) Thomas Carlon, 204 206, Cooper
Block, Denvtr, Colo., can give you par
ticulars. _ 21-8
Rey. Father Cleary has been engaged
for two lectures in O’Neill, December 11
and 12 being the dates. Father Clery will
be remembered as having lectured here
about a year ago.
M. Fiannigan was in town Tues
day looking as happy and care-free as
in the good old eighties when he warm
ed a chair in the commissioners room of
the county building.
On account of the Thanksgiving
vaotion, the teachers’ reading cirole will
be postponed until Saturday, December
8. A full attendance is requested J.
V. Owens, Chairman.
The celebrated D. H. Baldwin St Co.'s
pianos and organs, winners of first prize
at the Paris exposition, for sale by F. B.
Cole & Son. O'Neill. The best musical
instruments on earth. 15-tf
A frame for a new barn rears itself
over the ground occupied by the Mullen
livery, recently burned. It is ot about
the same dimentions as the old one but
will be improved in some particulars.
ONeill merchants realize that ads in
The Frontier pay good dividends. They
are set neat and attractive and the paper
reaches more homes than any other
newspaper in this section. Try an ad
a few months and note results.
I have purceased the Merriman res
turant south of postoffice and will furnish
hot meals at all hours. Also have start
ed the brkery and can supply all with
first-clast bread. Also fruits, candies,
cigars, etc.—L. E. Pyzer. 21-2
The family of Mr. and Mrs. John
Horriskey is having a trying experience
with sickness. Mr. and Mrs* Horriskey’s
daughter Katie was sick all summer
with typhoid fever and now their son
John is down with the same disease.
The editor nows sports a $5 “dicer"
purchased for us by Bro. Eves of the
Independent. The hat is a “beaut" and
enjoyed by us. But our misguided com
petitor has probably lost all faith in the
Sunflower state while we believe it is
O. K. _
Get your Christmas apples while
cheap. E. S. Kinch has a car of choice
New York apples stored in Pfunds
cellar, of the following varieties: .Bald
wins, Russets. Greenings, Northern
spies, King, Seek Nofurther, Spitzen
bergs and Bell Flower. 5-w pd.
County Treasurer Henry and wife re
turned from Iowa last week where they
spent a few weeks visiting relatives,
and where the former had an oppor
tunity to drown his sorrow—over the
election returns—inhaling the good pure
air of a rook-ribbed republican state.
E. S. Gilmour was up fiom Ewing
last Friday. Although E. S. missed
going to Lincoln by eight votes he is
as happy and oontented as any one
could well be and said he was more than
pleased with the vote he received in
O’Neill and throughout the county.
All the members of local Modern
Woomen camp are urgently requested
to be present at the next meeting of the
camp, next Tuesday evening December
4. Election of officers and a vote on the
reserve fund proposition will come up
that night and it is important that all
members be present.
The work on the convent is progress
ing rapidly. The plumbers have been
at work the past six weeks and expect
to complete their work next week. This
work is being done by Noble & Durkin,
Sioux City. Their foreman, Chris
Moran, says he has worked in lots of
buildings but never in one that was
better finished than this one is, nor is
there in my estimation, he added, a finer
school building than St. Mary’s Convent
in the west. _
E. S. Kinch has been notified by the
quartermaster's office of the United
States army at Washington that the con
tract has been made for head stones for
the graves of dead soldiers The gov
erment furnishes head stones for the
soldiers who were in the war of the re
bellion and the Qrand Army here has
been working for the past eight years to
get stones for the soldiers’ graves in the
O’Neill cemetery. Mr. Kinch is inform
ed that the list sent in form here is in
cluded in a list of names just prepared
by the department for the contractor,
and it is expected to have the stones
here to erect by spring.
According to the American Agricult
urist, the total yield of oorn in the
United 8tates this year is 2,188,000,000
bushels, against 2,207,000,000 bushels in
1899, and 1,868,000,000 bushels in 1898.
The average yield this year is 25.0
bushels an acre, against 25 4 bushels in
1899, and against about 28 bushels an
acre in 1898.
Strayed or Stolen—During the summer
season from Pete Duffy’s range in north
Holt county, one dark grey 2-year old
colt, with star in face and one white
bined foot—heavy draft colt. Liberal
reward will be given anyone Jor infor
mation as to its whereabouts by leaving
word at this office. 22-tf
In a fire at Lynch last week Dr.
Homer Newell sustained the loss of his
office building,furniture and professional
instruments. Homer (as he is familiarly
known in O’Neill) is having a good deal
of bad lack since going to Lynich. His
first misfortune was a sever sick spell,
later he came near drowning and now is
burned out.
The population of Nebraska as offici
ally announced is 1,069,529. This is an
increase since 1890 of 9,629, or 9 per
cent. The population in 1880 was 452,
402, showing an increase of 606,508, or
134 per cent, from 1880 to 1890. The
population of Holt county is 12,224
against 13,672 in 1890 and 3,287 in 1880.
Boyd has a population of 7,833 against
695 in 1890. _'
Mr. Cooper of Chambers, late defeat
ed candidated for supervisor, is very in
dignant becansed The Frontier trotted
out one of its best blooded fouls to crow
for Grimes and his victory. Had
we known Mr. Cooper was so sensalive
on that particular point or that his per
mission was necessary we might have
refrained from the former and endeav
ored to secure the latter. He is to
blame for he should have notified us.
Too bad.
William Bardeson of Sioux City has
taken a quarter of government land on
Dry Greek about fourteen miles south
west of this citv and as soon as he can
erect a building thereon will move bis
family from Sioux City. Mr. Sardeson
is a dog fancier And has had kennels in
Sioux City and other Iowa towns the
past eighteen years. He will probably
continue that business here as he owns
several thoroughbred English setters
which he will bring with him from
Sioux City when he moves up.
Henry Hartland was in from the north
country Tuesday. Mr. Hartland in
formed us he lost fifteen head of cattle
in two nights from the dread corn stnlk
disease. He turned his cattle out;one
afternoon and that night lost three head.
The next day they were in the stocks
and that night. he lost twelve head.
Since that time he has kept his cattle
out of the stalks and has not lost any
more. Several of his neighbors have
lost cattle in the same manner, so it ap
pears the only safe way to do this year
is to keep cattle out of the corn fields.
A. T. Potter returned from the Klon
dike last Thursday evening looking hale
and hearty after his sojourn in the
artic regions. Judging from appearances
the trip was beneficial to Mr. Potter as
he has increased several pounds in
weight and is looking better than we
have seen him for years. He says all
the boys are enjoying good health and
well satisfied with their trip. Mr Potter
says eight of them worked eight days
digging for the precious yellow metal
and in that time brought to surface $400
worth. Judging from this the O’Neill
Klondikers have a bonanza.
The time of the district court last
Thursday and Fridry was occupied try
ing a case entitled Independent Publish
ing Co. vs. Holt county. This was on a
bill for supplies furnished the county,
consisting mostly of blanks. The board
last winter awarded the Omaha Printing
company the contract for this class of
work and for that reason tefnsed to al
low the bill of the Independent. Judge
Westover held that the county had no
binding contraot with the Omaha people
and for that reason the plaintiff could
supply the goods. The jury returned a
verdict for the plaintiff, cutting his claim
twelve per cent.
In a letter to his parents last Friday,
Arthur Coykend all stated that Rosco
Conklin was dead. He died November
2, 1000, at Binghampton, JN. Y., where
he was visiting, from gastretis, aged 59
years. Arthur adds: “That is all I could
find out, except that after he died and
they were looking through his clothes,
they found $1,400 scattered around in
his various pockets, not a pocket that
hadn’t money in it. I shall miss him
here very much." Roscoe was well
known in O’Neill where he lived for
several years and during most of his
residence here was connected with some
hotel, with which .business it is said he
was thoroughly familiar. He left
O’Neill about seven years ago going to
Wash In ton in which city he was em»
ployed in the government printing
office, having secured the position
through the influence of prominent
eastern politio&ns who were his personal
friends. Despite his eccentrioties he
was a genial whole-souled fellow and had
many warm friends in O’Neill.
A medical item: Ordinary beef tea,
which is (imply the concentrated waste
material contained in flesh foods, has a
certain stimulating property. Many
drunkards are just as well satisfied to get
a cup of beef tea as they are to get a
glass of whiskey. In medical practice
the class of patients that were formerly
given beef tea are now given strychnine.
In the animal the waste products are
dissolved by the fluids of the body, thus
forming a large share of the poisonous
substances contained in the secretions
of the kidneys. At death this process
ceases and an accumualatiom of waste
products not yet dissolved is left in the
animal’s body. For this reason it is
scarcely possibly to imagine a more
filthy drink than beef tea. Labratory
experiments show that it contains prac
tically tne same substances as are found
in the secretion of the kidneys.—A para'
graph from an article on “Flesh Foods,"
by David Paulson, M. D.
One of the moat sensational as well
as disgusting trials ever held in O’Neill
was entitled the State of Nebraska vs
George M. Berry, nwho was accused of
assault upon Mrs. Effle Gnnn. The pro
secution was conducted by H. M. Uttley
and the county attorney while R. R.
Dickson, Judge Kinkaid and M. F.
Harrington looked after the interests of
the defendant. The complaining wit
ness, Mrs. Gunn, testified that on or
about August 8, the defendant did at
tempt to assault her in his office in
O’Neill. This evidencewas not corroborat
ed. This was denied by the defense and
a half dozen or more witnesses introduc
ed to testify as to the character of the
complaining witness. Some of this
evidence was disgusting. The argu
ments were made by the oonnty at
torney and Mr. Uttley for the state, and
by Judge Kinkaid and Mr. Dickson for
the defense. After receiving the in
structions of the court the jury retired
about 10 o’clock Monday night, remain
ing out until about 2 o’clock Tuesday
afternoon when they were called in and
discharged, being unable to agree. It is
understood the last ballot stood seven
for acquittal and five for conviction.
Would Cast Luster on the State.
Sunday’s State Journal contained this
of one of oar townsmen: “The writer
had the pleasure of hearing Judge Kin
kaid at his first appearance in a coart of
record over twenty-five years ago. In
all those twenty-five years there has
never been a backward step. A man of
whose ability and true judicial mind
there is m question. A business man
who has never stooped to accumulate
bis wealth. A citizen with a character
that cannot even be assailed in a cam
paign in the Sixth district. A politician
without bluster or boodle. There
may be men north of the Platte with
more attributes to cast luster upon our
state in the senate but the writer has
not met them, or meeting, has not
known as be has Judge Kinkaid.”
“A Celebrated Case.”
Minneapolis Journal: That fascinat
ing French drama, “A Celebrated Case,”
with its wealth of improbability, bat
powerful and interesting story, was
given an adequate presentation at the
Lyceum theatre last evening.
The drama was given under the direc
tion of William Lloyd,an actor of ability
who appeared to fine a 1 vantage in both
the prologue and the play proper. In
the play Mr. Lloyd was the Count de
Mornay, the French noblemen. In the
prologue he was the robber and assassin.
Miss Emma Muncy played the wife and
mother in the prologue, and Adrienne,
the daughter, in the play. Her perfor
mance was highly creditable.
Charles Gay, as Denis O’Rourk, kept
the audience in a roar of laughter. The
others in the cast, all deserve credit for
their conscientious work. Opera-house
tonight, Nov. 29.
A Story, Bat Trae to Life.
A man walked into a country printing
office the other day and said to the edi
tor: "Say, if you want something to
fill up your paper with, you might say
in your next issue that I have just start
ed a shop to make and repair wagons
and carriages, and would like to have
everybody call and see me.”
"All right,” replied the editor. "Do
you want an advertisement in the
paper, too?”
"No,” said the man; "just an item in
the local column.”
"Do you want to lubscribe for the
paper?” asked the.editor. .
"Well, no,” said the man. "I am tak
ing two or three city papers and some
story papers from Chicago; I haven’t
PROSPERITY ^ CHRISTMAS
GOODS AT COLE'S
irarejizjrajsbrnlj
GIFTS
OF
GOLD
We have a store full of pretty and useful
things for the holidays and are making some
very enticing bargains on the goods men
tioned below. They are going to go fast.
LADIES’ AND GENTS’ WATCHES
IN GOLD OR SILVER, GOLD RINGS,
‘ SILVER AND CHINA SETS, TOILET
SETS, MANACURE AND DESK
SETS AND SILVER NOVELITIES
All bright," new, clean and in the latest de
signs. Come in and get something pretty.
F. B. COLE & SON
got time to read anymore. Maybe I'll
take your paper when tome of them
others run out.”
"Ail right,” said the editor and he
smiled to himself.
Next day the editor sent his oarriage
around to the new wagon shop. He
wanted two new spokes put in the wheel
and the dashboard repaired. He saw
the man and told him he had a little
job for him, just to help fill up his time
and keep him busy.
The man looked it over and said:
“Well, the spokes will be 50 cents eaoh
and the dashboard 81.”
"Oh,” said the editor, "I didn’t mean
to pay for it. I just brought it around,
same as you brought that item to me
yesterday, just to fill up your time, it's
only an item, you know.”
And the wagon maker saw the point.
THE MAGAZINE WRITER.
(Ladies Home Journal.)
Tasteful dress is as wholesoma and
necessary a thing for a woman as good
food and drink. But if she makes life
a long debauch of clothes she is exactly
in the position of the glutton or the
drunkard. ** ---■*»
It is a high attainment in politeness to
allow others to be mistaken. Let a trifl
ing missatement pass unnoticed where
no priuoiple is involved, and when a
mistake is wast remedy it is best to let
the subject drop. The argument of the
“I told you so” character is always quite
superfluous. '
The simlest things are the things that
realty appeal to us most, and that is
only because when we are simple we
are natural. An enjoyment that is
natural is always the deepest and truest.
The moment the artifloal, the conven
tional,comes into our lives, that moment
the sweetest realizations go out.
I always like to see a girl and her
father good friends, and by that I mean
chummy, advisory friends, who can talk
like equals about anything that comes
up, in the family life or out of it. Such
a girl is likely to be level-headed. She
is apt to make up her mind more slowly,
and to keep it made up when she has
once done so, after she has observed the
cautious and judicial way in which her
father’s mind sets to work.
The Jerusalem we see today is not the
one that gladdened the eyes of the Holy
Family journeying from Nazareth to
worship in the Temple. That city lies
buried forty, fifty, sometimes over a
hundred feet deep in wastage piled in
the overthrow of many sieges. The
crimson banner of the Moslem floats
above the Tower of David, used as
barracks, and the Tu rkish sentinel pao*
ing his rounds looks with ineffable
scorn on the Christian. The crumbling
Tower of Antonia, the citadel' of the
Temple, is occupied by the Governor of
Jerusalem, and, if possession counts in
the law, it is his right, for he held it
before William the Conqueror was
crowned with the Saxon’s crown in
Westminster Abbey.
In order to introduce The Semi-Week
ly State Journal to a whole lot of new
homes it will be sent free from now un
til January 1, 1902, to any person send
ing us One Dollar for a year’s subscrip
tion. This gives you the paper from
now until January 1, 1902, for only One
Dollar. The State Journal is the recog
nized state paper and shonld be in every
home in the state. Printed at the capi
tal it gives more prompt and accurate re
ports of Nebraska doings than any other
paper, and as it gives you two papers
eaoh week it furnishes you with the lat
est news several days ahead of other pa
pers. You will not want to be without
The Journal during the legislature and
the great senatorial contest. The ear
lier you send the dollar the more papers
you will get for your money. Address,
The Journal at Lincoln, Neb.
{ THE COUNTY press]
Atkinson Plaln«Dealer:
Last Saturday evening Henry Msrtiri
of Sheridan township met!wilh quite an
accident while returning home from
town. When out about two miles he
ran into a ditoh and upset his buggy, the
horse beooming frightened and' dragging
the buggy for some distance, breaking it
bevond repair. Fortunately Henry
escaped without a acratoh.
Chambers Bugle:
August Bcbrlerjand wife had quite an
acoident last week, while out driving.
When near Norton's place the buggy
dropped into a ditch and the horses
becoming unmanageable, started on a
run and threw the occupants of the
▼ehlole out. Mr. Bobrter was dragged
some distance and received several
bruises about the face and sustained
other Injuries. He had been in ill health
for some time, and the accident made
his condition worse. His wife was but
slightly hurt
Ewing Advocate: ** ‘
There was a change of postmasters at
Bliss this week and the postofflce Is
moved about two and a half miles from
the former location. We did not lean
the name of the new postmaster.
The Riverside school house was bum*
ed down Monday night. The origin of
the fire is not known It was Insured
in the Continental for $400. The school
was well equipped with books, maps,
charts,globs, etc. which will be the most
serious loss. They will rebuild immed
lately. The Greenier district sent word
that the pupils in the Riverside district
might attend sohool with them free of
tuiton until the new school house is
ready for occupancy.
Watch Maker.
Mr. Wm. M. Lockard, of Scranton,
Fa., is now located at Giillgan 4k Stout,
drug store, where be will do all all kinds
of watch, clock and Jewelry reparinge
All work guaranteed. 21-2
For Sale—A Bargain.
NE 26. NW 25 and E|SW and W*
BE 24-85-14 480 with running water,
$1,800 for 80 days only.
M. Lyons, Emmett, Nab.
Notice.
All parties owing me on account are
requested to call and make settlement
before Decembet 1st. P. J. Flynn.
The Bemi-Weekly Journal and The
Frontier one year $2 25.
Special Sale
CUT PRICES
To redaoe our large stock of
ladies waists we offer for a limited
time only—
Flannel and mercerized waists,'
worth $1.25, at only..$ 95
All $1.50 waists for. 1 15
1.75 waists for. 1 35
2.00 waists for.1 55
2.50 waists for.....1 95
3.00 waists for.2 85
3.50 waists for.2 75
4.50 waists for.3 60
5.00 waists for.3 95
5.75 waists for.4 60
6.00 waists for.. 4 75
and 20 per cent on all above' these
prices.
This is a rare chance to bay seas
onable and stylish goods at whole-*
sale prices. J. P. MANN