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PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO.
SUBSCRIPTION, SI.SO PER ANNUM.
D. H. CRONIN EDITOR AND MANAGER.
VOLUME XXII.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY. NEBRASKA, JULY 18, 190L
NUMBER 3.
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R. H. Jenness went to Omaha Sunday
For dental work go to Dr. McHerau
42-tf
John Brady was in from Dorsey Wed*
nesday.
Mo8© Campbell war down from Atkin
son Wednesday.
Mrs. R. J. Marsh was a passenger for
Omaha Tuesday.
Ice cream at Weingartners restaurant,
by the diBk or in bulk.
Postmaster Johnson was down from
Atkinson yesterday.
Dr. McLerau, dentist, office over
Corrigan’s drug store. 42-tf
A woven wire fence is being built
around the court-house yard.
Have your teeth examined by Dr.
McLeran; he can save them. 42-tf
A daughter was born Tuesday evening
to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morrison.
Deputy Sheriff.Bradstreet was a Sun
day morning passenger for Ewing.
Frank PixtSy departed yesterday for
his old home at Aspin, Io„ on a visit.
Ed Wagers went to Long Pine Mon
day. lie expects to work there fora
time.
llemmber those cheap pants and shoes
at Mann's. The discount varies from
331 to 75 per cent.
Editor Eves and Joe Mann were pass
engers for Atkinson on Sunday morn
ing’s freight.
Tlie hog market was lively Tuesday
morning, the north country apparently
"unloading” all together.
Spencer Advocate; Mies Coffey of
O’Neill, a sister of Maggie and 0. J.
Coffey, of this place, is visiting here.
Manns will continue their discount
sale on pants shoes, summer dress goods
and shirtwaist until Saturday, July 20.
LOST—Light gray coat between Ir
rigation ditch and O'Neill on July 9.
Name, U. C. Orimes, in inside pocket.
Leave at Dewey house <fc receive reward.
The Elkhorn Valley bank is undergo
ing some improvements inwardly. Re
papered walls and general cleaing up
makes a very great change for the
better.
FOR SALE—N W 1 section 30, town
ship 30, range 13; sw J section 30, town
ship 30, range 13. Address F. J Neas
bam, Ottumwa, Jo. 2 2
Rev. Richard Whitehouse will hold
service in the Episcopol church next
Sunday mornnig and evening at the
usual hour. A good attendance is
desired.
Will McNichols and sister-in-law.
Mrs. M. C. McNichols of Aspin, Colo,
are visiting relatives here. Will is an
old O'Neill boy, but has been away for
eight years.
Little Norman Campbell was severely
hurt by a kick from a horse the first of
the week. His face was cut open to a
sickening depth and a very bad wound
inflicted.
Lien Hunt went to Lincoln Sunday to
make.arrangements to beging work for
the Royal Highlanders. Mr. Hunt’s
health compels him to lay aside the
trowel at present.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hancock of Inman
were in the city Tuesday and called.
Mr. Hancock says that the hot weather
is not doing any damage to vegetation
in his neighborhood.
I will sell at private sale my house
hold goods consisting of parlor furnish
ings, bedroom, dinning and kitchen sets,
articles too numerous to mention. Call
at Residence.—Oscar E. Beckes.
Will M ulleu eame in the first of week
after a f our week’s tour of the county
taken orders for enlarging pictures.
Will says he is doing a land office
bpsiness, yet he votes the pop ticket.
Mies Lula McKuight of Neligb is
visiting in the city, the guest of Mr. and
Mis. J. J. King. M-. King and Miss
McKnight’s father were members of the
same company durin g the rebellion.
Neil Brennan keeps on hand mach
ine oil of the best grade, Gasoline and
lamp oil, stake rope and baits and will
not be undersold by any one. You will
save money by calling even if you dont
buy, 2-3
If you want a bargain in underskirts
for present or fall use call at Mann’s
and get prices. They are overstocked
on this line and to reduce these gar
ments are offering from 33 to 50 per
cent off.
The young ladies of the Catholic
church will give an ioe cream social at
the residence of M. F. Harrington on
Thursday evening, July 25. This
will be for the benefit of the Catholic
cemetary funds. Every one invited to
come.
For Sale—My cattle ranch on Dry
creek five miles south of O’Neill; 500
acres pasture fenced; 480 ^cers number 1
hav land; house sheds and all good im
provements for a ranch. Address
H. W. Shaw, O’Neill, Neb. 2-3pd
Nothing will bring a crowd together
any quicker than a fire alarm. Mon
day afternoon alarm was sounded and
within two minutes 100 people were
collected back of Pfund’s store, where
the side walk had caughl fire from a
pile of rubbish X’at McManus was burn
ing. No damage.
William Robinson of Chambers de
parted on Tuesday morning's F. E. pass
enger for Missouri in response to a tele
gram that his father was not expected
to live. Mr. Robinson had his wagons
loaded ready to start to Oaklahoma to
homestead when he received word of
his father’s illness.
The Frontier force is indebted to Mes
dames Woodruff and Plank for a treat to
icecream Monday. They took charge of
the Lapham&Edwards resturant that day
and manifested a neighborly feeling by
serving the tired printers to a cooling
dish. It was delicious ice cream and
showed that the new restnuranters are
no novices at the business.
All the fixtures for the bowling alley
has arrived and carpenters are now
busy putting things in shape. In a few
days all the boys will be talking about
is making a “strike,” a “spare” or some
other bowling term which to the unini
tiated will be like Greek. The alley is
regulation size and first class in every
respect. Mr. Ilallo expects to be opned
for business tomorrow.
Ewing Advocate: J.T. Carson is ex
perimenting with winter wheat this year,
bast fall he sowed a quarter of an acre
and on Tuesday brought a sample to
town. He is confident that it will make
sixteen bushels to the acre. Mr. Carson
also brought in some samples of alfalfa
and clover of twenty days’ growth
which will be hard to beat. The alfalfa
measures twenty-three inches in height
and the clover fifteen inches.
Stuart Ledger: Boyd Hobinson who
has for more than a year acted as assis
tant night operator for Mr. Sears is now
working for the agent at O’Neill.The
Indians pitohed their teepes near town
this week. There were twenty wagon
loads of them and their Indian village
gave a typical western tone to Stuart.
This is their annual visit at which time
they return to the reservation with their
rations of 50,000 pounds of flour.
One of the most remarkable proofs of
the amazing growth of that vast region
of our country commonly called the
Northwest, with its numerous sister
hood of States and its population of
more than seven million people, is tha
fact that it is only a little more than
eighty years since the first white baby
was born their. The child was a girl,
the daughter of a regular army officer,
and she is still living. A fascinating
account of her eventful life, the early
years of which were spent among sold
iers and sa vages, will appear in an issue
of The Ladies’ Home Journal.
Rev. O.E. Beckes returned last Thurs
day evening from Auburn, N. Y., where
he went a few weeks previous. The
friends of Rev. and Mrs. Ueckes will re
gret to learn that they will leave O’Neill
permanently. Mrs. Beckes is now' in
New York and her husband expect to
join her there the first week in August.
Her health is not good in Nebraska and
they leave on that accouut. The
Presbyterians have not yet secured a
pastor for the vacanoy caused by Rev.
Beckes’ departure, but they expect to
secure a minister at once and continue
the regular church work.
The two sides of a person’s face are
never alike says an exchange. The
eyes are out of line in two cases out of
five, and one eye is stronger than the
other in seven persons out of ten. The
right ear is also, as a rule, higher than
the left. Only one person in fifteen has
perfect eyes, the largest percentage of
defects prevailing among fair-haired
people. Short sight is more common in
town than among country folk, and of
all people the Germans have the largest
proportion of short-sighted persons.
The shortest intervals of sound can bet
ter distinguished with one ear than
with both. The nails of two fingers
never grow with the same rapidity, that
of the middle finger growing the fastest,
while that of the thumb grows slowest.
In fifty-four cases out of 100 the 1 eft leg
is shorter than the right.
Kev. Bertley Blaine of Page was in
the city Tuesday. Rev. Blaine is one
of the old familiar characters of Ilolt
county and a man with whom it is
always a pleasure to meet. The writer’s
first remembrance of him is as superin
tendent of public instruction of this
county. He was afterward pastor of
the Methodist church in O'Neill but for
many years has lived near Page, retiring
from active ministerial work four years
ago. Rev Blaine says the crops in his
neighborhood are in fine shape and corn
never made a better showing than it has
the past ten days. Small grain, he says,
may he damaged a little, but withal is
going to he a fairly good crop, now be
ginning to ripen.
“Sidewalks that aie made of plank
Makes onr heart light to travel,
But our mayor is having more pipe
dreams ,
Of tsidewalks made of gravel.—Bock
beer."
Nothing short of brewed “bock” could
ever inspire man or devil to toss upon
the literary public lines like the above.
They are probably meant for poetry,
but the spirit of the gentle muse fails
to flow through the pen of the author.
“Sidewalks that are made of plank
makes onr heart light to travel.” It
doesn’t make traveling with the feet on
planked walks any ensier. “Makes our
heart light to travel.” The writer’s head
must have become light, too. The slight
decrepitude in the rhythmical fragrance
of “plank” and “dreams” would never
be noticed. If the writer of the above
has any more lurking in his brain,
please wait until the hot weather
abates.
The state of Nebraska with John Carr
complaining witness begun action in
county court Monday against William
Sardeson alleging the shooting of two
head of cattle. Through a blunder on
the part of the able county attorney in
making out the oomplaint, the case was
dismissed upon motion of defendants at
torney, E. H. Whelan. The able county
attorney squared himself around after
being warped about by a lawyer fresh
from school who was handling his first
case and rectified his error and began
over. Meanwhile the tax payers foot
the bill of costs wbiah the able county
attorney incurs. The case is the out
growth of trouble between Sardeson and
Carr, the latter having a fence on the
homestead of the former, who is charged
with shooting cattle trespassing on his
place. Defendant was bound over to
the district court in the sum of $200.
W. F. Carpenter of Wyoming town
ship was in the city last week preparing
for a sale at his place four miles west of
Amelia and twenty-one miles south
of Atkinson on July 22. This will be
one of the largest sales that has taken
place in Holt county for many years,
perhaps the largest ever held. While
only a part of his property he intends to
sell, Mr. Carpenter calls special atten
tion to seventy-five head of Shorthorn
cattle—33 mileh cows, 20 steers, 30
heifers and 1 thorougbbread bull. While
not leglstered, the cattle are all bred up
to a grade equal to thoroughbreds.
Special care has been given to the herd
to breed up to the pure strain and par
ties desiring this grade of cattle should
attend the sale. For further particulars
see bills or write Mr. Carpenter at
Amelia.
The board of supervisors went over to
Whiting’s bridge on the Niobrara river
Tuesday and in conjunction with county
board of Boyd county will examine the
bridge with a view of ascertaining the
extent of the damages and repairs need
ed. The center span was damaged dur
ing the high water in June and the
bridge rendered unsafe. The Niobrara
bridges are costing the two counties a
good deal of money to keep in repairs
and it looks like the tax payers of
Holt and Boyd would gain in the long
run by abolishing the three bridges and
building one or two good steel struc
tures. It doesn’t pay to have cheap
bridges. The least high water throws
them out of line or wrecks some of the
timbers and they are unsafe. A bridge
the size of the Niobrara river bridges
can nover be permanent unless made of
steel. The only fortunate thing about
the bridge business on the Niobrara is
that both counties bear the expense.
In the Platte river country the counties
on the north side of the river build and
maintain the bridges. The two oonnties
had better put $5,000 into a good bridge
than to be troubled with the present
bridges continually.
flow to Keep cool in O’Neill.
8it on a chunk of ice and smoke the
Shamrock, a 10c cigar for a nickel.
Sold by all dealers. 32
I will be in O’Neill every Friday and
Saturday with my draft stallion and
Spanish jack, at Mellor & Quilty’s
barn—J. 11. McAllister. 47—tf
“Balduff” Ice Cream at Uilligan
& Stout’s.
SETTLING A DEFUNCT BANK.
How it Was Done by the Pops in the
Affair at Atkinson.
Consternation something like what
follows the exploding of a bomb was
felt among O'Neill pops when Tuesday’s
Nebraska Stste Journal came out of the
poetofflce. The Journal had a long
article about Bartley being paroled and
matters of political significance to this
part of the state. We quote in part
from the Journal article:
Secretary Royse of the state banking
board who has been corresponding with
various parties in regard to the super
vision of receivers of state banks, a
work which was imposed upon the bank
ing board by the last legislature, has
been peering Into several defunct con
cerns. He has unearthed some new in
formation concerning the Exchange
bank of Atkinson, whioh was Mr. Bart
ley’s bank before it went under. The
state had $55,000 deposited in this bank
and only $8,000 was realized after the
receiver finished his work. The work
of the receiver. Samuel B. Howard,
fusion candidate for state treasurer last
fall, may bo further investigated.
Whether this movement is connected
i with a general movement started by
Bartley to collect in money which may
be due him, or whether it is merely a
coincidence, will develops with lime.
Friends of Mr. Bartley have always
contended that be had loaned money to
men »ho were unable to return it when
he was called to account for state funds.
Without uttering a word, Bartley was
convicted of embezzling $201,000, the
proceeds of ore state warrant.
“I would not be suprised," said a pol
itician yesterday, “to find that Bartley
and his attorney have already collected
quite a large fund from persons who had
the use of state funds. It is certain that
an effort will be made to collect much
of the shortage, and no doubt the decis
ion of the supreme court in the Ben
Mills case will greatly accelerate collec
tions from such sources, as no borrower
of state funds will care
to face a decison of
that nature. Whether that decision is
applicable to person who secured money
from Bartley may be doubtful, but no
one desires to test it. As to Bartley’s
telling anything, l do not belive he will
utter a word.”
Bartley’s Bank.
In looking iuto the affairs of receiv
ers and broken banks Secaretary Royse
of the state banking board, has just dis
covered that Receiver Howard’s final
repoit has disappeared, rendering it im
possible for any one to tell what disposi
tion he made of the assets. The files
were taken from the office of the clerk
of the district court one year ago by
Receiver Howard and have never been
returned. Judge Westover’s order ap
proving the final report of the receiver
and all ac'ions taken by the receiver
and also discharging the receiver and
releasing his bondsmen was supposed to
be among the missing files. This order
was returned to the clerk of the district
court six weeks ago by Judge Harring
ton, another judge of the district. Judge
Harrington said he found the order in
his office.
The Deal it) Detail.
The manner in which the state’s in
terests in this bank were looked after
may be gleaned by the following, taken
in chronologioal order.
May 0, 1897, Bank Examiner Code re
ports that the Exchange bank of Atkin
son is in an insolvent condition, not
having 15 per cent of its deposits in
available cash.
May 7, 1897, state banking board or
ders bank closed, and attorney General
Smyth dies petition in district coust at
O’Neill asking for the appointment of a
receiver with authority to “compromise
bad assets and convert all property into
money as speedily as possible."
May 10, 1897, Judge W. H. Westover,
who lived 219 miles from the proposed
scene of operations, appointed S. B.
Howard as receiver, on a bond of $2,500
ordering “said receiver to report his
doings in permiscs to this court from
time to time as required by law.”
May 17, 1897, Receiver Howard applies
for aurthority to employ an at
torney. Two days later Judge YVest
over grants the request and Howard em
ploys J. .1. Harrington, since made
district judge.
July 3, 1897, Attorney General rlmyth
dies petition Btating that Bartley had
$55,000 deposited in the bank, which
properly belonged to the state.
July 6, 1897, county attorney of Holt
dies a petition stating that Bartley was
indebted to Holt county on certain
judgments amounting to $8,000.
July 9, 1897, attorney general dies
claim of $55,000 against the assets of
the bank, and says the state “repudiates
the act of Bartley in depositing the
money, and refuses to ratify or be a
party to the act.”
August 25, 189T, petition of U. K.
Bennett and other depositors that their
attorney, Mike Harrington, and the re
ceiver go to Lincoln to confer with the
state officials, the expenses to be paid
from the assets of the bank. The ap
plication promptly allowed by Westover
Expense bill of this trip is still con
cealed.
August 25, 1807, petition by Mike
Harrington that if claim of the state is
allowed the individual depositors (and
their attorney) will get nothing.
February 5, 1808, offer of the deposit
ors to take certain notes and an over
draft as one-half their claim, the balance
to be paid in cash; state that the indi
vidual deposits amount to $10,055, and
that the receiver now has in his hands
$11,000 in oash.
March 17, 1898, settlement effected by
Mike Harrington for depositors, they
taking as their claim in full certain
notes and securities amounting to $20,
429.79, and $2,750 in cash. Later evi
dence that Harrington paid the depos
itors 75 per cent of their claims and kept
the securities.
August 5, 1898, Howard flies notice
that he has on hand $7,500 to divide
between the county and state.
August 18, 1898, Judge Westover,
having waited until Harrington had
taken his piok of the assets, decides that
the bank and Bartley owes the state
$55,000 and the county $6,000. On this
same date Howard filed another notice
that he had $7,500 to divide, and the
state and county filed notice that they
had agreed upon a pro rata settlement.
November 29, 1899, Howard filed
notice recommending the sale of all the
assets of the bank at public sale.
Eow Assets Were Sold.
| On the same date Judge Westover is
sued an order that the assets be sold at
public sale on December 16, 1899, and
that the sale be continued from day to
day until all were sold, "said assets to
be either sold separately or collectively
as the receiver shall believe to be to the
best interests of all concerned.”
This order plainly gave the receiver
free swing. There is not another scratch
of a pen on file in the district clerk's
office to show the result of the sale, but
oral evidence is that the reoelver bar
gained off all the best assets of the bank
to the chairman of the populist county
committee for $40 without allowing
anyone else a chance to bid. This was
done by "adjourning” the sale.
There are occasional filings on the
record to show that certain debts weie
compromised at low figures, so that at
the time of the $7,500 divide with the
county and state the receiver must have
had in his hands two or three thousand
dollars more than that amount.
One stroke of business which was
performed in March, 1899, was never
recorded in the district clerk’s office.
The bank at Atkinson had a fine build
ing which was bought in 1894 at $7,500.
It was well fitted up and besides the
vault had a safe which cost $1,500.
The property was carried on the bank
books at $10,000, and after the oollapse
there were a number of people ready
to buy if given a chance. Howard, how
ever, had other plans. On February 28
he notified Judge Westover at Rushville
that he had an offer of $1,000 for the
property, "and after diligent effort”
oould find no better bid. Westover
promptly ordered him to sell and the
deal was made.
The bank building, safe and fixtures
were sold to Ed Gallagher of O’Neill for
$1,000, and a rent bill owned by Gallag
her for $210 was applied on the purobase
price, so that the property went for
$700. Other parties who would have
paid four or five thousand dollars and
had notified Howard of that fact, were
given no chance to buy. The transact
ion was kept in concealment so far as
the district court reoord at O’Neill is
concerned, but copies of the applica
tion and permission to sell were filed in
the office of the county clerk two days
after the sale was made.
The bank wag closed up for political
purposes and a judge 319 miles away ap
pointed a politician as receiver at a
nominal bond, which bond has never
been seen. The receiver went ahead
“compromising” claims and slaughter
ing assets without making any public
report. The Harrington brothers, prom;
inent populist bosses, acted as attorneys
for everybody. They settled the claims
of the individual {depositors by taking
twenty thousand dollars’ worth of notes
and $3,750 in cash. The depositors re
ceived less than $8 000 for their claims.
The other assets were eased down into
the hands of political favorites. The
state’s interests suffered at every hand
and no record of the expenses, receipts
or operations, and no detailed report of
assets has ever been placed before the
public.
When the Bank Closed.
The report of the bank published
Maroh 33, 1897, showed that the bank
had loans and discounts, $88,303,13; over
drafts.$608.91; stocks, bonds and judg
ments $7,338.83; banking house, furni
ture and fixtures $10,000; due from other
banks, $6,883,59; cash on hand $8,861.35
The capital stock of the bank was $80,
000, and the deposits were, $70,984,46.■
On August 36 1898, the'state receivred
$6,763.30, and on Jane 15,,1900, it receiv
ed $1,443.81, This last payment was
made after Howard had his badges
printed announcing his candidacy for
the state treasury ship. According to
to the records at O’Neill he must have
been carrying the money just seven
months, the date of the final sale of
assets for cash having been December
16. 1899. _
Strayed—From pastures of Elkhorn
Irrigation Co., four horses, one sorrel
gelding, one roan gelding, one brown
gelding with white bind foot and one
black mare. Suitable reward for infor
mation leading to recovery.
3-3 Sam Deitrick.
“Balduff” Ice Cream at HllUg**
& Stout’s.
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| Special Sale |
In order to get ready for our large stock ^
£ of Fall Clothing we will place on sale on ^
|Saturday July 13, about!
£ * 3
1100 pairs of men’s pants,|
% at a 001 per 1
discount of v«J3 cent. I
^ This sale will be continued until the stock is reduced. ^
£ - - - . .-3
£ 3
g We are also slaughtering the^
% prices on about 200 pairs of Shoes 3
£ that we are anxious to close out il
£ before placing our new fall goods %
% on sale. 3
The cut on these goods ranges
from 331-3 to 75 per cent. Call^
£ and ]ook these goods over before^
£ making purchases in these lines. i|
fj. P. MANN I
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