PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. SUBSCRIPTION, SI.SC PER ANNUM. O. H. CRONIN EDITOR AND MANAGER. VOLUME XXII. O’NEILL. HOLT COUNTY. NEBRASKA, AUGUST 8, 190L NUMBER 6. LOCAL MATTERS AS NAILED ON THE EDN Little Things of General In tersts People Like to Read About. YOUR NAME IN PRINT Movements, Accidents, Fortunes and Misfortunes of You and Your Neighbor Made Public. S. J. Weekes was in Neligli Monday. For dental work go to Dr. McLeran 42-tf John Olsen is confined to his bed this week. M. M. Sullivan is visiting relatives in Montana. C. W. Hamilton of Stuart was in the city Tuesday. Miss Coykendall returned Saturday from Omaha. Pat Gallagher was down from Atkin son Sunday. Emil Sniggs was a passenger for Nor folk Sunday . Miss Clara Zimmerman of Atkinson was in the city Sunday. Jake Hershiser was up from Norfolk the first of the week. Have your teeth examined by Dr. McLeran;he can save them. 42-tf Teeth or photographs at Corbett’s, 16th to 30th of each month. 39tf. For Sale—One Thousand bushels of corn. Robert Mogirl, O’Neill. 5-2 Dr. McGeran, dentist, office over Corrigan’s drng store. 42-tf P'or furnishd room and board enquire of Mrs. M.M. Sullivan. 6—tt Andy Gallagher was up from Garni re-newiug old acquaintances. FTed Swingley was among the many Atkinson people in town Sunday. Mrs. C. L. Metz, of Laurl, is in the city visiting Mrs. Fannie Gallagher. The bank fixtures for the O’Neill National have arrived and been installed. Bert Mapes, county attorney of Madi son county, was in the city on business Monday. The 33 £ per cent discount sale on silk waists ends Saturday, August 10.—Manns. Az Perry, of the Atkinson & Northern railroad, was in the city Saturday, going to Omaha Sunday. Mrs. S. G. Nichals left this morning for Des Monies Iowa to spend a few weeks visiting relatives. Henry Martfelt has t he thanks of the editoral family for a mess of green corn which he preseanted Monday. The Holt county teachers institute, which was adjourned in June, will re convene in O’Neill on August 19. The new fence at the court house is being completed rapidly and is a sub stantial and neat looking affair. Couuty Attorney Douglas of Rock county was in the city Tuesday rolling balls up the alley at the white front. Billy Hagensick is taking a forced lay off from his blacksmith shop owing to a bad arm contracted in setting a tire. Grand new free out side show will be given on show grounds after parade of great eastern show Saturday Aug.10. Rev. Beckes preached his farewell sermon last Sunday morning and depart ed the first of the week for New York. The grand all new, free street parade every morning at 13 s m Great Eastern B. 11. show, O’Neill, Saturday Aug 10. A single ticket for the usual price of admission will admit the holder to the combined shows the Great eastern R, R. show Aug 10. Mills & Palmer have put down a 00-ft well for the citv at the power house. A gasolene power pump will be attached to it. FOR SALE—My house and four lots in western part of town. Part cash and ;,fjj|ime on balance to responsible party. |—J. G. Wendell. 'f A bunch of broncos were brought to ©'Neill last week and sold. They went like hot cakes, so to speak, prices rang - ing from $12 to $25. I America’s newest, greatest and most gjfyiouular show. All new, larger, finer, Hgthau ever, Great Eastern R. R. show. O’Neill, August 10. C The ladies of the Catholic cburoh will serve dinner and supper on the church grounds on August 15th for the benifit of the school. A man who will sit upon the street and disoource such music as was rendered yesterday ought to be incarcerated in the city bastile. Tom Shively of Norfolk was in the city Sunday, coming up to attend the burial of the infant child of his sister’s, Mrs. Gallagher. S. N. Green,Kwing’s popular druggist, made this office a pleasant call Saturday while in the city attending the meeting of the republican county committee. Mann’s have only a few cotton shirt waists left. They will make 33 i cut on what remains. If in need of any call on them as they guarantee bargains. James O’Donnell went down to West Point Sunday morning where he urn piled a game that afternoon between Creighton and West Point. Creighton won on a score of six to four. Manns received this week one of the best line of dress goods and trimings ever brought to the city .Call in and ex amine them. They will be glad to show you whether purchasing ornot. C. S. Anderson of Ord, formerly principal of the O’Neill public school, won 160 acres of land in the Okla homa land lottery last week. C. S. was always lucky on the “draw.” The only big responsible show coming this season, a moral show, a good show, a big show, the greatest performers, the richest costumes, the Great Eastern Railway show Saturday, Aug 10. The 1-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.|K. J. Gallagher died at Alliance last Friday. The remains were brought to this city by the. parents Saturday even ing, the funeral being held Sunday morning. It is expected that the mail service on the Spencer-O’Neill route will be changed so as to make a round trip from O’Neill to Spencer each . day. This would give Spencerites their mail about four hours sooner than they now re ceive it. Wilt sell at private sale at my resi dence 3 doors east of Presbyteian church 3 bed room suits, 3 stoves all kitchen and dining room furniture, carpets, sofa and a number of other articles. They must be sold, I do not want to ship them.—James V. Stout. In a letter to A. B. Newell from West Point ChaB Meals says that all the cadets will be in Buffalo, N. Y., from August 14 to 38, and says that if any Holt county people happen to be there at that time he would be pleased to see. hem Charley says he will get a furlough next year and visit his O'Neill friends. E. F. Bowen, one of the rock-ribbed republicans of Shields was in O’Neill today and ordered The Frontier sent to his address. Mr. Bowen,is a new arrival in this county having purchased the William Keeley farm northwest of O’Neill last winter and moved thereon this spring,coming fromDouglas county. The prohibitionists of Holt county will meet in convention at the court house in O’Neill on Wednesday, August 31, at 10 o’clock a. m., for the purpose of nominating a full county ticket and to select delegates to the state conven tion which will meet at Lincoln on Sep tember 4. —T. M. Elder, county chair man. A. B. Newell had a lively time in a runaway while coming in from a drive in the country Monday. A pole-strap broke and got his team excited. The horBcs began to run and rattle things up pretty lively. The buggy tongue and double trees were smashed and the occu pants of the buggy well shaken up, but no one hurt. E. P. Hicks and wife retuned Satur day evening from their eastern trip. Mr. Hicks says the east lias suffered more from the heat and drouth than the west. They went over into Canada from liuffalo and the sun’s rays beat down at the rate of 105 in the shade. Pastures, lie says, are dried up. There will be no apples and but little of other fruit, except grapes, which are as pies, tiful as grass on Nebraska prairies. Ily common consent an attitude of respect is assumed toward the man tak ing upon himself the vows of a minister of JesuB Christ, but when such minister takes more pleasure in jokes and pander ings on subjects vile and beating his parishioners in business deals than in culcating thoughts of honesty and purity he by common consent becomes con temptible. Some of our citizens have been having a little experience with a man of this kind. Mortgage blanks at The Frontier. BASE BALL RECEIVES Real Estate Men Challenged by the Printers and Promptly Accepted O’NEILL VS ATKINSON Sunday Game is a Victory for Atkin son Owing to Heavy Weights in TheirTeam. IN THE INJUSTICE COURT OF HOLT COUNTY, NEB. NOTICE TO PLAY Oil FOREVER SUBSIDE. To T. V. Golden, E, H. Benedict, C. L. Bright, M. F. Harrington, Mike Lyons, Peikerman & Long,a corporation, A ,B. Newell, R. R Dickson, J. C. Morrow, McCarthy & Harrington e corporation, John Golden and all other real estate men now doing business in the city of O’Neill, Holt oounty, Nebraska: You are hereby notified that on theOtb day of August, the editors and printers of O’Neill filed their petition in tbe district court of Holt county, Nebraska, against you and each of you, the object I and prayer of which are to get you on the festive base ball diamond in this city od a date to be arranged by your at torneys and then and there to wallop you clear off the earth according to the rules as Spaulding. It is hereby further stipulated in this challenge that the wallopede are to give the wollopers and their ladies a baiquet befitting their standing and attaiuments within ten days of walloping. You are hereby notified to answer this petition in writing on or before twelve 'o’clock, noon, Wednesday, August 7, A. D. 1901. D. H. Cronin, E. S. Eves, Attorneys for Planitiffs. IN THE INJUSTICE COURT OF HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA. Printers of O’Neill, organized under the laws of sufference and engaged in the business of diceiviug the public at the city of O’Neill, Nebraska, Planitiffs. vs. The real estate men of O’Neill, hot air merchants,unorganized,doing business for the public at the city of O’Neill, when there is any business to do, Defendants. Come now the defendants in the above entitled cause and answering plaintiff's assumptive defi, admit plantiff’s allegations in paragraphs one and two viz: first, that they are engaged in the real estate business in the city of O’Neill, Nebraska, and sooond that they can play ball—base ball, tomball, or two-old-cat. Defendants deny each and every other allegation,insinuation or prognostication contained in plantiff’s petition and stand ready and willing to proceed trial on the O'Neill diamond of the issue made up in this cause, agreeing if walloped to banquet the wallopers in O’Neill’s well-known hospitable style. Defendants request that attorneys for plaintiffs meet the attorney for defendants at any time in the next 30 days between sundown and sunup on the curb stone at Gallagher’s corner and arrange details. Real Estate Men of O'Neill. By C. Selah, their attorney. No verification required. The second nine of O’Neill engaged in a ball game with Atkinson last Snn day on the grounds of the former and were defeated by two scores, Atkinson 10, O'Neill 8. In points of weight and age, the two teams were not very evenly matched, the Atkinson team outweighing the borne team several times and much their senior in years. The O’Neill team was composed of mere boys while the other were mostly men. Both sides put up a fair article of ball, with the exception of a few of the players who probably need a little prac tice. Atkinson umpired, and did a fair, clean job of it. The last inning was the most exciting. O’Neill needed four scores, but they only got one. They worked hard all through but the Atkin son chaps were too heavy for them. Oahagan and Messner did good battery work and Gillispie manipulated first in professional style. The score: Atkinson.0 0062002 0—10 O’Neill.10200103 1—8 Vandal boys committed depredations that caused Dick Jenness, the helpless cripple,a good deal of trouble last Friday night and they aught to be hating them selves yet for doing such a thing. The only means of going about the Jenness boy has is upon his donkey and while he wus at a social some bojs took the saddle off from his donkey and conveyed it away. When Dickie went to go home at 11 o’clock he found his saddle gone and straps scattered about. It would have been a permissable joke on one able to get around, but the Jenness boy is entirely hepless in his feet and limbs. The boys who did it probably did not realize what they were doing or they would not have done it. All Dick could do was to wait for some one to come to his aid and at a late hour he was found by his folks who had become worried that he didn't come home and started a search. Notice. Having disposed of my interest in the firm of Gilligan & Stout, I am anxious to close up all outstanding accounts as soon as posible. I expect to go to Chicago on September 1 to enter a school of medicine and must make all collections before that time. The books and all accounts will be at drug, store, where all settlements will be made. I desire to thank all our patrons for past favors and hope that my suc cessors will receive kind consideration at your hands in the future. James V. Stout. Naper News: Major Ira L. Dudly died at his home in this village Thurs day, August 1. and after an impressive funeral service at the residence was interred in the Naper cemetery today. Thus passes away one of Boyd county’s oldest pioneer settlers, a man whom all delighted to honor in life and whose death brings keen sorrow not only to relatives but to all who knew him and appreciated the stern integrity and worth of his upright manhood. For Sale. Make offers upon the following de scribed land: ICO acres section 0 and 31, township 27 and 28, Range 11 west; ICO acres section 19 and 30, township 32, range 12; ICO acres section 30 and 31 township 33, range 10; 158.52 acres sec tion 7, township 33 range 14; ICO acres section 15 and 22, township 33, range 13;il60 acres section 29 and 32, township 28 range 1C. Terms 8150 cash, balance to suit. Address I. Douglas, 27th and Bristol street, or 2702 Bristol street, Omaha, Neb. 5 4 pd. RAIN GOMES AFTER A LONG DROUGHT Eighty-five One Hundreth Inches In a Gentle Downpour. CORN POPS ON STALK Ex-Governor Fnrnas Said to Raise Variety That Pops in Field. It rained. Not a roaring, thundering, tumultuous tempest, with lightening’s red glare painting hell in the sky. It oame gently, fell steadily with scarcely less noise than the evening dew. It began between three and four o’clock Saturday morning and continued until nine. Eighty-five one hundredths of an inch fell at O’Neill and an inch and a half fifteen miles north. “If it had only come two weeks sooner’’ said the un thankful. But it came and did ua a world of good. The temperature also fell forty degrees in twenty four hours and has never recovered. Now that the fishing season is about over, the hot weather becomes a product ive source of prodigious tales. Here is one, the truthfulness of which is not questioned, that is very good , for a starter: “Governor Savage having ex pressed doubts about the truth of ex Governor Furnas’ story that popcorn popped on the stalk during the recent hot weather, the ex-governor forwarded a sample of the corn yesterday. Gov ernor Furnas raises popcorn of the large variety. The sample received by Governor Savage has fully one-third of the grains opened as if by heat. The white and somewhat enlarlged kernels have every appearance of having popped on the etalk. Some who saw the ear thought the popped grains were simply defective ones. Governor Furnas says the corn of this variety pops with very little heat and he believes the rays of the sun actually opened the grains.” HARRINGTON EXPLAINS. Writes About His connection With Atkinson Bank. O'Neill, Neb., July 30, 1901.—To the Editor of The State Journal, Lincoln, Neb.—Dear Sir: I returned home on Saturday night after a four weeks ab sence out of the state and my attention has just been called to an article in your issue of July 16th referring to the dos ing up and liquidation of the Exchange bank of Atkinson, formerly owned by ex-Treasurer J. 8. Bartley. The entire purpose of the article was to show that certain assets of the bank had been sacrificed or squandered or probably misappropriated. I now ask that yon give this publicity in your paper as you did the other article. No fair newspaper will refuse that. Your paper charges that I was retained to represent the depositors who held de posits in Mr. Batley’s bank at the time of the failure of the bank, and that the amount of the deposits was $10,953. This statement is correct. You further stated that on March 17, 1898, I effected a settlement for the depositors and got from the receiver $2,750 in cash and securities amounting to $20,429.79 and that I paid the depositor 75 per cent on their deposits and kept the securities. A reputable newspaper ought not to make any such statement without some evidence that it is true. The statement is made out of whole cloth. It is a coarsely manufactured lie, and the court records show, and the depositors also know, that your statemeut is unquali fiedly false. The facts are these: When the bank failed there was to the credit of Mr. Bartley in the bank about $54,000; the state of Nebraska through its attorney general, filed a claim in court alleging that it was state money which was misappropriated by Mr. Bartley and that the funds were trust funds of the state, and the attorney general claimed that under the decisions of our supreme court the state had the first lien on the assets of the broken bank. If the state should succeed in this claim the depositors living in At kinson and other parts of Molt county would not get a cent. They began to fear they would lose their money. A number of the depositors got together and agreed on a date to hold a meeting and then a representative of the de positors came to O’Neill and asked me to attend the meeting, saying that the principal depositors desired that ’1 should act as their attorney in the litigation with the state. The meeting was held and I was present. Much more than onehalf of these depositors were republicans living in and around Atkinson, whloh is well known to betbe republican stronghold in this county. They evidently did not retain me for political reasons, but simply because they desired a lawyer to protect their interests. We tried to effect a settle ment and for that purpose tne receiver was authorized to go to Lincoln to consult with the state officials, and of course his expenses were paid therefor. \our article states that my expenses were paid out of the assets. That is an unblushing falsehood. We did not effect a settlement at that time. While the attorney general sympa thized with the depositors he felt it to be his duty to save all the money he could for the state. I told him that we would contest the proposition that the money belonged to the state and would contend that it belonged to Mr. Bartley personally. He investigated the matter and prepared, as beat he could, I sup pose, for trial. I Investigated both the evidence and the law and prepared for trial, but before the day of trial oame I made another proposition to the attorney general of settlement. Id the bank there were securities of about $2,000 in notes owing by Mr. Howard Miller and his company. To a large portion of this debt a defense was threatened and no doubt wonld have been made successfully. The attorney general investigated the matter and did not believe that they oould realize very much on that claim for the state, but Mr. Miller had lived in Atkinson and was friendly with all the depositors per sonally, and was willing to make a com promise on the notes if the money went to the depositors who were friends and former neighbors. There was also a judgment for $480 which the bank held against the Farmers’ and Mer chants’ Insurance company at Linooln. The judgment was to secure the note of Oilbert Wiard. The bank had won the case in the county oonrt and in the dis trict court, but the case was still pend ing in the supreme court and nobody could tell bow it would end. I had tried the case in all these courts for the bank before it failed and on the personal em ployment of Mr. Bartley, the president of the bank. I had a lien for $200 at torney fees on this judgment, which I hoped to collect if the judgment was collected. I offered, in behalf of the de positors, to take the Miller debt and this judgment and $2,750 in money in full settlement of the claims of the deposi tors . The attorney general, as I have stated, did not ezpeot to realize much out of the Miller claim, and finally ad vised me that while the state could not consent to anything, he thought my propositon a fair one. Thereupon the district court approved of the settlement with the depositors and I took these securities for the depositors and not for myself in any sense. The settlement was made with the knowledge and ap proval of a committee selected by the depositors to represent them. That committee was Mr. Crossman, Mr. Allen and Mr. Bennett. They are all staunch republicans and reputable and honest business men living at Atkinson. I finally compromised the entire Miller paper for $6,000, and I got $2,750 from the receiver, and I got the assignment of the judgment against the insurance company. I then paid the depositors 75 cents cash on the dollar and retained the balance and the judgment for my fees in that case and the $200 which the bank owed me. 1 offered the judgment to one of the large depositors, telling him fully the condition it was in, but he refused to take it, and I had to take it for my fees instead of money. I was fortunate enough to subsequently collect it, and thereby save my attorney tees. On August 15, The Conservative, a weekly western review, edited by J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska City, Neb., will publish a symposium upon the subject, “What Are the Young Man’s Chances?’* The contributors to this special, edition of The Conservative are all representative, successful and eminent men of the West, Among them will be found such names as W. C. Brown, of Lake Shore Railroad, E. D. Kenna of the Santa Fe, Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, H. H. Kohlsaat. editor, Chicago Record-Herald. Piesident John R. H. Latchaw, of Defiance College, Robert C. Colowry, of the Western Union Telegraph Co.. Frank Orren Lowden, M. E. Ingalls, president of the Big 4 R. R., and many other prominent citizens. The inspiration afforded to young men by such eminent business men should not be lost. The Conservative is desirous that all of the young men in the country should read these articles. J. Sterling Morton has always been known as a staunch friend to young American manhood, and the publication of this symposium is consistent with his attitude, towards the growing gen eration, for many years. No sympo sium upon this subject so comprehensive, broad and complete has ever been at tempted. It not only marks an epoch in this character of literature, but also evinces that The Conservative is of invaluable assistance and encourage ment to the citizenship which is now in | the course of development.