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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1901)
THE FRONTIER Publknfced Every Thursday by THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY. O’NEILL, - - NEBRASKA I BRD E TELEGRAMS. ♦•I'T The amokr from forest leaves is now heralded ns a cure for consumption, and experiments are being made in Evansville, Jnd., by members of the board of health. The postofflee department, has de rided to place the late President Mc Kinley's head on the new issue of pos tal cards which will appear shortly after December 1 next. The engagement is announced of Charles L. Mertens of Syracuse, N. Y., and Miss Agnes York Hamlin, daughter c(f Attorney General How land J. Hamlin of Illinois. The emigration from Bremen and Hamburg fnm January 1 to Septem ber 30 was 166,649, which 1b an in crease of 3,943 upon the emigration for the corresponding period last year. At the Chicago Athletic club a ban quet was giecn in honor of Sir Thom as Llpton and he was made the re cipient of a massive silver loving cup, presented by his friends in Chicago. A general strike began in Seville, Spain, although the tobacco workers and some others have thus far de clined to join. There has been some rioting, compelling the cafes and shops to close. The safe 44? the bank at Rudd, Iowa, •was blown open by dynamite and the robbers secured $3,000 In currency. They escaped by a handcar and took to the woodi just east of Nora Junc tion. The lastsequest of an old Kansas soldier whoc died the other day was that one of tils army comrades should throw the Inst shovel full of earth upon his gxsve. The comrade did as he was requested. me KuRsJiin government nan con firmed the (Man to make a new har bor at Cron* tad t, by building an em bankment or dyke, connecting Cron atadt with Cranlenbaum. The work will Involve*ji ontlay of £3,000,000. The ninety-second annual meeting rff the American board at Hartford, Conn., bas anded brilliantly! from the financial stasdpolnt. Over 600 mem bers of the board and pastors and laymen have pledge not ofily the full amount to <pty the debt of $102,000, 'but $3,110 In excess of the debt. Word comet from Boston that Mrs Stone, mother of Miss Ellen M. Stone, le sinking under the strain Of anxiety concerning tsr daughter. Mrs. Stone . Is imore thas 80 years old, and she "has been In (feeble health for yearn (Her conditio*, now la such that her (friends fear.*:the will die from sus pense. !H.'C.'HeHterson, who has> been in the Dallas, Tex., jail for a year and a lhalf, and * who claims be assisted in the kidnapping of Eddie Cudahy at Omaha, was sent to the state^peniten tiary. Hend*-son was a year ago con victed Of swindling In several cases, and now goes to serve thirteen years in the penitentiary. The gross Hpoetal receipts tor Sep tember at fifty of the largest poet ofllcee were #1,225,752, a net. increase of $323,822, ar 8.2 per cent over last year. Receplts at only two offices de creased, vis., Jersey City, N. J., $3,760, ■or a (little oner 17 per cent, and Orand Rapids, Mich., $263, or over 1 per cent. Thi> receipts otf flew York •were $881,611, an Increase of 8:2 ■ per cent, and Chicago $697,160, an Increase of Id! per cent. Prof. Thomas Shaw of Minnesota has ibeen elected to the chair of ani mal ‘husbandry in the state agricul tural college at Brooking*. B. II., which also Oirrles with it the di rectorship of the United States .ex periment station at that place. Major McLaughlin has succeeded in securing a sufficient number off the signatures of tthe Rosebud Indians to ratify the agreement to throw Chat part off Gregory county now lying in the reservation open to settlement. It is announced" that certificate* of Union Pacific stock estimated at from 4,000 to 5,000 shares, standing in the name o< John .Jacob Astor. were sold a few days agot averaging $99 a share. The stock bow the transfer date of May 21 last, when it ranged from $100 to $107 a share. Mark Th&ll, * well known theatri cal man of San Francisco, died from pneumonia. The ex-Kmpress Eugenis is now set tled In her English home and intends to build there a small convent In mem ory of her son and husband. Owing to the fact that two bridges are yet to be finished and seven miles of track laid. It will be about November 1 before regular train ser vice on the Toluca-Cody line of the Burlington will bo established Into the terminus off Cody. The president is being urged to at tend the meeting of the Union Veter ans’ Union, October 27, at Chicago. The vault of the Farmers and Clti xeus bank of Tiro. Ohio, was wrecked by six robbers, who secured the con tents and escaped. THE WOBKGOES SLOW Admiral Bowles Calls Attention to Lack of Progress in Construction, DFL4Y CAUSED BY STEEL STRIKE No Fireproof Wood Found Kntlrely Sat 1# factory to the Itureau—More Naval Construction Wanted — Naval Yards Limited l>y Wry Docks. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—The an nual report of Admiral Bowles, chief of the bureau of construction and re pairs, calls attention to the slow progress in the construction of the ships made in the last year, owing to strikes and delays of delivery of armor and steel forgings. He points out that under the present system for the purchase of armour the responsi slbllity for delays emanating from this sources rests with the government and renders It liable to suits for dam age by the ship contractors. The con struction bureau, he says, has made considerable progress toward the standardization of ship fittings, which, he says, will reduce the original cost of ships of the navy and decrease the expense of their maintenance. He touches upon the tests of fireproofed wood conducted by his bureau and says that while the products of the two processes submitted both possess desirable qualities, neither wholly commends tlself In adoption by the navy. Admiral Bowles strongly recom mends that the floating dry dock at Havana, recently purchased from the Spanish government, be sent to the site of the new naval station at Olon gapo, Philippine islands, as soon as the repairs on it are completed, dt Is essential, he says, for the efficiency of the navy on the Asiatic station, both from a strategical and economical point, that the government should be In possession of a dry dock in the Philippines -at the earliest possible moment. He says the dock just pur chased can be placed in condition for use of vessels up to 10,000 tons dis placement within the limit of the sum apprqprlated by congress .for -Its acquirement. Admiral HowleB earnestly recom mends an increase in the number of naval constructors, which is now lim ited by law to forty. This number, he says, is entirely inadequate to the present needs of the service and he urges .that the limit of the corps be increased .by congress to sixty. He says the efficiency of the navy yards throughout the country is largely lim ited by the lack of dry docks and mod ern buildings for the equipment of the yards. The navy yards, however, eontinae ;to, present a fruitful field for the application of modern engineer ing to their mechanical equipment as well as modern methods of organ ization to the scheme of administra tion, which, if properly applied, should result doi greater efficiency in the'con duct of the .work and greater econ omy isi ithe.expense, which is now.out of proportion to the work done. Admiral .Bowles says the construc tion bureau has been taxed to its ut most by the work of designing new vessels .land supervising vessels now building, .and that these conditions have been aggravated by a lack of •such navy department buildings avail able for ithe technical and clerical staffs of the bureau. He reports a lack of draftsmen of the requisite qualifications .and expresses a desire to obtain liar ithe bureau more grad uates of technical schools. Fire Oentumlni Hay FleWI4. BA CROSSE. Wis.. Oct. 21.—'Bute this afternoon tfire was discovered .in the hay fields .which surround this city. The flames are now burning ev erything before them and the firemen are powerless owing to the fire being outside the city limits and beyond water service. It its believed the lire was started by tramps. Upon these lands are stacked thousands of tons of hay. Although the loss cannot be estimated at present it is thought it : will be enormous. _* _ L«uderluk Realgnj*. SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Oct. 21.— (Via Galveston)—J. Lenderink. secre tary of the United States legation, has resigned his position and \will soon leave for the United States. Augusta De Koreat Dead NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Augutda de Forest, the well known actress who played leading roles with Alexander Salvini, John McCullough and Edwin Booth, died at her home in this city. Would Dutld Reservoir. SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Oct. 21.— President George J. Gould of the Northern Pacific, with officers of that road and the Denver & Rio Grande, left here by special train over the lat ter road for Denver tonight. During the afternoon the Parker City branch was inspected and tonight the special tied up at Springville. Tomorrow the Tintic mining district will be visited, then the San Pete valley branch will be inspected thoroughly. W ILL PLANT A M’KINLEY OAK Special Ceremony for Occasion of Roose velt’s Visit. FARMINGTON, Conn., Oct. 21.—Ar rangements for the visit of President Roosevelt to this town next Tuesday include the dedication of a tree which is to be planted on the village green by the townspeople and named the McKinley oak. There will be a recep tion in the afternoon to the young women of a boarding school and 100 other invited guests. The purpose of the president's coming is to visit his sister, the wife of Commander W. S. Cowles, U. S. N. He is expected to arrive here at 1:15 p. m., Tuesday, by a special train and will be accompan ied by Senators Hawley and Platt, Comamnder Cowles, Secretary Cor telyou and Theodore Bingham. Preparations for police protection have been made at the request of Washington, officials, twenty consta bles having been detailed for special dutv on that day. On Wednesday morning at 8:10 o’clock the president will leave for New Haven to attend the Yale bi centennial exercises. GRAND ARMY APPOINTMENTS TsrrMro® {Jive* I,lst of Officers to Serve Until Next Encampment. MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 21—Command er-in-Chief Eli Torrence of the Grand Army of the Republic gave out these appointments: Judge advocate general, Henry M. Duffleld, ’Detroit.; chief of staff, Major Noel Blakeman, Mount Vernon, N. Y. These persons Rave been named as members of the executive committee of the national council of administra tion and with the commander-in-chief, his adjutant general and quartermas ter general, will decide upon the time and place of holding the next, national encampment: William Armstrong, In dianapolis, Ind.; Edgar Allen, Rich mond, Va.; Thomas G. Sample, Alle ghany, Pa.; S. C. Jones, Centerville, la.; Loren W. Collins. St. Cloud, Minn.; Thomas W. Scott, Fairfield, 111.; Frank M. Skerrott, St. Louis. DEATH SENTENCE APPROVED Prlvatn Wlnei Is to Hang for His Crime In PhlUpplusa. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—President Roosevelt has approved the death sen tence imposed in the case of Private William Wines, Company 1, Twenty fourth (colored) Infantry, found guilty of murder in Pangasinan, P. I., and sentenced To be hanged. The presi dent directs that the sentence be duly carried into execution at a time and place to be designated 'by the com manding general of the Department of Northern Luzon. In the .case of Pri vate Michael H. Robinson, Company F, Twenty-fifth (colored) infantry, convicted of desertion and sentenced to be hanged, the president has com muted the sentence to dishonorable discharge with forfeiture of all pay and confinement at hard labor for life. Brigands Keep Out of Sight. CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. 21.—The United States legation .in Constanti nople is still without definite news from either the Rev. Dr. C. H. Has kell, or the Rev. J. W. Baird of the Congregational mission at Sam.ko.va, Bulgaria, who have been endeavoring to get in touch with the abductors of Miss Ellen M. Stone, the missionary, and Mme. Tsilka her companion, with a view of arranging as to the ransom demanded by the brigands. Mr. Baird who was at Djumbalo, has returned to Samakov, indicating his failure to get in touch with the .bri gands from the Turkish side. On the Commerce of Cuba. WASHINGTON. Oct. 21.—A com parative statement of the commerce of the island of Cuba for the ten months ended April 30, 1901 and 1900, has been prepared in the division of insular affairs of the war department. tl shows that the total value of mer chandise imported during the ten months ended April 30, 1901, was $64, 412.262. against $59,925,339 for the same period of 1900. ■Cape Colony In Rebellion. LONDON. Oct. 21.—Mr. Kruger has received a message from General Schalk-Burgher that the greater part of Cape Colony is in rebellion, says a dispatch from Brussels to the Daily Mail, and that the Boers have armed 15,000 Afrikanders In the past three months. Mrs. Edwin H. Conger, wife of Min ter Conger, passed through Omaha on her way to China. She was ac companied by Mrs. J. R. Drake Ulsd White In to Return. BERLIN. Oct. 20.—The news re ceived here that Andrew D. White, the United States ambassador, returns to Berlin in November to stay has caused great satisfaction in Berlin. Canndiena Try Surprising. PRETORIA, Oct. 21.—A force of Canadian scouts surprised a Boer laager near Balmoral. The Boers lied after a short fight. The Canadians had two killed and an officer and two men wounded. TREE PLANTING IN NEBRASKA W. L. Hall of Washington Cites Some Suggestion* od the Subject. OMAHA, Oct. 21.—William L. Hall, assistant superintendent of tree plant ing, division of forestry, has made ex tensive investigation in Nebraska rel ative to tree planting. He says there is no question but what the soil and climate are favorable for a certain amount of forest planting. To what extent, however, is in a measure a matter of experiment. He has in course of preparation a report to the department, making special recom mendations both as to extent of plant ing and methods. He also says there can be no system applicable for the prairie district for general operations. While there is a great interest man ifested in forestry, yet there appears to be a very meager acquaintance with the subject of tree planting on an extended scale, Mr. Hall says. Many trees have been planted more as a “wind brean” than for timber cul ture. Mr. Hall found a number of catalpa plantations which have shown a thrifty growth, but show a lack of maximum growth, owing to lack of management or attention. The c.a talpa is an especial favorite with Mr. Hall. He believes that it does best on Nebraska soil, which is porous. Us durability has been overestimated by some, but its value for various pur poses has been fully appreciated by the general public. It is a rapid grower, of good form, lightness and possesses great strength and elasticity. It requires from eight to twelve years to mature sufficiently for use. In speaking of the species and sec tions for profitable tree planting, Mr. Hall said that the catalpa and red cedar grow readily along the Platte river; the Russian mulberry in Cen tral Nebraska, the black walnut in the eastern part of the state, while the bur oak thrives best in the valleys of the Niobrara and Missouri rivers; the green and white ash does well in Northern Nebraska. There are many other trees valuable for planting, such as the elm, poplar, maple and willow, hut In a system of forest operations Instituted solely for profit and carried on under competition, such trees are not to fee considered. WATER RIGHTS ON PLATTE 8t»t« Board of Irrigation Hoars Argu ment In Gothenburg Case. LINCOLN, Oct. 21.—The state board of irrigation and Engineer Dobson lis tened to testimony and argument in the case of the Farmers’ and Mer c’ ants’ Irrigation company. The Gothenburg company asserts that it has a prior right to water in the Platte river and was sustained in this position a year ago by Engineer Wil son. It owns and operates one long canal, of which one-half was con struced after the original water right was taken out. The water right grant ed by the board authorized the Goth enburg company to appropriate 200 cubic feet of water per second and it is now claimed that there is no law to prevent the company from turning the water so appropriated into the new section of the canal. The board took the case under advisement and will render a decision within the next few days. The Farmers' and Merchants' irriga tion works and property are valued at not less than $176,000, while the works and property of the other company are said to be worth approx imately $300,000. The former is cap italized for $3,000,000. Laud Leading Tour. LINCOLN. Oct. 21.—I>and Commis sioned Follmer has planned to make a land leasing tour through northern Nebraska, beginning at O’Neill in Holt county on November 18. Subsequent auctions will be held as follows: Bas sett, November 19; Ainsworth, No vember 28; Chadron, November 29; Harrison and Alliance, November 30, aud Gering, November 31. Cowboy Carnival at HyaunU. LINCOLN, Oct. 18.—Governor Sav age and several state officials will go to Hyannis this week to attend the cowboy carnival at that place. The program includes an exhibition by Captain Hardy, a shooting tournament and several other events. Woman Suffragists Active. BI>AIR, Neb., Oct. 21.—The local or ganization of woman suffragists are making big preparations for the com ing conference of the woman suffrag ists. Aspen Tunnel is Opened. EVANSTON, Wyo., Oct. 21.—The great Aspen tunnel through Piedmont hill, east of here, was turned over to President Burt of the Union Pacific by Contractors Kilpatrick Bros. & Col lins Tuesday. The first train passed through the big bore Monday, being a work train. The first passenger train to pass through the big hole in .he mountains was the one in which the president and other high officials of the Union Pacific were passengers. STATE’S DIVORCE LAWS. Ez.*S°oator Allen Gives His Opinion Re garding the Same. LINCOLN, Oct. 19.—Senator Wil liamliam V. Allen has replied as fol lows to the request of Labor Com missioner Watson for an opinion re garding the divorce laws of the state. T am inclined to believe that our statutes on the subject of divorce, while crude and expressed in inartistic language, doing no credit to the lit erary ability of their authors, are suf ficient, and outline a proper policy in divorce cases, and will, if conscien tiously enforced by the courts, accom plish desirable results. . "The purpose of a divorce is the destruction of the family sense. It is true that in many cases it is to the interest of the parties, the children and the public that the family rela tion (which should be the most sacred relation in the world) should be ut terly uprooted and destroyed, and that its destruction is more productive of the true interests and real happiness of all concerned than would be a forced continuance of a relation which must be merely nominal. “Much, very much, indeed, depends on education; in fact the question is more one of education than legisla tion. Legislation can regulate mar riages, it can grant or refuse divorces, but the refusal to grant a divorce for any cause in the present state of society would doubtless lead to wide spread immorality and to greater and public injury than our present divorce laws, imperfect as they can be, can produce. While marriage under civil institutions of this country is and ever must remain a civil contract, marriage is Justly regarded by the churches and by Christian people as a holy ordinance. If the churches shall take hold of the subject in earnest they can doubtless regulate the relation in such a way as to pro duce the least amount of friction and thus minimize divorces. If they do not the whole question must be left to the slow but certain law of evolu tion. I would say upon the whole that I do not know of any improve ment which can be made in our di vorce laws at the present time, aside from those that are merely verbal.” AMENDMENT TO PENSION LAWS. CongrM.mun Hork.tt Will Introduce It In the Next Congress. LINCOLN, Oct. 19—Congressman Burkett has prepared an amendment to the pension laws, which he will in troduce at the opening of the next session of congress. By it the differ ent ratings on account of disabilities under the new law or the law of 1890 will be abolished. The effect of Mr. Burkett’s amendment will be to make a minimum rating of |12. The law of 1890, commonly called the new law, pensions a soldier who is unable to perform manual labor, in accordance with the degree of his disabilities and in proportion thereto, from $6 to 812 a month. This degree of disabil ity is determined by a rating board, located at Washington, who make up their decision from the evidence sent in and the ratings thus made are not always satisfactory to the soldiers. Mr. Burkett takes the position that the war is now removed almost forty years and that after the experiences the men went through it must be presumed that few of them are able to perform manual labor and he thinks the time has come when it is no longer necessary to have an inves tigating committee to cipher out just the degree of their disability. Crashed by Falling: Roof. BEATRICE. Neb., Oct. 19.—Frank Koltenbach, a young man 29 years of age, was killed while repairing an old cave on the Graff farm three miles west of here. Koltenbach had been employed on the farm of Mrs. Graff for the last twelve years. He went into the cave to clean up and make some repairs. He accidentally knock ed down one of the heavy timbers which suported the four-foot roof of soil and the roof fell, smothering him. BcttlN Dig Damage Salt* DES MOINES, Oct. 19.—An impor tant damage suit against the North western railroad, which was before the supreme court at the last term, has been settled, rather than a second trial be had. This was the suit of J. J. Mosnat, administrator of the estate of Engineer Shaffer, who was killed in the yards at Eagle Grove. | The first trial resulted in a verdict . for $10,000 against the company, but it was reversed on appeal because of technical errors. Professors Talk to Farmers. SIDNEY, Neb., Oct 19.—The eou^t house was packed with farmers and stockmen, who listened to addresses delivered by Dr. Peters and Prof. Smith of the experiment station at the state university. They discussed the diseases of animals and the sim plest manner of curing them, stock feeding and classes of food that were best adapted to the conditions here. Many questions were asked and thor- j oughly discussed. Mrs. How's Eads Memorial. Mrs. Eliza A. How, widow of James ■*' F. How, late president of the Wabash f Railroad company, has given $100,00i> to Washington university, St. Louis, to be used for the erection of a memorial to her father. Captain James B. Eads, who built the Eads bridge across the Mississippi river at St. Louis, and jet ties below New Orleans. The gift has been accepted by the board of trustees of the university, w*ho will confer with Mrs. How as to the character of me morial which shall be constructed. His Patriotic Cornice. A patriotic citizen of Philadelphia has recently manifested his loyalty u> the flag by painting the cornice of his house red, white and blue. In a row of houses in which the prevailing colors are yellow or dark brown, the effect is quite striking, and nearly every passerby bestows a surprised glance on the odly painted dwelling. The owner of the house is a veteran of the civil war, and, possessing no flag, he decided to paint the cornice of his home in this way as a mark of pa triotism. Half of the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly, and in a spirit of love. Mrs. Dyer's Heart. A McCarron, Mich., Oct. 21.—In April ^ last the sensational case of Mrs. Samuel G. Dyer of this place was re ported in these columns. Mrs. Dyer has suffered for years with a very bad case of Heart Trouble and was cured in a few weeks by Dodd’s Kid ney Pills. Since then Mrs. Dyer has received hundreds of inquiries as to her con dition and many may be interested to hear that she is at present enjoying the best of health and has not had the slightest return of the Heart Trouble. Formerly she had to sit up in bed for hours to get relief; now she goes about as smartly aB any lady of 62 years in the State. Dodd’s Kidney Pills have made many friends in Chip pewa County through their cure of Mrs. Dyer’s case, and have proven be yond doubt that their cures are not only very complete, but absolute and j permanent. Dewey Wasn't a Prisoner' It has bten said that Admiral Dewey was made prisoner during the civil war at the time the gunboat Mississ ippi was destroyed by the Confeder ates. The admiral says that is not 1 true. “I was not captured,” said he, when asked aoout the matter, ‘‘when the Mississippi was run aground and burned. About 150 of our men were captured, but the captain and I man aged to pull away In a boat down the am river and escaped capture. I have seen ' the statement made several times late ly and am glad to say that it is en tirely incorrect. 1 have never been a captive.” Highest Award on Cocoa and Chocolate. Buffalo, N. Y„ Oct. 10, 1901.—The judges at the Pan-American exposi ; tion, Buffalo, have awarded three gold | medals to Walter Baker & Co. (Limit [ ed), Dorchester, Mass., for the supe riority of their breakfast cocoa and all of their cocoa and chocolate prep arations and the excellence of their exhibit. This is the 37th highest award received by them from the great expositions in Europe and America. An Experienced Secretary. Miss Hagner, who is to be Mrs. Roosevelt’s secretary, was for a time clerk in the war department. She is a daughter of Dr. Charles E. Hagner. of Washington. She has acted as sec retary for Mrs. Charles Emory Smith Mrs. Elihu Root. Miss Paulding, Sen ator Depew's niece, and other women prominent in official life. - i Awarded the Highest Prize. Buffalo, N. Y., Oct.—The New Do mestic Sewing Machine Co. has today been awarded, at the Pan-American Exposition, the highest prize, the cov eted gold medal, for the best fami.y sewing machine. Fire Escape Instructions, A descriptive article on Norway eon • tains some striking instructions for the use of fire escapes taken from > local hotel, of which the following lines are part: “The plaited snotter should be found in every room. To increase the hurry, let down the body one by one until all shall be left. The cord should be put out the ground from the shoulder thereunder.” -- ar ' A Church Marriage Bureau. The Rev. J. F. X. Coleman, pastor of St. John’s Catholic church, at Fred erick, Md., announced to his congre gation one Sunday night that he was going to inaugurate a matrimonial bu | reau in his church. ‘‘Think of it!” said Father Coleman, “a congregation like ours, with over 1,100 members, an<i you seldom hear of a marriage. There certainly is something wrong, and this is what I am going to endeavor to rec tify. There Is no reason for this state of affairs, as there is plenty of mar riageble material right here, and even much past that age, and I am going to endeavor to utilize it to advantage or know the reason why.” Lucky School Ma’ants. Catherine F. McMahon, a retired pub lic school teacher of New York city, has received from the supreme court the writ she asked for, compelling the board of education to pay the pension of one-half of her salary which an acr of 1900 gave her. This result wins the ease for some forty other teachers, re tired previous to 1894, when the pen sion law for thirty years’ service in the {Sublic schools was passed. Don’t* for Women. Don’t keep the match box in a clos et. Don't fold unlaundered curtains. Don't cool tomatoes in the ice box. Don’t buy “cheap” lines as they are . the dearest. Don’t use “cheap” soap in the laun-. dry as it costs the most. Don’t use a starch that will produce that harsh crackling effect, but go to , your grocer and order Defiance Starch, 16 ounce package for 10 cents. Made by Magnetic Starch Co., Omaha, Neb.
