::r' Frontier.
VOLUME XXII.
WILL FORCE PAYMENT.
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County Board Directs That the De- i
linquent Taxes Must Be
Paid or Land Sold.
TREASURER CRONIN GIVEN ORDER
Delinquents, Resident and Non-Resident,
Must Now Come to Limerick or
Forfeit Tlieir Property.
The board of supervisors Tuesday
adopted a resolution which condences
the collection of delinquent taxes to
a nut-shell and takes hold of the
. matter in a business like ■ way, and
| will no doubt result in much good to
the county.
The plan comprises the compulsory jj
payment of taxes or such disposition j
of property upon which taxes are due
as will turn into the county treasury
money long due it upon lands, lots
and personal property, and also shuts
off the notorious tax lien foreclosure
business out of which the land* syndi
cate has reaped such a plentiful
harvest.
Supervisor Phillips presented a
resolution, which was adopted, that
the county treasurer be instruct- ^
ed, and authorized to proceed with a \
thorough investigation of all property j
in the county, real and personal, and }
notify all resident and non-resident j
delinquents of their delinquency; that
unless the taxes are paid within a
reasonable time the county board will
take such action as is necessary for
the collection of the same. The
treasurer is authorized to employ a
clerk especially for this work and is
instructed to report to the county
clerk all property against which there
are unpaid taxes with the names of
| the owners thereof. The clerk is to
present the report to the board, which
will then divide the list of such prop
erty among its members for inspec
tion, each supervisor to be given i the
property in his own district, and they
then inspect the property and deter
^ mine whether it is worth the taxes.
In the event of the land or other
property is worth the taxes or more
collections will be forced. If not
vvorth the taxes it will be passed by,
Ho that each supervisor will have a
complete list of property in his dis
trict upon which taxes are delinquent
and will be able to determine by in
specting each piece of land whether
it will pay for the taxes against it or
not.
The board believes this work can be
done at an expense of not to exceed
$200 and intend that many thousands
of dollars will be brought into the
treasury thereby.
H. 0. Jackson Buys Land.
On Tuesday II. O. Jackson bought
eleven acres of ground from the Fre
mont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley
{ Railroad company just south of the
depot where the log house, one of the
town’s old land marks, stands. He
paid $1,100 for the eleven acres. Mr.
Jackson says he bought the land for
the purpose of making show grounds
for his cattle, and this will entail ex
tensive building of barns, sheds and
yards. He will also erect a residence
on the place and make his home there.
Mr. Jackson keeps some four or five
hundred head of cattle on his ranch
portheast of town, but desires better
facilites for showing his stock to
prospective buyers, He does not ex
pect to begin building until about thev
first of July.
Revival Meetings.
Messrs. Jamison and Crandall of
Sioux City will begin a series of
evangelistic meetings at the Presby
terian church on Monday evening
next. Their work is thus spoken of
by a South Dakota paper:“The special
services which have been held at the
Congregational church for the past
two weeks by Evangelist R. W. Jami
son, closed Tuesday evening. The
meetings are without reserve credited
with having accomplished much good
in their special work and have un
doubtedly left their Impress upon
many minds. My. Jamison has an
parnest and sincere manner of speak
ing to his audiences which reaches
reason and their hearts, and conse
quently goes deeper and lasts longer
flian simply an appeal to the emo
tions.”
Good Words for the Great Ma jestic
Range
To whom it may concern: After
two years of const ant use of a Majest ic
Steel Range I take pleasure in recom
mending it as a coal saver and a very
satisfactory cooking stove.
Mrs. M. A. Testman
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All kinds of fruit trees, shade trees
and rose bushes, and early seed pota
toes. Write for 1902 catalogue. Ad
f dyess Norfolk Nursery, or IS. D. Ham
mond, Norfolk, Neb. 35-May 1.
_O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1902. ~
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For a quarter of a century I have been in O’Neill in the Hardware and Implement business, and am here yet, with a carload
of new Implements for the spring trade. Following is a partial list of goods carried by me:
John Deere Plows; Buggies, Planters, New Pitot Tongued Cultivators, Riding and Walking Listers, Discs and Seeders
I These goods are beautiful in construction, durable and have |
no equal. The Moline wagon, none better on wheels, having |
mnny points superior to any wagon on the market. The cele- 8
brated Champion binders, mowers and hay rakes. I also handle |
bale ties. In the stove line I carry the best known steel range, ■
the great ajestic; also many other makes of stoves and ranges. I
I am the only dealer west of Norfolk who carries the Stransky 1
Steel Ware, every piece warranted for five years. I also handle 1
enameled ware. I have the Lisk and Elliott anti rust tinware, K
none better. For any rusty piece returned I will gladly give a §
new piece. Nickel plated copperware, such as tea and coffee 1
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pots, tea kettles auil other articles in profusion. Anything you
want in silverware, cut glass, glassware or Rogers 1847 table
cutlery. Iu the cutlery line I carry no imported goods, nothing
but the products of Ameaican factories and American workman
ship. I have all grades, from the cheapest to the best. I have
the Sioux City garden seeds; also other garden and field seeds,
such as millet, clover, etc. I have the best kerosene, the
“Eocene,” gaseline, machine oil, and axle grease. A very nice
line of sewing machines. In barb wire I have the genuine
Glidden, no imitation, every pound warranted to run one rod.
It is always my aim to treat customers in the best possible manner and to give them honest labor and good goods for 5
every dollar they may think well to turn my way. If you cannot give me all your trade, give me what you can, and it ~
will be appreciated. I will say in conclusion that no man in my lino will give you any more for you dollar than I will '
and my guarantee or warrant I will make good. Sf
IT E I L BEE IT IT A 1ST I
O’NEILL, NEE. I
MINOR MENTION
George Uttley is home from Lead.
S. D.
Judge Morgan spent the Sunday in
Atkinson.
Frank Campbell is having an exten
sive addition built to his implement
douse.
Emil Sniggs was in Omaha this
tveek buying machinery for the spring
business.
Oddie Kiglin expressed a through?
ared Jersey calf as a gift to a relative
it Clinton, lo., last week,
Frank Brittell has got his dairy
mining in full blast and finds plenty
af customers. Success to him.
J, T. Walker, Page’s hustling real
estate man, was in the city Tuesday
md reports a flourishing land trade.
C. W. Deuel of Page was a pleasant
jailer of The Frontier’s Friday, advan
jing his reading priviledges another
year.
The Rock County Leader boasts
that the Rock county soil used by
Mrs. Bbuser in the sod house at the
Pan-American exposition was sold to
Buffalo florists at $2 per load.
Rumors are around again that a
jpntemplaled revision of the Elkhorn
time table will bring the passenger
through here early in the afternoon
instead of at the present hour,
Ferris Manning expects to go about
the 1st of March to Washington with
i view to remaning and taking gov.
jrnment land if any thing suitable
is found.
This item, printed in two or more
Boyd county papers, is another evi
dence that you have to go away from
home to learn the news: “A large
supply of ties and piling has been un
loaded at O’Xeill by the Short Line,
which indicates that work on the A.
and N. will soon commence.” But
we will have to shatter their hopes by
stating that the “large supply of ties
and piling” consists of a lot of old
bridge timbers gathered up along the
road and dumped at the round-house
here.
Ilorse for sale cheap.—Cole & Son.
Mose Campbell was down from
Atkinson yesterday.
Harry Dowling was up from North
Bend over Sunday.
Pat McCoy went to Spencer Mon
day to work in the McCafferty hard
ware si ore.
Burl Martin went to Inman Mon
day to relocate some of the telephone
company’s wires.
Miss Alice Coykendall departed
yesterday for Denver, where she goes
to work in a dry goods store.
Get your lamp oil at Brennan’s for
he keeps the highest standard grades
of any one in town; lie keeps the
Ecoene oil.
George Blinco came down from
Chadron Monday fora week’s vaca
tion. He is firing on the Black Hills
division of the Elkhorn.
Nels Kane left Wednesday for
Leavenworth, Kan., being called
there by the illness of his farther,
who is at the national soldiers’ home.
We understand that A. B. Ashton,
mail clerk on the Long Pine-Dead
wood division, is under quarantine
fnv email nnv Of l\5ci Vas\wa/>
Mr. and Mrs. R. R, Dickson inter
tained a few friend^ at t lieir home on
Friday evening in honor of MissNellie
Sklrving, who departed on Saturday
for Lincoln to attend college.
J. C. Morrow, who has been in the
law and real estate office of
M. F. Harrington since he retired
from the county superintendent’s
office, has established a lumber and
coal yard at Spencer.
For Rent—My farm four and one
half miles northwest of O’Neill, 120
acres under cultivation, 40 acres fenc
ed pasture; good house and other
buildings. Will rent for one or more
years.
00-2pd. Mrs. Geo RodenwaId.
F. L. Gallagher was tendred a
banquet at the Weingartner rest aurant
Monday evening by a number of his
friends. He departed on Tuesday
| evening for Sheridan, Wy., where he
expect to remain for a time before go
‘ ing to Butte, Mont.
FOIl SALE—Bay driving horse,
5 miles southwest of Ray T\ O. C. J.
Vequest. 35-2-pd
Mr. and Mrs. John Ilarmon are re
joicing over the arrival of a daughter
at their home, born Sunday.
A robbery was perpetrated at
O’Connor & Stanton’s saloon on Sat
urday night or Sunday morning.
About $20 in money was secured.
Entrance was made at the back door
by cutting out the pannels, and the
money was secured by opening the
two tills in the saloon and breaking
the slot machine.
Maybe, perhaps, the associated
press accounts of the Tillman-Mc
Laurin affair in the senate inspired
the billigerents upon the streets of
O’Neill Monday night at the hours
when they would have felt better in
bed. But as we are indisposed coft»
corning police court news we will
leave the “horrible details” for our
readers to gather elsewhere.
The board of supervisors adjourned
on Tuesday to meet again next Tues
day. The hoard expect to meet with
the county board of Boyd county
about March 11 to confer regarding
the proposed bridge across the Nio
brara near Lynch. The petition has
! not yet been acted upon by tire Holt
| county board, bqt will probably be
DTn.ntp.fi ntsnmp future
J A. H. Blinco is able to be around
again after his serious accident at
Sioux Falls about a month ago, when
he was pinched-between the bumpers
of two cars. Bert says he had ribs
and collarbones broken, teeth knock
ed out and his lung punchered with
pieces of bones. He has been getting
alone well, butdosn’t expect to return
to work for at least two months yet.
Frank Leslie, representing the Pey
ton Publishing company of Omaha,
publishers of the Great West, a new
publication just started for the en
couragement of emigration to the
west, was in the city Tuesday. Mr.
Leslie made arrangements while here
to club his paper with The Frontier
without additional cost to our sub
scribers. Which means The Frontier
and the Great West one year for $1.50.
Sample copies may be seem here.
Wife of General O’Neill.
Neligh Leader: Last week’s Elgin
Review contains the following account
of the death of an old resident of this
section of the state: Mrs. H. J. Hads
was born in Melbourne, Australia,
April 2nd, 1840, and died at her home
in Elgin, Nebraska, February 6th,
1902. She removed with parents in
1851 to California, where she continu
ed to reside until she was 18 years of
age. From there she removed to New
York, and in December, 1804 was
married to General O’Neill. To this
union were born one son and two
daughters, John II. O’Neill of Spauld
ing, Mrs. Mamie Steel of Spaulding,
and Mrs. Kittle Dwyer of Butte Mon
tana. After the civil war was ended
General O’Neill came west to Holt
county and founded the O’Neill col
ony, the town of O’Neill being named
after him. Several years after the
death of General O’Neill the subject
of this sketch was married to James
Coughlin and from this marriage two
daughters survive her, Missses Grace
and Eva Coughlin. Mr. Coughlin
died and in 1895 she was married to
II. J. Ilads then residing in Wheeler
county. Three years ago they remov
ed to Elgin where they have since
resided.
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land. Deeded or homestead with
flowing well or running water and
sufficient outside range for stock.—
Perry itandell, Stormsburg, Neb.,
I have just received my spring stock
of machinery. I have the most com
plete line of high class machinery. I
have ever carred. My stock of
buggies is large and varied in latest
styles—I make a specialty of Pumps
and Mill and stock tanks. Frank
Campbell O’Neill. 2-w
The Frontier learns with pleasure
of the appointment ofiK. II. Jenness to
the postmaster ship at Okmulgee,
Okl., to which place he went from
O’Neill soon after retiring from the
United States land office. Dick has
made <iuick connections in the politi
cal stream of the south and his many
friends here extend congratulations.
YVe do not know what compensation
is attached, but the town has about
2,000 inhabitants.
NUMBER 35.
FINDS AJIEAD BABY
Wrapped In a Cloth and Placed In a
Box and Deposited on a Grave
at the Cemetery.
SEXTON MILLS’ GREWSOME FIND
Careleitnest or Guilt Loavei Dead Infant
Above tbe Sod and Make* Balt for
iWolvei and Dog*.
Sexton It. II. Mills made a discovery
at the cemetery last Saturday. Upon
the mound of a grave, partially
sunken in the earth with a few frozen
clods thrown over the top, was a small
rude box. The appearance of the box
suggested the idea it contained some
thing, and tearing off the cover the
grewsome remains of an infant was
found wrapped in swaddling clothes,
and forzen stiff. How it came there,
who its probable parents were or how
long it had laid, the sexton could not
tell, nor diligent, but not public, in
Iquiry has yet cleared the mystery of
horror. In the earth about the box
were marks as of wolves or dogs en
deavoring to gain access to the corpse.
Mr. Mills replaced the box as he
found it and on Tuesday consigned it
with the little lifeless form to a grave.
It would be a sad commentary upon
the affections of a mother out of wed
lock to say thus came this grewsome
package to be found, or unfavorable
recommendations of natural parents
to thus careless, dispose of lifeless off
spring.
Obituary.
Dr. Charles Homer Newell was born
in Marion county, Iowa, February 16,
1876; died at Lynch, Nebraska, Feb*
ruary 20, 1002.
The deceased graduated from the
St. Louis medical college in the spring
of 1899. In May, 1900, he graduated
from the college of physicians and
surgeons at Chicago.
On November 27, 1901, occurred his
marriage to Miss Bessie Cooley, a
most estimable and accomplished lady
of Norfolk.
The doctor’s life, though prema*
turely closed, was replete with noble
achievement, and resplendent with
many most enviable and admirable
qualities. He had a great adaptabili
ty to the medical profession, and was
eminently succeesful as a practi
tioner. His amiable disposition was
full of cheer and kindly greeting to
all. He was gentle in spirit, tender
and sympathetic toward his patients.
His sickness was only of about ten
days duration, but he suffered great
pain and bore up under it with great
patience and fortitude of soul.
Funeral services were held from
the residence of Dr. B. T. Trueblood
in O’Neill, Saturday, Fed. 22, at 10
a. m., by the Rev. R. W. Burton of
Savage. The services were attended
by a large concourse of people, whose
expressions of sympathy and love,
evinced the high esteem in which the
doctor was held.
“The road Is rough before our feet.
The bills are steep and high.
And clouds are gathering over-head,
To shut away the sky.
l’erhaosour Daths inav run annrt in dark
and stormy weather,
But ut otho nearnlng eventide, we’ll all ' •
Home together.
Oh, friend of mine. 1 grieve to lose,
The grasp of loving hands
How much we need each other here
Each fully understands,
But If our pathways meet no more In
meadow land or heather,
Believe that when the night Is come, we'll
all be home together.
So here’s a hand that’s true, my friend.
And stoadfast come what may;
Ood grant our paths run side by side
And part not, all the way;
But If It be that we must
God only knoweth whether there’s comfort
In the thought that night,
Will bring us home together.
Hello! Who Are You7
Yes, the telephone is a good thing,
but you would think some people who
call you up on them were bred beyond
the border of civilization. “Hello!
who are you?” Now, that is a pretty
way to introduce yourself to the per
son you have called to the phone,
isn’t it? You have begun the conver
sation and by all the rules of etiquette
known to civilization you should give
your name and number so that the
individual you are addressing will
know who is talking to him. If a
strapger accosted you upon the street
with an impudent “who are you?” you
wouldn’t expect to be landed in jail
for giving him a taste of your knuckles.
If the stranger had business inter
course to perform with you you would
expect him first to introduce himself
according to the formalities of society.
To the mind of some of the gay sprouts
about the city the distance over the
wires is no barrier to a recognition of
themselves; and, therefore, invariably
introduce themselves with the in
terrogation, “who are you?” In which
event it is quite proper to. hang dp
the receiver without replying.
