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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1903)
[’ — THE FRONTIER Pnbltahed Krery Thursday by THE TBOM1ER PRINTING COMPANY. o O’NEILL, * • - NEBRASKA. C e_ Ml_ -==> BRIEF TELEGRAMS. | nwwiW’wwmwvw'nT K a Howard J. Rogers, chief of the de ) partment of education In St. Ixmis, will tt be the director of the world's congress it e3 at the exposition in 1904. , Robert Scott, a waiter at a Cleve * land hotel, has served the guests at ® one of the tables of the establishment 8 continuously for twenty-four years. a Doane Robinson, secretary of the C South Dakota Historical society, is to ■x write a two-volume history of that 'i state, the work to be completed in ’ July, 1904. ri There Is but one dentist in Mada t gascar, and he is a native. The Uni i ted States consul at Tamatave says >| there is a good opening there for an * American dentist. Word has been received of the * death at Juneau, Alaska, of Robert A. 1 Frederick, formerly of Topeka, Kan., f United States attorney for the First t district of Alaska. ' According to Sir James Crichton Browne, the air of London contains i 160,000 proportional parts of dust to i Paris’ 210,000, while in Argylshlre, Scotland, there are only 200. The celebration of the centennial of Ohio statehood next spring will be one of the big events of the year. As Senator Hoar once remarked: “Some men are born great and some are born In Ohio.” In a fight between Nat Ingram and James Galightly at Slkeston, Mo., In gram was shot to death and Galightly was fatally injured. The troublo arose over some arrests made by Ingram, who was a deputy marshal. It is announced in Paris that Emma Calve, the prima donna, will shortly marry Jules Bois, a journalist. Her marriage will not prevent Mine. Calve from fulfilling her engagement in the ; United States next season. Resolutions endorsing the Hay I Bond treaty and advocating general : .tariff revision were passed by tho members of the Boston chamber of i commerce at a special meeting re I eently. |j It is believed in Rome that Mgr. f O’Connell, bishop of Portland, and at |1 one time rector of the American coi ij lege at Rome, will be appointed ree ■; tor of the Catholic university at Wash I ington. Colonel Henry Clinton Forbes, 69 | years old, librarian of the state library ; of natural history, died at his home |j in Urbana, 111. He commanded the II Seventh Illinois cavalry during the ! civil war. The British minister at Mexico §! City, George Granville, Is In such ileli ' cate health that he has decided to give { up his house in that city and seek | ■ some place where the climatic condi || tion will favor his recovery. The coal strike commission has re sumed its hearings at Philadelphia, li President John Mitchell of the miners’ union, accompanied by Clarence S. | Darrow of Chicago, his leading coun sel, and other assistants, have arrived. Napier Lothia, jr„ for twenty years a stage manager of wide reputation, 1: died Saturday at Boston. He was stage manager of the Boston theater j! for many years, accompanied Mary An |j derson to England, where he staged 1| for her Shakespeare’s “Winters’ Tale,” ■ and toured the United States with her. jj The peace conference between the | National and American league base | ball committees was held In Cincinnati jl on Friday, with all amalgamation 1 schemes barred and the player ques tion the only one to arbitrate, if the jj National league people would accept a the only one to arbitrate, if the Na j tlonal league people would accept a proposition made to them. Secretary Moody of the navy de partment gave a terrible shock to the | ultra-swell element in Washington the other day. He was seen on horseback wearing a yachting cap, and seemed to be enjoying his ride, too, not with-1 standing this flagrant violation of sar torial law. One indignant observer said it would be”quite as appropriate, don’t yon know, ,f he were to be seen on board a yacht in hunting costume.” Dr. John Davies Jones of Morris town, N. Y., and of Washington, U. C., who went south in quest of health, died of apoplexy at Summerville, a suburb of Augusta, Ga. Dr. Jones was for merly assistant chief of the bureau ot forestry, United States department ol agriculture. Ifi Mrs. Mary Morgan. 100 years old | died at Dubuque, la. Three miners lost their lives in tin Windsor mine at Hurley, Wls. Thej were descending into the mine, ridinj on the skip, and lost their balance falling COO feet. Kart Kiesewetter, inventor of th< Swedish safety match, died In Rouma nia lately in great poverty. Mr. Westinghouse. the American in ventor, has succeeded in attaching hi patent coupler to every railroad trail In Great Brltain. DELAY INJRANSIT DEALERS AND RAILROADS FACE GRAVE CHARGE. ACENTS TOLD TO HOLD UP FUEL Mine Product Is Piled Along Track to Keep It Off Market—In Missouri and Kansas Farmers Burn Build ings and fences. CHICAGO—The temperature in Chi cago Sunday dropped 24 degrees in less than two hours and at night hovered around the zero mark, thus greatly intensifying the serious suffering for lack of coal. The worst rases of destitution had been provided for by charitable insti tutions, and to this alone is attributed the fact that no deaths were reported during the day. Two thousand persons in Chicago are Buffering from ailments directly due to cold and exposure resulting from the coal famine, according to the weekly bulletin of the health de partment issued Sunday. Serious re sults are already seen in the heavy increase in the death rate and the health department brands those re sponsible for the fuel shortage guilty of constructive homicide. The death rate last week for children under 5 years of ago was 49.2 per cent greater than In the corresponding week of last year and among persons over 60 years of age it was 36.7 per cent greater. The actual search for evidence of a combine of dealers will be undertak en Monday by the special grand Jury empanelled Saturday. Twenty-five coal men, some of them the heads of whole sale firms and others chiefs in the councils of corporations operating mines, have been summoned to ap pear and tell what they know of the ‘‘ring.” It is the intention that no one but coal men shall be examined, and un der Mr. Deneen’s direction a series of pointed questions have been ar ranged for each prospective witness. Trainloads of coal cars, sidetracked and labelled with placards instructing railroad freight crews to hold the con signments indefinitely, are said to have been discovered by the parties who caused the investigation to be made. It is also asserted that beyond the city limits, on one and probably two roads, countless tons of coal have been tak en from the cars and heaped up on either side of the tracks for as much as three-quarters of a mile. The grand Jury will insist on being Informed why this coal lias not been brought into the market and put on sale. Burn Buildings for Fuel. KANSAS CITY, Mo.—In many towns of Kansas and western Missouri no fuel of any kind can be had at any price and everything combustible is being burned—fruit and shade trees, old buildings, sidewalks and fences. In Kansas City itself there is suffer ing among the poor, owing to the high price of coal, but there is no scarc ity, the yards being better stocked now than at any time last year. The lowest temperature of the pres ent cold spell in this city was 4 above zero at 7 Sunday morning. Zero weather was experienced laBt month, but a sharp wind made Sunday the most uncomfortable of the winter thus far. At 7 Sunday evening the tem perature had risen to 11 above. Sat urday's snowfall was one and a half Inches. READING, Pa.—The Philadelphia & Reading railroad officials announce that for the week ending Sunday night more anthracite coal was taken down the main line than for any pre vious week in years. The total was 10,200 of all classes of cars, or an av erage of 1,100 cars for each working day of the week, equal to nearly 225, 000 tons. This was distributed in the company’s territory as far as New York and along Its branches in this state and elsewhere. The coal famine throughout this sec tion has reached such an acute stage that many industries in the smaller towns will soon have, to close and in the country districts the distress is so widespread that teams have start ed from Schuykktll county coal fields thirty and forty miles distant, to sup ply pressing necessities. ST. PAUI-, Minn.—Though fuel is both scarce and high there is nt famiue here yet and consequently liu little suffering, although the ther mometer ranged 2 degrees below yen Sunday. A high northwest wind serv ed to greatly intensify the cold am blew fine flurries of snow with cuttini force in the faces of pedestrians. DETROIT.—Mayor XV. C. Maybur; will issue a call for the eonventioi in Washington decided on in Chieag Saturday. While he would not giv the exact date for which the conver tion will be called, he said it woul be within the next ten days. BLOOMINGTON, 111.—Extreme cold weather is delaying shipments of coal from southern Illinois to the north. The tonnage will ave to be reduced to enable traffic to move. It Is said that while low temperatures prevail the speed of coal trains will be re duced from 10 to 20 per cent. INDIANAPOLIS.—There is much suffering here from lack of fuel. May or Bookwalter announced that the finance committee of the council would meet and take up the proposition to have the city buy coal and sell it in small quantities at wholesale rates. The poor will be given coal free. SAYS CONSPIRACY EXISTS. Attorney General Summons Special Grand Jury at Chicago. SPRINGFIELD, IIIA special grand jury met In Chicago Saturday to In vestigate the alleged conspiracy be tween coal operators, railroads and coal dealers to Increase the price of coal on the Chicago market. Attorney General Hamlin will lead the investigation. The attorney gen eral recently secured the services of competent men whom he sent to the mines along the Chicago & Alton road, and also other coal producing regions, and the reports which they have made convinced him that the market is be ing controlled by certain dealers and operators. The last report made to him was received Friday afternoon and contained some valuable informa tion. While the attorney general has not made public the evidence with which he has been furnished, he claims it will show that certain coal operators and dealers, some who are Interested in mines and some who are not, en tered into an agreement by which they could control the coal market. He did not state that any of the rail ways were interested in the alleged combination, although he has also in vestigated on this point. Railroad of ficials state that they lose no time in transporting coal from the coal-produc ing regions to Chicago, but that the delay is caused by the dealers there not returning the empty cars in due time. This furnished an important foundation for the inquiry, and on it several interesting statements have been secured. Forty witnesses were named in the subpoenas given to the sheriff. Small dealers are not the mark at which the state’s attorney aims. While the names on the list of witnesses are withheld, it is known that they are those of mine owners and wholesale dealers in coal. The state’s attorney in his petition for a special jury says: “From Information brought to him the state's attorney has reason to be lieve that there exists among cer tain owners and operators of coal mines and certain dealers in bitumin ous coal doing business in Cook coun ty, a combination to do an illegal act, injurious to the public trade, to-wit: To prevent competition in the sale and delivery of Buch coal in the county and to regulate and fix the price there of, and that such a combination has been entered into and exists to fix and limit the amount and quantity of such products as are mined in this state and also such as are mined and produced elsewhere and brought Into the county for consumption, and to regulate and fix the price thereof. "It is a matter of general informa tion that at the present time great quantities of such products have been brought into the county for sale and consumption, and that the same Is sold only at exorbitant prices, so much be yond the cost of production and trans portation that such owners, operators and dealers receive unreasonable prof its and the consumers are required to pay exorbitant prices; that by reason of such combination and the withhold ing of sales thereunder great distress and suffering prevail among the poor In the community, who are unable to pay such prices for such necessities, and great hardships exist among the different lines of industries requiring a continuous supply of products to carry on their business by reason of the pretended inability of the opera tors. owners and dealers to supply the demand at the ordinary market prices.” Senate Investigates. WASHINGTON—The senate com mittee on the District of Columbia continued its investigation of th( coa j shortage in Washington. Josept Crawford, general agent of the Penn sylvania railroad, said that during tin last year there had been a deereasi j in the quantity of anthracite brough j to Washington over his line of 30 pe ! cent, but during November and Dc j cember there had been an increas over the normal receipts. There ha< been no increase in freight rates fror the mines. W. /!. Zeh, a local dealer, declare it was much easier to secure coa ' from tbe independent companies tha i from the railroad companies, whic ■ indicated that the large companie I were disposing of their coal to th smaller ones to keep the prices up. I NEBRASKA IN GENERAL j CHADRON HAS THE OIL CRAZE. Two Hundred and Fifty Claims Al ready Filed. CHADRON, Neb.—The oil field ex citement continues and the county clerk’s office is daily thronged with men and women eager to get an ap plication certificate filed for a placer mining oil claim. Certificates have been filed with the county clerk for about 250 oil mining claims and at the present rate 10,000 acres of land will have been filed on for this purpose before the end of the week. Hud Mead, now manager of a new company known as the Guatemala Oil Mining company, with Ed Satterlee, J. Bro/'reimer, W. H. McCann and other substantial Chadron business men in the company, are locating group after group of claims and mak ing arrangements for machinery to commence boring. This will make one of the strongest companies in the field. Another company composed of Om aha and Douglas county men, includ ing G. W. Loomis, J. C. Holtorf, James Hodge and L. A. Harmon have part of their machinery on the ground and will be ready to begin boring soon. They have an experienced geologist here, who, in speaking of the geological conditions of the dis trict, says in substance that the shales covering the anticline existing here, as shown in the outcrop of the stratum, show unmistakable indica tions of oil. This anticlinal fold ex tends to the northeast and southwest, entering the Sioux reservation about , the northeast corner of Dawes county. Reports come from the reservation that some half-breed Indian cattlemen who occupy land on the reservation within the belt have, in times past, discovered coal beds while digging wells, but had never reported it un til the oil excitement began. The Indians are also anxious to be come a factor in the exploitation. MICKEY TAKES OATH. New Governor of Nebraska Formally Sworn In. LINCOLN.—Nebraska is no longer humiliated with Ezra P. Savage as its chief executive. His official light i went out Thursday afternoon with final extinguishment before 'the joint session of the legislature convened to witness the inauguration of John H. Mickey as governor. The two governors presented a no table contrast in every respect and although the crowd in attendance, wrhich fairly filled both floor and gal leries, listened with patience to the addresses of both outgoing and in coming executives, there was a vis ible emotion of relief when the lengthy communication of Governor Savage had been completed and the formal oath administered by Chief Justice Sullivan that marked the be ginning of the term of the new gov ernor. Governor Savage began to read his message at 2:30 o'clock and did not finish it until 3:45. During the en tire hour and fifteen minutes that he was talking the legislators sat in restless silence and gave only faint applause at the conclusion. Governor Mickey was heartily aplauded and his twenty-five minute talk received more rapt attention, to say nothing of fa vorable appreciation. On the few points which he touched in common with his predecessor Governor Mickey almost invariably disagreed with him in his conclusions and recommenda tions. His remedies for the problem presented by the complicated condi tions of the state’s revenues are along different lines from those suggested by Governor Savage. Popular Traveling Man Sick. DAVENPORT, Neb.—Reuben Moore, formerly traveling salesman for a grocery firm out of St. Joseph, having taken the first order for groceries at Wymore and other points in this state ever given, is dangerously sick al his home with consumption. He lias been conducting a grocery store here for several years. Gage County Transfers. BEATRICE, Neb—The total num her of deeds filed in Gage county foi the year 1902 was 1,237, the consider ation stated therein being $2,241,505 Actor Takes His Life. GREENWOOD, Neb.—"Jack" Lam bert, a comedian connected with tin Metropolitan Stock company, whicl * came to Greenwood this week fron ' Ashland, shot himself through tin heart at 10:45 o'clock Wednesda; evening. Lambert had taken hi; ' usual part in the play and was ap 1 parently in good spirits. He had jus 3 started for his room in the hotel t 6 retire for the night, when-he drev e the weapon. BRIEF NOTES. The total number of deeds filed in Gage county for the year 1902 was 1,237, the consideration stated therein being $2,241,505. The fourth annual banquet of the Dempster Mill Manufacturing company was held in Nichols’ hall, Beatrice, Saturday evening. The Nebraska City branch of the U. N. Association of Postoffice Clerks has elected the following officers: Clyde E. McCormack, president; H. Clifford Leigh, secretary; Melvin Thompson, treasurer. During the high wind at Ashland the smokestack on Railsbaek Bros.’ new elevator was blown down, wreck ing the dust-cleaning machinery. The smokestack at Swift and Company's ice house was also blown over. The damage is estimated at $500. The only coal in Sidney is a few cars in the Union Pacific yards. There is not an ounce in the yards of any of the dealers. The situation is be coming desperate, and the coal in the railroad yards will be seized unless there is speedy relief from some oth er source. Mr. Baggee, a Swede farmer 65 years old, living thirteen miles northwest of Cozad, has been killed by a vicious bull. He went to the field to drive up the cattle when the animal at tacked him. He walked to the house, about a quarter of a mile, and died soon after. The damages from the heavy wind at Fremont are much greater than at first reported. A great many wind mills were put out of use, and prob ably as many more blown down or broken. In Saunders county, south of the Platte, twenty-six mills were de molished. “Jack” Lambert, a comedian con nected with the Metropolitan Stock company, shot himself through the heart while the company was playing at Greenwood. He was infatuated with Miss Nelson, also a member of the company, who did not look with favor upon his attentions. A list of improvements made in Ashland and vicinity during 1902 has i just been compiled. It shows over $70,000 expended by Ashland citizens for new houses, barns, additions to residences and buildings of similar de sign. The largest item is Railsbaek Bros.’ elevator, costing $25,000. Beatrice volunteer hose company has elected officers for the coming year as follows: Ed Maxwell, president; Ira Lock, vice president; W. D. Moore, secretary; Patrick Quinn, steward; John Plebueh, foreman; E. A. Gordan, first assistant; G. Kuhn, second as sistant; A. P. Sage, treasurer. Reuben Moore, formerly traveling salesman for a grocery firm out of St. Joseph, having taken the first order for groceries at Wymore and other points in this state ever given, is dan gersously sick at his home in Daven port with consumption. He has been conducting a grocery store there for several years. a. meeuug ui sugar ueet grow ers in Hershey, Mr. Leavitt of the Standard Beet Sugar company of Ames stated he would erect at that place a modern factory if 5,000 acres of beets could be raised, and that he would erect and maintain a testing and weighing station this year for 500 acres. The prospects for a factory there in 1904 are good. Several bad cases of cattle being poi soned by eating hay which contained ergot have come to light at Fremont. One herd of cattle northwest of Fre mont is in an especially bad condi tion, nearly all of the 150 head show ing some symptoms of it, and a num ber were ordered shot by the veter inary. The disease affects the hind feet, which swell up and in some cases actually rot and fall off before the animal dies. York county will start the new year with two new manufacturing establish ments. The National Medicine com pany has rented rooms in the Kuns block and will soon occupy the large three-story brick block now occupied by the Nebraska Newspaper Union, which will build a large three-story ! brick block. Worthy Lee of Tobias ; Neb., is patentee of a wheat scourer, i Arrangements have been made with | one of York's largest foundries to man ! ufacture the iron work for the scourei ! and either a wood manufacturing j plant will be started or the work con traded with one of the wood manu facturing plants here. The following dates have been giver out for holding district court in the Fourteenth judicial district: Frontier February 9. September 7; Furnas 1 March 2, September 28; Red Willow 1 March 16, Octoper 12; Hitchcock March 30, November 9: Gosper, Apri 6, November 16; Dundy, April 14, No ! : vember 23; Hayes, April 20, Septem ' \ ber 21; Chase, April 27, November 30 1 I It has not yet been announced wh< 5 | will succeed Judge Norris. A num ' j ber of people regret to see Judge Nor 1 ris leave the bench WHENCE COMES THIS MICHTY HEALING POWER ALL THE LAND WONDERS ATTHE REMARKABLE CURES EFFECT ED BY PROFESSOR ADKIN. Reals Diseases (ailed Incurable tf Ministers! Doctors and Professional Men Tell How He Has Cured the Blind, the Lame, the Paralytic and Many on the Very Brink of Death. FREE HELP EOR THE SICK Professor Adkin Offers to Help AU Sufferers from Any Disease Alv solutely Free of Charge— Professional Men Invest tigate His Powers. PROF. THOMAS F. ADKIN, President of the Institute of Physicians and Surgeons. In all parts of the country men and women, ^ loctors and surgeons, clergymen and educators, are wondering at the remarkable cures made by, Prof. Thomas F. Adkin, discoverer of the Adkin' Vitaopathic treatment. Prof. Adkin heals not by drugs, nor by Chris tian Science, nor by Osteopathy, nor by Hypno tism, nor by Divine Healing, but by a subtle psychic force of nature lc combination with; certain vital magnetic redemies which contain the very elements of life and health. A reporter recently tallied with Prof. Adkin. and was asked to invite all readers of this paper, who aro sick or who are woried by the ills of those dear to them, to write to him for assist ance. “Some people have declared,” said Prof., Adkin, “that my powers are of God; they call, me a Divine healer, a man of mysterious pow ers. This is not so. I cure because I understand nature, because I use the subtle force of nature, to build up the system and restore health, nut at the same time I believe that the Creator would, not have given me the opportunity to make thej discoveries I have made or the ability to develop them, if He had not Intended that I should use them for the good of humanity. I therefor© feel that it is my duty to give the benefit or the science I practice to all who are suffering. 1 want you to tell your readers that they can, write to me In the strictest confidence if they. (are troubled with any kind of disease, and I. iwlll thoroughly diagnose their cases absolutely! tree of charge and explain by a simple guar anteed home treatment how a complete cure fehould be effected. I care not how serious theq Eases, nor how hopeless they may seem, 1 want, hem to write to me and let me make them /ell. I feel that this is my life work. : So great is the sensation wrought In the medt-j cal world by the wonderful cures performed Dy. iProf Adkin that several professional gentlemen <were asked to investigate the cures. Among (theso gentlemen were nir. L. D. Hawley and jDr L G. Doane, both famous physicians and 'surgeons. After a thorough and painstaking in vestigation these eminent physicians were so as tounded at the far reaching powers of Prof. Ad kin, and the wonderful efficacy of Vltaopathy that ’they volunteered to forsake all other ties in llife and all other kinds of treatment and devote ‘themselves to assisting Prof. Adkin in his great Work for humanity. With the discovery of the Adkin Vitaopathic treatment eminent j>hyuic\m hre generally agreed that the treatment ofdis tease has at last been reduced to an exact lienee. In all some 8.000 men and 7°®enbave cured by the powers of Prof. Adkin. Some were blind, some were lame, some were deaf, E! were paralytic, scarcely able to move «o bieat was their infirmity. Others were afflicted with Bright’s disease, heart diseas^, consump tion, and other so-called Incurable diseases. were sufferers from kidney trouble, nervous debility, insomnia, neuralgia, constipa tion. rheumatism, female troubles and othor sim ilar Ills. Some were men and women addicted to drunkenness, morphine and other evil habits. In au cases Prof. Adkin treats he guarantee:! a cure. Even those on the brink of the grave. With all hope of recovery gone and despaired ot by doctors and friends alike, have been restored to perfect health by the force of Vltaopathy and Prof, /tdkin’s marvelous skill. And, remarkable as it may seem, distance has made no differ ence. Those living far away have been cured in the privacy of their own homes, as well as thosu Who have been treated in person. Prof. Adkin (asserts that he can cure any one at any distance as well as though he stood before them. Not long ago John Adams of Blakesbury. Ia., .who had been lame for twenty years, was per manently cured by Prof. Adkin without an opera tion of any kind. About the same time the city of Rochester. N. V., was startled by the cure of one of its oldest residents, Mr. P. A. ‘Wright, who had been partly blind for a long (period. John E. Neff, of Millersburg. Pa., who had suffered for years from a cataract over hU left eye. was speedily restored to perfect sight, without an operation. From Logansport, Ind., comes the news of the recovery of Mrs. Mary ‘•Etcher, who had been practically deaf for a year While In Warrent Pa.. Mr. G. W. Savage, a noted photographer and artist, who was not only par tially blind and deaf, but at death’s door from a complication of diseases, was restored to perfect health and strength by Prof. Adkin. Vltaopathy cures not one disease alone, but it cures all diseases when used in combination with the proper remedies. If you are sick, no matter what your disease nor who says you can not. be cured, write to Prof. Adkin today, tell him the leading symptoms of your complaint, how long you have been suffering, and he will at once diagnose your case, tpll jou the exact disease from which you are suffering and pre scribe the treatment that wil.* positively cure you. This costs you absolutely nothing. Prof Adkln will also send you a copy of hi» marvel ous new bopk, entitled, “How ip ale Cured and How to Cure Others.” This boo(k tells you ex actly how Prof. Adkin will cure y<eu. It fully and completely describes the nature ot his wonderful treatment. It also explains to you- how you your self may possess this great heading power and cure the sick around you. Prof. Adkin does not ask ojne cent for his services In this connection. They will be given i to you absolutely free. He made a wonder ful discovery, and he wisV o place it in the hands of every sick perse country, that he may be restore*! * 'ith and strength Mark your letter "mi write, and no one but Prof. AdV BW|| .ddress. Prof. Thomas F. Adkin, <} •••»!■ N y