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The Frontier.
VOLUME XXIII. O’NEILL. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, MARCH 12,1903. ' NUMBER 37.
[VENTS OMTIEJAST VEEk
As Gleaned by the Frontier Reportei
on his Daily Rounds About
the Town
EVERYTHING THAT OCCURE1
Is Recorded Here, If Not it Escape<
the Anxious and Tireless
v Search of Our Reporter
Wanted—Fifty yearling mules.
4-35pd Co /PERTHWAITE & SON.
Dell Akin and John Brady were
down from Atkinson Monday.
B. A. Deyarman house and barn 'or
sale. Dickson & Co.
W. W Bethea, was up from Ewing,
Saturday gretting old friends in this
city.
Attorney Dickson was attending
district court in Boyd county last
week.
Charles A. Robinson, an attorney
from Kearney, was a business visitor
in town Wednesday.
For flour, feed, millet, corn, oats
oil meal, hay at the lowest price foi
cash, see me.—Con Keys.
For Rent—Ninety acres of farm
land one-half mile northeast of this
city. D. H. Cronin.
George F. Hansen, of Blackbird,
caled Saturday and had his name en
rolled upon The Frontier subscrip
tion list. j
Ed. F. Gallagher left for Darlington,
Wis., last Sunday morning being call
ed there by a telegram announcing
the serious illness of his sister.
Tyler Scriven, was up from Cham
bers, Monday called at this office and
left the necessary coin to credit his
subscription to January 1, 1904.
f SEE My line of wall paper direct
from factory. Don’t buy from dealers
when you can save 25 per cent. See me.
M. F. Cronin
I have for sale one span good young
work h rses. Also 2 good second hand
top burgles.
57-3 Frank Campbell.
For Rent—\fy farm eight miles
n irtliwest of O’Neili About 80 acres
under cultivation.
2-37 Mrs. Margaret Marsh.
II. A. Folk moved his family into
town hist Friday and is now comfort
j,
ably located in .the old Cavanaugh
•>isidfynce, which Mr. Folk purchased
last fall.
The public schools and St. Mary’s
Academy are dosed this week, The
closing of the schools was taken as a
precautionary measure to prevent the
spreading of diphtheria.
Buggies, buggies, buggies—A car
load of the nicest and best that ever
L came to O’Neill; if you want a snap
y now is your chance to call and get
your pick.—Neil Brennan 45-tf
The citizensof Atkinson arestirred
up by agenuine postotlice tight. There
are five candidates already in the field
and several others looking over the
ground with a view to entering the
race
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FOR RENT—The 240 acre Carlon
farm adjoining O’Neill Running
water, fine meadow and pasture.
Dwelling, shade, etc. Apply at once
to O. F. Biglin, O’Neill, Neb.
The Elkhorn river is on the ram
page. It is reported that the county
bridge across the river near Ewing
has been washed away and on the low
lands along the river south of town is
enough water to run a steamboat.
Valdez 'Alaska Prospector: Jack
Meals, the well known pioneer and
miner of the Chesna, is back and
brought his wife and so many children
that the school board had to put in
new seats and engage a new teacher.
J. K. Johnson, of San Francisco,
4 was in the city Monday Mr. John
son is a son of the late Col. B. W. John
son, of Atkinson, and is a practecing
attorney in the coast city. He says
that times were never so prosperous
in the cities on the coast as at the
present time, which speaks well for
these days of republican prosperity.
Now is the time to buy a bull for
spring use. The best is the most
profitable. See our herd before buy
ing We want your business and we
$ie going to make prices that will in
duce you to buy.
The Brook Farm Co.
J. R. Thomas Foreman,
Ranch 12 miles Northeast of O’Neill
Why don’t you use a thorough bred
shorthorn bull? Is it because you
cannot spare the cash? Then see us:
We will take grade cattle in part
payment, or make other satisfactory
arrangements.
^ * The Brook Farm Co,
J. R. Thomas, Foreman
Ranch 12 miles Northeast of O’Neill
Anyone who desires to have paper
pering, painting, calcemining and
frescoeing done, it will be to their ad
vantage to see me. I have had over
f Tty years experience and will guar
antee work to be tirst-class. Leave
orders for work at Corrigan’s drug
itore or address me at Agee, Neb.
5 2 V- N. S. Thompson.
Ainsworth Journal: Mrs. F. Herre,
of West Side, Iowa, arrived here
Wednesday night of last week and
was taken to the home of her parents
on the Calamus, by ;Dell Mosely, ar
riving one day too late to witness the
1 ist sad rites of her father, John
Crone. Mrs. Crone will accompany
hw daughter to Iowa for a short
visit.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Keeley and
amily left Tuesday morning for
Valdez, Alaska, where the family will
reside while Mr. Keeley will go into
the interior and pros’pect for gold
ilong the Copper river. The Fron
tier will visit t hem each week in their
f r i ortlu r i home and keep them post
ng on events in this portion of the
universe.
George Shiveley returned last Sat
urday night from Waco, Texas, where
he had been recuperating the past
three months. George is not very
favorably impressed with the south
and says no matter what vocation a
man may desire to follow he is com
pelled to go along shoulder to shoulder
with a “culled” gentleman as they
occupy stations in the various walks
o.' life, from the well fed, well paii
bmker to the poor hard working da)
liborer on the streets.
An editor wrote: “We beg the in
dulgence of our readers for being a
day late this week. Our failure to
get out on time was tiie result of the
physical demoralization of the editor,
caused by sleeping too close to the
boarding bouse window.” The cussed
compositor set the last word “widi w'
and the proof reader fu'diid todiseovei
tile omission of the let ter “n.‘’ TIu
editor's trunk still is Hi t tie board in-,
house and he hasn’t hud a change o,
shirts or socks for five weeks.
Park City, Utah, Record: Mamie,
the 15-year-old daughter of John Mc
Bride, died Wednesday night from
pneumonia. She was the youngest
daugther and was a great favorite
botli witli Iter immediates relatives
and her schoolmates and companions,
and she will be sadly missed. The
funeral took place yesterday afternoon
at 2 o’clock from the Catholic church
and was largely attended by friends oi
the young lady and of the family.
Interment was in the city cemetery
Effective March 13, mail will leave
the O’Neill postoffice at 4 o’clock p.
m. for all eastern points. It will be
pouched from the O’Neill office to
the Omaha and Bonesteel railwa
postoffice and will be sent to Norfolk
on No 28 which is due here at 4:15.
Mail sent on this train will react
Omaha at 10 o’clock the next morn
ing. Mail for stations between
O’Neill and Norfolk will not be s^ni
on this train. Train 27, due here at
5:82 p. m., will bring eastern mail
This will make it possible for O’Neil
residents to receive the morning
Omaha papers four hours earlier than
at present.
Mrs. Richard Killmurry jr., died at
the home of her parents in this city
last Tuesday evening at 8:30 after an
illness of but four days of diptheria,
the remains being interred at 4
o’colk Wednesday afternoon in the
Catholiccemetary. The sudden death
of this estimable lady is a very sad
one and her grief stricken parents
have the sympathy of the people of
city. She came up from Chambers to
the bedside of her brother T. J. Hur
ley, who died February 27, after an
illness of but four or live days
of what was termed tonsilitus, but, as
the symptoms were the same as in
this case people generally be
leive he had diptheria. On
March 1 her father-in-law, Richard
Killmurry sr., died and she attended
that funeral on Tuesday of last week
and was apparently in good health,
but complained of a sore throat. On
Thursday she was compelled to go to
bed and grew rapidly worse until she
passed away Tuesday evening. The
family are now in quarantine
and every precaution is used to pre
vent the spread of the disease.
Dangerof Colds and Grip.
The greatest danger from colds and
grip is their resulting in pneumonia
If reasonable care is used, however,
and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
taken, all danger will avoided.
Among the tens of thousands who
have used this remedy for these dis
eases we have yet to learn of a single
case having resulted in pneumonia,
which shows conclusively that it is a
certain preventive of that dangerous
disease. It will cure a cold or an ao
i tack of the grip in less time than any
other treatment. It is pleasant and
safe to toke For sale by P. C. Corri
igan.
iStaiKiiiti
Shot by Edward Slattery while Com
ing to Town Last Friday Morn
. ing. Slatery will Have
Preliminary Hear
ing Saturday.
As the result of a family feud of
several years duration II. W. Shaw
lies in the cold and silent grave and
Edward Slattery is in the county jail
charged with murder.
Last Friday morning Mr. Shaw ac
companied by his son and hired man,
J. T. Thompson were coming to town
with three loads of baled hay. It ap
pears that near tlie Slattery house
tlie snow has drifted the roads so full
that it become necessary to pull out ol
the road onto the Slattery land to get
I through. On the morning in ques
i ion when Mr. Shaw came along Slat
tery came down from the house with
i shot gun and ordered Shaw to keep oil
their land. Shaw and Thompson got
lown off their loads and started
toward Slattery when the latter fired
killing Shaw instantly. Thompson
came to town and notified the aut
horities of the tragedy and shortly
thereafter Coroner Trueblood summo
ned u jury and repaired to the scene
'f the crime.
The'1 coroners jury came back from
he scene of the shooting about t
>’elock but did not render a verdict
until the following morning. Follow
ing is a copy of tlie report filed by the
;oroner with the clerk of t he district
court:
Be It remembered that on the 6th
day of March 1903, reliable informa
tion was given to the undersizned cor
ner of said county that the dead body
of H. W. Shaw had been found about
) miles Southwest-of O’Neill in said
county, and the said H. W. Shaw was
•mpposed to have come to his death
by unlawful means, therefor 1 issued
a warrant to E. Huff a constable of
said county, requiring him to sum
mons six lawful men of said county to
ippear before me at the above men
tioned place (5 miles Southwest of
O’Neill) forthwith, then and there to
hold an inquest upon the dead body of
said II W Shaw there lying, and by
what means he died, and at the same
time issued subpoenas for .Tames
Thompson, Rafe Shaw and Sarah Slat
tery to appear at said time and place:
And said constable, at the time and
dace mentioned in said warrant, re
■ urned the same duly served, and also
that lie had a summoned said witness
es as required. Therefor at the time
ind place mentioned, said jury, to
wit: David Moler, C. A. Moore, S. P.
Burge, Ira Laphan, I). L. Canfield and
D. Stannard appeared, and being duly
impaneled and sworn, proceeded to
make inquiry as to the means and by
whom said II. W. Shaw came to his
leath and having inspected the body
heard the testimony and made all
needful inquiries, returned to me
their inqusitior in writing under their
hands as follows:
“That at about the hour of 9 o’clock
a. m. of above date (3-6-03) the said
'I. W. Shaw came to his death by the
fellonious discharge of a gun in the
hands of Edward Slattery”
David Moler.
C. A. Moore.
S. P. Burge.
Ira Laphan.
I). L. Canfield.
D. Stannard.
Slattery came to town about 11
o’clock and gave himself up to the
county judge the latter releasing him
upon $500 bond. Short ly after a comp
laint charging him with murder was
sworn out and lie is now in the county
jail awaiting a preleminary hearing
which will be held next Saturday.
Severe Attack Of Grip
Cured by One Bottle of Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy.
“When I had an attack of the grip
last winter (the second one) I actually
cured myself with one bot tle of Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy,”says Frank
W. Perry, Editor of the Enterprise,
Shortsville, X. Y. “This is the hon
est truth. 1 at times kept from cough
ing myself to pieces by taking a tea
spoonful of this remedy, and when the
coughing spell would come on at night
I would take a dose and it seemed
that in the briefest interval t he cough
would pass off and I would go to sleep
perfectly free from cough and its ac
companying pains. To say that the
remedy acted as a most agreeable sur
prise is putting it very mildly. 1 had
no idea that it would or could knock
out the grip, simply because I had
never tried it for such a purpose, but
it did, and it seemed will) the second
attack of coughing the remedy caused
it to not on la be of less dural ion, but
the pains were far less severe, and I
had not used the contents of one bot
I tie before Mr. Grip had bid me adieu.”
' For sale by P. C. Corrigan.
An O'Neill Boy At The Head.
l)r. Joseph Gallagher, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Gallagher of this
city who for the past six years has
been located in St. Louis, has just
been appointed to the superi ntendency
of the new emergency hospital in that
city, at a handsome salary. Dr Gal
lagher’s many friends here are much
gratified at his continued success and
the high rank he is taken In his cho
sen profession. The following extract
is from the St. Louis Globe Democrat:
“Superintendent Nietert of tire City
Hospital said last night that Doctor
Joseph Gallagher, a senior of the hos
pital staff, will be in charge of the
new emergency hospital on Four
teenth and O’Fallon streets which to
day becomes one of the city’s eleemosy
nary institutions.
j^ped Hallo will be chief clerk in
Charge of the office and clerical force.
“Doctor Gallagher has been connect
ed with tlie City Hospital since the
springof 1901 and hasshown such abil
ity that he was promoted several
months ago by Superintendent Nietert
to ttie position of senior physician, in
charge of the medical ward. He is a
graduate of the medical department
of Washington University, and stood
>ne of the highests in the graduating
•lass of 1901.
“Doctor Nietert said that the pati
ents to he removed to the new emer
gency hospital will be the “chronics”
as they are termed, whose removal
will not only relieve the congested
condition at the old place, but will be
attended with less danger. Most of
these patients arenowsleeping under
neath the first floor of the City Hospi
tal, in quarters that could not by any
strech of the imagination be deemed
desirable.
“Nursesfrorn the St. Louis Training
School will be assigned to the new
hospital. The work of removing the
patients to their new quarters will be
done gradually, and will require seve
ral days.”
County News Notes.
From the KwIok Advocate.
No less than four Fltzsmmons-Jef
fries encounters have been pulled off
in our city this week and with the
exception of one instance there was
not an official insight, but we might
add, however, that in this one parti
cular instance the mayor was largely
in evidence. No bones were broken
or serious injuries resulted from any
of tlie mix-ups, althouge chairs were
used in place of stuffed mitts in one
case. What caused these numerous
altercations we are unable to state,
unless, as some claim, the unsettled
ness of the weather is a breeder of ra
dical differences of opinion. It may
yet be found necessary to employ a
cordon of police to patrol our city.
G. S. White and J. D. Wiseman, of
Vadis West Virginia, arrived in Ew
ing last night on an extended visit to
J. K. Snyder. Mr. Wiseman is a bro
ther of Geo. Wiseman who resides
over near Orchard. These gentleman
are both old acquainces of Colonel
Snyder, and while their visit to this
place is partly to renew this old ac
quaintanceship, yet Mr. Wiseman is
looking up a location, and in case he
can find the right kind of a deal will
locate here. Mr. White informs us
that he is here on an altogether diffe
rent, mission; that should he find his
ideal of a woman, he is here for keeps.
A serious family mix-up is occupy
ing the attention of the residents out
near the S. H. Harris homestead west
of Ewing, a portion of the facts of
which will he brought out at a prelim
inary hearing before Judge Seiah
next Tuesday.
Harvey Johnston returned Wednes.
day evening from down near Lincoln
where he has been visiting a sister
the past two weeks.
Mr. Mitchell, a son of our townsman
J. S. Mitchell, came up from Iowa
last Wednesday for a visit at the old
homestead.
Card of Thank.
The Emmet Literay Association at
its regular meeting held on Friday,
March 6th, passed the following resolu
tion.
Whereas, the annual Banquet and
celebration of Emmet’s Birthday, on
Wednesday evening was due largely
to those who participated in the pro
gram,
Therefore, be it resolved that we
the Emmet Literary Association,igive
this expression of our thanks to the
Orchest ra, Singers, Deciaimers, all who
so kindly lent their talent to make
the occasion a success.
The Emmet Literary Ass'n,
By its President and Sec’y.
Notice of Dissolution.
Notice is hereby given that the firm
heretofore known as Townsend &
Davis, bridge contractors and builders,
dissolved by mutual consent January
1, 1903.
E. Roy Townsend.
36-4 Daniel Davis.
Legislative News.
Lincoln, March 9.
The appropriation bills have at last
come into the House, and will be the
subject of discussion in coramttee of
the whole immediately after the dis
posal of the revenue bill.
As usual the amounts asked
for in the appropriation bill
are very large, and will be trimmed
down somewhat by the honse. The
disposition toward liberality will be
more pronounced if adequate provi
sion is made for raising the money to
pay the bills.
The revenue bill lias been reported
to the House by the standing commit
tee with a number of amendments,
tiie most important of which is tiie
change in the time of the assessment
from the 1st of February back to the
present date. There is some disposi
tion, however, to compromise on
March 1st. The bill has been printed
and placed in general circulation, and
an agreement has been reached to
hold night sessions in the House until
it is disposed of. In the meantime
the sale bill has been introduced in
the senate, and will be held in abey
ance pending action in the House.
A number of new bills have been
Introduced calling for amendents to
tiie constitution, and it is possible
that some of them may pass, and give
the people another chance to vote
upon them. Heretofore the trouble
in elections has been that more than
one-half of the voters neglected to
vote on the amendments, and they
have always failed to carry. A move
will no doubt be made to have the
propositions placed at tiie head of the
ballots instead of at the bottom, as
an experiment to see if the voters
will not take more interest.
On Friday a decided flurry was caus
ed by tlie report handed to tlie Senate
by tlie committee on accounts and ex
penditures, severely criticising the
secretary of state because of the pur
chase of legislative supplies without
authority, and tlie including of car
pets, furniture, and a number of other
items not ordered or used by the leg
islature The bills in tlie hands of
the committee show many overcharg
es and other discrepancies, and reflect
much discredit on one of the em
ployes, and decided embarrassment to
tlie secretary of state. The commit
tee declined to audit and pay the
bills, and a full investigation is to be
made. In taking Hold of tlie matter
in a fearless manner tlie legislature
fs showing a strong contrast to tlie
iusionlsts when they were in power
and when they condoned rather than
criticised the illegal or dishonest acts
of their oflicials. It is quite probable
that this session will pass a law
which will prevent extravagance and
peculation of public funds in this
manner in the future.
The agitation over the Omaha plan
to tax terminals practically sudsided
last week when the House by a deci
sive vote endeiinitely postponed H. 11.
330. There is some talk that a simi
lar measure in tlie Senate will be re
vived, but the evident hopelessness
of the movement will detract from
its interests.
In case tlie session holds six days in
the week from now on, the sixtieth
day will come on the 30th of March.
It lias been usual, however, that the
sessions hold more than sixty days,
and the opinion is quite general that
the end will not come before the 4th
or Oth of April.
The Mortgage.
The mortgage is a seif supporting
institution. It always holds itsown.
It calls for just as many dollars when
grain is cheap as when grain is dear.
It is not effected by the drouth. It is
not drowned out by the heavy rains.
It never winter kills Late springs
and early frosts never trouble it. Po
tato bugs do not destroy it. It grows
nights, Sundays, rainy days and even
holidays. It brings a sure crop every
year, sometimes twice a year. It pro
duces cash every time. It does not
have to wait for the market to ad
vance. It is not subject to specula
tions of the bulls and bears on the
board of trade. It is a load that galls
and frets and chafes.
It is a burden that the farmer can
not shake off. It is with him morn
ing, noon and night. It eats with
him at the table. It gets under the
pillow when he sleeps. It rides upon
his shoulder during the day. It con
sumes his grain crop. It devours his
cattle. It selects the finest horses and
the fattest steers. It lives on the
first fruit of the season. It stalks in
to the dairy where the busy house
wife toils day and month after month
and takes the nicest cheese and choic
est butter. It shares the children’s
bread and robs them of their clothes.
It stoops the toiler’s back with its re
morseless burden of care. It hardens
his hands, benumbs his intellect, pre
maturely whitens his locks and often
times sends him and his good wife
over the hill to the poor house. It is
the Inexorable and exacting tax mas
ter. Its whip is as merciless and
cruel as the lash of the slave driver.
It is a menace to liberty, a hindrance
to progress, a curse to the world.—(O.
T.) Leader.
Great Northern Railway
W. & S. F. RY.
Through daily service to Minneapo
lis and St. Paul with direct connec
tions for all points in Minnesota,
North Dakota and west to Pacific
Coast. Through sleeping car service.
Apply to any agent for rates, folders
and descriptive matter.
Fred Rogers,
G«nl. Pas6. Agt.
The Market.
ISpecluI market letter from Ny o & Buchanan
Co., Live Stock UommKsiou Merchants
South Omaha, Nebraska!.
South Omaha, Mar. 12,1903.
Beef steers made an advance of 15
to 20c last week but lost most of it
first two days this week. However,
Wednesday recovered 10c again and
the market now has a good healthy
tone again. Principal cause of dec
line was the big run of 30,000 in
Chicago Monday and two days’ heavy
run here.
We quote best beef steers $4.60 to
$5.00, good $4.00 to $4.50, warmed-up
$3.75 to $4.00; choice cows and heifers
$3.50 to $4.00, fair to good $2.85 to
$3.40; canners and cutters $1.50 to
$2.50 Choice Stockers and feeders
$4.20 to $4.40, good $3.75 to$4.20. Bulls
slow sale at $2.50 to $3.70; veal $4.00 to
$6.00.
Hog receipts light. Range $7.00 to
$7.45
Sheep receipts also light. Market
steady to strong.
Killers
Lambs $6.00-$6.50
Yearlings 5.50—6.00
Wethers 5.30—5.60
Ewes 4.25—5.10
Nye & Buchanan Co.
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I Removal Notice. ji
After March ist. 1 will be located in the Mar- #
tin building opposite hotel Evans. Call and £
2 see my spring line and get prices before order- f
5 ing your spring clothes. 5
| JOHN BENNETT, 5
£ Opposite Evans Hotel. <>