Frontier. 1
VOLUME XXIII._
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRILS. 1903.
__ NUMBER 43.
EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK
As Gleaned by the Frontier Reporter
on his Daily Rounds About
the Town
EVERYTHING THAT OCCURED
Is Recorded Here, If Not it Escaped
the Anxious and Tireless
Search of Our Reporter
Go to Olsens for blacksmithing 2-43
Dal Hunter was in from Willowdale
Tuesday.
Editor Raker was up from Ewing
last Saturday.
Olsen is the man that can do your
blacksmithing. 2-43
W. P. O’Brion was down from
Atkinson Saturday.
See those new photo mountings at
Corbetts. They are beauties. 43
B. A. Deyarman house and barn for
sale. Dickson & Co.
If you want a good riding plow
Bentley has one to sell you 40tf.
When you want your plow repaired
bring it to Olsen across from Meller &
Quiltysbarn. 2-43
Doctor Corbett will be in his Dental
office and Gallery from the 23 to 30th
of each month.
Miss Sadie Osborn, of Atkinson, is
in the city visiting at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. A. S. Merrill.
T. N. J. Ilynes returned from Park
City, Utah, Saturday night and ex
pects to remain in O’Neill during the
summer.
Will Mohr, one of the hustling real
estate agents of Boyd county, former
ly a Holt county boy, was in the city
Monday.
Jim Connally was passing the cigars
around Monday on account of the ar
rival of a son at his home Sunday
morning.
Thomas Joyce left for Park City,
Utah, this morningiwhere he expects
to make his future home. May suc
cess attend him.
R. W. McGinnis, general agent of
the Elkhorn at Lincoln, was in the
city Saturday looking after business
interests in this section.
Mrs. Clarence Selah returned Satur
day evenipg from Huron, S. D., where
she had been visiting relatives the
past three months.
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
The Epwortli League will give an ice
cream social in the rooms fitted up
under the Valley bank Friday evening,
April 24th. All are cordially invited.
A. W. Scattergood, of Ainsworth,
one of the leading attorneys of western
¥ Nebraska, was in the city Sunday at
tending the institution of the Knights
of Columbus.
Andrew Morrisey, county attorney
of Cherry county, was in the city Sun
day and was on that day initiated
into the mystries of the Knight of
Columbus.
S. F. McNichols and children were
in Plainview last Monday visiting Mr.
McHenry, the Plainview miller, whose
flour Mr. MeNichols handles in liis
feed store here.
The indications are that there
will be quite a building boom in
O’Neill this summer. Several of our
citizens are figuring on erecting res
idences this season.
Buggies, buggies, buggies—A car
load of the nicest and best that ever
came to O’Neill; if you want a snap
now is your chance to call and get
your pick.—Neil Brennan 45-tf
FOR RENT—The 240 acre Carlon
farm adjoining O’Neill Running
water, fine meadow and pasture.
Dwelling, shade, etc. Apply at once
i to O. F. Biglin, O’Neill, Neb.
O. O. Snyder is having his office
building remodeled and renovated.
When the carpenters and paperhang
ers complete their services he expects
to have one of the neatest little offices
in the state.
, Now is the time to buy or trade for
a good short horn bull. The
Brook Farm Co., have 25 that can’t be
beat.
J R. Thomas Foreman.
Farm 10 miles northeast of O’Neill
Just opened up for the spring a very
fine assortment of Sioux City garden
seeds in bulk and in packages also
onion setts, alfalfa and white clover
blue grass.
3Stf Neil Brennan.
Our new studio is almost complete.
Wait and we will fill your order with
the latest and finest lighting obtain
able. Latest cards and ground work.
Respectable treatment and first-class
work guaranteed.
43-1 Holderson Photo Co.
We have too many anti-rust wash
boilers and dish-pans. Must sell some
of them to reduce the stock. Come
and get the reduced prices. O’Neill,
Furniture and Hardware Co. Succes
sors to M. A. McCaffery. 39
The O’Neill, Furniture and Hard
ware Co., successors to M. A. McCaf
ferty, we want to go out of the lamp
and queensware business and will sell
at any old price to close out. Come
all and see their stock. 39
Strayed—From my place twenty
miles northeast of O’Neill on or about
Dec. 1,1902,one brown mare two years
old. Liberal reward for information
leading to her recovery.
43-2 Dude Hoyer,
Blackbird, Neb.
The Brook Farm Co., have Bulls foi
sale and thei r Dames have weighed 2100
hundred. Brother stockman come
and buy one of these bulls and grow
1800 hundred lb steers with the same
feed you grow 1000 and 1200 lb ones.
J. B. Thomson Foreman.
Farm 10 miles northeast of O’Neill.
Last Thursday J. J. King disposed
of his residense in the western part
of the city to A. J. Hammond. Consi
deration $1300 Mr. King will have a
sale of his personal effects
and expects to leave for the west about
May 15 to look up a location in Ore
gon or Washington.
Call at Mrs. Fitzsummon’s and see
the beautiful and stylish line of Eas
ter hats on exhibition. The finest
line of pretty and stylish ladies hats
ever brought. Pattern hats always
in stock and first-class trimmers to
give them the artistic touch. Second
door east of Hotel Evans.
Two thousand dollars worth of first
class furniture has been ordered by
tiie O’Neill Furniture & Hardware
Co., successors to M. A. McCafferty.
Shipment will arrive about the 15th
of April. Very best goods and lowest
prices. The stock of furniture on
hand now will be disposed of very
cheap to make room for the new stock.
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
forty years experience and will guar
antee work to be first-class. Leave
orders for work at Corrigan’s drug
store or address me at Agee, Neb.
36-2 N. S. Thompson.
Having succeeded to the business of
the firm of Peeler & McManus I cor
deally invite the patronage of all my
old customers and in fact any and
everbody who desire anything in the
general hardware line. Also carry a
stock of harness, collars, pads, whips
and in fact any thing that can be
procured in any first-class harness
shop. Yours for business and fair
dealing. John McManus.
41-4
Judging by the following taken
from the Gordon Journal, all is not
peace and harmony among our brother
editors in Sheridan county.. If the
boys continue they are liable to get
each other into domestic difficulties:
“The Itushville Standard editor says
the editor of the Journal is worrying
himself sick because the women wear
long dresses. What particular style
would the Standard editor advocate—
decolette at both ends? The editor
of the Journal may be a trifle bald
headed, but he has never yet been ac
cused of kissing grass widows on the
way home from church.”
The syndicate editoral writer in
last weeks Independent says Mr.Tighe
and his three sons had a right to vote
in O’Neill. When interrogated by
Judge Davidson, of the election board,
Mr. Tighe said he came here with his
family about March 6, or thirty one
days before the election. As the gen
eral election laws, under which J. H.
Parks was convicted of illegal voting
specifically state that in order to be a
legal voter you must be a resident of
the county at least forty days proceed
ing the election, we failed to see
where Tighe or his sons had a vote
coming when they had been residents
of Holt county only thirty-one days.
C. W. Hamilton was down from
Stuart Saturday and made this office
a business call squaring up his sub
scription prior to his removal to Wash
ington. Charley has been a resident
of Holt for many years and lias been a
successful farmer and politician.
There may be brighter spots on
mother earth than old Holt but we
have failed to see them and we have
moved around “quite a heap” too.
The Frontier is of the opinion that
when the glamour of that western
country—brought to the eyes of the
prospective western immigrant by tiie
glowing literature of the active real
estate hustler—is disa ppointed by hard
knocks in tire school of experience,
many of those of who have left this
garden of eden will be coming back
sadder but wiser men, even if poorer
in pocket. Rut here is luck to Charley
Hamilton where ever he may pitch
his tent.
Mrs. Ben DeYarmon and children
left Tuesday morning for Vancouver,
Wash., where they expect to make
their future home. Mr. Peyarmon
h is been there a couple of months and
is engaged in the real estate business.
Mrs. Lillie, who was convicted of
the murder of her husband at David
City, last December, has been refused
a new trial and was sentenced to the
penetentiary for life. Mr. Lillie was
a nephew of Mr. Gerard who resides
about ten miles northeast of this city.
Romaine Saunders, who left here
last June for Oakland, Cal., will re
turn to O’Neill about the middle of
■ ext month and resume his old posi
tion as associate editor of The Fron
tier. “Pete’s” many friends in O’Neill
will be glad to welcome him back
from the land of flowers.
Ord Quiz: C. L. Anderson and
family are this week packing up their
household good with the idea in view
of moving to the Island in the near
future where they will make their
home. Mr. Anderson tells us that lie
lias purchased property there. Situat
ed on the main line where he spends
the most of his time lie will be better
able to be at home nights and Sundays
with his family hence the change in
location. We wish them success in
the move.
LilUULCiUUIU XJ, II Llll L iWIU
Miss Helen Dickinson returned to
Omaha last week after a few days
visit in this city at the home of Mr.
ndaMrs. S. J. Weekes. Mr. Hunt is |a
cousin of Mrs. Weekes and has but
recently returned from South Africa
where he has been for the past ten
years. Mr. Hunt fought with the
Boers in the Jamison raid—before the
breaking out of the war. At the com
mencment of the war he assisted in
the organization of the Irish Brigade
and was made Frst Lieutenant of one
of the companies in that brigade, un
der General Wade for whom the Brit
ish government had a standing ofier
of 3000 pounds for his capture. In
conversation with The Frontier re
porter Mr. Hunt stated that the Brit
ish government were never called up
on to pay the rewrrd for the wily
Wade succeeded in eluding capture
by the British army up until the final
surrender of the Boer army. Mr. Hunt
participated in several of the most
important battles among them being
Ladysmith and Spion Kopje and was
twice wounded. He tells of the coun
try, the people and the war in a very
interesting way and one has but to
listen to him for a short time to be
convinced that the cause for which
the Boers put up such a heroic fight
was a just one. Mr Hunt expects to
make his home, for the present, in
Omaha.
Obituary.
Mrs. Adelia Wagers, wife of S. M.
Wagers, died at her home in this city
Tuesday morning at 7:30 of heart fail
ure, after a short illness, aged 63 years
and 10 months.
Adelia Hagerman was born in Wash
ington county. Ohio, June 16, 1839.
In 1864 she was united in marriage to
Jessie Smith,who died in 1874. Frank
and Ed Smith, of this city, are sons
of Mrs. Wagers by her first marriage.
On August 16,1879, she was united in
marriage to S. M. Wageis at Virqua,
Wis. Shortly after their marriage
they moved to Iowa, where they re
mained one year, they moving to Ne
braska and settled in Hamilton
county, where they remained until
t he spring of 1882, when they moved
to Holt county and settled on a farm
about 16 miles northeast of this city.
In 1887 they moved to this city. Mrs.
Wagers has been a sufferer from stom
ach trouble for years, but was not con
sidered seriously ill until the past
three weeks.
Tuesday morning about 7:15 Mr.
Wagers came up town after his mail.
When he left home she was resting
easy, apparently better than she had
been during the night. When he re
turned about 7:35 she was dead. Her
nurse stated she had at attack of
heart failure shortly after he left ttiat
carried her to the great beyond. The
family has the sympathy of their
numerous friends in their bereave
ment.
The funeral was held from the M.
E. church at 10 o'clock this morning,
services being conducted by Rev.
Amos Fetzor.
Sunday School Convention.
The annual convention of the Holt
County Sunday School Association
will be held at Ewing, Nebraska, on
June 9th and 10th, 1903.
It is hoped that all who are inter
ested in the work of the Bible school
will use every effort to make this the
best convention ever held in this
county.
Any Sunday school in Holt county,
which has not already received blanks
for statistical reports, will confer a
great favor upon the officers by writ
ing at once to M. Blanche Adams,
Secretary, O’Neill, Neb.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Council was Organized Last Sunday
With a Membership of Seventy
Eight
BANQUET AFTER ORQANIZINQ.
The Visiting Knights were Delighted
With the Reception Accorded
Them. Officers Elected.
While last Sunday was far from an
ideal day the Omaha and Sioux City
visitors seemed well satisfied with the
hospitality accorded them by the pros
pective Knights of O’Neill. The fol
lowing from the Sioux City Journal,
written by one of the staff who was
among the Knights present from
Sioux City, gives an interesting ac
count of the days proceedings and
shows the hospitality accorded the
visitors was duly appreciated. Follow
ing is the Journals report.
Nearly fifty members of Epiphany
council of the Knights of Columbus
returned at 7:30 o’clock this morning
on a special train from O’Neill, Neb.,
where on Sunday a Knights of Colum
bus celebration was held.
The Sioux City Knights had much
to tell of the unbounded hospitality
of the citizens of the Short Line ter
minus. The entertainment which
the visitors received will be long re
membered, and the enthusiasm of the
Sioux City knights upon their return
may well assure O’Neill and its citi
zens that they hold a high place in
the knights of Sioux City.
The delegation Epiphany council
was headed by J. M. Lynch, grand
knight, and included the following
Sioux City knights: J. H. Hale, J. J.
Murphy, Dennis Duggan, George Gor
don, John M. Gordon, John B. Keefe,
J. P. O’Donnell. John W. Carey, Char
les S. Carey, John F. Gearen, T. F.
Kelly, George A Junk, John Mulhal)<
Thos. Molone, J.S. Lynch, J. F. Gunn,
J. A. Fleming, Henry E. Cody, J. F.
Duggan, H. J. Bingenhelmer, George
J. Kidd, M. Waters, Charles R. Ken
nedy, T. M. Hanlon, F. E. Gill, A.
Van Wagenen, Frank J. McGrath,
John F. Klise, V. J. Hagan, II. F.
Hogan, Roberts P. Larkin, Frank
Hutchinson, P. J. Donohoe, C. J. Sex
ton and Frank Donahue. The follow
ing out of town members of the coun
cil were picked up on the road to
O’Neill: Ed T. Kearney, Jackson,
Neb., John C. Duggan, Goodwin, Neb.
and James Hartnett, Hubbard, Neb.
E. J. Moroney, of Freeport, 111., ac
companied the Sioux City delegation.
The Sioux City men who were in
itiated at O’Neill were M. L. Flinn,
A. D. Jones, J. II. Marshall, J. W.
Cleary, Ray Duggan, P. J. Conway
and J L. Gibbons.
i ne aay was a memorable one ror
O’Neill. Perhaps never before had
the hospitality of the town been so
generously drawn upon. In addition
to the sixty visitors which the Sioux
City special bore to O’Neill, there
were eighty knights from Omaha, so
the citizens of the Ilolt county capital
had a large number of guests to pro
vide for, which they did in a most
admirable manner, the arrangements
having been well made and well car
ried out.
The Omaha knights arrived at
O’Neill in time for breakfast, after
which, with the prospective members
of the O’Neill council, they attended
mass at 10 o’clock at St. Patrick’s
church. The Sioux City knights ar
rived before noon, and at 12 o’clock
the 200 knights seated themselves be
fore a fine lunch, most credicably serv
ed by *the women of St. Patrick’s
parish in theconvent. The initiation
services in the court house consumed
the entire afternoon and a large part
of the evening. They were followed
by a banquet in the Knights of Colum
bus hall, which did not come to a close
until 2:15 o’clock this morning, when
the visiting delegates started for
their respective trains after deliver
ing themselves of three (and possible
more) cheers for O’Neill and Charles
Carroll of Carrollton council, the new
council.
The initiation exercises were in
charge of the Omaha council and were
careled out in a masterly manner. A
class of seventy-eight candidates was
put through three degrees of the order
T. J. Mahoney, territorial supreme
deputy for Nebraska, and C.J. Smyth,
grand knight of the Omaha council,
were in charge of the work.
The banquet was a notable event,
more than 200 persons being seated at
three long tables, on which a fine
spread was served. Flowers and the
national colors were used in decorat
ing. The speechmaking was unusual
ly clever. John A. Harmon was toast
master, and the following toasts were
responded to; “Our Guests,” Arthui
F. Mullen, O’Neill; “Our Order,” A,
Van Wagenen, Sioux City; “The Cat
holic Citizen,” T. J. Mahoney, Omaha:
“As I Was Saying,” Andrew Morris
sey, Valentine, Neb.: “The Future o!
tlie Order,” Frank E. Gill, Sioux City;
“Knighthood,” 0. J. Smyth, Omaha;
"Impression of the Day," M. F. Har
rington, O’Neill. After the regular
programme, the following persons
were called upon and responded with
fitting remarks: Neil Brennan,
O'Neill; E. J. Stackhouse, of Daven
port; Prof. J. V. Owens, O’Neill, and
Matt L. Fllnn, Sioux City.
The first officers of the Charles Cor
roll of Carrollton council are as fol
lows: Arthur F. Mullen, grand
knight; James A. Donohoe, deputy
grand knight; Owen F. Biglin, chan
cellor; Clarence C. Campbell, recorder;
Miahael It. Sullivan, flnanclel secre
tary; Patrick J. O’Donnell, treasurer;
Edward H. Whelan, lecturer; Michael
F. Harrington, advocate; Frank J.
Dlshner, warden; Thos. J. Coyne, in
side guard; Theodor E. Pickenbrock,
outside guard; Itev. M. F. Cassidy,
chaplain; James F. O’Donnell, Tim
othy D. Hanley and Andrew Morris
sey, trustees.
The two distingnshlng features of
the day were the limitless hopltality
of the people or O’Neill and the excel
lent work of the Omaha council and
the territorial duputy of Nebraska in
the initiatory ceremonies.
Hot Air Only.
Special to The Tribune
“O’Neill, Neb., April 21.—Tlie
appearance on Saturday of last
week of the right-of-way man tor
the Great Northern railroad
and the fact that he made a trip
over the proposed link between here
and Dunning on tlie Burlington has
created new interest in tlie proposed
extension.
"A prominent Sioux City business
man came here with him and remain
ed in O’Neill while tlie railroad man
drove over the preliminary survey
tiiat had been made years ago. Tlie
business man for obvious reasons did
not wisli his name made public, but
he stated positively that the road
would be extended southwest from
O’Neill to connect with the Burling
ton at Dunning this year. lie stated
that $15,000,000 had been already ap
propriated for building two links in
Nebraska between the Great Northern
and Burlington systems. He stated
that Sioux City people were very
much interested in the proposed ex
tension from O’Neill as it would add
a new Held to their industries. He
had been told that the merger litiga
tion would not in the least interfere
with the proposed extensions in Neb
raska. The right-of-way man stated
that within the next thirty days a
corps of surveyors would be on tlie
ground and make the necessary survey
and before snow flies through trains
would be running from St Paul, Sioux
City and Minneopolis to Denver.’’
“This story from O’Neill concides
with information given The Tribune
and printed several weeks ago that
money had been appropriated to build
two connections in Nebraska between
tlie Burlington and the Great North
ern. The Ashland-Sioux City route
was mentioned as one and a connec
tion between the Short Line at
O’Neill and the Burlington was the
other. The railroad map of Nebraska
shows that Dunning is the nearest
point on the Burlington to O’Neill.
From the west, the route would be a
good one and appears more feasible
than the mooted Alliance connection.
From O’Neill a line to Dunning would
extend almost exactly southwest, on
through Holt county, across the south
east corner of Lock county, the north
west corner of Loup county, and to
Dunning which is in tire southwest
portion of Illaine county. The dis
tance is approximately 80 miles ”
Tile above art icle appeared in last
Mondays Sioux City Tribune and is
simply hot air and we presume from
the every ready pen and imaginative
brain of John G. Mailer. No surveyor
or right of way man for the Great
Northern was in O’Neill last week
nor was there a prominent business
man of Sioux City here who was
anxious to unburden himself of rail
road knowledge. It was a pipe dream
pure and simple. Last week The
Frontier predicted that railroad
miners would be numerous now that
Colonel Maher had returned from
Lincoln and the above article demon
strates tlie correctness of our surmise.
The only thing that surprises us is
that reputable newspapers continue
to give space and publicity to such hot
air blasts
Notice to the Public.
Gather up all your wasting Iron and
bring it to Nye & Schneider’s office at
O’Neill and get from 83 00 to $4.00 a
ton. Good for weeks. A man from
Omaha does the purchasing. We pay
big price for old rubber shoes and old
copper and brass. Dont fail to clean
up your premises and get the cash.
Strayed.
From my place Monday evening
April 20. Two colts with Web halters
on 1 bay mare 3years old, 1 dark brown
mare colt yearling. Information
leading to their recovery will be re
warded.
T. A. Pickering.
43 O’Neill, Neb.
I have purchased a Celebrated 0
0 Newcomb Fly-Shuttle Loom and d
d am now ready to do all kinds 4
A of Carpet and Rug Weaving. A
a Work done byacompetant wea- i
J ver. Call at residence and ex- \
K amine work. J
S T. A. PICKERING. J
} All Ready ;’
0 The wall paper sea- 4
r son is here and we r
2 are all ready for it •!
4 with a J
I New Line of!;
1903 Patterns |l
Nothing old and (l
the price is at least I *
; 25 per cent lower 5
« than you can send away «
w and get your paper for. #
J We invite your inspec- J
a tion. J
\ Gilligan & Stout \
j JUST ARRIVED
| Golden,Peeler&Hodgkins}
$ SUCCESSORS TO f
* M. A. McGafferty, \
% At the Old McCafferty Stand. £
I We have just unloaded a car of Furniture and are Tk
now prepared to please anyone and everyone in that line ^
WE CAN FURNISH J
BED ROOM SUITS $20 to -fdo. ^
ROCKERS $1.50 to $50. #
COUCHES $10 to $40. ^
CHINA CLOSETS $18.50 to $25. ^
COMBINATION BOOK CASE and ^
WRITING DESK $15 to $35. #
IRON BEDSTEADS $2.50 to $25,
DINING TABLES $5 to $24. K
Dining CHAIRS per set $3.90 to $30. ^
We also handle a full line of Hardware, Tinware, Gran- ^
iteware, C’uttlery, Garden Sejds, Etc. ^
