::r.. The Frontier. f| VOLUME XXIII._ O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 7,1903, NUMBER 45. 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 Fresh vegetables at Matins on Sat urday. Dr. Gilligan went down the road Monday on business. f It now looks like another county seat light over in Boyd county. Farmers in all parts of the county are busy putting in their crops. Miss Nina Ryan, of Neligh, was in the city last week visiting friends. See those new photo mountings at Corbetts. They are beauties. 43 If you want a good riding plow Bentley has one to sell you 40tf. Go to Hatfield’s for your ice cream, soft drinks, candy and fruits. 44-3 The Griffin building is now enclosed and will soon be ready for occupancy. Spring must be here. The Inde pendent’s poet (?) broke loose last week. William Nollkamper, of Turner, was in the hub Monday transacting business Doctor Corbett will be in his Dental office and Gallery from the 33 to 30th of each month. A- W. Scattergood, of Ainsworth, was in town Wednesday. He left for Norfolk this morning. II. O. Jackson, is in town this week. Jack looks line and says he is writing more insurance than ever. Lew Chapman of Atkinson was in O’Neill Wednesday transacting busi ness at the local laud office. For Rent—After May 15, the house occupied by A. J. Hammond will be for rent. 44-tf Dickson & Co. The Y. M. S. C. ball was a success from every point of view. The boys are first class entertainers and all present enjoyed a good time. For Sale—One Jones five ton wagon scale complete. Call on or address Malloy Bros. Emmet, Neb. 45-3 Albion is a dry town this year and the News says many of the residents of that burg drank enough last Satur 9 day to last them for a year. We pay the freight on all Augus Bulls purchased from the Brenna Stock Farm. Inquire of II. S. Moses: Wayne, Neb., R. F. D. No. 3. 44-4 Rev. W. W. Wells, of Minneapolis, will hold services at the Episcopal church on Sunday evening, May 10. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Ji T. F. Birmingham will begin the erection of a new residence as soon as he secures a satisfactory location. Tom will build a good one, you may bet on that. O. O. Snyder is changing his scales from the street to the side of his office, putting in new windows and otherwise improving the appearance of that part of town. 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 Butte Gazette: Fairfax has a gold mine and now Lynch bobs up with a lead and copper mine. Butte is the best hog market in this part of the state, which beat ’em all. George Lidgett of Glenwood, la., was In town this week and while here looked over the country and was so well pleased with Holt county that he tiled on a homestead before leaving. Corbett's gallery, from 1st to 23d of this month by Mrs. May Downey Ek and Miss Pearl Stoner, photographers of Inman. All work guaranteed, en larging a speciality. Mrs! John C. Hayes and children arrived in the city Wednesdey evening from Park City, Utah, to attend the funeral of her brother, Thomas Mo Nichols, who died at Victor, Colo., last Monday and will be buried here tomorrow morning. I). W. Hamilton, from Turtle Qreelc precinct, was in this morning gather ing up some more land in that part of the county. Dave has lots of faith in Turtle Creek and intends buying a big slice of that precinct to run cattle on.—Butte Gazette. The Brook Farm Co., have Bulls for sale and t heir 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. It, Thomson Foreman. 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. 35-2 N. S. Thompson. Tekamah Herald: Roscoe Skinner, came home for a brief visit Saturday. He has resigned his position with the Illinois Central railway company and accepted a position as stenographer for Congressman M. P. lvinkaid of the Sixth district, with headquarters at O’Neill. Mr. Skinner left for his new field of labor Sunday morning. At a meeting of the mayor and city council Tuesday evening the saloon license was lixed at $1200 per year. Druggists permits denied. As to the disposition of the funds the same policy as has prevailed during the past three years, was adopted. Bennett | Martin was retained as water com missioner and Thomas Tierney was appointed chief of police. 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. The M. U. of O’Neill have changed their meeting nights from the first and third Saturdays of the month to the second and fourth Monday of each month. Tlie union is gaining strength rapidly and promises to be all the or ganizers claimed for it in the start. They have four iniations for next Monday night and all members are re quested to attend as the boys promise a good time. Mr. P. J. Coffey of Iowa., a brother to our hardware merchant C. J. Cof fey came over from O’Neill with his wife last Monday and they are visit ing with relatives and friends. Mr. Coffey is a passenger engineer out of Chicago on the North-Western but his run is not as far west as Omaha, lie seems to like our town and,country and we hope, since he is of the same stock as C. J. is, he will come here to dwell and make his fortune when he retires from railroading.—Spencer Advocate. I FLOUR AND FEED I ■ =^==^============^s=r S j| n MANN’S have opened a Flour and Feed @ Store and are now ready to furnish their Eg aHR customers with any quality of Hour. LOWEST PRICES | O'NEILL TO DUNNING. Sioux City Newspapers Still Building Railroads. The following railroad news taken from the Sioux City Journal would seem to point to railroad activity In these parts before many moons. The Journal says: The return of James J. Hill, president of the Northern Securities company, to his ottice in St. Paul, after an absence of several week in Europe is of interest in Sioux City, for upon his decision rest the fate of the proposed connection links between the Burlington and Great Northen system, between Ashland and Sioux City and between Dunning and O’Neill. These extensions were considered by President Hill be fore ids departure for Europe and there is little doubt that the survey from Ashland to Sioux City, now being completed, was made upon in structions from him. Likewise, it is altogether probable that the survey in which has been done southwest of O’Neill, the Nebraska terminus of the Great Northern, was done upon instructions from Mr. Hill. His de ctsson as to these proposed lines, which would be so very important to Sioux City, will be eagerly watched for. The Burlington engineers rapidly are completing the work of locating a line for the proposed route from Ash land to Sioux City and information from Omaha is that grading will be started before the end of the present month. Chambers, Neb., May 4.—Special The people of Cliambrs, who have been waiting so long for a railroad, now have strong hopes that their ex pectations will soon be realized and that two of the great railroad systems of the country will form a junction at this point. On Thursday of last week a delega tion from this place went to O’Neil* where the were met by G. S. Slade, general superintendent of Great Northern; Fred Rogers, general pas senger agent; E. L. Brown, assistant general superindent; C. J. Bowen, roadmaster; and Tom.Roope; general master mechanic. It is understood that these gentlemen visited O’Neill with a view of getting information about the best route to extend the line of the Great Northern from O’Neill west to some point connect ing with the Burlington route. It is also said that the Chambers delega tion convinced the gentlemen that it would be to the interest of their road to build south from O’Neill to Cham bers and from here west to Dunning, which will give the Great Northern eonnection with the Burlington, a direct route from St. Paul, Minneapo lis and Sioux City to the Black Hills, Denver and the west. It is also understood that a connec tion with the extension of the Great Northern the Burlington will at the same extend Its line from Ericson to tins place to form a junction with the Great Northern. These facts explains the recent visit of the Burlington right of way maen who during the month of April made a close inspection of the pro posed route north from Burwell and Ericson. As the connection can be made from Ericson by constructing only thirty miles of new road, it is re parted here that the extension from Ericson was found to be the most feasible route. The old survey of the Burlington north from Ericson, on which it is ex pected the new road will be built, runs very close to the county line all the way between Wheeler and Garfield counties. It is quite probable that there will be one new town between t his place and O’Neill and two new towns be tween Chambers and Ericson, while there will be room for several towns from here to Dunning. The old set tlers of this place who have been waiting so long for a railroad and have always had faith that a road would sooner or later build into such good territory are now jubilent over the prospects of having their hopes realized. Alex. Hart’s corn guessing contest closed Thursday evening and consider able interest was manifested in the outcome. I). L. Thompson, Frank Kiernan and the editor acted as judges, shelled the ear of corn and ; found 091 kernels. Then the tickets j were sorted and guesses found from 109 to 5085. For a time it seemed iliat no ticket would be found with , t he exact number on it, but among the last to be counted one was found with “091” boldly punched in its face and “Burl Martin” written under it. This was the only guess which had the number exactly right, and conse quently Mr. Martin will have ten dol lars with which to buy cigars for all of us when he returns to Atkinson. He is now at Valentine. Re-Location Of The County Seat Of; Poyd County To Be Submitted. Spencer Advocate: After a careful canvass of the proposit ion it has been ascertained that the people generally speaking of all localit ics in the county are in favor of having the question of re-location of the county submitted to a vote of tlic people and that the matter be disposed of at an early date as possible to the end that, a suitable location may be selected and economi cal arrangements provided for the safe-keeping of the county records. To bring this matter properly before the Board of County Commissioners petitions have been prepared, and are now being circulated, asking the board to submit t he proposit ion to the voters at a special elect ion to be called for t hat purpose. There Is no doubt about securing the required number of signets to the petition. While the town of Spencer has taken t he initiative in this matter it lias backing of nearly every town In the county so far the matter of submis sion of the question is concerned. When the mat ter is finally submitted it is then up to the voters to say where they want the county seat re located. We still believe this matter should be settled as soon as possible and so far as Spencer is concerned, while we fully believe we ‘are a logical candidate for the honors and earnestly solicit the support of all parts of the county, at the same time we will be perfectly satisfied with t he expressed will of the people, win or lose; all we ask is a fair Held and an honest can vass of the ret urns. New Daily Passenger Train. Beginning Sunday, May 10, the Northwestern will put on a new daily passenger train between Long Pine and Norfolk. The train will be num bered four eastbound and five west bound. Number 4 will leave Long Pine at 1:45 a. in., reaching O’Neill at 3:45a. in., arriving at Norfolk .Junc tion at (1:05 a. m., connecting there with train No. 2, the Bonesteel pas senger, arriving at Omaha at 10:25 a. m. This train will run into the Union depot at Omaha, instead of the Webster street depot. The new train westbound leaves Omaha at 7:30 a. m.. arriving at O’Neill at 2:50 p. m., and at Long Pine at 5 o’clock p. m. Tiie old trains No G and No. 3 will run without change except that train No. 3 will not stop at Clearwater, Stafford or Emmett except to leave passengers from east of Norfolk. This new train will be of great benefit to residents of this portion of the state, as it wi.1 enable people here to receive the Omaha daily papers at 3 o’clock on the day of publication instead of the day after as at present. The North western evidently intends making their Nebraska and Wyoming division the equal of their eastern lines and we predict that this new train will en hance the popularity of the road with the traveling public. While Walt, Mason was suffering from a severe spell of the spring ache recently he afflicted the readers of the Evening News with the following: “O come witli me, my love, my pet, and let us rake the lawn, for spring has come already yet, and wintertime lias gone. So come along, Amelia dear, my darling and my prize, and chase those pigs away from here, dod-rot their blooming eyes. And while I paint tire pea-green pump, you sort o’ skate around and make those vagrant chickens hump—I’d run them to the pond. Just hear the little birdlets sing! IIow joyous they are now! Their song is all of love and spring— Jim-twist that wall-eyed cow! It’s mighty queer that all the stock, ’tween here and Oregon, won’t do a thing but come and .walk on this blamed blue grass lawn. Amelia, love, you’re to denied slow, you make my stomach ache; (lie grass and weeds and things will grow much faster than you rake. Why don’t you swipe that yellow dog, and break it’s measly back? And there’s a gutta-percha hog give it a thundering whack. This blamed old paint is mixed with lard; it runs and will not stick; this thing of cleaning up the yard would make a dead man sick. Amelia, go and cook the grub, or sweep tlie door my dear, or wasli some garments in the tub you are no good out here, i’ll have to do the job alone, for you’re a female crank; I’ve got my shirt front painted roan; O blank tlie blank blank blank!” Miss Katie Kozisehek died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. 11. It. Dickson in tliis city Wednesday noon after an illness of but two days of inflamation of the brain. Deceased had been in employ of Mrs. Dickson about one year and always enjoyed go