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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1903)
THE O’NEILL FRONTIER PUBLISHED EVERY THRURSPAY RY D. H. CRONIN. O'NEILL, • ■ NEBRASKA. l BRIEF TELEGRAMS. I ■r •> 'I 'M1 Bourke Cochran of New York was received In private audience by the Pope. j Captain Frank Pennell, chief of po lice of Quebec, Canada, died on a Wa bash train between Toledo and St. Louis. A high official of the United States Steel corporation said there was no truth in the reported cut in the price of stete! billets. Former Postmaster W. D. ICllRWorth of Eveleth, Minn., pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzling the sum of $8,000 of government funds. The Morton Trust company of New York has made formal announcement of its withdrawal from clearing house privileges on and after May 20. "Uncle" John Yancy, one of the most famous characters in the West, is dead at hiR home In Pleasant Valley, Yel lowstone Park, where he had lived for thirty yeears. It was announced that an extraor dinary session of the Colombian Con grats had been called for June 20 for the consideration of the Panama Canal treaty with the United States. Acute distress prevails in the Nan ning and Tsun-Fa district of Kwangst province. It is estimated that 73,000 personb are starving. The people of Hong Kong are sending relief. Circuit Court Attorney Folk of St. Lulls has received information to the efteet that Senator Frank Harris of Steeleville, who is under a bribery in dictment, has gone to Mexico. Compressed powder will be substi tuted for black powder In the ignition charges of the guns of the vessels of the North Atlantic squadron which are now repairing at the New York yard. According to a private cablegram re ceived at Panama from Callso, Peru, there were five cases of bubonic plague there on Saturday, seven new cases on Sunday and six new cases on Monday. Bela Justh, an aristocratic Hungar ian gambler, who Is known for his remarkable luck at Monte Carlo and elsewhere, won $-180,000 playing bac carat at the National Casino at Buda pest, t At Chicago, the Master Bakers’ as sociation decided on an advance of 25 per cent to the wholesale trade and 20 per cent to the retail dealers in the price of buns, rolls, cakes, cookies and crullers. Fifty Baptist ministerial students left William Jewell college at Liberty, Mo., for their home because the fac ulty refused to grant their request that the fraternities of the college bo dis solved. Agnes Sorma, who has been regard ed as the greatetst actress on the Ger m m stage has entered an Institution near Berlin suffering from a nervous malady, after having canceled all her engagements. John G. Powell, postmaster of Ne jada, Ind., has been arrested in Cali fornia on telegraphic Instructions from Indianapolis. Powell is charged with having embezzled government funds. This he denies. The navy department expects that the protected Cruisers, Cincinnati. Al bany and Raleigh of the European fleet, which nre destined for the Asi atic station, will get under way in a very few days. Great excitement has been caused in Havana and vicinity by the discov ery of oil deposits within the land un der the jurisdiction of the municipal ity of Consolaeion Del Norte and In the suburbs of Havana. Overcrowding of naval training sta tions along the Atlantic coast Is caus ing much concern to the navy depart ment. There has been considerable sickness among the men recently, due, it is feared, to this cause. The army board, which has been for months past considering the merits of the new service rifle or musket, has finally declared in favor of a weapon with a barre! only twenty-four inches in length, using a .30 ball. Maurice Grau, accompanied by his wife and Miss Louise Grau, sailed for Europe on the French line steamer La Savoie. He did not know when he would return to New York. He was through with opera, he said. Mayor Campbell of Tacoma. Wash., has notitfled the navy department that he hi»a selected Miss Julia Naoma Har ris of Tacoma to christen the protected cruiser Tacoma, now building at the Union Iren works, San Francisco. By direction of the president, Col onel Charles A. Woodruff, the senior colonel of the commissary department, is to te appointed a brigadier general and retired in July, when vacancies will accur as the result of the retire ment of Major General Davis. Postmaster General Payne ax nounced that there would be no more establishment of rural free delivery postoffices until July 1, the beginning of the next fiscal year. This is one result of the investigation of postofflee aijairm. I A THREATENED DELUGE. f % WAA/TZG : Ay/?JST-CLASS U/VBfrELlAf -U/VCL£ £A/V,U.6./). ABIC SLAUGHTER BRITISH OPERATIONS IN NORTH ERN NIGERIA. MOHAMADONS MOWED DOWN Rapid Fire Guns of British Do Fearful Execution—Conquest Nets Great Britain a Vast Amount of Terri tory. LONDON—Colonial Secretary Cham berlain announced in the house of commons Tuesday that an a result of the British military operations in the Sokoto and Kanao districts, ending with the capture of the emir of Kaho, 100.000 square miles of territory had been added to Northern Nigeria and would he administered by the govern ment of that territory. > Interesting details have been re ceived here of the capture of Sokoto, March 14, by the British column com manded by Colonel Morland. The en gagement. lasted two and a half hours. The British numbered about 600 men, with four quick-firing guns and four Maxims. The enemy's horse and foot soldiers were estimated to number 6.000 men, their ritlemcn being armed with modern rifles and using smoko !e s powder. The British camped dur ing the night of March 13 one and a half miles from Sokoto, after a hard march of 100 miles from Kaura, with but lltle water and having passed through a difficult country. At daybreak March 14, the British moved out in which Sokoto lies. Im mediately after the British appeared over a ridge the Fulahs charged with a fauatlcal bravery, undeterred by a withering Maxim and litio fire They had no proper leadership, but the iso late! bands continued to advance over heaps of dead and dying, often only Individuals reaching within a yard of the square, where, refusing quarter, they were shot down while shouting "Allah" with their last breath. The main body of the natives was finally routed, leaving a remnant of about thirty chiefs around the emir's great white flag. These chiefs were defiant to the last and their corpses were found hedging the standard when the British entered the city, which consisted mostly of thatched houses, Its semt-rulncd walls extending seven miles around the place and were pierced by eight gates. EXECUTES THE INDIAN CHIEF. Was a Leader of Guerrillas During the Revolution. PANAMA—Victoriano I.orenzo. the Indian chief who was a leader of guer rillas during the recent revolution and who was sentenced to death by a court martial Friday on various charges of having committed serious crimes while in the Held, was executed by shooting here. Governor Mutls and the consu lar representatives petitioned General Briceno, the military commander of the isthmus, to postpone the execution until the government at Bogota had time to answer a cablegram sent it asking that the Indian's sentence be changed to life imprisonment. Gen eral Briceno refused this petition, say ing an exemplary punishment was nec essary. The shooting of Lorenzo has created a profound impression hero, as it is the first execution for a polit ical crime in Panama. Lorenzo died bravely. Before he was shot he said he had only been an accomplice and not the principal in the crimes of which he was accused. Land Grabber Sentenced. ST. LOUIS—Frederick W. Fout, .Ir., an attorney, was on Friday sentenced to four years in the penitentiary by Judge Amidou of South Dakota, sitting for Judge Adams in the United States district court for violation of the homestead laws. Fout filed motions for a new trial and arrest of judgment, but they, were overruled, and he de cided to appeal. Forty-One Years on Same Farm. SIOUX FALLS. S. D.—Fester T. Wheeler, a pioneer settler of Charles Mix county, has made a remarkable record, residing on the same farm for forty-one y~ar». __ Jealousy Is cause or Crime. ST. LOUIS—Leon Saunders, a bil liard hall employe, shot and fatally wounded Mary Burke, with whom he had been living, and then blew out his own brains. U. P. UNDER FIRE. Called to Account Regarding Grain Rates. WASHINGTON. — The Interstate Commerce commission has begun an Investigation to determine whether the payment or allowances made by the Union Pacific to Peavey & Co. of Kan sas City and Council Bluffs for grain elevator facilities and the grain rates made to that concern are in violation of the interstate commerce law. The Union Pacific is made respond ent in the proceedings and has been ordered to file a full answer to the charges by May 25 and to satisfactorily explain the alleged rebates at a hear ing to be called hereafter. The commission in ordering the in vestigation says it appears that the Peavey company is purchasing grain at western points of origin and ship ping over the Union Pacific to Council Bluffs and Kansas City and through those points to eastern destinations; that the Union Pacific uses the ele vators of Peavey & Co. for handling and transferring grain, for which fa cilities it pays certain stipulated rates, generally amounting to 1% cents per 100 pounds. These rates. It is charged, result In large payments or allowances by the Union Pacific to Peavey & Co. and apsprently are excessivo(and g e. t er than charges generally imposed or allowed at Kansas City, Council Bluffs and other elevator points. The commission says it appears that the rebates are not only on the grain of Pavey & Co., but on grain of all other shippers passing through the Peavey elevators, and that the allow ances may subject other grain shippers to unjust discrimination and unjust transportation charges, and that they enable Peavey & Co. to obtain net rates less than the regular drafts. The International & Great Northern and the St. Louis Southwestern rail ways have filed with the Interstate Commerce commission answers to the order calling for information regard ing class and commodity rates from St. Louis to Texas common points. Both lines admit making certain ad vances but deny that the advances were material or that they were made to earn unreasonable revenue. The In. ternatlonal & Great Northern says that its cost of operation has been in creased; tnat to reconstruct the bridge equipment will cost upwards or $100, 000, and avers that its net earnings for the three months ending March 31, 1903 were largely decreased. The other road makes similar alleg on. WOULD COMPEL ARBITRATION Movement That Is Being Inaugurated by Chicago Roads. CHICAGO.—A movement has begun by the management of Chicago rail roads to compel labor organizations to agree to submit differences to arbitra tion whenever negotiations between roads and employes fail. The leading movement is apparently being taken by the Rock Island, the Burlington and one or two other strong western lines. Thus far, however, the proposition regarding ultimate arbitration has been either refused or dodged by the labor organizations. The arbitration clause is being pro posed with a view of insuring results and increasing the probability of both sides beginning negotiations with a case which they are not afraid to sub mit to the public. MABINI ENDS A BUSY LIFE. Cholera Catches Former Filipino Sec retary of Foreign Affairs. MANILA—Mabinl, the former ntinis ; ter of foreign affairs of the Filipino government, died of cholera at mid night Thursday. He was attacked with the disease on Tuesday last. Since his return from Guam, Jla binia had lived in seclusion. Captur I ed correspondence of the Rizal prov ince insurgents showed that he had [ been in communication with them, but j the letters were not of a seditious I nature. Shuts Out Automobilists. BUFFALO, N. Y.—As a result of an ' order just issued by the Canadian cus toms officials no more American auto mobilists will be permitted to go into [Canada with their automobiles without paying all duties. The duty is 25 per cent of the assessed valuation of the machine and the duty will be collect ed each time a machine is taken . into Canada. The duty is plac ed not on machines of American i make. *■■■* I! General Nebraska News. ^ .u ** ♦% •:« v t * v v . • ••• GAME WARDEN AFTER SEINERS. Consternation Created Among Sports men r.t Humboldt. HUMBOLT—Game Warden George B. Simpkins of Lincoln was in the city creating quite a disturbance among the local sportsmen. The sec tion foreman and three or four mem bers of the force took a vacation Sun day and, the game warden alleges, re paired to a pond west of the city, part of which is on the right of way of the road and part on the land of A. E. Stalder, and with a seine took from the water a number of fiish in viola tion of the law. There were six in the party, and some of them protested vigorously when a message from the warden reached them instructing them to call at tho Park hotel and fix the matter up. The number of nsh charg ed is ten and under the law the fine would be $50, which the warden as serts the men have agreed to pay. On the other hand, the accused men claim that the warden is not empowered to fix and collect a fine without giving them a trial in some court of compe tent jurisdiction. So the matter is at present unsettled. ORDER IN THE LILLIE CASE. The Mandate of Chief Justice Sullivan Received. The order of Chief Justice Sullivan, suspending the sentence of Mrs. Lil lie, the Butler ((county woman who'is under life sentence in the penitentiary for the murder of her husband, has been received at the office of the clerk of the supreme court. A copy of the order has been made and for warded to the sheriff of Butler coun ty. This will leave the woman in But ler county until the supreme court can review the case. It will probably be six months before the case can be disposed of, since the supreme court wnl take a vacation before the case can be reached in the regular or der for such cases. This means that Mrs. Lillie will enjoy the comforts of her private apartments at the Butler county court house until fall. Stock Drowned at Taylor. TAYLOR—The heaviest rain storm of the season, in fact for years, visit ed this section. The canyons were all filled by raging torrents of water which carried everything before it. washing away numerous bridges and drowning several head of young cattle. The waters when they reached the Loup river valley spread out over the level country between the hills and river to a depth of several feet. Osceola Has Two Attorneys. OSCEOLA—This village now has two village attorneys. The board of village trustees had an adjourned meeting and elected ex-Senator M. A. Mills for the ensuing municipal year. The board of officers now stands: F. D. Mills, city clerk; J. C. Arnold, treas urer; William Vanhoosen, marshal; N. B. Nelson, poundmaster, and ex-Sena tor M. A. Mills, village attorney. Inspector for Nebraska Militia. FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan.— Lieutenant Colonel M. B. Hughes, Tenth cavalry, has arranged with the adjutant general of the state of Ne braska to begin the inspection of state troops on the 25th inst., but his mem bership on the court-martial trying a lumber of student officers at the post may prevent this. It is understood he will ask to be relieved from the court so as to enable him to carry out his arrangements with the Nebraska adju ;ant general. * Soldiers Talk to Children. YORK—Soldiers of the civil war and citizens will speak to York county school children on May 22. A part af the afternoon of May 22 in all the schools will be devoted to speeches of experience of the great civil con 3ict and to teaching practical lessons of the war. Injuries Prove Fatal. NEBRASKA CITY—Herbert Mayer, a, 7-year-old son of Henry Meyer, tried to cross the track of the Missouri Pa cific ahead of the passenger train from Omaha and was caught on the pilot of the engine and thrown some distance. His body was so badly bruised that he died three hours aft erwards. »__ Johnson County Marlg&ge Record. TECUMSEH—During the month of April there were twenty farm mort gages filed in the county records of Johnson county. They aggregated $37,255. _ Remains Brought Back. WAHOO—The remains of Alfred T. Davis, who died last September while serving as a soldier in the Philippine islands, arrived here for burial. De ceased enlisted from this county two years ago. • Corn Damagea by Rain. OAKLAND, Neb. — Considerable corn was washed out by the recent hard rains and th.- fields will have to be replanted on account of poor seed. \ THE STATE IN BRIEF. B. Meyers & Co., Norfolk, sustained a fire loss of $2,000. The G. A. R. encampment in 1904 will be held at Kearney. The Wymore boaml of education re elected most of its old teachers. W. J. Bryan is billed to speak at the commencement exercises at Beat rice, June 5. The next state reunion of old sol diers will be held at Omaha. The date has not yet been fixed. The apple crop In Cass county, it is said, will be a normal one, notwith standing the cold weather. Cedar Creek, Cass county, must get along this year without a saloon, li cense having been refused. The Grand Army encampment at Fremont elected Judge Lee Ssteele of Omaha department commander. A farm of ICO acres one mile south of Geneva sold a year ago for $8,000 and was sold last week for $10,250. A three-year-old child living near Elmwood died from eating tablets used as a preventive for chicken chol era. The saloon fight at McCool Junction has resulted in a withdrawal of both the remonstrance and the petition and McCool will go dry. A special freight train on the Rock Island went into the ditch nine miles west of Fairbury, near Thompson. No one was seriously injured. Thomas Masur, a popular young far mer, who lives five and one-half miles northwest of Tecumseh, shot and kill ed himself. The shooting is thought to be accidental. Sheriff McBride of Cass county was notified that a team, carriage and har ness were stolen from M. S. Peterson, a farmer who resides in the western part of the county. There is much push toward getting the new building for the Young Men’s Christian association at Beatrice. Twelve thousand dollars has been raised; $8,000 more is needed. At Omaha, Judge Dickinson issued a temporary restraining order against the mayor and city council, restraining them from passing or approving the ordinance having for its purpose the redistricting of the city. An insane man giving his name as Clancy was brought to Beatrice from Liberty by Deputy Sheriff McGier and lodged in jail. He is badly deranged and has been sleeping in hay stacks and roaming about from farm to farm in that vicinity for some time. Believing a collision to be imminent, William Batten of Wymore, conductor of Burlington passenger train No. 90, jumped from his train near Lincoln and received injuries which a few hours later resulted in his death. Charles F. Brundage, engineer, was so severely injured that he may die. The Forepaugh-Sells circus was stuck in the mud at.Nebraska City and was unable to give a performance. Thousands of people from surround ing towns and the country packed the streets all day and were sorely disap pointed by the failure of the circus people to provide entertainment. Louise Moore, an 18-year-old mail carrier for the rural service, was struck by No. 4 Great Western tram near Bondurant, while driving across the track, and sustained serious inju ries. Miss Moore was coming in from her daily trip, and did not see the train until it was too late to avoid the dan ger. Dr. Gandy of Humboldt last week made a shipment of a carload of bees to the Watson ranch, near Kearney, which shipment makes the people at the ranch the second largest bee keep ers of the state. Rev. W. L. Porter of Salem, presi dent of the Richardson County Sunday School association, has issued a pro gram for the coming meeting, which will be held in Falls City, June 1-3. The Beveridges have a place on the list, as do also Field Secretary Steid ley and Miss Mamie Haines of St. Andrew Nelson, a Norwegian farm er living near Ewing, Holt county, .s in the county jail at O'Neill, having confessed to a criminal assault upon his daughter Mary. 1G years of age. A complaint charging him with the crime was filed by two other daugh ters of the accused. Nelson is said to have made a clean breast of the crime to County Attorney Mullen, who tiled a complaint against the man, charging incest. The board of regents of the State Louis. university met and denied the request of the interurban railroad for a right of way through the state farm. It accepted the resignation of C. S. I.ob ingier as piofessor of law; granted certificates to thirty-eight members of the medical school, provided for a three years’ course for the law school and located the new administration building. The Plattsmouth city council has passed an ordinance protecting all vegetation within Its jurisdiction. Laconic Lord Russell. Iiord Russell of Killowen used to re late this story: ‘‘I remember a case In which a very innocent remark of my own elicited the fact of a previous conviction. A prisoner was addressing the jury very effectively in his own be half, but he spoke In a low voice, and, not hearing some of his observations, I said: “What did you say? What was. your last sentence?” “Six months, my lord,” he replied. It was Lord Russell who, in reply to the question, "W'hat is the extreme penalty for bigamy?” ut tered this classic: “Two mothers-ln law.” I1ALF RATES via WABASH RAILROAD. The Wabash offers many rates to the East from Chicago: Bellefontaine. O., and return. Sold May 29th to June 3rd.$7.35 Boston. Mass., and return. Sold July 1st to 5th.$21.90 Saratoga. N. Y., and return. Sold July 5th and 6th.$17.45 Detroit. Mich., and return. Sold July 15th and l«th.$6.75 All tickets reading over the Wabash It R. between Chicago and Buffalo are good in either direction via steamer be tween Detroit and Buffalo without extra charge, except meals and berth. Stopovers allowed. Remember this is "The Cool Northern Route” and ail Agents can sell tickets from Chicago East via the Wabash. For folders and all information ad dress, HARRY E. MOORES. G. A. P. D., Omaha, Neb. Respect is the featherweight cham pion of love. Iowa Forms $4 Per Acre Cash, balance H crop till paid. WTTLHALL. Sioux City, la. Sweet things are usually sticky. That’s why so many young men get stuck on pretty girls. GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS Use the best. That’s why they bay Red Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocers, 5 cents. A missionary in the nand is worth . two in the bush. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money If it fails to cure. 25c. “If there is anything I hate, it is for people to try to make me over on their last.”—Drake Watson. All creameries use butter color. Why not do as they do—use JUNE TINT BUTTER COLOR. There are two varieties of the smart woman. One has a high forehead and the other hasn't. Flso’s Cure for Consumption is an Infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J.. Feb. 17. 1800. A Particular Would-be Groom. Charles Thenert, a fairly well-to-do Long Island farmer, wants a wife, but imposes certain conditions on candi dates for a corner in his affections. For instance, the lady must be a good housekeeper over 30 years of age. He is willing to buy his wife two gowns every year, to cost not more than $20 each, with shoes, hats, etc., to corre spond. The future Mrs. Thenert must agree to forego high-heeled slippers, open-work stockings, cigarettes and poodle dogs, the would-be bridgegroom thinking such frivolities are not suited to a farmer’s wife. Only One Lance. At a dinner Chancellor Vo Buleow gave before his recent departure for Italy, Emperor William met Professor Delitszch for the first time since his majesty criticised the professor’s lec ture on the Babylonian origin of the Bible. The professor is hard of hear ing, and the emperor’s part of the dia logue was consequently in a rather high voice. His majesty greeted him with: “Well, professor, we have broken a lance together since I saw you.’.’ "Only one lance, your majesty,” re sponded the professor to the fact that he had never replied to the emperor. An Old Lady’s Discovery. Garnett, Ark., May 18th.—For 18 years Mrs. Mary Dunlop of this place has suffered with Kidney trouble, which was so bad at times that it made her life a burden. She tried much medicine and many treatments, but got no better. At last, however, Mrs. Dunlop claims to have found a perfect rem edy, and she is so pleased at the won derful cure she herself has received, that she is telling all her friends and praising the medicine to everyone she meets. The name of this medicine is Dodd s Kidney Pills, and it has done wonderful work for Mrs. Dunlop. Everybody is talking about it, and some people are claiming to have been cured of Rheumatism by it. A Mrs. Garrett who lives in Brazils, this state, was at the point of death with some Cerebro-Spinal trouble and was saved by Dodd's Kidney Pills. It is certain that r.o other medicine 'ter introduced here has done so much good in such a short time. Gossip isn’t real had unless the tell ing of it makes an hour seem like two minutes. 14 „r r_ April 21st. 1 uESDA YS May 5th & 19th. June 2nd & 16 th To certain points in Southwest Mis Eouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Ar kansas, etc., at very low rates. Tick ets limited to 21 days for the round trip. Stop-overs allowed on the go ing journey within transit limit of 15 ti o0. lor further information.call on C1 np ircss any agent of the company, nr Thomas F. Godfrey, Pass. & Ticket Art. , f'ITV TICKET OFFICE. OUlUtast < ortn-r I «tb mid ISuuglan Sts., Omaha, Neb.