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' The Frontier. VOLUME XXIII, . O’NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 11,1903. NUMBER 50. THE JOEY DISAGREES islatery Case will Have to go Through Legal Mill Agaiu ACQUITTAL, 7 ; MANSLAUGHTER, ft Will Come up Againg at Regular Fall Term of Court. The jury in the Slattery case were discharged Monday evening after having been in the box fifty two hours without reaching a verdict. When discharged the jury stood seven for acquittal and five for manslaughter, i The case was given to the jury about 4:30 Saturday afternoon, and we understand that upon the first ballot and upon each succeeding ballot until midnight they stood six for murder in the second degree and six for acquittal. At about that hour the six who stood for conviction drop ped from murder in the second degree to manslaughter, but the six who were for acquittal were loyal and their ballots were unchanged. Shortly there after one of the six who was voting for convicting changed his ballot and thereafter voted for acquittal each time. On one ballot they stood eight for acquittal and four for conviction. The pleas were made Saturday and the court-room was crowded. R. R. Dickson and County Attorney Mullen presented the states side of the case in an able and forceful manner, each maintaining that sufficient evidence had been presented to convict the de fendant of murder in the first degree as charged in the complaint. Their arguements were qui t e lengthy and had tlie important evidence in the case was thoroughly gone over and the main facts brought prominently to the attention of the jury. Judge Kinkaid and M. F. Harring ton delivered lengthy and able pleas irt behalf of the defense. The main points in their pleas were that the shooting was accidental, and that had it not been the defendant was justified in shooting in self defense. The evi dence introduced by the defense tend ing to show the shooting had been accidental was prominently brought before the jury and acquittal of the defendant was asked for the reason that had the shooting not been acci dental the defendant was justified in shooting in self defense. The attorneys for the defense will 1, now ask for their clients release upon l* bail, pending a retrial which willcome up at the next term of the district court, which will be held this fall. Snmmer Excursions. Are now on to all points north, e ast and west, via the Great Northern line, especially low rates being made this year for summer travel. Tickets sold daily to St. Paul, Minneapols, 1 Duluth, Fishing resorts in Minnesota. Toures to Buffalo and Chicago via the Great Lakes. Montreal, Quebec, Bos ton Portland and other summer re sorts in iNew England and Cannada. If you intend making a trip this summer full information regarding rates, routes, limits, etc., will gladly be furnished by any agent, or by Fred Rogers, general passenger agent, SioUx City, la. Minor Matters A. T. Potter returned Friday last from Los Angeles, Cal., where he had been in attendance at the Presby terian general assembly. Mr. Potter has been absent about four weeks, and visited several places of interest in Colorado and on the California coast during his stay. At the adjourned meeting of the school board, held last Monday eve ning, Miss Anna Hopkins was elected teacher for the eight grade of the public school. This completes the list of teachers for the ensuing school year. A delegation of Sunday school workers f from O’Neill and adjacent territory s went to Neligh Tuesday to attend a Sunday school convention now in ses sion there. Mr. and Mrs. John G. Maher were in Atkinson last Saturday attending the meeting of the Elkhorn Valley editors. Street Commissioner Martin is en gineering the construction of a new sidewalk north from the Great North ern depot. You that owe the firm of Con Keys call now and pay up. There is e mortgage to be paid. 1-w Tom McPharlin, left for Sioux City Tuesday evening to spend a few days visiting friends. Hugh O’Neill, of Chelsea, had busi ness in the city the first of the week. John Weekes returned from his visit to Omaha Sunday evening. The pretty schools teacher have pos session of the town this week. G. A. McCutcheon had business at Inman yesterday. MARRIAGES June Wedding Becoming Popular Among Young ana Middle Aged Charles N. Cole and Miss Clara Boucher, of Dustin, were united in marriage at the home of the grooms parents in this city last Tuesday even ing, Rev. S. F. Sharpless officiating. The groom is well known in this city where he resided for years, unil a couple of months ago when he moved to Butte and opened up a large jewelry store in that hustling burg. He has scores of friends in this city and vicin ity who heartily extend congrat illa tions. The bride is a charming young lady whose parents reside near Dustin and has been one of western Holt’s most progressive schoolteachers. She is not generally known in this city but those having the honor of her acquaint ance speak very highly of her as a young lady of many accomplishments. The happy young couple left Tuesday evening for their future home at Butte, Neb. The Frontier extends its heartiest congratulations. Last Wednesday Rev. Amas Fetzer of the Methodist church performed the ceremony that united in marriage Virgil Kline and Msss Myrtle Enbody, both of this city. The Frontier ex tends congratulations and well wishes for a long life of wedded bliss. Arthur F. Mullen left for Clinton, la., last Sunday morning, where next Wednesday morning he wall be united in manage to one ot Clinton’s fairest maidens. _ Gus Vecker, of Norfolk, and Mrs. Julia Haynes, of this city, were unit ed in marriage last week. The groom is 44 and the bride 47. Henry Mathis and Miss Metta Ric hards of Atkinson were granted a marriage license by Judge Morgan last Monday. Brad Departs IJ. M. Bradstreet left this morning for Hood River, Oregon, where he ex pects to remain a year or so looking over the country with a view to per manently locating providing the climate and country suits him. Brad still retains the ownership of his Holt county land however and says when the glamour of the land among the hills wears off he may return to old Holt content to pass his declining years in the county in which he has lived the past twenty-live and in which he has endured privations and trials and enjoyed prosperity and happiness. The Frontier wishes him good luck and will follow him to his western home to keep him posted on political and local events in old Holt. Arrested for Rape John Cearns, a young man seven teen years old, was arrested at his home near Badger last Saturday after noon by Sheriff Hall and brought to this city. He, is charged with having committed rape upon the person of Ida Barnes, aged thirteen years, also a resident of this county, living near Badger. He was given a preliminary hearing before Judge Morgan last Monday and was bound over to the district court in the sum of $300, which bond was furnished and the prisoner released. Local Matters Mrs. H. Snyder and Mrs. William Gilmore, mother and sister of O. O. Snyder, came up from Sioux City last Thursday to attend the graduating exercises of the class of 1903, of which class Miss Bessie Snyder was a mem ber. Mrs. Gilmore returned home Tuesday morning while Mrs. Snyder will visit here for several weeks. Henry L. Peek, editor of the Rand alpli Times, was in the city Sunday the guest of Mr. and Mrs. 1). H. Cronin. Mr. Peck was on liis way home from Atkinson where he had been attending the seventh annual convention of the Elkhorn Valley Editorial association. Supervisors Biglin, Howard and Si mar were up at Stuart Tuesday to appraise a tract of ten acres of school land which has been and now is used for a cemetery. The land is under lease and Stuart parties are wanting to get a title to the same. Attorney L. C. Chapman moved his family down from Atkinson last week and is now a fullfledged citizen of O’Neill. The Frontier hopes Mr. and Mrs. Chapman will find their residence in O’Neill both pleasant and profitable. If you want to enjoy a good old fashioned celebration July 4, come to O’Neill. We assure the people of Holt county that O’Neill will give her visitors the warmest time to be had in these parts on the great national holiday. Lost—Some where in northern vicinity of O’Neill, an ice saw; 50c reward for returning to meat shop.— F. M. Brittell. THE SCHOOL YEAR ENDS Annual Commencement Exercises of Eighth Grade and High School SOME LABRATORY EXPERIMENTS A New Feature In the Graduating Evening Program The O’Neill public schools rounded out another year’s work last week, the closing exercises of the eight grade occurring on Thursday evening, when an exceptionally interesting program was rendered to a large audi ence. The commencement exercises of the high school were given the following evening. A new feature was intro duced this year that made the exer cises bot h novel and interesting. A number of the class gave sclent itic ex periments which took the place of the customary orations. Miss Alice Turner opened t he class program with an excellent address relative to their scientific work and explaining that the object in devoting commencement evening to practical demonstractions was to arouse in patrons of the school an interest for the study of the sciences in the O’Neill high school. Following Miss Turner’s introduc tory remarks demonstrations were made by her fellow students as fol lows: Oxygen, Miss Lind Trueblood. Phosphorus, Miss Rhoda Sherman. The pendulum, Miss Alberta Spind ler. Felling bodies, Mr. John J. Mc Greevy. Atmosphere pressure, Miss Sue Gil lispie. Electricity (part 1), Miss Bessie Snyder. Electricity (part 2), Mr. Owen Mer edith. Mr. Merle Kline then followed with an able and interesting oration on the “Future of Electricity.” It can be said to have been one of the best if not the best and most in teresting commencement exercises our schools have yet given and shows that the instructors are doing thorough work and merit the hearty co-operation of all. It might be said further that the high school is adding to the course every year and now ranks among the best in the state. Have you attened our auction sale? If not you have missed opportunity to secure some first-class goods at your own price. Our entire stock is to be sold at auction and we have a splendid line of jewelry. The sale commenced Wednesday at 2:30 and will commence at that hour each afternoon and at 1:30 each evening until the stock is disposed of. Come and attend these sales and get some of the bargains that are going. F. B. Cole & Son. Gregory County Pilot: Owens Hinds of Butte, Neb., and Miss Stella Boucher ofDustin, Neb., were married by Judge Stracher on May 28.Miss T. Bently and Miss Adams of O’Neill, Neb., were in Fairfax Wednesday in the interests of the Sprague Publish ing Company of Chicago, ill. DIVORCES WANTED Unhappily Mated Seek Release from Matrimony's Bonds On June 10 Lottie Shane tiled her petition in the district court of Ilolt county praying that a decree of divorce be granted her from her hus band, James Shane. She alleges that they were married November 7,1898. That since that time she lias conducted herself as a true and faithful wife. As grounds for divorce she alleges that defendant is an habitual drunk ard and that lie lias failed to provide for her and children. She asks that the custody of their two children and reasonable alimony be awarded her. Mary G. Hanna, of Chambers, tiled a petition in the district court of Holt county on June 8, praying for a divorce from her husband Bard G. Hanna, reasonable alimony and the custody of their three children. She alleges in her petition that defendant has abused her, calling her vile names and that he has become an habitual drunk ard. She alleges that he has a home stead worth $2100 and personal pro perty worth $700. They were married J une 7, 1897. Atkinson 0. K The Frontier editor attended the seventh annual meeting of the Elk* horn Valley Editorial Association held at Atkinson last Saturday. It was largely attended and was one of the most successful meetings ever held by the association. The citizens of At kinson, both great and small were lavish with theirhospitality and made each member of the press gang feel that their lines were indeed cast in a pleasant places. Editor Church, of the Graphic, and a delegation of citizens, met the editors from the east end at the train Friday night and each editor was taken in charge by one of Atkin son's business men who took them to their homes and entertained them. It was our good fortune to be taken in charge by Mose Campbell and was entertained at his home. Mr. Camp bell has a beautiful home, which he erected last summer, and he has been very successful in business which fact is gratifying to the many O’Neill friends of the family. Mr. Campbell and his estimable wife have our sincere thanks for the hospitality accorded and we hope they will con tinue to thrive and prosper. Atkin son is not a mighty city but within the coniines of that municipality a re a class of progressive, whole-soule people and it and its people will long live green in the memory of the Elkhoin Valley editors who par took of their hospitality June 0. -- ® They Played hall The Atkinson and O’Neill ball teams crossed bats on the local diam ond last Sunday afternoon. The game was won by Atkinson with a score of 9 to 5. It was quite an interesting contest and was witnessed a good-sized crowd of fans. Cultivators! Cultivators! Now is your chance if you want to buy a good one cheap and the beauty is I will sell cheaper for cash than time, but I will give any reasonable time.—Neil Brennan. 48tf > * 11 YOUR ATTENTION | \ $ $ * ^ We now have on hand the most complete line of TT hardware ever had west of Omaha. in connection with V' $ our hardware and furniture business, we have completed ^ a line of farming machinery. We handle the Deering £ ^ binders, mowers and rakes, also coi n binders. Our fur- ^ W niture stock is being constantly enlarged. We invite ^ # your presence to look over our splendid line. : : ^ <P UNDERTAKING A SPECIALTY f y $ \y - — FOR SALE BY ——- V \ Golden, Peeler: Hodgkin \ ELKHOl EDITORS MEET Atkinson Entertains Them and Be stows Mneli Hospitality COMING TO O’NEILL NEXT TIME Seventh Annual is Made a Notable and Pleasurable Event Uy Courtesy of tlie Atkinson (iriiphlo With perfect weather, large attend ance, Interesting program and un bounded enthusiasm on the part of both editors and the people of Atkin son, there was no reason why tlie sev enth annual meeting of tlie Elkhorn Valley Editorial association held in Atkinson last Saturday should not be an unlimited success—and it was. In fact most of the members present declared it tlie best ever. The Grap hic is proud of Atkinson. Tlie editor has attended many association meet ings, but. never lias lie seen tlie people of a town take hold andi“mlx” as they did here. Informal sociability was rampant—everybody was full of it. If tlie sourest man on earth had been here, he would have grinned and frisk ed some before night. Hut there’s no use expatiating thus in generalities; everyone knows how Atkinson does these tilings, and those who didn’t know berore found out about it last Saturday. Tlie first arrivals were Fern I). Smith, editor of the Chambers Bugle, and liis foreman B. J. Newlon. They arrived on the3:25 train, Friday after noon—just about live, minutes after tlie Graphic had kicked off its overalls and donned its company manners. And by the way, the scriptural proph ecy regarding tlie precedence and sub sequence of the first and last was neatly fulfilled in tills instance, as Mr. Smith missed tlie Sunday morning train and was compelled to visit witli tlie Grapnic man till the two o’clock freight came. Friday night brought tlie rest of tlie crowd from tlie east, and Satur day morning tlie west enders piled off tlie train singly, in couples, in groups and in crowds. The I. O. O. F band met the train at the depot, and led the procession up town to listen to an open air concert, after which the crowd assembled at the M. E. cliucii to listen to the program. The exercises begun with tlie sing ing of “America” by all present, led by tlie choir consisting of tlie Misses Scott and Messers. Crossman and Allen. .Rev. I). J. Clark invoked the Divine Blessing and guidance of tlie ruler of the universe upon the press of the country in whose keeping is a power realized by few—scarcely by them selves. Willis Murphy here favored the au dience with a cornet solo, a most ar tistic rendition of “Jtobin Adair.” The address of welcome by W. E. Scott was a (masterly effort in that line, and when he got thorugh the pencil-pushers knew that they were really welcome—there was no doubt about it. lie told them to go any place they wanted to in town—around corners or across lots. lie had no keys to present them, but any key they de sired would be procured and handed over instanter. Mr. Scott also ren dered a tine tribute to the power of the press, which was appreciated by the boys, not because it was a new idea to them but because it is so sel dom expressed. President 1). S. Efner, of Ghadron, having missed connections and being absent, the chair called upon L. M. Bates, of Longpine to respond, and Mr. Bates proved himself entirely equal to the occasion, in a few well chosen sentences he assured the At kinson people that their welcome would not be wasted nor overlooked. Then he claimed that his speech was a failure and blamed the Graphic man for calling on him, which awoke some people to the fact that the Graphic man has some good judgment after all. 11. G. Lyon, of Gordon, was unable to be present, but the subject of his paper, “The ideal .Newspaper Town” was made a subject for general discus sion and everybody participated. It was here that Gol. John G. Maher ad vanced his theory that a free use of the imagination in newspaper writing is a thing of beauty and a joy forever and it was here that the boys, headed by 11ic redoubtable Bob Good, fellow on him and smote|mightly, whereup on the puissant colonel gracefully and by degrees retreated from his pulpit without for a moment lowering his bold front. The paper by Geo. A. Miles, of the Ainsworth Herald, entitled “When Where, How and to What Extent Should an Editor work? Also Who?” Bro. Miles was of the opinion that we should all do our best to work the state board to locate the junior nor mal at Ainsworth. M. ■*.. This closed the morning program and adjournment was taken for “pi.” President Efner caught a freight train somewhere up the road and ar rived in time to have his picture taken with tlie rest of the crowd in front of tiie Graphic office, and to take charge of tlie afternoon session. At tlie beginning of the afternoon session the Misses Scott and Messrs. Allen and Murphy, with Mrs. Scott presiding at the organ, rendered some highly appreciated vocal music. llev. J. A. MacLean’s address “Pul pit and Press,” was a scholarly dis course in which he classed the pulpit as tlie outgrowth of the Sunday school and the press the outgrowth of the common school—each the very essence of mental and moral force, born of early thought, development and form ing. Three papers which were handled in a most able manner were “County Organization” by J. W. Burleigh, of the Ainsworth Star-Journal. “The Editorial Page,” by E. S. Ricker, of Chadron Times “Mutual Ready Prints,” by B. W. McKeen, of tlie Elgin Review. Each of these papers elicited lively criticism. Bro. Bur leigh never writes anything in a halt ing manner, and his paper left no doubt as to his belief in the matter. Discussion in tlie matter fiiialy result: ed In a vote in favor of the president appointing a committee of three to formulate plans for county organiza tlon. Tlie president announced that lie would name tlie committee, later, and in tlie evening did so, naming D. H Cronin of O’Neill, R. B. Good of Newport and J. W. Burleigh of Ains worth. Tlie editorial page was never more ably discussed (or exonerated) than by Bro. Ricker, and most of the brethren took occasion to rise to their feet If only to express their admiration of it. Bro. McKeen pointed out more difficulties in the way of mutual ready prints than most of us had thought of,but never the less many believe that there is no difficulty too large to over come, and all Joined harmoniously in cussing the ready print combine to our heart’s Content. Bro. Eves flunked out on his “Ode to the Advertising Hog” and refused to make it rhyme, and we understand his subscribers are-now trying to make him adopt the rule for good. How ever, lie discussed the topic very en tertainingly. The minutes of the last session were read and approved, after which L. M. Bates, who was last year ap pointed a committee to Investigate tlie general conduct of the brethern, reported that he had no charges to prefer, that all ethics of the craft seemed to have been fairly olserved. He also exonerated the Graphic man from a cliaige brought by Bob Good to the effect that we had tried to “fix up” the office some for this occasion, by declaring that onyonc could see that the charge was without the slightest foundation. Bro. Bates was continued on the committee and was also given the assistance of Bros. Good of Newport and Cooper of Rush ville, and the president admonished them to be especially active during the coming year. J. W. Burleigh, committee on legis lation, reported everything smooth and all necessary duties performed. Heport was accepted and committee discharded. Next came the selection of the next meeting place and on motion of E. S. Eves, O’Neill was unanimously select ed, and the association will celebrate its eight anniversaryat its birthplace, having been orgnized there seven' years ago. It is confidently expected that on this auspicious occasion the emerald city will get right up on her tip-toes and put up an entertainment that will make the boys swear by her for evermore. Election of officers coming next, A. M. Church was elected president for tire ensuing year, M. L. Mead of Bas sett, vice president, and E. S. Eves of O’Neill sesretary-treasurer. The following were present and re ceived into the association as honorary members: Mesdames Mead, Mather and Ged dis of Bassett, Miles of Ainsworth, Good of Newport, Eves of O’Neill, Ef ner of Chadron, Baker, Valentine. Church of Atkinson, Misses Miller of Atkinson, Bowers of Ainsworth, Hudspeth of Stuart, McLaughlin of O’Neill. On motion the receipts of the even ing were voted to the retiring secre tary for expenses during the past year. On motion the president appointed Mayes, Barker and Me Keen a commit tee on resolutions, to report during tlie evening. The next on the program was “Round Table,” and under the guid ing hand of Bob Good it was exceed ingly lively and interesting. Time did not allow the discussion of all sub (Continued on page eight)