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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1903)
THE O’NEILL FRONTIER PUBLISHED EVERY THRURSDAY BY D. H. CRONIN. __— A_ O’NEILL, - - - NEBRASKA. ^h--x-**-K“K~x--x*-x--x~x~x*** | BRIE? TELEGRAMS. j ‘t“X"X-'X~X"X*-!"X"X~X~M"X-X“!“l Postmaster General Payne stated that he had been greatly benefited by his trip to the Catskills. Anthracite eonl fields have beer discovered In Colorado equal In ex tent to those of Pennsylvania. Almost $30,000 has been collected for tho relief of the sufferers by the Oakford Park dam at Jeannette, Pa. The work of relief has been systema tized. The director of the mint purchased 75,000~tninces of silver Tor account ol Philippine coinage at an average ol 63.85 cents an ounce, delivered In Phil adelphia. Signor Marconi, the Inventor of wireless telegraphy, is said to have discovered a method by which oxy gen may be extracted from air at a very slight expense. Dr. George Harris, president of Am herst college, told the educators In convention In Boston that If sports stopped at colleges and schools the moral tone would suffer. The secretary of tho treasury has selected as a site for the public build ing at Grand Island, Neb., tho south west corner of Locust and Second streets. The price is $9,600. A representative of a Wisconsin tan nery purchased $1,000,000 worth of hides from the Kansas City packing houses. The hides had been covered bv water during the flood and were soid at a discount. The executive board and officers of the Iron Molders’ International union met In Cincinnati. Trade demands and grievances affecting over 7,000 men in all sections of the country will be considered. United States Minister Beaupra ca bled the state department from Bo gota that the Panama canal treaty Is dragging along before the Colombian congress. He does not Indicate Its chance of ratification. ExCongressman Allen of Mississip pi is in Washington In connection with his duties as national commissioner of the St. Louis exposition. He stout ly maintains that the uattonal capi tal Is a fine summer resort. Roger W. Woodbury, a pioneer newspaper main and banker of Den ver, died, aged G2. Mr. Woodbury was a native of Franclstown, N. H., and had been a resident of Colorado for about thirty years. He was one of the founders of the Denver Evening Times. At a meeting or the Oregon con gressional delegation and the direc tors ot the Lewis and Clark exposi tion it was decided to ask congress for'*700,000. Of this amount it is de sired to expend *100,000 on the Alas kan exhibit and *100,000 on a Philip pine exhibit. W. F. Thummel, who was appointed by President Roosevelt to be a mem ber of the board of general apprais ers for the port of New York, has de clined the position. Mr. Thummel is a son-in-law of Congressman “Pete" Hepburn of Iowa, and the position which he declined pays *7,000 per annum. United States Minister Wilson makes from Santiago, Chile, a rather long report by cable to the state de partment, touching the plague. He says the disease has spread to nearly all Chilean ports; that the postal serv ice is disorganized, and that no Amer ican mall has been received at San tiago tor nine weeks. Father Antrobus, the superior of Brompton oratory. U dead in London. He was regarded as a possible suc cessor to Cardinal Vaughn as arch bishop of Westminster. In his early career he was In the diplomatic serv ice, and for a time filled the post of second secretary of the British le gation at Washington. Dr. August Manns, who has been the xeelpent of a presentation from the Handel festival choir in London, was bom a Pomeranian some eighty eight years ago, and has been asso ciated with the Crystal Palace, as musical director, for not far short of half a century, and with the Handel festival, as conductor, since 1883. Hot weather and strikes are having a marked effect upon the savings banks. Amounts drawn out by depos itors during the first few days of July; have been largely In excess of the money taken out during the same time last year aud the year before, whilo many banks say that in their cases the withdrawals break all records. Lord Salisbury has an old fashioned weakness for huge fires of wood, and at Hatfield House there is a speoiaa of trolley for the conveyance of the logs to the gigantic grates In the drawing room, long gallery, and 11 oraxy. Major Lazarovk-s, who Is credited' with firing the first shot at King Alex ander, having threatened to resign be cause his same was omitted from the list of King Peter's birthday promo tibns, has been made a lieutenant colonel. HIDDEN PICTURE PUZZLE. "I am going over to see Eben.” Where is he? PORTS ARE OPEN RUSSIA AGREES NOT TO INTER FERE WITH POLICY. TRADE FREE TO THE WORLD WASHINGTON — The Manchurian j question has been settled satisfactor ily to this government. Assurances have been received from j the Chinese government that it will, in the * ar future, open, as treaty ports, several ports now closed to the world’s trade. The Russian government has con veyed formal assurance to the United States government that it will not in any way oppose such opening. While the ports to be opened are not yet spec ified, it is gathered from the commu nications received that they are Mouk den, the principal island port of Man churia, and Ta Tung Kao, at the mouth of the Yalu river. The state department is highly grat ified at the outcome, feeling that it. has secured not only for American com merce, but for the commerce of the world at large, a very substantial gain. It now develops that the meeting of Russian officials at Port Arthur, just concluded, was but one of the steps, though an important one, which the St. Petersburg government had plan ned in execution of its purpose to place matters of internal administration in Manchuria in such condition that the ports desired by the United States and Japan could be opened to trade with out causing disturbance or involving undue sacrifice of proper Russian in terests. It already had been reported that much of the friction that had grown out of the Manchurian question was caused by a sort of triple yet independ ent administration of affairs in Man cnurla, by representatives of the dif ferent branches of the Russian gov ernment. The result was that one official would not feel bound by the pledges made by another, so that foreign na tions complained of bad faith. It is understood that now, following the Port Arthur conference, a compact and responsible direction of affairs has been arranged for and orders issued from St. Petersburg are certain to meet with speedy and exact compli ance. Although no set time Is mentioned in the promise to open the ports, it is believed that this will follow soon after the Russian evacuation in Sep tember. It is now known that the negotia tions which have termined so success fully were practically brought to their present phase by Secretary Hay and Count Cassini at a meeting at the Rus sian embassy on June 28. the day be fore the secretary left, for Newport, for the ambassador then had in hand the necessary authorization from his own government to make the pledges which are now in process of redemp tion. Harriman Plans Fine Villa. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y.—E. H. Harri man is having plans prepared for the erection of an Italian villa in the wil derness of Arden. The work of construction is to be gin as soon as Mr. Harriman returns from Europe. Will Test His Alrshio. WASHINGTON. D. C—Prof. Lang ley’s new air ship was towed down the Potomac on a house boat to a secluded point on the lower Potomac where it will be given its preliminary trial as soon as some few details can be ar ranged. Prof. Langley, who is head of the Smithsonian Institute, in planning his air ship, it is stated, studied the movements of the buzzard and tried to develop a machine that would have strong pinions. CANDIDACY OF CLEVELAND. What W. J. Bryan Has to Say of the Same. MILWAUKEE, Wis —W. J. Bryan was interviewed here as to the Cleve land movement. Mr. Bryan said: “It is a comedy as it. now stands, but a tragedy if it Hhould succeed.” Mr. Bryan declared that all he de sired to see was the nomination by the democratic party of some one who would stand by democratic principles. "By democrats,” said he, “I mean the principles enunciated at, the Kan sas City convention of the democratic party, the last opportunity the party had to declare the principles on which it stands." Asked if there was any danger of the old line of Cleveland democrats capturing the next convention, Mr. Bryan said: .'“I do not think such a thing is a probability. If there were such a probability, danger would be the right word to use in connection with the results it would work to thil democratic party.” ATTEMPT TO BRIBE A JUDGE. An Attorney Alleged to Have Offeree $250,000. BUTTE, Mont.—The disbarment case of A. J. Shores, chief attorney for the Amalgamated Copper com i pany, charged with attempting to bribe Judge Harney with $250,000, in connection with the Minnie Heath mine decision, was called for trial Tuesday after six months’ delay. F. A. Heinze and John McGinnis of the Montana Ore Purchasing company, to whom the mine was awarded, were subpoenaed by the defense, which al leges a business and political con spiracy on the part of the opponents through Shores. of the Amalgamated Copper company An affidavit of Charles W. Clark, son of the Montana senator, w-as read, admitting that he offered Judge Har ney the money, with the approval of Mr. Shores and other Amalgamated attorneys. MOVE TO CHANGE THE DATE. Would Have Memorial Day Fall on Sunday. SALEM, O.—Dr. A. C. Yengling, Grand Army department commander, and his staff of this city have inaug urated a movement in this county to change the date of Memorial day from May 30 to a later date. Posts of this county and this section are asked to take action along these lines. Tho : reason for taking this action is the manner in which the day is desecrated in the eyes of the old soldiers by hold ing sports and other events. Sunday i is suggested by the state commander, as he believes that on that day the event can be observed in the manner originally intended. Grain Yield in Hungary. BUDAPEST—The latest official re port of the ministry of agriculture es timates the yield of wheat in Hungary at 39,600,000; rye at 12.120,000, and ! oats at 11,100,000 metereentnos (a {metereentno is equivalent to 440.92 pounds). __ Canal Treaty Dragging Along. WASHINGTON, D. C. — Unitea i States Minister Beaupre cabled the state department from Bogota that the Panama canal treaty is dragging along before the Colombian congress. Will Open Manchuria in Six Years. ST. PETERSBURG.—According to the newspaper Novikrai. published at Port Arthur, Russia has informed China that she is compelled to exclude foreigners from Manchuria and post . pone the opening of Manchurian ports, owing to the presence of Englishmen . and American, who, in disguise, are , engaged in espionage. Russia, accord ing to the paper, promises to open , the ports six years hence, when the country has been tranquilized. I General Nebraska News.! f 4 T * VVS**r>*TVVT VVV*! The new Christian church at Brown- , ville is about to be dedicated. A number of deaths have occurred in Nebraska as results of the Fourth of July festivities. The ninth annual G. A. R. reunion in now an assured thing for Repub lican City this year, August 10th to 14th, inclusive, being the dates. John Van Boskirk, a prominent far mer residing four nines north of Be atrice. suffered a stroke of paralysis and is not expected to recover. Work on the new Lutheran church at Wasau is being pushed with vigor, and in about two months it will be ready for occupancy, The building will cost about $12,000. There will be no state encampment of the Nebraska national guard this summer, but instead the militia will take part in the military maneuvers of the regular army this fall. Hastings police, on information from the Phelps county sheriff, appre hended Frank Wiley, said to be want ed at Holdrege for stealing a horse and buggy and for robbing a farm house. Wiley has been working for a farmer, N. J. Closs, living near that place. / By comparison of the school cen sus and that of the municipality of Norfolk there appears to be one child of school age for every two and one half persons in the town. It is con sidered quite a remarkable ratio as compared with figures sent out from otner cities. According to Treasurer Mortensen, it will make no difference what the size of the bonus to be offered by the town which gets the new normal school is, it will be impossible to open the school until after the legis lature can have appropriated money to run the school, which will be in 1905. ioneriff Lusk returned to Tekamah from Lincoln with Ed Schroeder, who has just completed an eighteen months’ sentence in the penitentiary for stealing a horse and buggy in Pierce county. Lusk is wanted for disposing of mortgaged property. The warrant for his arrest is dated Octo ber 10, 1899. The Grand Island committee of pas tors having in hand the petitions for the prohibition of base ball games on Sunday hereafter is canvassing the business men. and received forty five signatures, thougu many of the leading business men refuse to sign it, some going as far as to say that they will discontinue their church sub scriptions. A peculiar accident occurred at Ad ams. Dr. Sloan drove his team of horses up before his office, where he hitched them. Shortly after he left the team one of tile horses became frightened, and rearing up it lunged forward and came down squarely upon the hitching pos:, which entered its abdomen. The animal died soon after. Nebraska will have a modern insti tution for the care or insane patients in the new Norfolk ivaytum. The state board of public lands and buildings has been considering plans and will build several small cottages for the housing of the inmates. The asylum was burned a year ago, and the last legislature appropriated $100,000 for its rebuilding. George Trexlcr of Allentown, Pa., hired a livery rig at West Point, and though several days have elapsed, nothing has been heard of the man or horses. It is now believed that the York county apple crop this year will be the smallest that the county has pro duced in years. According to reports of apple growers, the fruit did not re vive after the frost as rapidly as the smaller fruits ana its progress seems very slow. The apple growers will have some apples to market, but nothing like what was grown last year. The quarterly statement of the con dition of the state banks lias just been issued. The statement has been de layed on account of the tardiness of three banks in making their returns. But for these banks the report could have been made July 4. The state ment shows the condition of 493 banks, which is thirty-four more than at the same time last year, and eight more than the quarterly statement ot three months ago. Congressman J. J. McCarthy has announced that ail examination for ap pointment to the West Point cadetship will be held in Norfolk August 6 and 7. beginning at 11 o'clock on the Gth. The candidates must be between the ages of 17 and 22, unmarried, of good habits and sound. Omaha is to have a school of taxi dermy. Articles of the Northwestern School of Taxidermy were filed with the secretary of state by J. W. El wood, P. F. Greve and R. H. Smith. The capital stock is $10,000. •vvv v*S"I*y vv vvvv WWrfrr’r.'v*. j THE STATE AT LARGE. EXPERIENCE IN A HAIL STORM. A Callaway Liveryman in a Pedilous Position. CALLAWAY-—During the recent se vere storm J. N. Savuclge, a liveryman of this place, was caught out in the hills about ten miles north of town. In order that the high wind might not capsize his buggy, he took shelter in the canyon against the north bank. He endeavored to unhitch his team from the buggy before the storm struck, but had only loosed three of the traces when a large hailstone struck him on the head, knocking him down. Fearing the hail would beat him into insensibility he jumped into the buggy and held the cushion over his head to protect him from the hail stones, which came through the buggy top as if it were paper, one hailstone struck him on the Head, causing an ugly bruise, and another on the foot. Fortunately the team was too badly frightened to run away. Mr. Savidge was in the canyon about fifteen min utes, and as soon as me hail ceased he began to hitch up the loose traces, and before he had done so the water was j knee deep. He says that he drove for an eighth of a mile with nothing of his horses in sight but their heads, and with the water running over the | buggy seat. REDUCTION IN ASSESSMENT. Valuation of Counties fs Sealed This Year, LINCOLN—With the meeting of the state board of equalization only a week away, there are yet to be heard from nine counties that have not sent in returns on the assessment. If these are not in by the time of the meeting, under the statute, the hoard will be empowered to base the assess ment on last year’s valuation. Despite the fact that the railroads were left at practically the same low figure as last year and the fact that the levy this year may he increased 2 mills, the assessment from the major ity of counties is considerably increas ed. It is expected that the entire in crease will amount to 58,000,000. Doug las county has raised its valuation $200,000 and Johnson county $300,000. Claims Are Presented. LINCOLN—Several members of the visiting committees in the last legis lature have filed, after a long delay, their claims for mileage. According to a resolution introduced by Repre sentative Harrison these claims must be .accompanied by affidavits to the effect that the traveling was not done on a pass, but that the actual ex- . penses, railroad fare and hotel bills,, were paid out of the pocket of the claimant. Some half dozen have been filed, accompanied by the affidavits. They lack only the signatures of Speaker Mockett. Most of these claims have been scaled down from the original to considerably less. For an Electric Line. LINCOLN—After some little delay the articles of incorporation of the Sioux City, Homer c; Southern Rail way company have been filed with the secretary of state. Tills will be an interurban electric line which will op erate from Sioux City and eastern Ne braska. Little Girl is Cremated. STOCKHAM—Mrs. John Bullock went to a neighbor's across the lot, leaving her three children in the house. She had not been gone but a few minutes, when, on looking toward her home, she saw her two children running, a boy of about 4 years and a girl of about 2 years. The girl was enveloped in fire from head to foot. She fell before her mother could got to her. She died in about two hours. Five Inches of Rain. HASTINGS—This section was del uged with the heaviest downpour of rain of the season. For fully one hour the water came down in veritable wat erspout fashion. In fact it was the next thing to a cloudburst. The sur face of the earth resembled a huge iake. Many cellars were filled and those in basements tn the business blocks had to resort to strenuous means to keep from being flooded. The wind blew quite strong. Bad Storm at Oxford. OXFORD—A most disastrous wind lation eight miles wide. Houses were and hail storm visited this locality, leaving in its path a scene of deso unroofed or moved lrom their founda tions. Barns were destroyed and scores of wtadmills blown down. Thom as Cheffrcy’s barn was wrecked and fifteen horses killed. The rainfall was , little less than a cloudburst. Much wheat that promised well will not be cut. i ■ 11111111n ;; THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. ; ; Latest Quotations Prom South • • Omaha and Kansas City. I illW MMIIMin SOUTH OMAHA. CATTLE—There was an extremely light run of cattle, which makes the supply for the week smaller than for either last week or for the same week of last year. Packers took hold quite freely and the general market could j be quoted steady to strong. Beef ■ steers made up the bulk of the offer i in.gs, and the quality was fully as goocT | as usual of late. A good many sales' were made around $4.90, and as high as $5.00 was paid. The general mar ket could be quoted fairly active orr desirable grades and steady to strong. There were only a few cows and heif ers on sale and very little change in the prices paid was noticeable. Trad ing was not exactly brisk, but at the* same time buyers went around and bought up practically everything in sight at good, steady prices, with some sales apparently a little stronger. Bulls, veal calves and stags also sold in about the same notches they did on Thursday. There were very few cat tle in sight, and as is generally the case at the close of the week not many were wanted. The tendency of prices has been downward all this week, especially on the less desirable kinds, as the demand from the country has been very limited. HOGS—There was a liberal supply of hogs, including those that were car ried over from yesterday. The mar ket opened fully a dime lower than yesterday’s average, with the bulk of the hogs selling at $5.20 and $5.22%, with choice light loads selling as high as $5.25. By the time half of the hogs had been disposed of, however, the market suddenly weakened and trad ing came to a standstill. In fact, buy ers were not even bidding on what was left for some time, and as a result the* close was extremely dull and weak. SHEEP—Quotations for grass stock: Good to choice lambs. $5.50@5.75: fair to good lambs, $5.00 @5.50; good to choice yearlings, $3.75@4.00; fair to good yearlings, $3.50@3.75; good to choice wethers, $3.50@3.75; fair to good wethers, $3.00 @3.50; good to* choice ewes. $2.75@3.50; fair to good ewes, $2.50@2.75; feeder lambs. $3.50f9 4.00; feeder yearlings. $3.00@3.50; feed er wethers, $2.75@3.25; feeder ewes, $1.50@2.50. KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Best steers, steady to strong, others slow to 10c lower; fat cows and heifers, steady to strong; stockers and feeders, active; choice export and dressed beef steers, $4.60@ 5.15; fair to good, $4.00@4.65; stock ers and feeders, $3.75@4.00; western fed steers, $3.00@4.85; Texas and In dian steers, $2.40 @4.00; Texas cows. $2.10@2.90; native cows, $1.60@4.00; native heifers, $2.25(®4.50; canners, $1. 00@2.40; bulls, $2.00@3.75; calves $2.25 @4.50. HOGS—Market opened strong and closed weak; top, $5.50; bulk of sales. $5.37% @5.50; heavy, $5.25 @5.37%; mixed packers. $5.30@5.45; light, $5.20 @5.50; yorkers, $5.45@5.50; pigs, $5.10 @5.50. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active and firm; native lambs, $3.20 @6.^-' western lambs, $3.00@5.75; fed ewes. $3.00@4.S5; Texas clipped yearlings. $3.20@5.00; Texas clipped sheep, $3.00@ 4.90; stockers and feeders, $2.90@3.85, OUTLOOK IS ENCOURAGING. Conditions Are Satisfactory Outside of Speculation. NEW YORK—R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Conditions continue satisfactory, outside the region of speculation, many reports indicating further im provement. During recent months the two disturbing factors have been labor controversies and weather conditions, but each week has brought better things in these two respects, until the outlook contains much that is encour aging. Crops are making rapid progress and the army of unemployed is diminishing. Railway traffic is heavy, earnings thus far reported for July exceeding last year by 13.6 per cent, and those of 1901 by 19.2 per cent. Retail trade in seasonable mer chandise is fully up to the average and there is less than the customary midsummer quiet among wholesalers, while the preparations of jobbers and manufacturers indicate confidence In a large fall business. Unsettled conditions still exist in forge and foundry pig iron markets, while Bessemer iron is only barely steady. The chief difficulty appears to be the inclination of prospective purchasers to wait for the lowest pos sible quotations. This is a condition to be expected in a declining market, but appears usually aggravating in the present instance. Hawaii Will Make Showing. HONOLULU, by Pacific Cable.—The territory of Hawaii has appropriated J30.000 for an exhibit at the St. Louis exposition. It is understood that ob jections have been made to hulahulu dances and other similar displays. Orders Low Rates of Fare. CHICAGO.—James Charlton, chair j man of the Transcontinental Passen ger association, announces reduced rates on the basis of one fare for the round trip for the American Bankers’ association, San Francisco, October 20 to 23; triennial conclave Knights Templar, San Francisco, 5-9; National Live Stock association, Portland, Ore., January 12-15; Trans-Mississippi Com mercial congress, Seattle, August 18-21.