✓ VOLUME XXIV. O’NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6,1903. ' NUMBER 6. HOLT .COUNTY IS THIRD Very Fine Showing in Crops and the Live Stock Industry. OVER 58,000 HEAD OF CATTLE Exceed in Number by Only Two Counties in the State. F - The Lincoln Star has compiled a table setting forth the condition of crops, acreage and number of head of live stock in the state by counties. Ilolt county makes an exceedingly line showing, as the following indicates: j Winter wheat, acres. 1,222 a Spring wheat, acres. 4,537 Rye, acres. 13,187 Corn, acres. 87,183 Oats, acres.32,407 Barley, acres. 649 Alfalfa, acres. 1,184 Millet, acres. 2,331 Number cattle July 1, 1903. 58,541 Number hogs July 1, 1903. 19,150 Number sheep July 1, 1903. 5,822 Horses and mules July 1, 1903.. 10,037 The wheat yield is estimated at an average of 18 bushels per acres; corn, with a basis oflOO as normal, is credit ed 80, and oats on the same basis at 92. Out of the ninety counties in the state there are but two counties re porting a greater number of cattle. Cherry county has 88,736 and Custer 78,956. Cherry county has twice the area of Holt, while Custer and Holt are about the same size. Thus consi dered Custer is in the lead with Holt second. Custer county also has the largest acreage of corn, having 224,752 acres. Holt county stands sixth in number of horses and mules, Custer leading again in this with 19,679. Kimball county leads in number of sheep with 27,365 head. Richardson county is in the lead with hogs,having f 38,774 head. There are 11,164,577 acres of crops in the state, divided as follows: Win ter wheat, 1,939,766; spring wheat, 439,612; rye, 343,067; corn, 6,964,048; oats, 1,968,721; barley, 113,717; alfalfa, 238,401; millet, 137,245. The total number of live stock in the state is: Cattle, 2,161,773; hogs, 1,481,164; sheep, 218,711; horses and mules, 539,917, making a total of hoof ed animals of 4,402,665. Tlie draft of the assessments roll compiled by the state board of equali zation shows the following concern >. ing Holt county: p Assessed valuation.*2,429,933 00 State Levy In Mills General. 7 School. 11 University. 1 Total.91 Assessments Charged General. $ 16,946 53 School. 3,631 40 University.. 2,420 JJ3 Total. 22,998 86 ueatn in sardine (Jan. Chambers Bugle: A week ago last Tuesday David Ward and several of his family were poisoned by eating a box of sardines. They felt nothing of it until Wednesday morning when the father and his son were taken sick and in a short time one of the daugh ters was taken. Saturday Drs. Hess and Brown of Chambers and Dr. Thurston of Burwell were called and pronounced it a very serious case of fish poisoning. They had been so long without medical attendance that paralysis had set in and but little could be done. The boy died at 10 o’clock that day and the girl died at 0 o’clock Tuesday morning. The father cannot live and two other child ren are ill from eating some from the same can. Later—Mr. Ward died Wednesday morning. Captures Fugitive Lee Card was captured Tuesday by Sheriff Hall at Hay McClure’s ranch eighteen miles south of O’Neill, i Card has been a fugitive from the law I since June 27. On that date a war rant was issued for his arrest charged with assualting John B. Hodge of Lake township. He immediately dis appeared and the sheriff had been on the look out for him since. The sheriff traced him to North Bend a few days ago but the bird had flown when the officer arrived and had headed back to Holt county. Sheriff Hall took up the. trail again and Tuesday chased tim down at the McClure ranch, •'Tvhere officer and fugitive arrived about the same time. He was given a hearing yesterday and is out on bonds for appearance for trial. Strayed. On or about April 15, from our farm five miles west of O’Neill, a red bull calf about sixteen months old; marked with slit cut in brisket. Also on or about June 1, one yearling steer, branded C J on left side. Suitable reward for information leading to their recovery. 5-tf Ryan Bros. Local Matters Rivard Cross of Atkinson was in town Monday. Dr. George Mullen was over from Creighton Sunday. Editor Raker of Ewing had business in town the first of the week. Sanford Parker, of Spencer, was in town over night Saturday, going east Sunday. Sam Howard, T. V. Golden and A. F. Mullen all had business at Norfolk Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Cole visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lyons at Emmet Sunday. A. O. Perry, of Fremont, looked after real estate business in this sec tion the forepart of the week. The Advocate says Judge McCutch eon of this city expects soon to locate in Spencer for the practice of law. Miss Bessie Snyder returned home last Friday night aftei a protracted visit with relatives at Allen and Sioux City. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. M. II. McCarthy Saturday last, and Mike’s interest in the field trials is perceptibly less. Barney Mullen stepped off the Black Hills passenger Sunday morning long enough to shake hands with a few friends at the depot. Frank Lorge of Hartington, Neb., arrived in ttie city Monday evening for a short visit at the home of his aunt, Mrs. D. II. Cronin. The Royal Highlanders will give a ball in Golden's ball on Friday evening August 14. Everybody cordially in vited. Music by McGreevys’ orchestra. Master John Gilligan entertained about seventy of his little friends at his home last Tuesday afternoon, it being his fifth birthday anniversary. T. P. Mullen returned home Satur day from a trip in Antelope and Madison counties. Tom is in the photo enlarging business and is meet ing with unstinted success. “A Few Sheep” will be the subject of the pastor’s sermon at the Presby terian church next Sunday morning, and in the evening “A Law that Superceeds all other Laws.” Miss Nettie Sclirier came up from her home near Chambers last week on account of the illness of her sister, Mrs. Clark Hough. Miss Sclirier re turned home the first of this week. Labor day, the only national legal holiday in the United States and in Nebraska, will be observed in this laboring state on Monday, September 7, which day has been so proclaimed by Governor Mickey. Bert Blinco was over Monday from Sioux City, his permanent home now. Bert makes occasional runs at his old business on the Short Line, but has has other business in Sioux City which demands most of his attention. Last Tuesday Michael McCoy sold his farm, located • about ten miles northeast of O’Neill, for $2000. A Mr. Smith, of Michigan, was the pur chaser. Five years ago this farm was offered for $500 but no buyer appeared. Mrs. Trueblood, Lind and Donald, depart tomorrow for Lincoln. The two latter will attend school there the coming year. The doctor will remain in O’Neill and get a protracted touch of home without the wifeand children. Mrs. P. J. Biglin and Mrs. J. F. Gal lagher,who had been with their sister Mrs. Coffey at Spencer, she being very ill, returned home Thursday last. Mrs. Coffey is convalescent and was able to come over with her sisters for a visit at O’Neill. The Boston Bloomer ball game,billed for O’Neill, was enacted at Atkinson Sunday. Many attended from here and say it was the best game ever put up in the county. The Bloomers are all ball players, conducted themselves as ladies, and won the game on a score of 7 to 3. The Pleasent Valley Sunday School will give a picnic in Air. Bedford’s grove two miles south of Meek post office, on Saturday, August 15. A good program will be rendered. A Merry go-round and other amusements have been provided for. All are invited to come and enjoy life on that day. A very enjoyable social affair took place last Friday evening at the pleasant and hospitable home of M. M. Sullivan, when Mr. Sullivan’s daughter, Loretto, entertaining a number of her friends at dancing and other social amusements. Mr. I). Clem Deaver furnished the music for the occasion. Three good lainson Thursday, Fri day and Sunday gave the bumper crops another boost and corn has grown another foot since Monday. The government weartherguage show ed a precipitation of 113 inches. A stiff wind Sunday evening broke off corn stalks to some extent in the immediate vicinity of O’Neill. | SPECIAL SALE ON | S Fancy Dishes & Belts I j*j On Saturday, August 8, Mann’s will place on sale their complete $ line of Fancy Dishes and Ladies’ Belts at 33■, per cent 6 discount. This sale will continue one week. 1 K a8asaas»B8B!B«Rj0®^tss®«aa8a^®jae*5aaKj>c»saaK»eKsaca»s«»B«®8S!SSK»tsB(era88aE«ss8»B«ss»a5 FINEST HE EVER SAW. _ I Editor Church Visits Col. Brennan's Park and is Enraptured. Atkinson Graphic: While in O’Neill last Tuesday we saw something which Atkinson badly needs—a beautiful park. The one in O’Neill is owned by Col. Neil Brennan, who left his busy hardware establishment to unlock the gate and show us through the grounds The park consists of about live acres and is the finest sample of landscape gardening and horticultural effort that we have seen in Ilolt county or any where else. The colonel has appar ently had no failures; he has even transplanted oak trees, which every body knows can't be done successfully, and they stand there disputing the old rule with every rustle of their rank foliage. There are all kinds of ever greens, artistically moulded to grace ful shapes by the expert trimmer, ash, elm, box-elder, cottonwood—every kind of an ornamental shade tree im aginable. Then there are apple, cherry, walnut and other trees, .all heavy with their fruitage. At regular intervals are straight grassy avenues in each direction, lending just enough' regularity to the plan to make an ar tistic whole, and there are numberless shady nooks, with rustic seats for picnic parties. In tlie center is a large grassy lawn, decorated with flower beds all in rank bloom. This beautiful place has cost the'colonel much money and laborand lie is justifiably proud of it. A sight of the place ought to be a convincing argument to any eastern man inclined to be pessimistic about Ilolt county’s productive ability—better argument than all the spiels the real estate men can make, and if the city of O’Neill wished to do something very much to her advantage she would make an ap propriation for the maintenance in perfect condition of Brennan’s park. Judges Named Secretary McCarthy of the Field Trials association tells us there are 145 dogs now enterred for the trials billed here for August 18. “W. J. Banghn of Ridgeville. Ind., and William Elliott of Selma, Io., will be the judges,” said Mr. McCarthy in discussing the trials yesterday. “There are about $750 entrance fees now paid in with $10 more for each dog when the trials begin. There is no question but what these trials are giving the country the greatest adversing it ever iiad, for men are coming here from all over the country and there will be a big crowd in attendance. It is a little different this year than last. Last year we had to put up the money, but this year the $1,000 prizes are con tributed by those who enter dogs and the association expects to have $500 left after the trials close.” At the M. E. Church The fourth quarterly meeting for the Methodist church will take place •on Saturday and Sunday, the quarter ly board meeting Saturday evening at 8 o’clock for the transacting, of busi ness. Sunday at 9:30 a. m. will be held the quarterly love feast, followed by preaching at 10:30 by the presiding elder, after which the sacrament will be administered. Sunday [school at 12 m. Epworth League at 7 p. m., preaching by the pastor at 8. Cordial invitation ex tended to all. Amos Fetzer, Pastor. Emmet The republican electors of Emmet township are requested to meet at Emmetlon August 15,1093, at 3 o’clock p m., for the purpose of selecting three delegates to attend the republi can county convention to he held in O’Neill August 17; also to place in nomination a township ticket and for the transaction of such other business as may come before said caucus.—T. II. Maring, Committeeman. Old Settlers’ Picnic A meeting is called at the court house in O’Neill on Saturday, August 15, at 2 o’clock, for the purpose of devising ways and means for an old settlers’picnic sometime in the near future. A good attendance from ail parts of the county is desired. By order of Committee. (ialena Lumber company deals in paints, oils, etc. 51tf THE NEW POPE Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto, Patriarch of Venice, is Chosen. Pius X. was born inRiesi, diocese of Treviso, June 2.1835, and was created cardinal by Leo XIII. at consistory of June 12, 1893, receiving the title of S. Bernardo delle Terme. He is also patriarch of Venice since June, 1893, and bishop of Mantua. He belongs to ecclesiastical congregation of bishops and regulars, sacred rites, indulgences and sacred relics. Cardinal Sarto enjoys great popular ity in his diocese and is honored by all for hts purity, for the strict upright ness of his life, and for liberal ideas. He is a modest and agreeable man, highly cultivated, very kind hearted, still strong and robust in spite of his