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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1903)
THE O’NEILL FRONTIER PUBLISHED EVERY THRURSDAY BY D. H. CRONIN. 0’NeiuT~ - - Nebraska! . * *”* V V V* 1 BRIEF TELEGRAMS. ij The acting secretary of the interior has approved deeds for the convey ance of inherited Indian lands In Ole lahoma. The synod of the Mexican Episcopal church has elected as its provisional bishop Right Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee, bishop of Washington. Captain Henry Hash of Boston is the last surviving officer of the old militia company that took part in ths famous “Aroostock war.” Rev. Frank Russell, the new chap lain of the Sing Sing prison. New York, has for many years been a ward worker for prison reform. General Gillespie, chief of engineer^ will be designated president of the board of ordnance and fortification on the retimerent of General Miles. William H. 8eymour of Brockport, N. Y., celebrated his 101st birthday recently by entering a croquet tourna ment and making one of the best scores. Consuelo, Duches of Manchester, gave a large dinner party at Egypt house, Cowes, Isle of Wight. King Edward and the Prince of Wales were among the guests. Madame Antoinette Sterling attrib utes her splendid health and her mar velous powers of endurance almost entirely to the fact that she never touches alcoholic beverages. Justice Dugro of New York signed the final decree of divorce in favor of Blanche Walsh, the actress in her suit against Alfred Hickman, to whom she was married In 1896. Mrs. Van Rensselaer Cruger has Just finished writing a novel which she will call "The Diplomat’s Diary’’ and which chronicles the adventures of a young American girl abroad. , The strike of teamsters employed by St. Louis lumber dealers and the allied concerns, Involving also the box saw yers and nailers, has been declared off and the men are returning to work. The boys of the "famous Twen tieth” will hold their fourth annual reunion at Iola from August 26 to 28. The local committee at Iola Is mak ing arrangements to help the visitors have a good time. The governor of the Russian prov ince Kherson has been instructed by the ministry of the interior to pro hibit all meetings of Zionists and to forbid collections and subscriptions in and of Zion alms. Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford, the surviving founder of the Leland Stan ford, Jr., university, sailed from San Francisco on the trans-PacIflc steamer Ventura. She will make a two-year trip around the world. Charles Dumas, who has been hon ored by the Society of Men of Letters of Paris with the Suliy-Pruhomme prize, which is equivalent to being poet-laureate of France, is a young ,man Just out of his teens. A thousand laborers employed in building trades of Mlnneaptls struck for an Increase in wages. Masons and all skilled laborers who are de pendent on the men are out, have also been forced to quit work. Seven typhiod patient;* were receiv ed at the city hospital In St. Louis. The hospital physicians declare that all the cases were caused by the germs in drinking water. The city hospital now shelters twenty-one patients with typhiod fever. A dispatch to Dio Zelt from Sofia says the secret orders have been Issued In Constantinople for the Al banian troops to take up quarters in the principal villages of Macedonia and Bulgaria, and to remain there un til the rival Macedonian leaders have ceased their feuds. Great White Bear, the great-grand son of Tall Tree, whilom chief of the Crow Indians, will blow a bugle for Uncle Sam In the navy. Tired of the tame life which he endured for five years In the Carlisle Indian school, he has enlisted on the receiving ship Minneapolis as a musician. A news agency dispatch from Vien na says that the Macedonian central revolutionary committee has fixed August 31 as-the date for a general rising apd that Boris Sarafoff, one of the leading Macedonian agitators, has been appointed commander of the rev olutionary forces with Alexieff as his principal lieutenant. A general lockout affecting more than 1,400 jewelry workers was de cided on at a meeting of the New York Manufacturing Jewelers’ association, held in that city on account of the de mands of the New York local of the International Jewelry Workers’ union Father Albert, a full-blooded Pot tawattamie Indian, was consecrated a priest in the St. Joseph's Catholic church in Oklahoma City on July 27 and la the first full-blooded Indiar ever consecrated In the Catholic church in America or in the world. I..... ... I > ♦ { DOWIE FASHIONS NEW AMERICAN FJLAG * i <* ♦ John Alexander Dowie feels confi dent that his new design of the na tional emblem is an artistic Improve ment over the Old Glory which the forefathers fashioned. While the de sign which Dowie has patterned is to prevail In Zion City, Illinois, he has no objection to Its being used in other sections of the country. In the Dowie design the field of blue has been dis pensed with, but the stars and stripes have been retained, as he nays they are of national significance. Instead of being crowded into a narrow mar gin, the stars are extended In the shape of a St. Andrew’s cross across the whole banner. The stripes are narrower than on the original emblem, and are not woven so dose together. Some time ago Dowie says he became convinced that the national emblem was faulty and inartistic, and he be lieves his pattern is an improvement. EXTRA CONGRESS MAY BE CALLED TOGETHER EARLY IN OCTOBER. NO FINANCE MEASURE FRAMED Senate Subcommittee Seeks Further Expert Advice Before Acting—Bank ers and Others to Be Consulted as to a Bill. OYSTER BAY, L. I.—President Roosevelt’s conference with asubcom mlttee of the senate finance commit tee was not concluded until the small hours of Friday morning. The whole subject of financial legislation at the appropachlng session of congress was discussed thoroughly. The committee, consisting of Sena tors Aldrich, chairman; Platt, Connec ticut; Allison and Spooner did not present even a tentative draft of a cur rency bill to the president, although some propositions which subsequent ly, may be embodied in the measure were reduced to concrete form. No definite conclusions as to the shape of the proposed legislation were reached. The conference related rath er to methods of procedure in the work at hand than to the form of the legislation. At 7:30 Thursday morning the mem bers of the committee left Sagamore Hill, boarded their yacht, Vergena, and sailed for Providence on their return to Senator Aldrich’s home. One fact of distinct importance was de veloped at the conference. While an extraordinary session of congress next fall is assured it has not been deter mined definitely whether it will be called to meet in October or in No vember. It has been supposed that the ex traordinary session would convene on Monday, November 9, but the indica tions now are that it will be called for an earlier date, perhaps several weeks earlier. The primary purpose of the extraor dinary session will bo to enact legls lation making operative the Cuban reciprocity treaty, but financial legis lation wil lalso be pressed' upon the attention of congress soon after it con venes. Andre Relic Discovered. VANCOUVER, B. C.—What is un doubtedly a relic of the ill-starred Andre expedition was brought to Van couver by a returning mining pros pector who has spent four years in the wilds of the Mackenzie basin, lie arrived here on Monday, brining with him n portion of the silk used in the construction of Andre's balloon. Sugar Trust Reaches Out. SAGINAW, Mich.—A deal was con sumed here whereby the American Sugar Refining company of New York has acquired a one-half interest in the Valley Sugar factory, one of the largest in the Saginaw valley. The company is capitalized at $500,000. Aids Kansas City Grain Men. KANSAS CITY—The Santa Fe an nounced that it will transport grain to and through Kansas City, thus afford ing relief to the grain men, who uave been unable to ship grain. Tho Santa Fe will deliver cars to the Burlington, Wabash, Missouri Pacific and Kansas City Southern, a recent order against these roads having been rescinded. The decision is conditional ou the prompt return of cars which ether roads have received. WOULD SHOW RANGE CATTLE. Stockmen Anxious to Have World's Fair Order Rescinded. DENVER, Colo.—A meeting Is be ing held in this city for the purpose of making an active fight to secure the rescinding of the order prohibit ing the exhibition of range cattle at the St. Louis World’s fair. The cam paign was started in July by the Colo rado Cattle and Horse Growers’ as sociation, when notices were mailed to all the states within the boundaries of the Louisiana purchase calling for a conference of cattle raisers, and at tomorrow’s session it is said that rep resentatives from all these states will be in attendance. The plan is to appoint a committee to meet with Chief Commissioner Cor burn of St. Louis to urge him to can cel the order against range cattle. If the committee is unsuccessful in this regard the members will wait upon President Roosevelt and urge him to give his aid to the proposition. It is announced that replies have been re ceived from every state to which notices of the meeting were mailed and that the purpose of the meeting has been unanimously endorsed. TAFT DENIES THE RUMOR. Says that He is Not to Succeed Secre tary Root. MANILA—When the news arrived here by cable that Secretary Root of the war department would be forced to resign the portfolio by his duties as a member of the Alaskan bound ary commission, about to meet in London, his resignation to take effect under certain conditions in December next, if not sooner, a reception was taking place at the palace in honor of Major General George W. Davis, until recently in command of the divi sion of the Philippines and now on the retired list. Governor Taft who was present, when shown the statement contained in this dispatch, that he would suc ceed Secretary Root upon his retire ment, laughingly replied that the re port was untrue. Later on, when a second message was received confirm ing an alleged offer of an appointment, the governor denied the'statement in similar terms. SEEK A NEW CUSTOMS LAW. Importers Will Ask Congress to Make Important Changes. * NEW YORK—In order to relieve importers from onerous exactions by the present customs administration acts, efforts will be made at the com ing session of congress to amend tho act in several important features. Plans to that end are being made by importers and merchants. The matter is in charge of a general com mission consisting of the representa tives of about fifty leading lines of trade. A bill embodying the changes desir ed will be introduced in congress, but the commission probably will not be able to make announcement of tho contemplated changes until after con ferences with Secretary Shaw. Herder Slogged to Death. DUPYER, Mont.—Fourteen masked men. supposed to be cattlemen, took a herder from Joe Sturgeon’s sheep camp, and, carrying him ten miles Into the mountains, tied him to a tree and whipped him to death. They also shot many of the herder’s sheep and drove the remainder away. Sheriff Taylor and a posse are in pursuit of the whitecaps, and it is feared there will be trouble when the two forces meet. 3'*>*vv-X'’"XXv^vv*v'>X+'XXvv+'fr*^*'X'X*-X"X,,;-vv-Xv'X*+ 4. General Nebraska News. I I .I «&»*.* 1"yv*r*r‘.*V*.**.-%» PAY OF THE SCHOOL TEACHER. Does It Go On if School is Closed by Board of Health. The point is raised in an appeal to the supreme court from Sherman county whether a school teacher's pay goes on .when his school has been closed by the board of health. Henry <j.oward has w'on in his contention that it does, in both justice and district courts, but the board is stubborn in its stand. Henry was employed to teach the school for nine months in the visage of Ashton, Sherman "county, begin ning September 3, 1900, at $60 a month. He was employed by B. Luka azewski as acting director, Able Sak as acting treasurer, and Andrew Garstka as moderator. After he had taught for eight months and for one day on the ninth the board of health and the village board passed resolu tions prohibiting the holding of meet ings in the town, and asking that the schools be 61osed because of an epi demic of smallpox in the state, some cases having appeared in Ashton. Then it was that the board directed that the schools be closed, and paid off the teacher for the eight months taught. He was not satisfied, and brought suit for the other $50, as well as for $16 alleged to be due for jan itor services. Later on the board ask ed him to go ahead and teach the other month, but his contract time had expired, and he declined. The board thereupon made a tender in court of the $16 for janitor services, but Hen ry recovered judgment in both the Justice’s and district court for the en tire amount claimed under contract. GAME LAWS OF NEBRASKA. Steps Being Taken for Rigidly Enforc ing the Same. LINCOLN—State Game Warden Carter has just returned from a tour of the Counties in the extreme west ern part of the state, looking for of fenders against the game laws and appointing a number of deputies, whose duty it will be to keep a look out for poachers. Mr. Carter during his journey found that there was a popular misconception among hunters as to the open season this year when quail and prairie chicken may be kill ed. The legislature of two years ago passed a law prohibiting the shooting of quail until the fall of 1903, when the open season on these birds be gins on November 1 arid continues for one month only. The chicken sea son begins October 1 and continues until the end of November, whereas the old law permitted the shooting of chickens beginning with September 1 and lasting four months. Many of the hunters figured that because the law permitted the killing of quail in the fall of 1903 that the law as to the chicken season was also amended so as to allow chicken shooting during September; but this notion, states the chief game warden, is a serious mis take. Mr. Carter has instructed his corps of deputies to rigidly enforce the law against chicken shooting in September and all offenders will en counter a stiff prosecution if they ven ture into the fields until October 1. Birds are reported to be numerous in the western counties and Game War den Carter predicts some fine sport for those who abide by the law. Struck Dead by Lightning. WYMORE — Charley Clayton, a prominent young farmer living two miles west of this city, was instantly killed by lightning. He was unhitch ing a span of mules under a tree in the yard at home when the bolt de scended, killing him and one of the mules. Inspect Normal Site. KEARNEY—The state board of ed ucation was in the city for the purpose of inspecting the proposed site for the new normal school. A reception and supper were tendered the visitors by the citizens of the city. Appointments by the Governor. Governor Mickey has announced the reappointment of Mrs. H. H. Wheeler of Lincoln as a member of the visiting and examining board to the home for the friendless. People who learn nothing from ex perience seldom complete their edu cation. Smuggling Morphine Into Prison. LINCOLN—Roy Hahn, who was re leased from the penitentiary last Sun day morning, was arrested upon be ing caught in an attempt to smuggle morphine to his former fellow pris oners. He was later released, as there is no statute covering his of fense, and he is out of the jurlsdic tion of the prison authorities. Consid erable trouble is given the warden and his aids at the pen by people smug gling drugs to the prisoners. •vttv • *^rr*'wrrr.’* ** t ■» t ttxj i THE STATE AT LARGE. A move has been started at Exeter to build an auditorium. Ira D. Brown, a much respected member of the Grand Island Soldiers’ hohme, died last week. The new 100-barrel capacity mill erected at Hartington this summer is about ready for business. Prof. H. C. Roush has decided to es- ■ tablish a business college at Ord, and will open up about September 1. A Harvard dispatch says that threshing and stacking is greatly re tarded by the frequent rains and much of the wheat in the shock has sprout ed. Harry Hickson of Plattsmouth, 21 years of age, was placed under arrest charged with obtaining money on a forged order. The complaining wit ness in the case is Mark White. Hick son has already served a one-year term in the penitentiary for a similar offense committed in that city. Twice as much money has been paid into the treasury of Loup county for taxes the first six months of 1903 than has ever been paid in a like period of time since the organization of the county. This is considered substantial evidence of the fact that the taxpay ers of Loup county are prospering. Dodge county farmers do not ex^ pect more than two-thirds of a crop of corn, as conditions now stand. The cool weather and heavy rains have set so much corn back that a part of the crop will not mature before frost time, while some of the rest will not fertil ize arid fill properly. A. J. Peterson, a Burlington freight brakeman, had the two lower ribs on his right side broken and his right arm cut by falling to the bottom of a cinder pit at Ashland. The crew was engaged In switching some cars at the time and Peterson failed to notice the proximity of the yawning pit. A severe lightning stom visited the vicinity of Alda. Both elevators of the village were struck, though but little damage was done these struc tures. The home of Mr. Marshall was struck, the lightning bolt going down the chimney and tearing a post off the bed in which a stranger was sleeping. The farming section of Custer coun ty adjoining Callaway on the south east is very much worked up over the appearance of an alleged ghost, which has been seen on various occa sions of late, and which has caused dire consternation to many of the in habitants of the neighborhood in which its haunts are claimed to be. Eugene, son of J. D. Hillman of Weeping Water, was crushed to death in a stone quarry about a mile west of that place. He was helping his father in the quarry and a rain came up. The boy got under an under mined bank for shelter, and the bank ana rock caved in on him and crush ed his life out before he could be res cued. He was 12 years old. i If the board of public lands and buildings decides to accept the rec ommendation which will be made by the committee which has just return ed from a trip through Illinnois, In' diana and Ohio, the proposed new in sane asylum at Norfolk will be built either wholly or partially on the cot tage plan, which seems to be grow ing in favor throughout the country. The community at Hay Springs has been worked up to a high pitch by reason of a hunt for a horse thief by the name of William Chase, who is wiimtju m vvyuuimg. Deputy State Veterinarian M. V. By ers has been out on a tour of inspec tion among diseased horses and cattle in the western part of the state for a couple of weeks, mostly in Boyd and adjoining counties. He was ordered there by the state veterinarian. He found bunches of horses that were dis eased, and among the rest he order ed about twenty-five or thirty horses killed that were suffering with glan ders. Attorney Herbert S. Crane of Oma ha is the author of a booklet just is sued from the Mercury press, on “Ir rigation and Water Rights as They Obtain in the State of Nebraska.” It comprises nearly 100 pages, and is a collection of all the authorities ap plying to the Nebraska law on these matters. The lawyers are pleased with the compilation, as it treats on a subject comparatively new in this state. Ord and vicinity was visited by one ot the heaviest rain and electrical storms of the season. A waterfall of two inches is reported at Ord, and other points in the county are claim ing that the waterfall is even greater than that. From reyiorcs coming into the insur ance auditor’s office the indications are that some of the mutual hail in surance companies recently organized in the state will be unable to meet the demands made upon them. They have met with heavy losses. Two English Speakers There. British as well as American Catb* olics will have but one representative-^* at the papal conclave. Cardinal Giti* bona, the American representative, la already In Europe. Of the two British cardinals, only one, Cardinal Uogue, the Irish primate, will be able to at tend, as cardinal Moran, archbishop of Sydney, has no chance of reachlnng Rome in time for the conclave. Why It la the Best Is because made by aa entirely different process. Defiance Starch is unlike any other, better and one-third more tor 10' oanM. A woman who loved but once, and madly loved on to the end, ought to b® canonized. The man who admits that he is sen timental made the mistake of his lif® in not having been born a woman. Stops the Cough and Works Oflf the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. PriceSSc^^j^ Man likes to believe in eternal pun- ' lshment—for the other fellow. A man who is "so good” is real un canny. BITC Perm*nenny cures. *ro flts or nervousness aftey r ■ I* flr*t day’* use of Dr. Klines Great Nerre Restor n. vr FBK1C *2 00 tr'»' bottle and treuMee. V Da. R. H Klims, Ltd., Ml Arch Street. Philadelphia.*•» ■ It takes two banana skins to mak® a pair of slippers. Those Who Have Tried ft will use no other. Defiance Cold Water Starch has no equal la Quantity or Qual ity—16 oz. for 10 cents. Other brands con tain onlv 13 or Man often feels that he is a sly dog when, in reality, he is but a sorry cur. AIX UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothe* clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. If a poor girl has hair of the spun gold variety folks say it looks lik® streaked molasses candy. It takes a genius to be a financier without being the possesor of any finances. More Flexible and Lasting, won’t shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better results than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. Love is like smallpox. Sometimes' you escape, but it often leaves awful scars. A New Slot Machine. The "slot” machine has entered a new field. For a long time, by drop ping a penny in its maw the gum f chewer, the man who likes to know * - what his exact avoirdupois is, the girl who loves a lozenge and even the! quick-lunch man, hurriedly seeking a. sandwich have been accommodated.! But the new field is a wider one. The, diner in some restaurants can now, by a new Invention in the “slot” line, rest at ease while he takes his meals and reads complacently between bites the religious mottoes on the wall, fon before he sits down he can go to a, box, drop a penny in the slot and out jumps a key from another slot. That, key opens a closet ample enough forf his hat and coat. The very hooks on which he hangs his clothes lock also,! so that even if the door of the closet were opened the articles cannot be hurried away with by anyone but tha^ owner. ^ Our Beef Croesuses. The bigest beef man in the United'. States had very humble beginnings. Nelson Morris was a peddler in Con necticut, and started business in Chi cago with one hog. The late Gustavo F. Swift began his career with one sheep in a small town in Massachu setts. Philip D. Armour, too poor to buy transportation to California byl i ship in the days of the gold fever, traveled overland from Oneida, N. Y., ' most of the way on foot. He made a few dollars on the Pacific coast dig-* ging c'itches to supply watqr for plac-f er mines. These three men laid up» nearly $100,000,000 between them. ABOUT COMPLEXIONS. Food Makes Them Good or Bad. Saturate the human body with strong coffee and it will in time show in the complexion of the coffee, drinker. This is caused by the action of coffee on the liver, thus throwing part pf the bile into the blood. Coffee complexions are sallow and muddy and will stay that way until coffee is given up entirely. ' The sure way to recover rosy cheeks and red lips is to quit coffee and drink Postum Food Coffee which makes red blood. "I had been for more than 20 years an inveterate coffee drinker* and* it is absolutely true that I had so completely saturated myself with this drug that my complexion toward the last became perfectly yellow and every nerve and fibre in me was affected by the drugs in coffee. "For days at a time I had been compelled to keep to my bed on ac count of nervous headache and stom ache trouble and medicines did not give me any relief. I had never con sulted a physician in regard to my headaches and terrible complexion and I only found out the cause of them after I commenced the use of Postum which became known to me through Grape-Nuts. We all liked the food Grape-Nuts and it helped us so we thought Postum must certainly have merit and we concluded to try it. We found it so delicious tha^^ve continued the use altogether althoSjgh I never expected it to help my health. “After a few months my headaches were all. gone and my complexion had cleared wonderfully then I knew that my troubles had been caused by cof fee and had been cured when I left off coffee and drank Postum in its place.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Postum will change the blood of any coffee drinker and rosy cheeks and health take the place of a yellow skin and disease.