. * The Frontier. _. __ i __ 'vl VOLUME XXIV.O’NEILL. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 1904..NUMBER 32. JURY SAYS NOT GUILTY Edward Slattery Acquitted of Charge . of Murder. COURTIN8TRUCT80N VITAL POINT Would Have Convicted Defendant if Verdict Could Have Carried Sentence With It. “We, the jury, do find the defend ant, Edward Slattery not guilty.” The above is the verdict in the Shaw-Slattery case that held the boards in district court for the better part of two weeks. The verdict was reached after voting and deliberat ing from Thursday evening till Saturday forenoon. The balloting began with seven for conviction and five for acquittal. One juryman then switched and the vote stood six and six. A short time before the verdict was brought in their vote stood five for conviction and seven for acquittal and it began to look like another case of dis-'gee ment when the jurymen decided that the county would only be put to fur ther expense thereby and they pre pared a verdict of acquittal. The turning point in the case, a juryman is quoted as saying, “was the instruction from the presiding judge, without which we would have decid ed the case against the defendant.’’ The instructions brought out the point to be borne in mind thatSlattery was the aggressor up to the time(he lowered his gun and Shaw started for him; at that point Shaw became the aggressor. The statement was also made by a juror that there would have been a verdict of conviction could it carry sentence with it. The opinion seems 1o prevail that some punishment should have been provided in this case although there is a universal feeling that neither judge nor jury were prejudiced in any body’s favor. City Affairs. O’Neill, Feb. 2.—Meeting of city council called to order with the fol lowing members present: Mayor Har rington, Co.mcilmen Snvder, Zimmer man, Brennan, Gullager and Sniggs; absent, Councilman Hanley. Minutes of last session were approv ed as read. Moved and seconded that the drug gist’s semi-annual reports presented by Gilligan & Stout and P.' C Corri gan be accepted and placed on tile. Carried. Petition of John Howard asking that his place of residence south of the Northwestern railroad be detached from the city corporation was read It was moved, seconded and carried that a committee, with the mayor as chairman, of three be appointed to confer with the county attorney in re gard to the petition. Committee appointed as follows: Snyder and Gallagher. Moved by Snyder and seconded by Zimmerman that the following bills be allowed and warrants drawn for same: Crane company. $7.80 Independent Pub Co. 47.99 T. H. Tierney . 25.00 Clarence Campbell. 32.25 Bennett Martin. 60 00 U S. Sttpp’y Co . 3.90 O. O. Snvder & Co . 7.07 Gallena Lumber Co. 39.68 Standard Oil Co. 36.09 Motion carried. Moved and seconded that report of city officers be accepted as read. Car ried. Upon motion council adjourned. 1 irthday Pa’ty The fourteenth milestone in Miss Martina Golden’s life was celebrated on Tuesday evening at the residence of her parents in the north part of the city. ‘A About twenty-five guests were per sent a d enjoyed the evening with music and games until a late hour. Many delightful and useful presents were received by the young hostess. A delicious luncheon were served and all present felt the evening well spent and wished the young lady many returns of the anniversary. ITartington Herald: Ping Pong lias turned up its toes to the daisies and » Aich has about gone the route but File latest game now is called “Tickle the Editor.” It is easy and Is played this way: Take a sheet or ordinary writing paper, fold it nicely, enclose a bank note sufficiently large to pay up all arrearages and one year in advance and bandit to the editor. Keep an eye on him, and if a smile adorns his face, the trick works fine and dandy. Now is the time to play the joke. Lost—Lady’s small chateline watch; ^ open face, blue back with clover-leaf ' wreath enameled in gold. Reward Finder cult at Frontier office. / Is I . 3 H AS I So h d artistic works of special provi with the finest assortment of plain and fancy shirts you ever had a chance to take your pick from. They’re Cluett and Monarch shirts—none better made; the Cluett full dress shirt will suit you. There’s money to be saved in buying them. Boys’ Suits The boys are not for gotten, as art has pro duced the swellest two piece suit ever shown for this season and I have got them from age 4 to 14 years. In con nection with my iron clad hose and tine pat tent leather shoes the little gents will look swell this season. | Ladies’Corsets & Skirts The lady that wishes to appear neat and tfr.'coful wears W B corsets, sold by P. J. McManus. They make you feel that life Is worth living, A line of Walk lng skirts made by Des Moines Wool en Mills—Isa per'ect fitting "klrt, up t ■ date in style and makes ev ery lad> re joice while she wears one. sold by P. J. McManus My $5.00, $4.00 e^nd $3.50 Shoes 1 If you do not want my $5 shoe I will show .you the Governor, Pin gree made, the best shoe you e\er saw at $4. ff this is too high in price I keep Pingree *3.60 shoe in all styles —the best slice on earth for the money: every pair guaranteed to fit, wear well and satisfy the consumer. Groceries I have the largest and best stock of Groceries in town, always'pay the best price for produce land give the trade | prompt attention. A swell line of sweaters, ^k sizes 16 to ;||1 14, tilting f§|| sime in ||||l mall sizes vSflB vithout MS oilers, all tSa Price from S3 alto *3. A splendid I garment for spring wear H O’Neill I*. J. McMiSLNtJS Nebr SHOULD POST UP South Dak ta Editor Joins the Great Northern Discussion but i Badly Mixed Ge graphically. A recent venomous expatiation by a Sioux Falls, S. D., paper anent the much talked extensions of the Great Northern in Nebraska, shows what some newspaper writers know, or rather don’t know, about what they are'talking about. It seems that St Paul and Minneapolis commercial in terests are pulling for Great North ern connection with the Burlington via Yankton instead of the Sioux City route. The Sioux Falls Journal makes some remarks concerning the matter, from which we quote a few ridiculous lines: “The scheme evolved by Sioux City was to have the Great Northern build from there west to O’Neill, thus diverting the line in a direction con trary to plans long cherished. “It is possible such a line will be extended, provided Sioux City puts up the price, but the line will stop at O’Neill in its western course and will then extend southwest to Omaha, thus making a loup and a feeder for the main line which passes through this city. Instead of the O'Neill ex tensionbeing a boon to Sioux City it will open a new field to Omaha job bers and give to them a field that now is partially controlled by Sioux City.” If the Sioux Falls Journal will take a squint at a map the obsurdity of tl e above will make it laugh. The Gn at Northern already lias a line from Sioux City to O’Neill; O’Neill being a couple of hundred miles west < f Omaha a line “extending southwest” would have to encompass the globe I before it struck Omaha. This issimply another instance of “reliable railroad rumor.” Cross eyes si raighl ened wit bout the the use of the knife. See Dr. Perrigo about it, Evans Hotel, Feb. G. Curing bashtalness Le Trefle d’Annee Bissextile met at the home of Miss Constance Harring ton last Friday evening. The prin cipal amusement of the evening was “Yellowstone.” Elaborate refresh ment were daintily served. The members of the chib will meet at the home of Miss Margaret O'Sullivan on next Friday evening where the initi t ion of the new members will take place. The object of litis club Is a cure for bashfulness. The Ft. ..Niobrara band, which gave a concert here two weeks ago, will ap pear again at the opera-house ort Tues day evening of next week. They will also give a free concert at 3 o’clock in the afternoon of the same day. LOCAL MATTERS. W. W. Bethea of Ewing was a caller Friday. Dr. Perrigo is coming Saturday, Fet>. 6. R. J. Marsh had business at Stuart Tuesday Nute Muilendore was up from Nor folk over Saturday and Sunday J. P. Gallagher'is able to be out again after a three week’s illness. The reliable Opthalmologist, Dr. Perrigo, at Evans Hotel, Feb. 6. Receiver Deaver of the land office had business at the state metropolis this week. I have a car of fresh buckwheat Hour that I am selling at cost.—S. F. Vic Nichols. 20-tf Homer Garretson arrived in town last evening from Iowa and will spend a week here. Dr. Corbett will be in his dental office and gallery from the 23d to 30th of eacli month. 17-tf Internal improvements are going on at Mann’s store in the way of new paper on the walls. A. *A. Stanton went to Bonesteel (he first of the week to look after ousiness interests. For sale, at 50 each, large full blood Plymouth Rock roosters.—Mrs. Mary vlcAilister, Agee, Neb. E. P. Hicks departed Monday for Waterloo, Io., where he will spend some time visiting relatives. Marriage license was issued yester day by Judge Morgan to George Davies and Era Brion, both of Ewing. Headaches, nervousness, dyspepsia, insomnia, dizziness, styes, etc., cured by Dr. Perrigo at Evans Hotel, Feb 6 Berle Martin, who officiates as line man for the Inter State Telephone company, spent Sunday with his folks in O’Neill. Miss Julia Dwyer arrived in the city Monday evening from Butte, Mont., where si re has made her home the past few years. Miss Mary Horiskey is up from Nor folk visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs John Horiskey, and other relatives and triends. The discount sale at Golden, Peeler & Hodgkin’s ends on February 11, so you had better take advantage of the opportunity to get some bargains the next, few days. The chaps who were jailed two weeks ago for stealing pants at Mann’s store were dismissed from the jail and the city without further legal formalities.' Earl Corbett, who has been visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Coykendall, the past few weeks, left Monday for Neligli, where lie has en rolled as a student in Gates college. A Little Sod Bouse m Nebraska. I dine upon dishes of silver and gold, In the glitter of ohina > a pang How it walls far awav o'er the site Of the HtLle sod bouse In Nebraska. I am tired of the languorous of lire, 1 long for the wind and the ruin, I he glory of morn on the dewy gre-'n corn. And ho smell of the wheat Helds again. Whore the sliver creek flows, and gold enrod grows, Oh, 'tls there I am sighing to roam. In the state of my birth, on the one spot on earth Thut, I call by the d ar name of home— The little sod house in Nebraska. —Minna Irving In Leslie's Weekly. Joe Marin and sister, Mrs. Ed F. Gallagher, departed the first of the week for Chicago, where, The Fron tier understands, the marriage of Miss Mattie Mann to Clyde King is to oc cur today. Tax payers rrom all over the county have been flocking into the treasurer’s office tlie past two weeks to head oft that threaded distress warrant; con sequently, money has been rolling Into tile treasurer’s hands in a continuous stream while a long list of personal tax has been liquidated. These are busy days at the offices of the county treasuer and county clerk, tax payers from all over the county are coming in to pay their taxes. Ttie treasurer’s office is busy receiving the money while there is a great demand at the clerk’s office to examine the assessors’books in con nection therewith. When Supervisor Grimes went home to spend Sunday lie found ttiat a litt le daughter had arrived during his ab sence in O’Neill to make her home with himself andwife. The joy of the occasion was great, hut Mr. Grimes was able 10 ret urn to O’Neill Monday and resume hisduties during the ses sion of the board, and pass the cigars around to his friends. MARKET NEWS Advance in Cattle Prices, With Pros pects of Reaching $5 Mark In a Few Weeks. South Omaha, Feb. 4 —Special mar. ket letter from Nye & Buchanan Co., live stock commission merchants.— Cattle: Receipts have been light iiere far this week, but fair at Chicago and other points. Monday’s market was only steady, Tuesday's a little stronger, and Wednesday 10 cents higher. Prospects seem very fair for a higher market next week. We think a few weeks later will find good fat si eers selling around $5 We quoi e good choice corn-fed steers 84.50 to $4.90, fair to medium short fed $3 85 to $4.40. Choice feeders $3.30 to $3 00, choice yearling steers $3.30 to 83.70, others $3 10 to $3 20. Good fat bows and heifers $3.15 to $3.65, com mon cows $2.40 to $3.10, cauuers $1.40 to $2.15. Steers stock calves $3.40 to 83.90, heifers $100 to $1.25 less, veal 84.65 to $5.65. Bulls $2.65 to $3.65. Sheep: Wednesday shows up strong again. Choice Unfinished Lambs ..$ 5.25.a)5 75 $ 4 75,a>5.20 Yearlings.... 4.60^5)4.80 4.30ves.. 3.50(a>3.85 2.90(^3.30 Hogs: Market strong. Range $4.70 to $5._ Mere Mention. A cipher indicates nothing of It self, but the omission of one of these little circles sometimes makes a great change in an item of dollars and cents. Such was the case in the published statement of the O’Neill National bank in The Frontier last week. Leaving out a cipher showed the sur plus $1,000, whereas it should be 810,000. Tlie statement appears cor rected in this issue. When you feel blue and that every thing goes wrong, takea dose of Cham berlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. They will cleanse and invigorate your stomach, regulate your bowels, give you a relisii for your food and make you feel that in this old world Isa place to live. For sale by P. C.Cor rigan. Another week has wrought a wel come change in weather conditions. Pat McManus'announces spring and it appears today that he has not missed it mucli However, if the sign of our fathers respecting his Groundliogship holds good there are six weeks of winter left yet. A glance at the local market report will show good prices for grain. Buy ers are of the opinion that there will be still further advances. The Owl club gave a dance last even ing, which was a pleasant social affair. Money to loan on improved farms, lfttf F. J. Ihshnwr. A MBDICAL_ GBAFTER Found Holt County a Profitable Field For Operation BUNCH OF NOTES FOR LITIGATION Now Coming In Thick and Fast to an O’Neill Attorney for Col lection. The palmy days of the grafters have not passed, neither is the world yet without people who are subject to being grafted. All of which is evident from the extensive operations of a medically Inclined gentlemen in Holt . bounty which have recently come to light. Six months or more ago one Dr. E. IT. Lahram of St. Joseph, Mo., entered the bourn a ies of 01 r county and brought words of cheer to the ears of tire lame, the halt and the blind. There were no diseases or Ills of human flesh but what the doctor would undertake to heal and guaran lee a speady cure So many treat ments for so much—no money down, just write me your note. Asa guar* antee of good faith and to show his patients that he ment them no harm, a contract formed in legal phrases rhetorically drawn was executed and delivered as one after another of the credulous public assigned themselves to the doctor’s care. "Now,” said the doctor, "to show hat you are taking this treatment in good faith, execute me a note for the amount, payable at any date conven ient to yourself.” The note, of course, was drawn and by the time the doctor got through with the county he had collected a couple of hundred such sheets of paper. He then made his departure ror St. Joseph. These notes have passed into other hands and are now coming in for collection. It was a verbal stipulation, and so understood by the many people who signed the notes, that they were to draw no interest. It now transpires that there is the usual 10 per cent, clause attached to each note. A large stack of the notes was sent td an O’Neill lawyer by a St. Joseph law firm for collection and there is said to be also a number of them at the banks. The notes are for various sums from 930 to $100 and many of them were given by prominent farmers of the county. If all have been cured of their afflict ions there is now a rugged set of people in Holt county. Whether this is the case or not The Frontier is not able to say, but from present indications a long list of the halt> the lame and the blind will soon be In litigation in the courts over a bunch of notes they are in no mood to pay, Obituary. The funeral of Mrs. E. P. Hicks, who died at her home in this city on Tuesday, January 26, was held at the Presbyterian church Friday afternoon last, conducted by Rev. Bowen, who spoke comforting words from the text found in Psalms 127:2. The church was crowded to the utmost by friends who came to witness the last sad rites over the body of the departed, and a long procession followed the remains to tlie Protestant cemetery, where burial took place. Relatives of deceas ed rrom abroad to attend the funeral were: Mrs. MaryDeyarman of Spring field, Mo., daughter of deceased; Tho mas Hicks of Chicago and Stephen Hicks of Tracy, Minn., brothers of E. P. Hicks. Mrs. Hicks was bo_n at Aterly, De vonshire, England, on January 8, 1846. Moved with her parents, Mr.and Mia James VVeekes, from Eugland to On tario, Canada, in 1847. s>he was united in marriage to Ezeikel P. Hickson May 1, 1863, at Waterloo, Iowa, rrom which happy union there were born Ihree chi dreu, iwoof which still survive her—Step hen H cks of this county and Mis. Mary HeYunnan of Springtield, Mo. Besides tier husband and two children i here survive her two sistersand Ihree brothers, Mrs. Mary Ann Berry of Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs. Mariam Spudding of Ontario, Canada, James Weeks of California and Stephen and John Weekes of North Dakota. Stie resided with her husband in tills county since 1880; united with the Presbyterian church in 1888 with which denomination she lias since attilialed. Mrs Hicks had been afflicted with a cancer for the past Uve or six years, from which her death resulted. Every assistance that medi cal aid could give was rendered her, but to no avail. The life of the de ceased can be expressed in one sen tence—“a good woman, the noblest work of God.” A devoted wife and loving mother. Kindness, sympathy, patience and cheerfulness were the precious jewels in the crown of her superb ctiaracter Her long months of intense pain and suffering she bore with fortitude and courage, uncom plainingly. _ The family of E. P. Hicks wish to express their heartfelt gratitude to t lie friends and neighbors for their sympathy, kindness and helpfulness in the sad hour of bereavement.