The Frontier.
VOLUME XXV. O’NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1904. NUMBER 6.
LOCAL MATTERS.
Peter Greeley of Phoenix was down
today.
For Sale.—Six-room cottage.—Earl
Corbett.
Grant Smith had business at Page
yesterday.
Binder twine for sale at Bazelman
Lumber Co. 5-2
R. J. Marsh had business at Ewing
yesterday.
Binder twine for sale at iBazelman
Lumber Co. 5-2
For sale cheap, 4 work mares.
Mellor & Quilty. 44
A million-dollar rain—withasprink
, ling of hail—Tuesday.
R. R. Dickson offers for sale 300
bushels of shelled corn. 5-2
Earl Corbett has quit the express
wagon, Fred Reed having resumed his
old place under the oilcloth.
Lost, a black and white male setter
dog; front teeth worn. Return to
W. R. Shaw, O’Neill, and get reward.
W. R. Jackson, formerly county
superintendent here and subsequently
state superintendent, visited the city
this week.
Miss Gillespie, who has been in
Omaha the the past fourteen months,
is home and expects to remain here
for a few months.
I have four quarter sections of land
that I will sell for $250 each, clear of
all incumbrance. Must be sold at
once.—F. J. Dishner. 3-tf
J. B. Ryan yesterday bought the W.
R. Jackson property that has been
occupied for several years by D. H.
Cronin, the price paid being $900.
The deputy postmistress at O’Neill,
Miss O’Malley, has received the wel
come intelligence from the department
that the allowance for the deputy’s
services has been advanced $100 a
year.
The following have been granted
licenses and joined in wedlock by
Judge Morgan: Thomas Fleener of
O’Neill to Anna McAllister of Agee;
Harry Musfelt to Mrs. Chaddle Mulli
gan, both of Stuart; Elias C. Decker
of Ballah, Neb., to Vina Lile of
Cabalt, Mo.
Mrs. Dennis Hunt is Here from At
kinson visiting relatives. Mrs. Hunt
says Mr. Hunt has recently opened a
store at Dustin where he spends most
of the time. She and the children ex
, pect to remain in Atkinson until next
spring when they will probably move
to Dustin.
There will be a meeting of the
National Life Stock association and
the government Public Land com
mission, appointed by President
Roosevelt to recommend legislation
for arid and semi-arid sections of the
west, at Denver on August 3, 4 and 5,
to which Judge Kinkaid had a special
invitation. The judge’s engagements
were such, however, that he was not
able to attend.
Marshal Martin says he has received
more notices of thefts from towns in
this section this summer than ever
before. Cattle, horses, wagons and all
kinds of movable property is disap
pearing. It is notable also that pro
fessional beggars, organ grinders and
others not actually criminal who live
oft of the public without labor have
been visiting the town in greater
numbers than usual this summer.
A number of prominent men from
Atkinson were ’here Tuesday and
drove over to Chambers. The object
of their visit was understood to be
the furtherance of Atkinson’s long
cherished and repeatedly defeated
plans to divide the county and become
a county seat. Nothing was obtain
able from the Atkinson delegation as
they stopped in O’Neill only long
enough to get into buggies and hike
out.
The first load of alfalfa to come to
O’Neill was brought in from one of
T. V. Golden’s farms seven miles
northwest. He l)as twenty-five acres
of alfalfa on this place. Mr. Golden
says he has tried for five years to dem
onstrate that alfalfa can be grown
here and now has the evidence. The
load brought in this morning is from
the second cutting. Mr. Golden says
they will get the third cutting this
season.
Columbus Telegram: Joseph Ro
thleitner and Mrs. Anna Schinzel,
,t both of this city, were married by
* Judge Ratterman in his office at the
court house Tuesday afternoon. Miss
Clara Ratterman and Miss Lottie
Becher were the only witnesses. M r.
Rothleitner has resided in this com
munity for years, and is well known
by all the older citizens. His bride
came here from Kansas City about
two months ago, and had been in his
home as housekeeper. They intend
to reside with a son of Mr. Rothleit
ner, at O’Neill. The marriage is the
best of ocular proof that age cuts nc
figure with Cupid when he desires tc
do a thing. The groom gave his age
as 69, and the bride 61 years of age.
Miss Alice Turner lias returned to
the city, having graduated some time
ago from the Iowa City Commercial
College and School of Shorthand.
Miss Turner attained destinction at
the college and was retained as in
structor in shorthand and typewrit
ing. She lias left the college and ex
pect to open a school of shorthand and
typewriting here, an enterprise
worthy the support of all who are
desirous of taking up such work.
Ed Wilhelm was the name of a
prisoner discharged from the county
jail yesterday after “serving” for ten
days. He dropped in here some two
weeks ago and the night of the circus
stole a watch from County Surveyor
Norton. Mr. Norton and Hugh
O’Neill occupied a bed together at the
Dewey, so did Wilhelm and his part
ner. During the night they stole
O’Neill’s pocket book and Norton’s
watch. The property was all recovered
and the one chap taken to jail.
The dairy business is destined to
become a prominent factor in the
development of this section. Indeed
it is so already. Cream stations have
sprung up in every town in the county
of late. Some idea of what it means
in a iinancial way to the county may
be had from what it is doing for this
immediate vicinity. One out four
stations at O’Neill has been paying
to its patrons all summer an average
of $1,000 a month. This station, the
manager tells us, is shipping about
half of the cream that goes out of
O’Neill. Assuming this to be cor
srect, the cream going out of here
each month during the summer brings
into the pockets of cow owners around
O’Neill over $2,000 a month. It is
growing every day and is bound to
become an important industry at no
distant day.
A copy of the New York Herald
falls into the hands of The Frontier
in which appears the picture of Col.
John (I. Maher in a group of distin
guished democrats. The picture was
taken at the home of Judge Farker at
Escopus, N. Y., upon the occasion of
a visit of the national committeemen.
In the group are Judge Parker, David
B. Hill, Charles Murphy, Thomas
Taggart and our own handsome colon
el, who towers high above all others.
Col. Maher was perhaps the original
and most enthusiastic Parker boomer
in Nebraska and never lost an oppor
tunity to emphasis his sentiments to
the silver element at O’Neill. Since
the victory of the gold element at St.
Louis John has been circulating
around among all the big fellows and
his latest achievement is somewhat
tlie worst yet on the pop elements
here who thought they had put him
out of the game. Bully for John!
Congressman Kmkaid has just ad
ded another victory to his long list of
achievements in the brief period he
has been in office and another garland
is placed upon his crown of well won
laurels. The latest achievement is
the reopening for settlement under
640-acre homestead law nearly two
townships in Box Butte county, which
had been withheld from settlement
for several years for a re-survey. The
reopening was accomplished just in
time to enable adjacent homesteaders
to exercise their preferential rights
within the thirty-day limit. Judge
Kinkaid. while out in the west end
of the district last week looking after
the interests of the district, happened
into Alliance on the first day of the
opening of these townships and says
there was a great rush at the land
office there for entries within the
tract. Although congress is not in
session, the judge keeps hammering
away and everything within the con
fines of the district worthy of con
gressional attention is promptly
looked after.
County Attorney Mullen was at
Norfolk Tuesday on matters pertain
ing to the Sweet case and tells of a
shooting affair that occurred there
that day. A band of thugs came into
Norfolk from Bonesteel and in alight
ing from the train one of them picked
up a grip belonging to a Denver man.
The Denver man didn’t propose to be
hoodwinked out of his grip. lie en
listed the services of an officer and in
a short time had grafter and grip
cornered in a second story room at a
hotel. The fellow made a break for
liberty by leaping out the window and
hiking down the street. The officer
pursued and soon had his man down.
The grafter was shot through the
abdoman and died a few hours after.
Norfolk policemen say they intend to
show the grafters that come that way
that they are not in Bonesteel. It
later is learned that the man who was
killed was the fellow who, in company
with a pal, was in O’Neill on Monday
trying to work upon the sympathies
of the people with a pitiful tale oi
injured eyes. The marshal and mayoi
made them leave town, they starting
down the railroad in the direction ol
Inman.
Seven O’Neill people drew land in
the Rosebud lottery, although seventy
times that many registered. The
luckey ones here we^e: Sadie Skirv
ing, A. J. Roberts, Mark O. Howard,
John Howard, C. L. Davis. Pat Welch
and Henry Cook. Others in the
county who drew land were CrisIIeck
el of Scottvllle, S. B. Stewart of Page,
John Emerson of Catalpa, M. M.
Nightingale of Atkinson, J. W. Zink
of Stuart, G. H. Secfus of Page and
W. P. Fisher of Ewing. Those who
didn’t get any are too numerous to
mention.
Col. Neil Brennan’s noted garden
is an unusually attractive place this
year. Through the courtesy of Mr.
Brennan we visited the garden one
evening this week. It is indeed a
magnificient place, equal to many of
the fancy parks of national repute.
Just now the park is refulgent with
the summer bloom—a thousand plants
and flowers bedecked with gay colors
and iilling the air with a rare
fragrance. The orchards are laden
with almost more fruit than the
bending branches of the trees can
bear. The forestry and landscape is
ideal. The ingathering of berries and
cherries, the colonel tells us, was
almost limitless. That of the later
fruits, such as apples and plums, will
be equally abundant. Mr. Brennan
has spent much time, money and
labor in the development of this little
Eden, and too much credit can not
be given him for the measure of suc
cess he has attained. —
Mrs. J. B. Ryan was held up at her
home in the eastern part of the
city at about ten o’clock one
night this week and robbed of $2.
O’Neill had got a liberal sprinkling of
the Bonesteel desperados and it was
probably some of these who perpe
trated the holdup. Mrs. Ryan was
seated on the front porch, her hus
band being away, when she observed
two men enter the yard and move
around toward the rear of the house.
She thought at first it was Mr. Ryan
returning with someone and that
they were going around to the barn.
This idea presently gave way to a
realization of the real situation. The
men stepped up to where Mrs. Ryan
was sitting and demanded her money.
The demand was accompanied by '
threats of shooting if she refused or
attempted to give an alarm. All any
woman could do under the circum
stances was to hand out their pocket
book. This Mrs. Ryan did, and the
thugs made off with it and escaped.
The purse contained $2.
Special Summer Tourist Rates
July 14 to 18 and August 6 to 11.
The Great Northern railway will sell
special summer tourist tickets to St.
Paul and Minneapolis July 14 to 18
inclusive and August 6 to 11 inclusive
at $18.50 from O’Neill and return.
Tickets sold on lirst named dates will
be limeted to August 5th, and those
sold on last named dates will be limit
ed to August 25.
The Great Northern will sell sum
mer tourist tickets to many other
points at very low rates and with very
favorable limits.
If you are going for a vacation be
fore you buy tickets see W. E. West,
Agent. 3-4
The County Funds
The following iigures show the de
posits of county money in the various
banks of the county on Aug 1:
Citizens Bank, Stuart.$ 6205.10
First National, O’Neill. 1320.75
Inman State Bank. 2205.02
First National, Stuart. 8430.79
♦Elkliorn Valley. 11522.00
•O’Neill National. .
Chambers State Bank. 3202.59
•Atkinson State Bank..
First National, Atkinson... 3759.24
Farmers Bank, Page. 3704.42
State Bank, Ewing. 3196.36
•Not reported.
Central Committee Meeting.
There will be a meeting of the Holt
county republican central committee
in O’Neill on Monday, August 15, at
1 o’clock p. m. All committeemen
are urgently requested to be present.
F. W. Phillips, Chairman.
C. J. Malone, Secretary.
Manns have succeeded in securing
a car load of the much advertised
Washburn & Crosby Hour at prices
that will enable them to supply their
customers at rates very little in excess
of those a fked for Nebraska wheat.
A trial sack will make a Hour customer
of you as this brand has stood the
government test.
Business Chances.
Money to loan on improved farms.
15tf F. J. Dishner.
Binder twine for sale at Bazelman
Lumber Co. ___ _ 5-2
Lost.
Setter dog, white body with lemon
ears. Return to James McPharlin,
O’Neill, and be rewarded. 4-3
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