The Frontier.
VOLUME XXV" O’NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1904. ~ NUMBER 7.
lint With Aid ot Companion Sheriff is
Held Up and Bad Man Gets Away.
ROSCOE MOORE TURNS BOLD TRICK
Takes Gun Away From South Dakota
Sheriff, Mounts a Horse and
Rides Off.
The Storts ranch twenty-seven miles
southwest of O’Neill furnished anoth
er sensational episode the first of this
week. Roscoe Moore, Dave Tierney
and William Moses, sheriff at Belle
Fourche, S. D., were the star actors.
Moore,who is familiarly known around
O’Neill by his first name, Roscoe, had
, just been placed under arrest by the
% South Dokota sheriff when he made a
rather sensational get-away. Roscoe
had but recently returned to this sec
tion after some months spent in the
Black Hills country, where it appears
he become involved in the traffic of
horse stealing. He is a horseman by
profession, or in technical terms, a
bronco buster. He has been handling
rough horses around this section for
two or three years past and has recently
been stopping at the Storts ranch.
The sheriff from Belle Fourche came
to O’Neill and in company with Sheriff
Hall went out to arrest Roscoe. They
found him at the Storts place and all
progressed smoothly until Sheriff Hall
went to hitch up his team to return
to O’Neill. While Hall was getting
the rig ready, Roscoe, Dave Tierney
of O’Neill, who is employed at the
ranch, and Sheriff Moses were await
him at the bunk house not a great
distance from the stables. During
this interval, we learn at the sheriff’s
office, Tierney and Moore grappled
with Sheriff Moses, over powered him
and took his 44 Colts gun. Armed
with the 44 and a pocket pistol that
Tierney gave him, Roscoe made a
dash toward the stable, leaped onto a
horse that it seems had been previous
ly saddled for this emergency and rode
wildly away.
Just then Sheriff Hall drove up
Moses leaped into the buggy, asked
Hall for his gun, told briefly the story
and the two sheriffs started in pursuit
but they got not a glimpse of the fast
riding fugative.
A reward of $500 now rest on the
head of Roscoe, offered by the minon
of the law from Belle Fourche.
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* LOCAL MATTERS.
Andy Gallagher was up from Laurel
over Sunday.
Miss Maud Gillespie went to Omaha
Sunday to be gone a few days.
The Tavener family went to Oak
dale on Monday, that town being their
future home.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde King are out
from Moline, 111., visiting with rela
tives and friends.
Martin Cronin departed this morn
J ing for Bonesteel, where he will work
J in a newspaper office.
For Bent. Nicely furnished room
for 2 or more gentlemen. 1 block from
P. O. Call at Frontier office.
T. Y. Golden and Lieutenant Meals
went to Stafford Tuesday to try their
luck as nimrods on Mr Golden’s ranch.
Miss Bee McGinnis departed Tues
day for Lincoln, from where she goes
to Cody, Wy., for a visit*with rela
tives.
The Frontier is requsted to an
nounce that there will be services
next Sunday morning at the Episcopal
church.
Mrs. E. W. Norris, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McLaughlin,
and children are here from Omaha on
a visit.
Arthur Gwin drove to Boyd county
yesterday after Mrs. Gwin and the
baby, who have been visiting there
< for some time.
v. Mrs. S. F. McNicholsand daughter
Martha, departed Saturday morning
for an extended trip through the
eastern part of Iowa.
John Skirving, who has been run
ning a lodging house at Bonesteel
since the rush commenced, was notic
ed at home Monday.
Michael Hanagan, Mrs. John Fallon
and Mrs. John Henan were a party to
Wftve over the Northwestern yester
aiiy for the fair at St. Louis.
Sheriff Hall went to Lincoln Tues
day with Clarence A. Sweet, recently
sentenced here to serve a term of
fifteen years in the penitentiary.
Roy Beck, a brother of Mrs. J. M.
Morgan, is visiting in the city, being
on his way home at Atkinson from
Wayne, where he has been attending
college.
C. E. Howe, the mail carrier on one
of the star routes, is conlined to his
home in this city with pneumonia.
Earl Corbett is carrying the mail dur
ing Mr. Howe’s illness.
Mrs. Ryan, mother of Joe Ryan, de
ceased. was paid $2,000 by the Ancient
Order of United Workmen on Monday,
the amount of insurance carried by
her son in that order.
Roy Palmer, who has been in Okla
homa the past year, recently returned
to O’Neill and has resumed his old
occupation with R. H. Mills in the
well and windmill business.
E. H. Whelan received la telegram
this morning from Lincoln that the
democrats had nominated him for at
torney general and that the nomina
tion had been endorsed by the pops.
T. V. Golden and daughter Martina
departed yesterday for Des Moines,
Io., where Miss Golden stops for a
visit with relatives while her father
makes a tour down to St. Louis and
up to New York.
Spencer Advocate: W. P. Mohr re
turned yesterday from an extended
trip to O’Neill, Omaha, Council Bluffs
and Plattsmouth. We understand he
closed a deal on a 560 acre ranch in
Holt county while on this trip.
Dr. Trueblood received a telephone
message Sunday from his folks at Lin
coln stating his daughter Lin was
very sick. The doctor went down to
Lincoln Monday not knowing just
when he would be able to get back.
The Great Northern has arranged
to run through sleeping cars on their
Duluth excursion August 18 from
O’Neill. Charge $1 for double berth
each way. Those wishing reservations
should at once notify W. E. West,
agent.
Judge Westover and Reporter Scott
were on Monday’s Northwestern ten
o’clock passenger enroute for Lincoln.
Mr. Scott stopped off at O’Neill to
spend a day with his brother. The
judge went on to Omaha, going to
Lincoln the next day.
Mr. and Mrs. John Carton returned
last week from their eastern trip. Mr.
Carton says he was impressed more
than ever with the magnitude of our
country and the great wealth it con
tains. Everybody is busy, he says, in
the east piling up more wealth.
After a more or less stormy and
protracted session, where delegates
where seated and unseated, admitted
to the conventions and tired out, the
pops and democrats of Holt county re
fused and re-nominated A. F. Mullen
for county attorney, elected there
delegates to the various conventions
and resolved and whereased to support
the tickets.
William Ueilish, who lett several
weeks ago for the west, arrived home
Saturday evening. He had been in
Denver most of the time since away.
Colorado in no good since the strike,
he says. He was brought from Denver
with a number of others by the pack
ing houses, but when lie
arrived in Soutli Omaha and
sized up the situation he decided not
to go to work and came up to O’Neill.
Owing to sickness in his home, he ex
pects to remain here for the present
anyway.
The Omaha Commercial inserts a
card in The Frontier for business pur
poses. The Commercial was repre
sented with the Omaha crowd here
last week and the compiler of this
department presumes they called at
The Frontier while the force was all
away. Anyway we found upon our
orderly desk |the Commercial’s unique
advertisment in the shape of a mina
ture “Omaha Commercial,” reduced
several degrees from the “life size.”
The Commercial is a valuable publica
tion for any man in business in Ne
braska.
Clearwater Record: After a persis
tent effort being made on the part of
Rev. Father Cassidy and the members
of the Catholic church, sufficient
funds have been raised to build a new
church. The contract, which was let
to I. M. Snider the first of the week,
calls for a building 30x72, the main
room to be 30x50, a hall in front and
two or three small rooms in the rear.
This will be a great improvement
upon their present place of worship,
and the members are to be congratu
lated upon the enterprise which has
enabled them to accomplish what
they have so long desired.
Lieutenant Charles A. Meals arriv
ed in tlie city Monday afternoon from
Omaha. Lieutenant Meals is the
O’Neill boy to graduate of the West
Point military academy this year and
he is now a full-lledged military man
with $1400 a year to start on. Charles’
friends here are more than pleased at
the successful termination of his four
years at West Point and predict for
him a bright future. He is now out
on a three month’s leave anil has been
visiting friends in the east since grad
uation. He will remain witli friends
and relatives here for a short time
and then goes to California where his
parents live, and about October 1 sails
from San Francisco for Manila, where
he has been assigned to the Eigh
teenth infantry.
RAPES 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL
Joseph Neolicjak of Ewing Charged
With Grave Crime.
DRAGS HER INTO A CORNFIELD
So the Testimony Showed, and There
Ravished the Girl.—Accused is
Now in Jail.
On complaint of the victim, Linda
Kamish, a 13-year-old girl, Joseph
Neolicjak was arrested at Ewing on
Monday on a charge of rape and is now
in the county jail here. Those con
cerned are residents of the Bohemian
settlement south of Ewing, Neolicjak
being a brother of the man who was
in jail here some months ago on a
similar charge.
The preliminary hearing waff had
before a justice of peace at Ewing.
The testimony developed that Ne
olicjak dragged the little girl into a
corn Held near his homo and then
ravished her. He is a man with a
family, his wife with a baby in her
arms being now in town to see what
can be done for her pesky husband,
who is held for trial in the courts.
Minor Mention
James Willis of the South Fork
country shipped a car of cattle to
South Omaha Tuesday evening and
two cars on Wednesday evening. Mr.
Willis recently sold his ranch over
south but still has extensive stock in
terests. He is practically a new comer
in this country but says he has made
more money here in the past eighteen
months than he ever made before.
A. Oppegard of Minneapolis, who
has been spending part of the vacation
with friends in this county, is in the
city in the interests of the King
Richondson Co., publishers of standard
publications. Mr. Oppegard is mak
ing a specialty in this town of “Cen
tury Book of Facts,” a unique, one
volume cyclopedia,and is meeting with
success. Tire topical arrangement of
the work is a new depature and
coupled with a very complete index
makes references quick and easy. The
work is put up in a * handsome, well
made volume, is low priced, and
comes well recommended for home and
school purposes.
The Omaha Commercial club, while
on a tour of north Nebraska, stopped
in O’Neill about an hour and a half
Friday last. The club was met at the
Northwestern depot with ample carri
age accomodation to conveying them
up town and give those who desired a
whirl over the city. The club was
accompanied by a band which render
ed several selections while in town.
They were dined at Hotel Evans and
departed east at 1:30 o’clock. They
were a crown of gentlemenly fellows
and seemed to be all good hustlers.
Large quantities of advertising novel
ties were distributed, and if O’Neill
people don’t know who's in the job
bing business in Omaha it is not the
commercial club’s fault.
Sunday School Workers.
The twenty-fourth annual conven
tion of the Holt county Sunday School
association will be held on August 29
30, at the Presbyterian church at
O’Neill.
As we are to have with us at least
two persons who are specially trained
in Sunday school work, viz: Prof.
H. M. Steilley, state field secretary,
and Miss Manie Haines, state primary
superintendent, this convention
promises rare attractions to all who
are interested in the work. We also
have on our program those ranking
among the best of our county workers.
Arrange to have your Sunday school
represented. If your secretary or
superintendent does not receive copy
of program on or before August 20,
write me at once. Yours in the work.
M. Blanche Adams,
Secretary, O’Neill, Neb.
Notice of Meeting
On Monday evening, August 15,
there will be a meeting of the Roose
velt and Fairbanks Club in the club
room, third building east of Hotel
Evans, to which all members of the
club, all republicans and all suppor
ters of the republican national ticket
are cordially and earnestly requested
to be present.
R. R. Dickson, Chairman.
R. J. Marsh, Secretary.
To Whom it May Concern
Hunters trespassing on land belong
ing to the Irrigation Ditch Co. will
be prosecuted.
Irrigation Ditch Co.
Lost
White setter, with yellow ears; *25
for information that will recover the
same. Wm. II. Hammond, O’Neill.
Neb. 7-2pd
For sale cheap, 4 work mares.—
Mellor & Quiltjrt 4-4
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