The Frontier.
VOLUME XXV.
O’NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1905.
NUMBER 39.
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LOCAL MATTERS.
For farm loans see Lyman Water
man, O’Neill. 38-8
Joe Mann had business at Atkinson
Monday.
Jack Hershiser was up from Norfolk
this week.
G. G. Ivrotter of Stuart was in the
city Sunday.
John Carr was up from Stafford over
night Monday.
Pat O’Donnell was in Atkinson and
vicinity Tuesday.
Roy Townsend had business at
Ewing Tuesday.
Art Cowperthwaite had business at
Inman yesterday.
Clate Messener is having a severe
pull with the grip.
Duck seoson is here. Get your am
unition at Golden & Hodgkin’s.
Full line of garden and field seeds at
Golden & Hodgkin’s. 39-2
J. N. Trommershauser and E. L.
Davies were up from Ewing Monday.
Lots for sale or exchange in all parts
of the city.—E. H. Benedict. 39-6
W. R. Currie, secretary to Judge
Kinkaid, arrived in town Saturday
last.
E. E. Adams of Chambers was a
Northwestern passenger Tuesday for
Neligli.
Clark Maher of Platte Center was
looking after his interests in this sec
tion the first of the week.
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Mrs. F. George of Mitchell, S. D., is
visiting at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Davidson.
Mrs. Gilligan went to Lincoln Fri
day last to spend a short time with
the senator at the capital city.
The medical men report some consid
erable sickness around town but nc
serious or dangerous outbreaks.
For Rent—My farm eight miles
northwest of O’Neill. Enquire oi
Robert Marsh, sr. 39-3
The Rev. T. W. Bowen will preach
next Sunday evening on “A Script
ural View of Divine Punishment.”
American steel hog fencing 20c pei
rod at Golden & Hodgkin’s. Think
it over. 39-tf
Dr. Corbett will be in his dental
office and gallery from the 23d to 30th
of each month. 17-tf
Allen News: Ray Saberson quit his
best girl in O’Neill long enough to say
howdy-do to his Allen friends, this
week.
John Sullivan arrived in the city
Sunday from Anaconda, Mont., and
will spend a fortnight with relatives
and friends.
Laurence Simonson was in from
Agee yesterday with a car load of hogs
which he and a neighbor shipped to
South Omaha.
Loyld Gillespie and family have
taken up their residence in the Third
ward, occupying the Corbett house in
the southwest section.
C. E. McMahon, who has been here
for some weeks visiting with liis sister,
Mrs. C. E. Hall, and family, departed
Monday night for Nevada.
The family of Mrs. Grutsch extend
their heartful thanks to their friends
and neighbors who so kindly assisted
them in their hour of affiiction and
bereavement.
W. W. Frost, a special agent of the
United States census bureau, was in
town Monday and Tuesday gathering
information concerning the industries
of the town.
Dr. Corbett has just returned from
his eastern trip with a new applyance
whereby lie can now extract or even
fill aching teeth WITHOUT PAIN.
March 23 to 30th. 38-2
Guy Hamilton writes from Leaven
worth, Wash., that lie likes what he
has seen of that state and says he has
the offer of a place with a milling and
banking company at Leavenworth.
Rai'e King is engaged in the mercan
tile business there and doing a flour
ishing business, J. J. King is practic
ing law and prospering, tye writes.
Ed Loy departed Tuesday for Ne
vada, Mo., to visit for a fortnight with
his parents. His brother Dave is driv
ing the dray during Ed’s absence.
L. C. Wade is able to be out again
after a protracted illness. He came
home last week from Omaha, having
been treated by specialists there.
The local markets yesterday were:
—Hogs, $4.65; corn — shelled, 42c,
ear, 41c; oats, 22 Jc; wheat, 90c; rye,
63c; potatoes, 25o@30c; eggs, 124c; but
ter, 20c.
Licenses to wed have been granted
to the following: A. J. Hahn to Mil
lie M. Isenhart, both of Stuart; Wil
liam Arnholt to Lilian Freezer, both
of Atkinson.
Wild water fowel have begun the
annual migration north, the crowing
of the prairie cocks is heard and the
robins are nesting again. It is the
general belief that these things in
dicate the opening of spring.
The heavy fall of snow last week
followed by several day’s rain has
caused an immense volume of water
in the Elkhorn river. The stream
has widened out over the flats
alone its banks but has caused no
damage that we have learned of.
Lynch Journal: Rev. Sharpless,
Presbyterian missionary for this sec
tion of Nebraska, came up from Nor
folk last Friday. He expect to leave
this state soon for Duluth, Minnesota,
where he has accepted a pastorate of
the Second Presbyterian church of
that city. Rev. Sharpless has many
friends in this vicinity .who regret to
see him leave but wish him well in his
new field.
T5he
WaJl Pamper
Season
is fast approaching. Our
stock is now complete and
up-to-date. We have giv
en special attention this
year to tne selecting of
our wall paper and are
; prepared to offer for your
j selections some very at
tractive patterns. Come
i in and look them over.
\ GILLIGAN (EL STOUT
Farmers Have Ways to Get Ahead
of the Stock Buyers.
EXPERIENCES IN THE MARKETS
What the Dealers in Hoofs and Horns
Occasionally Run Against.—Ways
of “Plugging” the Weights.
A party of live stock buyers, farmers
and others were passing observations
on the peculiar and all too extensive
human weakness of getting some
thing for nothing and the means em
ployed to get.
“1 will tell you what I saw one day,”
put in a farmer who lives near town.
"As I was coming up the road from
the stock yards I noticed a team
ahead of me retflrning from unloading
hogs. When about half way up town
the driver got down from his seat and
dug out from under the straw a rock
weighing about 100 pounds, which he
heaved over the side of the wagon. Of
course when he weighed up the empty
wagon his check was drawn for 100
pounds more pork than the buyer
got.”
“Well, just the other day,” spoke
up another, I noticed some teams
returning from the yards and the
drivers were very busy scraping straw
and manure out of the hind end of
their wagons with their feet. Their
trail looked like a manure spreader
had gone over the road, and when the
buyer come to cash up he paid for
fully 21)0 pounds more pig meat than
was delivered.”
“I saw a funny thing one day,” re
marked a veteran hog buyer. “A
farmer was in with a load of hogs with
a sack of sand tied under his wagon.
On his way up town after unloading
he got out and slit the sack with his
knife and of course when he weighed
the wagon the sack was empty.”
“Still another incident 1 remem
ber,” continued the hog buyer. “A
fellow out east sold some cattle to a
buyer here in town. The party who
sold the cattle was to stand the
shrinkage, that is they were not to be
fed or watered from the time he
started in until after they had been
weighed. The day the cattle were to
be delivered the buyer waited around
town for his cattle to arrive, but as
they did not come he started out to
see where they were. About two
miles out of town he found the herd
quietly feeding from a mess of corn
meal and several barrels of water
along with the party.”
Others told of those whose greedi
ness had so over reached them that
they had losj a hog or a steer in the
process of “filling them up” to be
weighed, and it was the opinion of all
that honesty is the best policy.
Obiturary.
Mrs. AnnaGrutsch died at her home
March 17,1905, at tire age of 79 years,
7 months and 14 days. She was born
in Elsas, France, August 2, 1826, and
moved to Canada in 1847, where she
was married to John Grutsch in 1849.
Her husband died in 1861 and left her
with five small children, the oldest
being only ten years of age, of which
four are still living, Mrs. Smith and
Mrs. McMillan of O’Neill, and her son
John and daughter Mrs. Allen that
have been living writli her. She leaves
eight grandchildren and twelve great
grandchildren.
In 1885 she came to Nebraska where
she settled on a homestead and has
lived there since.
The funeral services were held at
the Presbyterian church on Sunday,
March 19, and were conducted by Rev.
Dr. Caldwell.
Lyman Waterman has about 250
quarter sections of land throughout
the county. He has some big bar
gains. 38-2
The Mechale brothers from out
north have bought the Weingartner
restaurant.
Minor Mention
People wlio think publicity can be
evaded by threatening to "lick”
either one of The Frontier editors are
mistaken. When matters get into
court they are ligitimate newspaper
property, and those who don’t want to
appear before the public as offenders
of “tliie peace and dignity of the state
of Nebraska” should behave them
selves.
The following figures show the
county money on deposit in the
various banks of the county: Ewing
State, $3,242.86; Inman State, $1,319.
53; O’Neill National, $10,689.19; First
National, O’Neill, $12,017.74; Farmers
Bank, Page, $1,797.76; Chambers
State, $3, 250.80; Atkinson State, $2,
848.61; First National, Atkinson, $7,
045.85; First National, Stuart, $9,175.
93; Citizens Bank, Stuart, $6,112.87.
Dr. Stephen II. Hopkins, who came
here about a year ago to take charge
of the Cronin ranch, has found the
demand for veterinary work such
that he has left the ranch and taken
up his residence in O’Neill to devote
his entire time to veterinary practice.
During the year in which he has been
a resident of this community he has
had almost constant calls to treat
diseased stock, finding himself unable
to run a ranch and fill the calls of his
profession at the same time.
Receiver Biglin says he has hopes
now of paying out a larger percentage
on the deposits than when he took
charge of the defunct Elkhorn Valley
bank’s affairs some months ago and
expects in the no distant future to be
able to pay off at least a small portion
of the deposits. The sale of the bank
ing house and fixtures, which brought
in nearly $4,000 cash, lias been follow
ed by more cash in the way of notes
being paid off. He is not able to say
yet what they will realize on the
bank’s biggest piece of security, which
is a second mortgage on a section of
land In the northeast part of the
county.
Last Friday B. A. Johring sold his
farm northwest of O’Neill to Stani
lousi Rokosz of Chicago. The trans
fer conveyed 160 acres deeded land and
160 acres of school land with a lease of
two years. The price paid for the
whole, $6,500, makes it a little better
than $10 per acre for the deeded land.
Mr. Rokasz is the gentleman who bar
gained for the Johring place a year
ago and later decided not to buy.
Recently he took up negotiations for
,the place again with the result that
he bought. It is well improved and a
desirable farm. The price paid indi
cates the trend of the Holt county
real estate market.
The city campaign has opened up
with two candidates in the field for
mayor—D. A. Doyle and Frank Camp
bell. About the only issue noticable
is the respective merits of the men,
which are pretty evenly divided. It
is expected that J. F. Gallagher, the
present incumbent, will be the only
candidate for treasurer. O. E. David
son is out for police judge. Robert
Morrison and Romaine Saunders are
the candidates for clerk. For First
ward alderman John Carton and Peter
Kelly are in the field, nobody announc
ed in the Second and James Davidson
aDd J. A. Cowperthwaite in the Third.
The nominations have all been made
by petition, and so far as we know no
nomination has been sought.
An item from Atkinson in the Nor
folk News Tuesday says: Fire was
discovered yesterday in the general
store of Purdy & Miner. People re
sponded to the alarm and soon the fire
was out. There was considerable
damage to tire stock and the store is
closed today until the insurance com
pany adjusts the loss. The store and
stock was well insured. No one seems
to be able to gi ve any idea as to the
origan of the fire. The rooms over
head were occcupied by renters, who
discovered the flames. Adjoining is
the postofflce and Hart’s store on the
east, so that a burning would have
cleaned out a block. The telephone
exchange is above the postofflce but no
wires were damaged.
A special from Norfolk, dated March
18, to the Sioux City Tribune, says:
George Brown, a farmer of Boyd
county, who was driving into north
ern Holt county with two little child
ren, Faye Wilson and Guy Wilson,
aged 8 and 10, lost his way on the
prairie in a snowstorm, wandred aim
lessly about for half the night and
finally, after a searchingl party Istarted
for him, turned up at the Coleman
farm, three miles from the starting
point. The children are those of Wil
liam Wilson of Redbird, and were,
with Mr. Brawn, being driven into
Holt county to visit their uncle, Bert
Wilson. It was long after midnight
when they were rescued and so alarm
ed had farmers in that section become
that, having been notified by tele
phone, may of them started on
the search.
WHAT MATE DOES
Figures Showing Nebraska’s Produc
tion Last Year.
WAS THE BEST IN ITS HISTORY
Total Value of Farm Products Reaches
Enormous Figures.—Bank Depos
its on the Increase.
From the February, 1005, bulletin
of the state bureau of labor some in
teresting facts are obtained.
Nebraska’s production, industrial
and agricultural, in 1904 approximated
$500,000,000, being the highest annual
output in the history of the state.
The following table gives the detailed
valuation of the divisions of the
state’s productions. At this date it
is impossible to give exact figures on
all items, consequently estimates are
necessary on some items and the same
have been obtained from the most
authentic sources. The asterisk (*)
denotes estimates:
Corn.$ 79,435,717 90
Wheat. 26,415,455 47
Oats. 16,702,616 25
Barley. 1,815,899 26
Rye. 1,221,481 20
Hay. 20,280,265 40
Potatoes. 3,882,668 16
♦Sugar Beets. 6,000,000 00
♦All other soil crops ... 12,000,000 00
♦Dairy Products. 11,000,000 00
♦Poultry. 10,000,000 00
Livestock.>,. 138,828,187 00
♦Manufactured Products 175,000,000 00
Total..$50J ,582,190 63
A tabulated statement in the bul
letin shows our national bank deposits
amount to $69,107,356.25. The deposits
in all state and private banks on Sep
tember 1,1904, amounted to $40,106,
866.68, making a grand total of $109,
214,222.93. The grand total of deposits
in the state on November 30, 1903,
was $102,180,795.81, showing an in
crease of $7,033,327.12 in nine months,
which indicates an annual increase
in the state’s deposits of over
$9,000,000.
In a comparison of leading states in
acreage and production of the princi
pal farm crops for 1904 Nebraska
ranks third in the production of corn,
fourth in the production of wheat
and second in the production of hay.
Veterinary Surgeon.
This is to inform my present and
future patrons that I am now located
in O’Neill and will give my entire
attention to the veterinary practice.
Diseases of all domestic animals
treated. Surgical opperations a speci
alty. Examinations free. Leave ord,
ers at Corrigan’s drug store or Mel
lor & Quilty’s livery barn. Corres
pondence solicited.—Dr. Stephen's.
Hopkins, Veterinary Surgeon and
Dentist. 39-2pd
Notice of Estray.
On Friday, March 17,1 lost seven
teen head of hogs from my place two
miles north and two miles east of
Blackbird postoffie. Half of bunch
were sows and a number are marked
by the left ear being split. Reward
for information leading to recovery.—
V. Hoyer.
Atchinson Globe: Do not imagine
that you have a very firm hold on your
friends. Lajoie, who for eight years
was the best batter in the world, and
the best second baseman, fell off from
his usual batting average in two
games, and his friends cried: “Take
him out! Take him out!”
Farm for Rent
The Carlon farm of 240 acres adjoin
ing O’Neill. Address Thomas Carlon,
fifth floor, Jacobson building, Denver,
Col. _39-2
Wanted
Six good men to sow bluegrass seed
at once. C. E. Keever. 39-lpd
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