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RQNTIER.
VOLUME XXV._O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1905_ NUMBER 43. 1
Ten New Claims For Damages Against
Dank Examiner.
CLAIMS AGGREGATE OVER 80,000
McGreevy Turns Over Proceeds From
Sale of Land.—Whittemore Comes
to Town and Reads Petitions.
Ten more suits have been started in
district court against State Bank
Examiner Fred Whittemore and the
Fidelity and Guarantee company of
Maryland by depositors of the failed
Elkhorn Valley band, making eleven
suits in all.
The petitions all recite the same
causes of action as those contained in
Mrs. Corrigan’s petitions, published
last week, and are to the effect that
the bank examiner was negligent in
checking up the bank in December,
1903.
The suits for damages petition for
sums equivalent to sixty per cent of
the amount each depositor had in the
bank at the time of the failure. It is
estimated that the other forty per
of their deposits will be paid by the
receiver.
The following depositors have filed
petitions asking the court to allow
them damages: Bridget Corrigan,
$1,831.00; William Sawyer, $300; Hiram
A. Polk, $301.82; Durian Trust com
pany, $300; J. A. and A. L. Cowpertli
waite, $959.05; John E. Fisher, $300;
Michael Holland, $365; Catherine
Coyne, $324.60 Eunice Polk, $879.00;
P. C. Corrigan, $790.78; James II.
Early, $395.90. A total of $6,749.81.
The funds of the defunct bank in
the hands of the receiver were enhanc
ed Tuesday $1,000 by Bernard Mc
Greevy paying over that amount re
ceived from the sale of a quarter sec
tion of land three miles north of town
in which he had an equity.
Mr. Whittemore arrived in O’Neill
last evening to assist Receiver Biglin
compile a report of the affairs of the
bank and also to look up the suits be
gun against him. He informs The
Frontier this morning that he has
taken no steps yet in the case. Mr.
Whittemore was at the court-house
this morning reading the petition of
tlie depositors,the first he had seen it.
LOCAL MATTERS.
For farm loans see Lyman Water
man, O’Neill. 38-8
E. It. Adams went to Fremont Wed
nesday.
Attorney M. J. Abbott of Page had
business in the city Tuesday.
Pete Fritchioff was down from Celia
the first of the week attending court.
Dr. Corbett now guarantees to ex
tract teeth without pain. April 23
to 30.
The local hog market took a lively
spurt Monday, running up to $5 per
hundred.
Mrs. G. L. Barney of Chambers was
looking after business matters in town
Tuesday.
American steel hog fencing 20c per
rod at Golden & Hodgkin’s. Think
it over. 39-tf
Ralph Evans and wife of Ulysses are
visiting with relatives and friends in
the city.
Mrs. William Laviollette was taken
quite seriously ill Tuesday and is re
ported no better.
M. R. Sullivan was down from At
kinson for a few days assisting at the
First National bank.
Guy Green went to Meadow Grove
Monday, having resigned as foreman
at the Independent.
For Sale—26 registered Hereford
bulls coming 2 years old.—Hay W.
McClure, Little, Neb. 40-4
Superintendent Slaymaker was at
his home near Atkinson from Satur
day until Wednesday.
Hardware ard furniture stock and
buildings to trade for land. Come
quick.—T. V. Golden. 41-3
The sheriff went to Stuart last night
after August Greger, who will be
taken before the insanity board.
John G. Maher, in company with C.
N. Crandall and A. S. Marsh, all of
Lincoln, were in the city Tuesday.
Ernest Henry of the Minneala
country made final proof on his home
stead before the land office Monday.
B. A. Johring was an early caller
Monday morning, ordering The Fron
tier sent to Elird Ilarten, at Nordan,
Neb.
One set knives and forks guaranteed
for one hundred years for three dol
lars and twenty-live cents.—Wm. M.
Lockard. 43-1
The local markets yesterday were:
Stock steers, $4.00; fat steers, $.5.00:
Hog $4.80; corn — shelled, 31c,
ear, 30c; oats, 2lc; wheat, 80c; rye,
60c; potatoes, 25c@30c; eggs, 121c; but
ter, 20c.
ON SATURDAY, APRIL 22d
will place on sale every Remnant in
the Store of
Dress Goods, Ta.ble Linens
CARPETS, RIBBONS, ETC.
Bargains will make tKis sale interesting
I J. P. MANN (SL CO.
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Miss Harnish returned to Lincoln
Monday to resume her duties at the
asylum, after spending several weeks
in O’Neill.
Mrs. H. O. Jackson is here from
Louisville, Ky., on a visit to her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Gillespie,
and other relatives.
Mrs. G. W. Meals of Lompoc, Cal.,
arrived last night from Missouri for
a visit with her daughter, Mrs. R.
Saunders, and family.
B. A. Johring tells he sold the Joe
McCaffrey place four miles north of
town the first of the week to Albert
Losler, consideration $3,500.
Rev. T W. Bowen went to Wake
field Tuesday to attend presbytery.
He will visit Omaha andj Belevue
while away, returing Saturday,
George Weingartner departed Tues
day over the Northwestern for Cald
well, Idaho, on a visit to his parents.
He expect to be away about three
weeks.
The court-house officials will observe
Arbor day Saturday by closing their
offices. Hence there can be no official
business with the county tranacted
that day.
M. O’Sullivan, who has been employ
ed with the Nye Schneider Co. for the
past three months, has been trans
ferred to Stanton, for which place he
leaves today.
The Misses Anna and Mary Murphy
returned Sunday to Grand Island
where they are employed as stenogra
phers. They had spent a fortnight
with their parents here, Mr. and Mrs.
M. Murphy.
Miss Alice York,who has been prin
cipal of the high schools here the past
two years,was not an applicant for re
election as she expects to take a
special cource at the state university
the coming school year.
The city council meet the lirst of
the week as a canvassing board and
on Tuesday Clerk Campbell handed
out the certificates of election to the i
newly elected officials. The new
officers begin their term on May 2.
Rev. G. F. Mead of the Methodist
church conducted service at Cham
bers Sunday, Rev. Kelly of Page filling
the Methodist pulpit here in the
morning and Rev. Keane of Inman
preached in the evening.
Cowperthwaite and Son shipped five
cars of fat cattle to Chicago Saturday
and four to South Omaha. Gene Mc
Bride went with the Chicago consign
ment and Art Cowperthwaite with
those for South Omaha.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of Ida I)., daughter of Mrs. G.
L. Barney, to Mr. Charles A. Sheeler,
at Chambers on Easter Sunday. The
couple will be “at home” after May 1
at 2301 north Twenty-first street,
Omaha.
The Ladies’ Guild of the Presby
terian church will hold their Easter
sale and exchange on Saturday, April
22, in the Roberts building, three
doors east of Hotel Evans. The ladies
expect to be ready to receive their
friends by 10:30 a. m.
A saloon will be opened in the Ryan
building formerly occupied by the
Kruger, the application for license of
John S. Thomas being filed with the
clerk yesterday.
April 30 being anniversary day with
the Odd Fellows, special services will
be held at the Methodist church at
10:30 a. in. Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
will march in a body from their hall
to the church. Rev. Mead, the pas
tor, will deliver an address.
Charles Askins, who lias been at
tending the field trials at O’Neill re
gularly, is back again with the open
ing of spring to put his dogs in train
ing. Mr. Askins, we understand, ex
pects to remain here permantly as
he finds this an ideal place for his
business.
The Royal Highlanders are prepar
ing to celebrate the passing
of the lenten season with a
grand ball at Golden's hall on next
Monday evening. Elaborate prepara
tions are under way and invitations
have been addressed to each member
of the lodge.
Special Easter services will be held
at the Methodist church next Sunday.
In the morning the pastor will preach
on “The Resurrection.” The subject
for the evening discourse is, “The
Contrariness of Christ.” Special
music will be furnished. All invited.
—G. F. Mead, pastor.
L. G. Coburn of Phoenix, who is at
the countv seat as a juryman, visited
The Frontier Tuesday. Mr. Coburn
said he had just heard that one
of his neighbors, Perry Miller, had
fallen heir to $10,000 which had been
left him by a brother who died some
six weeks ago in Illinois.
A very interesting meeting of the
official board of the Holt county Sun
day School association was Held at
the office of E. II. Binedict April 14.
Seven out of tlie eight county officers
were present. A committee was ap
pointed to draft a program for tlie
county convention to be field at At
kinson, date of which will be given
later. Also arrangements were made
whereby every known Sunday School
in the county should be visited by
some one of the county officers.—E. E.
Dillon, president.
Some of the Great Northern officials
visited O’Neill last week and it is
rumored that a portion of the round
house here will be torn down and re
moved to Yankton. The round house
here far exceeds the needs and The
Frontier understands tire plan is to
remove eight of the stalls, leaving a
five-stall round house.
Easter will be observed at the Pres
byteran church next Sunday. In the
morning the Rev. J. M. Caldwell, D.
D. will preach at 10:30. The music
will be furnished by the Sunday
school. At 8 p. m. the Rev. T. W.
Bown will preach on “The Resurrec
tion.” Sintass Easter music of a
special cheracter by the choir.
The citizens of the community
along the Niobrara river who have
been endeavoring to secure a bridge
across that stream near the mouth of
Brush creek will be glad to learn that
the county board, which is now in ses
sion at O’Neill, has adopted a resolu
tion providing for the construction of
the bridge. The Boyd county board
will have to take similar action, how
ever, before the bridge can be built
and it is probable they will do this.
M. T. Elliott drove over from Lynch
Monday with his brother, who went
east on Tuesday morning’s North
western passanger. Mose says Lynch
is the best town in Boyd and is grow
ing every day. He doesn’t get to
O’Neill very often since moving from
this county. He tells us the artesian
well at Lynch is a great thing in the
way of supplying power and in furnish
ing sources of amusement and recrea
tion. Last winter, he tells us, there
was skating and swiming going on at
the same time at the public places
supplied by this well—look in one
direction and you would see skaters
on a pond of ice atid in another direc
tion bathers were plunging about in
a warm pool.
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M. DOWLING, President JAS. F. O’DONNELL, Cashier
SURPLUS. $55,000.00 I
I O’NEILL NATL BANfrT
5 Per Cent Pa.id 1
on Time Certificates of Deposit
This Bank carries no indebtedness of Officers or Stockholders
Julius Duft and Herman Oebserof
Milwaukee, Wis., with their wives
and families, have taken up tempo
rary residence in O’Neill in the com
modious house of W. R. Butler and
family, Mrs. Butler being a sister to
Mrs. Duft and Mrs. Oebser. Both
families expect to engage in farming
in this community as soon as they can
get located. They bought the Mc
Greevy, or Elkhorn Valley bank
quarter section three miles north of
town Tuesday for $2,000, $1,000 cash
and paying a mortgage of $1,000.
They will build on the place and ex
pest to acquire more land.
Superintendent Slaymaker informs
Tlie Frontier that it cost $83,000 to
conduct the schools of Holt county
last 'year. This was for teachers’
salaries, fuel, books and all other ex
penses, but does not include the cost
of the maintenance of the county sup
erintendent’s office, which, if added,
would bring the total to something
like $85,000 a year Holt county is pay
ing for the education of its children.
Mr. Slaymaker thinks there could be
some economizing in the adminis
tration of state normals without
crippling the efficiency of our
educational system by reducing the
number of such institutions and. says
the tendency seems to be to overdo
things in the matter of education.
The Board of Education held a
meeting last week and made some
changes in the force of teachers for
the coming year. There will be one
teacher less in the high school, or two
in that department instead of three.
Prof. J. V. Dwyer was retained as
superintendent and the principalship
given to Madge Kay of Broken Bow.
Laura Fields of Glen Rock, Neb., is
another new teacher. The remainder
of the force will be as formerly: Mag
gie Hurley, Anna Donohoe, Mary
Horiskey and Nellie O’Fallon. The
salaries of four of the grade teachers
were reduced $5 per month each. Mr.
Marsh was retained as janitor. A
member of the board informs us that
it is the intention of the board to get
the schools onto a basis where only
teachers that have been specially
fitted by normal training will be em
ployed. The action of the board in
curtailing the expense of the main
tenance of our schools will be univers
ally approved by the taxpayers. The
board does not intend by reducing ex
penses to curtail the efficiency of the
schools but instead will increase their
efficiencey by requiring a higher
standard among the teachers.
For Exchange
Fine "00 acre grain and stock farm
in Fremont county, Iowa, for a first
class cattle ranch in Holt county,
Nebraska; cohid not consider any
thing less than a very large ranch.
This Iowa farm will bring a high
price cash rental or will bring a high
price if olfered for sale.
1 have other exchanges for Holt
county land in city property and
smaller farms.
Give me full* particulars in first let
ter or call at the office. 43-1
Lyman Waterman, O’Neill, Neb.
IN TIE DISTRICT COIRT
Jury Says Plaintiff Owns the Land
In Day-O’Neill Case.
8»00 JUDGMENT AGAINST COUNTY
After Spending Two Sleepless Nights
Jury Disagrees in Damage Suit i
Against Railroad.
But three eases of importance have
been disposed of in district court thus
far. The Day-O’Neill case, which
was on the most of last week, was
energetically prosecuted by R. R.
Dickson on behalf of A. P. Day, a
non-resident, and defended by M. F.
Harrington on behalf of Hugh
O’Neill. The jury returned a verdict
for Day and awarded him title to
some GOO acres of land to which
O’Neill claimed possesion.
The next case of importance was
that of Edward Eggen against the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
company. The plaintiff, who is a
resident of Stuart, claims to have
been injured on the railroad at Scrib
ner. He brought suit against the
railroad company for $2,000 damages
and placed his case in the hands of
Dick Johnson and Mike Harrington.
R. It. Dickson and Attorney Wright,
one of the railroad’s attorneys, de
fended the case. The jury, after a
long seige and two sleepless nights,
came in with a disagreement.
Fred Fuller of Stuart sued Holt
county for $:i,000 damages for injuries
alleged to have been sustained by a
defective bridge up about Badger.
The jury awarded him $800. \
M. A. McOafferty sued the county
for $2,000 for damages alleged to have
been sustained by reason of the estab
lishment of a road through the Mc
Oafferty ranch. This was in the
nature of an appeal from the action
of the county board in allowing the
McOafferty’s $100 damages when the
road was established. The jury
awarded them damages in the sum of
$200. ’ |
Railroad Building Again
The Sioux City Tribune of the 13th
contained the following special from
Minneapolis: J. J. Hill will soon have
a direct road from St. Paul to Denver.
When the road is built it will be the
shortest route between these points. £•
The statement is by a Great North
ern official well informed, and is an in
timation of a plan to connect the Bur
lington and Great Northern in Ne
braska. lie said further:
“Mr. Hill will accomplish this by
building a cut off between O’Neill,
Neb., on the Willmar and Sioux Falls
division of the Great Northern, and
Thedford, Neb., or a nearby point, on
the Burlington. This will give an
almost direct route from St. Paul to
Denver, and also between Duluth and
Denver.”
The route from Minneapolis to Den
ver by the Great Northern would be
through Willmar, Manley and Sioux
City to O’Neill. After the connec
tion with Thedford on the Burlington
and Missouri River railroad is made,
the rest is easy. A connection will be
made at Alliance with a north and
south line leading direct to Denver,
crossing the Gurnsey and Cheyenne
extension. At Alliance a conection
is made with the Black Hills line of
the Burlington leading to Deadwood,
Billings and Cody.
Colonist Rates West. jj
Via the Great Northern, daily,
March 1st to May 15th, 1905, to all
points in Montana, Idaho, Washing
ton, Oregon and California.
Two through trains to the Cost®
daily. Apply to any Agent, Great®
Northern Line for rates, maps, dea-®
criptive matter etc., or to Fred®
Rogers, G. P. A., Sioux City, Io. 34-3m®
Firemen Meeting. ®
Next Tuesday the fireman elect a®
full set of otfcers for the ensuing year,®
and tiremen are requested to attend®
the meeting. Matters concerning the®
Dept, and gymnasium will be discuss-®
ed and arranged, so a full attendance®
is desired by the present officers. B
Jas Davidson, Cheif. ®
Merrett Martin, Secterary. ®
R. J. Marsh, President. ®
Very Low Rates to St. Lonis, Mo. B
Via the North-Western Line. Ex-H
cursion tickets will be sold on 13 to®
22, inclusive, limited to return until®
May 24, inclusive, on account®
of National Baptist Anniver-®
saries. Apply to agents Chicago &®
North-Western R’y.
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