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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1905)
VOLUME XXVI. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1903 _ NUMBER 3, BANK EXAMINER DEHORS Preliminary Skirmishes in Suits A srainst Wliittemore. BOND CO.’S MOTION SUSTAINED Ask That Plaintiff’s Petition be Made More Specific. — Will Submit Briefs. On last Saturday a demur filed by Fred Wliittemore in the case of Brid get Corrigan against the bank exam ines alleging negligence in checking up tlie defunct Elkhorn Valley bank was overruled in district court and ten days was given in which to file an answer. Wliittemore and his attorney, T. J. Doyle of Lincoln, were in O’Neill Tuesday, it being expected the argu ments in the demur would be made. The attorney for Mrs. Corrigan was out of town and other obstacles seemed to stand in the way of proceeding witli tlie case and it was agreed to submit briefs in place of oral agrument. The defendant demurs for tlie fol lowing reasons: 1. The petition of Bridget Corri gan does not state a cause of action in favor of tlie plaintiff and against the defendant. 2. The plaintiff has no legal capac ity to sue or maintain-this action. :s. There is a deficit of parties plaintiff herein. 4. There is a deficit of parties de fendant herein. 5. There is a misjoinerof cause of action herein. <>. Tlie court of law lias no jurisdic tion to try the action, it being a sub ject of equity jurisdiction only. The Fidelity and Deposit company of Maryland is also a party to the suit. Through their attorneys, Kennedy & Learned of Omaha, they moved the court to require the plaintiff, Mrs. ( Corrigan, to make her petition more ’ definate and certain by setting forth the dates, maturity, amounts and ; names of the makers of the notes . which it is alleged in paragraph five | of her petition were forged and fictic ious. The motion was sustained by tlie court and the plaintiff allowed to ( amend her petition immediately, ten ( days being allowed the bond company in which to file their answer to the l corrected petition. LOCAL MATTERS. For farm loans see Lyman Water man, O’Neill. 45-tf Best castor machine oil at Golden & 1 Hodgkin’s. 3-2 j John Melvin of Page Sundayed with , O’Neill friends. Jacob Krapt of Stuart had business in the city Tuesday. Wanted, a neat girl for house work. ] —Mrs. E. H. Whelan. Hr. Gilligan made a professional visit to Ewing Tuesday. f IT. A. Allen of Atkinson had busi- i ness in the city the first of the week. ] Fon Hunt—Six room cottage in good condition. 52-tf Belle Ryan. To Lease or for Sale—Five room house. Enquire George Weingartner. 1 2-tf < Golden & Hodgkin always carry a j complete stock in their lines. Think it over. 3-2 ' Get your haying supplies, such as stacker rope, pullies, etc., at Golden & Hodgkin’s. 3-2 $2,000 given for kodak pictures. Ask for catalogue.—W. M. Lockard, ( O’Neill, Neb. 52-3 Miss O’Donnell has.been over from Springview at the home of her mother since the Fourth. Miss Annie Wynn of Atkinson has been the guest of relatives and friends here for the past week. Tom Shively returned to his home at Norfolk on Tuesday after spending a week with friends here. : Judge Davidson and Day id Moler joined the old soldiers at the reunion at Meadow Grove yesterday. Ed Alberts arrived home Monday 1 from Fargo, N. D., where he has been playing ball the past month. R. E. Bowden and Samuel Beavers went to Meadow Grove Tuesday to attend a reunion of old soldiers. “Zacchous, or the Little Man up the Tree,” is the Rev. T W. Bowen’s subject for next Sunday evening. Albert Webster and Katie Elbe, both of Royal, Neb., were united in marriage Tuesday by Judge Morgan. Estray—Eight cattle branded with the letter P on the right shoulder have been taken up by William Darr. . Merle Kline departed on the early train Monday morning for Beatrice to take in the Chautauqua and visit with friends. B. A. Harding is behind the counter at Golden &TIodkin’s in the absence I ( closing I OWT SALE OF 113 SKort Horn I Cecttle ! mil JULY 20 j L________! ! --' HAVING decided to sell my farm and retire from the cattle business, it has be come necessary for me to sell at auction my entire herd of regis tered Short-Horn cattle, consist ing of 80 cows and heifers, 22 I and 2 year old bulls, 10 calves at side of dams, and last but not least, I great herd bull, GOLDEN KING 152,918, the best bull in Nebraska. 5 .. This will he an absolute closing out sale, no | string on anything—everything goes. Sale will he held in large sale teuton my farm 8 miles north oi O’Neill. Parties from a distance conveyed to I fj and from sale. Come out to the [sale and pass judgment on the class of cattle I have been breed ing. Everybody welcome, whether wanting to , buy or not. Lunch served on the grounds at 11:30 a. m., sale beginning at 1‘2:80 p. rn. Terms: Cash or 1 year on bankable paper at 10« D. J. CRONIN, Owner J. F. O'DONNELL. Clerk | Auctioneer. Col. T. C. CALAHAN of Omaha, assist ! ed bv Col. J. A. COWPERTHWAITE of 0'N«lll if Merl Kline who is taking a two veek’s vacation. Buy your binder twine of Golden & fodgkin. It is stronger, runs farther ind binds more bundles than any .wine on the market. 3-2 Post office Inspector A. J. Moore of Imaha came in Monday evening and Irove into the country Tuesday to ilieck up some of the rural offices. LaViollette Bros, will take a limited lumber of pupils for instruction on ■iolin and piano. Also voice culture, talian method. See them for terms. 3-4 Miss Winona Younlcin was an early norning passenger Monday for Beat ice, her former home, where she goes or a two week’s visit with relatives ,nd friends. The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. Younkin next Wednesday after loon at 3 o’clock. Mrs. Meredith will rave charge of the meeting. All the adiesare requested to attend. Miss Mable Martin, who suffered a evere shock from the explosion of a 'annon fire cracker a few days prev ous to the Fourth and who was quite 11 in consequence, is rapidly recover ng Judge Kinkaid departed Tuesday ora visit to the western end of the listrict. The judge does not coniine lis visits to the people of the district ,o campaign time but is continually >n the alert as to the needs of all sec ions of the big Sixth. L. E. Carscallen, the barber, with lis wife and children, went to Mead >w Grove Tuesday fora few days visit. Hr. Carscallen says he has about con ;luded a sale of his barber shop to a ;entleman from the southern part of ,he state, whom he expects to be here ;h is week. A ball game has been arranged be tween the Feelers and a nine at Clear vater. The game is to be played here icxt Sunday. The Peelers are well mown as expert players on the dia nend and the Clearwater team is also ;aid to be not so slow. In which case i good game is looked for. P. C. Corrigan was taken suddenly 11 Sunday and was taken to Omaha m the earlv train Monday by his wife 'or the hospital experts to diagnose lie case. Mrs. Corrigan returned Tues lay and says her husband was much letter when she left him, the doctors ironouncing the case not serious. E. Kline, Paul Butler and Angela Martin, representing Delkcith Castle, [loyal Highlanders, went to Neligh ,’esterday to attend a district gather ng of the Highlanders. They are the presiding otlicers of the local castle md will preside at the gathering at Heligh, the O’Neill castle being the argest in the district. The district jomprises ninteen castles and extends Torn Oakdale on the east to Newport pn the west. The fair grounds are fast being con verted into general headquarters for jut door sports and recreation. In addition to the race track and base ball grounds, the girl basket ball team have induced the boys to use the pick and spade in hewing them out a bas ket ball court. As soon as the girls perfect their course of training on the new grounds they expect to take the conceit out of the basketball players in some of the neighboring towns. Michael O’Brian and wife of Alpena, Mich., were guests at the home of Mayor D. A. Doyle yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. O’Brien were on their way home from a visit to Yellowstone Park after attending the national convention of the Knights of Colum bus at Los Angeles to which Mr. O’Brien was a delegate, and being old friends of Mr. and Mrs. Doyle they stopped off here for a day. Mr. O’Brien was formerly a member of congress from Michigan. No one who is interested in going away to school should fail to write the Giand Island Business & Normal Col lege of Grand Island, Nebraska, for their catalogue. This is one of the leading schools in the West. It has one thousand students each year but ("in not supply the demand for its giaduates. Students of limited means are allowed to take a full course and pay for same when they secure a position and we understand several will attend from this county. Tiie great Fourth is now past but Brennan has still on hand some fine bargains in a nice assortment of gran ite ware for 10 and 25 cents each. Most of the people will need some machine oil. I carry a tine assort ment. Deering Binder, the best made with a full line of repairs. Champion Binder and Mower, no better was ever put on the market. Moline Wagons, Buggies. Ice Cream Freezers at a dis count. Twine, twine and twine, now is the time to buy. Call and see me. —Neil Brennan. A foot race was matched and pulled oil’ Saturday evening between G. A. Steven's, who formerly clerked in Gallagher’s store, and John Nolan, jr. Some considerable lucre went up on either side, a good many putting their faith and coin in Nolan’s ability as a sprintter from what they had seen of him on the track witli his backers holdinga stop watch. Stevens knocked the plum so easily that the race, like Col. Bryan’s prediction in the last presidential campaign, ended in a route. Stevens appears to be a foot racer not to be sneezed at. Tiie board of education held a meet ing Monday for the purpose of organ izing. Tiie following otlicers were se lected: Thomas Birmingham, modera tor; G. W. Smith, secretary; Dr. J. I’. Gilligan, treasurer. It was decided at the meeting to employ an engineer to examine the boiler of the heating plant at the sohoolhouse and to ask the city council to join with them in the expense of employing such engin eer, the boiler of the engine at the city pump house to be inspected at the same time. The council decided to do this at a meeting held Monday evening. County Assessor Cooper is in a quan dry to know liow to proceed with the assessment of the saloons of the coun ty. lie was getting along all right until he run across an item in a news paper quoting the opinion of Attorney General Brown to the elfect that sa loon licenses should be assessed as valuable franchises, the assessor to use his own judgment as to the value of*each “franchise” In the various communities. Assessor Cooper will now have to ascertain the approxi mate capacity of the public thirst of the county in order to getatthe value of the licenses to the saloon men. Sylvester Judd of Inman, who was before the board of insanity on July 5 and band released after examina tion, will be given a further examina tion as to his sanity on the strength of a story which comes from Neligh to the effect that Judd threatened a man’s life. One of the members of the insanity board says that Judd went to Neligh after his release and frightened a citizen of that town who happened to be behind him as the two stepped into a livery barn. Judd is said to have turned to the man be hind him, drew out his knife and told the man that he had been follow ing lmn long enough and he was go ing to kill him. “Judge Kinkaid came in Monday evening and was met at the depot by a deputation of citizens and escorted to the Hotel Woods, where accommo dations for our distinguished neigh bor had been provided,” says the Spencer Reporter. “The band sere naded him with several nice pieces later in the evening. Judge Kinkaid expressed his surprise at our growth, but said he was very giad to note the progress of the town and country.” Referring to the judge’s address at Spencer the 4th, The Reporter also says: “His speech was a most excellent one and was attentively listened to by one of the largest audiences we have ever seen assembled on a like occa sion.” Conrad ISoehme, justice of the peace at Atkinson and also a member of the county soldier’s relief commission was in the city Monday on business per taining to the relief commission. He was a Frontier visitor while in town and informed us that a shooting case had got into his court, it being the culmination of the taking up of a bunch of stray cattle belonging to James Cannon. The cattle were tak en by Swan Johnson and it seems ap praisers were appointed to appraise the damage. Johnson was awarded $1 damages but refused to give the owner the possession of his cattle for that amount. Cannon then resorted to the justice of the peace and while he was in town ascertaining what steps n xt to take his son, presuming settlement had been made for the re turn of their cattle, went to tlij Johnson home after the same, found out differently when he en<j tcred a loaded shotgun and a mad man at tiie Johnson ranclv i son, we were told, let fly a charge from his gun at young cannon, who escaped being hit and made his departure without further argument. The ob streperous individual with a gun was placed under arrest. Justice Boehmc returned home on the passenger as Johnson was to have a hearing in his court as soon as he arrived home. The case from Conley township in county court Tuesday, .Surveyor Nor ton says, was the cause of the justice of the peace of that township issuing subpoenas for witnesses to appear in county court. Whether the peace dig nitaries of Conley did not consider it necessary for those desiring to law to wade through water to the hubs to get to tiie proper court in a little mat ter like a subpoena for a witness ot whether they had not read up on the “duties of justices” is immaterial. The subpoenas worked anil the wit nesses came to town, but were not called upon to testify, Judge Morgan believing it was his prerogative to issue subpoenas for the witnesses in his own court. Miss Florence Zink, accompanied by her father, was down from Stuart Tuesday looking over and talking over the situation with a view to entering the field for the republican nomina tion for county superintendent. Miss Zink is a pleasant lady to meet, has long been identified with educational work in this and adjoining counties and is quite as competant as any one in the county to conduct the superin tendent’s office. She tells us that she was an instructor in the institute this year for Rock county and that the assistant state superintendent, while visiting tlie institute, appointed hei to prepare and look after a novel edu cational exhibit for the state fair. If will be known as “the model schoo teacher” and will consist of a plastei figure dressed in native grasses fount in Rock county. Miss Zink has beci intrusted with making a grass ward robe for the model and with dressing it for the exhibit. The heirs of the estate of Jo Hodge, deceased, had a round in t ty court Tuesday. Mrs. E. S. well, one of the heirs, and band broughtsuit against 1 widow of the deceased apj administrators, asking/ revoke an order of months ago which trators the author! worth of person.] praised valuei by the widow! appraised vaj wanted the^ sale. Sqj J sold a i evidefi be ] sa]j I NEW HOTEL FOR O'NEILL Tlireee Story Brick to (io Up on the Ilorisky Corner. TOTAL INVESTMENT OF $19,000 Business Men Quick to Secure a Good Thing.—Building to be Complete by December 31. *.* The proposition of R. L. Hall : : to erect a 3-story brick hotel in : : O’Neill has been accepted and the : • $4,000 bonus about all raised. * .. The best proposition yet submitted for O’Neill to get a much needed hotel has been made to our citizens by U. L. Hall, recently in the hotel business at Valentine. Mr. Hall came to O’Neill Friday last and after talking the matter of a new hotel up among the business men, a meeting was called on Saturday evening at tlie office of T. V. Golden, when a proposition was submitted by Mr. Ilall. The result of the meeting is that an agreement lias been drawn up in writing which provides for a $12,000 three story hotel on the corner east of tlie First National bank, where Horiskey’s grocery now stands. The town is to put up a bonus of $4,000. The provisions of the agreement are: Whereas, It. L. Hall agrees to pur chase lots 24, 25, 20, 27 and 28 in block number 15 In tile city of O’Neill. Ne braska, and to erect thereon a hotel building to be constructed out of brick and to cast approximately $12,000 ex clusive of site and furnishings, the furnishings to cost approximately $3,000. Said building to be in size 55x 80 feet and to be three stories high, with a mansared roof, said building to be erected and furnished and hi running order not later than Decem ber 31, 1905. Said party further agrees that said building will be used and operated as a hotel, and for hotel purposes only, and to be heated throughout by either steam or hot water. Said party further agreeing that in the event of the destruction of said building by tire within live years from December 31, 1905, that the same shall be rebuilt, and be of the same size, and of similar material, and said party agreeing to secure those con tributing tlie amount contributed, that In the event that said building be destroyed by tire, that he will re build or cause the same to be rebuilt as above stated within six months. For the purpose of assisting said party to build said hotel, and as an Inducement to have him furnish and build said hotel, we hereby contract and agree to pay to him on completion of said building, the amount set oppo site our names. Said amount to be given by us, and received by said Hall as a bonus and on the conditions herein stated. The lots upon which it is proposed to build are property of the defunct Elkhorn Valley bank and it is stated that title to same can be secured at any time. Supervisors Convene. The board of supervisors, which are holding the, regular July session, have discovered that as a board of equali zation they cannot complete work and make the levy until state board of equalization its work. They journed as an August 1, and business, not be tat after t of <