VOLUME XXVI._
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1905
NUMBER 9.
RACE MEET IN OCTOBER
Holt County Agricultural Society
Fixes Dates.
PURSES AMOUNTING TO $1,400
Management Expects to Enter Best
Horses in North Nebraska in tho
Races.—Other Attractions.
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The Holt County Agricultural soci
ety has designated October 4, 5 and 6
the dates of their first fair and race
meet. The arrangements have been
definitely made and the speed program
issued.
The society has been permanently
organized with P. J. McManus presi
dent, Dave Stannard vice-president,
S. J. Weekes secretary, J. F. O’Don
nell treasurer, and Ed F. Gallagher,
J. B. Mellor and F. J. Disner as board
of directors. They are unable to
undertake an agricultural display this
year, but are putting up $1,400 in
purses for races and have the assur
ances of the entry of the best trotting
and running horses in the north Ne
braska short shipment circuit, whose
races close at Madison September 29.
The races of the Randolph circuit
also close September 29 and horses are
expected to be entered from there.
This will bring a string of the fastest
horses in the state to the O’Neill
track.
The management ot the society are
entitled to every encouragement in
their efforts to make this the best
race meet ever held in north Nebras
ka. Horses entered in the races will
be furnished barn room and hay free
while in O’Neill. Besides the races,'
there will be a ball game and other
attractions every day.
The following is the speed program:
Wednesday, Oct. 4.—2:25 class, 2:25
trotters, 2:30 pacers, $200; 3-year-old or
under class, trot or pace, $200; one-half
mile running race, two in three, free
for all, $50.
Thursday, Oct. 5.—3:00 class, trot
ters or pacers, $200; 2:30 class, 2:30
trotters, 2:35 pacers, $200; one-half
mile running race, two in three, for
horses 16 hands or under, $50.
Friday, October 6.—2:40 class, 2:40
trotters, 2:45 pacers, $200: free for all
trot or pace, $200; free for all running
race, two in three, $100.
The entry fee is 5 per cent and 5 per
cent additional from money winners.
Purses in harness races divided 50, 25,
15 and 10 per cent; in running races,
50, 30 and 20 per cent.
I Bumper Crops in Northern Minnesota
and North Dakota.
The crops in Northern Minnesota
and North Dakota were never better.
Thousands of harvest hands will be
required in that country to help the
farmers to harvest. The Great North
ern Railway has now ranged for spec
ial low rates to assist the farmers in
being able to secure competent help,
occasioned by the large crop and ex
tensivs railroad building in North
Dakota, which, in itself, employs a
good many hands. In the western
part of Nort Dakota free government
land can be had under the homestead
laws. Go and get a home now and
and pay expenses while investigating.
There are thousands of people who
went to North Dakota as farm labor
ers who are now land owners. For
rates and detailed information call on
your local agent or write to F. I.
Whitney, Passenger Traffic Manager,
Great Northern Railway, St. Paul,
Minn. 7-5
Call for Caucus.
The republicans of Shields township
are hereby called to meet in caucus
at the Fleener school-house on Satur
day, Sep. ember 2, at 2 p. m., for the
purpose of placing in nomination a
township ticket and selecting five del
egates to the county convention to be
held at O’Neill on September 9.
William Menish, Committeeman.
Estkay—Taken up, on my place 7
miles south and two miles west of
I O’Nicll, one black sow, weight about
150 pounds. Owner can have same by
proving property and paying expenses.
Tim McCarthy.
The local stock market yesterday
were: Stock steers $3.00; fat steers
$4.00; hogs $5.40: corn shelled 38 cents;
ear 27c; oats 20c; wheat 90c; rye 48c;
potatoes 50c; eggs 11c; butter 12$.
To Lease—A few quarters of good
hay land Lyman Waterman,
Otf O’Neill, Nebr.
LOCAL MATTERS.
For farm loans see Lyman Water
man, O’Neill. 45-tf
John Melvin was up from Page to
spend Sunday.
For Sale—Good milch cow.
6-3p It. J. Marsh.
Henry Howard was a Page visitor
Saturday last.
Loans on farm and city property.—
E. H. Benedict. 44-tf
Wanted—A good girl for general
housework. 1 Mr. Chas. Askins.
Lard in 50 pound lots, 8 cents a
pound at Miskimins’ meat market. 5-4
For Rent—Eighty acres of extra
line hay land. Enquire at this office.
For Sale—400 acres of good land,
one mile east of O’Neill.
8-tf B. H. Johring.
Dr. Gilligan was called to Long
Pine Saturday to perform a surgical
operation.
Mrs. Fred Koeber and Mrs. P. Staf
ford of Norfolk spent Sunday with
Mrs. Testman.
Columbus Journal: R. S. Hilliard
has located on a farm near O’Neill
and will move there at once.
Dennis Kane, one of The Frontier’s
Atkson subscribers, was a business
visitor at this office Monday.
Mrs. Fitzsimmons has her street
hats on display now and pattern hats
will be out by September 9. 9-2
Work on the new hotel is going
forward—that is, the preliminary
work of foundations, cellar, etc.
Mrs. J. S. Harrington and children
returned Monday from a protracted
visit with relatives in Colorado.
Our ten cent counter can’t be beat.
Big bargains! Did you see our new
line of stew kettles? Neil Brennan
Lost, on last Friday evening, a belt
to cravenette coat. Finder please
leave at this office and receive reward.
R. R. Dickson, S. J. Weekes, O. O.
Snyder and Rey Saberson went to
Atkinson in the latter’s auto last Sat
urday.
Mrs. Roger McGinnis of Cody, Wyo.,
arrived in the city last week and will
spend several weeks here visiting rela
tives.
Take good care of your chickens as
this is the time of the year that Neil
Brennan sells chicken food and insect
powder.
Preaching at the Presbyterian
church both morning and evening by
Rev. J. M. Caldwell. Good music.
All invited.
Dell Akin, the general manager and
leading pilot of the Atkinson Graphic,
made this office a fraternal call last
Saturday.
Well! Did you ever see things that
went so fast as the line large galvan
ized water tanks at Brennan’s. No
hoops to be bothered with.
City warrants to register No. 034
are now payable. Interest ceases
after August 24,11905.; J. F. Gallagher,
City Treasurer.
F. F. Mende of the Atkinson
Graphic was an O’Neill visitor Tues
day, dropping in to see The Frontier
force for a few minutes.'
For Sale—A No. 2 Empire cream
separator, used about one year. At
the Bellamy farm, three miles north
and two miles west of O’Neill. 8-3
A portion of the cement walk work
at the court-house has been completed,
the strip from the entrance south to
the corner being yet to be built.
LaViollette Bros, will take a limited
number of pupils for instruction on
violin and piano. Also voice culture,
talian method. See them for terms
Mrs. F. J. Westcott, who lias been
visiting her sister, Mrs. M. A. Test
man, for the past two weeks, left for
her home at Salt Lake City Wednes
day morning.
I have 85 head of ewes and lambs
which must be sold by September 1.
They are in care of Charles Sanders at
Dorsey. Write meat O’Neill, Neb,
C. E. Downey.
Miss Loretto Sullivan accompanied
Miss Muldoon, who had been visiting
in the city, on a visit to Valentine,
Crookston and to St. Francis mission
on the Rosebud.
Congressman Kinkaid wishes all
residents of the Sixth congressional
district who desire garden seeds to be
sent to them for next year to notify
him by postal card soon. Address
O’Neill, Neb.
Dr. W. S. Summers of Omaha, pres
ident or the Nebraska Field Trials,
came up from Omaha Saturday even
ing and spent Sunday visiting friends
in this city, returning home Monday
morning.
Taken up on or about August 1,
1905, at my place four miles southwest
of O’Neill, one black sow weight
about 200 pounds. Owner can have
same by proving property and paying
expenses. Deter McMonigle.
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For Exchange—Stocks of goods,
hotels, livery barns and cattle and
horses for Holt county land and
O’Neill property,
ti-tf Lyman Waterman,
O’Neill, Nebr.
J. H. McPharlln moved his family
in from his ranch in Swan township
last week and will remain here until
after the field trials next month. He
reports chickens very plentiful in his
neighborhood and that portion of the
country makes ideal training grounds.
Tuesday the county treasurer
checked out about $10,000 of county
funds in the banks to pay warrants
that were issued for claims allowed at
the semi-annual session of the super
visors. This, however, is less than
a third of the total claims allowed,
which amount to about $04,000. •
Emil Zimmerman, who is a member
of the United States naval hospital
corps at Norfolk, Va., writes to his
parents here that he, with others in
the iservice, will leave the
latter part of October for a cruise to
European and Asiatic ports. He also
says he hopes to get a furlough and
visit home before their departure.
Jennie Anna Smalley has liled a
petition in the district court asking
to be legally separated from her hus
band, Samuel Ernest Smalley, with
whom she has not been living since
January L7, 1904. The couple were
married in O’Neill January 28, 1901
They have one child, a girl of tw<
years, the custody of which the moth
er asks. Non-support is alleged.
Butte Gazette: S. J. Weekes, O. O.
Snyder, Ray Saberson and R. R. Dick
son, some of O’Neill’s business men,
were in Butte yesterday. They left
O’Neill about eleven o’clock, were de
tained some time on the road by the
rain storm, and arrived at Spencer ir
time for dinner, then came to Butte
spent the afternoon, returning home
the same evening. With such swift
transportation as this at hand air
ships are useless.
Hail stones as large as hen’s egg:
are frequently talked about. Those
are the kind that struck O’Neill be
tween (j and 7 o’clock last evening
driven by a tempest of wind and rain
There were scores of shattered windov
lights and glass fronts around towi
after the storm, broken trees, orchard
stripped of their fruit and othe:
sights and scenes of destruction. Thi:
is the third hailing O’Neill has ex
perienced this season.
A Norfolk special last Saturda
said: Scalded in a barrel of boilinj
water until almost every inch of hi:
skin tore off, Martin Maclimuller agee
20, after suffering for over two week:
incessantly, has succumbed to hi:
frightful burns. Maclimuller, a younj
farmer, was scalding a pig at his farr
near Norfolk, after the animal ha<
been killed. He stood on a platforn
and leaned over, reaching into th
barrel to turn the animal from tim
to time. So heavy was the pig tha
Maclimuller, in making a turn, slippe
on his platform and fell headlong int
the barrel of boiling liquid. He wa
in the barrel for some little time be
fore being rescued, and when take
out his llesli came off with his clotl:
ing. It was said that lie survived
grafting in almost every part of his
body would have been necessary to
restore his covering.
Lost—Small bitch pointer, black and
white with tan points; answers to the
name, Queen. Any information lead
ing to her discovery will be suitably
rewarded.—W. H. Hodgkin, O’Neill.
Will Zink, who played ball in this
■city in 1899 and held cases on the In
dependent, is now playing first base
for St. Joseph in the Western League.
In a double header played in Sioux
City last Sunday he got a home run in
each game. He has been in the West
ern but a short time having been
drafteijfrom the Iowa state league.
If he keeps up his batting record he
will probably land in the American or
National League next season.
O. O. Snyder, William Lockard and
D. II. Cronin accompanied Ray Saber
son in his automobile on a trip to
Chambers Monday afternoon. The
roaa between this city and Chambers
is about the worst in the county, but
notwithstanding the sand and ruts
the return trip was made in less than
two hours; the actual running time
being one hour and forty minutes.
Uay handles the machine like a pro
fessional and on good roads a 20 mile
clip is just about the right gait. If
the roads between O’Neill and Cham
bers were fixed automobiles would
solve the transportation problem for
the people of the south country.
Random Ruminations.
Do you gossip?
Do you countenance gossip?
Do you let anybody gossip to you?
Do you commit the folly of allowing
a gossip to induce you to believe any
thing she (?) tells you?
If you do, float out into the back
yard and turn the billy goat loose.
Allow him free access to your anat
omy. Permit him to use his own dis
cretion regarding the mode and dura
tion of his exercise; and if he can hit
you hard enough and fast enough to
jar that loathesome, reeking pusillan
• imous vampire of gossip loose from
your poor little measly soul he will
have accomplished sufficient to merit
the biggest pile of tin cans, scrap iron,
old shoes and other billy goat dainties
' that ever happened.
1 After this it would be well to coerce
> some of your friends into your back
yard so Billy can operate upon them
1 in a similar manner.
Then you can go into the house, sit
down (if you can) and take down the
f family bible. Turn over a new (quite
f likely) leaf and right at the beginning
i of tire extravaganza you’ll find a spec
I ial dispatch concerning a female
i woman who has an attack of ennui in
i her happy home. While her better
; fraction is out hustling to put the ki
1 bosh on the chinch bugs, cut worms,
t grasshoppers,et cetera, that are trying
i to keep his garden truck out of the
; Eden market, she proceeds to put the
3 whole human race on the bum by
i swinging on the orchard gate and gos
1 siping with a serpent.
3 This is the first authentic account
s that we have been able to find con
- corning gossip. There have been
i other instances since, however.
There must be a great deal of truth
, in the theory of heredity. At least
in this regard it appears to be so.
There is no question that the first
gossip should have had her letters ad
dressed to the (larden of Eden, and
since that time the trait has become
more and more pronounced in each
succeeding generation.
It Is a deplorable fact that about
85 women and men in every 100
are little more or less than constantly
revised editions of local personal his
tory of more or less (usually less)
authenticity. They can tell you all
about Mandy Jones’new beau. How
many cases he gets a week. What he
does with every cent of it. How many
corns he has. How long his uncle has
been out of the penitentiary. About
how long it will take him to blow in
his surplus shekels for ice cream soda,
sherbet, eau decologne, bon boris, etc.,
to make himself solid with Mandy.
They will also prognosticate as to
when she will hand him the frosty
mitt and trot up to the judge’s stand
for a fresh start with some other
mark of the sccond-Class cerebrum
species.
A man-gossip is rarely as accom
plished in the art as a woman gossip.
His time, or some portion of it, is us
ually occupied in some other way. It
is not always the case with womeu
gossips. Then, the man-gossip seldom
lias the necessary vocabulary or the
lingual accomplishments that the
woman-gossip possesses. Then too,
you, or one of your friends, can mean
der up to the man-gossip and by the
proper and adequate administration
of the Armstrong argument, make
him comprehend that his most per
turbing mental attribute is a vigorous
case of unavailing regret. You can
not follow this method of precedure
with a woman.
Don’t talk about your neighbor.
What he does or says is very, very
little concern of yours.
Go on the even tenor of your way
and don’t make any superflous com
ments upon the manner in which your
neighbor is pursuing his favorite
phantom.
Not all the wars, all the famines,
all the pestilence of the world’s his
tory have caused as much anguish, or
as many broken hearts or desolate
firesides as the venomous, serpent
sting of gossip.
If you must find an outlet for the
superflous meanness in your petty,
despicable nature, be a traitor to
your best friend; annex a tin can to
the caudal appendage of some harm
less, trustful canine; poison vour ba
by’s breakfast; but don’t gossip.
“Charity covereth a multitude of
sins.”
Struck by Lightning
John Golden’s house was struck by
lightning last night, a chimney
knocked olT and shinkles scattered to
the winds. This let the rain pour in
and soaked up the house. No one
was at home at the time, for which
John says he is thankful.
Very Low Excursion Races to Phila
delphia, Pa ,
Via the North-Western Line. Ex
cursion tickets will be sold Sept. 14,
15 and 16, with favorable return lim
its on account of Sovereign Grand
Lodge I. O. O. F. Apply to agents
Chicago & North-Western It’y.
Half Rates to Inter-State Livestock
Fair and Race Meet at Sioux City, la.
Via the North-Western Line. Ex
cursion tickets will be sold at one fare
for round trip, Sept. 11 to 16, inclu
sive, limited to return until Sept. 18,
inclusive. Apply to agents Chicago &
North-Western R’y.
Interstate Live Stock Fair and Race
Meet Sioux City, la., Sep. 11 to 16.
For this occasion the Great North
ern Line will sell round trip tickets
Sept. 11 to 16, good to return unti
Sept. 18, for one fare for round trip
See local agent for any further in
formation.
THE OLD SETTLER PICNIC
Old Timers and New Comers Talk
Over Experiences.
SPEAKING AND SPORT PROGRAM
Pleasant Day Spent Among Delight
ful Scenes of Picturesque Section
of the County.
The Frontier scribe, accompanied by
Prof. J. V. Dwyer, attended the old
settler’s picnic held in Katzar’s grove
north of Meek, last Tburday and
spent an enjoyable afternoon viewing
the sports which were pulled off for
the edification of the multitude in
attendance and “swapping” yarns
with the old pioneers. The writer,
having lived in Holt county over 28
years, felt at home among such pion
eers as Col. Brennan, who has been a
resident of the county 31 years, and
Harry Spindler, who has past 30 win
ters and as many summers upon the
prairies of old Holt.
The trip to the picnic grounds,
about 18 miles, was a pleasant one—
except for the down pour of rain
which we got into and the Incessant
sharp lightning which at times came
too close to thoroughly enjoy the
grandeur of the waving fields of corn
and the many nice fields of thickly
shocked grain.
The exercises opened with an elo
quent address on American Citizen
ship by Rev. G. F. Mead of this city.
Col. Neil Brennan then delivered a
short but stirring address upon the
hardships encountered by the Holt
county pioneers during the early his
tory of the county. The Colonel, who
is one of the oldest settlers in the
county, was well qualified to deliver a
good address upon this subject and
that lie succeeded in doing so was
evidenced by the liberal applause
accorded him throughout and at the
conclusion of his address. Prof. Dav
idson of the State University was the
principal orator of the day. He is a
pleasing speaker and his address, al
though quite lengthy, was given the
closest attention.
After the speaking the various
sports were taken up and held the
attention of the crowd the balance of
the afternoon. A ball game between
the Blackbird and Redbird terms was
the center of attraction. Richter and
Richter were the battery for the
Blackbird team while O’Malley and
Richter done the battery act for the
Redbird team. Dick has never passed
as a twirler but the way he fanned
out the Blackbird boys demonstrated
that he has the making of a good
twirler. The score: 5 to 4 m favor of
Blackbird.
When the shades of night began to
gather the bowery dance started and
those who liked that form of amuse
ment enjoyed themselves until the
small hours of the morning. The old
settler’s picnic was a success and all
present thoroughly enjoyed them
selves.
A Worth While Book.
The Boyle’s College, Omaha, 1906
catalogue is just out and is free for
the asking.
As a review of the* fields of labor
open to, and opportunities to the
young man or young woman who will
become a finished stenographer, book
keeper or telegrapher, it is a perfect
eye-opener.
The fall term opens September 4.
If you are undecided as to just what
vocation you should choose, get the
catalogue, read every word of it, study
its columns, weigh its arguments in
your own mind. You will find it a
source of great inspiration. Address
Boyle’s College. 1807 Harney, Omaha,
Neb.
Notice.
Positively no hunting allowed on
Ditcli Co. premises.—Ditch Co.
Per, C. E. Keever.
M. DOWLING, President JAS. F. O’DONNELL, Cashier
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