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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1906)
The Frontier. <V* VOLUME XXVI._ O’NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 7. 1906 NUMBER 50. LOCAL MATTERS. The Frontier for job<work. Lincoln paint best made. Neil Brennan. 48-3 T. V. Golden has re-roofed his store buildings. Mrs. Laviollette is visiting at St. Paul, Minn. Miss Hudspeth of Stuart was In town Monday. Machine oil from 25c to 75 cents.— Neil Brennan. 48-3 Gasoline oil always on hand. At Neil Brennan. 48-3 County Treasurer Chittick went to Stuart yesterday. Henry Howard is back to his duties at the court-house. Willie Gatz entertained at a birth day party last night. For sale or rent, a good six-room house.—R. J. Marsh. 45-10 John Robertson of Stuart had busi ness here yesterday. 16th to 30th of each month are Dr. Corbett’s O’Neill dates. 44-tf Attorney Dickson had business at Omaha the first of the week. Refrigerators from $10 up; who’d be with out one.—Neil Brennan. 48-3 Judge Malone and family spent Sun day with relatives at Inman. Have you complied with the direc tions of the city health officer? Organs ranging in prices from $20 to $150. Smith’s Temple of Music. G. W. Hallock and George Krotter of Stuart were O’Neill visitois Sunday. Next Sunday evening the Rev. T. W. Bowen’s subject will be “Jeptha’s Vow.” Mrs. Killmurry is having a small residence built north of the Catholic church. Postmaster Wood came up from Ewing last evening, returning this morning. W. J. O’Connor has had his saloon front rebuilt, moving the entrance to the corner. H. A. Allen, our enthusiastic “Mea dow county” friend, had business in town Monday. Maylon Price is preforming the du ties of hardware and furniture man at Golden’s store. Lost—Two mare colts, 1 and 3 years old, light mane and tail.—Marston Bros., Dorsey, Neb. 50-2 P. J. Biglin was at Venus and Middle Branch with his oil wagon the fore part of the week. Will Beck of Ewing was up from Ewing today, a witness in a contest case at the land office. Deputy Treasurer Harnish has been off duty a few days to recuperate from an attack of nejve trouble. John Green came up from Meadow Grove Wednesday evening to attend to some business at the land office. Wanted—Man or boy to work at Hotel Evans, good wages to right party —Hotel Evans O’Neill, Neb. 50-2pd W. B. Robinson and John Beal, of Wheeler county, were in the city on business Wednesday and Thursday. For Rent—Store room 18x50 feet, on 4th street 2 doors from postofflce. Call on or write C. C. Reka, O’Neill. 50-tf The Methodist Sunday school are preparing a musical program for Children’s day exercises next Sunday. You overlook your best interests if you don’t consult G. W. Smith before buying a piano, organ or any small in strument. Miss Dorothy Testman and Miss Lenora Daly departed yesterday for Kearney to attend the state summer normal. A soral pony branded M on left hip, came to the Peter Tohill farm, 2 miles east of O’Neill, on May 15. 48-3 Harry Bowen. A force of men have been at work on the race track at the fair grounds, and now have the same in first-class condition. All kinds of glass insured against breakage by hail or any other cause. Ask C. E. Downey for rates. Phone 42, O’Neill. 49-3 Eleven hundred copies of McKinley Edition 10 cent music and popular music at half price. At Smith’s Temple of Music. Several rooms at the court-house have been repapered, Martin Cronin and James Trigg doing an artistic and thorough job. Ray Saberson and R. E. Gallagher, the Page lumber magnates, were cir culating among friends and admirers at the hub Saturday. At a meeting of the school board Monday night the construction of cement sidewalks was authorized at the school-house grounds.0 It is advisable for people who have trees that brancli out over the side walk to keep them trimmed so the branches do not interfere with travel. Cowperwaite & Son shipped their fat steers to South Omaha Sunday. Joe says they struck a good market Monday, one fine large steer in the bunch selling for $102. Web Kellogg of Emerson was here Tuesday looking after his cattle in terests. Mr. Kellogg and Ed F. Gal lagher have a large herd pastured in the country northwest. We understand that C. L Davis, who went to Moline, 111., some time ago, expects to remain and will move his family there. Moline will soon be able to claim an O’Neill colony. Dr. Douglas was down from Atkin son yesterday. The doctor says he doesn’t here much senatorial talk in his town but what there is, is favor able to Attorney General Brown. Mrs. J. H. Peeler and two children started Sunday last for the home of Mrs. Peeler’s parents in eastern Illi nois, her mother not being expected to recover from a spell of sickness. Miss Field, teacher in the primary department of our schools, began a six week’s summer school for the children on Monday. She conducts the school in the primary room at the school house. Rev. Meade went to Neligh Monday to attend the district Epworth League convention in session there this week. Miss Edith Meade and Miss Josie Howe went down on Tuesday as dele gates from here. M. F. Harrington and two sons, J. A. Donohoe, Frank Hopkins and Mike Sullivan started Monday for the Clip per mine fn Washington. Mrs. Har rington accompanied her husband and sons as far as Omaha. The editor had $8,400 in velvety currency in hand yesterday—but it wasn’t his (needless to say). A “bloated” banker came in to have the sheets separated into bills with The Frontier’s paper cutter. Work on extending the cement walks over the town was resumed this week and goes rapidly along. Fourth and Main streets will be pretty well cover ed by the end of the week. A number of crosswalks have also been put in. Editor Smith came up from Cham bers Friday, going to Newport that night to attend the meeting of Elk horn Valley editors there Saturday. Editor Miles and wife also attended the meeting, returning home yester day. II. A. Backas, editor of the Pierce County Leader, passed through the city Tuesday on his way home from the editorial meeting at Newport. Arthur says they had a good time making a trip to the Black Hills after the editorial session adjourned. A. F. Rouse of Blackbird visited a few minutes at this office while in town Friday last, the first time he had been to town he tells us since last fall. Mr. Rouse Is an officer in the cemetery association in his neighborhood and dropped in to get some information on the vital statistics law. William Clevish, the stalwart of Rock Falls, handed us the price of two year’s sub yesterday for himself and son-in-law at Conde, S. D. Mr. Clevish reports fine crop prospects in his neighborhood but say eve rybody is too busy to talk politics or make United States senators just now. Mrs. A. F. Mullen was called to Clinton, la., Thursday last by a tele gram announcing the death of her mother, who died very suddenly. Mrs. Mullen’s mother had been at the home of her daughter in O’Neill since last July and returned to her home at Clin ton only a week previous to her death. A copy of the Leavenworth, Wash., Echo is at hand containing a half column editorial booming J. J. King, formerly of O’Neill, for the republican nomination for representative from Chelan county. J. J. is a level headed fellow, a conslstant republican, and his friends here hope he lands the prize. J. V. Van Kirk was a caller at this office Monday to have some advertis ing prepared for auctioneering and to enroll himself on our list of readers. Mr. Van Kirk came here from Ante lope county in March, he having bought the Shea farm two and one half miles northeast. He has been making some substantial improve ments on his farm since coming here in the way of buildings! and says also that he has seeded down a large por tion of his land. Miss Zink is collecting up some of the best specimens of school work obtainable in the county for an ex hibit at the state fair. She was show ing some of the work brought down from Stuart for the exhibit at her office Monday. They consisted of essays on various subject, such as corn, alfalfa, leather, etc., with speci mens. A collection of Holt county grassess will be a feature of the exhib it, and to secure this collection Miss Zink is offering a small library as a prize. M. DOWLING. President JAS. F. O’DONNELL. Csshter i I SURPLUS * $55,000.00 I I 5 Per Cent Pa-id I | on Time Certificates of Deposit | t: This Bank carries no indebtedness of Officers or Stockholders I Cornelius W. Cross died at his home northeast of town very suddenly on Friday last, death probably resulting from heart disease. He was a few months passed sixty-six years of age, being born in Canada in the year 1839. The funeral was held at the Catholic church in this city Monday, being largely attended. Considerable improvement is under way at the Northwestern depot and the railroad yards. A new roof has been put on the depot and the freight department will be let down to a level with the balance of the building. Ex cavations are being made underneath for this purpose and dirt hauled out and the tracks graded. Mamie Larava has begun suit in district court against Stephen Larava for $500 and interest. The plaintiff alleges an agreement was made be tween her and the defendant whereby she was to have the sum of $100 a year for the care of two children of the de fendant’s and on this agreement the amount sued for is alleged to be due. The Grand Army and Woman’s Re lief Corps out at Leonie never fail in the observance of Memorial Day with appropriate public exercises. This is a rule of long standing with these organizations. The exercises were held in the Marquette chapel this year on last Wednesday. Fuller’s chorus rendered the musical part of the program, which is spoken of as' having been very fine. Judge Malone, himself the descendent of a family of soldiers who bore arms in defense of their country, gave a strong and stirring patriotic address. Guy Green came up from the plains of Wheeler county yesterday looking the typical homesteader. He and his brothers have each a Kinkaid homestead in a fine grass country. Guy tells a somewhat harrowing tale of a recent experience they had with wolves. A pack invaded their cattle corral during the night and stamped ed the cattle. Some of the cattle were so badly cut breaking through tlif* wire that he fears they will loose some of them. The apparent design of the wolves was to get the calves, which they drove away from the big cattle in the darkness and then left them, intending, Guy thinks, to satiate an appetite for fresh veal as soon as the calves had wandered far enough from the settlement. The boys rounded them all up, however, as soon as daylight came and incidentialy put a few hungry coyotes out of business. George Gillman was adjudged insane by the commision Tuesday and taken to Norfolk by the sheriff yesterday. It was rather an unusual case. Gil man, who is quite well known in the northern part of the county, started for Idaho. He landed in the vicinity of Weiser, where he was taken in charge by the authorities as an insane person. He was sent by them to Lin coln, this state, and thereSheriff Hall got him and b rought him to O’Neill after somewhat of a struggle in which the patient had to be put in the straps. At times he would appear as rational as anyone and again would become violent or go off into a state of semi unconsciousness. Sheriff Hall says dur ing his stay in Lincoln he was kept in the asylum and that when he took charge of him to take him to the depot he became violent as they were being driven along in a hack. Gillman start ed in to “clean out” the sheriff and in the struggle that ensued they were both thrown out of the hack. The sheriff finally got him subdued and he came peaceably the rest of the way. He spent the day in jail here Monday and Tuesday, at times was sullen or in a semi-unconscious condition, refusing to eat anything on Monday. At the hearing before the commission Tues day he appeared rational and told a rather remarkable story. He said he remembered nothing of his trip to Idaho only that he got on the Uain at Atkinson and changed cars at Fre mont. One of the pleasant rural homes of the county is that of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Halloran near Inman. The Fron tier scribe and family spent a pleasant Sunday at this hospitable home. Mr. and Mrs. Halloran have come up through the vicisitudesand hardships of the early pioneers. They are now enjoying the full fruition of the hopes and sacrifices and struggles of those early years. They are a couple rich in the experiences which, after all, develop the hardy American type of men and women, experiences the very bitterness of which are possessed with an interesting charm and devel op the individual qualities. Mr. and Mrs. Halloran came here in the early ’80s and have remained on the home stead taken then until they have developed one of the most desirable homes in the county. Local educators complain that there are so few boys who finish the high school course. Boys are scarce in the high school graduating class, it gener ally being the sweet girl gratuate who lisps with fervid eloquence, “be yond the Alps lies Italy. ” Educators are inclined to believe it is the fault of the high school course, as the boys, who realize that they must soon be wrestling with the practical prob lems of every day life, object to spend ing weary months pouring over Latin and Greek when they should be ac quiring something of some practical Value. The attitude the boys take is causing those engaged in educational work to advocate the introduction of the business course into high schools, thus giving the student his choice between it and the classic. There are several boys in the O’Neill high school, it is said, who would graduate next year if they continued in school but who say they will not do so, for reasons above stated. Notice to Dog Owners. Section 2 of Ordinance No. 22A, of the ordinances of the city of O’Neill, provides: Every owner or harborer of a dog or bitch shall, upon the first day of May of each year, pay to the chief of police the sum of $1 for each dog and $1 for each bitch. Section 3 provides: If the owner of any such dog or bitch shall fail to pay upon demand the license tax herein provided for, said dog or bitch shall at once be de stroyed by the chief of police, or some orther person appointed therefor. I am instructed by the mayor and city council to enforce this ordinance, and therefore notify dog owners that unless the license is paid and dog tag secured the same will be destroyed. Tags are secured of the city clerk by presenting to him my receipt showing your dog tax to be paid Bennet Martin, Marshal. The Markets South Omaha, June 6.—Special market letter from Nye & Buchanan. —Fat cattle are ruling steady to a shade stronger this week. Receipts are light and prices should show a good advance, but packers claim the pub licity given the alleged unsanitary conditions of their plants have injured the trade immensely. There is little doing in the Stockers and feeders divi sion and values are quotable un changed. We quote— Choice steers.$5 0005 40 Fair to good.4 60O'5 95 Common & warmed up. 4 20(0)4 60 Cows and heifers. 3 0004 50 Canners & cutters. 1 7502 90 Good feeders. 3 8004 20 Common to fair. 3 5004 00 Light stockers. 4 2004 60 Bulls. 3 0004 25 Veal. 5 0006 25 The hog market has slumped off 10 to 15 cents, but is strengthening up a little under lighter receipts. Range $6.20 to $6.30. The sheep market continues to hold its strength, but business is light. Very Low Rates to Boston, Mass., Via the North-Western Line, for tick ets to be sold May 31 to June 9, inclu sive with favorable return limits, on account of American Medical Associa tion and other Meetings. Apply to agents Cliicogo and North-Western R’y. ___ An Ode to a Schoolma’am. Teachers work from nine'til four; Three months a year, not any more. Thirty dollars per month tvhat they receive, Not very good pay, as you precelve. For striving to teach the youthful mind The rugged steeps of learning to ollmb. They must send for this paper and now for this book. Ah, sad was this turn In their journey they took. Car fare, examination and Institute fee. No money to pay It as I can seo. Two fifty per week they must pay for board Not very much left In tholr little hoard. When school Is over and debts are due They have simply nothing they can call new. Notone thing new since school begun; But school Is over and here conies the dun. “Have you attended a Normal school?" Says the law with a frown, “That's the new rule." “If you wish to teach any more You must tread that path thro' wisdom's door,” (And It looks to me like a sad mistake. For wages are small and expenses great.) Your school days are over and wlial can you do? Not a single man who would have you. With a spectacled nose and a sour grin. You walk around with your toes turned In. Who Is going to support you now that you oan't? You’re too cross and crabbed to live with your aunt. And when you're so old you've no hair to comb Die a natural death In an “Old Maid's Home.” A Fellow Sufferer. City Council Meeting. The city council met Monday even ing in regular session. The monthly budget of bills run a little higher than usual owing to bills being in for a number of crosswalks and a strip of sidewalk which the city paid for and will assess the same to the property adjacent to the walk. The matter of collecting the tax on dogs and various other things subject to an occupation tax was taken up and the marshal authorized to dis pose of all dogs in town not wearing a collar and tag showing the license fee to be paid. The secretary of the fire department was appointed and authorized to collect the occupation tax of $5 each on fire insurance com panies having agents or doing busi ness in the city. This money goes to the support of the fire department. The collection of all other occupation tax is to be done by the clerk. The council design to push the improvements the town has long been in need of and will use the funds paid in as occupation tax for this purpose. Advertised Letters. The following letters remain uncall ed for In the O’Neill postoillce for the week ending June 2, 1906: Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Kelley, Mrs. E. G. Cain! Joe Johnson, F. L Smith & Son; Postal card, A. P. Hoover. In calling for the above please say “advertised.” If not called for in two weeks will be sent to dead letter office D. II. Cronin, Postmaster. Very Low Excursion Rates to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Via the North-Western Line will be in effect from all stations, July 10 to 15, inclusive, with favorable return li mits, on account of Grand Lodge B. P. O. E Two fast trains through to Colorado daily, only one night. For full information apply to agents Chi cago & North-Western R’y. Marriage Licenses. Merler A. Richards and Jessie F. Brook, both of Atkinson. John Harmon and Hermena Preble, both of Basset. Thomas Flannery and Susan G. Crowley; Frank P. Dlugosh and Theo dosia Hytrek; all of Stuart. Excursion Tickets to Coal Dealers Meetings at Rock Island, 111., Via the North-Western Line, will be sold at reduced rates June 13 to 15, in clusive, limited to return until June 25, inclusive. Apply to agents Chica go & North-Western R’y. Notice. I am located in the real estate business in South Dakota. Can locate you on the choice government land and have some choice relinquishments for sale. I also have a good list of deeded lands. Will be pleased to answer all corres pondents. 3 A. E. Gwin, Presho, S. D Very Low Rates to Omaha, Neb., Via the North-Western Line. Excur sion tickets will be sold Jnne 11 and 12, limited to return until June 16, in clusive, on account of State Associa tion of Post Masters. Apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R’y. Very Low Rates to Buffalo, N. T., Via the North-Western Line. Ex cursion tickets will be sold June 8, 9 and 10, with favorable return limits, on account of Travelers’ Protective Association Meeting. Apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R’y. [the w. c. t. u. cornerI j "Vor Ood and Home and Native Land" j MU8. EMMA KELLEY, BUPT. There are four-hundred “dry” towns in the state of Nebraska. Reed Smoot has been unseated. Ov er eight thousand Nebraska women signed the protest against his retain ing seat in congress. A rye view.—It never rains but it pours. John G. Woolley had hardly landed in San Francisco before the the earthquake landed, too.—Barrels and Bottles. The W. C. T. U. is the largest single society of women in the world. It has a membership of over 300,000 and or ganizations in fifty-nine different countries. A little more than half of the entire area of the United States is now free from legalized saloons, and 33,000,000 of our people live under the prohibi tory laws. Not long since a general average of testimony gathered from 1,017 keepers of county jails In various portions of the United States showed that the proportion of crime due to drink was 72 per cent. Newspapers In several western cities are raging war against the pool halls as breeders of vice and crime; that they are not conducive to manhood is certain, and that in the influenoe they exert on boys they are worse than the saloon goes practically without saying. —Kearney Hub. Before we apply the epithet— “Weakling, fool” etc., to the man who cannot restrain his appetite for liquor, would it not be well for us to inquire from whence does he inherit his weak ness. The son of the moderate drink er may have more to reproach his father with than appears to careless observers. Atlanta’s new daily paper, edited by John Temple Graves, has taken the advanced stand of excluding all liquor advertisements from its columns. This Ib the more extraordinary as the “Constitution” published in the same city, probably carries more liquor ad vertising week by week than any oth er dally newspaper in the United States.—The Voice. Alcohol is to have a chance to live down a bad record in domestlo life. The House bill providing for free de natured alcohol to be used for fuel, light, power and other domestic and industrial purposes has escaped from Aldrich’s committee and bolted, like a runaway horse, through the senate, practically unchanged, save that its going into effect is postponed to Janu ary 1, 1907. This lines up the dis tillery on the side of the people against monopoly. The Standard Oil company will no longer be the only (John) Deity to say to the country “Let there be light."—The Voice. In one of the leading dailies of the past week appeared this item: “A man bearing an order for his own ar rest an incarceration in the inebriate asylum came to Omaha, but before the formalities could be carried out he died at the city hospital. The jury brought in the verdict, ‘Death from alcoholism.’ ’’ This is a sad incident but is of almost weekly occurance in our large cities. Less than half a de cade ago one of the brightest, brain iest young men among Holt county’B array of such, met his death from the same cause, almost upon the street of our little city. Voters and citizens who are responsible for the existence of the saloon, the question will some day be asked of you, "Where is thy brother?” First publlcotion June 7. ESTIMATE OF EXPENSES. On motion the City Council made the following estimate of the probable amount of all moneys necessary for all purposes to be expended by tne city government during the present fiscal year, commencing May 2, 1905, and ending on the first Tuesday of May, 1906: Salaries of city officers.91500 Fuel. 1000 Railroad sinking fund.... .1100 Streets, repairs and sidewalks.... 1500 Repairs on water works.1000 Judgment levy. 2500 Interest on railroad bonds.1200 Fire department supplies. 100 Interests on waterworks bonds.. 1200 Water bond sinking fund. 1200 Total.912800 The entire revenue for the previous fiscal year was as follows: Recieved of County Treasurer.96720 93 Occupation tax. 2500 00 Water rental. 1094 86 City scales. 145 40 Police Judge. 87 40 Miscellaneous. 427 00 Total.910975 59 Dated at O’Neill, Neb., June 4,1906. ED. F. GALLAGPER, Mayor. Romalne Saunders, Clerk. 60-4