The Frontier.
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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
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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.
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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