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VOLUME XXVII.
RACES ANDJTOCK SHOW
Events to Occur at O’Neill on Sept
ember 5, 6 ami 7.
SPEED PROGRAM IS NOW OUT
A ' Preparations Being Made for Coming
Events, With Several Ilores in
Training Here.
The complete speed program of the
North Nebraska Short Shipment Race
circuit is out. It includes race meets
at eight different towns in north Ne
braska.
The tirst meeting will be held at
Norfolk from August 15 to 17. The
subsequent dates will be as follows:
Neligh, August 22 to 24; Battle Creek,
August 29 to 31; O’Neill, September
5 to 7; Creighton, September 13 to 15;
Madison, 19 to 21; Stanton, 20 to 28;
and Tilden, October S to 5.
The society here is taking great in
terest in the meeting to be held in
O’Neill on Septembers, 6 and 7. The
speed program, with the purses, as ar
THE GREAT HAILSTORM.
Further Details of Heavy Downpour
In Northeast Holt
Details of what was perhaps the
worst hail storm within the memory of
theoldest inhabitant,that which swept
over the northeast part of this county
and into Knox county on June 26, are
gradually coming to light.
We had heard about the hail killing
chickens and pigs and the like of that.
The other day a friend from the Star
and Dorsey neighborhood told us that
it would be hard to overdraw the
stories of the terrifflc downpour of hail
and rain. As an illustration of the
great quantity of hail that fell, we
were told that the next day after the
storm heaps of hailstones to a depth
of five feet were found buried in the
debris in the gulches, having been car
ried down the hillsides by the great
flood of waters. The hailstones were
so thick that they formed nearly a so
lid bed of ice and did not melt away
for many days after. We were in
formed that on the Fourth, ten days
after, people in this community went
to these ice heaps in the gulches and
got their ice for making ice cream.
rFHin. eoronn t nl 1 i nnr no fhia voa IinGW
rangeu lor me wiree uays is as umuws.
Wednesday, Sept. 5.
3:00 class trotters..$200
2:20 class trotters or pacers. 200
4 mile running race for Holt county
horses. 50
Thursday, Sept. 0.
2:25 class trotters.$200
2:30 class trotters or pacers.200
Novelty running race l miles,mon
ey at each i. 100
Friday, Sept. 7.
2:50 trotters or pacers.$200
Free for all. 250
Free for all running race. 100
In addition to the speed program
there v; ill be other attractions, among
which will be a fancy stock show,
at which the best breeds of cattle in
the county will be exhibited. A large
barn has been erected on the fair
grounds to accomodate this feature.
Five fast horses are now on the
grounds and are in training under
Dave and Matt Stannard and Hugh
McKinna. Speed On, the fine young
colt owned by Dave Stannard that
made a record at the races here last
year, is among the bunch of local goers
now in training. Hugh McKinna has
a three-year-old that sets a fast pace
and has a promising future as a trot
ter. The McKinna and Stannard
horses covered an eighth in sixteen se
> cond in scoring Monday afternoon, or
a 2:08 gait for a mile. J. P. Gallagher
would not tell anything that was not
true, hence we accept it as a fact.
The effect of such a storm on vege
tation can more easily be imagined
than described. While the small grain
was completely wiped out where the
storm struck, the corn has partially
recovered and they expect about half
a crop.
Don’t Like the Shoshone.
People are coming away from the
Shoshone land drawing dissatisfied.
They have the reservation marked as
a poor country that is not worth the
price of admission.
“Should I draw a claim, I would
never go and file on it,” said a man
from Iowa to a representative of The
Frontier yesterday morning at the
Northwestern station. lie was on his
way home from a trip up there. “It
is a poor country that will never make
an agricultural section. At Shoshoni
there were terrific sand storms every
day I was there, and to a man from
Iowa or Nebraska the country looks
like a desert. There is not the rush
of people to register that was antici
pated, either. Only 1300 had register
ed up to last Saturday night and it is
probable a good many who draw a
claim will never file on it.”
Others returning from there express
similar sentiments.
anu n. x. vv oi lman nave eacu a noise
in training. In addition to the local
horses, others will be brought here
from different points. The president
of the agricultural society, P. J. Mc
Manus, says they expect to list for en
try this year some of the best horses
in the west, both in the trotting and
running events.
The Markets
South Omaha, July 25.—Special
market letter fromNye & Buchanan.
—We had a $6.40 top on cattle Tues
day, above Chicago’s top for that day.
Ripe dry lot beeves are holding nearly
steady with last weeks but the short
fed and common kinds come in compe
tition with the western rangers and
are 15 to 25 cents lower. This same
condition prevails with the cow and
heifer market. Inquiries for Stockers
and feeders are disappointingly small.
Choice heavy feeders are about a dime
lower and undesirable ones 15 to 25
cents lower. Yeal steady.
We quote—
Choice steers.$5 25(a>6 40
Fair to good. 4 25(a)5 20
Cows and heifers. 3 00(o)4 50
Canners & grassers. 1 90(«3 00
Good feeders. 3 40(a)4 15
Common to fair. 2 75(a)3 25
Bulls. 2 75(a)4 10
Yeal. 5 00(q?5 75
The hog market is again on the ad
vance under pressure of light receipts.
Range $6.50 to $6.65.
Receipts of sheep are becoming more
liberal with the tendency to weaken
values from the high level so far
maintained.
Hagerty Homestead Sold.
O. F. Biglin, receiverfor the defunct
Elkhorn Valley bank, yesterday an
nounced the sale of the Hagerty home
stead just west of town, which was
held as a bank asset, to James Mullen
of Page for $5,000. This property has
been the family home of the Hagerty’s
for many years.
The highest bid made at the re
ceiver’s sale some weeks ago was
$4,500.
A strange looking little man,with a
full and flowing beard of rich brown,
came into town Monday from the
west. He wore a peaked black hat
with neither band nor sweat pad, a
weather beaten pair of trousers and
coat and looked somewhat the picture
of dejected, and folorn. He spoke Eng
lish badly, but mild of manner, polite
and evidently harmless. He fell into
the hands and sympathetic graces of
Supervisor Biglin, who saw at a glance
that the county would have another
charge if the stranger was kept here
long. He was sick and stranded but
not a common “hobo. ” It was learn
ed from his story that he had been
sent from Billings, Mont., to Chadron,
this slate, and from Chadron here, and
that he has a brother in Yankton, S.
D. Supervisor Biglin gave him in
charge of the sheriff, who cared for
him until Tuesday morning, when a
railroad ticket was furnished him for
Yankton and he started off on the
Great Northern 7 o’clock passenger.
jj M. DOWLING. President JAS. F. O’DONNELL. Cashier
SURPLUS * $55,000.00 I
O’NEILL NAT’L BANK
5 Per Cent Paid
on Time Certificates of Deposit
This Bank carries no indebtedness of Officers or Stockholders
O’NEILL NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1906
LOCAL MATTERS.
Wes Evans was at Long Pine over
Sunday.
Judge Malone was an Inman visitor
Tuesday.
Brennan’s machine oil is cheaper
than machinery. 4-2
J. M. Morgan was down from At
kinson yesterday.
A son was born to Dr. and Mrs. J.
P. Gilligan yesterday.
16th to 30th of each month are Dr.
Corbett’s O’Neill dates. 44-tf
Walter Wyant is confined at his
home with typhoid fever.
Parnell Golden is home from his
school work at Golden, Colo.
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Pure Rev-o-noc and Eureka Stacker
rope at Brennan’s hardware. 4-2
W. W. Morrison of Valentine was
an O’Neill visitor over Sunday.
County Attorney Mullen went to
Stuart Tuesday on legal business.
Ira Laphan is again landlord at the
Dewey hotel, succeeding Mrs. Lakey.
A son is reported at the home of
Charles and Mae Ingersol, born Mon
day.
The W. C. T. U. will hold their
next meeting at the'M. E. church
August 2 at 8 p. m.
Lyman Waterman, the Midland
Central promoter, was down from
Newport Monday.
Miss Lidia Bowers, a former typo at
the Independent office, is over from
Herrick, S. D., on a visit.
I. W. King and son William of New
man Grove are visiting at the home
of Mr. King’s brother-in-law, C. E.
Hall.
Taken up-at my place 4 miles north
east of O’Neill, one red two year old
steer. D. W. Sullivan. 4-5
Next Sunday evening at 8 o’clock in
the Presbyterian church the Rev. T.
W. Bowen will speak on “How to
Choose a Husband.”
Mrs. David Moler and granddaugh
ter arrived Monday evening from
Marshalltown, la , where they had
been visiting the past four weeks.
Two trains went east over the North
western Tuesday morning carrying
soldiers and their equipment from Ft.
Niobrara, which has been adandoned
as a military post. The soldiers will
be stationed at different posts in
Texas.
The Bazelman Lumber company
have the frame work about completed
for their new building at tlie site of
the old lumber yard. Tlie new struc
ture will be about the size of tlie one
burned. The frame work will be cov
ered witli iron.
R. E. Rowden of the Agee country
tells us he lias made the bargain for
the sale of his farm and that when the
transaction is closed he expects to be
come a resident of O’Neill. R. E. is
one of the old timers here and we
would not like to see him leave.
A Band Benefit Ball will be given at
tlie opera house Friday, July 27. Grand
March at 9 o’clock fnot 10 o’clock) by
the full band. After opening by tlie
full band the O’Neill Symphony Or
chestra of a doz.en pieces will furnish
the music. Give the band a boost.
The bargain counters in the O’Neill
stores these days have the catalogue
salemen outdone by a long stretch.
Tlie prudent buyer doesn’t let his
money get away through tlie mails for
something he hasn’t seen when there
are greater bargains in his home town.
A band of Indians camped just
north of the cemetery for a few days
last week, making occasional excur
sions down town. The redskins are
becoming something of a curiosity
around here, these being the tirst that
have visited the town for a number of
years.
The remains of Miss Gallagher were
brought here from Tilden Saturday
last for interment beside those of her
father, Martin Gallagher. The re
mains were accompanied by a number
of the relatives of the deceased. The
family formerly lived three miles north
of town.
R. R. Dickson arrived home Sunday
from Excelsior Springs, Mo., where he
put in ten or a dozen days taking the
“water treatment.” The springs are
becoming quitea popular health resort
TWO RUNAWAYS.
Saturday An Unfortunate Day With
Livery Teams.
Two exciting runaways occurred last
Saturday. In both cases it was a team
from Mellor & Qullty’s barn. Willie
Woodrulf was sent with a team from
the barn to hook onto O. F. Biglin’s
carriage at bis home to drive to the
Northwestern depot to meet the
friends coming in on the afternoon
train with the remains of Miss Gal
lagher who died at Tilden. One of
the span of horses appeared to be par
ticularly fractious. Near the stand
pipe one side of the neckjoke came
down and the horses were olT like a
shot, drawing the carriage and boy
after them. The team were seen com
ing down the street and an eifort was
made by several to stop them,but with
out avail. The boy clung to the lines
until they crosssd the Great Northern
tracks, when the tongue of the car
riage struck the ground and broke,
stopping the vehicle suddenly. The
horses dashed on and jerked Willie,
still clinging to the lines, out over the
dashboard. The frightened animals
came to bay at the next railroad,
where the more fractious of the two
leaped over a horse and buggy belong
ing to W. J. O’Conner that stood in her
way and landed on her head on the
railroad track. O’Connor’s buggy was
partially wrecked, the dashboard be
ing knocked off and a wiieel dished. A
broken tongue was the only damage
done to the carriage.
In the evening a team belonging to
the same livery got away from Art
Menisli, ran toward the barn and
smashed into a telephone pole, splint
ering the buggy and tearing away with
the rattling, slapping harness in the
darkness.
Minor Mention.
Steven P. Davis of Syracuse, Neb.,
and Olda T. Bengtson of Page were
granted license to wed on Tuesday.
Others to secure license and be joined
in wedlock since our last issue were:
T. M. Itomine of Norfolk to Myrtle
Smith of Page; Frank Greger to
Marguetha Miksch, both of Stuart.
L. E. Carscallen, who bought the
Maylon Price barber shop something
over a year ago and subsequently sold
to Mr. McMichael, has again engaged
in the barber business here, the fix
tures he sold reverting back to him.
He has formed a partnership with
Mr. Phalen and they are running a
place jointly where the latter fias been
conducting a shop the past year, in
stalling Mr. Carscallen’s mirrors. He
expects to move his family here from
Tilden within the next two months.
Mr. McMichael has retired from the
barber business in favor of his bird
dogs.
The crop prospect in Holt county
will average up with those of recent
years. In the south half of the coun
ty the crops are much better than
they have been in recent years, many
corn fields promising now a 50-bushel
to-the-acre yield. Hay is fully as
heavy and of a better quality in the
great hay belt. The northern half of
the county has suffered some from the
lack of rain. In the rich farming
country stretching from just north of
O’Neill to the Niobrara river district,
we are told by farmers living there,
that they will harvest from one-half
to two-thirds of the ordinary crop of
grain. Upland hay is scarce and pas
tures are short. The season lias been
quite remarkable. Cool weather has
prevailed all summer with but little
rain. One or two heavy downpours
were recorded in June but only light
showers of from one-sixteenth to an
eighth in July. Stock men in the dry
sections are reducing their herds to
some extent owing to a partial reduc
tion of the usual abundance of feed.
Others had their cattle ready for mar
ket. Six to eight hundred head have
been shipped out from this point with
in the past fortnight.
The Christian Endeavor subject for
next Sunday evening is, “Gardiner,
and Mission to Latin America.”
Vesta Barnett, Leader.
Mr. and Mrs. B A. Powell and little
son of Minneola departed yesterday
morning for a visit at Lincoln and
other points in the southern part of
the state.
The Nye Schneider Fowler Co. at
Emmet are now carrying a complete
stock of lumber, hardware, coal,
paints and oil.— L. E. Haag,
Manager. 4-tf
Miss Alma Mills of Valentine visit
ed at the home of her uncle, It. H.
Mills, here Sunday and Miss Nellie
Mills of O’Neill accompained her home
for a short visit.
Brennan’s twine prices: Hemp 101
cents per pound, Osborne standard
11 icents per pound, Deering standard
12 cents per pound, International 12
cents per pound. 4-2
Some sixty teachers of the county
took the examination for certificates
here Saturday last, two rooms at the
school house being occupied by them
during the examination.
B. J. Marsh and George Sweeny de
parted Monday evening for the Shos
hone country to register in the land
drawing. They will visit in the Black
Hills country while away.
Dan Davis and Fred Barnett and
their families loaded their household
effects and personal property into a
car Tuesday and have gone to Ains
worth to make their homes.
Lost or stolen—From my place 2
miles north of Mineola last Sunday
night, one roan cow five years old
branded J on right hip. $10 reward
will be given tinder. Patrick Minton.
There will be a dance at the rink to
morrow night for the benefit of the
O’Neill band. As this is the first hop
for some weeks and the proceeds to go
to a proper enterprise it will no doubt
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ana ±.mok minus ns a goou piaoe to go
for a man who gets a little off his feed
at home.
A traveling evangelist was in town
Monday, preaching on the streets aft
erno:*h and evening. The man is
blind and has a little boy companion
to lead him about. They travel in a
light covered wagon, on the cover of
which is printed in large letters: “The
Glad Tidings; A. E. Hatch, the Way
side Evangelist.”
The trial of an assault and battery
suit is called for 10 o’clock in county
court today. It is the state of Ne
braska against Frank O. Kellogg,
Thomas Y. Atkinson being complain
ing witness. The case grows out of
trouble had at the annual school
meeting in one of the districts down
in Swan township. It is alleged that
Kellog assaulted Atkinson. County
Attorney Mullen prosecutes the case,
and Attorney Dickson defends.
The board of education has three
applications for the superintendancy
of the schools, made vacant by the re
signation of J. V. Dwyer. A gentle
man from Wakefield by the name of
Kindig, another from Meadow Grove
by the name of McCarthy and C. A.
Hubutt of Bassett have applied to the
board in person. No action has been
taken yet in the matter but a meet
ing to select a superintendent will be
held in the near future. Mr. Dwyer
goes to Omaha to study law at Creigh
ton university.
J. J. McCaflerty, who has been home
for a few weeks, expects to resume his
duties soon as traveling representa
tive of a wholesale stove-concern. Mr.
McCafTerty was forced to lay off a
while because of the rather unusual
experience of having his feet poisoned
by wearing a pair of modern brightly
colored sox, which took the skin off
and gives his feet the appearance of
being burned. Like Soxless Jerry of
Kansas, J. J. now is going without
hosiery until fully recovered from the
effects of the poisoning.
Mary E. Desjarlais has begun suit
for divorce in district court against
her husband, George Desjarlais. They
were married at Fairfax, 8. D., April
10,1905, and have one child. Cruelty
and neglect is alleged.
The extra train on the Northwest
ern was short lived. It lasted but a
week. The final trip was made last
Sunday. The train was put on to
handle the passenger trattic to the
Shoshone reservation.
W. H. Wright of Minenk, Illinois,
was in the city a few days last week
and this. Mr. Wright lias large real
estate holdings in this county and was
here looking after the same. He be
lieves there is a great future for this
section of Nebraska and thinks land
here at present prices is a good invest
ment. He departed for home Tuesday
expecting to return in about three
weeks.
State capital item in the World
Herald: Sheriff C. E. Hall of Holt
county has written an urgent letter to
Dr.C. A. McKim, state veterinarian,
asking him to come at once to O’Neill
that he may determine whether it is
really glanders that affect some horses
which are under quarantine. Expla
nation is made in the letter that the
farmer owner of the horses is losing
his grain because he cannot pass along
the public road to a portion of his
farm two miles away. He is unwill
ing to bring new horses on his place
if the others are in truth suffering
from glanders, and he does not want
to kill the sick horse if they are not
so afflicted. Hr. McKim left today for
O’Neill and will stop at Ainsworth
and Pilger to examine some cattle
said to be afflicted with tuberculosis
NUMBER 5.
SUIT ON MIN BOND
Action Against Former County Treas
urer and Bond Company.
UNLAWFUL DEPOSIT OF MONEY
County Sues for Amount Alleged to
Be In Excess of Legal Share Under
Depository Laws.
County Attorney Mullen has filed
his petition In distrsct court in an ac
tion to recovei for the county from
the bond company furnishing the bond
of $150,000 for former County Trea
surer D. J. Cronin, the action growing
out of the failure of the defunct Elk
horn Valley bank. The County At
torney asks for a judgment of #1,134.
74, this amount being alleged to be in
excess of that bank’s pro rata share of
the county funds, under the state de
pository laws, on November 23, 1904.
The title of the case is the County
of Holt vs. Daniel J. Cronin and the
United States Fidelity and Guarantee
Company of Maryland. The company
is authorized to do business in Ne
braska, and has headquarters at
Omaha.
Mr. Mullen’s petition, which covers
several pages of typewritten matter,
recites that at the time when the in
solvency of the bank became known
there was $4,019.50 of county funds de
posited in the bank, that the ossests
of the bank will reimburse the county
nut to exceed $2,772.74; that under the
depository laws of the state Treasurer
Cronin unlawfully and unmindful of
his duty as custodian of the county
funds had on deposit in the bank the
sum of $1,134.74; that this amount was
in excess of the pro rata share of the
bank, according to its capitalization;
that on J uly 12,1906, the county de
manded of D. J. Cronin that he pay
this amount, but he refused and con
tinues to refuse to do so. Judgment
is therefore prayed for in the amount
stated.
Advertised Letters.
The following letters remain uncall
ed for in the O’Neill postofflce for the
weekending July 21, 1906:
Louie Wagner, Lucln Wash, Mrs.
Frank Welsh, Arthur A. Selman,
John D. Shaw, J. W. Mouce, M. F.
McCarthy, Wm. Leng, Byron Kibler,
Frank Leary: * Cards Adolph Ozier,
Jno. Hull, Lizzie Falkner, J. H. Wil
son.
In calling for the above please say
“advertised.” If notcalledfor in two
weeks will be sent to dead letter office
D. H. Cronin, Postmaster.
Notice.
No hunting or trespassing allowed
on the J. B. Murnan ranch.
3-4pd J. B. Murnan.
O’Neill fans seem to have dropped
out of the game this summer.
Mrs. Homer Garretson came over
from Sioux City Friday last for a
fornight’s visit here, the guest of Mrs.
J. A. Golden.
It was reported in town this morn
ing that there was a safe blowing in
the store of D. W. Stuart at Stuart
last night and $140 stolen.
T. B. Maring, one of The Frontier’s
old friends living near Emmet, was
a caller today. Mr. Maring says he
has a splendid crop prospect.
The democratic county central
committee was scheduled for a meet
ing Tuesday at John Harmon’s office
but John says he don’t know what
was done about the county conven
tion, nor have we been able to see
any democrat that does.
Married, at the home of the bride’s
parents five miles west of O’Neill on
Wednesday, July 25, by Rev. Geo. F.
Mead, John P. Conrad, of Inman and
Georgiana Cole. A number of very
useful and valuable presents were giv
en to the young couple. They will
reside at Inman.
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