* ^ / I / The Frontier. ' VOLUME XXVI). O’NEILL. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1906 ~ NUMBER 19. HEAVYDEMANDFOR CARS Railroads Unable to Handle Shipments Fast as Wanted. EX-PRESIDENT OF BANK DEPARTS Has a Round In Justice Court Before Leaving. — Attachment Proceed ings Collects Bills. There is something doing up the Elkhorn valley this fall. There is no doubt but this is the banner year for this section of Nebraska in producing grain and live stock. This isaccounted for both in an increased production per acre and in the fact that many new settlers have come into the country, opening up a larger acreage that has been made to produce. The railroads are simply swamped with traffic and can nowhere near meet the demand on them for cars to move the live stock, hay and potatoes pro duced this year in northwest Nebras ka. All of the engines, cars ai\d crews of the Northwestern road that can possibly be spared from eastern divis ions have been pressed into service on the company’s line west of Norfolk, and yet stock and hay shippers can not get cars as fast as they want them. Railroad men claim that during the month of October the demand for freight cars along this line of road has been three times greater than they could supply. Every available engine and car has been put into service and the train crews worked over time. The rails are kept hot day and night handling the traffice. The conjested condition of railway traffic indicates the large surplus this section has this year to turn onto the markets. _ Mrs. Hagerty and family departed Saturday last for Seattle, Wash. Bernard McGreevy and family follow ed on Sunday, though their destina tion was not made known. The McGreevys were delayed a day by an action commenced in Justice Slat tery’s court by P. J. McManus to recover on an account he claimed due. Attachment proceedings were begun late Friday night by Mr. McManus, after an unsuccessful effort to collect a bill of something over $60. Mc Manus took possession of some of their baggage during Friday night and Saturday morning swore out a search warrant for a car of household goods billed by Mrs. Hagerty to Seattle in which he claimed were goods belonging to McGreevy. Action on the seach warrant was interrupted by the defendant appearing in justice court and paying the bill. Two other local merchants also had bills Oi from $100 to $150 each which were paid as the probable result of the attachment proceedings. Advertised Letters. The following letters remain uncall ed for in the O’Neill postofflce for the week ending Oct. 27, 1906: Mrs. A. C. Ayers, Chas. Andrews Joe Burner, Geo. M. Hanson, Mrs. Alpha Haggerty, John N. Miller, Miss Sarah Morgan; Cards—L. S. Laltue, Mrs. C. C. Tawoer. 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. When buying Hour in O’Neill, please enquire my prices and buy where you can do the best.—Con Keys. 19-1 pd STANDING UP FOR HOLT. Mr. Sammons Makes Some Pointed Observations for Consideration of Voters. Amelia, Neb., Oct. 29.—To the Editor of The Frontier: The time is now drawing near, when each voter shall judge the different candidates and their platforms and give his tinal decision, which ends the battle. The advice and thecomparsions giv en to the voters by the Independent of October26, seems to be inconsistent. For instance, the comparison of Con gressman Kinkaid and Mr. Brennan. It tells us that for twenty years we have been electing Mr. Kinkaid to one office above another. Mind you, the voters of Holt county have done this. In another column they tell us what a shylock he was and if those people were here today he would get the “bounce.” If thatwerethe fact, why didn’t they “bounce” him when they were here? Why has he been elected these long years? The voters of this county will answer this question at the polls again this year, so all may know who stands up for Holt county. The Independent says “it has always stood up for Holt county and the peo ple.” Is it standing up for us, when we have, as you say elected him for twenty years, thus showing our great respect for him? Now you say, “You don’t know your business. Drop your old friend and neighbor, whom you hove trusted these long years, and vote for the stranger from Scott’s Bluff.” Is this standing up for Holt county? Now, as to Mr. Brennan, you say he. was never an office-seeker If my mind fails me not, I remember when he ran, a few years ago on the republican tick et, for treasurer. It was your party’s turn to cry him down then, while now you laud him. I will say I voted for him then, and am proud today that I did, as I believed him a good citizen and an honest man then and do now. Now, the question is, which of us stands up for Holt county? Mr. Editor, I am puzzled as to their meaning when using the word “plund er bund.” In reading the article, it seems to me to mean that they have been preaching these things over and over to us, and while they don’t believe we will believe them, they wish we would. In the article the Independ ent says “it is speaking the truth, and nothing but the truth,” and a little farther down, it says it is not talking “hot-air.” It reminds me of when I was a small boy attending school. Some oi us would play truant and go in swimming. We all tried to feel very brave by telling each other the excuses we would make to the teacher next day, but deep down in our hearts we knew we were wrong, and as we faced our teacher the next morning with our excuse,our “Honest, its so; Honest, its so,’’grew very faint. The biography it gives of W. E. Scott would make the reader believe him to be a hyptonist, or possessed of great winning powers over men. It says, “The preachers, lawyers, judges and democrats all throw their money at him.” If he has such a faculty of getting what he wants, he is now out for votes, and it will stand his oppon ent in hand to be up and doing. It says the people of Atkinson are “on” to him. I predict that he will get more votes in his home town, Atkin son, than his opponent does in his home town, O’Neill. I want to ask two questions ol the voters of this county: 1. Why was it, that the Independ ent said the voters of this county put the republican out of office a few years ago? Didn’t it say it was because they were dishonest? 2. Wliy is it, the voters have near ly cleaned the fusionists out of the county offices now? Respectfully yours, O. C. Sammons. LOCAL MATTERS. Next Tuesday is election. International stock food at Albert’s harness shop. 19-8 A brother of Mrs. C. E. Howe is here from Wisconsin visiting. Coin is 30 cents; 10 years ago it was 5 cents on the O’Neill market. Singer Sewing Machines at Albert’s harness shop. 19-8 WalterJiRathburn is home from a two-month’s sojourn in South Dakota. Walter LaViolette departed Tues day for St. Paul, where he has a posi tion in a drug store. For Sale—A gentle driving team, also their home in southeast O’Neill. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Dillon. 19-tf The Frontier is equipped for turning out the most attractive sale bills on short notice. Martin Sanders, the fusion candid ate for senator, was in O’Neill Mon day. Patrick Brennan returned Tuesday from Omaha, where he has been tak in treatment at a hospital. The Rev. J. M. Caldwell, D. D., will preach in the Presbyterian church next Sunday evening. John Brennan is behiud the counter again at his father’s hardware. John has been in Fremont during the summer. The W. C. T. IT. will hold their next meeting at the home of Mrs. C. Bright on Wednesday, the 7th of November, at 3 p. m. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th weeks of each month except Fridays and Saturdays are Dr. Corbett’s new dates for O’Neill. Roy Dames are reported tins weeK at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Donohoe and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Derby. The Frontier has a large quantity of carbon paper which makes perfect duplicates. Sold in sizes and quantit ies to suit purchaser. Apples have been sold in bulk from the car at 65 cents a bushel the past week. Local merchants have stocked their cellars for the winter. A delegation of Brown county ad mirers of “the peerless” came down today from Ainsworth to attend the Bryan meeting here tonight. O. F. Biglin was at Syracuse this week to effect a sale of a small tract of land near there held as an asset of the defunct Elkhorn Valley bank. 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 An alarm of lire stirred up some ex citement about six o’clock last Friday evening. It proved only an over heated chimney at McCafferty’s resi dence. Rev. William Sprandel will preach to the German Lutheran congrega tion at the Union church five miles northwest of O’Neill on Sunday, November 4, at 2:30 p. m. The weather has been decidedly boisterous and uncomfortable the past two weeks for the candidates and stump speakers touring the county. It has made trade brisk among the merchants, however, as people have had to buy more or less winter cloth ing. David and Mrs. Moler departed last week for Wayne, where they will make their future home. Their de parture removes another couple of the old settlers of this county and who have been among our best citizens. They have the well wishes of many friends here in their new home. Miles Williams, conductor on a Great Norther freight, met with an accident at Randolph Wednesday evening. He was injured while at tempting to catch a car that | they were switching and the hand hold broke, throwing him to the ground. He was brought to O’Neill on the freight last night on a cot and was taken to Sioux City this morning. There are some very good specimens of agricultural products to be seen around this vicinity this year. There are innumerable fields of corn thatiis just as good as the best $100-an-acre land can produce. Potatoes are large with a splendid yield. Patrick Barrett was in town with a load of mammoth “spuds” Tuesday that went quick at 40 cents. lie reported to a real estate man that he had planted eight bushels and has dug three hundred bushels. Applies for Mandamus, The state of Nebraska ex rel. Lesie I. Pucket vs. the Chicago and North western Railway company is the title of a case in district court, the object of which was to obtain a peremptory writ of mandamus cunpelling the rail, road company to furnish the plaintiff cars at Emmet in which to ship sixty tons of hay to Lincoln. The plaintiff’s petition recites that helhas hay to the amount of sixty tons at Emmet that he wanted to ship to Lincoln and alleges that the railroad failed to furnish him the cars, al though he repeatedly had applied for the same. lie also asks damage in the sura of $30. An alternative write was issued by Judge Harrington directing the rail road to furnish the cars by noon on Monoav, October 29, or appear in court and show cause why they should not furnish the cars. Tlie railroad company filed an ex. tended answer in which it is claimed that they had been unable to furnish Pucket cars promptly by reason of the heavy demand for cars, there having been a daily demand during October for <>00 freight cars along this division with only 200cais available for daily supply. They also state that previous to the commencement of this action five cars had been sidetracked at Eminet for hay shippers and that Pucket had been given one of these, his proportionate share. By the time of the hearing on the application for a peremptory writ, October 29, five other cars had been sent to Emmet for hay shipments and Pucket, the defendants answer states, had taken possession of these without the consent of the railroad company ana had loaded his hay into the same. Puckett having got the cars for shiping his hay, the question of law involved in the action was secondary and by agreement the case was adjourned until the December term of court. "BrennEn and Kinkaid.” The senior slander mill attempts an odious comparison of two old, respect ed and repeatedly honored citizens of the town. Both are republicans. One is a candidate for ofllce, the other isn’t. Either have done more for the upbuilding of Holt county than the slander mill will ever do. But the attitude of the fusion strategy board is very amusing. When Col. Brennan was a candidate for county treasurer on the republican ticket thirteen years ago he was slandered and villifled just as Judge Kinkaid is by this same gang of political cut-throats. If they lied about an old settler and respected citizen like Col. Brennan thirteen years ago and now come forward and speak of his good qualities, who knows but what our distinguished congress man may yet have a similar experience. It is remembered, too, that when O. F. Biglin was a candidate on the republican ticket he was branded as a thief and a deadbeat by the slander mill. They have since taken Mr. Biglin into full fellowship. The largest republican majorities ever rolled up in the county were the two years under the leadership of Col. Neil Brennan as chairman of the republican county central committee. Charge of Wife Desertion. Emma Gwin has commenced crim inal proceedings against her husband, Arthur E. Gwin, for wife desertion. The complaint charges that he aband oned her September 16, 1904, and has since refused to live with or support her. Proceedings were begun before Justice Slattery by the county attorn ey. The defendant being in South Dakota, requisition was obtained and Arthur Barrett commissioned to bring tlie defendant into court. The de fendant has been in the Black Hills country since leaving here about a year ago. He was arrested by Barrett on a warrant obtained from the gov ernor of South Dakota and brought to O’Neill. The defendant waived hear ing in justice court and was held to the district on $500 bonds, which were furnished and he returned to South Dakota. R. F. D. No. 1. C. K. Ernest is building a new barn, he is doing his own carpenter work. Will Bell, Charles Weight and Jim Harding went south for a week’s duck hunting. Henry Loslier has returned from Indiana where he has been visiting his father whom he had not seen for twenty years. Tlie large attendance at the funeral of J. W. Dahlin was a testimony of the high regard in which his neigh bors held him, there was much sympathy expressed for his lonely condition and the way in which he diftd. REPUDIATE IT. Democrats Don't Like the Conduct of Local Fusion Organ. “I have been a democrat all my life and am still a democrat,” said one of the substantial farmers of Grattan township the other day, “but I am going to vote the republican ticket this fall and do what I can to clean out the gang of mock reformers. They having been sending me sample copies of the Independent and if what they are getting out as campaign editions is a sample of the sheet I would be the best republican in the county if they were to send it to me for three months.” These are not words made up for political effect but are substantially the very words used by the gentleman quoted. And he Is not the only one who talks and feels that way. Hund reds of democsats and populists openly repudiate the slanderous publication in the cellar that pretends to stand for reform. Hundreds of them are going to vote for one or more republi cans because of the villainous assaults made by the slander mill. An O’Neill democrat, who no doubt will vote his ticket straiget, says he regards the publication no more fit to go into a man’s home than the Police Gazette. There are legitimate political issues with which it is the duty of an editor to present to the public, but the slanderous and libelous productions of the fusion organ at O’Neill is a travesty on the newspaper profes. slon. Business View vs. Political View. Here is something picked up in the want ads of the Lincoln Journal: TELEGRAM. FROM THOMAS COUNTY, NEBRASKA. J. H. Edminsten Lincoln, Neb.: A farmer near Thedford haa a narrow escape last Saturday while out gather ing corn. He was at the top of a 30-ft ladder leaning against a stock of corn, when he fell, and when within fifteen feet of the ground had the presence of mind to cling to a nubbin and hang there until a neighbor drove under him and saved his life. Signed: The Editor. lie lived on a Kinkaid homestead of <>40 and says there are several other homesteads of the same kind in his neighborhood that can be taken. See J. II. Edminsten at 1012 O street, who it Is said has a sample of the corn. Mr. Edminsten is one of the prom inent pops of the state. His adver tising sets forth quite a different view than the verdict pronounced by our local pop paper, which brands the Kinkaid homestead as a “curse.” Teacher’s Program. The following is the program for Teacher’s Beading Circle, Nov. 9, to be held at the high school building at 7:30 p. m: Boll Call. 7:30—7:35, Questions. 7:35—7:45, Paper, “Attention,”Elsie Butler. 7:45—8:00. Discussion. 8:00—8:05, Paper, “Sensation,” Kathleen Doyle. 8:05—8:20, Discussion. Essentials of teaching reading. 8:20-9-00, Discussion of chapters iii, iv and v on Melody, Force and Quality. Prepare work, giving careful atten tion to outline and review questions at the close of each chapter. The date has been changed from Nov. 10 to the above named. Committee. LINGEBING COLD. Withstood Other Treatment But Quickly Cured by Chamberlain’s Cough Itemedy. "Last winter I caught a very severe cold which lingered for weeks,” says J. Urquhart, of Zephyr, Ontario. “My cough was very dry and harsh. The local dealer recommended Chamber lain’s Cough Itemedy and guaranteed it, so I gave It atrial. One small bot tle of it cured me. I believe Chamber lain’s Cough remedy to be the best I have ever used.” This remedy is for sale by Gilligan & Stout. THE GREAT STORM IS OVER BUT BE SURE TO PREPARE FOR THE NEXT WITH A RETORT OAK Some reasons why the Retort Oak is the most de- * | sirable stove to buy: fj I 1st. Tried and true. H 2d. Economy of fuel, saving one-half. 3d. Cleanliness in operation. 4th. Absence of gas, smoke, smell and dirt. 5th. Durability. | 6th. Floor warmer. 7th. Uniform heat, can be regulated to a hairsbredth. | 8th. Will keep fire 48 hours. 9th. Simplicity in operation, style and finish—abso- || -■ lutely the ninth wonder. At Brennan's Hardware The stove that is there with the goods. | Another Strategy Board Bluff Melts Under Lime Light. POP DRAWS MORE THAN KEYES Allegations Against Supervisor From Fifth District Is Only a Fusion Roorback. Indenpendent: Supervisor Keyes S has been in office only a year and eight months but he and his minor kid have already “lifted” over $800 out of the county treasury. The above excerpt from the fusion slander mill is printed here in con junction with a certificate from the county clerk’s office showing just i what Supervisor Keyes has been paid for his services on the board, com pared with that of J. C. Clark, the populist supervisor from district j No. 1. State of Nebraska. Holt county, ss: I, W. P. Simar, county clerk of Holt county, Nebraska, do hereby certify that the records of my office show that Supervisor C.D. Keyes of district No. 5 has received fees as supervisor since Jan. 1, 1905, the sum of $756.95. That J. C. Clark, supervisor of dis t.rcit No, 1, has received as fees since Jan. 1, 1905, the sum of $809.90. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this 29th day of October, 1906. (Seal) W. P. SIMAR, County Clerk of Holt County, Ne braska, by Roy Smith, Deputy. The purpose of the Independent in stating that Keyes has “lifted over $800 out of the county treasury" is obviously to create a false impression, as everything of a political nature it publishes is so Intended. The county clerk certifies that Keyes has received for services on the board since January 1, 1905, the sum of $756.95, while his populist colleague, Mr. Clark of district No. 1, has re reived $809.90 since January 1, 1905, or $52.95 more than Mr. Keyes. The Independent endeavors to make out that Mr. Keyes has been grafting the county. If so, what has Clark done? The fact is that neither of th M. DOWLING, President JAS. F. O’DONNELL, Ceshler SURPLUS $55,000.00 I O’NEILL NAT’L BANK 5 Per Cervt Paid Ion Time Certificates of Deposit This Bank carries no indebtedness of Officers or Stockholders j -