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' 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<Mn have drawn anything Jbut
their legitimate dues allowed by law
as officers of the county.
The Independent also refers to a
son of Mr. Keyes as a party to the
‘•lifting” of “over 8800 out of the
county treasury." In the past two
years, Floyd Keyes,son of C.D. Keyes,
has had bills allowed by the board in
the following sums, $16, $31 and $27.
These are legitimate claims for haul
ing some eighteen or twenty loads of
lumber at different times for bridge
work and for working on bridges. If
the Independent regards these as
graft, what has it to say of the bill of
Jim Donohoe’s for $50 as guardian of
the Dressier children? There were
five of the Dressier children for whom
Judge Harrington appointed Donohoe
guardian and he filed a bill of #10 for
each child, approved by the district
judge, for formally having them
under his guardianship for about a
week.
The record of this bunch of fake
reformers brands them as grafters
and spoilers. To draw attention from
their record as such they endeavor to
to make out that those who have had
legitimate transactions with the
county are grafters.
A Methodist Minister Recommends
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.
We have used Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy in our home for seven years,
and it has always proved to be a reli
able remedy. We have found that it
would do more than the manufacturers
claim for it. It is especially good for
croup and whooping cough,Rev. James
A. Lewis, Pastor Milaca, Minn., M. E.
church. Chamberlain’s Cough remedy
is sold by Gilligan & Stout.
Briug in Your Poultry.
I will buy and pay cash for live
poultry. One door east of Bentley’s
grocery store.—J. U. Yantzi, O’Neill,
Neb. 19-4.
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