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VOLUME XXVII. O'NEILL. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1907 " " NUMBER 32.
FINANCESOFTHE COUNTY
Annual Statement Made by Mr.
Chittick.
MUCH INDEBTEDNESS PAID OFF
Many Claims Liquidated During Past
Year and Good Cash Balance
Left.
R. E. Chittiok’s statement of the
financial condition of the county ap
pears in this issue. This statement
shows a cash balance on hand of a
trifle less than $71,000. During the
year Mr. Chittick has paid out for all
purposes, county general expenses and
to township, school and village treas
urers, redemption of bonds, etc., a to
tal of $248,791.13. After paying this
amount of indebtedness and claims
there is a flattering balance on hand.
When Mr. Chittick took charge of
the treasurer’s office there was a heavy
rush the first two months on the part
of township and school treasurers who
had been unable to get their money of
the preceding treasurer as he was
holding it so as to have a hundred
thousand to turn over to his successor.
During the month of February of last
year he was calledupon tor and paid out
to school treasurers the sum of $8,425.
96; in March $13,191.28. During these
two months he paid to township treas
urers $6,352.23, to village treasurers
$3,883.94, and on one bunch of war
rants held by a fusion scalper $11,433.
08; or a total of $43,087.47. In addition
to ihis there was paid during the
months of February, March and April
in O’Neill, Atkinson and Grattan
township bond, sidewalk and judgment
funds the sum of $10,301.71, making a
grand total of $53,389.18. Almost the
whole of this should have been paid
out by the previous treasurer, who
would thus have had his cash balance
reduced to about $50,000.
It is noted by Mr. Chittick’s state
ment that the warrants held in trust
by him amounted to but $39.38 in ex
cess of the amount the fusion strategy
board claim in an injunction suit start
ed to be the limit which he should
turn over to his successor, namely $4,
500. The trust warrants amount to
$4,539 38. It is also noted by this state
ment that he could lawfully have more
than $8,000 invested in trust warrants.
The fusion bosses were evidently going
on the theory that the county treas
urer’s office was being run on the
plan of their last treasurer and
they would make a fine piece
of p alitical capital out of a law suit
they probably had good reason to be
lieve would be well grounded if the
same conditions still obtained.
In connection with the fusionion
leaders’ boasted economy, an item of
interest to the tax payers is noted in
the difference in salaries absorbed by
the treasurer’s office in 1905 and that
in 1906. In this respect aloue Mr.
Uhittick saved to the taxpayers pretty
near his own salary and that of his
entire force. Here are the figures for
, it: The treasurer’s fee book shows
that during Mr. Cronin’s incumbency
there were just nineteen people on the
pay roll, in 1935 in the treasurer’s
office. They were paid $5,760.10 as re
gular salaries and in addition $1,000
for “overtime.” In 1906 Mr. Chittick
and his office force drew in salaries alf
told $3,959.50. That makesjust $3,810.
60 less than the fusion bunch of
leaches got last year.
List of Jurors.
The following jury list has been
drawn for the March term of district
court:
George Sturdevant, P. II. Mulford,
George Graham, M. B. Daily, W. J.
O’Connor, W. H. Galaher, Peter
Sigler, Frank Jute, S. P. Miller, L.
Grunstead, J S. Noble, Joseph Roades,
John O’Donnell, William Miller,
George Travers, L. C. McKinn, C. P.
Conger, John Nelson, W. W. Bathea,
William Ilaines, Newton Carson, T.
E. Alderson, Fred Wilson, T. D. Han
ley. __
Advertised Letters.
The following letters remain uncall
ed for in the O’Neill postofflce for the
week ending Jan. 26, 1907:
S. R. Allen, W. T. Kealy, W. O.
McCabe, Miss S. M. Robertson.
In calling for the above please say
‘ advertised.” If notcalled for in two
weeks will be sent to dead letter office
D. H. Cronin, Postmaster.
For Sale Cheap.
Eighteen years lease on one half
section good hay land within two
miles of Emmet. 29-tf
Mrs. A. Woolverton.
Notice.
I will buy and pay cash for cream
delivered at my station one door east
of Bentley’s store and will meet all
competition. J. W. Yantzi,
O’Neill, Neb.
LOCAL MATTERS.
Architect Dyer of Fremont is in the
city figuring on estimates and plans
for the Knights of Columbus building.
All members of the Emmet Literary
Society are requested to meet at the
store of Neil Brennan next Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock. Important
business to transact.
T. II. Hadley was down from the
western end of the county Monday
and had bills printed for a big sale
at his place ten miles northwest
of Stuart on February 13.
A lad at Neligh adopted a novel
method of warming his bed, and suc
ceeded. He took an electric light
globe to bed with him and turned on
the current. The bed burned up.
Minnie Lathrop has begun suit for
divorce in district court against her
husband, William Lathrop. They
were married in Wheeler county in
November, 1905. Cruelty and non-sup
port are alleged.
Coal prices are pretty stiff here, but
North Dakotans would be glad to get
fuel at the prices we pay. They are
threatening to pull down depots and
use them for fuel unless the railroads
bring in some coal. The railroads
catch it at every turn.
D. A. McDermot of Parkstown, S.
D., lias bought a half section of land
close to Chambers and expects to buy
more of Holt county real estate. He
was in the city the first of the week,
and informed a Frontier representa
tive that he would probably move here
soon.
The temperature has been right
around zero for seven long weeks, with
no indications for a permanent moder
ation soon, although the weather bu
reau predicted rain yesterday. The
coldest point reached was Tuesday
morning, when the glass tubes indi
cated 16 below.
C. R. Coucher, representing the
Klopp & Bartlett Co., printers and
stationers at Omaha, was before the
county board yesterday endeavoring
to empress upon that body the ad
vantages of his loose-leaf record books.
Mr. Coucher, by the way, was the fu
sion candidate for secretary of state
last fall.
The ladies of the M. E. church gath
ered at the home of Mrs. Conklin on
last Thursday and Rev. Abbott organ
ized a “Ladies Aid Society.” Twenty
two names enrolled. The first regular
meeting will be held at Mrs. Conklin’s
Jan. 31st, at half past two o’clock.
Business meeting at two o’clook
promptly.
Wanted: By a prominent monthly
magazine, with large, high-class em
ulation, local representative to look
after renewals and increase subscrip
tion list in O’Neill and vicinity, on a
salary basis, with a continuing inter
est from year to year in the business
created. Experience desirable, but
not essential. Good opportunity for
the right person. Address Publisher,
box 59, Station O, New York.
The firemen are endeavoring to get
reorganized on a new basis and to this
end a meeting was held Tuesday night
and a number of committees appoint
ed to look after several things escential
to reorganization A new constitution
willbe framed up and another meeting
held on Friday evening. A well or
ganized and well equipped fire depart
ment is an important thing in times
of fire and any efforts looking to a
more efficient fire protection should
be encouraged.
O. F. Biglin was at Aliance Satur
day and Sunday last, his mission per
taining to the Knights of Columbus.
While away Mr. Biglinsays he learned
from what appeared tobe authoritative
source some things pertaining to the
proposed Midland Central railroad that
will be of interest to the Chambers
people. While talking with a gentle
man from Newport who appeared to be
on the “inside” he was told that the
Midland Central company had enlist
ed the linancial rocourcesof an eastern
bond company in the project and that
the road would be built from Newport
to Albion, arrangements being now
about perfected to commence work
when spring opens.
St. Paul Republican: Our Gage
Valley correspondent vouches for the
accuracy of the following remarkable
story: One year ago last June a youth
working for a neighbor bought two
Chester White sow pigs at a cost of
$3.50. They were bred in due season
and had fifteen pigs. This fall one of
the original hogs was sold for $26.30
and the other, of equal value, was
butchered for family use. Six of the
pigs, averaging 220 pounds, were sold
for $5 87 per hundred weight, bring
ing $77.50; one was killed early in the
fall, estimated at $6; the other eight
pigs will'weigh more than 200 pounds
apiece and are worth $5.70 or more,
making $91 20. In other words, the
$3.50 invested one year ago has grown
to $227.30, an increase of something
like 650 per cent.
EXPERT NOff AT WORK
Records of County Treasurer’s Office
Being Checked Up.
WILL COVER PERIOD OF 12 YEARS
County Enters Into Contract With E.
P. Hovey of Lincoln to Investigate
Several Years Back.
The work of experting the recofds
of the office of county treasurer, that
has been talked of for a year or more,
has at last been taken up and is now
in progress. The county has entered
into a contract with E. P. Hovey of
Lincoln to perform the work and Mr.
Hovey is now engaged in the task at
the treasurer’s office.
The contract, which dates from
January 25, calls for a thorough ex
perting of the transactions of the of
fice covering a period of twelve years.
The expert begins at the close of busi
ness on January 4,1895, and goes down
through the records of the years to
and including January 7, 1907. The
work is to be completed by not later
than May 25,1907. For his services
the expert is to receive $1200, payable
$300 each month for three months, the
last payment to be made when the
work is completed and approved by
the board of supervisors.
The contract provides that Mr.
Hovey will appear in court in behalf
of the county should the occasion
arise.
Minor Mention.
For first-class printing see The
Frontier.
Fred Swingley was down from At
kinson Wednesday.
A son was born Friday last to Mr.
and Mrs. R. R. Morrison.
J. A. Douglas of Bassett had busi
ness in the city Monday.
Wanted, a girl for general house
work.—Mrs. J. A. Harmon.
Miss Phoebe Mullen entertained at
cards at her home Tuesday evening.
A grand ball—the greatest event of
your life—at Golden’s hall February 4.
Wedding announcements and in
vitations furnished in the latest styles
at this office.
Dr. and Mrs. Flynn are rejoicing
over the arrival of a son at their home,
born Tuesday.
A hundred envelopes with your
name and address printed on them for
50c at The Frontier.
“The Bible and its Influence” is the
Rev. T. W. Bowen’s subject for next
Sunday evening.
Don’t miss the “Calico Ball” given
by the Highlanders Monday, February
4, at Golden’s hall.
The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs held
their annual banquet at the Odd Fel
lows hall last evening.
Six forty was the top on the local
hog market today, a goodly number of
swine being marketed.
The Biglin furniture store is under
going repairs, among other things a
steel celling taking the place of plaster.
Fifty cents admits you to the “Ca
lico Ball” on Feburary 4, where you
will have ten dollar’s worth of
dance.
The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th weeks of each
month except Fridays and Saturdays
are Dr. Corbett’s new dates for
O’Neill.
New five room house in northern
part of O’Neill, for sale.—Dorothy
Haley, at offlce of county attorney
afternoons. 32-tf
J. Lee Boyer of the Western Pap
er company of Omaha was in the city
today and got a large order from The
Frontier for paper.
The Misses McCafferty entertained
a number of their young lady friends
Tuesday evening and the affair was
pronounced very enjoyable.
There is no lack of ice this season
and the quality is first-class. Cakes
of ice over a foot thick and clear as a
bell have been taken from the Elk
horn.
Our flour is the ouly cheap article
on the market. I will advise all that
use it to buy now, as I am selling good
flour cheap on account of money.—
Con Keys.
Womenfolkand maidenslmust come
clad in calico, bringing a necktie like
their dress in an envelope, at the
Highlanders ball Monday, February
4, at Golden’s hall.
The Royal Highlanders Ball.
A “Calico Ball” will be given at
Golden’s Hall by the Royal Highland
ers next Monday evening, February 4.
Women and maidens are requested
to wear calico dresses and bring a
necktie in an envelope, made of the
same material as their gowns and as
they enter drop them in a box as they
enter. Admissson flfty cents. Every
body invited. Good music.
ABOUT TOWN.
A fashionable feminine headdress
during the zero weather is a gauzy
vail resembling a shset of tissue paper.
A healthy looking citizen, who
probably weighs 300 in the shade, de
clares he eats half a peck of apples
and drinks a quart of milk every
night before retiring.
A few young men have started to
grow partial or full beards. It is said
a number of girls have bound them
selves by a compact to not marry a
man without a beard.
An O’Neill man got up at 7:30 and
made a five-mile trip in the country
when the temperature was 10 below.
He was heard to tell about it twenty
one times before sundown.
O’Neill has an admirable household
of husband, wife and ten children.
Nine hundred such families would
make us a city of over 10,000. Think
about it, husbands and wives.
When the ice is on the sidewalk
And the frost is in the air,
You have seen a man’s feet go sky
ward—
And probably heard him swear.
A lady friend tells us she prefers
cloudy weather during the full of the
inoon. She awoke the other morning
and mistook the glare of the nocturn
al illuminer for the rising sun, and
not until after the kitchen lire was
lighted and the kettle “singing” did
she discover it was only 2 o’clock.
A local politician ventures to wager
his next year’s prospects foroltice that
Theodore Roosevelt has had but one
term as president and if nominated
again will be a candidate for a second
—not third—term. He says the presi
dent was elected only once and a
second election wouldn't be a third
term.
An O’Neill man with a keen eye to
economy safeguarded his household
from the long stretch of zero weather
and incidentally got the edge on the
coal man by ordering a car of coal
early in the winter for another fellow
and holding out his own winter’s
supply when the car arrived. The
man for whom the coal was ordered
unloaded and paid for the same before
Uje freight bill came around, so the
shrewd citizen got his winter’s fuel for
the simple act of mailing the order.
A Bank for Emmet.
Articles of incorporation have been
drawn for a bank at Emmet, to be
known as the Emmet State bank. It
is capitalized at $26,000. The incor
porators are Ed F. Gallagher, T. F.
Birmingham, W. P. Daley and Fred
H. Swingley.
Mr. Gallagher is to be the president,
Mr. Birmingham vice-president and
Mr. Daley cashier.
Emmet is rapidly taking on the air
of a hustling village. A lumberyard,
grain elevator and several new build
ings went up there last year. The
opening of spring will bring more new
buildings and it is also stated that
the Northwestern will build a depot.
Ray Items.
Good skating everywhere.
George Thavenet passed through
here enrouted to Fhoenix last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Iliram Sterns were
visitors at J. Twyford’s one day last
week.
Henry Vequist is attending the Fre
mont normal; this makes his fourth
week there.
Mrs. Jake Ernest, Sr., visited with
her daughter, Mrs. Emma Johnson,
one day last week.
Hazel Tanner and a few of the young
people spent a pleasant evening at R.
Twyford’s home last Tuesday evening
playing cards.
Miss Spindler we understand has re
signed her position as teacher in the
Stern’s district, and will take up a
position elsewhere.
Phoenix Pick-Ups
L. G. Coburn was a caller at Charles
Flnke’s Wednesday.
Bert Parshall was a visitor at Mrs.
T. Coburn’s Tuesday.
Henry Bartels was a caller at Hans
Storjohann’s Friday evening.
O. N. Hendricks of Celia was a
Phoenix visitor one day last week.
James Hood of Anncar was a caller
at James Garin’s Sunday morning.
Harmen Damero was an Atkinson
visitor the latter part of last week.
James Reiser of Badger was a visit
or at Ray Coburn’s one day last week.
Mary Bartels visited at Ray Coburn’s
a couple of day's the last of the week.
Mrs. Thavanet, who has been quite
sick for some time,is better at present
writing.
Dr Stockweli was called from Butte
Friday and again Saturday for Lena
Damero who is very sick.
Elmer Enbody and| Charles Andrus
from near Emmet are in the neighbor
hood with their corn sheller.
A dance was given at Frank Ellis’
over on Bush Creek Friday night and
a pleasant time enjoyed by those pre
sent.
Mrs. Dr. Stockwell returned from
Omaha Saturday, to her home at
Butte. She is as well as can be expect
ed, since her operation, as her friends
here will be glad to hear.
Blanche: Poor Helen! Has the
worst been told?
Grace: I think not. They’re all
waiting for your version.—Smart Set.
Oakdale Sentinel: Miss Edna Howe
ot O’Neill, who has been visiting her
sisters, Miss Josie Howe and Mrs.
Evans of University Place, stopped off
for a few days’ visit at the home of L.
E. Tavener on her return home.
From the stuff being printed about
seed corn one would think the farmers
haven’t known anything about their
business._
The Price of Peace.
Ihe terrible itching and smarting,
incident to certain skin diseases, is
almost instantly allayed by applying
Chamberlain’s Salve. Price, 25 cents.
For sale by Gilligan & Stout.
ANNUAL STATEMENT
Of R. E. Chittick, County Treasurer, Showing Receipts, Dis
bursements and Balances for the Year, Beginning January
4, 1906 and Ending January 8, 1907.
RECEIPTS
T° cash received from D. J. Cronin, ex-Treasurer.$106412 14
total tax collected.. jT. . 167228 7ir
school land principal collected..'... rJlj. AX
school land interest collected. 1706 46
school land lease collected.. . «uia <•>
university land principal collected.. 48 00
university land interest collected.| .] 149 40
univerlsty land lease collected. . 1474 66
state apportionment....! 8936 30
miscellaneous collections, county general.7601 03
miscellaneous collections, county bridge.j... 30 70
tines and license... 708 60
interest on deposit.’. 1214 06
redemption. .!...!!!.!.!. 20468 00
fees... . 1396 25
from school district No. 135.60 00
Total.$319784 8^
DISBURSEMENTS
By state treasurers receipts, cons, state. $ 20689 83
soldiers relief warrants paid.1100 00
labor receipts.5283 00
water bond. 4774 73
school orders paid, district levy.65404 23
school bonds and coupons paid. .216 71
special school.535 65
township treasurers receipts. 16058 84
O’Neill judgment. 2002 00
village treasurers receipts.' ’ * ’" * 5432 40
O’Neill railroad bonds paid. 4109 95
Grattan railroad bonds paid. 4270 90
special sidewalk.304 75
county road warrants.. 168 00
redemptions .. 19822 77
Atkinson judgment.600 00
orders of the county board.] ”. 555 45
university land, state treasurers receipts. 1652 37
school land, state tr;asurers receipts. 13930 19
school orders paid, state apportionment. 8788 83
salar.es paid . 3959 50
county general warrants redeemed. 55437 27
county bridge warrants redeemed. 8154 36
warrants held in trust. 4539 38
cash on hand. 70993 69
Total.$319784 82
BALANCES
Consolidated State...$ 4449
Soldiers relief. 742 35
County judgment. 84 43
County school. j 72
County funding. 77 37
Water bond. 2466 54
District school levy..... 27930 00
School bond. 13530 65
Special school. 4332 66
Township.4.,. 8117 18
O’Neill Judgment.. 1935 79 »
Village. 1774 14
O’Neill railroad bond. 856 24
Irrigation. 615 20
Grattan railroad bond. 2728 36
Grattan judgment . 204 54
Special sidewalk. 343 38
Advertising. 425 41
County road. 37 95
Redemption. 1787 29
Atkinson judgment. 421 91
State apportionment. 5259 99
Railroad sinking. 551 61
County genera). 8 69
County bridge. 4123 61
Center precinct court house bond. 110 75
Orders of the county board. 24 47
Excess fees and Docket fees. 643 01
Total .$79228 73
Cash paid to J. C. Harnish, county treasurer.$70350 68
Warrants in trust, turned over to J. C. Harnish. 4498 63
Warrants in trust, still held. 40 85
Amount due from Elkhorn Valley bank. 3695 66
Excess fees and Docket fees. 643 01
Total.-$79228 73
Registered warrants on general fund. 4539 38
State of Nebraska, County of Holt, ss.
I, R. E. Chittick, Treasurer of Holt County, Nebraska, do solemnly swear
that the foregoing statement of receipts, disbursements and balances is true
and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
r; e. chittick.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 26th day of January,
A. D. 1907. W. P. SIMAR, County Clerk.
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M. DOWLING. President JAS. F. O'DONNELL. Cashier
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