The Frontier.
VOLUMF XXV11.
O’NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 31, 1907
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NUMBER 35.
DOINGS OF SUPERVISORS
Officially Reported for Publication
in Newspapers.
CONTRACT WITH THE EXPERT
Full Text of the Proceedings of the
Sessions of the County Board
of Supervisors.
O’Neill, Neb., Jan. 25, 1907.—Board
met and spent the morning in confer
ence with D. P. Ilovey, expert ac
countant, with the view of hiring
him to expert the county records.The
following contract was read.
O’Neill, Neb., Jan. 25, 1907.—Mem
orandum of agreement between E. P.
, Hovey and Holt county. This agree
ment made and entered into this 25th
day of January, A. D. 1907, by and be
tween E. P. Hovey of Lincoln, Neb.,
party of the first part and the County
of Holt in the State of Nebraska, party
of the second part by and through its
board of supervisors, witnesseth: that
the said E. P. Hovey for the consider
ation hereinafter named to be paid by
the County of Holt agress to thorough
ly examine and check up all the re
cords in the office of the county treas
urer of said county of Holt, Nebraska,
running back over a period of twelve
years, from the 4tli day of January,
1895, up to the 7th day of January,
1907, including said last mentioned
date up to the close of office hours,
and well and faithfully to report his
findings in the said examination to
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found, to the party of second part.
The said party of the second part, in
consideration of the sah work herein
named to be performed, agrees to pay
to the party of the first Dart, the sum
of twelve hundred dollars in payments
as the work progresses as follows:
Three hundred dollars at the end of
each month’s work by the party of the
first part duly performed, but three
hundred dollars to be held by the se
cond party until the work is satisfact
ory performed, and the said three
hundred dollars or any balance that
may remain unpaid shall be paid by
ttie party of the second part upon com
pletion of the work according to this
contract, and the approval thereof by
the board of supervisors. The party
of the first part further agrees, in con
sideration of the premises, to appear
in court when and wherever the oc
casion may demand, (if such occasion
shall arise), upon payment of his ac
tual expenses by Holt county. It is
further agreed and understood that
said party of the first party shall give
his very best efforts and experiences
towards securing claims and credits
for Holt county from the State of Ne
braska, towards getting an appropria
tion made for repayment of any
amount that may be determined as
being due to said county from said
State of Nebraska, if any there shall
be, without any further consideration
than the payment above specified.
This contract is to be executed and
the examine tion above described is to
be performed under the direction and
supei vision of the committee of the
said board of supervisors consisting ol
L. E. Skidmore, C. D. Keyes and Ro
dell Root.
The party of the first part agrees tc
furnish and pay for any and all assist
ance that he may need in the perform
ance of said work. Said examination
to commence January 25th, 1907, and
to be pursued continuously until satis
factory completed at the earliest pos
sible date, but not later than May 25,
1907. In witness whereof we hereun
to set our hands, and the seal of Holt
County, this 25th day of January, 1907,
E. P. Hovey, party of the first part.
The County of Holt in the State ol
Nebraska, by L. E. Skidmore, Chair
man; J. A. Golden, Supervisor: C. D.
Keyes, Supervisor; Rodell Root, Sup
ervisor; J. C. Clark, Supervisor; B.E,
Sturdevant,Supervisor; W. S. Roberts,
Supervisor; W. P. Simar, County
Clerk.
M. DOWLING. President JAS. F. O'DONNELL. Cashier
SURPLUS * $55,000.00
O’NEILL NAT’L BANK
Safety Deposit Boxes
for Rent,
This Bank carries no indebtedness of Officers or Stockholders
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Mr. Chairman: I move you that the
board approve the contract as agreed
to and prepared by committee. Mo
tion carried.
Minutesof January 19-21-22-23and 24,
read and approved.
On motion board resolved into com
mittee of the whole.
O’Neill, Neb., January 26, 1907.—
Board continued settlement with
county officers.
O’Neill, Neb. Jan. 28, 1907.—Board
continues settlement with countj
officers.
O’Neill, Neb., Jan. 29, ’07.—Board
continued settlement with countj
officers.
O’Neill, Neb., Jan., 30, ’07.—One
o’clock p. m. Board called to order,
all members present.
Ewing, Neb., Jan., 1907.—To the
Honorable Board of Supervisors, Holt
County, Neb.—Gentlemen: Please
transfer all money in bond fund oi
special fund of school district No. 83
to the general fund of said district.
R. L. Butler, Director.
On motion the above motion carried.
To the Honorable Board of Super
visors Holt County.—Please transfer
all money in the bond fund of district
No. 114 to the general fund of said
district. Wm. L. Alder.
On motion the above motion carried.
On motion the following official
bonds were approved: Donald McClel
lan, road overseer, district No. 13; H.
VanValkenburg, township treasurer,
Inman township; John Enright, road
overseer, No. 16.
To the Honorable Board of Supervis
ors.—Gentlemen: I hereby make ap
plication for refund of 65 cents person
al tax and 25 cents on lot 15 block 9,
Village of Page, Neb. I have paid
this under protest and ask the amount
refund for the year 1906. Total 90 cents.
XX. XV. lJlWfili.
On motion the above was granted.
To the Honorable Board of Super
visors.—Gentlemen: I have paid my
village tax in Page, Neb., for the year
1906, under protest. Personal tax
$6.46 and real estate lot 19 and 20,block
4, 42 cents making total $6.88 and ask
for refund for that amount.
Christ Rakow.
On motion the above was granted.
To the Honorable Board of Super
visors.—Gentlemen: I have paid my
village tax in Page, Neb., for the yeai
1906, under protest, personal 94 cents
real estate lots 1-2-3 and 4, block 8,
$1 24 making total $2.18. Please re
fund the amount to me. H. A. Rakow.
On motion the above was granted.
O’Neill, Neb., Jan. 25,1907.—To the
Honorable Board of Supervisors o(
Holt County, Neb.—The undersigned
respectfully shows to your Honorable
Body that he is a resident of Ewing
township that during the month oi
April and prior and subsequent there
to affiant had and owned some cattle
that were then in Scott precinct and
that affiant gave in for assessment,
the cattle in Ewing precinct,that said
cattle were also assessed Scott precinct
for 1906 and taxes assesssd against affi
ant in the sum of $L65, that same have
been paid amounting to $1.65 affiant
therefore prays for refund of said $1.65.
Harry Stanton.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 25th day of January, 1907.
T A rtli Art
(Seal; Notary Public.
Prayer of the above petition granted,
To the Honorable Board of Super
visors, we the undersigned, hereby call
your attention to the fact that we
paid our personal tax including road
tax both in Gregory county and Holt
counties, being residents of Gregory,
South Dakota. We petition youi
Honorable body for a refund of $3 each,
that amount being paid as poll tax in
Holt County. Respectfully,
J. R. Wilson,
Roy Pinkerman,
M. T. Elliott,
W. H. Whelan.
On motion the above petition was
granted.
Mr. Chairman: We your committee
(Continned on 8th page)
LOCAL MATTERS.
S. B. Howard came home from Oma'
ha Saturday for a brief visit.
Miss Anna Lorge of Randolph is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. D. II. Cronin.
Mrs. George Miles left for Omaha
Tuesday morning for medical treat
ment.
For sale or rent a few choice im
proved farms close to town—Jerry
McCarthy. 34-3
Wedding announcements and in
vitations furnished in the latest styles
at this office.
Miss Margret McCarthey was up
from Randolph for a visit at her home
over Sunday.
Miss Mabel Martin left for Omaha
Sunday morning, for medical treat
ment in a hospital.
“The Fall of the Apostle Peter,” Is
the Rev. T. W. Bowen’s subject for
next Sunday evening.
P. J. McManus departed Tuesday
over the Northwestern for Chicago on
a business trip.
A hundred envelopes with your
name and address printed on them for
50c at The Frontier.
Dr. Headrick gives special attention
to deafness and catarrh. Will visic
O’Neill, Wednesday, February 27.
Mrs. Fitzsimmons was a passenger
for Chicago Sunday, where she will
buy a new stock of millinary goods.
Miss Laura Anthoney of Wyoming,
is visiting with the family of her
uncle, J. C. Harnish.
The 2nd, 3rd ,and 4th weeks of each
month except Fridays and Saturdays
are Dr. Corbett’s new dates for
O’Neill.
ur. ueaaricK S practice is uniiteu
to chronic diseases. Consultation and
examination free. Will visit O’Neill,
February 27.
New five room house in northern
part of O’Neill, for sale.—Dorothy
Haley, at offlce of county attorney
afternoons. 32-tf
Michael S. Potter and Kate Belle
Summers, both of Chambers, were
granted license to wed on the 18th by
Judge Malone.
J. S. Harrington arrived in O’Neill
Sunaay evening after spending some
time in Idaho. We understand he
expects to move there.
Arthur Cowperthwaite took two
cars of stock to South Omaha Sunday
and from there went on to his former
home in Illinois for a visit.
D. U. Yantzi will have a sale, adver
tisement of which appears elsewhere,
on February 26. Mr. Yantzi expects
to move to Alberta, Canada.
The Ladies Aid society of the M. E.
church will meet at the home of Mrs.
Bennett Martin, Thursday, Feb. 28.
We desire a good attendance.
John and Edward Herald left on the
early morning train for Millburn,
Nebraska, where the former will be
agent in the Northwestern depot.
A lecture on China will be given in
O’Neill Presbyterian church Friday
evening, March 1st, by the Rev. J. A.
Fitch, EastShuntang province,China.
Mrs. H. E. Wescott received a tele
gram from St. Paul, Minn., yesterday
stating that her father was seriously
ill at that place. Mrs. Wescott left
for that place this morning.
A rare well surprise party was given
at the home of Miss Edna Ilowe, in
honor of John Herald Tuesday even
ing. Quite a large crowd was pres
ent and all reported a good time.
A few of Willard Hess’ young friends
gathered at his home last Friday even
ing and surprised him. Willard was
surprised but soon recovered and en
tertained his guests in a royal manner.
Estray.—Taken up, at my place four
miles northwest of O’Neill, one year
ling steer calf, owner can have same
by proving property and paying all
damages. W. J. Gray. 33-3
Edison records are the best and so
near like the singer or band that one
thinks he his listening to the singer
or band ana not to a machine. For
proof call at Lockard’s jewelry store
and hear them. 34-tf
Fine green meadow hay #5 a ton in
stack. Also two kinds of seed pota
toes, and Barred Plymouth Rock
chickens for sale.—J. H. McAllister,
Agee, Neb. 35-2pd.
Plainview News: William Traver
shipped his household goods to O’Neill
Wednesday afternoon, and his family
will follow this exening. They will
move onto their farm near that place.
A bunch of cattle belonging to the
Ditch company and being driven
across the Northwestern railroad just
west of town last Friaay evening were
crashed into by a east bound freight
train and three head of cattle killed.
C. H. Foxworthy, who recently
came here from Boone county, is pre
paring to build on the Caldwell ranch,
now owned by his father-in-law, Mr.
Hunt, as soon as the weather will
permit. He hauled out lumber yester
day for that purpose.
The following K. C.’s went to Chad
ron last Saturday afternoon to initiate
a class there: A. F. Mullen, Frank
Campbell, J. F. O’Donnell, Clarence
Campbell, O. F. Biglin, John Sullivan,
P. J. McManus, T. V. Golden, Dr. P.
J. Flynn and Nell Brennan.
It Is understood that article of in
corporation are being framed up by
the Knights of Columbus to enable
them to go ahead with their building
project. Definite plans and a building
site have not yet been decided upon,
but it Is the designed to make these
arrangements complete as soon as the
articles of incorporation are tiled and
approved.
Walt Horiskey had to walk to the
Northwestern with Uncle Sam’s mail
sacks this morning. When he drove
up to the postotlice to load the mail
bis horse became frighten while he
was getting the sacks and ran away.
That Is, it started before Walt had
the sacks and himself loaded and ran
at full speed to the depot with an
empty wagon.
No trace of Fred Miller, who is sup
posed to have stolen 81300 from John
Fried of Emmet township last week,
has been found by the sheriff. A man
answering the description of Miller
was located at Lander, Wyo., and the
sheriff, accompanied by Bert Fried,
the old gentleman’s son, went thither.
It was the wrong man, and Sheriff
Hall returned without any definite
clue to Miller’s whereabouts.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Corcoran de
parted Monday for Omaha,af ter spend
ing their honeymoon visiting with
Mrs. Corcoran’s mother, Mrs. Graham,
and other relatives and friends in this
vicinity. From Omaha they go to
Chicago and from their to Milwaukee
and an to other points in Wisconsin,
after which they will return to Cali
fornia and do some traveling there
during the summer. Their home will
be at Stockton, Cal.
Frank Dishner returned the first of
the week from a trip to southern and
western Texas. He notes that the
gulf coast country is excessively dry,
and is not specially an admirer of the
same. He visited Brownville, the
town that has achieved considerable
notoriety by a regiment of the old Ft.
Njqbrara colored troops shooting up
the town and subsequently being dis
missed from the service by President
Roosevelt.
George E. Hansen, one of the
wealthy and old time farmers of the
Blackbird country, was in town yes
terday and made arrangements at this
office for the advertising matter for
a big sale at his place one mile east of
Blackbird postottice on Wednesday,
March 0. Mr. Hansen is not selling
out because he wants to leave the
country. He has decided to retire
from the farm and spend the declining
years of his life in the ease and com
fort that the activity of former years
entitles him to, and which the fruits
of his indurtry are abundantly suffi
cient to enable him to enjoy.
Lynch Journal: Newton Carson
was badly injured Monday morning
while falling trees near his home in
Holt county near Dorsey. He was cut
ting a tree and when it fell it lodged
in the top of a second near it. He then
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when about ready to fall his hired man
came with a team and hitched onto
the first and started to draw it out of
the second. When the first tree came
down the second fell also and struck
Mr. Carson on the head, fracturing
his skull. While quite low it is now
considered that Mr. Carson will soon
recover from the blow.
Those who appreciate an excellent
production of an entertaining and de
lightful play should not forget that
“Romeo and Juliet” will be presented
at the O’Neill Opera House on Friday
evening, February 22. This will be a
rare opportunity to enjoy a magnifi
cent revival of this great masterpiece.
The production, the company, and
the play itself, perhaps, form the most
popular conception of entertainment
allied with fine art. It is a matter of
congratulation that the first presenta
tion of this great play in this city
should be intrusted to a company that
comes so highly recommended in every
way.
Frank Campbell, jr., manager of the
O’Neill opera-house, received a letter
from the manager of one of the world’s
greatest singers, Madame Nordici, ex
pressing a desire to fix a date for the
great singer to appear in O’Neill. The
letter states that the manager will be
glad to state terms on which his sing
er would appear and negotiations are
suggested on the strength of the an
nouncement that the Knights ol
Columbus will build an opera-house,
the singer to appear under the
auspices of tiie local order. Madame
Nordici is the leading Cattiolic perfor
mer on the stage and appears at man}
functions connected with the church,
PASSES SENATE.
Junior Normal Bill Approved by
Upper Hjuse.
Lincoln, Feb. 20.—Junior normal
bill lias passed the senate.
The above telegram was received in
O’Neill yesterday from Senator Phil
lips. This is a measure authorizing
state normal schools, one of which
O’Neill Is interested in.
County Attorney Whelan went to
Lincoln Tuesday to appear before the
supreme court in behalf of the county
in a suit where Rock county is trying
to recover some $400 from this county
for the care of a young man who was
working on a farm in Green Valley
township and who was injured while
cutting hay just across the line in
Rock county. At the time he was in
jured his employer took him to New
port, where he became a county
charge. Rock county is trying to re
cover the cost of keeping him. It ap
pears the county has a good show to
defeat the claims, as it is not properly
a county but a township charge and it
any responsibility rests outside of
Rock county, it is on Green Valley
township. _____
Of the play of “Romeo and Juliet,”
Schlegel, the German critic, elequent
ly remarks: "Whatever is mast in
toxicating in the ordour of a southern
spring, languishing in the song of the
nightengale, or voluptous in the first
opening of the rose, is to be found in
this poem. The sweetest and bitter
est love and hatred, festivity and dark
forebodings, tender embrases and sep
ulchres, the fullness of life and self
anihilation, are all here brought close
to each other; and all these contrasts
are so blending in the harmonious and
wonderful work in a unity of expres
sion, that the echo which the whole
leaves in the mind, ressembles
a single but endless sigh.” At the
O’Neill Opera House Friday Feb. 22.
rne Markets
South Omaha, Feb. 20.— Special
market letter from Nye & Buchanan.
—Last week prices of cattle continued
to improve until Friday when they
were nearly as high as any time this
year especially on the butcher stock.
Monday this week brought very heavy
receipts both here and in Chicago,
many shipments having been intended
for last week but delayed by the high
water. Eastern advices were not very
favorable and buyeis started out to
take off a large slice and sucoeeded to
the extent of 10 to 20 cents on all
classes of killers. Stockers and feeders
remain about steady as usual.
We quote—
Choice steers.85 250*6 85
Fair to good. 4 600*5 20
Common & warmed up. 4 000*
Cows and heifers. 3 000*4 40
Fair to good. 3 000*3 50
Canners. 2 000*2 90
Bulls. 2 25(a)4 00
Veal. 4 500*6 50
Good to choice feeders. 4 250*5 00
Fair to good grades. 3 600*4 10
Stock steers. 3 250*4 25
Stock heifers.. 2 25(<*3 00
Hog values have had a decided jolt
this week which has set them back 15
to 20 cents caused by liberal receipts
at all points and a slump in provisions.
Range 86.70 to 86.80.
Sheep and lambs have been kept
steady here owing to the fact that a
large portion of receipts were forward
ed to Chicago.
Cattle Wanted.
I want abdut forty head more of
cattle to pasture during the coming
season. Five hundred acres of good
pasture and plenty of water. Located
five and one-half miles southeast of
O’Neill. Address John Bradt,O’Neill,
Neb. ^_ 35-2
Auction Sale.
I will sell at public auction at my
place 3 miles north and 1 mile east of
O’Neill, on Saturday, March 9, 1907,
one red steer 2 years past, the same be
ing an estray taken up by me on July
17, 1906. D. W. Sullivan. 35-2
For Sale.
About 2000 trees that will average
2 feet In diameter at the base and run
from 60 to 80 feet high This Is the
Missouri red cotton-wood and no
scrub.—Peter McMorrigal. 35-lpd
Bred Poland - Chinas
AT AUCTION.
At Hart’s Bam, Albion, Neb., March J, 1907.
Thirty head of bred Poland-China sows will be sold at
public sale. These are tried sows, fall yearlings and spring
gelts. They are sired by hogs having a state wide reputa- j
tion and are bred to champions or sons of champions.
Terms—Cash or bankable note at ten months. Parties
at a distance will be entertained free at the Albion House.
Write for catalogue.
1C. B. McCORKLE
Col. Z. A. Williamson, Auct. D. V. Blatter, Clerk
BLIND TO BEST INTEREST
Large Sums Drifting to Money and
Commercial Centers.
SOME TRAGIC FEATURES OF IT
Fathers and Mothers Sacrificing the
Boys and Girls to Gratify Everlast
ing Lust for “Bargalns•”
A few cents over eighty-three dol
lars was sent in two orders to a
Chicago catalogue house from O’Neill
just the other day. There is nothing
particularly strange in that because
it is an every day occurance and pro
bably many more orders were sent
the same day. But assuming that
they were the only two orders and
that an eyual amount goes from this
one point six days in the week to be
added to the already overly swolen
fortunes of the opulent merchants of
the large cities, you have a steady
drain of the community’s wealth at
the rate of something like $500 a
week. This estimate may be too
high or it may be too low. There is
no way of getting at the exact figures.
It is known that this community and
every other community in the United
States is being drained continually of
Its wealth to build up the large
centers of population and emass im
mense fortunes in a few hands. Every
time a dollar goes away from home
for something that could be bought at
home every intesest of the community
suffers. The home town suffers the
loss of business that by right of loca
tion belongs to it. The loss of busi
ness in the home town means a re
tarded progress that has its effect on
land values, on town property values
and the values of everything produced
in the community.
There is also another side to the
catalogue question that gravely con
cerns the firesides of country and
town people all over the laud. It
strikes at the foundation on which
our social structure is built and en
dangers the boys and girls oi every
community.
In talking upon this subject with an
O’Neill business man for whom The
Frontier has the highest regard this
side of the question was forceably
brought out. Suppose, Bald he,
that one-half—just one-half—of the
money sent from tbiB community
to* catalogue houses and depart
ment stores was spent with the
merchants here at home, there would
be enough more business that every
merchant would need an addition
al force of clerks. Then Instead of
our country boys and girls going to
large cities to find employment, thus
putting themselves in places where
temptations to waywardness are
numerous and instances of yielding to
these temptations are frequent, they
would be at home and under the in
fluence of the parental fireside.
It is the girls who can’t find em
ployment in the small towns who go
from the country to fill the places at
the “bargain counters” in department
stores and catalogue houses. They
are started on a pittance as wages, *3
or 34 a week, aha of course are unable
to board themselves, much less buy
clothing, when the funds run out that
are brought from home. What fol
lows? The girl finds herself unable
to meet the struggle for human existr
ance under these conditions. The
manager is called upon, but he is figur
ing “bargains” for his patron’s in the
country so close—perchance the father
or mothi r of the girl—that he can’t
see his way clear to raise her pay. But
a “gentleman” is called up to see if
something can be done to secure a
boarding place where the girl can live
on her S3 or 34 a week salary. Of course,
he has a place. The first thing the
young lass from the country knows
she is in with a gay set who have plen
ty of money to buy theater tickets and
dine at hign priced tables but who are
getting the same wages as she. The
same road is open to her and at the
price of her natural heritage she soon
is having gay times, too, after working
hours. She has got into the school
that graduates the students for the
brothel and is maintained by the ever
lasting lust for “bargains” of the
fathers and mothers all over the land.
It is high time the parents who are
caught by the enticing pictures and
alluring figures of the catalogue real
ize what conditions they are cringing
about, conditions that are dwarfing
the home communities and blighting
the lives of many of our boys and
girls.
