Frontier.
VOLUMF XXV1I1.
O’NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1907
NUMBER 10
WIN THREE MORE GAMES
Parker’s Warriors Still Iu Ascend
ency on the Diamond.
—
T WO S11 UT-OUTS FOR A INS WORTH
Ncligh Again Finds the O’Neill Bunch
Too Fast for Them.—Interest In
Baseball Keeps Up.
Second Shut-Out for Ainsworth.
The O’Neill team went to Ainsworth
last evening to play a game today. A
telephone message this afternoon says
Ainsworth was again shut out,O’Neill
winning on a score of 3 to 0.
Ainsworth Cleaned Up.
Manager Howe of Ainsworth and
his bunch of players from that city,
accompanied by a fair sized crowd of
fans, arrived in O’Neill last Sunday
morning determined to defeat O’Neill
and they—with some degree of as
surance-claim tile amateur baseball
championship of western Nebraska,
but they failed to make good and
went down to defeat at tile hands of
Parker’s Warriors, the score stand
ing 8 to 0 against them.
The game was a tine exhibition of
the national sport. Bradley was in
the box for O’Neill and lie had every
thing and had the boys from the west
completely at his mercy. He allow
ed but eight scattered singles and
made thirteen of them lay down their
bats on three strikes. The support
behind him was tine. Primley on
third and Biglin on short pulling oil
some tine fielding stunts without an
error Wilson was the star at the
bat, getting three singles out of five
times up. Richley, Ben Grady,"Red”
Sullivan and Bradley were crowding
close behind, each getting two hits
out of four times up. DeSylva was in
the box for the visitors and the boys
hit him hard and fanned his decep
tive curves for safe hits when they
counted. In the second, with one
down, a dead ball, a fly to left field
and a hit gave us one run. In the
second a hit by Wilson, a stolen base
while Brophy was fanning and a clean
single by Richley who worked the
lielders between first and second long
enough to allow Wilson to score, gave
us another. This seemed to take the
heart out of the Ainsworth boys, and
while the first three up in the next
inning fanned, five hits, a bunt and
a dead ball in the fifth gave us four
scores, making our total eight, which
was more than enough to win the
game. We garnered two more in
the seventh on two hits and two
errors,—the only errors of the game
and the stuff was off. Ainsworth
never came near the plate but twice
and then they had a man on third
with only one down and Brad tight
ened up, chewed a little harder on
his Tull Fruita, and fanned the next
two up. This happened in the sev
enth and eighth innings. Score:
O’Neill.0 1 1 0 4 0 2 0 x—8
Ainsworth.0 0000000 0—0
Hits: O’Neill 12; Ainsworth 7. Er
rors: O’Neill 0; Ainsworth 2. Struck
out: Bradley 13; DeSylva 10. Bat
teries: O’Neill Bradley and Wilson.
Ainsworth DeSylva and Herre. Um
pire O’Donnell.
Neligh Again Boatten.
Last Friday a crowd of about fifty
enthusiastic baseball fans and fan
nettes accompanied the ball team to
Neligh wiiere that afternoon they ad
ministered defeat to Neligh. Score
6 to 1.
Primley was in the box for O’Neill
and pitched a swell game of shut out
ball and would have had it but ror an
error at second in the fourth inning,
when Brophy dropped a ball tossed to
him by Biglin when he could have as
sisted in a pretty double play. Prim
ley allowed but four hits, two ot
which were of the scratch order, and
be fanned ten. Allstat, for Neligh
allowed seven hits, and fanned four.
Brophy led the O’Neill team with the
stick getting three clean singles out
of five times up.
O’Neill started after tiie game in
the first inning when two errors and
a hit brought in two score. In the
next inning three errors and a sacri
fice hit brought in two more for O’
Neill. Nothing doing then for us un
til the ninth, when with two down
Price was given his base on four wide
ones. Richley got a three sacker scor
ing Price and Primley followed with a
single scoring Richley. This was all
as Brophy went out to the pitcher.
The only look in Neligh had was in
the fourth inning. With one down
Kryger was passed. Allstat got first
on a fielders choice and Kryger was
safe on second on an error. Whitney
then got a hit scoring Kryger and
putting Allstat on third. Steinkraus
fanned and Pickual went out from
pitcher to first. After that they
never got anywhere near the home
plate. Score:
O’Neill. 22000000 2—6
Neligh.0 0 0 1 0 0 o 0 0—1
Hits: O’Neill 7; Neligh 4. Errors:
O’Neill . 4: Neligh 6. Struck out,
Primley 10; Allstat 4. Batteries:
O’Neill: Primley and Wilson. Neligh
Allstat and Millick. Umpire, Smith
of Tilden.
Lost, on last Friday morning, wood
parasol handle. Leave at this otllce
and get reward.
THE LIGHTNING-STRIKES
Some Stock Killed, Hay Burned and
Houses Damaged.
TWO SOAKING RAINS WET CORN
Dry Spell Broken by Heavy Downpour
and Thirsty Corn Revived.—Sharp
Lightning Also.
Two heavy rains, Saturday and Sun
day nights, soaked the dried earth
and revived the thirsty corn. Satur
day night’s—or rather, Sunday morn
ing’s—rain was accompanied by an
unusual display of lightning and
crashing thunder. A bolt struck at
the home of Night Watchman John
Kane and did some damage. A hole
was torn in the peak of the roof of the
west portion of the house and several
brick torn from the chimney. The
electric current passed down into the
kitchen, shivering window glass as it
went and struck a refrigerator, which
it demolished, spreading milk and
butter and other contents of the re
frigerator over the floor. Mrs. Kane,
who had got up to close windows, was
badly shocked by the lightning and
fell prostrate and did not recover from
the elt'ects of the shock for some thirty
minutes.
At the home of W. It. Butler in the
north part of town lightning struck
the barn, killing a horse and giving
Mr. Butler a very close call. He had
gone to the barn to close the doors
and was just coming out of the barn
to close the sliding door on the out
side and had just stepped with one
foot on the sill when a bolt of light
ning struck the barn, giving Mr.
Butler such a shock that he was pros
trated for a moment. The barn was
filled with smoke and sulphur fumes.
Mr. Butler thought the barn had been
set on lire, but as the smoke cleared
away he saw there was no fire but
found one horse lying dead in his
stall, streaked and burned by light
ning. There were several other
horses in the barn but only one was
killed.
Peter Kelly’s house in the eastern
part of town was also struck and
damaged to quite an extent. Mr.
Kelley’s house is insured, as is also
Mr. Kane’s, and repairs are being de
ferred pending the investigation of
the insurance adjuster.
A hay stack down at Byron Parker’s
was struck by a bolt and burned up.
The hay was insured and Adjuster 0.
E. Downey paid the loss, $47, the
same day.
Out near the old Slocum postoftice
Thomas Gallagher’s large barn was
hit by lightning and burned up.
Some 300 bushel of oats, a wagon,
machinery, etc., and a cow and calf
were lost in the lire. The barn was
insured with C. E. Downey for $800
and the other things destroyed were
also insured to an amount to run the
insurance up to about $1000.
Educational Notes.
The legislative session of last win
ter will always be remembered as the
body that passed so many bills for the
purpose of raising the educational
standard of the state. Starting with
the state normal schools, section 16,
subdivision 13, was amended so that
no person who has not had at least
two years high school education, or
its equivalent, is eligible to enter.
To induce more pupils living out side
high school districts to enter some
high school a “Free High School Law’
was passed. This law gives free high
school privileges to every pupil who
applies for such before the second
Monday in June, providing he has
completed, at least, the eighth grade
work. The following rural pupils
have secured high school privileges
for the coming year:
Atkinson—101, Ray Elder; 119, Syl
vester Tushla; 207, Karl Callen; 237,
Deloss Moulton.
Agee—80, Maude Nelson.
Amelia—238, Alta DeCrogg; 238,
Claude lteuting;
Chambers—156, Percy Holden; 202,
Ida Craig.
Clearwater—118, Hazel Bethea;
Joy—92, Pearl Roberts.
Dustin—18, Gladys Rohr; 22, Mary
Cosner; 22, Florence Eby: 86. Della
Lofquest.
Inman—30, Earl Watson; 30, Ina
(Continued on 5th page.)
2 Days only. Sat., Avig. 51, Mon., Sept. 2
331 per cent Discount on all Laces ® Embroideries in the house
It is our intention to clear up our lace and embroidery stock before the
new laces arrive. Remember the dates and be sure to take advantage
of the big cut. J. P. GALLAGHER.
LOCAL MATTERS.
R. R. Dickson was at Hassctt Sun
day.
The O’Neill schoolsopen next Tues
day.
J. P. Mann returned to Chicago
Monday.
For quick farm loans see Waterman
at O’Neill.
John Walmer is up from the South
Fork today.
Mrs. Malone and children are visit
ing at Inman.
Joe Mann had business in Omaha
the first of the week.
A son was born August 20 to Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Leahy.
Supervisor Skidmore was up from
Ewing the first of the week.
For Sale, A good work team cheap.
—John Grutsch, O’Neill Neb.
G. W. Smith left Monday morning
for Idaho and Pacific Coast points.
Wanted, girl to work for board and
attend school.—Mary McLaughlin.
For Sale—Twenty-six head of three
and four year old steers.—A. Murray.
P. J. McManus departed Sunday for
Chicago to be away for a fortnight.
Miss Lizzie O’Mally is acting in the
capacity of cashier at Weingartner’s
restaurant.
Mrs. J. F. Gallagher, accompanied
by her little niece, Miss Marie Biglin,
is visiting at Spencer.
Clarence F. Benson of Turner and
Martha E. Roberts of Joy were grant
ed license to wed Tuesday.
. The three-raanths-old bkby of Mr.
and Mrs. M. II. McCarthy died Thurs
day last and was buried Saturday.
For Sale, A good second hand Case
14 horse power threshing machine,
at a bargain.—Frank Campbell, O’
Neill. 10-3
William S. Fabbott of Saratoga and '
Emma R. Thavenet of Emmet were 1
united in marriage Monday by Judge
Malone.
1 will sell my residence property 1
which is well located and in good re- |
pair at a price which is right.—G.
W. Smith, O’Neill, Neb.
Frank Wilson drove twenty miles
yesterday to buy a Monitor Drill of
O. F. Biglin. He said that he had 1
his “Satisfy” of imitations.
It looks like Hour will go higher, '
5 on would be safe in buying some '
while I have it cheap. Best patent
*2.40, Straight *2 00 every sack war- '
ranted.—Con Keys.
Strayed from our ranch on or about .
August 5, one black horse, was lame ‘
on right hind leg. A liberal reward
will be paid for information 'eading
to his recovery.—Ryan Bros. 9-2
Governor Sheldon, according to the
provisions of the statutes and com
mon custom, has issued his labor day (
proclamation, declaring Monday ,
September 2, to be a public holiday. !
Sam Eves arrived in the city Tues
daw, having resigned as manager of
the American Clock company of
Chicago, and will make O’Neill his
home again. His family will come
later.
Taken up—one black horse weigh
ing about 1100; scar on right shoulder, 1
lump on left hind leg. Owner may
have same by calling at the Cronin !
ranch nine miles north of O’Neill.—L. 1
W. Knapp. 8-3 pd. !
S. G. Uammans of Afton, Iowa, ;
who owns land a few miles northeast 1
of town, was here last week looking !
after the same. He renewed for The I
Frontier before leaving for home 1
Friday morning.
Mrs. Laura Cress and daughter i
Lucile returned last week from a trip !
to southern Missouri. Mrs. Cress
says she will move to that country ;
soon, locating at a new town recently i
started and open a store. i
Sheriff Hall recovered one of the <
horses stolen last week of Peter 1
Weber of Atkinson, up in Rock
county where the party stealing the
team had effected a trade with a i
farmer on one of the horses. The i
thief has not been apprehended yet. i
O. E. Ott of Joy lost a large barn
by lire Tuesday. There was no live
stock in the barn except two small
calves which were burned. The
origin of tlie fire was not known yes- i
terday by C. E. Downey, who gives us
the item and who had the barn in
sured.
F. E Harrison of lllackblrd was a
caller Tuesday, advancing his sub
scription another year. Mr. Harrison
expects to leave next Sunday for
Gregory, S. I)., where he will engage
in tlie real estate business as special
agent for the Cross Heal Estate com
pany of Chicago.
I will sell your neighbor a full
blood poland china hog, either male
or female, and I will buy from you
the best dehorned young short-horn
milch cow you own. Come look at
my hogs. Write me, I will look at
your cow. 8 miles north, 1 mile west ol
O’Neill.—Chas. II. Foxworthy. 10-2 p
Caldwell, Idaho, Tribune: Mrs. J.
S. Harrington received a telegram by
mail from Salt Lake stating that her
father had died at Trinidad, Colorado
three days before. Had it not been
ror the strike, Mrs. Harrington would
have received the message in time to
enable her to have accompanied the
remains to their last resting place.
L. I). Cone of Lincoln died at the
home of his brother John Cone, near
Minneola, on Thursday last of tuber
culosis of the kidneys. The deceased
had come to this county for a visit
ind witli the hopes that his health
might be benefited. He was thirty
live years of age. His wife came up
ifter the remains.
The Episcopalians will unite with
the Presbyterians and hold a Sunday
ichool picnic in Doyle’s grove west of
town, Monday September 2. Every
'amily is expected to provide a well
tilled basket, dinner at 1 o’clock.
Amusements have been arranged for
ind a good time anticipated. Con
veyances will be provided for those
vho do not have a team, and leave
.lie Presbyterian church at 9 a. m.
Frontier readers in this community
vho formerly lived at or near Han
!ock, Mich., will be interested to learn
if a disasterous tire near there, at
lubbell, August 17. The Sunday
dining Gazette of Houghton and
Jalumet, Mich , reports that nearly
he whole business sectiop of the
'illage was wiped out, entailing losses
0 a score of individuals of from $1,000
,o $25,000._
John McBride, the popular grocery
uan at Gallagher’s store for several
■ears, ex pects to leave next week for
Chicago io study art, for which he has
1 natural talent. He has been de
voting much of his spare time to
[rawing and produces some good
vork In that line. With a chance to
ievelop the artistic taste under pro
essional instructors John will no
loubt develop into a first class artist.
The full story of the lynching at
lancroft of Loren Higgins, the self
sonfessed murderer of Walter and
drs. Copple who were slain at their
iome in Thurston county on the night
>f May 12, will be found on the in
;ide pages of this issue of The Fron
tier. The murdered man, it will be
emembered, was a brother of Mrs.
SV. H. Whaley who is well known In
he Agee neighborhood in this county.
borne thirty of the young friends of
Hiss Ada Mills and her brother Jesse
lerpetrated a surprise on them Mon
iay evening by going to their home
mannounced prepared to spend a
locial evening together. The young
lost and hostess, though taken by a
lUdden surprise, arose to the occasion
tnd gave their guests a hearty wel
;ome. A very pleasant evening was
pent in social amusements, and the
quests regaled with a delicious lunch
lOn. _
A bad wreck on a Northwestern
tock special was averted by the train
topping here for the west bound
Hack Hills passenger Sunday night
ind tlie accidental discovery of En
[ineer Mike Ford of the Great North
ern The stock special was standing
in the siding when Mr. Ford and
Sheriff Hall came along going to the
S'orlliwestern depot. About midway
n the heavy tiain of cattle the
mgineer noticed a car about ready to
-oppleover. The car was nearly off
if the trucks and could not have gone
nuch farther without rolling over,
vhicli would have occasioned a serious
vreck had the train been moving
■apidly. Mr. Ford informed the train
srew of the danger. The broken car
vasset out and the cattle loaded in
.oanotiier car. Itdelayed the train
or about two hours.
Advertised Letters.
The following letters remain un
called for in the O’Neill postoffice for
the week ending August 29th, 1907:
Mr. N. C. Herlngton, Miss Nellie
Perrine.—Postals: Miss Mollie Glas
gow, Miss Gertrude Hoffman, Miss
Mage Kountz, Skalowsky Bros., Ben
Haackcr.
In calling for the above please say
“advertised.” If notcalledfor in two
weeks will be sent to dead letter office
li. J. Marsh, Postmaster.
ELECTIONNEXTTUESDAY
Primary for Nominating the Party
Candidates.
POLLS OPEN AT 12 M., CLOSE AT 9
Full Set of County Officers to Nom
inate, District Judges and Some
State Officials.
Next Tuesday, September 3, at 12
o’clock noon the polls open for the
primary election to nominate candi
dates on the several party tickets for
the various state and county officers.
The polls open at 12 and close at 9 in
the evening, thus giving every voter
ample time to go to the polls after
working hours. The same judges and
clerks of election that served at the
general election last November will
serve at the primary election, as the
appointments made for the general
election hold for one year. Clerk of
the Court Harmon sent out notices to
this effect last week to all judges and
clerks of election.
Nominations to be filled this year
consist of one candidate for chief Jus
tice of the supreme court, one railway
commissioner and two regents of the
university, and all county officers
with the exception of county attor
ney, also district judges.
In voting at the primaries, each
voter has to state to the election offi
cials what party he affilliates with.
Tills provision of the law is to pre
vent one party from taking advan
tage of another. Without this pro
vision democratic voters o.uld vote
for and secure the nomination of an
Hndesirable and unpopular person as a
candidate on the republican ticket,
or the rule work the other way and
republicans take a hand In democrat
ic nominations. And as swearing
falsly as to what party you ailllliate
with for the purpose of nominating
a weak candidate on the opposing side
amounts to perjury it will not be safe
to undertake it.
A full vote of all parties should be
recorded at this, the "trial day” of
the primary law in order to give it a
fair test.
Beginning Sunday, September 1st,
the postoillce will be open from 4:30
p. m. until fl p. m. every Sunday and
holidays until furtiier notice. The
office will not open at 9 o'clock Sun
days and patrons are requested to
transact their Sunday business dur
ing the hours the office opens in the
evening. It. J. Marsh, P. M.
Social Dance.
The ladies of the S. It. A. club will
give a dance at the opera house on
Friday evening, August 30. Arrange
ments arc being made and plans laid
to have this one of the pleasantest
allairs of the season. Everybody in
vited.
A Card.
We wish to heartily express our
thanks to our kind friends and
neighbors who so kindly assisted us
in the sickness, death and burial of
our dear little one.
Mr. and Mrs. Lew McDermott.
Grand Millinery Opening
i--1 i-1
Saturday Aug. 31
at the
Old Churchill Store
T5he Fisk Hut
The latest and most stylish
on the market. Velvets,
ribbons and silks in all
shades and colors.
Call and See Them!
\ Miss Katherine Grady
NEff TOWN AT DORSEY
Bankers Have Quarter Section Laid
Out In Town Lots.
WILL HAVE AN AUCTION SALE
Streets, Blocks and Lots Laid Out for
New Town on McElhaney Land in
Northeast Holt.
County Surveyor Norton was in his
olllce yesterday completing a diagram
for a new town that has just been
laid out In Holt county at Dorsey.
The town as plated comprises two
eighty acre tracts of the McElhaney
land that figured among the assets of
the defunct Elkhorn Valley bank and
which was sold under execution a
short time ago.
Two bankers, B. Stevenson of
Verdigre and F. Folda of Schuyler,
are the promoters of the new town of
Dorsey. The town as plated lies in
the shape of an L and comprises 160
acres cut up Into twenty-two blocks
divided into lots and several out lots
of from five to ten acres each. It Is
divided into streets and avenues run
ning to the four points of the com
pass. The promoters have shown
their favoritism to the ladies in nam
ing the streets and avenues. The
streets run east and west and are
called Elva, Lulu, Emellne, Char
lotte, Volora, Stephens and Athol.
The avenues run north and south,
being named as follows: Katherine,
Qrace, Folda, Alma, Mabel, Crawford
and Welpton. Mr. Norton says the
owners will have an auction sale and
put the lots on the market. They
are planning to sell the lots and
build up a town wnere now there is
only a farm house, barn, store build
ing, black smith shoo and a hall be
longing to a fraternal society.
Dorsey is located in the northeast
extremity of this county, one mile
from the Knox county line on the east
and six miles from the Niobrara river
iividlng Holt and Boyd counties on
the north. __
Special Term of Court.
Judge Westover of Rushvllle held a
special term of court at O’Neill Mon
day at which some equity and other
matters were disposed of.
The verdict awarding the plaintiffs
(1159 in the case of the Ohio Natlon
il bank of ColumbuK, Ohio, vs. Gill
Bros, of Stuart was set aside and a
new trial granted the defendants.
Exception was allowed the plaintiff,
with forty days to file bill of excep
tions.
In William Krotter & Co. vs. G. W.
Norton, the plaintiff having been
awarded a decree of foreclosure of
lien for *323 on June 1, 1907, and per
petual order of injunction granted
restraining defendant from removing
buildings covered by the lien, ob
jections to confirmation of sale under
foreclosure were entered by the de
fendant. The court overruled the
objections and confirmed the sale.
Later in the day tne court reversed
its order, setting aside the decree of
confirmation and allowed defendant
time to show cause why sale should
not be confirmed.
The Miles appeal cases also came
before the court, these being the cases
where the Independent publisher ap
pealed from the action of the county
board in rejecting his claims for
printing the Scavenger tax sale
notices. County Attorney Whelan
entered a demurrer to the appeal, but
was overruled and October 7 set as
the date for trial, when Judge West
over will preside at the hearipg of the
case. The plaintiff, represented by
M. F. Harrington, desired to have the
case tried to the court but Mr.
Whelan insisted upon a jury.