/ The Frontier.
VOLUME Will. O’NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. APRIL 2,1908 NUMBER 41
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ACQOITTALM DIBBLE
Jury Finds Old Gentleman Not Guilty
In Hog Stealing Case.
BUSY WEEK IN DISTRICT COURT
Damages Assessed Against Two Rail
roads.—Miles Wins Suit, Will Be
Taken to Supreme Court.
The jury in the John Dibble case
brought in a verdict last Saturday of
not guilty, and the defendant was dis
charged. Dibble was charged with
being implicated in the raid on the
Ferguson ranch near Atkinson when
hogs to the value of $60 were stolen.
It was not charged that Dibble stole
the hogs, but that be bought them
knowing they were stolen.
Frank McShane and William Wel
lar are again under arrest in connect
ion with this same case and now in
tbe county jail awaiting trial in the
district court.
Several cases have been disposed of
N in district court the past week. In
the case of C. L. McElhaney vs.
Michael Dowling, a suit over the
title and possession of a portion of the
land that figured as an asset of the de
funct Elkhorn Valley bank, a verdict
was returned for the defendant, as
was also In the case of the Ohio
National bank vs. Gill Bros, a suit on
notes.
Alien B. Donaldson of Ewing sued
the Chicago & Northwestern railway
company for $1,068.20 damage alleged
to have been sustained from a fire
started on his place by a Northwestern
engine. The jury, after being taken
to Ewing at the instance of Mr.
Wright, the defendant’s attorney,and
viewing the timber and ground burn
ed over, returned a verdict awarding
the plaintiff $197.50.
By an agreement to stipulations of
the attorneys, the case of G. A. Miles
was taken from the jury and argu
ment will be made to the court. This
is the case in which Mr. Miles seeks to
recover pay for printing the scavinger
delinquent tax list without the au
thority of the county board. The
board rejected his claim and the case
was appealed Judge Westover Thurs
day entered judgment for plaintiff,
tbe amount not having been fixed at
this writing, and denied the attorneys
far the' county, Messrs. Whelan and
Dickson, a new trial. They will ap
peal to the supreme court.
Yesterday another railroad damage
case, brought here from one of the
counties in the southern part of the
state by the attorney for the plaintiff,
was tried to the court. Boyd Bur
rows, a showman, is seeking to recov
er $2,700 from the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy for the burning of his tent
and other show equipments that he
had billed for shipment on that road
from Loup City to Askton. Attorney
N. K. Griggs of Lincoln is looking
after the inrerests of the railroad com
pany, while M. F. Harrington is pros
ecuting. The case was tried to the
court.
Last evening Judge Westover rend
ered a verdict in the last mentioned
case, finding for the plaintiff and as
sessing the amount of damages at
$2,350.__
Oil cake meal is tne best and cheap
est feed there is now, except potatoes.
—Con Keys.
MRS. ST. JOHN TALKS
Two Lectures On Temperance and
Prohibition.
Mrs. Eugena St. John of Kansas,
national evangelist of the Womans’
Christian Temprance Union, spoke at
the court house afternoon and even
ing last Sunday under the auspices of
that organization. The addresses
were in the interest of temprance
work, of which the organization she
represents is the pioneer.
Mrs. St. John explained that she
was not the wife of the former gover
nor of Kansas of that name, but that
she with her husband, who died four
years ago, had been engaged in the
work she is now in for many years.
The speaker dealt with her subject
in a orceful, whole-hearted and inter
esting manner, “presenting facts,” as
she termed it, in a logical train of
thought. She said the reason of the
prohibition wave in the south was a
self preservation measure adopted by
the whites because of the negros. It
bad become a question, she said,
whether the saloon or the white
people would have to leave the south
because of the influence the saloon
was having on the negro race. The
same question of self-preservation,the
speaker declared, was before northern
people, and laid the responsibility for
the anarchistic tendencies in commun
ities of laboring men on the liquor
traffic.
Some comparisons were made be
tween the no license state of Kansas
and the license state of Nebraska, the
speaker declaring the bank clearances
show up larger in favor of Kansas,
public and municipal improvements
are better, school teachers, who are
paid license money in Nebraska, get a
third larger salaries in Kansas, and
many similar comparisons.
The meetings were made the occas
sion to add the names of all who wish
ed to join the union in this commun
ity. _
Doc Still Active.
This item, from the Edgemont, S.
D., Express, will be read with inter
est by those here who were familiar
with the characters that obtained
notoriety in the palmy days: “Doc
Middleton, who is one of the interest
ed ones in the celebrated race from
Edgemont to Denver, was in town on
Monday, on his way to Hot Springs to
see his wife, who is in the hospital
there. He is still in the front rank
booming the race, and he intends to
be the lirst in the outcome at Denver.
He has been in this country ever since
the Black Hills were prominent, and
he is as well known as anyone can be.
He is doing his utmost to make the
race a success, and wjll be in the front
all the time.”
Goodbye Party.
Atkinson, April 2.—A jolly few of
Atkinson’s most appreciative and
intimate friends of Fruik J.
J. Keirnan and wife came in and bid
them goodbye and made arrangements
for their future entertainment
when in O’Neill, their future home.
Frank takes the management of the
Holt County Telephone line and Mrs.
Keirnan and Miss Anna Coufal oper
ate the exchange. The visitors left
with their best wishes a nandsome
cut glass water set and other tokens
of love, the following names attach
ed: Mr. and Mrs. William Bokhof,
Mr. and Mrs. C. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs.
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D. Williams, Dr. and Mrs. Doug
las, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Hart, Mr.
md Mrs. A. T. Hart, Mr. and Mrs.
M. Campbell.
Methodist Church Items.
The usual services will be held at
pur church Sunday, beginning with
plass meeting at 10 o’clock, led by Mrs.
0 O. Snyder. Sermon by the pastor
at 10:30 a. m. and 8 p. m. Subject of
pur morning discourse will be: “The
True Vine and the Branohes.” Even
ing subject: “The Secret of a Pros
perous Life. ” Sunday school at the
plose of the morning service. Brother
A. E. McKeen, our efficient superin
tendent, is always glad to welcome
pld and new scholars and would be
pleased to meet you there.
Junior league service at 3 o’clock,
rhe service next Sunday will be con
ducted by Mrs. S. A. Watson, a re
turned missionary from Chile, S. A.
Every Junior should be present if pos
sible.
At the Junior league service last
Sunday, James Weekes was awarded
the first and Ruth Millard the second
prize for proficiency in reciting verses
from the scriptures. Each was given
a very nice Sunday school scholars
bible. The contest was very close,
there being but two verses difference;
James having learned 84 and Ruth 82.
Our third quarterly meeting will be
held Sunday evening, April 12, at 8
o’clock. The Rev. Dr. Bithel, our
presiding elder, will preach, after
which the sacrament of the Lord’s
supper will be administered. The
quarterly conference will be held on
Monday, the 13th instant, at 9 a. m.
A full attendance is desired.
The pastor was at Albion the first
part of last week, attending the
Neligh district conference, and re
turned too late to get the church
items into the papers.
Epworthians, attention! The past
or desires to see you all at the service
at 1 o’clock Sunday evening. He
wishes to present to you a matter of
considerable interest and importance.
Charles Scott went to Lynch today
to take some depositions for Omaha
attorneys.
S= IOES! I
Even the sidewalk has been utilized in accomodating the I
numerous boxes of shoes.
We have Shoes for all that we guarantee. Ours are Shoes to wear as well as to sell. Ladies' Oxfords in jH
. tan and black patent in turn and welts, an Oxford of style and xuality. Children's Shoes, the kind that bear
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Will Start Cement Factory.
Daniel Burr, traveling man and
ranch owner, and T. V. Golden will
start a factory here about May 1 for
the manufacture of cement building
blocks and cement shingles.
Mr. Burr was in the city Monday
and In conversation with a Frontier
representative talked very optomistic
of the prospects of the enterprise. He
has had practical experience in the
manufacture of the blocks and now
has machinery installed at Norfolk.
The machinery, Mr. Burr says, was
first got to make the cement blocks
for building on his ranch in Wheeler
county, but when the public saw the
quality of blocks there has been a gen
eral demand for them.
fir. Golden is furnishing the land
sand and gravel—for the enterprise,
while Mr. Burr furnishes the machin
ery. The machinery will be installed
on land owned by Mr. Golden in Fahy’s
addition at a convenient location near
the gravel pit. Mr. Golden thinkB
cement is the building material of the
future and expresses confidence that
the enterprise will be a success here.
They expect to make, he says, a first
class product.
Death of Leo Hayes.
Salt Lake Herald, March 24: This
morning at 4 o’clock at the Park Oity
miners’ hospital, Leo Hayes, the eld
est son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hayes of
this city, died of appendicitis. The
young man was taken sick about two
weeks ago and gradually grew worse
until on last Tuesday it was found
necessary to operate on him, which
was done, and the operation proved
successful enough and for a day or so
be seemed on the improve, but his
weakened condition was such that
despite every effort on the part of the
physicians and the hard fight made by
himself, he was unable to ward off
death.
Leo was a member of the local high
school and was well liked by all of his
teachers and schoolmates. He was in
his 20th year and leaves a mother and
father, two sisters and a brother to
mourn his death.
The remains will be shipped to
O’Neill, Nebr., for burial in the morn
ing and the funeral services will be
held from the Catholic church, where
a requiem mass will be celebrated by
Rev. Father Galligan.
The Knights of Columbus, to which
order the deceased belonged, will have
charge of the funeral.
Several beautiful floral pieces have
been ordered by telegram to be deliv
ered at O’Neill by the families, Park
City friends, high school pupils and
the Knights of Columbus.
To the kind relatives and neighbors
In O’Neill, we desire to express our
grateful thanks for the beautiful floral
offerings and many acts of kindness
tendered us during the death and
burial of our beloved son, Leo.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hayes.
The funeral of James Sullivan was
held last Friday afternoon and was
one of the largest seen in this city for
years, which testified to the esteem
in which he was held by people In
O’Neill and vicinity. His remains
were laid to rest bv the side of a son
and daughter in the Catholic ceme
tary. Two sons, Philip and Jerry,
came from Montana to attend the
funeral and will visit here a couple
of weeks before returning to their
homes in the west.
SHOT MBHBOB; SUICIDE
Demented Homsteader Attempts to
Slay Eric Borg.
KILLS SELF TO AVOID CAPTURE
Intended Victim Still Alive and May
Recover.—'Tragedy In Northern
Part ot County.
Eric Borg, one of the most prosper
ous and highly respected farmers ot
this county, living on the Eagle twen
ty miles north of this city, was shot
last Saturday morning by John Price,
a “Kinkaid homesteader,?’ who lived
about four miles from Borg’s. About
five hours after the shooting, when
closely pursued by Sheriff Hall and a
posse, he ducked into a shanty on a
homestead about a mile from his
home and put a bullet through his
brain.
Borg went to his barn about 7
o’clock in the morning to feed his
horses and opened the top half of the
door when Price stuck a 38-calibre
revolver up against his breast and
pulled the trigger. The ball entered
just right of the breast bone missing
the lung and lodging in the muscles of
the back.
Borg got away from in front of the
door and ran over a mile along the
creek bottom to a neighbor’s house.
When he arrived there he was very
weak from loss of blood and was taken
back home in a carriage. His con
dition then was precarious and it was
not thought he could recover, but he
has rested easily since and it is now
thought the danger point is passed.
The would-be murderer and suicide,
after the shooting, started west alohg
Eagle creek, evidently seeking some
place of concealment. Sheriff Hall
reached the place of the shooting
about 11 o’clock and together with
those who had assembled took up the
search for Price. He was soon located
in a vacant shanty about a mile from
his home. The door of the shanty
was fastened upon the inside with a
wire, but when the sheriff jerked it
open he found Price on the floor dead
with a hole through the top of his
head, and the revolver tightly grasp
ed in both hands, the muzzle toward
bis iface. The body was still warm,
showing that it had been but a few
moments since he had shot himself.
An inquest was held by the sheriff,
the jury finding that he came to his
death by his own hand. The body
was then taken to his shanty and
turned over to his widow. Borg and
Price never bad any trouble and the
shooting can be accounted for only on
the theory that Price was insane.
A Complaint.
Mr. Editor: Will you kindly call
the attention of the city authorities
to the fact that it costs money to
pump water, and the overflow from
the stand pipe is wholly unnecessary
it this or any season of the year.
John.
Get Busy.
We are arranging our list for 1908 in
Antglope, Knox, Pierce, Boone and
Holt counties. If you have anything
;o sell or trade, “get busy.’’ List
with McLeod Bros., Real Estate, Ash
end or Brunswick, Nebr. 41-4
The Frontier for your sale bills.