The Frontier.
VOLUME XXX.
O’NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 29.1909
NUMBER 6 ’
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A FIFTEEN-INNING GAME
Peelers and Emmet Put Up Good
Exhibition of Ball.
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SMALL CROWD IN ATTENDANCE
Emmet Boys Victors After a Hard
Struggle in Game of Many In
nings in Which Several Good
Plays Were Made.
One of the best and most exciting
games ever pulled off in the O’Neill
diamond was played last Sunday
afternoon between the Peelers and
the Emmet team, the game going
lifteen innings when Ducky Mc
Nichols, who caught for 'Emmet, con
nected with one of Hugh Coyne’s fast
ones for a home run winning the
game by a score of 6 to 5. There was
a very poor crowd out but those pres
ent surely got the worth of their
money. Hugh Coyne twirled a very
classy game for the Peelers holding
E nmet sluggers down to six hits in
the ..fifteen innings, two of which
in the last inning, Kane connecting
for a two sacker after Ducky got his
home run, and had he received the
proper support in the early part of the
game would have won easily in nine
innings, but his support was of the
punk order especially in the second
inning when four errors and ahitgave
Emmet three runs. A side wheeler
named Sullivan was on the firing line
for Emmet the forepart of the game
and twirled classy ball for six innings,
lint in the seventh inning the Peelers
got to him for a single and a triple
which with an error gave the Peelers
two runs putting them one to the
good. Jack Foreman mounted the
rubber in the eighth inning and
twirled classy ball the balance of the
game In the eleventh inning Gaha
gan, lirst up, laced out a three sacker
and it looked as if the Peelers were
going to “peel” them, but Foreman
was there and over with the twirling,
fanning the next three men up.
Again in the thirteenth inning things
‘ looked rather gloomy for the Emmet
boys as the Peelers got three men on
bases with only one down but were
then unable to score, one goiDg down
by the strike out route while the
other was an easy out, second to first.
The Emmet boys tied the score in
the ninth inning, after two were
down, on an error of the second base
man and thereafter never had a look
in lor tiie game until the home run
smash in the fifteenth inning. The
score by innings:
Emmet. ...03 1 00000100000 1—6
Peelers_2 0 001020000000 0—5
Struck out: Coyne 13; Sullivan 3,
Foreman 11. Batteries, Peelers,
Coyne and Joe Murphy; Emmet,
Sullivan, Foreman and McNichols.
Stuart Has Model Road.
Stuart Advocate: About two weeks
ago, J. H. Dodge, a government road
expert and Richard Perwien, a United
States highway examiner, came to
Stuart in response to a request made
by our county supervisor, Conrad
Kramer, and our efficient township
board. These men have been super
inteuding the construction of a mile
of sample or model road south of
Stuart near the McGrew place. The
expense of the work is borne by the
township, and while the road will be
a little expensive, it is permanent.
It was the worst mile of road in
Stuart township. Our township
board is entitled to a great deal of
credit for its enterprise in the matter,
and we feel that the money expended
is well spent, and will prove a good
investment. We now have a road
constructed on scientific principles,
with reference to the kinds of soil
used in making the top of the
road, which is composed of such a
mixture of clay and sand as to shed
water when completed, and it will
not rut. Everyone in the township
who is interested in our highways
should see this work, as the object of
the goverment in furnishing these
men free of cost to us is that we shall
learn from them how to do the work
for ourselves.
Notice.
All persons are hereby cautioned
against shooting or fishing on the
northeast quarter section 18, town
ship 28, range 10, knwn as the old
Laney farm.
S. S. Sprague.
Kill the Flies.
It costs less than
1c a day to keep
your stock tree from
flies. Come in and
ask us.
CILLICAN
& STOUT
Summer Sale on Sum
mer Goods 120 Per cent ott ^ ]
Shirt Waists I Ginghams I Cloves 1 Oxfords
Ladies’ Skirts I Purses.. Belts I Muslin U’wear I Straw Hats
Lawns I Collars | Gauze U’wear I Parasols
Come early and get your choice J. P. GALLAGHER I
LOCAL MATTERS
Frank Clark was at Chambers Mon
day.
Bob Gallagher is up from Page
today.
John Carr was up from Stafford
Monday.
Fly nets of all kinds for sale at J. H.
Davison’s. 6-2
E. II. Whelan had business at Sioux
City Monday.
Fred Barclay of Stuart was in the
city yesterday.
S. F. Lofquist of Stuart was in the
city Saturday.
For Sale—A calf ten days old. In
quire at this office. tf
Hiram Stearns of Atkinson was in
the city yesterday.
HOUSE FOR RENT. Five large
rooms. See R. H. Parker. 6-1
Deputy Sheriff Harding had official
business at Page last evening.
W. II. Carleton of Leigh, Neb., is
in town today on land business.
Mr. and Mrs. Casper Englehaupt of
Emmet were in the city Sunday.
F. W. Woods was over from Spencer
Monday with his “smoke wagon.”
Frank Clark, manager of the Mc
Ginnis creamery, went to Fremont
today.
State Superintendent E. C. Bishop
was in the city Monday to visit the
normal.
Robert Butke, the contractor for
the new church, came up from Omaha
Tuesday.
George Robertson went to Wayne
today to remain over Sunday at the
Chautauqua.
Mrs. Ed McBride returned the first
of the week from a visit witli friends
at Creighton.
The latest Edison records on sale
at Reka’s store, also four minute
records and attachments. 4-4
The court house is being brightened
up with a coat of paint over the out
side woodwork and cornice.
We see by the Advocate that H. W.
McClure has moved from his ranch in
McClure township to Ewing.
Lloyd Gillespie went up to Whtie
Clay last Friday evening to spend a
few days visiting his parents.
Rev. and Mrs. Hullhorst departed
Friday last for Yutan. Neb., where
they make tneir future home.
Bob Hunt, who has been visiting
here the past few weeks started on
his return to Oklahoma today.
C. J. Milligan, the Sioux City hay
merchant, was in the city Tuesday
looking after his hay interests here.
Hogs continue around $7 per hun
dred on the local market with a fair
sprinkling being brought in each day.
Kodak and kodak supplies at
Graves', the jeweler. All watch and
repair work guaranteed at Graves’,
the jeweler. (i-4
With good crops through-out this
section and unusual activity in build
ing, O’Neill will be a busy and active
center this fall.
R. R. Dickson, who with his family
has been at Excelsior Springs, Mo.,
the past month, expects to arrive
home next Monday.
J. J. Thomas and daughters, who
have been visiting relatives at Wasta,
S. D., the past three weeks, returned
home Tuesday morning.
Judge Malone issued a marriage
license the first of the week for Carl
F. W. Lehmann and Miss Bertha
Meilke, both of Chambors.
Mrs. Mary Murphy and sister, Grace
Giogan, both of Omaha, are in the
city visiting their aunts, Mrs. J. A.
Golden and Mrs. E. H. Whelan.
Henry Howard was up from Page
yesterday. Mr. Howard returned
about the first of June from Oregon
where he had spent the winter.
Miss Minnie Broghamer of Chadron
stopped ever on her way home from
Omaha Tuesday and visited a day
with her cousin, Mrs. D. H. Cronin.
Miss Mamie Shomaker left for her
home in Tripp county Monday morn
ing to hold down the homestead she
won in Uncle Sam’s lottery last fall.
O. O. Snyder has his lumber yard
sheds and buildings now completed
and painted, making a substantial
iraprovment on upper Fourth street.
It. H. Murray was up from Page
Monday. Dick says crops never
looked better in his section of the
county than they do at the present
time.
Mrs. T. P. McPharlin, who had
been visiting at the home of her
parents here the past two months,
left for her home at Buffalo, S. D.,
Monday morning.
Great piles of building material are
accumulating to be used in the build
ing pf the new Catholic church which
is going forward rapidly. The stone
walls are now several feet above the
surface.
C. E. Hall, Wm. Clevish, Zeb
Warner and Brantley Sturdevant
went to Lincoln Monday morning to
attend the republican state conven
tion, which was held there Tuesday
last.
George A. Abbot, of the American
Postottice Equipment Co. of Chicago,
is in the city today negotiating with
the building committee of the Odd
Fellows for the equipment for the
the new postottice building.
T. V. Golden expects to move his
family to Lincoln soon so that the
children can attend the university
and yet be at home. Mr. Golden ex
pects to remain in O’Neill to look
after his business interests here.
Third warders feel good over the
prospects of getting some crossings
over the streets that are always quite
impassible after every rain. Dan
Cameron started his force to work
Tuesday on cross walks over on the
west side.
Sneak thieves entered It. H. Mills’
barn one night recently and stole a
portion of a set of harness. They ap
parently wanted some pieces to “rig
up” a set as the bridles and loose
pieces belonging to the harness were
all taken.
George Bowen arrived in town
Tuesday from Oakdale, where he has
been the past month engaged in the
restaurant business which he lias
sold out and expects to start out with
his moving picture show after the
hot weather subsides.
The following have been selected as
judges for the race meet here August
11, 12 and 13: Peter Duffy, Saratoga;
Charles Bigelow, Stuart; John Mc
Nichols, Atkinson; J. N. Kay and H.
W. McClure, Ewing; W. W. Watson,
Inman; Mark Howard, Page.
Prospects are exceedingly good for
an abundant harvest in this county
this year of all kinds of crops. From
all sections of the county good crops
are reported. No disastrous hail
storms have been experienced thus
far and probably will nor be thus late
in the season.
Mrs. A. J. Mohr, who was called to
Omaha two weeks ago on accout of
the illness of her daughter Mrs. J. H.
Barris, writes The Frontier that her
daughter had recovered but her hus
band came down with typhoid fever
and it will keep Mrs. Mohr some time
yet. She savs there is a great deal of
sickness in Omaha this summer, all
of the hospitals being tilled.
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The managers of the race meeting
have had to make some changes in the
program. The show that had con
tracted to appear here having gone
out of existence, a new company has
been engaged. The program, hence,
undergoes a ciiange to the extent of
replacing one show company with
another.
Milo Beebe, marshal at Atkinson,
was brought to O’Neill yesterday to
answer a charge of assault, preferred
in county court by Eugene Galligan.
Witnesses could not be obtained for a
hearing that day and the case was
set for August 5, the defendant giving
bond in the sum of $50 for his appear
ance at that time.
On Tuesday a complaint was heard
by Justice Golden wherein James D.
Horton charged Charles Watson with
stealing a steer last September,
valued at $32. No evidence being
submitted to sustain the charge of
the complaint, the same was dis
missed without the introduction of
evidence by the defendant.
The Episcopals are making arrange
ments for the dedication service of
their church on Sunday, August" ?•"
Bishop Graves of Kearney will be
here at that time and conduct the
service. This congregation has a
neat little place of worship which has
been erected largely through the
efforts of the ladies of the church.
M. M. Sullivan returned from Omaha
last Saturday where he had been to
purchase his winter stock of shoes.
M. M. says that he has purchased the
largest stock of shoes ever brought to
O’Neill and that he will tell the
people of Holt county, through the
columns of next weeks’s Frontier, of
the bargains he has in store for them.
Monday evening a reception was
tendered the normal faculty at the
school-house park. The program
consisted of music, and short address
es by some of our citizens, including
Mayor Biglin. Ice cream was being
served in the court-house park by the
Episcopal ladies and the two affairs
became merged into one by the school
crowd joining the ice cream party.
W. H. Bedford has secured signers
to a petition for vacating the streets
and alleys crossing a tract of land he
recently purchased and fenced along
the Northwestern railroad in the
southwest part of town. The tract
comprises some twenty or twenty-live
acres. Mr. Bedford is planning on
converting the same into a poultry
ranch. He will present his petition
to the city council at the next meet
ing of that body.
J. F. O’Donnell yesterday sold the
Cronin ranch north of O’Neill to J.
D. Farr a real estate dealer of Sioux
City, for $23,400. The ranch com
pirses 1040 acres and is considered one
of the best places in the county and
the price for which it sold is con
sidered very low. Incumberances
against the place had hindered sale,
but the cleaning up of these will
enhance its value greatly. Mr. Farr
takes immediate possession and will
send a man here next week to take
charge of the place.
Plainview News: Word comes from
Kansas that Plainview’s last year’s
premier backstop, Harry Chapman, is
worse mentally, and has been taken to
the state hospital for the insane. It
seems that he has been so bad that it
has been necessary to keep a guard
over him for some time. A short
time ago, while the guard was pack
ing a trunk, he gave Harry a shot
gun to hold for him and while he was
packing and had his back turned,
Harry tried to brain him with the
barrel which he had been given tc
hold. The man was badly bruised up,
and as a result of this, it has been
best to send him to an asylum. Ills
many friends here will be sorry to
know he is no better as they had
hoped to see him all right again.
Wyant & Bazelman have made a
proposition to the cily to light the
streets with electricity. They own a
private lighting plant with which
they light the skating rink and the
store at the lumber yard and would
like to extend the system to the
streets. Mayor Biglin feels that
with the city improvements now
under way the finances of the town
will not permit of contracting for
lights this year. The lighting plant
these gentlemen have is small but
ample to furnish quite a system ol
lights that may be developed later.
Recreation: “Having any luck?”
asked the curious looking individual
on the bridge. “Any luck” answered
the fisherman in the creek below,
“why, I caught forty basS out of here
yesterday.” "Bay, do you know who
I am?” asked the stranger on the
bridge. The fisherman replied that
he did not. “Well, I am the country
fish and game warden.” The angler
.letter; ajuQj*Ui.u.tsUl!;ught...fiqilaiined:
“Bay, do you know who 1 am?” "No,”
the ofllcer replied. “Well, I’m the
worst liar in eastern Indiana,” said
the crafty angler with a grin.
The funeral of Mrs. Bridget En
right, who died Sunday, was held
Tuesday at the Catholic church and
was very largely attended by neigh
bors and old friends of the family.
Mrs. Enright was nearly seventy
years of age, being born in Ireland in
1839. She had been in ill health for
some time previous to her death.
With her husband, John Enright,
and family, the deceased had resided
long in Grattan township, this
county, being among the early settlers
northwest of O’Neill, and her demise
is generally regretted by the people ol
that community. The deoeased was
the mother of the Enright boys ol
this city.
The relocation of the O’Neill post
office has been settled by the govern
ment accepting the proposition of the
Odd Fellows, who will erect a build
ing 24x80 feet south of and joined
onto the O’Neill National bank. The
building will be one story with base
ment, built of brick. A ten-year lease
is secured from the government. The
contract for the lease also includes
new fixtures. The contract for con
structing the building has not beer
let but those having the work ir
charge hope to complete arrangements
to begin work right away. The build
ing occupied by the tailor shop wll
be moved to Douglas street, west ol
Bentley’s store. The new building is
to be ready for occupancy by Octobe:
1st.
Clerk of the Court Ilarmon find:
himself in a “straight betwixt two’
as a result of amendments and addi
tions and changes to the election lawi
made by the last legislature. Thi
new election law provides for the ap
pointment of the election boards b;
tiie clerk fifteen days before the pri
mary election. The old election lav
provided that they be appointed pre
vlous to the general election. Thi:
arrangement finds the clerk u|
against the proposition of appointln)
a new set of election officers this yea
when he already lias a set of thosi
officials lawfully appointed. The ap
pointment is for one year and thi
judges and clerk’s appointed las
October for the November electioi
still hold office. Their term expire
October 15. Harmon thinks that ac
cording to the new law the judge
and clerks appointed last fall hav
been legislated out of office and tha
he will have to make other appoint
meats for the primary.
4 GALA DAYFOR O'NEILL
Impressive Ceremonies to Mark the
Laying of the Corner Stone
OF NEW ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH
Among the Church Dignataries to be
Present are Rt. Rev. R. R. Sean
nel of Omaha aud Rt. Rev. J.
Keane of Cheyanne, Wyo.
The solomn ceremonies of next
Wednesday, August 4, mark the be*
ginning of the culmination of the
long cherished hopes of St. Patrick’s
congregation, namely, the rearing of
a new temple to be dedicated to the
worship of God. In accordance with
the spirit of the occasion and to make
the day a memorable one in the his
tory of the parish, a fitting program
lias been prepared.
The ceremonies of the day begin at
10:15 a. m. with the celebration of a
solemn high mass, “Goram Pontiflce,”
during which the sermon will be
preached by Rt. Rev. Bishop Scanned.
At 2 p. m. a procession will be formed
at the Knights of Columbus ball and
march to the church. It will be made
up as follows:
First—Led by the small girls of the
congregation, dressed In white and
carrying banners and flags.
Second—All of the girls of the con
gregation who are not Sodalists.
Third—All of the boys of the con
gregation.
Fourth—The Young Ladies Sodal
ity.
Fifth—The Knights of Columbus.
Sixth—The congregation.
The fourth degree, Knights of Col
umbus in full dress and regalia, will
act as escorts for the Bishops to and
from the parochial residence to the
church.
At 3 p. m. will take place the solemn
blessing and laying of the corner
stone, after which the sermon will be
preached by Rt. Rev. Bishop Keane.
At the close all will join in the sing
ing of the Te Deum.
The ladies of the parish will serve
dinner at noon on Wednesday at the
K. of C. hall. »**
Of Interest to Homesteaders.
■Department of the Interior, .Gener
al Land Office, Washington, D. C,
July 21,1909.—Register and Beceiver,
O’Neill, Nebr.—Gentlemen: In
response to your inquiry of
July 2, 1909, you are advised
that when final proof is made on a
homestead, under the Kinkaid act,
It will not be a question as to the
value at that time of the permanent
improvements placed on such entry,
but the claimant will be required to
show that in placing permanent im
provements on his homestead, be has
actually expended at least $1.25 for
eaeh acre embraced in his entry,
either in money or in labor equal
thereto.
The mere fact of the entry man’s
failure, until a short time prior to the
submission of his proof, to make the
required improvements on his home
stead, would not of itself constitute a
valid ground for contest.
Very respectfully,
S. V. Proud fit,
Acting Commissioner.
Board of Law Review,
By W. H. Lewis.
The following from the Lander,
(Wyo.) Journal would indicate that
Dell Baker is kept quite husy in that
section “rounding up” the large coal
mine owners. The Journal says: “A.
Baker, chief of field division No. 7,
and T. Paul Wilcox, court stenog
rapher, were here from Cheyenne this
week examining witnesses as to the
deal whereby S. W. Gebo, the wealthy
> Montana coal operator, secured about
2,000 acres of valuable coal lands near
tludson for a song. The witnesses
i subpoeaned were: Fred Schleuning,
George Jackson, Fred Bragg, Matt
Borland, Charles Stough, Fred A.
i Earl, James S. Vidal, R. H. Earl, E.
■ Amoretti, Jr., Dan Hudson, E. B.
■ Helmer, Ben Sheldon, John A. Hon
- rath, Harry Taylor and F. W. Thom
as. The government authorities
’ seem determined to make Gebo dis
■ gorge if possible.
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' the round trip daily, August 5 to 8,
! via Chicago & North Western Ry.
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For Sale—A thoroughbred 3 year
old short born bull.—Bernard Mullen.