The Frontier.
VOLUME XXX.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, I909
NUMBER 9
ARREST AN ALLEGED
BIGAMOUS^ 3 WIVES
Man Wanted at Santa Cruz, Cal.
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Located Here.
DISCOVERY IS ACCIDENTAL
Man of Many Names and Many Wives
Arrested In Hay Field Over
Near Amelia.
Sheriff Hall and Deputy Harding
were out at Amelia Tuesday and
placed under arrest a man wanted in
California on a charge of bigamy,
lie was brought to town and placed
in jail and the sheriff at Santa Cruz,
Cal., H. Y. Trafton, notified, he wir
ing back that he would leave at once
for here to take charge of the
prisoner.
The man has several assumed
names, and had been going by the
name of Curtis Scott since he came to
this county about a month ago. His
right name is said to be Arthur Boaz
ley. He has, or is supposed to have,
three wives, marrying once under the
name of Heny Price. He was first
married in Maine over twenty years
ago and doesn’t know whether his
wife whom he left there is living now
or not. He went to California and
took another woman who now lives
at Santa Cruz. Later he left her and
married a young girl in a nearby
town on four days’ acquaintance. He
admits his three marriages to Sheriff
Hall and says the last girl he married
knew of his second marriage before
they were married, and that he had
good reasons to leave wife No. 2 who
has since secured an annullmentof the
marriage, after learning of wife No. 1
in Maine. Wife No. 3 and her mother
are now prosecuting the bigamous
charge.
His locating and arrest here were
accidental. Mr. Hall was over at
Amelia a few weeks ago and was post
ing a bill for the race meeting at
O’Neill when he first saw Scott. The
sheriff had received a card from the
California sheriff a few days previous
giving a description of the man
wanted. Mr. Hall says while, he was
tacking the bill to the side of a build
ing a man walked up behind him. He
turned around and recognized at once
that the man answered the descrip
tion of the party wanted at Santa
Cruz He did not arrest him at the
time, however, but sent for further
information at Santa Cruz, after
obtaining which he was satisfied that
Scott was the man wanted.
Scott was working in the hay field
for Charles Gilman when arrested.
The sheriff had been informed by the
California officer that Scott carried a
gun and would resist arrest. When
they got to the Gilman place they
went to the house and searched
Scott’s grip to ascertain if it con
tained a gun. They were informed
by Mrs. Gilman that Scott had a
small grip with him in the field.
They drove to the hay field and Mr.
Hall decided to secure the grip first,
which they found near a hay stack.
Scott was running a mower and
Sheriff Hall got Mr. Gilman to intro
duce them.
The introduction was the means of
a slightly sensational arrest. As the
sheriff and Scott shook hands the
sheriff grasped his other arm in his
left hand while Deputy Harding put
on the hand cuffs. Scott was taken
so by surprise he had not the fore
thought to resist and submitted
gracefully to the arrest. He will be
kept here until the California sheriff
arrives with proper requisition.
Scott, or Boazley, is forty-two years
of age, well built and appears to be
a man of intelligence.
A Lucky Find.
Mr. Donohoe has been lucky In get
ting the Williams-Hugbes Dramatic
Co., for a week at the K. C. opera
house. This company, though an old
one, is new over this territory and is
carrying an extra strong show for
that reason. Reports from towns
where it has played, say it is the best
that has ever been there. As the
company is headed by Mr. Sylvester
De Forest who is well known to the
people of O’Neill, they should turn
out next Monday evening and give
them a go»d attendance.
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Don’t miss the Closing out Shoe
Sale at Sullivan’s store. 7-3
THE STATE NORMAL
O'Neill People Select Site and Con
tract for 80-Acre Tract.
O’Neill is interesting itself in the
new 3tate normal school to be located
somewhere in this section of Ne
braska next month. A meeting of
representative citizens and business
men was held Tuesday to discuss the
matter and prepare to set before the
normal board the advantages this
place offers as a location for a state
normal.
Among the provisions of the bill
authorizing the school is a clause
that the community in which the
school is located will donate a tract
of eighty acres of land for the build
ings and grounds. At the meeting
Tuesday a committee was appointed
to solicit bids and select a site for
the school, and also to present
O’Neill’s claim to the school before
the normal beard. The committee
consists of J. A. Donohoe, Florence E.
Zink, R. R. Dickson, O. F. Biglin, O.
0. Snyder, M. F. Harrington and T.
V. Golden. The committee went
immediately to work and secured
sealed figures from several persons
who had land adjoining town and
also visited the property and met
that evening to decide upon a loca
tion in the event the school was
located here.
H. A. Polk made the best figures on
an 80-acre tract, *40 per acre, and his
proposition was accepted by the com
mittee. The Polk land fronts, on
Tenth street and is regarded as a
?ood location, besides being good land.
The land lies north of Mr. Polk’s
residence on the eastern edge of town
and is a part of the old Cavanaugh
farm.
The state normal board will decide
upon a location between September
l and 10 during which time they will
visit the various places that are en
deavoring to get the school. Besides
O’Neill, several towns are wanting
the normal. Among these is Alli
ance, Chadron, Crawford, Gordon,
Valentine and Ainsworth.
Fined for False Tests.
Lincoln News: State Food Com
missioner Mains has had two cream
ery agents fined for making false
tests. Mrs. Hans Bunge of Cairo
pleaded guilty in the couuty court of
Hall county before Judge Mullen and
was fined for her offense. She was
igent for the Farmers’ Co-operative
Creamery and Supply company of
Omaha By her false test the Omaha
company paid for more cream than is
actually received. The money paid
belonged to the creamery company
and the Omaha company is supposed
to be responsible for the acts of its
agents. If this is true there is more
In the case than a violation of the
pure food law, which makes it unlaw
ful for any one to make a false test of
cream Her acts resulted in the
Omaha company paying more for
cream than it pays at other stations
in the state, freight rates being con
sidered, and the company may be
prosecuted under the anti-discrimina
tion law which makes it unlawful for
any person or corporation to pay more
for a product at one town than it
pays at another town freight rates
being considered. Thus far the
prosecutions have been only against
agents of creamery companies and
only two have been prosecuted. If
prosecutions are now conducted
against the creamery companies that
permit there agents to discriminate
unfairly, it is believed the unfair dis
crimination complained would soon
cease. Creamery companies permit
their agents to make false tests, pay
the extra cost for cream they do not
actually receive in the purchase, in
order to keep some competitor from
getting the cream. This practice is
believed to come clearly under the
state anti-discrimination law and
prosecutions of creamery companies
are awaited.
Mrs. Kunge s test or cream bought
of Jessen Bros, was 24 per cent. In
spector Vogel of the state food com
missioner’s offlice, tested the same
cream and made it 19 per cent. State
Chemist Itedfern made a test of the
same cream showing 19.5 per cent.
Mrs. Itunge’s test of cream bought
from a farmer named Burry showed
25 per cent. Mr. Vogel’s test of the
same cream showed 21 1-2 and the
test of Mr. Itedfern showed 21.25.
The Midsummer Clearing Sale on
Shoes, Dry Goods the way the prices
tumbled downwards has not been
paralelled even in Wall street on
Black Friday, so if you need shoes
here is the place to get them; we sell
them right at Sullivan’s store. 7-3
If you need help of any kind, tel
as many people as porsible. There
are more than 40,000 people who sub
scribe for The Omaha Bee. You can
tell them all for one cent per word per
day. Write today._
BOARD MAIDS LEVY
OF FIFTEEN MILLS
County and State Levies Amount to
20A Mills This Year.
WILL BUILD COUNTY JAIL
Supervisors Audit Claims and Make
Orders Against Bridge and Gen
eral Funds.
The board of supervisors adjourned
Friday last after a three day’s session.
Considerable business was transacted
during the three days; a 15-mill levy
made, claims audited and allowed and
some bridge work was disposed of.
Committees were appointed to accept
four new bridges recently built over
the Big Sandy and one over the South
Fork. A bridge of two thirty-foot
spans, with steel beams, was ordered
built over the Eikhorn between sec
tion 7, in township 27, north of range
9, and section 12, in township 27,
north of range 10.
A resolution was passed setting
forth the willingness of the board to
enter into a contract with the Boyd
county board to repair the Red Bird
bridge.
A proposition from E. H. Whelad to
cancel the delinquent taxes against
lots 4 and 5, in block 29, O’Neill, for
$75 was accepted. The county attor
ney as trustee was directed to deliver
a quit claim deed to John Carr, upon
the payment of $312.50, for the south
east quarter of section 8, township 27,
range 12.
A resolution was passed authorizing
the construction of a county jail and
the clerk was directed to advertise for
bids for the Bame.
The certificate of the secretary of
the state board of equalization show
ing the state levy was made a part of
the record and is as follows:
Total valuation.$2,616,288.00
General fund, 24 mills ... 16,273.30
University, 1 mill. 3,616.29
Total, 54 mills. 19,889.59
The county levy of 15 mills is as
follows:
General fund.7 mills
Bridge fund .4 mills
Special emergency fund.1 mill
Soldiers’ relief fund.2-10 mill
Road fund.4 mill
Judgment fund.2 3-10 mills
Claims on the general and bridge
funds of 1909, aggregating $21,141.71,
were allowed. The various items are
given below:
Court and coroners claims_$2,586.90
Assessors’ claims. 3,193.13
Supervisors’claims. 1,009.67
General fund claims. 9,966.20
Bridge fund claims.... 4,285 81
Total.$21,141.71
The board approved the bonds of J.
J. McCafferty, justice of the peace for
O’Neill, and J. B. Long for road over
seer, both to fill vacancies.
The Live Stock Market
South Omaha, Neb., Aug., 18—Spec
ial market letter from Standard Live
Stock Comimssion Co.
Our market on beef cattle and all
classes of killers is fully as high as one
week ago, the decline of the middle
of last week being fully regained.
Good range beef is desired by buyers
in preference to the warmed up
native cattle. Butcher stock is sell
ing a little stronger. Stockers and
feeders are 10 to 20 cents lower than
last report owing to the continued
dry weather which is cutting short
the pastures and also injuring the
corn in some localities. A good rain
would help the feeder market.
We quote:
Choice corn fed beef.$6.30(a>$7.25
Common to fair. 4.15(a) 6.25
Cornfed cows and heifers 5.25
Good butcher grades. 3.25(a) 3.75
Canners and cutters. 1.15(a) 3 00
Veal calves. 4.00(a) 7.00
Bulls, stags,etc. 2.75($ 4.75
Prime feeding steers. 4.25(a) 5.10
Others down to. 3.25
Stock heifers... 2.75<a> 3.50
The hog market made a sharp ad
vance Monday and is getting back
well toward the high mark of the
season. Bulk $7.55 to $7.75, top $7.90.
Lambs made an advance of about a
quarter last week and fat sheep 10 to
15 cents but are 10 to 20 lower to day,
owing to the heavy run.
Do you want to sell, or exchange
your business? The Omaha Bee will
run an advertisement for you at one
cent a word per day. There will be
many out of their 40,000 readers who
will answer your advertisement.
Write today.
Don’t fail to attend the Clearing
Shoe Sale, $8,000 worth of shoes that
will be sold at sacrifice. If you want
any come and get our prices on shoes,
dry goods, furnishing goods, we will
surprise you, we buy goods to sell at
Sullivan’s store.__7-3
SPECIAL SALE
Silk, Silkoline, Allover Em
broidery and Waist Net
500 yards of plain and
fancy silks picked from
i stock and placed on the |
counter in center aisle \
that will be sold at less f
j money than they cost.
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J. P. MANN & CO.
THE PRIMARY
Some Interest in Democrat and Pop
Contest for Clerk.
The primary election last Tuesday
brought out a little over 600 voters.
The only contest on the county ticket
was that between S. F. McNichols
and S. A. Hickman for county clerk.
In O’Neill and Grattan township
McNichols received 122 democratic
votes, while Hickman was able to
tally only 9. The majority received
by McNichols in his home was too
great a handicap for the chairman of
the county board to overcome and
McNichols has received the democratic
nomination by a mojority that will
probably exceed 100, but the exact
figures will not be obtainable until
the official canvass is made to-morrow.
The contest between these two can
didates for the nomination on the
peoples’ Independent ticket promises
to be much closer, and Hickman
might possibly win it. Nothing defi
nite can be learned, however,as to the
standing of the two candidates, as
the judges who brought in the returns,
in many instances, were unable to tell
the vote received by each candidate,
and in many instances where they
knew the vote received by each candi
date it was the total vote cast on
both ballots.
No one evidently paid any attention
to securing the vote on supreme
judges and the result will not be
known until the official canvass is
made.
The Fall Term of the Wayne Nor
mal opens September 6 and continues
eight weeks. Review classes for
those preparing to teach. We have
the best equipped Manual Training
Department in the state. Our Com
mercial Department is especially
strong. Graduates from teachers’
courses receive State Certificates. By
a recent act of the legislature, this
school in time becomes a State Nor
ma'l. For catalog and further par
ticulars, address
F. M. Pile, President,
9-3 Wayne, Nebraska.
For Sale for Cash.
We will accept the best cash offer
before Aug. 15, on El SE1 section
8, township 29, range 10.
T. A. Reynolds Land Co,
8-3 Kimball, S. D.
The Great Shoe and Furnishing
goods at Sullivan’s is where you can
buy goods at the sight price. Come
and see for yourself. 7-3
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