_The Frontier. !
VOLUME XXX.
O’NEILL NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1909
NUMBER 10
PRIMARY ELECTION VOTE
About One-Sixth of the Voters Take
Part in the Nominations.
BARNS LEADS STATE TICKET
Hickman Was Winner for Clerk Nom
ination Until the Votes at O’Neill
Were Counted.
At the primary election held in this
county Tuesday of last week a total of
658 votes were cast, about one-sixth of
the vote of the county. Outside the
the contest on the republican ticket
for judges of the supreme court the
only contest was on the democrat
ticket for county clerk between
Chairman Hickman of the county
board and S. F. McNichols of this
city. Sam Hickman was handicapped
in the race, having incurred the en
mity of the machine and was forced
to go through the campaign with the
influence of Boss Mullen against him.
Sam was confident all along that he
could overcome that handicap, but
when the votes were counted it was
found that the O’Neill man was an
easy winner. Hickman came to
O’Neill with a majority of eight votes
on the democratic ticket but the
heavy vote cast for McNichols in this
city put him under the wire a winner
in a walk. On the peoples’ independ
ent ticket Hickman had a majority of
nineteen votes outside of O’Neil), but
the three wards of this city gave Mc
Nichols enough votes to overcome
that lead and put him under the wire
with a majority of six votes.
Following is the vote cast for the
several candidates in the county:
For Judges Supreme court—
REPUBLICAN
F. G. Hamer. 79
E. It. Duffle. 46
J. O. Yeiser . 42
T. H. Sedgwick.104
E. C. Calkins.118
J B. Barnes . 156
Jacob Fawcett .100
J. E. Cobby. 67
DEMOCRAT
> J. R Dean .224
f B. F. Gvtod .212
J. J. Sullivan..244
peoples’ independent
J. R. Dean . 116
B. F. Good .120
J. J. Sullivan.125
Regents of the University—
REPUBLICAN
Charles Allen.246
W. G. Whitmore.232
C. T. Knapp.239
PEOPLES’ INDEPENDENT
D. C. Cole.114
Regents to fill vacancy—
REPUBLICAN
Frank L. Haller.242
DEMOCRAT
II. E. Newbranch.229
peoples’ independent
H. E. Newbranch.118
County Clerk—
W. P. Simar, rep.234
S. A. Hickman, dem.103
S. F. McNichols, dem.166
S. A. Hickman, peoples’ ind. 61
S, F. McNichols, peoples’ ind. 67
W. P Simar, proh. 15
County Treasurer—
J. C. Harnish, rep.251
L. J. Spittler, dem.232
L. J. Spittler, peoples’ ind .114
J. C. Harnish, proh. 16
County Judge—
C. J. Malone, rep.246
J. A. Golden, dem.240
J. A. Golden, peoples’ ind.120
O. J. Malone, proh. 18
Sheriff—
H. D. Grady, rep.247
Wm. Froelich, dem .244
Win. Froelich, peoples’ ind.123
H. D. Grady, proh. 18
County Superintendent—
Florence E. Zink, rep.241
Minhie B. Miller, dem.239
Minnie B. Miller, peoples’ ind.119
Florence E. Zink, proh. 19
County Coroner
Dr. E. T. Wilson, rep.248
Dr. P. J. Flynn, dem. 19
Dr. P. J. Flynn, peoples’ ind. 20
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The Fall Term of the Wayne Nor
mal opens September 0 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
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The Live Stock Market
South Omaha, Neb., Auk., 25—Spec
ial market letter from Standard Live
Stock Comlmssion Co.
The advance of last week of 15 to 25
cents on good killers is well main
tained at the opening of this week.
There is a broad demand for fleshy
cows and all offerings of this kind
were readily picked up. There was
also a good inquiry for fleshy feeders
at firm prices while the light and
medium weight cattte are slow sale
at lower figures. The run is very
liberal both at Chicago and river
points.
We quote:
Choice range beef.$5.00(g)$5.75
Choice corn fed beef.6.50(g) 7 50
Common to fair. 4.75(a) 6 40
Cornfed cows and heifers 5.25
Good butcher grades. 3 25(a) 3.75
Canners and cutters. 1.75@ 3.00
Veal calves. 4.00(g) 7.00
Bulls, s ags,etc. ... 2 75(g) 4.75
Prime feeding steers.4'25@ 5.10
Others down to. 3.25
Stock heifers. 2.75(g) 3.50
We have a very light run of hogs
here this week although fair at
Chicago. Values 5 to 10 up. Bulk
$7.45 to $7.70, top $7.90
Fat lambs have declined 25 to 40
cents during the past week. Fat
sheep have held up well and are
steady. Desirable feeders have held
fully steady and bunches that just
suited have brought a stronger price
in some cases. The demand has been
good but the supply is plenty large to
meet It.
Leon Manville Dies Suddenly.
The Fremont Tribune ra ports the
death of Leon Manville, sou of 0. A.
Manville, well known in this county
where he heid the office of superin
tendent two or three terms. The
Tribune says:
At 9:30 o’clock Friday morning the
body of Leon Manville, a former Fre
mont boy who was stricken with
spiual meningitis while at the bed
side of his sick wife in Omaha last
week, was brought to this city for
burial. Services were heid at the
Ridge cemetery a half hour later,
Rev. G. M. Jones of Louisville, Neb.,
officiating. Mr and Mrs. C. A. Man
ville, parents of the deceased, arrived
in the city late Thursday afternoon
from their home near Herrick, S. D.,
to attend the funeral. Their daugh
ter and her husband from Colon were
also here.
For the past year or two Leon Man
ville had been principal of the schools
at Dallas, S. D. A few weeks ago he
left his South Dakota home in com
pany with his wife for Omaha, where
she entered a hospital and was op
erated upon for appendicitis. After
a sinking spell during which she was
near death, Mrs. Manville began to
recover. Last Friday when the pros
pects were all bright, Mr. Manville,
who was working in Omaha, was
stricken with a sudden illness. The
following day he was seriously ill.
His death occurred Tuesday night.
The deceased was well known here,
being a graduate of the Fremont high
school. His father was county clerk
of Dodge county for several years,
before moving to Spencer, thence to
Herrick. Mr. Manville is survived by
his widow, a bride of two years. He
was 24 years of age.
Methodist Church Items.
The usual services will be held at
the Methodist church next Sunday,
beginning with the class meeting at
10 a. m. One of the most helpful of
all, this service should be loyally sup
ported.
Sermon by the pastor at 10:30 a. m.
and at 8 o’clock p. m. The subject
of our morning discourse will be,
“One Body in Christ,” and in the
evening our theme will be, “Whom
Jesus Loved ” To these services we
most cordially invite everybody.
Sunday school at the close of the
morning service, and we invite all,
who can conveniently do so, to re
main for an hour's study of the word
of God.
Junior League service Wednesday
evening at 7:30, to which all of the
boys and girls are invited.
Prayer meeting every Thursday
evening at 8 o’clock. We aim to
make this service interesting and
profitable, and are always glad to
have our friends meet with us.
The Ladies’ Aid Society meets at
the church every Tuesday afternoon.
All ladies of the church and congre
gation are invited to meet with this
band of loyal workers.
T, S. Watson, Pastor.
Everlasting.
F. D. Coburn of Kansas on alfalfa:
Alfalfa is very long lived; fields in
Mexico, it is claimed, have been con
tinuously productive, without re
planting, for over 200 years, and
others in France are known to have
flourished for more than a century.
Its usual life in the United States is
probably from ten to twenty-five
years, although there is a field in New
York that has been mown successively
for over sixty years. It is not unlike
ly that under its normal conditions
and with normal care it would well
nigh be, as it is called, everlasting.
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MINOR MENTION
During the rain storm Monday
morning lightning struck the corner
of O. F. Biglin’s implement house
and in a few seconds a good-sized Are
had started, but it was discovered
almost immediately by Nightwatch
man Kane who sounded the alarm
and the department soon had it under
control. The damage to the building
will not exceed $100.
Frank Kiernan returned Sunday
afternoon from his trip to the coast.
While away Frank registered at the
three land drawings and was one of
the fortunate ones in the Coeur
d’Alene, Idaho, drawing and will be
able to Ale on a piece of Idaho land
next April. Frank thoroughly en
joyed his trip and says that during
tlie journey he met many former
O’Neill people.
Dr. A. H. Corbett arrived home
Sunday from Cheyenne, Wy., were he
attended the frontier celebration
three days last week. Doc says it was
a great celebration and that Cheyenne
did herself proud in entertaining the
thousands cf visitors. The celebra
tion consisted of a program of
characteristic western “stunts" and
was carried out as advertised. Doc
says one thing that was very noticible
was the absence of rowdyism, gamb
ling and street fakirs.
S. G. Hammons of Afton, la., was
here the first of the week looking after
his real estate interests, he having
something over 1,400 acres of land five
miles east of town. Mr. Hammons
says he notes a substantial develop
ment in the country this year. He
says southern Iowa has had a poor
crop season, there having been ex
cessive rains in the spring that made
seeding and subsequent cultivation
late. The summer turned out dry
and excessively hot which renders the
corn crop a failure.
Howard Y. Trafton, sheriff of Santa
Cruz county, California, arrived in
the city Sunday afternoon and Tues
day morning left with Henry Price,
the man arrested by Sheriff Hall at
Amelia a week ago and wanted in
the California county on the charge
of bigamy. Mr. Trafton was loud in
his praise of Sheriff Hall for having
taken the man into custody and said
that the arrest of Price about three
thousand miles from the scene of his
cripae proved that the United States
was a very small country for a man to
hide in when the officers once started
out to find a man.
W. W. Mills was called up from
Meadow Grove last Friday on account
of his young son meeting with an
accident. The boy was visiting at
their former home near Minneola.
Thursday he was hurt with a pitch
fork. The boy was around where
grain was being stacked. The stacker
had completed his stack and let the
fork slide down the side. It struck
the Mills boy in the right shoulder,
the sharp tines penetrating the flesh
down along the back far enough to
support the weight of the fork, which
had to be removed from the boy. Dr.
Gilligan was summoned from O’Neill
and dressed the wound, which is not
serious. Mr. Mills and son returned
j home Sunday._
Liberati and his famous band and
Grand Opera singers makes music
very popular at the State Fair.
They will be heard at Lincoln four
concerts every day Sept. 6th to 10th.
They never dissapolnt the crowd
simply hold them spell bound during
the entire program. The cornet solos
by the great leader or the solos by the
other artists always well rendered.
No matter whether the band renders
“Andre Cheniev” a number so tre
mendous that it taxes the full musical
power of the band or “Uncle Sam’s
March” as the last note dies away
the crowd always cheer.
'■* good-sized delegation of O’Neill
ites went to Neligh last Friday to
take in the races and incidently see
the O’Neiil ball team trim an aggre
gation of Antelope county players.
The game resulted in a score of 4 to 1
in favor of the O’Neill boys. Charley
Richter was on the firing line for
O’Neill and the boys say he twirled a
very classy game, holding the oppos
ing team down to four hits and fan
ning fourteen men. The races were
not as good as those seen here, the
event of the day, the 2:14 pace, being
won by Louise Mac over Capt. Mack
in three straight heats.
Springview Herald: Judge Har
rington arrived Saturday from
O’Neill, and held a special term of
district court at this place, ne sen
tenced Chas. Williams and Harvey
Mlddaugh, Charged with stealing
three head of horses from L. P. Lar
son of Mills, to terms in the peniten
tiary. Williams received six years at
bard labor, Sundays excepted and
Middaugh received two. Williams
confessed to having served a term of
16 months in the Minnesota peniten
tiary for grand larceny. He was also
arrested in Wisconsin on a charge of
embezzlement, but in some manner
was gotten out of the scrape. Miti
daugh is only 20 years old and his
parents live near Carlock in Gregory
county. _
For the past month or more there
has been considerable discussion
among the “ railbirds ” and
those interested in race horses as to
which of two horses were the faster,
Stannard’s “Speed On” or Gregg’s
“Kyd.” The discussion finally caused
an advocatelof each horse to put up a
little roll of the long green as a sup
porter of their judgment and the
race was pulled off on the race track
Tuesday afternoon. They got away
nicely together with Speed On at the
pole. The Kyd tried to pass him at
the turn and went in the air and
Speed On won the heat in|a canter.
The next heat was a little more ex
citing. The Kyd trailed Speed On
clear around until he got on the neck
stretch when he passed him and was
pulling away from him fast when h«
again went into the air and Speed Or
won the heat and race easily. Con
siderable money changed hands or
the result of the race.
For Sale for Cash.
We will accept the best cash offei
before Aug. 15, on Ei SEi sectior
8, township 29, range 10.
T. A. Reynolds Land Co,
8-3 Kimball, S. D.
Up-to-date job printing at Th<
F rontier.
A NEW LIMITED TRAIN
Northwestern Puts on Another Pas
senger From Chicago West.
The last announcement of increased
passenger service to western points is
made by the Chicago & Northwestern,
A new train, to be known as the
Oregon - Washington Limited, was
placed in service August 22, leaving
Chicago at 11:30 a. m. dally, arriving
Portland 8:30 the third morning, and
landing passengers in Tocama and
Seattle the same afternoon.
The new train has an equipment
that includes Pullman drawing-room
sleeping cars, Pullman tourist sleeping
cars, Pullman private compartment
and observation sleeping cars, and free
reclining chair cars. All of this equip
ment is handled between Chicago and
Portland without change. These trains
have a la carte dining car service ol
the highest character.
This Is in addition to the present
service via the electric-lighted Chicago
Portland special, and gives to the pub
lic the choice of two through trains tc
the north Pacific coast, each of which
Is operated on a three-day schedule via
the Chicago, Union Pacific & North
western line.
The increased popularity of this line
to Salt Lake City, the Yellowstone
park, Portland and the Puget sound
country may be attributed to two
principal reasons; one is that by this
route some of the most remarkable
commercial and agricultural develop
ment that the west can boast of is tc
be seen, together with a magnificent
group of scenic attractions which
reach theirclimaxon the 200-mlle trlf
which these trains make along the
banks of the Columbia river from
Umatilla to Portland.
The other chief reason for the lieavj
travel attracted by this route is due tc
the extensive publicity that has beer
given to the fact that it has the onlj
double track, automatic safety signa
line between Chicago and the Missour
river, and the only route operated un
der automatic safety signals from
Chicago to the Pacific coast, while the
train equipment and service are ol
such perfect type as to insure a stead
ily widening circle of patronage.
Ray C. Aldredge and Miss Isabellt
McKathnie, both of Celia, were
united In marriage by Judge Malom
at the county court room yesterda:
afternoon, In the presence of a fe?
relatives and friends. The groom li
a son of S. M. Aldredge, one of th<
oldest and mostly respected citizen!
of western Ilolt, while the bride ii
the daughter of Benjamin McKath
nie, also one of the old prosperoui
residents of the western part of thi
county. This happy young coupli
have a host of friends in their neigh
borhood who will wish them man;
years of happiness and prosperity.
Sunday School Convention.
The annual Sunday school conven
tion was held as usual at Middli
Branch, August 21-22.
Saturday, being a bad day, then
were only a few present but then
was an unusually large crowd on Sun
day. Ten schools were represeuted
but owing to the absence of the secre
tarles, a few were unable to give thei
report, but we were very glad to not
the improvement in both attendant
and interest over last year, in th
reports which were given.
A few of the candidates at th<
recent primary election have filei
their expense account in the office o
the county cleric. It cost Sam Hick
man $10.75 to be defeated for th
democratic and populist nominatioi
for county clerk. Of this amount $
was paid as a tiling fee, $3.75 for cam
paign cards and $2.00 for an announce
uient of his candidacy. Henr
Grady’s nomination cost him 110.0
which was paid for announcing hi
candidacy. The rest of the republ
can candidates were to no expens
except the payment of the filing fe
of $5.00 each.
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s A son was born Monday to Mr. ar
Mrs. E. ELJVhelaa._
THEFIGURESTO PROVE IT
Convincing Reasons Why New State
Normal Should Be Located Here
TWICE THE NUMBER TEACHERS
County Superintendent Shows That
Normal Here Would Have Double
the Attendance Over Others.
Ky the County Superintendent.
The Holt county Junior Normal
has had, each year of its existence, a
larger enrollment than any other
Junior Normal in the state. This fact
should furnish good argument for the
establishment of a permanent state
normal in the county. Holt county,
with the surrounding eleven counties,
employs annually 1,265 teachers. The
number of children in this territory
is 32,555. The northwest fifteen
counties employ only 633 teachers,
just half our number, and report 16,
807 children on their census list.
Statistics show that one third of
the teaching force consists of new
teachers each year. Within our
twelve-district territory, 400 students
would be accomodated yearly at a state
normal, while in the northwest terri
tory not more than 150 students could
possibly be expected to enroll at any
time. Their territory is better sup.
plied than ours with normal training
high schools, to which practically all
centers of population have access.
This lessens their need of a state
normal.
In the minds of those who have
made any comparison, there is no
doubt but that O’Neill Is the proper
location for the new state normal be
cause it is the center of an area hav
ing a population more than double
the population of any like area in the
Sixth district._
Educational Notes.
School sites cao not be changed
except at annual meetings.
School districts Nos. 214, near
Stuart, 245 and 247 in Swan precinct
and 21, the Atkinson district, will
build new school houses this summer.
A normal school district may bond
' the district for an amount not to ex
[ ceed 6 per cent of its valuation. Bonds
, may draw not to exceed 6 per cent
. Interest. Bonds can not be issued in
! districts containing fewer than twelve
t children.
t Nebraska now has a course of study
i and a law making It obligatory for
, the county to furnish a copy of the
, course to each school district. The
, county furnishes report cards, perfect
, attendance certificates and all neces
. sary official records and blanks needed
. by school officers.
Advice to Young People.
Lincoln Journal: Deputy Attorney
Grant Martin spoke at a picnic at
( Hickman last Saturday, and he
brought back a story of a speech de
, llvered by a woman whose name he
' did not hear, that he said was one of
the most timely he ever beard. At
the conclusion of the regular program
’ he said volunteer speakers were called
. for and the woman mounted the plat
, form. Here is about what she said:
' “What the young people of Nebras
’ ka need is courage. I have heard a
lot of young people around here today
talking about it being so hot, and
, about there being no opportunity for
j a young man or woman like there
f used to be. Let me tell you about
some of the things I went thru in the
, old days. My husband and I settled
' on a little homestead near here, and
. times were so hard and crops so poor
that he had to leave me alone and go
back to civilization to make enough
money to buy something to eat. The
3 hot winds came on and they made
this weather seem pleasant.
. “After the death of my husband my
* son, who was grown, told me I would
' have to leave the farm and come with
him. I said, ‘Why?’
“Because there are so many tramps
going thru the country now it is not
safe for you to stay alone.’
“ ‘Is that so,’ I replied. ‘Let me
tell you something. I was alone out
here on this same homestead before
1> you were born. I never saw any one
’ for days except Mexicans and Indians
e passing the house. Now you just get
1 me a bulldog and a revolver and don’t
1 you bother about me. I never lived
0 oft my mother-in-law when I was*
1 young, and I don’t intend to live off
I of my children now that I am old.
The opportunity is still here for the
e young people. They just need a little
II courage and some get-up. about
e them.”
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