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VOLUME XXXIII
O’NEILL. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 9,1913
NUMBER 30
FATAL FIRE
Two Lives Lost When Physian's
Home Burns.
In the bitter cold of Sunday night a
fi.e occurred at the home of Dr.Flynn,
at the J. A. Golden house in the
northeast part of town, which result
ed in the loss of two lives, destruc
tion of the furniture and damage to
the house.
May Elizabeth Daly was burned to
death in the building and Sarah Mar
tha Lamb was so badly burned before
removed from the house that she died
on Monday.
The Are started from an oil heater
in an upstairs bed room. Dr. and
Mrs. Flynn were not at home They,
with other friends, were spending the
evening with Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Har
rington. Those in the house when it
caught fire were the three Flynn
children, the^, two girls who perished
and Clyde Davidson. The latter was
spending the evening with the girls,
when the Daly girl went upstairs to
repair to bed in the room where an oil
stove that they had filled that even
ing had been left lighted. Fire was
blazing from the stove and bedding
burning. She oalled to those down
stairs and I^avidson and the Lamb
girl ran quickly to the burning bed
chamber. Ciyd^ tried to extinguish
the flames, but failing lh this picked
the stove up to carry it down stairs
and out doors. In doing so the oil
tank became unfastened from the
upper portion of the stove and blaziDg
oil spread quickly over things. He
then kicked the stove down the stairs
and ran through the flames to the
lower floor telling the girls to escape
by a window, and awoke the children,
whom he got to safety, and then ran
to the Dearest house and called Dr.
Flynn by telephone. He then tried
to enter the house again to rescue the
two girls hut could not do so for the
fire. Dr. Flynn and others soon ar
rived and a ladder was placed to a
window of the room where the tire
was and the Lumb girl taken out
after she was badly burned. In this
condition she was removed to the
Develin home nearby and doctors
worked with her till morning, but no
hopes were entertained that she
could servive. She died about noon
Monday.
The remains of the Daly girl Were
taken from the building borribly
charred and the flesh burned until she
was past recognition.
Miss Daly was a little past twenty
years of age, having been born in
Madison county, this state, in 1892
Her parent3 reside on the Cronin farm
adjoining town.
Miss Lamb was a native of this
county, having been born in 1895 in
Paddock precinct, where her parent,
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Lamb, still reside.
She also has a sister, Mrs. Will Town
send, living in O’Neill.
The funeral services for both were
held yesterday forenoon at the Meth
odist church and were very largely at
tended. The services opened with
the touching hymn, “Jesus, Savior,
Pilot Me,” sung by the choir compos
ed of Mrs. Naylor, Misses Mabel and
Goldie Martin, Miss Crouse, a dea
coness of the Methodist church, and
Mr. B. E Sturdevant. The pastor,
Rev. Harold J. Armitage, offered
prayer and Miss Crouse, who is gifted
with a sweet voice, sang a solo,
“Nearer My Home,” which brought
handkerchiefs to many moist eyes.
Rev. Armitage used as a text the
words of Solomon, “Remember now
thy Creator in the days of thy youth,”
making a strong and fervent plea for
paren .stoset the right example before
their children by leading Godly and
righteous lives, and impressing upon
the young the need of heeding the in
junction of the text. Mr. Armitage
spoke with feeling, which, with the
peculiarly sad and tragio circumstan
ces of the occasion, left an evident
impression upon the audience.
The remains of the Daly girl were
taken to Inman for interment and
those of the Lamb girl to Paddock.
Nothing that The Frontier might
say could serve to heal the bleeding
wounds this tragedy has made for the
relatives of these two young women,
but they may be assured that the
general public symyathy of this com
munity has not been so aroused in a
long time. '
The court room at the county court
house has been newly furnished and
the floor rubber padded. A new desk
has been installed for his honor, new
tables and chairs for the lawyers apd
new seats placed in the audience
chamber. The sombre aspect of the
legal precincts has been cheered by
tastey decorations, and the whole,
presents a more inviting appearance
than formerly.
Still Pulling for Railroad.
These items from the Chambers
Bugle show that the oft disappointed
people of that section have not
abandoned hope of securing a railroad.
The Bugle is bubbilng over with
accounts of railroad activity, but we
select two items:
Ray Lienhart, C. M. Smith and
Raymond Atwood went to O’Neill
Saturday evening, in behalf of the
Chambers Commercial club, to con
fer with the Burlington agent at that
place in regard to the proposed
agreement concerning the building of
a railroad to Chambers. The con
ference was very favorable and Ray
Lienhart was sent on to Norfolk and
Omaha to interview the head officials.
Lincoln dispatch in World-Herald:
Aitides of incorporation have been
filed in the secretary of stale’s office
for the Midland Continental Railway,
with Omaha as its headquarters.
Those named in the filings are H. S.
Dumcombe, S. Y. Flansburg, E. C.
Medium, F. E. Gaines and S. W.
Smith. Duncan is a Chicago man and
is president of the company. The
authorized capital stock Is $250,000.
The project in view is a north and
south line of railroad from Canada to
the Gulf of Mexico. Through Ne
braska the proposed line is to traverse
Boyd and Holt counties and run south
ward.
Give the Pig a Chew.
Ord Quiz: Crude oil shampoos and
an allowance of cut plug tobacco were
recommended for pigs to prevent the
spread of hog cholera by J. F. Gorden
of Ohio, a practical corn grower and
hog breeder, in an address before
Salem county farmers a few days ago.
The expert said that in hundreds of
cases of hog colera which he had In
vestigated he had found intestinal
worms on the inside and lice on the
outside of the infected porkers. He
said that tobacco was the best remedy
for the former trouble and suggested
that large porkers be given a chew
whenever the curl goes out of their
tails, while crude oil applied with a
spray pump, should be used externally.
Rural Carriers Examination
On Saturday, February 8, an ex
amination will be held at the O’Neill
post office for a rural route mall
carrier on the O’Neill route and others
in this county as there may be
; vacancies. The salary connected
with this position ranges from $600 to
•1000 per year.
Age limit, 18 to 55, on date of the
examination. The maximum age
1 Urn it is waived in cased of persons
honorably discharged from the mili
tary on naval service. The examina
tion is open to all male citizens who
can comply with the requirments.
Full details may be obtained of
Postmaster Marsh of this city.
Crossed Plains in '59.
The present generation, surrounded
with every convenience for quick
communication with all partB of the
country, realize little of the tedious
at- d laborious process of getting around
In the pioneer days of the west. U. £.
Howe of this city, an old time
frontiersman, recalls the eariy days in
x communication to this paper. He
lays:
When the discovery of gold In 1859
at Pikes Peak aroused the youth and
manhood of the Mississippi valley
itates, two young men and myself
ioined, or rather started, the western
procession in Illinois. Our outfit
consisted of three yoke of oxen,
wagons and supplies for the journey.
We left home April 23, 1859. Iowa
was then a vast trackless plain with
out a railroad. Water courses were
bridgeiess and roads were not thought
of. The slow but steady tread of the
oxen brought us across that now
great state in a little less than a
month. On May 19 we arrived at
Council Bluffs. Crossing the Missouri
river the 31st, we found still fewer
marks of civilization in the Nebraska
territory. We struck in about the
mouth of the Platte river and followed
the course of that stream westward
to old Ft. Larimie, where we arrived
July 2. Here three cottonwood logs
served as a foot bridge across the
Platte, so we crossed on them and
swam the cattle and wagons over. A
a little less than three months after
leaving home we arrived at our
destination, Boulder City, Colo , on
July 15. We remained here and at
Gold Hill until September 9.
I then contracted with a man to go
to Missouri and bring his family to
Colorado. I left Denver December 4,
bn this trip with oxen. After return
ing with this man’s family I freight
ed and traveled around in Colorado
and Kansas with my oxen until July,
1861, when, with one of my companions
on the journey out,returned to Illinois,
taking the stage from Denver. We
were on the road eighteen days and
paid 820 each stage fare. A sack of
flour In Denver oost us 810. We saw
vasts herds buffalo on this trip, some
of which we shot. One old grizzly
fellow had sixteen bullets in him
when killed. The trip was pleasant
until we got Into the Missouri river
country where we were stuck In the
mud several times. Went down the
Missouri by a boat to St. Joe ant}
thence to Chicago.
John A. Harmon left last Saturday
for Des Moines, to be gone a few days.
Some Weather Statistics.
“Speaking of cold winters, those fel
lows who weren’t here in the winter
of 1885-86 don’t know a thing about
cold,” writes Tom MoNetl in the
Topeka Capital. "Furthermore the
people down here in Kansas didn’t
get it like we did in northwest Ne
braska. Say, that was certainly a
humdinger. CJp to about the last of
December the weather was warm.
Two days before New Year’s it was
so warm that a mosquito bar or cheese
cloth would have been plenty heavy
Then it commenced to cloud up. The
wind turned around to the north and
the mercury fell so quick that you
could hear the sound of it when it hit
the bottom of the tube. I was chop
ping up a cottonwood into stove wood
lengths and sweating like a work
horse and complaining about the heat
when the change in the weather
came.
"In less than two minutes I was
sweating hailstones the size of haze)
nuts. My dog was with me, lying
stretched out near the log panting on
account of the heat and with his
tongue sticking out of his mouth at
least three inches when the weather
changed. Before the dog could get
his tongue into his mouth an Inch of
the end of it was frozen solid. It
dropped olf just as we started for the
house and he was short that much
tongue always afterward. I got a fire
started as soon as I could but the
tlame froze under the teakettle.
“I saw a jackratbit that was out
grazing on the prairie when the bliz
zard came whopping along. It took
him by surprise and be started for
shelter, when he jumped into the
air It gave the blizzard full sweep at
him and he was frozen stiff before he
hit the ground. The storm raged for
a week. Everything on top of ground
froze. Cattle froze, hogs froze, chick
en froze. My family froze. I froze.
The curious thing about it was that
it didn’t kill us, seemed to freeze us
up before we had time to die. Same
way with the animals. We had six
milk cows, all of 'em froze, but came
out in pretty good shape when they
thawed. But there was this curious
thing about it. Those cows, which
were thoroughbred Jerseys, gave down
ice cream instead of milk for three
weeks after the Storm wiS over.-”*
Card of Thanks.
We wish to thank the many friends
for their kindness and sympathy in
the sickness and death of our beloved
husband and father.
Mrs. D. Butt and family.
Home Folks Mentioned.
Chambers Bugle: Walt Wyant was
down from O’Neill Tuesday, bringing
down a new Ford touring car for his
father, J. N. Wyant.
Ainsworth Star-Journal: Roy Phelps
and wife of O’Neill spent Christmas
with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Robt. Martin, in Aioswnrtb.
Rushville Standard: Miss Katherine
Wettlaufer of O’Neill arrived here
last Saturday and is visiting her
sister, Mrs. L. A. Hemingway and
family.
Waterloo Gazette: J. W. Cobbs, of
Holt county, father of the Cobb boys,
has been here this week visiting old
friends. He and Mrs. Cobbs have
been at Nebraska City and other
places visiting some time past but are
returning to Holt county, where they
have lived the past two years.
Michael Burlsb and wife, an aged
couple who have long resided over
south of Dry, creek, were brought to
town last week and put under the
care of a guardian. Though well off
tinancially, the couple bad been living
in indescribable squalor and dirt. In
addition to this the woman lay help
less from parallels in the lower limbs.
At the instance of neighbors, authori
ties in town investigated the case and
Judge R. R. Dickson directed the
county attorney to Hie a complaint
against Burlsh and have him arrested.
This was done and Burisb brought
before County Judge Oarlon on a
charge of neglecting to provide
suitable food, clothing and shelter for
his wife. Ed F. Gallagher was ap
pointed guardian for both the old
people, had them brought to town
and made arrangements for their
proper care at a local hotel.
List of letters remaining uncalled
for at the O’Neill Post Office for week
ending January 4,1013. \ \ j
H. J. Wing 2, forwarded
R. H. Wilson
J. E. Statee
Mrs. Gus Mann
Mrs. Iva Greenfield.
Parties calling for tbove will please
say “advertised”. If sqt called for in
16 days letters will be sent to Dead
Letter Office at Washington.
R. J. Marsh, P. M.
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JANUARY SALE C All Dry Goods in the House 11
11 nm not going to entry over any Winter I
I-Goods, regardless of the WentKer I
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20 per Cent Discount
This discount prevails on all duck
coats, with and without sheep
skin lining; on all sweaters, mens
ties, gloves, handkerchiefs, sus
penders, and all yardage In the
house.
CHINA at 33 lm3 per cent discount
Ladies* Silk Waists and Skirts at
halt price.
This sale commences Satur
day, Jan. 4, and continues until
further notice is given. The
terms of this sale are cash, or
paid in 30 days.
J. P. Gallagher
Overshoes I
All sizes and kinds 10 percent ■
discount H
Hosiery I
Hosiery will go at a discount of Jj
20 per cent B
Cut Glass I
Cut glass goes in this sale down ||
to 20 per cent discount B
Men’s and Boy’s Caps I
20 per cent discount on all Men's S
and Boy's caps. B
Ladies’ Corset I
J. C. C. Corsets 20 per cent dls- f§
count. Shirt waist 33 1-3. Jj
Muslin Underwear I
At 33 1-3 discount. Bed spreads I
20 per cent dis. Comfort and 1
blankets 33 1-3 dls. 1
