Nebraska Newspapers

    Frontier.
VOLUME XXXV.
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O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1915.
NUMBER 37.
HEREFORDSSELL
AT GOOD PRICES
Thoroughbreds Offered at Mayne Sale
Were In Demand.
The sale of fifty head of pure bred
Herefords Monday in O’Neill was a
drawing card. The cattle, twenty-five
males and as many females, were the
property of Frank Mayne who has a
ranch down in the Kola country. The
fifty head averaged $160.50. The
twenty-hve males brought $4,620, an
average of $185 per head; the twenty
five females, $3,405, an average of
$136 per head; total for the fifty head
$8,025. Powerful 433734, coming 2
year-old bull, brought $280, the high
est price paid, and was bought by Bill
Barbee of Long Pine.
The Wyatt Commission company of
Denver were the heaviest investors,
they getting sixteen head of bulls at
$160 to $205 per head.
Other buyers were:
Cedar Pointer 423907, C. H. Gibbs,
New Castle, Neb, $275.
Occie 464160, J. F. Shoemaker,
O’Neill, $160.
Powerful Bill Barbee, Long Pine,
Neb., $280.
Oak Grove, Roy Butler, Ewing,$235.
Jake, J. F. Shoemaker, O’Neill, $190
Robert H., Jule Kernan, Long Pine,
$200.
Gay Donald 20th, Charles Corkle,
Tilden, $220.
Gay Louis, Gus Ott, Amelia, $170.
Charles, G. R. Osborne, Beemer,
Neb., $145.
Females.
Donna 8th, W. J. Furgeson, Ains
worth, $130.
Bessie, John White, Amelia, $115.
Jane Hewer,-Whitman, Amelia,
$145.
Lottie V., W. J. Furgeson, Ains
worth, $125.
Prairie Flower 4th,heifer calf at
foot, O. Emrich, Amelia, $125.
Bell of Gibbon, O. Furguson, Ains
worth, $125.
Lilly V., bull calf at foot, W. H.
Graver, Ewing, $150.
Miss Perfection 11th, C. Furguson,
$115.
Mystic Lass, John White, Amelia,
$145.
Gerttie, - Miller, Bassett, $170.
Lottie V., L. A. Raraby, Neligh,
$125.
Dot V., C. Furguson, $115.
Miss Frederick 6th, Charles Corkle,
$165.
Prairie Flower 5th,Roy Butler, $130
Arbuta 5th, G. R. Osborne, Beemer,
Neb., $100.
Lilly V., C. Furguson, $105.
Miss Frederick 4th, W. H. Graver,
$120.
Miss Frederick 7th, L. A. Raraby,
$135.
Miss Frederick 1st ,- Whitman,
$150.
Miss Frederick 3rd, Roy Butler,
$130.
Miss Frederick 2d,-Miller, $135.
Miss Frederick 5th, — Miller, $135.
Dotty Maid, C. Furguson, $110.
Moss Rose 1st, heifer calf at foot,
H. J. Miller, Bassett, $125.
Tulip, Roy Butler, $150.
The cows ranged in age from 2 to
7 years old, bulls from 9 months to 3
years.
rrea iteppert oi uic
auctioneer in charge of the sale and is
a perfect whirlwind of vocal activity.
He made things as interesting as a
circus for the large crowd in attend
ance and sold cattle at a rapidity that
caused those who wanted to buy to
keep their wits about them. Those
assisting Col. Reppert were: M. H.
Cruise of the South Omaha Stock
man-Journal, Dick Hunt of Bassett,
John Letham of the Hereford Journal
and James Berrigan of Ewing.
Both owner and auctioneers were
well pleased with the results of the
sale. Col. Reppert said he never was
accorded better treatment any place
nor had a more attentive crowd, also
remarking that O’Neill is the best
town for its size he ever held a sale in
The Live Stock Market.
South Omaha, Feb. 23.—From the
Standard live Ctock Com. Co.—With
light receipts Monday our cattle mar
ket'showed some improvement, but a
liberal run Tuesday put a check to any
farther advance. Then with the
weather again turning bad the ten
dency is to bring cattle from the feed
lots, and to hold back would be buyers
of stockers and feeders, so we believe
that it will take nice weather to bring
any permanent advance.
We quote: Good to choice cornfed
beeves $7 to $7.85, common kinds
rown to $6. Good to choice cows and
heifers $5.75 to $7, fair to good $4.80
to $5.75, canner sand cutters $3.60 to
$4.70. Veal calves $7 to $10. Bulls,
stags, etc., $4.75 to $6.25. Good to
choice feeders $6.40 to $7.50, common
grades down to $5. Stock cows and
heifers $5 to $6.50. Stock calves $6
to $8.
Our hog market is now about level
with river points and close to Chicago.
Heavy run today brought a break.
Bulk $6.55 to $6.57, top $6.60.
A light run of sheep and lambs
sends prices up again fully 15 to 25c.
Can we do anything for you? Do
you expect to ship soon ?
LOCAL MATTERS.
O. F. Biglin went to Fremont Mon
day .
Charles Pettijohn was at Long Pien
over Sunday.
J. P. Hancock was up from Inman
the forepart of the week. v
Tommy Golden was up from the
ranch near Ewing the first of the
week, returning Wednesday.
C. A. Moss and H. A. Allen were
down from Atkinson Monday and took
in the Hereford sale that afternoon.
Mrs. J. B. Scott returned Tuesday
evening to her home at Rushville af
ter a stay of some days in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hamraon of
Mapleton, Iowa, visited at the home of
James Quinn for a few days last week.
David Riser of Atkinson was a call
er yesterday and enrolled among The
Frontier’s large list of readers up that
way .
Frank Charles, who had a sale at
Chambers a week ago, is moving to
day over into Iowa. He will locate
near Des Moines.
The Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union will meet with Mrs. Polk Wed
nesday, March 3. All ladies are cor
dailly invited to attend.
The Rebekah lodge served supper
last evening at the lodge room, Mrs.
Frank Holt, who is leaving town, be
ing the guest of honor.
Mrs. J. Q. Howard went to Lincoln
Wednesday on a visit to her son and
daughter, Clarance and Maud, who are
attending business college.
J. F. White of Blair, proprietor of
the O’Neill Clothing Co. store, was in
the city the first of the week looking
after his business interests here.
Rev. M. F. Cassidy and niece. Miss
Cullen, departed Wednesday for Hot
Springs, Ark., where Ft. Cassidy goes
to test the virtues of the baths for
rheumatism.
Sixteen sleighs loads of hogs came in
from the north at noon today. They
struck a low market. Pigs reached
the $5.80 level Wednesday on the local
market.
Frank Holt and Peter Curtis, with
their families, expect to leave about
March 1 for Riverton, Wy., where
they have secured a telephdhe fran
chise and will put in a system there.
H. J. Schoebert of the land office
went to Lincoln Tuesday. Mr. Schoe
bert goes to Lincoln on special detail
work at the land office there at the di
rection of the interior department.
Mrs. N. S. Lowrie and daughter,
Mrs. Charles Hoover, wife of the
American council at Madrid, who had
been visiting at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J.A. Donohoe, departed Wednes
day for Lincoln.
From the Albion News it is learned
that Peter Redler, father of Mrs. Cas
per Wagman of O’Neill, viied at his
home near Albion, February 13. He
was born in Russia, March 1, 1837,
and had been a resident of this country
since 1885.
Keya Paha and Brown county citi
zens heve prepared a petition to the
state railway commission asking that
body to make an investigation of the
need of a railway in Keya Paha county
and use its influence to secure a road
for that community.
itony sprague came in weanesuay
from his farm near Star postoffice.
He made the trip afoot, the bad con
dition of the roads indicating that that
was the surest way to get here. It
was a mere step of twenty-five miles,
anyway, and that’s nothing for Roily.
While we are still shoveling snow
up this way, people are traveling in
boats in the streets of Waterloo and
Arlington, Neb. Large portions of
both those towns and considerable of
the country about each are flooded
with two to four feet of water. The
floods were caused by the breaking of
ice jams in the Elkhorn river and Bell
Creek.
The defendant was given a unani
mous decision in the land contest case
of Applegate vs. Monahan, involving
a hemestead entry in the southwest
part of the county. The case was
tried last October and was the most
bitterly fought as well as most ex
pensive ever tried at the local land
office, twenty-one days elapsed during
the trial.
Robert Young, who is on the E. D.
Henry farm two miles south of Op
portunity, came home from a trip to
the store after being gone about four
hours to find a hole burned through
the floor about five feet square and a
couple of floor joist burned nearly in
two. Rob was “going some” until he
got the flames under control, so we
understand.
Guy Young returned last Wednes
day from Lincoln whdre he had been
for a month taking treatment for
pyorrhea of the gums and bone of his
jaw. Guy will have to take medicine
for a couple of months yet before he
can hope to have a complete cure but
is confident, from what he has learned
about the matter, that he will secure
a complete cure.
Elias L. Spindler died at his home
in the western part of the city Wed
nesday. He was 58 years old and un
married. Mr. Spindler was a native
of Pennsylvania but had resided in
Holt county since 1878. He lived on a
farm in the Meek neighborhood until
two years ago when he came to
O’Neill. He has some property here,
houses and lots. One brother, Andrew
J., lives in O’Neill and was with him
at the time of his death. A brother
living at Norfolk, Augusta, came up
Wednesday night. Other relatives
NORTHWESTERN PASSENGER
TRAIN MANGLES SIX HORSES
No. 2, passenger on the Northwest
ern going through O’Neill about 4 a.
m., last Saturday killed six horses
about a mile east of the railroad
yards. The horses had been unloaded
at the stock yards only an hour pre
vious. They belonged to a family,
Headlee, coming here from Silver
Creek, Neb., with three cars of stock
and farm equipment to move onto the
Jack Keeper place southeast of
O’Neill which they have bought. Ten
head of horses were among the bunch
of stock unloaded. Eight of these got
out of the stock yards and were on the
track when No. 2 came along. A
dense fog hung in the air, making it
difficult if not impossible for the en
gineer to see any considerable dis
are: Harry Spindler, a brother, living
in Alabama; John Spindler, brother,
in Pennsylvania; Mrs. Rosenbery of
Virginia, a sister, and Mrs. McCewin
of Pennsylvania, a sister. Roy Spin
dler, a nephew, resides near Meek.
Funeral arrangements were to be
made Thursday .
Rev. C. R. Parkerson departed
Tuesday evening for Bassett, Long
Pine and other towns up the road in
the interests of special mission ser
vices under the auspicies of the
Episcopal church, with Rev. E. T.
Mathison in charge. Meetings will be
held at Chadron, Valentine, Merriman,
Long Pine, Bessett and at O’Neill.
The mission starts in O’Neill on
March 17 and continues three days.
The Wyant divorce case was sched
uled for trial today. The plaintiff in
the action, Mrs. Wyant, could not be
located up to this morning by her at
torneys, she having left her former
residence place a week ago and has
not since been located. Defendant’s
attorney, E. H. Whelan, will make an
effort when the case is called today to
proceed with the hearing on the cross
petition and secure a decree for the ,
defendant.
A city subscriber wants to know
what the city council is doing with the
public funds and why the present
‘reign of drunks” is permitted. The
Frontier can’t tell. No report of the
proceedings of coucil meetings has
been published this winter. Anyone
wanting to know of the official trans
actions of the city will hav* to resort j
to the records of the clerk. One rea- ‘
son for the prevelance of intoxicated
men on the streets is that the toton -
bas no jail in which to lock them up. j
A police force is maintained but it is
useless to make arrests without the
means to enforce fines.
Inman Leader: Two young girls, ]
giving their names as Margaret Jen- '
kins and Hellen Gallagher, walked ;
down from O’Neill, a distance of 1
about ten miles during the blizzard of i
last Sunday. They stopped at the <
some of James Tucker where they <
were given shelter over night. The (
next morning they started out again ,
in the deep snow, the Gallagher girl (
going east claiming Clearwater as her
destination, and the Jenkins girl re- i
turning to O’Neill. The girls didn’t (
apparently have any money and a ,
;icket was supplied the Jenkin’s girl ]
and she returned to O’Neill on the ,
afternoon train. ,
Oranges 20 cents per dozen at J. C. <
Horiskey’s. 36-2 ]
MAKE YOUR HEAD HAPPY WITH
A NEW HAT
THOW AWAY YOUR GREASY OLD HAT! THE
COMFORTABLE FEELING YOU GET FROM WEARING
A NEW ONE WILL BE WORTH MORE THAN IT WILL
GOST. NO MAN CAN AFFORD TO WEAR AN OLD
HAT OR OLD TORN SHIRT OR UNDERWEAR. PEO
PLEE FIRST JUDGE YOU BY THE WAY YOU LOOK.
WE ARE HAT HEADQUARTERS FOR HEADS. JUST
AS SOON AS THE NEW STYLES “HAPPEN” WE
HAUE THEM IN HATS. TIES AND FURNISHING
GOODS. FRESHEN UP YOUR OUTFIT.
HARTY BROS. & MULLEN
tance. Six of the horses were found by
the Headlee boys Saturday morning
Five of these were dead and one with
a broken leg was shot. The other two
escaped from the right of way and
were found later several miles north
of town.
Five of the horses lay a short dis
tance east of the first bridge a mile
east of town, and the other mangled
to mincemeat, some thirty rods fur
ther on. They evidently got fast in the
bridge and were struck by the engine
with sufficient force to carry them be
yond the bridge and throw them many
feet out from the track.
Headlee filed a claim for $1,500 for
the horses, loss of time and expense
occasioned by the loss of the horses.
SPEEDY RETRIBUTION
Woman Shockingly Murdered in Sher
idan County, Crime Quickly
Avenged.
A prisoner, hard featured and
wicked visage, ironed and shackled
and in custody of the sheriff of Sheri
dan county, passed through O’Neill on
No. 6 Wednesday destined for the Lin
coin prison. His name has not been
sbtainable, but the crime for which he
?oes to prison is one of the most
shocking in the annals of criminal rec
srds in this state. From the Chadron
Journal we quote some details of the
crime, which occurred Sunday, Feb.
14, and the criminal apprehended and
;aken to prison a little over a week
ifter.
Mrs. Ruben Sanders was brutally
nurdered in her home, on the Zoll
slace, one-half mile southwest of
Rushville, between the hours of 2
3. m. and 5 p. m. Sunday afternoon.
Her husband had left home about
1 p. m. on horseback, and rode to town,
where he spent the afternoon with
’riends, part of the time in the res
;aurant. He returned home between
ive and six p. m. and on entering the
louse heard the baby crying, and on
ooking round found his wife on the
loor in a pool of blood near the north
window of the front room. He took
lold of her hand and found it cold, and
lis first thought was she had com
nitted suicide.
The. inquest revealed shocking in
uries to the unfortunate woman. Her
lead was almost severed from the
iody, the left arm and hand was
fashed in seven places, as though she
lad endeavered to ward off the cruel
ilows of some sharp instrument,
fhere were deep wounds on the scalp
md slight wounds on the back. Al
ogether there were twenty eight
wounds on the body. Blood was be
,pattered over the carpet and the dis
irdered state of things, gave evidence
if a terrible struggle, before the
woman was literally butchered to
leath.
According to the testimony of one
witness, Earl Sutton was seen going
oward the Sanders home. Sutton
was arrested and yesterday afternoon
irought before Judge Dorr. He
waived examination and was bound
iver to district court.
The common theory is the man who
:ommitted the crime watched his op
lortunity when the woman was alone,
entered the house for a criminal pur
pose, and when the woman opposed
him w'th a butcher knife he attacked
her .
County Attorney Draws Fire.
Editor Frontier: In as much as you
printed through the columns of your
paper the notice of a petition
having been presented to the County
Attorney of this county, suggesting
the propriety of taking the necessary
steps for the removal from office of
some of the members of the board for
willful neglect of duty and maladmin
istration in office I thought probably
that yourself and the general public
might be a little anxious to know the
result of that petition. It was pre
sented on January G, 1915, and
through the mail yesterday I received
a letter of which the following is a
correct copy.
“O’Neill, February 17, 1915.—Mr.
II. M. Uttley,O’Neill,Nebraska.—Dear
Sir: I have given considerable thought
to the petition signed by yourself and
eight others, and presented to me ask
ing that Supervisors Henry Tomlin
son, Th. I). Sievers, J. O. Hubbell, and
possibly M. P. Sullivan, be removed
from office, because they had been
guilty of willful neglect of duty, and
willful maladministration in office.
Your petition not only presents
numerous facts which are not known
to me, but also presents many ques
tions of law not free from doubt, when
applied to these facts for which rea
sons I would welcome and invite an
investigation in the District Court
wherein a full investigation of all the
facts alleged could be had. If the
facts disclosed by such investigation,
and the law determined as applying to
the facts thus disclosed justify such
an action as you suggest in your pet- 1
tition, I shall consider it my official
duty to prosecute the action, or if in- ,
structed so to do by the court after a
full investigation I shall cheerfully 1
and speedily follow out such instruct- '
ions. Yours truly,
“W. K. Hodgkin.” ,
Now in order that the public may (
get some idea of the true position of
some of the county officers I wish to
say, a few days after this petition was 1
presented to Mr. Hodgkin I gave him i
the number of the sections of the
statute which were specifically in- .
volved and which had been, during the .
two years last past entirely ignored i
and repudiated by the board of super- t
visors and offiered to go with him on j
call and show to him, from the bills .
filed in the office of the county clerk, 1
and from the record of the board of 1
supervisors where all of the facts sta- ]
ted in said petition could be proven, ,
also to furnished him with a memo- .
randum of the many decisions of our
own and other Supreme Courts bear- *
ing upon and determining the law j
upon a similar or identical state of .
facts. I have never been by him re
quested to furnish either. I did more 1
than this, myself and Mr. M. T. Hiatt t
at our own expense had previously in
the District Court of Holt county
commenced in the name of and for the
benefit of Holt County, two actions
against the Board of Supervisors, s
which actions when tried would have s
presented all of the facts and the law ‘
referred to in the petition presented 1
to Mr. Hodgkin. The Statute law of i
the State of Nebraska requires the i
County Attorney, Section 5596 of the ,
Revised Statutes of 1913, among other .
things, “To appear in the several
courts of their respective counties, 1
and prosecute and defend, on behalf i
of the state and county, all suits, ap- .
plications of motions, civil or criminal,
arising under the laws of the state, in
which the State or the County is a i
party or interested.” In each of the j
actions which had been commenced j
the County Attorney entered a vol
untary appearance in behalf of the
county, and moved to have the actions 1
dismissed, which motions the court ]
sustained, but now as an excuse for .
him again not doing his duty he sug- .
gests in his letter that if myself and
Hiatt or some other tax-payer of Holt
county will commence the necessary •
actions to prove all these facts, at our
own expense, then he will magnani
mously proceed to perform a duty
which the law enjoins upon him.
I wish the public to carefully note
the language of his letter, 1 have
given considerable thought to the. pe
tition signed by yourself and eight
others,” but mark you, he does not say
that he has examined a single section
of the statute referred to by me, or
that he has in any manner attempted
to ascertain the law bearing thereon.
I wish to say one thing more, if
any one has formed the opinion that I
was not ready to prove every fact al
leged in the action filed by myself and
Hiatt let them be undeceived, and if
we have not a county officer of suffi
cient back-bone to perform a duty en
joined upon him by law, or at least
make an effort to ascertain whether
such facts exist, and the law applies
thereto, we may at some future date
take it up ourselves to furnish the
proof in court which he asks for in
his letter.
I suppose it is a commendable thing,
and one probably that the people gen
erally will approve for a county officer
to spend perhaps a hundred dollars of
the county’s money, perhaps more,
running around in automobiles, looking
up testimony to convict a man of hav
ing received a stolen calf, and when
an action is commenced in the name
of and in behalf of the county to re
cover for the benefit of the county
clearly under the statute, this same
county officer should enter a volun
tary appearance in said action and
disclaim any interest therein for and
behalf of the county. If the
people generally believed that
this is for the interest of the county,
and will so indicate to me in some
manner, I will willingly forgo any
further actions in their behalf at my
expense. Until however they do_so
(Continued from page eight.)
JOB LOT OF R. R.
DAMAGE SUITS
Illinois Central a Continued Story.—
New One From Arkansas.
The second chapter in the damage
action against the Illinois Central rail
road in which Ruth McHenry Morrison
obtained judgment for $7,500 for in
juries sustained at Dennison, la., a
few weeks ago has been filed in court.
Now comes the husband of the wo
man, Earl Morrison, and asks $30,000,
alleging that he has been injured to
that extent by reason of his wife be
ing incapacitated for the duties of a
wife since her fall from the railroad
car at Dennison.
M. F. Harrington and his son and
R. M. Johnson are the attorneys. They
are also starting a $70,000 suit against
another foreign railroad, the St. Louis,
Iron Mountain & Southern. In this
case Nellie O’Donnell has been made
administratrix of the estate of Wil
liam M. Tarrant, who died in testate
at Varner, Ark., Dec. 1, 1913, death re
sulting, it is alleged, by being knocked
wer and thrown to the floor while on
board one of the company’s passen
ger cars. The suit is being brought
in the name of the administratrix in
aehalf of the widow and infant son—
md attorneys.
The petition recites that the de
based, William M. Tarrant, boarded
in Iron Mountain train at Gould, Ark.,
mroute for Pine Bluff. Just as he had
?ot into the car, the train gave a sud
len lurch and threw him to the floor,
itriking his head on a metalic water
ooler as he went down. Then the
onductor, the petition goes on to say,
iegan to beat him up as he lay pros
rate. He died the same day at the
'illage of Varner.
Daniel Harrington, by Attorney M.
i\ Harrington, has started an action
n district court against the Burling
on railroad for $3,000. In June, 1912,
Ir. Harrington, in company with Jim
’otter, were at work reparing the
lurlington track leading to the gravel
lit. Potter by accident struck Har ■
ington on the head with a crowbar,
farrington was knocked down and
truck a track rail. It is alleged in
uries resulted which permanently dis
ibled him, and the court is asked to
lecree that the Burlington come
cross with $3,000.
Oscar Files Answer.
Oscar Hagensick has filed an an
wer to the petition of Izetta Hagen
ick for divorce that denies all of the
negations of cruelty and non-support
nd bristles with sensational charges,
n which a young professional gentle
nan of O’Neill is implicated, and al
eges that the plaintiff is seeking di
vorce with the view of legalizing her
ffections for the other fellow. The
nswer is unique in that is charges the
orespondent with improper relations
lot only with the plaintiff but the
ilaintiff’s mother. The plaintiff’s pe
ition sought and obtained a decree of
he court restraining the defendant
rom disposing of a certificate of de
>osit obtained on the sale of a house
ind lot in O’Neill. The answer of de
fendant alleges that they moved from
heir home to another part of the
:ity, his wife consenting to the move,
ipon learning of the clandestine visits
)f corespondent to the home of plain
;iff’s mother, a few yards from their
lome. Later they sold the place and
ill went well until plaintiff began
visiting her mother’s home and came
under the seductive spell of cores
pondent. The defendant alleges one
instance when he discovered corespon
dent “kissing and carressing” his
wife.
He asks that the divorce be de
nied plaintiff and that the defendant
may be given such relief as the court
sees proper.
Last Monday evening the Wash
ington’s Birthday in Colonial qostume
party was pulled off at the Presby
terian church parlors in this city. To
say that a good time was had is put
ting it mild. There were some sixty
members of the men and women’s
bible classes in attendance and about
a third of the number were in Colonial
costumes. There were so many fine
costumes that it would be hard to say
who took first prize. The fun started
as soon as the costumed members be
gan to arrive and continued until
nearly one o’clock. The evening was
spent in games of different kinds, in
which nearly everyone took part. The
Sunday school orchestra was present
and rendered some music and helped
out with the singing. A nice lunch was
served about eleven o’clock, followed
with more games and music and then
a group picture of the costumed mem
bers was taken. Much credit is due
Miss Corbet and Mrs. E. T. Wilson,
who were the committee on entertain
ment for the success of the evenings
entertainment, and all left with the
feeling that they would like to attend
more parties of a like nature .