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The Frontier. VOLUME XXXV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1915. NUMBER 43. CHANCES AND DE VEL OPEMEN TS Improvements Noted on a Trip In and Around Page. The first time in a number of years The Frontier’s news collector visited Page and a portion of the country ad jacent thereto one day last week. Page is one of the permanently good towns in a permanently good and well developed country with a lot of pro gressive farmers that have advanced the country in improvements and crop culture beyond the hopes of any one who knew the country thirty years ago. It is some five or six years since we were last in that neighbor hood. Noteworthy improvements have been going on in that time and there is probably no portion of Holt county where the farmers are better situated. Our old friend Col. Barney Stewart is still a leading character of the com munity, with a fine home and family in the village. The colonel is still cry in more sales than any auctioneer in that direction and looking a year or two younger every year. As the editor will return to his for mer element and become a cowboy for the summer on his leased and owned lands out on the big prairie after the return of the real boss, he visited a few of the farmers who have cattle and made arrangements to pasture the same the coming season. One or two were not to blame for mistaking us for a suspicious character and Col. Stewart had to be appealed to upon one occasion to testify that I had been in the county thirty years without getting in jail. Among the many men that have made good around Page we want to specially mention Anton Soukup. Mr. Soukup, who is a native of Bohemia, and now an ardent American citizen, landed twelve years ago at the place where he now lives a few miles north west of Page, with a working capital of $1.50 and a few horses. He now owns a half section of good land well improved with fencing and good buildings, a fine lot of horses, cattle hogs and granaries and cribs filled with the products of his farm. Mr. Soukup is a pioneer in his community in the use of commercial fertilizer. He says last year the corn ground on which he used the fertilizer macle him $3 per acre more than that which was not fertilized. He expects to use the fertilizer on all his crops this year. As an example of progressive farming it is an inspiration to visit Mr. Soukup’s place and talk with him. J. L. Shanner, at whose hospitable home we found a cordial welcome, is one of the original homesteaders who stuck by the homestead through the trying years of crop failures and low prices when it took real grit and faith in the future to hold on. He has been abundantly rewarded by now owning a productive farm worth $90 to $100 an acre. Mr. Shanner has an all con crete barn 36x85 feet which he and his - boys built last year at a cost of$3,600. It stands as a monument of solid con struction work and is so arranged inside that there is room for every thing, it being possible to put in feed enough to take fifty or seventy-five head of stock through the entire winter without once turning them out. W. H. Parks has a well appointed farm which shows every evidence of prosperity and good management. He keeps a fine herd of red cattle that came through the snows of winter in good shape by having the conveniences for their proper care. His place was strictly in the “rain belt” the past winter as the snow lay several feet deep around the premises. R. H. Murray is pretty well known all over the country and has quite an extensive ranch outfit northwest of Page. We were unfortunate in not finding Mr. Murray at home as he had come to O’Neill the day previous. Mrs. Murray, however, is capable of entertaining visitors, and also dis cussing business. The Murray ranch is stocked with black cattle and they got the 200 or more head through without loss. Willard Hess, living a mile east of Page where his father homesteaded many years ago, has one of the best farms in the community and keeps a large herd of cattle. Mr. Hess’ place is another striking example of how the fellow wins who sticks. In fact, one can not go through that country now who knew it in the old days with out being impressed with the evidence on every hand of the certainty that the fellow who “stays with the job” when he has a good piece of land will win in the end. LOCAL MATTERS. L. C. Chipman went to Omaha Sun day. George Henry had business at Ew ing Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Miskimins went to Atkinson Tuesday. Miss Mary Lorge of Randolph spent Easter at the home of D. H. Crinin. Miss Erinecia Biglin was up from Wayne Friday and returned Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George Cherry ar rived in the city Tuesday from Omaha. Mrs. Cecile Brown visited this week at the home of her sister at Orchard. Thomas McMahon and “Tug” Wil son left Tuesday for Glasgow, Mont. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Killmurry and children of Atkinson were in the city Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Haffner of Page spent Easter with friends in O’Neill. H. A. Allen and Alex Searl of At kinson had business at the court house Tuesday. Dr. M. F. Meer stopped over at O’Neill for a day, enroute for St. Louis, Mo. Wm. Beha held No. 86, the number that drew the Grapfiaphone at Gallagher’s store. Miss Mae Shoemaker won the rug, given away by J. P. Gallagher, the number being 1355. Mrs. Hendrix father and mother ar river on the five o’clock train Satur day afternoon for a visit. M. H. McCarthy received his com mission as postmaster and assumed the duties as such on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hutton spent Easter in Atkinson with Mrs. Hutton’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Enis. Miss Minnie Miller went to Norfolk Tuesday to attend a musical recital there in which two of her neices took part. Mrs. Bert Wattles and Geo. Har rington of Neligh spent Easter with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Harrington. Not the least of the good things in cident to the epening of spring is the retirement of the “home talent” actor until another winter. Willis N. Stevens of Middle Branch and Miss Gladys Lefler of O’Neill were married at the county judge’s office yesterday afternoon. Fred Jarvis, an auctioneer of Car roll, Neb., was in town a few days last week and this, assisting Col. Moore at his sale last Saturday. The commercial club should authorize a standing committee whose duty it would be to see that no stranger gjsts! (a look at the back yards. H. Ahikami, a Japanese restaurant keeper of Lincoln, was in O’Neill over Sunday. His mission here was with the view of obtaining a tract of land to start a truck garden. Nation-wide Special Sale I Full Size—6 ft 3 in. x 4 ft 6 in* v All built (not stuffed) layer-wise, in the Ostermoor way, and are much better even I than the regular . I Ostermoor Mattress. Weigh 50 pounds, Sclle Price | 5 pounds more than regular, and are even ^ ^ more luxuriously comfortable. Coverings ® | ere the most expensive Tickings made, ■ D i T h Dust-Proof Satin Finish and French III orcerized Art Twill. One of the biggest ^^F ^ 11 opportunities ever offered our customers. gSi O. F. BIGLIN BUN-TON FLOUR sss $1.90 Sack I J. C. HORISKEY | I—UL^IUUEJUimj.’ - - ■ yw , v vl. A, w * Judge Dickson went to Pender Tuesday to preside at a session of court for Judge Welsh. Clyde Lawrence of Stuart is operating the picture machine at the Royal during the absence of Cecil Brown from town. Grand Master J. C. Harnish, Past Grand Master 0. O. Snyder and Charles Pettijohn went to Orchard Tuesday afternoon in the interests of the Odd Fellow work there. Of the $30,000,000 appropriated by congress for rivers and harbors, the following amounts will be expended on the Missouri: Kansas City to mouth $1,000,000, Kansas City to Sioux City $50,000; Sioux City to Fort Benton $50,000. W. W. Bethea of Ewing was in the city over night Monday. Mr. Bethea is somewhat interested in the Greater Omaha bill that passed the ligisla ture, as he believes the consolidation of those cities will prove of material benefit to this section of the state. John Hancock came up the first of the week from Inman. Wednesday he departed for a visit in Indiana among the scenes of his younger days. J. P. says his stay in Indiana is in definite and, that he will “loaf” around until tired of it and then come home. Richard Hanson returned last Sat urday from Sioux City where he had taken his wife for treatment for dia betis. He received word yesterday that she was improving under the treatment. She is staying with a cousin, E. T. Satring, a druggist of that city. Pat Boyle was up from the south end of the county last week. Mr. Boyle is the nearest competitor of Charley Martin in the wolf chase The Frontier has learned about. Honors are about even between them. Mr. Boyle says they captured fourteen coyotes this winter. The K. C. Dramatic Club will pre sent some time in the latter part of April, “Paid In Full,” the greatest play of this generation. When it comes you will witness the best performance ever given by any local talent. Every citizen in this community should see this grand play. Watch for date. Jack McAllister and Attorney D. L Jauvenat were down from Atkinson Monday, when the case of Kidd vs. McAllister was settled in district court. The court held that the trade made by Kidd and McAllister was on the square and ordered the deeds to be turned over perfecting the trans fer. Fannie Firb, wile oi aacoD F,rD, aiea at her home twelve miles north of O’Neill Tuesday night. She had re cently gone through a spell of typhoid fever and while not in good health for a long time past was thought to have recovered from the fever. Funeral services will be held at the Mennonite church Friday. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cowperthwaite arrived home last Thursday from Florida, where they had spent the winter. Joe says he was all over the state and there is nothing to it but swamps and fish ponds from one end of the country to the other. The much advertised Palm Beach Joe re gards as a joke. Spring began in earnest last Sat urday with a south wind that reduced the supply of snow about half. The streets in town have been bare for a month but in the country, especially north, east and west, there is still much snow in places. With the continuation of weather as April starts out we’ll soon forget the snows of winter. It is expected the legislature will finish up the last of the week and ad journ. Mr. Cronin will then be home and in the editorial harness again. With the advantage of being as sociated with the great statesmen and learned men at the capitol this winter he ought to be primed with great ideas and literary inspirations that will make The Frontier a hummer. Now is the time to subscribe. Mrs. Dick Porter and Mrs. Rube Fleek were brought up from Chambers last Sunday and taken to a hospital at Lincoln Monday. Both women were in precarious condition, being unable to sit up and were made as com fortable as it was possible to do lying in a wagon box for the trip in from Chambers. Dr. Gill came along with his patients and accompanied them to Lincoln. They were carried to the four o’clock train Monday morning on cots, having spent the night at the Western. Dr. Gill returned Tuesday from Lincoln and informs The Frontier that they stood the trip remarkably well and were getting along fine at the hospital. Col. Moore’s first union sale held last Saturday was a howling success, something like $3,600 worth of prop erty being sold. The colonel intends this to be a permanent thing occuring every two weeks. The following O’Neill Masons went to Atkinson last evening to participate in Masonic work at that place: C. P. Hancock, Charles Pettijohn, W' ,.T. Evans, Andrew Schmidt, L. G. Gilles pie, W. K. Hodgkin, Dr. E. T. Wilson, Dr. A. H. Corbett, D. A. Criss, F. A. Schobert, Judge R. R. Dickson. The call of the wild goose is again heard with the arrival of the water soaked season. A few fellows may risk the penalties of the federal law prohibiting shooting geese and ducks, but the average sportsman is not as willing to take chances -against a federal agent as he is with a state game warden. Moving pictures of the battle at Havana for the heavyweight fighting championship between Johnson and Willard will not be shown in theUnited States. A federal law, recently en acted, prohibits the importation of films of prize fights into this country and their interstate transportation. There is no loop hole in the law. Jess Mills and Cecil Brown de parted Wednesday for Omaha to buy stock and equipment for the pump and well business in which they are pre paring to embark. From Omaha they ■will go to Clarinda, Iowa, to buy a well machine and then go to Broken Bow, Neb., where Mr. Brown has somt horses which they will bring to O’Neill. A. H. Tingle, county attorney of Boyd county, came over from Butte Tuesday, arriving at O’Neill on the 6 o’clock. Two other members of a committee to consult \tith the Holt county board concerning the proposed bridge south of Spencer over the Nio brara were to have come in Tues day night, but owing to the washout of bridges on the Northwestern in the vicinity of Spencer were unable to get here. Eva Clark was granted a divorce in district court last Thursday from Ed. ward H. Clark. They reside at Inman and were married in O’Neill in 1907, he being 71 and she 52 at the time of their marrage, and both had formerly been married. The decree was ob tained on the grounds of cruelty. Plaintiff was awarded $300 alimony and costs of suit. A decree for the plaintiff was ordered at a previous sitting of the court in the case of Lydia Sears vs. Leonard B. Sears. Miss Mayme Giltner, aged 26 years, of Battle Creek, Neb., was found dead in her bed at her lodging place in Omaha, where she went three weeks ago, with the photograph of her late fiance, Dr. I. L. Carter, clasped in her hands. Death came as the result of gas asphyxiation, and indications were that she had taken her own life. Dr. Carter, who was a senior at the Creighton Medical college, died at the Nicholas Senn hospital during the holidays of menengitis. William Brown of Albion shipped in several car loads of cattle Sunday. The cattle were taken south to help clean up the hay over that way and will also be pastured in the vicinity of Chambers this summer. Mr. Brown has some 300 head more at Albion he is arranging to either ship to O’Neill and drive across to the hay country or trail them up from his Boone county feed yards. Mr. Brown has a large cattle ranch in Cherry county, but makes his home at Albion. The Holt County Fair association will hold a meeting Friday evening at the lodge room in the K. C. building to perfect plans for the fair and race meet this year. The annual meeting comes in June but the fair officials regard that date as too late as it does not leave time enough to make the necessary arrangements. It is planned to change the date of the annual meeting to come soon after the close of the fair, when business for the year can be closed up and officers elected for the ensuing year. The State Board of Agriculture sends out this tip: Now is the time for the assessor to collect an itemized statement from each loyal Nebraska taxpayer. Among the duties imposed on such officials in addition to state ments of taxation is that of gathering the data from each civil and Spanish war soldier and the gathering of agri cultural and farm labor statistics. Re member that upon the fidelity of the assessor to fully and completely gathei and compiling these statistics depends the fair name of Nebraska as an agri cultural state. If the assessor neg lects this duty the products of the farm are a sweet morsel for speculators to gamble on, and they fix the amount of production to line their pockets at the farmers expense. If all assessors would realize that an actual truthful statement from them would do more to create a standard price for farm products than any other thing bearing on price save production, they would be very careful to secure complete de tails in every way possible. Mr. As sessor, will you try to do this for 1916? H. M. Uttley has received notice from the Nebraska supreme court that the two cases against members of the county board of this county have been advanced for hering September 20. One is a suit for an accounting of the expenditures ordered by the board and to restrain that body from further al leged illegal expenditures. The other is for recovery for mileage and salaries paid the precinct assessors. On a mo tion by the county attorney the cases were dismissed in district court and by Uttley appealed to the supreme court. Says a special from Lincoln in yesterday’s Bee: By the close vote of 43 to 41, II. R. 6, the bill which had been amended so as to extend the terms of county offi cers to 1918 was sent to a conference committee this afternoon. In appoint ing the committee from the house it is said that Speaker Jackson has select ed three men who are opposed to ex tension of the terms of county officers under the bill. They are Norton, Neg ley and Cronin. They favor the four year term, but are opposed to ex tending the term. 1 he r rentier received word I ues day of the death at Ewing of John Harkins, who died suddenly while out in the yard at his home. Mr. Harkins, who was a civil war veteran, moved with his wife and two daughters to Ewing about a year ago from Bliss, where he had lived and wasjpostmaster for many years. The family is well known all through the south part of the county. One daughter, Mrs. Lewis Linder, resides in O’Neill. Another daughter, Mrs. John Green, and a son, Seymore Harkins, reside on farms near Bliss postoffice. Hugh O’Neill and Carl Grant of Am Carr were in the city a few days this week. These gentleman are president and secretary respectively of the cor poration promoting the railroad pro ject across northern Holt. Mr. Grant, who was a business caller Tuesday, has hopes of the ultimate success of the plans now developing. Their visit to O’Neill was not in connection with the railroad but for private business and were also incidentally interested in the matter of the proposed new Niobrara river bridge being urged by Boyd county supervisors before the Holt county board. An injunction suit against the town ship board of Inman township has been filed in district court by W. W. Conrad, who alleges that the board, Charlie Fowler, clerk, Nathan Butler, justice of the peace, and Charlie Smith, treasurer, has assumed the prerogative of the office of road over seer and have hired men for road work and culvert work without au thority at law for the same. Conrad asks the court to enjoin the board from paying claims for work now be ing done, and also to step out of the way of the road overseer in road dis trict No. 2. Charley Hall took in the big re publican banquet at Lincoln last week and says it was a great event. For mer Senator John M. Thurston, whom rumor had it was “down and out,” was present and made a speech with all the evidence of the old time vigor, that completely captivated the crowd. Senator Thurston, Mr. Hall says, de clared he had come back to Nebraska to stay and would be ready next fall to campaign the state for the republi can ticket, though he would not him self be a candidate for office as he felt that Nebraska people has be stowed upon him sufficient honor. Jesse E. Vincent and Miss Amelia Gatz were married Easter Sunday morning at the Western hotel, Rev. Longstaff of the Presbyterian church officiating. Only relatives of the couple were present at the wedding. Breakfast was served in the hotel dining roorr<. The couple went to Omaha to spend their honeymoon. The groom is one of O’Neill’s industrious and energetic young business men, being associated with Frank Phalin in the ownership of the barbershop on lower Fourth street that has been in continuous operation for many years, lie bought* a fine home in the eastern part of the city some time ago and they will reside there upon their re turn to O’Neill. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Gatz, old residents of this city. She is a charming young lady of rare sense and winsome ways who has the well wishes of everybody in the com munity. LICENSE AGAIN BY 56 MAJORITY One More Vote Cast on Saloon Ques tion in Third Than Voters Enrolled. The wet and dry contest at Tues day’s election brought out a large vote, there being 394 votes polled as against 332 a year ago. License won by a majority of 68 votes, 3 less than last year. The only contest on city offices was that of police judge, F. M. Ward winning over F. C. Gatz with a majority of 134 votes. The vote by wards was as follows: 1st 2d 3d For license. 86 77 61—224 Against license ... 61 35 72—168 Mayor—Dishner... 117 93 98—308 Treas.—Gallagher . 124 87 113—324 Clerk—Hammond . 125 92 112—329 Police Judge— Gatz. 37 42 43—122 Ward. 107 67 82—256 Members School Board— Gilligan. 81 60 99—240 Birmingham. 63 54 66—173 Hagerty. 06 .. ..—06 For Councilmen— 1st W., King.127 2d W., McCarthy . 96 3d W., Meredith . 96 C. C. Millard . 05 Returns from the Third ward, at the canvass of the vote yesterday by the council, showed a slight discrept ency, there being one more vote on the license question than the total number of voters enrolled in that ward. The Stock Market. South Omaha, April 6.—Prom the Standard Live Stock Commission Co. —Our cattle receipts are moderate this week and the market is quoted generally steady to 10c to 26c higher. The moderate supply of beef steers has brought a better demand and stockers and feeders are firm with the demand from the country becoming broader as we get nearer to grass time. Bulls are selling at a lower level. We look for an advancing beef market. We quote: God to choice eornfed beeves $7.25 to $8, common kinds down to $6.50. Good to choice cows and heifers $6.25 to $7, fair to good $6.50 to $6.20, canners and cutters $3.75 to $5.40. Veal calves $7 to $10. Bulls, istags, etc., $4j75. Good to choice feeders $6.85 to $7.80, common grades down to $5.75. Stock cows and heifers $5 to $6.50. Stock calves $6 to $8. Hogs receipts are still fairly liberal with the price changes slight. Bulk $6.55 to $6.65, top $6.80. Sheep and lambs are holding steady to strong with new top prices being recorded. The Elkhorn river assumed threatening proportions Tuesday and fears were entertained for a time for the bridges south of town. Super visors Tomlinson and Hubbard, as a committee from the county board, made an investigation of the long steel bridge Wednesday morning, it being reported on the verge of break ing out at one end but it was found intact with no immediate danger of washing away and no prospects of the water rising. The bridge a mile west of town was reported swaying from the flood and mem were sent out to anchor it with wire cables. The Elk horn has spread pretty well over the bottoms and a trickling stream broke over the grade just south of town in one place. The fast melting snow with a heavy downpour of rain Tues day night and Wednesday morning has made great volumes of water to be carried off by the streams. Considerable local interest was manifest in the pugilististic encoun ter Monday of Jess Williard and Jack Johnson at Havana, Cuba, for the heavyweight championship. Reports of the fight by rounds were received by wire at the Western Union’s up town station and considerable of a crowd of men assembled to hear the reports. The crowd was plainly for Williard who seemed to have the best of the fight right along and finally knocked out the big negro in the twenty-sixth round. —, ■ t ■—^ia—a——gi^L,. •„ Come to Bazelman’s I BIG MONEY-SAVING STORE | Ladies housedresses, all up to date styles and material, $1.25 ^ values now . Ladies’ aprons, up to the minute lines, 50 cent values now. I Childrens’ dresses, all styles and colors, 75 cent values now. Big discount on all piece goods. Large assortment of hose from 7 cents up. Childrens’ hats, up to the minute, all styles and colors, $1.25 I and 75c now . Ladies’ and Childrens’ slippers and shoes, the latest styles, $2.50 values now. Men’sand Boys’ clothing and all groceries at a big money saving. Hi-l’atent flour $2, now $1,75 for 10 days only.