Frontier.
VOLUME XXXVII.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1916.
NO. 5.
t LOCAL MATTERS.
S. W. Green of Ewing was in the
' , city this morning.
The fire bell tower was taken down
Tuesday of this week.
Y P. V. Hickey received another car
load of Overlands last Saturday.
A. A. Driggs made a short business
and pleasure trip to Lincoln the latter
part of last week.
Miss Mollie Condon of Jonesville,
S. D., is visiting at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. E. H. Whelan.
Thomas Regan, who has been work,
ing here for the past month, returned
to Omaha Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. L. C. Peters returned last
ev. -’.ing from a three weeks visit with
relatives and friends in Lincoln.
The Misses Zeffa and Zella Ziemer
left Saturday afternoon for a weeks’
visit in South Dakota hnd Minnesota.
Dr. Higgins and Hugh Birmingham
of Atkinson were visiting with rela
tives and friends in the city last Sun
day.
John Enright returned last Satur
day evening from, a two weeeks visit
with relatives in South Omaha and
Sioux City, Iowa.
Miss Lillian Lindquist left last
Saturday morning for Wausa, Neb.,
where she Will spend the summer
visiting with relatives.
Jay Burrows and Miss Belle Hobson,
both of Harmony, Cherry county, were
granted a marriage license by the
couny judge last Monday.
Hugh McKenna left Monday morn
ing for Fremont, where he will drive
J. J. Thomas’ horse “Yellowstone” in
. / the races there this week,
ft Miss Elizabeth Harty, of Shulls
f burg, Wis., arrived in the city last
Friday afternoon for a two months
visit with relatives and friends.
Mrs. John Biglin and children of
Hastings, Neb., arrived in the city the
latter part of last week to spend a
few weeks visiting relatives and
friends.
Dr. Lyons Mullen of Detroit, Mich.,
arrived in the city last week for a
couple of weeks visit at the home of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Mullen.
William Evans, one of the energetic
farmers of ■ Pleasantview township,
was a caller at this office last Satur
day and extended his subscription to
jk The Frontier for another year.
Harry Reefe, who has been in the
employ of P. J. McManus for some
time, resigned his position and left
Tuesday afternoon for Omaha, where
he expects to make his future home.
Brnuo Jacobs, one of the old-time
settlers of the northeast portion of the
county, was an O’Neill visitor last
Saturday and favored this office with
a short call, extending his subscription.
P. J. Lansworth was in from Pad
dock township last Wednesday. Mr.
Lansworth says they had a splendid
rain in his section last Tuesday night,
the precipation amounting to over an
inch.
Julius Duft purchased a Willy
Knight automobile from the local
Overland dealer the first of the week.
Mr. Duft realized the superiority of
the Knight’s motor which led to his
purchase.
There will be a special examination
|' for teachers in all certificate subjects
Thursday, July 27 and Friday, July
28. Reading circle examination will
^ be given Friday forenoon, July 28.—
Minnie B. Miller, County Superintend,
ent.
Judge and Mrs. R. R. Dickson, Mr.
and Mrs. J. F. O’Donnell and Sanford
Parker left this morning at 5 o’clock
in Judge Dickson’s car for Omaha,
l - where they will visit for a few days
' and take in the great auto races next
Saturday.
Last Tuesday was the hottest day
of 1916, according to the government
weather bureau, now conducted by
Frank Schmidt. The mercury climbed
to 98 that afternoon and according to
the daily papers Nebraska was about
the hottest place in the United States.
D. L. Spellman and son, Edward, of
Omaha, arrived in the city last Satur.
THE SMALL ACCOUNT
Many people hesitate about opening a Bank
Account, because they have not much money
with which to make the start. They seem to
think a small sum is to trival. They overlook
the fact that the preatest fortunes in the world
began with small sums—are composed of
single dollars—made up of single dollars. This
* Bank has never put a limit upon the amount
with which you can open an account with us.
We welcome the small, thrifty depositor.
Some day such a depositor is BOUND to be
come a big depositor. May we welcome you
here—never mind how small an amount you
may bring?
Always remember life holds nothing trival.—Louis XI.
THE O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK
O’Neill, Nebraska
T
This bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stock
holders and we are a member of The Federal Reserve Bank.
Capital, surplus and undivided profits $100,000.00.
day evening for a few days’ visit at
the home of Mr. Spellman’s brother
in-law, John Sullivan, south of town.
Mr. Spellman was a resident of this
city in the latter eighties and still
has a very warm spot in his heart for
the Emerald Tinted city and its
people.
In another column will be found the
weather chart for the past week, show
ing the minimum and maximum tem
perature and the amount of precipi
tation for the past week. This is
kept by Frank Schmidt, deputy post
master, and will be published in these
columns every week. It will also be
marked upon the blackboard at the
postoffice every day.
Representative B. A. Ainley, wife
and children of Belgrade, Neb., were
in the city last Saturday on their way to
Long Pine, where they were going by
auto to spend a few days at that
resort. This was Representative Ain
ley’s first visit to this section of the
state and he said he was very
favorably impressed with the appear
ance of Holt county.
We put in a few hours in the
hustling little city of Ewing last Fri
day. Everything in that section of the
state is prosperous and most of the
people with whom we talked are of
the opinion that there will be nothing
to the election this fall but Hughes.
Even some of the strong democrats in
that section are convinced that Hughes
will be the next president.
Precipitation to the amount of
thirty-seven hundredths of an inch
fell here last Tuesday night. North,
east and south of this city they had a
very heavy rain. In some places the
rainfall amounted to over two inches,
according to reports received in this
city. This rain practically assures the
small grain crop in that portion of the
county in which the rain fell.
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Uttley of
Muskogee, Oklahoma, are in the city
today visiting with Mr. Uttley’s
father, H. M. Uttley. Mr. Uttley is a
native of this city but left here some
dozen years ago, since which time he
has been a resident of the south. He
said he noticed a wonderful change for
the better in the appearance of this
city during the past dozen years.
John McKenna returned last Sun
day from a ten days trip through
Montana and Wyoming. He put in a
couple of days at Riverton, Wyo.,
where many former O’Neill people
have located and he says they are all
prosperous and happy. Jack is of
the opinion that Riverton is destined
to become, within a very few years,
the best city in the state of Wyoming.
We are in receipt of another very
interesting letter from Doc Mathews
telling of the olden days in this
county, which will appear in The
Frontier next week. The last letter
from Mr. Mathews was very interest
ing and was eagerly read by thousands
of old and new residents of this
county and they all wished to read
something more from Doc’s facile
pen and we are sure that the next
installment will prove very interest
ing.
Spencer Advocate: Thomas Dennis
left Wednesday noon under orders
from the War Department to
report at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
He has been assigned to the quarter
master’s department. Mr. Dennis is
about sixty-five years old and served
thirty years in the regular army. He
has been watching the Mexican situa
tion very closely and he could no
longer resist the smell of powder, so
he offered his services and was ac
cepted.
Judge Dickson held a term of dis
trict court the first of the week.
Among the cases disposed of were the
following: Mollie Connolly was
granted a decree of divorce from John
Connolly. In the equity case of Peter
Greeley vs. Cynthia Carson judgment
was rendered for the plaintiff in the
sum of $31,472.50, at 8 per cent in
terest, and judgment for taxes paid in
the sum of $157.20, with interest at
ten per cent. Decree of foreclosure
and order of sale were issued.
The K. C. Team went to Atkinson
last Sunday to cross bats with the
team of that city and the result was
a rag chewing match that broke up in
a row in the eight inning with the
score standing 9 to 10 in favor of
O’Neill. It was a hard hitting game,
both teams scoring some good clean
drives that were responsible for the
large score made. These two teams
will play another game upon the local
diamond next Sunday afternoon and a
good fast and warm game is looked
for.
Leighton E. Huston has filed suit
for divorce from Hattie E. Huston, in
the district court of this county. In
his petition he alleges that they were
united in marriage in Green Valley
township, this county, on August 8,
1887. For the past five years he has
been a resident of this county, while
his wife, he alleges is living with her
mother at York, Neb. He asks for a
divorce on the grounds of cruel and in
human treatment, alleging that his
wife is constantly nagging him and
accusing him of misconduct with other
women, all of which he alleges is un
true.
A change in the time of the North
western passenger train No. 3, will
go into effect next Sunday. This
train which now leaves CJmaha at 4:25
will leave Omaha, commencing next
Sunday, at 5 o’clock and will arrive
here a litle later than it does at pres
ent. Many people living along this
line were hopeful that when the next
change was made in the time card
that the train would leave Omaha
about midnight, arriving here in the
morning, but we will have to wait
a while for service of that kind. No
change will be made in the time of
the other trains.
Zimmerman & Son paid out for
country produce during the month of
June $14,195.44. This is the greatest
amount ever paid out in one month by
this hustling produce firm and is $6,
000 more than the amount they paid
out in June last year. During the first
six months of this year they have paid
out as much for produce as they did
during the year *1915, which shows
that this business is rapidly increas
ing in this section. And the price this
year is much better than that paid last
year. They are now paying five cents
per pound more for buter fat than
they did in July last year. Any man
who has a nice bunch of cows can live
on easy street.
Mrs. Kate Ratzliff of Oakdale ap
peared in county court here last Mon
day and filed a complaint against
Fred Hinkle, who ran a doll rack at
the Savidge Carnival, on a charge of
criminal assault on her daughter,
Fannie, aged 18 years. She alleged
lhat the crime was committed in this
_ity on the evening of July 4th. A
warrant was issued for his arrest and
turned over to Sheriff Grady who left
for Newmans Grove, where the carni
val is now showing, on Tuesday
morning. Hinkle had left the company
and Sheriff Grady returned Wednesday
without his man. It is said that
Hinkle left here on the early train
Sunday mornig for points unknown.
To Whom It May Concern:
O’Neill, Neb., July 5, ’16.
To the people having hogs and pigs
inside the corporate limits:
You are hereby ordered to remove
them forthwith or I will proceed to
enforce the ordinances governing this
matter. Ne exceptions will be made.
DR. J. P. GILLIGAN,
4-2 Health Officer.
First Ward Caucus.
The republican electors of the First
Ward, O’Neill, are hereby called to
meet in caucus ini O. O. Snyder’s
office, in the First Ward, O’Neill, Ne
braska, at 7:30 p. m., Saturday, July
16, 1916, for the purpose of electing
six delegates to the republican county
convention to be held in O’Neill, Ne
braska, Satruday, July 22, 1916, and
to transact such other business as may
properly come before them.
P. C. HANCOCK,
Committeeman.
Third Ward Caucus.
The republican electors of O’Neill
3rd Ward, O’Neill, Nebraska, are
hereby called to meet in caucus in En
gine House in said ward in O’Neill,
Nebraska, at 7:30 o’clock p. m., Satur
day, July 15, 1916, for the purpose of
electing seven delegates to the re
publican county convention to be held
in O’Neill, Nebraska, Saturday, July
22, 1916, and to transact such other
business as may properly come before
them.
C. L. DAVIS, Committeeman.
Caucus.
The Republican electors of Paddock
Township are hereby called to meet
at the township hall on Saturday, July
15, 1916, at three o’clock p. m.; for the
purpose of electing five delegates tc
the county convention to be held ir
O’Neill, Saturday, July 22, 1916, and
to place in nomination a full township
ticket; and to transact any other busi
ness as may lawfully come before th<
caucus.
P. J. LANSWORTH,
Committeeman.
Second Ward Caucus.
The republican electors of the 2n<
Ward, O’Neill are hereby called t<
meet in caucus in McGinnis Creamer]
Co., office in the 2nd ward, O’Neill
Nebraska, at 7:30 p. m., Saturday, Jul]
15, 1916, for the purpose of electing
four delegates to the Republicat
County Convention to be held ii
O’Neill, Nebraska, Saturday, July 22
1916, and to transact such other busi
ness as may properly come befori
them.
J. F. GALLAGHER,
Committeeman.
HUGH O’NEILL ON OLD TIMES
Pioneer of Northern Holt Grows Remi
niscent After Reading Doc
Mathews’ Letter.
Anncar, Neb., July 4, 1916.
Editor Frontier: It behoves me to
take advantage of the 4th of July to
say something.
I see by your paper that Doc
Mathews even presumes to question
the veracity of an old timer, and says
that I got things considerably mixed.
Well wouldn’t that choke you?
We may have been misinformed
about the load of lumber, or about
him editing a paper in Marinette, Wis.,
or about him ever wanting to work at
manual labor, for that was only here
say, but what we gave as personal
knowledge, is a dead sure fact for he
sure drank that peach brandy, and the
language he used may yet appear be
fore him on judgment day, where a
denial will be different to a contro
versy with T. J. Smith. Mr. Michael
Cavanaugh was the man who burnt
the peaches, and a grand old man he
was, and if I am not greatly mistaken
H. M. Uttley used to joke him about
the burning.
If I have made any error about the
language Doc used in sampling the
decoction, it is due to my modesty,
but I really think h e talked in a
foreign language part of the time,
which I could not understand. It
sounded like the war pow wow of the
Wisconsin Manomina Indian, may be
that was the reason I thought he was
an ex-editor from Wisconsin. But
he has violated an old compact of
early days when he questions the
sacred certainity of any thing an old
timer says, and he knows the pen
alty, one gallon of the best—and no
peach brandy goes—to be served to
the old reliables.
If I had squealed, it would have
been different. If I had said anything
about going to baptize two fellows in
the Elkhorn; or about the photograph
that some one sent to the eastern
police; or about one time when I saw
a fellow citizen anxious to head a
crowd to find the man who shot at
T. J. Smith in the dark; or about
Hagerty’s cedar posts; or about any
of those things, his denial would
be justifiable. But, Ge-Whiz! I didn’t,
but if he keeps on I may get reckless
enough to give myself away and not
care who knows it, the same as an
old timer who once lived in the north
ern part of Holt county did.
He had been to camp meeting and
skipped out early before the rest, and
was so bewtUgred by the profundity
of the sanctiiW|ipus exhortation, that
he made a mistfMkand stopped at the
wroi--j*bouse amrgot into bed with
the wrong fellow. When the meeting
adjourned the rest missed him and
suspecting his whereabouts, stopped
and knocked. Hearing them coming
he jumped out of bed and crawled
under the bed and hid. They were
told to come in and all sat down and
began to enjoy a prolonged visit. It
was a log house, and in a locality
where rattle snakes were plenty, and
often came into the houses, coiled
up in corners, especially under the
beds.
A lie abiiuw uuuiu ucai me euiivci
sation of the visitors and lay still,
but of a sudden his elbow touched a
coiled bunch which he knew to be a
rattle snake, and, quick as thought,
came a whir and a blow, the snake
had buried his fangs in the fellows’
ear, with a yell like a comanche In
dian, he went from under the bed,
and out among the crowd of men and
women (minus his daily apparel), and
shouted, “I’m snake bit, and I don’t
give a d- who knows it” Of
course consternation prevailed in the
room, all knew he would die, and
screaming “snakes” they rushed
around not knowing what to do; one
thoughtful old sister sucked the blood
out of h-is ear, and the rest rushed for
clubs to kill the snake, slowly and
cautiously they moved the bed, and
all stood ready with uplifted clubs to
kill the snake, when, to their surprise
they found an old setting hen, which
had stolen its nest under the bed and
was hatching, but had picked a hole
in the ear of the now exposed hider.
This serves to show the folly of get
ting reckless before ’tis necessary,
and I ain’t going to shout snakes
unless Doc. gets me scared, and no
use of being afraid I’m going to
peach, for I ain’t, he has no right to
question by veracity, until it becomes
necessary to make people suspicious,
of what I say; if he does it
again, he will have to take another
dose of peach brandy. But he has
acknowledged he met Jim Perry, and
that Jim sent Cleveland to get their
names and that he and Jim and
Cleveland talked over starting a re
publican paper. Now I think our old
friend Doc. has slipped a cog, for I
think that Jim Perry right then and
there hitched up and brought his old
school mate to O’Neill, and both drank
peach brandy on the first trip, then
went back to Jim’s and knowing he
could start the paper, came back on
that equine skeleton he got from Jim
Fegles, and took the stage back to
Wisconsin.
The reason I think this, is because
he says his first trip to O’Neill was in
May. I started that saloon the 4th day
May, 1880, and Joe Davis helped me
attend bar for over a month. Johnnie
Wynn helped to, and Gus Hagenstein,
now of Spencer, helped put in the bar,
i which Doc. says was an 18 inch plank,
but instead it was made of inch boards
, painted blue, with a full front and
shelves under the top, and I moved it
■ just as it was down to the City Hotel
, where the Knights of Columbus Hall
, now stands, and turned it over to
Barney Kearns when he took my place
! and by the way, it was between that
. bar and the stairs, in the old City
Hotel, that Baeney was shot, and the
evidence in the trial of Billy Reed
included a description of that bar, it
was not a “plank about 18 inches
wide.” Gus Hagenstine helped me
move it from Doc Daggert’s drug
store to the “Cottonwood board
shanty” Doc Mathews tells about.
Now, for the Cottonwood board
shanty. That small house where Doc
took his “first drink” was all hard pine,
sawed from hard pine logs on Long
Pine Creek by H. M. Uttley, and haul
ed down to O’Neill by D. J. Sparks
with a sorrel white faced team, and
built and rented to teach school in.
Dan Sullivan’s sister, now I believe,
Mrs. Arthur Barrett, taught school in
it. Ask H. M. Uttely or Myron
Sparks. I think he went to school
there and should know.
Now our old Friend Doc is a first
class fellow, but he ought to know
better than to contradict any thing I
say, for he is sure to err in doing so.
He also says that he took the stage
and that Bob Powers and Billy Mer
riman drove the line. Now he is right
about Powers, but wrong about Billy
Merriman, for Meriman the summer
of ’80 drove from O’Neill to Paddock
and also occasionally to South Side or
Old Keya Paha and I think Elmer
Merriman exchanged with him occa
sionally, for Billy was going to help
Doc and I put F. J. Fox and a whole
bunch of his chums in the creek one
dark night. Ask Elmer Merriman
which is right, and I know, for Billy
was sparking Kate McCormack who
worked for Mrs. Martin in our Hotel.
Again ■ Hank McEvony did tend
bar for me, but it was after I had
been running saloon a month when Joe
Davis went to help Mr. Sparks put up
hay the last of June or in July so he
could not be in that small house in
May on Doc’s first trip; it must have
been his second trip to O’Neill for he
describes Old Hank just as he used
to sit when alone in the bar, but he
never attended bar in May. I did that
myself and opened up in May, and
borrowed the money from Jim Perry
to pay the State License $25 on a(,
county order which I sold to Mike
Long to get the $25. So if he came to
O’Neill he found me there in May, and
he drank that Peach Brandy too, and
3aid it was good. But I am not
through yet, I am mad. I signed “Old
Settler” and called myself “Jones” so
that some one else would be suspected
of writing that article and without the
least compunction or remorse of con
science. Doc had to squeal on me, and
now I am going to explode a Krupp
Gun on him as a matter of revenge.
He says when he and his family
crossed the Missouri River the sum
mer of 1880 the town of Niobrara was
flooded with water, and they were
traveling the streets in boats and
mat iau me town was inovea up me
river two miles. Now the heavy rains
of 1880 washed out some small bridge
west of town and kept your humble
servant a prisoner in Niobrara nearly
a. week, with my load of beer and
booze in Pete McStays’ and Charley
Dilgee’s back yard, while I was being
jntertained by the Rev. Williams
whom every day took a long walk,
‘arm, in arm” around the town with
me, and no boats ever floated over
those streets in the summer of 1880.
Now the whole world knows that the :
aig snows of 1880 and 1881 caused the
loods in Niobrara in the spring and
summer of 1881 a year after Doc
tame here, and the boats were used
then and only then, and that fall the
town was moved up the river two
miles.
Doc, you see, saw the boats then
and got the sight confounded with the
time he crossed in 1880. He also saw
Old Hank McEvony in my saloon in
June or July and got it mixed with
his first trip to town. Now this must
be so for he tells about Hostetters
Bitters bottles. Now I never had
Hostetters Bitters bottles. fThat
was a ruse of Doc Daggett’s to sell
under his drug license and had fine
demijohns which I remember well, as
a wild and wooly patron nearly
knocked a hole in my upper story with
one. Doc has that mixed with some
other time he and Hank took a
“dose” in Daggett’s or Capwell’s.
You can safely bet your chacens in
the next world that Doc drank peach
brandy on his first trip.
He also says: “My good old erratic
Irish friend.” Now if he had under
scored “good” two or three times I
would like it better, but that word
“erratic” means changing, wandering,
unfickle, unstable. Well, if that
don’t gag the natives. Why, I never
changed my politics; I never was
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either a republican of democrat. I
was always a Christian and enjoyed
the constancy of that pleasure.
Why in 1882 I asked Hdn. M. P.
Kinkaid to run for state senator, so
as to build a bridge over the Niobrara
river. That project caused more
political fighting, personal hatred and
rag chewing, in the state, than any
thing else and after thirty-four years
fighting I just drove for the first time
July 3, 1916, to-day, across the
bridge and got home to read in
The Frontier that I was "erratic”.
Why Doc if you only knew how I
made up my mind to stay in this
country and the many, and various
ways the people have tried to get me
to change my mind, and not a change
yet. Now Doc I am going to Write
a book and I am going to be good
about it. I don’t want you to chal
lenge me to a deadly combat, if you
do, that gives me the choice of weap
ons and I will choose a long distance
telephone and I will make you wish
the boat had capsized in the streets
of Niobrara and drowned you there
in 1880.
If I can get Doc as a deadly adver
sary, and in a linguistic battle, I will
kill him off by an inexhaustable mag
azine of amunition and he will die in
spasms or with spinal meningitis.
But I am mad. He said I was
‘erratic”, that is, whimsical, notional,
fickle and so on, changeable. Why
that is preposterous! I tried to get
married for thirty-six years and never
changed my mind once, but I kept
right on trying. I know a great many
people who joined church, and went
from one church to another. Now I
never changed once. *
I have read the different kinds of
heavens presented by the various
tribes of man; the Jews theory of
“Golden Gates”/ and marble floors/,
ind angels with golden wings, and the
Solden Throne with the 30,000 jewels
in the crown of the Diety, and yet
have remained unchanged, for I know
the Jew loves gold and precious stones,
i have studied of the Esquimau’s
neaven, of a grand ice palace and
lis eternal feast of blubber and fat
if ter death in his heaven; but I knew
le loved blubber and fat and an ice
palace on earth, and had also made
i heaven consistent with his love of
iarthly things; so I did not change
;hen, nor go and sit on a cake of
ce and try to drink fish oil or kero
lene. I still was steadfast. I used
m hunt and fish with the American
Indian in the cool and shady forests
>f Northern Wisconsin, where sum
,inr .ocftrto nnuj nro1 Kilt tH«m 6lp
:ool running brooks and crystal lakes
ivere only disturbed by the sounds of
tinging birds or splashing deer, and
although an Indian story I loved the
‘Hapy Hunting Ground” and fancied
i heaven among the beauties of the
‘God of Nature” more enticing than
imong the gold and jewels of the “God
>f the Jew.’, but yet I remained un
hanged, and yet Doc called me
‘erratic.”
Well at last I read the book of
Mahomet, the Koran, and here I
found another theory of heaven and
low Mahomet got to hi& heaven and
found it by riding a very fast horse,
i flying horse, into heaven, his heaven,
vhich was a church full of beautiful
vomen, and by gosh that, I will ack
nowledge at last, got my goat. I
always loved a fast horse ana a nice
>ne, and a beautiful woman and I
lust about concluded to go to Ma
lomets’ heaven.
Well I got the fastest and nicest
horse that ever trod the western plains
and was going to call him “Pegacuss’
but John McDonough called him
“Tyrone” and I was seriously con
templating riding in search of Ma
homets’ heaven when, just about
that time, I married the nicest look
ing woman God Almighty ever made,
and I never gave a dam for Mahom
ett’s heaven since. This you see was
the success of a life pursuit without
a change, and still that villifying
“Doc” called me “erratic.”
Now if you think Doc ain’t off and
got things mixed, ask Charley Millard
if he didn’t see Billy Merriman, Gus
Hagenstine and myself down in the
basement of the old City Hotel in the
summer of 1880, on the evening of a
week day after he had got back with
the mail. Now he never could be there
if he was carrying mail with Bob
Powers or on that line, for he could
not get to town until dark. Next wit.
ness, call Frank Campbell, he lived in
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