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VOLUME XXXIX. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1919. NO. 37.
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The spirit of Washington ,■ lit
is ■witli I it wsis in |
IT inspired them as they repaid to France at Chateau Thierry and Sedan the
debt contracted when Lafayette’s timely help enabled Washington to take
Yorktown and finish our war for independence.
It animates them during the weary months of service in the army of oc
cupation.
It thrills them as they come home victorious to the America they love.
Washington had faith in the ideals of the people and the future greatness of
the nation. Our soldiers have shown that his ideals still live.
Let us all do our part that the nation may grow in justice and power day
by day and year by year, ever an imated by the spirit of the founder of our
country.
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LOCAL MATTERS.
James Moore shipped a car of mixed
cattle to Omaha Wednesday.
Walter Hodgkin returned Tuesday
evening from Omaha and Lincoln.
Lloyd Gillespie returned from a
business trip to Lincoln Tuesday even
ing.
Mrs. Charles. Siders and daughter
returned Saturday evening from Lin
coln.
The Lutheran congregation of Bris
tow vicinity is to erect a new $14,000
church.
Carl Aegeater, of Randolph, was a
business visitor in this city the first
of the week.
Harry Stein, the hustling Ewing hay
dealer, was an O’Neill visitor Monday
and Tuesday.
Lloyd Stevens, of Inman, has re
ceived his discharge from the army
and returned home.
The Presbyterian church of Stuart
is holding a series of revival meetings,
to continue two weeks.
John Chmelet returned Saturday
night from Winner, S. D., after a
short visit with friends.
S. J. Weekes left Monday for Omaha
where he will spend several days look
ing after business matters.
The JSwing basket ball team re
cently defeated the Clearwater team
at Ewing by the score of 43 to 14.
John Catron, of Meadow Grove, has
purchased the Ed. Harris ranch south
of O’Neill and will take possession in
March.
Ralph Davidson'arrived here Mon
day night from Norfolk, Va., on a fur
lough to visit with his folks and
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Gallagher and
son, John Robert, left Sunday morning
for a week visit with friends at Omaha
and Lincoln.
Earl Miller has purchased the
Charles Knapp eighty near Inman,
giving him an undivided 150 acres at
the home place.
John Wolfe, who recently received
his discharge and returned home, has
gone to Moorcroft, Wyo., near which
place he has a homestead.
Mr. and Mrs. George L. Butler, of
Ewing, have returned from an extend
ed visit with their daughter and hus
band at Hot Springs, S. D .
Miss Esther Cradit, of Wisner, who
is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. W. V.
Hunter, entertained at dinner Sunday
evening for a party of friends.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Chittick, of Stu
art, have received a telegram an
nouncing the safe arrival of their son
in this country from over seas.
Lloyd Kaiser, of Amelia, suffered the
fracture of several bones in his left
foot last week when a horse he Was
riding slipped and fell upon him.
Thomas Griffin returned Saturday
night from a month’s visit with rel
atives and friends, and a sight seeing
tour through New England states and
Canada.
Miss Madeline Dishner, of Colum
bus, arrived the first of the week and
will be employed in the office of her
uncle, F. J. Dishner, this spring and
summer.
One of the heaviest losses in Thurs
day’s storm was that of W. S. Goree,
of Inman. Six thoroughbred brood
sows were buried under a snow drift
and smothered.
Mrs. Reuben Thomas, of Long
Pine, daughter of Mrs. James Beck, of
Atkinson, died Monday of last week
at her home in Long Pine, after an
illness of pneumonia.
Mrs. Richard Regan and little
daughter, arrived the first of the week
from Creighton arid will be the guests
of Mrs. Regan’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Quinn, for several weeks.
John Zimmerman, who has spent
two years in the navy and has been on
foreign service for some time arrived
here Friday night from Philadelphia,
where he was discharged from the
navy.
Noah Peterson, prominent hay
dealer of Stuart, was a Sunday visitor
with O’Neill friends enroute to Omaha
where he goes as delegate from this
district to the meeting of the Hereford
Breeders association.
Col. James Moore narrowily escaped
serious injury when he slipped while
carrying a basket of corn, at the Moore
ranch Monday, and fell across a fence.
He sustained a fractured rib, which
however has not incapicated him.
Mrs. Max James, who has been visit
ing with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.
Stannard for the past month, left
Wednesday morning for Denver,
where she will visit with relatives for
a short time before joining her hus
band in California.
A number of friends of Mildred
Rouse met at her home in this city
last Saturday evening and spent a
very pleasant evening, playing games,
singing and other amusements. All
returned to their homes declaring
Mildred a very good hostess.
Henry Grady has received word
from Rock Island, 111., that Arthur Mil
ler, alias Fred Nelson, sent up from
here several years ago for breaking
and entering, has been convicted of
murder, committed during a hold-up,
and sentenced to life imprisonment.
John L. Quig left Sunday morning
for a tour of his landed interests in
the central west. Mr. Quig went to
St. Paul, Minn., from here and will
visit Glennwood, Minn., Spooner, Wis.,
and Shell Lake Wis,, at all of which
places he has large farms, before his
return.
Fire, of unknown origin, destroyed
a car of household and emmigrant
goods and a car of hay, in the North
western yards Thursday night last
week during the storm. The car of
goods belonged to John Barnhill, who
is removing to Lincoln, and the hay
to Chris Oswald. The timely arrival
of a passenger train enabled the rail
road company to move a string of cars
to which the burning ones were at
tached to a place of safety.
Mrs. Holland Will Stand Trial For
Murder of Mrs. Welton.
Omaha Bee: West Plains, Mo.—
Mrs. Carrie Hofland, a Nebraska wo
man, who confessed to the killing of
Mrs. Pearl Welton, wife of Frank
Welton, on the Welton farm near
Mountain View by choking her to
death, is now taking a keen interest in
preparations for trial at the May term
of the Shannon county circuit court at
Eminence.
When she confessed the murder, she
expressed a desire to plead guilty at
once, but since her removal to the
Howell county jail at West Plains she
has gone oyer the circumstance of the
killing with her attorneys with a view
of making a determined effort at jus
tification when she is placed on trial.
No Hint has been given as to the nature
of the defense the woman will make.
A friend of Mrs. Hofland residing in
Newland county, Nev., where the
prisoner formerly lived, sent her this
telegram a few days ago.
“How on earth did you come to do
it? You were always so softhearted.
Why, you coluldn’t even kill a
chicken.”
Met at Sioux City.
Mrs. Hofland is a Norwegian. In
il)05 she lived at Sioux City, Iowa,
where she met Frank Welton, a rail
road man. She says they entered into
a common law marriage and lived to
gether for twelve years as man and
wife. He had homesteaded a ranch
near O’Neill, Neb., where they moved
in 1906. From that time until he left
her in the spring of 1917, the couple
lived as man and wife.
Mrs. Hofland’s daughter, now 17,
lived with the couple ail this time and
thought Welton to be her stepfather.
Mrs. Hofland says an estate of $5,000
inherited from her mother was spent
in improving the ranch.
When Welton left O’Neill in the
spring of 1917 he told Mrs. Welton
that he was going to South Missouri
and look at some land. They had sold
their live stock and other personal
property on the ranch. Welton went
to Kentucky where he married and
then took his wife to the farm in
Shannon county, a few miles from
Mountain View where she was killed.
Welton Wrote Often.
During his absence, 7.1rs. Hofland
says, she often heard from Welton,
but lie never mentioned his marriage
to another woman. She made up her
mind to visit Welton and reached
Mountain View the day before the
murder. Walking out to the Welton
home, five miles from Mountain View,
she found both Welton and his wife in
the field. Welton came to meet her
when he saw her coming and begged
her to leave. Mrs. Welton came up
about this time and invited her in the
house.
While in the house, Mrs. Hofland
and Mrs. Welton engaged in a quarrel,
which resulted in the choking of Mrs.
Welton.
Mother and Daughter Meet.
Miss Myrtle Hofland, of O’Neill,
Neb., daughter of Mrs. Hofland, ar
rived in 'JVest Plains at almost the
same hour her mother was brought
here from Eminence by Sheriff Bay.
Miss Hofland asked a stranger to be
directed to the office of some attorney
i
i and was referred to the office of Green
! <fe Green in the West Plainsbankbuild
i ing. To the attorneys Miss Hofland
I told her story, saying that she read
about the murder and that her mother
would be brought to West Plains.
While telling her story, Miss Hofland
looking out of the window and saw the
officer walking with her mother on
East Main street.
“There’s mamma now,” screamed
the girl, who is pretty. The officer
then brought Mrs. Hofland to the at
torney’s office where a pathetic meet
ing between mother and daughter
took place. Though Mrs. Hofland did
not break down, her daughter wept
and begged her mother to tell why she
committed the crime. However, Mrs.
Hofland refused to discuss the case and
said she had nothing further to tell.
Mrs. Hofland, now in the Howell
county jail, has made efforts through
her attorney, L. B. Shuck, of Emi
nence, to furnish bonds in a few days.
Her daughter is at a local hotel and
will remain near her mother until her
trial at Eminence in May.
Slayer a Small Woman.
Mrs. Hofland is a small, stockily
built woman and weighs about 130
pounds. She takes long steps and ap
pears rather masculine. The woman
whom she choked to death for the love
of her husband was still smaller.
Mrs. Hofland, after confessing to
the killing of Mrs. Welton and de
scribing how she threw the body of her
rival into a cistern at the Welton
home, stated that she desired a speedy
trial. She wanted to plead guilty, she
said, and take the sentence that would
be imposed upon her by the court. A
special term of court was convened in
Eminence by Circuit Judge E. P. Dor
ris of Alton, and to the surprise of
everyone Mrs. Hofland asked for a
continuance to the next term of the
Shannon county, Mo., district court.
O’Neill Gets $6,000 For Public
Building Site.
The former appropriation of $2,600
for the purchase of a site for a federal
building at O’Neill has been increased
to $6,000 by the national congress.
One of the last official acts of the
house of representatives was to in
clude this increased item in the public
building bill, which carries a grand
total of sixty million dollars.
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