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VOLUME XXXIX. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1919. NO. 39.
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JAS. CARTON MURDERED
Former O’Neill Man Killed With
Broad Ax In Lonely Mountain
Winter Camp.
James Carton, nephew of John
Carton, a former resident of O’Neill,
was murdered in a lonely mountain
winter camp at Tolland, Colo., Mon
day of last week. The body was
brought to O’Neill by Attorney Thomas
Nolan of this city, arriving Monday
evening and the funeral held Tues
day morning from St. Patrick’s
church, the Rev. Father M. F. Cassidy
officiating. Burial was in Calvary
cemetery. Carton, whose mother re
sides in Ireland, was a resident of
O’Neill and vicinity for several years,
eight or nine years ago, working for
a time on the building of St. Patrick’s
church. He was thirty-seven years
old.
Carton, with three companions, was
engaged as bridweman for the Moffat
railroad near Camp Tolland. GilLipin
county, Colorado, the camp being a
summer resort closed except for the
caretakers in the winter. Several
hundred yards from the bunk car oc
cupied by the caretakers is a spring
from which they carried water for
cooking, washing and laundry, the
members of the crew taking turns in
carrying the water. Saturday, Feb
ruary 22, was Carton’s day to carry
the water. After doing so he did
some laundry work. Monday was the
turn of “Shorty” or W. H. Allen, a
member of the crew, to carry
the water, as he was preparing
to do so he commented to Car
ton and the other two mem
bers of the crew, who were seat
ed, stooped over, on a box, that if
Carton had not washed Saturday there
would not be so much water to carry.
Carton smiled, but did not reply, and
Allen, in a sudden fit of anger,
grasped a broad ax standing nearby
and, swinging, struck Carton in the
back, the heavy blade severing the
vertebrae and spinal cord and enter
ing the right lung.
Carton attempted to straighten up,
gasped, “I didn’t think you’d do it
Shorty," and died.
“I’m sorry, Jim,” cried the mur
derer, as he threw himself, weeping,
at the dead man’s side, while the two
witnesses to the murder, rushed,
frightened, and partially dressed,
from the car to the neighboring camp
about a quarter of a mile away. When
they returned, Fuller lay dead, across
the body of his victim, with the bullet
from a 22 calibre high power rifle
through his head. The rifle still was
grasped in his hands and the muzzle
pressed against his head.
Allen was from Ewing, Missouri,
and it developed at the coroner’s in
»-* quest that he had previously been in
an asylum.
LOCAL MATTERS.
F. J. Dishner went to Omaha Wed
nesday.
C. D. Risor, of Stuart, has returned
home from over seas service.
Leo Mullen went to Norfolk Friday
for a week end visit with relative and
friends.
Oscar O. Newman and J. K. Aaberg
returned Sunday evening from a busi
ness and pleasure trip to Texas.
Charles Marquet, of Scribner, who
purchased the Rapp ranch near Ew
ing recently, has moved on to the
same.
Ambrose Biglin stopped off Friday
for a visit with relatives while en
route home to Casper, Wyoming, from
an eastern trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Seger, of Stuart,
are the parents of a son, who arrived
at the Seger domicile Thursday morn
ing of last week.
Miss Roberta Chipperfield, of Nor
folk, who spent the week end as the
guest of Miss Octavia Beck, returned
rhome Sunday gtomoon.
James Berigan and his father, John
Berigan, sr., have leased the Elkhorn
ranch and James will remove to Bas
sett, in the near future.
Regularly monthly services of the
Episcopal congregation will be held
Sunday morning, the Reverend Wells,
of Valentine, officiating.
Dr. Burgess went to Omaha Sunday
to purchase equipment for his new of
fice, which will be located in the old
Star restaurant building.
Judge Jesse B. Root, formerly of the
supreme court and now of the Burling
ton legal department, was an O’Neill
business visitor Saturday.
L. A. Iliff and R. E. Uiff, well known
farmers residing northw.est of O’Neill,
will remove to Dawes county, having
secured farms near Crawford.
Harry McVeagh, formerly plumbing
inspector of the city of Omaha, and
now selling plumbing supplies, called
upon O’Neill iriends Saturday.
Fred Perry, of Ashland, a former
resident of Holt county, could not re
sist the lure of the old stamping
grounds and has removed to Ewing.
Walter Brennan, recently returned
from over seas service, was appointed
city marshal to succeed Sheridan Sim
mons, at a meeting of the city council
Tuesday night.
Jewel Udey, prominent Page farmer
who had charge of the Becker place
last year, has leased the old Berg
strom ranch, near Stafford and will
farm it this year.
A. C. Smith, and son -Chester and
family, of Goose Lake, leave the lat
ter part of this week for Piedmont, S.
D., near which place they have pur
chased a large ranch.
' Lucien Enbody, of Atkinson, suf
| fared a stroke of apoplexy last week
K. C. THEATRE
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 8
LUCILLE STEWART
Featuring “The Eleventh Commandment.”
This is a very strong play and appeals strongly to
the best sentiment of the heart. ^
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Admission : : : 10 and 20 Cents.
and fears are ehtertalned of a fatal
termination. Relatives have been
summoned to his bedside.
Professor Merrin and Miss Octavia
Beck of the high school faculty, went
to Atkinson Tuesday evening to act as
judges in the declamatory contest at
the Atkinson high school.
Miles Greenfield, of Stuart, suffer
ed a stroke of appolexy, while in the
store of Ben Farner at that place,
Tuesday afternoon of last week. Mr.
Greenfield died Thursday.
Miss Rosa Kramer and Mr. Frank
Hamik, of Stuart, were united in
marriage Tuesday of last week, at St.
Boniface church, Stuart, the Reverend
Father Jungles officiating.
Albert Rothleutner, the well known
Ewing miller, received word last week
of the death of his sister, Miss Mary
Amelia Rothleutner, at Memphis,
Tenn., Monday of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cowperthwaite
and Arthur Cowperthwaite returned
Sunday evening from California, where
they have been spending the winter.
Mrs. Arthur Cowperthwaite will re
turn later.
The dance at the K C.. hall Friday
night following the lecture by Serg
enat Edwards, was well attended. The
music was by the Twentieth Century
Jazz orchestra, which is an indication
of its super-excellence.
The ONeill high school basket ball
team will meet the Atkinson teams at
the high school gymnasium Friday
night. As the teams of both towns
are playing excellent games, the con
test promises to be interesting.
John J.- Harrington, who was hon
orably discharged from the navy two
weeks ago, left Tuesday morning for
Bonesteel, S*. D., where he has ac
cepted a position with the Chicago &
Northwestern railway company.
C. V. Wicks, an employee of the
Walrath & Sherwood Lumber com
pany at Atkinson for a number of
years, has been promoted to local
manager at that point, succeeding H.
Lemmer Is the daughter of the late
John Doe, whose death recently was
formally confirmed by the supreme
court.
Mrs. Arthur Hammond and Miss
May Hammond went to Omaha Sun
day for a short visit with friends.
P. D. Mullen ^ias sold his fine resi
dence property to Frank O’Connell,
Sr., who recently sold his farm north
west of the city and has decided to
take life easy from now on.
The next number on the lyceum
course Will be the lecture by Ernest
J. Powell, at the Presbyterian church
the evening of March 15. Mr. Powell
is one of the most prominent lectur
ers on the Chautauqua and lyceum
circuits.
Judge R. R. Dickson and C. B. Scott
are in Butte this week holding a ses
sion of the Boyd county district court.
At the conclusion of the term Judge
Dickson will meet Mrs. Dickson at
Norfolk and they will go to Omaha to
attend the automobile show next
week.
Attorney Thomas Nolan left Wed
nesday evening for Bassett, where he
■has acquired an excellent legal practice
and will engage in business. Mr.
Nolan has been one of the leading of
the young members of the Holt
'county bar and the city and county
sustain a real loss in his removal to
, Bassett. The Frontier joins his many
’friends in wishing him success in, his
'new field.
A news item in the Lincoln and
Omaha papers states that 500 auto
mobile owners of Holt county have
signed a petition to the legislature
protesting against the passage of
House Roll 290, a good roads bill pro
viding for a graduated tax on auto
mobiles from $10 up. The petition
contends that the money should be ex
pended in the vicinities in which it is
raised, and protests against the ex
penditure of 75 per cent by the state
engineer. If five hundred auto owners
signed the petition, somebody lied to
the assessor.
Farmers—Help Us To Help You
BEFORE long you are going to be very
busy. To make your crop, you are go
ing to need the service of every machine
you have. There is a little lull right
now. This time can be put to mighty
good use. How are your farm ma
chines? Wouldn’t it be a wise precau
tion to look them over carefullly to as
auro yokeoefP that there are no parts ■
needing replacement now or later on?
By making a list of present or possible future
requirements and giving it to us before or dur
ing Repair and Inspection Week, March 3-8,
we shall be able to furnish you what you want I
when you want it. |
If there is any item on your list we do I
not happen to carry in stock, we can p
procure it and hold it in readiness for
you. It takes the delay, and conse
quent loss of time out of farm emer- I
gencies. The question of a day or two
I during the busy season on the farm is a
serious one. Make up that list now
and let us have it.
O. IF. IBiglin.
E. Root, who has purchased a farm in
Wisconsin.
The boys’ basket ball team of the
O’Neill high school went down in de
feat before the Bassett team, at Bas
sett last Friday night, by a score of
24-12. The girls’ team was defeated
by the like team of Bassett, almost as
bad: 23-12.
T. T. Waid, lured by the approach
of the fishing season, returned Mon
day night from a winter’s sojourn in
California. “Wink” probably will
follow his usual custom, purchase
another farm and sell for enough ad
vance next fall to enjoy another Coli
fornia winter vacation.
r Burlington snow plows succeeded in
opening up the O’Neill-Sioux City
lines, blocked last week, late Sunday
night. The road remained open for
several hours Monday, or until it
“snew” again. The road was opened
again at 10 o’clock, Wednesday night
and snowed up at 11:30, etc., etc.
John Chmeler and Ben Grady have
purchased the Bee Hive shoe store and
stock of Julius Watteyne, of Tecum
seh, Nebraska, and have gone there to
take possession. Messrs. Chmeler and
Grady are two of the best shoe men
in the country and their decision to
locate in Tecumseh is a decided gain
to the commercial interests of that
city.
The K. C. auditorium was packed to
capacity Friday evening to hear Serg
eant Edwards of the famous Princess
“Pat” regiment, detail his experience
in the great war and recount the event
of his escape,, recapture and second
escape from a German prison. Serg
eant Edwards is an eloquent speaker,
although his Scotch dialect at first is
difficult, and graphically portrayed
his experiences.
Mrs. Jennie Lemmer, of DrjyJreek,
will have to go without any spring
tonic to ward off the malaria this year.
A trunk of twenty-four quarts, ship
ped to her from Minnesota recently,
was confiscated at the Northwestern
depot by City Marshal Sheridan Sim
I mons and J. L. Quig, Monday. Mrs.
Anselm Whelan Wins Declamatory
Contest.
Anselm Whelan was the victor in
the high school declamatory contest
Saturday evening, and will represent
the O’Neill high school in the contest
to be held at Norfolk, March 21, to
select a representative for the district
to attend ,the state contest to be held
this spririg. “The Independence of
Cuba,” oratorical gem of the late
Senator John M. Thurston, was his
selection. Fern Hubbard carried off
second honors with her rendition of
El zabeth Ph dps’ “Helen Thromre,’,
and Florence Malone third place with
Victor Hugo’s “Jean Valjean.” The
judges were Superintendent E. C.
Myrop and Miss Lona Morris of the
Atkinson high school and Miss Rob
erta Chipperfield of the Norfolk high
school.
Following were the contestants,
with the titles of their selections:
Minerva Merrell, “Mrs. Harrigan’s
Phonograph;” Ida Boyer, “The Great
est Christmas Gift;” Randall Dow
ney, “The Lion and the Mouse;” Flor
ence Malone, “Jean Valjean;” Opa'
Boggs, “Snartacus to the Gladiators:”
Ans'em Whelan, “The Independence
of Cuba;” Cyril Sauser, “The Lance
of Kanana;” Fern Hubbard, “Helen
Thrarnre;” Vincent Whelan. “Patrick
Henry;” Ruth Kilpatrick, “Mrs. Ilog
genheimer On a Pullman.”
J. E. Perrigo.
J. E. Perrigo, one of the old resi -
dents of Holt county, died, at the resi
dence of his daughter, Mrs. Edward
Murray, near O’Neill. Tuesday night,
after an extended illness of heart
trouble. The funeral was held Wed
nesday and the body taken to Albion
for burial beside Mrs. Perrigo, who
passed away several years ago.
Ottis Lee Norton.
Ortis Lee Norton, ninth son of M.
F. Norton, county surveyor, died at
the family residence, Tuesday morn
ing, after a lingering illness. Mr
Norton, who was 24 years and £
1 months of age, had been nn invalid foi
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Our Policy
has always been to keep the assets of our
institution thoroughly liquid. Our mem
bership in the Federal Reserve System
accomplishes this aim to a degree previously
impossible. In the Federal Reserve Bank
we have an unfailing reservoir of cash
obtainable in exchange for commercial
paper which we hold. (
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O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital, Surplus and Undivided
This Bank Carries no Indebtcndess
of Officers or Stockholders.
a number of years. The funeral was
held Wednesday afternoon from the
family residence, the Rev. Walker of
ficiating. Burial was in Prospect Hill
cemetery. _
Ross-Sparks.
Mrs. Susie Ross and Mr. Fred
Sparks, both of this city, were united
in marriage at the Methodist parson
age, Wednesday evening, the Rev.
Walker officiating. Both of the high
contracting parties arc well and favor
ably known in the community and are
receiving the congratulations and best
wishes of their many friends.
Waring-Bogan.
Omaha papers contain the an
which took place in that city Thurs
day of last week. Mrs. Bogan is the
charming sister of Mrs. Samuel Ar
nold and Mr. Bogan, a conductor on
the Burlington and one of the popular
young men of this city. They will
make their home in O’Neill on their
return. The P’rontier joins their
many friends in extending to them
best wishes for a long, happy and
prosperous wedded life.
Moore-O’Donnell.
Miss Mable Moore and Mr. John
O’Donnell, both of Inman, were united
in marriage at St. Patrick’s church,
last Thursday morning, tne Reverend
Father M. F. Cassidy officiating. The
bride was attended by her sister, Miss
Hattie Moore, and the groom by Mr.
James Gallagher. Following the cere
mony a wedding breakfast was served
at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Pat
rick O’Donnell. After an eastern trip
Mr. and Mrs. O’Donnell will reside
upon the Ryan ranch, east of Inman.
The bride is the charming daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Moore, of Inman,
and the groom is one of the Inman
neighborhood leading and popular
young men. The Frontier joins their
many friends in best wishes for a
prosperous and happy future.
Hayes-O’Connell.
Miss Anna L. Hayes, of Topeka,
Kansas, and Mr. Frank O’Connell Jr.,
of O’Neill, were united in marriage at
Topeka, Monday of this week. Mrs.
O’Connell is one of the most bewitch
ing of Topeka’s fair daughters and
was prominently identified with war
relief work. Mr. O’Connell, one of
the proprietors of the Grand Cafe,
one of the city’s leading and most
likeable young business men, needs no
no introduction to the readers of The
Frontier. The wedding is the culmi
nation of a delightful war romance,
the* young couple meeting while Ser
geant O’Connell was stationed at
Camp Funston and at which place the
bride was engaged in war work. The
Frontier joins in welcoming Mrs.
O’Connell to O’Neill and in extending
congratulations and best wishes to
the happy couple. Mr. and Mrs.
O’Connell will be at home in O’Neill
after a short trip and visit with Kan
sas City and other relatives.
Entertain For Returned Soldiers and
Sailors.
The ladies of St. Patrick’s church
entertained Monday evening, at a sup
per and dance, for returned soldiers
and sailors. The banquet, served in
the spacious dining room-of the Gol
den hotel at 7 o’clock p. m., comprised
all of the delicacies the ladies know so
well how to prepare and at the con
clusion of the repast a movie enter
tainment was given at the K. C. opera
house. Following the movies came
the dance, with music by the Twenti
eth Century orchestra, attended by
the youth and beauty of the city to
meet and greet the returned heroes.
At midnight luncheon again was served
at the Golden hotel and dancing then
was resumed until a late hour. The
event was most pleasant and will be
long remembered by the guests of
honor and those others in attendance.
Ostenberg-Campbell.
The society columns of the Omaha
Bee contain the following announce
ment of the marriage of Miss Kathryn
Ostenberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William Henry Ostenberg, and Mr.
Walter M. Campbell, of this city, in
Omaha, Monday afternoon.
“A pretty home wedding took place
Monday afternoon when Miss Kathryn
Ostenberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William Henry Ostenberg, became the
bride of Walter M. Campbell. Rev. A.
J. Mathews read the marriage lines.
“Miss Gretchen Allen was the
bride’s only attendant and Dr. J. A.
Borghoff was best man.
“The bride, who • is a very attract
ive young woman, wore a smart after
noon gown of blue tricolette and a
corsage boquet of roses and violets.
“The young couple will make their
home at the Fontenelle. Mrs. Camp
bell is a graduate of the Mount Ida
school in Boston and the bride-groom
was graduated from Creighton uni
versity.”
The Frontier joins the many friends
of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell in extend
ing congratulations and best wishes
for a happy wedded life.
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Maeterlincks'THE BLUE BIRD” ” I
An ARTCEAFT Picture J
At Royal Theatre, Monday, March I0|