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VOLUME XLII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 13,1922. NO.%6.
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JUDGE KINKAID WAS
AGED SEVENTY-TWO
The much mooted and oft discussed
question of the age of Judge Moses P.
Kinkaid, on which subject the judge
J* was reticent, was established by his
nephews on their visit to this city.
Judge Kinkaid was 72 years old, be
ing born a twin in 1850. His twin
sister, now dead, was the mother of
J. H. States of Kansas City and D. O.
and J. K. States of Buffalo, Kansas,
the nephews attending the funeral.
CONGRESSMAN KINKAID
BUT MODERATELY WEALTHY
* Congressman) Moses P. Kinkaid was
not an extremely wealthy man. An
estimate of his wealth by the heirs
and close personal friends conversant
with his affairs place his possessions
at from $150,000 to a quarter of a
million dollars, between thirty and
forty thousand dollars of which was
in Liberty bonds. The judge is known
to have held varied investment securi
ties, but the bulk of the estate'ap
parently is in land scattered in
various sections of the United States.
Petition was filed by the heirs in the
county court Tuesday asking the ap
pointment of S. J. Weekes as adminis
trator. Until the executor is ap
pointed and the judge’s private safe
in his office here and a safety deposit
box in Washington are opened by the
administrator or his official repre
sentatives it will not be known
whether the dead congressman left a
will. Among the effects in his office
here a pencil sketch of a contemplated
will was found. It had been made
within the last three years and stated
in its body that it was the first will
and testament ever made by the judge.
This unofficial document provides be
quests for the Presbyterian church of
O’Neill and the local I. jO. O. <F.
Whether or not the document later
was reduced to legal form and execu
ted is not known. The judge within
the last year however dictated and
had prepared several wills, but later
destroyed, each one of them before
having attested and executed. Some
friends are of the opinion that he left
no will, but the heirs are confident that
one will be found when the safe and
safety deposit box are opened.
ROCK FALLS TOWNSHIP
HAS AN OIL SCARE
Rock Falls township is somewhat
worked up over an indication that the
township is right in an oil dome, with
the ranch of Will Grutch in the center
of the blame thing. Soil from the
Grutch ranch burns freely when
lighted with an ordinary match and
the flame give off a very oily odor.
The inflammable nature of, the soil
was discovered recently while Mr.
Grutch was plowing, close to the farm
buildings and dropped a lighted match.
The soil immediately took fire, burn
ing with a brilliant blaze. Samples
of the combustible earth are on ex
hibition at the Horiskey grocery
store. Some of those who have ex
perimented with it believe it to be
peat.
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Profits, $150,000.00.
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MOSES P. KINKAID
IS LAID TO REST
Thousands from the Sixth Congres
sional district and many from other
sections of Nebraska and from distant
states mourned at the bier of Con
gressman Moses P. Kinkaid Monday,
and followed the body from the
Knights of Columbus hall, where the
final funeral services were held, to his
last resting place in Prospect Hill
cemetery. The number of those who
came to pay their last tribute of re
spect and love exceeded that of any
other like assemblage ever in O’Neill.
A cloudy day, with squalls of rain
caused an eleventh hour change of
plans for a funeral serice in the open
air, that all might see and hear, and
the service was held in the large
Knights of Columbus auditorium,
where the dead congressman had lain
in state since the arrival of the
funeral party in the city Sunday after
noon.
Men and women of all walks of life,
many of them aged pioneers of west
ern Nebraska, were in the multitude.
United State Senator George W. Nor
ris represented the senate at the ob
sequies and the congressional delega
tion consisted of Congressmen Raker
of California, Smith of Idaho, Hayden
of Arizona, Timberlake and Vaile of
Colorado, King of Kinkaid’s old home
district in Illinois and Congressman
A. W. Jefferis, Evans and McLaugh
lin of Nebraska. Senator GilberttM.
Hitchcock and Congressman Andrews
cf Nebraska, were unable to be pres
ent, but beautiful floral offerings were
evidences of their feelings for their
colleague.
Four nephews, Jack Kinkaid of Los
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Angeles, California, J. II. States ol
Kansas City, Mo., D. O. States and J
K. States of Buffalo, Kansas, were th<
only immediate relatives in attend
ance. The States brothers arrived
Sunday night and Jack Kinkaid met
at Columbus, which place he reached
early Monday morning on the Unior
Pacific, by J. B. Mellor and Edward
Gatz in an automobile reached here
Monday morning at 8 o’clock.
Crawford Kennedy, boyhood and
lifelong friend of Judge Kinkaid,
Lawrence Malone his secretary and
A. R. Humphrey, clerk of the house
committee on irrigation were members
of the congressional escort of honor.
" The funeral services were under
Masonic auspices, with Grand Senior
Warden Robert R. Dickson of the Ne
braska lodge presiding as acting
worshipful master. Masonic dele
gations from many lodges in the dis
trict were in attendance.
Banked about the casket, on the
lostrum and at the grave were beau
tiful floral offerings, many of them
bearing inscriptions of entire towns
and counties instead of individuals
While the services were going on an
airplane strewed dowers and roses ovei
and around the hall and on the hearse
the tribute of the citizens of Atkinson
“Thou shalt be missed because th>
seat will be empy,” 1st Samuel, 20tl
chapter, 18th verse, was the text oi
the funeral sermon of the Rev. Georgi
Longstaff of the F^irst Presbyterian
church, Judge Kinkaid’s pastor. Ii
likewise was the theme of eulogies bj
Senator Norris for the senate, Con
gressman Raker of California for thi
house of representatives and by Con
gressman Jefferis for the Nebraska
congressional delegation.
A special octette from the Presby
terian choir, under the direction of
Mrs. George Longstaff, rendered the
solemn and beautiful music and an
thems. Mrs. Frank Lancaster was the
pianist. The Rev. J. A. Hutchins of
the Methodist church pronounced the
rrayer. The pall bearers were mem
bers of the local Masonic lodge and
th honorary pall bearers of the blue
lodge.
All of the speakers paid eloquent
tribute to the long public life and
service of Congressman Kinkaid, to
his unselfish devotion to the cause of
every individual in his district and
to his untiring interest in the welfare
not alone of his district but of the
state and of the nation. His work to
improve the arid lands of the country
endeared him as much to the people
of Arizona, New Mexico, California
end other state as to those of his own
district, Congressman Raker said.
Following the funeral sermon and
the eulogies, the Masons concluded
lhe rites at the hall, and at the cem
Golfers not in good form need not
expect the best caddy service from Joe
Ryan. Recently Joe was officiating
for James A. Donohoe, who sliced a
drive off the course. “Go get it Joe,”
Mr. Donohoe requested. “Go get it
yourself, you knocked it there,” re
plied Joe with intonation of scorn at
the bum shot, and Mr. Donohoe, prop
erly rebuked, complied.
The fleet of fishing smacks under
command of Admiral Zeb Warner and
captained respectively by James and
Jack Davidson, Ed. Peterson, Ed.
Burge and James Davis returned Sat
urday night after a week’s cruise in
Cherry county. The fleet did most of
its maneuvering on Mr.rsh kke and in
the vicinity of the “21” ranch and an
excellent catch of bass and perch is
reported.
eterf only the rites of the Masonic
fraternity were carried out.
Immediately after the funeral, the
congressional delegation returned or
its special car toward Washington anc
the delegations from Western Nebras
ka departed homeward on the late
afternoon and night trains.
The eulogies at the funeral service
of Judge Kinkaid, delivered by the
very prominent men of both the greal
pcditical pa'rties and representing
widely separated sections of the
country, were spoken from the heart
These utterances, the tributes paic
him by other notables in the columns
of the press and the editorial com
mendations carried in all of the bip
newspapers of the country regardless
of party affiliation testified to the
true greatness, the integrity and the
lovableness of Moses P. Kinkaid ane
that he will be missed almost as mucl
by those of all sections of the greai
central and extreme west as by his
friends and neighbors of more that
forty years in O’Neill, Holt countj
and the Sixth Congressional district
to whom his life is an example te
emulate and his deeds a monument
Mr. and Mrs. William Biglin am
daughters, Ruth Ann and Rose Mary
returned last week from Jackson, Ne
braska, where Mrs. Biglin and daugh
ters had been visiting relatives fo
several weeks.
W. W. Bethea spent Tuesday morn
ing in the city in the interest of hi
candidacy for the republican nomina
tion for state senator, leaving in th
afternoon for Brown, Rock and Key.
Paha counties. He was accompanie
by Mrs. Bethea.
O’Neill now has a radio telephone
with Harry Clauson as the fovtunat
owner. The outfit, which has a rang
from coast to coast, arrived the othe
day and now is being installed at th
Hotel Golden. It will be ready fei
operation in a few dc.ys.
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GUN TOTING NO
LONGER GOOD FORM
Gun toting no longer is good form
in the Fifteenth judicial district. A
pocket gat is a pass key to the peni
tentiary if the owner ever goes before
Judge Robert R. Dickson. John H.
Hoff Tuesday afternoon was sentenced
to the state penitentiary for eighteen
months for carrying a pisol. Hoff
shot and killed George Purnell, of At
kinson, August 19, 1914, in a quarrel
over a bottle of whiskey. On his plea
of guilty, in the district court, at that
time, he was given an indeterminate
sentence of from one to ten years in
the penitentiary by Judge Dickson.
The state authorities permitted him to
stay at the prison for fifteen months
before they turned him out on parole.
At the time of his incarcertaion Hoff
is said to have threatened his wife,
that if she ever married again he
would kill both her and her new hus
band. Recently Hoff, who has been
working for the Western Bridge com
pany in Brown county, learned that
Mrs, Hoff was keeping company with
Herbert Bittney, then of Long Pine.
He wrote her that he contemplated
smoking Bittney up just as soon as he
met up with him. Bittney later re
moved to Atkinson, where Mrs. Hoff
resides. Monday Hoff came down to
Atkinson fully equipped to carry out
his promise and went to the home of
Mrs. Hoff. The woman not being at
home he concealed himself in the!
house to await her return, but after
awhile tired of the vigil and inquired
of neighbors where she was, and
learned that she was in Sioux City on
a visit but was expected home that
night. He confided to several geigh
bers and acquaintances the purpose of
his visit was to end the earthly
careers of both Mrs. Hoff and Mr.
Bittney. Hoff at once was taken into
custody and was found to be armed.
He waived preliminary hearing before
Judge Siinar at Atkinson Tuesday
afternoon and at once was brought to
O’Neill, where he pleaded guilty be
fore Judge Dickson to the charge, and
drew the sentence mentioned, said to
be the heaviest ever inflietd in the
state for the offense. If the same
ratio of service to sentence still pre
vails that did when Mr. Hoff visited
the penitentiary before he will have to
stay behind the bars two and one
quarter months before the pardon
board releases him. Just when Hoff
will get to Lincoln is problematic.
Sheriff Duffy Wednesday called up
Warden Fenton and was informed that
ihe prison is full, with many candi
lates on the waiting list. ^
>iM AHA WAR VET KILLED
BY AUTO AT CANBY, MINN.
World Herald, July 7.—Edward
Barnabas Welton, 29, who made his
>ome in Omaha the past ten years and
who had many personal friends here,
was instantly killed in an automobile
(evident north of Canby, Minn., sev
ral days ago. He was the second son
>f Mr. and Mrs. John H. Welton, and
was born at O’Neill, November 28,
1893.
For more than twenty ypara his
lather has published the Hooker
County Tribune at Mullen, from which
place the young man came to Omaha.
The young man was a world war vet
l ran. He went into training at Camp
Fhnston with a contingent from
Douglas county, and was later trans
ferred to Fort Sam Houston, Tex.,
where he served with the motor
transport corps as bugler He was
with the One Hundred and Fourth
regiment of the transport corps di
vision when discharged.
Surviving him are his wife, his
father, John H. Welton, a brother,
Ross, his grandmother, Mrs. A. A.
Welton of O’Neill, Neb., and several
uncles and aunts, Mr. and Mrs. Ed.
H. Welton, residing near BurweUf
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Gunthrop, Plain
dew; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gaffer, Man
kato, Minn,; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd PH
rer, O’Neill; Mr. and Mrs. Charles R.
Welton, residing near Burwell; Frank
Welton and Mrs. Iva Dale of O’Neill.
The aged grandmother, Mrs. Dale,
Mrs. Pilger and Mrs. Ross Welton
were here to attend the funeral serv
ices.
FIRST NATIONAL OF
SPENCER CLOSED
The First National bank of Spencer,
me of the most prominent financial
institutions along the Winner line,
dosed its doors Thursday morning,
rhe bank had a capital stock of $100,
J00 and a surplus of $20,000. Re
rent statements of the bank showed
borrowed money to the amount of
four or five hundred thousand dollars.
Frank H. Woods of Spencer, was
president of the institution. Rumors
concerning the condition of the bank
have been in circulation for several
months.
Play Safe!
We offer the protection
of the
Depositor’s Guaranty Fund
of The State of Nebraska
for every',cent deposited
in this Bank.
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