The Frontier.
VOLUME LI. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1930 No. 16
The eighth annual session of the
Nebraska division of the Izaak Wal
ton League of America will convene
in O’Neill Friday morning at 9:00
o’clock in the K. C. opera house, for
a three day session.
President Dr. C. H. Lubker and
Secretary George M. Harrington of
the local chapter and their corps of
committees have been busy this week
arranging the final details for the
entertainment of the delegates from
the various chapters over the state.
A large number of delegates have
already declared their intention to
be present at the opening session and
it is expected that this will be the
largest and best convention ever
held in the state by the Waltonians.
Miss Mildred Malone, secretary of
the state organization, has been noti
fied that Congressman Robert G.
Simmons will not be able to be at
the convention this year as advertis
ed; his place will be filled by Gen
eral Manager of the Izaak Walton
League of America, M. K. Reckord,
who is on the program for an ad
dress at the banquet, Saturday even
ing; Congressman Edgar Howard, of
Columbus, will deliver an address at
the banquet, taking the place of Mr.
Reckord.
Reardon Sisters will sing a duet
Saturday afternoon instead of Fri
day afternoon as appears on the pro
gram, and Miss Amolia Merrill will
sing Friday afternoon instead of
Saturday afternoon.
The seining crew will be unable to
be here this year. They are adver
tised to put on a demonstration Sun
day afternoon but owing to the fact
that they will be detained in the east
ern part of the state, no demonstra
tion will be made.
The trap shoot has been turned
over to the O’Neill Gun Club who
will conduct the shoot. Numerous
expensive prizes have been hung up
and it is expected that there will be
a large entry.
The store windows are being ap
propriately decorated for the occa
i sion. Several of the windows con
tain reproductions of scenes that are
worthy of special mention, which will
be made next week.
Following is the bulletin sent out
by Miss Mildred Malone, state secre
tary; it is seemingly appropriate for
publication in The Frontier at this
time:
THE WATER SUPPLY
OF HOLT COUNTY
O’Neill will entertain Waltonians
from all parts of Nebraska on Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday of this
week. The Nebraska Division of the
Izaak Walton League in America
could have chosen no better place to
hold the 1930 convention than in Holt
county.
Holt county, with an area of 2400
square miles, is more abundantly sup
plied with living water, both upon
the surface and underneath than any
other section of the same size in Ne
braska. In the north one-half there
are approximately 150 miles of
spring-fed streams, unaffected b y
drought periods. Many of these
streams flow clear and cold all
through the summer season and re
main open during the most severe
winter weather. Near the headwat
ers of these streams are hundreds of
springs bubbling forth from gravel
beds, never varying in volume. Many
of the springs afford a volume suffi
cient to form small brooks in which
% trout live and thrive. The larger
streams into which the brooks empty
have a maximum temperature low
enough during the hot season to pro
vide ideal homes for trout of the sev
eral species common t o mountain
streams.
Besides the cold water streams, 17
in number, there are the Elkhorn
rivers north and soath branches, Holt
Creek, Cache Creek and the head
waters of Clearwater Creek. These
creeks and rivers together form 150
miles of running water, making a to
tal of 300 miles of running water in
the county.
In the south half of the county ar
tesian water is found at a depth
varying from 60 to 100 feet. In many
sections, near Goose Lake, Amelia,
Chambers, south of Stuart, Newport
and in other localities, the flows are
heavy and constant. There have been
scores of artificial lakes created and
fed from the flows, in which many
kinds of game fish are grown. Own
ers of these larger flows are yearly
averaging to the numbers of pounds
and fish industry is fast becoming a
feature with them instead of t>he in
cident it has been in the past.
In the north half of the county,
where trout waters are plentiful, a
growing interest is being manifested
among farmers and ranchmen to
wards a system whereby the streams
may be stocked with fingerling trout
which soon grow to table size. Nur
sery or rearing ponds have been
made at springs near the better
streams and the 1930 trout of finger
ling will no doubt warrant the build
ing of many more nurseries. In no
other streams of the west is food so
abundant as in those of north Holt.
Fresh water shrimp, one of the best
kinds of food for growing trout, are
so plentiful that the young fish sel
dom resort to surface feeding. Along
the streams grasshoppers and other
insects are so plentiful that the lar
ger trout never lack for a square
meal. Rainbow trout do especially
well in these waters and many have
been taken during the past season
that have measured 15 inches in
length.
mere is not tne least aouot tnat
the several miles of trout streams
can be made to supply thousands of
dollars worth of fish food every year
if the head waters are plentifully
stocked with fingerlings each fall. In
the neighboring state of Colorado,
vast sums are expended each year
to supply stock for the trout streams.
The young trout have to be fed arti
ficially and when released into wild
waters are unacquainted with ways
to get their food naturally. Here the
trout learn from the fry stage to
shift for themselves and find no
trouble to fill their stomachs in their
new homes. Artificial feeding makes
trout tame and thus many undersize
fish are taken at the opening of the
season. Young trout who have plen
ty of natural food in the ponds re
main wild and are not prone to lin
ger in open pools and strike at every
lure offered. While it is necessary
to first consider the means of stock
ing Holt county’s trout streams, the
work should be extended further.
Sanctuaries should be provided where
natural retreats have been destroyed
by cattle. Sections of creeks flowing
through pastures may be fenced at
small expense and obstructions of
different kinds fixed in the beds of
streams to form deep holes and dark
places. There will be no lack of co
operation on the part of citizens' and
land owners when it# is once shown
that these splendid trout waters may
be made abundantly productive of
the finest fish food nature has to of-;
fer hungry mortals.
ROYAL BASS HATCHERY
WAS SEINED LAST WEEK
The state seining cre\v completed
the w'ork of taking the 1930 crop of
fingerling bass from the Royal pond
last week. From twenty-three spawn
ers placed in the pond last April,
10,650 four-inch bass were taken and
planted in waters near Clearw'ater
and Ewing. This pond was built by
the comission late in 1929, this being j
the first hatch. The water area of
the pond is about 1 % acres, and is |
fed from a small trout nursery pond j
which gets its supply from a spring.
The commercial value of the bass
planted is estimated at $400. After;
the spaw'ners were placed in the pond j
no further expense wras had except ■
the cost of seining. Disti'ibution was j
made by sportsmen at the towrns
where the fish w'ere planted.
NEBRASKA GAME PROP
ERTY WORTH $478,000
(Omaha Bee)
Nebraska properties under the di
rection of the state game and fores
tation commission have a physical
valuation of $478,000, State Game
Warden O’Connell said Wednesday
in completing an inventory for the
state auditor.
Included in the holdings are four
hatcheries, one distributing plant,
four parks and 25 nurseries of rec
reation grounds and lakes.
Of the total, about $250,000 worth
of property was the accumulation of
years, while the rest has been ac
quired within the past 18 months or
since the commission was formed.
THE HOLT COUNTY FAIR
DRAWS GOOD ATTENDANCE
The Holt County Fair was very
well attended this year considering
the fact that no expensive program
was advertised; the exhibits were
very good in all departments, which
was a surprise to many who thought
that Holt county was entirely dried
up; the exhibit halls showed that the
farmers are taking an interest in
making the Holt county fair the suc
cess that it should be.
The entertainment part of the fair
was also good; the running races
were confined to Holt county horses;
they were all interesting events.
The baseball game Wednesday be
tween Chambers and Redbird result
ed in a victory for Redbird by a score
of 3 to 4.
The ball game Thursday between
Bloomfield and Creighton resulted in
a victory of 6 to 14 in favor of Crei
ghton.
The game Friday between Stuart
and Atkinson proved to be a good
one; Stuart won by a score of 3 to 1.
The free attraction advertised to
appear did not arrive but the substi
tute was very good.
The Ted North Players, under the
management of Arthur Kelly, com
edian, presented a week’s repertoire
of their excellent plays. One of the
attractions which caused much inter
est was the hypnotic act of hypnotiz
ing a girl and burying her in a grave
in front of the tent for forty-eight
hours; an electric light was placed in
the grave and a charge was made to
view the girl; she was awakened on
the stage Friday evening.
Those who attended the fair this
! year were well pleased with the en
i tertainment accorded them and many
I expressed themselves as being sur
prised that there was as much good
corn and other crops scattered over
the county this year.
PAVING BONDS AND IN
CREASED TAX ENDORSED
(Norfolk News)
Men interested in Nebraska’s high
way construction program from a
score or more northeast Nebraska
towns, many of them as far distant
as O’Neill, Albion and other points,
convened at Hotel Norfolk Tuesday
evening and went on record as favor
ing an increase in the present state
gasoline tax from 4 to 5 cents, to
care for immediate needs, and as
favoring a change in the state con
stitution which would permit the vot
ing of highway paving bonds.
This action came spontaneously on
motion of Frank Warner after the
audience had heard State Engineer
Roy Cochran and Ed H. Polley of
Lincoln discuss the highway situa
tion in this state. Mr. Polley is sec
retary of the Nebraska Good Roads
association which arranged for the
meeting here.
It was announced early in the
evening that the Norfolk meeting was
one of half a dozen to be held in var
ious parts of the state prior to the
state meeting of the Nebraska Good
Roads association which will be held
Wednesday, October 8th, at Grand
Island. It is the purpose of these
meetings to obtain an idea of what
the people of Nebraska want as a
highway program.
Then at the Grand Island conven
tion a definite, comprehensive pro
gram will be worked out which will
be presented to the next legislature
by the Nebraska Good Roads asso
ciation and which the association
will actively sponsor before that
body.
Those attending the meeting from
O’Neill were: S. J. Weekes, D. H.
Clauson, J. F. O’Donnell, Roy Griffin,
Fred McNally, Martin Bazelman, J.
J. McDermott, Henry Schacht, R. R.
Dickson, J. B. Mellor, C. C. Millard
and C. E. Stout.
O’NEILL MAN FOUGHT IN
BIG CHICAGO FIRE OF 1871
(Sioux City Journal)
James “Slivers” Trigg, almost to
his 76th milestone, O’Neill resident
for 46 years, counts among his cher
ished memories of an uncommonly
eventful life the harrowing scenes of
a great city burning from the map
and a pell-mell dash to render aid to
a Chicago that went up in smoke
after Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over
a lantern.
Mr. Trigg was a paid fireman in
Michigan City, Ind. The great blaze
started October 8, 1871. A week lat
er came a call for help. Mr. Trigg,
with others, fought the flames until
exhaustion sent them home. Water
was pumped out of Lake Michigan.
Standpipes, water mains and hy
drants then were unknown or inade
quate, and the lake pumping method
proved so successful a failure engin
eers evolved the fire fighting sys
tems now in use.
This man came to O’Neill in com
pany with his brother, George. The
brother went to the western coast 20
years ago and died there a few years
later. George helped to build thous
ands of box cars and “Slivers” ap
plied the paint when the carpenter
had packed his tools.
Mr. Trigg makes his home with Ed
Peterson, in O’Neill. The two keep
house in a large two-story residence
wherein floors, woodwork, dishes and
lace curtains are kept as immaculate
as any woman could keep them.
LEVI YANTZI SEDAN
STOLEN FRIDAY NIGHT
The Chevrolet sedan belonging to
Levi Yantzi of this city was stolen
from the fair grounds last Friday
evening during the Ted North show.
The following morning Jack Arbuth
not and Alva Winchell, employees at
the Cherolet garage, left O’Neill
quite early on an auto trip to the
Black Hills and points west; they
stopped in Bassett for a short time
and while there discovered the Yant
zi car on the street; they notified the
Rock county sheriff who took the
car and arrested a fellow who gave
his name as Richard Birdsell, for the
theft. Sheriff Duffy went to Bassett
Saturday afternoon and brought the
young man to O’Neill; he was ar
raigned that day before Judge Dick
son where he plead guilty and was
given a sentence of from twelve to
eighteen months in the reformatory
at Lincoln.
The lad is not yet eighteen years
of age. He claims that his parents
are dead and that his grandmother
resides at Miles City, Montana. He
told tshe judge that he was enroute
to Montana from New York City; he
arrived here Friday.
The sheriff expects to take him to
Lincoln in the near future.
LOCAL NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Murray, of
Lynch, Nebraska were guests at the
home of the latter’s mother, Mrs.
Anna Harrington, last week; they
also visited the Holt county fair
while here.
M. J. Matthews, accompanied by
his son John and daughters, Miss
Mary and Miss Margaret, aeturned
to their home at Isabel, South Dako
ta They had been guests of their
mother and grandmother, Mrs. C.
Matthews and other relatives for ten
days.
F. E. Cowden, of Riverton, Iowa,
was in O'Neill, Wednesday looking
after his ranch interests southwest
of the city.
The northern part of the county
received a good rain Monday after
noon; the extreme northern part of
the county received some of the tor
rential downpour that visited the
western part of Boyd county Satur
day night; six to eight inches of rain
was reported to have fallen between
Spencer and Butte; the Ponca creek
was out of its banks and the high
way near Lynch was impassible. An
other rain fell over the same terri
tory Sunday morning.
W. B. COOPER, CHAMBERS,
SUFFERS INJURY TO EYE
While carrying a couple of pails of
milk to the calves in the barn yard,
W. B. Cooper, residing a short dis
tance northwest of Chambers, Neb.,
stumbled and fell in such a way that
the stem of his pipe punctured the
eyelid above the eyeball and pene
trated for a considerable distance;
he was brought to the office of Gillig
an & Brown that evening where the
injury was dressed. It is thought
that the sight of the eye will not be
injured unless complications de
velope.
Welcome
To The
State Convention
Nebraska Division
Izaak Walton League
of America
May Your Convention Be a
Successful One
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