VOLUME LI. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1931 No. 45
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j THE INSPECTION BUREAU
MAKES PRELIMINARY REPORT
W. H. Baldwin, engineer for the
Nebraska Inspection Bureau, was in
O'Neill on Wednesday of last week;
he inspected the water system of
O’Neill as well as the fire fighting
equipment.
Mr. Baldwin made a preliminary
report of his findings to Fire Chief
Gerald Miles, in which he gives a
i number of reasons why O’Neill could
better her fire protection conditions
and thereby lower the insurance rates
, in O’Neill. A brief outline of the pre
liminary report in substance is as
; follows:
Keep more water in the standpipe.
Keep the pump house clean.
Increase the personnel of the fire
J department to fifteen or twenty men.
Have the fire department drill once
: each month.
i Have the fire department inspect
;the buildings of the town and keep an
accurate record of the findings.
By purchasing a 500-gallon per
| minute capacity pumper truck and
retain the oud truck in good condi
j t ion to be used in answering calls.
Have the night watchman on duty
; until six o’colck a. m.
Nothing less than a 50 gal. pump
er will be satisfactory to the Bureau;
they also recommend that a 000-gal.
pumper be purchased instead of the
! 500 gal. size.
If the city complies with the above
requirements the insurance rates
would be lowered as follows: On
brick buildings 6%, contents \%\
frame buildings 5*'<, contents 5r/e.
The total premiums, according to Mr.
Baldwin, would be reduced about
$500.
The above recommendations by the
inspection bureau can easily be fol
lowed providing the citizens vote for
j the pumper truck. The pumper will
be purchased for the benefit of the
! entire community. The firemen are
leafly not benefitted by having a new
I truck but by having the new truck
they can get to a fire quicker and can
do more efficient work after they ar
| live at the fire. No one wants a fire
I but when a fire breaks out everyone
wants to use everything available to
stop the destruction—that’s why the
! firemen are asking you to furnish
them a pumper so that they can pro
! tect your property.
A REAL BLIZZARD RAGED
OVER THS TERRITORY
As we went to press last week a
regular old fashioned blizzard was
going almost full blast over Nebras
ka. The storm lasted Thursday
afternoon and Friday; no great
amount of snow fell in this vicinity
but the three or four inches that did
fall piled up along the roads and fen
ces and traffic was not very good on
the side roads.
The western and •southwestern
part of the state received much more
snow. Colorado and the western
states were also covered by a heavy
blanket of snow.
The storm abated somewhat as it
progressed eastward; in Omaha and
over Iowa the snow turned to sleet
and rain, which made the pavements
dangerous for travel.
POSEY Me KIM NAMED ONE
OF GREAT MEN OF U. S.
Holt county has one of the four
great men of the United States. This
fact was brought out in the Civics
class conducted by Miss Dorothy
Tomlinson, teacher in school district
No. 9(5 in the northeastern part of
the county, recently.
Miss Tomlinson bad given the class
a list of questions to write upon, one
of which was “Name the four great
Men of the United States.”
Three of the members of the class
of ten named President Herbert
Hoover, Commander Byrd, Henry
Ford and Posey McKim.
The many friends of Posey, who is
supervisor of District No. 2, in which
School District No. 9(3 is located, are
congratulating Mr. McKim.
JAMES B. MEYERS TAKEN
IN PROHIBITION SEARCH
James B. Meyers was brought into
county court this morning on the
complaint of George Bay, federal
law enforcement officer, charging him
with the possession of a still, mash
and a quantity of intoxicating liquor.
The search was made by Officer
Bay accompanied by Constable Hank
Tomlinson who served the papers on
March 20, 1931.
Meyers waived preliminary hear
ing and was bound over to the Dis
trict Court under $900 bonds, which
he furnished.
Meyers resides on the Paul Kottke
farm, two miles north and six miles
1 east of O’Neill.
MISS EVA HARMON RESIGNS;
WILL BECOME A BRIDE
Miss Eva Harmon Tuesday resign
I ed her position as deputy county
clerk and departed the following
morning for M e G r e w, Nebraska,
where in a few days she will become
ithe bride of Maurice Morton, who is
; managing a retail store in that city.
M iss Harmon taught school sev
eral terms at McGrew and is well
i known throughout that community.
The best wishes of her O’Neill
1 friends go with Miss Eva.
COUNTY TREASURSR CONKLIN
PAYS OFF TWO MORE BONDS
County Treasurer Conklin informs
the Frontier that Wednesday he paid
off two more of the O’Neill Public
bonds in the sum of $2,000. There are
only two more bonds of $1,000 each
outstanding of the $50,000 bond issue
given for the erection of the present
school building.
HOLT COUNTY CAR NUMBER
FEATURE IN ROBBERY
j Early Tuesday morning the sheriff
of Sheridan county phoned to Sheriff
j Duffy in O’Neill advising him that
: he was holding a truck at Gordon,
j Nebraska, with Holt county license
I plate No. 36—364, stating also that
j the night watchman had frustrated
' a party who evidently was stealing a
truck load of hogs from the stock
yards at Gordon about two o’clock
that morning.
Sheriff Duffy found that the license
number belonged to Mort Gill of Stu
art, and had been stolen from him on
the night of March 24th.
Reports from Gordon Wednesday
brings the information that the fel
low who is supposed to have attempt
ed the theft was located at Crawford
and proved to be Win, Boyd, of Mar
tin, South Dakota, who formerly re
sided in Keya Paha county.
ORLOW CALDWELL TO
PEN EARLY NEXT WEEK
Orlow Caldwell will be taken to
the penitentiary at Lincoln, Nebras
ka, the first of the week, where he
will begin serving a sentence of two
to seven years for receiving stolen
property. He plead guilty and was
sentenced for the crime some time
during the latter part of February.
Caldwell was the cache for the
stolen harness for which Williamson
and Rost recently plead guilty of
stealing from Roche and Kohler J in
February.
No arrangements have yet been
made for the admittance of Rost and
Williamsonto the reformatory; they
each have one year to serve.
CLIFFORD WISEMAN
GRANTED NEW TRI|L
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The application for a new trial
Clifford Wiseman was before District
Judge R. R. Dickson in district court
| Wednesday morning. The Judge
granted Wiseman a new trial without
argument because of the fact that
Harold Williamson and Glenn Rost
plefld guilty to the offense for which
Wiseman was charged and fully ex
onerated Wiseman, claiming that
Wiseman was not with them when
the offense was committed.
Wiseman was found guilty of burg
lary by a jury, of a set of harness
from the barn of Ed Roche, who re
sides about thirteen miles east of
O’Neill, on the night of February 13,
last.
The case has been mentioned
through the columns of The Frontier
a number of times during the past
few weeks and perhaps the readers
are thoroughly familiar with the de
tails but for the benefit of those who
have not read the account of the case
from time to time we will say that
on the night of February 14th, 1931,
Deputy Sheriff Bergstrom, in com
pany with a sheriff from W’inner,
South Dakota, followed some clews
that led them to the farm1 home of
Orlow (Bud) Caldwell, who resides
near the Niobrara river one mile east
of the Whiting bridge north of
O’Neill, where they found six sets of
harness, five of which were concealed
in the hay mow of his barn. The har
ness was brought to O’Neill the fol
lowing day by the Sheriff; Caldwell
made the statement that he purchas
ed the harness from Clifford Wise
man and Harold Williamson; the boys
were brought to O’Neill and placed
in jail; at the preliminary hearing
they were bound over to the district
court.
ihe harness that was found at the
Caldwell farm was claimed by Ed
Roche, Charles Kohler, residing east
of O’Neill, E. O. Edminsten, of Knox
county, near Middle Branch, and two
parties from near Royal, Nebraska;
one set was claimed to belong to par
ties near Winner, South Dakota.
Following the conviction of Wise
man on one count, Harold Williamson
voluntarily appeared in court and
plead guilty to the charge. A few
days later Glenn Rost came into
court voluntarily and plead guilty to
the theft of the harness stolen in
Holt county and fully exonerated
Wiseman, as did also Williamson.
This is one of the most .peculiar
cases that has ever come before the
couits of Holt county. Here is a
young man proven guilty of the theft
of a set of harness; a jury of twelve
men of the county brought in a ver
dict of guilty and found that the val
ue of the harness stolen during the
burglary was $30.00; Bud Caldwell
testified in district court under oath
'hat he purchased the harness from
Wiseman; Williamson makes a vol
untary confession that he stole the
harness, not Wiseman; then Glenn
Rost comes into court and says that
all the evidence taken at the trial of
Wiseman is wrong and that he and
Williamson, not Wiseman, stole the
harness.
The case against Wiseman has not
yet been dismissed but if additional
ev idence is not discovered the case
will no doubt be dismissed. Wiseman
is still in jail at O’Neill iij default of
a $1000 bond.