Over the County
INMAN NEWS
Inman and community was visited
by u severe sand storm Friday.
Rev. Ci. L. Weik, of Osmond, is here
conducting revival meetings at the
M. E. church. Attendance is good and
interest is increasing each night. The
regular pastor, Rev. Mertie E. Clute,
also assists in the services.
Thomas Peacock, of Basset, has pur
chased the place just west of town
known as the Vargisun place. He will
move, with his family, onto the place
at once.
Mary Ellen Pinkerman, of O’Neill,
visited here the past week w'ith her
sister, Mrs. Robert Colmari.
The grade teachers, including Dorlin
Loekman, Miss Agnes Jensen and Miss
Carita Gifford, have been reelected for
another year. The high school posi
tions have yet to be filled.
Gerald E. Cress, of Mason City, la.,
visited here at the E. R. Riley home
Thursday and Friday. He is a nephew
of Mrs. Riley.
Mrs. Fred Downey and Mrs. Harry
Coffin and daughter, of Burwell, were
here visiting friends and looking
looking after business matters.
E. A. Stevens has been at Page the
past several days assisting in the care
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew
Stevens,
Leland Flora is on the sick list this
week.
Mrs. Elias Brombaugh is quite ill
at her home south of town. Mr. Brom
baugh is also very poorly. They are
both advanced in years and complete
recovery is doubtful.
Laurence Jones, high school coach,
spent the week-end at his home near
Chambers.
Mr. and Mrs. W. IL Clifford and
daughters, Glea Lee. and Zada Vey,
and Miss Ruth Killinger were up from
Wayne Sunday visiting at the George
Killinger home.
EMMET ITEMS
A corn-hog meeting was held in
Emmet Saturday for the purpose of
electing officers. About 45 farmers
attended the meeting. Fred Beckwith,
Henry Werner and Albert Stearns
wrere elected as the permanent corn
hog committee.
Walter and Ray Pease called at the
Crumley home northeast of O’Neill
last Sunday.
Dugal Allen returned home from the
Stuart hospital Friday.
John Luben returned to O’Neill Sun
day after spending the week-end with
his folks here.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Farr and
children visited at the Frank Sesler
home Sunday.
Joe Sesler spent the week-end with
Earl Farr near O’Neill.
Miss Eugenia Luben was an over
night guest of Miss Dorothy Sesler
Thursday evening.
Bob Allen trucked furniture to Nor
folk for Mr. and Mrs. Tikie Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sesler and Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Farr wee callers
in Stuart Sunday.
Miss Ella Prange, of Atkinson, spent
the week-end with Mrs. Lucille Lowery
Miss Tiny Welsh is employed at the
Jess Wells home this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Panchla were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Both
Sunday.
Ileinie Conard,, of Atkinson, was a
Sunday dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs.
John Lowery and family Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dallegge and
family, of Kimball county, were visit
ors at the Dallegge home in Emmet
Sunday.
Mr: and Mrs. Sam Banks and. child
ren called at the William Grothe home
Sunday.
A Mr. I.uth, of Evanston, Nebr., ar
rived here Thursday to make his home
here.
Doctor and Mrs. George. of Atkinson,
were business callers in Emmet Mon
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Roth and child
ren were Sunday dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Roth, Sunday.
Among those present from Emmet,
at the St. Patrick’s dance at Dance
land Saturday evening were the Misses
Dororthy Sesler and Thelma Dallegge,
and Ernie Wagner and John Dailey,
formerly of Emmet.
Paul Iloehne visited Saturday even
ing with Mr. and. Mrs. Bill Roth.
John Gaughenhaugh returned home
from Iowa, after a five weeks visit
with his brother there.
Grandpa Luben visited with Mr. and
Mrs. Hoppe north of Emmet Tuesday.
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AT
ATKINSON, NEBR.
EVERY TUESDAY
CATTLE - HORSES
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Monday Noon.
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PLEASANT DALE
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Ernst and
daughter visited Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Lorenz Sunday afternoon.
Henry Werner, Fred. Beckwith and
Albert Stearns were elected as the
permanent corn-hog committee for
Emmet and Pleasant View precincts
on Saturday, March 17.
Guy Beckwith purchased a quarter
of land last Tuesday. The land has
improvements and is five miles south
east of Emmet.
Billie Grothe expects to have early
fries this year. His oldest chicks
weigh a third of a pound..
Sam Hickman visited his daughter,
Mrs. Mary Beckwith, Thursday.
Mervin and Aladene Kee spent the
week-end at the home of their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Kee.
Mrs. Joe Winkler visited Mrs. Joe
Pongratz Sunday afternoon.
Henry Kloppenberg and some of the
children visited at the Joe Winkler
home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Beckwith enter
tained a group of relatives at a birth
day dinner Sunday in honor of Fred
Beckwith.
Harry Werner found another arrow
head, which adds nicely to his collec
tion.
MEEK ANI) VICINITY
A six pound baby was born to Rev.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stevens on
March 8 at their home at Orchard. At
last reports all concerned were doing
nicely. Rev. and Mrs. Stevens were
among us for several months last year.
He was the pastor at Paddock Union.
Roy Spindler sawed wood for Frank
Griffith on Wednesday and Thursday.
Others who helped with the wood saw
ing were Raymond Johnson and Elmer
Devall. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Spindler
helped Mrs. Griffith with the cooking.
Laverne Borg was an overnight
guest of Neva June Schelkpof on Tues
day.
Mrs. Harry Fox visited with Miss
Maggie Eggar on Friday.
In spite of the dust storm on Friday
night several attended choir practice
at the Orville Harrison home.
Mrs. Will Kaezor left on Monday
for a couple of weeks visit with rela
tives and friends at Akron, Iowa.
Mrs. Henry Walters and childien,
Florence, Lavone and Allen, and Mrs.
Virgil Hubby spent Saturday after
noon with Mrs. Howard Rouse.
Mrs. Albert Kaezor returned home
Saturday from several weeks visit at
the home of her daughter at Valpariso.
Mr. and Mrs. George Bay, of O’Neill,
called at the Gust Johnson home Satur
day afternoon.
Word was received here by Mrs.
Clyde Hull on Saturday of the death
of her brother, Levi Goodfellow, at
Malta, Mont. Levi grew to manhood
in this community and his many
freiends extend their sympathy to his
relatives, both here and. at their home
in Montana.
A large crowd gathered at the Pad
dock town hall Saturday afternoon
for the purpose of electing a commun
ity committee for the eorn-hog pro
gram. Those elected were A. L. Borg,
Frank Searles and Will Harvey.
Elmer Devall spent Sunday with the
home folks.
Mr. and Mr3. Oscar Lindberg and
daughter, Helen, of Page, were sup
per guests at the Frank Griffith home
on Sunday.
Rev. and Mrs. Dillon, of Long Pine,
were over-night guests at the Mariedy
Hubby home on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Borg and
daughters, Lavone and Helen, were
guests at the Sam Robertson home on
Sunday.
Stanley, the small son of Mr. and
Mrs. Blake Benson, who has been
seriously ill with pneumonia, is re
port to be slightly improved.
Mrs. Frank Nelson spent several
days last week visiting with Mrs. Os
car Lindberg of Page.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Griffith visited
at the Gust Johnson home on Sunday.
Arthur Rouse called at the Ralph
Young home Sunday afternoon.
Melvin Johring and Elmer Devall
called at the Gust Johnson home Sun
day afternoon.
Lois Jean and Ilene Robertson were
overnight guests of Laverne and Helen
Borg on Saturday.
Roland Marts, of Bassett, spent the
week end at the home of his sister,
Mrs. Mariedy Hubby.
The Dan Hansen family called at
[Lloyd Hartlnnd’s home Sunday after
noon and report Lloyd, who has been
quite ill for some time, to be slightly
improved,
Bonnie and Bruce Hubby, children of
Mr. and Mrs. Maridey Hubby who
have been ill for some time, are slight
ly better at this writing.
Word was received by Mrs, Lans
worth that a baby hoy was horn to Mr.
and Mrs. Rolwrt Lansworth at their
home near Omaha a few days ago.
Mother and balie are doing nicely and
Robert has gained an inch or so in
stature since the happy event.
Rev. and Mrs. Dillon were overnight
guests at the Erie Borg home on Sun
day.
C. I,. Benson of Norfolk, rnme up on
Sunday, bringing his son, Robert and
wife. The young people are moving
on the home place.
A nine pound baby boy was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Lorenz on last
Thursday. All concerned are doing
nicely. Mrs. Lorenz was formerly
Clara Ernst, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J .K. Ernst, of near Center Union.
Mrs. Fay Puckett was on the sick
list the first of the week.
Eherton Hayden, of Long Pine, Ar
thur Rouse, C. L. Benson and Carl
Smith, of Norfolk, spent Monday even
ing at Frank Griffith’s.
The Ralph Young family and Eher
ton Hayden spent Sunday evening at
the Guy Young home near Opportunity
In District Court
Elanora Brady has filed suit in the
district court against the Beatrice
Creamery company. This is an appeal
cane, appealing from the decision of
the compensation commissioner of the
state of Nebraska. She alleges in her
petition that her husband, J. O. Brady,
died in the Golden hotel at O'Neill on
June 19, 1933, and that his death was
caused by heat prostration and that it
grew out of and in the course of his
employment by the above named de
fendant. Brady was a traveling man
in the employ of the defendant. She
alleges that demand has been made on
the defendant and that defendant has
refused to pay any compensation, deny
ing any liability.
She alleges that she paid the funer
al expenses, including the expense of
taking the body from O’Neill to their
home at Columbus. She is claiming
compensation as the widow' of the de
ceased at the rate of $14 per week for
350 weeks, from June 19, 1933, plus
$5 medical fee paid and $150 for
burial expenses. She also claims 50
per cent penalty for all delinquent pay
ments.
She alleges that there was a hearing
before the compensation commissioner
in the city of O’Neill on January 25,
1934, and that he took the case under
advisement and that on February 23,
1934, he made an order dismissing the
plaintiffs petition. They allege that
the dismissal is contrary t othe evi
dence and contrary to law. She asks
the court to set aside the dismissal
and find and determine the benefits
due the plaintiff in accordance with
the facts and such other relief as may
be just and equitable.
The Fremont Joint Stock Land Bank
has filed suit against Earl R. Baker,
et a!., to foreclose a mortgage on the
following real estate situated in Holt
county, Nebr.: all of section 9 south
west quarter of section 10, southwest
half and. southeast quarter of section
15, south half of southwest quarter
and west half of southeast quarter of
section 14, and northeast quarter of
section 18, township 28 north of range
13 west of the 6 P. M. In their peti
tion they allege that on March 27, 1925
John Drahota and wife, Anton Dra
hota and wife and William Drahota
and wife gave their note to the plain
tiff in the sum of $11,000.00 and gave
a mortgage on the real estate a3
security. The loan wa3 to draw 5^
per cent interest and was to be paid
semi-annually. That on March 26,
1927, they paid $1,600 which was ap
plied on the principal and interest
payments from number six up to an
including number 20, and that the
plaintiff thereupon released the mort
gage on the northeast quarter of sec
tion 18, township 28. That by written
agreement entered into between the
plaintiff and Sidney C. Baker and wife,
then the owners, on September 13,
1932, it was agreed that the unpaid
balance on the mortgage on March 1,
1933, was $8,038.14 and that the rate
of interest would be reduced to 614
per cent, payable semi-annually. They
allege that the defendants failed to
pay the interest as agreed and that
there is now due the sum of $9,809.74
and they ask the court to determine the
amount due and that if same is not
paid within a reasonable time that the
land be sold.
Ralph Kelley has filed suit for di
vorce from Julia F. Kelley, lie al
leges in his petition that they were
married at Burwell, Nebr., on Febru
ary 21, 1929, and that ever since he
has conducted himself in every way as
a loving husband. He alleges that the
defendant has been guilty of extreme
cruelty since last Thanksgiving, being
cold and distant toward him and has
lost all respect, regard and love for
him. He alleges that she deserted him
on December 23, 1933, and since that
time has refused to live with him.
I They have one child four years old
who is with her mother.
Km met South Side
Improvement Club
The Emmet South Side Improvement
club held a special meeting Wednes
day, March 14, at the home of Mrs.
Joe Maring. All members except three
were present. Two visitors attended
the nu*eting.
The following officers were elected
for the coming club year:
Mrs. D. C. Schoffer, president; Mrs,
Walter Puckett, vice president; Miss
Margaret Gaughcnhaugh. secretary,
and Mrs. Sam Storts, news reporter.
How to carry on the Huh work next
year was discussed. Plans were made
for the Huh members to entertain their
families at a party sometime during
1 the month of April.
The remainder of the afternoon was
spent in quilting for Mrs. Maring.
Refreshments were served by the
hostess after the meeting.
Excavation Shows Holt
County Was Once The
Home of Many Indians
By J. B. O’Sullivan
(Continued from last week.)
The above shall suffice as a reply to
the first letter from Mr. Hyde.
In a second letter received from him
he has this to say:
"I was greatly pleased with your
letter of the 5th instant. What you
say convinces me that these sites at
O’Neill are certainly Coddoan and
most likely Arikara, for the location
seems too far north for the Pawnees.
I am positive the sunken paths you
speak of, running from the lodge doors
east, are the remains of covered entry
ways or vestibules. The finding of
Catliuite is another interesting fact.
Are there any finished pipes? What
shape and material?
"I should he delighted to receive
some speciments both of pottery
pieces and flint and, other stone imple
ments if you can spare a few.
‘"Are you Irish? 1 have a big
history of Ireland in the Stone Age
and early metal age with many illus
trations and ornaments which I should
be glad to send you if it would be of
interest in exchange for specimens.
“I shall be very glad to see your
local paper if copies are sent to me
and. I do not mind your quoting my
letters if they are of any interest.
"As for the Elkhorn valley, I think
it was the home of the Skidi Pawnee
and the Arikaras before the first tribe
moved to Loup Fork and the others to
the Missouri in Dakota.
“The date must be prior to 161*0, but
I do not know how to lix a date
exactly.
“LaSalle on the Illinois river in 1680
reported that he had been given a
Pana (Arikara) slave, a boy about 16
years old, and that this boy stated his
tribe lived on a western branch of the
Mississippi—that is on the Missouri
or a branch of it—in two villages and
that they were getting some horses in
trade from a tribe on the plains called
Gattacka—Prairie Apaches.
“This Arikara boy is the first Ne
braska inhabitant that the French met
in person as far as 1 can learn. He
remained with the Sieur de Tonty in
Illinois from 1680 until 1687 and then
went to Canada with Tonty and the
brother of LaSalle, and the French
report that at that date, 1687, he had
become a good Catholic.
“I do not know what the mounds on
Eagle creek could be. Not Caddoan.
They might be early Omaha or Ponka
works, but that it a mere guess.”—
George E. Hyde, Omaha.
Mention of the Skidi tribe of the
Pawnee confederacy as possibly having
lived within a mile or so of O’Neill
is interesting because the Skidi was
without doubt, for several reasons, the
most glamorous and elaborate cere
mony-practicing tribe of Indians be
tween Canada and Mexico.
Their ceremonies, known to have
been practiced in other parts of Ne
braska, and the fact their origin, like
those of the other Pawnee Republic
tribes, the Xau-i, or Grand.; Kit-ke
hak-i, or Republican; Pit-a-hau-e-rat,
or Tapage, about 10,000 in all, never
has been fathomed, the only nation al
ways where the white man found
them, the only one of all those in what
is the United States, has caused more
than one investigator to wonder if the
Pawnee are not blood relatives of the
great Aztec Indians of Old Mexico,
\ There were millions of Aztecs with a
civilization in the jungles. They were
rich, proud and adhered to heart’s
blood ritualism in offerings to one of
tho stars, always some prisoner whose
heart was clipped out with knife ot
obsidian to appease some queer god
and the Skidi Pawnee for hundreds of
years did the same thing here in Ne
braska and it begins to appear, in
Holt county, and perhaps a few blocks
from the present O’Neill.
The Pawnee always claimed they
had been created where they had been
I found. They believed the Morning
Stur a male anil the Kvening Star a
female. They believed that to this
queer alliance was born a hoy who
married, a daughter who was born to
the wedded Sun and Moon. Scientific
men, for all the evidence they can un
earth to the contrary, may us well go
along with the Pawnee Skidi proces
sion and believe that the Pawnee are
hut children of this strange heavenly
union of the son and daughter of the
morning and evening stars and the
sun und moon.
It is believed that all the Pawnees
practiced a ghastly sacrificial cere
mony away back but dropped it long
before the white man arrived. The
Skidi, the tribe thought to have lived
on the Klkhorn near O’Neill, kept up
the practice later und gave historians
a chance to form u f irly graphic ac
count of the queer proceedings.
The most beautiful of the Indian
inuidens stolen from other tribes were
the victims of the Skidi execution:.
Not every girl so raptured was an of
fering. The ritual of the Morning
Star called for but one human sacri
fice a year. The Morning Star, the
Skidi believed, was a male, so the
offering must be a female.
Often such a girl was captured while
some war party was in action or from
some straggling group caught wand
ering far from home. Now and then
a special raid was staged to ensnare
some renowned beauty. It is known
n spy system was maintained with its
operatives slipping about in shadows
and tall vegitation for weeks in ad
vance of an attack in order to spot
some belle and obtain valuable war
information.
It is of record that girls so taken
never were informed as to their im
pending fate. They were petted and
pampered like angels from heaven.
Every effort was made to keep the
girl in a happy frame of mind right up
to the time of her death. She was lied
to at every turn, groomed and fooled.
Her passing must be as pleasing as
possible to her groom in the heavens.
With the day of her execution slip
ping nearer, a slim death-ladder begun
to rear to the heavens. One of the
upright timbers was of cottonwood
and the other of elm. It must be that
way and no other. Generally, the top
piece was of willow.
Two druids, a name usually applied
only to ancient European cult leaders,
priests of the undents, seductive and
hypnotic speakers, now cajoled the
maiden victim into believing she wi\s
being fatted so to take the leading role
in some fanciful new game. Often the
girl was told she was being groomed
to assist in playing some major joke
on some tribal member.
Everyone was excited, joyful, and
generally the victim launched whole
heartedly into the proceedings, laugh
ing like a good fellow to show the
rest of the “gang” she was a good
sport, but a long ways from home and
no way to get back.
Should the girl ask too many pointed
questions she was told she was to be
the bride of some great chief or priest.
Generally, that settled it. Men were
hard to catch then. At any cost the
girl must go to her mate in the sky
in happy mood. That was the big idea.
Came the time when the girl’s hands
and feet were securely tied. A priest
stripped off every stitch of clothing.
One man washed the girl from head
to foot. He hair was arranged. The
right half of the girl’s body was
painted fiery red and the left half jet
black.
From nowhere and from everywhere
slowly surged a great number of vil
lagers, Skidi, the Mexican, mysterious,
maiden-sacrificing shadows that surely
are Aztec, yet here they are on the
prairies of Holt county, ready to
crimson the earth to appease some
exacting star.
A weird and low song, well con
st tucted to tuke its place where bilz
zards howled and coyotes whined,
hummed stealthily, the multitude
whispering a song of impending death.
The song was something new to the
girl victim. Other songs she had heard
them sing were in different tempo.
There was something big, grand, and
fine in the air and she would see1 the
thing thru—because she could do noth
ing else. Guards night and day would
attend to that. Always the girl was
on hand. Long ago there had been an
escape with its everlasting hatred and
war after the girl reached home and
unsealed her lips.
With the funeral-song rising the vil
lagers and visitors surged around the
funeral stairs on the prairie.
The girl was coaxed to climb the
ladder of farewell. While the priests
fastened the girl to the timbers, braves
selected for the purpose, slipped into
a gulch and concealed themselves from
the girl. A fire was made in the gulch
and they made ready to carry out their
appointed tasks.
Never did the legendary gods look
down upon a more tragic scene in ab
original Mexico nor ancient Egypt
than this execution of young innocense
in Nebraska, pomp and tragedy in the
wilderness.
Everything was now ready. The ex
ecutioner arose from his blind in the
gulch. The ceremony waited on the
Morning Star, a Hash of pure fire
bouncing from eastern earth to eagerly
greet h sweet bride sent by the mighty
and obedient Skidi, of the great Paw
nee nation.
A burst of glory in the eastern sky
signalized the beginning of the end of
the ghastly ceremony. Two brave3
came carrying sticks of fire. They
were priests robed in the skins of huge
birds, symbolic of the office Runners
| of the Morning Star . They moved in
haughty and proud stride. One stepped
to each side of the wondering maiden
on the ladder of farewell nnd each man
rubbed his stick of fire across the ab
domen and armpits of the girl, the
while chanting some mysterious song
that had profound meaning to the
numerous members of the Skidi people.
The two then returned to their posts
in the gulch.
A man, as assistant, ran out from
somewhere and he brought a how from
a skull-quiver and also the sacred
arrow that was destined to pierce the
heart of the girl prisoner on the sap
lings to still forever her rapidly pul
sating heart.
Hy this time^the Morning Star was
ashine in full splendor in the vapory
blush of a new day.
(Continued next week.)
COMMUNITY
SALE
We will have our usual Combin
ation Sale at my place % mile
east of the round house in
O’Neill on
TliurHday, March 29
Starting at 1:00 P. M. Sharp
If you have any horses,
cattle, hogs or sheep, or
anything to sell—bring
it in as we sell anything.
We already have a large
number of livestock
listed for this sale.
JAMES MOORE, Mgr.
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