Octogenarian Commits Suicide By Hanging

(Special to The Star.) O'NEILL . Neb., Aug. 29.—

John H. Bay aged 82, committed suicide by hanging at the Bay home northeast of O'Neill. George Bay, his son. came in from a field shortly before the old gentleman took his life, and

he saw his father walking about the yard.

A little later the son went to the house and found his father dangling from a limb of a shade

tree. Mr. Bay had climbed to the top of a barrel and kicked it from underneath his feet, after

he had fastened the rope about his neck.

Mr. Bay was born in Germany, November 18, 1835.

He came to Holt County in 1884.

County Attorney Hugh Boyle went out and viewed the body and pronounced it a plain case

of self-destruction.

Funeral services were conducted from the Bay home and inteiment was made in the Pleasant Valley cemetery.

The Lincoln Daily Star - August 29, 1917

 Twenty-one Cars of Cattle Bring Them Big Money

(Special to the Star) O'Neill, Neb., Aug. 29. --

The Ditch Company, a branch of the David Rankin Farms Company, of Tarkio, Mo., largest farmers in the world.

Shipped twenty-one carloads of fat cattle to Chicago the latter part of last week for which they received something like $100,000.

The company manager, Everett Brown, says another consignment consisting of 500 head will be transported to the city of breezes within the next sixty days.

The Lincoln Daily Star - August 29, 1917

Cold at Stuart

Stuart, Neb., March 5 - special

The weather the present week has been the coldest of the season.  The thermometer

registered 14 degrees below zero Tuesday morning, 24 Wednesday morning and 2 below

this morning, with a south wind and prospects of moderating.

There is a heavy snow on the ground and trains from the west are two to three

days overdue.

The farmers are jubilant over the prospects of a good crop this year.

Morning World Herald - March 6, 1891

The Best Route To Holt County, Nebraska    

The Niobrara Pioneer of the 28^th inst – takes General O’Neil to task for misrepresenting the via Niobrara route to certain sections of Northern Nebraska, and it strikes us the points raised by the Pioneer are well taken.  That paper says:

“And here let us say that it is an able and descriptive work, but it does not by any means furnish the immigrants with the shortest and most direct route to O’Neil City in Holt County.

It is at least thirty miles shorter by way of Niobrara, coming to Sioux City or Yankton, then by way of Westpoint or Wisner.  Thence, by teams to the settlement.  By taking steamboat from Sioux City, they can be landed at Niobrara levee, and then have but thirty five miles to travel by wagon, and on a direct route, whereas they are compelled to go over fifty miles farther by wagon, if starting from Wisner. 

If General O’Neil is going to make his colony a success, he should not deceive his countrymen in the scale of miles when there is a railroad route from Chicago direct to Sioux City and Yankton.”

Yankton Press and Dakotan – February 4, 1875