NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 7 Oct 1887, Vol I - No 5 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1887/87oct07.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 2 Feb 2005 ====================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Logan, Colorado PAINTER & JORDAN, Editor & Publisher 7 Oct 1887, Friday, Vol. I - No. 5 Page One AD - HELLER BROTHERS, Proprietors of the CITY MEAT MARKET. Choice Meets always on hand. Cash paid for hides. Denver Avenue, Holyoke, Colorado AD - GILLETT BROTHERS Dealers In Light & Heavy Hardware, Iron, Nails, Stoves, Tinware, Barb-Wire, Leather, Whips, and Harness. Also are handling the Buchmore Wind-Mills and Pumps. Our motto is, "Quick sales and small profits." Call and see us before purchasing. One block South of Depot, Holyoke, Colorado NEWS OF THE WEEK Ten New Buildings Begun This Week Holyoke Still on the Boom - Some County News - The New Postoffice HOLYOKE Men who have traveled extensively over the west and have visited most of the new towns say, that never before did they see a town grow so rapidly. Buildings are going up just as fast as workmen and lumber can be secured. What the outcome of the town will be is unsafe to predict, but all circumstances indicate a fine prospect. Below are some of the business houses that have been started this week: George S. Cleveland, 22 x 40. Pat Sullivan, 24 x 60, two stories. Shippell & Bennett, 18 x 24, two stories, fine drug line. Witherbee Brothers, 22 x 40, butcher shop. Howard Brothers, 16 x 48, lumber yard office. Mr. Carlson, 22 x 40, two stories bank. Mr. Baker, 22 x 60, general merchandise. Mr. Webb, 18 x 24, exchange bank. John C. Reiff, 22 x 50, furniture. E. Anderson, 24 x 60, two stories. MT. VERNON FARM October 4. All is quiet in this locality extremely so since the Mozart store was moved away. Thomas Cornwell's youngest son is quite sick. The health is improving but we see Dr. Benner occasionally in the neighborhood. Our first frost fell on the 27th of September, which will be quite a help to the corn crop. Turnips, squashes, sugar cane, millet, and buck wheat were all good yields on Mt. Vernon Farm this season. The writer is cutting his corn this week, and is very agreeably surprised to find it will make from 15 to 20 bushels to the acre. We saw two strangers last Sabbath on their way to Mr. View. They halted about three miles from Holyoke to get a drink. They first said "well is not this a healthy county?" We answered yes. Then they asked for a drink. Although dry they had to speak of the beautiful country first. So it is with all that sees it. They both young and old, readily and voluntarily say it is the prettiest country they ever saw. So it will be with our new town of Holyoke: it will be the admired city of Colorado in a few months. Capitalists are coming and buildings both small and great are rapidly springing up. Almost every kind of business has been well represented in the short space of two weeks. Last Tuesday, as the writer was lucky enough to get a free pass to Sterling, he enjoyed a ride over the new road, which was highly appreciated. About 8 a.m. we left our beautiful and prosperous little city of Holyoke in company with two ladies and two gentlemen. The country is beautiful along the line. About 25 miles from Holyoke a telegraph office is located and a switch, where no doubt will be a village in the near future. Leaving that you come to the sand hills and deep cuts; next the bottoms and then the village of Sterling. Sterling is a lively little town. Its business men are a very gentlemanly set, and they make the stranger feel at home among them. We made the acquaintance of several gentlemen there, some who are candidates for county offices, will visit our part of the county soon. They will take a view of our intended county seat, and the beautiful country surrounding it. Daniel Streves, a prominent citizen and successful farm of Iroquois County, Illinois, while on a western trip, prospecting for a future home, stopped in the fertile valley of the Frenchman and visited his old friends, Austin and Johnson. He was very much pleased with the country. But the most interesting feature was the jack rabbit. He was lucky in killing the first one he saw, and as they are not seen in Illinois, he salted the ears down and took them home. Before returning he will visit the mountains, Denver and other places of interest. We would do well to have Mr. Streves for a neighbor and hope he will soon conclude to make his home among us. E.H. Mead and wife spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Gilbert. D.W. Henthorn and family are making preparations to move to Kansas, where they expect to spend the winter. Mrs. Williams, of Illinois, is here visiting her daughter, Mrs. Lamar, of 7-45. NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS We publish below a list of the new subscribers since our last issue. See that your name is entered in the first issue after your subscription is paid. We do this to save receipting each one as a good many subscriptions come from a distance: E.C. Allen Oscar Trego Emerson Brothers W.M. Adland Callaghan Brothers William Aiken Jeremiah Nooman Kellogg & Compton Haley & Brewer Shippen & Bennett Gillett Brothers J.M. Whitham Thomas Howard J.M. Callis George H. King E.B. Zimmerman David H. Kingery J.H. Russell B.M. Krumpanitzky Frank Guilmette F.L. Diffendorfor T.P. Story Hon. J.M. Day W.C. Packard J.C. Van Natta J.W. Wonderly W.B. Burk W.H. Hopwood D.K. Calkins M. Heaton Dr. E.W. Doolittle W.E. Wolfe Dr. R.R. Blair W.C. Scott D.L. Smith P.S. Scott S.K. Cheadle D.M. Gue J.M. McNichols Charles P. Pabst ROSCOE ITEMS Most of the farmers have their corn cut. Miss Libbie Cane, from Ohio, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. J.F. Culler, of 7-44. S.T. Warren is building a substantial sod house on his claim in 7- 44. It will be ready for the plasters the last of the week. M. V. Summers is building on his homestead. W.H. Rice has just completed the first sod barn in this vicinity. T.B. Carnahan is having a wind mill put up on his homestead. He has a good well of fourteen feet of water. Railroaders are arriving daily to work on the Culbertson branch. M.W. Shamp goes to Julesburg Thursday for a load of groceries. Mrs. Abe Jones is building an addition to her house. Grant Rice and Mrs. E.B. Oyler departed last Wednesday morning for Memphis, Missouri. Grant is going to teach school and Mrs. Oyler to visit her parents and friends. We are sorry to lose our good friends and neighbors, but they have not deserted us entirely as they will return in the spring. - M. MINOR THE BOOM Holyoke is not the only town in Logan County which is making rapid progress at present. The editor visited Sterling fifty miles west, last week and found a lively town. Sterling, the county seat of Logan County, is on the Platte River in the midst of a section of farming country, which has been farmed in a small way for some years. Sterling is a division and dining station on the Union Pacific, and the Burlington has been built in recently for the east and is building now to Wyoming. The country is filling up with new settlers the town is making very rapid growth. Property is still low, however: residence lots selling for from $10 up and good main street business lots from $300. The population of the town is about 1,000. W.C. Packard, the leading real estate dealer, reports trade as rushing. He keeps a horse and buggy at the door ready to show property. Mr. Packard sells on long time with small payments and low interest. He has sold over twelve hundred Sterling lots. OBITUARY There is a Reaper whose name is Death And with his sickle keen He reaps the bearded grain at a breath And the flowers that grow between. Mrs. Rena Gue, wife of Della M. Gue, died at her home near Holyoke, September 21st. Death never wears bright colors, but in some cases his sad livery is darker than in others. And so in this. Mrs. Gue was remarkable for her beauty, goodness and gentleness. She was a kind friend and alike dutiful, affectionate and devout as a daughter, sister and wife. In the latter relation we knew her best. Wed at the poetic age of sweet sixteen, she clung lovingly to the one choice of her young heart. With him she twice endured the hardships of frontier life. Whatever they were, she murmured not, but with strong hope looked forward to better things. Just as the struggle was nearly over and the good things of civilization came pouring into the wild country that she helped to settle, "The silver cord was loosed and the golden bowl was broken." Only nineteen beautiful years to gladden those around her then faded as a flower when summer dies. And now the lives that were lighted by the sunshine of her smiles, know only darkness. May remembrance of her worth lighten the gloom, and when time softens their sorrows, be an enduring solace through after years. Hope and consoling words for the living, sweet rest for the virtuous dead. THE POST OFFICE We are asked about five hundred - more or less - times a day, when are we going to have a post office here. If there ever was an unanswerable question this is the one. We generally answer the above question by asking when they think doomsday will come. The probabilities are that we will not have a postoffice here till Robert Lincoln is elected president. We have agreed to handle the mail here for the state line merely to accommodate the public. As the mail matter is a source of annoyance, 2 cents will be charged for each letter, postal card, paper or package. Please remember this, and come prepared. Don't come in for the mail in the middle of the night or before we are up (which is about half past four) in the morning. DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES James Glynn, county judge E.S. Ebbs, county clerk D. Buchanan, sheriff F. McWilliams, treasurer Phillips Zimmerman, county superintendent of schools Thomas DeWitt, assessor Mark Burke, surveyor Dr. J.H. Couch, coroner J.C. Elder, for district No. 1 W.S. Hadfield, for district No. 2 Henry Schunider, for district No. 3 The following are the democratic central committee with A.P. Gordan as chairman: Precinct No. 1 - A.C. Shields Precinct No. 2 - J. Fisher Precinct No. 3 - A.M. Moiser Precinct No. 4 - John Rogers Precinct No. 5 - Martin Casey Precinct No. 6 - Mark Leonard Precinct No. 7 - E.L. Brainard Precinct No. 8 - J.L. Taylor Precinct No. 9 - W.W. Ware Precinct No. 10 - Harry Schneider Precinct No. 11 - John Keifer Precinct No. 12 - D. Flannery Precinct No. 13 - W.H. Pound REPUBLICAN CAUCUS The republicans of this (Good Hope) precinct are requested to meet in caucus at Shamp's store, three miles east of here, October 18, at 1 o'clock the first registration day, for the purpose of nominating precinct officers. - Order of Committee Take THE HERALD, $2.00 Page Four THE STATE HERALD C.W. PAINTER, Editor W.N. JORDAN, Business Manager PAINTER & JORDAN, Publishers Friday, October 7, 1887 NATIONAL GOVERNMENT President, Grover Cleveland President of Senate, John Sherman Older Justice, Morrison R. White Secretary of State, Thomas E. Bavard Secretary of Treasury, Fairchild Secretary of War, William C. Endicott Secretary of Navy, William C. Whitney Secretary of Interior, L.Q. Lamar Attorney General, A.H. Garland Postmaster General, William F. Viles Speaker of House, J.G. Carlyse U.S. Senator, H.M. Teller, Central U.S. Senator, T.M. Bowen, Del Norte Representative, G.G. Symes, Denver STATE OFFICERS Governor, Alva Adam Lt. Governor, Norman H. Meldrum Secretary of State, James Rice State Treasurer, P.W. Breene Supt. Pub. Ins., L.S. Cornell State Auditor, Darwin P. Kingsley Attorney General, Alva Marsh LOGAN COUNTY County Clerk, W.F. Kister Deputy, M.A. McGiunis Sheriff, John Tobin County Judge, Thomas Watson Clerk, James Glynn Treasurer, M.H. Smith Supt. of Schools, Oscar Trego Assessor, Henry T. Sutherland Surveyor, J.J. Chears Coroner, J.L. Kirby Commissioners - Henry Schneider, D.B. Morgan, Jacob Furrey REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET For County Judge, R.L. Rowden For County Clerk, J.N. Knoblaugh For County Treasurer, M.H. Smith For Sheriff, J.H. Russell For Assessor, H.T. Sutherland For County Superintendent, Oscar Trego For County Surveyor, J.C. McAdams For County Coroner, David Beach For County Commissioners, 1st District, C.C. Washburn 2nd District, J.W. Ramsey 3rd District, J.F. Watts I will have to go to Canada if a democrat is elected president in 1888 - C.C. Washburn. Editor Jordan, of the Holyoke HERALD, was an active delegate at the republican convention - Sterling Advocate. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+* There is a little town between Holyoke and Sterling which hopes, in thirty or forty years, to have a postoffice. It may be they would take your "dried" Board of Trade, Brother McNew. Julesburg is trying to give away her Board of Trade to all the new towns. She hasn't been able to do it as yet. No town, new or old, seems to want it. Better keep it and store it away in some of your vacant store buildings. Julesburg Tribune is trying to give away her Board of Trade. She has just offered it to Holyoke. Why bless your kind, well meaning soul, Brother McNew. Holyoke don't want it, not even as a gift. Some of the most influential business men of the Frenchman think possibly you might rent a room and even run by paying small license, seeing you are so anxious to get it to Holyoke. No, no, we don't want your Board of Trade. The Holyoke HERALD has heard some one pounding nails into a board and imagines that the town needs a Board of Trade. We might furnish you with one already dried. - Julesburg Tribune. Thank you kindly. The very thing you seem to consider a recommendation we object to. You have already "dried" up there until you have cracked. Oh no, we have no use for a Julesburg "dried" Board of Trade, because in a very short time the outside world would regard us in the same light as they do Julesburg, too "dried" and dead for any use whatever. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+* We have been working under great disadvantage this week. Being desirous of moving from our shack to the new office we did so this week, and before the carpenters had completed the building. The consequence is we are thrown behind with our work. The presses have been idle part of the time, and job work was necessarily delayed some. Even now we are put on half allowance til lumber for the floor can be obtained. We will soon be on our feet once again and will be pleased to receive all orders for job work, which will be attended to promptly. Come in and see THE STATE HERALD. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+* It is not our fight but we like to see good men nominated for office, and for that reason we would like to see J.H. Smith nominated for treasurer by the republicans. He is clean and capable. The republicans can do no better. Being defrauded out of his home delegation he is compelled to rely upon the delegates outside of Sterling, and if we can judge by expressions he will have votes to spare in the convention. It should be so. He has served the county faithfully without pay, and the republican party would be ungrateful to one of its best men to refuse him nomination. - Julesburg Tribune REPUBLICANS IN CONVENTION The republican convention that was held in Sterling on September 23rd was one of the most earnest and yet harmonious ever held. Although it was the first held in Logan County business was conducted with dispatch and neatness that did credit to Chairman John Wilson and the twenty-four delegates present. The following resolutions were adopted: We, the republicans of Logan County for the first time in convention assembled, believe it fit and proper that we should publicly announce our allegiance to the time honored principles of our party, and briefly declare our attitude toward the local issues, state and county. We point with pride to the record of republican achievements in the past, as the best pledge that the party they represent will be true to every present or future emergency. The courage, patriotism and wisdom of the republican party has been tested and proven. It came into power as the expression of the people against the iniquities of slavery; it continued in power during the war as the embodiment of their devotion to the integrity of the Union, it abolished slavery, suppressed armed rebellion and conquered a permanent peace. It made provision for the Nation's defenders: it enacted a beneficent homestead law; it established a financial system whereby the Nation was enabled to meet the emergencies of a great civil war and furnish a sound, uniform currency, and to prevent the commercial depression and disaster usually attendant upon or succeeding civil strife. A party whose career has thus been signalized at every step by great achievements, has not only established the strongest title to public confidence, but has presented the best pledge; that it is willing and able to satisfactorily and honorably adjust the new problems of legislation and administration that are pressing for consideration and settlement. RESOLVED. That we hereby make a declaration of our allegiance and adhesion to the principles of the republican party of the county, and pledge ourselves to renewed effort to place the administration of the government of the Nation in republican hands, so that right may be triumphant over wrong and that true principles may once again flourish, and the democratic party who stole into power through open fraud and false promises may be again relegated to the ignominious position it was born to occupy. RESOLVED. That the republican party is preeminently the party of the Union and the constitution, because it disapproved in its principles, sentiments and aims; sectarianism and disunion, and is equally desirous of the welfare of every part of the country, and disregarding the aristocratic distinction of birth and color, maintaining the rights of all men to freedom and equality before the law. RESOLVED. That we most severely denounce the action of the chief executive in the vetoing of the pension bill, in hoisting a flag at half mast over the government buildings on the death of Jake Thompson (the small-pox fiend), and in disregarding Memorial Day service. RESOLVED. That the perils of the Government lies not so much in high ambition as in low dishonesties, that honesty and purity in the service being the only safe guard to the Nation. We commend the courage of the republican party in instituting investigation of corruptions in office, sparing neither friends or foes, and we demand such legislation as will bring to certain punishment any officer who, being entrusted with the charge of public funds, appropriate the same to his own use or fails to properly account for them. Embezzlement is theft, and should be punished as such. RESOLVED. That all the railroad corporations of the state are the creatures of its legislature, and it is the duty of that body to subject hem to such wise and impartial enactments as will protect the people of the state from extortion and will secure them transportation of products, merchandise and passengers, at reasonable rates. RESOLVED. That drunkenness if one of the greatest curses of modern society, demoralizing everything it touches, imposing fearful burdens of taxation upon the people; a fruitful breeder of pauperism and crime, and a worker of evil and evil only continually. Hence we are in favor of such legislation both general and local, as experience shall show to be most effectual, in destroying this evil. RESOLVED. That the public lands of the United States be sacredly held for the use and benefit of the actual settler, and we condemn and disapprove of any further grants of public domain to railroads or other corporations. RESOLVED. That we deprecate the hasty action of the governor of our state in calling out the state troops in the late trouble, thereby subjecting the state to a heavy, needless expense. RESOLVED. That we are grateful for the creation of our new county by a republican legislature, and we pledge ourselves that the republican banner shall float over Logan County long after the democratic flag has been laid to rest, never to be resurrected. RESOLVED. That we condemn the action of the democratic county government in the misappropriation of the public funds, in this, that in awarding the transcribing of the records, he did ruthlessly disregard the interest of the taxpayers of the county. That their policy throughout has been characterized by unjustifiable extravagance. Robert Lincoln Rowden was chosen over the able and competent lawyer, E.E. Armour, a recommendation that will carry him through the bench to without a scratch. J.N Knoblaugh for county clerk could not have been bettered. Knoblaugh is not a politician, but will make a fine county clerk. He has already been indorsed by the prohibitionists. H.C. Merrick, Chingren and T.R. Barkley were also nominated. M.H. Smith's name, for treasurer, was received with cheers, and he will overrun his ticket. A.F. Spoor was also nominated. J.H. Russell, a man already with a fine record, was quickly chosen for sheriff. He will carry his won ticket and poll a heavy democratic vote. J. Luttin was nominated. Oscar Trego, for county superintendent was the choice of the convention, and will poll the prohibition vote. He is a sound man. Henry F. Sutherland will be our next assessor. He is well known and his record will stand daylight. J.C. McAdams received the nomination as candidate for county surveyor. He has had plenty of experience, is a good official and a civil engineer. It was the current comment that a strong commission board was selected. C.C. Washburn, whose name was received with strong approval all over the 1st district, J.W. Ramsey for the 2nd and J.F. Watts for the 3rd. Take the ticket all in all it is a good strong one, and can well receive the support of every republican. We do not know of a single flaw nor weak spot in it. Don't let the republican rooster have any peace till he has crowed his throat raw for the above candidates. Let every true blue republican stand at his post, and see to it that each and every brother does likewise, and the first republican county ticket will make a clean sweep, and go in with colors high. Page Eight LOCAL LORE B. & M. TIME CARD East Bound No. 125 Passenger, 1:45 a.m. No. 156 Freight, 6:00 a.m. West Bound No. 151 Passenger, 1:40 a.m. No. 155 Freight, 4:30 p.m. Holyoke Accommodations No. 157 West to Sterling, 8:00 a.m. No. 158 East from Sterling, 6:30 p.m. Mr. Holmes left for Nebraska this week. D.M. Gue returns to York, Nebraska for the winter. Rev. J. M. Adair returned from his trip to Nebraska this week. Mrs. Chapman, M.D. made a trip to Yuma last week. Daniel Wilson of Julesburg was in Holyoke this week. Locating and Surveying a Specialty. KELLOGG & COMPTON Money to Loan at the lowest rates, KELLOGG & COMPTON WANTED: A good girl at the boarding train, at the Material Yards. Sargeant, Adland & Co. have just received a car load of flour. Fred Dye, of Julesburg, visited Holyoke and vicinity on Thursday. We have plenty of extra copies of THE HERALD this week, 5 cents a piece. A.H. Wolfe, from Hastings, Nebraska, is visiting at the residence of M.N. Kress this week. Mr. D.M. Gue has returned from Nebraska accompanied by his sister Mrs. Reed. W.S. Jenkins, secretary of the republican central committee, was in Holyoke and called on THE HERALD. Conductors Monday and Mixer will continue to run the trains from here to Sterling. They are both good men. Grades on the Culbertson branch are within four miles of town. There is to be no steel laid until spring. DIED: Jacob Furrey at his residence 25-8-44 on Monday, October 3, of typhoid fever, age 58 years. One of the best store buildings being put up belongs to Hoskins Brothers. A large Stock of groceries will be put in soon. J.R. Phelan has recently been appointed assistant superintendent with his permanent office at the Material Yards. His division runs from Holyoke to Cheyenne. E.B. Zimmerman, editor of the State Line Leader and agent for town lots of the booming town of Lamar, and W.D. Ellis made this office a pleasant call this morning. Hoskins Brothers are putting up a very fine building 40 x 40 on Inter Ocean Avenue. They will put in a heavy line of Groceries and will do a rattling business. Editor Moore of the Yuma Pioneer, and County Clerk Probst of Washington County and proprietor of THE HOLYOKE NEWS, were pleasant office callers this morning. Call again gentlemen. A.M. Woodford, recently from Superintendent Calvert's office in Lincoln, Nebraska, has just been appointed clerk to J.R. Phelan. He is a gentleman and will be well received by Holyoke railroad boys. M.E. Quarterly meeting Sunday, October 16th, love feast at 10 o'clock a.m., preaching by Dr. Merritt, presiding elder, at 11 o'clock a.m., also at 3 p.m. It was rumored this morning that the Julesburg Republican had sold out to George C. Town and The Tribune. Little Miss Lizzie Sawyer made our office a pleasant call yesterday. Lizzie is a bright little girl and took much interest in watching the compositor set up the type. She is quite a business little girl, and the pet of the town. J.H. Russell, our present deputy sheriff, will make a fine run for sheriff. He was deputy in old Weld County and he is a good man too. Dr. R.R. Blair and his estimable wife were in town Monday looking up some resident lots. The Doctor is recommended as a fine physician, and Holyoke would be fortunate in securing him as a regular practitioner. One of the best men nominated on any ticket was J.H. Russell of Julesburg for sheriff. All parties who have reserved lots, and not yet made out contracts, are requested to do so immediately, as lots without contracts will not be held longer. H. Emerson, Agent of Lincoln Land Company. Frank O'Shea has been sent to the front. He is one of the most courteous and accommodating conductors on the road, gaining the good will of the traveling public and the confidence of the road authorities. We hated to see him go away from Holyoke. Cards are out announcing the marriage of Frank E. Jordan, of Wyoming, to Miss Jessie Snare, daughter of Hon. James Snare, of Castleton, Illinois, October 11th, 1887, at the bride's parents. Mr. Jordan is a brother of W.N. Jordan of THE HERALD and our Illinois readers will be pleased to learn of this very happy union. PLEASANT HILL October 3 - School began September 29th, Miss Works, teacher. Pleasant Hill school house is located on the northeast of sec 4-6- 44. Mr. Yingst is building a new house on his homestead. V.G. See is also putting up a house 20 x 30 feet out of Colorado brick. J.H. Daggy, 6-44, will be in the first of the week from Nebraska with his cattle. O.A. Churchill failed to show his smiling countenance at home on last Sunday - A HOMESTEADER AD - LIVERY AND FEED BARN. Go to the STAGE BARN for First-class Livery. Take your Teams there to Feed. Your wants will always be supplied, and Satisfaction Guaranteed. McCALL & McPERRIN, Holyoke, Colorado * Transcriber's Note. Advertisements are not repeated from previous newspaper issues to conserve space. ****************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ******************************************************************