NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 17 Jan 1890, Vol. III - No. 20 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1890/90jan17.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin August 04, 2002 =================================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado T.C. Tipton, Editor January 17, 1890, Friday, Vol. III - No. 20 Page One Local Lore We learn that Mrs. Kenyon is very sick. ..... Raymond is down with the rheumatism. District court is a thing of the past. Excellent ice is coming in from the Frenchman west of town. Walsh is filling his ice house with it. The first man who sends a false sensational dispatch to injure Holyoke, paste him in the “snute!” Jesse Gordon is a dead sure natural born landlord, we speak from the text when we say the Gordon is hard to beat. We break bread there and know where of we speak. The White Cap Circus has opened up again. The Ring-master, Monkeys and Clowns are all on hand, the band begins to play, and no pains will be spared to make it one of the greatest attractions this county has ever paid for. Can any one inform us what caused the whipping of Bennett and Kelsey and Tillage. They are all soldiers. Is this the reason? If so, there are more of us to grind out. McPherson is going through in the shape of a persecution by law. Oh, how will it be with us. The white cap trial was commenced again this morning. We understand there will be several more arrests made. The HERALD will publish all the evidence with a full account of the trial. Those who wish to get a fair and impartial account of the trial will do well to subscribe at once. The Tribune of last week makes demands of the HERALD and threatens to dig up the hatchet and put on the war paint, etc. Oh what a brave little thing you are. The brief attempt to impune the language and meaning of the HERALD could only come from a debased and sordid brain, or bad counsel. Frank, who wrote your articles for you? Are you your self or are you somebody else. The HERALD never throws pearls to swine. Frank Hoyt has returned from his long visit to Illinois and Indiana and on arrival here this morning he strongly expressed his delight at seeing our dry streets and roads, as traveling is one of the lost arts in the parts he has visited, on account of mud and water which Frank describes as being at least 15 inches deep on the level. It is reported that arrangements have been completed that will transport Mrs. Hoyt to our fairy and friendly clime in the near and happy future. Frank looks well and hearty and we hope he has come to stay always this time. Cold weather Why did they dig the grave so deep? It will soon be time to sow wheat and barley. George Clark has been in the hands of the La Grippe the past week. The HERALD is soon to change hands. Major Davis will be the editor. He comes well recommended Major Davis has gone to Lincoln to attend the Nebraska Horticultural and Agricultural convention. A Sunday school has been started in West Holyoke, and bids fair to become a success. Our exchanges report a good many cyclones doing a great deal of damage in St. Louis, Kansas City, Bloomington, Illinois and other large cities in the east. Mr. Elder, county commissioner, brings back the report from Nebraska that the farmers are sowing small grain. Mrs. James Gilbert, who has been visiting her parents in Nebraska, returned home on Wednesday and Jim now has his usual smile on again, which was conspicuously absent during her departure. Three soldiers whipped, six republicans arrested for white capping and a few democrats who have more mouth than brains are throwing their stink pots fore and aft. Oh what shall the harvest be. The editor of the HERALD deems it his duty to apologize to the public for the publication of a certain item which appeared in the issue of January 10, in reference to the editor of the News. The item was put in unbeknown to us. No man keeps better posted on passing events and the signs of the times then Uncle McDonald. He is a constant reader and a very pleasant gentleman to converse with. We are always glad to see him around. We intend that the HERALD shall be the best paper in the city, and shall improve with each issue, for there is no such thing in this world as standing still. Journals, as well as humanity, must advance forward or backward. James Donovan made a good record for himself as an able advocate during the last term of court and demonstrated the fact that blood will tell. When James gets them on an honest track the dung hills are knocked out dead sure. We have had enough monkeying, dirty work and utter foolishness; done by a few plugs and dead beats who infest our city, that in any other country than this, would not be allowed to eat swill with the swine, let along trying to be leaders of men. Why such a good town and county as this is should be afflicted by these warts on the human race, is beyond our comprehension. Holyoke takes the bakery for bloodsuckers and hungry office seekers. One party wants Lou Witherbee’s office, another McPherson’s, another Glynn’s, another outfit wants the commissioners ousted out and they want in, and so it goes from morning until night, one continued uproar, enough to disgust any decent person on earth. And still the Special Collector goes on. Peregoy & Moore’s cigar man was in the city last night and reports that nearly one year ago they sent a $70,000 collection on John Shehan to assistant Deputy Attorney Brannon. That without any instructions from the house, the special collector attached the bar and fixtures of Uncle John and sold them at public sale. Mr. Jerome Lewis purchased the same and paid for them, but the house of Peregoy & Moore have never received one cent. Is this a fact Brannon? It is reported that Sedgwick County has called in three thousand dollars worth of warrants and her total expense has not reached nine thousand dollars this year. That she has a good county government there can be no question. It is different with Phillips County, which has nearly double the expense. There is a cause for this difference, but what is it? First, the officers of Phillips County had to be furnished with a court house, furnished with offices, sexton and all the facilities of an old county, and enough litigation to give dignity to the occasion. The word economy is not thought of. The commissioners are powerless to repute the enormous out-lay of the county and as long as litigation, and fault-finding prevail the tax-payers will suffer and property go down. How long the people will submit to this kind of business we cannot say. As to the people of Phillips County we have great faith in them as good and intelligent citizens. But there are ten or a dozen who reside in Holyoke who seem inclined to make discord. Let us bury the hatchet and declare peace before it is too late. It is currently reported that some of our professional citizens indulge in a little game of draw. Thirteen authorities did not take with Judge Downer. It takes brains to practice and win cases in that court. It is said that Gade Weaver was on the war path yesterday, in consequence of a certain mortgage transaction in which they were trying to give Gade the worst of it. When they down Gade they are a dandy. N.J. Peterson made this office a visit for the first time since Christmas. N.J. reports a new baby boy at his house and another republican vote. Mr. Peterson is one of the solid Swede farmers and can be depended upon when the general welfare of the county is at stake. The editor of this religious journal came in contact with a few miserable stink pots last week, and broke the record of forty years and for the first time in his life, was sued by the miserable boodle lifter who resides over the defunct News. When a man, or, a thing, gets so low in the scale of humanity that he resorts to such a scheme that money is the consideration that satisfies injured innocence, is like robbing a grave yard for the price of the corpse. Is the rotten old concern on its last legs that it will resort to any dirty work to recuperate his defunct exchequer. If Bro. Williams thinks he can abuse everyone at pleasure and escape himself he is off his base. We are prepared to give him and his out-fit such a showing up as will make his bones ache. The committee on tariff are hustling gathering representatives of manufacturing syndicates before them in Washington to hear their side of the question. Will the farmers and live stock producers be invited to come forward at government expense to tell their side of the question? Probably not. The prices of these commodities are fixed outside the United States, and the farmer has to sell at what foreign buyers will pay; but when it comes to manufactured products, he must pay what the trusts ask. Does congress want to change this order of things? Oh no! The farmer is a pack-horse, who never growls at what he had to pay, though sometimes he does growl when prices for his products are too low to enable him to live. There is only one way and that is for the farmers to combine their interests and send representatives to make laws in the interest of the farmer. As long as we send lawyers and millionaires, the interest of the farmer and the laborer will not be represented. The daily record of deaths at home and abroad forbids the influenza being treated as a trifling epidemic. The large cities of Europe, as well as in New York, Boston and Chicago, the death rate has increased to unusual proportions, and in Omaha several deaths, directly traceable to the grip, have occurred. Carelessness and exposure are fruitful sources of a disease especially dangerous when complicated with pulmonary troubles. Countless preventatives are afloat, but the observance of the laws of hygiene - regular habits, moderate dieting, proper clothing and well ventilated apartments - afford the most reliable safeguard against that and like insidious contagion. Phillips County has now been sailing her own craft upon the troubled waters of self-government for about nine months, and many shoals has she passed in her brief career. But now the storm has burst upon her in all its fury, and the fine new bark that commenced her voyage - so many thought under such bright surroundings is now roughly tossed and stormshaken. The many reasons which have led up to this deplorable state of affairs our good citizens themselves must guess. ‘Tis sufficient for us they exist. Phillips County has an assessed valuation of eight hundred and thirty-two thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars. Upon this is levied ten mills for the general fund and five mills for the poor fund which may be used in the general fund; this makes our tax levy for county purposes fifteen mills. This gives us twelve thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars: to this is added the county poll tax, and you have the whole amount of available funds our county can use to operate its affairs, its government and pay the outstanding indebtedness, consisting of fourteen thousand dollars in the warrants of our county. Added this floating indebtedness we must add the heavy expense (which the county will be compelled to pay) of the term of the district court which has just closed. There comes the expense incurred in the county court, and these heavy expenses added to our already heavy debt will reach well up to twenty thousand dollars. Counting our warrant indebtedness at fourteen thousand this will leave six thousand dollars in claim for which warrants will be drawn against the 1890 levy. Now the question is will it be better to go along in this way as economically as possible, and endeavor to catch up by a system of rigid economy, or shall we bond our county for this indebtedness and for ought we know be as badly behind again in three years and have this bonded indebtedness in addition. Let us consider the effect of the bonds. In the first place they will not lesson our obligations, they will have to be paid. In the second place if we bond the county it will cause more extravagance. Bonding the county will help the man that has no tax and never expects to pay any or intends to leave the county. DISTRICT COURT Lincoln Land company vs Lucinda Burdette et all. - Continued Lincoln Land company vs. Haley Brothers - Continued E.E. Brannon vs Mary M. Crain. - Dismissed at plaintiff’s cost J.W. Whipple vs. John B. Chase - Continued Lizzie Gordon vs W.S. Marlow, et al - Continued James Donovan vs Jesse P. Gordon - Taken under advisement J.B. Turner vs James P. Brophy and Charles Landried - Verdict against lien claimed by both S.S. Bennet vs Benjamin Strickland - Verdict for defendant James Glynn vs L.C. Witherbee - Continued A.A. Temple vs Herman Russell, et al. - Continued James Glynn vs James L. Wiley and L.C. Witherbee - Continued Mary Stone vs Oscar Allert, et al - Verdict for plaintiff Thomas White vs James P. Brophy and Alex F. Meyer - Verdict for plaintiff E.E. Brannon vs James Glynn - Continued Jerome Lewis vs Building and Loan Association - Held under advisement Patrick Walsh vs Building and Loan Association - Held under advisement John Madden vs Building and Loan Association - Held under advisement Charles H. Madeley, et al vs W.G. Helland et al - Verdict for defendant M. Callagan vs Lizzie Gordon - Verdict for plaintiff Benjamin Callom vs George E. Clark - Continued Mary E. Ladd vs J.B. Gordon et al. - Judgement for plaintiff Felix R. Smith vs Mason L. Smith - Continued Farmers Lumber Yard vs Aaron Woodson et al. - Verdict for plaintiff E.E. Brannon vs B.F. Anderson - Continued Phillipe Zimmerman vs A. Carson - Continued WAKEMAN NEWS Winter at this writing. Everybody is down with the endflewendways in this vicinity. Rev. Gilroy and A.C. Cauble is courting this week in Holyoke. There is more courting in Holyoke than any one place in the United States. We want to see these little law suits stopped as we are getting tired of paying taxes. Now gentlemen take warning. A.B. Pollock has moved over from Yuma County. We presume he got tired of the sand hills and come over to God’s country, where the sun shines every day in the year. I would like to see the people in the east who have no homes come to Phillips County and buy homes while land is cheap, as the time is coming when land in this county will be worth money. Why do you Roscoe people wait for spring to sow your wheat? Why don’t you sow it in the fall like any person would who expects to raise a crop. Now M--- take a little advice and put your wheat in in the fall. J.D. Smith and wife are back from Nebraska and have been before the petti jury at Holyoke. -- TOM THUMB Page Four Ad - HOLYOKE LIVERY BARN, M.A. HINE, Proprietor. Keeps the Finest Buggies and Best Teams in the City. Ad - ELEVATOR! Holyoke New Elevator Will Pay The HIGHEST MARKET PRICE For Grain and Hogs. H.E. Palmerton, Proprietor Ad - B.F. MOORE, NOTARY PUBLIC And Justice of the Peace Ad - FARM LOANS $500,000 To Loan on Real Estate in Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma and Logan Counties. 11 per cent straight; 2, 3, or 5 years. Money ready when papers are signed. No delay. Office south of the Gordon House on Baxter Avenue. It will be to your interest to see us. WOOLMAN & BRANNON. Ad - STAR LIVERY BARN Holyoke, Colorado. GOOD RIGS & CAREFUL DRIVER. Give Us A Call =================================================== Contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archive Project (http://www.usgenweb.org) and by the COGenWeb Archive Project USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. 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