NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 19 Sep 1890, Vol I - No 6 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1890/90sep19.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 2 Aug 2006 ====================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado J.H. PAINTER Editor & Publisher 19 Sep 1890, Friday, Vol. IV - No. 6 Page One LOCAL LORE A heavy frost last night. Sam Killen has a train. See Baker’s new ad in this issue. A. Hyatt says “Come in and see my goods.” J. Rooney went to Sterling this week on business. George Brown has again been promoted to engineer. Mrs. C. Robinson is spending a few days in Denver this week. Applications for final proof made out at this office free of charge. W.N. Jordan, banker of Venango, spent Saturday in Holyoke. Quite a few from here attended the Fair at Cheyenne this week. Advertise in the HERALD if you expect to do a rushing business. You never bought goods so cheap as you can at A.J. BAKER’S. Come in and see our $1 plow shoes. A.J. BAKER. Fifty thousand brick for sale by C. Varney. Go to Hyatt’s for the best groceries and the lowest prices. A.L. Jones returned from a business trip to New York, Nebraska this week. Read the new ad of the Golden Eagle Cash Store and bring in your cattle. Mrs. Dave Magner returned Monday from an extended visit at Holdrege, Nebraska. Take the HERALD during the campaign if you wish to keep posted on the issues before the people. Ladies don’t miss these low prices on dry goods and shoes for the next ten days at A.J. BAKER’S. Mrs. W.C. Powers returned home this week from an extended visit with friends and relatives in Nebraska. For sale cheap. One bureau, as good as new, two rocking chairs and a cottage organ. Call at this office. Big drive in hats less than cost to make room for my new stock. Don’t miss this sale. A.J. BAKER. There has been over one hundred cars of cattle shipped through here from Grover, in the last two or three weeks. Subscribe for the STATE HERALD and you will be better satisfied with life in Phillips County than you have ever been. A.J. Baker shipped 710 pounds of butter, 990 pounds of chickens and 1800 pounds of eggs Wednesday of this week. Miss Emma Whitham, Miss Pearl Wakeman and Rollo Whitham returned yesterday from their visit to Arickaree. An alarm of fire was given last Monday night. The hose company was out on good time. The building belonged to George Ladd. C.G. Sherman was up on a visit for a day or two this week. He expects to go to Chicago to visit his sister and from there to his old home in Canada. MARRIED. At the home of the bride in 5-46 Yuma, Colorado, September 10, 1890 at 8 o’clock by Mr. Joseph Shockley, Mr. Robert H. Morris and Miss Minnie B. Packard. Litigants and others having business before the Land Office should call on E.E. Armour, attorney at law and Judge of the County Court, Sterling, Colorado. The farmer’s alliance will hold a caucus at Holyoke on Saturday September 20th at 1 o’clock p.m. for the purpose of placing in nomination candidates for precinct officers in precinct No. 2. By order of Ch’n of Com. Now is the chance for you to have your pictures enlarged. W.C. Powers has a fine sample of the work at his gallery and is taking orders for work. You can get an eight dollar crayon picture for two dollars. Work first-class, call and see him. The county ticket nominated by the republican convention last Saturday is a good one. Fred Hawks the candidate for sheriff is one of Phillips County’s best men and he will be elected. M.D. Copp, candidate for commissioner has the support of the alliance and the republican party and is in every way deserving of that support which will elect him without a doubt. Excursion rates via. U.P. Ry. Tickets on sale the year around. Sterling to Salt Lake and Ogden $39 - 70, Sterling to Helena and Butte $56. These tickets are good 90 days from date. Thirty days transit limit each. Good one way via. D. & R. Ry. - G.W. Atkinson, Agent Another big cut in prices on dry goods, hats and caps, boots and shoes at A.J. BAKER’S. AN EYE OPENER. No loud talk nor humbug but always an honest deal, and you will find best goods at lowest prices at A. HYATT’S. W.C. Britton returned the fore part of the week from Lincoln, Nebraska, where he has been on business. We understand that he has purchased a stock of goods at Lincoln and will move his family to that place. We are sorry to lose Mr. Britton and family from our town but wish them success at their new home. We saw some cabinet photos of Ed Gillett’s little babe, taken by our photographer, W.C. Powers, that, for excellence of work, would do credit to any artist in northeastern Colorado. Mr. Gillett expressed himself as well pleased with the work and it is a noteworthy fact that all who patronize Mr. Powers are well satisfied with his work. Do not go to the city for your photos but patronize your home artist, especially when you have as skillful an artist as we have. A.A. Temple, our sheriff, with his wife and family, returned the first of the week from a visit to relatives at Hutchison, Kansas. Mr. Temple says that the middle and eastern part of Kansas has a fair crop but in the balance of the state the crop is a failure. He says that western Kansas is in a much worse condition, so far as a crop is concerned, than any part of eastern Colorado. In some of the best towns of the state a large amount of the property is mortgaged for more than could possibly be realized from a sale of the property. The towns have been built under the unnatural impetus of a boom and now, when crop failure comes, values have dropped so low that the property will not sell for the mortgage. He says that real estate is much more heavily mortgaged than in eastern Colorado and the people in no better condition to meet their financial obligations than we are in eastern Colorado. It is not by any means encouraging to hear of the misfortunes of our neighbors in other states, but the reports of this nature that reach us should lead every man who has any notion of leaving Colorado, to give up his intention of leaving and remain here and try the county one more year any how. The men who stay by this country will make a grand success in time. It seems that a few of our Holyoke republicans were not satisfied because they failed to control the republican county convention last Saturday, and failed to be selected as delegates to the state convention, or to have matters left in such shape that they could get proxies. So they went to the Tribune office and had some large posters struck, calling a mass convention to meet in Holyoke, on Monday, for the purpose of selecting another delegation to the state convention. These posters were to be seen on the sidewalks Sunday morning and were evidently placed there in the silent watches of the night, by the convention bolters. All day Sunday they were engaged in riding over the county to inform the farmers of the mass convention and of the great outrage they had suffered at the hands of the republican convention. No doubt they made many a pitiful plea to the farmers to come over and help them out of their trouble. They had no doubt promised some of the republican bosses that they would deliver the delegation and their disappointment at not being able to do so was enough to worry them somewhat. But their influence with the dear people of the county was not as great as they had for a long time imagined it to be and, notwithstanding the great wrong they had suffered, the loud posters and a hard days work, when the mass convention was called to order, Monday forenoon, they were able to muster only nine men out of the whole county who thought that there was a great necessity to send another delegation to Denver, did not waver in their course of action on account of the small attendance, but proceeded to organize by electing C.M. Dille chairman and H.J. Porter, of the Tribune, secretary, after which, they adjourned over till afternoon to wait for the dear people to come in. But still the dear people remained away and when they had convened for the afternoon session they had lost one of the faithful nine and were reduced to eight voters, counting chairman and secretary, five of whom reside in Holyoke. They proceeded to elect delegates to go to Denver which resulted as follows: R.R. Blair, C.M. Dille, E.F. Money, James Bryant, Edwin Angelo and W.H. Lane. Three of these parties were not in the convention but of course the five Holyoke gentlemen wanted a few proxies. Mr. Woolman offered a resolution, condemning the action of the republican county convention held here last Saturday. On a rising vote there were seven votes for the adoption of the resolution and when fifteen spectators rose to vote in the negative the chairman refused to recognize them and declared the resolution unanimously adopted by the great mass convention. The people treated the organators of this bolt as they justly deserved by remaining away and allowing them to father a gigantic fizzle. The call for this bolters convention was wholly unwarranted and uncalled for. The proceedings of the regular convention were straight from first to last and simply because these gentlemen were voted down and were not able to control the convention is no valid reason for any one bolting the convention. Their grand fizzle of a mass convention is the laughing stock of all parties as it deserves to be. NOTICE The elevator will only be open on Friday and Saturday of each week, hereafter. NOTICE From and after the 11th of August, the elevator in Holyoke will be open for business and we will be prepared to handle grain of all kinds. H.C. Smith SPEND THE SUMMER MONTHS in Platte Canon on the South Park branch of the Union Pacific Ry., Deansbury, Buffalo, Pine Grove or Crystal Lake. Cool, delightful and near to Denver; two trains daily - cheap rates, best camping and fishing in the state. NOTICE There will be a meeting of the executive committee of the teacher’s institute at the county Superintendent’s office on Saturday September 27th, at 2 o’clock p.m. to arrange a program, and transact such other business that may come before it. C.R. PETER, Ex. Com. THE SHORT LINE EAST is the Union Pacific Ry. Only line running solid vestibule trains Denver to Chicago via Council Bluffs and Kansas City. Free reclining chair cars; elegant day coaches. All meals served in dining cars between Denver and Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago, St. Paul, Salt Lake and Portland, at the popular price of seventy-five cents. Owing to recent rich strikes in the mines at Tin Cup, Colorado, a large travel has begun. Tin Cup is on the Denver Leadville and Gunison District U.P. Ry. Fourteen miles from St. Elmo Williards Stage Line runs daily except Sunday leaving St. Elmo for Tin Cup 8 a.m. fare $2.50. This is the only route Tin Cup can be reached from east of the range. Stage Line facilities are ample. G.W. Atkinson, Agent A rate of one lowest first-class fare for the round trip is authorized via the Ft. W. & D. C. R’y, on September 9th, from all points on the Gulf Division to all points within the state of Texas. This rate is made to enable homeseekers to inspect especially the lands now open for settlement in the Pan-Handle of Texas. Copies of our “Agricultural Resources,” and “Farmer’s Guide to Prosperity,” treating on the lands situated along the line of the Ft. W. & D.C. R’y, may be obtained upon application to the undersigned. Tickets will be limited to 30 days from date of issue, and will permit stop-over in either direction. George Ady, General Passenger Agent GLEANINGS FROM 6-44 A killing frost Friday night. Becca Reynolds is sick with the fever at Lexington, Nebraska. Briggs brothers of 7-42 were threshing in this vicinity last week. Eggs seventeen cents per dozen. An old hen is worth more than a cow these days. Wheat averaged four bushels to the acre hereabouts. Not a heavy yield, but we are surely upon the “up grade” to get even the seed back. What would people do for excitement were it not for the annual political campaigns. Heavy floods bringing ruin to the ungathered crops and everything moveable, are reported in southern New York in localities well known to us. The test Phillips County sugar beets of thirteen per cent was a good showing considering the conditions of their growth. Ours had been beaten into the ground and riddled by hail at least a half dozen times, beside the damage by droth, and this was doubtless the experience of all who sent samples to Grand Island. We hope to see experiments on a large scale attempted another year. Lexington, Nebraska is moving for water works since their late fire in which over thirty horses were cremated. We sympathize with that city on the ditch question, which, without doubt, was the main cause of Holyoke’s unhealthfulness last year. But, to be told as were we a number of times while on a trip down the B. & M. road late in the fall, that “Holyoke had thirty-seven deaths in seven days” was too much for our usually placid equanimity, and we denounced the rumor as a base slander upon the Magic City of the Frenchman Valley. A picnic at Fairview and a photographic sceance by Powers at the same place are on the tapis for the 25th inst. - L.M.B. AD - LOOK! LOOK! LOOK! At The Low Prices on Dry Goods, I SINK THE KNIFE Still deeper in high prices and cut them down so the poor can have good goods as well as the rich. LIVE AND LET LIVE Is my motto, and by thus doing we Whoop-Em’-Up. New goods continually arriving and by these Means I Whoop-Em’-Up. Yours Anxious to Please, A.J. BAKER AD - TO THE FARMERS, We have been disappointed, as well as most of our farmers, on the outcome of this year’s harvest. We had anticipated an abundant harvest and had figured accordingly; we bought largely in the eastern markets and have our store crowded with fresh new goods. We now see our mistake as our farmers will not reap as they expected, and in view of the fact that there is no money in the country to buy these goods, we have decided to take young cattle same as cash in payments for goods for a limited time, at the GOLDEN EAGLE CASH STORE. We are truly yours, B.A. HOSKINS, Mg’r. AD - DON’T WATCH This Space But Come In And See My Goods - A. HYATT AD - L. Tinkle, President. R.E. Webster, Cashier. HOLYOKE STATE BANK Capital, $25,000. A General Banking Business done. Collections promptly made on all accessible Points. The Bank is provided with a good Vault and Solid Chrome Steel Safe Guarded by Sargeant & Greenleaf Improved Locks. Correspondents: Omaha National Bank, Omaha, Neb.; Union Bank, Denver, Colo.; Kountze Bros., New York. HOLYOKE, COLORADO Page Four TRUSTEE’S SALE Whereas, Sarah A. Moore and Perry Moore, of the county of Phillips and state of Colorado on the 18th day of December A.D., 1888, by their certain deed of trust of that date, which is recorded in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of Logan County, Colorado, in Book 11, Page 348, of the records of said Logan County, conveyed to R.E. Webster, as trustee, or in case of death, resignation, removal from the county or failure to act, or other inability of said R.E. Webster, then to Charles B. Timberlake as successor in trust, the following described property, situate in the county of Logan, now in the county of Phillips, state of Colorado, to-wit: The north half (n½) and the southwest quarter (sw¼) and the north quarter (n¼) of the southeast quarter (se¼)of the northeast quarter (ne¼) of section thirteen (13) to township seven (7) north range forty-five (45) west, together with all and singular the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging, in trust to secure the payment of two certain promissory notes of even date with said deed of trust signed by Sarah Moore, Perry Moore, C.H. Moore and Emma Moore, one note for seventy-two dollars ($72) payable to the order of Theodore D. Tipton six months after date with interest at three per cent per month after maturity and one note for four hundred and seventy-two dollars ($472) payable to the order of Theodore D. Tipton one year from date with interest at three per cent per month from maturity. And whereas, it was provided in said deed of trust that in case of default in payment of said notes or any part thereof, or interest thereon, that said trustee should proceed to sell and dispose of said premises in the manner and for the use and purposes provided in said deed of trust. And, whereas, default has been made in the payment of the principal of said last above mentioned note no part thereof having been paid and also the interest. Now, therefore, I, R.E. Webster, trustee, or in case of death, resignation, removal from the county or failure to act or other inability of said Webster, then I, Charles B. Timberlake successor in trust as aforesaid will, on the 9th day of September A.D., 1890, at the front door of the State Bank in Holyoke, in the county of Phillips and state of Colorado, at the hour of twelve (12) o’clock, noon, sell the above described property for the highest and best price the same will bring in cash at public auction subject to a trust deed of $4*0 and interested on the northeast quarter (ne¼) section thirteen (13) T. seven (7) N.R. forty-five (45) W to pay said note, with all interest charges, taxes advanced and all costs and expenses of this trust. - R.E. Webster, Trustee, Charles B. Timberlake, Successor in Trust. EDITORIAL The republican county convention convened at the court house, in Holyoke, Saturday forenoon, September 13th, pursuant to the call with a full delegation from each precinct. The convention was called to order by the chairman of the county central committee. Oscar Troutman, H.H. Mason and P. Raymond were placed in nomination for temporary chairman and, on a vote being taken H.H. Mason was elected chairman by a vote of 17 to 4. Joseph Cleland was elected temporary chairman by a unanimous vote. The call for the convention was then read by the secretary. On motion the following committees were appointed by the chairman. Committee on credentials C.M. Pickett, P. Raymond and J.L. Wilson. Committee on resolution C.B. Timberlake, E.E. Brannon and J.H. Painter. Committee on order of business F.M. Smith, A. Holmes and Oscar Troutman. On motion the convention adjourned to meet at 1:30 p.m. The afternoon session was called to order by chairman Mason when the committee on credentials reported the following named persons as entitled to a seat in the convention as delegates. Precinct No. 1, E.F. Money, S.W. Briggs and J.M. Cullis as proxy for W.R. Whitney. Precinct No. 2, C.B. Timberlake, J.H. Painter, P. Raymond, E.E. Brannon, R.R. Blair, F.M. Smith, Gade Weaver and S.H. Johnson as proxy for S.T. Hibbs. No. 3, H.H. Mason, C.M. Dille, J.L. Wilson and Oscar Troutman. No. 4, August Holmes, Edwin Angelo, A.H. Hendrickson and Charles Peterson. No. 5, Fred Hawks, C.M. Pickett, W.R. Blystone and J.S. Lawrence. No. 6, J.P. Cleland, William Lane and T.D. Tipton. Report of committee on credentials was unanimously adopted. The committee on order of business recommended that the temporary organization be made permanent; second that the convention hear the report of committee on platform and resolutions; third the appointment of a committee to recommend six delegates to the state convention; fourth the appointment of a committee to recommend five delegates to the senatorial convention; fifth nomination of sheriff; sixth nomination of commissioner; seventh selection of precinct committeemen. The report of committee was unanimously adopted. The committee on platform and resolutions made their report a copy of which is given below which was adopted by the convention. J.M. Cullis, Fred Hawks and S.H. Johnson were appointed by the chair as committee to recommend delegates to state convention and T.D. Tipton, P. Raymond and C.M. Dille as committee to recommend delegates to the senatorial convention. While the convention was awaiting the report of committees, speeches were made by several members of the convention. The committee on delegates to the state convention recommended as delegates to the state convention, H.H. Mason, F.M. Smith, J.P. Cleland, C.B. Timberlake, J.M. Cullis and J.H. Painter. A motion prevailed that two names be added to the committee and the committee sent out to bring in report. August Holmes, of precinct 4, and J.L. Wilson, of precinct 3, were added to the committee. The committee on senatorial delegates recommended T.D. Tipton, S.W. Beggs, E.F. Money, Fred Hawks and A.H. Hendrickson and report was adopted. The new committee on delegates to state convention returned with the same report as the former committee and on motion the report was adopted and the names reported declared to be the choice of the convention. On informal ballot for sheriff, Fred Hawks received 12 votes and August Holmes 11. Before taking a formal ballot, a resolution was adopted by the convention pledging the candidates on the county republican ticket to a reduction of 40 per cent of per diem fees and 50 per cent of mileage fees. The two candidates were then called upon to state to the convention whether they would accept the nomination on that platform and Fred Hawks stated that he would but Mr. Holmes refused to accept a nomination on that platform. The vote resulted in the election of Fred Hawks by a vote of 20 to 2 and, on motion, nomination was made unanimous. M.D. Copp was nominated for commissioner by the unanimous vote of the convention and when called before the convention accepted the nomination. The following were selected as committeemen. No. 1 E.S. Briggs, 2 J.M. Cullis, 3 G.W. Garland, 4 A.H. Hendrickson, 5 James Bryant, 6 J.P. Cleland. The following are the resolutions adopted by the convention. The republicans of Phillips County, Colorado, in convention assembled, reaffirming their devotion to the grand principles in behalf of which their party has achieved the most illustrious triumphs recorded in American history and declare: First. That we heartily endorse the administration of President Harrison for its happy combination of prudence and energy and for its faithful performance of the pledges made to the people, and for its brilliant achievement in refunding the public debt. Second. We commend most heartily the honest and faithful efforts of Speaker Reed in his fearless and successful mode of transacting business, notwithstanding the combined efforts of the entire democracy to the contrary. Third. We reaffirm, “that to the union soldiers and sailors of the late war we owe a debt that cannot be computed. We therefore heartily endorse the administration of President Harrison for granting pensions and establishing homes for all such as are disable or in want. We denounce the actions of the democratic party for their constant opposition to every progressive measure that has been introduced by a republican congress. We denounce their actions in the House in their opposition to the rulings of Speaker Reed, thereby delaying the business of said body and prolonging the session to an unwarranted length. We denounce them for their opposition to the dependent pension bill; for their opposition to their federal election bill; for their opposition to the compromise silver bill. We protest against the violent and fraudulent schemes of the democratic party to suppress the republican votes in the southern states, as unjust, unconstitutional and indefensible, as a standing menace to the experiment of an elective government, as grossly unfair to the northern states, in as much, as it results in counting the republican voters as the basis of representation in congress and the electoral college, and then excluding them from taking part in the elections, as breeding contempt for the ballot box and as tending to the most serious and alarming consequences. We denounce them for their opposition to the admission to statehood of such empires as the Dakotas, Wyoming, Washington, Montana and Idaho. We denounce the actions of the democratic party in opposing the location of U.S. Land Offices in the western states, the defeat of which bills would have meant greater hardships to the homesteaders of this country. With equal earnestness we condemn the seventh general assembly of Colorado for their flagrant disregard of their pledges made to the people of the state: for their reckless and indiscriminate expenditure of the people’s money for their own ease and comfort, their only actions being to make unjust and unwarrantable appropriations of the people’s money, to ignore appropriations that would have been for the benefit of the people. For their flagrant disregard of the wishes of the farmers of eastern Colorado, in ignoring their petition for a local option herd law. We condemn them for their disregard of the wishes of the people of the state for the repeal of the exorbitant fee system of Colorado. For the passage of a bill providing for a more efficient means of collecting the military poll tax, the same being unjust, unconstitutional and passed for the express purpose of extorting money from the farming community and laborers of the state, for the support of the state militia, which is an unjust burden upon the people. We demand that the next legislature pass an optional herd law. We demand the passage by the next legislature of a law whereby the Australian ballot system of voting will be used in this state. We demand that the next legislature take such steps as will best promote and encourage irrigation for the arid lands of Colorado. We demand a faithful and economical administration of the entire state government; also the passage by the next legislature of such amendments to the existing laws, as will provide, under the proper guaranty to the security of the state, for the deposit in banks, subject to the order of the state treasurer of such parts of the general funds of the state not required for immediate use, and of the trust funds temporarily awaiting investment. All interest on such deposits to go to the respective funds. We also demand the same law shall apply to the county treasurers. The republican party has always stood as a friend of labor against all who would either oppress or oppose it, and every measure which will protect the laborer, either state or national, from dangerous foreign competition or improve or dignify his condition at home, will meet with our unqualified approval. Unswerving in our hostility to anarchism, socialism and communism, we favor such wise and patriotic legislation that may insure that harmony which ought always prevail between employee and employer. We recognize the right of all men by association to promote their mutual good and protection in any and every way that does not infringe upon the rights of others. We do most earnestly demand that all state and county officials be paid a reasonable and fixed salary. We believe in the republican doctrine of tariff, not only for revenue, but also for the protection and development of American labor. We demand in behalf of the great mining interests of our great state the free and unlimited coinage of silver. We are opposed to all trusts and combinations which tend to the centralization of wealth and to increase the burdens of the farmer and laboring class. We commend our Colorado delegation for their earnest and masterly fight for the silver bill. We condemn the raising of the taxable valuation of the homesteader’s property of the county nearly $100,000. We especially condemn the county officials who have failed or refused refund the per cent of their fees agreed upon. Resolved, That this republican convention do ask and insist that the nominees of this convention pledge themselves and are, by this resolution pledged, to the following reduction of fees allowed by law; a reduction of 40 per cent of their per diem and 50 per cent of their mileage. AD - AMERICAN HOTEL - N.B. Woodruff, Proprietor. Rates Reasonable. Accommodations First-Class in Every Particular. Holyoke, Colorado ================================================================= All files are contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archives Project (http://www.usgwarchives.net/). 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