NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 16 Jan 1891, Vol IV - No 23 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1891/91jan16.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 9 May 2007 ====================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado J.H. PAINTER Editor & Publisher 16 Jan 1891, Friday, Vol. IV - No. 23 Page One LOCAL LORE It is our purpose to note the arrival and departure of all guests to our city, and request those who have visitors to inform us of the fact. Local news items are always thankfully received. J.P. Cleland took a trip to Leadville last week on business. Jo O’Shea has been promoted and is now night operator at Wallace, Nebraska. Miss Alice Cavenaugh is visiting this week with friends at Holdrege, Nebraska. Attorney Bennett spent several days at Lamar, Nebraska this week, trying a case. The B & M ice house is being filled this week with ice from the lake at Curtis, Nebraska. Miss Grace Whitham returned, Tuesday, to Holdrege where she is attending school. Brannon was not at the G.A.R. supper, but sent in his check for $2.00 this morning to the Post. Great interest in the revival meetings at the M.E. church is being shown by the people of the town. John Rooney is having his ice house filled this week. J.B. Lamar is furnishing the ice from his lake. Will Ferril, of Denver, was in Holyoke last Saturday, gathering the facts for a history of Colorado. A. Wannfried, the jolly traveling agent of the Western Newspaper Union was in Holyoke last Saturday. Willis Dickerson, with his mother and sister, took the east bound train Monday for a visit with friends at Lincoln, Nebraska. The Holyoke Aid Society received a shipment of clothing this week from the Denver Aid Society, to be distributed among the needy in the county. The man who said “it never snows in eastern Colorado” cannot be found. He has evidently locked himself in his closet to do penance for his lies. The readers of Williams’ paper should certainly be enjoying good health for he has been feeding them on patent medicine ads now, for a long time. John Jones recently brought to this office some wedding cake sent to him from England by his niece. We feel highly favored to be treated to English wedding cake. DIED - Thursday morning, January 15, Dora Krueger, age 20 months. Little Dora was the daughter of Robert and Annie Krueger. She was sick but a short time. The parents have the sympathy of all in their bereavement. G.P. Kellogg, a former resident of this county, now residing at Sundance, Wyoming stopped off a day at Holyoke this week on his way to Beatrice, Nebraska. Mr. Kellogg was elected to the office of state representative in Wyoming and at the last session was chosen Speaker of the House. Mr. Kellogg owns land in this county and is interested in the development of the country. There was a meeting of the board of county commissioners last Tuesday. M.D. Copp assumed the duties of his office on that day and seemed as much at home as though he had had experience in that line before. Francis was elected chairman and he now assumes such a dignified air that common, every day people feel very modest in his presence. A man came into Conkling’s livery stable the other day, with a four footed animal, and accosted George as follows: “Here is a horse that belongs to Wickersham.” George, at first, suspicioned that some one had been working Wick for a sucker in a horse trade, but upon further investigation ascertained that the four footed animal in question was none other than the far famed B & M mule, recently transported to Holyoke to aid in elevating congealed water into the ice house. We have it from a very reliable source that McDonald has recently, actually been engaged at hard, physical labor. Our weather reporter has all the time insisted that when the matter was sifted to the bottom some good and sufficient cause for the late unusual snow storm would be found. This last report solves the mystery. The committee consisting of H.H. Mason, C. Varney and W.E. Pugh, appointed by Judge Downer to examine the books of County Treasurer B.A. Hoskins, devoted four days to a thorough examination of the books and handed in their report showing that the books are correct to a cent. Treasurer Hoskins has kept the business of the office in good shape ever since he assumed the duties of the office. A country editor in Colorado should always make it a point to cultivate the friendship of the undertaker, for sooner or later, if a limited diet fails to cause him to pass in his checks, the victim of some innocent newspaper article will enter the office and to avenge his insulted dignity insist upon using the editor’s head for a football. We are on good terms with the undertaker. We are informed that the B & M managers have refused to handle free of charge the provisions donated to the needy settlers of eastern Colorado. If this is the case, the state of affairs must certainly not be fully understood by the B & M managers. They have heretofore been very liberal in giving aid of this nature and we see no reason why they would make such a radical change in their dealings with the people in matters of this kind if the matter were fully understood by them. The G.A.R. supper held last evening was a very enjoyable affair. The hall was crowded and all seemed to be highly interested and entertained by the program of speeches, recitations and music prepared for the occasion. The ladies had prepared baskets containing supper for two and these were sold to the highest bidder who had the privilege of eating supper with the lady furnishing the basket. There was realized from the sale of the baskets between thirty or forty dollars. Everyone seemed to have a jolly, good time. Why not have such gatherings oftener? Williams, in this week’s issue of the NEWS, makes a most pathetic and pitiful appeal to the democrats to stand by his paper. It is possible that the democrats are not doing their duty by the democratic color bearer of the Frenchman? It has not been very long since he was boasting the best paper in north-eastern Colorado and, if his boast was well founded, what has taken place to cause this falling off of his patronage which has called forth this political appeal to his brethren. Can it be that the passage of the McKinley bill has had anything to do with bringing about this state of affairs? As, from Williams’ view of the matter, the McKinley bill has caused everything to rise, it may be possible that it has also caused his patrons to rise up and leave him. Let us have a company of home guards to protect us from straggling bands of Indians Arms and ammunition is needed here badly. The G.A.R. has applied to the Governor of this state for arms. - PHILLIPS COUNTY NEWS What is the matter with Williams, any how. If he is as nervous and excited as the above article indicates, we advise him to take a dose of soothing syrup at once before he gets any worse. We have no more need for a home guard at Holyoke to protect us against the Indians than Williams has for a larger supply of downright foolish notions. There is not a band of Indians within five hundred miles of here that are making any hostile demonstrations whatever and the frontier is so well guarded now that, should the Indians attempt to make a raid through this country, they cannot reach us. The people here are just as safe from any trouble from the Indians as the people of Iowa are. We are informed that the inquiry was made of the G.A.R. Post as to whether they would go to Dakota to aid in the India war, if needed, and that the reply was made that they would go, if provision was made for them. A newspaper man, who will deliberately send out such a report as this in the NEWS without any foundation for it, should have a guardian appointed to take care of him. We shall not be surprised now to hear, most any time, of Williams getting up a ghost dance all by himself. SILVER WEDDING Between forty and fifty neighbors and friends surprised Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Bevard at their home, Saturday evening, January 3d, the 25th anniversary of their wedded life, and proceeded at once to celebrate the occasion in a fitting manner. Mr. William Kipling, in behalf of the assembled company, presented the surprised couple with a beautiful silver cake stand. Mr. C.C. Bevard responded in a speech (not political). After the speech making the company partook of an excellent supper which had been prepared by the ladies for the occasion. All present seemed to enjoy the occasion very much and at a late hour left for their homes wishing Mr. and Mrs. Bevard another 25 years of happy married life. - A GUEST We have some enterprising hunters in Holyoke who are not to be outdone when it comes to relating wonderful feats of marksmanship. One of the aforesaid hunters recently, while relating his exploits to an interested and attentive audience, said; “I once shot a couple of Guinea pigs on the wing.” This was too much for the credulity of even a hunter’s audience and an uproar of laughter soon followed this assertion. One of the audience very innocently inquired if these birds had feathers. “Of course they had, you fool, you, what do you take me for,” replied the undaunted hunter. At this point in the discussion it was timidly suggested by a meek looking little fellow in the outskirts of the crowd, that it might be barely possible that the hunter meant to say Guinea fowl instead of swine. “Well” replied the hunter, “I know they were Guinea something.” We received the following on a postal card through the mail this week: “York, Nebraska, January 13, 1891. I saw a car load of Phillips County “fine” hogs on Omaha market yesterday. When being removed from yard and turned into the street from exchange building they looked like a flock of snow birds.” - W.D. Post It might be well to explain that this is the same lot of hogs purchased by E.E. Brannon at sheriff’s sale for attaching client and by him shipped to Omaha. Brannon says that they were a fine lot of hogs and there is no question, but he was correct for we are credibly informed that it was necessary to stop the cracks in the car to keep them from losing out. We desire to say that these were not a fair sample of Phillips County swine, but their diminutive size was entirely owing to the fact that they have for some time been fed and treated by the Temple Brothers according to their newly discovered receipt for condensing pork for shipment. TREASURER’S REPORT County Treasurer’s Semi annual Statement to Board of County Commissioners: Receipts Cash on hand, July 1, 1889 $13579.44 Special school funds $658.70 General school funds $1361.80 Building school funds $104.19 Contingent fund $720.95 General county fund, 1889 tax $2098.11 State fund, 1889 tax $115.30 Poor fund, 1889 tax $144.19 Warrant call No. 4 $54.02 Warrant call No. 5 $1953.15 Warrant call No. 6 $2702.90 Redemption fund $1615.04 Interest $179.83 Military poll 1889 tax $29.50 Fines $1.00 Certificate fund $1131.05 Holyoke City $392.31 General county fund 1890 tax $340.49 General county school fund $755.20 State fund 1890 tax $69.84 Military poll $21.00 County poll $148.00 Total $28176.01 Disbursements Special school funds $2735.82 General school funds $1894.36 Building school funds $606.86 Contingent fund $113.72 General county fund, tax 1889 $4725.03 State fund, tax 1889 $848.96 Poor fund, tax 1889 $836.25 Warrant call, No. 3 $957.04 Warrant call No. 4 $297.69 Warrant call No. 5 $1953.15 Warrant call No. 6 $2686.20 Redemption fund $1668.69 Interest $964.21 Military poll 1889 tax $71.50 Fines $11 Certificate fund $1192.03 Holyoke City $411.65 General county school fund $1218.95 State fund, 1890 tax $9.00 Military poll $1.00 County poll $840.55 Cash on hand January 1, 1894 $4632.35 Total $28176.01 - B.A. Hoskins, County Treasurer Page Four There is a call out for an Irrigation Convention to be held at McCook, Nebraska, Wednesday, January 28. This convention is to be composed of two delegates from each precinct in the following named counties: Keith, Lincoln, Dawson, Frontier, Hitchcock, Red Willow, Furnace and Perkins in Nebraska and Cheyenne, Rawlins, Decatur, Sherman and Thomas in Kansas and Logan in Colorado. No mention is made of Phillips County, but we are satisfied that representatives from this county would be admitted to the convention if our people should express a desire to take part in the convention. This is undoubtedly a move in the right direction and we hope to hear of an enthusiastic convention that will do much to advance the cause of irrigation in this section of the country. Phillips should, by all means, be represented at this convention. We have no doubt that it was through some mistake that Phillips and Sedgwick counties were omitted from the list of counties to take part in the convention for it is not probable that those calling the convention would intentionally omit two counties lying between Logan and the Nebraska line. The people of the county should select representatives to the convention and there will be no question about their being admitted. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First publication January 16, 1891) No 98 Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, January 15, 1891 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of is intention to make final proof in support of his claim and that said proof will be made before the Clerk of the District Court of Phillips County, Colorado, at Holyoke, Colorado, on February 21st, 1891 viz: GEORGE S. WILLSON, Hd E No 7531 for the ne ¼ sec 8, tp 7 n, in r No 44 w. 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