NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 30 Jan 1891, Vol IV - No 25 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1891/91jan30.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 9 May 2007 ====================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado J.H. PAINTER Editor & Publisher 30 Jan 1891, Friday, Vol. IV - No. 25 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. Sleigh bells are jingling on the street today. Fifty thousand brick for sale by C. Varney. E.E. Brannon went to Denver the first of the week. J.P. Cleland took the train Wednesday for a trip to Salt Lake City. It is reported that a new time card will go into effect on the B & M Sunday. Attorneys Bennett and Dempster went to Lamar, Tuesday to try a law suit. Arch Yaple came down from Denver Saturday on a short visit to his family. The Phillips County Aid Society received a car load of coal from Denver this week. Alex Cleland returned to Holyoke Tuesday from Kearney, Nebraska, where he has been for some time. Fred Peterson, who has been visiting friends at Holyoke for some time, left Monday for Denver. A very common question among the B & M boys this week is, “when do you go out?” Another good snow and the farmers feel jubilant over the prospect for a good crop the coming season. Every farmer should make arrangements to put in as many acres of crop as possible the coming spring. B.F. Raymond and W.A. Broughton, of Haxtun, were in attendance upon county court yesterday. Lester Gillett returned last week from Burlington, Iowa, where he recently completed a full course of study in the business college of that city. G.F. Greenwood and wife will leave the latter part of this week for Cozad, Nebraska, where they expect to remain several weeks. The county commissioners have recently added a much needed convenience to the county clerk’s room in the court house in the way of a private office. Truman Hibbs, C.W. Kinnan, Will Albertshardt, Dr. R.R. Blair, John Miller, Alfred Neolean, J.C. Aikin, P.W. Warnock and Robert Cummings have recently added their names to the HERALD list. Mrs. John Kidd canvassed the town this week with a subscription paper and raised something over $50.00 for Revs. Bailey and Richards. This was certainly very thoughtful of Mrs. Kidd and she is deserving of much credit. The revival services are still in progress and a number have professed conversion. Rev. L.L. Kneeland the Baptist minister from Sterling has been aiding in the meetings several days this week. We are informed that the B & M will economize by taking off some of the trains on the Cheyenne line. The B & M boys are authority for the consoling information that, even should all of the other trains be taken off, Wick’s mule and the sand car will be left with us. C.W. Kinnan took the train for Maywood, Indiana Wednesday, where he intends to make his future home. He has been a resident of the county for three years and has many acquaintances and friends who wish him well. Before leaving he had his name placed on the HERALD roll and will keep posted on the progress of the county. Williams says: “Our vindictiveness does not rise to the equal of the little one on the HERALD and we are thankful for it.” Poor Williams, he must be getting childish, since he imagines that every attempted pleasantry at his expense is prompted by a vindictive spirit. We feel for him and imagine that we occasionally reach him, judging by the way he squeals. Rev. S.W. Thornton, Presiding Elder of the M.E. church for this district, was in Holyoke over Sunday and conducted the quarterly meeting services. Rev. Thornton preached one of the finest communion sermons Sunday morning that it has ever been our fortune to hear. His sermons, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings were heart searching. Two printers have lately been kicked out, or sent away empty from the HERALD office, and because we gave them some money to buy a meal or two, Painter twits us of being in the loan business. How ungenerous that, Painter. Now hear what he has to say to this charge. - Phillips County News. Yes, we plead guilty to the charge of having recently dismissed a tramp print, empty handed, from our editorial sanctum. The aforesaid print expressed a desire to borrow fifty cents on long time security without interest, when we very politely informed him that, judging from the smell of his breath, we were of the impression that he had inadvertently gotten into the wrong loan office and we very kindly directed him to the sanctum of the democratic “Sage of the Frenchman,” stating, as we did so, that that office had a monopoly on al democratic loans such as he was in quest of. In the case of the People vs. W.G. Helland, malicious mischief, taken on change of venue to Julesburg and tried in the District Court last week, the jury rendered a verdict of guilty and the defendant was sentenced to fifteen days in the county jail. W.C. Powers has at his photograph gallery an Indian pipe, a pair of moccasins and a war club which were picked up on the battlefield at Wounded Knee. All he needs to get up a ghost dance is a real live Indian. This it will be rather difficult to obtain, but as a substitute he might secure the services of the “Indian fighter” of the Phillips County News, who no doubt would be quite a drawing card as, Chief “Much-afraid-of-red-man’s-shadow.” You will see in this issue of the HERALD a letter from E.E.T. Hazen in defense of the acts of the Phillips County Aid Society in distributing provisions and clothing to the needy. The committee need no defense for their unselfish and untiring labors in a work where it is impossible to please all, cannot but receive the hearty approval of all fair minded people. Some of the committee have devoted much time and attention to this work hoping for and expecting no other reward for their labor than the satisfaction of knowing that they had done what they could in the work of aiding the needy and we are satisfied that, if any one who has applied for aid feels that he has not been treated fairly, either he is mistaken or his case was not thoroughly understood by the committee. The committee are all fair minded men and we are satisfied that they have, in every case, dealt fairly with applicants so far as they understand the needs of the case. The prospect for raising a good crop in this county the coming season is certainly very encouraging at this time. If we had had rain two weeks earlier last spring, there is no question, but that a good crop of small grain would have been raised, but the ground was so dry all winter that the grain did not start to grow till the rains came about the middle of April and this was too late to make a crop. The snows that we have had already have moistened the ground to such an extent that vegetation will start as soon as the weather becomes warm enough and this will insure a good crop of small grain and make the prospect of a corn crop good. With such a favorable prospect before the farmers of the county for the coming season, certainly nothing should be left undone that will in any way tend to insure a supply of seed grain to every farmer who is unable to buy. This matter should be laid before the state legislature in its most favorable light. Some of our citizens seem to think that all that is necessary to do, is to lay the matter before the legislature and an appropriation will be made, but they must remember that some of the members from the irrigated parts of the state are prejudiced against the rain belt and never have had any faith in the ultimate success of agriculture in this part of the state. These members will, no doubt, oppose an appropriation for seed and it will require good work and a thorough explanation of the good prospects for a crop the coming season in order to secure an appropriation. The following letter was handed us for publication: “While connected with the executive committee of the Phillips County Aid Society for procuring charities etc. I am not a member of the custodian or distributing committee and can therefore speak of their work impartially, and without prejudice. It would be impossible for an inhabitant of the celestial regions to please all, especially in the distribution of charities, or to be imposed upon by parties not in need, yet I am both happy and proud to say that during a five days presence in the committee room my observation convinced me that in distributing the charities, the committee acted conscientiously and impartially, and more general satisfaction could not be given nor more merited praise bestowed upon men for impartial and judicious distribution, than has been accorded the committee at Holyoke by the recipients, nor could more hearty expressions of gratitude be bestowed upon the donors and those through whose hands the needy have received the much needed aid. The hearty “God bless the good people of Denver for their prompt and liberal response to our appeal,” and “God bless the home committee for their impartiality in distributing” that we hear from the recipients, whose lips are unused to prayer, is not only enough to bring moisture to the eyes of the most callous, but the need of praise bestowed by many should be a balm to the wounded feelings caused by the very few who, after receiving a liberal share of the aid sent to Western Nebraska, came to Holyoke and by libelous accusations, threats of judicial investigation, accompanied by oaths most profane, highly perfumed with bad whiskey, tried to browbeat our worthy custodians and frighten them into passing over into their hands, goods for a destitute neighbor (?) (living some ten or twelve miles from them) who had already been several times supplied through a more trustworthy and much nearer neighbor. The assertion that “the custodians are lining their pockets” need be mentioned only to receive the brand of falsehood. The only advantage that can be conceived as accruing to the utterer of such slanders would be his immunity from death from the bite of a serpent, as it is said that when a slanderer is so bitten, the serpent dies, but the slanderer lives to continue his satanic majesty’s dirty work. It is said by those who have gone through times of destitution in the early settlement of other states that a more prompt response, not a more judicious distribution they have never witnessed than that of Eastern Colorado at the present time.” - E.E.T. Hazen The following correspondence was received too late for publication last week. BEACHVILLE Fine winter weather. Frank Burkhalter was visiting among friends in this vicinity the past week. Mrs. M. and Mary Peter have changed their pre-emptions into homesteads the past week. How about the rival spelling school last Friday evening? We guess it was way-up in “high five.” Oscar Trego was down from Denver for a few days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Troutman were the guests of Mary Peter last Tuesday. One morning last week Oscar T. called attention to his wife that there were a herd of antelope around Frank Berkhalter’s place, but which soon proved that instead of antelope it was a pack of hungry homesteaders who had spent the night with him and ate up all his provisions, smoked up his choice tobacco and committed many other little depredations. Be careful boys or you may be taken for “dears” next time. Beachville was under blockade by the big snow fall last week. But very little communication with outside points as well as at home - OLD MISERY FAIRVIEW Roads have been nearly blockaded with snow. I think we can boast of as much snow this winter as some of the eastern states. After an intermission of a few weeks we will have Sunday school and literary again. William Stout, of Nebraska, who has been visiting his brother, R.S. Stout, left for his home the 22nd. Mr. and Mrs. Pollock, of Holyoke, are visiting with A.C. Cauble for a few days. The Wakeman mail carrier has made regular trips in spite of the cold and snow. A.L. Burdette was at Champion last week. Mr. Hazen spends a portion of his time in Holyoke as one of the executive committee of the aid society. A good many homesteaders were made thankful as well as comfortable by the generous gift of 500 lbs of coal apiece. We wish the donors prosperity and happiness; hope that in this case it was more blessed to give than to receive. Mr. Kuner of Denver should also receive thanks for his generous donation which I am sure is highly appreciated. Many thanks are due to the citizens of Denver who have responded so liberally to the call for aid in this time of eastern Colorado’s need. - GUESS WHO LAWS GOVERNING PAYMENT OF TAXES No personal demand for taxes shall be necessary, but it is the duty of every person subject to taxation to attend at the office of the County Treasurer between the first day of November and the last day of February of each year and pay his taxes. Treasurer shall give certificate of taxes due on payment of fees. All taxes become delinquent March 1st, after which they draw interest at 25 per cent per annum. If not paid before April 20th, an additional penalty of 10 per cent is added for advertising. On or before the first Monday in June of each year the Treasurer is directed to offer at public sale at his (the Treasurer’s) office in his county, all lands on which the tax is levied the preceding year, or any preceding year still remaining unpaid; but such sale shall not be void if not made until after the day named. Taxes are payable only in cash. - B.A. Hoskins, County Treasurer NOTICE. The elevator will only be open on Friday and Saturday of each week, hereafter. Page Four AMHERST Mr. Will Kortright is carrying his arm in a sling; cause, inflammatory rheumatism. Frank Spink, who was taken with typhoid fever last fall, is reported very low. Allen Vandyke is having a well put down on his claim: R. Cooperider is dong the work. Mr. C is a good hand and understands the business. Every one is talking of hard times, but one cannot go to Amherst with out finding Ray Taylor’s store full of customers. Mr. Taylor does a cash business and sells as many good as any store of its size in the county. - TOM NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First publication January 30, 1891) No. 101 Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, January 22, 1891 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Register or Receiver at Sterling, Colorado, on March 9, 1891, viz: EDGAR WARTENBE, Hd No C343 for the se qr sec 34 tp 8 n range 46w. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of, said land, viz: Charles Chaney, Holyoke, Colorado George W. Huffman Jr. Holyoke, Colorado William M. McVey, Holyoke, Colorado Alvin Larson, Holyoke, Colorado Any person who desires to protest against the allowance of such proof, or who knows of any substantial reason, under the law and the regulations of the Interior Department, why such proof should not be allowed, will be given an opportunity at the above mentioned time and place to cross-examine the witnesses of said claimant, and to offer evidence in rebuttal of that submitted by claimant. - H.E. Tedmon, Register ================================================================= All files are contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archives Project (http://www.usgwarchives.net/). USGenWeb Archives Project NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial researchers, as long as the source and contributor name remains on all copied material. 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