NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 20 Mar 1891, Vol IV - No 32 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1891/91mar20.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 18 May 2007 ====================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado J.H. PAINTER Editor & Publisher 20 Mar 1891, Friday, Vol. IV - No. 32 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. City election two weeks from next Tuesday. R.B. Huckleberry returned from McCook Tuesday. Otto Tinkle took the train Monday for a trip to Montrose. Mrs. N.B. Woodruff came down from Denver, Wednesday. J.B. Gordon came down from Denver Thursday on a business trip. Jerome Lewis took the train yesterday for a trip to Nebraska. Commissioner Copp returned last Friday from a trip to eastern Nebraska. NOTICE - I will take cattle to herd the coming season. - A.L. Burdette Mrs. W.C. Powers has been quite sick for some time, but is now improving rapidly. The Holyoke aid committee received a box of clothing and shoes from Denver this week. Alanson Wilson left Holyoke for Denver last Tuesday where he expects to find work. In the case of Gillett Bros. vs. T.D. Tipton et all, Justice Churning found for the defendants. Elijah Heller returned to Holyoke Wednesday from Denver where he has been for some time. E.N. McPherrin spent a couple of days at Sterling this week making corrections in the tax sale records. Rev. .L. Kneeland of Sterling will preach at the Baptist church next Sunday morning and evening. Several of the fire boys failed to hear the fire bell Monday morning and knew nothing of the fire till day light. Jo O’Shea has been given the position of B & M agent at Hudson, Colorado and he left Holyoke Saturday for that place. J.L. Jenkins returned last week from Noland where he has been for some time and will put out a crop this spring. In the case of Hendrix Bros. vs. S.C. Yeager, tried in the county court last week, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs. Mrs. A.B. West returned home Tuesday from a trip to Iowa. She was accompanied on her return by her two sons, Frank and Clyde. The reason those “senseless squibs” in the HERALD, as Williams calls them, worry him so much is because he cannot answer them. B.A. Hoskins and M. Francis returned Monday from Denver where they had gone to get the money appropriated for the purchase of seed. Patrick Walsh, of McCook, Nebraska, came in on the train Monday to look after the matter of repairing the damage done to his building by the fire. Monday morning after the fire W.C. Powers, the Photographer, took a picture of the fire company and the building that was damaged by the fire. Eugene Dakan and sister have moved into the Kenyon house on Inter Ocean Avenue. No more weary walks for “Gene’s” attenuated form in quest o’ victual. Four “sons of veterans” officiated as pall bearers at the funeral of Fred Churning’s child. They were E.E. Brannon, Milt Tomlinson, Brace Reynolds and Frank Wilson. Several of our citizens have been wrestling with severe attacks of la grippe for some time past, among whom are Messrs. Johnson, Oliver, Lewis and Mrs. P.B. Reynolds. Henry Bahn, who froze his feet so badly sometime ago, had a part of one foot amputated yesterday. The foot was taken off just below the instep. Drs. Smith and Waite performed the surgical operation. The electric alarm failed to work Monday morning and the fire was extinguished with the pressure from the stand pipe. The alarm should be kept in working order as it may be needed at any time. The concert, given at the M.E. church Tuesday evening, by Professor Brown, was only fairly well attended, as the evening was stormy and a good many supposed the concert would be postponed on that account. The singers who took part in the concert were Mrs. Hine, Miss Whitham, Mrs. Clark, G.W. Garland and R.E. Webster. Several little girls also took part in the singing, carrying out their part of the program in a most creditable manner. The singing was mostly of a comic nature and took well with the audience. Professor Brown is a good performer on the violin and those present were well pleased with the entertainment. Williams wants to know why General Palmer, of Illinois, left the republican party in 1868. He no doubt had been informed that Williams was meditating on leaving the party and knew that, should he decide to do so, the party would immediately go to the bow wows. Mrs. E.E. Brannon took the east bound train Tuesday for Columbus, Ohio, where she will visit for some time with relatives. Mrs. Brannon has always been at her post of duty, since taking the position of deputy postmistress and this vacation and visit to her old home will be a needed rest from the duties of the office. DIED - Sunday morning, March 15th, Maud, the 18 months old daughter of Fred C. Churning. Little Maud was taken with a severe cold which settled on her lungs. The funeral services were held at the residence, Monday afternoon, and the remains laid away to rest in the Holyoke cemetery. The family has the sympathy of many friends in their bereavement. A traveling man went into a store in Holyoke and asked a certain dry goods clerk for a 17 ½ linen collar. After the clerk had consumed considerable time in looking for the collar, the traveling gent handed a postal card to the clerk, remarking, “my time is money; if you find that collar, write me at Omaha” and wheeling on his heel, left the store. Just say “postal card” to that clerk. Five dollars only of silver can be used as a legal tender for any debt. - Phillips County News. Tut, tut, Williams, don’t begin this early to palm off upon the people such a bare faced campaign lie as that. If you are not any better posted on the silver question than to honestly make such a statement as that, you had better received instruction on this question from the boys in the town school. A meeting of the citizens was held at the court house Wednesday afternoon and, after talking over the opinion on the seed bill it was decided to send some one to Denver to represent this county in bringing the question of the constitutionality of the seed bill before the Supreme Court at the earliest possible day. Judge Glynn was selected to represent the county in this matter and he left for Denver yesterday. Our brainy contemporary over the way, may refer with pride to his long record on the bench of the county court, given him by the grace of Job Cooper. But the people could not see it in the same way that Job did. - Phillips County News Oh, my! How that cruel thrust does hurt our feelings. There is one consolation however; we were defeated for the nomination by republicans and not by such cranky democrats as Williams. As Williams claims, we may be awful mean people, but we have never yet had a jury of twelve men say that our reputation was a minus quantity. The following is an extract from a letter dated December 19th, 1890, and printed over the signature of B.F. Williams in a paper published at Shariton, Iowa: “We have sent out everything in the way of clothing we can spare and I have only one light, thin pair of pants left. I wear the hat and shoes I had on when I was there last fall a year. Send us help and I will see it goes to the needy of this county.” We are credibly informed that, in answer to this appeal, a box of goods was made up by the people of Shariton and forwarded to Williams. Of course these supplies were distributed to the needy, as the News man said he would distribute them. We are sorry to learn that the News man has been so limited in his wardrobe during this cold winter and it is very likely that that fact accounts, in a measure, for his cranky views on political questions. Monday morning, at about 1:30, the two story building occupied by John Rooney, as a saloon, was discovered to be on fire. The alarm was sounded and the fire company responded promptly, reaching the fire and throwing water within five or six minutes of the ringing of the bell. The fire was on the southeast corner of the building and had burned from the bottom to the top of the building into the garret and into the cellar before the fire company began to throw water. Within a very few minutes from the first throwing of water, the fire was all out. The fire boys did excellent work and deserve credit for their promptness in responding to the alarm and their cool headed and most effective actions at the fire. Once more the attention of the citizens of the town has been called to the fact that our system of water works simply as a protection against fire, is worth much more to the town than it costs. Had it not been for the water works and fire company, the chances are that several buildings would have been burned Monday morning, for without them, the fire in the saloon building could not have been controlled and surely would have spread to other buildings. The saloon building, which is owned by Patrick Walsh, is considerably damaged, but the damage is fully covered by insurance. Mr. Rooney had no insurance on stock and fixtures and suffered considerable loss. It is thought by some that it was the work of an incendiary, but it is hard to believe that we have any one in our midst so depraved as to be guilty of setting fire to a building to gratify personal spite. John Rooney and Charles Palmer were sleeping in the upper story of the building and did not awaken until the fire had broken through into the room and they had a pretty narrow escape from being smothered by the smoke. FAIRVIEW Pleasant weather for a few days. Among the sweet things for the young folks lately was a taffy pulling at Mr. Mackie’s. School will commence at Fairview the 1st of April with Miss Lillie Borland as teacher. Miss Cora Borland has returned from her Iowa visit. She was accompanied by her brother Harry who will remain in this country this summer. Rev. Auten and family will move on the Hanley claim. We welcome them to our neighborhood. Farmers are very blue over the seed disappointment, as most of them have neither seed nor money. - GUESS WHO AMHERST Arthur Butterfield returned last week from Boulder, Colorado, where he has been working on a ranch for the past five months. He says he will try another crop in 8-13. Miss Florence Arnup returned last Thursday from Lisbon, Nebraska where she had been visiting with her friend, Miss Annie Nelson. Father Hickey, of Nebraska, was to celebrate mass here last Friday, but from some cause he failed to put in an appearance. Wheeler Webster shipped all his earthly possessions to Gibbon, Nebraska last Friday, where he intends trying his hand at farming this season. Mr. Guthrie of Holyoke was in town one day last week. Milton Copp returned last Friday from eastern Nebraska where he went to purchase seed grain for this county. He also spent a few days visiting with his mother at Wahoo, Nebraska. Norman Nelson started for Omaha, Nebraska last Thursday where he intends to work for Sam Merman on the farm. Harry Thorndike went to Holyoke last Saturday to make final proof on his claim. A drove of seventeen antelope have been feeding about a mile west of Warnock’s claim for the past two weeks. Harry Thorndike, the Amherst nimrod, says they are thin. Sam Merman, one of our first settlers, returned from Omaha, Nebraska last week. He was accompanied by his two sisters who also have some land here, they returned to their home in Omaha, last Saturday. Sam made arrangements to have all his land here put in wheat. Four-fifths of all the homesteaders that went east last season are writing to friends here that they wish they were back in Phillips County. We think the prospect for this country is brighter to-day than eastern Nebraska was twenty years ago and would advise all that can to stay with us. There is more snow around here than at Holyoke or Julesburg. The ground is wet and frozen to the depth of two feet and there is nothing to hinder us from raising a big crop if we only can get the seed to sow and, unless we can get the seed, one-half will have to leave and go some where to make a living for their families - TOM Page Four The State Treasurer, James N. Carlisle, refused to pay the money appropriated by the legislature to purchase seed grain for the farmers of eastern Colorado, till he could secure the opinion of the Attorney General as to the constitutionality of the bill. The following is his opinion on the constitutional question: “The only question, therefore, to be determined by me is as to whether or not this statue is so clearly unconstitutional that, as the statutory legal adviser of the executive officers, it becomes my duty to advise you not to be controlled by it, and to pay out no money under its provision. Under the constitution of this state the rights and duties of the several departments of the state government are carefully distributed and restricted, and I understand the rule to be, that if any one of them exceeds the limits of its constitutional powers, it acts wholly without authority, and its acts can have no legal force whatever. By reference to section 34 of article 5 of the constitution we find this language: No appropriation shall be made for charitable, industrial, educational or benevolent purposes to any person, corporation or community, not under the absolute control of the state; by not being ‘under the absolute control of the state’ means, of course, as a state institution. The action of the legislature in appropriating from the public treasury said sum of money in the said manner and for the purpose specified in the act is, in my opinion, in direct violation of this section, and hence, under a full conviction of duty, I am constrained to hold that the act is unconstitutional and void.” The Treasurer and Auditor are both governed by this decision and no warrants will be issued under the appropriation unless the question is raised in the Supreme Court by an application for a mandamus and the bill declared constitutional. The counties interested in this matter have decided to take the matter into the Supreme Court at once, and it may be possible to secure a decision yet this week. A firm of prominent attorneys in Denver claim that the bill is constitutional and will make arguments before the Supreme Court in behalf of the measure The following letter was published in the New York Weekly Witness: Wakeman, Colorado, February 15, 1891 MR. EDITOR: Taking it for granted that your invitation to farmers is meant to reach even far-west Colorado, I purpose in this letter to give your readers a little of my personal experience in this so-called drouth-stricken country. Four yeas ago next March I came here and homesteaded a quarter-section of prairie, and it then seemed to me - and still seems to be - as fine laying land as I ever saw. It is a deep, rich sandy loam soil, and capable of producing good crops of corn, small grain, and vegetables if properly farmed. It is true that the past two years have been exceedingly dry, and I may truthfully say that three-fourths of the farmers of this county and western Nebraska are in a destitute condition, caused by a failure in crops. But I believe also, that if these men had properly tilled, they would not now be in want, but would have reaped a harvest sufficient to supply all needed for their families. The system of cultivation I found here when I began breaking my prairie, was a skimming process, and most farmers here still persist in following this system. Three years since I planted a field of eighty acres of common ground broken the previous year. I plowed 10 inches deep, planted in check rows. When plowing this field my neighbor came by, and as he stopped looked at my plowing and exclaimed, “Friend Wakeman, you are ruining your land and will get no corn.” “What is the matter?” I replied. “Why” he says, “you must not back-set more than one inch deeper than the first breaking. If you do you will turn up the tough undersoil and the crop will dry out.” I told him I was going to plow deep and run the risk of the failure he predicted. When my corn was up so that I could see the rows I put in the cultivator. At this stage my neighbor came by again, and again warned me that I would ruin my corn by cultivating it - said I should let it be till it was ten inches high, and then if the rain came I should cultivate it once. I replied, “I shall work my corn thoroughly three times, rain or no rain.” “Well,” he says as he rode on, “you will see when I harvest my corn that you have done wrong, and that I shall get a good crop while yours will fail.” I did not get a large yield for the ground was too new. But here is the result of my cultivation: My first field harvested twenty-five hundred bushels of corn. My neighbor had one hundred acres, and he harvested one hundred and fifty bushels. Don’t you think this difference of yield (over 2,000 bushels) paid me well for my labor? I think it did. This past year has been very dry and the whole country around me has failed, and yet I have raised one thousand bushels of corn, eighty-eight of wheat, three hundred of barley and two hundred of oats. The corn on our home market I have sold for sixty cents per bushel, barley for fifty cents and oats fifty cents. I am a farmer and belong to the Alliance, but I must say that while I do believe the farmer has a hard time and many grievances, yet I do not think they are, either in the Alliance or out of it, seeking for the remedy in the right direction. When they begin to plow deeper and think deeper and act more like business men of every other occupation, then and not before will they begin to prosper. They think here, as in Kansas, they have a solution of all their troubles in their new financial scheme. I believe it visionary and impracticable. The farmers of the Alliance are working this and some other subjects mentally about as they work their land, by a skimming process. I have been a merchant a number of years in my earlier life. By that experience I was taught at least one lesson, namely, that if farmers would use the same energy, care, and thoroughness that business men are compelled to use, there would be far less cause of complaint of hard times. Most of the farmers in this frontier country are laboring under a sad mistake; they manage their business and do their work in a slipshod manner, and then depend on the Lord and the Government to help them out. I know of men who have asked for and received aid during this Winter to keep the wolf from their door. Yet they go to town and sit around the stores on dry-goods boxes two or three days in the week, and as often visit the saloon and spend money for forty-rod whiskey. I can not find time to do these things, and besides it is a terrible crime to drink this soul-destroying poison. I like your paper. I am in love with your plain, square-toed way of handling all subjects. You are the right man in the right place. May God help you in the future to go on striking your sledge-hammer blows, not only at the rum traffic but, at all other wrongs. - W.H. WAKEMAN NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First publication March 20, 1891) No 140 Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, March 18, 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 county judge of Phillips County, Colorado, at Holyoke, Colorado on April 27, 1891, viz: SUSIE K. BLACKMORE, formerly Susie K. Snowberger, Hd Entry No 7670 for the s e ¼ sec 30 tp 8 n range 43 w. She names the following witnesses to prove her continuous residence upon and cultivation of, said land, viz: David Fickel, Holyoke, Colorado Mrs. Sarah Furry, Holyoke, Colorado John Baker, Holyoke, Colorado Allen Van Dyke, Holyoke, Colorado NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First publication March 20, 1891) Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, March 11, 1891 (Alias Notice to contest No. 37) To James H. Butler: You are hereby notified that on January 19, 1891, Margret Peter applied at this office to be allowed to transmute her D.S. No. 28985 for lots 1, 2, and 3 of sec 2 town 8 n r 45 w, to a homestead entry and that said application will be heard before this office on May 11th, 1891, at 10 a.m., of said day and you being an adverse claimant to lot 3, by virtue of T.C. No. 12469 made May 9th 1888, will be allowed to appear at said time and show cause why her said application should not be allowed. ================================================================= 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. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, nor for publication in any form by any other organization or individual without the express written permission from the author/contributor.