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The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18
Mlsxss.sl Misas.

\ queer looking outfit passed through
town last Saturday afternoon. Tie
caravan was made np of three work
oxen. one small burIo. u hof,r and u
dllapidatrd covered wagon. The motive
,owrr wa, hitchci 10 the wagon In the
Io!iowIn. order Two oxen a, whrricts.
then nh OK and tho little Jack wrfr
i,i,eiicd together and then the hors~
In front of thcsr. hiiehcd up tandem
fashion. The horse Was led by a
woman. who. had she brcn met with IN
All oui-of.th .thc-way place. would have
i~vn taken fot n witch. and IN her rear
al the head of the oxen WAS tall. lean
iaui youth ~. about eighteen yrars whc
was evidently acting IN the capacity al
''buli. wiiacL-r" and assistant, master ol
transportation. Oa the wagon seat Wa,
lrr.h-'i man who nigh; have bcri
forty five or iifiy. lie seemed 10 take
things with that air Of conirnth-nt and
philosophical resignation which a'
much as says: II don't care whether
school keep, or not" The heads al
several dif;y.facci. tow.hca,!r'i, kids
took IN the sights through rents In the
wagon sheet. and bar-iooicj, bare
legged boy. followed by yellow dog
brought up the rear u: tie caravan
THE ou,ii, had another ''yailcr dog
but Lost him on Coal creek. n misfortune
which the old man deeply dcplotr'l. say
Ing lie would not have taken u iifty dol
lar bill for the los; canine.
The entire Iayout presented n woc
bcgonc, Go-i.forsakcn appearance. In
town they said they We're from TcSa,
and were going rs far ives; rs II wn-
possible for them Ia 90. or until thc.I
further progress wa, blocked by iht
waves Of the Pacific ocean, and II the
old woman holds on, they will nm
doub,c,ily "gi, thar" In time. On Coal
creek they said they were from Kansas
which assertion does no, ''jibcn with
the story they told in town about being
from Texas. and which contradictory
stories goes to prove tia, they are either
professional cmigran,s OF Kansas grass
hopper sufferers which Is all one and
the same thing.
The cidi,y and general ludicriou'
makeup Of the layout was as good rs
circus TO those of our citizens whc
find time hanging heavy on their hands
and afforded considerable amusement
10 all who bchcld 1t.
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18

At wilk.sbaric, Pennsylvania. on tie
9th inst. ~. u lI-ycar.old boy named Jo-
scph Richards. was driving mule In
the Murray shaft. train Of five loaded
cars ran away and struck the hoy with
such force that his head was driven en-.
,ircly into the mules abdomen. His
shoulder was broken and he WIS other.
wise injured. When the Mortified min
crs discovered the boys terrible condi-
,io,i. they cndeavorcd To eNiricatc him
and found the united strength Of two
men necessary. The boys head pcuc-
,ta,ed the stomach Of the mule. The
boy was taken home for dead, but re-
yived somewhat, though his skull is
fractured and he will probably die. The
mule died almost Immediately after the
accident.
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18
,.u, v,w,,, rnrr.,,dcd ror.

Clcrk-Will YOU register now
Lord Divyivian taking rcml - Aw,
aw, James!
Enter James.
Lord Diyvivian - What is me fun
name, James,
.James-Cccil Fauntus Victor Alber,
Quincy Burleigh Bacon Walvauglan
Warwick Divviyian, sixth Earl of Gil
courtmage. me lud.
Lord Divviyian - Aw, thank you.
James.
He registers. The clerks fate is a
warning to all who fail to get their lives
insured. and leave helpless families I'M.
provided for.
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18
Two cowboys named Cox and Andcr.

Two cowboys named Cox and Andcr'
son. working for ". i. Wilson. neat
Catlin. Bent county. became engaged
in n quarrel some days ago when Cox
struck Anderson with a branding-iron
ard Anderson shot him with apisiol
the bullet entering his left side and com
ing out near the right blade.
Cox only lived a few minutes. lie was
n young man Of excellent character
about ~ years Of age. recently from
Upton. Missouri. Anderson gave him.
self up
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18
yellow prs~r i0 Florida.

At jacksonville. Florida. yellow fever
has broken out and the people are panic
stricken. The Board of Health has AN
nounccd. after u long secret session
,ha, III. disease is assuming an cpl
dcm,c form. O,cr four hundred people
l.t, the city on the 10Th, Via rail and
steamer. owing 10 the apparent spread
of the disease. as twenty-;our cases
were reported. It is said tia, the city
will be entirely deserted In iorty-eigl'
hours II the disease assumes an epi-
deniic form. Active Steps are being
taken to prcyou, it becoming general.
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18
yer s..rssrsa, sassey..

District Attorney Ed TAYLOR, who Ii
now on this side OF the Divide adjusting
ing aud taking testimony on ditch
claims and water rights. is In the field
for TUE Republican nomination for State
Senator from this district. His chief
oppopent. We understand, is Mr.. j. II.
Fesier, cashier Of the First National
bank, Sf Gicnwooi. They are both
Young opcn endowed with lots OF am
bl,ion, 4 ,d the race between them will
ie u iiy<y one.
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18

in" 10 cents apiece. The West Shore
road paid him fixed salary Of :. day
George ii. simmons, special agent of
the Treasury, went under assumed
names at times for purpose. lie went
To Italy to look up 100 men TO work in
M iron mill in PENNSYLVANIA. This, he
says, WAS all Imaginary. He had sey-
erai interviews with Trogia aud Sica,
and they agreed to furnish men for
Sl.2O day. They were To import men
from Italy and have them here In two
mouths. They were TO allow witness o
per cent. of the gross receipts. Sica
and Trogia told him they had fire.
quently furnished iaborers Ia large con
Germs. THIS further testimony proved
eonclusively that Sica md Trogia had
been engaged for some time in Import
ing their fellow-countrymcn under con-
tract.
II. II. co!clazer, reporter Of the i'hil-
ini'ssssli rii'sslis ',iAiitif4n Hah Ar nli0i
question FOR his paper. lie had visited
the coal regions and one Michael An
gelo. foreman, furnished him tile names
OF men IN New York who would fur
nish him all the mei he wanted. lie
came 10 New York and saw man
named Gallo, with whom he made ar
ranscmcnis foE l .5io men to work In III.
coal regions. Gallo wanted him To
agree that he tGAilUi should board all
the men and Offered the witnes, i've pr
cent. on the gross amount Of bills. The
witness, M cotiraciDr. MIS- Ia iriuc;
the store bills, etc. and he figured that
his ily. per cent. would a-t him about
sIU month. In the pcnn,ylyania
coal fields hr lad found 10y personal OBJ
s-Iyaiion tia, fully two.,hiris o, the
men employed In the colllcii.s were
Italians, IiunsaTinns ani Poi-s, The
common lab1rcTs oi thee. localities re-
criv- only from - cents 10 >i.5o i-r
DAY. Tie Italians live on ab1ut ~
cents a day. but The !Iungarians rI-nd
about "a cents. The wiincs said ,lIa,
In fifteen years the g.io ni wages h'i
decreased ~ Ier cent, but the price "f
coal iiai remained the same.
Several Women were alto examined.
nnd the fact WIS revealed that foreign
men are Imported who nru working
Ia isiict-Ht factories for lcNa wages ihan
women anI gisl,. Previous ,o ilu .n''
piuy mrnt II foreigners they were max
In. from 50 to - u week. \ continual
importation nI Russians ani Poles.
however. has brought u reduction n'
wages of anc.hal'.
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18
General sheridan NJ lsc.t.

Last Saturday morning the final rites
for the burial of Philip Henry Sheridan,
General of the United States Army.
were performed according to the ordin-
ances of the Roman Catholic church,
and his body was laid at rest in Arling-
ton. the CITY of the soldier dead, near
Washington. The ceremonies through
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18

The Iycs-n; survey on fiec'ancc
creek leat-s on, about three or four
ranches, Which makes II very annoying
for those wi,o,- ranches are left unsnr-
yr,"i. KiSh ht now would bc n good
time for iAn parties interested Ia do
som. lively rusiling and cndcavor Ia
have the survey extended 10 their
ranches. sorec,hing nigh, h. done by
pcti,ioning t:p, Surveyor General n,
Denver
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18

Editor Dana Of the Sun thinks that
young people should never kiss until
after they are married. We wish MIR.
Dana would tell us what TO do when
YOU softly and trcmblingly ask: "Will
You pe mine p and she still more softly
and trcmblingly whispers Yes" -
Puck
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18
Dvssesvsst- astns.

Returns from the county elections
In Kentucky. held throughout the state
show Democratic gains every where.
Alabama also gave MI increased
Democratic majority. the Legislator,
being overwhelmingly Democratic. The
State tickc; carried ncarl, every county
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18

"You are late tonight, George" said
the girl. half reproachfully. Yes,
dear. your fathers new dog met me at
the gate and I've been trying TO make
friends with him."
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18

Self-csteem is a high-bred steed that
bounds over the asperities of life. Self
conceit is blind hack, which knocks
its head against every impediment.
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18
}. W. HuGUs. n. MAJOR.
J.W.tHugus e. Co.,
BANKERS,
AEEkER, COLORADO.
y. MAJOR.

Transact = General banking Husin-s.,
Highest price pe'd for County Warrants. In
terest siiowei un Tim. Deposits. Drifts
drawn on Eastern citi., and Ruroi-.
Correspondents, kountke BrDs., New York;
First National Hank, omahai Colorado
National Hank, Denver; J. ". iiusus i Co,
hA~iins, wyo.
Collection. rro'ssrsiy Nss-SdeA so.
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18

Jerry Irwin was elected Mayor of
Lcadvillc last Tuesday by good ma
jority.
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18
IRRIGATION MArrEtFs
Water Nights 0eIng AdJuHi
Gated by Referee Tayior.f
Cases Considered.
aotsAs OS Passage Grsersi Ahrrid(s"'
Hurs.i-hehesi Matters ~ whips
River Ctsy, Esr., Ete.

Referee TAYLOR, accompanied by tii'
clerk, Mr.. II. l.. Weaver, arrived ~
Aieeker Wednesday afternoon, and iin'N
ing IA large number Of ranchmen ffom'
"a distance awaiting his arrival, i'm
mediately proceeded to work. The
far been taken and the dates claimed az
the dates Of original construction OF
each are as follows:
]. tDwsil Park ditch : Alny ]. iss0.
=. Coal Creek No. !, May II. Iss,.
s. Martin ditch, June Z, 1851.
I. Meeker Townsits ditch, Nov. ~,
iss3.
8. Old Agency ditch, April -. 1851.
u. Little Beaver ditch, April 5, 1855.
7. l.. T.. Harp ditch. June II, 1883,
s. Lone Tree ditch, June u, 1855.
o. Coal Creek Mesa ditch. Sept. ~.
1855.
10. Jas. Hayes ditch, March ~, is.'i-
II. Proctor reservoir, April !. i,'|I.
l.. Highland ditch, Ma. l, iss,i.
Is. Nichols ditch, May Is. !ssi,
~. H., A. n Is, ditch, NAV IL, issi.
IL. Coal Creek Valley ditch, Mas =,
is>B.
III. Wagner ditch. Jane I. i,~5.
II. j. 4. Hay ditch, Aug. ], issi.
Is. Melvin ditch, Aug. -. i>s,i.
~. J. T.. Rooney ditch. Sept. -, issi.
~. Is. 4. iiowey ditch, March -,
ISL
81. ~, II. n NJ. ditch. April Is, iss,.
=. II. y ". ditch. April ~. iss7.
-. Youch ditch. May g, iSSI.
-. Oak Ridge Park ditch. dec. -.
i>s'.
-. Iowicn ditch. Jun. Is, iSss.
The Meeker herald., 1888-08-18

A general Ranking AMI 'nil"c'i"n t'i'in'-s'
transacted. Hay and .-sii Foreign
and Domestic Exchange
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-26
its covert protection theories upon such
THE LAND SPECULATION rs. THE
SETTLER.


| The state gives forty years time. More time is
not desired. The state exacts per cent. inter-
est, which is half the rate at which the purchaser
can borrow money from others on the same
lands. A lower rate is not desired. The state
offers the land at 81 per acre, and corporations
pay higher prices for alternate sections in cash,
or at most on short time. a lower price would
be less than the demand clearly fixes the value
of the land to -[Galveston-Dalla News.
Alternating with the school lands are
hundreds of thousands of acres that can
be bought for much lower price than
that of the public lands. The corpora
tions that paid the state's price or any
thing near that sum, for their landed
properties in the west are, with but few
exceptions, bankrupt and in the hands
of receivers. The :'demand' of which
the News speaks as an indication of
market value, has given the Panhandle
of Texas, where the bulk of the lands
are located, a net gain, according TO
irrefutable figures, of about $50 actual
settlers upon the public domain within
eight years.
Commissioner Hall was reported to
have said while making a personal in
spection of the operations of the new
land law in 1887 that the minimum price
of the lands was too high, and that much
of it would not bring over so cents an
acre.
The head of one of the largest land and
cattle syndicates in the Panhandle re-
marked, after the alienation of the
greater portion of his interests there,
that the state would neither let the cattle
man stay upon the public domain nor per-
nit the actual settler to come upon it;
that for pasturage purposes the land was
not worth over so cents an acre, and that
the man who had to develop its agricul-
tural resources could not, at the best,
afford to pay more than 81 per acre.
The state could readily float forty
year bonds at or SO per
cent. interest. The states credit
ought to be no better than the settlers,
when the latter is required to give an
iron-clad mortgage, under which, in de-
fiance of all principles of law and justice,
his home, with all Improvements and
payments, is confiscated as the penalty
for the slightest delay in the payment
of an ordinary debt.
The effort to continue the degradation
of the state by using it to pull the chest
nuts of land spectators out of the fire,
ought to be based on something more
plausible than fanciful statements,
known of all, who know anything what
ever about the condition of the west, to
be wholly groundless.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-26
THE COST OF IT.

No more forcible comment could be
made upon the Texas land system than
the simple statement of THE GAZETTE
correspondent who wrote from Cresswell :,
in Ochiltree:founty:
Something must BE done for the settlers in the
way of change in thefand law, also the price,
or they will go. AlreEdE of the settlers
have gone that settled here since I came, which
was just few days afterlthe land was taken
from the market. There have been over 100
filings, and there are about twenty five sections
on which the state received the interest when the
last payment was due. A majority of the settlers
are just staying on what they call their claims,
with no interests to hold them should Oklahoma
open up; in fact, they afraid to file on the
land for fear of their inability to meet the pay
ments in the future.
Here is a situation of affairs grave
enough to demand heroic remedies from
the legislature of Texas. If the Twenty
first legislature fails to administer them,
the Twenty-second will confront the
same situation aggravated by delay.
Complete readjustment of the land
system i'll the interest of settlement
can alone effect the radical change that
rs needed in the condition of the unde-
veloped west. Inducements must be
offered that will take homeseekers there
and keep them there. 1t is better that
the immigrant should never locate upon
the public lands than that he should
abide there for time and depart in dis
gust.
Yet the state is sending out constantly,
to talk and to work against its develop
ment, men whom it has wronged. The
evil results no one can measure; it is
enough to know that they greatly out
weigh all the financial benefits derived to
the state through its penny-wise and
pound foolish land policy.
One hundred homestead filings in one
of the most favored counties of the Pan
handle, and three fourths of them aban-
doned because of the Texas land law!
What is the legislature going to do
about it?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-26
A QUESTION OF VAL YES.

The Waco Day took THE GAZETTE to
task for seeming to say that Il suit of
clothes that cost $40 in Grandfather Har-
rison's time would cost more than $40 to-
day. By way of criticism the Day asserts
that wages have been constantly ad-
vancing and manufactures constantly
lowering in price since the days of the
first President Harrison. Looking solely
to the figures the Day is undoubtedly
correct. The great Improvements in ma
chinery during the last forty years have
largely reduced the labor cost of manu-
featured products and to a certain,
though not as great, a degree their mar
ket price.
After all, however, the figures are de-
lusive and the results they show in this
respect, artificial. The real issue with
the producers of the country is not what
a dollar will buy, but what a bushel of
corn or wheat or bale of cotton will
buy.
If bale of cotton were worth $50 in
llsOII tlliiS anu WIN
proceeds of it two suits of clothes could
be bought leaving surplus of $40 over,
clothes were cheaper then than now,
when bale of cotton may be evenly eX-
changed for two suits of clothes.
Another vital fact has escaped the
DAYS attention: That the $50 dollar
suit of the first Harrison S day was of
good homespun cloth, capable of use
through an entire administra-
ton, while the $40 suit of
to-day is of shoddy material that never
fails to display an unsightly patch after
one season s wear.
We cheerfully join the Day in appeal
ing to the experience of the men whose
lives reach back for half a century,
confident that it will verify the accur-
acy of our assertion, that the credit side
of the ledger of the average man made
better showing forty years ago than it
does now. VIII the Day abide thetest of
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-26
Why Times are Hard.

The Terrell Star sums the matter up as
follows: In this county and throughout
North Texas everybody is crying out
''hard times But what makes it
hard? The people of this section have
tried to get rich on the mortgages on cot
ton, and the people have fallen into the
habit of trying to make a living and put
aside some money by raising cotton to
the exclusion of everything else. You
can t succeed at this and never will. The
older cotton states have tried this and
failed, and the people of Texas are
mostly from the older Southern states,
and they have simply continued the sys-
TEN in vogue there years ago. Times
will be hard with you as long as you con-
tinue this custom.
You buy your meat from the west,
your Irish potatoes, your pickles, grits,
cabbage, canned goods, molasses, sugar,
tobacco, beer, whisky, apples, lard,
jelly, peas, beans and a hundred other
things you can produce right here with a
very slight effort. Then the plows, the
wagons, the buggies, pillow stocks, hoe
handles and many other articles of this
kind are brought from Northern or
Western manufactures, when they can
be made here and the money paid out
for them, as well as for supplies, could
be kept at home to enrich our farmers
and the people generally.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-26
CRAFT IND CR1FSTNEN.

There are seven newspapers in Kauf-
man county.
The Mangum Star has changed its form
and now appears as six-column folio.
George A. Dickerman has sold his in
! terest in the Sherman Herald to Jesse P .
| Loving.
The Sunday Mirror is a new aspirant
! for the favor of San AntOnians. 1t is
beautifully printed.
| Edgar Rye, well known to Texas jour-
naiism, is now an artist on the Los An
! geles (Cal.) Cactus.
Mr.. H. A. Ivy has sold his interest tn
the Halletsville Herald, and contem-
plates going to Waco and publishing a
daily.
Mr.. W. B Stevens has retired from
the editorial tripod of the CastrOville An
vii, and is succeeded by Mr.. J. B. Ste
phensOn.
The San Angelo Enterprise wrote up
the "good catches'' for the benefit of its
young lady readers, and now the other
fellows are mobbing the editor.
Mr.. John Levin, an able journalist,
who has been connected with the Naya-
sofa Tablet the past year in the capacity
of associate editor, will assume the edi-
torial management of the Rockdale Mes
senger.
The Unita Vindicator has been moved
to Cooper, Delta county, by its proprie
tors, Messrs. Hill s Whitlaw. Its name
has been changed. 1t is now called the
Cooper Weekly indicator. - 1t has
also been enlarged to seven-column
sheet, and is much improved Topographic
ically and otherwise. .sss
The Ladies Messenger of Houstonss16r
December, edited by Mrs. W. H. Foute
and Miss NJ. K. Conyngton, contains q,
Christmas greeting to the working wcs1
men of the South. 1t also offers prize
for the best written account of theNbat-
tie of San Jacinto. The women of the
state should encourage the magazine de-
voted to their work literature and home.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-26
Let Texas Consider 1t.

THE GAZETTE is right, the state had
better give the school land away to people
who would cultivate it than to allow it to
remain unoccupied as it now is and as
good deal of it will be for some time to
come unless there is more inducements
offered to home-seekers than the present
land law now offers. 1t would appear at
first sight that good agricultural land at
81 an acre and per cent. interest with
long time was bargain sufficient to at
tract settlers. But when all the hard
ships and privations incident to
settling up a new country are con-
sidered, together with the fact that
parents have to deprive their children of
good schools and many other advantages,
and that the first year has to be spent in
getting ready to farm the second, and
that possibly the second year may not
prove good one or successful one, which
is often the case. We say in view of all
these facts that school land at 81 per acge
is not such great bargain as it might
seem to be at first sight. And LIE
state should reduce the price ON
her school land, as she needs peoH4S
now more than she does wild land hing
idle from year to year. The t85fald
last summer advocated that in esder to
induce settlement in the Panhandle, the
state could afford to give gratis 160 acres
out Of every section of unsold school land
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-26
travelled through the country as the
apostle of estheticsm and sunfiowers.

| Travelled through the country as the
apostle of estheticsm and sunfowers.
Count Taafe, prime minister of Austria
will be made prince by the emperor of
Austria. He is also peer of Ireland I'M
der the title of Viscount Taafe.
1t is said that the sultan of Turkey
| aspires to literary career, and has
ordered the poet laureate of the
empire to af1ix the royal signature to his
poems hereafter.
The story in Baltimore IS that the first
indications of mental alteration in
Robert Garrett was his sending to the
Archiepiscopal residence an annual pass
over the Baltimore and Ohio road for
cardinal Gibbons and wife. -
A number of Washington society girls,
led by Miss Florence Bayard, Miss Olga
Dalgren, Miss Helen Squire, Miss Ban
croft and Miss Taylor, have organized a
quintet banjo club, and are rapidly per-
fecting themselves under good teacher
Miss Justine Ingersoll, daughter of the
ex-governor of Connecticut, will appear
in Boston soon as a public reader, for the
benefit of a charity. 1t is told, anent her
benevolent disposition, that she once
gave away coat which her father was to
hNiA IlSAb at Ills
William Perkins of Owensborough,
Ky. :, is blind and ingenious. The result
of his affection and genius is 4 writing
machine for the blind, which the boy has
just perfected. 1t is said that a San
Francisco firm has paid him $1,000 for the
right to manufacture and sell the ma
chine in the United States.
1t is not generally known who wrote
the popular ballad, FListen to the Mock
ing Bird 1t was first published i'll
1855 under the signature of Alice Haw-
thorne, though the song was really writ7
men by Septimus Winner of Philadelphiass
who preferred TO use his mother 5 maiden
name as his nom de plume. He is sad
to have made 500 900 out of it.
Miss Lucille Eistun, of Cincinnati.
could whistle before she could talk, and
when she grew into girlhood her parents
tried to break the habit. but without Sue
cess. She continued to whistle lana
when she began her studies i'll music she
found it 4 help. OF late years she has
practiced whistling instead of singing
although she recently received a gold
medal for the highest proficiency in the
theory and practice of music.