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The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
THE OTHER SIDE.

Manager white, Of the Water and
Power Co., presents his side OF the
case to the people OF Amarillo in a
business-llke manner.
The writer yesterday was permit
ted to read several communications
from the higher officers Of the com
pany to their resident manager. In
them the writer's give every evidence
OF good faith in their attempt to
build an adequate water system for
our city. The report of their by
draulic engineers, who made their
observations in the vicinity of ANA
rlllo some months ago, is somewhat
dlscouraging in reference TO a sur
face water supply. The Immediate
vicinity, within a radius OF four to
five miles, does not hold out any
prospect for a surface water supply
sufficiently large In quantity to
meet the city's demand. To go to a
further distance, where such sup
ply may be had, II will require from
one to two years to construct the
system.
The communication showed that
the stockholders are willing TO ex-
pend a quarter of million dollars
on the plant, but they want to be
certain 1t will not be failure when
completed,
Mr.. White has instructions to sink
all the wells necessary to supply
present needs, and to sink them with
all possible speed.
We present this, Mr.. Whites side
of the question, because we believe
in fair play, and shall always be will
ling to give both sides OF a contro-
versy a fair hearing.
Our city council, in connection
with their legal advisors, will uu-
doubtedly study the question from
every point OF view before they will
take definite action. The Daily
Panhandle has faith in the city coun'
Gil and fully believes that the water
problem is now in fair way to be
properly solved.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

other homesteading. states on sol
vent basis, the panhandle will start
out with a wealthy population.
In hard times and periods OF ma
tlonal panics such a population would
far more easily tide over its trou'
bles. one would even be able to
help another and the Panhandle
would come through any such yisi-
tation with little or no difficulty.
1t is true, there is not the least
indication OF troublous times in the
horizon OF the present or the near
future, but It can do no harm to
take glimpse OF the dark side now
and then.
The best kind OF a country should
have the best kind of people. The
Panhandle is that kind of coun-
try and she Is settling up with the
cream Of humanity.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

and that We must force the issue,
God help thom that he's themselves,
Property is al stake. public comfort
aud health Is jeopardlzcd, the deyel-
opment OF the city Ia depending on
an adequate water system. We could
worry along without serious difficult
ty for the present, but we must look
to the future and provide In time.
The Daily Panhandle commends
the city council on It's determination
to act. Municipal ownership Of pub
llc utilities has proved a success In
hundreds OF communities, II will
prove 30 In Amarillo, The PROPOSE
ton OF the council to provide water,
light and power for our peoplo Is a
step in the right direction, Such com
modlties can be provided By munich
palitles at much lower cost than cor
poratIons usually ask.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
SEND THEM TO TEXAS.

Mr., Schlff the great New York
banker and finlncler, In recent ad-
dress before a Jewish assembly in
that city spoke in substance as fol-
lows:
"The question confronts us where
to send our klnsmen who arrive from
the countries OF Europe. DO not send
them TO the frlgid regions of the
North. Climatic conditions of the
northern states and OF Canada are a
great drawback to those countries.
There the most industrious and fru-
gal in six months OF the year neces-
sarily consume the larger share OF
their accumulatIons OF the other six.
There Is but one safe place, one nat
ural home awaiting their coming.
Send our people TO the great South
west--to Texas, where there is room
for millions more OF industrious and
energetic people, whore climate
is heaven-favored, the soil capable
OF greatest and most varied produc-
ton and people that welcome the
industrious OF all natlonallties. Send
them to Texas"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
THURSDAY, SEPT. IL, 1907
STATUS OF THE PANHANDLE.

Less rain has fallen In the Pan
handle this year than in any one of
thirteen previous years. Yet in the
face OF season so uniavorable, the
Panhandle shows up very well with
its variety OF crops.
Reports reach us nearly every day
Of wheat yielding from twelve to
twenty-five bushels per acre and oats
twenty to forty bushels. But yes
terday a threshing machine owner in
formed the writer that the farmers
around Claude Conway, Groom and
Panhandle. where he operates, rarely
get less than fifteen bushels OF wheat
per acre.
The late feed crops all over the
Panhandle could not well look more
thrifty and promising. The Yield
will undoubtedly be the largest In
many years.
Such being the actual condition on
the Panhandle farms, in spite of lack
OF timely rains, what then is the
present status OF the PanhandleG
IL iB the best. This year has been
the critical period for the Panhan-
die. It has passed through with
safety. This year gives to the man.
who Is eyerlastingly looking for
something to happen, a black eye.
This year proves that the Panhandle
country is a far safer farming coun-
try than any other section OF the
United states, Let Iowa, Illinois,
Indiana. Missouri. or any other state
have less rain for one season than
In any one OF thirteen years and see
what that state will have OF crops.
II would mean crop failure and other
states would have TO come to the
rescue.
The Panhandle has given the lie
to her detractors. She comes out
victorious from her trial. She will
have much TO sell and plenty to feed
and eat. Under any and all circum-
stances she is self-sustalping, produc-
tive, resourcetul. She wins where
others would fail. She has attained
to the status of an agricultural coun-
try second to none. She promises
remuneration for agricultural effort
under even the most adverse clrcum-
stances. she Is Gods country walt
ing for people to come and dwell
therein.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
MODEL FARMS.

Mr.. Campbell, the dry farming ex-
pert, is making preparations to estab-
lish a number OF model farms at va
rious Panhandle points. The Camp
bell system OF farming, as our read
ers well know, has proved a success
in the so-called semi-arled regions,
and by means of this system millions
OF acres may be rendered productive
which once were thought to be value
less.
Briefly stated, the Campbell sys-
tenn means storing moisture In the
soil to be used when needed. Thor
ough cultivation and intelligent farm
ing makes up the rest Of the system.
In an interview, Mr.. Campbell thus
explained his model farm PROPOSE
ton. A town, city, or any number
OF men are asked to furnish the free
use of a half section of land for five
years. The location must be near a
railroad. He himself has an Or
ganized company which engages to do
the farming, A stated number of
acres will be devoted to the respec-
tive crops. A minimum yield to be
produced per acre is fixed in the con-
tract, and II the farm delivers the
goods II will be Mr.. Campbell's prop
city at the end OF five years; IL not
II reverts back to the original own
ers,
Mr.. Campbell asserts that one OF
his model farms is worth far more &c
any community than government
experiment farm. "The government
simply experiments, he says. "l
went through that kind of work lone
ago. / now grow the crops which
know will grow. My great aim IL
promoting these farms is to get al
opportunity to raise the best Of
seeds of everything that can grow IL
this country. and IL there is anything
we can't grow It's hardly worth men
ton"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
HOGS IN THE PANHANDLE.

With those who have tried hog
raising in the Panhandle there is mo-
longer any question that the porker
can here be bred, grown and ma
tured prolifically and profitably.
Tests made by packers heretofore,
as to the relative fat-producing quail
lty OF Indian corn and our own KAT
fir and maize, have resulted in ia
vor of the latter. Hogs fed on the
great Panhandle cereal fatten faster
and their meat proved superior In
quality to that Of the Indian corn
fed specimens.
Saying nothing Of the many other
stock and crop-raising opportunities
afforded by the Panhandle country,
here alone is promise of wealth
and abundance. Millions of acres
of our land is yet untouched by pillow.
Every acre can be turned into field
of profitable vegetation by a simple
turn Of the sod and depositing init
the seed of the kaffir and the maize.
Hundreds OF acres of such crops can
even now be seen, dotting the prai-
ries here and there, verdant with
green, rich in their fullness of growth
and ripening slowly the white and
golden headed grain that bids fair
to out-class the staple of Iowa. Mis-
souri,, Nebraska and Illinois.
The northern farmer, when first
he sees this flourishing crop, spring
ing up so luxuriantly amidst the prai-
ries like an oasis in desert, stands
appalled, and hesitates TO believe his
eyes. But he sees true. His own
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
EXCHANGE COMMENTS.

"Put money in thy purse" by all
means-by all fair means. But do
not get the notion that this Is the
chief end of life. A man may be
beyond the reach of any real want,
may be rich enough to afford him as
much freedom from work as is good
for any men--and not have enough
to pay a seasons rent for the New
port cottage in which some gilded
idiot is trying to hold chimpanzee
dinner. Vast wealth does not bring
happiness. It does not bring freedom /;
and II assuredly doesn't bring fame.
There was a Frenchman in the time
of Louis XIV. who furnished out the
Mediterranean fleet for his master.
He did It for "glory"--and there are
probably not fifty people living who
could tell his name without looking
1t up. But DuQuesne, who led that
fleet, is held in honorable remem-
brance- wherever the tales of the sea
are studied. And we have a notion
that IT will be much the same in the
future than 1t has been in the past,
that the man who wants to be re-
membered viii. have to leave some
thing more yalpapfe and more dis
tinotives Than round bits of metal
Denver NRews, -. -
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

The Wolfe City TEX Sun says
that hereafter, people who want to
say nice things about other people in
the way OF obituary notices, 'resolu-
lions OF regret or respect and poetry
will have to pay for the privilege,
Poets are to be charged double rates.
The editor says he tells all the news
ip his news columns and when their
friends wish to ring in a lot of sad,
sweet things, mostly imaginary, about
the departed, It is up to the friends
to put up some money to pay the
printers.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

northern prairies never were cap
able OF producing such crops without
cultivation I'd
With our kafir and maize crops
there Is no such word as fail. The
Oldest inhabitants OF the Panhandle
have no knowledge OF single year
when this great feed crop failed to
grow in abundance, One year with
another each acre OF kaffir and
maize will yield from $40 to SIS
worth. II always finds ready mar
ket, olthor throshed or In thelbundle
But Il should be fed TO hogs The
crying need OF the Panhandleis hogs.
Hogs by the millions, In acre lots, on
every farm. and on thousands OF
more farms than we have now. " ~
Show me the hogs, says the pack
er, "and will erect your packing
houses"
.. We have the lands We can raise
the crops We have the climate
most conducive to the growing and
maturing Of the great American hog.
No cholera, no disease OF any kind
threatens his hogship's welfare here.
But we lack the farmers who will
raise the hogs. No hogs, no pack
ing houses
The solution of the problem; Get
the farmers who raise the hogs.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
FOR MUNICIPAL WATER AND
LIGHT.

The Amarillo city council met yes
terday afternoon to take up the water
question. Mayor Miller introduced
the subject, stating that while he
had no vote upon the question he
was nevertheless In favor of definite
and concerted action on the part OF
the council, IN favor OF taking steps
toward getting an adequate water
service by legal methods.
The council, after expressing their
opinion individually and collectively,
voted unanimously 20 submit the
question OF bonding the city for a
water power and light plant to a
rate OF the people.
The matter was passed to City At
toiucy Gee, with instructions to get
ln,a touch with the attorney general,
rri TO proceed In getting matters ia
n noint at the earliest possible time
snllo Is tired OF waiting on a
asa-ycgldont lot Of capitalists who
sranise to give RELIEF from month e
month and year to year. out dot not
redeem their promises.
Property holders and residents Of
Amarillo realize that the critical tim,
has come IA the water question. The,
are cognizant Of the fact that w
must have a better water service
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
PANHANDLE RICH MANS COUN-
TRY.

1t requires several thousand dol
lars for farmer to get started in the
Panhandle even on half section of
land. But hundreds have started in
every county and practically all own
more than half section of land.
Did you ever stop to think what
will be the result eventually when
the entire Panhandle is settled up?
It will be the rich mans coun-
try. Where 1t required fifteen to
twenty years to put the settlers OF
Oklahoma, Indian Territory, and
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

better rustlers than we usually find
In older and more settled cities We
know they all have god judgment
and business aeumen, or else they
would not be N Amarillo. The dull
lard and sleepy head has no business
in our thriving hustling, bustling
city,
The Daily Panhandle predicts that
the iund-soliciting committee VIII
find every man ready to respond and
do his duty, The amount necessary
to complete the transaction must be
raised. AhsrIllos cllIEcnssllhow no
such word as faib 20. 20 f''r
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

Of these schemes; the fruit prof
fered by all OF them looks tempting
and in the majority of instances tits
swallowed by the victim and then
escape is well night impossible.
Two OF these schemes, at least,
bobbed up in Canyon City during
this month; One piano contest and
the other q souvenir booklet" This
last bears an Amarillo label and is
alleged to be "for. the benefit OF the
entire Panhandle" its promises are
great, but, strange as 1t may APP
pear to some, its personal identity
Is unknown even to Amarillo print
ers. The News turned both down
and trusts that other business men
OF Canyon City did the same.
I. There Is more in these catch-'em-
quick advertising schemes in the
Panhaudle--to the promoters-than
anything now going. so the evidence
now points.-Canyon City News.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

Daily Panhandle, was certainly 4
forcibie presentation OF facts. Mr..
Turner, besides being a railroad Of
fetal, Is also friend OF Amarillo.
Through his influence the railroad
company was persuaded to consider
Amarillo in its new plans OF i'm
provements and engagements.
Through his Influence the new line
from Panhandle to Amarillo was at
first proposed, and through his In.
fluence many thousands of railroad
money have already been spent in
Amarillo.
The railroad company is ready
now to carry out It's part of tho
agreement, as stated in Mr.. Turner's
letter, There never has been any
question with the Daily Panhandle
that the company was acting in good
faith in the big shop proposition.
Mr.. Turner's letter removes all cause
for doubt and skeptcism on the part
of anyone, The Santa Fe people
have a reputation for fairness in all
their activities, Men OF Mr.. Tur-
ner's callbre are not gracing the
counsels OF every railroad board of
directors. Both the Santa Fe and
the city of Amarillo have cause to
be proud of the local railroad man
ager.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
SCHOOL OPENS MONDAY.
Vacation ends tomorrow.

Vacation ends tomorrow,
The boys and girls on Monday will
have to resurrect books, states, pa
per and pencils and HE themselves
Off to school.
One would naturally think that the
ever-restless youngster would hale
with delight the end OF vacation,
Yet we are safe in saying that a
very large fraction of the whole OF
the children OF the land, especially
the boys, are wishing that vacation
would last forever. They are rak-
ing their young heads to find a
plausible excuse to put off the day
OF learning.
Children are naturally curious,
They want TO know. They ask ques-
lions from morning Till night, and
some OF their questions the wisest
philosopher would be unable TO ans
wer. Out OF school the child may
be something Of nuisance, he may
get into wrong tracks, bad society,"
but he Is ever active, his nature is
the very antethesis of standing still,
School is the place TO properly .di-
rect this natural energy of the child,
School Is the place where his ques-
lions are answered, where he learns
to know.
The antipathy OF some children
for school attendance must have some
grounds, some reason behind It,
What Is It? We are not prepared
to fully answer this question.
Too close confinement to text
book memorizing has something to
to do with. the question. Object
lessons and natural solution Of pro-
blems by mental and verbal effort Is
more to the child's liking.
I'm too many schools the child's
questions are answered before he can
ask them, which Is about as
rational as 1t would be to
order meals that a man
should never be hungry, Instead OF
arousing the interest OF the young
ster, and then helping him to satisfy
that curiosity, the habit Is far too
common OF examining information
down the chlld's throat, whether his
intellectual "tummy" is ready for
meal or not. The result Is that many
brainy boy and girl gets q mental
sour stomach, and some Of them keeT
in that condition the rest of theil
lives.
1--WE might say more along the
same line, but we won't, We know
that we don't know how to remed!
the things we object to, so we merel!
call attention to them, and let 1t g
at that. But we would like to sug
gest that the men and women whit
are supposed to find answers to thes,
problems, the teachers who ar
supposed to remedy these defects
ought to be worth as good wages a
the teamsters who handle our dray
age, or the carpenter who builds on
coal she'd
'"Don't you think so?"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

, Bank clearings in the principal
cities OF the country continue to show
gains. Wall street may be scared,
but the country generally is pros
porous beyond precedent and bids
fair to 90 on breaking all records in
that line despite the hysterical symp-
toms exhibited by the stock gamb-
lers, The fact of the matter is, the
country has, outgrown Wall street
and no longer comes at its beck or
trembles at its nod.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Catch, Advertising schemes.

Panhandle towns are still the east
ly caught game OF the advertising
"booklet" people, directory" peo7
pie, "watc1$ ring and diamond" folks,
piano contest people, etc, etc.
Great things are promised by all
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

Judge Parker says he entertalns
no hopes of being renominated for
president on the Democratic ticket.
The Judge could have added that he,
as a presidential probability, was ar
revocably settled" in the last nation
al campaign,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

No state has a more composite
population than have the two terri
tories that will make the state of
Oklahoma. Figures which the News
printed the other day show chat con-
siderably more than one-t third the
inhabitants are natives of other
states, and II the Indians and half
breeds be excluded the native-born
will be less than one-half the whole
number That Is true OF very few
states, IL any of them. 1t is due, of
course, to the manner in which the
two territories, especially Oklahoma,
we're settled, What is more remark
able, each of twenty states has sent
more than 1000 Of its native sons to
Oklahoma, while one other, Minneso-
ia, Is represented by more than L.
600 Texas leads with nearly 1907
900, then come in the order named,
Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Illinois,
Tennessee, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky,
Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi Georgia,
Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Virginia,
New York, Louisiana, Wisconsin,
Michigan and Minnesota. Every
southern state except Florida has
contributed as much as 1000. The
northern states are almost as well
represented, and The East and West
have contributed somewhat. Okla
homa will be the most non-sectional
state OF the union Dallas News.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
NELSON & DRAUGHOA Business College

Fort Worth, Texas, guarantees to teach you book
keeping and banking in from eight to ten weeks,
am, Shorthand in as short time as any hrst-olasS
college Positions secured or money refunded
Notes accepted iortuition. For catalogue address
j.. W. DRAUGHoN,- President, Sixth and Main
Streets, Fort Worth. Texas.
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Entered at the Postotilco at Amar-
lilo, Texas. as second class mail mat
ter.
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MIR, TURNER'S LETTER.

Mr., Turner's letter to the people
OF Amarillo, published in SATURDAYS
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-16
woMAN'S PATHETIC STORY.
Marie Ballast Driven to Shoot Man
Charged With Her Betrayal.

NEW YORK, July 16-Marie Ballast told
between her sobs in the Harlem police
court to Magistrate Whitman how and
in his rooms at 90 East 117th street. and
wounded herself. She told how Stern had
won her love while they were working to-
gether in a restaurant and promised to
marry her, but when he became prosperous
sought to discard her
when he would not marry me to right
the wrong he had done me l sued him
Tor breach of promise. This was more
than a year ago. and the suit is still pend
ing. she said. II had him arrested after
bringing this suit, and then he promis I'd
charge. He told me to come to his home,
where the ceremony would be performed. l
did, and we were married in what / after
ward learned was a mock ceremony. A
friend of his pretended to be a clergy
man, and another friend signed a fictitious
certificate. Later they burned this certiii-
cate
She told how Stern had given her valu-
able diamond ring, set with three me
stones, two of which she was to have reset
for earrings and the other made into be-
trothal ring. He promised, she said, to
make home for her. Instead of doing this
stolen the ring and the earrings she went
on. II was forced to pay lawyer 500
all the little savings l had in the world
When / was taken to court the magistrate
would not entertain a charge against me
and advised me to prosecute him. But once
more he pleaded with me and again | was
deluded. He got me to go to disreputab.e