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The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-07-23
The Panhandle as Seen by Others.
John 7. BramhaII in Farm Press (Chicago).

bought in April produced 81, ,S67
in one year and left on hand
more than the original purchase.
Their 5000 apple trees, AL
healthy and vigorous, produce
more and better fruit than any
in our experience"
W. f. Curfman writes from
Hereford, on the west side of
Panhandle, as follows: | expect
to get 81, 400 for my wheat and
oats crop this year. | now have
165 acres in cultivation, in wheat,
oats, corn, milo, kaffir, sorghum,
California wheat, millet and cot
ton, and all kinds of vegetables.
| believe this to be good small
grain country, and cotton will be
a success. | came here with
$500 and could draw my check
now for 81, 800.
That will do for a sample;
there are hundreds like it from
all parts of the Panhandle. Sue
cess is the rule; failure, the rare
exception. Everyone has heard
of Amarillo, the yellow daisy of
the plains" but this is not ga
letter. To me the most impOr-
tant thing is health. | do not
care so much for big crops. How
about the the Panhandle as a
country to live in, and to bring
up a family? | have observed
with both eyes open, and | find
this: That health stands AL.
tuberculosis, bronchitis, fevers,
etc, are unknown in the vocabu-
larry of the Panhandle, and con
sumption cure and ague dope do
not stare at you from the drug
store shelves. And as for cul-
ture! Well, you ought to see the
women's clubs. And schools?
In many particulars they are
better than those of our north
ern cities, more progressive and
with better material Il say it ad-
visedly) in the seats. Figures
as to school funds and eXpendi-
lures mean little on nothing. but
| if say that Texas has 800
teachers for her 100000 enrolled
children, and that she pays her
teachers more per month than
either Illinois or Ohio. perhaps
that may set you thinking. And
while our northern states have
only ; per cent men teachers,
Texas has rs per cent. Which
states, think you, is apt to pro
duce mollycoddles, and which
will train strong active men.
And added to all this, the Pan
handle is a white mans country.
! have not a greater amount of
race prejudice than most men,
but | confess a preference for
the Caucasian as a neighbor and
particularly for the Anglo-SaXon,
and of such are the Panhandlers
of Texas.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-07-23
BIG IMPROVEMENTS
NOW BEING MADE.
RESUME OF THE BUILDING WEST SHOW
ACTIVITY IN ALL LINES OF WORK.
Fort Worth Paper Gives Some Estimate Of
Extent Of Improvement Now
Being Done.

In recent edition of the Fort
Worth Star Telegram some idea
was given as to the amount of
general improvement now being
done in West Texas and the Pan
handle. According to our OBJ
servations the estimates are be-
low the actual work being done,
but the article will serve to give
the uninitiated some idea about
the country and its prosperity
and Randall county is right in
the midst of it. The article says;
West Texas and the Panhandle
are spending S100,000,00O this
year for improvements.
These are not paper improve
ments. They are railroads,
buildings, manufactures, enter
prises actually under way. 1t is
record never equalled before
in the development of country.
1t is a record that will stand til
Texas itself breaks it. No other
part of the world has the devel-
oped resources to duplicate the
the feat.
For years the growth of West
Texas and the Panhandle has
been the marvel of the country.
1T won't last said some. It's
an unusual growth. " Then
came 1.-THE panic. Watch it
stop, ".preached the pessimists.
ButiWest Texas and the Panhan
die kept right on. Itwas one of
the few sections of the United
States that improved during the
furry" as the bankers liked to
call it. Then came the dry
months Of the early part of the
year. Again the anvil chorus
was heard; West Texas and
the hPanhandle will stop now
sure" But West Texas and the
Panhandle were too busy grow
ing to,stop and listen.
1t is impossible to enumerate
the Improvement tapping the
hammers in each, the new build
ing here, car line extension there
and waterworks at another place
that aggregate the millions.
Take only the larger places,
places where a record of this
sort is kept up. Hit the high
places, to use a popular express
sion, and then get an adding
maching. Figures will mount
up Oh lIsureS' iii''i'ol' "i'e' 'il'l
llo'l' ''i' you S'"i''c D"0N ~ aeo
Il OIle il"c''''e ISL "oi N''lS
WRONG
N"'IIo"u9 are P''S I'lS " i'oIii'
hehV P"rU III '''e II'IlIo''"'e''O VI
tIa country Tarpp SumS arc
l''e 'o"'''i y ,'"' ~ 9''''7 "' -
oe'nE eAJ'eH"e" III '''e'l NoN
NIfucuo"' IulPIo'e"'en,9 '''"V
''I'@ "i'''' '''' ""' ''' Jun - ''
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-07-23

jim Cummings has returned
from Lubbock where he has
been with the telephone com
pany. He will work with the To-
cal telephone company here
while the new improvements are
being made.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-07-23

Mrs. and Mr.. John l.. Howell,
Jr., of Lake Arthur, have gone
to Seattle, Washington, and 9th
er points on the Pacific coast.
They expect to be gone about
four or five weeks and will at
tend the big exposition at Seat
tie while away.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-07-23

Panhandle. L want to tell you
that one of these years they will
have a drOuth on that abandoned
back shed of the world that will
dessicate it till the mummy of
pharaoh won't be circumstance.
and send them to Kansas beg
ging for corn. You mark what
| am telling you"
And | marked the knocker ac-
cordingly. At Amarillo from
August to the end of Decem-
ber, there was scarcely 5.5 inch
es of rain, as compared with the
normal summer rainfall of Is
inches, and the milo maize and
the katfir corn cracked with the
heat. The mercury went (once)
to 9S degrees in the shade, and,
in the terse language of the fire
reporter, "at one time it was
thought the town would go. "
But it didn't go. Nor was the
country burned up. Nor did
the Panhandle go down into
Egypt for corn. Not for a shek-
els worth. What happened:
This happened: The Panhandle
shipped grain. Now you must
know the Panhandle never pre-
tended to be a grain country. If
they produce over and above
what is required at home, it is
not on the bills. But look you:
the Panhandle, handicapped as
it was, shipped grain. The act
ual figures, as reported by the
railroads, were;
Wheat, 1,140,0S9 bushels; oats,
III, ,24S bushels, kattir corn, 66,-
80 bushels; milo, 2l,055 bush
oils. oorn 9o1 ooo hnshaIs. sor.
ghum, %, $50 bushels: millet. .
433 bushels; barley, 1919 bush
al. To4ol I co. ooo b,sbeIs in
,.orrd orn,l,ors ~ ohont y 400
o,,lood, And tbo,o u.era also
# G-co,,oads Of cattle rnnninp
+uo,tv +o tbo oar
1,bo+ :. what tbov .hinnad T
,,.;.l, 7 had tho fiorros of what
tl,,,-. .o,,..,,,ol Tba,, fod 4bai,.
.to.l.- +bov ara fondino more
s+ocl, ovorv voor-thev keen
tboi,. mills roino and they had a
.,,,,,Irs Of + oo0 ooo bushels
Not 90 had !. ~
smoke Of stock Some Deo.
nIo hava an idea that there isn't
anvthino There but stock, and
lonuborns at that while others
tbinl, that tbe stock has all gone.
Roth wrono Ever hear of the
Herefordsy The Panhandle is
+hoir bonnv homo And there
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-07-23

Misses Anna Belle and Mar.
garetBennett of Crystal Springs,
Miss, arrived here last Tuesday
and will visit with their brother,
Claude T. Bennett, for several
weeks.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-07-23

There are TOO many GRAND.
stand plavers We have them in
every walk Of life Tfvou watch
. baseball oa,ne Won will see a
fellow who wears a loud sweater
and who noses in the field, He
will ,un like a deer when if is
not necessary When he makes
a poor slide he GETS ND and limps
away as though he was badly in.
inred and if he had not been he
would have made the base. The
rrandstand PLAYER is in the
church and in the lodge. When
thinos are ouiet and there is only
one mid-week PRAYER meeting.
the urandstand pIayer has moth
inr to say But when the church
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-07-23

l.. G. Conner attended the
celebration at Tuha last Satur.
day.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-07-23

Be a News subscriber.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13
WHAT THE LABEL MEANS TO
UNIONISM.

The label is the life of unionism.
If these manufacturers, who may
be behind the hatters in this strike,
think that they can wipe out the lab
els without fight, they are wrong.
To fight for the labels is to fight for
the basis of unionism.
A label is a guaranty. 1t is a guide
to prove that the ware on which it is
found is of union manufacture.
The label is the very opposite OF
the boycott The boycott says, Don't
buy" The label says, "Buy, and sup
port this union
We can't print our boycott lists any
more. 1t would even be wrong, sup
pose, to display the old list.
But no one can stop me or anybody
else from telling his friend that this
or that article of manufacture is un
fair.
I'm going to use my speech in this
way, just as l please.
We must fight for our sixty-fou
union labels to the last ditch.-Ex.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13

and weren't they likely to be eight
dollar clerks today and proprietors of
department stores a week from next
Tuesday?
But the hayseeds in the backwoods,
who got the organization fever good
and proper, passed the word along the
line, and when they hitched up to go
to town for the purpose of doing their
trading. and arrived at the forks of
the road the procession instead of 60
ing into Sherman drove to Denison,
where there was retail clerks union.
In other words the union farmers
quietly put boycott on Sherman for
they wanted to be waited on by union
clerks who had sense enough to organ
ize.
1t is no credit to the Sherman
clerks to add that, after the merchants
learned why the farmers gave them
the go-by, they compelled their en-
ployes to form a union. But perhaps
in the fullness of time the Sherman
clerks will forget their sissy ideas
and learn that they owe something to
the useful people in society who put
UP with their Erie, Pa,
Labor Journal.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13
GENERAL MENTION.
Bits of News Picked and PiIfered
Here and Hereabouts.

Bits of News Picked and PiIfered
Here and Hereabouts.
In the meanwhile you can still de-
mand the union label.
Brotherhood .f Ra;,wa! T"ainncn
ball, March II. Quick's orchestra.
Up to date no one has seen the
Douglas shoe advertising in this labor
newspaper.
The "Made in Lincoln" exposition
is success. Tonight is your last op-
portunity to see it.
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt was on
Tuesday of this week granted di-
vorce on the ground of desertion and
non-support.
The state free employment agency
is daily beseiged by men who are
suffering from the effects of the pres
ent revival of prosperity.
The Labor Temple directorate will
meet next Monday evening at the Of
fee of the state labor commissioner,
east entrance state house.
Captain Billy Fox of the Green
hackers" has arrived in Lincoln with
his family. This means that the base
ball season is close at hand.
Secretaries of local unions are asked
to communicate with the Wageworker
and learn something that will be in
teresting and profitable to them.
A bill was introduced in the Colo
! RADIO legislature making it misde-
| tip except on a sleeping car.
The buildinug season opens With
| promise. The indications are that
| there will be more building this sea-
son than ever before in Lincoln.
The consolidation of practically all
Illinois mines within a radius of fifty
| miles of St. Louis, involving $780, 00,.
900, is reported to be on the verge of
consummation.
| Prohibition laws went into effect in
Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi on
January l. One-third of the near
beer" places of Atlanta were closed as
Improbable.
The Kansas Supreme Court, on Jan
uary 8, affirmed the verdict against the
International Harvester company. The
company must pay fine of $4,000
on forty-two charges of violating the
Kansas Antitrust law.
The result of census of occupa.
tons, taken in December, 1907, just
published, shows the number of per-
sons engaged in industry and trade in
Prussia was increased by 100000
from 1895 to 1907, while the number
engaged in agriculture was decreased
by 100000.
Among the bills introduced in the
California Senate is one by Marc
Anthony, asking the governor to issue
proclamation prior to the general
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13
FOOD FOR THE NoN-uNioNlsr.


Do you know that when wages are
reduced in times of panics they new
er rise again among unorganized
workers?
Do you know that each succeeding
panic has left the wages of the I'M
organized worker smaller than they
were before?
Do you know that in spite of all
panics the wages of organized labor
have steadily advanced and hours of
labor shortened?
Do you know that if the wage earn
ers were all organized, panics would
be less frequent and less severe.
Do you know that the recent cut in
your wages will never be recovered
until you organize.
Do you know that the long hours of
labor lessen your pay, How will you
increase it?
Do you know it is a duty you owe
your family and your fellow-craftsmen
to join the union of your craft,
Do you know that the longer you
delay joining the union of your craft
the longer you will be in lettering
your present condition, shortening
your hours of labor per day, and in.
creasing your pay?-Ex.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13
HELP THEM!

The prohibition wave has worked
havoc with the cigarmakers' trade
throughout the country. There are
many union men out of work as
result. While the union cigarmakers
were always in need of the support
and agitation of the members of or
ganized labor, they are much more in
need of that support and agitation at
the present time In order to insure
them work the union label must be
demanded now more than ever, and
the union calls upon trade unionists
to not forget the blue label Of
the Cigarmakers' International Union
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13
THE PREsSM EN-.
Getting Ready for the international
Meeting at Omaha in June.

Berry pickers" is what they call
the pressmen who bring new members
into the union. This Is in compliment
to. President Berry of the information
al. Omaha will entertain the inter
national convention next June, and of
course the Lincoln boys will assist
all they can. What's the matter with
bringing the delegates and visitors
down to the capital city one day?
The eight-hour day for the pressmen
is now an accomplished fact The Ty-
pothaete has been forced by legal de-
cision to ccme across, and the eight
hour day is now in effect in all Ty-
pothaete shops. This seems to as
sure the discontinuance of the as
sessment-and the boys wouldn't shed
many tears over that.
The local union is getting busy
these days, and as a result several ap-
plications for membership are await
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13

election of 1909, calling upon the peo-
pie to register their sentiments for
or against Asiatic immigration" upon
a part of the official ballot to be re-
served for the purpose
The Bulgarian Sobranje has voted to
tax bachelors over thirty years of age
So yearly. The proceeds will be de-
voted to education.
A remarkable religious boycott has
been started in Jerusalem All the
and none of the native adherents will
enter one of the edifices. The trou-
BILE began because the natives de-
manded a voice in the affairs of the
church
Harry N. Allen has resigned as
president of the New York Taxicab
Company. The company lost about
100000 during the recent strike of
drivers. The company has $50 taxi
cabs The London Taxicab Company
controls the New York concern.
The ministry of education recently
introduced bill before the douma,
providing for building fund for the
erection of 14S,179 new primary
schools throughout the empire with
in ten years. A statute providing for
general compulsory education is to
be discussed in the douma
A house-to-house census which has
been taken under the auspices of the
Berlin trades unions shows a total
| 67,367, an addition to 1898 unem-
ployed in the suburbs. The munich
pality will carry out a similar census
but has called upon the unemployed
to report at various centers.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13

ing action, with more to follow
There has been revival of interest
in the local union, and the meetings
are being more largely attended The
members are working towards 100
per cent union," and if the present
energy holds out it is possible that
The Wageworker will record it in a
very short time.
Billy King insists that his Buff
Meihle hens are better layers than
the Black Gordons or the Plymouth
Peerless.
Work is rushing in the press room
these days. Lincoln is really one of
the great printing centers of the coun-
try, and especially so when the legis-
lature is in session.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13
FARMERS GET WISE.
Boycott Stores Whose Clerks Are Too
Good to Organize.

The organized farmers down around
Sherman and Denison, Texas, have
given the workingmen in cities and
towns and cities a fine illustration
of doing things right The pernicker-
ty clerks of Sherman couldn't organ
ize. Oh, dear no! They were not
workingmen! Didn't they wear white
shirts and creases in their trousers,
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13
Notice Is Creditors.

Estate No. 1929 of John E. Lund-
gren, deceased. in County Court of
Lancaster County, Nebraska.
The State OF Nebraska, S.: Cred
itors of said estate will take notice
that the time limited for presentation
and filing of claims against said estate
is October 1, 1909, and for payment
of debts is May 2, 1910; that I will
sit at the County Court room in said
County, on July 1, 1909, at 2 p. M, and
on October l, 1909, at 2 p. M, to re
ceive, examine, hear, allow, or adjust
all claims and objections duly fled
Dated February 26, 1909.
P. JAS COSGRAVE,
(Seal.) County Judge.
BY WALTER A. LEESE, Clerk. 40
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13

The real strength of union lies
in the number of active workers and
boosters" among it's members. It's
weakness is determined by the num-
Der of chronic knockers in it's
ranks.-Coast Seamen's Journal.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13
UNION PRINT SHOPS.
Printeries That Are Entitled to Use
the Allied Trades Label.


the Allied Trades Label.
Following is a list Of the printing
Offices in Lincoln that are entitled
to the use of the Allied Printing
Trades label, together with the num-
:doqs qoee 40 pesn IeqeI eql 10 Ieq
c. 8. Simmons, No. 2.
Freie Presse, No. 8.
Jacob North & Co., No. 1.
Woodruff Collins. No. 4.
Graves & Mulligan, No. S.
State Printing Co., No. 6.
Star Publishing Co., No. Z.
Western Newspaper Union, Nc s
Wood Printing Co., No 9.
George Bros, No. II.
McVey Printing Co., No. r..
Ford Printing Co., No. 16.
VanTine & Young, No. "a.
Dairyman Pub. Co., 100 No. 14th.
Graves Printery, No. 5.
New Century, 213 South Thirteenth.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13

when buying cigars.-Baltimore Labor
Leader.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13
Notice to Creditors.

Estate No. 1926 of Adelia P. Grover,
deceased, in County Court of Lancas-
ter County, Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska, S.: Credit
or of said estate will take notice that
the time limited for presentation and
filing of claims against said estate is
October Is, 1909, and for payment of
debts is May Is, 1910; that will sit
at the County Court room in said
County, on July 15, 1909, at p. M,
to receive, examine, hear, allow, or
adjust all claims and objections duly
filed.
Dated March 9Th, 1909
P. JAS COSGRAVE,
(Seal.) County Judge.
By WALTER A. LEESE, Clerk. 40
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13
LIBERAL BARTENDERs.

The Bartenders' International Union
has sent $1,000 to Secretary Morrison
This is subscription to the appeal
fund in the contempt case.
The Washington times., 1909-11-09
USEFUL IF NOT BEAUTIFUL
POSTAGE STAMPS.

It may be said, in the first place
that the new l2-cent stamp will be a
considerable convenience to those who
send registered letters. The new p
center represents the advanced cost Of
registration plus the regulation 2-cent
fee for letters.
Whether the esthetic sense is to be
served in this case, as well as the prac-
teal sense, is question. The Postoffice
Department is keeping the stamp max
ers busy. and it is a question whether
under the press of novelties the.stamp
rtists have time to produce anything
worthy of admiration.
The notable stamps of the year, the
Alaska Yukon and the Hudson Fulton
issues. meet a souvenir purpose, but
the complaint the esthetes have raised
over them is loud and bitter. There
il an impression in some quarters that
Mr.. Hitchcock draws the designs Of the
new stamps himself. The new l2-cent
stamp will settle that problem.
Ii the head Of Washington resembles
The Washington times., 1909-11-09
ADVOCATE CHANGE.
FOR INAUGURATION
Commissioners to Make
Every Effort to Have
Date Later.

Among the first questions OF impor-
lance to be brought to the attention OF
the coming Congress is the change in
the date OF the Inauguration of the Pres
ident.
Commissioner mcfarland. chairman
Of the National Committee on the Pro
posed Change of Inauguration Day, an
nounced today the committee Will press
the resolution introduced at both houses
at the extra session with that object in
view as soon as Congress meets in De-
cember. The resolution introduced by
Senator Depew in the Senate and Rep
resentatfye Gaines OF West Virginia In
the House provides the date shall be
changed 10 the last Thursday in April,
that being the day on which George
washington was inaugurated. By the
selection Of a week day the possibility
Of the Inauguration falling on Sunday
also will be avoided.
In View Of the weather conditions
which prevailed on the last fourth of
March, and which furnished an object
10 the law makers who were n Wash
ington at that time, the committee is
optimistic regarding the passage of
the resolution.
Favorable expressions have been OBJ
tained from Speaker Cannon and tie
leaders of both House and Senate nave
encouraged the committee in the be-
The Washington times., 1909-11-09

progressive education of men away and
out of the meaner motives and purposes
that are the handspring of present day
politics. This win not necessarily re-
quire the active participation of women
in politics, and, indeed, their influence
toward this end might be stronger from
without.
But, as DR.. Adler might say under
similar circumstances, if women really
desire to vote, if they earnestly desire
to do so; if they demand the ballot
and insist upon having it-well, then
they ought to have it. If they can
take it they're entitled to it.
In the meantime every man among
US dOffs his hat, bows his head, and
prays devoutly; "The women, God bless
them!"