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The Springfield herald., 1909-10-29
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Uncle Marymee is on the sick list
Harry Bryan is visiting with his
father.
Mrs. Williams has her house nearly
completed.
Frank MCGOWAN, brother and niece
are visiting at home.
Mr.. Cordray was seen on the streets
of Konantz recently.
Bud Watson and wife visited at Per-
ly .Bohl's last Sunday.
1. A. Gregory and wife called at A.
Hedrick's, last Sunday
Rev. Dean was out to the Two Buttes
land opening and reports good at
tendance
The fsaacs boy is now conscious, and
otherwise much improved since our last
writing.
Mr.. Smoot of LoneoalS, Kansas, and
Harry Higgins, cattle buyer, from
Syracuse, We're here last week.
BOIL & Co., with their new chain
seeder, handled all the broom corn in
the neighborhood last week; it's
"crackerjack -
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Blaine Items

Forest Hall went to Springfield
Saturday, on business.
VIM. Curtis went to Lamar for
a load of coal last week.
A son arrived at the home of
T. Weeden, Saturday night.
Mrs. Johns and son, Charlie,
visited the Two Buttes Thursday.
G. Grill and B. B. Cant were
the Blaineites who attended the
Two Buttes town-site opening.
Dayton Knox and brother,
Ray, returned home Saturday,
from week S visit to C. S. Bray's
at Carrizo.
The roundup wagon camped
on Horse Creek, the first Of the
week, gathering up cattle for
several parties.
Ben Caddick and Mr.. Brown
were at the opening of the new
town of Two Buttes, last Thurs
day and Friday.
Pretty Prairie.
Mr.. johnson butchered a beef
last week.
Mr.. Dawson erected a new
windmill last week.
Mr., Frush is busy getting ready
to plaster his house.
There is talk of store in our
vicinity in the near future.
Mr.. Downing is putting up a
cement house for Watson Bros.
Alta Mitchell, who is attending
the Cochrum school, visited with
home folks over Sunday.
Ed and Ernest Robb were in
this vicinity q few days ago,
looking after their interests here.
Some of the young people from
this vicinity, attended Christian
Endeavor at Stonington, Sunday
night.
George Isaacs, who was thrown
from his horse and seriously hurt
almost four weeks ago regained
consciousness last Tuesday and
was able to be taken home Sun
day. He had been at the home
of E. Cordray since being hurt.
North Flats
Emma Chenoweth is visiting
at the Harry Ward home.
D. M. Chenoweth and sons, Ira
and Floyd, took posts to Lamar
this week.
Liberty Sunday School was
well attended Sunday, only q
few absent.
H. J. Sven and boys are help
ing F. Stalnaker with his broom
born this week.
The men are scarce, all gone
to the cedars, Arthur Smart, j.
B. Bickford, Dilo Oxenreider and
Lee Holms.
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Delinquent Tax List Of Baca Coun-
ty, Colorado:
Trcasurer's office. Baca County.
State of Colorado.

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M. e. Church

There will be preaching service at
Stonington, Saturday evening at 1880
by the new pastor; at Lamport, Sun
day morning at IL and at Boston, Sun
day afternoon at $3.50.
Blaine, Wednesday evening, Nov. 3,
and Pretty Prairie, Thursday evening,
November 4th.
JOHN STEPHEN, Pastor.
Union Sunday School at Springfield
every Sunday at 10 Il. m.
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carried by the Lamport Mercantile
Company.
T. R. Oxenreider delivered a
load of cedar wood to the HER
/ AID people, the 23rd.
Frank Streeter, one of Stoning-
TONS best people. added his name
to our list Of subscribers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boyd have ac-
cepted a position on the Patter-
son ranch for the winter.
A fine new piano came to town
the 28th. 1t is the property of
County Clerk, win Spurgeon.
Rev. Stephen who was indis-
posed for several days, we are
glad to report is now well again.
Chas. Collins, Stanley and Ira
Mcclellan, prominent sheep men,
were in town the 1st of the week.
Overalls and Shirts at Den
ney's, the famous "Jayanell
Brand"
j. H. Christy recently sold
fine team of drivers, to Theodore
Bangerter of the Merino Sheep
Co.
Nicholas Consamus made final
proof on a fine quarter section of
land in southeast Baca, last Sat
urday.
Mr.. limerick of the Western
Land and Title Co., of Lawrence,
Kansas, is here for few days
attending to land matters.
d. E. Sitton and Gabriel Miller
We're doing business here the %
and 23rd. They are among the
progressive settlers of Lamport.
Go to Denney's for your shoes,
extra quality, low prices.
Willard Cole has gone to La
mar, presumably for the purpose
of bringing back a bunch of cat
tie to feed this coming winter.
Are you a nonresident owner
of land in Baca county? If so, it
is to your interest to subscribe
for this paper, and Keep Posted.
See tire new line of winter unde-
wear carried by Tie Lamport Mer-
camille Company.
Glen Yokum, Nance brothers,
and others, jolly fellows, stopped
for few minutes the 9th, on
their way for an outing in the
cedars.
Artesian wells are getting to
be a common thing in Baca coun-
ty. The latest is at the Wilkins
place near Blaine, at a depth of
245 feet.
H. Tankersly was at Wheeler's
the first of the week, after lum-
ber for Vesta Bray, who is build
ing new house on his ranch at
Carrizo.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Felix
Ward, Monday, October 25th, a
baby girl. May her pathway
through life be strewn with the
beautiful buds of happiness.
w. w. Staples and H. E.
Scripture are among the new
subscribers to this paper. They
have contracts in connection
with the Two Buttes project.
Warren Ward, brother of the
Ward boys, is back on a visit.
He is connected with mining
interests in New Mexico, and
like the boys here, is prospering.
The Lanport Mercantile Company
have a nice line of bed blankets. Call
and see them.
Ben Caddick the Land Man"
sends in a big order for miscel-
laneous advertising matter, and
our Mr.. Trivett will proceed to
turn it out at the earliest possible
moment!
Levi and John Mobley and C.
7. Clark, a new conner, visited
the county seat, the 25th. Mr..
Clark made desert entry in 30-42
and ordered the HERALD sent to
Stonington, for year.
Nathan Curtis and a Mr..
Hodges of Lorena, Oklahoma,
transacted business in Springfield
the 23rd. Mr.. H. has acquired
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Remember that the Powell Brand"
of work shirts and overalls, "Hodkin"
gloves, "Stetson" hats and the best
saddle rope in Baca county are ham
died by The Lamport Mercantile
Company, Stonington, Colorado.
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NOTICE.

There will be q meeting OF the
Tax-Title Association at Villas,
November 18th (Friday) at 10 a.
M, for the purpose of reorganiz-
ing or disbanding the association.
Let each member be present in
person Or by proxy. NsD" Don t
forget the date.
w. H. KoNKEL, Secretary.
Call and see Denney's Dry
Goods.
Lyceum Program
For Wednesday eve, Nov. 8.
Instrumental solo: Clara Barrett
Paper: How to improve
the Lyceum" VIII Spurgeon
Song: Lottie and Efie Denney
and Lora AleXader
Debate: Resolved that woman
suffrage would be beneficial to
the Nation. "
Affirmative: Miss Johnston, Al
ma Gordon, Maude Patterssn.
Negative: Mrs. H. O. Green,
Maggie Konkel, Nellie Whit
aker.
Report of Com. on Constitution.
Business.
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MOT CHEAP BUT OWEN awAy-

The 800 acres of land between Hiias and
Stonihgton, known as the Slider Ranch" is
now on the market, with all improvements
windmiN, house, srdnary, barn, fencing and
the Hiiing of the SoH-for St400 The i'm
provements alone win cost you this.
address, 1884 South CiGrkson,
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4TTENTION!!! HORoEMEN

Captain Kid is a mahogany bay
sired by Symbolier 2:09a, who
broke the worlds record at Dali
las, Texas, when two year old,
pacing a mile in 2:1l4. Dam, Raw
en- by Westbrook 2:23; Westbrook
being full brother to Joe Patchen
POI. Will stand at my ranch 8
miles southwest of Springfield.
Terms: 500 for the season
with return privilege. Money
due at time of service.
G. G.. PATTERSON
Springfield, Colorado
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Baptist Church

At Springfield Che fourth Saturday
of each month in the morning, and the
fourth Sunday, morning and evening.
REV. HAZEL, pastor.
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Survey completed.

William A. Clark the Govern
ment contractor, completed
the work of resurveying the
western portion of the territory
under contract in this county on
Saturday, and with his outfit left
for Lamar, the following morn
ing. Mr.. Clark has been in the
field for the past five months,
and it is a matter of general sat
isfaction to see the work COM
pleted. The date of opening this
part Of the county to settlers, is
as yet matter of conjecture.
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Estray advertisement.

Notice is hereby given 10 whom 1t may con-
tern that the following described estray animal
was taken up near Wins. Baea county, Colorado,
IN or about oct 3rd, 1902. To wit: Ono brown
hlley, about two years old, visible brand
said animal being unknown to this Bonrd un-
less claimed by owner on or before NOV. Ith, 1909
-aid STRAY will he sold by this Board for the
bcncit Of thc owner when found.
state Board OF Stock Inspection Goms
CiissiOncrs. Denver, Colo.
"A Few Wants.
WANTED: Man and wife on
ranch. Steady employment.
WILLARD COLE,
CarriZo, Colo.
Wanted: A man teacher for
Carrizo school, 4 to 6 months
term, wages $50.
Address R. G. CoTToN,
Regnier, Colorado.
WANTED: at the T. V. Lam
port ranch, 8 miles south of Ston-
ington, good man for the Win
ter, or would employ for a year
if work is satisfactory.
t. V. LAMPoRT,
Lamport, Colo.
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Town lots in Cai1'ilO spi'ind-

Witness handnn this 10Th October A. D. 1909
HohshEk
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The JJ outfit passed through

The JJ OUTFIT passed through
here Thursday, enroute to La
Junta, with 1850 steers, from
which point they Will be shipped.
jim Herrin was in charge.
Charles zulauf, brother-in-law
of Will Denney, who has been
here on a visit for several days
left for his home near Wilcox,
Nebraska, last Monday. Mr.. D
accompanied him io Lamar.
j. z. Harrison was over from
his ranch last Saturday. He had
just sold a fine team of horses
and a four horse bad of corn, or
dered a big bill of nursery stock
and was smoking best in town.
Mrs. Roy A. Sovereign and
little daughter, OF Lincoln, Neb
raska, who have been visiting
Mrs. II. K Ward, a sister of Mrs.
Sovereign, left for their home
early this week. Her husband is
engaged in the printing business.
B. G. Doke, one Of Stoning-
toms progressive new comers,
was here the 20th, and gave us a
cash order for the HERALD. MIR.
d. is building UP 9 fine home in
33-43. AS a result of this years
operations, along with maize,
cane and etc. he has several tons
of gold dollar broom corn, and
like many of his neighbors, has
the prosperity look.
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Soon to Leave

Martin & Allen, prominent and
successful merchants here for
many years, will open a store at
Two Buttes about the beginning
of 1910. They have an extended
acquaintance with Baca county
people and the ability to get ac-
quainted and do business with
the new people with whom they
will come in contact. They are
men of integrity, both in busi-
ness and private life. May con-
tinued success attend them.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-28
THE HARBOR

NHE harbor commission ordinance
finally passed by the council Gre
n ates a body of three members to
be appointed by the mayor subject to
confirmation by majority of the coun-
Gil, and unpaid. This commission must
choose a secretary not a member of the
commission, who shall draw a salary
of $4,000 a year,
Harbor development is a matter of
supreme Importance to Greater Los
Angeles, and it is of vital moment that
the history of the harbor commission
should be totally free from the influ-
ences or any possibility of the influences
which have sought to control the har-
bor for selfish purposes.
Everlasting vigilance is the price Of
the liberty" and the untrammeled de-
Veopment of the harbor Of Greater
Los Angeles.
In the future harbor history to a
great extent will be Los Angeles his
tory. The destinies of the great metro
politan city and it's great world harbor
are inseparable. 1t Is right all ap-
pointments in connection with the har-
Dor should be made in manner which
will give the least possible encourage
ment or opportunity to the corporation
which coVets the harbor to accomplish,
either directly or indirectly, its selfish
aims.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-28

the two religions, granting an equal
indulgence and liberation to them
both So that they may be as fairly
claimed to be pagan as Christian en-
perors. Nor had even Constantine
himself, the first for whom the des-
ignation of a Christian emperor has
been challenged, accepted the rite of
Christian baptism before he was dying
or ever in his life ceased to be and to
officiate as a priest of the gods. era
tian, the seventh emperor from him,
and fourth after Julian, though a sim
cere believer, never thought fit to
annul what Julian had restored. so
that till then, up to- the year 1884, there
was no actual disunion between Christ
and Belial; no evidence of miracles or
strength of reason had been offered
to attest the superiority of the Chris
tian religion to demonstrate that there
was any material distinction between
that and paganism or to determine
the mind of any one of the Roman
emperors that there was an inconsis-
tency in being a Christian and a
pagan at the same time, Let us go
to Sycamore Park the 30th.
~ TAYLOR.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-28
DINGLE

INT ESERVE'S announcement OF the
N appointment of Erwin Dingle and
ALA S. Strong as his deputies can
hardly be called a surprise, and the
tenacity of purpose exhibited by Mr.
Meserve in the face of renonstrances
from the general public as well as from
representatives of the California indus
try Meserve is supposed to foster and
protect is convincing proof Of the pow
erful nature of the influences brought
to bear in order to force the appoint
ment Of Dingle.
The fruit growers attribute the Sc
lection and appointment of Dingle to
the influence of the Solid Three of the
board of supervisors. They are un-
willing to think Mr.. Meserve, a man
in whom they have reposed conf
dence and in whom they have believed,
would have reduced his important Of
fee to a political basis unless he had
been practically coerced.
AS the most brazen and hardened
VILLAIN" whether in melodrama or in
real life, always commits some eli
IndCLlc aCIlOn WHICH crowns MS CAREER
land occa sions his downfall-so office
holders, who despise the interests of
the public and override public wishes,
will invariably come to grief by being
guilty of a crowning inpertinence,
which, as far as they themselves are
concerned, turns out to be also a
crowning folly.
The Solid Three are accused Of hav-
ing "clubbed" Meserve into appoint
ing Dingle. But was the action of the
Solid Three spontaneous? Did they vol
unfairly incur the risk of displeasing
the fruit growers and the public? What
influence dubbed the Solid Three be-
fore the three dubbed Meserve and
forced him to make a rash, prepos-
ferrous, unpopular political machine
appointment?
The Solid Three, who were nightly
emboldened after Don McGarvin had
held counsel with them, have given the
public a convincing proof Of the ac-
curacy of popular opinion as to the
ownership which controls and operates
them,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-28
pEPLoREs CASUALTIES OF
MODERN FOOTBALL GAMES

GINA Cal. Oct. 21.-[Editor Her
ald1: In your issue of the goth inst I
noticed an account of the probable
fatal injury of another young man at
nlaving football 7 cannot see the
sense Of making this game so brutal.
Every now and then the public be-
comes aroused to the point of calling
INDIGNATION meetings because of the
brutal acts of the players of this game.
And the public press repeatedly shows
its disapproval of the game as played
nv many teams. When public sent1-
ment becomes aroused to the extent of
an almost universal condemnation of
the game, then the "bull fight" tactics
are eliminated for time.
And now, after a short spell Of play
ing the game in a sane manner, 1t Is
about time for our newspapers to get
out their cartoons of old Father Time
with a football under one arm and
his trusty scythe over his shoulder.
Six years ago, the 31st of this month
the lives of seventeen strong, noble
young men were crushed out, all be-
cause Of football game, besides many
being crippled for life. The Purdue
special was coming into Indianapolis,
bearing the Purdue football team and
its friends a game was to be played
that day.
After getting within the city limits
the train came in contact with heavy
steel coal car, loaded with coal, that
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-28
DESCRIBES EARLY STRUGGLE
OF CHRISTIANS AND PAGANS

LOS ANGELES, Oct 23.-[Editor
Herald: If "Alumnus" will look in
the preface of the Apocryphal New
Testament he will read: "He who
possesses this and the New Testa
ment, has, in the two volumes, a col
lection of all the historical records
relative to Christ and his apostles
now in existence, and considered sa-
cred by Christians during the first
four centuries. Such is the assertion
of the English editor of this testa-
ment."
There is among the sacred writings
which the church has seen fit to deem
apocryphal a book attributed to Christ
himself, in which he declares he was
in no way against the heather gods
(Jeremire Jones, on the Canon, vol.
l, p. %
Again, the learned Christian advo-
cate, M. Turnetin, in describing the
state of Christianity in the fourth CEN
tury, says: "That it was not so much
the empire that was brought over to
the faith as the faith that was brought
over to the empire; not the pagans
who were converted to Christianity,
to paganism." (Orat. Academ. Variis
Christ)
From this era, then, according to
the accounts of all writer's, though
Christianity became the public and
established religion of the govern
ment, yet it was forced to sustain a
perpetual struggle for many ages
against the obstinate efforts of pa
ganism, which was openly expressed
by some of the emperors; publicly
tolerated and privately favored by
Others and connived at in some de-
gree by ALL" (Middleton's Letters
from Rome.)
Within thirty years after Constan-
tine, the emperor Julian utterly re-
stored paganism and abrogated all the
laws that had been made against 1t,
though it is utterly untrue that he
was ever guilty of any act Of perse-
cution or intolerance toward Chris
tians, The three emperors next in or
der who succeeded Julian, /. e., Jo-
Wan, Valentinian, Valens, though they
were Christians by profession, were
wholly Indifferent and neutral between
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-28
ASKS FOR INFORMATION AS
TO TEACHINGS OF ToLsToY

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25.--[Editor
Herald: At the Ferrer meeting held
last Sunday night 1 heard one of the
speakers compare the careers of Toll
stoy and Christ. He said that the lat
ter, living in a country under the heel
of the Roman empire, and feeling in
stinctively that resistance was hope
less, preached that THIS life was worth
less and that men must look for hap
piness to a future state. He then said
that the same phenomenon had repeated
itself in the case of Tolstoy, who also
knew that it was useless to struggle
against the Russian power.
Whatever may be ones view as to the
statement of Christ's position-and for
nv part 1 hold that it is impossible for
us to Judge correctly at this distance
of time-I was much astonished at the
description of Tolstoy's attitude. had
thought that he had put in long life
writing on the affairs of this world,
graphing with the social problem, as
we have it actually with us here, in all
it's branches.
The speaker seemed to me so exceed
ingly intelligent in other ways that
have begun to doubt the correctness of
NV view concerning this. \ Perhaps
some of your readers who have made a
special study of Tolstoy can throw
more light on the question, which is to
me a. most interesting one.
GILBERT w. OVERTON.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-28
THE BEAST

TUDGE BEN B. LINDSEY'S con-
tribution to current literature with
- regard to the generalization of
American society under a system
which cannot but be deadly to the
American republic if allowed to main
tain supremacy, is taking the form of
series of magazine articles with the
striking title "The Beast and the
Jungle" For this title one less dram
atically allegorical might perhaps have
been substituted. These dramatic til
ties for naked and horrible truths are
beginning to pail. Undertaking is
dirty and disagreeable business, no
matter how or in what relation it may
be engaged in, and the reading public,
now well accustomed to expect a new
dose of horror every month, is actu-
ally inclined to resent STACEY titles.
It's a bad business. It's horrible.
Let's get right down to it. Something
is wrong with society What must be
done to right it?
In the first place we must return
to the first principles of Americanism.
Let us be Americans first, politicians
afterward. Let us help assure the
greatest good for the greatest num-
ber of citizens by providing the best
possible men for officeholders. And
when America is filled with respon-
sible, honest officials it will no longer
| be possible for social conditions to
produce results like these thus de-
scribed by Judge Lindsey:
"I began to frequent the jails to see
how the children were treated there.
The deeper went into the matter the
more astounded / became. 1 found
boys in the city jail, in cells reeking
with filth and crawling with vermin.
awaiting trial for infantile offenses.
I found boys in the county jail, locked
up with men of vilest immortality, lis
tening to obscene stories, taking lessons
in a high school Of vice with all the
receptive eagerness of innocence. 1
found that many of the hardened crimi-
nails were merely the perfect graduates
of the system"
Now this system was interviewer with
the social system and with political
system the purpose Of which was to
hold power. In view of the determined
efforts of corporation. bosses and hire
lings to usurp power and misuse politi
cal influence in Los Angeles and in
Southern California, we may we'll ask
whether it is not a well known fact
that of conditions here it may be said:
There's beast in the Jungle"
Nay, is not the existence of the local
"beast" so well recognized that every
political scout and rustler, from the
high boss right down the line, who has
the political mark Of the beast on his
forehead, is known? And is 1t not a
fact the mark of the beast consists of
| two letters?