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The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-25
Judge c. I Mord. Farmer and Ranchman.

Judge c, 7, Word, Farmer and Ranchman.
One of the few large ranchmen
remaining in this section Of the
state j. Judge {. T. Word of this
city and he i still a big ranch
man on account of the fact that
he j plenty able to do things on
a large scale. He has been iden.
lted with this country since the
early days of the COW punchers
and the coyote: has seen the large
ranches disappears if by magic
and in their stead rise up good
farm houses and fertile fields.
While he j still in the prime of
life he has accumulated property
which. We're the people of the
county of an ayerieiou> nature.
would be the envy of nearly ev.
cry man in the county. He owns
a large ranch in Potter county.
another in Swj>her county and
in addition has large landed in
tere>t~ in Randall county,
Judge Word j believer in
good stock and to that end ha>
carefully made a study of every
thing in connection with his bu>i.
ness and has brought the stand,
ard of the stock which he raises
on his ranch up to the highest
notch He believes that if YOU
are going to do anything do it
well. He Is also hog raiser. He
has half section of land near
this city upon which he has about
25Q acres of alfalfa. This place
he deyotes 70 the raising of good
hogs. and feeding of them for
market He rarely buys hogs
for the reason that he raises
the pigs. believing that if there
is any money in raising hogs that
there is money in raising them
entirely from your own breeding.
In addition he knows that he has
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-25

1t is a noted fact that YOU hear
less swearing and loud talkilg
on the streets of Canyon City
than you do on the streets of any
city of the north. This is com
mented upon by nearly every
man from the north who comes
here.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-25
Citation by Publication.


THE STATE ur TENN~.
To the Sheriff or amy Cou>'ahl. of
Randall County. Greeting.
You are hereby commanded to sum
mon +. NJ Riley. 10y making puhica-
tion of this Citation once in each week
for four successive week, previous to
the return day hereof, in some news
paper published in your County, if
there be a newspaper published there
in. hut if not, then in any newspaper
PUBLISHED in the 47th Judicial District:
but if there be- no newspaper published
in said Judicial District, then in
newspaper published in the nearest
District 10 said Nth Judicial District.
to appear at the next regular term of
the District Court of Randall County.
to be holden at the Court House there
of, in Canyon City. on the second
Monday in November. \. u. 1909. the .
same being the eighth dav of Noyem- I.
Der, \. D. 1900, then and there to an .
>wer Il petition filed in said Court on .
the third day of May \. d. 1909, in
suit, numbered on the docket of said .
Court 30. 422. wherein w. {. Camp
bell i Plaintiff. and +. VI. Riley j,
Defendant. and said petition alleging,
Now come, W. {. Campbell who re-
sides in theC ounty of Potter and State
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-25

Randall county raises more
hogs than any county on the
Plains. They always top the mar
ket when sold.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-25
Ora A, May.

Genial. iovial
and a hustler.
T hose words
express some
thing Of the
qualities which
Il re possessed
by Ora A. May.
Il young man of
this city who
developed most
rapidly since
be caIuctO Ran
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-25

For the very best of material
Used see us.
Long leaf yellow pine our speciality.
The best Is none too good for
Our customers.
Now its up to YOU.
Lots of material ON hand and
Under sheds
More satisfaction and
Better results.
Every time YOU trade with II, You
Receive bargain.
Come and get in
On the ground floor
Evening star., 1909-07-18
Washington Irving's Descriptive.

Washington Irving revels III descrip-
tionS Of the Cdtskills and Lis picture of
tie approach 10 them on the river boats
is one Of the finest specimens of descrip-
tive writing in the English language He
says:
Whoever has made a voyage up the
Hudson must remember the KaatskilI
mountains. They are a dismembered
branch Of the Appalachian family, and
are seen away u the west OF the river
swelling UP to noble height and lord
ing i over the surrounding country.
EVERY change IF season. every change
81 weather, indeed every hour OF the
day, produces some change in the magic
ai hues and shapes Of these mountains.
and they are regarded by all the good
wives, FAR and near as perfect
baroWcterS.
When the weather is fan and settled
t4ey are clothed III blue and purple and
print their bold outlines on the clear
evening sky: but sometimes when the
rest OF the landscape is cloudless they
VIII gather a hood OF gray vapors about
their SUBMITS. which. in the last rays
az the setting sun, will glow and light
Up like crown of glory
At the foot OF the fairy mountains
the voyaser may have deserted the light
smoke curling up from a village. whose
shingle roofs CLEAN among the trees. hut
where the blue tints of the upland mott
away into the fresh green of the nearer
landscape. Ii is a little village of yrea,
antiquity. having been founded by some of
the Dutch colonists i'll the early times of
the province, just about the beginnins
OF the government of the good peta1
Stuyvesant (may he rest in peace,. and
there were some of the houses of the
original settlers standing within few
years. built of small yellow bricks
brought from Holland, having latticed
Evening star., 1909-07-18

'In that same village and in one of
these very houses (Which, to tell the
precise truth, was sadly time-worn and
weather beatem there lived many years
since. while the country was yet a prov
ince of Great Britain. simple good
natured fellow of the name Of Rip Van
Wrinkle. He was a descendant of the
Van Wrinkles who figured 50 gallantly in
the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant
and accompanied him to the siege of
Fort Christina.
Peter Vanderdonk was a descendant
Of the historian of that name, who wrote
one of the earliest accounts of the
proyince Peter was the most ancient in
habitant OF the village, and well versed
i'm all the wonderful events and tradi-
tions of the neighborhood. He recollect-
ed Rip at once. and corroborated his
story i'm the most satisfactory manner
"He assured the company that 1t was
a fact, handed down from his ancestor
the historian, that the kaatskill noun
tains had always been haunted by
strange beings. that it was affirmed that
the great Hendrix Hudson, the first dis
coyerer of the river and country, kept
a kind of vigil there every twenty years
with his crew of the Half Moon. being
permitted i'm this way to revisit the
scenes of his enterprise. and keep "a
guardian eye upon the river, and the
Evening star., 1909-07-18
Indians Made Drunk by Hudson.

off the Catskill landing Hendrix Hud
son anchored the Half Moon September
~, 1900. Master Just. one of his COM
panions. gives us a graphic description of
that disgraceful entertainment of the ma
tives. He says:
our master and his mate determined
TO trie some of the chefe men of the
countrey. whether they had any treach-
erie i'm them So they tooke them downe
into the cabbin and gave them SO much
wine aud aqua Tiate that they were all
merrie. and one of them had his wife
with him. which sat SO modestly, as any
of our countrywomen would doe in
strange place.
In the end one of them was drunke
which had been aboord Of our ship all the
time that we had beene there, and that
tell how to take it, The canoes and
them came againe and brought stropes
of beades twampum, made of the clam
shelb; some had siXe, seven, eight, nine,
ten, and gave him. So he slept all night
quietly"
The savages did not venture on board
until noon the next day. when they were
glad to find their old companion that was
50 drunk quite we'll again. They then
brought on board tobacco and more
beads, which they gave to Hudson, and
made an Grafton, and afterward sent for
Venison, which was brought on board.
Evening star., 1909-07-18

recruiting depots at Columbia barracks.
jefferson barracks and at Fort Socum.
last year. if it could be done inside tine
limit of $4,000 for each place Bids
were invited and the lowest offer for
the construction of laundry at Fort
Bayard was $4,000. so the program Of
construction was dropped. However. this
year. authority having been obtained for
construction at the higher cost. il is
contemplated to erect laundries at Fort
Washington Md; Fort Caswell y. c..
Key West barracks, Fort Morgan, Ala.
and at Fort Des Moines, Iowa; d. \.
Russell. Wyo.; Sam Houston. Tex: and
Yellowstone in the order of their needs.
Evening star., 1909-07-18

is called Hymettus. after the hone1
mountain of Greece, and is surrounded by
lovely landscapes.
He has d less pretentous dwelling
farther up. in the widest part of the
mountain. which is even more attractive
to one like himself who lives close to
natures heart. He calls it Slab-sides.
because of the material of which it Is
built.
Mr.. Burroughs and his neighbors have
many acres in orchards and berries, and
ship carloads of fruit to the New York
market.
The Pell family have an orchard of
twenty-five thousand trees. Their father
made a reputation in day by sending
a barrel of his best apples to Queen
Victoria, who wrote him a letter of ap-
probation and helped Introduce the honest
American apple into the markets of Great
Britain.
Evening star., 1909-07-18
Lackaye Finds Valet in Prison.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, July 17.-Wil-
ton Lackaye who was robbed of $500
and valuable jewels at the West Hotel,
September %. while playing THE
Law and the Man" in Minneapolis. and
lost trace of Francois ROLAND, his valet,
at the same time, has found Francois In
Sing Sing prison, according 10 informa-
ton received by Chief of Police Frank
T. Corriston.
The valet is serving sentence of three
years in Sing Sing. and has been identi-
fed by his former employer. ROLAND
also goes by the name of Girard. Should
Lackaye file complaint against the man
he would be brought to Minneapolis for
trial at the conclusion of his present sem
tence.
Evening star., 1909-07-18
Landscape Is Sublime.

\ railway runs from this point into the
Catskilis, which the Indians called On
ti-o-ra, signifying 1.-The Mountains of the
Sky" and the Dutch called katzbergs, or
eat mountains. because panthers and wild
cats were so abundant there.
While the scenery is not SO rugged. and
there are no snowcaps or glaciers as In
the Alps, the landscape is sublime, both
from the river and also from various
points of view on the mountain sides
Much rhetoric and rhyme has been EN-
ployed in descriptions, but the most
graphic pen picture was drawn by ''Natty
Rumppo." one of Fenimore Cooper's char
acters in the Leather Stocking Tales. !"
In reply TO question az to what could
be seen from the mountain tops.
Creation" said Natty. dropping the
end OF his rod into the water. and sweep
ing one hand around him in a circle 'all
creation. lad. I was on the hill when
Vaughan burnt 'Sopus, In the last war.
and | saw the vessels come out or the
Highlands as plainly as | can see that
lime scow rowing into the Susquehanna,
though one was twenty times further
from me than the other. The river was
III sight for seventy miles under my feet,
looking like a curled shaving, though it
was eight long miles TO its banks. | saw
the hihs in the Hampshire Grants, the
Highlands of the river. and all that God
had done. or man could do. far as the
eve could reach-you know that the In
dians named me for my sight, lad-and
from the fat on the top OF the mountain
] have often found the place where AL
bdny stands. and as far 'Sopus, The
day the royal troops burnt the town the
smoke seemed so nigh that | thought
could hear the screeches OF the women" /"
Evening star., 1909-07-18
ARMY LAUNDRY TOO COSTLY.
Estimate of $4,000 Not Half
Enough. It is Found.

The construction of laundries at mill
tary posts was not undertaken during
the last fiscal year. although money was
available for that purpose. 1t was found
that the probable cost was about double
what had been estimated. Instead of
$4,000 each, the cost would be nearer
$4,000 1t was intended to construct
laundries at Fort Bayard n. NJ, at the
Evening star., 1909-07-18

view up and down river. and the Cat
skills furnish an Incompatible back
ground.
Sausertes is a busy manufacturing cen
ter. with abundant water power, where
train loads OF writing paper, blank books,
envelopes. cardboard and fancy papers,
white lead and other merchandise are
manufactured, besides immense quantities
of brick and paving stones, which are
shipped all over the country.
In the cemetery at West Camp is buried
Rev Josiah kocherthal. Lutheran
preacher of early days, whose tombstone
bears this epitaph:
Know Traveller under this stone rests,
beside his Sibylla Charlotte, Real T'rav-
eler, of the High Dutch in North Ameri-
ca their Joshua, and a pure Lutheran
preacher. of the same on the east and
west side of the Hudson River. His first
arrival was with Lord Lovelace in 1909,
the first of January. His second with
Col Hunter, ITO, the fourteenth of June.
The journey of his soul to Heaven on st.
Johns day. 1719. interrupted his return
to England. Do you wish to know more?
Seek in Melancthons Fatherland who
was kocherthal. who Harschias, who
Winclap n ha rh -
Evening star., 1909-07-18
Legends Linger Around Pic
turesque Mountain Scenes.
ANCIENT DUTCH HOMES
Where Hendrix Hudson and His
Ghostly Grew Play Skillets.
WASHINGTON MEMS ESTATES
Notables Who Have Residences
Along the Hudson-Stories of
Indian Who Lived There.
By WILLIAM r. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence Of The Star and the
Chicago ccordHcrald.

special Correspondence Of The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.
CATSkILL, y. Y, July 9, 1909.
The hrst village below Albany the
Hudson is Castleton. situated in de-
Ightfu agricultural country on the bank
of Norman's Kill, which the Indians call
TaWaSentha, THE place Of many dead,
because it Was frequent battlefield in
the feuds between the Mohawks and the
Mohegans.
I-pon an island at the mouth of this
stream the Dutch built the first fortress
i'll America III 1914 and called it the kas-
teel. or Castle, from which its present
name IS derived. About four miles below
Castleton. near the village of Schodack.
was the ancient seat Of the Mohegans,
whose villages extended as far north as
Troy and as far south as Poughkeepsie.
Home of S. w. Woodward
The tribe had been almost eNterminated
by tile Mohawks when Hudson came. As
The white settlers bought and occupied
their country, the Last of the Mohe
aans'' moved over into the Berkshire hills
and settled at Stockbridge, where the
great theologian. Jonathan Edwards, con-
Sertcd them to Christianity. His mission
house. preserved almost intact, Is now
the summer hom" OF ). W. Woodward, q
Washington merchant.
About seven miles farther down the
river. near undertook landing, is Lin
denwold the home of Martin Van Buren,.
eighth President of the United States.
lie inherited ii from ancestors, who were
among the earliest settlers.
one Of Van Buren's ablest and most
famous disciples, Samuel J. Tilden, was
born and buried at Lebanon Springs, TO
the east of the river, near the Massachu-
settS boundary, and composed of Shakers,
about 900 in number, who have about
1uuuU acres of land in a state of highest
cultivation.
Ann Lee, the young wife of an English
blacksmith, having conceived that mar
Tiage was sinful, and having had reve-
alton that she was an incarnation of
Jesus. came to America and planted
this colony. where she lived and died.
ilcr peculiar doctrines and pretensionS
seem to have considerable vitality. for
the community still attracts adherents,
and there are now eighteen or twenty
similar settlements III different parts of
the country.
Evening star., 1909-07-18
Home of John Burroughs.

Opposite Hyde Park on the west shore,
overlooking a gigantic group OF ice
houses, is the little village of West Park,
whose most eminent citizen is John Bur-
rouShs, the famous naturalist. WHO has
told us so many interesting things about
birds and trees and flowers. His house
Evening star., 1909-07-18

other: Hendrix Hudson and his crew
are at their game.
Catskil village. principal gateway to
the mountains. has an interesting his
tory and is full of romantic associations.
AS early as 16SS there was a settlement
here. and for several generations the in
habitants had an exciting experience with
the Indians.
The Catskill of today is a lovely vii
lage. hidden under beautiful shade trees,
with several ancient Dutch houses. we'll
preserved with heavy cross beams and
generous fireplaces. The principal busi-
ness of the people is entertaining sum-
mer boarders.
There are many equally attractive vii
lageS scattered through the mountains,
and hundreds of thousands of people
come here to spend the summer regu-
larly. There Is no more attractive place.
and none where there is a greater abun-
dance of fresh air. pure water and every
thing that goes to make up the require
ments of popular resort for people of
simple tastes and small means.
The winter population is rather scanty.
Only those remain who cannot get away.
Evening star., 1909-07-18
Rip Van Wrinkles Cabin.

Rip Van Wrinkles cabin, which the
coach drivers have pointed out to tour
lists for half a century. Is a one-story
brick house answering to that descrip-
ton, standing by the side of the road
way at the head of gorge on the way
to the Catskill Mountain House. and the
people who occupy 1t evidently have
worked themselves up to a point of be-
lieving that Rip was a real man and
that Irving's charming story was founded
on fact. Everybody who comes that way
stops to inspect the place and to see
where the goblins played niuepins in the
hollow of the mountain and even today
as in Irvings time, the inhabitants never
hear thunder without saying TO each
Evening star., 1909-07-18

great city called by his name; that his
father had once seen them in their old
Dutch dresses playing at ninepins in a
hollow of the mountain and that he him
self had heard, one summer afternoon
the sound of their balls, like distant
peas of thunder.
Some always pretended to doubt the
reality of it. and insisted that Rip had
been out of his head. and that this was
one point upon which he always remained
fighty. The old Dutch inha abitants. how
ever. almost universally gave II full
credit Even to this day they never hear
a thunderstorm of summer afternoon
about the kaatskill but they say Hendrix
Hudson and his crew are at their game
of uineninS' >,
Evening star., 1909-07-18
Beautiful Country Seats.

There are several beautiful country
seats along the west bank of the Hudson,
including that of Charles A. Spalding of
Washington near Saugerties, and that
Of his nephew. Judge Alton B. Parker
recently democratic candidate for Presi-
dent of the United States. Both are sit
uated where they command a glorious
Evening star., 1909-07-18
Memories of Rip Van Wrinkle.

windows and gable fronts, surmountec
with weathercocks.
Evening star., 1909-07-18
4Oo-4ll-4l3-4l5-4l7 Seventh St


the
Evening star., 1909-07-18

These Sherwood Screens are made
entirely of metal and will not
warp, stick nor break like the
wooden ones do. The screen is Sc
curely fastened to the frame and
will not pull out The frames are
iapanned black and will not rust.
This size is Is inches high and ex-
tends to 33 inches.
Evening star., 1909-07-18

Strongly Made Bamboo Corner Chair.
exactly like this illustration. Has strong
posts, we'll braced, seat covered with
round straw Japanese mating Rnd nice
ly finished
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-04-21

nure. Number l39. the first puDllca-
tion from office of the new state for
ester, is a preliminary statement as to
the forest problems of the state, and
contains announcements as to the offer
ings of seedlings for this years plant
ings. Number 140 is the first fertilizer
bulletin and contains analyses of Sc
brands together with statements as to
valuations etc. Number 141 deals
with apple culture in Vermont and
discusses this subject in all phases.
Circular l describes the back issues of
the fertilizer control. Circular 2 de-
scribes, illustrates and warns Yer
monters against the gypsy and brown
tail moths. These publications or any
of them will be sent without charge tt
any address on application. Parties
not hitherto receiving the sStationybul
letins regularly and desiring then
should ask to have their names placed
on the mailing list. A postal card t.
the Experiment Station, Burlington
VT, stating desires, is sufficient. a.,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-04-21
CALEDONIA COUNTY
WEST BURKE.

Dancing school closes this week with
select ball.
Charles Roberts is confined to his
bed with grip.
w. G. Anger has been suffering
A, from the grip.
da built on his house.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joe Brown is very ill.
Rev. G. H. Wright attended confer
ence at Hardwick last week.
Mrs. James Kimball received 1879
cards April Is to celebrate her 10Th
birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Dean of Orleans
were guests at G. M. Deans one day
last week. q 2y4 ~
The Misses Laila Roundy and Grace
Davis have returned to their school in
Plymouth, N. H.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Winter and Mrs.
c. H. Coburn returned Friday from
their trip to Boston.
Harry Woodruff moved Thursday
from Mrs. Viola Sleeper's tenement to
Mrs. Viola Parker's house. --,--.,s
James Gaskill has rented Mrs. Abbie
Cheney's tenement soon to be vacated
by Charles Roberts family.
The little son of DR.. A. H. jenkins
broke his collar bone while playing
out of doors one day last week.
Royden Cheney of St. Johnsbury
was at A. Z. Craig's one day last
week, the guest of w. F. Richardson
A. L. Aldrich is improving steadily
and is now able to sit up a part O,
each day and will soon be out of doors
Mrs. Fanny Philbrook and Mrs
Charlie Philbrook and little daughte,
visited at A. H. Goding's a part O.
last week.
The sugar season is not proving .
very good one in this locality and mucl
sap has been wasted owing to tn,
heavy rains.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Stoddard O
Bellows Falls have been visiting hi
mother, Mrs. Nellie Stoddard, an,
other friends the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Thompson wer
called to Lyndonville recently by tn
death of the infant child of their So
Fred Thompson of that place.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-04-21
PROBATE COURT.

Henry w. Clark estate, Glover. Ad
ministrator settled his administration
account. Decree of distribution made
Elias Bean, of Holland, adjudged
mentally incapable of caring for him
self or his property. I. E. Hackett ap-
pointed guardian.
Joseph G. King estate, Glover. APP
praisers' inventory filed. Is - !
Darius L. Hi,dreth estate, Newport.
Last will presented for probate. Re-
ferred to Newport. April l9, 1909. :
Carter E. Fowler estate, Troy. Os-
car w. Fowler appointed executor. H.
H. Lewis and C. c. Wheeler appointed
appraisers and commissioners.
Henry Derusha estate, Derby. S.
B. Bates appointed administrator.
Benjamin o. Aiken estate, Albany.
Administrators account settled. AS
Segment made to widow.
| Alonzo Yaw estate, Lowell Admin.
istrator's inventory returned.
William E. Sleeper estate Brookline,
Mass. to wit, Newport. Appraisers
inventory returned
Margaret Worth estate, Derby. AID.
ministrator's inventory returned.
Charles K. Carpenter estate, Derby
Appraisers inventory and commission
! ers'report returned.
John J. Corley estate. Barton. Ad
ministrator settles his account. AS
signment made to widow. ~
Zelah H. Shedd estate, Barton. AID
ministratrix settles her account. De
cree of distribution made.
John Mcdonald estate, Glover. Elk
ecutrix settles her account. Decree O.
distribution made.
Ellen May Gilman estate, Minneap
oils, Mimi, to wit. Barton. c. r
Powell and c. E. Hamblet appointed
commissioners.
Horace May estate, Rochester, N
Y, to wit, Barton. c.. R. Powell ant
G. E. Hamblet appointed commission
ers.