The Canadian Crescent. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 8, 1888 Page: 5 of 8
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Csrraspondeoce.
Lipscomb County,
wants new fenge am.
Mangum^Greer Co., Texas,
As much is being said and done
Tlie people here are rather a bo vé
the average in intellectual and mus
ical culture. In *he 7K neighbor-
hood vvi*Uisi * rndies of four miles
. . j . . i are three organs and one piano,
to induce immigration, allow meto i ? r • i I
° ' I whiie the music fur social occasions i
suggestions. I have í « i v i- «. , * ,
°^ j and public gatherings is rendered
or á.j years and am j ;i wej¡
egotUtical GnoughSto think" that 11
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a few
been i a Tex is t>- Q~
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know wo at retards settlement par-
ticularly in Western Texas. Fiee-
grn^s advoc ites will ontead that
ii is th¿ Lo ne law, the uncertainty
oí tin; m tj surveys, etc. We
rarely talk of the matter but some
one draws a comparison between
Kansas and Te^*#i 4*¿ee how rap-
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idly Kansas has been populated.
Kansas had no Lease law; her land
was under the systematic laws of
the United Státes. and if Texas
would raanage her land in the same
manner the country would fill up
with farmers much faster."
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Now, "it does no good to cry ov r
spilt milk." We have to talo* ti e
facts as we find them. We cann >t
pattern after Kansas in the ab- ve
instances. We have a Lease' Lw
and our lands are not surveyed r ::d
numbered as the other States;
I do not believe we would be
materially benefitted if they were.
The greatest inducement to farmers
to settle in Kansas, we can offer.
We can pattern after her in our
Fence law. A vast majority of the
people of Texas profess 10 be dem-
ocrats and cry out against class
legislation; and we do net want it#
Let the next Legislature repeal u
tow statutory enactments that per-
haps were good for Texas ?0 years
ago, but fdr the Texas of to day,
they only benefit a ~ery small class
if in reality they are not a wrong to
every citizen of the State. For
instance, Title 43, Revise! Statutes.
I ask those interested to read it. It
is not long but is too long to quote
in an article like this. Also Chapter
101, acts of 79. Repeal these laws
make the man with the hoe and
plow equal before the law with the
man with the horse and cow; let
title to land, whether by lease or
purchase, entitle the owner to the
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exclusive use of it. As the law now
stands, many poor men allured by
the prospect ot cheap land, move to
Western Texas* make the purchase
and then are debarred the use oí
the land from inability to puta
will around it. They stint them-
selves antl families and perhaps
borrow money to fence a little
patch, not enough to produce a liv-
ing, and have tho satisfaction o{
seeing their neighbors qtowíbst rich
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on the increase of Cattle and Horses
while uti ler the stock laws Chapter
-I, acts '79, he cannot turn on the
open range one-half dozen sheep or
a few pigs. T.icre never was a set
of laws more unjust than the Texas
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fence laws. Let the next Le^isla-
ture remedy this evil by repealing
the lenco laws and the enactment ol
laws making tho owners of stock
responsible for damage to growing
crops on the land of another. And
anti-lease law men will see that the
lease iaw is no hindrance to settle-
ment. There will be such a bo>m
in the Panhandle as will lay in the
r,hade all other booms.
There are men who have been liv
ing here three years and still they
cannot farm for a living, and art
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wearing out good teams freighim;
at prices that will soon leave them
with nothing.
Many of them are on good claims,
fiue land as the State affords
Wire and timber are cash article a and
tbev are not able to fence. Adopt
this plan and there will be but few
forfeitures of school lands. They
can cultivate the lands and make
them pav, and will do so. Immi-
grants will come by the thousands
an 1 our Railroads will have some-
take a nr.in
ín.ineM tneir.
Almost everv family
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her of leading papers and perociicals
are we'd iuformed upon the
general topics of the day. Persons
coming
o
¡ere from the East often
expect to find the natives benight-
ed and uncouth barbarians; but
they soon discover their mistake,
and that there is not a long felt
want for a social leader or bell
sheep. A man on a ranch has mor°
time for literary improvement than
a city man. He spends many
otherwise lonelv hours in reading.
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We have seen respectable little
libraries in ow camps. The aver-
age professional or business men, as
a rule, knows little outside his call-
ing. i f you wish to find a man of
sound, practical judgment and
geneial information, hunt up a
ranchman. In the country the long
■victer evenings are enlivened with
music, books, magazines and papers
instead of the inane chattcring of a
silly little pSfty.
Our social amusements and rec-
reations are of various kinds, danc-
ing being the staple article. Lit-
erary societies are also being form
¿1. There will be three or four
Sabbath Schools in operation this
coming summer, and preaching
from time to time. Our greatest
drawback to social advancement is
one that is common in the west? i. e.
the dearth of ladies, and more es-
pecially young ladies. This is also
a country of magnificent distances
and sparse settlements this shaking
frequent gatherings impossible; but
the winter of our discontent will
soon be past, and a splendid moral,
socialf educational and financial
adva^cmcnt awaits our country.
Vie read with considerable inter-
est the article in the Crescent
entitled, Canadian in 1900, and it
reminds us that our journalistic
experience in the Panhandle dates
away back beyond 1837. At Clar-
endon, in 1880, we assisted in un
loading the first printing press ever
brought into the Panhandle, and
the same evening got out a little
circular advising St. Louis, Kansas
City and other suburban villages to
rush in their orders for job work,
and for some time we "stuck type
and shaved the fa ver'' in the ollice
of the Clarendon News. It took, °at
that time a fervid imagination to
write local items as thev were as
rare as marriageable ladies.
Many and wonderful are the
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changes taking place under the eyes
of old Panhandlers and the gleam
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of the camp-fire is dying away.
Often we muse o'er the times
when we composed love poems for
the edification of the free-and-easy,
but good hearted boys.
When the time for old settler^
picnicks arrive, ye correspondent
ea.i narrate manv scenes, some
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humorous and ludicrous, others
6ad and pat! etic.
Will B.
All Overlfche Panhandle.
Childress wants a newspaper.
Wheeler county has on hands a
balance of $7448.85.
Miami is to have a standard well
23 feet in diameter jput in by the
railroad company.
Miami claims to distribute more
mail than any other Panhandle
town.
The old telegraph line fiom Fort
Elliott to Camp Supply is being
taken down.
— Mobeetie has taken steps to have
fire protection and will try to pur
chase a hook and ladder outfit.
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District court met in session at
Mangum, Greer county, Monday.
Mobeetie is still figuring on
obtaining the Frisco line to run
through her midst.
Higgins is ambitious for a bank
to assist her commerce.
1888. The Leading Paper Of The West. 1888.
! the brightest paper
nnihe West.
POLITICS
The great political
campaign which o
vens vp this fall sug-
gest i to every one he)
should at once sub-\
scribe for the paper
which will give all
attract wr%hai)}U0St j THE WORLD
This The Times]
does, and it has cs-)
tabhhed a repuva-\
tion for pvblishing j
The Weekly Times
from date till Jan-
1,1889, for one dol-
lar.
ITS
FIELD.
* ill6 Daily,, Times
$10 a, year, $o for O
months.
The Sunday Times
16 pages, §2 a year.
AJDJjRESS "'THE TIMES." KANSAS CITV. MO.
Ü::NEW ::C0OHTBY:: OPEN
Timms City_wi.ll organize a bank
shortly with George E. Timms at
its helm.
A school has "bfeen started on its
caieer at Cresswell in Ochiltree
county.
Oldham county advertises for bids
to build a larger bridge across the
Canadian at Tascosa!
Wheeler cóunty has sued to re-
cover her a chad land, situated in
Hardeman county, because the
purchasers failed to meet the de-
ferred payments.
Armstrong station is the center of
travel on the plains at present.
The Fort Worth & Denver line is
constructing a round house and
division quarters at Clarendon.
Clarendon wants a boot and shoe
shop in her midst.
Freight conductor Peter Reagan
on the Fort Worth & Denver was
put under a $2,000 bond at Claren-
don Monday upon the charge of
killing W. M. Merediti, a section
hand at Goodnight station.
John Montgomery was bound over
THETEXAS PANHANDLE
Cheap Lands on the Line of the Santa Fe Rail-
iroad.
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Hemphill County. f Texas.
The Centre of Trade and Largest Town
on the Santa Fe R'y extension.
in v-,ooo bonds upon a charge of \ Grandly located, the town views the Canadian Rive
attempting to poison two women, | far as the eye can reach, and' the beautiful
valley of the lied Deer•
DESIRABLE LOTS
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Are Still on Sale, and going rapidly. The town
is growing at a wonderful rate, and no
better place in the West can be
found for good ivestments.
at Clarendon and in default went to
jail.
The grading on the branch rail-
road from Washburn to Panhandle
City is said to be about completed.
Clarendon will run an excursion
soon as a sugar bait for capitalists
wanting to make investments.
Timms City wants a "butcher
man" right away off.
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Lipscomb county has organized a
cattle men's protective association.
The Santa Fe company has com-| secure desirable lots,
menced to sink a driven well at
Panhandle city and will get water
if they must go 5,000 feet for it.
Clarendon dreams of a brass
band in the early future.
A new Sunday School has been
organized at Ochiltree in Ochiltree
county.
Ochiltree claims that she will
soon have twenty-three homes com-
pleted and thus be able to prove up
her town site at an early day.
Lipscomb county is making
arrangements to build and equip a
new §4,000 jail at an early day.
lake Application early while there yet remains a chance to
L. E. FINCH,
GENERAL MANAGER
NOTES.
Higgins claims to be the commer
cial metropolis of Lipscomb cour.
ty-
Ochiltree has set apart 200 lots
as an inducement for some company
to sink an artesian well.
The Montana, Kansas & Texas
railroad has been incorporate I to
run north and south through the
Panhandle.
Clarendon claims to have four
THE NEW TOWN
is the prosnecllve county seat of
^OCHILTREE COUNTY.
thing to do.
H. C. S.
Jtfürch 3? 1SSS.
The Commissioners Court was in se3F-
ion at Lipscomb Saturday last.
In the foot race at Lipscomb Saturday
Black WrtS winner by 12 inches, and the
Higgins crowd went home in a very badiy
•*buáte iv condition.
C. W. Watson Has awarded tha con-
tract for budding the coal lloare, fence
and other mements in f:nd around
the ouit hCUiO for about §500.
A contract for a ntw j iil was awarded \ in prospect,
o S. ft. Pickenn. agent f >r the P-ody
JVd & Mnnniaco r ng company, at the
p ice of $3,20), to be paid in county wat'
i-auis be*r J*ií eig it per cent interest.
It will be 20x22 feet in sizs and have
two iron c s for prisoners, a frame
nuilding aad wi.l be completed iu 00 d^ys
C. W. Watson and Brotaer have secured
¡4 Sub-contract to do the wood work and
eoastruct the bui din¿.
WELL WATERED
TIMBERED.
FINE GRASS,
Lipscomb county is taking meas
ures to keep out cattle infected with
Texas fever this season.
The Dunkards are establishing
headquarters in Lipscomb county
and their numbers are waxinsr
and agricultural lan d. The only recorded town
_ i a the county. Situated fiftv miles north of Ca-
nadian. Address JOHN C. KLAPP- or. H. 8.
GUTTER. Cresswell, OsMltree C3., Texas.
strong in that region
The Place is Growing Rapidly.
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Miller, Freeman E. The Canadian Crescent. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 8, 1888, newspaper, March 8, 1888; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183551/m1/5/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.