The Canadian Free Press. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1889 Page: 2 of 4
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-COÜHTY SURVEYOR
LOCAL AGENT FOR THE
TOWN OF CANADIAN.
THE POST WORTH GAZETTE.
SECURITY.
LAND
What It Has Done and Is Doing dor the
Panhandle.
LOAN AND INVEST MONEY, COLONIES LOCATED.
«Canadian Free Press,
tub official organ of hemphill
. county.
fv S. Decker Editar.
1.50 I'Elt YEAR; $1 FOR six MONTnS.
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
rubllsiied every friday at
canadian. texas.
Entered at 0*e Postoffice Canadian
as second-class matter.
ADVERTISING RATES.
1 inch single column. $1.50 per month.
2 or more inches $1.00 per inch per
nntrift).
Locals, first insertion loc per line.
Additional insertions 10c per line.
Jfcite frc-'rk «0'tnfifc the rate life locals.
Job work at reasonable prices. Rills
presented monthly.
Come to Canadian City, the city of
•destiny.
First it's Hogg to Hall, then it's
Hall to Ilogj*.
Tde Cherokee strip is to be opened
for settlement.
Come to the "Blooming Wonder of
the Panhandle," Canadian. Tex.
Tub three states." 2'ebraska, Iowa
and Kansas have raised this year 760,-
•00,000 bush. corn.
The people arenstarving and stock
sire -famishing forJwant of grass and
. water in Dakota. Come to the Pan-
handle where there are plenty of both.
TnE Belcher Enterprise and Texas
Faanaly Journal are welcome'aéditioiis
to our exchange list. We extend cour-
tesies.
What's the matter with Canadian?
¡She j* all light. □ Look at the space re-
served in this issue for the big mercan-
tito company.
When Ben Harrison has peddled
•out all tire offices in his gift, he will
be of no more account to the Republi-
can politicians than a squeezed lemon.
An exchange reports a thousand
gallons of molasses having been made
3roin cane raised on twelve acres of
land in one of the counties of ths Pan-
handle. -That's paying business.
In Chambers yesterday at Mobeetie,
Judge Willis refused to grantftho writ
of injunction applied for by LeFors to
restrain Jo Cooper from taking posses-
sion of the office of sheriff of Roberts
county.
CniEifM.lyes is now ready to rccom-
meiul the sale of the outlet to the gov-
ernment. Secretary Noble gives the
cattlemen holding leases on the strip
«mtilutíie first of -June to move their
cattle out. T
We arc glad to place the Texas Car
toon on our exchange list. It is a
bright, newsy illustrated journal pub-
Ifóied at Dallas, and makes some-graft
hits in its cartoons on political matters
of the day.
In the Cronan case, now^being tried
in a Chicago court, 1,115 jurors were
empaneled before twelve out of the
numter^|weie found, satisfactory to
both prosecut'on and defense. Two
months time occupied in obtaining
them. '
Tn hi J nú o n Traveler" says,£a
squash was brought to their office that
k measured three and half feet in
length." We know big things grow in
the Panhandle, but think the Traveler
can take off two feet, and still have a
big squash left.
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We see it published in some ax-
elwnges'that Ifenrietta was the largest
city in the Panhandle. This we deny
as Henrietta is not in the Panhandle,
and the party who wrote the article
nad*iicver visited Canadian City or he
Mould not have made such a broad as-
sertion.
The Canadian Free Press was very
*nild last week.—Mia-rni Senthtel.
We are glad the Sentinel thought so.
and we will continue to be so, devoting
our space to the Panhandle, Hemphill
county and Canadian City, and to their
upbuilding, leaving the .Sentinel and
its editor to iH^Ve?*•justice'" at the
hands of the JÍobeetié Panhandle.
r The Vernon Guard says "there is
**¿0 quicker way to turn a crop of corn
into ready cash than feed it into a
good quality of hog." That is true,
and there is no quicker way to dispose
of a load of hay than deposit it in yard
surrounded by wire fence. The
started, vagrant hog will soon convert
it into£litter. as they have recently
done for us.
rogues fall out honest men
get just dues. Assistant Sec. Busscy
has undone the unjust work of Corpo-
ral Tanner. On that account Tanner
is loaded for bear'" and his machine is
r
leveled at the Sec. Let the fight go
on. With us, it is, as it was with the
woman when her husband was in a
fight with a bear. It is the first fight
we ever saw, we didn't caro which
whipped.
A halt has been called, flag of truce
sent in by President Harrison t«*stop
the noisy war of words between Sec.
Noble and Ex-Commissioner Tanner.
Elections are intheflear future. Ben-
jamin feared the result of exposing
Tanner might make, hence the flag.
November, will see tlie liberal ex-dis-
tributor of government funds placed in
an other and posibly better position
than the one from which he was re-
The landed estate along the Fort
Worfchifcnd Denver 1?.. R. has increased
in price four or five hundred per cent,
within the past two years, while the
land in this county and along the line
of the A. T. & S. F. R. R. has re-
mained with very little increase. This
state of affairs won't last long. These
lands in every respect are equally as
good as those of the Fort Worth and
Denver and more advantageously lo-
cated. Individual effort, together with
low prices, will bring them to a market
without the aid of corpotafions, whose
duty and -interest, it would seem
ought, dictate a bdoml
The Deep-harbor Convention held at
Topeka, Oct. 1st, to which we had the
honor of having been sent as a delegate
by the Board of Trade of this place,
passed the following resolutions:
The Committee on Resolutions beg letve to
make the followib«- report:
witeiteas, The general welfare of
our country, in so far as it relates to
navigable rivers, harbors and com-
merce, is committed by the Constitu-
tion of the United States to the exclu-
sive charge of the Congress; and
Whereas, Cheap transportation of
our commercial products constitute
one of the most important elements of
the general welfare; and
Whereas, The Congress has donat-
ed to private corporations more than
one hundred millions of money and up-
wards of two hundred millions of acres
of our rational lauds with which to
construct artificial, and therefore much
more expensive highways, owned by
private individuals, while they havs
neglected to make adequate appropria-
tion for even one feasible harbor on
the northwest coast of the Gulf of
Mexico, which would not only afford
very much cheaper transportation, but
which, by our organic law, is under the
exclusive care and control of Congress;
and
Whereas,'The vast and rapidly de-
veloping area lying west of the Missis-
sippi river, comprising more than three
fifths of the national domain, and
yielding largely more than one-half of
the agricultural, meat, and mineral
products of the entire country, is by
this neglect forced to transport its
commerce across the continent by way
of these artificial and expensive high-
ways, subject to such exactions of pri-
vate cupidity -as amounts always to a
serious burden, and sometimes to total
interdiction to both cousumer and pro-
ducer; and
Whereas, There can be no justifi-
cation of this discrimination in favor
of private highways, which, during the
last year, cost the commerce of the
West an enormous loss in transporta-
tion expense, estimated at more than
one hundred and twenty millions of
dollars, or upwards of ten millions per'
month: therefore,
Resolved, That in reaffirmance of
the action of the Denver Convention,
and of the committees organized there-;
under, it is the sense of this Conven-
tion that it is the duty of Congress to'
appropriate permanently, and for im
mediate use, whatever amount is nec-,
cssary to secure a deep water port on
the northwest coast of the Gulf of
Mexico, west of the JKH degree west
longitude, capable of admitting the
largest vessels, and at which the best
and most accessible harbor can be se-
cured and maintained in the shortest
possible time, and at
time, place, and cost
from the Board of
pointed under an act of Congress.
Congress passed at its last session.
Resolved further, That this con-
vention, in behalf of the people it rep-
resents, thanks the Congress of the
United States for the prompt and sat-
isfactory action heretofore taken in
recognition ot the request of the Den-
ver Deep-Harbor Convention.
I'«holvkd, That the thanks of this
convention are to the permanent
committee appointed at the Denver
Deep Harbor Convention, for their ef-
ficient action in the past, and said
committee is hereby requested to con-
tinue earnestly in the work so welt be-
gun, and said committee is instructed
to present these resolutions to the Pres-
ident of the United States, with the re-
quest that he in his annual message to
Congress recommend such an appro-
priation as may be reported necessary
to secure the permanent deep water on
the coast of Texas, which may lie rec-
ommended by the report of the board
of engineers.
Resolved. That those States and
Territories represented in this conven-
tion and not represented on the Per-
manent Committee, shall have the
privilege of reporting to the Permanent
Committee the names of such members
of the committee as they may be en-
titled to under the basis of representa-
tion on which that committee is con-
stituted.
Respectfully submitted.
D. II. Aumseoxg.
Chairman.
least cost, the
to ascertained
Engineers, ap-
To the Victors Belong the Spoils.
It is with regret that we have to an
nounce the removal of our very popu-
lar .postmaster, Mr. Matt Locke by the
powers that be. Mr. Locke secured
the appointment under tlie Cleveland
administration when the town first
started; came to us when this place
was but a small collection of tents, two
years ago. He has labored with us
faithfully and has seen this small col-
lection of tents glow into a town put-
ting on aaetropolitan airs.
He has always been kind, accomo-
dating, courteous and attentive to his
duties, and the Free Press is sorry
to have him go, and hopes that he will
"not leave town, but if he should it is
our wish that he may be successful in
whatever field or whatever lie under-
moved. There's-strategy in battle. ; takes.
Some Of tke papers of the Panhandle
the past few weeks have been saying^
some very unkind and ungrateful
things about the Ft. Worth Gazette.
Why they are doing this we cannot un-;
derstand unless it be for the reason
that the Gazette did not agree with
them in the policy of sending that ex-
pedition of "Three Hundred*' to Aus-
tin, and did not sympathize with them
at the treatment they received there at
the hands of Mr. Hogg. The Gazette
saw, as did others of us at the time,
the manner in which this would be
looked at abroad and knew that it
would react on us to our disadvantage^
in advertising the fact of our being
worried about our land titles.
What the Panhandle is to-day is
due largely to the advertising the Ga-
zette has given us. We know that the
Gazette has been untiring in its efforts
to settle and build up the country, and
we consider tfea-t the good work it has
done has not been in vain, when we
loak at what Vernon, Clarendon and
other towns are to-day. It gives space
to all correspondence, no matter how
long, relating to the growth and pros-
perity of towns in the Panhandle, and
what is being done in the way oí build-
in?, crops raised, etc., notwithstanding
the fact that some towns complain that
longer letters are sent from some other
town than are sent from their's. This
is because the correspondent in their
towns do not tufce the tiuie*sr fcafe not
the material to work on, for the Ga-
zette will publish everything that is
sent which will be of help to the place
it comes from.
What it has done, has been «lone
because it knew the Panhandle was a
rich and fertile country and could sup-
port a large population if the advan-
tages of the country were made known
to the world. This it has done faith-
fully and well, and we think it in very
bad taste for these papers to run down
an old friend in this way. We believe
they will see their mistake in this as
in other matters before long.
UTotice.
S. DECKER
Attorney At Law and General Land Agent for the
PANHANDLE
Tins.
The cry is "drought" in the North-
west, and not in the Soutliwesc, this
year.
Panhandle Colonization,
Timms City Tribune.
W. S. Decker, the Panhandle
laid agent of Canadian City, has
succeeded in organizing a stock com-
pany that may result in good to the
Panhandle. This company will be
called the Northwest Texas coloniza-
tion and investment company. The
company is composed of wealty gentle-
men of New York and Rhode Island
who have been out. here and invested
largely. They propose buying up large
tracts of our lands, have traveling
agents on the road talking up the Pan-
handle and organizing colonies fen* the
purpose of settling.—Fort W<Mh Ga-
zette.
The Lamented Hon. S- S. Ocx.
Cheap lands for sale in the Panhandle and Western Texas, from
75c. an acre up, in tracts of from 320 to 150,000 acres in a solid body.
In no portion of the Union are the lands so cheap, the resources so
great, and the climate so healthful and agreeable as in this vast em-
pire called the Panhandle of Texas, and from tihe systematic pre-
sentation of the extensive resources of this country, to the settler
and the investing public, as they never have been before and upon
the completion of the rail roads already under construction and
those projected through the country, bringing these cheap lands
closer to market, it is reasonable to suppose that these lands will
double and treble during the next two years.
CANADIAN CITY
For the past ten yetfrsthe far sighted, thinking men of the west have agreed upon one point, and that was: That when this vast rich country wasopeneci
to s< ttlement by tUie R. It's a city would be built some where in it that would rival the far famed cities of Fort Worth and Wichita. And from the way in
which the successful business men of the Panhandle purchased lots the day they were offered for sale, they evidently believe this ifc to be tlie "FUTURE
GREAT."
Canadian the county seat of Hemphill county is well located on a hill overlooking the broad Canadian river, and Red-Deer creek; She is geographically
located to command the trade of seven counties, us "well as that of the western part of Oklahoma. It is in the natural location to make a R. R„ cent*; - from
the fact that the A. T. t S. F., have built a very expensive bridge over tlie river at this point which will he used asa union bridge by other roads, as this
river is very wide and the cost of bridging is very great.
Already we have the A. T. & S. F., It. it., which will soon be extended to Albuquerque and El Paso in the near future*makihg*this their main line.
The Atlantic and Pacific or St. Louis & San Francisco R. R., are now building west from Sapulpa and will use the A. T. & S. F., track- and bridge from
this point west. The II. & T. C., R R. company own large tracts of land in this and adjoining counties and will build to this town in a very short time.
THE CATTLE KING.
road survey from Dodge City south follows the old cattle trail and'passes near this town, will be built in time, and other roads are projected which will with^"
out doubt make CANADIAN CITY the R. R. center of the
PANHANDLE AND NORTHWEST TEXAS.
And a great jobbing point as she will be the great outtitting'^town and command the trade of Western Oklahoma.
There will also be located here a
CHEESE FACTORY AND CREAMERY.
as also a SUGAR MILL for the purpose of working* the sugar cane which grows here the dryest years, into sugar. The companies are already*' organized
for «both ot these enterprises and will at once commence operations. _
NOW IS THE TIME
«fcogét on the ground floor. Liberal inducements will be offered to good manufacturing enterprises and jobbing h¡Ktsc3¿
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The H. (Í. gtavei* Manufacturing Go.
Buggies and Carriages.
floAD Carts and Harness.
THE BEST GOODS FOR THE moivjsy."
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmadgc's address
at the funeral of the late Hon. S. S.
Cox, member of«~oEgress from the city
of New York:
"A ^nation mourns! What a wide,
deep vacuum is left when such a man
as this dies! We shall not see his like
again. He was the first and last of
that style of iman. Without a prede-
cessor, he will be without a successor.
What a grand and lovely and magnifi-
cent soul he was! Within a few weeks
I journeyed in his wake across the
American continent and heard every-
where the praise he had received.
And while these tempests are raging
on land a>nd oujsea and the life-saving
station have rescued, within a few
hours, the crews of thirty ships, we
are called upon to perform the last of-
fiee on the body of him who was the
chief champion of that National benev-
olence for which every sailor on the
seas feels thankful.
it was proper that our beloved Chap-
lain ot the House of Representatives
should speak in such beautiful terms
of this man as a National representa-
tive and as a Minister-Plenipotentiary
to a foreign court. Might I say a word
about him as a friend? Did truer
friend ever live? Tell me, you sat with
him in higher places, is there in this
assemblage to-day any one to whom he
never did a kindness? Did he not
write for you a generous commenda-
tion, did he not say tor you a kind
word, or give you a genial smile or a
warm grasp of the hand? How many
bright utterances has he strewn in the
pathway of others? Firm as a rock,
brilliant as a star, artless as a child,
pure as a woma«2 God endowed him
with brilliant wit and faculty. His
wit was the kind to make you laugh,
but not to start a tear. We all cry
enough, God knows. We all cry
enough, and have enough to cry «bout,
and we need no stimulation in that
direction. But he who can by Ms own
merriment scare away cur tears is our
emancipator. His wit was pcfresking,
like the dew.
Prince of innocent pleasantry, lie
will Mnger in our memory like a sweet
song loo soon closed, like a banquet too
soon ended, like a beautiful picture
upon which too soon the curtain is
dropped.
Good-by, old friend: for many years
together we have rejoiced in this world,
and together we will rejoice in the bet-
ter world. You went because your
work was done. We tarry here for
something yet for us to do. Then arm-
in-aswi we shall walk the corridors of
the goMen halls and talk over scenes
on earth when we preserve an immor-
tality that shall never die. And here,
on this autumnal day, 1 hail thee, thou
of the J une morning majestic.
TNE BBSS MAD WAGON.
THE WORLO BEATER RBAD CART.
Our work is fully warranted, is of excellent material and finish, and
•moderate In price. Our line of Buggies is very complete.
We make a specialty of Hand and Machine Made Harness.
Write for prices. Address,
IS to 19 WeSS Uto Street, CHICAGO, ILL
TEMPLE HOUSTON
A1TORNEY AT LAW,
Canadian. Texas.
Dr. H. S. CHANDLER,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Calls answered promptly night or
day. Office at Sutherland Hotel.
-Canadian City, - Tex.
B M BAKER
ATTORNEY
AT
LAW,
Canadian,
Texas.
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George Akins.
Postoffice
Canadi a n.
Rangeon
G a ge by
creek.
ear
swallow
fork*
right'
jndei
the left
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E. E. Folly,
Postofliee, Canadian
Texas.
Range on Morgan
Creek. Hem$tttti cOutt*
ty, Texas.
1
TEXAS Ü.VNI) AND CATTLE CO.
(Limited.)
The Largest, Finest
and Most Commodious
of any Hotel in tlie
Panhandle.
Temperature Record.
For the past week, as recorded at the
Press office each day at 3 p.m.:
I Saturday, Oct. 26,
1 Sunday, " 27.
I Monday, " 2S,
I Tuesday, " 29.
I Wednesday" 30,
I Thursday, " 31,
O Friday, Nov 1,
Mean temperature,
Free
- - «0-
— as
-- uo
— 62
-- «6
- r«
. > 48-
- 53-
Printer Wanted,
Wanted at " once, a printer. Apply
at this office.
Tor Sale or Bent,
A good house and stable situated on
Third St., formerly used as a butcher
shop. Apply at this office>
geo. gerlach
Sells Salt pork for 9 cts. per ft.
Evapora Ud apples for 8 cts. per ft.
lift brown sugar for fLQft.
Green coffee 20 cts. per ft.
loft prunes for $1.00.
White Rose flour, |2.2o per 100.
Old Gold " «2.40
Golden Sheaf 4 32 -50
A first-class ho-
tel with first-
class ac-
como-
-:-dations.-;:-
THE TABLES SUPPLIED WITH
ALL THE DELJtt&OTES OP THE
SEASON. RABOTEE DAY.
Free Harks tt aN from all trains,
ji&nry Hamburg.
Postoffice at
Ca n a d i a n
Texas- range
on G igehj
C11«k
S me
cattle ve
an S S
on left de.
and soil)o eat
tie out
with this brand dniy.-
Al o A V f>n right hip *ad side with
gas on the left, mnnant a V. only
Al so H Tr- m?rk right and o\ *
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Additional brands.
^n either side
p>ri left hip'and side
W. H. HopkinVj, Unu«;li St;|>«rin tendeii'
Canadian, Texas.
John Tod. Mana^r, San Antonio, Texan.
hit and under !;!• 1 he left Tally .brand
eross on left shottWer. Also QP-
either side; 2 t
in left side.
J. J. Sutherland,
Proprietor
Freeman E.^Miller
DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
Will practice in all the Courts of the
Panhandle.
Special Attention to Land and Col-
lecting Business.
Canadian, - Texas.
w. h. gri&sby,
attorney -At-Law,
Mobeetie, Texas.
Increase of all sto?
Horse brand H !<?ft~hip7
Haift&wL Land & -Cáttíé C„. Li&XcS.
J. Ml.<KIBUAN, General Manager.
Corner; Ninth au$' Wyandotte "Sts.
Kansas City, Mtf.-
C. B. WILLF&feHAM. Supt.;
Mobeetie, Texas/
Ranch:—Hutchinson and Carson coun-
ties Texas.
This com
pany owns
all brands
formerly be-
longing" to
the Adobe
Walls, Hug-
bee, and
W ord & feni-
dei ranches. AH indreaStr of these herd
will be run in tiieRMbrand and^^ear
marks ■H
The-follow g are the principal
brands belonging to the company.
Horses mainly
branded in
CPESSWKLL HAXrii AND CAT
TLE CO.
,í M.\< Ken'zic:. Manager,
Pc«tofTicc, < «tnii
«isHii. Texas. Ijmeh
■ !! Kob«%rt" Voltn« p,
on Canadtrin river.
Various hrandf Al
£'► — OH if-Ü
" •! 1¡ vai'ioii < ^HJirk'í.
Hers* t>i I'lnt C
ívjth bar over on
ief t sbouider.
Kttr liutrt prtj\ ^
iO !* -">. ernp'bff l f* «Mtiy
Also \ I. contK'utetl «mi p.ft sidtr; ciox<> crop
üM' IfH. swallow tork the rijrtit Also iJlyiJ'K
A on left <ideicr<J|t and und. r Mt tiie left,
swallow fork tM r"t.í !it. H 1! |. oil left
Hl<le,erofi and undéríiit *hs fei , crop and
the rifc-lit'.
uocKifrn cifAtk KAXCIIL.
{Limited.)
Kttnjre on Eini
creek and Salt
Fork of Ked
river,in Whee-
ler and Col-
linif s w or t h
counticg, Tex-
~,lf.
Aditftmai
brands':
1
Ail increase In ;
above bra* d
and B'.nrk.
How o rait 1
rock ink chair *
left h.p, par- *
Uel mt* left '
tit iff h
left
ffrj roa wane to keep p
tfeMbke
.T LD
side
7 lefnéck
M lert íf lo
W left side'
and thign
>u
side
^ Ihlfrh.
U right
left neck.
i
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brtWj*.
13 left sM*. DWctT alter-
H left née*. V left tide, 1316ft side. -
D oa either'slte.
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if
on each stdo.
_ on the Oat-
jta read the TREE PRESS. We
will pnbliiii the latest report ^tiring the r.mW^,d^-r #houldir
summer-
on either side'
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