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THE SPRINGFIELD HERALD .
Vol. XXVII. No 2
We believe that our readers
y would rather have the news than
to he treated to a back-yard-fence
caterwnling entertainment, in a
participation in which the Herald
would not care to jeopard the
well wishes and respent of the
comm unity, which it now enjoys.
We believe the good will and
respect of the community is a
t n be cultivated, and worth
more to any one than to go
clown into th •* gutter to bandy
words with those found in its
depths.
When a man is wanting in re
spect for himself, and all decen
cy. it is easy enough to exercise
his talents in the cesspools of
blackguardism, and foul and
smutty language; but it’s repug
nant to and repels those whose
1 lives and thoughts are not in that
direction.
The purpose of the Herald is
to be a clean and decent newspa
per, let others be what they may.
William Jennings Bryan next
week.
The international congress of
dry farming will be held at Tulsa,
Okla., the last of October. |
We shall later have more about
it,
The first issue of Bryan’s
monthly Commoner is on our
desk. It is double its former
size, and a classic in the political
topics of the day.
We wish oar correspondents
to know that when their chair at
the table is vacant that they are
missed. Please to be in your
chair at the table at every meal.
There is nothing left for the
good people in the drouth-strick
en east but to pull up, leave
their homesteads, and come back
to their wife’s folks in Baca
county.
Those Mexicans will lose the
chance of their lives if they don’t
run over and capture Texas be- 1
fore the end of the touring sea
son. Even wome--. and children
are now off the reservation.
vVlien the people over tne 'ine
in Kansas want wood, according
to the water decision of the
highest courts, they are required
to drive the other way for it.
Colorado wood and water for
Coloradoans.
Where New York made its j
mistake was in not hanging all
the alienists before the rrial of
Harry Thaw began. Then
Thaw would have been found
guilty and hung, and have gone
to a place where people don’t get
away.
Gov. Foss of Massachusetts,
two times elected governor on |
the democratic ticket, it is re
ported is going back to the re
publican party, whence he came, I
and will seek the republican!
nomination for another go at the I
governorship-
Foss is tarred with the same
stick us the insurgent republi
cans, only lie went them one
better. Ilegot out of the repub
lican camp because of their high
protective robberies, and upon |
that issue won the governorship
through the democratic party, j
On the stand lie took lie was
particularly strong because of j
his being himself a manufac- 1
turer.
Foss’ game was a bluff that, he
didn’t suppose would be called,
,imade solely to can; ; him into of
iic. In a case of that kind it
would be only retributive justice
if the new tariff schedule, which
he says is taking him back to the
republicans, would actually op
erate in such away as to put him
so deep into a hole that he could
never find his way out. ,
DRY FARMING
IN A DRY YEAR.
I From the Pueblo Indicator
i Notwithstanding the unusual
, drouth of this season the crops
> in the dry farmed districts of |
r Colorado are said to be fairly
; good. Here in Pueblo county!
the rainfall since January!
has been 7 1-2 inches, which is J
more than one inch short ol the!
. normal, and the same condition
! ixists elsewhere, and particular*
[ ly toward the eastern end of the
. state where the drouth was
> more extended and the crops are
, poorer, resembling the still worse
condition in Kansu:?.
Improved methods in dry
farming count for much of the
success. Lt is not all of it but a
great deal. Careful plo wing of
the soil ai. the right time, the se
lection of acclimated, vigorous*
drouth resisting seed, the proper
condition of the seed bed and the
, judicious surface cultivation of
the surface of the ground after
• planting are all essentials.
| But, of course, if there be no
rainfall there will be no crops:
that is certain. No amount of
scientific farming will avail a
gainst too long, hot , dry spells
, where the wind comics off of a
fiery furnace as ir? the case in
Kansas,Oklahomo, Missouri, and
Nebraska and parts of lowa.lll
inois, Indiana, and elsewhere.
Pueblo county had JJB days of
drouth, half the time with high
wind, and it caused considerable
damage, but taken all over the
dry farmed districts will yield
more than a half crop in grains
and fodders. Indeed the farm
: ers can count themselves fortu-j
natc when they read of the terri-:
i ble distress and failure in other j
states that are counted as the!
, leading agricultural states.
The only one thing that could
’ get within hearing distance of
the Knights Templar conclave at
Denver—the greatest advertis
ing card the city ever had, would
be a conclave of the millitaut sul
fragetts on the other side of the
big pond. The common variety
! of suffragists on ou r side of the
; pond would he too tame to meet
i the requirements.
DRY KANSAS.
Wichita, Kan., Aug. 9. Wich
ita churches will offer up a pray
r er tomorrow for rain.
• j At a meeting of pastors hero
today the move was inaugurated.
The call asks that as many
churches as possible join and re
qusts that Christians singly keep
t up the prayers for rain nni ii rain
. comes.-—Associated press.
The drouth and heat are 'his
year more wide spread and gen
eral than the two have combined
been for many years
* The Herald believes that pi ny-*
I ers spiritually are potent, but]
temporally we do not believe
i they would make much differ
, lence in this old world of ours. '
| But the prayers in the east
emphasizes the fact that this
i year if we want to get away
, 1 from drouth and hot weatfaef we
I Won'li find any relief by going
towards the rising sun.
J This doesh’t imply that, when
it’s ary lien* it is dry easf/W.i .dly
I bub simply implies that this
, • year the drouth is general.
• j But the fact of the coincidence
of the drouth being general
| won't make it any easier on the
j man who loses his crop either
here or there.
In Oklahoma, Kansas., and Ne
! braska the creeks have dried up
and even threshing maclunes
j have had to stop for want of
i water.
Geo. Blown and wife arc at
Hot Springs, Ark., and may re-**
| main there a month or more.
SPRINGFIELD, BACA COUNTY, COLORADO, FRIDAY, AUGUST, 22 1913.
jj’orn of several varities, sor
ghum, milo maize. Kaffircorn,
Mexican beans and winter wheat
are the principle crops grown
heron bouts, and the farmers
who are trying are building up a
small cattle industry, many of
them selling cream and making
a good living.
Last year was exceptionally
good and the dry land farmers
raised almost as much stuff as
diil the tanners back in- the
Missouri and Mississippi valleys,
and t hey raised it on land valued
at from $lO to Sinus against land
valued at from $l5O to S2OO an A.
Pueblo county is not making
any noise about its succes in dry
farming. It lias never advertis
ed it to any great extent. The
railroads have not exploited it as
such as they are doing in the
northern and eastern sections of
the state, and no commercial or
ganization* has advertised it as
one of the principle assets of the
county.
The industry is being carried
on by the farmers in a practical,
systematic manner and they are,
making a success of it. The
south half of the county hugs
the higher ranges of mountains
and the foothills and no doubt re
ceive more frequent showers on
that account. The soil is rich and
partly sandy, receiving and re
taining moisture readily and on
an average it produces almost as
well as tlie farms in what are re
garded as typical agricultural
states.
The annual rainfall in Pueblo
is 12 inches, government bureau
measure, but it is presumably
greater in the mountainous re
gions and close in to the ranges.
Wentworth.
.John Davis is back from the
harvest fields.
Quite a number from til’s
community are attending the
c.amp-meeting at the Lamport
school house.
William Dillion is back from
Kansas.
Henry Vincent and Harry
Dillion went to Holly ’ this
week.
The Webb ball team defeated
the Wentworth nine last Thurs
day.
Pretty Prairie.
A good rain is needed.
•J. W. Tudhope, Andrew Hed
rick, and Rodger and Ezra Banco
have returned from the cedars.
Eleanor Dance, who has been
visiting for some time at the
Dance home, returned to her
home at Pittsburg, Kansas, last
Friday.
J. W. Davison received word
Satu relay of the death of his fath
er at Bolivar, Mo.
Obe Brant of Pratt. Kansas,
formerly a Pretty Prairieite, was
shaking hands with old friends
here last week. lie autoed out,
making iho trip of 217 miles in
one day. lie was accompanied
by his father. I). W. Brant, two
sisters, the Misses Edith and
Emma, and a Miss Stewartson
from Shelbyvilie. 111.
Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Brooks,
and Mrs. Tom Shyer visited with
Ida BJackwclder last Wednes
day.
T. N. Corrie and E. M. Corrie
were at Holly the past week af
ter coal.
Fanny Detweiler visited at
Pretty Prairie over Sunday.
Frank Blackwelder of near
Two Buttes was visiting his
cousin, Miss Ida, and friends
here the last of the week.
TRANSFER OF THE HERALD.
A Signed Statement. |
From the fact that a concerted
effort is being made to discredit
the fact of the actual transfer of
the Herald, I c’c( m it proper, in
orde r 1o clear away any miscon
structions or in isu ndeivsta ndings
that some may have been led in
to by the misrepresentations, to
make a complete statement of
the nature of the deal, by which
the right and title to the Herald
has been by me acquired.
Those who have known of my
financial circumstances might
easily be led to wonder about
how the transfer of tjhe Herald
was made, and even talked into a
scepticism of it: while there are
others who hear one side of a
case presented and;’ presume
it to bo true.
A sufficient explanation to both
these parties is the. sijnple state
ment of the fact that the Herald
was bought on a mortgage on my
farm and on the herald outfit.
All anyone has to do to verify
this statement is to go into the
county clerk’s office, and see the
mortgage, together with a bill
of sale, both recorded as stated.
My readers will understand
that when a man buys cattle or
horses on time, and gives a, mort
gage on them and on a farm to
secure payment, the cißle <>y
horses have changed ownership,
as much so as if he had paid cash
for them; and they are his until
the mortgage has been foreclos
ed.
It is just so witii the Herald.
I. have risked my farm and my
time, and if [ fail to prty out my
farm is gone —exactly as it
would be gone ii I had sold It
and paid the money on the Her
aid.
By having thus mortgaged my
property, 1 own the Herald
exactly as Knight owned the
Bemocat when lie started it. He
borrowed the money of Col. Bai
ley to build, and tdbuy his plant,
and the money was secured by
mortgage, exactly as in the case
of the Herald, only in the case of
the Herald there is a farm mort
gaged in addition.
It might possibly lie a kind of
gratification to have the impres
sion prvailthat 1 dwn the Herald
without any incumbrances; but
really there is never any dis
credit in telling the truth,
though there are few indeed
who would want, it to go out that
they owe more than they arc
worth.
However, in my relation to
the Herald, it is only a question
of time when a report under oath
will have to be published as to
who owns it, and of liens and
mortgages against the property,
and as what 1 am stating now
will then be known anyway, it
may as well be known now.
Those who have been trying
to prejudice the public against
the fact of a change in thev own
ership of the Herald, have T
done so because they believed ii
themselves, but because th• *y
thought it to their advantage ’».<>
have the public believe it.
I hope that this statement,
substantiated by the records
in the clerk's office, will be a
satisfactory explanation of the
nature of the transfer of the
Herald, and a 1 bailment ol
any further effort to mislead the j
public with refer- ,i thereto.
S. M. Itonkck
10 CENTS A ROLL.
If you want all kinds of read
ing matter, come in and givb us
ten cents for a roll ol* papers.
In these rolls of papers will be
found our state dailies, our
weekly exchanges, with some
times letters, documents, and
advertising matter of a public
nature that come daily to the
Herald office with all kinds of
imformation. J.n fact, just such a
variety of reading matter as you
will find in an up-to-date news
paper office.
AS TO BIG PUMPS.
Last Thursday morning Wil
son and Bean started the big
contiifugal pumpohthe artesian
well forthe purpose of making a
test as to the amount of water
that could be gotten out. Sam
Dean hooked the big four engine
to the pump and started the
grind. After running the pump
for thirty minutes the supply of
water obtained was perhaps
twice the natural flow of the
well. Taking this into consid
eration it can readily be see n
that it would boa big paying
proposition to install a pump in
connection with the flow. It
cun be seen what,has been done
this year with a supply of water
and take one year with another
the well as it now flows will eas
ily take care of a quarter section
of land.—Richfield Monitor.
It is possible that a big pump
ing plant tried in some of the big
wells of Baca county would pro\e
of value to the county, especially
In the Blaine and Cimarron river
artesian belts. In different
places in Kansas and Nebraska
it is reported that big pumps
often water a quarter of land.
Campo.
Some tine showers lately.
Mrs. David Gardner is greatly
improved in health.
Driller Garvie is putting down 1
the Clarse "\yell tifty feet deeper.
Mi - . Lowell is digging a cistern
on his claim.
A. B. Clements is working in
Colorado City.
\Y. A. Long was a Campo visit
or last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Blinn,
Mr. and Mrs. John Busby and
daughter, Miss Velma, are in the
cedars this wceit-
Saw.vTs Bros, have? in a
mighty line. crop of maize and
corn, same being greatly hen.
lited by tin? .rain last Friday,
which is n-j>orted to bo the great
• •strain fall ever known in that
vicinity.
We Confess to an error in last
3. M r. Witt’s thumb
was Lanced, hm not by Dr. Kees
ter. Upon tie* doctor's return
from I jam ir he t reat ed the felon,
but same had hebomc infected
,i 111 blood poison had set in- At
t his writ ing Mr. W it t is u st 'n
easy.
Dr. Kcestcr was in the Campo
j to h
rhe I) has an
d is j
C C.
on s in C<
City
Floj d 1 1 icha rds has pu rchased
a corn binder.
('!_\dc We< ks is enj(>ying tie
sights in Colorado City and other
points of interest.
F. M. Wheeler and grand
daughter Miss (I race, spent
Friday at the county seat.
Mrs. C. S. Ferkins has been
suffering with her right eye, but
is improving.
Boston
Clean crops look fairly well,
but if it boesn’t rain soon the
grajn will be shorter in this
neighborhood than for many
years.
Sunday school last Sunday for
the first time in then weeks with
a fair attendance.
Rev. Wilkinson preached Sun
bay and received two into the
church -Miss Mabel Konkol and
Mrs. S. M. Konkel.
Geo. Simmons has been here
a week visiting liis sister, Mrs.
S. M. Konkel.
Mrs. Adda Konkel lias torn
down her sod house and is now
living in the big frame.
J. A. Huston is another one of
| our fclks to brave the wrath of
| the gods in trying the virtue of
| the deep-well water of Lamar
i and incidentally to visit the fair,
jHe want up Wednesday with
IR.G- Cotton.
EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW
THe relentless prosecution of
Thaw has showed, as conclusive
ly as the fact can be demonstrat
ed that there is not “onelaw for
the poor and another for the
rich.” If anything the law has
“leaned backwards” in his case,
for he’s been pursued more rigor
ously than would a criminal of
loss importance in the social or
financial world, accused of the
same crime. It is stated that
Now York has spent s.">oo, CCO t o
send him to .the asylum and that
the Thaw family has spent twice
as much in the two trials and
the various proceedings to get
him released.—Kansas City
Journal.
The Journal is at all times
stand-pat for the interests, and
wants to pea kind of sponsor
for what it deems the “upper
Strata.”
Sophistry is a fine art and re
quires tallont and tact in its
handling, but.the above isn’t ev
en puerile-it wouldn’t do justice
to an average School boy.
If Thaw had been without the
friends and money spoken of a
bovo, there wouldn’t have been;
in the average of cases, any ex
'pert testimony of high licensed
alienists, any half dozen or dozen
trials, any world-wide notoriety,
any high-power autos waiting on
the outside, and there wouldn’t
have been any escape; all for the
reason that he would have been
electrocuted within the year the
killing was done.
feculentily, except for what
there was in it for the lawyers
and alienists on both sides, the.
state could have saved about 499,
OCO out of that,soo,(X 0. and Hai
ry would then have gotten what
was coining to him.
TYPHOID FEVER.
Typhoid time is here. We can
do much to lessen the chances of
taking it by giving attention to
wlmt we eat and drink—to our
proper rest and by avoiding
colds.
As to drinking- “Boil you:
water”, say the different stall
boards of health; not only what
Iwe drink', but that which wo cook
with. Boil it twenty or thirty
minutes, then keep it in dust
proof vessels of some kind jugs,
jars, bottles, cr a pail with a
tighl titting lid.
As to eating— eat very light.
;i:s 1 as little as you can g*-t. along
with--during August or the hot
weather, and particularly eat no
meat. It is heating, and warm
wather will keep you warm
enough.
Beware of unripe fruit or veg
etaldos. Do not eat too freely of
ice-cream, or any thing else that
• s equally as cold, for it some
times upsets the stomach and
bowdS.
Sec that your food is kept
H orn dust and Hies, Think for a
moment what germs are carried
by dust and Hies. Cover your
food, and screen the baby, that it
may not become infected by
germs left by the Ily iii.it walks
all ove: poor baby’s lips.
Germs so left can soon find
their way to baby’s stomach.
As to resting and avoiding
colds. Take good rests and
sleep. Rest two hours at mid
day—and sleep at least eight
hours at night. But few states
offer the cold summer nights
jas does Colorado, Do not allow
| you r-self to become chilled while
sleeping. Plenty of good—sleep
and rest helps the body to
repel diseases.
W.P. Verety M.D.
County Physician
j Earl Taylor of Stonington,
j came down on the mail yester-
I day and on home this morning.
! He has been in Elk county, Kan-
I sas for a month—says t hey have
1 no crops there.
$1.25 Per Year.
STONINGTON.
The young people of Stcnij
ton are attending the meeting b,;
Lamport.
S. W. Walker went to the r>
the first of the week for fr<*ig
John W. Davis has bough
new buggy. Look out girls
Henry Graham is \ «»r.c g
for Jay Nance.
Art Greathose is taking Dei •,
place while he is away.
11. D. Nance lost a horse 1
week.
Will Klim on ds is hoeing wei
this week.
The Herald can’t publish b r
cor espondence without hav: :
the proper name of thecoriis
pondent. We are departing from
this to include some of the ite;i
from Stonington this week, tu>
the proper name of the cores
pondent must accompany in*
next letter.
M rs N. G. Jones asks us to r. n
non nee in the Herald that '
Baca county S. S. convent
will be held at Two Buttes A u
gust doth and 31st. Rev. Johr. C
Carman of Denver, state superi:
tondont of the Colorado Sundu
school association, will be pr*
ent. It is especially desired I .
have all the schools represent r .
either enmasse or by delegal; t:.
Come and help out in the conv3i
tion, and Two Buttes will trai .
you royally.
The infant child of R«t.
Wilkinson has had a relapse an 1
is very low at this writting. It; *
hoped that the child may pat *
this seccond ordeal in safety, and
that such report may be gi*'t v
before jtlie paper is issued.
Later.- We are grieved to *•:
nounce that the child passe,
cjuitely away at 5 o’clock yestcr
■tiny morning, and was laid i
rest yesterday evening in tb
Springfield cemetery. Tb'•
stricken parents have the .sym
pathy of tlie community in tb 1 ! :
affliction.
It has been a common prac v. -
of our state papers to sp j?
disparagingly of the succ.s
that hea been attained in <_r;
farming on the pb »ins of Col art••
do; which might seem strung
except for the knowledge of tt -
fact the cattle interests, in cor.
nection with mining, have fora
orly dominated the state r.n
dictated it’s policies.
With a knowledge of this fac I
is a relief to turn to the Pm bi •
Indicator to find a p resell tat *Ql
of dry farming as deinonstra
in its own county and at its o *r.
door.
Elsewhere in our columns eh
article referred to will be fou ~.u
It is written with an understc M
ing of the importance of the > ai
ject and a knowledge of the f; St
and without exaggeration o f
misrepresentation of the suet ts
of what is growing to be one c
Colorado’s great industries.
Upon reading the Indie; fee
article you will find that th'
views therein set forth aci or
with the dry farming experi a:
es of our own county and m**-
indeed have been written for CU
county instead of tlie county z
Pueblo, with the* difference chh
our soil is a great deal riel .ft*
and that our success is cor e :
pon-iingly greater.
M. E. Church Services
Springfield Charge.
First Sunday:
Springfield 11:00 i
North Liberty 3:30 |
Two Buttes 7:30 | i
Second Sunday
Boston ll;00;
Vilas 3:30
Springfield 7:30;'
Third Sunday
Two Buttes D:0« i ;r:
Stalnaker 3:30 -•
Springfield 7:30 '
Fourth Sunday
Springfield 11:00
Vilas 3:30 i
Boston :3 ° ’
( . C. Wilkinson. Pa
Union Sunday School at Sprint
every Sunday,