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MEEKER HERALD. Meeker. Colorado. SATURDAY. AUGUST 7. MT. JAMES LYTTLE. Editor * Publisher Eutcred to the I’ottoAce at Meeker, Rio Blanco County, Colo., aa woowklui mail matter. HOME NBWB. TERMS: ron icaacurnoi. One Yeer | t 26 If paid in adranoe S 00 FOB ADVailTIfUVG. ProfCMlonal Garda, per Montk 9 9 00 One lock, display, per Month 9 00 Two Inches, per Month 9 00 Three Inches, per Month 4 00 Four Inches, per Month 5 00 Fire Inches, per Month 6 00 Too Inches (4 column) per Month 10 00 Twenty Inches (1 column) per Mouth 15 00 Professional Cards, when puid In advance, 915.00 per year. Local Notices, fifteen cents per line for first insertion snd ten cents for each subsequent Insertion. Legal notices ten cents per line for each Insertion. All communications should tic addressed to THE MEEKER HERALD. Meeker. Colorado. Cattle buyers are making their appear ance. Baer Bros, have received the last in stallment of the cattle they bought last spring. The Odd Fellows will give a dance at their hall on Tuesday evening Sept. 7th. ( Everybody invited. , Liberal rains visited this section of the valley Sunday afternoon and Tues- 1 daV afternoon and night. , m i Among the Axialites who showed up < in town this week were Messrs. Tor- ' rence, Dickinson and Edwards. ) i Among the social affairs of the week | was an elegant dinner given by Mr. and , Mrs Carney in honor of Mr. Wilton Allsebrook. j '17io Vaughan our-lit has added anoth er bunch to their already large herd. 1 The latest acquisition is the Gillum cat tle from liangely. 1 — ——— l Ed Brown of Denver, is in on his an- I nual outing trip and was exchanging i greetings with his many Meeker friends Thursday afternoon. 1 Messrs. Douglas and Harvey of the English coloney, returned In the early part of the week from a very enjoyable outing in the Marvine region. i John W. Gessell, who has been here * witli his family for some weeks, left for Grand Junction yesterday morning, | From G. J. Mr. Gessell will go to Ilange lv, where he will locate if he finds a place ( to suit - ■ ■ j The burning up of a corn crop in Northern Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, < caused a great glut in the Kansas City J cattle market last Tuesday and a big | decline in prices for range stock. The arrivals of cattle were the largest in tbe ' history of the yards. ! * ' 0 ( Captain Ilenry S. Dean, of Ann Arbor, Miqh., spent a few days in town during , the early part of the week. The captal n is an old army veteran and a very pleas ant man to meet. He is a public spirited and prominent citizen in the great Michigan uuiversity town. After several years of of close atten tion to range business as manager of the G-U herd, Gus Stromberg departed for ■ Eeadville today where he will pro- ] bably locate. Mr. S. leaves many i friends behind him in this valley. i L. E. Cook, who has been a well known resident of tbe Powell Park re gion for a number of years, has disposed of his stock and other Interests and left , Wednesday morning for his former home , at Ann Arbor, Mich. Mr. Cook has been in poor health of late, and thinks a change to a lower altitude will j be beneficial. Mr. Meilatton and niece—Mrs. Wal bridge, returned from Salt Lake Satur- 1 day evening. The Mormon jubilee was 1 a grand affair and well worth seeing, but the moat interesting feature (to Mac) was the opportunity of hearing Bryan speak. The great champion of the peo ples’ right* didnt disappoint bis White river hearers. Routt County has a Klondyke of ito own in tbe new mining camps of Hnnter and Three Forks and the showing made i there since the snow disappeared is in- i deed something that the entire state < may feel proud of. Shipping ore from the grass roots is what tbe two camps show and tbe ore is not k>wgrada:/Tbe Klkhorn ore averages ores to the i ton for every inch of its width and by sorting, the highest grade will run over S6OO. The Elkhorn product ia now be ing hauled to Itawlios for shipment to the Denver Smelters. There are about twenty tons of era read? for shipment. The Caledonia, owned by T. A. and C. D. Davis and J. F. Beezly, is oulv twelve feet deep, but It Is a shipper and the first output of ore will be handled bv the Columbine Smelter. This vein is half a mile east and runs parallel with Uie Elk horn. The Battle Axe, at Three Forks, owned by C. W. Wilson, will average 300 ounces In silver and forty per cent lead, so that this young camp will also soon be numbered among the wealth producers of the state.—Craig Courier. Phil Barnhart brought word in Tues day evening that Jack Lowe, one of the drivers on the Meeker-Rille stage line, was taken violently insane at Rille that morning. Later in the day the uffleted man was taken to Glen wood, and after the proper judicial inquiry, will be taken to Pueblo. Lowe has been driving on the Meeker-Rifle line for the past two years, and was considered a good driver. He was of a taciturn disposition and had no intimates. Nothing is known hero regarding his antlcedents. Store Thieving. Last Sunday morning two head of good horses and two fine sadd'ee were noticed missing from the K-T ranch. The matter was immediately reported to the Sheriff, who with Under Sheriff Williams started out Flag creek and the government road respectively in pursuit of the thieves ad it was alleged that was thedirection taken. However, the officers soon found they were on the wrong trail, and later in the day when the horses were found on Curtis creek, this opinion was partially confirmed. On Thursday the saddles, which be longed to Master Ezra Baer and Charley Ewing, ranch foreman for the K-T out fit, were found on Curtis creek. It is supposed that the thieves finding their chances of escape doubtful with the property in their possession, cached the saddles and turned the horses loose intending to get the saddles later on. As there is no clue as to who the the thieves were, the chances of their apprehension are slim. Cheap Rates on the Rio Gande. The D. & It. G. railroad announces the following low rates over its lines for the dates named : Sunflower carnival, Colorado Springs, Aug. 10th and 18tb, one-half rate. Good to Aug. 31. Western Slope Racing Association, Colorado Springs, Aug. 34th and 39th. Half rate. Colorado conference M. E. Church, Colorado Springs, Aug. 23d and 30th. Fare one and one-fifth on certificate plan. Annual camp meeting and conference Seventh Day Adventists, at Colorado Springs, Sept. Ist and 15th. One and one-fifth rate on certificate plan. For full particulars see Agent Barnes at Rifle, or agent at New Castle. G. A. R. BUFFALO AND RETURN. Low Rates Open to All, Via the WABASH. The only route that can ticket you via Kansas City, Omaha. St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit and Niagara Falls to Buffalo and return, over its own line and its own track. Tha only line that can give you FREE RECLINING CHAIR CARS, KANSAS CITATO BUFFALO. STOPOVER AT NIAGARA for ten days, going or returning, can only be secured via the WABABH RAILROAD. Special trains through without change from Kansas City to Buffalo. GRAND ARMY MEN write tome for time tables and other in formation. Make up a party and see the inducements offered by THE WABASH RAILROAD. C. M. HAmpsdn, Commercial Agent, 1035 17th Street, Denver, Colo. NOTICE TO TEACHERS. Orric* or ) County BtmmnnßjrDEjrr or Schools, V Mum, Colo.. Aug. 4, law. j The regular examination of teachers for Rio Blanco county, will be held in my office in Meeker, Friday and Satur day, August 20th and 21st, 1897. W. H. Young, al4 County Superintendent Two young men were frozen to death |ih the Tyrol in.the last weeks of June. Letter List. The following letters remain in the . postoffice at Meeker. Colorado, uncalled for, for the month ending Aug. 7th. ’ 1897, which if not called for in 30 days. ’ will be sent to the dead letter office: C H Burbuck, John Chapman, , Lansen Jenkins. Robert Sherlock. Ella Wilson (package). In calling for any of the above loiters i please say ‘ advertised.” F. N. JoHantoen, P. M. National Encampment G. A. B. Buffalo N. Y. August 23-38. The Burlington has been selected as ' the official line for the Colorado aad Wyoming delegation; to leave Denver 9:50 p. m., August 30th. Tickets on sale August 19th and 20th; $38.30 for the round trip from Denver, Colorado Springs or Pueblo. Final limit, Sep tember 20th for return. Through sleepers will run Denver to Buffalo on the official train. Everyone can take advantage of this very cheap rat?. For full information, etc., call upon your ticket agent, or write G. W. VALLERY, General Agent. Denver, Colo. The Salt Lake Tribune lias published an attractive book from iU popular “Fifty Years Ago Today” series, giving an accurate history u£the trip of tlie first pioneers to Utah. The book has all the original matter as it appealed from day to day, and in addition a cctn plete brief history of the other imni- , grations of the same year careftfly compiled. Additional portraits and historical subjects are included, the book coi- i tainiug 135 illustrations, which aloi * are very valuable, 50 per cent of tl; * ; portraits never l>efore having appeare I i in print. j 1 Tlie price of the work is 30 cents bl mail. Bill Nye’s Bet. Years ago, when Bill Nye was running an afternoon newspaper in Laramie, Wyo, I went over from Cheyenne o:ie day to pay him a visit. He was hard at work j in his office, which was up stairs ever a livery stable, a fact that caused him to live in mortal dread of hay fever. As soon as I went in be said, *‘Sii down there and write something to hel| me get the paper out, and we will get ofl quicker and have some fun with the boys.” r v “ What shall I write about?” , “Oh,’bout a column.” I So I wrote about a column, headed t “About a column,” and commented n columns. In a little while we were o t and Nve led the way to a place where i man kept all sorts of sporting arrang - meats. While we were there ami i came iu with a live eagle be proposed > pit agiust the proprietor’s best bir . The old sport took him up at once ai 1 the Roman nosed bird of freedom wj > thrown in with a healthy lookingcliickt: that would have fought a buzzaw. Tl t rooster made a dab at the eagle, ao: that “Uerce gray bird with a be ml In ; beak’' and au unwarrented reputation f< • gameness ignominiouslv, inglorious r and incontinently fled and hid under i chair, where he looked out in a piteols sort of a wav and as good as “Take him off. I want to go home.” • Among the other thin£3 this man o! sport had was a badger that he was pre pared to back for large sums on the statement that no dog could take the beast of a barrel that lay lengthwise 1 on theTicur witli one head knocked out. I had wondered why it was that Nje • had been coaxing an “ornary” looking i cur to follow us, and now the problem was about to be solved. Nye made a bet that he had a dog that would take the badger out of the barrel. The money was “put up” and Nye caught the deg by the “nap of the neck and | seat of the breeches,” so to speak, and threw him Into the barrel, tail foremost. The badger nabbed the dog, by one ham > and the dog went right away from there like a blue streak, taking the badger with him. The last that was ever seen • of that dog, or badger either, both were i going to word the North Platto river, the dog making the best time he ever had made and the badger banging straight out behind, a close second. Nye won.—Will Lightfoot Visscher in Chicago Times-Herald. TiKISMI ( Of the year when a good, tool glass of beer is both ‘Ptiohrishing and refreshing. ~~But where can a good, cool glass of beer be had ? Why at John W. Welch’s Rio i Blanco Sample Rooms—and you get a “schooner,” too. MEASURIMG SUNSHINE. As iMtraaat Whlel BmcHi the turacts m€ Ear- All uoabrazneot which baa been in vented for meaauringr sunshine elec trically ia ao aaoaitive that not the fainteat aun ray that may break through the cloody arch of a gloomy day ia loat, even if it be but of a mo ment’s duration, aaya the Pitta burgh Dispatch. Not only does it c»teh these raya of sunlight, but by an ingenious contrivance it records their degree and the period of the day at which they occur. The cylindrical glass tubes, connected by a stem, are inclosed in a protecting glase sheath. Mercury ia used to separate the air in the bulba, which are filled with pure, dry air aud hermetically sealed. The apace be tween the bulba of the protecting •heath is 'then exhausted of sir and •ealod. One of the bulbs is coated with lampblack and when the sun shines its attraction for the blackened bulb drives the mercury up through the stem lend ing to the clear glasa bulb. In its pas «ege> it. forms a circuit with fine wires fused into the glass and the record is instantly carried to a regie ter in the ob server’s office. This register is oper ated by clockwork, and upon its brass cylinder a sheet of paper bearing lines indicating the minutes and hours of the day is traversed by an automatic pen, which, actuated by the electric wires attached to the gloat* bulbs, makes an absolutely accurate record of the intensity and duration of the sunshine each day. FROGS AT MUSKOKA. Ftrtll4»nrMlnrd Gentleman** Mnsteal Yarn from the Wilds of Canada. President George 11. McKee was in a talkative mood a night or two ago. Some one said that the frogs had en tirely disappeared from Mu&koka lako In Canada, and after removing the toby from his mouth. Mr. McKee began, ac cording to the New Castle Cournnt Guardian: “I remember when I was at Muskoka with the finst Ashing party that, ever visited that spot. Why, do you know that frogs were our principal article of diet? We used to getout in a boat after them, and us true as I tell you the frog's used to run after us. It was no unconi -1 tnon thing for us to capture 40 pounds jof frogs’ legs in one evening. TheyM ! bite, at the bare hook. I’ve neon them there fully rs big as your pug dog, and we had at dozen, that were selected for the difference in their tone of voices. I was enabled by the aid of a small stick j to make those frogs sing a kind of n tune. We had & bass, a double bass, a tenor, a contralto, and, in fact, every known voice in that choir. Many's the night I have been, lulled to sleep by the music of that bullfrog chorus. Why, l have seen.— ’’ but lie never finished, for every member of the aymposium had escaped through the back door. OrdinationS in Old Times. It cost more to ordain a minister In than it doe* now. Thcfe was Rev. Solomon Lombard, the first settled min ister at Gorham, Me. His annual sal ary was Icmi than $450, yet $l2O was raised to defray the expenses of his ordination, December 26, 1750. Tlie supplies considered necessary on that occasion included two barrels of cider, two gallons of brandy, a barrel of flour, three bushels of apples, 54% pounds of pork, six candles (not to burn on the altar, though), one teapot, and one pound of tea, four gallons of rum, one ounce of nutmegs, and the same quan tity of pepper, a pound of ginger and one bottle of vinegar. High Art Posters la Paris. The fad of collecting “high art post era” ia receiving a chock!in France, as it deserves to wherever it Involves van dalism. On all the pouters recently put up in and about Paris may be found a warning: “As this poster can neither be given nor sold, anj-one found with it in bis possession will be prosecuted as a receiver of stolen goods.” Send Tns Herald to voor friends in the East. Only $2. LEVI STRAUSS & CO? COPmt^wMfc^HlNG lIP. 111. A -i, m tajljajsii sAAit 1 * i EVERY GARMENT GUARANTEED FACTORY- SAM FRANCISCO - CALIFORNIA. $lO to Omaha $l5 to Chicago $12.60 to St. Louis; $ll.OO to Sioux City; $lO.OO to St. Joseph, Atchison. ■ Leavenworth and Kansas City—from Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver— July 15th to 29th, and every Thursday and Sunday thereafter until August 12— Via the Burlington Route. Correspond ingly low m*es from every vfhero else ■in Co'*>» ■ w here else east. Tickets and full information a a' D. A R. G. and Col. Mid. ticket offices. G. W. VALLERY, Gcuernl Agent, 103017th Street, Denver, Col. im POWDER Absolutely Bure. Celebrated for Its rrtat leaven in ar strength snd bealtbfulneas. Assures the food again* alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands. RoYAL BAKING POWDER CO.. NEW YORK. Prospectors' Map of Utah. The Passenger Department of the Rio Grande Western Railway has just issued an up to-date map showing all mining districts of record, tog. titer with an outline sketchdOf the older districts, and calling special attention to several partially developed regions which have recent! v shown important uncoverings of gold and copper, now attracting notice of prospectors, investors and others. For copies of this valuable map ad dress F. A. Wadleigb, G. P. A., Salt , Lake City. G. O. Taylor Wb.'skice. thoroughly wholesome. Through Pullman Service. Denver, Colo., June 15, 1897. Beginning July 1st, the ‘ Burlington Route” will inaugurate a daily through Pullman car service between • Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Chicago in con nection with the D. & R. G. Railroad as follows: Eastbound—Leave Pueblo, D. & R. G., No. 4, 5:3» p. in. Leave Colorado Springs, D. & R G.. No. 4, 0:57 p. m. Leave Denver. Burlington route. No. 2, • 9:50 p. m. Arrive Chicago, Burlington route. No. 2, 8:20 a. m. Westbound—Leave Chicago, Burling ton route. No. 3, 10:30 p. m. Arrive Denver, Burlington route. No. 3, 7:15 a. tn. Arrive Colorado Springs, D. & R. G., No. 1, 11:10 a. m. Arrive Pueblo. D & R. G., No. 1.12:25 noon. First car leaves Pueblo, going east. July 4th, mid Chicago, coming west. July 1st. This virtually makes a through train service from all D. & R. G. points to Chicago. St. Louis, Kansan City. St. Joe and Omaha; passengers taking D. & R. G. No. 4 can move into Pullman car at Pueblo without leaving train. Through sleeping car tickets on sale at Pueblo and Colorado Springs at same rates as are in effect from Denver. Reservations can be obtained from A. Jackson, G. A., D. & R. G., Pueblo; J. M. Ellison. G. A., D. & B. G., Colorado Springs, or this office. GEO. W. VALLERY, General Agent. Denver. G. O. Taylor Whiskies decidedly medicinal Advertise in The Herald. O. O. Taylor WhiiklM, nothin* j rarer or better. ~ ~ OWEN O. JONES. T " fig Cattle branded as above on right aide. Horae brand same un right thigh. I claim all cattle on the range bearing tbe 90 brand which are not vented. Range, Government road and White river. PostoOlcc addresa. Meeker, Colo. TOT FLATKAU UVI STOCK COMPANY. CusuiT. Lnono, PrwUnt William F. Patbscx. Vlno President. Loots Vims, 41 ■ crWry. ▲bore brand on left elds, gw ranks, ■quore crop of right and swallow fork la left ear. Horae brand, sum ss out, os lari shoulder. Also own the following brands: \U P 18 DC EW EZE EXE zao zez zuz oiz ! BXA ZOX XOZ NON i V » Range, Ptce-anee creek, between Grand and White Rivera. PoataOce address, Clarence • Lamb, Foreman. Pteeanoe. Rla Bianco Co., Colo. EW Young Stallions and thoroughbred Gal loway bulls for sale. » EZRA FLEMMING. IB Cattle branded as above on left aide or hip, but the majority are branded L C on left side. Also own snd | |O - brand, same os eat on left bln. Range Flag creek and Government rood. PostoSoe address. Meeker. Colo PRICK * BOWK LEY. Cattle branded same as cat on right slda. Also own steers branded I t-H H *™» oranded name as cut on right shoulder. Rang: White river and Coyote Basin. Postolßce ad tress. Meeker, Colorado. WHEELER & PFEIFFER. Above brand on left side. Also own stock branded xx and 48. Horses branded sac on left bip. Ear-nmrks, right crop and left underhit. Range, north side of Bear river. Postolbee address, H. Pfeiffer, Itoutt, Rout: count}', Colorado. • T- B. RYAN & CO. im so own K on side and bip; aiso K on si o and bip; also on side and on ta i; also on side and on hip. brand on left ehoulder; also Son >fi shoulder. Range. Plce-anoe jreek and W >tc river. Postofll.-'e address Rube Cldl* id, Whße River, Colorado. JOHN W. LOWELL. Cattle branded on left side os above. Hors* brand Von left shoulder. Range, vicinity of Lily White rive BHETHERTON. JB Above brand anywhere on left side, shoulder or hip. Ear marks, underbit and overslope on right ear. Also own the following brands: H"W *H9H. The xt othw • brands canceled. .All kinds of oar marks ora . on the cattle, and soqie with no oar nmrks at i all, having been neglected. All Increase . branded somoas cut ; ear marks, overslope and , underblt on right ear. Range, White river and Thurman creek. FoetcAee addraaa, John ■ Purcell, Meeker, Colo. Wanted-An Mr? ear,. .ssSh! teji. Wu AndiUst iw, mcra* Cusli feubscribers crtn get The Toroid for the small sum of $2. Advertise in The Herald.