Canadian Free Press. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 14, 1887 Page: 4 of 4
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Canadian Free Press,
ME OFFICIAL ORGAN OF HEMPHILL
COUNTY.
liiM 4 LUOWtCK. Editors iri Proprietors.
•1.50 rer year; $1 for six months.
strictly in advance.
.Entered at the Postoflice at Canadian
. as second-class matter.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AT
CANADIAN, TEXAS.
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HEMPHILL COÜNTY OFFICERS.
Judge. E. E. Polly
. Sheriff. T. T. McCee
Deputy Sheriff, - - G. W. Akins
Clerk. ... J. H. Hopkins
Treasurer. - - J. J. Gerlach
Legra! Hflriner to the Commission-
er*' Court, ... . B. M. Baker
Justice of the Peace, - - Chris Stump
Assessor. ..... H. E. Siders
Surveyor, - - - - S. L. Straug-han
COMMISSIONERS.
First District. ... Samuel Pollard
Second District, - - - G. C. Akins
Third District, ... John Anderson
Xeurth District, - - George Simpson
District Judge,
District Attorney,
Frank Willis
L. D. Miller
Commissioner# Court meets second Monday
la November.
County Court meets third Monday in De-
cember.
SCHOOL TKl'STEES.
Samuel Pollard. R. Deans and W. II. Thomas.
Mes- 'rs. linker. Goodwin and Hall ure County
Examiners for Hemphill county.
The Grand Jury of Lipscomb county
in their last week's report had iu it
the following:
r Now we would call the attention of
the court to the disgraceful seenes that
are constantly occurring on the South-
ern Kansas railway, that enters the
state of Texas at Lipscomb county.
The officials of the road, for the trans
fer of passengers in and out of the
state, have heretofore furnished only
one car, or caboose, in which to carry
the passengers in and out of the state.
The passengers are crowded, without
regard to sex, color or condition in
life. That respectable women and
men are forced to ride in the same car
with lewd women and drunken men,
and to hear and see all manner of ob-
scene language and behavior.
From the evidence before us, it is
not safe for a respectable woman to
ride alone on one of these cabooses.
The conduct of the Southern Kansas
railroad officials, in furnishing such
accommodations, is an insult to the
people of the Panhandle and the state
of Texas; therefore we ask that the
matter be brought to the notice of said
officials and to the public at largtf.
This is a move in the right direction.
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It is a contemptible shame that a road
like the Santa Fe should have such
service between Kiowa and Canadian,
a distance of 144 miles. The car is
divided, part for passengers and the
balance for express. The seats are old
cane ones.
The Lipscomb county Grand Jury
did not put it strong enough when it
l ays "with lewd women and drunken
men, and to hear and see all manner
of obscene language and behavior.''
Profane language is not wholly con-
fined to passengers—in the presence of
ladies—but there is one conductor who
was running a short time ago, and
probably is yet for all we know, who
can discount" any five drunken men
when it comes to downright filthy lan-
guage. This flannel-mouthed thug
should some time get knocked down
by some woman's husband and he
would probably remember it.
One prominent gentleman of this
city said: '"When I want my wife to
come down here I always go after her.
1 do not like to have her insulted by
having her come here alone."
A latlj is obliged to endure smoke
some times so intense that one can
hardly peer through it. It makes no
difference how many ladies are pres-
ent, «sou will smoke unless they are
provided with a smoking car. The
railroad company has put a great
many thousands of dollars into their
road in the Panhandle it is true. They
have also taken a good many thou-
sands of dollars out of it this rear,
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and their road only completed ninety
days to Canadian. The people here
do not ask for strictly a passenger
train, but for a passenger car, which
ladies and geutlemen can ride in. and
a caboose like the one they now run
for a smoking andlgambling car.
Another man hits left Medicine
Lodge without saying good-bye. D. M.
Dickerson, who made leather shirt
fronts, collars and cuffs in Mnrphey's
shop, left several days since with a
Miss Anderson, of this city. lie hired
a team of Doran & Roberts and drove
to Kiowa and was to have returned
here the next day. About five days
afterward the proprietors were noti-
fied that their team was at Crisfield.
Last week Dickerson and the girl
walked into Drumm's ranch, south of
Kiowa, and asked for lodging, and
they were accommodated. Their story
was that they had been married a
yoar. but had never been able to make
up with their relations. Dickerson left
the girl at the ranch and went south
on the railroad. The girl was hauled
to Kiowa, when Abner Wilson, who
had received a letter from Dickerson.
gave her money to follow him up.
They are likely down in the Panhan-
dle somewhere. If they have had a
marring ceremony performed no one
knows of it. Dickerson beat several
•persons In this city out of small
/imotfftts.—Medicine Lodge (Kansas)
Index.
m The Rock Island road is moving all
.^tie construction forces from the north
down to Caldwell, preparatory to be-
ginning work on a line from that place
through the Indian Territory, No
Man's Land and the Panhandle. This
means that Beaver City will get the
Rock Island after all. The road will
"jfrobably bear southwest' from Cald-
jveirtill the Beaver valley is reached,
when it will be continued up the val-
ley, intersecting their other line some-
west of us.—Territorial Adre-
The Pride of Texas.
Texans are? proud of their country
for many reasons, not the least being
the immense state land domain and
the use it has been put to for the pur*
pose of keeping taxation off of the
shoulders of the people.
Taxation is levied ordinarily for the
government of the people for public
works and buildings, and to establish
public institutions, such as universi-
ties, schools, asylums, etc. In some
states the taxes become burdensome;
the ordinary process of government
costs money; its building after build-
ing have to be erected; public institu-
tions of learning, and for care of the
sick, the blind, the felon, the lunatic,
all have to be provided for from the
same source, and as assessments are
raised the proportion of taxation is in-
creased. It is necessary, beneficial,
but burdensome.
In Texas the taxation is light for
the reason that nearly every public in-
stitution is endowed. In other states
tho system of schools may be as per-
fect as possible, but the people have to
pay for it to the last cent. In Texas
the school fund derived from land sale
will eventually reach from sixty to
seventy-five millions of dollars, and
the interest alone will be amply suf-
ficient to educate all the children with-
out recourse to taxation. With mill-
ions of dollars in the treasury belong-
ing to the public schools, thirty million
acres more of school lands are on the
market. In addition to to the general
school fund each county has an endow-
ment of 17,712 acres of land, and the
revenue from sale or leases goes for
educational purposes. The capitol
building.now in course of construction,
costing $3.000,000, was paid for with
land.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
College was endowed with land.
The University of Texas was en-
dowed with land.
The asylums for the deaf, dumb,
blind, insane and orphans were all en-
dowed with land.
Land pays for very much in Texas
that is paid for in taxes elsewhere.
State taxation amounts to 37¿ cents on
the hundred dollars. The county
taxes are limited by the constitution
to one-half the state tax. All assess-
ments are at about one-half the true
value.
In other states increase in popula-
tion insures an increase in burden. In
Texas each settler knows that the
money he pays for land is invested in
his own behalf, and the interest avail-
able for the education of his children.
In the near future Texas will have
the best educational institutions in the
United States, and at the same time
continue to be the lightest taxed civi-
lized community on the face of the
earth.—Texas Live Stock Journal.
All kinds of ammunition and guns
to hire at 11.1). McKnight's hardware
and furniture store.
A $9,000 Robbery.
December 7th last Sheriff Tom Mc-
Gee arrested in this city Harry John-
son and a woman by the name of
"Freddie," and George P. Davis for
the robbery of the safe of the treasurer
of Reynolds county, Missouri, on
or about the first of this month.
Twenty-five hundred dollars was-taken
from Freddie's "stocking." A reward
of SI .000 was offered for their capture,
and $2.o00 more for the recovery of the
money- One of the men promises to
"dig up." It was a clever capture. A
handsome diamond ring was also
taken from ''Freddie." Mr. McGee
was offered the sum of $2,-300 to give
them a chance to escape.
The Red Front Store will grind your
coffee while you wait in their''Jumbo"
coffee mill. Call in'and see it.
The Expert Architects Seady to Se-
pcrt—Municipal Election.
Austin, Tex., Dec. «5.—The capitol
board met at 10 a. in. to-day to hear
the report from the expert architects.
They were not ready to report, and
the board passed resolutions extend-
ing the time for persons to make com-
plaints or point out delects in writing.
Gov. Ross all sided to some newspaper
complaints and questions propounded
through the papers concerning the ma-
terial and workmanship of the capitol,
and said he thought tuey ought to be
answered. Gen. Walker, state super-
intendent of construction, said they
would be answered. No complaints
have yet been filed. The architects
are strictly non-committal.
The municipal election for mayór
and aldermen to-day resulted in the
election of Joseph Nalle for mityor
over Dr. J. Cummii-gs by 1120 ma-
jority. The Nalle men are jubilant,
and promise that Austin shall now go
on a regular boom and secure factories
and competing lines of railway.
Choice butter and eggs and a full
assortment of groceries and provisions
at the lowest prices in the Panhandle
at It. I). McKnight's hardware, furni-
ture and grocery store.
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TEXAS STATE NEWS.
The new law requires that all taxes,
both state, county or city, must be
paid on or before January 1, instead
of on or before March 1, as it used to
be.
Te the Panhandle country were
awarded the premiums for the best
millet, rye and barley seed, and the
best variety of grain, at the Dallas
State Fair.—Waco Star.
If Mexico offends us let us punish
her by presenting her with San An-
tonio.—Fort Worth Gazette.
It rained all over Texas the 7th and
8th.
A fine assortment of queens ware
and lamps at R. D. McKnight's house
Now Open for Business.
The Town of
CANADIAN!
HEMPHILL COUNTY, TEXAS.
The town of Canadian is destined to be one of the best in the
state, being favorably located in a rich country, with an inexhausti-
ble supply of pure water easily obtained. Its geographical situation
is such that it will command the trade of an immense area of the
best country in the state.
Unprecedented Sales Continue Daily.
CANADIAN is situated on the Kiowa Extension of the South-
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ern Kansas Railway, a part of the great Santa Fe system, which will
soon be open for business from Chicago to California, with its
branches throughout Kansas, and is now penetrating the great and
famous
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The Town is Most
jBfaufciMiy atf d,
overlooking the Canadian River for 20 miles in either direction, also
the lovely valley of the Red Deer.
Lots are Now on Sale on the Town Site Only.
No better opportunity can be offered for profitable investment
in the West than this presents. Make application early and secure
good lots from first hands.
ft. M. fptaqagfp.
CANADIAN
STOVES,
WAGONS,
BUGGIES,
PUMPS,
and WIND MILLS.
PROPRIETORS.
CALL AT
fffcqrs íSfcafjá
For Cigars, Tobacco,
Stationery, Confec-
tionery, Fruits.
subscriptions taken fotí. all
newspapers.
Any book furnished on short notice.
Latest periodicals of the day constantly
on hand.
CANADIAN, TEXAS.
Tie Sutherlant.
A first-class hotel, with first-class
accommodations.
The Largest of any
Hotel in the Pan-
handle.
The tables are supplied with all
the delicacies of the season. Rates,
12 per day.
J. J. Sutherland,
Proprietor.
ORDER YOUR
Wall Paper,
Glass,
Paints,
Oils,
Varnishes,
FROM
H. M. Ludwick,
F. E. Miller,
Attorney- a? - Law,
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CANADIAN, TEXAS.
Office in Crescent Building.
CITATION.
the state OF texas:
To the sheriff or any constable of
Hemphill county, Texas, greeting:
You are heraby commanded to sum-
mon the unknown heirs of Jane Spald-
ing by making publication of this cita-
tion once in each week for eight suc-
cessive weeks previous to the return
day hereof, in some newspaper pub-
lished in your county, if there be a
newspaper published therein, but if
not. then in any newspaper published
in the.31st Judicial District* but if
there be no newspaper published iu
said Judicial District then in a news-
paper published in the nearest district
to said 31st Judicial District, to appear
at the next r*-mlar term of the District
Court of II mp'iill county, to be holden
atthecouri aouse thereof in Cana-
dian, on the second Monday in Decem-
ber, 1887, the same being the 12th day
of December, 1887. then and there to
answer a petition tiled in said court on
the 18th day of October, 1887, in a suit
numbered on the docket of said court
No. 3, wherin Marv A. Perrin and R.
P. Perrin are plaintiffs, and E. L. Al-
ford and the unknown heirs of Jane
Spalding are defendants, said petition
alleging that Mary A. Perrin. E. L.
Alford and the unknown heirs of Jane
Spalding own each one-third undivided
interest in the James Curtis. Jr., orig-
inal survey of 900 acres of land in
Hemphill county .Texas, for the partit-
ion of which plaintiffs bring said suit,
and they pray for such partition as will
give plaintiffs one-third, said Alford
one-third and said heirs one-third of
said land in .severalty.
Herein fail not but have you before
said court at its aforesaid term this
writ with your return thereon showing
how yt>u have executed the same.
. v. Witness J. II.Hopkins,Clerk
District Court Hemphill coun-
[seal.] ty. Given under my hand and
the seal of said court at office
in Canadian, this the 18th day
of October, 1887.
J. H. Hopkins,
Clerk District Court Hemphill County.
Issued October 18, 1887. J. H. Hop-
kins, Clerk District Court Hemphill
County, Texas.
PIONEER
DEUG STORE
NOTICE!
All parties bringing slaughtered beef
to market must bring the hides with
them.
R. C. NOLL,
Inspector.
JUST OPENED.
A full line of pure and fresh
and all article kept in a first-class
drug store.
MAIN ST., CANADIAN, TEXAS.
Dr. O. A. Macy, Propr.
john gerlach. • d. l. hays.
geo. gerlach.
J. A. CHAMBERS.
Gerlach Bros & Co.
Canadian, Texan.
Dealers in
Groceries, Grain, Dry
Goods,
GENTS' FURNISH-
ING GOODS,
jBoofs etrjd
IOCS.
"Wholesale and Retail.
(nil Deiiitd li ill Farts if lie dl),
Store Main and Third
street.
Will Sell Lower Than the Lowest
for Cash.. Call and get prices.
flinch i Trail Supplies i specialty.
LODGING!
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W. P. Bryan's Hotel,
CHEAPEST HOUSE IN CANA-
DIAN.
Mechanics, Cowboys and Farmers*
patronage solicited.* Give us a trial.
FOR YOUR
Steaks,
Chops,
Roasts,
GO TO
, Meat Market,
Third street, near the Ramey House.
Ridley & Payne's old stand.
We kill the finest beeves that are in
the Panhandle and always have a fine
lot of roasts, steaks and sausages on
hand.
r. d. Mcknight,
Canadian, Texas,
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DEALER IN
Tinware.
M¡
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Groceries and Provisions.
Queensware, Glassware and Lamps.
He has the largest stock and beat assortment of goods and lowest prices in
the Panhandle.
*
A Full Line of Coffins and Caskets.
California Store.
THE ONLY EXCLUSIVE
Clothing and Dry Goods
house.
Largest stock and lowest prices.
> Next Door to Traders' Bank,
CANADIAN*. TKXAS.
JOS. HEINE, Prop'r.
Agent for Wanamaker & Brown, Philadelphia.
The Peoples' Drug Store 1
LONGLEY^ BROTHERS.
Full stock of Drug- and Patent Medicinen, Chemicals. Dye Stuffs, Faiey Articles, Perfumery 7^
and Stationery.
Cigars!
Cigars!
in Brandt and Prices to suit all.
N. B.—E. Longley, M. D., Physician, Surgeon and Dentist.
MAIN ST., CANADIAN. TEXAS.
L. E. Finch, President.
Henry Hamburg, Vice Pres.
F. S. Lord, Cashier,
the traders' bank
of Canadian, Texas.
CASH CAPITAL,
$00,000
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TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY" MADE AND REMITTED.
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CORRESPONDENCE INVITED.
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The interests of customers are closely guarded, and every facility compatible with prin-
ciples of sound banking* freely extended.
. Correspondents—National Park Bank of New York. Hunk of Kansas City, Kansas Cityr
Mo.; Merchants and Planters National Bank, Sherman, Texas.
Directors—Henry Hamburg1, Judge Frank Willis, Robort Moodj-, L. E. Finch, O. H. Nel-
son and Fred S. Lord.
F. II. SNIDER,
Insurance, Real Estate and
Collecting Agent.
Taxes paid, abstracts of land furnished, collections of all kinds promptly
attended to.
Fire, Tornado, Life and Accident risks placed in first-class companies.
Insurance agent for the Panhandle of Texas.
F. H. SNIDElt. Main street, Canadian. Texas.
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E. E. POLLY.
G. C. HALL.
polly & hall,
Canadian, Hemphill county, Texas.
We do the largest basinets and offer the best bargains of any %Real
Estate firm in the
Panhandle of Texas.
Large Tracts of Land in ev?ry County of the Panhandle for sale.
All Legal Business promptly attended to.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.
B. M. BAKER.
A ttorney-at-La w.
W. S. DECKER,
Surveyor
Baker & Decker,
LAW & LAND,
Hare 43,3-541 acres of land in Ochiltree and Lipscomb counties for sale at $2.50
per acre, on easy terms.
In Hemphill county we have 12,233 acres of patented lands for sale at
$2.50 ptr acre on easy terms. v
A good section of school land on the Washita river, well improved, fruit
trees. &c. One good section of school land on the ('anadian, under cultivation.
This section has been settled three years and is ready to be patented. 48 acres
of choice land, two miles from town, at 12.50 cash. This is a bargain.
We have in Wheeler county a section of land adjoining the town of
Mobeetie, all ready to be patented and well improved.
A fine stock farm five miles from the Indian Territory line, good water,
fruit trees and many improvements, 60 head of cattle. This is a bargain, as
the owner wishes to sell.
Two sections in Gray county, three sections in Carson county, very!
to the future city of the Panhandle, on the Santa Fe Railroad.
These large tracts will be sold in large bodies or by the section, to suit
the purchaser.
We have a large number of well located business lots on Main
which we will sell or rent, and several desirable residence lots for sale
a Main street lot and store.room for sale cheap. The owner will rent i
purchaser for at least five months at a good rent.
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Canadian, Hemphill county.
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