The Randall County News. (Canyon City, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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COUNTY NEW
Vol. XII.
Canyon. Randall County Texas Friday January 15 1909.
No. 42.
THE
RANDALL
. i
JOHN KNIGHT
Real Estate.
Two tracts of 80 acres each
two miles from the town sec-
tion practically all level and
smoothe red-sandy loam with
about 50 acres in cultivation
on each tract. Small amount
of improvements.
One hundred acres of land
two miles from town all of it
smoothe with fine soil about
12 acres in cultivation and is
well fenced.
' Sixty acres just East of the
100 acres every .foot tillable
none in cultivation'.
Many other good tracts for
sale among which are some
valley lands within one'half of
a mile of town section: See
me if you want good values.
Office with L! G. Conner.
For Farms See
JOHN KNIGHT
Dr. C. B. Lohr
Veterinary Surgeon '
I am now located at the
office of the George Rey-
nolds Co.'s livery barn
and treat all kinds of dis-
eases pertaining to domes-
tic animals and those of
cattle and sheep especially.
Castrating ridglingand
vaccinating together with
tubercolosis treatments on
short notice. I have had
twenty-three years exper-
ience in my profession.
All calls from the city
county or state promptly
answered' day or night.
Charges are Reasonable.
Office Phone No. 6.
Residence Phone No. 12.
DR. G. B. LOHR
Canyon City - Texas
Northwestern Title Co.
Coraplejte Abstract of All
Randall County Property
R. A. TERRILL - MANAGER
Not tin iuny nizzlo uf a
lienn gun nor the wan-ely
mirtllile Hiinp of a Iio.v'h
cup pistol but the deafen-
ing beleh of a poixUfouN
strictly modem large cal-
ibre rapid firing well
alined gun . in on n ted tv
defend the Interests of the
community in general
and the depositors of
"The Old Reliable" lu
particular. ' .
Rend the Report. Its
adoption Is by unnnlmou
vote of a large majority
of our honorable citln8.
I " A- REPORT
. . 1 ii
; - The First National Bank ol Canyon Jj
COMING THIS WAY -IN
ONE SOLID TRAIN.
THE TWENTY-ONE CARS OF IMMIGRANTS
FROM NEBRASKA ARE ON THE ROAD.
Banners From the Cars Show Destination-
First Entire Train of Immigrants
Ever Brought to Texas.
Texas is a great state and
Randall county is a great
county. ' Texas has -always been
noted for its great achieyments
and for the very rapid develop-
ment of its broad scope of terri-
tory ever since a concerted act-
ion for its development began.
There have been numerous and
various ways of bringing to the
attention of the outside world of
the rapid manner in which the
farmers of the nqrth are flock-
ing to the fertile fields of Texas
but it remains for Randall coun-
ty to cap the climax for immi-
gration and bring into the state
atone time and on one train
twenty-one cars of household
goods from one town Wisner;
Nebraska to be settled upon
lands in Randail county.
Arrangements had been made
for the train to leave "Wisner on
the 11th buton account of rail-
road matters the shipment was
deferred until yesterday. The
twenty-one cars holding the
household goods are all Missouri
Pacific furniture cars large and
roomy. In addition there are
tourist cars for the accommoda-
tion of the families of those com-
ing down and at Kansas City two
additional cars will be added con-
taining mules which have been
bought for the use of the immi-
grants. It is reported that every car
on the train has a banner stating
that it was bound for Canyon
City in the Panhandle. It is
also said that due notice of the
coming of the train has been sent
to all the prominent towns along
the lines of railway over which
the train is to run so that the
people may actually see the vast
tide of immigration coming this
way.
Altogether there are twenty-
five families represented in this
train of whom it is said that
twelity-four will have to build or
are having buil houses and im-
proving new lands. This will
very largely increase the spring
acreage of crops in the immedi-
ate neighborhood of the places
where these people are to settle.
It is thought that this train
will reach Canyon City some-
where about noon Monday and
if such is the case the people of
this city expect to turn out and
give them a wholesale welcome
to their future home.
L. T. Lester
President.
John llutson
Vlce-Pres.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
CAXYOX TEXAS.
At Close of Business November 27th 1908.
BTATCHieMT COMDMMSWD FROM RtPORT TO COMPTROLLER
Resources Liabilities
Loans niid Discounts ::H)2l!l.74 Capital Stwk $1H)000.00
Bonds & Premiums 131745.ir Surplus and Profits 47.L'l.0s
Real Estate and Fixtures 17!)!M!.()7 Circulation 100000.00
Demand Loans $ 45 (H KM ML Deposits tt.-0.4.37
Cash 7!S24.!)! 124.SJ4.S!
certify that the above is correct. D. A. PARK Cashier.
What it is. .
In explanation of the Camp-
bl system of dry farming the
Cimarron(Kans.)Jacksoniansays:
"Try this experiment: Take an
ordinary piece of loaf sugar and
pile as much loose granulated
sugar on top as will stay there.
Just barely dip the lower end in-
to a cup of coffee you will see
the brown liquid creep rapidly to
the top. When it reaches the
loose sugar the motion of the
liquid is almost entirely stopped
and the top of the loose sugar
will remain dry. The loaf repre-
sents the hard compact ground.
The force which makes the liquid
go rapidly upwarJ is called cap
illary attraction of the 'water
ladder.' The looss sugar repre-
sents loose soil on top of the
ground mule by harrowing.
This loose soil both stops the
'water ladder' and prevents the
evaporation by contact with the
open air. This is the Campbell
system.
It Worked.
A Kansas evangelist holding
meetings at Ottawa succeeded in
getting every woman in the con-
gregation to remove her hat by
the following request made at a
recent meeting: "Ladies will
please remove their hats. I
know that in these days it is
sometimes very hard for women
to take their hats off at public
services and I don't expect the
impossible. They tell me that so
much false hair is being worn
that women can hardly get their
hats off without disarranging
their hair very much. Now I'm
not unreasonable about these
matters. I won't expect you
who are wearing false hair to
take your hats off. The others
of course will remove their
hats." Ex.
Brick Houses Completed.
The three new brick store
buildings on the east side of the
square have been completed and
are now being occupied by the
various people who have leased
them. They are substantially
built and will make quite an ad-
dition to the business portion of
the city.
"If I had known that this
pleasure was in store for me"
said the doctor as he shook
hands cordially with his wife's
cousins "I should certainly have
arranged my business so as to
be home earlier."
"Why pa" piped up little
Tommy "don't you remember
that ma told you they were com-
ing and you said 'Oh the dick-
ens!' " Exchange.
Be a News subscriber.
D. A. Park
Cashier.
Travis Shaw
Asst. Cash.
Total
if.".!i77x7.4r
FEBRUARY TERM OF
DISTRICT COURT
PROSPECTS FOR A FULL TERM AND VERY
BUSY TIME IN THE CIRCUIT COURT.
Large Number of Important Cases to be Tried
The Attorneys State That the
Term is Too Short.
The regular term of the dis-
trict court of this county will be-
gin in this city on the first Mon-
day in February which is to say
the first day of the month. Never
in the history of Randall county
has their ben such a larga
docket to be disposed of as there
will be at this term. With the
natural increase of business
which comes as the country rap-
idly developes there are cases on
the docket which have been
transferred to this county from
other counties to be tried.
The regular term will consume
two weeks and it is doubted by
those who know whether or not
the court will be able to dispose
of anything like all of the cases.
In fact it cannot be done if there
is much of a contest in many of
the cases. There are two mur-
der trials and it is thought that
they will take at kytst three days
each. Then there are important
civil cases to be decided which
will take at least a day each. Al-
together it looks as if the court
and judge will have to burn some
tallow John D. Kockefellow
juice or electric sparks if they
hope to do anything toward
clearing up the contentions to be
settled.
Speaking relative to the terms
of the district court for this
county one of the prominent at-
torneys of this city stated this
week that the time allotted for
the disposition of matters for
this county was entirely too
short. That while years ago
two weeks time was ample for
the work to be done the large
increase in citizenship and the
number of cases brought to this
county from other counties made
it almost imperative that the
present legislature take some ac-
tion to lengthen the term.
We give below a list of the
cases upon the docket together
with the action of the court at
the last term:
CIVIL DOCK ET.
No. 3:2:3 Jasper N. llaney vs.
J. F. White et al damages: con
tinued to make heirs of John L.
Howell Sr. parties to suit.
No. 341 -II. A. undT. E. Turn
er vs. Louis Lehrman et al par
tition of land: continued by
agreement.
No. 304 J. W. Cumming vs.
C. S. Morris damages: contin
ued by agreement.
No. 343-Panhandle Townsite
Co. vs. Mrs. S. L. Ijong et al:
continued by agreement.
No. 309 C. T. DeGraftenreid
vs. Silas Lake et al cancellation
of contract and damages: con
tinued by agreement.
No. .'"3 J. M. Boydstun vs.
G. K. Ward forclosure of ven-
dors lien: continued by operation
of law.
No. 379 Richey Johnson vs.
L. C. Johnson divorce: continued
by operation of law.
No. 331 J. W. Cumrnings vs.
Lois Cumrnings motion to re-
open case: continued by agree-
ment. No. 371 Mrs. Sallie Barnard
vs. K. A. Dobbs damages: con-
tinued by agreement.
No. 372 Fulton Lumber Co.
vs. 11. II. Saul et al debt: con-
tinued for service on minor de-
fendant. No. 320 August Ijomm vs. F.
Hoffman: settled by agreement.
No. 30 X. Thompson vs.
Standard Trust Co. to cancel
contract and for damages: con-
tinued by operation of law.
No. 381 Lula Tennison et al
vs. Mrs. L- L. Palmer executrix
suit for partition and restoration
of funds: continued by consent
of both parties.
NEW SUITS FILED.
No. 390 W. 13. Banning vs. J.
D. Bybee et al suit for damages
and for commission.
No. 397 Charline Corbone ex-
parte application for naturalisa-
tion. No. 398 Nicholas Pfieffer ex-
parte application for naturaliza-
tion. No. 399 Canyon City Ice and
Light Co. vs. Fulton Lumber Co.
400 Central Electric Co.
vs. Canyon City Ice and Light
Co. et id to recover debt and for
foreclosure of mortgage with in
junction.
No. 401 J. T. Jennings vs.
Mrs. J. A. Hagg et al foreclos-
ure of vendors lien.
No. 402 Minnie M. Chase et
al vs. Mrs. J. A. Hagg etal fore
closure of vendors lien.
No. 403 William Willard vs.
Cedar Valley Land & Cattle Co.
cancellation of vendors lien notes
and to remove cloud from title.
No. 404 Pecos & Northern
Texas Railway Co. vs. M. II. Bo-
gar et al injunction.
No. 387 B. W. Miller vs. L.
L. Monroe suit for commissions
and debt.
No. 40") Alexandro Bevaoqua
exparte application for natural
ization.
No. 408 Dicy May Smith et
al vs. Pecos & Northern Texas
Railway Co. damages for per
sonal injuries. One-half of amount
recovered to be transferred to
Mulkey and Hamilton B. Q.
Evans and J. S. Sherrill.
No. 409 First National Bank
of Canyon vs. C. C. Marshall
debt and foreclosure of lien on
personal property.
CRIMINAL DOCKET.
No. 384 State of Texas vs.
Frank Lester maiming contin-
ued from last term by agree-
ment. No. 3H" State of Texas vs.
Enoch Wilson theft r cattle;
continued from last term upon
application of State's attorney.
No. 400 Suate of Texas vs.
John W. Williams inurder.trans-
f erred from Parmer county.
No. 407 State of Texas vs.
Doby Williams murder trans-
ferred from Parmer county.
District Clerk Garner has is-
sued a list of jurors selected for
both the grand and petit juries
during the term and we give be-
low the lists.
CRAND J CRY.
J. W. Ballard R. E. Baird J.
O. Burch.J. M. Burkhalter.Davo
Currie J. M. Craig L. G. Con-
ner W. L. Garner C. II. Still
L. E. Cowling P. C. Huckabay
M. N. Gallagher H. E. Wesley
J. L. McReynolds B. T. John-
son and J. M. Black.
PETIT JUROKS FIRST WEEK.
I. N. Hicks Jesse Pierce W.
W. Stephenson W. J. Wood.Theo.
Cochell Geo. Reynolds R. B.
Redfern R. II. Caler J. M.
Emery Tom Cochran J. A.(Gus)
Wansley II. J. Cavit T. C.
Thompson M. O. Slack A. M.
Smith J. M. Myers.C. P. Hutch-
ings Jim Dawson M. S-. Lusby
Frank Beaver John Bell J. J.
Taylor W. B. Walters W. F.
King Travis Shaw J. D. Key C.
S. Dison Comer Thomas E. D.
Ilarrell J. A. Currie S. T. Pa-
gan and George Hayden.
PETIT JCKOIiS SECOND WEEK.
J. 11. Hall John Knight Em-
mett Sales J. T. Wood E. A.
Upfold T. A. Ridgway Jim Fos-
ter J. E. Briggs Ed Wesley G.
S. Ballard S. B. Lofton R. G.
Oldham J. Ij. Prichard E. D.
Harrell John Boulware T. II.
Rowan G. G Foster J. Frank
Smith J. C. Joslin H. C. Dol-
cater W. E. Itughery R. E.
Foster.Sam H. Heyser F.Blank-
enship W. F. Zimmerman J. M.
Gibson G. P. Bryan J. V. Dick
J. I. Campbell Nathan Yates
J. W. McClain A. S. B ssett.
IMMIGRATION IS
GETTING VERY LARGE.
FARMERS FROM THE NORTHERN STATES ARE
ATTRACTED TO RANDALL COUNTY.
Excursion Last Week Said to be Largest in
History of Panhandle Country
Much Land Sold.
The excursion which came to
Randall county last week is said
by the ojd timers to have been
the largest that has ever stopped
here at any one time. The town
was literally crowded with these
people-and it was a problem for
these visitors to be able to get
sufficient eatingaceommodatijns.
As for "sleeping arrangements
they were well supplied for their
Pullman cars were stopped off at
the depot.
The trains were delayed and
did not reach this city until dur-
ing the night Thursday or Fri-
day morning and 4t soon became
evident that the people who had
come down to see had very mat-
erially become interested. They
all seemed anxious to get out
into the country and see just
what the crops and prospects
were.
The people composing this
crowd of prospectors were of
that desirable class of farmers
who know how to cultivate the
soil to the end that it might pro-
duce the greatest results not
only producing the large crops
for the present year but conserv-
ing the land for future crops.
These are the class of men de-
sired here.
The sales were the largest in
number in the history of the de-
velopment of Randall county.
J ust how many sales were made
we have not been able to ascer-
tain but the News reporter talk-
ed with sixteen farmers who ex-
pect to move to Randall county
within the next three months.
They are bringing with them
their stock and farming tools
and of the sixteen twelve of
them are to build new houses
and improvements.
In talking with these people
the News reporter endeavored
to ascertain their private opinion
as to this country knowing that
they were able to judge of the
land climate and the possibili-
ties of future development and
it is a fact that not a single man
to whom the reporter talked
could bring forth a single ob
jection to this country other than
that it. was sparsely settled com-
paratively to their northern coun-
try. Randall county expects and
will have the largest increase in
her population during the com-
ing year than ever before in its
history. She ought to have be-
cause she is worthy of it.
Ladies Book Club Meets.
At the home of Mr. and Mrs.
R. S. Pipkin the ladies' Book
Club of this city met in regular
meeting last Wednesday after-
noon. The ladies are studying
Shakespeare's Macbeth and the
lesson for the afternoon was
from Act II scene 3 and 4 and
the discussion involved was in-
teresting throughout. The lad-
ies have recently received a large
number of the latest books and
the interest created by the dis-
cussions of the Shakespearean
play together with the new read
ing is causing quite an attend
ance among the members.
Walter Cranford form
attorney of this city h
cited at Lramt in (fast
tv was in this ci
attendance up
his brother
ford whr
Mo ida
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Terrill, R. A. The Randall County News. (Canyon City, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1909, newspaper, January 15, 1909; Canyon City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth323174/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .