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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1889)
--THE-OLDEST And - only REPUBLICAN Paper in Sioux County. Farmers, Merchants! Stockmen! EVERYBODY! Do you want to see the county set tled and the val ue of your proper ty increased? Do you favor an economical admin istration of county affairs? Do you feel that you have been robbed by the corruption of county officials? Do you want the BEST LOCAL PA PER in the county? If so, then subscribe or THE Sioux County J J 0 0 II u R Tl N A A L L People's PAPER. If you have it now subscribe again and send a copy to some relative or friend and they may be indueed to come and settle here. Our correspondents are now more nu merous than ever and items from all settled parts of the county will be had constantly. if you do not want it a year try it for three month. Respectfully, tV. E. PATTERSON;, Pro, i. H. COOK. Agate Sitonos Ranch". Brand C on left jaw. Mates aspecialty of breeding Roadsters, Draft and Saddle floras; also red and black Polled cattle. IUn m BwMiiig Water. Fort Of' The The Sioux County Journal. Published every Thursday. 0 Subscription Price, f2.00 W. E, Patterson - Editor nd Prop. Entered at the post office at Harrison aseeOnd class matter. Harrison Market. Butter, IV. Egji-s, 15c,, Poultry, per doz. $2.40 to 3. Oats, p"er 100 ft. $1.00 to 1.10. Corn, per 100 B. 90 to $1.00. Brun, per 100 lb $1.10. Feed, ehopjied, per 100 It f l.S-'i. Potatoes, jjer bu. 30c. Sorghum, per gal 60c. Onions, ier bu. $L50. Beans, per bu. fi.OO. The Herd Law. Ed. JofESAl.: Sir: Will you kindly permit me to occupy some of your valuable space for a few words which I wish to say in ans wer to the articles which appeared in your last issue relative to free range and lierd law, which is at present being agi tated by the hei-d law element of this county. As for myself individually I care not whetlvr we have lierd law or free runs bnC I advocate free range be cause of the way the county is situated geographically, as there are hundreds of thousands of acres in tliis county tliat are practically worthless except for grazing purposes, tlierefore why drive out the man that has a few head of cat tle? What use will our herd law friends make of the immense amount of rough hills and 'bluffs? Ttiey cannot cultivate it, but tlie cattle man could run cattle on them and thereby increase his own comfort, and at the same time return more revenue in tlie county treasury and help his poorer neighbor by buying his products for feeding and fattening his stock, besides giving them ertiploy inent otherwise. V hat advantage would it be to our poor farmer if all the country were set tled up by just as poor men as himself? Where would he get employment? Who would would buy his product? Does it not apply tlie name to a county as, to a state, as to the whole United States. Just stop here a moment and think of the whole United Slates being settled by poor- men! What would become of them? Why, you can easily draw a conclusion. How could our illustrious government be maintained who could pay any revenue? Does it not apply to a county in tlie same manner? How could a county government be main tained if there were not somebody that could pay taxes? Why It would take about a million taxpayers such as some of your Glen correspondents who are the biggest howlers about the cattlemen, particularly one certain man who is al ways howling about free range and the corruption of our county officials, and lie has never paid one cent of taxes, but who is loaning money at 3 per cent, to poor farmers and takes a mortgage on ten times the value loaned and in any case in default of payment sells out his poor victim and thinks he lias done an act of charity and whoo wns today 1,600 acres of land in Sioux and Dawes coun ties and holds down (?) a quarter section which he neither cultivates nor other wise makes use of, only lives there to tlie detriment of the commun ity. He is only here for the pur pose of speculation. Wa certainly do not want such a class of people. Were it not lietter for two or three substantial farmers to own those 1,600 acres of land I who would add ten times more towards ii le maunenance ot tlie county govern ment than for him to hold it for specu lative purposes? He advocates herd law yet lets his one cow roam at will around his neighbor's door yard and even mean ders into the soldiers' camp and destroys their hay and grain in their absence. Were it not better for him to practice what he preaches? But, then, his cow has a perfect right to all We privileges of free range.- Now, in regard to the article about the meeting of the citizens of White River where several citizens stated that they had their crops destroyed by range cattle for three successive sea sons, I will state in contradiction tliat there was not one liead of range stock in this valley since th year 1885, and, being one of the oldest settlers, I know whereof I speak and this state ment lean get verified by any right minded citizen of this valley, and if they call the few cows that are natives in this valley range cattle they are simply ignorant or the term range cattle. And, in reference to the allegation of one of Our neighbors of having 1,000 head of nice cabbage eaten up by his neighbors' cattle, I will say tliat man never planted that amount of cabbages and I here call his attention that he did not strictly adhere to tlie truth, though it is true that some dwarfed plants were destroyed by said cattle, but as the cabbages did not actually belong to said citizen, al though tliey were on his ground, there fore did not claim any damage, other wise he would. Tills statement .1 can also verify by affidavit if necessary. Now if such men as these are a necessa ry adjunct to a community I would sooner not belong there. So I will close my remarks this time, ami maybe I will com again. Respectfully Yours, Owe Who Knows. A careful perusal of the abova article wiU owtriiK mj mm UmU iU writer OUST IDIIBIEIR innoc Si VfiHtv. UUIIUW W w ,i.,ii.. ;,m,,rni of the subject mutter or else" lie wilfully misrepresents the same, and we prefer to apply the liM designated disqualification to him. fl He states first '-tint there are hun dreds of thousands of acres of land this county that are , -radically worthless except for grazing purposes." which is a gross exaggeration. This county con tains a small er cent of laud tliat is un lit for agricultural purposes. Tho. ma jor part of tlie county consists ot PMi farm land as everyone knows who is .n all acquainted with the county. He al so desires to know why we want to drive out the men with a few liend of cattl--.' and what we are going to do with the bluff lands? In answer e will state- tliat at the present time the greater pj tion of the county is uncultivated ani as in all new counties a great amount of it will remain uncultivated for a few years, mis latin may " miuuiu -t ed for grazing purposes. House roll ) does not provide that it slmll not Ik- so used. All that is required or coritem- lated by the bill is tliat the cattle la- kept from destroying the crops of the settlers. The Mock raisers will still re tain the right to graze over the unculti vated lands. It is a fair provision and we honestly l-elieve it will le I letter for the stock men. For $100 a Iwy can be lii-ed during the summer who can herd at least fiOO head of cult le, at a cost of 20c. a head, and which we contend is less than it costs to let them rim on free ran ge, computing the jier cent, of loss, cost of rounding etc. The passage of house roll 95 will not necessitate the removal or a single, critter, except to provide for the cultivated land of the incoming settlers, and the friends of free range as sert that the county will settle as rapid ly under fence li.vv as under hen! law so it is not necessary to defend that point. The great good that the cattlemen do the settler by buying the products of the farm is a little beyond the sight of the Journal. We understand tliat one stock man liought some 1,200 or 1.500 Du. ot corn irom tlie settlers and it was considered of so much importance that it was paraded in a newspaper of Sioux county. Now if the farmers of Sioux county are, in the aggregate, going to lie able to sell at least 1,500 bushels of corn to a cattle man, tlie market will un doubtedly be unlimited in that direction when each farmer, on an average w ill pr bably have from 2,000 to 5,000 bush els of corn each year. We presume the writer is ignorant of the fact that we have a railroad in Sioux county and will in all probability have two or three more in the near future, and that it only costs one or two cents more per bushel to snip irom nere man irom central or eastern Nebraska. If the farmers can profitably raise corn on land worth f iO or $io per acre, it can lje done here where land is free. Jn regard to revenue into the county treasury, the Journal will make this statement without fear of contradiction tliat tlie poor men pay the bulk of the taxes the world over, and will also ven ture the assertion that the poorest set tler in Sioux caunty pays a great deal more taxes in proportion to the actual amount of projierty he owns than the richest cattle man in the county. We will bet two copper cents and a pants button that the cattle men will take as good care of the tax business as the money loaner referred to, and have their cattle conspicuously absent from the county assessing time. Judging from the vote of last Novem ber we are led ti believe that there are about three hundred actual farmers in Sioux county at this time, and we sin cerely believe that if we have herd law the number will be increased to six tliousand in less than five years The harangue about the money loaners meth ods ot doing up the settlers, (which if true is not to be commended,) and the cabbage head controversy is neither ar gument for or against free range. If the-republican "party of Iowa had adopted the policy and doctrin of the Iowa State Register and J. 8. Clarkson, on the matter of the control of rail ways, the state of Iowa would have gone democratic in the year 1888. This well remembered fact stares one in the face when Mr. Clarkson's conceded ability ami fitness for almost any public place causes his name to be suggested. It is only a question of how much sliould be forgiven him in the name of general re publicanism, in which respect he stands well. Atlantic Telegraph. 4 Bj!! An astronomical occurranee happens thin mnntli url.!,.l, Un.. , . - "ot occureu before f in four thousand years, and will not hanL. pen again for fo:ir tliousand years. It4s simply tins, February bos no new moon. Get your almanacs and look the matter Ureenfleld Transcript. Mrs. L. O. Hull has bn quite liUy drwwmalcing since moving on the claim wo miles north of town, and would like to have the work of all her old curtoro r who find it coavMiui ,. . bad their wotfc. ' - - j 7 i.le at the lum! r janl. A Ms f"r sit f ftoux county school warrant f o ...I-,.f H irrlson. bought fll lire i-.'" Win. S honchaum won the IV' ik poi at the rt. file last Sat unlay. Attorney Hull can l- found at the bank most any time these day. Mr. and Mrs. Verity are r-joi, ing tliat their baby tliat as very sick is now much better. Tlie Herald hastak-n a long stride in tlie right direction by dropping from tlie head of Us editorial column tin- name if A. J. B.ilw k. All persons knowing themselves in 'deliled t me will please e,.( to the front and settle up as I need the money. . H. C.i'jswol.n. Why wen- not tlie names of the central eommitte who met recently and did such a large amount of business, published along u ith the pr- M-din-,-s of said m-ting'; Oeo. Brundiilge while U-ing illiiwted into the vi n-t of driving six bronchos had two runaways in suceesion last Friday. Neither Mr. Brimdidgeor the bronchos were injured. During the past ten day sever! of our farmers have been cr-gaged in sowing wheat. Ooi-ge Riuch, who lives south west of town, has already sown upwards of twenty-five a res. Oelru h Advocate, There is a demand at this office for several cipi--s of the Bodarc Record. Parlies having old copies they will div iios of nn reoueMed to submit them to us for approval. We will give 2"k-. a piece for the desind copies. We would recommend the nprant nient to the office of fool killer the -r-son who signs as A Glen Taxpayer, to an article in the last Herald, was it not for the fac t that by virtue of hi office, his first official act would l-e to f)iumit Siiicide. .TORN FOR SALE AT THE I.l'M HER YAUB. ,4o Yon Maul a Farm lmn! If so call on H. T. (.'ohiey who is pre pared to make farm loans in Sioux, Dawes and Box Butte counties, on the most lilieral terms. )ats for sale at the lumber yard. - Our ( Inbliiiig (.1st Is complete and comprises every news paper, magazine or jwriodical of note in the United States. We i-an save you from 10 to 25 er cent on a large major ity of publications. Come and see our clubbing prices and note how much cheajier you can get your papers and magazines by clubbing them with the Journal. Republican' Attention- Tlie republican leagues A Nlraska and each republican club in tlie state is entitled to Bend four delegates, k-sides the president of each organization, who shall 1 ex-oflicio a delegate, to the re puUicnn league convention to he held at Baltimore '"'giiining February 28. Tins many active clubs in Nebraska sliould give their state a strong representation in that convention, and delegate should lie chosen now ,-md rejiorted soon, in or der tliat the executive committee of tlie convention may make the necessary arrangmefits. Ample accommodations can be secured for ail delegates and others who wish to attend the inaugural ceremonies, if no nce is given m lime. Hotel rates for the four leading bntlu American plan, from $3.50 to 4 00 m-r day. 1 Railroad rates are one faro for tlie round trip, and on tickets to WashineL, a stop over at Baltimore will be allowed. ",m 01 me Uliio river tickets Koou irom rebruary 26 to Mar,-!, 7. i He names of delegates sliould be for warded as early as txssil,l t m T Brinton, Secretary, n west fLJ,. treet, Baltimore. JId. I, i,... . -, , , ' " " l till iJ will also engagi) hotel forsuchasMgnfy thw wW, t , should do sov . H should lie rememlx-m-1 tlifd R.,in more ,s a mud, WterpkM;e at which to -top. when Wa.shington is us crowds . ii win he during the inautn,e,l . the Capital city. Any further information run .a either of Mr. Brinton at ' dre.s.s, or of .!. ,i; , m' '""S"'" "i uinaha, R. W. liKtW... - Member for Nebraska ttln c' iee it. ju u, g( State papers please copy. oraand oats for o.i . Ker yard. " ,w M. BRUC'K, boot & shoe maker. FIRST CLASS GOODS REAHONABLE PRICES. - U -L-tU-tx.JVLS. Harrison Blacksmith, Wago Repair (Jond MfM-k always on liand. All laft MATLSFACTKjn Suith of PfoM's livery B.-irn The Besi(v 01 P C B r I A it o F. K K i S K A K K D I K (' R A (' K E R S Or a Square Meal' THI JBB OF HARS Harrison, -ASD- Loans Money on bQr The Harriso EfiGERT kOHWER, Proi-nt-tor, Special Attention Trade- J ' FEED STABLE IN m Best Accommodations Fremont, CI1UIUH Miss The Northwestern Line" Omaha, Sioux Cil Chicai -And A P East, Northl So TllROU(iH TK KirrsT" r..ii t,. .."sry r c sf ormaTion on AppUcittHMrio , ILO. Bikt. (hfnmlOwWT' . A r feu ,1 r. t 1 -r- .6: c . r -.. tlota tl ' ( " "V.AX JUU'rYMtttolllJ TKSl m m yTp! f .. "Tf-pss. J mm ' i :ii 1 1 it , - Ami H t f, ,' BoitutuL Hum 1 1 Vvx
