Wills Point Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 29, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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Dallas to New Orleans is very
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The second day’s hearing was de-
voted entirely to. taking testimony
on the application for a , reduction
in the cqtton -rate from Dallas to
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New Orleans and a reduction in ___j ,j"——" ' ■
T. A. SlMam, lb» Great Ckemlet •»«!
■etentbr, WUI Meadeo SnWer.re, Three
Bottle, of Hl. h.wly OlMOvered
B.mrdie. to Care Con.amplion
and All Lang Troahlee. .
Nothing could bt fairer, more philanthropic
or carry more joy to the afflicted, than
Interfflato Commerce Commission Hear.
Application for Ixiwer Freight Rates.
’ Dallas', April 24
• The Interstate Commerce com-
mission arrived in Dallas Wednes-
day morning and opened court in.
the district court room of the fed-
ing adjourned, the commissioners rpj^ Urciiclcd
sumption Can Be .
Cured.
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the generous offer ot the honored aijd UttVC pievouwM iuu cftiijiug
r A’ 8,oou“’ **• c- 6'tb* drafts the ighltes.
in Mississippi^...jrJtKiCQQ£SD.tlsp.of.fee
i. Thy wind Freight bureau was that D'alias ,is
nearly *'5oo miles nearer to New
He has discovered a reliable and absoluu
tnireY tor oonfcumption, and ali bronchial,
throat, Funs Abd 'ofloat disaaaes. oaGurbaT
affections, general decline and weakness, loo
„ . - - , . , „ . of flesh and all condltona of wastln* away;
Orleans thah is Kansas City and is' Bnd to maue uh great meritaiitnown, win send
three free hottie, ot hlrTfiewly discovered
Already his ' new scientific system of medi-
cine" ha* permanently cured thousands el '
apparently hopeless oases.
The Doctor considers It I ‘ '
feeMonal but hie religious du I
he owes to sutleftoir humanity—to donate bls j
nfalllble cure. . ; "**J .
He has proved the "dreaded ..consumption*
to be a curable disease beyond a doubt, In any
climate, and has.on file in his American and I
European laboratories thousands of “heart- ,
felt testimonial, of gratitude" froth those
benefltted and eurorl, in all parts offthe world.
Oatarrhal and pulmoparyt troubles lead, to
consumption, and consumption, uninter-
rupted. means speedy and certain death.
Dori’t delay until It is too late. Simply
write TgA- Slocum. V. 0., M Pina street. New
Turk, giving express and peetoffloe address,
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as well. as those other ports and
give the Shipper just.as good rates
and servipe, Frpm a buyers’ and
shippers’ standpoint, of course it js
a good thing for them to have com-
petition from different points.
Looking at it from a C—---—...
standpoint, if the application were
granted, and the divisions* on the
different lines on cotton going out
from New Orleans and from Atlan-
tic ports were taken, the effect on
Galveston would be beneficial, be-
cause the, commission would re-
duce the rate to Galveston accord-
ingly, and it would be down so low
that the roads could not afford to
haul cotton across the country to
Atlantic ports.' It would un-
doubtedly reduce their earnings.
------—------ ---- Cotton is the most important traf-
testimony In Liwa. Eilward fic as an item df revenue that the
application were granted
ton, in order to equalize the
dition thus created, r*—* “J
would have to be made by the
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the commodity, rates from New Or-
leans to Dallas to the rate from the
latter p&nt to Kansas City.
The testimony of the railroad
men was-confined to the assertion
that rates from New Orleans to
yqnfbf City were j
A Topeka, Kansas, telegram meet wat^r conarpetition and
.. a—---u„ petition of all rail-lines east of the
Mr- Smith .became insane on the
mono
presi< . „
his confinement became very vio-
lent. He died from exhaustion.
Mr, Smith served as consul to SC.
Thomas .in the Grant administra-
tion.,' * 4-
At St. Joseph, Mo., Thomas
Marshall, once a conductor on the
Burlington railroad, an inmate of
the state lunatic asylum, cooked
himself to death in .a bath tub at
While the pa-
tients were at snpner he managed
tff 'elude hfe guards and escaped to
one of the bath rooms, where he
turned on the hot water, filling the
tub, after which he plunged in
and was soon scalded to -death
His body was thoroughly cooked,
the flesh falling from the bones.
have played havoc in the section
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fences and houses havO^been either
washed or blown away, The Can-
adian is playing the Mississippi. .
tenant governor and at one time cotton from Dallas to New Orleans
. ‘ Judge N. A. Stedman,* of Fort
kansas polities, died art the insane] Worth ex-member of the Texas
asylum in Little Rock where he railroad commission, represented
had been confined several months, the Freight bureau before the com-
------- rr — J mission. The roads were re'pre-
ay question during the late sented by some of the ablest legal
idfential campaign and sinc^ talent in the state,, including Col.
■Terry, Mr. R. S. Lovett, Mr. Mll-
lier and Col. DeArmond. A •
Two days were occupied in head-
ing testimony bearing on the four
suits. The attorneys were given
30 days tp file briefs and the heat-
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says: A- terrific sand storm has
awcpL the. .Arkansas,
southwestern Kansas.
blew at the rate of forty miles an
hout.'f The great valley, which
r -.-w * « averages ten miles wide is in a bed
.Dr R. W. Rose of Wapanuck£,“Of j^and and passengers who arrived
“ on trains from that section' say -J. "B. Dennison of the Galveston
people were driven to their homes
for protection against a cloud of
dust and sand Which no human be-
ing, could f^ce. Many farmers
will have to replant' their corn.
Oats and wheat are looking The storms were so violent that
lanted |wo inches under the present con^tii
was blown with dust and from all this ternto
sand for miles. The irrigation
ditches are full of sand. Engin-
eers could not see ten feet ahead
of them, and windewfl -end ven-
tilators in the cars were olosed to
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10^ ties'
Several nights agoOiafles Me-,
irmick, white, was murdered and
gobbed by a negro named Frank
Brown. The crime created unu-
sual excitement in the village and
20 • white men, masked - and
t..heavily armed, visited the <housea
of all the negroes in town and
* warned them to leave the place
within 24 hours under penalty of
mob violence. The negroaa. ap-f
pealed to United States Judge-
Kjlgore, who summoned the grand
jury and instructed them that the
outrage must be thoroughly inves-
tigated, as such acts of mob vio-
lence could not be tolerated in the
Indian territory. He instructed
that neither time nor dioney should
be spared in bringing the guilty
parties to justice.
Judge Kilgore’s action seems to
have prevented the carrying out
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brought by the Freight bureau of
of the Dallas Commercial club
against the various Texas railroads
aud their eastern connections
The. Commissioners present
j were Wm. R, Morrison, of Illinois,
chairman, Martin A. Knapp of
New York,* J ■ C. Clemens of
Georgia’and C. A. Prouty: of Ver-
mont , Commissioner Ypemans>
was catted from Fort Worth^p hear
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Wills.....Point Chronicle 0EN,!,,At NIW8-'
The governor has approved the ,
T6TT0wTng'bTns: ...... ' ’-“-,
The bill requiring an affidavit as
to the materiality of .the evidence
of an absent witness when contin-
uance is sought in civil oases be-*
cause of the absence of said wit-
ness. s .
n^vnlr bi« pro- Bill providing that where either
jtj*« duty which party to aay suit is a corporation
neither party shall be permitted to
take exparte depositions.
Joint resolution proposing • the
submission of a constitutional
amendment validating ail county
bonds heretofore purchased by the ,
state of education with ,the
permanent school fund. ’ * '
The bill abolishing the organisa-
tion of Buchel and Foley counties
and attaching them to Brewster
Mi
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Th
bond
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bill v
impo
New Haven Chinese laundry
owners have organized and fixed a
scale of prices* ,
Representative Holman Of Indi-
ana, died at his home in Washing-
ton after an illness of some weeks.
The body of Gen. Grant lias* erat building to bear four cases
been removed from the temporary
tomb to the sarcophagus in the
new. monument.
, All fruit and- berry buds
have been’ destroyed by cold at
Joliet, Illinois, entire nurseries I
having been killed.
The California legislature has
enacted a law fixing <he -minimum
rate of pay per day for laborers,
on public work at $2.
jvsepn aLvyOji. wiurw, w. ,.
lynched at Alexandria,- Va.T^of^’
the outrage of his employer’s two
daughters. He confessed the
crime.
The redent cottt snap did im- (
mense damage to crops and pr- :
chards all -over the eastern states
and through the Center Missis-
sippi valley.
Cloudbursts and wind storms i
' j Dallas is charged $i. 7j per ioo on
ij-t thesame class -of goods from -the
therefore entitled to the same rate
or a lower rate. '■ Lremedle* to am afflicted reader ot this paper.
freight bureau was examined ’ at
length as to ocean cotton ratCs.
In response to questions by
Judge Terry, Mr. Denison said the
present ocean rates have been in
force a great many years. Under
11-. ' " ions the shipper
from all this territory has the choice
of routes—fee same fates to the dif-
ferent outlets, Galveston, New Or-
leans and the Atlantic ports. There
has been considerable complaint
made on account of Texas rate* on
p cotton being too high. Jlate fixed
I. Wheat fields have by the commission. .Galveston
gccommodate the cotton just
Suit No. i brought by the Dal-
las Freight_bty-eau askes that Dal-
las be granted an equal change
with Houston and Galveston on
carload rates. Under thfe present
tariffs Houston and Galveston
get a rate of 8o cents per ioo
pounds on first class goods, both
by land and sea; from New York
and Atlantic Seaboard points, while
Dallas is charged $i. 7$ per ioo on
same points The Dallas merch-
ants contend that this is simply a
case of of holding them up in yivor
c of the other.two . cities, as it cer-
Buffalo .gnats are doing much tainly does not cost-more to haul
mischief in Mississippi and. Ten- *freight from New York to Dallas
~1 * * ;* * “ than it does to baul *t through Dal-
always J>een accustomed to.aud 300 miles farther to Galves-
o„.i .,n^ra»n,l hou, tn trn“‘j ton or Houston. In this'suit all
stock to prevent this'* pest from tijfe Texag lines with their outside
doing injury. . (connections are made defendants.
Rt. Rev. Theophile Meerechaert, Case No. 2 is against the Texas
Catholic bishop of Oklahoma and . & Pacifiic and other New Orleans
, Indian Territories,” has gone for lines. It seeks to equalize rates from
" - ; to a summons N?w Orleans to Dallas and New'
He wiil also gp-torOri«ans to Kansas City and. other
^and 1 Missouri river points. The, com-
»: j plaint charges that on sugar, coffee,,
I molasses, cotton, rope and various
• , .,, . , - I other products ajid commodities
lements to build a bridge to originating iu New Orleans, a rate
of from 40 to 60 per- ceut higher is
charged for hauling them to Dallas
than for hauling them to, Kansas
City and_ other Missouri river
points,, which is unreasonable and
r on car-
nessee—even where thq people
have 1_____---------,------
them and understand how to treat;
been abruptly terminated by Miss
would make# big’mistake in whtL - way to the eamp ti» off, -auri
dins* the titled Italian. I relived of *7.800. The comnariv
reward of $1,000 for, tSap- 4as
The fourth suit petitions
I commission for a reduction of
ers, and they would naturally have
pay their debts,' they would have- of the toilers i
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burdefis to a slight degree at least, patriotism of this great
j
Amendment.^tj>e Feder-~
dition thus created, what reduction ' practical enforcement on all; pub-
would have to be made by the com- lie work. We are sternly opposed
mission—what per cent—Mr. Den- to __
ison stated thay they had asked for of the present eight hour law.
a 55-cent rate to Nqw Orleans a ----- - - -
short timeago, which would makejeo as to secure an enlargment of
the rate to Galveston not over 35 ’ protection of American citizens,
cents, about one-third the present ) “3. Reform in the national
rate. ..
J. Farley, manager of the Dallas |
stand. He said he hai
plication with the commission, j government public works and for
The application petition* for a re- the improvement of rivers and
duction of 20 cents per 1— “
of $i pet bole, on cotton tio
Orleans. T *
and well armed men, wbile <m fn>-
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relived of 17,800. The 'compariy load rate from New York- to Dal-
offers a reward of $1,000 for. Cap- Jas on drygoods, clothing^boots and
ture of robberS—an<l 1,000 for shoes and hats, and caps.
Bonham Faunih* Go ' return «of money. , | , The fourth suit petitions the
uonnam, r annin vo., . J I commission for a reduction of one
Hun. Volney V. Smith, ex-lieu-1 dollar per bale of 5oo pounds of
the most prominent figure in Ar-
kansas politi
8PKARS A GILMOKI Proprietor.
‘i WILLS POINT. - ■ "77^ 'TfXAS.
' . General Notes.
Women telegraph operators
, were first employed m 1854. 3
In proportion to population, the
greatest , number oLtelegrams are
sent by the'people of Australia
.. The annual-egg’ rolling i festival
at Washington, which always oc-
curs on the Monday following
Easter, Was attended by fully 15,-
000 people.
James E. (Johnson of Columbia,
Missouri, claims to be- the oldest
~ 'paddtertiVtpg.hgVTng worked con
tinupusly at the ibench for 75
years. He is. 90 now.
During 1896 twenty-One men in
Berlin were married wno bad
passed the ripe old age of 74.’ The
header is lett to decide whether
fige and. wisdom go hand in hand
About 5000 invitations will be
issued for the royal garden party
which will be giyqn at Bucking-
ham palace the afternoon of June K v
S3 ae^a part of the JubHee'celebra ’around Eufaula,~ f- T?
tions. *
• In a church at Grulicfa, Bohe-
mia, the pastor recently united in
marriage at the same hour four
couples, of which one of the bride
grooms and feree of the brides
' were brothers and sisters.
In Iowa the legislature has
, passed a law allowing the .manu-
, factui- _7 ’
7 Manufacturers’
. saloon bills uncollectable. ,
■■ There hr. now .tout 11 million I
Belgium, where he was born
remain until October
The Southern Pacific is disking i
arrangements to build a bridge to
cost $5,rif>tk000' across thq Missis
sippi river at New Orleans. The
bridge will have double tracks
and Witt cross the river about five
miles above New Orleans.
.. At Castle Gate, nearISalt Lake, [ unjust to Dallas, especially
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ter was held up bv two masked j Kansas City.
■ " * '■ ’ ■ The third case, also making all
the lines defendants, asks foi a car-
Preoeutad M the CaMnet and
The following memorial, in
1 points. brie'« t.haa l*°n., -by.the
Gnivpstnn executive council of the American
Feheration of Labor for presenta-
tion to the president, the cabine-
and congress: -
After reciting that speedy help-
ful legislation for existing humili-
ating poverty had been .protnised
during the last campaign, the me-
morial goes on to state that inas-
much as industry is now half para- ;
lyzed, trade stagnant, values de-
pressed and enterprise stifled,
that.,the American Federation of*
Labor, representing 820,000 wage
earners, memorialize the president
and congress for speedy enactment
ni^ure«- -
ted as to cot- nTT A mend men . , ____
al eight-hour law so as to secure the
Y^THPtinal onfnrnnmant nn all
..c work. We are sternly opposed T,
> official evasion* and violation?
f t KA FkY*AAAnf AWrkit tazxaaes 1a ■»
“2. Remodeling imigration laws
! protection
“3. Ri _ ____
banking system and in the issu-
ance of the curency o< the .United
Freight buteau, was catted to the States to avert t tinanriai-erisiffl.-----
id filed the flp- ; “fl. Liberal appropriations for
the commissirm., government public works and for
-— L —j—v. < VM* * va ftATVAV . OMxl
ipo pounds, i harbors. ’ By the prompt adoption *
on to New of these jelief jneesnres at the
Mr. Farley’s reasons for hands of edngrees we believe some
making the application, he stated, degree. Lof prosperity may be re-
foljpws: The cotton rate from stored. -
unr^onabl^ Cotton is the stapfe MIU4°*8 WBBAW.
product of the people of Texas. “We assn re you that the mjl-
Duriog the season of 1894-95 the lions of people are nowdn no dis-
railroads hauled something like position to be trifled with. They .
3,2,00,000 bales and over, and last are fast becoming desperate, and
season they carried something like, are the mutterings of discontent.
2,500,000 bales. Cotton is the pro They desire to realize some pros- . - -
duct out of which the people of! peyity, so freely promised on the
the state have got to make their'stump six months a#o. Over 3,-
Hving(, My reaSon for making this (MK),W0 of willing workers-^ are——
application was that the sixty-six> ulle; . shall they apjieal to you in
business men, whom I represent,! Vain I’ Shall the interest of trusts,
decided thayas their were the farm- syndicates, monopilies, corpora- *
ers, and they would haturalfy have tions and moneyed men remain of
to be prosperous before they aould more importance than the welfare
pay their debts,' they woul^ have- of the toilers i
to takfe some step to relieve theirj “We ask congress to rise to the
burdens to a slight degree at leasts patriotism of this great occasion ,
I think this is a very unreasonable and hasten to brings relief to. the'
rate for the reason that it will prove YYiaeaAa .
eoon comparison with dther rates,]
and in mansi-Ofeer ways,. The ex-
isting rate from Dallas to New Or-1-
leans is 75 cents per 100 pounds. > wiowaaad macka duh i» i»<ii^n Trr-
Youxan put forty bales on a flaU ' otorj .
car and ship it to New Orleans and i An,Ardmore special announces
it nets $150 per car .to the toads, j that: “Trouble between wfeites
You can buy the flat car for $175 and blacks has broken out'in thd
Mr. Farley then compared the town of Davis, 20 miles north of
shipment of cotton with the ship here, and the negroes baveSap-
ment of molasses, fruit, etc , show- j peated to the territorial autho^tiee
ing th'atxotton is much less expen- for protection.
sive and troublesome in shipping Several nights ago.Cjjafles Mc-
than this class of goods. Molasses I Cormick, white, was murdered and
isjq.8”’ cents a hundred from New —>-i—j *----------1 t-—»_
Orleans to Dallas. , Cotton ‘from
Dallas to New Orleans is 75 cents
a hundred. *i
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A NEW TRIUMPH.
iture of liquor in that state.
’ ' ad wholesalers’
bitts only wer" legalized—leaving
~r~ ' 1
xuere are uuw aouui u mu non 1 - ,, _ ___
*’ Jews in the world, nearly half of p0.00- e
. ' whom are residents of the Rusian
empire. In this Country there are
almost* 1 million Jews. Most of
them are residents of the large
* cities, New York being the 'fivor-
' ■ ’te- s..
Miss Jane Campbell of New
York city, and Frince Carlo Bour-
'-4--bon - del Monte Santa Maria di
Fustino of Rome, Italy, will not , . - .
be married. The engagement has Utah. A coal company pay mas- loads hauled through Dallas to
been abruptly terminated by Mies
Campbell, who decided that she
ding the titled Italian.
The new hen has come and the
roster assumes the role of incuba
~ Imujuhui,
Mr,' Jbff Sparge owns a game
rooster ’which has-been setting for
ovqr two weeks on a nest of fifteen
. eggs. He takes as much care of
the eggs as any hen that ever
scratched in the gravel. Truly,
• Mr. Sparge says, the new woman
, act has struck the poultry of
Bonham.
About three years ago Jesse and
Chas. Higdon, cousins and a cook
named George Jones, left their
homes at Pauls valley, T. T7> a,jd
went to Arkansas to buy cattle.
They never returned and Jones
. J.was arrested, tried and cqnvicted
of double murder and hanged a
.,4*; year ago. Greatly to the surprise
of every one, Jesse Higdofi has
" been located <n a territorial prison, tfa^nstitutiom
where he is held for selling whis-
r-—- ky -to Indians. - - —
The wedding of Benjamin
gowell and Laura Perl Lemon
of Atlanta, Georgia, did not
take place because the prospective
bride had a dream in which she
claims the Lord showed that Pow
ell would not make her a good
husband. She said: “I fasted for
two days and nights and during
—that-thne F prayed to-the Fjord,
that he would show me whether
or not Powell was the man to mar-
' ry. ..And he showed me ”
Dr R. W. Rose of Wapi
I. T., in Denisttn the other day,*
Said, in regard to crop prospects
in his section: “A great many of
our farmers have been compelled
to replant their corn this spring on
account of the wet and cool weath-
er. ---
fine and the prospect is good for corn pli
these crops. Thb crop acreage is ground 1
larger than last year, and the in-
crease would have been larger but
for the unsettled state of affairs
awaiting the action of the Dawes
com mission and Indian cbhimis-
Our tdwny however, is im-
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