The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1889 Page: 1 of 4
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MoKINNBY. TEXAS.
1DAY. APlilL 25. 1889.
NO. 13.
EY TO LOAN.
W.S."
Sprolos.
TEX AM.
ii o o it ii n <i M n i«
WATKINS L. M. CO.
O u o o o II u O o o
Have been making loans in
Collin county fur six (0) years
Mill are now entering on their
seventh. They take tills meth-
od i.l* 111ui'kit• x ihe people for
iIn ir liberal uatrouage, and re-
spectfully solicit a continuance
of the same.
Thflv wish to uv thav
g"jr- are now prepared to
re Better Terms
N. W, _
Jnkneim Jh
^^ss ws^p^pss VP
MeKIMKV,
Attorneys: -; At:- .Law,
.ill busim-as entrusted to
their rare will be promptly
attended ni,
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l-#'
Ptr
Oil" idm * «ei||>InI l y Johnaea
A Jenkins in lohnson bluvk.
IOHW H JVNKlS lit* MOiHeWS.
Jenkins & Andrews*
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Me Kinney, Texas.
Qflloe mir H. O. UortJ.lon'a droit North-
• public i4itwr«
-%—
M. O.
athy.
W. M.
tut,
KSKFIKMH.
U <i leaned tor
Of tk«
To Our
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o o o < ' o
More. itinl \ I'll will
it to ) our interest
teir attorney,
JENKINS,
ire blanks, till out
ip| lication, and save
nts and managers.
•nkius litis a small
money that In- will
[mid personal seruiiiy.
over H. C. Herndon'i
Northwest Corner Public Squire,
|KlNNUY,-u-u-o-o-o-o-o-o o - o -TICX AN.
.^•1
•js-1
.*£-i
Drug Store,
j. c CORY.
, • TKXA*
Oflloe over 11> Nowsouie A Son's iion
GEO. D.PARKER,
ftpititi mi Swim,
McKlNNEY. i t t TEXt
Office over K. V. Houston's store
i an be found t office both day aril
NlUIIT.
HII. I.. Pearson, 0
Dental Surgeon,
Oflloe over Ardlnger's store. Resi-
dence corner third nleck north O. 8.
Presbyterisu church. Teeth extreted
without oaln. :i«;ly
M. m. M KTZ, M I).
Homaopathic Physician and Surgeon
McKINNKY, TEXAS.
Chronic illness nil ilise s«* of wo-
men nml children n specialty. AIIchIIh.
dsy or night ut ItU office «vill ho prompt-
ly attended to.
Office tin niHirs in stHPt. tiuKiling.
UNION
SewiDiHadine
The Only Machine that"will
Sew Backwards as well
as Forward.
The Wonder
the Age!
of
Washington, April 19.—Two
probably four clerks who
thorn uglily informed as to
detailed t ork of a local
office, a ill leave the gen-
land i.ffi.v to day for
<uid Kingfisher stage
in Oklahoma to assist
local land officer.
City, Mo., April 19.
Frauk A. Fitspatrick,
lendent of the Leaven-
wortk public schools, has re-
turned from Oklahoma, where
he has been with the land
commissioner. He was over
walls and lying along the Moor.
On one of the walls, far under
Ilia ground, carved in plain
Roman letters, appears the fol-
lowing: "J. U. Heuians, 1859."
Ou either side of the opeuing
of the cave ate many earyingr,
but o dy a few letters are now i
man and two children aad a went to the little ones he had
number of cattle were drowned left at home safe with their
at the bridge. Capt. Hayes* mother, aud th« love which All-
good work at N*lt Fork bridge ed the hearts of the father
kept, him and his troops from him try aud keep grief and
getting to the Oklahoma bor | row from another home,
der uutil this evening. he did, and how nobl
A careful estimate by the stoiy—short as it is—tells i
legible A wid * and deep quag ; Star reporter, who was on the is the indestructible records of
mire exund* along the cliff in border night, is that with heaven it is written iu chara<
front of the one. aud it is with "> radius of live miles from ters bold and plain which time
the entrance on the Fonca trail, will not efface,but each moment
fully A00 wagons were at least will add to their lustre until,
a mile over the line. A wire at last, when the final day of
fence divides the strip from reckoning comes thay will
Oklahoma. The tuen did not shine out an emblazoaed scroll
know the fence was the divid;a guarante of life from which
ing lint, or, if they did, heeded no cruel iron wheels can tear
it not Warwick McAtamy. Again
much difficulty that it is reaoh*
ed. All sorts of queer stories
are told of the strange place,
and it is asserted by the people
living in that oommunity that
large pois lilted with gold and
silver are bidden away among
the rocks in that vicinity. The
farm on which the cave is looa-
ted was settled over forty years
No soldiers were there to dis ' beyond dispute or cavil it is
pute their entrance or tell theta shown
that beneath the
muoli of thcT terriuTry"aud"be' u*°> "d **e ">«* buildings where the line was, and with j stained and greasy jack
lieves not mortCthaii one-third present a weird aud dilapidated ! let or hindrance a great et of a brakeiuau can beat
number of people went into a heart as true,as noble as ever
Oklahoma as early as Saturday throbbed under the purple of a
night. A cattleman at Red king. Aud, alter ail, does it
of it is tillable. He thinks
there are already too manv
colonists for the new country.
appearauce.
Ok I shorn h Opeucd.
Leavenworth, Kan., April lu.
All the troops at this garri-
Kansas City. Mo., April 'Jit.
A Star speciul from Arkunsas
City says: The sky was
—
ItK.U.KU IN
FRESH MEAT.
CASH PAID FCI HIDC8. PELTS AUD TALLOW.
—:o:—
Louisiana Street, Opposite PostofTice.
Dlt.CIIKW,
Oltem It If I'rofesslohul service to th
oitiKens of
McKINN'KY AND VICINITY.
Office— lTp stairs over Coleu.m
White's Store
|iuoludlDK part Uf the ho.-1 rl()^leH, anil w„utU'ur WM
I PJU" wl"1 "■« •X.'-plion ; |W, nl„rl,h,K T,„ crowl,
Ui Uiw oompaiiy iir n.r.iHrj, KI the wn8 t|uli, .ur™ ir..n ■« •' «' ™ui «.
... under r ,. and full.mlng « f iUh , numb-ring abou .-o peopl.
aides on their i ,v. , ... , ' . i left \N ichita for Oklahoma this
liork said last night tlutt as lie not tearh a lesson well to be
came through Oklahoma from remembered that a man is a
Ualveston he counted oyer loo matt, be lie in broad cloth or in
men in the bushes* along the rags, if his heart is right,
rough edges of Oklahoma.
Three train loads of boomers
Sherman Daily Register.
I'll pleasant Mew paper Life.
■u..m
Behr Bros A w,
ANI)
Smith's American
PIANOS.
Carpenter & '.Smith's I n 0R6AN
Sohl direct from Factory,
Send for catalogue prices terms
etc, etc, to
X. W. VAUOHAK.
U30 Main stDallaa.
BRISTOL BROS..
Y DRUG STORE,
— IIK.O.EK* IV
IS, CII KM It 'A LS, FATRNT AND FHOFItlKTAKY
Toilet Arliclff. Kine Perfumery, Artists' Mstcrlnl, Fine Wines and
i for Modioinril purposes. Tobacco. Cignre, I'aints and Oils, l.ubricnt-Q
^ils. NVulL i'lipcr, ftttd Dccorntioim n speciality, Thyslclans' Pre-
bri|)tionn Carefully Componndeil. at r 11 In-iirw. night and day.
Hive us a ("ail.
Bz'istal Bros.,
for the t'clehraleil.!. W. Itnrtier> Hid Nelson County. Kv.. whlnkev.
feAl POLITICAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER
i m* aaaT, the cheapest, and tub
THE NSWS for ONLY Sl.SS « yMr; lOo |Mr month
srtMcanm trow ram nn
EKLY QAZCTTK 0 ilory bpnM catohfiitad^futhor; Till'
• ""it |-< t«.:ied the |:;rce0iB(| Sunday; F Won *nd Hi
III C t t N'etCVi H ppaniitk* in all paftt
: fi'.jJ (-"urrliin Kfwt.
; Fuhlon aud H mm hold Department.:
of th* World, aad • Gsawal Rmuom of all
iCWAT CAMTTB—ISC l MnllwSI.80lYw
Eaaaii y A —Arlcmtwlcdaodtohcttiohmt and
PAILY GAZtE I I B>* n>". r.ii«W paf«r in Ifco Start.
Si 00 per moath, or S10-M a roar (laalndlat Bund ay I.
itiKii.cn* in Montr Order*, (-hecks oa FoS Worth, or Reflate rod Letters can
nblietier'a ri K. Write lor sample cupy to tke |b
IT
President. T.T. Emerson, Vlce-l'Wt, T. H. Kmerson, ( ssher.
t National Bank.
Of* MeKtuney. T«**i sa.
and Surplus, - - $100,000.
nd sells etenange on tnc principal cities in Kurope. First claas pap
i: Kranuls Kmer«on,T. T. Kmerson.T. II. Btnersnn, Jne. 1.. Levejoy
a.m. to 4 is
J. A. NEEL,
SIGN WRITER.
An! Hesse Decorator.
MeElNNKV TEXAS.
N enney&Pardue
Will take hay, corn, oats and
wheat in exchange for lumber.
July 26th, 1888,
J.R.PAWilTT. CBAS.B. BRANTLEY.
CONTRACTORa
AND
t-: II IT ILDEH P. i-i
McKinney, Tex.,
Offer their services to the citlxens ot
MsKlnney snd Hiirrnnnili' K<'<>niitry.
I estre orders with Nenuet & Purdue*
l>e.c 30-Um
S. Kinsey
H is opened, at the old stand of
W F. Miller, in Melissa, a
Blacksmith Shop
Work guaranteed. Also wood
«eo. k Horse-shoeing ti spec-
ialty. Call around when in Me-
lissa. <>• t -4 If
Mrs. Fannie Johnson,
—URAI.KR IS—
MILLINERY
ANUPANt'Y OOODS.
A l*o
FASHIONABLE
DKES8MAKINO
sole Agent for the Celebrated ,
\mv Family Sewing Machine,
which baa a BITTTON HOI.K attach-
ment which inakea a Perfect Button
Hole such as mode bt hand.
Button Holes worked for '/Acta pr dot.
Sewln* Machine S40, whh
ell attachments, obeapeat for oash.
Two Doore Weat Font# Honae.
i^uiet, Light Running and Ad-
justable iu all its parts
No one can do him-
self j ustice
without
Seeing This Ma-
chine.
First Prize and Hold Medal ov-
er all competitors at
the World's Expo-
sition at New
Orleans.
Warranted
for five years.
Union Manufacturing (Jo.
Little Hock, - - Ark.
J. P. Crouch & Co., Agents
McKinney and Farmeisville,
Texas.
Hen. Merrilt and
way to Oklahoma. The gen-
err I is with unlimited discre-
tion and powers. Troops d«
tailed foi this service from
this point consist of four c >m-
panies of infantry. Only a
small guard is at the gurrisou.
The order to move was re
ceiwd at noon to-day. Four
companies tilled four Sauta Fa
coaches, and their equipment
as tnauy more. Reinforcements
wilt reuch the territory and be
ready for Service before Okla-
homa is opened to settlement.
Caldwell, Kan., April 1 .—
One thousand camp tires glim-
mered along t he old Reno stage
trail last night from Caldwell
to Pond creek. *To day 1000
canvas covered wagons were
slowly moving along the road.
The dny was favorable and
notwithstanding the late heavy
rains the trail, which is almost
1 Dispatch otihv a photographer
took the crowd. Four trains
with ten coaches each stood
about ready far the start.
Crowds walketl up aud down
on (op the cars. The moment
thedoors were thrown open the
cars were Oiled. A crowd fol
lowed (lie newspaper llieii hop
i::g to liud by theui which iiaiu
started lirst
It is estimated that .">000 peo-
ple were at the depot awaiting
transportation. The outHts at
the depot were striking. One
man, with a silk hat carried a
hoe over his shoulder, to which
sras attached a bundlg of cloth
ing and a box of "chack."
Spades and axes were the most
common equipments. Before
the trahi started the town was
almost deserted. There were
uioruing over the Suntu Fe. A
large number also left by way
of itock Island. Another train
has been wired for as every
One thing that makes the life
of a newspaper man unpleas-
ant is that he bears so much
kicking. Nearly every man
hus a large illustrated griev
ly unable to accommodate the
„ crowds who will want transpor-
many women among those to .. t, , , *..
ration across the thirty miles
go to Outline.
It was just 8.4r> when the
passenger car on the Santa l-'e un«.t. wil|, velvet binding aud
is iu use and an extra tram gohl clasp, aud when he feels
will be made up for cattle cars. j( airing, he at once
Division Superinteudant 1 ur hunts up the most convenient
ner of the Santa Fe says it will j rt.j)orter and delivers a cor
be night before the last of the puiHnt lecture on his favorite
Oklahoma trains will reach theme Some of these kicks
Outline. are of public interest uad glad-
The number of people going ly received, but there are many
from all railroad towns iu which concern onlj' the kicker,
southern Kansas is far greater Only yesterday a gentleman
than was anticipated. Mauy whose name is a household
hundred go in merely to see the word thought it would be a
scrambling and with no idea of guod scheme for ths Journal
remaining, it is believed the; t0 publish a withering and
stage line at Pond Creek, on scathing editorial because his
the Rock Island, will be total neighbor's chickens
identical with the old Caldwell first train pulled out. A shout
and Fort Reno Btage trail, was from a thousand voices uu-
in good condition. The most nounced the fact. The
HVi.,1
m
r* ■
i ' i
bound for Oklahoma left New
, press ton this moiling over the Santa
popular outfit is a strong can car was next to the engine and ., A| . ,hem WM nm„ ,er
vas-covsied Siudebaksr, drawn eight cars were attached. There J*tfl'™ ,IO"r "
by two strong horses. Some were fully fifty persons in the! . ' , .
' * ?«•«!« j j i j/H ft i,ank and open stores anil
large hav.fonr or . nr. Many bad ,,H „ad ,-ur
Six h ....... Soma panla. ara d'ntlal^. Many fra.Kht train, i |M<i u> m(jm>w morll| T.„
rni-uutetl '-ti ponies aud carry a hail been supplied with seals
whole campoutOt behind their to follow l iter.
saddled fSonie are crossing the At the St. Louis aud Sun
strip in buggies. Francisco crossing, where a
One old turnout is a large, *l<ip necessary, people be
high. *11*1 fashioned bnggy, seiged the fist train but the
draun by two shaggy horses guardn kept them oil*. Just out
with a colt and a black cow side the city two daring men
tied behind. The driver was a got on the airbrakes under the
roost on
his feuoe. This paper is al-
ways willing to wither and
scathe until the cows come
home, when the public interest
will thereby be promoted, but
Ihreetrain loads of people iiar{|Jy pays to pour out a
lying betweeu the railroad ter
minus and Lisbon.
; be ready for business iu
thrie to morrow morning,
hundred dwellings were ship
peil ready to be put up iu ti
couple of hours The Times
leaius aia Fort Reno that the
KinOgsher laud office was not
opened to day, as the buildings
and other preparations for bus
iness were not completed.
^asa
kWfflHKjtTn
THK LADIES' FAVOR ITS.
KBVBR OUT or ORDER.
If jrou deelro l«t pure-haw aaewina ntai'lilne,
ask our agvut at your place for w-t-ina and
nrtt.ua. Irytni cannot nu<l uttr aftu t, write
ttoniautwt wl'lruast.ir uaiuxt.
j woman a id nlie drove wilh one press car. K. C. Heck was con
| baud while the other support- ductor of the lirst train, ami
ed a liit I- child. A shocky Harry Livingston engineer. At
] headed young one of ten years lke speed at which the train
1; was waliJiiu behind, htoppiug started, the ttalti vtill reach
now and then to wade iu the Oinhrn-l.il «.
MACHINE, a
louh.iso
wa'e. of t|.<- litiHalo wallows
an t hiiii..„' «1«•- old cow with
clods Tlif Miiiiiati was a Kan
sas widow seekinu a home in
the promis-tl land
Exploring a ('are.
Clou. I, A to. McKinney. I Dt.lll80llt Te^T April 20.~
" For some lime the reported..
7 finding of a cave in the conn , kauiRH Cttjr
try, a few miles east of Denison.
has been eliciting much coin
mem among th * people living
in that community. Sunday
evening a party composed of
Charley Cltupmati, L. V. Jack,
'I In- mukoIi bridge acioss lint
Aikati as river wus full ofaei
llein' wagons. Two im-n jump
ed on the cowcatcher, but were
put oO'
Saturday night there was a
Oul) a llrskeiuiiii.
Perhaps no item which has
been Hashed over the wires and
read by the countless thousand
who daily scan the papers, ha*
carried with it Mich a toiichitiK
example of true heroism ii*
that yesterday which aiiuouti
ce«l the tragic death of War
wick M' Atamy, who was only
a brakeim n iu ihenwitrh yards
nr. Owen's
tro Galvanic
belt snd Snei
the rmiowlaf
eea namely: an
inauo Com-
t;ostlr
a-j
sDrnr
'ss:s&r
leak ir
M
.continuous line of camp fires Pennsylvania Ry., in
from Wharton, the last station ''^rey City. A little wail iu
in the Cherokee strip, to At ,attt','s, who was gathering
There were few pi««'es of coal that had dropp
er fires along the border line of
lhe pr mised land than would
have been expected. Cotllpai
aiively few of the wagon men
reurhed the Oklahoma line tin
til lale last night, and this
Mike Cochran and the News ra « nR *lt Pork«re«k, which
correspondent concluded to vis through ihe strip, aud <m
it the cave and mske a person- j banks of which the Ponca
al examination of its subter reservation is situated, caused
ranean mysteries Suitable ;^^^rs .«chd«iay. Rains
lanterns were provide, and in a
VlHSSS^
had made it so high that ford
short lime ll..-> war. al ll„ """ <• "««"« " l> a
moil if. ot ilia rava, w liieli in 1*w "V Mir'> * noag i In
i....- ...i r,m t- venture it. rriday morning
located south of C leat creek ou r ,, ^ „ . w
......etii .u fully 7oti wnnons wanted to get
a tract of land known as the J * If.
Payne place, whose present I1'tI
owners are Meisrs. fi. 11. and ; LaP1, and his compa
J. K Ho waul it opens '• - "V, who escorted settlers, ren
olefr ' — dered them m"st valuable m-
and extends back ),(« influence he in
duced the Santa Fe r« ad to
permit him to lay planks be
hind and between the tracks of
the mil road biidge and get ihe
emigrant*o\er. A soldier with
a r> d Hag licit a mile from each
••ltd of lite bti l|fe ptetetlted
train from approaching
ed from the Cars as they had
been hustled to and fro, stepped
in front of n rapidly backing
car, aud, iu a
Would have been u mangled
corpse but for Warwick Mc
Atamy. In a moment he saw
the little boy must die if aid
were not given him, and he
dashed in front of Ihe car ami
saved ;t life but lost his own.
The paragraph which announ-
ed lliis to the world told briefly
that a mangled form was that
night taken home to a widowed
wife aud an orphauod
auiily, but the little
coal picker lived, to per-
haps be clasped in the arms of
some poor mother that night
while a prayer went up from
under the hill two or three hun
dred feet, The door leading into
the cave la only large enough
to admit one person at a time,
and appears to lone been
chilled oat of the eandslom
Ou the inside p« • uilur ecelie
pre* ni* i1 self Cuii"ti*l,< "hap
torrent of wrath upon the de
feuseless heads of a few well
meaning but misguided hens.
Another citizen is being cor
roded l>^ sorrow because a
young lady next door persists
in playing the piuno late in the
evening. In a case of this kind
the aggrieved party should
take the law in his own hands
ami come d«. wn oil the offender
like a wolfe on the fold. It
would not be seemly for a
great mwal new paper to launch
into satcasm and invective in
his behalf. A good, whole
some, well directed kick very
frequently has a salutary ef
feci on society, but the indis-
ciimiiiate kick in to be avoided.
It frequently involves the pur-
suit of very small game and is
liable to tin the boomerang art
with unpleasant results. As
David said iu his haste, all men
are kickers. Walt Mason, in
Lincoln Journal.
Kules for Family Peace.
To take a cheerful view of
every thing.
When inclined to give au
aiu'v answer, to count ten.
I When any good haptens to
moment more ; lo st it.
lo learn the diilerent tem-
ps rs of each individual.
To try for the soft answer
that "turneth away wrath."
In ail ihe little pleasures
which may occur, to put se f
last.
Iu conversation not to exalt
ourselves, but to bring others
forward.
If, from sickness, pain, or in
tirmity. we feel irritable, to
keep a good watch over our-
selves.
To watch for little opportun-
ities of pleasing, ana to pat
little annoyances out of tke
way.
To observe when others are
suffering, and drop a word of
kindness ami sympathy suited
her soul for the poor man who i0 their wants
«i« *
had been lorn from his own
dear 111 tie ones that her boy
might live. Who can tell what
noble thoughts passed through
ilie mind of Warwick McAt-
amy us he stepped to death
to save another's life. Per
lot p* is he saw the cruel
EE ed spet intent uf mineral forms- until the bridge was • b*ar. In beating certain death
" Ii
Everybody in the house has
an evil nature aa well as oar-
selves, and therefor we mast
not expect loo much.
When we have been pained
by an unkind word or deed, to
ask ourselves:
"Have I not often done lha
ame thing and been forgiven."
along the j spite of all precautions a .wo- j to the coal picker bis thoughts; — Washington Critic,
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