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VOL 1,
CROSBYTON, CROSBY COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14,1009.
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A Remarkable Texas
Wichita Valley Railroad Opens
Up Rich Farming Lands
Heretofore With-held
One of the most interesting
land openings in recent years
will oceur November 1st, 1909,
in the Spur Farm Lands in
Dickens, Kent, Crosby and Gar-
za Counties, Texas. TKe body,
including in total the 673 squire-
miles, and will be sold in quar-
ter sections or more; the size of
the tract giving it an important
ranking with many government
land openings, and the extent
guarantees early purchasers such
a wide range for selection that
they can secure exactly the farm
desired, as to lay of land and
character of soil, which is gen-
erally deep, rich sandy or choco-
late loam, with clay subsoil.
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This body is under on$ owner-
now that the one* great need,
railroad to market has been
suppled. At Spur a deep well
outfit is drilling for artesian
water.
A fortunate few secured hold-
ings in this tract on school lands
twenty years ago, and have
prospered remarkably in farm-
ing on the then remote frontier,
now brought into close touch
with the market. Their farms
are yearly .yielding evidence of
the fertility of the soil. There is
no smoother larger body of land
anywhere, and thllTljuarantees
Concentrated settlement. Won-
derfully adopted to cotton (no
boll weevil ever known)f corn,
alfalfa, grain, fruits, vegetables
and all farm products. It is a
great nog country— no case of
cholery has ever been
here. Quick ran to Fort
Market.
The owners of these lands
have long dealt in Texas lands,
&nd have earned a reputation
which assures a square deal
known
Worth
455 State Banks Un-
der Guaranty Plans
The System Will Be In Operation
Beginning On The First Day
Of The New. Yfiar
— —C"
Austin, Tex., Oct. 2.-Bank
commissioner Love today said:
"From Ihe returns received it
is now an assured fact that there
will be at least 455 State banks
in the guaranty fund system,
which will be in operation on_and
after Jan. 1, 191(L_ Fromthe
capital, surplus and profits of
these banks, as shown by the re-
ports of this department, it can
be safely estimated ' that the
guaranty fund will amount on
Jan. 1, 1910, to; at least $500,000,
of v\(hich $125,000 will be depos-
ited in cash with the State TVeas^
ury and the remaining $375,000
will he! deposited with banks com-
prising the guaranty fund sys-
t0 tem Pro rate as a demand depos-
it subject to check upon the or-
der of the State Banking Board.
In addition to tnis cash fund of
$500,000 under the law the board
will have the right to make as-
sessment, in case they -should be
come necessary to pay depositors
in a bank closed, not' exceeding
2 per cent of the deposits in any
one year in the estimated amount
of $1,900,000.
"In this way, on or after Jan.
1, there will be subject to the
than a year, and the regular edi-
tion of the paper will get to look-
ing just like the place in which
it is published. The exchange
editor of a paper, who has trav-
eled much in Texas, can almost
tell every paper in the state by
its resemblance to the town in
Which it is published. This, of
course, refers to the leading pa-
per in each town, for in most
towns there cani)e foiind news-
papers that, leech-like, just hang
onto the place and eke out an
existance, based on the enter-
prise of the leading paper. These
can hardly be called newspapers;
Those who
are parasiees.
do not know the newspaper busi-
ness wonder, how it happens that
newspaper men appear to fit in
certain towns just like the foot
slips into an old shoe. But the! $2,-000,000,
paper ancl the town have not in
every case fitted to each other;
the paper is oftener forced: into
its condition by the town in
which it is locat,edt That is why
all sensible, people can tell a town
by its leading newspapers; they
have learned that a paper can-
not be better than its town how-
ever hard it may try, and that it
is soon discouraged into abon-
doning all efforts to improve.
When the smartest men find
themselves by any chance in such
a place they get up and move
out as soon as possible. It is a
pretty safe plan, therefore, to
judge a town by its newspapers,
just as-you judge the ^haracter
and standing of a business firm
Death Along Coast
Expected Heavy
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Human Ghouls Begin Looting
And Mayor Puts Town Un-
dei* Martial law
warn
iMim
Oct. 12.—A hurrican recked
Key West yesterday and p hhaH
out to sea, and is now central
about Bermuda, according to the
weather bureau. Key West j is
under martal law.
Key We tT Fla. , Oefe. 12.—With
the city under martial law, ef-
forts of authorities today are di-
rected to ascertain the damage
done by the hurrican of yester-
day, which is expected to reach
•,
call of the State Ranking Board, i thp.qp times by its advertising,
to meet the claims of. non-inter-1 Brown wood Bulletin.
^^fieautiful Residence of Hon. Lloyd A. Wicks, CroslJyton, Texas.
ship and will be sold direct from
the owners to the homeseekers,
so that the purchase gets full
every purchaser. All Texas
knows this. It also guarantees
a fine development to the lands
es. The plan of sale of new farm
lands usually-involves a selling
commission expense of $3 to $5
value in every acre he purchas- and towns within them. They
will sell the farmer who is ready
to develop, one-half of their hol-
dings, knowing that the lands
per acre, which is loaded on the1 will greatly increase in value
price the farmer has to pay. In with development. The farmer
this instance-the buyer is saved "now buying will correspondingly
reduction in
"—\
this expense, and gets the ben
efit of the practical
cost.
This new farming empire is
an important addition to- the ag-
ricultural lands of Tex4s, and is
farming lands will be.sold at.
prices from $12 to $17.50 per
acre, with some additions when
near the towns of Spur, the ter-
minal town in Dickens County,
and Girard, fourteen miles from
Spur, in Kent County. Terms
are one-fifth down, balance in
six annual payments, with privi-
lege to buyer of taking up any
islt hid notes" aT' any ti me.
est-beanng and unsecured de-
positors in guaranty fund banks
which may be closed, altogether
the sum of $1,500,000 for the
year 1910.
"During the forty-one, years'
experience of the National Banks
of Texas the average annual loss
to depositors including National
banks has been $31,857, and the
highest loss sustained by depos-i
tors in closed banks during any
one year was $395,432. The av-
erage annual amount of elaims
proven against closed National
John Howard made a
visit to Spur this week.
short
No deaths are reported in the
city, but deaths along the east-
ern coast is expected to be heavy. !
Between sixty and seventy-
five boats were wrecked, and
whole blocks of buildings were
raised at Key West, while tobac-
co fields and ware houses suffer-
ed much damage.
Jails are fuH of looters who
began operations as soon as
the storm ha<Labated somewhat;
and while all lights were out.
The mayor immediately pro-
claimed martial law.
Hundreds are homeless tfidfiy;
but it is expected help will ar-
rive from the states during the
day.
-dirzzE.
and towna ^aye, .de.veloped but
the Great Desert is being turned
into one large town. ~-
We spent a day and night in
Clovis, N. M., and found this to
:_r
and quickly profit on increase of j banks has been $78,408 and the
his own lands, and the owners j highest amount.of claims provsR;
stand shoulder to
snouiaer
the homeseeker.
Anyone desirei ng
with
during any one year has been
$787,465.
further in- j 'Therefore," for any non-Tnter-
formation, with tree illustrated j est bearing-anduunsecured dopos-
-boeWet, can secure same by ad- i jCOr in; a guaranty fund State
dressing Chas. A. Jones. Mana-1 bank, to suffer any loss on ac-
ger for S. M. Swinson & Sons, ! count 0f the closing of the bank, U
Spur, Dickens County, Texas. | jt will be necessary for the loss !.
to all such depositors in all guar-
First State Bank, Crosbyton, Texas, $15,000.00 Stone Structure
rarer
Title perfect.
The best farm developing
road in America (The Burling-
ton System) is just completing
its road from Stamford to Spur,
and will inaugurate passengers-why his wife should not eat it.
ser^iceby Novembr 1st, 1909.
Sale of lots will begin at private
sale on that date at both Spur
and Girard, and on that day a
the termiriu^
It is surrounded by rich, fertile
miles and miles in all directions*
?fre develdiw*rt nf thfo great
country will sure rap^
Attempts to Make Wife Eat) anty fund banks during the year
! to exceed by fortv-seven
^ 1 | the average annual loss of depos-
Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 9.—j jtors in Texas National banks,
John Kruski may have to '' eat and to exceed by three and eight-
crow " as a result of trying to tim,
Torceliis wTFe to eat tender mor-1 of loss sustained by depositors
sels of " baked dog. When his ^ arid creditors of all kinds ot clos-
wife had Kruski arrested for ®d National banks during any
cruelty he declared that dog^was1 one yepr in the history of the
A Trip Across The Plains
On the morning of the 20th of
September, I started across the
times! Plains in company with my little
daughter. Having been very
busy in Crosby ton since June and
not having seen but very little
sup-
nice, tender meat, with excellent
flavor and that he saw no reason
National banking
the State.
system in
.....
Kind hearts and willing hands
will do more towards making a
modern hdthe than all the wealth
this world affords. ——
The best capital for a
but the foVe of work,
simple tMtesr
The Town ai*4 Its Papers.
There isn't a town in Texas
that is worth calling a town- that
husn't a real live*wire papo^ 'in
it to boost it alottg. There isn't
a live paper in a town in Tex.is
doing things. The
mummify
m
ir9 and rapid pod.: k - !wm up ai
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posed the Plains was almost des-
titute of any crops, as it was a
few years ago. ,
On our road to Plainview be-
tween that place and Petersburg
we saw some good corn, millet,
maize, kafir com, cotton.
We went from Plainveiw to
Canyon City. There we met
many friends and were shown
fche hPfliitifiil,-
be a nice, little city, still grow-
ing and increasing as other cities
on the Plains, and as cities will
continue to do on the Plains.
We were certainly glad to get
back to Crosbyton, one of the
most beautiful, up-to-date, best
located, fasest ei
ies on the plains. B. L. Irick.
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Mother Is Killed By Child
Shreveport.La.VOct.
W. G. Taylor, wife of &■
keeper at Myrtjs, La., waa
last night by
court house.
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on^,our journey we took notice of
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