The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, July 22, 1904 Page: 4 of 8
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The Bonhsm News
Friday, July 22, 1904.
Bonljam JI?etD0.
ESTABLISHED 1886.
Entered at the Postoffioe. at Bonhum, Texas,
as second-class mall matter.
•UBSCRIPTION ......$1.00 PER YEAR
invariably in advance.
CLUBBING RATES.
The News and Dallas News..........
The News and 8t. Louis Republic...
The News anct Globe-Democrat.....
The News and Ft. Worth Racord ...
The News add Bryan's Commoner
The NeWsand Atlanta Constitution..
EVANS A EVANS. PROPRIETORS.
A SHLEV EVANS. EDITOR.
MAKE YOUR CHOICE.
Just now is a time for thought-
ful tneji to act, and to act coolly
as their judgments dictate, and
not as their passions may prompt.
In the recent primary election a
number of the best citizens of the
county went down in defeat. In
a few of the races where there
were three or more men in the
contest, no one received the ma-
jority of the vote, and so the two
receiving the highest number of
votes are to again cotn^ before
the people on July 30th. and so
on that date the sovereign voters
will select the, men they
want to serve them for the next
two .years.
m none of these races, save
that of the county attorney, is
there any issue between the c^n
didates. It is simply a matter
for each individual voter to set-
tle by supporting,the men whom
he personally prefers. There is
no issue, no principle at stake.
It is different in the race for
^ county attorney. There is a
cleanly defined issue there. The
personality of the two men in
the race is largely lost sight of
—overshadowed by the issues
they represent. If it were but a
contest between the two men.
The News would never have a
word to say.
But the people know* that from
forty platforms in the county
Mr. Lee a*d Mr. Agnew an-
nounced that there was an issue
between them.
In June, 1903, the people of
Fannin county voted to absolute-
ly prohibit the sal^, barter or ex-
change of intoxicants within the
county, except under certain con-
ditions proVided for by law.
About a dozen men said by
their actions that they would
not be bound by this law of the
people. They proposed to con-
tinue to sell intoxicants, and to
evade the law. The citizens of
the towns where these men oper-
ated their places of business took
the matter in hand, and at one
time succeeded in closing every
house which handled intoxicants
in the countv, save two" in Bon-
ham.
Mr. Lee was then, as he is
now, county attorney. He block-
ed the work of those who would
close the dives by taking the
positive stand that there was no
law to reach them. He says
there is no more law for closing
a cold storage than there is for
closing a drf goods store. By
way of parenthesis, we note here
that on election day every cold
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storage in the county remained
closed all day, and every dry
goods store remained open.
Why?
Mr. Lee took his position, a^id
he has maintained it with bold-
ness and consistency. No effort
has been made to close the cold
nin County, are being cun in vio- of
lation of tlie law. He says that
if he is elected he wTill make
every honorable and lawful ef-
' fort to close them. Mr. Agnew died with the
is as sincere and as honest in his that some day,
1 interpretations of the law as any
man in Texas. \
Here is the issue in this race,
and it is clear to both sides.
Neither has faltered a moment in
the stand taken.
One says that our local option
law is to remain in a large meas-
ure a dead letter.
The other says that the law
can be enforced, ought to be en-
forced, and will be enforced in
case of his election.
The county attorneys in Red
River, Hopkins, Denton and other
counties around us take the same
view of the law that Mr. Agnew
does, and ’ the cold storages do
not operate in those counties. If
the officers there can so enforce
the law as to prevent the running
of cold storages, why can not
those in Fannin do likewise?
We have the utmost confidence
that Mr. Agnew will do what he
says he will do.
The man who wants the sale of
intoxicating liquors prevented in
this county, if he be in earnest,
can only support the man who
promises to enforce the law.
Sojne of the friends of the de-
feated candidates, since their fa-
vorites are out of the race, may
feel as if, they do not want to
take any part in the race. If it
were only a question of the two
men in the race, that might be
well enough. But with a princi-
ple involved, they cannot afford
to hold aloof. All of them are
interested,on one side or the oth-
er. The thing to do is for every
England as he blighted that
of Sennacherib—a thing the old
president confidently believed
he would do sooner or later. He
firm conviction
in some way, God
will restore the Boers to power
in South Africa. His faith was
sublime in its simplicity.
Sometimes the world has been
inclined to make light of his
rough ways and uncouth man-
ners, but no one who ever came
in contact with him ever felt dis-
respect for his power as a man
and as an organizer and leader of
men. England came to full}'
appreciate it, and has not hesi-
tated to acknowledge it.
But the end has come. De-
feated, broken by age, bowed
down [with sorrow for the loss
of wife and country, the
brave, rugged old man passed
away i/i a strange land, among
strange people, but not unfriendly
or unsympathetic ones.
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It but adds to England’s glory
to give consent that the old-body
shall be permitted to sleep be-
side that of the faithful old wife,
who rests beneath the sod in that
a
loved land where young Paul
won her heart and hand, and
where President Kruger strug-
gled so valiantly that the little
handful of his own people should
remain frpe.
to the negro colonel Of a negro (
regiment, that his troops should j
camp apart from the white troops ;
at the Fair, and should bring !
their own equipments. T h i s |
suggestion made the negro cbl- J
onel very mad and he rushed to
Terrible Teddy Roosevelt with
his complaint. Terrible Teddy
ordered Lieut. Haight's superior j
to fire him from his position, and
he had to do so. There ifc no
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limit to the kinds of fool arid the j
quality of fool some men in high i
stations can make of themselves, j
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These days are • mighty warnt, and
the fellow who is able should not be
censured for taking a few weeks off
and going to Colorado or some other
cooler clime. They'say the fish do
bite in the mountains.-Denton County
News.
Hush, man—What do you want!
to tantalize us for? N o t^o d yj
knows better than we do how the !
fish are biting in the mountain ]
streams, and how the water is j
sparkling and the cool breezes
blowing up in the Rockies, But
the General Manager of The!
News’ houshold had to take ;her
son to the World's Fair, while we !
are left here to fight mosquitoes;
and dream of the Rainbow trput
over in the Gunnison.
For Sale!
Some of the Biggest Bargains in City
Property and Farms offered for sale in
Fannin County in the past five years are
to be found in our list.
READ IT
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Good Crops Are Going
Put the Price Up.
BUY NOW!
When the water wagons are
busy in July and August, the
gins in Texas are busy from Sep-
tember till January'.
No government of the people
can last long when the people
grow so careless as to fail to go
to the polls to express their will.
has induced men to open these
places in a number of towns in
the cqunty. Few men believe
that these houses as conducted
are not violating the law.
But County Attorney Lee says
there is no law to prevent them
being operated as they now are.
Mr. Lee firmly believes he is
right in his position.
Mr. Agnew is Mr. Lee’s oppon-
ent in the present race. In the
first primary he received nearly
600 more votes than Mr. Lee, but
did not receive a majority of all
the votes cast.
Mr. Agnew said in his first
speech in the campaign, repeat-
ed it as loqg as he spoke, and
yet contends, that the cold stor-
ages, as being conducted in Fan-
man to’vote to sustain what he
believes is right. If he wants
the preseriVcondition of affairs to
continue, he should support the
present county* attorney. If he
^ants the law rigidly enforced,
and the dives closed, he should
support Mr. Agnew. It is every
man’s duty to lose sight of his
personal preferences for men and
support the thing he believes to
be right.
Let every man go to the polls
on July 30th and vote his senti-
ments. If the people wish to
nullify the local option law and
invite the reign of the dives, the
people are supreme. If they want
the law they have put in force
obeyed, they can put men in office
who will compel obedience to it.
Make your choice.
Don’t neglect y*our duty on the
30th. See that your neighbor
does his duty, also, and both of
you go together and vote for the
men of your choice.
If any body had any doubt of the
effectiveness of the Terrell elec-
tion law* in giving us fairer elec-
tions, that doubt is now dispelled
since they have seen the law tes-
ted.
THE 0L0 LI OR IS DEAD.
Paul Kruger is dead. One of
the few of the world’s great men
has played out his part in the
drama of life, and has been gath-
ered to his fathers. It is a pa-
thetic picture to look at Paul
Kruger as he lies dead in Switz-
erland, an exile from the land
that gave him birth, that wit-
nessed his prowess, his loves, his
hates, his triumphs and defeats.
He was the “Lion of South Afri-
ca” in the jungle with his rifle,
on the veldt, in the State house
atJPretoria. or as the vanquished
president of the republic. His
love for his own country was
equalled in intensity only by his
hatred of a stronger nation which
he knew years ago would some
day seek to drive his people away
from the lahd they had reclaimed
storages, a$d Mr. Lee’s position-] frojn the wilderness and from the
Germany is “indignant,” but
England contents herself with
sending eighteen fighting vessels
to see that Russia is more partic-
ular about how she overhauls
English vessels in the Red Sea.
When John Bull gets “indignant”
it may mean something or it may
not, but when he sends out
war vessels or soldiers, it means
that he is ready* for busines^.
Nobody now doubts the atti-
tude of the Democrats of Fannin
county on the Willacy bill. The
platform adopted covers that
fully. Smith county also con-
demned the bill or any like meas-
ure. It also passed a resolution
demanding a law making it a
felony to sell intoxicants in a pro-
hibition district, and a law mak-
ing it a felony to carry a pistol.
The best indication of the elec-
tion of Parker in November is the
fact that the same interests are
supporting him that supported
McKinnley eight years ago. The
trusts, the corporations and the
money power propose to furnish
the money to elect him, or at least
it is so reported. If its proves
true, he will be elected. But—.
However, anybody is better than
Roosevelt.
Savage. o
His nature was such that
his passions were intense.
Whatever he did, he did with all
the strength and'all the force of .
a great mind, an indomitable j
will and a giant body. He was !
denied the refining and uplifting
influences? of a liberal education,
but nature gave hitn a brain that
enabled him to take a placet
with the great men of earth and
suffer little bf comparison
The editor of the Denison Her-
ald has been able to see a lot of
red apples, yellow peaches and
green watermelons that are being
shipped out of the sandy land
section around his town. If he
would come down here he would
see not only' all of these things,
but train loads of alfalfa and
prairie hay;,' car loads of wheat,
oats and corn besides, with the
farmers hunting up their cotton
sacks and the ginners greasing
up their machinery, getting ready
for business.
His faith in himself and in his
people was excelled’only by his ______
faith in God. Narrow in his con- Lieut. Haight, up to a few
ception of God’s wisdom and love days ago, was military aid to
though he was, Paul Kruger’s President Francis of the World's
faith in Him was never shaken, . Fair. Now* he isn’t, and it all
even in that dark hour when came about this way: Lieut.
Jehovah did not blight the army Haight very politely suggested
JUST A REMINDER. ‘
Evening Herald.
Our good neighbor, the Honey
Grove Signal, is itching about a
man “east of Bullard’s Creek
having no shot in‘ the county
election,” or words, to that effect.
The Signal, always popular, .
most every time jolly, but -this |
time in slight error, will please '
note the. following: Running I,
back from the present we find the 115
following4 ‘eas^of Bullard’s Creek j
men” elected to counp* office: Tom
Baker, W> H. Lemons, T. A.
Barron. R. S. Lovelace, M. B.
Crowson, Lee Jolley and Geo. A.
Carpenter. All Honey Grove
men. are they not? Going just
a little bit further, but still “east}‘
of Bullard's Creek,” we find J.
F. Sadler from Spring Hill, A.
J. Nash from Lannius, W. R.
Evans from Windom, Lee Car-
penter from Lannius, and A. J.
Nicholson from Nicholson. All
good men, too.
Now*, dear Signal, does this
look like partiality in politics?
Phil Wise, himself, was raised
at Dial, in the Honey Grove pre-
cinct. There may be others, but
thirteen is enough.
Powerful Drug is Eucane.
London, July 20.—The recent
discoveries of Eucane, a powerful
local annesthetic, is looked upon 1
as another scientific triumph.
It will make possible operations
which might not otherwise take
place owing to heart weakness,
for the patient remains conscious
during its use,although,of course,
those parts of the body to which
it is applied are insensible to pain.
It will also give the surgeon
more time for his work, and do
away with certain people’s con-
scientious objections to anesthe-
tics. ,
Although it can be’used for am-
putations, it will probably* be
most useful for treatment of the
thyroid glands. In such opera-
tions the use of chloroform is
often impracticable.
A successful operation of this
kind which was recently perform-
ed with eucane in a London hos-
pital lasted nearly* an hour and a
half. -
Eucane is injected by* a hypo-
dermic needle under the skin
where the incision is to be made.
After a few moments the skin
may* be cut without the patient
feeling anything. As different
and deeper parts are exposed the
drug is dropped at intervals of a
jfew moments.
To the observer the operation
appears similar to those of the
days before chloroform, as the
patient is conscious and now and
again makes some remark. The
eyes are covered with a cloth to
minimize nervousness, and the
patient is strapped to the operat-
ing table to prevent involuntary
movements)*
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He is conscious, but he cannot
feel. I
BONHKM PROPERTY
3-room oottage^i acre of land, ^ _ ’
Crawford’s addition....... $550
6-room cottage, i acre. South
Bonham, on hi|L............ 750*
i-acre lot N«. E. Bonham. 7
blocks out..*............
i acre north Center strefet,
out of Major Grace tract.
1 acre adjoining Logan Myers
on east: W. N. Wilson
place ........................
3-room cottage i acre of land
on North Main street.....
Park Hotel, on South Main street. 140
#fopt front, will trade for farm land.,
or ranch.
9-room dwelling on Center
street. 4 blocks out.
$3£50
9-room house, 2 acres, fine
barn, plenty water........
3250
4-room cottage. 4 acre, West
Ninth street..............
1500
6-room house, 100 foot front.
2 blocks of square .........
1650
4-room cotrage. 4 acre, west
of W. W. Russell’s........
925
£ residences, good large barn.
58 lots, 20 acres............
4000
4-room cottage, corner \ acre
opposite M. E. church.
South Bonham............
650
(
265
375
125
650
F=7AR7V\[ PROPERTY
acres, well improved, 1
mile east of Carson, extra
bargain.................... $zo00
60 acres I mile north of Rid- 1 _
ings. extra good............ 1500
190 acres, fair improvements,
I mile northeast of Ivanhoe
30 acres, well improved, $ mile
northeast of Ivanhoe_____
2700
550
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70 acres, black waxey, 3 miles
southeast of Bonham: will
trade ...’................ 3500
102 acres, well improved, 1
mile of Little Caney school:
price, per acre.............
74 acres, 3-room house. 1 mile
of Long Branch, school: A _
price, per acre............. $23
75 acres, new 3-room house,
14 miles northwest of Bon-
ham/ 400 yards of Fairview ■
school: price, per acre ..... 20
75 acres of timbered land, 7
miles northeast of Bonham:
will cut in 25 acte tracts:
Price, per acre............. 15
76 acres. 3-room house and
one of 2 rooms, 1 mile of
New Prospect school: price, __
per acre...................- 25
ECTOR PROPERTY
Extra good residence of 8"
rooms, 5 acres of land, near
Methodist church: a bar-
gain at ......
$1200
4-room dwelling, 34 acres of
land. 2 dug wells, south-
west of T. & P. depot:
price...........7...........
$1150
IVANHOE PROPERTY
S-room dwelling, cost $1200: 8
acres of land, extra tine bar-
gain at.................... $900
4-room cottage, 2 acres of land
2 business lots and 1 store
building: only ............
550
One extra good store build-
ing and 2 lots, rents for
$4 per month:
only ........................
10 acres of land adjoining the
gin.......................
$250
250
The Installment Plan
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is an easy way to buy a home. We have a
number of places for sale on such terms that
anybody who wants a home can get one.
It Costs You Nothing
to see us, and it will be time well spent. We
feel that we can give you the biggest bargains
and the best terms to be had. v If you don’t
see in our list just what you want see us any-
way and let us get it for you.
Evans &
McKinney
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Over First National Bank
BONHAM, - - - TEXAS
The Laugh Turned.
An Irishman was calle^l upon
to give evidence in a shooting
affray.
“Did you see the shot fired?”
asked the magistrate.
“No, sir; but I heard it,” re-
plied the witness.
“That is not satisfactory. Step
down”
As the Irishman turned to go,
he laughed and was rebufced by
the magistrate, who told him it
was contempt of court.
“Did yez see me laugh?”
“No, but I heard you.”
“That is not satisfactorv.”
And then the court laughed.—
Exchange.
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When bilious take Chamberlain’s
Stomach and Liver Tablets. For Sale
by J. W. Peeler.
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Evans, Ashley. The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, July 22, 1904, newspaper, July 22, 1904; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982206/m1/4/?q=lake+dallas: accessed June 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.