The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, March 20, 1903 Page: 6 of 8
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rAKFIBLD,
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE
C. A. Daniel died suddenly at Fort
Worth Wednesday night.
Dr. A. H. Whltmer, a dentist of El
Paso, formerly of Oregon, Mo., killed
himself at the hospital Friday, using
a 38 caliber revolver for the purpose.
United States cruiser, Chattanooga,
was launched in the presence of 3000
spectators at Ellzabethpont, N. J., Sat-
urday.
Australians are buying British flags
made in America. This is even more
shocking than the sale of idols to
Korea.
IMPORTANT RILLS QO THROUGH
THE HOU8B.
Fine de Ciede Lady.
Greenville: Mrs. Margaret Thorn-
ton,' who resides with her daughter,
Mrs. Martha Glddena, six miles north
of Commerce, reached the century
mark In age. last Friday and Is per-
haps the only centenarian living in
this section, if not the entire State.
The occasion was celebrated by her
descendants and friends with a dinner.
MERCHANTS’ OCCUPATION TAX Grandma Thornton was born In Jack-
son County, Geqrgta, on March 6, 1803,
and was married to M. C. Thornton
during the year 1838. He died In
Georgia in September, 1861, since
which time Grandma Thornton has
lived with Mrs. Giddens, her daughter.
She has one other child living, J. J.
Thornton, of Cooper. There were
present at the dinner Friday members
of four generations.
Occupation Tax Platform Deiinand for
Submission of New Constitution
Question Dead.
Rear Admiral Crowlnshleld has ap-
plied to the navy department for re-
tirement, and his request will be
granted.
The Belgian committee for the St.
Louis exposition, numbering sixty per-
sons, nave been appointed under a
royal decree.
The Katy has made arrangements to
build into Coalgate, I. T.. from Oklaho-
ma City. The work is to bo rushed un-
til completed.
Thre dead body of Mrs. Dan Shannon
was found in a water tank one mile
south of Moscow. Bhe bad been mtss-
isg two days.
The United States Senate was con-
vened on the &th inst to take action
regarding the Cuban treatry and the
Panama canal matter.
Nineteen men were drowned Satur-
day by the capsizing of a ferryboat
used by workmen. at'Speier Falls on
the Hudson river.
A rear-end collision occurred %t the
stockyards north of Marlow, I. T., Sat-
urday, in which the engineer of the
rear train was badly hurt.
Austin, March 9.-During the past
week both branches of the legislature
worked hard in their efforts to “save
the state.” The week was prolific of
results, much of the grist which had
oeen accumulating having passed
through the mill. Notable events of
the week were the final passage and
approval of the iron Industry bill, of
the child labor bill, of the bill prohib-
iting working of trainmen more than
sixteen hours on a stretch; the passage
on second reading in the house of the
senate bill repealing merchants’ occu-
pation taxes; passage oa second read-
ing of the Terrell election bill; the pas-
sage on second reading of the resolu-
tion looking to the establishment of
6tate banks; the passage of the anti-
nepotism resolution; the recommit-
ment by the seaate of the "drugless
doctor” bill, and the defeat of the prop-
osition for a constitutional convention.
Printed copies of the general appro-
priation bill will be laid on the desks
of members of the house this morning,
and Mr. Boyd, chairman of the finance
committee, expects to call It up on
Wednesday morning. The length of
session and the probability of a spe-
cial session, therefore, may be determ-
ined or indicated this week.
TORT WORTH DAY
the Commercial Lumber company ■
tram railway and Instantly killed. He
formerly lived at Gratfd Saline.
ALL OVER TEXAS.
Texas’ dtlee
rHOUSANDS ATTEND THE FAT
8TOCK SHOW.
Found Dead In Bed.
Parle Mrs. Mary J Mathews, who
DOORS ARE THROWN WIDE OPEN lived alone with her aged husband on
Edwards street, In West Paris, was
found dead In bed at an early hoii» Fri-
day morning.
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Fins Cattle, Big Men, Beautiful Women
and Smiling Prosperity
Meet. j
Governor Lanham Haa Signed.
Austin: The governor has signed the
following senate bills:
The Rusk penitentiary furnace bill,
providing for the extension of the Iron
Industry and the erection of a new fur-
nace at that plaoe. To create the cou-
ty of Reagan, out of the western por
tlon of Tom Green county. To prohibit
railroads from working conductors, en-
gineers, firemen, brakemen, train dis-
patchers, telegraph operators or any
trainman more than sixteen consecu-
tive hours. To restore civil and crim-
inal jurisdiction upon the county court
of Polk county.
A Smooth Feminine Article.
New York: Dressed In a suit of
man’s clothing that fitted her to per-
fection, a handsome young girl enlist-
ed as a private in the regular army at
Fort Totten, Willetts Point, Met Mon-
day, and remained at the tort a day
and night before her secret was reveal-
ed and she was taken home by her
father.
Athens Is certainly to the front In a
commercial way. Before long it will
have a cotton compress, a new and
larger Ice factory, and a canning fac-
tory.
The city federation of Women’s
clubs at Chickasha has taken up the
matter of raising funds to enable tha
school board to give a longer free
school term.
A fine well-trained saddle horse of
Indian Territory breeding has been
bought by admirers of Gen. Gordon,
and1 will be presented to him at the
reu-iion at New Orleans.
The Trans-Siberian railway, with a
length of about 3700 miles, cost $192,-
300 000, including the first order of
rolling stock, though not Including an
appropriation of transports.
The management of the St. Louis ex
hibition has given education the fore-
most place, and Germany intends to
make the most interesting display pos-
sible in this department.
! The eleventh annual convention of
the National Wholesale Lumber Deal
ers’ Association met at Washington
last week. Separate meetings of the
Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association of
the eastern states and the Association
of Western Retail Lumbermen were
held at the same time and place.
, The fifty-seventh congress expired
at noon Tuesday by limitation. There
has not been in many years such a
demonstration In the house, as occur-
red on last Tuesday, owing to ths fact
that Speaker Henderson was retiring,
not only as presiding officer, but from
the house ae a member.
Th New Majestic Hotel at Hot
Springs, one of the largest and most
modern, has been opened.
Thousands of natives are reported
starving In Japan’s provinces, because
of a failure of the rice crop.
Tha Missouri supreme court affirm
ed the verdicts of the St. Louis circuit
Major Brackenridge to the Breach
Austin: Mayor George W. Bracken-
ridge of San Antonio has again made
a large donation to the University of
Texas, this time for $25,000. President
Prather has been making arrangements
with the controller to pay out that
amount when occasion arises, which
will be soon. Mr. Brackenridge was In
the city last Friday and at that time
promised to donate $25,000 to help the
Institution out of a difficulty, the leg-
islature having refused aid.
Six Persons Incinerated.
Cumberland, Md.: Six person* were
burned to death and one fatally In-
jured as the result of a fire Sunday
morning in a small hotel at Leltqr, a
small mining town near Elkins, W
Va. Several persons escaped with
minor injuries by jumping from a sec
ond story winddw.
Hon. James Blount Dead.
Macon, Ga. : James Blount, member
of Congress for twenty years, from
1872 to 1892, died at his home In Macon
Snnday, aged 65 years, of congestion
of the lungs. He had been in Impaired
health for two years. His last public
service was as commissioner para-
mount to the Hawaiian Islands dur-
ing President Cleveland's second term.
Pros Win in Camp County.
Pittsburg: In the local option elec-
tion in Camp county the pros won by
an estimated majority of 50 or 60.
The election was hotly contested, but
with a decided degree of good feeling
This precinct went anti by 61 majority.
Matt Riff Found Dead.
Ban Antonio: Mat RlfT, a merchant
tailor who came to San Antonio from
Hot Springs. Ark., for his health a
week ago, was found dead 'n his room
at 9 o’clock Sunday morning. The
body was found on the floor by a writ-
ing desk on which deceased had Just
commenced a letter when be was
stricken.
Ohio River at Flood.
Paducah, Ky.: The Ohio river, al-
though higher than .since the great
flood of 1884, is still rising, as are also
the Wabash, Cumberland, Tennessee
and other tributaries, and the situa-
tion from here to Cairo fs the worst
that has been known for nineteen
years.
Fort Worth, Texas, March 7.—Fully
ten thousand people visited the fat
stock show Friday and were shown
through the packinghouses. It was
a throng in size that Fort Worth has
not seen for a long time. The yards
were literally alive with people from
different parts of the State. The great-
er number were people, who witnessed
the inside operation of a modern pack-
inghouse for the first time. The weath-
er was cloudy, but so anxious were
they that they took chances of being
drenched for the treat that was |n
store for them. Several hundred of
the throng Included cattlemen en
route to the El Paso convention, and
they are all singing the praises of Fort
Worth and will not talk about the
next convention being held at any
point except here. For that matter,
the sentiment in favor of the next
convention coming back to this city,
is ad strong with the Northerners, In-
cluding the livestock commission men
gnd buyers who attend these meetings
each year. W. E. Skinner, the gen-
eral agent of the National Stockyards
at Chicago, said: “Will we be for
Fort Worth for the next convention?
Well, of course, and we'll do a lot of
yelling. That’s the way we feel about
It,” to which sentiment General Man-
ager A. O. Leonard of the Chicago
Stockyards, who stood nearby, assent-
ed. The general impression is that
the next meeting will come here, and
to that end the fat stock show for 1904
is already being discussed.
The program planned by the Board
of Trade on the formal opepiSg was
carried out. The principal speaker
was M. J. Sanders of New Orleans,
the president of the Progressive Union
of that city. He spoke from the plat-
form in the sale ring to an audience
which tested the seating capacity of
that building, and his remarks were
loudly applauded when he referred to
the wonderful productiveness of this
section of Texas and what great pos-
sibilities were offered and what great
things the future held In store for Fort
Worth and Texas.
Shot Through the Heart.
Pittsburg: Jesse Cooper, a 15-ye*r-
old negro boy, was shot through the
heart and killed with a target rifle
at Cypress Switch Thursday. Friends
of ,the man, also colored, who It Is al*
leged did the shooting, claim It was ac.
cidental. The man escaped.
Greenville Is among
mowing for paving.
Waller county has vpted to go dry
by a very large majority.
The new Methodist church at Dal*
hart Is now open for use.
The young men of Amarillo are or-
ganizing a military company.
Gen. John B. Gordon has about 26
engagements to lecture In Texas this
spring.
The first solid carload of cabbages of
the season from Beevllle was shipped
to Dallas last week.
Honey Grove has a firat-clasa broom
factory In operation, and Is turning out
high-grade brooms.
Some of Texas' legislators are de-
Nemee of New Ships.
Washington: Secretary Moody has
reached a decision as to the States af-
ter which the five battleships provided
for in the new haval law shall be
named Vermont, Kansas and Minneso-
ta, and the two 13,000-ton vessel* Mis-
sissippi and Idaho.
Dallas County Assessment.
‘ Dallas: According to a rough estim-
ate made by W. 8. Ferguson, county
tax assessor; when the final returns are
mads it will be shown that the assess-
ment of the entire county will have
■been raised something like $8,000,000.
or to a total taxable valuation on all
“9,000
county property of about $39,000,000.
Bought a Chunk of Texas.
New Orleans. La.: The biggest land
deal ever made In New Orleans was
closed when C. M. Meeker, represent-
ing a syndicate of Boston Interests,
purchased 145.000 acres from John J-
Meyers of San Antonio.
Tom Ochiltree's 8word.
El Paso: The aword presented to
Col. Tom Ochiltree by Col. Tom Greeen
after the battle of Val Verde, has been
presented to the John C. Brown Camp
of Confederate Veterans by Mrs. Eva
O. Kneeland, one of the heirs and a
half sister of the deceased.
termlned If possible to .wipe out nepo-
tism in all public places.
Mart Cadenhead, who lives near
Martinburg, had his right foot badly
injured by a stock cutter.
Arangements have been made for
the establishment of a wholesale dry,
goods house at Amarillo.
J. A. Kemp, who has successfully
operated a canning factory at Alvord
is moving it to Wichita Falls.
The Transcontinental division of the
Texas and Pacific railroad will be re-
laid with new heavy steel rails.
A movement is on foot at Yoakum to
have the city Issue $10,000 worth *f
bonds for street Improvement pur-
poses.
The Inclement weather has again in-
terfered with the Beevllle Spring Car-
nival and the affair has been post-
poned until the first of May.
The six rural mall routes out of
Greenville were put Into operation
Monday week, and the carriers started
out with pretty full pouches. -|
It is believed that when a practical
line Is found the Rock Island will ex-
tend Its road from Graham to the ex-
tensive coal fields in Jack county.
Paul E. Webb, special agent for the
rural free delivery service, examined
the proposed routes from A ana, and
recommended the establishment of
four.
Hamilton Stock Doing Well.
Hamilton: Cattle have gone through
the winter pretty well In this county,
but the stockmen have all been feed-
ing their stock pretty well and have
not had any losses worth mentioning.
Business has been on a standstill, as
the people can not get to town and
the merchants can not get goods from
the railroad.
There is a congestion of freight all
| over the northern and central portion
of the state, which Is becoming a te-
j rious matter to the railroads, caused
wholly by the heavy rains.
Frank 8mith’s Fatal Fall.
Dallas: Saturday evening Frank
Smith, a sign painter, fell from the
sixth story of the Juanita building
to the top of the Marshall two-story
building and received injuries that
caused his death about an hour later.
Deceased was about 45 years old and
had worked in Dallas and Fort Worth
several years.
Storm and Lightnings Work.
Palestine: During the terrific rain-
storm of Saturday night, a negro wood
hauler named Avant, was caught In the
flood of a little branch one mile east
of the town, drowning one of his mules.
He managed to reach the bank and
save one mule. In the storm the office
at Dllley’s foundry was struck by
lightning, destroying a chimney.
court In the cases of Mooney and
Wilson, convicted of murder, and fix-
ed April 8 as the jljrteof exeoutlon.
The Frisco has a surveying party
locating a line into Coalgate, I. T.
Recently $25,000 was obtained at
public auction in London for the
recipe of a celebrated pill. This Is a
striking Instance of the value of a
secret. A firm paid $60,000 not long
for a method of curing hams.
The Panama cgnal company’s exten-
sion of the United'&tates government’s
option on Its property until such time
the ratification of the treaty with
takes place simplifies mat-
ters and removes all danger froqp such
delay by the senate ae may occur.
New Southern Record.
Jacksonville, Fla.: George J. Gould,
who reached Jacksonville, Fla., too late
to catch the train for New York, se
cured a special train, the fastest that
the Atlantic Coast Line could supply.
The special moved out of Jacksonville
prepared to make record time and
overtake the train which Mr. Gould
had missed. In actual running time,
according to the official figures, the 172
miles between Jacksonville and Savan-
nah were covered In 152 minutes.
Hamilton improving.
Hamilton: The Hamilton school
school district will get its new stone
house completed In a short tijne and
will have a good school building. The
new house has four schoolrooms and
a large auditorium, will seat about 1200
| people and will cost about $7000. The
trustees will have the old school build-
ing overhauled. There are about 400
I scholars. The Business Men’s club Is
arranging to have the public square
graded and then eight Inches of gravel
put on it
Doctor Thomas Edwards Dead.
Blanco: Dr. Thomas G. Edwards,
for thirty years a practicing physician
of this glaee, died of paralysis of the
heart at the residence of hi* daughter,
Mrs. Arthur Bagby, near Austin on
Friday. Dr. Edwards was also a Bap-
tist minister.
A young man was arrested at Abi-
lene Friday on the charge of raising a
check from $9 to $90. The check was
cashed at Merkel. The grand Jury has
ths matter under consideration.
Big Muddy on a Tear.
Vicksburg, Miss.: A large section of
the lower part of Vicksburg Is covered
by water varying in depth from one to
five feet, and several warehouses on
the river front have been abandoned.
The river gauge registered forty-six
feet, one foot above the danger line, a
rise of three-tenths In ten hours.
Scores of. refugees and hundreds of
farm animals have been brought in
from the lowlands during the Sfst
week.
A catamount killed in Hunt county
a few days since measured three feet,
nine Inches from tip to tip, and weigh-
ed fifty-five pounds. Its foot Bpread
out five and quarter inches wide.
There are at least 1000 bales of cot-
ton in fields around Mertens unpicked
that will not be picked. There has been
no oats sown of any consequence, and
not a furrow run for the coming crop.
Mild Case of Smallpox in Eilia.
Waxahachie: A mild case of small-
pox has been reported near Italy. The
i patient came from near Mertens, and
I ths attending physicians state the dis-
ease has developed In Its mildest form
and there Is very little danger of He
spreading, though all necessary quar-
antine precautions have been taken.
Blak* Lillard Stabbed to Death.
Decatur: Blake Lillard, a member
of a prominent family In this town,
was stabbed to death Saturday after-
noon about 6 o’deok. Wes Hein, City
Marshal, aad his two sons, Rufus and
Claude, are under arrest
Hooked Up Early.
Denton: J. H. Scott of near Little
Elm, aged 16 years, and Miss Bessie
Green, aged 15, were married here this
week. The parents of both parties to
the wedding were willing and gave
their permits In person before the
licenses would be issued.-'Three brides
got licenses this week, whose aggre-
gate ages were only 47 years, two 15
and one 17.
Commencing March 10 the Pacific
Express company will have exclusive
use of the Weatherford, Mineral Well*
and Northwestern railway.
Slick Man Slide* In.
Corsicana: Farmera with four and
■lx mule* hitched to a pair of wheel#
have become a common sight on the
streets of Corsicana alnee the rainy
spell set In, but a man named Kent,
living near Mildred, southeast of the
cKy, came in on a mud sled, secured
his supply of groceries and slid bsck,
accomplishing with a two-horse team
what many found almost impossible
with four horses on wheels.
Bungling Sort of Stealing.
Waco: The freight depot of
Houston and Texas Central Railway
at Harrison, Mclennan County, was
entered Friday night and robbed of a
considerable quantity of shelled corn
belonging to farmers. The thieves
took the corn away in a wagon, the
track of which was followed, and most
of the corn recovered. Three negro
men, Jn accused of the corn robbery.
. Young Lady Criminally Assaulted. .
Dallas: Friday night about 10 o'clock
the unconscious form of Miss Kate
Spray, .a young lady 18 years of age,
was found In a vacant lot. There were
evidences that she had -been seriously
injured, and the entire neighborhood
was quickly aroused. A physician was
summoned and worked until after 1
o'clock In the morning before he suc-
ceeded In restoring her to conscious-
ness. According to report, Miss Spray
was passing a bam a door or two away
on her wny home about 8 o’clock. Two
i, hiding In the barn, sprang out
and assaulted her. She was slugged
and carried across the street to the va-
cant lot where she was found. Miss
Spray had been missing about two
hours when her brother-in-law started
out with a lantern to make a search.
Two arrests were made, and there Is
muchjigxcltement, and If It is certainly
Tom Slack Get* Promotion.
Fort Worth: Thomas W. Slack, as-
sistant cashier of the First National
bank of this city, will be the cashier
of the new national banh—t^ be lo-
cated at the stockyards. Mr. Slack hnn
been connected with the First National
bank here In different copaclffes foi
twenty years and Is 86 years of age.
The new bank will ba opened for bus-
iness about May 1.
The Galveston Railway Association
is a new organization. The member- ■
ship Is not restricted to any railroad
nor any department or position. All
males employed In the service, from,
president down to section hand, fire
eligible to membership. The object M
practical railway education.
caimi* has been made a presidential
postoffice, and D. G. Roach, the In-
cumbent postmaster, was reapointed.
A D«vlne cltisens prophesies that
1903 will be a record breaker for all
sorts of crops In Texas.
In the United 8tates district court
Pope Leo Not Dangerously 8lck.
Rome: All the startling reports cir-
culated regarding the health of the
Pope are unfounded. Although hla
hull ness Is not yet restored trt his nor*
mal condition, he was better Friday
than he was Thursday, so much so
that he gave his usual audience to
Cardinal Rampolla and later - had
another conference with the Secretary
at Waco J. H. P. Bailey pleaded guilty
to making counterfeit money, and hav-
ing in his possession counterfeit
money. He was sentenced to five years
In the penitentiary and to pay a fine
of $100.
The Southwestern Telephone com-
pany has for the last two months had
a large force of men at work at Laib-
pasas and east of there putting In a
new exchange and copper territorial
wire.
A report from Celeste as to the three
rural mall delivery routee that started
from that town Feb. 2 shows that the
carriers delivered and collected 7166
pieces of mall of all descriptions. Be-
sides all this they took applications
for sixty-five money orders.
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