Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 48, Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 1, 1901 Page: 3 of 8
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F P LUCK Agent Shiner Texas
Union Lock Poultry Fence
For Poultry Rabbits Orchards Gardens etc
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Dealer in all kinds of
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
Maud for JOHM F STRATTOM CO
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Stronger and closer spacing than any other mako
Our Union Look Hog Field and Cattle Fence Union Lawn
Fence Gates etc guaranteed first class
Your dealer should handle this line if not write us for
prices Catalogue free
UNION FENCE CO DE KALB ILL U S A
LARGESTANDMoSTCQMPLETEBUGGYfaCTORY ° N EARTH WrITEFOR
Prices and
Catalogue
Our Coods Are The Best
OUR PRICE THE LOWEST
PARRYMFGldianaP ° Ind
EMERSON
PIANOS
Aro not the highest in price but
the best in quality that money
brains and experience can produce
They are substantial Piano3 for sub
stantial people and ire believe theie
is more Piano value to tho dollar lu
an Instrument of this mako than in
any other We are sustained In
our Judgment by 70000 satlsfled
owners The name Emeksox is as
well known on a western farm as in
New York City and it is no wonder
that the average piano buyer thinks
KMERSON as soon as ho thinks
PIANO
Send for this years catalogue
It is interesting reading
THOS GOGGAN BRO
Galveston Texas
JOHN F STRATTONS
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Violin Strings
Toe Finest In th World
Brery string Warranted
John F Stratton Co
Wholesale Dealer
62 Grand Strut
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JOHN F STRATTONS
Celebrated QTJITAEB
JOHN F STRATTON CO
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MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
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TEXAS OIL BOOM
IT IS AHEAD OF ANYTHINO OF
ITS KIND EVER KNOWN
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Tliuretl ijr Wan tho Ormtoit Dny in tho
JIUtory nC llpttntnoiit nml tho Sew Oil
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Make Their Ilrnt Spout
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Beaumont Texas < April 2G It Is no
longer possible t6 walk along Crockett
stioet between Orleans and Icail
strcfts with any comfort In fact it
might bo said with any safety
Whether or not the oil found in Jef-
ferson county everjbecomes one of tho
worlds greatest discoveries whether
the excitement tiere now and the In-
tense business strain continues for
six days or six years this one faot will
remain that Beaumont today is In the
midst of a boom which outbooms any-
thing the most experienced men In
boom matters ever saw And it Is a
genulno boom aSbooms go It nny be
founded on a mistake conceived In
error and born ofdistorted conditions
jet It Is as real as the mornings sun
and as certain to iast for some time as
It is that It nowexlsts Of course
booms cannot last nlways nor can the
present situation In Beaumont continue
for a Very great tlmo as a boom If
It continues for sk months It will
then becomo tho normal condition and
a new boom will havo to bo taken from
tho clnysalla and watted In with the
dawn of tho morning like a beautiful
buterrly which conies from an unsight-
ly and loathsome Insect But the boom
Is heru today and tho present is sumo
lent
Today like every day was tho great-
est jet There weie more people on
the stieets moreibuslncss done map
sellers yelled louder real cstato agents
aie getting bolder and more venture
somo as they mount a box and scream
their wares to the unheeding ear of
the scurrying multltudo When this
thing began deals weie transacted with
tho greatest secrecy In the dark leces
scs of a doorway or In the parties
looms In the jhotel If they had one
and when one man got hold of a piece
of land which could bo purchased or
sold ho trembled I with fear lest somo
one would find tfout Now they yell
it Into evedyoneSeav and mako tho
streets an unearthly and deafening din
all tho day long Telegraph and tele
phono poles and every conceivable spot
aro placaided with advertisements of
lands to sell or buy Some of these ad-
vertisements aro printed somo aro
handsomely painted while others are
scrawled on writing paper but all are
effectual and everybody reads them
One cannot walk a block In tho ies
Idenco part of the city but there is a
sign made on a bit of pastcbard of
rooms for lent and they aro usually
rented too Tho women of Beaumont
ere not being left out of the excitement
by any means and the furniture stores
aio besieged all day long by tho house-
keeper who are furnishing old looms
carrots and ecn the parlors and
drawing rooms aie being fixed up for
sleeping purposes by tho housewives
who are receiving for their rooms any
price from 20 a month to 100 a
month One prominent society lady
aesorts that she was offered 100 for
the use of a room for a month and
longer at the same rate while 20 Is
the price for an ordinary room Per-
haps It Is unfair to say it is the price
It Is more properly what is being paid
or bid for the places The women do
not charge that much but aro forced
to receive It by the lodger
Space In tho business part of the
city Is also meeting with tho same ex-
perience Every available place about
the Southern Pacific depot and the
leading hotel where the crowd congre-
gates Is being fitted up for offices and
standing places Small plazas In front
of the hotel have been rented and car-
penters are today at work building
floors and dividing the space off Into
small offices and deak rooms A largo
tent has been erected on the open lot
In front of tho opera bouse on Orleans
Btreet near the Oil Exchange and Is
fitted up into a restaurant where they
seem to bo doing a good business Old
barns and shanties In almost remote
parts of tho city are being repainted
and used for offices for oil companies
One company Just started Into business
has rented a dwelling house and sot
up business there For theso reasons
It Is said the boom is here In genuine
shape Every feature necessary to a
boom Is Here none is abajnt
There is no news from the oil field
todiy of nny importance Tho Kelley
well is not jet gushing though work
has been going on steadily all night
Tate of tlcilil Meeker
Chicago April 20 A special to tho
RecordHerald from Victoria D C
says A terrible story of the fate of
a party of six gold seekers In the Cop-
per river country comes from Dawson
whero tho sole survivor of tho Ilttlo
company has ai rived The party left
Seattle thiee jeais ago for Coppjr
river and according to this mans tale
the treacherous Valdez glacier claimed
one of the party for Its own Ho dis-
appeared In a fissure lu the Ice de-
scending a distance of seventyflvo foot
whero he became wedged between
walls of Ice He remained conscious
and gave final Instructions to his com-
panions who weie powerless to assist
Mm Tho next misadventure was on a
taft which was tossed over thunder-
ing lapids and broken to pieces against
tho jngged locks The five menkmado
a desperate fight for life but three of
them vvero never seen gain Two
leached shore ono of whom twas se-
verely injured Internally and the other
with a fractured arm They were be-
reft of all provisions hundreds of
miles from clvlllzaton After dajs of
untold suffering the spark of life In the
man lnjiimd Internally was mercifully
extlngulsned His lone partner for
thirteen days wandered on without
food After that his llfo became a
blank for a period of twelve months
and when his senses returned he found
himself among friendly Indians
MIkkIiik Hot Not 1 omul
New York April 20 So far no trace
has been found of the missing boy
Willie McCormlck who so mjsterlously
dlsappeaied weeks ago from his home
In a suburb of the city The rewards
for his letuin now aggregarte 10000
Clews continue to spring up from day
to day and thcio Is no letup to the
number of letters which his parents
contlnuo to receive but notwithstand-
ing these combined with the efforts
of tho police no idea of the fate of the
youngster can be gleaned In any di-
rection Tho boys uncle has offered a
toward of 3000 for his return a neigh-
bor 1000 and now the announcement
Is made by father James E Mullln of
the Church of the Sacred Heart High
bridge that ho will give 10000 for
tho captuie of the kidnaper or tho boy
The pi lest made the announcement Just
after he had a talk with the little fel-
lows mother and her grief was so
gieat that he declared that nothing
should stand In tho way of finding tha
boy
Dallas Opera Unlike Hurtled
Dallas Texas April 26 The Dal-
las opera house was destroyed by fire
this morning at 4 oclock When the
fire department arrived tho Interior of
the house was one seething mass of
flames and It was Impossible to check
them until they had consumed tho en-
tire building Manager George Ansy
was sleeping on the second floor and
on being arroused found escape Im-
possible by way of tho stairs He was
rescued by a fireman The building
was valued at 70000 Insured for
33000 and Is a total loss Phil
Greenvvnll arrived fiom Tort Worth
this morning and has been In confer-
ence with the directors all day Ho
stated that an uptodate opera house
would be erected as soon as possible
A roal yard next door estimates their
foss at 700
Ironhle lit VVcAt 1olilt
West Point N V April 28 So far
as can be learned there are no new
developments regarding the Investi-
gation Into tho recent breach of dis-
cipline among the corps of cadets The
Inquiry is being conducted behind
closed doors and tho cidets even aro
not permitted to discuss the matter
among themselves Cadet Robert It
Ralston who It Is said was reduced
to the ranks as a punishment for not
leportlng an Infiactlon of the rules In
the mess hall and on which account
the cadets have manifested so much
displeasure Is uncommunicative It Is
said that Cadet Ilalston was appointed
from Pennsylvania and is In the pres-
ent second class lu which he stands
near the top
Murderous llulriiprtt
Queen City Texas April 20 Yes-
terday morning about 120 oclock Ira
King the night watchman at Cabes
shingle mill was attacked by two
masked men who beat him over tho
head with a sixshooter He made
his escapo Then the men found a
young man by tho name of wood asleep
at the mill They woke him and told
him to leave and struck him on tha
head with their pistols As he ran
they shot several times at him two
shots taking effect Just above the right
knee breaking his leg
City Marshal Powell and H W Ray
hearing the shots and the cries of the
wounded man ran to the scene and
exchanged a few shots with the re-
treating men
The Submarine float
Now York April 27 John P Hol-
land the Inventor of the submarlno
torpedo boat Holland proclaimed his
view In a lecturo at ho Carnegie ly-
ceum last night that in tho course of
a few years submarine vessels would
supplant surface craft for short Jour-
neys by water He also said that
the submarine torpedo boat would bo
so formidable an Instrument of war
that tho only solution of the problem
of avoiding Its destructive effects
wuld be for nations with seaport
towns never to go to war at all As
soon as men overcome their fears and
learn to wo down beneath the water
as they now skim Its surface tho pio
giess of the submarlno In commerca
will be rapid said Mr Holland
Within the next ten years we shall
have made more progiess In submarine
navigation than has been made In tho
300 jears that have Just passed With-
in that period I expect to see sud
mailno boata In regular passenger
tiafllc
Firm VI n1 i r f 11
New York April 27 The Journal or
Commerce sajs It Is learned in this
city that the leport from Chicago that
plow manufacturer have decided tu
form a 30000000 consolidation 1 onl
paitially correct and that tho present
plans Instead of being merely for
consolidation of the plow Industry
contemplate a consolidation which
shall Include every branch of the farm
machinery trade with the exception of
mowers and leapers Tho reported
capital of 50000000 Is said to be a
minimum flguie There have been nu-
merous efforts to unite special
branches of tho farm machinery trade
but this Is the first attempt at a gen-
eral consolidation
IWcoiurH mi HiirtMM
EI Paso Texas Oprll 2T A tele-
gram received here from Seattle Wash-
ington today announced that little
Barbara Keller of EI Paso who was
adopted by Mr and Mrs J W Keller
thirteen jears ago was now almost a
rcllllonaliess A distant relative of
whom she Knew nothing died there a
few days ago leaving her nearly a
million dollars The little gill was
the daughter of veiy poor parents and
when sho was only five months old
they asked Mr and Mis Keller to
adopt her They had no children and
leadlly did so The uncle who left tho
money has often written here to know
of his niece but the famMj weio kept
In Ignorance of the fact
Kite Klteliuti Malinger
Lake Charles La April 27 At a
meeting of the directors of tho Rico
Association of America held today J
W Eggleston of Lake Charles was se-
lected as manager for the rice kitchen
at tho Buffalo Exposition to succeed
Captain J Henry Putnam of Crowley
ie ° Ig ed It has been known for sjmo
lime that Captain Putnam could not
affoid to letaln the position He lus
laige personal Interests at Beaumont
and In addition has been olferid tho
management of one of the largest rll
companies formed In New Orlems
Ccdonel Eggleston the new managT is
cupable lu every way of cailug t < > Hie
lice belts interests at the expoitlon
Viin t Americiiii f itpltnt
El Paso Texas April 27 General J
Baiaud minister of Justice and public
Institution for the Republic of Mex-
ico and Don J Domlngues a wealthy
banker and a member of tho Mexican
senate arrived here today en route
to Buffalo vvheio they will Interest
themselves In bringing American cap-
ital to Mexico during the exposition
General Baiande Is one of the foremost
men lu Mexico and has dono mora
than any othei one man to bring for-
eign capital to that countrj
llurk from riilllpplii
Lampasas Texas April 27 Clyd9
Wltcher son of C N Wltcher a prom-
inent ual estate man of Lampasas ar
llved home last night from the Phil-
ippine Islands where he seived eight-
een months as a soldier In Company E
Thirtythird Regiment U S V hav-
ing sailed from Maulla March 1 and
was musteied out of service at Sail
Francisco April 17 Young Wltcher
shows to have stood the haidshlps re-
markably well Is enjoying good health
and Is heartily welcomed home by a
host of friends
rrloiitf htubhliifr ant
Paris Texas April 27 In a diffi-
culty at Glory 10 miles south of Paris
at G oclock yesterday evening Dr B
E Van Burkles a prominent citizen ot
tho county 03 years old was stabbed
a number of times His wounds aro
believed to be fatal W M Smith was
arrested on a charge of assault to
murder The defendant Is his sonin
law and his wife instituted suit against
er husband for divorce a week ago
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Habermacher, J. C. Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 48, Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 1, 1901, newspaper, May 1, 1901; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth111488/m1/3/?q=About+the+Alto+Herald+Collection: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .