The Banner-Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 1915 Page: 1 of 44
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rosperity Edition
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THE BANNER-LEDGER
VOUUMN 35
BALLINGER, RUNNELS COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1915.
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m 27 Billion FOR INIGHT RIDERS DESTROY
NINE 81UION CROP
CHARLESTON, S. C., Dec. 13.
—Nine billion dollars is the price
American farmers get for their
crops every year, while enough is
PROPERTY IN OKLAHOMA
By United Prey*
ADA, Okla., Dec. 15.—Serious
added by the middleman so that, trouble is threatened in Pontotoc
the consumers pay twenty-seven
county as result of night riders
destroying property and threat-
ening lives of county officials for
enforcing cattle dipping law.
Sheriff Bob Duncan today de-
putized special officials and sent
them to every part of the coun-
ty in an effort to round up the
night riders and keep down fur-
ther trouble. The barn^s of the
billion dollars for the same crop,
according to the statement of
rural credit and marketing ex-
perts before the Southern Com-
mercial Congress, which opened
here today. The House of Sou-
thern Governors also began a 5
day meeting. Cotton, credits,
and commerce will be the big
subjects discussed by both bodies.
Peace and prosperity also will
have place on the program.
Members of the congress were
told by speakers favoring rural
credit legislation that the far-
mer gets thirty-five cents and the
middleman sixty-five cents of
each dollar the consumer pays
for the farmer’s crops. There is
an enormous amount of waste,
especially in perishable products,
because of the lack of a central,
directing market intelligen c e ,
they said.
Miss Louise G Lindsley, Nash-
ville, president of the Woman’s
auxiliary, opened the meeting of
the organization this afternoon.
Mrs. Julia Heath, New York,
president of the National House-
wive’s League; Miss Kate Gor-
don, New Orleans; Mrs. John
&TennaeLdee;Mri.DRAeMc! . A™EXS-
Dougal, Oklahoma: and other |-“(E to reports puhl,shad here l.y
county commissioners have been
burned by the night riders and
dipping vats dynamited various
times. The cattlemen who fa-
vor the dipping of cattle are
aroused, and it is feared that
further depredation by the night
riders will result in civil war-
fare.
The trouble started when the
county officials undertook to en-
fore the cattle dipping law, and
those opposing the law began
night ridding as a protest-
PEACE SHIP
ARRIVES IN
EN6LAND
D00TLE6GER
IS CAPTURED
AFTERCHASE
KIRKLAND, England, Dee. 15.
—Oscar II, the Ford peace ship,
arrived in the Kirkwall harbor
today. It is not known how long
the ship will remain here, or when
the members of the party will
come ashore.
prominent Southern women, also!
spoke.
Tonight Dr Nicholas Murrav i,ized unedr an a?reeme»t
ionignt ur. .Mcnoias ALurraj AAn0|1nimQf0/i Kafumnn
Butler of Columbia University,
New York, will speak on “The
consummated between the alleis
and Greece. Greece issued de-
p. „ , A’ , , ! mobilization orders several da vs
Of Sh. "? T, er »«0, and orders are being carried
hr*hf5"r:,ernu •’Tf »»*; which verities the reports
in an informal discussion of
“Cotton, Commerce, and Rural
Credits.”
WOMAN IN NEED GETS FREE
TICKET.
carried by the papers-
WASHINGTON, Dec- 13—A
report is current here this after,
noon that Baron Zwiedink, in
charge of Austrian affairs, has
Sheriff Perkins acted as a char- asked Secretary Lansing for pass-
ity committee Monday and cir-( ports that will carry him safely
culated among his friends and back to Austria
raised sufficient money by free
will offering to help an unfor-
tunate woman on her way to reL
atives.
A woman by the name of Mrs.
This came following a long con-
f^ence between Lansing and
Zwiedink. Neither of the officials
will talk, but it is known that the
Ancona care has developed into
Davis came into Ballinger on the | a big one. It is not known how
A. & S. She told a pitiful story l Germany advised Austria to ans-
of how she failed in her efforts i wer the American note, and the
to find employment, was ill and' part that government is playing
trying to get to her relatives at j in the controversy over the sink-
Stephenville, or some other town 1 ing of the Anoona.
on the map. She boarded the I _____ _
train at Winters, according to I ATHENS, Dec. 13—It is be-
her story, and reached Ballinger
with sixty-five cents in cash.
li®ved that the entire army of the
allies will be withdrawn from
She went to the court house Serbia b®fore tonight. The army
where she called for the sheriff has been hastily evacuating for the
past twenty-four hours, following
a gradual retirement of more than
a week.
and told her troubles. Mr- Per-
kins said he did not have time to
get the charity committee to take
charge of the case, and in order
to get the object of charity off his | ABOARD OSCAR II.—(Wire-
hands he raised the money, and, less), Dec. 13.—Several delegates
sent the woman on her way re- i of the Ford peace party on board
joicing : the Ford peace ship, are perpar-
- ing to quit the Ford party when
A. L. Kerlev and his nephews, the Oscar II. arrives at Christi-
f’. B. and C L. Iladdick, and J ! ana, and will return to America
D. Morgan and son Clifton of on the first ship.
Wortham, Texas. wei;e among! The dissatisfied members of the
visitors in Ballinger Monday, party allege that extreme pacifi-
Messrs. Iladdick and Morgan cists have adopted an insulting
were en route to the Devil’s attitude to every body upholding
River country on a hunting trip President Wilson's preparedness
of a few weeks. | program.
---j Mr. Ford sent a wireless to all
J. D- Miller, the Norton drug- European rulers asking them to
gist, was transacting business in declare immediate truce and ap-
Ballinger Tuesday and placed an point peace representatives to
ad in the want columns of The meet his party and representa-
\ A wooden-leg bootlegger caus-
ed considerable excitement here
Thursday night, after having
been captured, escaping and be-
1 ing recaptured at Abilene
City Marshall B. W. Pilcher,
had received information that a
certain negro bootlegger was
j working the city, and following
up the clue Mr. Pilcher succeeded
I in deputizing two white boys to
help in running down the offen-
der. Mr. Pilcher marked two
half-dollars and gave them to the
i boys to buy the whiskey from the
“nigger,” and disguising himself
waited the result of the trails-
I action within earshot. The deal
j went through all right, and just
j as the liquor was in the hands of
the deputies, they proceeded to
| arrest the illicit dealer. But it
seemed the city marshall was
farther away than the officers
i had figured on and as it was dark
Mr. Pilcher could not be found.
When the negro was arrested,
he became “wise” to the affair
and threw both marked coins as
far as he could send them in the
darkness- One of the half-dol-
lars was afterwards recovered,
and is now in possession of the
officers.
A plan to hold Mr. Bootlegger
and one of the boys to go get the
marshall, who they had supposed
had gone back to town, was deeid
ed on, and the negro was taken
by one boy up near Ed Cook’s
restaurant on Seventh Street,
i while the other went to the city.
While this was transpiring a
crowd of other negroes, some of
whom are known, had slipped up
on the deputy and proceeded to
beat him over the head with fists
and missiles. The negro boot-
I legger escaped in the melee.
! Mr. Pilcher thinking to appre-
j bend him down the Santa Fe a
! few miles went to Talpa Friday
I morning, but returned without
i game. However, the sheriff, J. 1).
j Perkins had phoned to Abilene in
rhe meantime and officers there
| took the fugitive bootlegger in
■ charge, and he will rest in the
Ballinger jail tonight.
The negro it seemed after the
escape had boarded the north -
i bound A. & S. at the water tank
here and had “beat it.”
Sheriff Perkins returned from
Abilene Friday with the negro
ATTEMPT TO WRECK
PASSENGER TRAIN
(Abilene Reporter.)
A dastardly attempt to over-
turn the northbound Wichita Val-
let passenger train Tuesday morn-
ing came so near to being suc-
cessful that the rear coach over-
hung a high embankment and was
only prevented from over-turning
by its connection with the cars
ahead.
As it was, about fifteen points
of rails were torn up and all of i
the four coaches derailed-
Felix Jones of Abilene was the !
only passenger who was injured,
I receiving wounds about the head,
lower limbs and back. He was
brought to his home here and giv-
en medical attention. Attending
physicians stated that unless he
had received internal injuries his
wounds were not necessarily dan-
gerous. . Mr. Jones was in the
toilet of the smoking car and be-
ing unable to get out quickly,
was thrown from side to side by
the pbmging of the car over the
ties.
It was an obvious attempt to
wreck the train. A!: the spikes
the outside or the left rial
“KID” BLACKBURN
Kills HIMSELF
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had been removed, as had also the
angle bat* which connects the
rails together.
The wreck occurred just north
of the city limits beyond North
Park, between the Hamilton field
on the right and the Smith farm
on the left- For several hundred
yards the track is on a dump
ranging from six to eight feet in
height, being about six or seven
feet at the point where the wreck
took place. The derailment oc-
curred at about 6:55 o’clock, the
train having left the station at
Abilene on its schedule time, 6:30
a. m.
As usual there was a large
number of passengers, men wo-
men and children, aboard the
coaches. That many of them
were not seriously injured or kill
ed was no fault of the plan to
wreck the train.
This was not the first attempt
to wreck the trains along this
stretch of track, according to lo-
cal Wichita Valley officials. About
five weeks ago the spikes of a
rail on the curve just north of
the scene of Tuesday’s wreck
were removed.- The fact that the
rail was on the inner side of the
curve prevented the wrecking of
the first train over, a W. V. pas-
senger train. The trap was dis-
covered just before the Abilene &
Southern train, which uses the
W. V. track north to Anson, came
along.
The track has been under sur-
veliance of private detectives for
some time, it was stated on re-
liable authority Tuesday.
There were few clues to the
perpetrator of the deed which
came so near to causnig a disas-
trous wreck Tuesday morning. To
the left of the track is a corn-
field, and tracks of a buggy lead
down across the field to the right
of way fence, opposite the place
where the rail was lossened.
Sheriff J. T Dodson and other
officers made an investigation
shortly after the wreck, the sher-
iff stating that it was undoubted-
ly an attempt to wreck the train.
He gave out no further informa-
tion.
Ledger to sell his residence-
tives from neutral nations.
(Continued on last page.)
Word wa3 »*cceh,cd at Ballin-
ger this morning that H. J. (Kid)
Blackburn, a former citizen of
this place, shot and killed him-
self 4:15 o’clock Thursday even-
ing, at his home at Valera.
.. Blackburn sent his wife and
two children off to a neighbor’s
on some trivial pretext, and when
his son about grown, came in
a few minutes later, the father
asked the boy to get him writing
material, and sent him also, off
to town. When the family re-
turned after a short period of
perhaps fifteen minutes, Black-
burn was found dead, with a
bullet hole through his forehead
and out the back of his head
The deed was committed with a
.44 calibre six-shooter and only
one shot was fired, according to
reports from the scene of the
suicide.. He was found lying on
a bed in a side room of his home.
The deceased had only a few
days ago received notice that his
case which had been carried to
a higher court for appeal had
been affirmed ,and that he was
convicted of the charge of steal-
ing stock, and he had also been
indicted in connection with the
murder of John Bryson, a weal-
thy stockman of Oomanche.
Bryson was reputed to be a mil-
lionaire, and had extensive ranch
properties in Concho County,
and was asleep at one of his
ranch houses wh®n he was killed.
.. Blackburn had received sen-
tence of five years in the peni-
tentiary for the horse-theft
charge and this is thought to be
a probable reason for his taking
of his own life.
There have been no new devel-
opments relative to the suicide
of IL J. (Kid) Blackburn Sat-
urday. Blackburn’s body was
carried through Brown wood Fri-
day night, en route to Brady for
interment. A party of relatives
and friends from Bradv and oth-
er points in McCulloch County
were here to meet the remains
and accompany them to Brady-
The party included Mrs. Black-
burn and son, Ernest Blackburn,
of Pasche, Texas; J. E. White
and Mrs. F. R. Wulff of Brady;
J. B. Wallace of Eden; W. H.
Rush of Valera; brought the
body to Brownwood and accom-
panied the funeral party t o
Brady.
The contents of the note which
Blackburn is said to have writ-
ten before he took his life can
not be ascertained. Local auth-
orities assert that they have not
learned the contents of the note,
and no information can be gained
from authorities of the counties
west and south of here.—Brown-
wood Bulletin
ANOTHER FARMER IN GOOD
SHAPE.
Mr. and Mrs. W .L. Lollar of
the Marie country, came in Tues-
day to accompany their daugh-
ter,\J\Irs. Frank Osgood, who left
on the afternoon train for her
home in Montana.
W- F. Atnip of the Valley
Creek country, was transacting
business in Ballinger Saturday
and says he has 100 acres in oats
that are looking fine since the re-
cent rain. lie has plenty of feed
stuff to run his place, plenty of
hogs for his meat supply and
eight hogs to make his meat for
another year-
Mr. Atnip says he has one dog,
which makes a good proportion
to his hogs.
Julius Brosig. the big stock-
fanner of the Lipan Flat country,
was transacting business in Bal-
linger Tuesady.
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