The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1909 Page: 2 of 10
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THE NOCONA NEWS
GOOD ITEMS OF NEWS
WALTER HODGES, Ed. end Pus
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WEEK'8
NOCONA.
TEXAS.
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MONEY, POWER AND WISDOM.
WHOLE WORLD THE FIELD
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NINE KILLED IN WRECK.
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Taylor market.
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platform from
Rain fell refreshingly in Dallas Fri-
a mustang grape
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kllhd City .Marshal Inford and prob
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a rate combination on Dec. 16, 1908.
Prosecuting Attorney R. E. Jeffry of
the Third Judicial Circuit Court filed
suits against these companies Thurs-
day in Little Rock, for penalties aggre-
sixty five
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insurance
combined
the taxable values of Texas property
will not amount to less than $2,298.
080,541. an increase of
over last year.
Great Loss to Farmers Is Caused by
Storm—Wire Service
Impaired.
Farmers Use Cotton Bagging.
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anthems of both countries by hundreds capital of $ 156,000,000, doing business
of Mexican and American school chil- I in the State of Arkansas, entered into
Current Domestic and Foreign New*
Boiled Down to Readable and
Small Space.
ENTIRE WEEK'8 HAPPENINGS
THAT ARE WORTH PASSING
NOTICE.
Woman Fatally Burned.
Taylor: Friday night Mrs. Beyer."H*
aged 60 years, the wife of Gus Bey**-
of Beyersvllle, attempted to extinguish
a lamp filled with kerosene oil by
blowing down the chimney, when the
lamp exploded, covering her head,
face and body with the flaming fluid.
She -was horribly burned before res
cue came and after suffering the most
excruciating pain she died at 7 o’clock
Saturday morning.
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CLOUDBURST AT ROTAN.
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Business in Chinatown, New York,
is said to be stagnant ns n result of
•car bred by the revelation* iuci
dent to the Elsie Sigel murder. Shop
men arc idle and rentaurants are
without patrons. The good Chinn men
are goffering with the wicked, and
Hie entire colon*' in receiving a leexon
which udmonixhcK aid to the nutix r-
I tire In keeping °»t agitator* of th*
varkMM tonga, aud luaintulBteg law
•ad order.
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Values of Texas Property.
Austin: According to figures com ,
piled In the Controllor's Department.
By-
Dallas Man Finds Pearl.
Denison: A special to the Herald
from Boswell. Ok.. Friday says; A.
L. Woodall of Dallas, while searching
Schools Are Being Notified.
Austin: The State Department of
Public Education has begun the work
of notifying the counties and inde-
pendent school districts over the State
of the amount that they will receive
$208,000 Land Transaction.
Plain view. The largest cash land
: transaction ever made in Hale County
has just been closed, the purchaser
being J. L. Wilkin, a banker and cap
! italist of Oklahoma City. A. E. Harp
s reser-
voir. The family moved to Taylor two. - *
years ago from LaGrange. &
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here and there the spirit
Raisuli's exi^pit in Morocco,
latest East Indian attempt and
modern train hold up are survivals of
the former practices, and the last-
mentioned is the most dating and
dangerous
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Horse Shew for Hillsboro.
IIIIL'boro: The second annual horse
show lor Hillsboro is announced L/d>-
be held on Reptmber 30, beginning
•-arly in the morning and continuing
Woman's Body Found in Water.
Taylor: Stripped of all clothing but
Assistant Postmasters to Meet
Waco: John D. Lamar Jr. and John
F. Horsfull, assistant postmasters, re
spectlvely, of Rosebud and Waco,
joined in a call for a meeting of as- -K —
sistant postmasters of Texas to take
place in this city Monday, Aug. 23
The object of the meeting is to organ-
ize a State Association of Assistant
Postmasters.
A telegram received al '
(-,.l />—n * i,.,on gun-I
that John j
under the $6.25 per capita apportion-
Iment made by the State Board of Ed-
juration lor each child enrolled on th.\
school census. W
The whale fisheries “petered out'
years ago, when mineral oils and
other products took the place of the
oil gathered from the cetaceans. To
be sure, there are still a number of
vessels engaged in the business, and
there also is a moderate demand for
the oil, whalebone and other products
they secure. But the industry has no
such proportions as in the days of old.
Now it begins to look as though the
sealing industry were also doomed to
extinction. An experienced captain
of a sealing craft who has just re-
turned from Halifax after a ten
months’ cruise, says the business in
the South Atlantic at least is unprofit-
able and will soon become a thing
of the past. In this he is sustained
by other veteran seal hunters. The
main reliance, apparently, is to be on
:he Alaskan sealing grounds, and care
will have to be taken to prevent their
depopulation.
Ono Man la Dead and SOO Feet of
Railway Washed Away.
Rotan: A« a result of a elomkb'trtjFf,./
and small cyclone, which struck
place Saturday afternoon, one mat) is
dead and three others more or less r
seriously injured, 500 feet of track on
the Texas Central Railroad is washed
away and the entire town Is three feet
under water, all travel being of neces-
sity by means of canoes. Several
houses, including the Presbyteriap.
church, wore demolished and many
others suffered to some extent from
the wind and water. There is no
stream, but the volume of water that
fell was so tremendous that the flat
in which he town is located became
a small sea.
HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL CAUSE
LOSS TO PROPERTY
OWNERS.
ably fault) wounded t'axhlcr Cnlmcr which have call-d
“ h.«(W foot Of pip*.
Two Drownings Reported.
Sherman: f
the office of Col. Cecil A.
day tneagerly announces
Donaldson and Robert Hines were
drowned near Shafter. Donaldson was
for many years a resident of Sher-
man and postmaster for six years.
still is
wealth.
triumph-
ant. Without wisdom the power of
money is lawless and destructive—a
curse to its possessor and an evil ex-
ample to the world.
storm.
and Rio Grande near Husted, thirteen tuken back to the
miles north of this city, Saturday.
Two Passenger Trains Collide
Great Damage Done.
Colorado Springs, Colo.: Nine
Dallas and Harris Counties Lead.
Austin: Texas now has two conn j
ties whose taxable values excei-rl ;
$100,00'3,000 according to the estimates
i for pearls in jjie Kiamichi River, found
■ one about the size of a mustang grape*
, which is said to be worth $1,000.
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tion Kiiturday in St. Ixnils.
A warning lias been issued by I he
Washington Weather Bureau, saying
that disturbance i« now south of and
near Porto Kl<«», ntid is moving west-
ward. It Is < onxldeied daitgcrotiN for
' •■<>-< Is navigating In the various part*
of the greater Antilles during the next
t*o days, and probably later off the
Southern co*if.
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about $40,000.
While a Houston and Texas Central
northbound freight train was moving
through Chambers Creek bottom near
Corsicana. Wednesday, and while it
was on the bridge across Chambers
Creek, a gasoline tank exploded. The
force of the explosion threw some of
the cars from the truck. One man
was badly burned, a car of hogs was
burned and other freight was also
burned.
Sixteen Governors have accepted in-
It would hardly be thought neces-
sary for anyone now to advise young
men about to leave college to "honor
money, honor money-getting and hon-
or power;” yet such was the strongest
note of the baccalaureate orator at an
eastern college, says the New Y’ork
World. If there is anything on the
earth or under the earth that on com-
ing Americans do not need to have
urged upon them it is love of money
and love of power. This may be said
without indorsing in any respect the
malicious and, for the greater part, in-
sincere attacks upon wealth so often
made by demagogues and hypocrites.
The passion for money and the obses-
sion of money-getting have become al-
together too conspicuous as American
traits. They bring little content to
those who are thus afflicted and they
awaken resentment in the breasts of
millions. In spite of new teachings
and practices, knowledge
power. Supplemented by
knowledge becomes power
Without wisdom the
shape Wednesday when bids for the ! ed bank at Kiefer, died
construction wa re opened in Washing-1 l ues<lay evening.
Tiie new town of Hester, ten miles
southeast of Mangum, Okla., will be
opened about September 20. The town-
site people have secured about 160
acres.
Engineer P. G. Burns of the Stam-
ford and Northwestern Railway, says
that road would he completed into
Girard by Sept. 1, a distance of sixty-
eight miles from Stamford.
A severe electrical stonu
over Trion, in Chatta County, Ga.,
Monday, and as a. result two mon are
dead and five injured, one seriously,
from a stroke of lightning.
The 2-year-old baby of J. R. Jones,
near Argyle, died Tuesday of diphthe-
ria, which the physician who attended
the case believes was contracted from
a sick cat. .
John fl. Noe, white man, was badly
injured in Austin Wednesday, by the
explosion of a piece of dynamite which
he raked into a pile of burning trash
unwittingly.
By a vote of 612 to HI. the property
taxpayers of Fort Worth decided fa-
vorably Thursday on the issuance of
$650,000 of bonds for public improve-
The proportion was 5Vz to 1
in favor of the issue.
News was received Thursday that
Bolton Harris had been killed near
Pleasant Grove. He was shot twice
with a double-barreled shotgun, one
charge taking effect in the breast and
one under the left arm.
As a result of the "harmony" agree-
ment between George J. Gould and E.
H. Harriman, there is understood to
have been a change in the ownership
of the Texas and Pacific, long con-
trolled in the Gould family, which, it
is now said, goes to E. H. Harriman.
The Burlington Road, during the .
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New York, Bow Kim, 21 years old.
Two robbers, surprised while looting
the State Bank at Kiefer, Ok., near
Tulsa, Okla., Monday, shot and killed
City Marshal Inford and probably fa-
tally wounded Cashier Calmer Web-
ling.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
in Mexico at an early hour Monday.
It is believed to have been the same
as that registered by the seismo-
graphic instrument at the University
at Washington.
Palmer Webling, cashier of the
__ _ Kiefer, Okla., Bank, who was wounded
thorized by Congress, took their first Monday night by robbers who attempt-
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Gslnesvitlc 8:wer Extension. j
1 •uln< H'.illi-: Tin- thlorlesx
hIkiui comph ted <jx-
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for the Isylng Bfl
Graham: Mrs. George Gage was
fatally burned here early Sunday morn
Ing while kindling a tire by the ex-
plosion of a coal oil can and died at
noon Monday. Her husband was bad-
ly burned in trying to extinguish the
flames.
ton. The vessels each will cost $6,- j Ten thousand acres near San Angelo,
000,000 exclusive of armor ami anna- ! owned by Lee Bros., are to be cut.
ment. I up and sold off in small strips to farm-
Wilbur and Orville Wright, the avi-1 ers- at Prices ranging from $12 to $20
gators, have begun action in the I;nit- *,ei acre- This property is on the
ed States Circuit Court in New York i Middle Concho.
men believed to have been
Brownsville Flood Situation.
Brownsville: The river at
point remains at a standstill
nearly all the land west of the rail-
road and out to West Brownsville
der water.
ten on the streets Saturday was a , low pool of water in Bull Branch,
great number of the bales now being , small stream a short distance below
brought in are wrapped in cotton bag- the Taylor Water Company’s
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l»er- ,
sons are dead and others are expect- '
ed to die, between forty and fifty ate
injured, three engines are in the
ditch, two baggage cars, including the
contents, are Smashed to kindlingwood
and several passenger coaches are
badly damaged as the result of a
head-on collision I
The department of agriculture is
' (inducting an experiment in the culti-
vation of blueberries in its green
houses in Washington, and the chief
botanist sayg the outlook Is promis-
ing. The aim Is not to greatly in-
crease the size of the berry, but to
improve the flavor, if possible. An im-
portant discovery is the fact that the
blueberry requires an acid soil, which
agriculturists generally seek to miti-
gate as the first step toward general
cultivation. A fungus on the roots of
ihe blueberry enables the plant to as
simllate the food which It draws from
fhe acid soil. Success is therefore in-
licated on nearly worthless areas pos-
sessed of the proper soil elements on
which the necessary acidity can be
'■etained. In other words, blueberry
•ulture may be profitable on soils
which are good for nothing else and
’or that reason have been practically
abandoned. The experiment at Washi-
ngton hints at something profitable
*n the future for the owners of cut-
over lands in some of the old timber
sections of the country.
A story coming from the east sounds
like an echo of the gtrenuous past.
The report is to the effect that pi-
rates in North Borneo, East Indies,
have captured an American citizen.
To this is added that a British war-
ship is on the track of the pirates
and will co-operate with Americans in
fforts at rescue. The old days of
brigandage and piracy have disap-
peared, no doubt, forever. But now
and then a deed of the sori In ques-
tion serves to remind the world that
survives,
the
fhe
begun an investigation of tho typhoid WINDSTORM AT TAYLOR
fever reported in Austin. He will make
an Investigation of each case, especial-
ly to trace origin.
George Gibson, for years foreman
at the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
coal chute in Muskogee, at a salary
of $60 a month, has been left an estate
valued at $450,000.
The State Bank of Karlslad, Minn.,
was broken into early Wednesday. The
robbers secured $1,500 in cash and
made their escape. A posse has been
organized and is in pursuit.
Harry B. Abbott, who was
burned Jate Tuesday night in the de-
struction of his home in Dallas, when
he endeavored to save his crippled
son, Thomas, died Wednesday night.
Monday was the hottest day of the
year in Muskogee, the thermometer
registering Hl in the shade. An em-
ploye of the Midland Valley Railroad
was overcome by heat.
The 12-year-old son of W. H Mulli-
ken of Cumby was serously hurt in a
very unusual manner Tuesday. He
had a 32-caliber cartridge in his Aouth.
which exploded.
The Central Texas Poultry and Pet
Stock Association will hold its next
show in Corsicana, Dec. 8, 9, 10 and
11. J. Marshall of College Park, Ga.,
has been selected as judge.
P. A. Newman, of Brownsville, made
another attempt to operate his airship
and did get up a short distance, but
just as he did a gust of wind struck
the machine and overpowered one of
the propellers and the machine came
down, breaking one of the wheels.
has been a revival of the
of getting a creamery for
Many of the farmers near
are also interesting them-
selves in bringing the matter to
successful termination.
Reports from the cotton-growing
counties of Alabama indicate varying
conditions of the crop, but, on the
whole, the last week has brought im-
provement.
Five deaths, one at Memphis, two
at Little Rock, one at Jackson, Miss.,
and the other at Durant, Ok., were
caused by the intense heat wave which
continued to sweep the South Wednes-
day.
Chinatown boiled over again early
Sunday morning over the murder of
the most beautiful Chinawoman in
Tank Car Explodes: Train Wrecked.
( j Corsicana: While a Houston and
,Ul Toxas Central notthbound freight
train was moving through Chambers
i Creek bottom Wednesday, and while,
it was on the bridge across Chambers
j Creek, a gasoline tank exploded. The
' force of the explosion threw some of
the cars from the track. One man was
badly burned, a car of hogs was burn
ed and other freight was also burned.
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Brownwood:
the death list of the Zephyr cyclo Jl-”-'
.cun <„ „ Monday when the little son of _
between castbound ian^ Mrs. John Hanks died from the
passenger train No. 8 and westbound Effects of injuries received during the
passenger train No. 1 on the Denver i storin- The child recently had to be
- sanitarium to un-
dergo an operation on the head. The-
itild was buried at Zephyr.
Report Loss of $1,075.
Dallas: Albert A. Roebes irporp.d ■'
to the police Sunday that on Satur-
day night his room hud been entered
■nd several things taken, the greatest
loss being that of $1,075, most of it in
$10 and $20 bills.
Taylor, Aug. 23.—This city and sec-
tion was visited Saturday by a terrific
wind, hail and rainstorm, which caused
great damage to opening cotton and
considerable loss to property. With
♦lie wind from the northwest at a ve-
locity of fifty miles an hour, the rain
fell in torrents and blinding sheets of
water to a volume of two inches in
less than an hour's time. Conserva-
tive farmers estimate that from one-
third to one-half of the cotton crop is
destroyed. The electric light plant
was crippled and the city is in dark-
ness. Both telephone companies and
both the Western Union and Postal
Telegraph Companies have prostrated
‘wires. Two negro churches in East
TayJor, the Methodist and the Chris-
tian. wore demolished by lightning and
wind. A half dozen dwellings in '
Northwest Taylor were razed or
blown from their blocks. The fire sta-
tion of hose company No. 4, in tho
West Side, was twisted away and bad
ly demolished. Stores and offices were
flooded and many windows
smashed. The smokestacks
electric light plant and the National
compress wore struck by
and damaged. Advices from
farming district south of Taylor are |
that hail did great damage to crops. I
The seed house of the Taylor Cotton •
Oil Works collapsed, crushing an
tomobile owned by the manager.
dren will be the feature of the meet-
ing of the two Presidents at El Paso
and C. Juarez on the international bor-
der, Oct. 16, according to the state-
ment of Congressman Ignacio de la ;
Harar, brother of the Mexican Ambus- ’ gating $65,000,000 under the anti-trust
sador to the United States. ■ statute.
A disastrous fire occurred in Grove- I
ton Friday night, destroying a block ' day, beginning shortly after noon. The
of five brick mercantile building worth ' precipitation was light, but very bene-
‘ fleial in its reduction of temperature—
the thermometer registered 86 de-
grees at 4 p. m.
Three young women and one-man,
the driver of the car. met death and
two young women narrowly escaped
a similar fate in Seattle, Wash Fri-
day, when a large touring car going
at a high speed crashed hrough the
railing of the long trestle over the
tide-flats at the point known to auto-
mobile drivers as "Dead Man's Curve.”
Two lives were lost and two records
vitations to join the party uf President broken during the Inauguration of the
Taft on Ills trip down tho Mississippi Indianapolis Motor Speedway Thurs
Riw*r next October, according to an 1 day. William A. Bourque, driver of
announcement made by the Lakes to the Knox car in the 250-mlle race, and
the Gulf !>■<j, Waterways Aseoclu- i Harry Holcomb, his mechanician, were
of
against the Aeronautic Society of No. j The eight
2 East Twenty-Ninth street for in-; suffocated in tho fire which destroyed
fringement of their patent rights as : the Paraiso shafe of the Camelia mine
applied to "heavier-than-air flying ma- °i the Monte Real group in Mexico,
chines.” j have been accounted for. Three were
The erection of a platform from ! killed and twenty injured as a result
which 50,000 persons may see Presi- , ^^saster.
Alleging that
Gulf Deep Waterways Assoclu-1 Harry Holcomb, his mechanician,
killed in the frenzied carnival
speed.
Three men died of the heat In Ht.
Ixiuis Monday which, added to the
nine deaths flaturday and Hunday,
make a total of twenty-one iwisons
who have succumbed during the heat
wave. There Is no intimation of, ro-
ller, (hough a shower Hunday cooled
the uUnoopiMro for a few hours.
Road, <
last fiscal year, carried approximately
twenty million passengers without
killing one. This remarkable record
was equaled, so far as known through
any offleal announcement, by but one
road, the Pennsylvania.
The river at Pueblo, Colo., rose
seven feet above the normal, but there
was no flood in the immediate vicin-
Great damage is re-
ported, however, in the neighborhood
of Canon City, forty miles from there,
where the Arkansas overflowed its
banks and a steel bridge washed away.
Two more American dreadnaughts,
the Wyoming and the Arkansas, au- ■
Since the opening of the
cotton season here ten days ago up- !
ward of 300 bales of the new crop of a skirt, the lifeloss body of Mrs. F.
cotton have found their way into the | Sauer, aged 15 years, wife of Ritz
A noticeable feature Sauer of North Taylor, was found Mon-
of the many wagons loaded with cot- day floating on the surface of a shal-
tcr. the streets Saturday was a , low pool of water in Bull Branch, a
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and Dr. R. H. Wilkin conveyed a one
I third interest in 17,712 acres of land
at $20 per acre, 100 work horses, 75
were
of the !
i 1,000 two year-old steers and
lightning
I sideration is $208,080 cash.
Improvement at Rochelle.
Brady: The litfh town of Roehelle
l« In ih*' midst of quite a lot of Im-
■.... ' number of rceldenees
uro under < onxtruction and several
bUMliii-H* hmttti-. will be >'rec ted in linm
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Bank Robbert In Oklahoma. --------
TuImh. Okla.: Two robbers xurprixid
while looting the Htatc Bank at Ki«
ter. Ok . n*-«r hnre, Mouduy. »hm uml < ago Uompuiiy hbx
, t<'iiwion.« lute NorthMM
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