Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 1903 Page: 2 of 4
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CATTLE TO BE EXPELLED.
THE PHILIPPINES.
ALLIES’ BLOCKADE
A FAILURE IN EAST TEXAS.
Elpne Evalanche.
J. M. CARNES, Publisher.
TEXAS
ALPINE,
HOPE TO HASTEN HIS DECISION
The comptroller's reply is
‘Poll tax can be paid anc
other tax returned delinquent."
had half a million dollars tied uP
men
month ago, a great part of
in logs a
the number was Virgil Gallaher, seDr
fenced to 25 years for the murder of
his mother, Mrs. Kate Gallaher, m
If some of the stories told before
the anthracite strike commission by
the miners are true, the Almighty
must have forgotten something when
he made out President Baer’s divine
commission.
If Brother Smoot is already having
a hard time dodging the brickbats of
the purity league and bands of hope
it is evident that he will have to go to
Washington in an armor-clad car if
he is actually elected to the senate
King Alfonso has a cabinet crisis
on his hands, but it will take some-
thing worse than that to spoil his
taste for cigarettes.
Mr. Carnegie’s digestion is reported
to be impaired. Evidently he has been
eating something besides Scotch oats.
But after all Sir Hiram Maxim is
not the only foreign celebrity who has
come to this country with the inten-
tion of flying high.
un-
as
George Gould walks to and from his
office every day. We always knew we
resembled George in our habits.
The Ohio man who advertises for a
wife with money enough to offset his
brains should apply at the nearest
almshouse.
That French movement for universal
peace might first try its hand on tne
chamber of deputies.
May Yohe and Captain Strong are
preparing to go upon the vaudeville
stage. The vaudeville stage has much
to answer for, but really it doesn't de-
serve this. -
The woman with a past is often the
most eager to tackle a future.
World-wide sympathy is expressed for
Doukhobors in their efforts to Chris-
tianize Canada.
To Encourage Cotton In Soudan.
Paris, Jan. 5.—It is said that Jules
Siegfried, Richard Paddington and Fe-
lix Melin, as well as other deputies and
senators and a number of leading cot-
ton manufacturers, have formed a colo-
nial cotton association, with a view to
resisting the American cotton monop-
oly by aiding the development of the
growing of cotton in the French colo-
nies, and especially in the Soudan.
A good epitaph is all right in its
place, but it comes so late.
Newport has established an asylum
for dogs and cats, and it is now in
order for the dogs and cats to estab-
lish an asylum for some of their own-
ers.
COV.TAFT’S RECOMMENDATIONS
CASTRO TO BE GIVEN A TASTE
OF THE ALLIES’ POWER.
Fort Worth.—A week of prayer la
now being observed by the Protestant
churches of the city.
Naval Officers Claim a State of War
Exists and Acts of War Ought
to Follow.
Gallaher Taken to Pen.
San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 5.— Five
penitentiary convicts were taken from
the county jail by Penitentiary Agent
Davis yesterday and will be taken to
McKinney—Prof. F. D. Shepperd haz
resigned his position ass uperintend-
ent of the city public schools.
Lord Curzon has found King Solo-
mon’s throne, and flatters himself
that it will prove to be a good fit.
paid?”
follows:
The Britons whipped the Boers, but
the latter are getting a terrible re-
venge. They’re all writing books and
selling them to the English.
Logs Coming Down.
Lake Charles, La., Jan. 5.—Heavy
rains falling during the past few days
have started a hundred thousand logs
toward Lake Charles from North Cal-
casieu out of creeks and bayous where
they have lain for three years without
water enough to float them. It is esti-
mated the Lake Charles banks and mill
Washington, Jan. 5.—The Pniippine
commission in its annual report, which
is the third it has made, says at the
outset:
“The insurrection, as an organized
attempt to subvert the authority of the
It was indeed a brilliant society
event in London when Capt. Tew and
Miss Ward were made one.
mark’s friends to be the cause of the
failure.
The following telegram received yes-
terday by Mr. June C. Harris, one of
the law firm who has charge of the
books, papers and accounts of the
bank here, from Mr. A. Wettermark
of Henderson, is self explanatory:
“I have been forced to suspend on
account of conditions at Nacogdoches.
As soon as the assets and liabilities
Miss Morse and Mrs. Wu.
New Orleans, La., Jan. 5.—Mrs. Wu
Ting Fang, wife of the former Chinese
ambassador to the United States, ar-
rived here yesterday morning en route
to San Francisco. She took the Sunset
Umited. She was met at the depot by
Passenger Traffic Manager S. F. B.
Morse of the Southern Pacific, who,
with his daughter, will accompany the
distinguished Chinese lady to the West,
Some years ago Miss Morse traveled
through China as a special guest of
Mrs. Wu and will now act as hostess
to the wife of the celebrated Chines®
diplomat. Mrs. Wu is accompanied by
a retinue of servants and a special
cicerone, who will care for her comfort
and safety throughout the trip across
the continent and across the Pacitla
ocean to Hong Kong.
class have received the passage of the the places of their confinement. Among
Philippine act with great satisfaction,” ----
A fire in a large Chicago brewery is
said to have “damaged the stock.” If
this means that the beer was badly
smoked it might be bottled and sold
as Scotch whisky.
The man who built the first apart-
ment house in New York in 1853 died
this week. He lived to see 75 per
cent of the people of the island living
in apartments and swearing at the jan-
itor.
Negro Clerks Warned.
New Orleans, Jan. 6.—It is reported
that White people living along the
line of the Alabama and Vicksburg
railroad in Mississippi have served no-
tice on the negro postal clerks run-
ning on that road to resign forthwith
and threatened them with death un-
less they comply with the demand.
The excitement over the Indianola
postoffice affair is supposed to be the
cause of the trouble.
But then, it is possible to lead a
too strenuous life. A New York boy
has played truant from school 108
times.
To Establish a Colony.
Laredo, Texas, Jan. 6.—A Monterey,
Mexico, special says: Local officers
of the Central have been notified that
there will be a party of 250 residents
of Wisconsin go over the Mexican
Central to Escondon the early part of
next month. They will establish a col-
ony near Escondon.
bankruptcy has been filed because I
wish to save all expense possible for
the benefit of creditors. Mr. June C.
Harris is in charge at Nacogdoches
and Mr. E. B. Alford at Henderson.
Signed, with regret,
“A. Wettermark.”
The entire community greatly de-
plore the calamity that has befallen
The report says the Filipino laborers
must be taught the independence and
dignity of labo: under a free govern-
ment, and adds:
“The organization of labor into
unions in Manila, while brought about
by a crack brained insurrector agita-
tor for political purposes only, will,
we hope, lead to an organization which
may have to do with inculcating this
lesson.
“The Filipino people of the better
Sunday newspapers may have to re-
duce their size on account of the
scarcity of paper. If this is a blow
at the comic supplement, let the fam-
ine do its worst.
Fate of a Gambler.
El Paso, Texas, Jan. 6.—Augustin
Loya, a gambler who won heavily at
the games at the Juarez fista Sunday,
was found murdered yesterday morn-
ing in the dry bed of the Rio Grande.
Marks of violence convinced the offi-
cers that Loya had been choked to
death. Not only was his money miss-
ing, but his body had been stripped of
clothing. Loya lived here and was
killed while returning home late last
night.
A University of Michigan professor
has discovered seven new poisons.
This should put additional life into
the growing infant industry of dis-
tributing candy by mail.
McKinney.—The completion of Dr.
E. E. King’s sixth year as pastor of
the First Baptist church here was
marked with special services at the
church.
Ready for Tobacco Seed.
Nacogdoches, Texas, Jan. 5.—Mr. L.
H. Shelfor, the government tobacco ex-
pert, has his tobacco beds all in read-
iness for the seed, which will be sown
in a few days. Mr. Shelfor now han
a corps of United States soil survey-
ors at work around Woodville, Tyler
county, and when the area is complet-
ed the corps will move to this point.
on real and personal property
Liberated Her Lover.
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 6.—A spe-
cial to 'the Birmingham News from
Oneonta, Ala., says that, during last
might. Miss Etta Alldredge, daughter
of the sheriff, liberated two prisoners,
Louis Curley charged with murder,
and, and Mayburn Murphree sentenced
for adultery. Miss Alldredge, it is
eaid, accompanied one of the prison-
ers in his flight, supposed to be Mur-
phree, who is a handsome young man
of good address. The sheriff was ab-
sent on business last night and his
daughter was in charge of the jail
keys. Miss Alldredge is 22 years old,
and a very handsome young woman.
Notice of the jail escape has been sent
to all near-by officers and they are
on the lookout for the escapes and
the girl.
The story of the jail delivery and
Miss Alldredge’s flight is confirmed by
a deputy sheriff, who works for Sherif
Alldredge; also by the editor of the
Oneonta Dispatch, and the correspond-
ent of the Birmingham News. Officers
are on the lookout here
Henderson, Texas, Jan. 6.—A. Wet-
termark & Co., bankers, closed their
doors here yesterday morning. The
assets will be kept intact until the
meeting of creditors is called. There
is no statement as to assets and lia-
bilities.
the report recites, and further along it
says:
“The coming year, under the trying
eircumstances which now prevail, will
show how much we may depend upon
the conservative and law abiding char-
acter of the controlling elements of
the Filipino people.”
The commission urges that it is the
duty of the United States to secure to
the Philippines as stable a currency as
that used by the people of the United
States. The commission concludes
with the following recommendations,
which are respectfully urged on the
attention of congress:
1. The establishment of a gold stand-
ard in the islands and of banking cor-
porations empowered to issue circulat-
ing bank notes under proper safe-
guards.
2. The reduction of at least 75 per
cent of the Dingley rate upon goods
imported into the United States on
goods from the Philippines.
3. An amendment of the Philippine
act, so that lands, sold to or held by,
individuals or corporations from the
public domain shall be increased to
25,000 acres, or, in the alternative,
so that the government shall be given
the power to lease for sixty years, upon
competitive bidding, tracts from the
public land, aggregating in any indi-
vidual or corporation not more than
80,000. It says this legislation is nec-
essary to the development of the is-
lands, and as the government owns
65,000,000 out of 70,000,000 acres in the
archipelago, there is no danger of con-
centration of ownership in individuals
or corporations.
4. That the Philippine act may be
amended by repealing the limitation
which forbids an individual or corpora-
tion from holding an interest in more
than one mining claim.
5. That all bonds issued by the in-
sular government, under the authority
of the Philippine act, shall be free from
state, county and municipal taxation
in the United States.
6. That an amendment be made to
the Chinese exclusion act, giving power
to the government, by law, to admit a
fixed and limited number of China-
men into the Philippine islands, who
are certified to be skilled laborers, on
the bond of the employer that for every
Chinese skilled laborer employed, he
will employ a Filipino apprentice, and
that he will return the Chinese skilled
laborer thus introduced within five
years after his admission to the coun-
try, and that he shall pay a head tax
of not exceeding $50 for each China-
man so admitted to the insular gov-
ernment, to meet the expenses of the
enforcement of these restrictions. The
commission thinks unlimited admis-
sion of Chinese would be unwise.
Galveston in August, 1897. Gallaher
was in as good spirits as could be ex-
pected and said that he would accept
his fate with good grace and strive to
make a record that would reduce hi
period of confinement to the minimum
under the law.
The English language is to be taught
In Mexican schools. Make way for
Mexico.
Exercise is great to keep people
warm. And it doesn’t cost any more
than it did last winter.
ception of a few thousand people in
the Moro country in isolated towns,
are enjoying civil government.
"Much remains to be done in per-
fecting civil government, in marshal-
ing the forces of the law against the
lawlessness and disturbances, and in
teaching the people of the Philippines
not only that they have rights under
the law, but also that they can not
at both Nacogdoches and' Henderson hope to enjoy such rights unless they
can be ascertained a meeting of all , acquire courage and independence suf-
the creditors will be called and the ficient to assert them against attempts
matter submitted to them. No as- by their fellow Filipinos to perpetuate
signment, deed of trust or petition in the system of ‘caciqueism’ or, translat
- ed, ‘bossism.’ ”
the Wettermark banks. Public con-
fidence still stands strong and public
sympathy is unbounded both at home
and abroad.
All Herds on Which the Tax Has Not
Been Paid.
Denison, Texas, Jan. 5.—As a result
of a recent decision of the supreme
court relative to the payment of the
cattle tax, the entire Indian police
force of the Indian Territory has been
ordered to the Chickasaw nation and
will put all cattle upon which the tax
has not been paid, or the owners refuse
to pay, out of the Territory. The cat-
tle will be driven off the range, loaded
into cars and shipped across the border
into Texas. Those that are close to
the border will be driven across.- In
the office of the revenue inspector
there is a record of all the cattle upon
which the tax has not been paid, and
a close tab has been kept on all them,
at this session, and it will be possible
for the Indian police to lay their hands
on them on short notice. Most of the
cattle that will be removed are in the
Chickasaw nation.
Rothschilds to Operate Copper Mines.
Laredo, Texas, Jan. 6.—A special
from Morcina, Mexico, says: Under
a concession granted by the govern-
ment some time ago to the Rothsc-
hilds of Europe, preparations are be-
ing made for the operation on a large
scale of copper mines in the district
of Inguaran, in the state of Michoa-
can. It is believed that the propur-
ties are very rich.
Poll Tax May Be Paid.
Austin, Texas, Jan. 6.—A most im-
portant ruling was made yesterday
by Comptroller R. M. Love on the poll
tax amendment, which, according to
the recent proclamations of the gov-
ernor, is now effective. The comp-
troller ruled that, where a voter and
tax payer has paid his poll tax and
returned delinquent the taxes on his
real and personal property, he can
vote. This ruling was made at the
request of Maury Kemp, county attor-
ney of El Paso county, who wired the
comptroller as follows: “Can a man
pay poll 'tax, leaving delinquent taxes
A Mysterious Suicide.
San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 6.—An un-
known girl, barely more than 17 years
of age, swallowed four ounces of car-
bolic acid this afterncon, committing
the act in a thick clump of brush
about 150 yards north of Baylor
street. She died at 7 o’clock. She
was stylishly dressed and her cloth-
ing was of good texture. Up to a late
hour she had not been identified.
Work on Sea Wall.
Galveston, Texas, Jan. 6.—Though
the work on the sea wall has been
delayed some by the failure of mate-
rial to arrive promptly, it is now pro-
pressing satisfactorily. The piling
foundation has been completed for a
considerable distance and it is expect-
ed that the work of laying the con-
crete which is to be placed on top of
the piling will commence by January
15. There are many visitors every
day to inspect the foundation work
of the wall, and all Galvestonians feel
safer when they see on what a sub-
stantial foundation the wall will be
placed.
On Goods Imported from the Islands
into United States Is Among
Recommendations Submitted.
( _______
Some men manage to consider them-
(selves great by bequeathing their
brains to certain institutions of learn-
ing.
The Wettermark Firms Have Gone
Into Liquidation.
Nacogdoches, Texas, Jan. 6.—Yes-
terday morning when the note was
discovered on the door of the bank
of A. Wettermark & Son, “closed for
liquidation,” the whole community
was dumfounded. No one here knew
that the bank was in any trouble. The
assets and liabilities are supposed to
be about equal, about $400,000 each.
No one here knows definitely the
cause of the suspension as Colonel B.
S. Wettermark is out of the city. The
books of the bank are in the hands of
Branch Matthews, Harris & Beeson,
lawyers, and have not been posted
since December 23 and the law firm
will not know exactly the amount of
assets and liabilities until today.
The short cotton crop and bad col- United States in these islands, is whol-
lections are said by Colonel Wetter- ly at an end, the whole of the Chris-
tian Filipino population, with the ex-
Apostle Smoot is said to be very
susceptible to the blandishments of
the fair sex. Smoot is easily smitten,
no doubt.
which has now been liberated.
Pardoned t oDie and Did.
Corsicana, Texas, Jan. 5—Eight
years ago Albert Coleman, colored, was
sent to the penitentiary from this coun-
ty for the murder of two other ne-
groes. He had a life sentence. On
Christmas day Governor Sayers par-
doned him in order that he might com®
home to die. Coleman breathe 1 his
last yesterday at the home of his par
rents here.
In a year Minister Wu will be able
to continue his interrogatory by
cable.
ANNOUNCES INSURRECTION AS
WHOLLY AT AN END.
Amused at the Idea.
Caracas, Jan. 5.—The report that
President Castro proposes to abdicate
or resign the presidency of Venezuela
is untrue. The correspondent of the
Associated Press saw the president
with regard to this matter yesterday-
The president laughed when question-
ed, and said: “You are at liberty to
say that I have fought during two
years to retain the supreme power
which was invested in me by the peo-
ple of Venezuela.”
Berlin, Jan. 6.—Great Britain and
Germany came to an understanding
four days ago to enforce the blockade
of the Venezuelan coast precisely as
though the negotiations for arbitra-
tion were not going on. It was doubt-
less in consequence of this understand-
ing that vessels at Puerto Cabello
were taken, though both the foreign
officials and the navy department are
yet without advices showing that ves-
sels were 'taken or that marines were
ttemporarily landed.
The official view here is that the
blockading commanders acted quite in
accordance with their instructions.
The allied governments’ determination
appears to be that, pending the sig-
nature of the arbitration protocol, the
blockade within the limits agreed on
shall be sharply applied. Hence, un-
less the preliminaries for arbitration
are arranged immediately, action sim-
ilar to that adopted at Puerto Cabello
naturally will be taken at other ports.
By making the blockade felt, it is
claimed, President Castro’s decision
probably will be hastened. There is
also an impression that President Cas-
tro ought to have a taste of the al-
lies’ power while making up his mind,
as a completely eventless blockade
would make the allies rather ridicu-
lous in the eyes of Venezuela people
and of the rest of the world.
It is pointed out by naval officers
that a state of war exists and that
herefore acts of war ought to follow
as rapidly as he circumstances war-
rant, until the peace preliminaries are
signed.
The German cruiser Speerber sailed
yesterday from Kiel for Venezuela.
Payne Whitney has bought fifty
acres at Manhanset, Long Island, as a
site for a country seat. He evidently
doesn’t believe that ten acres is
enough.
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