Texas City Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, March 10, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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THE TEXAS CITY TIMES
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thrown open to the public with a re-
Why Buy the Second Best When the Best Costs
You No More.
so smelter and exchanged shots with
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bery until informed at Union Station.
Fire that starred from an explosion for the scene.
See Us For the Best
en arm in the machinery to save Bauer, lost his life in the flames.
FOREIGN.
by a volunteer force after four hours
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rebel hands.
night and day by volunteers.
Pasqual Orozco, who commanded the
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DEMONSTRATION FARMS
LINK LINE
LAUNCHES"
down and robbed by two
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PELICAN and LOTUS
containing $7 was taken.
Mrs. Dean
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forms the boundary line between Rus-
Leave Galveston,
rfa.
Four days of the most inspiring de-
tag headlong into a vat of boiling hot
lye and muriatic acid, used for boiling bate ever given to a measure involv-
cut engine pumps.
7:00 p.m.
11:00 p.m.
The election for the incorporation 368 to 243.
of Niles, the packing house district
The plague is ravaging in Piechuan-
and 110 bales of cotton.
The commission form of city <
troy was defeated in Peoria, Ill.,
Straight Fare 30c, Round Trip 50c.
Sunday, Round Trip 40 Cents.
Chief- Quanah Parker was poisoned,
and did not die from natural causes.
that he (the governor) does not rec-
ognize the right of his predecessor to
plant of Texas Portland Cement Co., I
in West Dallas, last week gave up
Tuesday, with a loss of $750,000 and it
is beieved that one workman, George
passenger trains and a freight train
at San Isidro, west of Chihuahua on
the Mexican Northewestern on Tues
to establish state monopolies in wire-
less telegraphy and are ordering sta-
The federal soldiers were unable to
find any insurrectos and returned to
gnants.
It now looks like there will be no
s
Our stock of building materials, including Roof-
ings, Hardware, Paints, Oils, Concrete Blocks, and
Building Paper, is complete, and the quality and
prices will please you.
Extra Trips Saturdays and Sundays
ception, music and speechmaking.
Two masked bandits jumped on the
Iron Mountain passenger train No. 4,
his life, the member being torn lit-
erally from his body.
Jack Johnson, negro heavyweight,
paid a $100 fine in San Francisco
of North Fort Worth, resulted in a
vote of 33 to 0 in favor of incorpora-
ting.
Anton Novodky, a Bohemian farm-
er living three miles south of Taylor,
was kicked in the side by a horse,
from the effects of which he died.
He is survived by a widow and one
child
during February reached the sum of
11,473,828.
Barney .Oldfield, retired auto king,
has gone to Los Angeles, Cal., where
he will open a cafe.
time David G. Burnet became presi-
dent ad interim.
Union Station, Houston, the new pas-
senger depot of the Houston Belt &
Terminal Company, regarded by r.il-
road men as being the most commodi-
ous, accessible and convenient in Tex-
Reports Are That Rebels Were Routed
From Several Points—Insurrec-
tos Captured by U. S. Troops.
the trade agreement department of , .
the National Civic Federation, throughout its course of 440 miles
con- as from the viewpoint of railroad em-
tractor for a 6-mile levee along the ploves as weli as the traveling public
Fastest Ferry and Freight Service
Automobile and Vehicle
Transfer
quith applied cloture and the second
reading of the veto bill was passed
by a majority of 125, the vote being
Makes the best Lumber in the world, and
is the only kind we handle.
rebel force, which recently threaten-
ed Juarez, captured a pay train, two
Increase in congressional membership.
Transfers in real estate for Dallas
negroes tine, Chile and Uruguay have decided
this he quotes a letter which the gov-
ernor wrote him on Feb. 27, advising
a copy of a letter which Mr. Lightfoot
va addressed to Governor Colquitt. In
Nine Are in Operation on the Brazos
River in Falls County—Farmers
Taking Interest.
ident Taft, will become vice presi-
dent of the First National Bank of
New York.
BY ORDER OF OROZCO FOR LET
TING NAVARRO PASS.
0 It Was ef Sufficient Importance
You Will Find It Recorded
Hero.
con-
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BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
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last week for unlawful auto speeding. Mexico, two days ago, were repulsed
Edgar Stripling, chief of police in - ' ‘ - - -
eral packages of valuables, and jump- urday on Mexican soil opposite El Pa-
ing off in the vicinity of Tower Grove
guarded
Fortif.
health has started to clean the city
thoroughly.
Advices brought to Victoria, B. C.,
by the Empress of India, Saturday,
that orders have been given by the
Japanese admiralty for two battleships
of 22,000 tons, to be built by Japanese
firms.
The earl of Dudley, governor gen-
eral and commander in chief of the
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$51,679.83 in occupation taxes for 1910 . ..
on gross receipts on exclusively Tex- of a quart of gasoline with which a
• . J new au.omobile was being cleaned. de-
ab business. - °-- . I
G. Adams, a cement worker at the
Bay Lumber Co., Inc
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS
•ne night last week. Her pocket book
County. Interest in the work is mark-
ed by greatly increased concern on the
part of farmers in general. This is the
toon
stroyed the plant of the Hayne Auto- Juarez. Late in the day United States
mission form.
Announcement that it will be a vio-
lation of the Texas Pure Food law
to use lead piping in any manner
in connection with soda fountains was
made in a bulletin issued by State
Pure Food Commissioner Abbott.
ing live oak trees at the village of Co-
Comanche Indians believe that late lumbia, on the banks of the Brazos
HAPPENING# OF UNUSUAL IV-
TEREST TO OUR READERS, IN
READABLE SHAPE.
tions from Germany.
A dispatch received at St. Peters-
burg from Pekin says that the Chi-
nese government has agreed to the
appointment of Russian and Chinese
commissioners, with full powers to
determine the frontier of Abagajtu-
jewsk, in the province of Trans-Bail.
litz, about fifty miles north of Harbin.
Deaths there are reported to the num-
ber of 2,000 daily. The disease is rag-
ing at Kirin Hulanchen, opposite Har-
bin, and at Bodune, 100 miles south-
east of the Manchurian capital. Bread
riots have occurred throughout the
stricken district.
a few federal rurales. The scrimmage
was seen by employes of the smelter.
Federal infancry left Juarez at once
mobile Company at Kokomo, Ind., on
of fighting. The rebels gave up the
attempt to take the town upon learn-
ing of the approach of a federal force.
from Torreon Saturday. He was said
to have been executed by order of
Orozco.
When Orozco left the vicinity ol
Guerrero, his plan was for Bustillos
to keep Navarro occupied until Oroz-
co could reach Juarez, and to prevent
at any cost the federal leader from
returning to Chihuahua. Bustillos fail-
ed, whereupon Orozco ordered his exe-
cution, which was accomplished ten
days ago in Ocampo by six men sent
by Orozco. Bustillos was said to have
been the leader and star of a vaude-
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The State of Texas has collected station, escaped in the darkness. -
- . passengers knew nothing of the rob-
from four of five express companies
doing business in Texas, the sum of
Prospect for Good Crops.
Beeville, Tex.—J. W. Scott, one of
Elmer Pierce, boiler-maker’s helper sian territory and Western Manchu-
a: the Rock Island shops, at Shawnee, ,
Okla., was fatally scalded by plung- :
Brazos, between Old Washington and
Chapel Hill. The price is $41,325.
a majority of 735. Gross frauds are
charged by the advocates of the com- l
not go to the store to buy butter, ba-
con, eggs and such other things as he
can produce on the farm. Last yen
he made about 5,000 bushels of corn
oind me present executive.
Thursaay was the seventy-fifth anni-
versary of the signing of the Texas
declaration of independence, which
was first read under a grove of spread
J. O. Merchant and Davis S. Neal,
of San Antonio, it is said, quarreled
over a woman, which led Merchant to
fatally shoot Neal.
The program of the Waxahachie
Chautauqua, to meet July 25 to Aug.
3, has been completed.
Charles D. Norton, secretary to Pres- England ended when Premier As-
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J. T. SHEFFIELD
The rebel loss was not known but that
federals were said to have lost six
killed and a number wounded,
A military transport automobile, of . , ...
. . . ,, , . W1 1 x . , ’ cations have been constructed,
which the driver had lost control, dash-
was formally dedicated on Wednesday
night, when the new edifice was
The main building of Mount It
Mary’s College, a large and well-equip
ped Roman Catholic institution nea j
Plainfield, N. J., was burned Friday
causing a loss of more than $200,000
Responding to the request of Con
troller Lane as to whether he should
issue warrants against certain special
funds appropriated to the attorney gen-1
eral, Governor Colquitt having order
ed him not to do so, Attorney General
Lightfoot has sent Mr. Lane a lengthy
letter, in which be declares that the
claims against said funds are valid,
but delicately refrains from advising
the controller what to do, and sug-
gests that he take other counsel. The
most interesting part of the letter is
City of Mexico.—The responsibility
for permitting General Navarro to ar
rive at Ciudad Juarez has been placed
by the rebels upon “Captain” Bustil
los, a minor chief, who has paid for
his alleged negligence or incompeten
cy with his life, according to specials
kalia, to the Argun
John Leonard, a Tennessee
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River, which
Marlin, Tex.—Nine demonstration
farms are in operation on the east
side of the Brazos River in Falls
Danville, Ill., for the past 5 years,
was arrested last week as an escaped
conviot from the Georgia State peni-
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Cananea is
We attend to the re-consignment and billing out of goods
shipped via the Texas City Steamship Company, to and
from New York, in our care to this point, securing railroad
bills of lading, giving instructions as to shipments and at-
tending to other matters necessary to secure good services
in movement of goods via this route. We will be glad for
। you to have all shipments made in our care mailing us advice
"em emmmummm eumm ea• ammamaa ammmn moema a
boundary above the smelter discover-
ed twenty-five insurrectos on Amer-
ican soil. They were arrested and
are in the El Paso jail.
commonwealth of Australia since
April, 1908, will retire in June and
will be succeeded by Lord Denman, a
prominent liberal peer.
It is announced that Brazil, Argen-
C. H. McLean, Manager,
Phone 2325 Galveston
was roughly handled by the negroes.
Governor Colquitt Wednesday ve-
toed the “daylight” bill requiring sa-
loons to remain closed from 7 in
the evening until 6 in the morning.
John Mitchell, former president of
the United Mine Workers, has resign-
ed from his pcsition as chairman of
6:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 4 & 5 p. m.
from Texarkana, Tex., as it entered
St. Louis Tuesday night, and after
binding and gagging the messenger of
the express car, opened one of the
safes, removed the money box and sev-1
Passengers arriving state that the
troops were fighting with rebels near
Gabriel and Avino on the Internation-
al Railway, in Coahuila. The rebels
were said to have been routed from
several points. They appeared to have
no organization, but to have been op-
erating in bands for robbery.
From the south came news that a
body of men, many of whom were con-
victs, who broke jail in Huamantla a
day or two ago, were threatening as-
sault upon a hacienda near Texico, in
Tlaxcala. The place was being de-
fended by private guards.
News of further fighting between
federals and insurrectos near Chilpan-
■ cingo in the state of Guerrero are re-
ported.
A hundred insurrectos appeared Sat-
Youthful Scultptor Honored.
New York.—The youngest sculptoi
who has ever secured recognition at
the hands of the National Academy
of Designs is Avord Fairbanks, 13
year of age, whose group "Fighting
Panthers” has just been accepted.
ing a great constitutional reform for
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report of John B. McCord, special
agent of the agricultural department
for this county. Mr. McCord looks for-
ward to continued development of
farming methods in this section. In '
this connection he counts largely on
the examples the corp-growing boys
are setting, and the fact that these
youngsters are not only learning
things for their own benefit, but they
are teaching older farmers profitable
lessons as to what the soil and climate
are capable of producing.
_ , , . Madero Demands Surrender of Town.
Four hundred rebels under Francis- n,. „ „ . T R .
1,21 . ..cI El Paso, Texas.—Francisco I. Made-
co Villa, who attacked Santa Rosalia, 1 , 1 ,. ,,
ro has sent word demanding the sur-
render of Chinuahua and on threat to
strave it into surrender according to
information received Saturday.
Santa Rosalia, Chihuahua, was taken
by insurrectos Tuesday and the towns
of Ures and Arizpa have fallen into
troops patroling the international
ed full speed through a company of
infantry in Berlin Saturday. Fourteen
men were injured.
Two more deaths from rhe plague
occurred Saturday at Honolulu, bring-
ing the total up to 13. All are native day
Hawaiians. The territorial board of
River, in 1836. Under the constiution
Henry Smith was appointed provision- ville troupe along the line of the Mex-
al governor, and after serving a short ! ican Northwestern Railroad.
Texas City Forwarding Co.:
Forwarding Agents Texas City, Texas
the live and progressive farmers of the
county, feels jubilant over the present I pavyp pyqe Rity
fine prospects for a good crop this Lu<l"v IvAflO UI IJ
year. He says the fields are in excel-
lent shape and the farmers are fully 8 and 9 a.m., 1:00 and 6:30 p.m.
up with their work. Mr. Scott plants
about 700 acres in corn, cotton and
hay crops and raises Jersey cattle,
hogs and worlds of poultry, and does
tentiary. He killed a an named Cor-
nett, as he claims, for seducing his
luster.
Zion City, founded by John Dowie,
has, after a receivership and a course
thru the courts, passed under the con-
trol of Wilbur Voliva. There was great
rejoicing as the change is looked upon
as the beginning of a new era of pros-
perity for the city.
A shipload of Chinese coolies were
flumped into the Pacific Ocean one
night last week, according to Immigra-
tion Inspector Charles T. Connell,
whose men prevented the landing of
the contraband cargo at the harbor
at Los Angeles. The Chinese were
dumped into the sea to prevent proof
of the errand of the vessel.
A jubilee over the emancipation of
serfs was celebrated throughout Rus-
sia Friday. The decree for the total
emancipation of 23,000,000 serfs
throughout the Empire in two years
was issued on March 3, 1861.
Mrs. Erma Dean, a Salvation Army
worker of Fort Worth, was knocked
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Bookman, W. F. Texas City Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, March 10, 1911, newspaper, March 10, 1911; Texas City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1577176/m1/3/?q=Rio+Grande+Valley: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.