The Mainland Messenger (Dickinson, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 15, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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LATE NEWS HAPPENINGS
TEXAS NEWS
NEWS FROM NATIONAL CAPITAL
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CAPITAL, $300,000
WASHINGTON NEWS.
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and Liens
DALLAS
GALVESTON SAN ANTONIO
HOUSTON
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The City With a Future
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passes to federal and state officials, cover extensions from Mikeska to Cor-
J. C. LEAGUE, Galveston, Texas
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FOREIGN NEWS.
WE DO LAUNDRY WORK
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J. L. HOSHAL
NOTARY PUBLIC AND REAL ESTATE AGENT
COMB TO SEE US.
PHONE NO. 15.
ARCADIA, TEXAS
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WE ARE PREPARED
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Standing of Texas League clubs:
Games. Won. Lost. P.C.
TO DO
Your Job Printing
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H. L. NELSON, Publisher
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2106 Strand—(T arger Quarters.)
Daily RKTURNS
GALVEETON, TmxAs
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Let us quote you our
rates on your next
requirements.
- expenses, but making few important
changes, was passed Friday by the
house, 133 to 19.
Improvements aggregating $110,000
have been authorized at Texas City.
Club—
Beaumont
Waco . ..
Houston .
Galveston
The high price for hogs at Fort
Worth at present leads all the world
markets.
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A corn sheller will be established
on the railroad right of way at Edin-
burg, Texas. x
The Texas state controller received
this week a petition signed by seven-
ty-five women of Harlingen, Cameron
County, urging the controller to act
adversely on the applications of cer-
tain persons who are seeking to se-
cure license for two saloons.
A domestic science exposition and
are gallery will be added to the many
attractions at No-Tsu-Oh in November
at Houston.
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J. C. Lindsey, chief clerk in the
department of agriculture at Austin,
favors a more central location for the
annual farmers’ congress, especially
since the railroads grant passes to
delegates attending the congress. The
congress has been held for years at
the A. and M. college, reached by
only two lines of railroads, and Mr.
Lindsey thinks some point more cer-
trally and conveniently located should
be selected.
The Charles Clarke, Galveston’s fire
boat, is being used as a rat chaser and
exterminator along the wharves of
that city.
By an order just issued the majority
of Texas postmasters will receive a
raise in salary.
Hay, alfalfa and pasture conditions
this year in Texas are shown to be
far better than last year.
About 422 aliens landed in Galves-
ton this week.
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A campaign publicity bill, amend- • at Lufkin, Texas, Wednesday and two
ing and codifying the present law reg- ■ with contents were destroyed.
judges, newspaper men and others by pus
Palm Beach or Linen Suits
For Men, Fifty Cents
Not Laundered, But Done the Pantitorium
Way. Original—Unique.
Dr. T. P. Junkin, for many years
president of Daniel Baker College at
Georgetown, has resigned that posi-
tion.
A thriving little town in the center of the proven district of
Oranges, Figs and Winter Vegetables.
8000 Acres for Sale by Owner in Tracts of Ten Acres and Up
GEO. A. REYDER
Lcensed aud Bonded Commission Merchant
POULTRY. HGGS AND PRODUCK
Dealer and Shipper of
EARLY VEGETARLES AND FRUITS
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Boys and girls from the farm are in
the majority at the Texas University
at Austin.
Christi, approximately 47 miles.
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Members of the Texas Association
of the Deaf will hold their annual con-
vention in Galveston on July 18, 19
and 20.
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The railroad commission of Texas
Situated Midway Between Galveston and Houston, is
LEAGUE CITY
Three riders tied for first honors
in the motorcycle endurance run Sat-
urday and Sunday at Houston by mem-
bers of the local motorcycle club. Dur-
ing the run one rider became con-
fused and rode for twelve miles in the
wrong direction.
The Iew Union railroad station at
Galveston was thrown open to the
public Sunday. .
Fort Worth.... 91
Dallas .........90
San Antonio.. ..95-
A saw filer while asleep in the
woods Saturday near Call was killed
by a falling tree.
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The boilermakers’ strike at Texas
City has been settled and the men
have gone back to work.
STEWART TITLE GUAR-
In a statement issued by S. J. Bass,
a member of the state prison commis-
sion, shows a reduction of approxi-
mately $90,000 in the expenses of the
Texas state farms for the first five
months of 1914.
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Lady Hardinge, vicereine of India,
died Saturday at a hospital in Lon-
don, England, after undergoing an op-
eration.
Short Mentioning of Interesting Hap-
penings From Day to Day
Throughout the World.
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Dealer in Town Lots and Farm Lands. Lumber, Roofng and Builders’ Hardware.
Glasa, Paints, Oils and Wall Paper. Fix-All to brighten your Furniture. Lime.
Blue Stone and Paris Green for Spraying. Cedar Posts and Fencing. Pumps and
Well Fixtures. Ammunition. Wood. Coal and Beat Keroseno.
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There are approximately 17,000 Con-
federate pensioners on the rolls of
Texas. This includes a few more than
1,000 who arg classed as “totally dis-
abled” and draw $25 every quarter
from the state.
ANTY co.
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There has been no rain for several
weeks in many counties of Texas,
from reports received this week.
General Pedro Muniz, Peruvian pre-
mier and minister of war, and Hilde-
brando Fuentes, minister of the in-
terior, resigned from the Peruvian
cabinet Saturday.
ulating campaign contributions and 1
the Louisville and Nashville and the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railroads was reported to the senate
Friday by the interstate commerce
commission. More than 34,000 passes,
valued at more than $340,000,, were
shown to have been issued last year
to individuals, ranging from a United
States senator, whose pass showed no
mileage traveled, to county sheriffs
and local politicians.
Christian Mathesen, a farmer resid-
ing near Fredericksburg, Texas, raised
this season 220 bushels of Irish pota-
toes on one acre of ground.
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The corn crop of Texas for this
year, as estimated from reports of
July 1, will amount to 139,000,000
bushels, or 18,714,000 bushels greater
than the 1913 Texas corn crop.
The weight of armament and armor
of the 27,500-ton battleship Nevada,
launched at Quincy, Mass., Saturday,
is greater than that carried by any
ship previously built by the navy.
The turbine engines and oil fuel will
furnish the motive power.
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Liberal distribution
Plans are taking shape for the
Washington County fair to be held at
Brenham from October 6 to 9.
The state railroad commission has
granted special authority to the Gal-
veston, Harrisburg and San Antonio
railroad for the adoption of a rate of
5c per 100 pounds on potatoes in
crates, in carloads, from Houston to
Galveston.
। Wednesday ordered registered and
। the secretary of state registered $750,-
. 000 of bonds of the San Antonio,
All the volcanoes along the Alaska
Peninsula west - of Seward to the
Aleutian Islands are in action, ac-
cording to a report brought by Cap-
tain McMullen of the Diriogi, which
arrived at Seward, Alaska, Thursday
from Dutch Harbo-
WHAT HAS TRANSPIRED THIS
WEEK THE WORLD OVER.
Seven hundred Mexican cattle ar-
rived in Galveston Saturday by steam-
ship.
Auto service, for the delivery of mail
was installed this week from Llano
to Mason, 36 miles; from Llano to
Pontotic, 25 miles; from Llano to
Cherokee, 18 miles; from Tow Valley
to Burnet, 25 miles.
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The second Edinburg (Texas) bale
of cotton was sold at the Houston
Cotton Exchange Tuesday to E. A.
Calvin, president of the Farmers’
Union of Houston, for $200.
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The ‘Southern Sugar and Irrigation
Company, which conducted a 2,000-
acre sugar plantation near Browns-
ville, Texas, passed into history Tues-
day when the company’s lands were
bought in at a sheriff’s sale by for-
mer owners of the various lands go-
ing to make up the plantation.
The renamed- passenger ship, the
Liberia, on which Chief Sam, a negro,
expects to take back to Africa a large
number of the members of his
race in a back-to-Africa colonization
scheme, was christened at Galveston,
An election at Nordheim to in-
crease the school maintenance tax
from 10c to 15c on the $100 valuation
was defeated. _
Following the death at New Orleans,
La., Friday from bubonic plague of
Leon de Jean, aged 28, a negro,
health authorities began an investi-
gation to ascertain if a new focus of
infection exists.
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Lightning Thursday struck and ig-
nited six oil tanks at Port Arthur,
Texas, causing a loss estimated at
$100,000.
The senate passed the following
bills Friday:
A joint resolution authorizing the
president to raise the regular army
to war strength.
A joint resolution authorizing the
president to invite foreign nations to
send representatives to the Interna-
tional Dry Farming Congress at
Wichita, Kan., Oct. 7-17. The meas-
ure had already passed the house.
A bill making it a misdemeanor to
use the American flag or coat of arms
or other insignia as an advertise-
ment, trademark or label.
A bill creating an aviation section
in the army signal corps with sixty
officers and 260 enlisted men.
A bill adding 9,860 acres to Pike
National Forest in Colorado.
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Congress Friday appropriated $200,-
000 for the relief of Salem (Mass.)
fire sufferers when the house accept-
ed—161 to 66—a senate amendment to
the sundry civil bill to provide the
money. The president had urged the
appropriation in a special message
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Special appropriations because of
the Mexican situation figure promi-
nently in the deficiency bill reported
Friday to the house. It provides a
$25,000 emergency fund for the state
department, another $25,000 for move-
ments of diplomatic and consular of-
ficers under Secretary Bryan’s orders
and $5,000 for returning home bodies
of officers and enlisted men of the
American forces on Mexican soil. For
the Merican prisoners along the bor-
der $170,000 will be apropriated.
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The senate committee on military
affairs Saturday approved the house
joint resolution directing return to
the state of Louisiana of that com-
monwealth’s original ordinance of se-
cession, which was captured at Rich-
mond and has since been in the pos-
session of the war department.
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An annual 25 per cent income tax
on citizens of the United States who
marry aliens bearing titles of no-
bility is proposed in a bill introduced
by Representative Bowdle of Ohio
Scattered showers are reported
from many parts of Texas this week.
A stockman living on Crabapple
creek, near Fredericksburg, - sold 180
yearlings this week at $33 per head.
“Any person finding a plague-infect-
ed rat will be given a bounty of $5,
provided ‘the rat is properly tagged,
where caught, if alive, and where
found, if dead.” This reward was of-
fered Saturday by Dr. William C.
Rucker, assistant surgeon general of
the United States public health serv-
ice, in charge of the rat-destruction
campaign to prevent a spread of the
bubonic plague in New Orleans, La.
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The eight balloons that started from
St. Louis Saturday in the national
elimination race landed Sunday and
Sunday night. Of these, the Good-
year, piloted by R. A. D. Preston of
Akron, Ohio, made the only impres-
sive flight. The Goodyear descended
at Constance, Ky., a few miles south
of Cincinnati, at 6:20 p. m., having
made approximately 320 miles.
Parcel Post Charge! Paid One Way if Cash Accompanies the Order and
the Bundle Amounts to $ 1.00 or Over.
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A warning that trouble is liable
to result from China’s refusal to sign
the convention in regard to what ter-
ritory shall compose Outer and Inner
Tibet, reached by the recent conven-
tion at Darjeeling, India, was issued
to China Friday by Sir Edward Grey,
the British foreign secretary at Lon-
don, England.
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General Villa, the Mexican rebel
general, has voted against informal
conferences between constitutionalists
and Huerta representatives, as pro-
posed by the South American media-
tors. His attitude was revealed in
a telegram sent to General Carranza
Thursday.
of railroad Uvalde and Gulf Railroad Company to
Phil F. Myers of Palestine, Texas,
was elected president of the Texas
Retail Merchants’ Association and
Austin was selected as the next meet-
ing place before adjournment at Gal-
veston Thursday.
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Three oil tanks, partially filled'
with crude, were struck by lightning
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The collier Storstad is held to
blame for the Empress of Ireland dis-
aster in the finding of the wreck com-
mission, handed down at Quebec,
Canada, Saturday.
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There are some 60,000 square miles
of timber standing in the Philippines,
of which two-thirds is virgin forest.
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The city council of Vienna, Austria,
Monday voted an appropriation of
$64,000 to cover the cost of Vienna’s
separate participation in the Panama-
Pacific Exposition at San Francisco.
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To save his country from further
horrors of civil war and his capital
from capture and perhaps sacking,
General Huerta intends to resign the :
I presidency and leave Mexico.
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Sixty persons were reported exe- .
cuted in the City of Mexico Saturday
night by Huerta, according to news
from the south received by constitu-
tionalists. These were said to have
been in the federal penitentiary.
Seventy were reported killed in the
prison of Santiago Tlaltelalco. Most <
of the victims were officials. 1
Allen Sanford of El Paso was
elected president of the Texas Bar
Association Wednesday at the final
meeting of the thirty-third session at
Dallas, Texas.
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The Pantitorium Co., Inc.
210-212 San Jacinto Street
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Nelson, H. L. The Mainland Messenger (Dickinson, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 15, 1914, newspaper, July 15, 1914; Dickinson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1577408/m1/2/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.