Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 13, 1908 Page: 2 of 10
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Charles Ebbersol is President, J. E.
Garrett cashier.
THAYER CASE REMANDED.
Supreme Court Sees No Difference
Solicitors.
A Strong Company Organized
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Sherman, Tex., March 7.-3
several months men of wide
was on the Atlantic Coast, vet this
is what has happened. The Navy
Department yesterday received a tel-
egraphic message from its wireless
station at Pensacola, which had been
direct communication with the bat-
tleship fleet, a most remarkable per-
formance, considering that the wire-
(nested to grant franchises to the
Red River Gas and Oil Company,
permitting the laying of natural gas
mains, pipes, etc., in the respective
corporate limits.
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and the five-year average is 16.3, so
that one may extract some comfort
from these comparisons. It hasn’t
been many years since are average
The Home National Bank of
Stanton has been authorized to be-
Food, Advanced Surgery Atl Help
to Lengthen the Span.
Washington, March 9.—The coun-
try's death rate, if the record of a
part may be accepted as indicative of
the whole, was 16.1 per 1000 popu-
lation in 1906. In 1905 it was 16.2,
of work.
Fee acknowledged that he never
was in Kansas City, and that his
story of having money in a bank in
that city was untrue. He said that
Belton’s Mills Expect Trade.
Belton : The Belton flour mill has
been going after foreign business,
and has several orders, the first com-
ing from Norway and the last two
from Havana. The product is being
put in special 203-pound jute sacks,
required for foreign transportation,
and the first shipment will go for-
ward in a few days. The manager,
who has just returned from Cuba, is
confident the entire output will be
contracted for in the next few weeks.
mortality soon to be issued by the
Bureau of the Census. But fifteen
States require registration.of deaths,
so that the statistics are based only
upon the data gathered in these and
Big School House Burned.
Toledo: Napoleon’s Union School,
the largest building of its kind in
the State, which was completely re-
modeled last April, and had cost the
Congressman John N. Garner of
T valde has announced his candi-
dacy for re-election to Congress
from the Fifth Congressional Dis-
trict. This is his fourth race for
the office.
In a family quarrel John Curry,
living south of Bristow, shot and
killed his wife and the wife of his
brother and then fled. Curry fired
nine charges of buckshot into his
wife’s body.
Some fool, freak or fanatic has
been sending letters to Anti-Saloon
Leaguers at San Antonio, threaten-
ing all sorts of evil things if they
do not desist from working for sa-
loon abolishment.
Helen Bruce, three years of age,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
Bruce, died at her parents’ home
in Beaumont from tetanus contract-
ed by piercing her foot with a nail
three days before.
A party of six persons from Tem-
ple who had been bitten by a mad
dog arrived in Austin one day last
week, to be treated at the State
Pasteur Institute.
An election was held at Clinton
Saturday to decide whether or not
bonds to the amount of $3500 should
be issued to erect a public school
building; carried by 27 to 2.
Fifty workmen left Fort Worth
Tuesday for Dallas, where they will
be put to work for laying track on
the Dallas-Sherman Interurban line.
All the laborers are Americans.
A HARMLESS LIQUID USED AS
INDUCER.
The Rock Hill, Collin County,
three-story school house and the res-
idence of W ill Krantz were burned
early Monday morning. The loss on
the school building is $3000; loss on
residence $1000. No insurance.
Dave Briggs, a Houston and Tex-
as Central engineer, lost his life in
a freight wreck on the Mexia-Nava-
county $110,000, was destroyed by
fire Tuesday morning. A repetition
of the Collinwood horror was possi-
bly averted by only a quarter of an
hour in the time of the starting of
the fire, as the children were on their. . ________ J.
way to school, and some were play- Horatio at Horatio, Ark., fifty miles
ing around when it was discovered. ' " "f 1 "
ent in kind, whether practiced by let-
ter or word of mouth. We can see no
distinction between the personal de-
livery of a letter and sending it by
a servant of the writer.”
GREAT LONG DISTANCE FEAT.
Aerograms from the Pacific Coast to
Pensacola.
Washington, March 10. — About
the last place that the Navy Depart-
ment expected to hear from the At-
lantic fleet for at least six months
Sunday night fire at Karnes Citv
destroyed Tobin Brothers* general
merchandise store, insured for
$2000; F. Van Wagner, dry goods,
insured for $6000; L. G. Bailey,
drugs, insured for $2500; Karnes
Drug Store, insured for $1000, and
one vacant building of A. C. Dietz's,
not insured. Total loss, $16,000.
The Praetorian well in Dallas is
1630 feet deep, flows 150,000 to
200,000 gallons per day, and has a
pressure at the surface of 25 pounds
New Party Seeks Candidates.
Chicago: A movement having
for its object the formation of a la-
bor party in Illinois politics has been
started by representatives of some of
the principal labor unions with head-
quarters in this city. They have
circulating a petition asking Daniel
A. Cruce, a well known attorney, to
become a candidate for Governor. He
has been a considerable factor in city
and State politics for several years.
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It is also stated that, incidental
to the visit of Messrs. Ross and Til-
linghast to Texas, that the City
Councils of Sherman, Gainesville,
Bonham and Denison will be re-
victs, George Rock, W. H. Haves
and another whose name is not giv-
en, made a dash for liberty.
Robinson’s throat was cut from
ear to ear and the jugular vein was
severed. Conley’s throat was gashed
and he was stabbed several times in
the shoulder and groin before he was
able to draw his revolver and shoot
two of his assailants down.
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both shot down after the latter
had been wounded. It is believed
that the Warden will recover.
Diamonds May Be Cehaper.
London: There is a probability
that the diamond monopoly will be
broken up through the non-renewal
of the contract which expires this
month between the Premier Dia-
mond Mining Company and the dia-
mond syndicate which' hitherto has
taken the output of both the Premier
and the Deboers Companies. In case
the contract is not renewed war will
be declared by the Premier Company
against the Debeers.
eota cut-off Wednesday. He wa
caught under the engine, which was
turned over. I he dead engineer
lived at Ennis.
The seed corn for the fifty dem-
onstration farms to be established in
Denton’s trade territory has arrived
and has been distributed among the
farmers who are to conduct the dem-
onstrations.
The Baptist Young People’s
I nion and Sunday-school Conven-
tion of Southwest Texas adjourned
in San Antonio Saturday. Seguin
was selected as the next meeting
place on the first Thursday in March
1909.
Tuesday evening Marcus, the eigh.
en-monthsold boy of Mr. and Mrs.
M. C. Watson of Bonham, fell into
the fountain pool at the high school
building in the west part of the town
and was drowned. |
Washington, the bottle were harmless.
t At the police station the man said
Deer Lodge, Mont., March 9.—
Warden Frank Conley of the Mon-
tana State Penitentiary was danger-
ously wounded yesterday morning
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but M. Jayne, his secretary, bought
one as an investment, paving $17- he came from Rockford,
000 for it. ’ c
( ited this section and looked over the
f field at close range, and their own
observations, backed up by the opin-
ions of the expert engineers who
, have been in their employ, has re-
sulted in definite action.
Last Monday, at Wheeling, W.
Va., a meeting of the principal
parties interested was held and the
Red River Oil and Gas Company
was formally organized, and Thurs-
day a charter was issued to it un-
der the laws of West Virginia. The
capital stock is placed at $100,000,
and the object of the same is to de-
velop oil and gas in certain North
Texas lands already acquired and to
be acquired hereafter. The officers
of the company are as follows: Pres-
ident, C. Ferguson of Hallidays
Cove. W . ) a., already largely inter-
ested in oil. gas and coal, as well as
electric railways; Vice-President. W.
H. Hoyt of Wellsburg, W. Va., a
prominent Eastern realty dealer,
with an oflice in New York City;
Secretary and Treasurer, B. D. Til-
linghast of McDonald, Pa., manager
of extensive machine shop interests.
practical experience in the develop-
ment of oil, gas and coal deposits!
' as an instance of the faith that i
in them that the middle river belt oY
Grayson, Cooke and Fannin Coun-
- ties is an excellent field, have been
quietly and successfully at work se-
curing leases on lands.
From time to time capitalists
from the North and East have vis-
Bralley to Go to Trinity.
Austin: Dr. S. L. Hornbeak, su-
perintendent of the State Institution
for the Blind, will resign Septem-
ber 5, 1908,, instead of January 1,
1909, as first contemplated, to ac-
cept the presidency of Trinity Uni-
versity at Waxahachie. Governor
Campbell will nominate F. M. Bral-
ley, general agent of the Conference
for Education in Texas, to succeed
Dr. Hornbeak. The nomination is
subject to the approval of the Board
of Trustees.
Bank President Entertains Would-Be
Hold-Up While Others Procure
His Arrest.
Omaha, Neb., March 11.—A bold
attempt was made yesterday to rob
the Merchants’ National aBnk at
Thirteenth and Farnam Streets by a
man who, although at first believed
to be a desperate criminal, is now
believed by the police to be a luna-
tic.
The man gave his name as L. L.
Fee, formerly of Rockford, III.. He
walked into the bank and, menacing
Vice-President Drake with a bottle,
which he said contained nitro-glvc-
erine, demanded $5000 cash. Mr.
Drake, though believing for a mo-
ment that his life and those of his
fellow official and employes of the
bank might be in imminent danger,
conferred carefully with the would-
be robber until other officials called
the police and the man was taken
into custody. Tests by the police
seem to show that the contents of
preme Court yesterday reversed and
remanded the case of the United
States, plaintiff in error, against Ed-
ward S. Thayer. Thayer was in-
dicted for violation of the civil serv-
ice act in having solicited a contrib-
A Former Postmaster Suicides.
Detroit, Mich.: Elwood T. Hance,
First Vice-President of the Union/
Trust Company of this city and fora
mor postmaster of Detroit,' shot and
killed himself in his home here. His
friends say he has been greatly de-
pressed over financial matters for
some time. Mr. Hance's health also
had not been good, and it is sup-
posed that this aggravated his wor-
V He was born in Wilmington,
ution to the Republican campaign
fund from the postoffice employes at;
Dallas, Texas. A demurrer to the
indictment was sustained by Judge
Meek on the ground that, as Thayer
had asked for the contributions by
means of letters, it was not actual
solicitation within the meaning of
the act.
north of here on the Kansas City
. Southern Railroad, was entered by
Walter Harris, night watchman burglars Sunday night, who dynamit-
for the Grayson Oil and Cotton r ed the vault and partly wrecked the
Company at Sherman, fell into a safe, but failed to reach the money,
conveyor and had his arm ground ! The damage to the vault and safe
to a pulp at the elbow. The arm had was $500, covered by insurance. The
to be amputated. Harris, who is for- i bandits secured nothing of value, ex-
ty-two years old, has a wife and five ■ cept $40 in pennies. There is no
small children. clue.
The Supreme Court, in an opinion
rendered by Justice Holmes, em-
phatically disagrees with this view.
“It appears to us no more open to
doubt,” the Court says, “than that _ - - --------ra-
the statute prohibition solicitation by I death rate, was about 25 per 1000
written as well as by spoken word. " »-- -
It is not, even primarily, to save em-
ployes from interruption and annoy-
ance in their business; it is to check
a political abuse. which is not differ-
j of population, which suggests the
- marked progress that has been made
in the art of rational living.
These facts are gathered from an
advanced outline of the statistics of
Prospects of Electric Line.
Fort Worth: It is evidently- the
belief of a committeeman appointed,
by the Board of Trade to assist in
. promulgate the building of the Fort
Worth and Mineeral Wells interur-
ban line via Weatherford that there
remains no further doubt as to the
building of the line, and that with-
in the next ten days announcement
will be made of the successful bid-
der on the construction work. No
trouble is anticipated in renewing
the bonus notes.
Found Dead In a Tank.
Goldthwaite: Will Evans, aged
forty-five years, was found dead in a
small tank four miles south of town
late Friday evening. He left here
W ednesday morning alone, and had
been fishing in the tank where he
was found. He was subject to sud-
den illness, and it is supposed that
he fell on his face and was drowned.
No marks of violence were found.
John Evans, a brother, lives in Co-
manche, and another relative in
Houston.
He is a plumber by trade, and, it is
e-in busines, with go .2 said, 1138 been drawing $5 a month
Charles nesswi 1 833,0 ) capital, from the Plumbers’ Union while out
Better Care, Less Exposure, Purer
Army of Stockholders.
New York: Stockholders of the
United States Steel Corporation, it
was announced a day or so ago, have
reached the vast aggregate of 95,-
000, the largest in its history. A
considerable proportion of the stock
books in the last nine months and
the increase in the number of stock-
holders since last summer has been
larger than in any other similar pe-
riod since the organization of the
company in 1900.
were gathered* the death rate among
whites during 1906 was 17.2, while
among negroes it was 28.1, a differ-
ence of about sixty per cent. Con-
sumption was the great scourge
among negroes, as, for that matter,
it was among the whites.
DESPERATE PENITENTIRY DASH.
Three Deaths theRsult of Attempt to
Make Escape.
Drills, etc., have been already or-
dered for shipment to Cooke Coun- .
ty, where work will be commenced,,
near Gainesville at once. Materia
will also be purchased for use in
the Fannin County fields. inabil-
ity to secure leases on a large tract
of land a few miles west of Sherman,
it is stated, prevents an announce-
ment of when active steps toward the
development of the Grayson County
field will begin, if begun at all.
TH^SE COUNTY MESSENGER
COLLINS & SMITH
Burying Victims of Collinwood.
Cleveland, Ohio.: In a storm of
snow and sleet Collinwood went on
burying the victims of the Lakeview
School fire of Wednesday last. Sev-
enty funerals were conducted. As
there were not enough hearses, street
cars were pressed into service to car-
ry the dead to the cemeteries. “We
hold no one responsible for the fire
and its attendant loss of life,” is said
to be the decision of the Collinwood
School Board.
rate there is only 8.8 per 1000 of
population, while Rhode Isand and
Pennsylvania are at the other end
of the list, with a rate of 17.5. Cal-
ifornia’s rate is 17.4, but that is due
to the presence of so many who have
gone there in the last stages of ill-
ness. The death rate of a sanitari-
um is always large.
For. the first time these mortality
statistics make a comparative show-
ing as between the death rate among
white people and among negroes, and
they disclose what common observa- ,
tion has long made apparent, that ,
is, that negroes are more subject and
vulnerable to disease than whites,
lor example, it was found that in
the cities in which authentic data
The North Texas Beekeepers’ As-
sociation will meet at Blossom April
1 and 2.
The planting of onions in Collin
County for this season is about over,
and the acreage far exceeds that of
any previous year.
There is a general understanding
among cotton manufacturers to cur-
tail the output to only enough goods
to'barely cover orders.
Mrs. C. B. Kennedy of Laredo,
Texas, landed the first tarpon of the
reason at Aransas Pass. It meas-
ured 5 feet 10 1-2 inches.
Fred Myers, conducting a print-
ing office in Denison, was found dead
in bed Friday morning. He was
formerly from Fort Worth.
Mrs. Florence E. Russell, aged
fifty years, a resident of Dallas, was
found dead Friday morning, sitting
in the bathroom of her home.
It turns out that enator Bailey
in some seventy cities outside these
States. The States requiring regis-
tration of death are California, Col-
orado, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan.
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
South Dakota and Vermont.
The statistics give to South Da-
kota the distinction either of being
the most healthful State in the
Union, or else being blessed with the
most efficient doctors, for the death
crop on hand March 1, 1907. The
quantities of corn and oats on the
same date follow: Corn (estimated),
37.1 per cent, 962.429,000 bushels’
of last year’s growth; oats (estimat- .a- A ■ . . --g
ed), 35.5 per cent, 267,476,000 bush- and Assistant Warden John Robin-
els, of last year’s growth. son Was killed, when three life con-
THEPEOPLELIVE LONGER
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he had read of banks being robbed
inthe manner he attempted, and less message was bli ,
that he determined to try the scheme, the Gulf If Nr.vil 861 taverse
He insists that the bottle contained I thnu.osexico, then cross over-
no nitro-glycerin, but was really on- ! ndsthenStatesof.Texas, part of
ly water with a little coloring ma-huicoaand.againtraverse several
terial. The police took the botti to I ticuiarrmmmiagenwasran This
the river bank and fired into it with miral rLON" 1 a Ad
a rifle. The bottle was broken, butmin Thomas commander,of the
there was no explosion. Sdp ’ as as follows:
Otto Steffins Dead. from home?"
Abilene: Abilene was very much An additional dispatch received by
shocked when the announcement was I ensacola, from Admiral Thomas
made that Colonel Otto W. Stef- j dated, on board the Minnesota at 8
fens, aged sixty years, was dead. Just ° clock Sunday night, was as follows:
when he died no one seems to know. I 1 he. position of the fleet at this
He was attended by a physician at I moment is latitude 14.37 north, lon-
about 2 o’clock Tuesday morning. gltude west.
and seemed to be suffering from a Wheat, Oats and Corn on Hand
heart affection, but was resting eas- w 1 . , _,
ily at the time the physician left. Washington: The quantity of
The family on awaking found the "heat in, farmers’ hands on March
dead body on the floor of his private .Was. 23.5 Per cent, equivalent to
bedroom. 1148,721,000 bushels of last year’s
crop, compared with 28.1 per cent
or 206,644,000 bushels of the 1906’
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