Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 13, 1908 Page: 3 of 10
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boiler and gin house total loss; saved
cotton and seed house; no cotton lost,
it is supposed to have caught from
engineers agree to begin the work
at Plainview by April 1, and pos-
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Proposed Plains Railway.
Engineers will be put in the field
not later than April 1 surveying a
route for a railroad projected from
Plainview to Midland, across the
great Staked Plains. This informa-
tion was given out in Fort Worth
recently by Colonel J. H. Ransome,
promoter of the line.
Accompanied by a party of capi-
talists from Kansas City, Colonel
Ransome passed through Fort Worth
en route to. the plains country to
make an overland trip with the cap-
italists and endeavor to interest them
in industrial and colonization proj-
ects along the proposed route.
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Ransome made arrangements to have
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able Feat.
Looking at Death Rate.
Redd—I see the average length of
life in England is 44 years.
Greene—What’s the matter? Han't
the automobile reached there yetr”
cepted it.
George Wilson, a negro, was elec-
trocuted at the New Jersey State
prison Tuesday for the murder of
Frederick Romer of Orange, N. J.
an undertaker, who was killed in his
room at a hotel.
The Brunswicke-Balke Collender
Company of Delaware has been
granted a permit to do business in
Texas, with a capital of $1,500,000.
with a burnt clay floor from which
a quantity of rare Celtic pottery
with incised markings and decora-
tions, an iron spearhead, etc., have
been unearthed.
A resurrection of old Celts has
taken place in the isle of Thanet.
At Dumpton, what appears to have
been a Celtic camp has been par-
tially excavated in the making of a
new road. Several trenches over 40
feet long have been discovered and
a number of skeletons, a quern stone
and a cordoned vase. At Broadstairs
place, when the young cockrels are
large enough for broilers or fryers,
being of uniform size, shape and
color, they will bring a much high-
er price upon the market for eating
purposes. Who, wanting a dozen or
more of chickens for table use, would
hesitate to pay a handsome advance
in price for a dozen nice, fat, plump,
uniform-colored, sized and shaped
Wyandottes, Plymouth Rocks or
Rhode Island Reds? Besides, they
are better eating, having tenderer,
Jucier meat, having more breast and
thigh meat and less wing, back and
leg meat, a fact beyond controversy.
In the fifth place, a farmer who
raises only one variety of thorough-
bred poultry can reap a harvest from
his neighbors and those who pass
that way, seeing and admiring his
fowls, and are not slow to want some
of those pure-blooded chickens. Then
let every farmer try to get a start
in one of the very best of all pur-
pose breeds of the American class
and stock up with them.—J. P. Kin-
nard, in Farm and Ranch.
The good roads question is here for ing to the reporters how the story
settlement until it is settled right.
The Examiner indulges in the hope
that a more perfect road working sys-
ranged to erect a public fountain in
that city.
For some time relations between
China and Japan have been very
strained. An apology for recent oc-
currences from China has opened up
a way for arriving at an amicable
adjustment of differences.
Col. William G. Sterrett made
formal announcement of his candi-
dacy for Congressman from the
Fifth District in last Sunday’s daily
papers.
Wu Ting Fang, the new Chinese
Minister, arrived in San Francisco
Friday.
John Gary Evans was elected
United States Senator Friday on the
fourth ballot to succeed Senator Lat-
timore, deceased, of South Carolina.
Poultrymen in Johnson County-
claim that the shows held in Cle-
burne have greatly increased inter-
est in both breeding and rearing
poultry.
The highest March wind that has
struck Chicago in three years com-
menced early Friay from the south-
west. and wrought much havoc in
the downtown district.
Tom Wolfe, who was charged with
shooting J. Underwood at Wortham
some time since, was acquitted in the
District Court of Freestone County
last Friday at Fairfield.
Work started in the mines of the
Amalgamated, North Butte and the
Coalition companies Monday, at
Butte, Montana. These mines give
employment to 5500 men.
The saw mill plant of the Weir
Lumber Company was started up
Monday, after being shut down for
«mne weeks on account of the de-
pression in the lumber business.
B. F. Arthur of Union, S. C., one
of the receivers appointed by Judge
Pritchard for the dispensary funds,
has telegraphed to the Governor his
resignation. Governor Ansel has ac-
Let’s Have More of This.
Guy Rice, one of Plano’s good
citizens, was in the city Monday. Mr.
Rice believes in the split log drag.
He not only believes in it, but he
practices it. He says it is next to
the pike road in value and is certain-
ly economical. He tells us that the
pike which was constructed while the
writer was in Plano three years ago,
ished in sixty days. The ice plant
will have a daily capacity of twenty-
tons.
Investigations by the Portuguese
Government regarding the Tatsu
Maru incident have elicited from the
Pekin Government the emphatic as-
sertion that the seizure occurred on
the high seas and was no violation
of the law governing Portuguese wa-
ters.
The United States troops that
have been in Goldfield for three
months evacuated the camp Satur-
day and turned the responsibility of
maintaining order in the Goldfield
district to the local police and the
Nevada State police.
Scottish Rite Masons of the Val-
Dallas is headquarters. The filing
fees amounted to $1619.
The Interstate Commerce Com-
mission decided Monday, by unani-
mous vote, to deny all petitions for
extensions of time within which to
comply with the so-called hours serv-
ice la we—the nine-hour law.
The question of the organization
of a new county is being discussed
by the local press and citizens living
in the Big Sandy section. It is pro-
posed to organize a new county from
portions of Wood, Smith and Up-
shur Counties.
A cargo of powder carried by a
Big Four freight train exploded i
Behile the train was running at full
speed two miles from Litchfield, 111.
Two men are reported fatally in-
jured, the train was badly wrecked
and several cars were burned.
After exchanging several shots
with Constable MeCalpin and Depu-
And Texas la Leader.
The greatest curse of the Ameri-
can people today is extravagance. It
entails more suffering and hardships
than any other one cause. The
plague permeates the whole nation
from its highest to its lowest point.
Useless extravagance is flaunted
in your face at every turn of the
compass. - Our national law makers
spend thousands of dollars annually
merely to gratify pomp and pride.
The mechanic becomes dissatisfied
with lucrative wages, because he can
not keep pace with the idle rich. The
pastor is ashamed of his church be-
cause it is not more luxurantly deco-
rated than others. The mother feels
humiliated that her child cannot out-
dress those of her neighbors. Men
who can’t pay their debts will take
a pride in strutting around with a
a preliminary survey made and the in the face.
mingham, made a trial run from
Boston to Rockland Saturday at an
average of 23 1-2 knots without
forced draft.
Frank A. Munsey, the New York
publisher, has bought the Baltimore
News, which will be conducted in
the future as in the past—an inde-
pendent newspaper,
A Chilean naval officer has in-
vented a torpedo tube which, after
official trials with excellent results,
the Admiralty has ordered adopted
aboard all torpedo boats.
More than twenty car loads of
seed potatoes leave been sold in Pot-
tawatomie County, Ok., points this
season, according to the commission
men of Shawnee. An extra good
crop is promised.
The big fine is working as a fine
temperance inducer in Dallas.
All over Texas the public and pri-
vate school houses are being exam-
ined, with a view to improving safe-
ty in case of fire.
At the age of 105 years, Owen
Priester, the oldest Confederate vet-
eran in the South, died at Salke-
hatchie, S. C., last week. His death
was due to an accident received while
he was occupied in raking straw.
Thomas J. Callan, the man whom
General George A. Custer sent for
reinforcements when his command
was entrapped by Indians on the Lit-
tle Big Horn River in Montana, died
at his home in Yonkers, N. Y., Fri-
day.
Milford Bass, fifteen years old,
living at Saratoga, was accidentally
shot by his younger brother with a
38-caliber pistol. The bullet entered
just belowe the right cheek bone and
lodged under the scalp behind the
right ear.
should agree to let their wives have
a flock of thoroughbred hens and
enough thoroughbred cock birds to
go with them of the standard varie-
ties of one of the American classes,
such as the Wyandotte, Plymouth
Rock, or Rhode Island Red, and note
the difference. In the first place
these are all good, medium sized, all
purpose fowls, laying plenty of eggs
and making fine market poultry,
consuming no more feed than mon-
grels; while the farmer, as well as
his wife and children, will take
more pride in them and give them
better attention, thus securing bet-
ter results. In the second place the
eggs being from only one variety-
will be uniform in size and color,
and will therefore demand a much
better price upon the market for eat-
ing purposes. In the third place, the
hens of one of these improved breeds
will lay more eggs than mongrels,
and lay them in fall and winter,
when they are most in demand and
prices are highest. In the fourth
hold their spring reunion in that
city on April 6, 7, 8 and 9. The
ceremonial sessions will be held in
the auditorium of Turner Hall.
A permit to do business in Texas
has been granted by the State De-
partment to Newson & Company,
book publishers of New York, capi-
tal stock $50,000. Dallas is to be
headquarters.
Mrs. J. C. Spires, the wife of a
farmer living three miles west of
Basil, Ohio, killed three of her chil-
dren, fatally wounded a fourth and
then committed suicide.
Fort Worth’s new Methodist
"That ridiculous yarn,” he said,
“was started by a reactionary who
happened to see me wiping a cinder
out of my eye. But I’ve separated
him from his job in the treasury de-
partment, all right, all right!”
Feeling satisfied that he could
leave the verdict to impartial his-
tory, he dismissed the reporters with
• wave of the imperial hand.
ALL SHE HAD TO DO
A Breviary of Important Newt and
Happenings That One Wants
to Know About.
and gave his fellow traveler a blow
Ransomes plans, the survey will in the back. Teague, astonished at
ty Sheriff Rush Hickman Saturday ley of Dallas, Orient of Texas, will
afternoon ten miles northwest of
raised for the market are a measly,
mongrel set, partly Mediterranean,
partly American, and partly Asiatic,
but mostly just Dunghill of all
shades, colors, and sizes, thus mak-
ing a very unattractive set and bring-
ing but a very small price upon the
market as broilers, fryers or roast-
ers.
Suppose these same farmers
cheap egg and table fowl has passed
with the advent of high beef, mut-
ton and pork.
There are many reasons why the
farmer should acknowledge the im-
portance of this great industry and
strive to get into the procession and
keep up with it.
The slip-shod method, if it can be
called a method, heretofore pursued
by the farmers, especially of Texas,
is to keep from fifty to a hundred
mongrel, scrub, non-descript hens
without paying any particular atten-
tion to them, letting them lay and
set when and where they please, and
selling whatever eggs they lay, to the
local merchant or chicken peddler
at only a few cents a dozen. I have
seen eggs sell in Belton and only a
few years back at six dozen for a
quarter of a dollar, four and a sixth
of a cent a dozen, quite a difference
between that and 35 cents a dozen.
remains a good road. This road was ..
built from.the North Plano city lim- the surveyor S staff, while sinking
“What is your name, little boy?”
asked the teacher.
“I’ll have to write it for you,
ma’am,” said the new boy, hesitat-
ingly.
“I think not. My hearing is
quite good. Your name, please?”
“I’d rather not tell you.”
“Are you ashamed of your name ?”
“No, ma’am, but—”
“Then we will not waste any more
time, if you please. I am waiting.”
The boy’s eyes rolled wildly in
their sockets and his face became
contorted as he began:
"Kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk Clarence!
That’s my first name. The other is
Pup-pup-pup-pup-pup-pup-pup Per-
kins! I never stutter ’cept when
I’m speaking my name, and when
I’m nagged like this I’m a whole
lot worse, ma’am.”
ANCIENT CELTIC RELICS.
cigar in their mouth. Thus the
curse works on through the whole
labyrinth of national society. 'If not
checked it is only a question of time
until the result will be summed up in
national disaster.
“I like that way of marching
around the church and singing,”
said a woman visitor to a large
Protestant Episcopal church recent-
ly, “I just wish we could have some-
thing like that in our Methodist
church in Whitestown.”
“Well, Betsy,” said her meek lit-
tle husband, who was carrying her
handbag and fur coat, “if you want
them to march around the church
and sing, all you’ve got to do is to
tell tham to, they wouldn’t dare not
mind you.”—N. Y. Press.
The T. B. Simmons gin at Fred-
erick, Ok., burned Friday night. Gin, the prevailing price this Christmos.
‘98—Who’s that awful old frump
over there?
’09—That, sir, is my mother.
’08—Er—ah—oh, yes—um. Well
—ahem—you just ought to see
mine!—Harvard Lampoon.
shaft, opened out an ancient pit
its south to the Dallas county line
and has proved a trade puller to
Plano. The road is now being fixed
up by refilling holes that had worn
in places. Mr. Rice believes the
present road law is very defective—
that we should get busy for better
road laws and a more equitable way
of raising revenue and disbursing it.
now the terminus of an important
branch of the Santa Fe System, go-
ing via Hale, Center and the coun-
ties of Lubbock, Lynn, Dawson and
Martin on to Midland, making a con-
nection with the Texas and Pacific.
Such a line would traverse a wide
territory, now almost exclusively
used for cattle-raising purposes, and
developing possibilities coincident
with the building of such a road
would be practically unlimited.
Much of the land is known to be
useful for agricultural purposes, if
transportation facilities were avail-
able, and, therefore, many landhold-
ers and capitalists are watching the
Ransome project with keen interest.
Colonel Ransome promoted the
construction of the Plainview branch
of the Santa Fe, and now he pro-
poses to aid the Santa Fe in reach-
ing below Plainview and bisecting
the great plains country. Although
he withholds the source of his back-
ing, it is understood that Colonel
Ransome has sufficient financial pow-
er behind him to build the proposed
line under favorable conditions.—
Fort Worth Record.
matches. Loss $9000, insurance
$5000.
While boating on the Appalachee
mill pond near Greers, S. C., a skiff
carrying ten people capsized and
three young women were drowned.
There were but two men in the party
and it was only through their efforts
that the other five were saved.
Work on a $30,000 ice plant and
cold storage warehouse to be installed
by Russell, Kan., and Louisville,
Ky., parties at Shawnee, Ok., was
commenced last week and will be fin-
Waxahachie, Willie Williams, a ne-
gro, shot and killed Mary Williams,
a negress, and then killed himself.
Sheriff Jesse Farris of Cuero is
making preparations to have the ex-
ecution of John Brown, a negro, on
Friday, in private.
In a county election Ward County
voted for prohibition three to one, as
was expected, as the three main
towns had already gone dry.
The House Committee on Arts
and Expositions has decided to re-
port favorably a bill appropriating
$500,000 for the participation of the
United States in the International
Exposition at Tokio, Japan, in 1912.
At the Jennings, La., oil field, a
boiler owned by the Ismerie Oil Com-
pany exploded, seriously injuring
two men and slightly wounding sev-
eral others.
AA row of frame buildings was
"Burned in Bay City Sunday, entail-
ing a loss of some $12,500.
The Commissioners’ Court of Hill
County has ordered twelve four-
horse grading machines for use by
overseers. Three of the machines
will be given to each Commissioner's
precinct.
Among some old anecdot $ in
manuscript in the collection' -- the
New Jersey Historical society this
one was unearthed: Two Irishmen
traveling through the country, rath-
er fatigued, the one said to the
other: “By me soul, Pat, if we
could catch a horse we would not ride
a foot.” They presently caught a
horse and Teague mounted, but Pat,
supposing he would not carry
double, agreed to drive. The horse
being rather unruly, and the driver
rather severe, the horse kicked Pat
the blow, turned and inquired the
matter. “Ah, by my soul, honey,
your nag has thumped me in the
face.” “Has he?” said Teague;
“sure then he’s just kicked me in the
back, too.”
It is only a recent thing that the
poultry business has developed into
a rgeat industry, and the production
of eggs and chickens recognized
throughout the United States as a
great and growing business enter-
prise. Until recently the great work
being done by the American hen has
been underestimated, and not prop-
erly appreciated. Farmers and villag-
. ers everywhere have been raising
only a few chickens each, mostly for
home consumption, with only the
surplus to be disposed of upon the
open market, which, however, in the
aggregate amounts to hundreds of
dollars yearly. The time of the
GIVE POULTRY A CHANCE
Death was ascribed to natural causes. -------
The new scout cruiser, the Bir- Put Some of the Improved Varietles
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