Free State Enterprise. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 26, 1900 Page: 1 of 4
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ONE DOLLAR * YEAR:
EQUAL RIGH TSTOALL; SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE
BY M.G. SANDERS
CANTON, VAN ZANDT COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 26,1900.
VOLUME 18.
NUMBER 36.
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Will pave you money on each
Plows and implements.
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Your patronage solici-
purchase in the Hardware Line.
The remnins were taken to Terrell
closed I list Friday.
E. W. Hani? of the Greenville
Herald was elected president of the
the Appeal sound to the
citizen like they need salt.
Pennsylvania semis sixty-four
delegates to the Democratic Nation-
al Convention instructed to vote as
Bailey’s friends
his success.
afternoon.
Jim Spinks has turned his mus-
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Te rell and Kaufman have small
pox.
There is many things that look
"curlous."
Jno. H. Reagan, the only surviv
ing member of the Confederate cab-
inet, is writing his recollections of
the civil war.
Gov. W. 8. Taylor has been in-
dicted as an accessory in the kill-
ing of Gov. Goebel.
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Chilton made an aide Senator and
was so recognized by that distin-
guished body. On the other hand
ent I have everything from 0
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ermen from Terrell and had camp-
ed for the night at that plnce.
Justice of the Peace D. M. George
held an inquest over tba remains
and rendered a verdict inaccor-
dance with the facts as above staled.
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At Caspary’s old stand, Tyler, Texas.
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Of Athens where you buy more good? for less money than
any store inTexas. We want to Bee you. Yours Truly,
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repreeentation at the great conven-
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ability, the future gives him a
kindly invitation to go up higher.
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Tree Fell On him While Aslecp.
Wills Point, Tex., April 18.—
(Special to the ENTEIPRISE.)-J.
U. Bradshaw of Terrell was ac-
Suits in all Styles and Prices. Chairs of every „
description. Folding-Beds, Lounges, Book-Cases, 124
Side -Boards, Chifomers, Extra Dressers, Sewing A
A free trip to the democratic
1 cidently killed at the freo bridge on
Sabine River, eleven miles north of
here, last night by a tree falling on
him. He was with a party of fish
whiskey is good whisky.
This seems to be a great time of
will be one of the kind upon which
epochs turn as a pivot. The dem-
ocratic celebrities of the nation
will be there, and the stirring scenes
of the Chigago convention of 1896
are likely to be obscured by com-
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very far wrong. The world is not
particularey stuck on any doggerel
writer.
man. a scholar and a judge of good
de. Harness, Wagons, Buggies, Barb-wire
GRAND SALINE, TEXAS.
I am doing business at the same old stand and same old
wa) . I have no leaders—neither do I sell goods be-
low cost, but I defy any one to challenge my prices or
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I have a full stock of all seasonable goods, such as Re-
JAMES R. ADAMS,
Ele Eyler Harware empang.
The Largest General Harware House in East Texas,
Carnes the biggest stock of Hardware, Stoves, Tinware
Glars and Queensware, Buggies and Harness, cheap
Every blunder that the Hanna-
ites make in Congress adds fury to
the determination of the Hannnite
Democrats to break into the Kan-
sas City convention. it is causing
them to resort to some fantastic
tricks.
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election on the 18th inst. from 25,-
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home and is so .highly regard- against ten persons, charging them,
with complicity in the murder of
afternoon returned indictments
lawyer ot ten years practice, how-
ever, he has only lived in Tyler
about two years He is an educa-
ted young man of fine ability and
an impressive and forcible speaker,
and is forging to the front at the
Tyler bar. He is studious. moral,
well up in his profession, with a
comumemmammmaraan - • ■ on '. mamre mrurmnnameme. « m-cuameamenmmmemummmmmam-mm-m
Thompson is an ex Van Zandteri Grand Jory Indites.
and his numerous friends over in F rankford, Ky., April 17.—The
this part of the woods are glad to, Franklin County Grand Jury this
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“To Texas on a cyclone," is the
title of an imigration pamphlet
As the old lady remarked—“any
way, Lord, so we get there
The Boston poet who sang. “This
glaring statements, however, from e
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( 1 dates. Dudley G. Wooten has tore
He is social and win-
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9. ; Kinley has not annexed it.
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The Puerto Ricans are still going
bare footed and bare-legged despite
“out plain duty.”
It is hard to tell which is the
more changeable McKinley’s mind
or Texas weather.
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Texas Pres? Association at its re-
mendable and novel enterprise, has “
organized a convention excursion, 7
and will send to the convention, at
its own transportation expense, one
Populist and Republi ane cannot
agree on fusion terms in North
Carolina.
In 1896 the Chicago platform was
stronger than the candidate, but
in 1900 the candidate will be equally
strong with the platform, and both
together will be invincible.
national convention, which will
meet at Kansas City on July , is
something th wiil he accept- le
to a g' eat any people. The event' 5
of every kind.
The markets of the United States
should be opened up to her pro-
ducts. Our plain duty is to abol-
ish all customs tariff between the
United States and Puerto Rico and
give her products access to our
markets.—President McKinley’s
message, Dec. 4. 1899.
The news of Senator Chilton’s
years our foreign commerce increag. ||
ed 63 percent, while England, own I
j ing abont one -fourth of the urea of 1
the earth and about one-fourth of
the total populetion, suffered a loss
of five per cent of her foreign com-
merce during th*3 last seven years.
„ The President of the Whisky
Ip i Trust testified the other day that all
withdrawal from the race caused by „ . ...
... , ... ... fine physique, on the Bub loom ba
his ill health was received in >
Washington with much regret. . , . .
i ning in a manner that makes him
popular with the people. With an
interesting family I see nothing in
Bob Thompson’s way to reach emi-
nence as an able lawyer at the very
top of his profession, as he is climb-
ing to reach it. Ho is an impres-
parison. The Texas Stock and|23
Farm Journal of Dallas, Fort
Worth and San Antonio, with com- "
Texas A good selection.
unsupported by Get-. Until with
'in the past year we did rot own a
foot of ground in any foreign land, 1
E I makes it certain that he is a gentle-
The man v » is able k it fuses
to pay his debts is as mean as a
sneak thief.—Times Clarion. Cor
recti And hell will be densely
populated with just such people.
The following is Mr. E. L. Rich-
ardson’s latest conundrum: Ques-
tion What is the best evidence
that the moon is nut inhabited?
The cry of nx panel nists that trade I
follows the dag is mere twaddle, *
Why, I’m going
to J. E. Andrew** Grocery
and Hardware Store, we t
side public square, Canton,
Texas, to buy my supplies.
Better jine me case I know
my business from A to 7I.
HiB prices are not copy-
wrighted but other mer-
chants have no use for them
—they are too low. If you
miss his bargains this season
you’ll be a long time forgiv-
i ing yourself.
representative of every club of
twenty yearly new subseribers re
ceived by it prior to June 30 In
other words it offers a free trip to
the convention as a premium for
twenty new subscribers. Under
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5 WAR in South AFRICA
The remains were taken to Terrell reported against them. They are,
from this place fur interment this Govw. W • S. Taylor, Green Golden'
and Capt. John Davis.
The Wills Point public schoorb
a unit for the renomination of
Bryan.
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cheapest bu- g
Also burial robes, shoes, 3
etc. Don’t forget the place L
32 cent annual meeting at Brenham,
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(h out of the race for congress in the
— Dallas district and many aspirants i Bob has the grit to get there.
Is attracting a little more attention than
oui Restaurant. But the many peo-
ple who daily throng the Capital City
had rather be in our Restaurant than
in South Africa. So come in to see us.
We are fexed to accommodate you.
it invades Africa for it is just such ' 583288& &axaaaaaaaaqy
a thing that Afiicans couid appre- e hi
ciate and its circulation should be 3
g liquor. It proves, moreover, that
.Sthe trust now owns all the whisky
A writer in the Tyler Courier
says of Bob Thompson: “Bob
Thompson is the only one of W.
D. Thompson’s children who lives
in Smith county, and he is a fine
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for other oflices in different coun-
ties and districts are following the
precedent. And they tell us that
a political life is full of disappoint.
; ments!
Free State Enterprise.
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a rial ense made.
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Cnl. R. N. Stafford, of Mineola,
is in line for the governorship « f'
fexA8. The present incumbent is
from Western Texas; hi? prede
ceesor, Culberson, was from Nort
Texas. W hen East lexas‘ turn to
name the governor of Texas comes
again, the name of Stafford will be
the only one thought of in connec
tion. There is no better material
in the state, and ho is universally
popular Keep your eur to the
ground, and listen to the ground-
swell.- Mineola News.
‘Appeal to Reason," a socialist
paper published in the sometimes
great state of Kansas exonerates
its conscience from the belief
in the pinfulness of lying and
carefully startles the world with
the plain announcement that it
circulates in every country except
Russia. We do not doubt but what
Machines, Baby Buggies, Carpets, Mattings, Rugs, 6)
Window-Shades, Pictures, Bictnre Frame?, Pic- ,
tore MouMing, anJ in fol Everything that is & wor ld is not my friend,
kept in a First class Furniture tore. Goods sold
on installment. 3,
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my Undertakers Depart- |
and all Hardware; also Lumber and Building Material
is complete. Come nd see me.
Respectfully Yours,
J. E. PERSONS,
Wm. Goebel. The principals
named are Henry E. Youtsey,
James Howard, Berry Howard,"
Harland Whittakes and “Tallow
Di k" Combs (colored): Those in-
dicted as accessories before the fact
are Secretary of State Powers, Capt. 2
John L. Powers and ex-Secretary of
State Charles Finley, W . H. ul-
ton and F Wharton Golden. In
the indictment relating to the al-
ledged accessoies three other men '
are indirectly referred to as acces-
sories, though no indictments were
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Sanders, M. G. Free State Enterprise. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 26, 1900, newspaper, April 26, 1900; Canton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585396/m1/1/?q=negro: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.