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Must Pay In Advance
Or Go“Open Shipment
’GAINST JUGS AND JAGS.
C. 0. D. Liquor Can Be Delivered Only
After Carrier Pays License.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 11.—Following is
the full text of the bill proposed by
Representatives Thompson, Baker,
Silliman, Witherspoon, McKinney, Ter-
rell of Cherokee, Sperry and Briscoe;
as amended and passed by the House
-and Senate, designed to tax and regu-
late the C. O. D. liquor trade in Texas:
An act imposing an annual occupa
tion tax upon each office or place kept
and maintained by any person, dim
-or corporation in that State at which
intoxicating liquors legally deliver-
able, are delivered upon payment of
purchase money therefor, providing a
penalty for failure to pay such tax and
declaring an emergency.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Leg-
islature of the State of Texas:
Any person, firm or corporation do-
ing business in this State shall, at
each office or place(kept, operated or
maintained by such person, firm or
corporation at which intoxicating li-
quors legally deliverable are delivered
upon payment of purchase money
therefor, commonly designated as ship
ments C. O. D., pay annually for each
office or place so kept an annual oc-
cupation tax to the State of Texas of
five thousand dollars. And any county
for any incorporated city or town
wherein such office or place is located
may levy an annual occupation tax
upon such person, firm or corporation
therein referred to for each of said
offices, not to exceed one-half of the
amount hereby levied by the State,
such tax to be due'and payable annual-
ly.
Sec. 2. The maintaining or operat-
ing such office or offices, place or
places, by any person, firm or corpora-
tion in this State without paying the
occupation tax required in Section 1
of this act shall subject such person,
firm or corporation so operating and
maintaining such office or offices, place
or places, to pay to the State of Tex-
as the sum of fifty dollars, and to the
county and any incorporated city or
town in which said offices or places are
located each the sum of fifty dollars
for each day such office or offices,
WILL PUT UP THE BARS
President May Recomment the Pass
age of a “Shut ’Em Out.”
San Antonio, Tex., Feb. 11.—As the
result of a report to be made person-
;ally to President Roosevelt by Maurice
Braun, Special Immigration Agent,
who has been looking into conditions
on the Mexican border as the repre-
sentative of the President, it is ex-
pected that the President will within
the near future send a special message
to Congress recommending that the
Mexican border ports be closed to ail
immigrants except Mexicans.
This step became necessary by the
horde of undesirable immigrants who
have come to Mexico and hope to get
into the United States through Tex-
as. The conditions on the border have
'been very unsatisfactory for many
months, but has recently been accent-
uated by the great number of Japan-
ese who have flocked to Texas. An-
other class it is desired to guard
against is the Syrians. Many of the
latter have been rejected at New York
on account of trachoma and then made
their way to Mexico by boat, hoping
to get in that way.
During his investigation Mr. Braun,
who had the active assistance of the
First Bill to Reach Governor.
Austin: The first bill passed by
both branches of the legislature, and
the first to reach the executive de-
partment for approval, was presented
to Private Secretary Barton a few
'days since. It is a railroad bill—not
a consolidation bill, however—but
the bill originating in the house
which grants to railroads of the
State an extension of two years time
in which to complete certain branches
.and extensions.
More “Texas Money in Texas.”
Dallas: The Hanson Manufactur-
ing company is preparing to install a
new plant for the manufacture of met-
al window-sash and frames and gen-
eral sheet metal press work. The ma-
chinery’ for the new addition has ar-
rived. Frank Hanson, manager of the
new company, "states that he will
begin work in his new departure with
a force of about fifteen men. No wors
of this nature is now done in Texas
Burned in Sight of Friends.
Galveston: Mrs. Minnie Hynes was
burned to death by a lamp explosion in
her residence on Forty-First street,
while persons from the outside battled
flames for her rescue. She had just
arrived at her home from a week’s
stay at the hospital when accidental
death overtook her. Alone and not
wishing to be annoyed with the con
stant calls of neighbors anxious to be
of service to her, she is supposed to
have locked the doors and bolted the
windows.
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place or places, may be maintained or
operated and for each office or place
so operated, and the State or county
or any incorporated city or town may
sue for and recover either jointly or
severally, each the said sum, for each
day that each of said offices or places
may be maintained and operated with-
out prepayment of the aforesaid oc-
cupation tax.
Sec. 3. The fact that persons, firms
and corporations are doing an exten-
sive business in shipping and deliver-
intoxicating liquors in this State at
their various offices or places on the
payment of the purchase money there-
for, and are paying no occupation tax
for such privilege, creates an emer-
gency and an imperative public neces-
sity for the suspension of the consti-
tutional rules requiring bills to be read
on three several days in each house,
and that this act take effect from and
after its passage, and it is so enacted.
NINE LIVES ARE LOST.
Explosion on a French Torpedo Boat
on a Full Steam Power
Trial.
Lorient, France, February 9.—As a
result of an explosion on torpedo boat
No. 339 of the French Navy this
morning nine men are dead and two
men injured.
Torpedo boat No. 339 was launched
but a short time ago and at the time
of the accident she was undergoing
prior to being placed in commission,
her full power steam trial in
roadstead. A technical
mittee was on board.
the
com-
naval
The trial was
successful, but as the boat was re-
turning to her anchorage a safety
tube forming part of the evaporation
apparatus burst and a sheet of flame
was forced into the stoke hole, where
were the engineer, a quartermaster
and nine stokers. The engineer and
eight stokers were burned to death,
being practically reduced to cinders.
The other stoker was severely in-
jured. The quartermaster succeeded
in escaping with supjerficial burns
only.
Dallas is arranging to get busy at
once on a census of the city.
immigration authorities here, found
that there were men in Mexico who fol
lowed the smuggling of undesirable
immigrants into the United States as
a business. Every sort of disguise and
every sort of trick is resorted- to, so
Mr. Braun will recommend that the
only remedy is to refuse admitance
at the border of every race except
Mexicans. Of course, the law will be
so worded that foreigners in legiti-
mate business and tourists will have
no trouble in crossing the border.
To Rush Interurban,
McKinney, Tex.: Two carloads of
mules and one car of graders have ar-
rived here from east of Houston and
have just been unloaded for work in
grading for the Sherman-Dallas Inter-
urban. The outfit will establish camp
just north of town, at the location for
the big power house, and will at once
begin the work of grading between
there and East Fork Creek, on the
north.
A two-story and basement building
will be erected in Dallas, to be occu-
pied June 1 by the Farm and Ranch
as a permanent home.
Big Dry Dock for Frisco.
San Francisco: The largest dry
dock in the world, with a stone and
concrete basin big enough to hold
any two battleships of the United
States Navy at one time, is about to
be constructed at Hunters Point by
the San Francisco Dry Dock Com-
pany at a cost of $1,250,000. Land
has been surveyed adjacent to the
two docks of the company already
in operation and the work will be
rushed to a steady completion.
Pushing the Dallas-Sherman Reuben.
Dallas: During the past week the
grading force at work on the tine of
the Dallas-Sherman interurban rail
way has been doubled. Two new camps
have been established and the grad-
ing work is now being pushed from
four points along the right of way of
the proposed new road. President J.
F. Strickland, of the new road, says
the progress now being made is all
that could be desired.
The Santa Fe has made a good
strike of oil and gas on its property
eighteen miles west of Ardmore. The
new strike is just a mile and a half
from the oil fields and the area will
be extensively developed.
bought from the Chinese under mili
tary compulsion by the Japanese ad-
ministration and handed over to the
South Manchuria railroad, extend ng
e a its concession. The road will be under
ant Governor Browning, died at Am-
: , 11 military rule with ten councillors, to
arillo Saturday. She was one of the •
Mrs. Browning, wife of ex-Lieuten-
woman pioneers of the Panhandle
country, having come to Old Mobeetie
soon after her marriafe, but has lived
in Amarillo since 1896.
FEAR or WARFARE
THE UNITED STATES WILL PRO
TECT HER INTERESTS.
EFFORTS FOR PEACE
Cruiser Chicago Has Gone Southward
and the Gunboat Yorktown
Is to Follow.
Washington, Feb. 8.—There is dan-
ger of an outbread of war in Central
America, according to advices which
have reached Washington, although
efforts for arbitration are being made
in the city of San Salvador in the hope
of preventing hostilities. To guard
against any danger to American in-
terests, the State Department has sug
gested to the Navy Department that
one or more naval vessels be sent
to Central America. The Chicago has
gone southward from San Francisco,
and the Yorktown, after receiving nec-
essary repairs in dry dock, will fol
low.
Senor Cordova, who occupies the po-
sition of representative of Salvador
and Honduras at the capital, called
at the State Department to have a
talk with Secretary Root. It appears
there is complaint that the Nicarau-
guans are continuing warlike prepara
tions and increasing the military
forces on the border of Honduras.
Mr. Merry, our American Minister
to Costa Rica, Nicaraugua and San
Salvador, had a great deal to do with
bringing about the agreement to sub-
mit to arbitration, and as the Mexican
Government has a powerful influence
in the first instance, it is believed
that its good offices and those of this
country wil again be invoked to re-
lieve the present tension.
CLAY CLEMENT’S OFFER.
Actor Tenders His Assisance to
Daughters of the Republic.
the
Houston: Before leaving the city
Wednesday night Clay Clement the ac-
tor presenting the play “Sam Hous,
ton,” stated that if the Daughters of
the Republic of Texas wanted to take
the matter up he would give a series
of performances with his company
over the state, and would donate the
funds toward the preservation of the
San Jacinto battlefield. While here
Mr. Clement visited the scene of Mr.
Houston’s victory over the Mexicans
and became enthusiastic, and at the
same time bitter at the sight of the
state’s neglect of the hallowed ground
New Railway Company Chartered.
Austin: The articles of incorpora-
tion of the Stephenville, North and
South Texas Railway Company, were
approved Wednesday afternoon in the
state department and filed for record
in the secretary of state’s department.
The capital stock of the company is
fixed at $250,000, and the principal of-
fice will be located at Stephenville,
Erath County. The purpose of this
corporation is to construct, operate
and maintain a line of railroad from
the city of Stephenville and run in
a southerly direction therefrom
through Erath County into and a part
of Hamilton County, to the town of
Hamilton, a distance of about 35
miles.
Fireman Injured in Wreck.
Greenville: The engine and three
care of the Mineola local frieght train
which left here Tuesday morning,
turned over just after the train had
passed Lone Oak. Harve Turner, the
fireman, was injured, but not seriously.
Nevada’s Legislature Built Right.
Carson, Nev.: The Legislature has
just passed a joint resolution declar-
ing it a crime for any legislator or
state official to ride on a railroad pass
or to accept reduced rates for trans-
portation from a common carrier. An
employers liability bill was introduced
in the House abolishing the law of
contributory negligence on railroads
and in mines, and will become a law.
A bill regulating the use of passes by
the general public making shrdlu sh
the general public was introduced,
making it a crime to accept a pass by
any citizen of the State of Nevada,
certain exceptions.
The charter of the Dilley State
Bank of Dilley, Frio County, has been
filed in the state department, capital
stock $20,009. The incorporators are
William Sackville, A. F. Edmonstone.
J. P. McAfee, J. E. Billingsley and
others.
Jap Railway in Chinese Territory. .
New Chwang: Land has been
be selected by the government. The
Laoting is extending its possessions at
all stations which will injure foreign
interests.
TWO MEN ARE KILLED AND
THREE ARE INJURED.
Stockmen Acompanying Cattle Caught
in Ruin That Follows When
Struck by Locomotive.
Denison, Tex Feb. 7.—Two persons
were killed and three were injured in
a rear-end collision of Missouri, Kan-
sas and Texas stock trains at Alva-
rado, Tex., early yesterday morning.
The dead are John Wright, E. A.
Talk, stockman, Serbin, Texas.
The injured are W. T. Coon, stock-
man, J. F. Simmons, stockman, D.
Browning, stockman.
The killed and injured were all in
the caboose of the train, which was
standing at Alvarado. No members of
either train crew were injured.
The collision ocurred at 1:45 o’clock
yesterday morning. A stock train in
charge of Conductor George Wright
and Engineer Muncie was taking wa-
ter at Alvarado. The caboose was
south of the station. Conduct-
or Wright was at the station getting
orders and the brakemen were also
off the train. The second train, in
charge of Conductor Joe Cain and En-
gineer J. N. Cowen, came into Alvara-
do while the first stock train was
standing still, and struck the caboose.
The caboose was demolished and one
car preceding it was derailed, but not
badly damaged. Engine No. 540, which
was pulling the second train, was de-
railed and damaged by the collision.
E, A.Talk, the stockman who was
killed, was in charge of a shipment of
cattle from Giddings, Texas. John
Wright was a young man, and was a
nephew of Conductor Wright, on
whose train he was riding. Both were
instantly killed.
The body of John Wright was
brought to Denison yesterday after
noon for burial. Wirght was traveling
on the freight train for the purpose of
learning the road in order that he
might take a position as brakeman.
He was about 18 years of age.
Tragedy at Marshall.
Marshall: Tuesday night, W.
S.
McClanaghan was shot and instantly
killed in a saloon near the Texas and
Pacific passenger station. The de-
ceased was a machinist in the Texas
and Pacific Railway shops here, and
leaves a widow and two children. The
remains were conveyed to an under-
taker’s and prepared for burial and
were then taken to the residence of
his father. John L. Hugard, another
machinist of the Texas and Pacfic
shops, surrendered to Deputy Sheriff
Clyde Munden, and was lodged in jail
• Panama Canal Builders.
New York: John McDonald, of this
city, the contractor who constructed
the subway in this city, has been elect-
ed the president of the Panama Con-
struction Company. The company
was formally organized under the
laws of the State of New York for
the buildinf or the Panama Canal, if
the contract is awarded to W. J. Oli-
ver, one of the contractors.
Rice Murder Case..
Hillsboro: In the Rice murder trial
here on change of venue from John-
son County, Judge Wear overruled
motions of defendant’s counsel to
quash the special venire, to change the
venue and for a continuance. The
defendants attorneys then presented a
motion to quash the indictment. This
was also overruled and the case went
to trial.
Mr. Tallahan, who has the contract
for 460 miles of pipe line to be built
by the Texas Oil Company, a distrib-
uting station of which is to be locat-
ed at Sherman, expects to reach that
point in two months.
Another Investigation On.
Austin: The senate is to investigate
the efficiency of employes of that
body. The question came up over a
resolution which had been referred to
the committee on contingent expenses
for the employment of an additional
stenographer, and "when this report
came up, there was opposition to it.
A resolution was offered and adopted
providing for investigating the thor-
oughness and industry of the present
force.
New Variety of Belief Growing.
Waco: The Apostolic Band, which
has been creating a great deal of inter-
est among religionists, the members
claiming that often they have the
“gift of tongues,” and are able to
speak in many languages, as the “spir-
it gives them utterance,” is growing
here, and the band has now moved in-
to a new and larger hall. The Apos-
tolic movement is led here by J. D.
Schumack, and a Bible School is to
be opened at once.
Waco to Perpetuate Cotton Palace.
Waco: This city is to have a great
cotton palace or fair for 1907, and the
years thereafter, as it is to be a per-
manent thing. This was decided
Thursday afternoon at a largely at-
tended meeting of the business men
of the city, a kind of mass meeting.
Sam Sanger presided over the meet-
ing and he was also made chairman of
the committee to secure the $100,000
needed for the exposition.
Farmers Co-Operative Union
_===== Of America =============
The crop that costs the least on the
farm, that takes the least trouble and
that keeps everlastingly at it is the
hen. Give the hen a decent chance.
All seasons are good ones for get-
tng the tools and the vehicles under
ft good shelter. This is a better one
than next, and the last was better
than this, but they are all good. You
can’t afford to support the manufactur-
ers by such carelessness.
You can stick a grapevine down al-
most anywhere and it will get busy
doing something for you. Try to fill
up all the odd corners; they cost as
much as the same space in the middle
of the field and should have to yield
as much for their keep.
Again we urge upon all the mem-
bers of the Union to attend all meet-
ings. This is the only way to be bene-
fitted by the discussions; this is the
only way that you can do your duty
to your fellow laborers in the promo-
tion of the good work that the Union
has so well started.
Have you had a talk with “the wom-
an” about how she wants the front
yard fixed up this year? You’d better
do it. Some day the “little woman”
will be gone, and the flowers that you
take to the grave will do no good; bet-
ter let her have ’em now, and besides
you ought to have out a sign that says,
“civilized folks live here.”
Don’t let your enthusiasm die out
the moment something is done that
you do not approve of; just go at it
a little harder to prove that you
know how the thing ought to be run.
If you are right, time will prove it
and if you are wrong, this will be so
evident sometime that you will be
able to see it yourself.
It seems when we look back to the
history of the past ups and downs of
the financial word that advice to look
out for a rainy day would be a super-
ogation, but unfortunately it is not so.
We see on all hands the wildest ex-
travagance on the part of those whose
spendings are practically daily earn-
ings, which if suddenly cut off would
leave want and maybe worse in its
wake.
There is a bill before the Texas
legislature which proposes to outlaw
notes that are not rendered for taxa-
tion. This question of taxing the
note for purchase price and the article
purchased both has always been a
bone of contention. For instance: If
a man should buy a farm and give his
notes for it, under the present law
both the land and the notes would be
subject to taxation. Theoretically,
the man who holds the notes would
pay the taxes on them, but, as a mat-
ter of fact, the man who bought the
land would really pay that tax as
well as a regular tax on the land, the
tax on the notes being included in
the purchase price of the land. It
is hard to get away from the fact that
the consumer is always the man who
pays the "whole of the tax and rent
bill of the country, and any legislation
that will fasten upon him any more
of the burdens of others is manifest-
ly unjust, whether we are able to rec-
ommend a remedy or not.
When a man is compelled to buy,
and has nothing to buy with, but must
buy on credit, he is shorn of all power
in naming prices and he is a slave.
When he has anything to sell, and
owes the value of it before he sells it,
and is therefore legally bound to sell
it, he is again shorn of all power in
naming prices and is still a slave. And
yet, how large a percentage of the peo-
ple who raise cotton are in just that
condition! Get on a cash basis if you
have to take a part of your hide off in
doing so.—Farmers’ Journal.
The friends of a cheap letter post-
age are hard at work now to have the
government increase' the postage on
newspapers. Of course they don’t say
that this is the aim of the movement
they have on foot? They say that the
present movement is to enable the
postal department to cover a deficit.
But this deficit would he half a dozen
times covered if the order depart-
ments of the Government paid post-
age instead of sending out all mail
matter free, or at the expense of the
postal department. The big concerns
which send out enormous lots of cir-
culars have long wanted a one cent
rate, so that they can send out their
circulars sealed and cared for as are
real letters. It would make little real
difference to the average American cit-
izen whether he paid one or two cents
on his letters, for he mails only a few,
but it would make a good deal of dif-
ference if he had to pay about one-
third more for his newspapers, maga-
zines and other reading matter. It
would be a good idea for you to write
to your Congressman to vote for the
present rate of postage.
Don’t be a quitter, be a sticker, and
when things go wrong for a time,
work a little harder till they are
right.
The fact that a speculator made a
million cool dollars a few days since
in an oil speculation, should not dis-
courage you in hurrying up the ware-
house system. There will never be a
time when advantages can not be
taken of some circumstances to do a
little speculation. The time is nearly
here when speculation is an incident
and not a business
NOT BORN TO DIE.
The Co-Operator does not believe
that this great organization was born
to die. Other organizations have been
only the skirmishes, looking to the
great, the decisive battle.
That great battle is now on. We
have learned that the producers can-
not change the system by a political
route. The fact is, no organization
of producers can long exist unless
steer entirely clear of politics. Hi v-
ing learned these facts, this organi-
zation is going to turn the deaf ear
to the politician who would use it
for his own selfish purposes, and thus
destroy it. We have learned that it
is an industrial movement, and that
we must change the system of mar-
keting by building a system of our
own. This system is for the purpose
of securing just and equitable prices
for our produce. We have learned that
the law of “supply and demand” is all
right, if we will make the supply and
the demand equal at all times. We
have learned that we must not dump
our produce on the market in two or
three months in the year. We have
learned that we must build ware-
houses and grain elevators in order
to be able to hold our products, and
not be forced to dump them on the
market.
Knowing these facts, we are setting
about to built the system which is to
make us industrially free. We are go-
ing to change the system of market-
ing entirely. Our cotton is not to
be sold on the streets any more to
the highest bidder. It is to be put In-
to our own warehouses, sampled and
weighed by our own warehouse-keeper.
When once placed into the warehouses
it is too be sold under a certain
fixed price set by the National Farm-
ers’ Union in its annual meetings. Al-
ready we have build hundreds of ware-
houses, and thousands will be built
this year. When these warehouses are
built at all the market towns, and the
cotton farmers market their cotton
through them only, the battle will be
won.
The minimum price, a correct and
just price, can be maintained all the
time, regardless of any and all influ-
ences which can be brought to bear.
We have learned that the producer is
the real bear on the market; that he
must have an understanding, or else
he must always remain a bear. All
this we know and we are now going
to build the system which is to make
us industrially free.—National Co-Op-
erator.
There is probably no more delicate
task set before an official than that
of assessing property for taxes. The
very fact of its difficulty has been the
means of emphasizing the very point
of trouble, that of arriving at equit-
able and even assessments. Assess-
ors seem to have come to the con-
clusion that there is no such thing as
getting at the real facts in the case,
and so have dropped into the habit
of making a pass at the job and “let-
ting it go at that.” It does seem that
the lawmakers of the country could
study all the plans that have been
tried, and out of them all arrive at
something like a satisfactory plan of
getting a reasonable, just method of
assessment. As it is, the man who
has only a small home, is generarry
taxed at about all he can stand, wad
the man who could afford to pay a
good price for the protection given
him by the government, escapes only
partly assessed. This is a mighty
good thing for a Union man to look
into.
Down to business, and build ware-
houses! If we are in this organiza-
tion for business, to change our pres-
ent industrial system, let’s show our
faith by our actions. Let’s always be
up and doing!
There is not a particle of doubt
that the coal, the lumber and the oil
of this country is held in hand by
one of the most systematic and far-
reaching combines ever imposed upon
a people. When the price of lumber /
shows an advance at the mill of only
three to four dollars and at the same
time it is advanced by the retailer
from eight to ten dollars, without any
advance in freight rates, there is ev-
idence of a deeply planned robbery
of the consumer. ‘The support given
dominant political parties by these
combines is so great that no help
need be looked for from the men who
are elected because they “are good
and loyal Democrats,” or Republicans,
as fits the case. What is needed now
are MEN—some of the old-fashioned
sort that know enough to tell a thief
when they meet him, and who have
the bravery to contend for truth and
honesty.
Yes, this great industrial organiza-
tion will stay on the main track. It
will steer clear of politics. The day
of the political manipulator is gone.
CO-OPERATOR CLIPPINGS.
What a monster a man would be
who would not work to build this
great organization as it should be
builded.
Have you sold your cottonseed, or
have you given it to the crushers? If
you have any left, do not forget that
it is worth $16 per ton as fertilizer.
It seems likely the people will have
to pay $240,000 again for worthless
garden seed sent out by the Agricul-
tural Department. This graft survives
under all opposition and difficulties.
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