The Grapevine Sun. (Grapevine, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 46, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 14, 1903 Page: 2 of 8
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THE GRAPEVINE SUN
J. E. KEELING. Proprietor.
GRAPEVINE,
TEXAS
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE,
Lawton, Okla., is to construct a
$157,000 water plant.
China pretends to be greatly enrag-
ed at Russia’s action at Mukden.
A $15,000 blaze destroyed several
buildings at Wynnewood, I. T.
Mrs. Mary McMyer, aged forty years,
was found dead in bed at Oklahoma
City.
The body of Oscar Putman was
found on a Santa Fe bridge Paule’s
Valley, I. T.
Clinton Rigers Woodruff will aid
Col. Bonaparte in investigating affairs
in the territories.
It is estimated that there will be a
postal deficit of some $8,000,000 at the
close of the fiscal years.
The revolutionary junta of Panama
declares that the revolution is the re-
sult of the narrow-minded policy of
Colombia.
Capt. B. J. Ewen, leading witness in
the Breathitt feud cases in Kentucky
was shot at Lexington but the bullet
went wide of their mark.
C. E. Foly, a banker of Eufaula, I. T.,
has been appointed to go to Washing-
ten in an effort to secure a represent-
ative in congress for the Indian Ter-
ritory.
The rural free delivery systetm
takes well with the people around
Honey Grove. The carriers handled
31,000 pieces of mail during the month
of October.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to lynch Jacob Bishop at Louisville,
Ky. He killed his wife and then re-
sisted arrest until he run out of shoot-
ing material.
The members of the Congregational
church of Hastings, Ok., are making
arrangements to build a church col-
lege at that town. It is expected work
will begin at once upon it.
Abductors of Edward L. Wentz, the
young Philadelphia millionaire^ are
said to have him confined in the moun-
tains of Southwest Virginia and de-
mand $100,000 for his release.
Russia’s evacuation of Yongampho,
on the Yalu river, is considered ex-
tremely significant. It is generally ac-
cepted that Russia would not evacuate
such a valuable strategic point unless
they had come to an agreement with
Japan.
Two Louisville and Nashville freight
trains met at the end of the bridge over
Salt river, near Shephardsville, Ky.
The dead: Louis Brown, head brake-
man; William Brown, fireman. Injur-
ed: William Farrar, engineer. Ex-
ploding gasoline destroyed a number
of cars.
A barricaded convent of the Capuch-
ins in the Rue de la Sante at Paris,
was taken by a large force of police
and firemen. The latter scaled the
walls and broke down the outer and
interior walls. The monks were found
praying in the chapel.
The court martial which heard testi-
mony on the charges filed by Adjt.
Gen. Sherman Bell against Brig. Gen.
John Chase, commander of the Nation-
al Guard of Colorado, found him guil-
ty of “technical disobedience of or-
ders” by a vote of 6 to 4.
Princess Radzwill has issued a writ
demanding $7,000,000 from Lord Rose-
bery, Earl Grey and Messrs. Alfred
Beit, Dr. Jameson, L. L. Mitchell and
B. A. Hakkeley, trustees of the late
Cecil Rhodes.
The president has appointed Daniel
Thew Wright of Cincinnati, to be jus-
tice of the supreme court for the Dis-
trict of Columbia, vice Justice Hagner,
resigned. He also re-appointed James
A. Gollon to the supreme bench of the
Indian Territory.
An unknown woman, apparently
well-to-do, was run over by a South-
ern railway train near Asheville, N. C.
The theory of trainmen is that she was
killed and her body placed on the
track.
The controller of the currency of the
United States has declared a final div-
idend of 2 7-10 per cent in favor of the
creditors of the Texas National Bank
of San Antonio, making in all 52 7-10
per cent on claims proved amounting
to $79,877.45.
COLOMBIA WILL NOT PROTEST.
Panama May " Take Her Clothes and
Go."
Paris., Nov. 10.—“Beyond making
protests to the governments _of Eu-
rope and to the republics of South Am-
erica,” said Senor Passado, the Colom-
bian consul here, “Colombia, I do not
believe, will take action against the
United States. I do not believe the pro-
tests will be effective here, but the re-
publics of South America may well ask
themselves if the United States will
not, when their interests demand it,
take possession of them or encourage
revolutions in their territory. Any
one can see that the independence of
Panama is but a long step toward Am-
erican annexation. Reports are cur-
rent that the states of Caucan and An-
tiquia are also in revolt. While Col-
ombia, perhaps, will not resist separa-
tion from Panama, she certainly will
oppose by force of arms the withdraw-
al of the state of Caucan, which com-
prises half of Colombia, and Antiquia,
probably the richest in the confedera-
tion. We have 8000 men available and
large quantities of arms and ammuni-
tion have been gathered to suppress
the revolution.
“There is no question in my mind
but that the Panama Canal company
was responsible for the action of Pan-
ama, and that M. Phillippe Buneau
Varilla knew its independence would
be declared is shown by the fact that
he left here for New York ten days be-
fore the revolution was proclaimed.
“There is no doubt .now that the
canal will be built, but I assure you it
would have been constructed with Co-
lombia’s consent, though perhaps some Wies,
further delay might have occurred." 1
Deputy Sheriff Is Shot.
San Antonio: M. Gilliland, a deputy
sheriff, was shot Monday night while
riding on a West End car. The wound
is in the right thigh, though not dan-
gerous. The shot came from a re-
peating rifle. Another bullet passed
through the vestibule of the car. Gil-
liland jumped from the car and emp-
tied his revolver in the direction from
which the shot came. An attempt was
also made to wreck cars on the West
End lines, some ties being jammed into
a small bridge.
An Old Violin.
Mineral Wells: H. B. Carter has a
violin which is 110 years old. It was
manufactured by Richard Rupert Re-
bus, in Canto, Germany, Aug. 7, 1793.
It was bought by Keneath Stuart Oct.
12, 1794, and brought to Natchitoches,
La., and sold to Phelix Hall, March 9,
1804. It remaned'in the Hall family
until it came into the possession of
John Scott of Ennis, Tex., and then
into the hands of its present owner.
Mr. Carter states that the violin has
an elegant tone and is just as good
as new.
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San Angelo Wool Clip Short.
San Angelo: The fall wool clip is all
in. The clip amounts to about 750,000
pounds and it was estimated that it
would be 1,000,000 pounds. One of the
reasons for the light clip is said to be
that the growers were unable to get
a sufficient number of shearers. The
Mexicans, who shear the sheep, were
unusually scarce this fall. The pecan
crop being heavy, a large number of
them engaged in the gathering of the
nuts in preference to shearing sheep.
The cotton gin of Mitchell & Hol-
combe at Frost, was completely de-
stroyed by fire at 2 o’clock Sunday
morning. It was valued at $10,000,
with $5000 insurance.
For Killing Express Messenger.
Texarkana: Two men who are
charged with the killing of Thomas
Copeland, the Pacific Express messen-
ger’s helper, at Red Water last Friday
night, were brought here and placed
in jail. They are Sam Jonson, a white
man, and Jim Williams, a negro. A.
warrant was sworn out before Justice;
P. G. Henry formally charging the;
two men with the killing, and they
will be arraigned for a preliminary
trial.
Ten Thousand Miners Strike.
Denver: More than 10,000 coal min-
ers in Colorado went on strike Monday
for an eight hour day, increased wages
and other concessions. The strike was
ordered by the National officers of the
United Mines Workers after the coal
companies refused to confer with
union representatives concerning the
demands of the men. Of the idle men,
6000 are in the southern coal fields,
2000 in the northern coal fields and
1800 in Fremont bounty. One hundred
mines have been closed down.
{ YELLOW JACK TAKES LEAVE.
Jan Antonio Reported Clear of the
Fatal Ccourge.
San Antonio: No new cases of yel-
ow fever or deaths from yellow fever
ere reported by the health authorities
onday, the last two reported being
ell, and there is not even a suspicious
ase in San Antonio. The city is as
free from yellow fever as it ever was,
but the quarantine is still on.
State Health Officer Taber reports:
[About 700 cases, with 60 deaths, have
l een reported at Laredo; 18 cases, with
1 deaths, in San Antonio, with no
Base reported for seven days in San
Antonio; 5 cases and 2 deaths in De-
Witt County. These are the only
maces of infection in Texas, and is a
true statement of existing conditions.
Two frosts have fallen in Bexar and
DeWitt Counties. Conditions are fav-
orable in Bexar County and San An-
tonio, and I apprehend no further
cases of the fever in San Antonio. The
Clases in DeWitt County are confined
t one house, with no other house
i earer than one mile.
Arkansas Killing and Lynching.
.Brinkley, Ark.: At an early hour
Sunday morning Z. C. Cadle, a white
inan, was lynched by a mob of ten 01
fifteen people. Cadle, in an alterca-
tion, had cut Policeman J. C. Cox,
who died shortly afterward. About Z
C ’clock a mob secured entrance to the
Caboose, and taking Cadle out, shot
1 im four times and hung him to a tele-
I hone pole. The coroner’s jury render,
(da verdict that Cadle came to his
death from lynching by unknown par-
unt County Farmers Move Forward.
I Greenville: At a meeting of the
I unt County Farmers’ Institute, Col.
P. G. Carter presided, and G. H. Col-
lins acted as secretary. Mr. Collins
I nade a talk on the Dallas boll weevil
Convention and suggested a plan for
the institute. The plan is for each
armer to agree to put®one or two
cres in experimental planting, using
overnment methods and fertilizers
'here required. The members of the
ustitute present agreed to start the
dea, as the Gore nment will furnish
ertilizers at exact cost, laid down.
Themovement ofbreadstuis
“Through the port of Galveston for the
week ending Nov. 7 amounted to 284,-
100 bushels of wheat, valued at $222,-
®24;_ 42,513 bushels of corn, valued at
19,520, and 16,100 barrels of flour, val-
ued at $60,088, a total valuation of
$301,932. -
Decatur is to have another flour mill
and preparations are being made to
build a 100-barrel mill at once. A new
ice plant is to run in connection with
the new mill. The machinery has
been ordered and work will com-
mence on the building soon.
While J. A. Scheskie, employed with
the Texas Midland bridge crew, was
working on a culvert in the yards at
Paris, his right foot was caught in
the line of the pile driver and the an-
kle was broken in two places.
T. G. Camack, who lives near Min-
eral Wells, met with an accident Sun-
day evening by being thrown from his
wagon, the wheel passing over his
head, fracturing his skull, which will
probably result in his death.
Striking motormen at San Antonio
are being re-employed by the traction
company there on condition that they
quit the union.
Preparations are being made for the
building of a new Baptist church at
Decatur, the old one being too small to
accommodate the people.
Both Harpole and Kitchens, who
were shot in Mineola street duel some
time since, are fast recovering from
the effects of their wounds. They are
now able to be on the streets.
Emperor William of Germany was
on the operating table Sunday and had
a growth removed from his larynx.
Dave Johnson, white, and Jim Wil-
liams, colored, have been arrested at
Mount Pleasant in connection with the
killing of Tom Copeland, while he was
making a run on a Pacific Express
train near Texarkana last Friday.
Sampson Copper, a Gypsie prince,
was stabbed to death and robbed by
an unknown negro at Alton, Ill.
Rock Island officials declare that
they frustrated two attempts Sunday ed his corn crop of nearly 500 bush- From beginning to end, the mak-
els and picked six bales of cotton ing of the New York subway has
for him as a neighborly act. cost for y-two human lives.
to rob eastbound passenger trains run-
ning between Omaha and Des Moines
Republic of Panama
Finds Easy Sailing.
Colon, Nov. 9.—The rather sud-
den—sudden so far as most of the
outside world was concerned—dec-
laration of the independence of
district of Panama from the Colom-
bian government; the setting up of
a new nation; the seizure of the
military officers of the Colombian
government in Panama on last
Wednesday, and the recognition, in-
formally it is true, but recognition
de facto, of the new Republic of
Panama by the United States,
seems more like the sudden turn-
ing of a great kaleidoscope than the
birth of a nation and a changing of
the world’s geography.
The informal recognition of the
Republic of Panama by the United
States has been the subject of such
rejoicing that all classes of the pop-
ulation go arm in arm, and the
enemies of yesterday are to be seen
embracing each other: To this pic-
ture there is no shadow. Two mem-
bers of the provisional government
arrived from Panama accompanied
by a band, and were given an en-
thusiastic reception by the popu-
lace. The foreign population of the
isthmus is apparently as joyful as
the natives over the installation of
the new regime.
The United States gunboat Nash-
ville is doing patrol duty near Puer-
to Bello, while the cruiser Atlanta
is under orders to patrol in the oth-
er directions, and doubtless will go
on to Bocas del Toro, as it is im-
portant that that port shall be in
the hands of the Republic of Pana-
ma, as otherwise the Colombian
government could swarm it with
troops, which would be a constant
menace to the traffic across the
isthmus.
Friday Secretary Hay received
Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy
Extraordinary H. Phillippe Buneau
of the Panama republic to the Unit-
ed States.
No steps have been taken by the
British government, or are likely
to be taken in the immediate fu-
ture," towara the 1 ormal recognit ion
of the independence of Panama,
and no request has been received
thus far looking to that end. Pres-
ident Roosevelt’s action and Secre-
tary Hay’s statement are not con-
strued by the foreign office as being
a formal recognition of Panama’s
independence.
The local press of Mexico com-
ments on Panama affairs variously.
The Clerical Press says it is only a
deep plot arranged in Washington
with the Panama rebels, and pre-
dict the absorption of Latin Amer-
ica by the colossus of the north.
Liberal party papers consider
that Colombia, distracted by inces-
sant revolutions, had no clear no-
tion of the immense international
importance of the* canal question,
and that the canal is demanded by
the interests of the great commer-
cial nations.
The Mexican Herald remarks:
"Somebody will dig a ship canal
across the lower part of Central
America, either by the malaria and
mosquito route of Nicaragua, or via
the Chagres fever route at Panama.
The world’s commerce, high polit-
ical designs, the potent spirit of ad-
venture and all that demand a ca-
nal. Colombia can not build a ca-
nal; France has had all of Panama
Will Plant Potatoes and Tobacco.
As a precaution against the
The Hallettsville spread of yellow fever at Fort Mc-
Hallettsville:
Truck Growers met Saturday and Intosh, near Laredo, Tex., the com-
twenty new members were added to manding officer at that post has
the asssociation. The acreage to be been authorized to move the troops
to some safe point in the vicinity
planted in Irish potatoes the com-
ing season will be between 150 and and go into camp.
200. The inquiry was made as to
the acreage to be planted in Cuban
tobacco and it developed that about
twelve of those present contemplate
planting one acre to start with. 7
The Right Sort of Neighbors.
Paris: J. W. Williams, a farmer
in the edge of Red River county, be-
low Deport, has had a great deal of
sickness in his family the past
month, resulting in the death of his
wife and two daughters. Fifty
farmers in the community and sur-
rounding country went into his
field one day this week and gather-
she wants for a thousand years, and
Uncle Sam would not look kindly
on the undertaking of the work by
either the British or Germans, and
it looks as if he would have to do it
himself. He has been temporarily,
but not very successfully, treated at
Bogota by bluff, and it has made
him very wrathy. Hence, we agree
with El Tiempo that our Uncle may
have been up to a little game of
devilish diplomacy with the revo-
lutionary group in Panama."
Germany has not yet taken into
consideration the question of recog-
nizing the republic of Panama, and
will await the United States’ formal
recognition. Germany admits that
among the great powers the United
States is the country concerned, and
will shape her course with special
reference to that fact.
CONGRESS CONVENES.
Coming Together of the Nation's
Lawmakers,
Washington, Nov. 9.—The house
of representatives was called to or-
der at noon to-day by Alex Mc-
Dowell, the clerk. The opening of
congress always is of sufficient in-
terest to attract a much larger,
crowd to the capitol than the gal-
leries will accommodate, so admis-
sions were by card, two being sup-
plied to each member.
The proclamation of the presi-
dent, convening the congress info-
extraordinary session, having been
read, prayer was offered by the
chaplain, and then the roll called
by states. 1
Mr. Cannon, who has been select-
ed as the unanimous choice of his
party for speaker was formally
elected. |
After the oath of office, adminis-
tered by the "Father of the House,"
a title bestowed on the member who
- has seemthe-longest eontinuonseen
vice, the speaker administered these
oath to the members generally. The
officers of the house, having been
made the nominees of the Republic-
an caucus, were re-elected and!
sworn.
Speaker Cannon appointed a com-,
mittee to join a committee of thee
senate to notify the president that
a quorum of the two houses had
assembled, and that congress was
ready to receive any communication
he might desire to make.
After adopting resolutions agreed
on in the Republican caucus, mak-
ing the rules of the Fifty-seventh’
congress, the rules of the Fifty-
eighth congress and fixing an hour
for the convening of the daily ses-
sions, the drawing of seats took
place.
The necessary preliminary work
having been disposed of, the house
adjourned out of respect of the
memory of members who had died.
To-morrow the house will listen
to the reading of the president’s
message. For the remainder of the
week little can be accomplished, but
it is understood that it is the desire i
of the house leaders that the con- 4
sideration of reciprocal trade with
Cuba be pushed as rapidly as pos- j
sible.
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Citizens of Sulphur, I. T., have
appealed to Secretary Hitchcock to
revoke his order for the re-allot-
ment of land at that place.
Saturday Judge Furman, sitting
at Belton, dissolved the injunction
issued by Judges Mike Smith of ]
Fort Worth and Ashe of Houston.
As the local option law has already
been in effect for some time in Bell
county the decision will have but
little effect other than a courts’
vindication of the contention of the
pros. I
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Keeling, J. E. The Grapevine Sun. (Grapevine, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 46, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 14, 1903, newspaper, November 14, 1903; Grapevine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1660359/m1/2/?q=Birth+of+a+Nation: accessed June 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarrant County Archives.