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• Civic League
TAG DAY
Saturday, Mar. 21.
Don't Forget It.
chita Wailp Times
THE TIMES
will be found on ale at
Ralph Darnell.
VOLUME 1
WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1908
NUMBER 265
RUMOR OF RECEIVER
STATED THAT TEXAS ANU PACIF.
IC WILL 00 INTO HAND# OF
RECEIVER.
REPORT SHOWS DEFICIT
1 Labor and Restrictive Legislation Are
Responsible for the Poor
—.Showing.______
Special to the Times.
Fort Worth, Tex., Mar. 19.—It is re-
ported on good authority here that the
Texas and Pacific contemplates follow-
ing the course of the International and
Great Northern and apply fora receiv-
er in the Federal court. Definite action
TODAY’S MARKETS.
Special to the Times.
Fort Worth, Tex., Mar. 15 -The to-
tal cattle receipts today were 1.250
head. The market was generally very
very steady.
Beef Steers— Receipts light. Quality
fair. Market active and prices steady
at $3.95@ #5,00.
Butcher Cows—Receipts, 400. Qual-
its fair. Market active and steady at
$2.60@ $4.00.
Calves—Receipts light. Quality me-
dium. Market unchanged. Tops sold
at 15.00.
Hogs—Receipts, 1,900. Quality good
POISONED BILLETS
LETTERS RECEIVED BY CHICAGO
OFFICIALS THREATEN HIDEOUS
FORM OF ASSASSINATION.
DEADLY STEEL POINTS
has been postponed pending the steps
the railroad commission' will take on
receiving the defy from the road, refus-
ing to obey the improvement order.
” The recent conference of the road’s of-
fictals and the federal authorities tends
to confirm the report which Is preva-
lent in railroad circles here. The com-
mission, it is said, will insist that its
orders be obeyed.
, Deprecates Labor’s Attitude.
New York, Mar. 18.—In the annual
report of the Texas and Pacific to the
last day of the year, 1907, made public
* today, a deficit Is shown, deducted
e
a
from the previous surplus. George J.
Gould, prerident of the company, says:
“There has been no cessation in the
demands of labor daring the past year,
and this growing burden is becoming
a serious menace. These demands are
not confined to wages alone, but for
shorter hours as well, often accompa-
nied by arbitrary stipulations.
It is a regrettable fact that the en-
actment of recent laws to regulate the
relations between the employer and
the employed, and the threat of still
i tore drastic ones, however well meant,
has had the effect to alienate the close
relations heretofore existing between
the two, and has in a large degree
robbed the employe of the old-time per
sonal independence and ambition thet
stimulated him by honest endeavor to
vin adv incement.”
Refuses to Obey Order.
Austin, Tex., Mar. 19.—The Texas
4 Railroad Commission has a letter from
General Manager L. 8. Thorne pract:
cally refusing to comply with the cr-
, der for improvements to the Texas and
Pacific by the railroad tribunal. The re
is expected acquiescence In but one
. stipulation of the Improvement order,
• that was for a reduction of the onera-
to choice. Market,active and
at $4.60@ $4.90.
Chicago
Wheat—
Grain Market.
May ....... 96
July ..........
September ....
Corn-
Open
90%
88
High
96%
90%
88
higher
Close
96%
90%
87%
Hades in Haiti.
Fort Worth Telegram.
Haiti has more than 1,000.000 inhab
LONG AEI
TRIP
May ..........68%
July .....65%
September.... 64%
Oats-
Muy ..........54%
July ..... 49%
September .... 39%
68%
65%
64%
67%
64%
64%
54%
50
39%
54%
49%
38%
Which Will Inject Fatal Poison Into
the System Can Be Fired From
New Gun.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, III., Mar. 19.—It became
known yesterday that sensational let-
ters threatening a novel and hideoua
form of assassination have been re-
ceived lately by Mayor Busse, Chief of
Police Shippy and Assistant Chief
Schuettler. In the letters were to-
closed a dozen or more small steel
points. They were smooth,.bright and
sharp. The writer said that he waa
one of a number of persona banded to-
gether to kill the mayor and other of-
ficials. A revolver, he said, had been
itants and takes up one-third of the is-
land lying southeast of Cuba, some-
times called Ban Domingo, and some-
times by the name of the republic.
Haiti waa the sixth point of land dis-
covered by Columbus, who called it
Hispanola. It Ilea about 1,400 miles
south of the New England coast, and
on a line almost due east of the City
of Mexico.
Not more than one-tenth of the peo-
ple are whites, the remainder being
people of unmixed African blood, mu
lattoes, quadroons, octoroons and vary-
ing other shades of color French Is
the language spoken by the upper
classes, snd a French patois, spoken
bn t not written, 1s the language of the
common people and of commerce.
Nowhere else on the western con-
tinent has there been such a mingling
of eraces, white and black, in church,
state, business and social relations,
and no place has been more fruitful of
blood-thirsty revolutions, outbreaks
and disorders The shrewdness and
ambition of the French ancestry has
NEW YORK AERONAUT HOPES TO
SAIL FROM TEXAS TO THE
COAST OF MAINE.
MAKING MONSTER BALOON
Kansas City Grain Market.
Wheat— Open
May ..........93%
July ..........84%
September .... 82%
Corn-
May ......
July ......
September ,...
Oata-
May ..........
July .........
September....
..60%
59%
58%
50
constructed to shoot cartridges com- degenerated into a savage cunning, and
this, mingled with the bestial traits of
High
93%
84%
83
Close
93%
84%
82%
posed of the steel points, samples of
which were inclosed. The steel points,
the writer said, were dipped in deadly
poison. By means of this gun a dose
of fatal poison could be shot Into the
system of the intended victim and
death would ensue at once.
61%
59%
59%
50
R
61%
59%
59%
50
Local Grain Market.
The Wichita Mill is paying $1.00 per
bushel for No. I wheat and 60c per
bushel for shelled corn.
HUMMELL GETS FREEDOM.
Real March Weather.
The mercury in the thermomter took
a decided fall yesterday afternoon and
today a chill damp wind is blowing.
From midsummer heat to typical
March weather was a transition which
made those who had donned summer
clothing huetie back into their over-
coata and winter wraps. The soda
fountains, which had been doing a big
business, are entirely deserted today,
and the unpleasantness of the weather
the blacks, has made the Haitians a
source of terror to foreigners within
their border whenever any uprising
has occurred.
Haiti stands a terrible example of
the western continent of the price that
is paid for the lust of gold. When Co-
If Flight Is Successful a New World’s
Record Will Be Made.
Boston, Mass . Mar 19 -A. Holland
Forbes, the New York millionaire bal
loonist, in an interview today at North
Adams, where he is making experimen
tal air trips, made public his plans to
make a world's record distance flight
from Texas to the Maine codst.
He is having a monster balloon of
100,000 cubic feet capacity shipped
from New York to San Antonio and
will go up from there or an adjacent
point early In May.
He is already in possession of me
teorological data of prevailing wind
currents and thinks his flight will take
him over Texarkana, through South-
went Arkansas, skirting Missouri and
Illinois, lie may be forced to sail over
Lake Erie and Ontario to get a favor-
able wind that will take him to the
Maine coast.
Mr. Forties is confident of accom-
pushing the feat.
lumbus found It, the people were sav- RANGERS ORDERED TO HASKELL,
ages, but they were happy, peaceful! -------
and contented. There probably were A ajutant General Acts on Telegram Re-
1,000,000 of them, and they received
the Spaniards trustingly. A Spanish
calved From Mayor.
Austin, Tex., Mar. 18.—Adjutant Gen
colony was founded, and nothing worse eral J. O. Newton, acting upon a tele-
might have happened had not gold gram from the mayor of Haskell, this
been found on the island lefternoon ordered rangers from Austin
Then all the Spanish greed burst Into and Weatherford to Haskell to quell
n flame. The natives were put to work an impending rnce riot
in the mines. When they died others The telegram was addressed to the
were imported from neighboring is- governor, but. In the absence of the
lands. When these could no longer do chief executive, General Newton acted
Noted Criminal Lawyer Will Sail for
Europe.
By Associated Presa.
New York, Mar. 19.—Abraham Hum
mell, the .lawyer who was sentenced to
serve a year in the penitentiary for
conspiracy in the Dodge-Morse divorce
case, was released from prison today.
His term was reduced to about ten
months by allowances made for his
good behavior. It is said that arrange-
ments have been made by Hummell’s
friends for him to sail for Europe with-
in a few days.
FIVE HUNDRED MEN LAID OFF.
is accentuated by the unusually bright
warm days that preceded the change, the work, negroes were imported from on his own Initiative
Fruit is in no immediate danger and
the temperature will have to drop a
number of degrees yet before any dam-
age will be done, as the winds are car-
rying considerable moisture which will
serve to protect the buls from the
frost.
ANOTHER FLOOD
AT PITTSBURG
Africa. After fifteen years It was es-I The dispatch was meagre, merely
timated that the number of original conveying information that a mob was
natives of Haiti had decreased from threatening to run the negroes out of
1,000,000 to 60,000. Then gold waa dis town and that assistance was needed
covered In Peru, and the Spaniards Immediately.
rushed away, leaving the Africans be.
The rangers sent from Weatherford —
may reach Haskell tomorrow before
hind them. , I____
France, by uniting with England, noon, those from Austin arriving to
eventually got possession of Haiti in morrow night.
1530. The whole Island was ceded to
France, but the eastern part of it went
RUSSIAN TERRORIST DEAD.
back to Spain and remained under that . -_____
country’s rule until the downfall of Na- Although Broken Down By Imprison-
Railroad Makes Big Cut In Its Force at
Nashville, Tennessee. .
By Associated Press.
Nashville, Tenn., Mar. 19.—Five hun-
dred men who were employed in the lo
tion schedule.
The letter to the commission recites
. that the new rails ordered on the east-
ern division are not needed and that, comotive department of the Nashville,
the condition of the money market pre-
eludes the possibility of making the
change in the time stipulated. It de-
clares that compliance with the bal-
lasting order is impracticable and, con-
tinuing, says that new ties are con-
Chattanooga and St. Louis railway
tinuously being placed, but says noth-
ing with reference to a thorough car
Tying out of ths order as regards the
retiring of the road.
Negroes Leaving Haskell.
Advices received from Haskell to-
day state that negroes are leaving tha.
town as rapidly as they can get away
) and that the trouble that had been
t
threatened had disappeared.
It is believed that most of the ne-
groes who have been driven out of Has
kell will go either to Wichita Falls or
Abilene. a ,
Graves Gives Bond. "
Arthur Graves, who was bound over
last week to the action of the grand
jury, charged with an attempt to mur-
der-E. P. Walsh, was today released
from jail, having furnished bond in
the sum of $1,500 for his appearance.
M. A. Graves of Jacksboro and J. H
Russell of this city are his bondsmen.
shops have been laid off. This means
a saving of thirty thousand dollars a
month for the road. There are still
over five hundred men In the shops.
Many of the men laid off were exper-
fenced workmen.
Rangers En Route to Haskell.
State Rangers White snd Rountree,
who have been stationed at Bowie,
paaaed through Wichita Falla today en
route to Haskell, where they have been
ordered for duty on account of the
threatened trouble between the ne-
groes and the whites at that place.
They knew nothing concerning the
nature of the disturbance at Haakell.
Word received here from Haakell to-
day states that everything in quiet
there and that the negroes are rapidly
leaving that place.
TRANQUIL AT PORT AU PRINCE.
Arrival of Warships Gives Feeling of
More Security to Foreigners.
Bv Associated Press.
Pittsburg, Pa., Mar. 19.—With a sur-
prising suddenness another flood of the
rivers is being experienced at Pitts-
burg and vicinity today. According to
the local United States weather bureau
a possible stage of thirty-three feet can
be expected early tomorrow. If the
prediction forecast materializes, the
suffering and damage which will result
in this city and vicinity will be whole-
sale. '
Early today a sand dredge belonging
to the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
broke from ita moorings at Tarentum
and went over the government dam at
Springdale. It is not known whether
the crew of Sve men succeeded in es-
caping
BEFORE INVESTIGATION.
Secretary Metcalf and AdmiralCapps
Appeared Today With Documents.
By Associated Press.
Washington, D. C., Mar. 19.—Secre-
tary of the Navy Metcalf and Admiral
Capps were among those who appeared
today before the submarine investiga-
tion committee. Both Secretary Met-
calf and Admiral Capps brought with
them navy department documents snd
records which had been requested by
the committea.
poleon..
When the French revolution broke
out it was taken up in Haiti Twenty
years of carnage followed, but Anally,
In 1804, Haitian independence waa pro-
claimed. Toussaint L'Overture, the
only one’of the republic's president to
attain International fame, died a pris-
oner in France. Many of his succes-
sors have met violent deaths.
The last outbreak in Haiti was In
1902. General Ham, president of the
republic, resigned. Congress succeed-
ed In establishing only a provisional
government, and General Firmin, who
has figured in the present difficulties,
led a revolt against this provisional
government. Firmin seised a gunboat
and threatened to bombard Port au
Prince. Appeals from foreign residents
brought two American vessels and a
German gunboat. The Haitian gun-
boat, growing hold, stopped a Ham-
burg-American steamer and seized a
cargo of ammunition. In retaliation
the German gunboat Panther gave pur-
ment, Gerschuchin Kept Up His #
Fight Against Russian Despot- "I
Ism Until the Last. -A J
By Associated Press.
Geneva, Switzerland, Mar. 19—Greg
ory Gerschuchin, the Russian terror-
ist, died yesterday of consumption. He
spent the last few days of his life in
a hospital. Gerschuchin’s health had
been undermined by long terms of Im-
prisonment. but despite his ill health
he continued to work against the Rus-
sian government until he broke down *
completely.
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
The challenge made by the court
house ball team to ths Elks having
been accepted by the latter organiza-
By Associated Press.
Port au Prince, Mar. 19. The situa-
tion today continues tranquil. Three
other warships have arrived In port.
The new arrivals are the American
cruiser Des Moines, the American gun-
SUFFRAGISTS ARRESTED.
NIns Berlin Policemen and Fifty Peo-
ple Injured in Demonstration.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Germany, Mar. 19.—A total of
suit, drove the crow of General Fir-
min from his vessel and then destroy-
ed it.. -
Saturday is Tag Day and the ladies
of the Civic League have arranged all
their plans for a thorough canvass of
the city to raise money to keep up the
work in the city park.
Every man in Wichita Falls will be
given an opportunity to bay a tag and
it is hoped to raise a neat sum from
the sale of these tags.
"ton, the preliminary arrangements for
• the game are now being made and the
contest will be pulled off next Saturday
afternoon.
boat Paducah and the
Creasy.
English cruiser forty seven arrests were made in Ber-
lin yesterday in connection with the
Assassinated by Two Men.
.______________suffrage demonstrations. Nine police
Richelleu sweet wrinkled peas. The'men sustained injuries in their encoun-
best we offer. Only 17%e a can. iter with the people. It is estimated
TREVATHAN & BLAND.rithat Afty manifestants were
.****M*:*=
1 St. Petersburg, Mar. 19.—Dr. Kara-
•islet, who was the leader of the
group of the Terlin in the Second
Duma, was shot to death yesterday by
Philadelphia Record.
A good deal may be lost at poker on
a bad deal
Some men have nearly as many ups
and downs as their umbrellas
Things don’t’go exactly like cioek-
work for those who live on tick ,
Where ignorance is bliss ft’s folly
to know when you get the worst of it.
Th festive tramp may be a regular
cut-up, until he catches sight of a
wood pile. I
About one man in a thousand can
lose his money and still keep his
friends. --------------
The average girl will select a hus
band with less cere than ahe will ne
lect a ribbon.
Regret-for our mistakes is only prac-
tlcsl when it prevents us from making
greater ones.
Guzzler— "I feel all bunged up this
morning.” Wigwag—"You were cer-
tainly barreled last night.”
"A woman trying to conceal her
age," says the cynical bachelor, “al-
waye reminds me of an ostrich hiding
Ito bead la the sand."
Oh, myl So god pop corn, le per
ended., two men at his home at Akatorinoslav.(packase. J. L. Lea J. 264-2
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