The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 1922 Page: 2 of 4
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THE ALPINE AVALANCHE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
By The Alpine Publishing Company
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* Official county and city
* paper and only newspaper
* printed in Brewster county.
* In 32nd, year
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late procession of mourners return-
ing to their respective constituents
with their morale broken, their lines
divided, and their hopes dissipated.
A sad reception awaits you—an in-
surmountable task of explanation
confronts you.”
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
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1 IT’S TOASTED
1 one extra process
i which gives a
S delicious flavor
FATE OF R. F. DICKEY UNKOWN.
The fate of R.F. Dickey, a well'
known stockman of the south end of i
MEXICO ORIENT TALK
An unconfirmed news report
I BREWSTER COUNTY VOTES
! ROAD MAINTENANCE TAX
Brewster county who followed some i
stolen horses across the river into . 5 ... . 1 i
Mexico about two weeks, ago and OY 0. Says British capital mayi
who was known to have started back
under a Mexico City date line of
W. W. Jenkins Manager Editor
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Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice in Alpine, Texas
under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879
THURSDAY NOV. 9, 1922.
SPECULATION AND BANKERS.
At the recent conference of bank-
ers with the Commissioner of Bank-
ing and Insurance in Waco the fol-
lowing resolution, which we repro-
duce for the purpose of comment,
was adopted:
We discourage the engaging
of officers of banks in oil
promotion schemes or any
other line of business which is
liable to bring discredit upon
the bank and we think the
Commissioner should have
the power to remove from
office any such officer whose
acts, in his judgment are jeop
ardizing the best interests
of the bank. |
We do not know and the ordinary
layman cannot know to what extent
the practice interdicted in the fore-
going paragraph prevails among
bank officials; but it does not re-
quire the acumen of a banker to
discover its potential dangers. We
like to think of a banker as a safe
counselor in investments of all
character and would like to see the
layman consult him before engaging
in any speculative scheme. Even
the banker will make mistakes, but
if the common people who buy most
of the wildcat oil stocks and other
doubtful securities would demand the
o. k. of the home banker oftener be-
fore taking such risks they would
profit immensely in the long run.
The trail of the promoter and fake
stock salesman leads unerringly to
the homes of those who can least af-
ford to buy his wares. Usually,even
most often, his customers are peo-
ple who cannot differentiate between
a gambler’s choice and an invest-
ment. They buy in hope and lose in
dispair. The only person who can
afford to buy the average oil stocks
offered are those who can charge
the risk off to profit and loss and
forget it. A few get rich quick but
millions are lost to a dollar gained.
There are legitimate oil and in-
dustrial stocks offered the man of
small means, and it is often the
money of this class of investors
which starts big things; but there
are more misses than hits and the
public ought by this time to realize
it. However, if the home banker or a
trusted official in the home bank,
is a plunger in oil stocks and promo-
tion schemes and appears successful
lie can lead more small investors
astray and whet the gambling ap-
petite to a sharper indulgence than
any slick stranger can do with his
wonderful oil. acreage or stock
gambles.
Form the habit of consulting your
banker.
Senator Harrison’s Obituary On The
Late Session Of Congress.
When the second session of the
Sixty-seventh Congress lay upon its
deathbed, Senator Pat Harrison
(Dem., Miss.), reflecting the sadness,
the disappointment and disgust of
the people throughout the country
delivered this obituary, summariz-
ing the record of that body:
“Mr. President, this Congress
closes in a shroud of disappointment
Its failure to solve vital and pressing
problems is pathetic. Democrats
are not hilarious, because they have
the interest of the country at heart
It is a case of disappointment,
sympathy and chagrin more than de-
light.
“The Congress ends with a record
of increased taxes on the already
burdened masses.
“It ends with increased costs of
living to the consumers.
"It ends with a failure to carry
out pledges to the valiant soldiers of
the late war.
“It ends with reorganization and
effiency in Government untouched.
“It ends with stronger guaranties
and broader freedom to the pro-
tected interests to exort in greater
degree higher prives to enslave and
rob the many.
“It ends with the assurance to the
laboring man that the Republican
party will continue to favor the em-
ployer against him, and to disre-
gard his every interest with respect
to reasonable hours, fair wages, and
humane consideration.
“It ends in an orgy of extrava-
gance and a reckless disregard of
economy.
“It ends with an utter repudia-
tion of civil service and preferential
rights to the heroes of the late war.
“Ie ends as the most reactionary
Congress since the time of Aldrich,
and the most subservient to ex-
ecutive dictation since the days of
Roosevelt.
“It has proven itself to he spine-
less, leaderless, without courage,
program or purpose.
“It adjourns in a blaze of broken
promises, with a silent and disconsa-
Sealed proposals addressed to
Benj. F. Berkeley, Mayor, Alpine,
Texas, will be received at the
CITY OFFICES, Alpine, Texas,
until 10 a. m., Tuesday Nov. 21st
1922, for drilling a well not to
exceed three hundred (300) feet
in depth, said well to be located
on the City’s property near the
reservior in the southern part of
the City.
Bidders must submit certified
check for $50.00, payable without
recourse, to the order of Benj. F.
Berkeley, Mayor, as a guarantee
that the bidder, if successful, will
execute contract and bond in the
sum of 30 per cent of
amount bid.
Bidders are expected to
the
in-
form themselves regarding all
local conditions.
Information obtainable at the
offices of the undersigned.
The City of Alpine reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
(Seal) Benj. F. Berkeley,
45-2t. Mayor.
THE
GENERAL ELECTION
RESULTS
As wts generally conceded
when the name of Earl B. May-
field was finally placed on the
official ballot for Tuesday’s gen-
eral election, and George B.
Peddy’s left off, Mayfield’s vic-
tory as the Democratic nominee
for United States Senator was
easy. His majority, however,
was the smallest given a demo-
cratic nominee for that office
since the days of Reconstruction
—o-
Harry Wurzbach, the lone
Texas Republican congressman,
was reelected from the San An-
tonio district over his democratic
opponent, Harry Hertzberg.
NOTICE.
No tresspassing, wood hauling or
hunting of any kind is allowed on the
H. L. Kokernot ranches. Violations
will be prosecuted. “H. L. Koker-
not Jr.” 44-tf.
Fresh honey in 3, 5 and 10
pound pails just received at Big
Bend Grocery Co.
45-2€
ALPINE JEWELRY CC
Takes Pleasure In
Announcing that
Their Stock of
Jewelry
Cut Glass,
Ivory Goods
Sterling Silver Nove
MANICURE SETS,
IVORY SETS,
ART CHINA,
DIAMOND GOODS
And Holiday Gifts of All
Kinds Are now Complete
Edison Phonographs
Dependable Goods at Dependable Prices.
ALPINE JEWELRY CO
LUCKY
STRIKE
CIGARETTE
home with a few of his horses but
who afterwards disappeared, is still
unknown.
Inquiry at the sheriff's office
elicits the following authentic in-
formation: After securing some of
his horses, Dickey was taken into
custody by Mexican officials and de-'
ained at Musquiz, Coah. Here he ,
was seen by Mr. Tom Miller of this
county who was in Musqulz on min-
ing business. Mr. Miller succeeded ,
in having Dickey released and he
started home with a few of his
complete the Orient railroad to
the Pacific coast. The Orient in
Mexico begins at Ojinaga, oppo-
site Presidio, Texas. The Texas
terminus of the Orient is Alpine.
The San Angelo Daily Stand-
ard, commenting on this report,
regards it as an unfounded rumor.
Still, we want to believe it as a
solution to the Orient’s troubles.
WET CANDIDATES
WIN EVERYWHERE.
The election over the United
States was decidedly a Demo-
cratic Itndslide. New York gave
former Gov. Smith a plurality of
over 400,000 over the Republican
incumbent and elected a Demo-
cratic United -States Senator.
Gov. Edwards of New Jersey, the
wettest candidate in the United
States, won the United Stites
Senatorship, defeating the Re-
publican encumbent, Chas, Bryan,
brother of the Old Commoner,
was elected governor of Nebra-
ska. though a Republican goes to
the United States Senate as the
successor to Hithcock, Democrat.
Tennessee returned to the demo-
cratic fold and other Republican
strongholds were beaten down.
Reed Wins In Missouri.
United States Senator Reed
was reelcted in Missouri over the
iombined influence of Wilson
Democrats, Republicans, prohibi-
tionists and Ku Klux. His vic-
tory mikes him a possible presi-
dential candidate on the demo-
cratic ticket in 1924.
Methodist Church, Sunday 3 p. m.
The Young People’s and Junior
Missionary Societies will observe
the Annual Week of Prayer with
the following program.
Leader—Miss Evans.
Song—America.
Devotional—Dorothy Cotter.
School at Havana—Miss Gtge.
Letter—Louise Scott.
Piano Solo—Bonnit
Pearl
Sandifer.
Song—Sunbeams.
School in Houma, La—Jose-
phine Cotter, Johnnie Walker,
Finis Bennett, Ileen Carter, Ed-
ward Davidson, Marvalee Bridges
Millard Treadwell, Minnie An-
derson.
Piano Solo—Crystal Holland.
Letter—Helen Baines.
Land of Evangeline—Miriam
Webb.
Offering—Elizabeth Hord and
Glenn Kokernot.
Piano Solo—Nancy Watson.
Song— Joy Bells.
Pianist—Helen Treadwell.
Week of Prayer Program.
The Wowamn’ Misionary Soci-
ety of the Methodist church will
hold the Week of Prayer service
Friday, November 10, from 3 to 5
o’clock.
Leader, Mrs. W. Anderson.
Hymn, Number 545.
Bible Lesson, Mrs. W. Van
Sickle. ??
Prayer,
Solo - -
Mrs. Mitchell.
. Mrs. Allen.
Poster Talk Mrs. G. W. Baines.
The School for the French at
Houma, La., by Mrs. L. G. Webb
Mrs. Shelby Burke.
Piano Solo- - Ruth Anderson
Map Talk on Cuba, Mrs. W. B.
Hancock.
Buena Vesta School at Havana,
by Mrs. Ed. Davidson.
Hymn, Number 481.
Tribute to Miss Bell H. Bennett
Consecretion Service.
Offering Mrs. Lackey and Mrs.
Rector.
Hostesses, Mrs. Sanford, Mrs.
Burgess, Mrs. Turney, Mrs.Scott.
WANTED SALESLADIES
and Demonstrators for Breons
Vacuum Plastique Beauty Clay.
Makes a new complexion in thir-
ty minutes. A boon to woman-
kind._ Backed by extensive ad-
vertising campaign in leading
newspapers and magazines._ Ev-
ery woman buys._ Also used by
Beauty Parlors and Barber
Shops. Write for full particu-
lars of this wonderful money
earning proposition.
Grace Sales Co., 205 Wheat
Building, Fort Worth, Texas.
Subscribe for The Avalanche
horses.
The next information regarded as
reliable, came fom the sheriff at
Eagle Pass who informed Sheriff
While the vote by precincts
cannot Ft this time be given, it is
known that the proposition to
authorize the county aimision-
ers’ court to levy and collect a
ten-cent road maintenance tax
was carried in last Tuesday’s
election by t large majority. The
vote in the two Alpine boxes was
200 for and only 3 against the
proposition. This result will
place the county in a position to
conceiving that the gap between ask forState and Federal aid in
Alpine and Ojinaga or Presidio
Townsand that Dickey was seen in
company with Mexican officials pass-
ing the La Babia ranch in Mexico.
The next day two of the Mexican
officials returned and reported that
they had been fired upon from am-
bush as they approached a water
tank, and that they never saw either
of their other companions or Dickey
any more after the firing began.
Mexican Consul Busy
Sheriff Townsand has taken up the
Dickey mystery with Sr. Francisco
Zubiate at Marfa and has the assur-
ance of that gentleman that Dickey’s j
disappearance wiil be carefully and
throughly inquired into. Sheriff
Townsand says that Consul Zubiate
is an efficient, painstaking offical
and has always given all possible
assistance to American officials in
affairs affecting the interests of A-
mericans, and he is confident that he
will spare no pains in this instance.
Later —Word from Consul Zu-
biate to Sheriff Townsand received
last Tuesday says that he has ad-
vised the proper Mexican authorities
at Ville Cuna and Musqulz, Mexico,
and gives assurance that every, eff-
ort will be made by 'Mexican officials
to ascertain the whereabouts of Mr.
Dickey,
TRAGIC DEATH OF H. T. HARRIS
BREWSTER CONUTY RANCH:
MAN.
Sheriff E. E. Townsand returned
the latter part of last week from the
southern end of the county where he
participated in the hunt for H. r.
Harris, Brewster county ranchman
who disappeared about Oct. 20._Mr.
Townsand in company with H „N,
Hanold found the body of the miss-
ing man floating in the Rio Grande
on Nov,1st, with a fifty = pound rock
tied to his neck, -After much dif-
ficulty the body was removed from
the river and afterward buried near
the place of the landing
True Facts In Case
Mr. Townsand was in San Antonio
attending the Whitehead murder
trial when Mr. Harrie disappeared
and was not able to join in the
hunt until a week afteward. Upon
returning from San Antonio he went
at once to the vicinity of the missing
man’s home and took up the hunt
along with fifteen or twenty citizens
of that section who had searched dil-
igently for him. The facts of the
case as reported by Sheriff Towns,
and to a representative of the Ava-
lanche, are substantially as follows:
Harris left home on the morning
of Oct. 6, with a flock of goats, On
the 20th, following as nothing had
been heard from him he was account
ed lost and search for him was begun,
The search was kept up by neighbors
and friends untill the 29th when the
sheriff who had returned from San
Antonio court joined them and took
charge of the seach. It was decided
to build a boat and drag the river
near the place the missing man was
last seen and work on the boat was
begun. Sheriff Townsend and A. L.
Hanold, however, went up the river
about a mile and a half on November
1st and discovered the body of a man
floating in the river, feet up and body
partly submerged, head wholly so,
slowly drifting down stream, After
repeated efforts to rope the body dur
ing which their only rope was lost, it
was finally caught with an improv-
ed line of bridle reins and brought
to shore.
The body was found in the river be-
low the Solis place. It was so badly
decomposed that it could not be mov-
ed. nor a coffin brought to it, A
rough box was made, caried about
a mile and a half above the place
where the landing was made and
thenc floated down stream, guided
by ropes and wires to the place of
interment, The perpendicular bluffs
made it necessary to bring the box
down the river this way,
Bullet Holes Found In Body
Sheriff Townsend found that Harris
had been shot in the right breast,
the bullet ranging downward and
coming out on the left side of the
back. Also, the left arm was broken
by another bullet just below the shoul-
der, The range of the bullet which
passed through the body indicated
that the shot was fired from a pos-
ition above the victim. The opinion
of the sherff and those with him is
that the murder was not done by a
Mexican as first reports suggested
It was not a Mexican job ,according
to those who viewed the body,
Sheriff Townsand, though skilled
in deductive reasoning in such cases
and ready enough to formulate a
working theory is unable to. assign
a motive for the tragedy at this time.
It may remain another mystery of
the Big Bend country but the sheriff
is viligence in seeking a solution.
Mr.Harris is survived by his moth-
er who lives in San Antonio; a
brother, Bob Harris, and a sister,
Mrs. T. P. Wood, both of Rock
Springs; and a sister, Miss Dot
Harris will have the body removed
later on, it is understood. Harris
was forty-six yeas old and was well
known in this section.
DOES IT PAY TO WORRY
Can appendicitis be guarded
against? Yes, by preventing in-
testinal infection. The intestinal
antiseptic, Adler-i-ka, acts on
BOTH upper and lower bowel
removing ALL foul, decaying
matter which may start infec-
tion. EXCELLENT for gas on
stomach or chronic constipation.
It removes matter which you
never thought wits in your sys-
tem and which nothing else can
dislodge. One man reports it is
unbelievable the awful impurities
Adler-i-ka brought out. Alpine
Drug Store.
would also be closed. One of the
railroad officials of the company
f experts who visited Alpine re-
cently seeking data to be used by
the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission in solving the Orient’s
problems stated to a representa-
tive of the Avalanche that the
road should be completed to
Mexico as one of measures of
relief.
The. Announcements of the
Baptist Church
The regular service are as fol-
lows:
Sunday School 9:45.
Preaching Services, Morning
11:00 a. m.
Subject, “Practical Christian-
ity.”
Junior B. Y. P. U. (Mrs. Leath
leader) 3:00 p. m.
Senior B. Y. P, U. 6:00 p. m.
Preaching service, eyening,
7:30 p. m.
Subject, “Jesus.”
Prayer Meeting Wednesday
evening, 7:30 p. m.
Woman’s Work Thursday
afternoon, 3 :00 p. m.
C. Bowels, Pastor.
CAKE SALE
The ladies of the American
Legion Auxilliary, Big Bend Post
No. 79, will have a cake sale Sat-
urday Nov. 18 at the Alpine Mer-
cantile Co.
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| connection with the Brewster
- county road bond program.
JOHN YOUNG
Oue of West Texas’ prominent
cattlemen is a resident of Alpine,
John Y oung, who was born at Lock-
hart, Tex., February 12, 1856, in a log
cabin, but was raised in Bee and
i Refugio Counties,"and went up the
i trail five times with Simpson, Jim
Reed, Jim Hall, Goodnight and
Claire. In November, 1883, he
married Miss Lizzie Drake of Tilden,
Texas, and has seven living children.
John Young is a big-hearted man of
large views and a progressive citizen,
one of his projects being a ten-
story marble hotel in San Antonio
for cattlemen.—Pioneer Magazine.
And Mr. Young has the marble.
In fact, he has a mountain of marble
exceeding in size the famous Granite
Mountain in Burnet County out of
which our State capitol was built,
and rivaling in beauty the finest
| marble in the world. Central Texas
I uses Georgia, Vermont and even
Italian marble while Brewster coun-
ty could supply- the demands of the
United States and pave the Spanish
trail.
Wanted—A cook at the Dor-
mitory, December 1. 45-tf
TABLETS
FOR
CONSTIPATION
BILIOUSNESS
Headache
INDIGESTION
Stomach Trouble
-SOLD EVERYWHERE-
John Young Land
Company
Established 1895
Alpine,
Texas.
Fruit-Cake---Oh Boy!
We are going to make some real Fruit-Cake
for the Holidays.
It will contain everything that goes in an old-
fashioned cake.
Give us your
order or place it with your
Grocer, but be sure to
will be limited.
order early as the supply
Do you say “Big Bend Bread” to your Grocer?
Keating Steam Bakery.
—Phone 52—
“Bread is your best food—Eat more of it”
E-
Alpine Hardware Company
A General Line of Hardware.
Phone 117
Alpine,
Texas.
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Stew Meat Ribs
VEAL
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Sho. Roast 5 Lb. or more _
________________________12%c
Bail Beef Boneless______15c
Round St. __ ----25c
Lain St. ________________25c
7 St.____________________15 c
Arm Roast ----------17%C
Rump Roast__________17%c
Rib 5 Lb. Roast____ $1.00
Ground Meat Best
15c
Pure Pork Lard Per Lb.____
20c
Stew __--------
Roast Arm —
Rump _________
Round St.-----
Loin __________
Veal Chops -
7 St. Nice-----
Butter ---------
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25
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- 50c
_ 60c
Poulty, Eggs, Cheese, Bacon, Hams and all
kinds of Smoked and Cured Sausage, also Barbecue
and Pork Sausage.
These Prices are for CASH ONLY and for
Saturday only. Come in and see for yourself.
Credit usual Price. Your accounts carried
for 30 Days Only.
Model Market
Phone 56 and 219
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