The Knox County News (Knox City, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, April 16, 1909 Page: 2 of 12
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Waco suffered a fire loss Monday
morning aggregating $40,000, nar-
rowly escaping a conflagration of
awful proportions.
The postal receipts f<Jr the year
ending March 31 at Mexia, was $8,-
196.61.
The cotton receipts in Terrell by
wagon for the season of 1908-09
amount to 28,992 bales.
George A. Clark, twenty-five years
chief operator in the Galveston West-
ern Union office, died Wednesday.
Land agents closed a sale of seven
sections of well-improved land in
Nolan County. Consideration, $135,-
000.
The new building for the Terrell
city lighting plant is about com-
pleted. Machinery will arrive in a
few days.
The 8-year-old son of Mrs. Hank-
ins West, in Paris, was fatally burn-
ed at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon,
dving at 9 o'clock.
"Clifford Cogburn, of Beaumont,
mistook his wife for a burglar early
Monday morning and shot her
through the neck. Her condition is
critical.
The first shipments of strawber-
ries in carload lots for this season
was made at Tyler Monday, two cars
being sent out, The berries were
sent to St. Louis and Chicago.
McKinney's postoffice receipts for
the fiscal year ending March 31 were
$24,238.24, as compared with $21,-
204.22 for the preceding year, a
gain of $3,034.02 for the past year.
Tne volunteer nre aepartmenc oi
Weatherford is standing sponsor for
a carnival company, which will play
this city all of the present week. The
carnival .is. — 1 ~
Charles P. Taft, brother of Pres-
ident Taft, left New Orleans Mon-
day for Texas to look for the first
time on the home that has been re-
cently built for him on the banks
of Corpus Christi Bay.
The seventh annual Day ton a au-
tomobile races opened in Daytona,
Fla., Tuesday, with one bicycle, one
motor cycle and two automobile
events, and in each event a former
world's record was broken.
Indications now point strongly in
the direction of the Jacob Dodd"
Packing Company as the institution
to accept the $100,000 bonus raised
some time ago to secure another
packing plant for Fort Worth.
That he will work in conjunction
with the Federal authorities to pre-
vent Northern elevator men from
sending "adulterated wheat" to Tex-
as, to small dealers of the State,
particularly, is the statement of
State Pure Food Commisisoner J. S.
Abbott. Dr. Abbott, in discussing
this matter, said he would punish
elevator men under the section of
the law which names a penalty for
adding to a food product that which
will lower or injuriously affect its
quality.
Everything pertaining to the Nor-
man sawmill at Shepherd, except the
naked sawmill, was consumed by the
fire Friday. The commissary, plan-
er, dry sheds, dry kilns, dolly ways
and tracks and lumber, variously es-
timated from 000,000 to 1,000,000
feet, were all consumed.
Mrs. Woodward, the wife of Capt.
E. A. Woodward, a wealthy farmer
and stock man, was killed Tuesday
afternon in a runaway accident in
Waco.
A copy of the law permitting cities
of less than 10,000 population to
adopt a commission form of gov-
eminent has been mailed out to the
secretaries of commercial clubs and
to the newspapers of the State from
the headquarters of the Texas Com-
mercial Secretaries' Association in
Austin.
To add at least six more organ-
izers to the present forcc for the
more perfect and speedy organization
of the State was the decision reach-
ed by the executive committee of the
State Farmers' Union in sesison in
Ft. Worth, Monday.
SUMMARY Of Tit WEEK
A RESUME OF THE MOST IMPOR-
TANT NEWS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
PEOPLE
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation ef Current News
Domestic and Foreign.
There are at present 225 horses in
the stalls at the Fair Grounds in
San Antonio, ready for the race
meet, which began Saturday, and
fully 400 are expected to be present.
Citizens of Roswell,' N. M., re-
ceived notice Wednesday from Wash-
ington that the site for the new Gov-
ernment building to be erected there
at a cost of $125,000 had been se-
lected.
Kansas National banks will not be
allowed to participate in the State
guaranty fund. This is settled defin-
itely in a decision by Attorney Gen-
eral Wickersham given in Washing-
ton Monday.
New York's many "fight clubs"
which have for some time past con-
ducted bouts up to ten rounds prac-
tically unmolested, under the name
of athletic clubs, are to have a clash
with Gov. Hughes.
Santa Fe surveyors are now work-
ing on the Texico cut-off between
Lubbock and Post in Garza county.
This would indicate that work on
the Coleman-Texico cut-off will be-
gin at a very early date.
Fire originating in the Llano Ho-
tel destroyed fourteen business
houses Friday, in Midland, includ-
ing the First National Bank and the
Llano Hotel. The loss is between
$250,000 and $300,000.
A temporary injunction restrain-
ing the eighteen Missouri railroads
from putting into effect Saturday
the 3c passenger fare, was granted
Friday by Judge Williams of the
Circuit Court in St. Louis.
Human bones and gold coins bear-
ing the date of 1747 were._unearth-
down-town jobbing district Tuesday.
Workmen came upon bones thirty
five feet below the street level.
A sudden, drop of twenty degrees
in the temperature following the re-
cent cold night winds will seriously
affect the tender plants of early vege-
tation and will damage the cotton
which was planted ahead of time to
overcome the ravages of the boll
weevil.
Mrs. Frances Cook Van Zandt,
widow of Isaac Van Zandt, who ne-
gotiated the treaty of annexation of
Texas, died Thursday morning at
Ft. Worth, after an illness that be-
gan several weeks ago. Mrs. Van
Zandt was one of the most noted
women of Texas.
Members of the House of Repre-
sentatives in Washington, figuring
on an extended recess of the House
after passing the tariff bill on Fri-
day, are arranging a trip to Panama
to inspect the work in progress on
the Isthmian Canal.
Asistsant Secretary of the Treas-
ury Coolidge, at Washington, has
approved a plan for systematizing
designs for United States notes and
coin certificates, thus carrying into
effect a scheme of uniformity in por-
trait and general design for notes of
the same denomination of each class.
The twelfth conference for educa-
tion in the South will open in At-
lanta on Wednesday, April 14, and
will continue through the 16th.
According to a report current in
New York Monday, Gen. Leonard
B. Wood sailed for Porto Rico on the
Coamo Saturday afternoon, presum-
ably in connection with the recent
trouble between the islanders and
Gov. Post. He was put on board
the Coamo, it is said, bv a War De-
partment tug from Governor's Is-
land.
Five persons arc known to have
been killed, four others injured, and
still others are buried among the de-
bris of tho Illinois Central depot,
which was demolished by a tornado
which swept through the city of Ab-
erdeen, Miss., Tuesday.
Former President Roosevelt Bpcnt
several hours in Naples Monday and
during that time was. given many
evidences of his personal popularity
with the Italian people and the ad-
miration which they nave for his dis-
tinguished services to his country.
The Southwest Interstate Com-
mission on Country Life is to meet
at Guthrie, Ok., on May 5 and 6 for
which preparations are being ade.
Three men were killed when 100
quarts of nitro-glycerin exploded in
the construction camp of Bixley &
Carpenter at Blue Sulphur, W. Vs.,
Friday.
A 300-ton schooner for the North
Pole expedition, under Walter Well-
man, was launched in Cliristian-
sand Wednesday. It will be taken to
Spizergen in May.
The Texas Mexican road will
build a spur track five miles to North
Laredo to tap the onion farms.
Sixty car loads of onions went ouf
of Laredo Friday.
At Chester, Tyler county, Friday,
occurred the death of John T.
Kirby, aged 88 years, the father of
Hon. John Henry Kirby, the Texas
financier and lumberman.
Theodore Roosevelt and King "V ic-
tor Emmanuel met Tuesday on the
Italian battleship Re Umberto in
Messina harbor. The meeting was
marked by the utmost cordiality'.
While digging a posthole in an
abandoned lot Friday in Lexington,
Ky., workmen discovered a brass ket*
tie containing $8,500 in gold and
silver that apparently had been bur-
ied for half a century.
"Tom," an elephant in the winter
quarters of the Yankee Robinson cir-
cus in Des Moines, la., Friday nighf
suddenly ran amuck and seizing his
keeper, Charles Bellew, hurled him
high into the air and then trampled
him to death.
The strawberry season in Smith
County is now on in full force. The
first three car loads, each containing
over 500 crates, were billed out of
Tyler last Monday and sold at the
loading station for $3 in cash peí
crate, netting over $1,500 per car.
At 5 o'clock Friday morning fire
in Brown wood destroyed the plant of
the Brownwood Gas and Electric
Company, Boyson's meat market and
cold storage plant and the stock of
C. H. Cox & Co., produce, causing a
loss of from $60,000 to $70,000.
At a meeting at the headquarters
of the United Confederate Veterans.
late commander in chief, at Vicks-
burg, Miss., should be unveiled Fri-
day, June 11, at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon.
More than 5,000 delegates are ex-
pected to attend a convention of
Odd Fellows'in Muskogee April 12.
The old Indian Territory and Okla-
homa Territory districts will be rep-
resented. The most important work
to be taken up will be the merging
of the two organizations.
R. E. Alexander was in Cleburne
from Godley Friday and stated that
the citizens of that place were work-
ing very hard to get the interurban
put through from Godley to Fort
Worth and Glen Rose. He said the
road would cross the Santa Fe at
Godley and would give a quick waj
for people of Cleburne to reach Glen
Rose.
In the interest of an interurban
railway to connect Temple and Waec
and enthusiastic meeting was held
in Waco Friday afternoon, both cit-
ies being represented. The first
proposition discussed was a dispatch
from Max Elser, sent from New
York, saying parties he represented
would build the line for a bonus of
$100,000, or right of way between
the two cities guaranteed, in addi-
tion to the franchises.
W. A. Poynter, of Lincoln, ex-
Governor of Nebraska, Monday was
stricken with appoplexy and died
within a few minutes.
The National bankers of Kansas,
through their special committee of
twenty-five, which met in Kansas
City, Kan., Friday, took the first
steps in launching an insurance
company which shall insure bank de-
posits. This company will be or-
ganized under the regular insurance
laws of the State and will be called
the Depositors' Guaranty Company.
The State Senate of Arkansas
Tuesday passed a bill placing a
heavy penalty on persons drinking
intoxicants on trains in the State,
or on station platforms.
Information received late Friday
night in Austin, is to the effect that
W. J. McDonald, State Revenue
Agent, is on his way to Beaumont to
collect the gross receipts taxes which
the Waters-Pierce Oil Company
owes the State of Texas. The taxes,
with penalties, amount to about $50,-
000.
OIL CO. MUSI ffl FINE
DECISIONS IN THREE CA8ES AS
MADE BY TEXAS COURT8
TO 8TAND.
$1,600.000
State Receiver Eckhardt Proper Cua>
todlan—Counsel for Company
Says They Will Pay Fine.
Washington, April 13.—A few
minutes after the United States Su-
preme Court went into session at
noon yesterday Chief Justice Fuller
6ent into the office of the Clerk of
the Court a brief announcing that
the petitions for rehearing in the
three Waters-Pierce oil cases from
Texas are denied by the Court.
This is the last step and the last
delay for which the oil company can
hope in its efforts to stave off the
executions of tho decree of the Travis
County District Court in assessing
a fine of $1,623,500, and ordering
the cancellation of the defendants'
permit to do business in the State
except as to its interstate business.
It also marks the end of the
company's struggle against the State
receiver, Robert P. Eckhardt, taking
charge of the property and the as
sets of the Waters-Pierce Oil Com
pany in Texas.
Austin, April 13.—Judge E. B.
Perkins of Dallas, counsel for the
Waters-Pierce Oil Company, who
was here with Receiver Dorchester
in reference to the payment of the
company's gross receipts taxes, to-
night said that the fine would be
paid to the State as soon as the man
date should reach Austin. The pay
ment will be made in money.
Have Dropped Land Cases.
Guthrie: Announcement was
made Monday afternoon that the
Muskogee town lot cases which were
before the Federal Court at Tulsa
last week, and which were quashec
under an opinion from Unitec
States Judge Marshall, would be
dropped, according to orders re-
from the Department o'
• ill" f U.OI1JIIÍÍiXru. uu V
e -
mg iXsu, u p
date the case has cost the Federa
Government $250,000.
Friend Who 8coffed at Initial Work
Unpleasantly Portrayed In
Widely Read Book.
Your modern novelist is a con-
noisseur in revenges, particularly
your writer of mystery novels. When
Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart began to
contribute stories to the magazines,
there was a young lawyer who used
to scoff at her efforts, yea, even jeer.
He was a relative, and a friend of
her husband's. He thought himself
privileged to laugh the scornful ha Í
ha! Then Mrs. Rinehart wrote "The
Circular Staircase.". Revenge was
sweet and the temptation too great.
She did the unforgiveable thing. She
took his name and used it. Said
lawyer is a rather husky, chesty, talt
and muscular individual. In the
story the author speaks of Mr. Har-
tón, the lawyer, as a "dried-up little
man." Mr. Hartón, friend and rela-
tive, had to laugh. What else could ,
he do? But Mrs. Rinehart will not
go against the code again.
SMITH AND HIS LADDER.
One of the innumerable John
Smiths collected a nobby little jag
the other night and in his rambles
he also picked up a ten-foot ladder,
says the St. Louis Republic. Be-
tween his load of rye and the ladder
he was the busiest man in the vil-
lage. Once he turned to address a
few well-chosen remarks to a brick
wall and in swinging the ladder
around he swept a perfect stranger
off his feet. The gentleman whirled
along the pavement on the crown
of his head, and he did not seem
to like it, for when he rose to his
feet he delivered a fervent impromp-
tu speech and went away. Smith
then stood the ladder on one end
and proceeded to climb it. John
and the ladder came down presently,
and when a. copper arrived Mr.
Smith was making futile attempts
to get his legs untangled from the
rungs.
MASTER AND THE COOK.
8everal Dead; Mexican Riot.
Monterey, Mexico: A special from
Velardena, in the State of Durango
gives the details of serious rioting,
which occurred there on the night
of Saturday, April 10. In the riot-
ing, which grew out of religious dif-
ferences, six police officers, six oi
eight of the rioters and three soldiers
are reported dead and many of the
rioters have been arrested.
Two Men Injured in Fire.
Bowie: As the result of fire Mon
day morning the Dudley Hotel, a
two-story frame structure, togethei
with contents was totally destroyed.
There were several lodgers in the
house. All escaped without acci-
dent, except two men. These were
both badly burned. One of them if
likely to die.
Cooke County Hogs Make Record.
Fort Worth: A new record foi
the year was established on the local
hog market Monday in the sale of
a car load marketed by Turner &
Ruddle of Cooke County, which
brought $7.15. This is the highest
rice paid for hogs on the Fori
orth market since Feb. 27, 1907.
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Studying Texas Mountains.
Fori Davis, Texas: Dr. Peabody
of Cambridge, Mass., arrived herí
Monday and is making an overland
tour of the Davis Mountains in the
interest of archaelogical research.
The doctor is professor of archeology
at Harvard University and at thf
head of the Peabody Museum.
Damage by 'Cyclone.
El Campo, Texas: A cyclonf
formed about five miles north oi
town Monday and destroyed the
homes of W. E. Muller and Ed
Johnson, besides some barns and e
school house. It was plainly visible
from El Campo.
Killed by Frslght Train.
Fort Worth: A Texas and Pacific
freight train Monday night struck
Wm. Marshall, aged 21 years, re-
sulting in his right foot being cut
off at the ankle and both legs being
broken below the knee, besides other
injuries, from which he died at IS
o'clock.
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She—Perhaps you'll say I can't
cook.
He—Cook! Why, it you tried to
boil water I believe you would burn it
A QUESTION OF COURTESY.
Clubwomen of New York are dis
cussing the justice of asking pro-
fessionals to come to the clubs and
give entertainment without paying
them. If the majority rules this
practice will no doubt fall into dis-
use, as no conscientious clubwoman
ought to ask such a thing. Another
thing that should come up for dis-
cussion is the custom of keeping
busy men and women, asked to en-
tertain the club, waiting while a
long program of papers and music is
being performed.
GOING TO THE GAME.
"Jim lost his hat on the way out
to Yale field."
"Whade'do ?"
"Got off and took a derby car."-*
Yale Record.
He Was Thinking.
Hicks—Were you admiring her
beauty ?
Wicks—No, I was only thinking
what a lot of talk a small rosebud
mouth can emit.
His Choloe.
She—Frankly, now, if you had to
choose between me and a million,
what would you do?
He—I'd take the million. Then
you would be «say.—Life. •
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Atterbury & Fox. The Knox County News (Knox City, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, April 16, 1909, newspaper, April 16, 1909; Knox City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth178979/m1/2/?q=green+energy: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.