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HULENRU
STICKER. SCHULENBUR
TEXAS
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STICKER'S GENERAL NEWS DEPART
STATE INTEREST NATIONAL THEWORLD FOREIGN
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PLACIN6 THE NATION
ON A WAR FOOTING
«AVY IS TO BE RECRUITED UP
TO 87,000 MEN, AND RADICAL
THE TWO BEST SELLERS
SPECIAL SESSION OF
CONGRESS ON APRIL
CALLED BY PRESIDENT TO CON.
SIDER GRAVE QUESTIONS OF
NATIONAL POLICY.
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STAND TO BE TAKEN
While There Will Be No Declaration
of War Against Germany, All
Preparations Will Be
Made for Defense.
A union of federal employes has
been organized at Laredo.
C
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the |
irard ;
half j
Tof St. :
Sing in !
es south,
riles south '
irere made i
th of Sois ;
jgrad.
the military
rthe effect of
en at the front,
^correspondent
toff's state-
?ate is no
.slightest
enemy
But
reek was
but of
jroduction
lere were
bompleted,
Vtype, but
ided up
more
twen-
1,000
se in
jount
if
Id of
Th impor-
lon, and this
good producers,
se Creek field,
ion Company com-
rwell3 at Goose Creek
Rucker-Schilling came
fpth around 2,600 feet with
9hed daily flow of 3,500 bar-
ren then was pinched in or-
rouldn't cut the connec-
lg pure oil. No. 3
,of the same com-
bat 2,600 feet and
Is of fluid, of
f^il. Several
fet^u -with biS
jse CrCPk. but
^closed the^?fee^
timated at
lough the weekly
Iderably less than
one good producer
Fas the Producers Oil
r288 jfee, and came in
barrels. Sour Lake's
lged around 20,000 bar-
fduring the week.
laily production averaged
51s. That field had several
Ipers finished, but no big
Not Taken Seriously.
Tiington.—Word that a European
il might offer mediation to pre-
open war between the United
!es and Germany has come to the
linistration without causing sur-
ise or in any way affecting the gov-
Inent's plan for meeting the situa-
tion forced by submarine ruthlessness.
Such a proposal is regarded at Wash-
ington as nothing more than another
scheme fostered by Germany with the
hope of confusing the issue and possi-
bly dividing sentiment in this country
while the destruction of American
lives and ships on the high seas con-
tinues.
Russia Formally Recognized by U. S.
Petrograd.—The United States is
the first nation to recognize formally
the new government of Russia. Am-
bassador Francis made a preliminary
call Thursday on Foreign Minister
Milukoff immediately upon the receipt
of instructions from the state depart-
ment at Washington. Accompanied by
his staff, including the military and
naval attaches, he went to the Marin-
sky palace, where the council of min-
isters? was assembled, made the formal
recognition and presented congratula-
tions and felicitations on behalf of the
United States.
DETAILS OF SINKING
OF THE HEALDTON
American Ship Was Attacked and Do-
stroyed In So-Called "Safety
Zone" Near Dutch Coast.
Washington.—The first detailed ac-
count of the sinking of the American
steamer Healdton reached the state
department Friday from American
Consul Krogh at Rotterdam. It fol-
lows : .
"American tank steamer Healdton,
Bayonne, N. J., owned by the Standard
Oil Company, New York; en route to
Philadelphia via Bergen to Rotterdam;
commanded by Captain Charles Chris-
topher, American citizen, carrying
cargo ^of 6,000 tons petroleum, having
forty-one officers and crew aboard, '
including number of Americans, re- I
ported torpedoed and sunk without '
warning by German submarine at 8:15 i
evening of 21st, twenty-five miles from |
Terschilling.
"Captain and nineteen men brought j
safely to Yumiden; one died from ex- j
posure in lifeboat; twenty reported 1
drowned by capsizing; one lifeboat
with following officers and crew re-
ported saved:
"Captain Christopher, Brooklyn;
Chief Engineer Caldwell, New York;
Assistant Engineer Emery, New Or- '
leans; Boatsman -Rode. Rotterdam;
Cook Snikers, Rotterdam; Seaman
Lorensen, Norway; Oilers Guillane,
Romoro; Stokers Grande, Gonzales,
Muino and Alonzo, and Engineers
Messman and Lauriano, all of Phila- ;
delphia.
"For safety's sake, the Healdton
£bose the northernmost route. All
wePt well until Wednesday evening at
8:15 d'clock, when a submarine sud-
denly macfe „ a treacherous attack.
Without fully emerging and without a
warning, it fired twd torpedoes, which
hit the steamer amidships" sfr that the
vessel, because of the dangerous
acter pf her cargo and an explosion in
the engine room, caught fire at once.
''The crew, in three boats, tried to
leave the ship. Two sloops with thir-
teen and seven men, respectively, suc-
ceeded in getting away, but the third,
containing twenty-one men, capsized
and nearly all were drowned.
"The crew of the Dutch trawler,
which observed the fire from a great
distance, believed the glow to be that
of the Aurora Borealis and did not go
to the rescue. The next day, how-
ever, seeing a sloop under sail, they
at once stopped fishing and steamed to
the sloop, whose occupants were so
exhausted that they were unable to
maneuver their boat alongside the
trawler. The shipwrecked men finally
were taken on board the trawler, cared
for and supplied with dry clothes.
"After the attack, the submarine at
once submerged and disappeared with-
out troubling over the lot of the ship-
wrecked sailors.
"Among the crew of the Healdton
were thirteen Americans, of whom six-
were rescued."
Washington.—President Wilson
Wednesday met the constantly in-
creasing probability of war with Ger-
many by summoning congress to as-
semble in extraordinary session Mon-
day, April 2—two weeks earlier than
the date he had chosen before the lat-
est assaults upon American rights on
the high seas.
Following is the proclamation of
President Wilson calling congress in
extra session:
"Whereas, public interests re-
quire that the congress of the Unit-
ed States should be convened in
extra session at 12 o'clock noon on
the second day of April, 1917, to
receive a communication concern-
ing grave matters of National pol-
icy which should be taken imme-
diately under consideration,
"Now, therefore, I, Woodrow
Wilson, president of the United
States of America, do hereby pro-
claim and declare that an extraordi-
nary occasion requires the con-
gress of the United States to con-
vene in extra session at the capitol
In the City of Washington on the
second of April, 1917, at 12 o'clock
noon, of which all persons who
•hall at that time be entitled to act
as members thereof are hereby re-
quired to take notice.
"Given under my hand and the
seal of the United States of Amer-
ica, the 21st day of March, in the
year of our Lord, one thousand
nine hundred and seventeen, and
of the independence of the United
States, the 141st."
When the president addresses con-
gress he is expected to show how a
state o! war actually has existed for
some time because of the unlawful ag-
gressions of German submarines.
Congf-ess is expected formally to d©>
clare a state of war existing, vote a
large sum, probably half a billion dol-
lars, for national defense, and clothe
the president with authority ,,"to~use
A large leather-back sea turtle
weighing 800 pounds was found on the
Galveston beach a few days ago.
The state convention of the Young
Men's Business League will be held in
Houston the latter part of April.
The maximum credit of 15 per cent
has been granted by the state fire
insuranc e com mission to the city of
Stamford on account of good fire rec-
ord, the loss ratio for 1914, 1915 and
1916 being .189.
+ - •
Dr. Neal L. Anderson, who has been
the acting president of the Austin
Presbyterian Theological Seminary at
Austin, Texas, since last fall, has no-
tified the board of trustees of declina-
tion of the call to the presidency.
The fourth big rabbit drive within
the past three months was held in the
Joliet section west of Luling a few
days ago. More than 100 men and
boys were included in the drive and
the slaughter of rabbits was whole-
sale.
The last of the government orders
for between 15,000,000 and 20,000,000
feet of yellow pine lumber to be used
for the building of cantonments along
the Texas-Mexican border was placed
this week, the bulk of it through Texas
firms.
Border Clear of M iI
San Antonio, Tex.—All
,ve left the border, trans^
:ials at Fort Sam
tunced Saturday. The 1?
ion to leave was the j
ichigan Infantry, whij
from El Paso Friday. Th|
cleared more than a we
f the time limit set by|
:ment.
Railroads Ask Higher Rates.
Washington.—Samuel Rea, presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania railroad, told
the interstate commerce commission
Saturday that the rising cost of all
commodities had so affected the rail-
roads that the situation was tense,
and that immediate relief should be
given the roads by higher freight rates,
if they were to continue to render safe
and efficient service.
Big Gas Well Is Discovered.
Houma, La.—McCormick & Thatch-
er, a Shreveport concern, have just
brought in an immense gas well near
Montegut, twenty miles below Houma.
[Much interest prevails. Houma peo-
ple are drilling their own shallow
ells of about one hundred feet depth
Ind are securing sufficient gas for pri-
ate uses, including lighting, cooking
id heating.
the armed forces of the Unite# states,
as it empowered President McKinley
to deal with the menace of Spain In
1898.
Such action would not be a declara-
tion of war except in ,'a technical
sense, and whether the Ijnited States
and Germany actually /g0 to war in
the fullest acceptance m the term will
depend on what the imperial govern-
ment^}^ congress is assem-
bled or after it acts.
Much to change the president's pres-
ent intentions or the course of the gov-
ernment in the crisis may develop be-
fore April 2. If the American armed
ships will by that time have reached
the war zone the ruthless destruction
of one of them unquestionably would I
be an act of war.
On the other hand, sinking of a
submarine by one of the armed mer- i
chantmen probably would be met as
an act of war by Germany. Even the
arming of American ships with the i
avowed purpose of defending them i
against U-boats may be declared such j
an act.
In any of these events practically i
nothing would remain except for con-
gress to acknowledge a state of war
existing from a certain specified date
—probably last Sunday, when three
American ships were eunk with loss
of life.
President Wilson and his advisers in
the cabinet and in congress have no
intention that war shall be declared
by the United States. By the hostile
acts of German submarines they be-
lieve the imperial German government
is actually making war on the United
States and- that it shall be recognized
as such a state. To meet such a con-
dition the armed forces of the coun-
try and all the national resources are
to be put in a state of readiness. Then
whether the nation shall enter the war
in its full sense will depend upon how
much further Germany carries her acts
of aggression.
In every sense war, if it comes, will
be a defensive war, free from am-
bitions of spoils or territory, in which
the United States, the president has
publicly declared, shall want nothing
for itself and shall seek only to pre-
serve the rights of civilization and hu>
manity.
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THE COTTON CROP OF 1918 IS
PLACED AT 11,442,838 BALES
Amount of Sea Island Cotton Shows
an Increase From 91,844 to 117,544
Bales in 1916.
Nineteen timbers, weighing 114,620
pounds, shipped from Castle Rock,
Wash., reached Beaumont this week
to be used in building schooner No. 2
for a ship building1 firm. The timbers
came on three cars and the freight
paid was $938.88, exclusive of original
cost.
—♦—
United States secret service agents
are active along the Texas-Mexican
border investigating reports of Ger-
man spies, of Germans crossing to
Mexico and the movements of Ger-
mans said to have been enlisted in the
United States army and national guard
commands on the border.
♦—
One hundred and sixty-one head of
hogs, including all grades, were sold
at Fort Worth this week by C. E.
Stacy, sales manager for the Jim Wells
County Hog Breeders' and Marketing
Association, for $1,921.84. 1 The hogs
weighed from 45 to 400 pounds. Tops
Bold for $13.40 and stockers at $9 per
hundred pounds.
The attorney general's department
has approved the following bond is-
sues: Bowie county road district No.
2, $12,000; San Augustine independ-
ent school district, $5,000; Live Oak
county common school district No. 15,
$2,400; Collingsworth-Wheeler County
Line common school district No. 7,
$1,800; Crosby county common school
district No. 14, $2,000.
The board of directors of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College in
session at Austin Friday reorganized-
by the unanimous re-eleotioa of John
I. Guion of Ballinger-as president and
L. J. Hart of San 4,'ntonio as vice pres-
ident. J. T. PiCfiSon of Paris, recently
appoint£3-a member of the board by
^Governor Ferguson to fill the vacancy
caused by the expiration of the term
of J. Sheb Williams of Paris, was pres-
ent at the meeting.
Notice has been given by the rail-
road commission that it will, on April
10, consider the application of the
chamber of commerce of Beaumont for
a readjustment of rates to apply on
lumber and articles taking lumber
rates, in carloads, from stations on
the Trinity and Sabine division of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway to
Beaumont. It is proposed to amend
the present lumber tariff by providing
for rate of 7%c per 100 pounds to ap-
ply between the points mentioned.
The Texas railroad commission has
Issued an order, effective April 12,
1917, as folioW3. "On lumber and ar-
ticles taking lumber rates, in carloads,
from points (except Bronson) on the
Lufkin. Hemphill & Gulf railway to
points 011 other lines of railway in
Texas—Bronson rates, except where
3ueh Bronson rates are less than 8%c
per pound. Where the rates from !
Bronson to points in Texas are less i
than 8%c, the rate from Lufkin, Hemp- j
hill & Gulf points to the same points ;
shall be S%c per 100 pounds."
It is understood that an effort will
be made to have the special session
of the legislature next month to
change, if possible, the date for the
submission of two of the four consti-
tutional amendments submitted dur-
ing the regu'.ar session, just closed.
Senate joint resolutions 3 and 12 are,
by their own terms, set for submis-
sion within four days apart during
next August, and there is a conflict as
to the date in one of them. It is pro-
posed that the special session fix the
same date in August to vote on both
of these amendments.
Washington.—The 1916 cotton crop
of the United States was 11,442,838
equivalent 500-pound bales, exclusive
of linters, according to final figures
of ginning announced Wednesday by
the census bureau.
That compares with 11,191,820 bales
in 1915 and 16,134,930 bales in 1914,
the year of record production. Linters
produced in 1915 were 931,141 equiva-
lent 500-pound bales, and in 1914 were
856,900 bales.
Round bales included in the gin-
nings for the season numbered 192,040,
compared with 111,716 for 1915 and
57,618 in 1914.
Sea island bales numbered 117,544,
compared with 91,844 for 1915 and 81,-
654 for 1914.
The average gross weight of bale
for the crop, counting round as half
bales and excluding linters, was 503.?
pounds, compared with 505.6 for 1915
and 507.2 for 1914.
Ginneries operated for the 1916 crop
numbered 21,621, compared with 23,162
for 1915.
Ginnings by states in equivalent 500-
pound bales was:
Alabama, 532,826; Arkansas, 1,133,-
568; California, 43,620; Florida, 41,449;
Georgia, 1,819,874; Louisiana, 443,115;
Mississippi, 811,296; Missouri, 62,699;
North Carolina, 654,259; Oklahoma,
822,679; South Carolina, 929,718; Ten-
nessee, 382,273; Texas, 3,724,731; Vir-
ginia, 27,127; all other states, 13,604.
Sea island production by states was:
Florida, _ 36,092; Georgia, 77,966;
South Carolina, 3,486.
Naturi
Requf
Assistai
IN CORRECTING SUCH1
POOR APPETITE
DYSPEPSIA
INDIGESTION
BILIOUSNESS
SPRING ILLS
OR MALARIA
A splendid first aid
HOSTETTER'
STOMACH BITTI
Resourceful.
Two women were having a confab j
on the troubles of life, that connected
with husbands in particular, relates
George Mellinger of Sweeney^s.
"I dinna wonder at some puir wives
having to help themselves out of their
husband's trousers," remarked one of
them.
"I canna say that I like them under-
hand ways meself," said the other ma- m
tron. "I usually jist turn ma man's
breeches doon side up an* help mysel'
off the carpet."
MEXICAN PROPOSAL REFUSED.
The Note in Reply to General Car-
ranza's Embargo Plan Is
Made Public.
Washington.—The note to General
Carranza, declining his proposal for
neutral action to bring peace to Eu-
rope by cutting off exports of supplies
to bQlligerents, was made public Wed-
nesday at the state department
The refusal was based, first, on the j
apparent hopelessness of peace at the ;
present time, as shown in the futility j
of President Wilson's efforts and Ger- i
many's attempts to embroil Mexico
and Japan in war with this country,
and in the belief that any restriction of
commerce with the belligerents would
in effect be an unneutral discrimina-
tion.
"Nevertheless," the note concludes,
"the president' would not be under-
stood as desiring to impede, the prog-
ress of a movement leading to the re-
sumption of peaceful relations be-
tween all the belligerents and would
not, therefore, wish the Mexican gov-
ernment to feel that his inability to
act in the present state of affairs
should in any way militate against the
attainment of the high ideals o£ Gen-
eral Carranza by the co-operation of
Q&C" aeutral governments in the use
of their good offices and friendly me-
diation, to bring about the end of the
terrible war."
German Raider Reaches Home.
Berlin, by Wireless to Sayville, L. 1.
The German auxiliary cruiser Moewe
has returned into a home port of the
navy from a second cruise in the At-
lantic ocean, it was announced Friday
by the German admiralty. The Moewe,
according to the statement, captured
twenty-two steamships and five sailing
ships, aggregating 123,100 tons gross.
The statement says: "Among the ves-
sels captured by the Moewe were the
Voltaire, an English steamer of 8,617
tons gross, in ballast, carrying a
twelve-centimeter gun; the Norwegian
steamer Hallbjorg, of 2,587 tons gross,
and the Mount Temple."
THIS IS THE AGE OF YOUTH.
Yon will look ten years younger if yom ■
darken your ugly, grizzly, gray hairs by |
using "La Creole" Hair Dressing.—Adv.
A Bit of "Old" Canada.
* There exists at Unionville, Ontaric
a pioneer house 124 years old. This1
is probably a unique record for a Ca-
nadian log house, and it is said to be
the oldest log house of similar dimen-
sions in the Dominion. Some of the
logs are from 30 to 36 inches in diam-
eter. It is still occupied, and it is in-
teresting to note, as a testimony to the
comfort of the house, that its occu-
pants, numbering 13, took first prise
in 1912 at a political picnic as the
"heaviest family attending the event**
j ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE
The Antiseptic Powder to
Shake Into Your Shoes
and sprinkle in theF<
Bath. Don't suffer'
Bunions, and Callouses:
or from Tender, Tired,
Aching, Swollen Feet,
Blisters or sore
The troops on the
can border use Allen's
Foot-Ease and over
100,000 packages have
bear - td by the A'3ed
and German troops in
Europe. Allen's Foot-Ease is
everywhere as the greatest comforter
lever discovered for allf oot aches. Makes
new or tight shoes feel easy by taking
the friction from the shoe. Sold every
where, 25c. Dea't accept any substitute.
Cr TRIAL PACKAGE
iEbEi rent by n aiL Address
AMJtN 8. OLJH8TED, l.e Roy. N, Y.
StoMFaK
PREVENTION
better than cure. Tntt'f PBls if taken InttM
are net only a remedy for. bat wOI prnret
SICK HEADACHE,
MHoasness, constipation end kindred diaeaaea.
Tuft's Pills
STOCK LICK rr-STOCKUKEIF
Stephen F. Austin, Texas patriarch,
once held title to Spillmans Island, or
Jennings Island, as it has been known
Cor twenty years, according to records
in the Harris County court house, but
it's the oil men of the Goose Creek
vicinity who are now anxious to know
the exact ownership of the island, for
It is rumored that there is oil there.
From Austin the title went to the late
Tom R. Jennings, and from him it
went to F. J. Kilpatrick of New York,
who died several years ago. Kilpat-
rick's son, Reginald, who now llvss in
England, has the title.
Found Girl's Body in River.
Temple, Tex.—The body of a young
woman, fully dressed, was found
Thursday floating in the Leon river by
boys engaged in fishing three miles
north of Belton, near Miller Springs,
and when taken to Belton was identi- I
fied by Mr. and Mrs. John Staley as j
their daughter, Emma, aged 20 years. j
Marks of violence were in evidence on j
the head and body. The feet were tied ,
together with baling wire and a veil,
tightly wound about the head and face, j
also were bound with wire. Sheriff |
Smith caused the arrest of Will Por- j
ter, a young farmer, against whom a ]
charge of murder has been filed. He 1
denies all connection with the crime.
For Horses, Cattle, Sheep
and Hogs. Contains Cop-
peras for Worms, Sulphur
for the Blood, Saltpeter
for the Kidneys, N'ux
Vomica,aTonic, and Pure
Dairy Salt. Used by Vet-
erinarians 12 years. No
Dosing. Drop Brick is
feed-box. Ask your dealer
for Black man's or write
BLACKMAN STOCK REMEDY COMPART
CHATTANOOGA. TENNESSEE
Frost Proof Cabbage
and Tomato Plants
Now ready. Charleston and Jersey Wakefield, also
succession. 1,000 for $3.25 postpaid; by express
and not prepaid, 1 to 4 thousand at $1 .SO per thou-
sand ; 9 to 9 thousand, at $1,25 per thousand. Tee
thousand and over at $1.75 per thousand.
COLEMAN PLANT GO.. TIFTON, OEOMIA
"ROUGHonRATS
Big Gusher at Goose Creek.
Houston, Tex.—While the drill was
being withdrawn to change bitts Wed-
nesday oil began gushing from the
Gulf Production Company's well No.
3 Bush at Goose Creek, the stream go-
ing 125 feet into the air, wrecking the
derrick. One of the drill crew was on
top of the derrick eighty feet high
when the flow started aad saved his
life by sliding down a guy wire just
as the derrick began to ciumble under
the force of the stream.
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Navy to Govern West Indies.
Washington.—Naval government for
the Danish West Indies has been de-
termined upon by the administration,
and it was said there would he a for-
mal announcement shortly of arrange-
ments for the ceremonials Wttending
the raising of the American Iflag.
Chinese Take German Colonies.
Pekin.—Chinese troops have occu-
pied without opposition the German
concessions at Tien Tsin and Hankow.
The Dutch have taken ovs? the Ger
Bum consulates.
General Offices, St. Looli, Ho. Operate
tor Individual*, Firms and Corporations
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AND SUPPLIES
Contractors Supplies, Builders]
Hardware, Etc. Prices and In-j
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