The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 18, 1902 Page: 1 of 8
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McKINNEY, COLLIN COUNTY, TEXA8, THURSDAY. DEC., 18, 1902.
VOL. 19, NO. 45.
Prof. F. 0. June /by the
University Is wum
tilCOM HI
The Terrible Act Was Committed
This Horning
L
In Wealth, Agrhuiia Hor-
t
ticultural Thrl inence
of Highest Cer le
McKinney anColVunty
have a well earn repVi for
agricultural at hotural
thrift, together th atjable
good name for pgresa^ iu
the raising of ugh live
stock. The w4th e| on
account of the nstand
social conditions has nth is
oounty perhaps t| first jn
Texqs for the usepd pie of
farm implements of Ion-
struction. It haepsultyhe
highest average j| com\Dd
beauty fin our 3<jntry ity
homes that the st oan
This wealth hs caujhe
presence within or bounTof
perhaps the higbst ave|0f
intelligence to b< founthy
connty in the stab Let 1*.
per travel over th county,
tend the popular sserabl^e
would like to comNirc ou
in appearance wit those
clans elsewhere.
This same wealti has g<*
the largest numbr of l ^
students away at he collet#
universities whih any
county can show.
Yes with all >ur decaf
farms, scientiUctlly cuhi
our fine orchards* orderlyu
farms, progress^ farm*
business men, btautiful k
ambitious voung jeoplo at v
distributed wealti, the gre i
prosperous couiiy of Cm
BOUGUIH 11DIMS
Had Been a Merchant and Honor-
ed Citizen of Farmersville for
Over Twenty Years
M. T. Battle, of Farmersville,
committed suicide Thursday
by shooting himself in the head
with a 38 calibre pistol. The
shot was fired about 7 o'clock and
he lived until nine o'clock but
was never conscious.
The ball entered the head just
behind the right ear and ranged
downward.
Mr. Battle had been in a de-
spondent mood for some time and
hu family had kept watch over
him and bad searched his room
and clothes for means of self de-
struction. He went to Dallas
yesterday, returning home last
night.
It is supposed he bought the
pistol there and hid it in the barn
until this morning.
The cause for the rash act is
supposed to bo the gloomy out-
look for the business future.
Mr. Battle had been engaged in
the saddle, harness and hardware
business in Faamersvillo for twen-
ty years and no man stood high-
er, or had more friends than he.
He lived in McKinney several
years between 1875-188t , being in
the employ of I. D. Newsome. He
had many friends here. He leaves
a wife and five children. His old
est daughter was married about
three years ago to James Pendle-
ton of Farmersville.
Mr. Battle was about fifty-two
years of age. He was buried
without a single irst classm^ridftV mor~n\nf, 6t 11 o'clock
or university. Our wea hin thg Udd Fe|loW(S cemeteiy.
made ue admiraby conseitn The news of hiiJ terrible ending
but have we kept-pace ifedt^g received by friends here with
cation with the mtion, sta aigreat 8hock ond 8orrow>
section in whichjwe liveDor ,
let us turn our eyas upon ; ou ^ SAD MESSAGE
neighboring counties andItiet
It they have not built firelai, „ , _ ,
colleges, they have, at leaacar^1"** Rleves Mother Criti-
ried their provisions for tbub- Ically III at Grenada, Hiss.
lie schools further than we
The proper educational * for Rev# aod Mrg. L. Riove8 )effc
McKinney, as viewed by oiwho^ morning for Grenada. Miss.,
has given the subject clt at- ttngwer to a message received
tention, is to lease Hawrnejedne8tlaVt 8tatl0g that
T i
College for a High School, aid
of our public schools, a to
make a real sacrifice to sec the
Presbyterian College. Witlcse
improvements in our eductnal
advantages, bad crops maytne,
rival towns may bestir thenves
and panips may sweep ovthe
nation, but McKinney wibn-
tinue to draw the best cl of
people to herself and will rthe
financial storms in safetyler
fame will travel far, and hems
and daughters will go fot to
conquer the business anche
thought of the world.
Fkaxklin O. Joi
Mrs
eves' mother was critically ill
d not expected to live.
The public in general sympa-
ize with them in their sudden
1 news.
jAter—A telegram was leceiv-
ftelling she was dying.
Burglaries at Blue Ridge.
Elk Lodge Officers Elect«
(
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A meeting of the charter fi-
bers of the new Elk Lodge, ch
is being organized here, wasld
at HarmonTe Hall night of 1
M. H. Oarnett was called be
chair and Martin Gerrish sd
secretary.
The following officers e
44fl *
Fred Burnitt, Exalted Ru
W. H. Sims, Esteemed Lets:
Knight.
Oscar Smith, Esteemed 11
Knight.
Judge M. G. Abcrnathy.i-
tccmed Lecturing Knight.
Martin Gerrish. Secretary
Jesse Shain, Treasurer.
Jim Thomas, Tiler.
Trustees were eleoted as >
lows: W. B. Newsome, t
term; W. S. Terrell, seoond,
R. Abernatby, third; L. A. 8,
fourth; W. Avery Dowel I, i
The name of the lodge wii
decided on at a meeting of i
trustees to be held nest week
Miss Graoe Henderson, of
Alstvse, was in the city Fr
flatting aod shopping
r. A. Harte, druggist of Blue
Rj{e, was in the city Friday and
inrmed us that his prosperous
life village had lately been visit*
ody some lightfingered party or
paies whose apprehension had
nobeen effected.
lesday night the stores of J.
W,St Clair .and J. C. Conner
weiboth entered through win-
do*. The cash drawer of the
forbr was relieved of its con-
tentto the amount of $3 or $4.
Mr.Jonner's loss so far as he can
discrer included a watch, some
ringand other jewelry.
fecial Meeting a Success.
Th special meeting of the
Knigts of Pythias Lodge, hi'ld
Fnda night, was well attended
full 0 interest. The train on
whichGrand Chancellor J. D.
Bonne of Tyler arr rived was de-
layed mtil Just before 10 o'clock,
but a nyal welcome was giyen
him. Several visitors from ad-
joiningtowns swelled the crowd.
After delivering the unwritten
work df the order in a highly in-
ti uccito way, a line of march
was formed and all proceeded to
the Bon Ton, where a sumptuous
banquet was served.
Rocs Hofflnes of Richardson was
in the oily Thirsday attending
the K. of P. meeting
SOME REASONS SET FORTH SHOWINO HOW EVERY CITIZEN
OF COLLIN COUNTY WOULD BE BENEFITTED BY IT
All Citizens Urged to Cooperate With McKinney in Securing Its Lo-
cation Which Will he Determined Next Month. The Oreat.
est Opportunity Ever Presented to Our People
The Texas Presbyterian Univer-
sity, to be located at or near some
in
To the Citizens of Collin Coun-
ty:
Trustees, clothed with the pro-
per authority, have determined to
establish a school, to be known as
byte
dat
town in North Texas.
The place will be selected
January 1903.
This institution is chartered on
the broadest plan and is not to be
a local or State affair, but Na-
tional in its character and coedu-
cational, where our sons and
daughters may obtain a Univer-
sity education side by side.
Its charter requires that a ma-
jority of its trustees be business
men. They are forbidden to in-
cur a debt or mortgage any of the
Universitj property, thus assur-
ing a prudent and successful man-
agement of its finances.
It has been fully investigated
by our best business men and
they are convinced of its success.
So deeply have the citizens of
McKinney become impressed that
many have v3luntarilv submitted
to an assessment of five per cent
on the value of their property to
secure its location, knowing that
not only the town, but all Collin
county, will be benefited if this
institution is located at or near
McKinney.
We appet.1 to you through this
medium and ask your coopera-
tion.
You naturally ask, "How am 1
to be benefited? And what are
the advantages?" ,These ques-
tions are in part answered as fol-
lows:
1st The trut tees have pledged
themselves to raise au endowment
of $100,000 before the University
is opened. This will be increased
to $2,000,000 as rapidly as possi-
ble, and will l>e so much capital
brought into our county, the in-
terest of which will be spent in
our midst in educating our chil-
dren.
2nd This will be a special ad-
vantage to those in moderate cir-
cumstances who are not able to
send their children to a Univer-
sity. They may have all these
advantages at their doors and
give all their children the benefit
of a liberal Christian education.
3rd It will make Collin county
a center, if not the most impor-
tant center of education in the
Southwest.
4th It will bring to our city
and county students from adjoin-
ing counties, states and territo-
ries, because of its educational
advantages and our healthful and
delightful winter climate. Many
of these students doubtless will
make Texas and Collin county
their homes when their education
shall have been completed.
5th Farmers who do not de-
sire or are unable to board their
children away from home can se-
cure a home near the University
and live with their families dur-
ing school months, as cheaply as
they can all live on the farm,
tith The mere existence of this
University in Collin county, will
of itself draw to our midst the at-
tention of the very best class of
immigrants who are coming to Tex
a* for homes.
7th Opportunity always be-
gets desire. Give the boys and
girls a chance and they w'll use
it. Many never make an effort to
obtain a higher education because
they know it is beyond their
reach. No parent does his full
duty who does notphce the op-
portunity before nis children,
when he has the power to do so.
Better make sacrifices now for the
good of your children than to
miss so great an opportunity,
which can never be recalled.
8th The University must have
one hundred acres of giound on
which to locate, before opening
the school and an agricultural
department will be opened so as
to afford young men, who are un-
able to pay, an opportunity to
work their way through the school.
The advantages of such a depart-
ment can be seen at a glance and
are too far reaching to be detail-
ed in this circular.
9th It has be m arranged to
have committees visit every part
of the county and present the
matter to our citizens. You will
be asked to make a donation in
such amounts and on such terms
as you are able to meet.
10th Let us not miss this, one
of the greatest opportunities ever
offered to the people of Collin
county or of Te*as. This Uni-
versity is not for a day but for
all time. All children, without
regard to their church affiliation,
may all alike enjoy its benefits.
Respectfully,
J. 8. Do well,
J. L. Greek,
J. S. Heard
M. G. Aherkathy,
W. T. Beverly,
J. P. Crouch,
J. C. Rhea,
L. A. Scott,
J. M. Pearson.
FAIR GROUNDS PARK
Texas State Fair Association Will
Open to the City
The directors of the Texas State
Fair and Dallas Exposition, in
annual session Tuesday, tendered
tho fair grounds to the city to be
used as a park and also maintain-
ed as a fair. A committee was
appointed to draw up an agree-
ment. Officers for the fair weie
re-elected as follows: W. H. Gas-
ton, president; J. T. Trezevant,
vice president; J. B. Adoue. treus
urer; Sidney Smith, socretiry and
general manager.
Gabe Lucas will represent the
Chapman Flouring Mill of Sher-
man as traveling salesman, hav-
ing accepted a position with
than*
TRIBE WILL BE WIPED OUT
Little Son of J. T. Cave of Near
Altoga
t Accident Occurred at Five O'clock
Friday Evening. Death Came
at Twelve at Night
German And British Cruisers
Bombard Yenezuelans
II
Odell, the little two and a half
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
T. Cave who reside one mile west
of Altoga, was burned to death
last Friday evening. •
The parents Mere out of the
room and the little hoy was stand-
ing in front of the stove, which
was one of the kind that had a
large round opening at the bot-
tom. It is supposed the draft in
the stove was turned on and the
suction drew the child's clothing
into the fire.
The parents heard its screams,
rushed into the room and found
it enveloped in flames, the front
part of its clothing being burnt
off.
Two physicians were summoned
immediately but death was inevi-
table and they could only, to some
extent, alleviate the terrible suf-
fering.
The accident occurred at five
o'clock and death came at twelve
at night.
The funeral will took place
next morning in Orendorff
cemetery five miles north of Mc-
Kinney.
The friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Cave, among them the Democrat,
deeply sympathize with them in
their great sorrow.
Rev. G. W. Day orders the ad-
dress of his paper changed from
Princeton to Ego, l.JT. Rev. Day
was pastor of the Princeton cir-
cuit, M. E. church, last year but
owing to declining health was
forced to take the supernumerary
relation this year to recuperate.
ELECTED OFFICERS
A. O. U. W. Lodge Elected Offi-
cers Last Night
Sac and Fox Indians Dying of Tu-
berculosis Fast
Guthrie, Ok., Dec. 14.—Dr.
Wyman, Government pbvsician
at the Sac and Fox Indian Agency
in Oklahoma, announces that a
large majority of the tribe are af-
flicted with tuberculosis, scrofula
and other incurable diseases, and
adds that the tribe will be practi-
cally annihilated within a few
years.
The latest report says thero are
but 479 members of this once pow
erful tribe left.
The new Elk lodge, wbioh is
being organised and will occupy
Harmome Club rooms after Jan.
1st, has purchased the club's fur-
nishings.
At the meeting of A. O. U. W.
Thursday night the following of-
ficers were elected for the ensu-
ing term:
Rev. J. O. Miller, P. M.
E. C. Meador, M. W.
John Stanley, Foreman.
A. Bryant, Overseer.
W. T. Campbell. Recorder.
H. V. Lehman, Financier.
J. L. Parker, Receiver.
W. H. Stanberry. Guide.
J. T. Welch, I. W.
R. P. Tucker, O. W.
Dr. W. Todd Largent, Med.
Ex.
T. J. Bury, J. W. Moore aod
H. H. Bullington, trustees.
Puerto Cabello Scene Of Opening
Conflict—Feeble Resistance
Offered,
Puerto Cabello, Saturday, Dec.
14.—The British Cruiser Charyb-
dis and the German cruiser Vine-
ta bombarded the fortress here at
5 o'clock last evening and quickly
silenced it. The bombardment
lasted for forty-five minutes.
The fortress is composed of Fort
Solano and the Castle Liberata-
dor. After the firing ceased the
Charybdis sent marines to occupf
the castle. The fortress was al-
most demolished. It is possible
only a few persons were injured
by the shelling. The commander
of Castle Liberatador has been
taken a prisoner. The cruisers
are still here.
The people of Puerto Cabello
can not account for this precipi*
tate action on the part of the
allies, which they consider to be
proof that Great Britain and
Germany intend forcing war upon
Venezuela.
The British marines intend to
make use of the cannon in Castle
Liberatador. No damage was
done to the town. The excite-
ment of the people is subsiding.
The Doukhobors
Bequeathed $7000 to Society.
The Womans Home Mission
Society of the M. E. church South
is a legatee of the late Mrs. Lind-
say Wilson, of Louisville, Kv.
Deceased bequeathed $7000 to t£e
Society—$2000 to be used for the
Sue Bennett Memorial School of
London, Ky., and $5000 for the
Parsonage Loan Fund.
Mr«. Wilson was the daughter
of a pioneer preacher of the
Louisville ^Conference. Was an
invalid for many years. At her
death she bequeathed tho greater
part of hor largo fortune to Meth-
odist institutions. The Woman's
Home Mission Society ol this
place shares alike in this legacy
with the other societies of the
South, and we can't but praise
this good and noble woman for
her beneficence, v Invalid, not
having the physical strength to
help in this great cause, she has
given of her means that others
migtot be engaged to work.
May the deed of this noble
woman be an inspriration to each
of us in our Home Mission work.
J, W. Pafford
lay from Denton
ae had been for
Thure*
where
1
Wide-spread interest and sym-
pathy have been aroused during
the last two months by the strange
hallucination and pathetic Pil-
grimage of the Russian Doukho-
ors of western Canada. For a
time these peculiar people made
wonderful progress in the new-
land to which they were brought
when their religious beliefs made*
residence in Russia no longer tol-
erable; but lately ideas have
spread among them which in all
breadth of view and all charity
must be regarded as fanatical.
Having loug refrained from eat
ing meat because it involved the
shedding of blood, they next turn
ed tboir cattle loose because they
considered it wrong for man to
enslave tho lower animals. Tboa
they discarded woolen clothing
for cotton and linen, and leather
shoes for foot-wear made of rub-
ber or binder t'une.
At last, in the late fall, when
the weather was already severe,
they began their "pilgrimage**—
a march "to look for Jesus," aa
they expressed it. When some
bad perished and others gone in*
sane, when husbands and motheis
had deserted their families, the
strong arm of the law reached out
and led them gently back to their
homes.
The incident has been a strange,
Sathetic and impressive thing,
lot even the most cynical caa
doubt the sincerity of the Douk-
hobors. nor the most suspicions
pi<
allege any but pure and holy {mo-
tives for their acts. Yet the heart
of minkind in the aggregate 'un-
derstands that they are wrong,
and while it pities, restrains them.
It may not be possible to draw
with absolute justice the line be-
tween sane belief and fanaticism,
but it must never be forgotten
that Christ allayed rather than
caused suffering, aud blessed and
cherished the human affections.—
Youth's Companion.
Jamas A. Waters has bought
out the agency of Dock Turner,
who wss conducting a shoe store
in his building ea t of Jim Wiluy'e
grocenw ~* *or the Herald
Shot<*^ .in. Waters will con-
duct the business at the same
stand, and is too well known to
need any introduction to the peo-
ple of McKinney and Collin co in
ty. having been employed in 1 he
clothing department of the J. D.
Stiff Dry Goods Cei and their
predecessors for more than fifteen
years. We wish him great suo
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Thompson, F. C. The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 18, 1902, newspaper, December 18, 1902; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192151/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.