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THE TEXAS MINER.
Japan and China, the Japs to receive $250,000,000 silver and the
island of Formosa. Under the circumstances China gets off
cheap, if that is the settlement.
Free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver, with full legal
tender qualities, is required by the best interests of mankind,
for all countries and for each country. I he money lenders are
the exception.—[Anson Walcott.
Cleveland's Wall street friend, Benedict, is building a large
steam yacht to take Cleveland around the world. No doubt Ken-
edict has made the price of half a dozen yachts out of the Cleve-
land bonds. He can afford to give him a "blow out."
Reports to the director of the mint show coinage during the
month of March, 1895, as follows: Gold, $2,866,102; silver,
$573 575 minor coins, $70,195; total coinage, $3,909,835
Of the silver coined $100,290 was in standard dollars.
Wanamaker of Philadelphia, the late Postmaster General un
der Harrison, has bought out the old A. T. Stewart dry goods
business of New York City. Stewart would turn in his'grave if
he knew that Wanamaker was running the business he estab-
lished.
There is a good long string of young monarchs and poten-
tates now occupying the public, attention. The King of Spain
. is 8 years old; the Queen of Netherlands, 14; the King qf
Servia, 18; the Khedive, 20; the Emperor of China, 27. and
the Czar, 26.
If you have not read "Coin's Financial School," for the sake
of home and country get it and read it. If your newsdealer
hasn't it write the publishers, Coin Publishing Company, 115
Monroe street, Chicago, 111. The price is 25 cents, and it is
wojth a hundred times that sum. r x
The Revolutionists in Cuba are holding their own as yet, but
they must be beaten in the end, because of the large force of
troops that are being sent to Cuba from Spain. We are sorry;
we wish they could succeed. The Spanish Government is and
has been a curse to every country it ever governed.
In New York lowest prices are ruling for coal; there is no de-
mand, and the companies are "fairly rushing coal to market."
Prices in the vicinity of Philadelphia for good coal are on the
basis of $2 at the mines, which is 55c below the official figures
and 30c below the recent selling figures. Good coal is being
sold at the low rates. In Boston coal is offered very low.
It is sjtid Carlisle is a candidate for United States Senator
from Kentucky and is going to fight Joe Blackburn for the place,
Carlisle as a goldbug and Blackburn as a silver man. We hope
he will try it on. He will be beaten as badly as Breckenridge
was. Those gentlemen in Washington will have to find out that
the people know more about free coinage than they did once on
a time.
Henry M. Flagler, another of the Standard oil millionaires,
was a woodman in the Northwest in the days of his young man-
hood. He is worth between $70,000,000 and $80,000,000 to-
day. He married the daughter of his employer. The latter, on
a trip to Cleveland, Ohio, made the acquaintance of John' D.
Rockefeller, then a struggling young merchant with a small store
and no capital. Mr. Flagler's father-in-law became impressed
with the extraordinary business abitity of young Rockefeller,
and wishing to give his relative a start in life, purchased a half
interest in the Rockefeller store for $2500. Soon after Flagler
and Rockefeler entered actively into the partnership, and that
$2500 was practically the corner stone of the Standard Oil com-
pany, probably the richest corporation on earth [New York
Times.
Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, leader in the House of Commons,
made a strong speech in favor of bimetalism at a meeting of the
Bimetalic League at the Lord Mayor's mansion, London. He
said: "To consider home interests alone in training a currency
while Great Britain was connected with foreign countries by every
commercial tie was a violation of the common sense of every
practical business man. When the country depended for its very
bread on foreign nations, if it were cut off, could not live a day
and would have ruin staring it in the face, it was the height of
folly to attempt isolation respecting the currency medium. I do
not believe that the common sense of the nation would long tol-
erate-such things in view of what was proceeding in America
Germany and France, and even in Great Britain I am con-
vinced that men of all classes would soon combine to end the re-
proach to our civilization."
COUNTY SITE NEWS.
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Stephen villi-;, Tex., April 8, 1895.
To the Editor oí 1 he Texas Minek :
Every farmer predicts big crops this year.
Saturday night's rain is reported to have been ueneral through-
out the county. "
Col. Ike Cowan, the boss wheat-grower of the county, re-
ports the crop prospect very good.
The Third Regiment band expects to go to Houston in May
in good shape to win the band prize.
William Mims, who escaped after conviction for cattle theft
several years ago, was recaptured last week and is now in iail
here. }
The readers of The Miner are expecting to hear from Mr.
lhurber as to what he found out in Mexico about free coinaee
of silver. ' 8
It is a fact that m the same neighborhood in Erath county
some men are'still picking cotton, while others have planted thii
year's cotton crop.
The Odd Fellows of Stephenville will celebrate on April 26 in
big style. The lodges at Granbury, Dublin, Comanche and
Brownwood will participate.
Their experience with Thurber as a market has taught the
farmers of Erath, that it takes home industries and home fac-
tories to make home markets.
Twenty-three couples of Stephenville young people gave Mr.
and Mrs. Vincent a surprise party Saturday evening. The
bright Will Ready of Thurber was a bright star in the galaxy.
Hon. E. A. McDowel of Gatesville is to deliver the public
address at the court house on Odd Fellow's day, April 26. He
is one oi the most eloquent and charming orators of Texas and
he will afford a rare treat to ill who hear him.
Thomas W. Jordan, Esq., of Thurber, and one of the most
enthusiastic friends of . that flourishing city, was here Thursday
and Friday inviting everybody to go up and see the good people
and the wonderful development of that greatest industrial hive
in Texas.
Capt. Lightfoot, deputy United States marshal, spent a day
or two here last week. He was on important business for the
United States court sitting at Waco, and as is his wont he
found out all he wanted. The law-breaker on whose track Capt
Lightfoot sets out is in a hard row for stumps.
Mr. J. H. Cage, the leading merchant, farmer and stockman
of Erath, is very much interested in securing a cotton seed oil
mill for Stephenville. He is in receipt of a proposition from a
responsible party offering to erect and equip here "a complete
mill of fifteen tons daily capacity with power sufficient for a *o-
ton mill for $16,000, payable 20 per cent cash when contract is
closed and the balance 10 per cent, per month until paid out
Then I will add the machinery at any time to increase the ca
pacity to thirty tons daily for $4,500: all to be new and first-
class machinery, buildings to be corrugated iron except the seed
house which will be wood. Storage capacity to be 200 tons of
seed." Mr. Cage says this is a fair proposition and a feasible
project. He proposes to lead in this enterprise, and his first
proposition is to form a joint stock company and go for an
abundant supply of water. This obtained, he says the oil mill
is assured, and then will come other factories. Now let others
follow Mr. Cage and Stephenville starts on the high road to
prosperity. . '
The county officers have unanimously accepted the invitation
of Col. Hunter to visit Thurber at an early date and enjoy hi«
unbounded hospitality and to behold the wonderful development
his big brain is working out among the rocky hills of northern
Erath. What they will see will be a veritable revelation to all
who have not been there. The fact is, it is worth a thousand-
mile trip and all expense money for anyone to inspect and study
all that is visible on.top and under the ground at Thurber. and
every man in Erath county ought to take his family to see it.
It would be worth a thousand circuses to the boys and girls and
would make the growling papas and complaining mammas re-
joice that they live in Erath, where there has been created at
their doors a cash demand for everything their hands can gather
from yard, garden, orchard, field or lorest. Observer
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 2, Number 13, April 13, 1895, newspaper, April 13, 1895; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200507/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.