The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 8, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 5, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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r&BK UIABTS, rHXK MINDS, PREB PEOPLE, AUK THE MATHIlIAb, AND THE ONLY MATERIAL, OUT OF WHICH FREE GOVERNMENT* ARE CONSTQOCTI D. — JEFFKRHON.
VOLI Mi; 57.
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J. R. PFEIFFER,
Professional Cards. HEMS OF INTEREST
DEALER IN
Yellow Pine Lumber,
;; Brick, Lime, Cement, Guttering,
and everything
necessary in the
building line.
Lawyers.
B. B. ORGAIN. W. E. MAYNARD.
OROAIN a maynard,
Attorneys at Law,
Bastrop, Tela*.
Will practice la all the b.ghor and
Inferior courts.
A share of the
patronage of the
peopl e of Bastrop
and county is cor-
4$ dially solicited.
Contractor and Builder. For orders call
Develops your Plans. and see ma.
J. R PFEIFFER.
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Bastrop, Texas.
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OF BASTROP, TEXAS.
Cupital. 0,000.00. Surplus, $lo,ooo.oo.
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J. 8. JONKS,
Attorney at Law,
Bastrop, Tei«s,
Will practice id all the higher aful
Inferior court#.
Attorney at Law,
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ii. i> ORUAIN, I'restdent. a. mi CORD, Vic President.
CH. STICK K k II VHP. Cashier.
ii. p. i.uckrtt, W. m. Hu oi«i.-. a. C. Erhard, n. j. Ilnstcr.
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"0 Only complete Bet of Abstract BooLs
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CAPITAL. SV ■ PLUS, INDIVIDUAL « K R PON SI hi LIT Y
Ofllie ClOfkli or* mul conservative in mageim-m «tc the
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Organized, developed nnd conducted iilorig nrogresHive
lines. Governed by the name principle. With twenty
ye rs sucie-islul business record, with ample capiial, with
every lactlity to properly care for all business entrusted to
it, and operated along conservate lines, it expects to con-
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H. R. LUCKETT,
Physician and Surgeon,
Bastrop, Texas.
Ofhick W. J. Miley'i Drug Store.
Phonk 24.
Of Bastrop, Texas.
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H. B. COMBS,
Physician and Surpeon,
Bastrop, Texr. .
OFFICB—C. Erhard St Son's drug si?lre
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The Powell Oil Mill Co.
will pay the Highest Price
in cash, give you Honest
Weights, and buy at any
time, winter or summer,
Your Cotton Seed
Regular meet-
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urday night in
each month.
Visiting breth-
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cited to attend.
Pat-l D. Paor, W. M.
A. C. Ekharp, Secretary.
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Seed Ouly.
everything for the
Cash Only.
8 Bastrop Chapter, No. 95,
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GRANITE and MARBLE MONUMENTS
HEAD STONES and IRON FENCING
Fifteen years of continuous service in the
Monument Business, together with my will-
ingness to deal tairly with all makes it safe
in buying your cemetery work from me.
Good Work, Right Prices and Courteous
Dealings is my idea of business. I guaran-
ee my work and prices to please you.
Try vo ir next order writh me.
H. C. Griffin
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P. C. MAYNARD. C. C.
R. J. WARREN. Clerk.
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Guide
The firms whose names are ^pre-
sented In our advertising columns
are worthy ot the confidence of every
person in the community who has
money to spend The fact that they
advertise stamps them as enterpris-
ing. progressive men of business, a
credit to our town, and deserving of
support. Our advertising columns
comprise a Buyers' Guide to fair
dealing, good goods, honest pikces.
NEWS THAT IS NEWS, WHEN IT 13
NEWS. FOR ALL.
DOINGS OF DAY AND WEEK
J. P. FOWLER. J. P. FOWLER, JR.
FOWLER & FOWLER,
Attorneys at Law,
Bank Building, Baatrop, Texas.
Will praotic* In all ttia higher sod
Inferior oourta.
PAUL D. PAGE. J. H. MILEY.
Page a miley,
Attorneys at Law,
Erhard Building, Baatrop, Texaa.
Will practice In all tfte courts. Com-
plete Abstraota of Land Titl«a of Baa*
trop oounty. Abstract business solio-
lieJ.
Happenings the Wide World Over of
Important Events Condensed to
Good Reading.
WASHINGTON.
Tli^ monthly atntcinent of tho public
debt shows that at the close of liusi
noss May ;il. 19011, the debt, less cash
in the treasury, amounted to JI.OIIO,-
12'J, Bin, which is an increase for the
month of $1,215,951).
The treasury deficit for the month
of Alii j is shi.wu by Tuesday s siaii>-
iiii at to have been $5,453.955 and for
the eleven months of the current fis-
cal >.iu a d* licit of *97,959,102 is indi-
S cati.'d. The available cash was fllh,-
979,701 and the working balance was
$40,329,imhi. Thi total receipts for May
were $r.:i 332.310 and tho disburse-
ments .%S,7J G,2«5.
Early in the day, Saturday, In spite
of protests voiced by Senators Iiever-
ldgo and Hoot, the duty of barley was
Increased from 25c a bushel, as pro-
posed liy the house, to 30c a bushel, as
recommended by the committee on
Iliiani ■ The tax on hops was ad-
vanced. The house had made the du-
ty 12<. while the committee on finance
had advanced it to 15c. .Saturday the
conimittie brought in an additional
amendment making the rate 20c. The
duty on potatoes was made 45c a bush-
el lustead of 25c, and oysters in the
shell was advanced from 3-4c a pound
to 25 per cent ail valorem, on motion
of Senator Piles, who has the Indus-
try In Washington to protect against
Canadian runners. That there should
be a duty of 20c cn raw cotton for
revenue was advocated by Senator Ba-
con, who stated that from tills source
would be derived $4,oou,000 annually
if his amendment should be adopted.
Progress on the tariff bill is being
made steadily In tweeu speeches, and
while the leaders are unable to pre-
dict tin end. they feel that the ihuo
for the final vote is gradually ap-
proaching and they now predict that
the work will be disposed of in time
to p< unit congress to dually adjourn
early In Juiy.
Senator Aldrlch succeeded Friday In
gi ttinn action by the s> nate on tli - re-
mainder of the sugar schedules with
the understanding that the paragraph
fixing a duty on raw and refined su-
gar should be placed ngui'i in the bill
until Senator Clay's health should so
improve us to permit of his taking ad-
vantage of an opportunity at a later
date to move an amendment cutting
tie figures in two. The tobacco sched-
ule was also completed No changes
wue made lu the finance committee
rates in either schedule.
The Wright brothers will arrive lu
Washington on June 10, when Presi
dent Taft will present, them with the
gold medals obtained through public
subscription by the aeronauts of Amer-
ica.
STATE AND DOMESTIC.
Four masked highwaymen held up
a c rowd of thirty merrymakers at Tav-
ern, a resort at Petersburg, ten miles
from Denver, Tuesday night, and make
aw.iv with more than $:i,000 worth of
diamonds and $2,01)0 in cash. They (>«•
capiil on horseback.
(ii-orge Baglln, vice president <>f the
I'niieil Copper Company, was taken
to I lie Tombs prison In New York
Tuesday nnd must remain there under
filler (if Judge Laeombe of tin Culled
Stati .v District Court unless the tniss-
h:g books of the company which con-
tain the evidence u|h>ii which the fed-
eral district attorney si < ks to convict
F. Augusius Heiu/.e art* produced.
t'lish wheat again established a new-
high record In St. I-ouls. No. 2 red
cash reaching $1 o2 Records for fifty
years back fail to t • v ♦ a I as high a rec-
ord price. Receipts -continue light
nnd flour milling concerns are beccm
lng hampered for supplies.
From Texas to China and Japan via
T"x:i8 City, the Gulf of .Mexico, across
Mexico via rail and theiie to the Ori-
ent via fast steamers is a route which
wis inaugurated Wednesday, with the
■-ailing of the steamship City of Mex-
ico from the port of Texas City. This
trip, which was undertaken by a num-
ber of cabin passengers, and with a
large line of export shipments will be
the firs' one of its kind, and will be
th« opening date of what, is expected
to bi i erne an important part of the
shipping Industries of the siute,
A party from the Matnou oil fields,
teat Ksfherwood. La. reports the
Crowley Oil company bringing In a
fi.ooo barrel guthcr this week, with a
fine grade of ill and unite a distance
from any other oil well whli h materi-
ally ndds to the wealth of their vulu
able holdings aid Held. Indications
are that the oil Weld will very soon
be a proven held at least one-half mile
to I he southeast.
In llodgeiivlile, Ky not far from de
marking line of combat In the Civil
War, there was unveiled Monday a
statute of Abraham Lincoln. Standing
In the public square as au inspiration
to the emancipate ~'s home people, Its
face points the way to tlo Lincoln
farm, scarce three miles out, to the
thousands of loyal Americans who are
yet to do homage to the scenes of tit*
birth.
Ex-Gov. Crittenden, aged 77 years, a
noted Mlssourian. died at his home in
Kansas City, Mo., Saturday. Ilo suf-
fered a stroke of apoplexy Thursday
afternoon and remained uticonsclous
until he died.
The Texas Press Association ad-
journed lis thirtieth annual conven-
tion at Martin Texas, Saturday, at
high noon, departing two hours later
in a body for the metropolis of Mc-
Lennan. It was a fiesta at Marlin
which lasted three days and two
nights, making the clock look foolish
and astonishing the Falls county
roosters. Stamford, Texas, won the
1910 meeting.
Thret registered mnil packages were
discovered in an empty egg case that
was returned to a merchant in Schu-
lenberg, Texas, on the train from tho
west Friday. One of the packages was
from Nogales, Ariz , and contained a
letter for Honduras, one from Crifton,
i Ariz., and contained a letter for Cuba,
and one from Alatnogorda, N. M., and
contained a letter for Timpson, Tex.
All the letters had been opened and
their contents extracted except the one
for Cuba, in which was left a postal
money order for $9.
Battling Nelson of Illinois knocked
out Dick Hyland of California Satur-
day night In San Francisco in the
'twenty-third round of a scheduled for-
ty five round bout. The contest was
one of the most vicious ever seen. Tho
light was fairly even up to tho thir-
teenth round, after which Nelson took
the lead. 11y 1 and was knocked out by
a left honk to tin tomach after he
had been lloored .oral times ill the
two preceding rounds.
Two interesting spectacles In the
astronomical world will occur during
the coming month. These events will
lie eclipses of the moon and si.n. the
former on June and the latter on
June 17. The moon will rise totally
eclipsed and lis totality will last about
an hour, while the sun will only be
lu totality near the North Pole.
The appropriation bill of the Thirty-
first, legislature of Texas carried $11,-
531.085, and Governor Campbell Friday
approved same after vetoing items
amounting to $2,251,471 19 In a twenty-
page written message to the secretrry
of state, making tlie bill, as passed,
total $7,954,915.45.
The Cnltod States Department of Ag-
riculture has solved the problem of
growing the Smyrna fig In Fresno
county, California, by Importing from
Smyrna the peculiar kind of wasp that
fructifies the lig.
The terrific and terrible cyclone that
swept through the business and resi-
dence section <if Zephyr, Texas. Sun
day night about 12 o'clock carried
death and destruction almost Incon-
ceivable in its path. Most of the
business houses in the town were eith-
er entirely swept out, were burned or
were wrt eked. Lightning struck the
stone building of the Zephyr Mercan-
tile company, which burned to the
ground, together with the lumber yard
and the office of the Zephyr Mirror.
About thirty-five or forty residences
were wiped completely off the earth,
not even the foundations being left.
Dozens of others were almost com-
pletely ruined. The line stone school
building and the Methodist and Bap-
tist churehes wen totally destroyed.
Crowds of the curious stand daily
before lliibeln's portrait of Christina,
duchess of Milan, in the National Gal
lory, London, wondering how soon It
will fto to America, which Is now re
garded ns the ultimate destination.
The period of the option for Its pur
i base by the nation expired Tuesday,
but the promised sMbsei Iptions are not
near tlo purchase price, which is fixed
at $50,000.
King Alfonso, while playing polo in
Madrid Tuesday, fell from his horse
lie sufT 'red a severe sprain of the an
kle.
Tho bill providing for the reorganl*
atlon of the Spanish service was adopt-
ed by the Chamebr of Deputies Mon-
day In Madrid, This reorganization
Involves an expenditure of $2,000,
which will he devoted to Improving the
primal, telegraph, cable and long dls
lance telephone uervloe. The bill pro
vldes for cheaper postal rates, a par-
cels post and a money order •ysteui
and a postal savings bank system.
Jean Nnndln, a workman earning
about a dollar a day at the Toulon
arsenal, in Paris, France, has invented
what is said to be a vastly improved
s aparatus, which ts now ne-
sted at the ministry of marine
a view of its adoption by the
The original apparatus was con-
ed principally out of old < nns.
1 la rllis, dlscaided bottles and
other articles which Naudln
to be within his means
Wireb
lng ti
with
fleet.
struct
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various
found
Naudln has already other Inventions
to his credit, Including n method of
phot* graphing wireless Mspa ches.
ITALIAN COLONIES IN TEXAS
ONE NEAR PALESTINE AND OTH-
ER NEAR KEECHIE, TEX.
Scheme Is Financed by Italian Resi-
dents of This Country and sev-
eral in the Old Country.
New York.—Two localities In Tex-
as are to be the scenes of a new plan
In colonization. An Italian syndicate
will establish In the middle part of
Vhe utate itwii agricultural colonies
each comiHised of one hundred families
or about one thousand in all, brought
directly from the agricultural districts
of Northern Italy The entire scheme
calls for the expenditure of about $1,
000,000. One-third of the amount has
been subscribed by Texas capitalists,
headed by Capt Nh-olinl, Italian con-
sular agent at Galveston. The bal-
ance has been furnished by a syndicate
organized Inst winter at Milan and
presided over by l.ulgl Luzzaltl, for-
mer minister of finance In the Italian
cabinet. The scheme calls for the es-
tablishment by the Italian Steamship
company of a direct Hue between the
Mediterranean ports and Galveston.
The idea of colonizing the Italian 1m-
; migrants In the agricultural district*
of the South dates back to the time the
Italian ambassador. Slgnor de.s Pian-
ches, made a tour of I/Oiiislana and
Texas and was favorably Impressed by
the prosperity of the several Italian
agricultural settlements already exist-
ing In those two states.
A commission which has recently re-
turned from Texas has confirmed an
option of 02,000 acres of land. 25,000
of which Is near Keechie and the oth-
er 37,000 on the Trinity river near
Palestine.
Corn and Cotton Fine.
Travis, Tex. By far the finest rains
tve have had for a year have fallen
for the past two days, and the pros-
pects for an abundant yield of both
corn and cotton are the best we have
known for years. There Is practically
a perfect stand in all the country for
a radius of twenty five miles, and coin
Is In full silk and tassel. The oats
crop I* very short, though it Is thought
that the millet and snrghivm crops
will more than make up for the short-
age.
Farmers Up With Work,
Paige, Tex A good rain fell over
this country Wednesday, leaving tho
farming Interest, in line shape. The
outlook for the general crops Is very
good at present. Most of the farmers
are up "with their work, as we have
not had any too much rain to hinder
the .hoppers. We have not yet had
any real soaking rain to give stock
water, or enough for the growing crops.
Inspecting Nacogdoches Tobacco.
Nacogdoches. Tex. Otto Olsen, to-
bacco man for the government for
Texas, Is In Nacogdoches, and will
make an Inspection of the county
for the purpose of looking over the
tobacco crop. W. M. llinson of Wash-
ington, at the head of the bureau, will
be here the latter part of tne week
to confer with the association in refer-
ence to the recent apv -ipriatlon of
$2000 by the State fer n.\peiimetital
work and demonstration work In thij
county.
Leon River Raging.
Temple, Tex -As a result of heavy
rains during the past forty eight hours,
a 10-foot rise has occurred In the Leon
river, which is now a raging torrent.
Unless rain continues, however, no
fear Is entertained that the river will
repent Its p< tformauce of a year ago
and overflow the surrounding couiv
try.
Pros Win in Leon.
Oakwood, Tex In the Oakw-ood pre-
Mriet election Wednesday prohibition
won by a majority of 19.
Tobacco Barns Damaged.
Nacogdoches, Tex Reports re-
i elved Wednesday from the storm of
Tuesday state that a number of houses
and barns throughout the country were
blown eff their blocks or entirely de-
molished. Four or five big tobacco
barns were blown to pieces, one of
them i he largest ard most expensive
In the country Crops are hurt in
some stctlons, but others are not in-
jured.
Blackberries, Figs, Etc.
I.lvctpool, Tex Strawberries are
about all gone, but blackberries are
now ripening to tnke their place After
these are gone we will have tigs,
peaches nnd pears. Great Is the coa^t
ountry foi a dlvrslty of crops On
one acre of land there are now grow-
ing fourteen diff> rent varieties of veg-
etables.
Prospects Good.
Gormantown, Te* Rains are fall-
ing dally Early corn will make a good
yield Late corn looks vigorous and
is t issi ling Most of tfiu cotton U
chopped out.
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