The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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THE ALTO HERALD
T. M. McCLURE, Proprietor.
alto.
TKXAN
TEN PERSONS ARE DEAD
ANOTHER HOTEL FIRE ADDS A
NEW HORROR.
THE NIGHT CLERK SAVES MANY
A fine fillers >
Marcos Imtc-licrv «
State Fair.
\ 11iI>it from Sail
11 I" made al tin;
I lie amount >il
in pursi-s al lli<'
will
in-
about
111111 u - \
> t a 1 (• I
ftrd i.i Kid.
10
air
ii- offered
this year
Klaborate preparations arc going
on ct Mineral . lis fur tin- Stat'-
('(invention III' tin- I'aglcs, Will) lliect
there oil the ■) lib in-taut.
(!. O. I >avis nf the southeastern
part of Denton oCunlv. last \m- k
liouglit an 800-aeiv ranch in Cray
Connlv, ] la s i ii ii if.V.'.ooo fur tin- triu-l
complete.
Stainforil is an active eamliilale
for the 1 ;•()!> (-(invention of the Texas
Press Association, ami will have a
delegation al the Mineral
meeting this nionth.
Interior Was Dry an Tinder and No
Power Could Have Saved
Building.
Tori Wayne, I ml.. May I.—Tel
known to he dciiil, manv missing and
thirteen seri<>11sI\ injured. is llie re-
sult of ii fire that destroyed tlx- new
Aveline Hotel, l-'ori Waun'- princi-
pal hotel, ill an early hour xestcrdny
morning. Chief of Police Anccit-
lirnch said yesterday afternoon hi
In lieved twontx bodies Here sliil ill
tin ruins. The entire interior of the
hailding i.- a siunnldering heap ol
rains, and how many dead there are
concealed I• \ the dehris can onlv be
ON CENTURY'S VERGc.
A Dallas County Pioneer Pis' i
Through the Shad a
Dallas, May 2.
Welly. aged ! ll m
niontlis. dii'd yestei-i
ii o'clock at the liniiii
t<-r, Mrs. Miles Ilop i
mile south of <>ak i
Few women in tlx I
enjoyed the same
Mrs. Neelly. She i
minute of her long
the fact that she ca
parents and endured
and trials of the I'r-
s.-| f. g}ie was prolmlil\ i
' ('onfederate mother
and was revered and
ex cry old soldier in I1 1
She w:is the mother
lw 11 of whom fought alio • v
iii.lt lIn- gray, leavin:
spring who returned
war alive. I le is cx-(
sinner Neelly, well k11• • - n :i 1 in!\
politics, and a grand fa: -r liim ••!!.
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SUMMARY UF THE WEEK
RESUME OF THE MOST IMPOR-
TANT NEWS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
( l-
in.
if
cnt
struggling
street car
.1. I
conjeet ll red.
was consumed
are no accural
I lie lot
In the lir
mean
ol
register
and there
deterniir-
and
For last week tin' cattle receipts j
al Fort Worth were ahout lo.ooo |
head in excess of tin- run for the cor- '
responding week a year ago, and j
more than Hi.ooo of a week ago.
The Dcnisrui deinonstration dairy
farm, estahlisheil co-operatively h\
the dairy di\ i.-ion of the 1 nited
States Department of Agriculture
and the Ti va- Agricultural College,
is now in full progress.
After a pastorate covering ahout
three years, Hcv. .1. Prank Norris
resigned Snnda\ morning at the Mc-
Kinncv Avenue Ihiptist Church. Dal-
las. I)r. (leoi'gc l\utier ol liryan
has been called to the pastorate.
In the primary election in Hop-
kins o('lint\ Saturday, in which the
names of Clyde Swceton and ('. O.
.lames were submitted a- candidates
for District Attorney. Swecton won
out by a plurality of 1 '-8 in that
county.
Special Onicer I.. II. Dillard of
the Texas and l'acitic recovered tilt\ -
one pairs of trousers and twenty-sev-
en pairs of fine shoes at Fort Worth
Sunday afternoon, which had been
stolen from a car iu the yards at
that place.
From the tax rolls of limi there
was collected for the city of I till las
the sum of $S.')S,SS I 07, a pero ntugo
of t) 1.35. In addition to this there
was collection of occupation taxes,
delinquencies and bonuses that made
the total receipts of the ofliee for the
■year $981.1.V).St).
The Texas Division of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy have
scholarship in the State
to stimulate interest in
of United States history
ly Southern 11 istory. The
carry with it an
$;t(Hi
\\ ells j M )io is mis-1n
The lire was discovered at 11:30
o'clock in the morning in the eleva-
tor shaft by Night Clerk Kalpli Pip-
kins. lie rushed to the upper Hours,
alarming the guests until the flames,
which had spread with appalling rap-
idity. drove him hack. His ell'orts.
however, saved many lives. The ho-
tel was erected half a century ago,
and the woodwork was dr\ as tinder.
It burned like matchwood and with-
in it few minutes after the lime the
(ire was discovered the whole interior
of the hotel was a mass of flames that
filled the corridors and rooms with
suffocating clouds of smoke and laid ,
fiery harriers across all means of es- j '"'ft
cape, save by the w indows.
The lire department rescued many
by means of ladders, bill some, fren-
zied by the onward rush of tin
flames, looped from high windows to
flie paved st reet.
Mistaken for Burglar
Kaufman : Bud Duin
most prominent farun!
man ('ounty, was slu t n.:
injured Wednesday ii : t
home near Daugheri - M
left home to be
and got Henry Pursfn!
his family for the tii-'ht
the night Mr. IMiik .m
home, and Mr. PurslH
al the barn and. think in
burglar, fired at him u
gun, the load taking elf
Duncan's face.
Shot.
ill of ill!'
f Kauf-
-ci ioiisly
at his
I liincan
gone for lli' night.
?-lin with
Late in
ri turned
card him
! ■ was a
i a shot-
t in Mr.
A Carefully Digested and Conden cd
Computation of Current Nsws
Domestic a-i(J Poreige.
'! lb ii
and harbor- v I. • . " 1 '
Texas carlv in -Iin .
The name ol tia i.-'w
to be tin Mate C a,ill " I • Hi. I ■
■fudge (ii*.i-, i'11 av 1
i lat'i d that under no > ir< uuistan •
will lie he a i andidat- fi
< ratie nomination for P
receipts til
mkiin, the leading hog
n in,', is planting peu-
fatteiiing hogs,
i |; . | Sanderson, one of
in printers in North
ii Kill a* Monday.
• ,1 r pts of the I>.i1 hn
f..r April are $41,83I.M,
IV..'— 'i, f during the satno
v jr. .Hid is an im roasc
11,
. "it.
•\IIS.
Ill
■aw 11
ill)
narv < i• neral,
P.iulnpest Sat-
at ire
has .
■ •nt sum
tli. 1 ii-mo-
■ Itli lit.
law of 1 he
tiring the
led to the
<,")()( i,-
e t n tin\
•cm-ill.
1II I lent(
1111111.
Ill I a
rat-.
a s .oft xisit
l\
Fortune of a "Disappeared ' Man.
Pioston, Mas^: At-
half a
to II
million dollai wa-
Ilarvard stu \\ am
S. Whit well, who str,,n
jieared from his shidie-
ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS.
Session Is Likely to Drag Through
ago and from Waco, T
bad been traced, was i
Probate Court in be!
brothers, who seek to ■ 1 i\
tiite, beliex ing the missim.
111 - a p-
\e y.ai'S
A here 111
i iii thi-
ol two
I ile I'-
ll (lead.
('utlcr Whit well of Cat.: 1...1 and
Sturgis \\ hit well of An/ tin;
brothers.
founded a
1'niversity
and study
and especially
scholarship w
annual ineonu
A little child of Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Chamlev, living in the Neola cnin-
ts Likely to Drag
to End of May.
\\ a.-hiiiglon. May I. I lie date ol We||s Fargo Co Lose $03.000.
the probable adjourniiient ol Coii-
fl;rc-s, mount ly prrilieteil for Mav 111. hiircdo, I ■ -s. . Im- VN < - I Ill-go
lias now been set by political prog- l'.xpress ( (iinpany lias reported t
nost icators for Mav '.'H. w hile shrewd 'I"' anthoriI ie.— of lorn-on. Mexico.
Congressional habitues put it into Ihe loss of $ti.'f.0(Kl Mexican im nil \
the last wcek of the niontIi. Certiiin- which they claim was taken from a
1\ there sei'ins enough work to la-f through safe on their ( itx ol Mi x
until the end of the month. ho train. The money was consigned
I'o date only two of the fourteen one ol the batiks of ( hihuahuii.
general appropriation bills have be- ! So far two arrests have been made
eonie laws -the Indian and urgent lorreon. although it i- not be-
defieieiu \ lulls. Five oilier import- i I"'-ved by the ollicials here that the
ant measures have not vet beet. > men who were arrested in I orreon
passed by the Senate, xi/. : The ]iosl- have the money.
ofliee, agricultural, sundry civil, inil-
itar\ academy and the genera! dcli-
cieiii-y appropriation bills. The last
I lie gr
Till r'I iet ll L' l'
past -:x Ii<<>111h
Stale the iiiagn
(Kid.
(leorge W. Peek, tl
tw ice (iovernor "f \\ i
leader among Wi • ■ u -
arrived in Texas for
Saturday.
One fireman was fata'Iv injure-
j and three others seriously hurt 1«
1 the explosion of the heating plant of
the engine house of tin New Haven
I lire station.
Ifticlielors and o'.d m.i •' are not
qualified to serve as Suiul. \ S.-hwil
] teachers, in the opini
i Park of \sbun M.
attic. Wash.
News liiis been re.
! west coast of a re«
j break in Peru. Tb
i snid to have started
('liosi. a, ii- ar Lima.
11. .1. (tw ens, t In i w
agent for the Mis-uiri
; atiiinuneed that the M
' would put mi four traveling freight
agents in Texas, or two additional
j men in that terrilon.
Fnir Italian laborers were killed
.'Hid three probably fx tally injuroJ
n \ltoona. Pa.. Saturday when a
-i wi r ditch in which tliev were work-
ing collapsed, burying the men un-
der six feet of earth.
thousand
ai
of lfey. Win.
t 'huri It. Se-
- d from the
itioiiary out-
inovi ment is
the town of
• 'iniiiereial
I'll. tie. has
• ri Pacific
s i x t x
1, ■ 111:; i 11
t "at hi
>1 le
tlirei
I lollSe.
iiiye not even passed t In-
Negro Runs Wild
Shreveport. La.: After a t'ifling
dispute Sunday morning Charles
McHiiniels, a negro, shot and killed
(ieorge Maylield, another negro, and
was later shot to death b\ a posse.
After killing Max
Mel hlllit
cyclone sufferers in the South wa~
]iassod without opposition Saturday.
nuinify, Hunt County, was |ihi_viii;_r j armed with a shotgun and revolver,
in the house where some poison had I snapped the revolver at his sister,
been prepared to kill flies and had j tried to shoot into a passenger train,
been placed on the table, I lie child ' mid snapped the weapon several
found flu- poison and drank if. d\-j times in unsuccessful attempts to
ing from the effects about p o'clock i shoot members of the officer's party
Saturday night.
The flulf Pipe Line Company and V 1,511 appropriating for
the Sun Company have posted a
cent reduction in price of crude oil
in all fields in the iieaumont terri-
tory. The new and old scale of
prices follow: Spindletop, new, til;
old, (id; Sour Lake, new, (>•!; old
titi; Humble, new. i I : old, (i(i; Sar-
atoga, new, (i.'i; old,Go; liaison, new.
60; old, (i cents.
In a tryout on llie Taylor race
track at Taylor Sat unlay. Fr Noble.
the two-year-old stallion owned le
Trainer L. Nelson, broke the track
record for two-year-olds, being driv-
en a half mile by Mr. Nelson in I :lo.
Unknown parties entered the
stores of II. V. Haggard, druggist,
and .L W. Hollow ay. general mer-
chandise, at Hatlvillc. one night lasi
week. About $•'!(• worth of jewelry
and other articles of b -s value were
taken.
Lady Slrongwood, the beautiful
high bred racing mare owned by Dr.
William liobliic. President of tb-
Texas Haschall I/e;igue, wns killed
South Carolina Hanqs Three.
Columbia, S. C.: Ned and Tad
Toland, two young negroes, who
murdered Mrs Paul Flisor, an aged
white woman, at t ayc-e, Lexington
County, two liioiiths ago, were
hanged at the Lexington jail Friday,
(iiiddy (iraliitm. a in rgo, aged about
years, was hangi d al Darliiiu'ton
for the murder of l-'tirman Moody, a
white man, the manager of a planta-
tion in I>arli11 t•'11 County, on No-
vember IS, I!K17.'
for divorce
' ph It.
-man.
I here is a rep i t i urrent in finan-
cial circles, (Miianating from the of-
fices of the Kipiit.ible Life Assuran----
Society, thai former President (Jro-
xcr Cli'M'liind is a sufferer from can-
cer of the stomach, and his ease
has been pronounced hopeless bv stie-
eialists.
Gompers Talks Political Independence.
Chicago, 111.: In a plea to the
wage-earners of the city to cast off
the yoke of party denomination and
assert their political independence,
Samuel (Jumpers. President of the
American Federation of Labor,
opened organize labor's campaign in
a mass meeting in the International
Theater Sunday afternoon. Fifteen
hundred men and women filled the
theater and vigorously applauded the
labor chief.
Found His Mother Dead in Bed.
Rraimin. (>k.: Mrs. Fllen Hand.
Horrible Death of Brakeman.
Nacogdoches: I lost-a I* van. age-1
1!' years, was killed Friday while
coupling ears on tin 11 ay ward Lum-
ber Company's tram at Hampton*
front. The ears were loaded with
logs ami as the \oting mini stepped
between the cars to couple them up
his head was caught between the
ends of two logs, eriishing his skull.
He fell dead across the rails an
both legs and hi- right arm wci-'j
severed from his ho l\.
• laymen inarching iu procc-sion >.:t-
j unlay brought to a climax and for-
I inally i lo.sed the xveck-long eelebra-
j tion of the c( ntciinan of tin lionian
( at hoi a- tliocese of New York.
The tow n of Antipelo, iu the prov-
j itice of Moreng. P. I., bus he n pnu -
ti in 11 %' destroyed by lire. Four hun-
dred houses were burned and hun-
dreds of people rendered horncli.--.
I hi- lire was cause.| b\ lightning,
Antipolo i- ii town of 3500 inhabit-
ants.
Angered by an a,
started by his w
j Blount, a liipior -ah
I tin home of Mrs. I
j Creek. Mich., where
| with lu r children,
j wi le'- father and
M I s. I lolller .lillll -.
I he hod\ of 1 >oniin t irtino, a
I voting It. i an. was found in a strict
of Seattle with a bullet hole
thiough his heart and 1: - clothing
badly torn. The police believe he
Wore a money belt around In- waist
and this was what was cut away from
him bx his assailants.
I' I'iday night tin inc.it mar'- et ..f
«T. P. Pearson and the Mahank Ci
ior ollito were bunwV
loss was about ^I'.'oo, and tia (
ier loss was about Sc.'tinii, |'\
I Iiomi.s wen lo-: 1,V the ( nil j, r
1 tw Intersta'i t', ninii-ri « c,,n
broke into
1'oiint at Hat tie
she was living
and killed his
mother, Mr. and
sod to he from
killed by In ing
g carriage of a
Thompson, '>k.,
iv last Wick.
famous ri volutii
(n Turr, died in
||, ,li. ,i t i.itihaldian veter-
i I at one time a confidential
dviscr of liouia Konsuth,
Jimmie Jonos, aged six years, shut
: | . i.ii . , 11 led Marx Ccrboth,
• . I f -i:. at .Ii nk-. twelve miles
-out! d Tulsa. Ok.. The tragedy oc-
iii aft' r a ijtiarrel about an hour
before.
TI ie plant and creamery at
Mel ■ i d. i ll. . has bei ii sold to Jacob
II, r-e\ Tin new niaiiagenient will
iiMnediaielv put the plant in lirst-
(las- i ndition and commence its op-
era! ion.
T. I >inkins of 11, nton County,
aged !7 years, died last week at tho
Pa-:eur Inst it nt* in Austin. This is
the four!Ii death to occur at the
institute -nice it- establishment four
xi-iirs ago.
Will St ■ id ■ , of Spring Valley,
ok., township had the misfortune to
lo.. a fine span of mules Saturday
while crossing Stillwater Creek* ono
mile and a i|iiiirter south of tho
school house.
Sidney Hatch of ("Imago won the
Marathon race Saturday, w'lin Joe
p..lit !iaw of the Missouri Athletic
Club second. Hatch's time was
s : i'iiI. The raci was from Frce-
ll urg, 111., to St. Louis.
An early morning tin in a four-
storx brick tenement at No. 17
Humboldt Street.n thickly populat-
ed district of lirooklvn. N. Y., caused
the death of six persons and the se-
rious injury of four others,
(tovernors of the various Stales
and Territories will hold an import-
ant conference with President Hoosc-
Velt at the W hite House Mav lit, 11
and I.'i upon the subject of "Con-
servation of Natural Hc-sourccs.''
I liree of the star graduates of
last year's class at the I nited States
Military Academy, who were as-
signed to the corps of engineers, have
been ordered to proceed to the I st li-
nn i - of Panama and n port for duty.
111.fus Chappell, proprietor of the
Lakeview farm, near Newkirk, Ok.,
i- the possessor of a six-legged lamb.
'I he lamb has four hind legs, all
• en I \ tle\eh ipc| and of eipial size.
I lie little animal is perfectly formed
and in the be-t of health.
I he tram ng cruiser Matsushima
wa- sunk off the Pescadores Islands
on of a projectile. Tho
cruisers Itauknabima and Hayashi-
diite ri -ei. | al - ut thirty of the
ei'i W. It 1- feared that over 200,
iiii liiding the ■ ipiain, are lost.
lie i < •" i; i: 11:11 ■ on resolutions of
' oiitie,:a j Democratic State
1 ftixi in am refused io adopt a piat-
(orm to place tin ■ nvention on rcc-
"d in favor of Hryan and also re-
■ s. i| I,, a, i-.• jij iew11 ntion express*
''intidciice in \lr Brvan's leuder-
' P-
run.
forts Monday morning are to
' ■ effect that Mi Cleveland ia im-
I"" and t - !, ipc| that he will
n th !
•ooll
able to gi t out.
'ion
ii' s.
kis
•xprt
Oklahoma Later Gets Radical.
("J lit brie. Ok.: A protest was
odged with State labor headquar-
ters here Pridm by twelve Hock Is-
land Kailwav enirilovrs. rcpn -< 111imr
mother of \\. M. Hand, who lives I
two and one-half miles south of
town, was found dead in her bed. Mr.
Hand had been to Salt I'ork, and j ,100 idle union shop nieii at Shawnee"",
when he returned home lie heard his i against the alleged action of the
babv daughter, who was sleeping j company in sending all locomotivrr
with with her grandmother, making ' to Moline, III., f.'r repairs. The
a noiee, and went into the room to j committee xvill also apiiear before
the opini' n that
I W ll nil til re. or four months, unk-s
a dt enlcd improvement in railway
conditions t a I ■ ■ p!ac-. it «,|l ,
ably be necc.—ar\ for ,-arrii-rs to , !-
|tber increase freight rat
tin Wiiiri - of their ciiipli,,i
T'-a.-kci eleven davs am
through aOO mil, ,
lentb s- pinsui-rs. .I,M. ,|,lM
g I o, pa I(| w ith his 11 fe 11
see what was the matter, lie called the legisl.
i me legislative coinmittee on rnil-
at Taylor Saturday by being impah 1 |lo his mother, and then discovered j roads and the State Corporation
on a picket fence she tried to Icau. slit was dead. j Commission*
■r rcdue
tile brutal j
I . A i i her, ,i
' 'anad an
growth mi tl
fro
-as-anit i'
.voting w!
statistics
e i \|) i| !i
I"
11
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- • m;
mud
PKU'i, I.
lights
IV re-
ii iii'.
t> for
ri rich
inter,
rapid
f mica
■ fiscal
•' «> I ** •
■i : in
po <n i.
l, and
. valtii 1
in l
at Si:.
Alter fa ing to prove his plea of
n-aii j \. L, hi Fitch pleaded guilty
;| tW( ■ aarge. of a-sault with in-
to I o and was given five years
in the penitentiary.
d' h of Imperial Primx*
Mi. in aro 1 iiiiashimaw was odicial-
anii.'iintcd Sunday. His lligh-
w i.o wns ;i', years of age, was a
1 aptain in the navy.
; P "i n"I iibout two and a
|',i"r !l •■ - long and from 80 to
I " •« w dth, lying immediately
' 1tn I rt Smith. Ark., on
' *"'• "• • • ome a snbjootat lit-
11 ' ' d terinine whether it be-
11 'ma or Arkansas.
; of the executive com-
1 hi( kasha, Ok., Com-
1 :!' it was agreed to raise
"i1 as ii contribution to-
' c i-t
urban
'In
i gait
lonus
At
tl
•f making a survey of
railroad from Cliick-
lu.-iKi tii Sulphur.
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