The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, October 2, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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THE ALTO HERALD
T. M. McCLUHE, Proprietor.
ALTO,
TEXAS
For Better Roads.
Many Americans; who live in or near
larso clii'':. would la aurpcined to hour
t Ktated that tin United States has
tin1 poon hi roails of any civilized
country in the world. XeverthcloKK,
liti' .statement i: declared by all who
have had opportunity lo leurn by
perienee lo lie unquestionably true,
when (Ik road' of I he whole country
are considered l.alelv there ban been
much criticism of the automobile as
being destructive of good roads. The
damage Is so great that in France the
government has I to re oil to take
up the matter, and is even now stv.dy
nig preventive plans. In the United
"States, however, il niliv be that the
automobile will yet prove a powerful
influence in better roads. The Ameri
can Automobile association lias re-
cently held a two days' good roads
convention iu Buffalo. at which pro
vision was made tor practical demon
titrations of the best methods of road
building and repairing, and for expert
ments looking toward the discovery of
a binding material for surfacing roads
which will not lie sucked out by the
pneumatic I ires There are signs, too,
says Youth's Companion, that the old
policy of throwing upon the towns the
burden of building t lie roads and keep
ing them in repair is to be superseded
by the more sensible plan of having
the state do it. The towns will, of
course, care for their own streets, but
the main highways should lie built and
cared lor by the state, as they are in
France, (Sermany and Switzerland
The national government has decided
io send the director of the department
of roads to the international good
roads convention which will open in
France in October, and at which tlie
problem of the automobile and the
roads will receive especial attention.
AMERICANS ARE WARNED NOT
TO ENTER OR SELL FIRE
ARMS TO YAUQUIS.
HORRIBLE CRIMES COMMITTED
One Bound and Left In Bed of Cacti
to Die—Fate of Two Pros-
pectors.
Iiisbce. Ark. Se|il. -.'It. I a|)t. II
('. \\ lieeler. a I nited Stale- runner.
slalioiieil at Noco, on tlu* Mexican
lionlet', nine utiles south < I this cily.
the government yesterday alleriioon
issued a wanting against any Amen-
can entering tin S'nipii < unitr\. in
the Stale of Sonera. Acting let' liov-
crnor Kiblvv ol Arizona. I ajil.
Wheeler also iu>■<I an ollieial warn-, —— —-
ing against selling of an,.- to any; Officers Secure Requisition
Y mi„ on the \inericaii -ide of the, \ustin: A. IV Lat.gford anil II.
border. Tliis warning is aceotnpaii- i M• Kntlington. ,h nil ami deputy,
ied In the threat to enforce the 1 "sjNvtively of Santa Clara County.
v«>rcst Federal penally on the gniltv. Cal., reached here I'i nlay and pro-
•nul( I'oe and t) Lcarv. the American j cured a warrant |m William lt.it-
proMpectot.-. were victims <>r Ya«|uis Hc-hl. now detained .it Sherman on
has been positively learned l,x Hanger'-uspicnm of being .lain.- Dunham,
Wheeler. For tin
I RAINS COLLIDE; IV UEAD.
During Snow Storm Passenger and
Freight Meet Head On.
Livingston, Mont.. Sept. '.''i Bur-
lington passenger ' am N<>. 1' . run-
ning on the North rn I'.icific trucks,
which left Livingston, enstbound. at
•*i:.M> this morning, met a west
hound freight train in a head-on col-
lision at Young's I' iit. siding about
utiles east of iien during a blind-
ing -now storm. !■">■ man Babo.k ol
th" passenger Irani and Hreiuan
Tom I'hillips of ight. both ol
I ivingston, and Head Brak man
Milo llawley i* Hi ug-. and nine-
teen pa.-sengers v\' e killed outright
and eleven other pes-enger- and two
engineers and tin mail clerks and
baggageman on the passenger train
are seriously injun I. Must ol the
. leven seriously injured Jitn I will
piohahlv die. The complete list of the
names of the passengers is unohlain-
ahlt at this time.
WAX A H AC HIE GIRL ATTACKED.
TEXfiS NEWS ITEMS
Itl
IS
nil
vuiliil ui
;l I I4)llt IS
the front
Bold Attempt at Criminal Assault
F rustrated.
W nxilhacllic. Sept. '.'s, \ daring
Attempt was made by a negro Satur-
day nighl to criminally assault a
young woman named Owens at the
home of her mother
part of Waxuhachie.
the 'attempted as-null
years old. \\ lie - (tin
p.ireh about S o\ i:> ,■ V. -be was atta k-
ed by a negro w ho seized her around I
the throat, then dragged her into the ;
back yard. In tie terrible struggb
that ensued I lie young woman'-'
chillies were lindlv torn by the negro.
Before the pitrpu- of the liend wa-
aeconiplished the -creams
tim brought the mother lo
whereupon the negro I led
ter was reported to ill
. live
liei |i
I j rand p t in I 1 or Bel ton
stock -how and street fair has
completed.
For she lirsl time in thir!v-si\
year.- the Kaufman county jail was
the ,-oulh | 'i inisdav night w ithout a prioonn.
The naval recruiting station at
lallas rhiirsdav -ecitred six en-
lislineiits making a total of ten for
k so
w
.'" i-ephi
ol M r. am
Worth dii
if his v ie-
he rescue.
Tlw mat •
itli<ers. hut
no nrn
woinan
and sh
lion of
-t has Vet been Iliad
was attacked Iroin
1 is unable :
her H-sailaii
a
ve a deset'l|
That readiness in an emergency
which made (be New Knglanders the
wonder of the world lias not been en
tirely lost in these latter days. A
Connecticut farmei Iiiih recently ex
liibited it. The iiiiui found four boyc
stealing his early apples, and gave
chase to them, lie was handicapped,
however, by the loss of a leg— tie left
it on the battlefield ill Antietain— and
had to get along with a wooden sub-
stitute. When he was about to reach
out and seize one of the running boys
by the shoulder his wooden leg went
down a hole iu tlie ground and broke
in two. The hoys stopped to jeer
hint; but he took a string from his
pocket and spliced the broken leg so
quickly that he was up again and at
ihem before they realized what bad
happened. He caught the boy he was
after, and the others surrendered.
There are several morals to this talc,
hut the most obvious one is that men
with wooden legs ought always to
fairy siring in their pockets to be
provided against accidents.
first time today
made public details of the horrible
of S. 11, Heilly. u Iloughis
inining man. who went into Sonora
two years ago. leallv wa- lound
bound hand and foot, with his anus
strapped tight to hi- liodv w
YiK|iii lariats, lying in
a bed of thorny Mexican cacti, hun-i'ni
tlreds of poisoned Cilel II- lie.'die- hav-
ing pierced his flesh.
Russia Opposes Project.
St. IV'tershnrg: Intimations from
Vianini that Austro-Hungary is pre-
paring to raise the question ol annex-
ation "1 the provinces of Bosnia ami
Herzegovina, which form an apen-
dag" to the Anstco-Hungarian mon-
archy. although nominally included
in the Turkish empire, have met
with the strongest disapproval in the li nen
Russian newspapers, li is learned
that the Russian government will ob-
ject to any effort to incorporate
these two provinces in the dual tnon-
urchv.
charged with having killed six per-
sons in Campbell. Cal.. on May
I Silt;, For twolve y ear- Dunham has
evaded the California detectives,
who have inaitc numberless excur-
sion- io various part- of tlie 1'nioii ' it and coniine
in pursuance of information thought j eclleiit gun it
Strange Case of Suicide.
McKilinev : Wold ha- reached here
of a seiisat iouul tdc n 'Mr 1' ay -
burg, iu this count". It seems thai
there was hicknoss in the family ol
Joe Montgomery, a v.• I known citi-
zen aged alamt iinriv years, and he
had summoned a pliv.-i an W bile
the physician was th re. it is stated.
Mr. Monlgoincn '.r iglil out a new
shotgun he had pur h.i- d, -bowing
e .on what an ex-
was. Suddcnlv he
the midst of I I" • -tiii.li-h te identity of tile
Cholera Losing Hold in Russia.
Si. Petersburg : The cholera epidm-
ic iii St. Petersburg, in the opinion
of experts, now has reached its max-
imum and henceforth the number
of new cases daily is expected to re-
main about stationary for a week or
ten days, and then gradually decline
under the influence of the cold
weather. Little progress has been
made iu cleaning the court yards of
•tits, the factory districts, the
ami other breeding places of
the disease, and favorable conditions
exi-t for a renewal of tlu: disease in
the spring.
fugi-| pointed the woap >u it In- head, and
before he cotlld io prevented, lire !
! the contents into h - head, living al-
most instantly.
Fatal Collision
Merlin : Twenty n
ed and tweiity-nim
as the result ol a
in Germany.
r- in- w yere kill-
ed i< ill sly injured
terriI i< collision
on the elevated railway in Berlin
Saturday. • Nim of th injured are
in a hopeless condii on. Two train-
traveling in the -.me In. tion on
two branches lead.ito the
rottil eaine together Hi the switch.
One of the driver- -took the sig-
nals. They were in." nig at a high
rale of speed at the time, and the
shock w as I renictulou-. Two couches
jot one train weie derailed and one
forereunners of mallards andjlntion passed by th
' of Macmaditk . in
questing merchants
Looks Like Good Huiitinq.
Fort Worth: With the cold -nap
t lioivands of (•.•el and small ducks,
tin
wild geese, began lo fly southward,
and during the last few day- pools
and streams in the xiciniiv of thi-
city have been visited by ninnerous
flocks of this species of game, which
paii.-ed only long enough to rest and
then continued their flight toward
the feeding grounds on the * • i - *
Coast and in the marshes and lice
Jields of Louisiana and Tc.xa.-.
ll'e.y,! h|ol.-e
ifTl tbiUV
i briui.uli
•ix 1eet
4 lie barriers
to the street
Asked Not to Buy Cotton.
Little
]&.. A : \ I .1^ Ht/|>'
meeting was hold in the court lion.-c uiio
hece Fciilay glowing out of the reso- below.
e Farmers' I nion
this county, re-
am! others to buy
no cotton on the streets, as a mean-
of suppressing a threatened visita-
tion of night riders. There is a
threatened outbreak of night rid-r-
in this countv and section and al-
ready they iiiv organizing for the j
purpose of controlling the marketing a"'11" ''"ids ol which is a
of c otton, I'gcr which has 1 operated for front
Drunk Men Fire on Church.
Ix uoxville, Tenn.: fine of the
aiodiest affairs in the history of
Last rcnnc--ce oeciirreii near the
Tenti'.ssei - Kentucky line north of
Anthrus postollice Sunday. The
scene was a little Baptist church
s of
r which has
Joseph Linz Is Dead.
as : .loseph Linz. founder of |
tiie linn of Joseph Linz Brothers, of
this city, and until one year and
eight months ago a member of the
—— | months, .lu-t as the services closed
Gen. Bragtj's Widow Dead. ami nearly sill the cOJlgre.gation had
New i b loan-: After a short iline.-s i emerged from the church, a crowd of
^I r-s. Lliz.it Bragg, widow ol (ictiera! drunken men who bad xi-ite.l the
far.
'. the -.'-x< ar-old dangle
Mrs. L. t'. 1'ucker of For;
a- a result of drinkin.
e a.- o I uie Thursday.
A Inth less than $•*> per milt is
the c-t i i ml ted average saving to tin
lailioad- of T x.i.- by the enacliuijnt
ol the anti-pjiss law.
Marie ('allelic/ Clifton, a woman
who i- -offering with lepro.-y. Iwi
In en deported from LI I'liso to Mex-
ico. from w Inch place she came to
leva-'.
\ Pittsburg. Pa., tirni has cc-
qiie-ieil a franchise for the establish-
ment of a natural gas plant in Sher-
man. The council has it under con-
-iderat ion.
Kd Murphy of .Sherman, agitl
via- killed by a rtain Saturilay in
Fort Worth and his body was foun
nloiig the Texas and Pacific, ground
to piece-.
U II. Mitchell and If. II. Old-
haul. aeed eit izt lis, die I M ill I . .
ill Abilene, both being ill good lleillt i
and hour before death which was due
to heart failure.
\- a result of injuries nvei, d
i. falling while swinging the "It
in.iti King" while at play in the vac I
d I lie San Antonio public - u
Tlioiua.- Tanguma is dead.
The dead bod\ of a negro was
\va- found Sunday killed by gun-
-liot wounds, six miles west of Rock-
wall and report made to SlvrilT Wil-
liams. who is investigating.
San Nngelo received a -- xer■
main -hock when il was learned that ('apt.
Charles A. Ilaslov had been foun i
dead in a room at his home Monday,
lie wa- shot iu the head and a due
gun lay near hint.
Five hundred and thirty-five bul
of cotton were marketed in Taylor
Saturday, making the total wagon re-
ceipts of cotton at Taylor this sea-
- >n -iiiee August 1, not including
concentrations by rail, bales.
A big show of fine horse.s and
1 iiilc- w as held in II illhoro Thin - la .
The original arrangements al-o
contemplated nice for the tifUonooi*
but that feature was postponed to.
O.iols" s. I'he stock cxhihi , v. ii-
lIn finest ever made in the county.
Plume reports Friday morning
Brook-hire. Laneport, Hare and
linn, died Monday morning at
Light in the Dark Continent.
There in a new ray of light for
Africa, ilelgium has decided lo lake
under national control the region of
ihe Congo. Not since the days when
Great lliilain was aroused to a white
heat by Armenian massacres has there
been so much international indigmi
Hon us in recent years over icported
atrocities iu the valley of the Congo.
To be sure, there have been pro mid
< on, and the controvers.v has been
general, says the Uoston Herald, that
the exploitation of the resources of
the Congo bus given much more atten-
tion to the size of the product than lo
ibe life and happiness of the natives,
I'erhflps Hie tittest and most hopeful
comment Is the fact linn Ilelgium it
self has taken this African dependen
cy from the personal control of the
sovereign. King Leopold, and has
made national tlie government and
'he responsibility therefor
. o dock at tli-" Marqiiett
Louis. Advices of bis i
e< ived by his hrothers a
eit\ early Monday inornin
i it el in
we
M.
r<
Cholera Killed 7.012 in
St. Petersburg: Simc
lung of the epidemic iberi
lo.tiHH cases id' Asiatic
ported in Russia and l.opi dei
In Si. Peler.-hurg alone .since
Braxton Bragg of the t ontedi rate blind tiger began firing into the vvor-!
army, died lieiFriday. Mr.-. Bragg -iiippcrs with pistol.-. Several people,
was ss years old. and death was due j including th. minister, were
to general wa akness. The fatal na-
tllt ■ of her i11 ti' — developed Oil Sept. : Public Land Scarce.
I son in this ' which, by . oincideiice. wa- the t luthrie. (Ik.: The report o|
anniversary of her huslwnd's \ ictory mission i of the "cncral land
''liiekitmauga __ : for the year ending .lutie :!0
Russia.
the begin-
have been
of the ve
if
;ir
coni-
oflice
how -
there
Buyers for Septrrriber Make Money. I that at the . hisi
Chicago; Several fortunate and were but !Sii.;;l!i acre- ot unappro
far—ighteil owners of September printed pubic domain >n tliv .-late
huleru re- u I,,, pun luisi'd the cereal «lur- ( only ti- .-mall area remaining to Im
utg' -I ti I x and August for September j hometscaded out of the total area
presctu e of the disease was officially
admitted. Scptoni!'.*r there liavi
been l.l'-'ll cases ami 1 deaths re-
ported.
delivery, arc piepnring to |ioekct tin
snug pioei I- which promise to ac-
crue from a luii of shorts estimated
a- aggregating er :i,<iitil.iHM) hu-li-
1 11.i.vtiti ,, res, and as mountains,
streams and -and hills are included,
il can ! ■ ie.11111y■ seen that the oppor-
luutv tor - airing government
in Oklahoma i- very small.
othei i onitnnnities east and northeast
of Tayloc state that u heavy and de-
structive hailstorm passed over thai
section of Williamson county lab
Thur-dav bciwecn • and .s o'clock,
doing gi at injury t<> the crops.
A tragic shooting oecucced about
11 o'i lock Tuesday night just out-
side the Fort Mcintosh reservation
■it Lerado in which First Sargeaut
.liuoV wa- shot through the inoiitii
and 'Quartet ina.-ter Sergeant Sharp,
with two balls through his head, lies
at the po-t hospital in a dying con-
dition.
Ill a difficulty
I'can and Sam
W hi I nex. which
laml
Are foreign-born American citizeni
mtee patriotic, than the native-born'.
An ex-mayor of Detroit thinks that
tome of them, at least, arc In speak
jug of the mutter to a friend recently,
lie recalled a visit from u delegation
of Poles a few days before December
i -1, 181111. They asked what program
ihe city had arranged for the day. The
mayor told tlieni that he hud heard of
none, and asked why they supposed
there would he any. "Why,'1 said the
spokesman, "have you forgotten that
il Is the centennial of the death of
Washington?" The mayor had for
gotten, but be attended the meeting
which the I'oles themselves held, and
listened lo an intelligent and deeply
reverential uililtess on the lift of
Washington.
Black Land Brings Good Price.
Taylor: Bountiful crop- in Wil-
liamson county ibis senson have cre-
ated an unusual act iv ity in black
land transactions in the >u-odi-h set-
tlements eight and ten miles south-
east of Taylor and neat llutlo. dur-
ing the last few days. McKlrov has
just sold to Oscar 0recn l.ti'iU acce-
nt black hind at -^t III per acre; John
Anderson sold to ('land Johnson i"i
acres at $M() pec acre: Bland llnc-
l'ison sold jo John Anderson I l'
acres at ^P.'O per ncce.
Oil Concerns File Replies.
A list in : A u-\. <ts have been f i ied
in the distt'i ; i net in the garnish-!
111c111 pro, i e |ings by t lie Stati
against tin So urity <^il Company I
and the Na> m Refining Company. I
Iieiit'Cai den:,! - made of anv stock
owtii'tship, c, ihat eithec concecn
owns any of tl conipnnies defendant
in the i a si a :.i!ii t the Standard Oil
Company TL Navarro Refining
ompany atlacht
uldei's lo -how
-toe
a ci I
K IS OW lie,
- li.-t of it-
that nolle
anv of the
of its
Stand-
Oil
Convention of Unemployed.
New Yock: An extraordinary
gathering began here Motiday. made
up of delegates fcom various parts
of the count cy. I" take
Jok- Proves Fatal.
( liicago: Andrew Hobo was taken
tcoin Bulliiigti ;i, |nd.. to a South
< liicago hospital Friday with bis vi-
laggagc of the swift
tcaggled in over dusty
I hey profess to represent the eoiin-
j try's work less and to constitute the i
, . .. I1'"1 '' ml ocgaiis torn Io a jet of coiupress-
dnvs coiiler,'tiee I hex came on the ||(M|||| |ir,lhlJ|lilv Wlls
brake beams „t ,'eight cars. „„ ,|„ . ,k(, ,
blind baggage ol the swiit express. In|lt „ Hlllfinu,,!n , v.
or strauir ei tn over <1 u.-t\ roads , ,, ,
mi lit t oinpaiii I he jokers put the
nozzle of an air jet in his mouth
I ,• '""I opened tic -.(op cock, liieerat-
' employed'''Ml °r X,1,-| 'i.g him internally in frightful man-
Bankers Leave for Wept
N. w Vor
ing I">n hi
stale, many
bv their wi
\ -p 'eial train carrv-
<eis ol tin- city and
■I (hem accompanied
left t lie 111 and C 'ii-
luiri I rnlay
I't ceived three
a pocketkn i fe
riotis.
betwiveli Ma
Moore, both of
icctirml at W'ood-
ifli t noon, the latter
wminds inflict d with
otic being iplitc t>e-
>onic iiav -
'I the new i
m e the management
vctory being compiled
lor Sherman and suburbs I
that an actual count showed the
Saturday nighl
ler, where the
on il-
11 iti slat toti
ua.\ tu int-r, ujhtc iin* annu
convention ,lie Aiiieciean Bank* c.-'
association will be held next week.
II. ' deleuation also includes a nun)*
I mm \ a l ions pn p{.
. tlu* I'lilin par!v niiiii-
ind occupying two sec-
•11 eai's I'.-lch.
I'"I"
•Jul.
let ion of Sherman to h
bee ol ha11i.
ol tlu Soliti
beriug '.'on
t ill)), of eh \
g d a human being win
aiihg in the bay near I'icr
' ii. Sunday, and is belie*•
part of th*• body of ('apt.
ovan. of a barge, who di —
appeared four weeks ago. The
invest i gat ine.
found lb
I'.'. Calve
eil to be
dill k I lo|
II Ce
I"
ilii
Seven People Lost.
Chicago: \ launch wilh seven
passenger.- a i- reported to have
"''I"1''''1 111 I"'Ive Mi, higun, olT One
Hundred ami I'lt'culy-Fifth -licit.
•South Chicago Sunday night. The
lite saving crew is making
a -cue the people, but i '
by a storm, \inhulaiiee- |r
Hie tationu liavi
1 lit I ii k« I r«'ii i.
etforls lo
indii appej
near-
11 -em to
I'rank, popularly known as "Bud''
Moore , dead at bis home on Miller
' reek, if ar Johnson City, having
been -hot through the heart with a
V .iiche>tet rifle hall. The nlioo!im
oeeuircd about a mile from Moore's
1 • a 1 v e.~tou was chosen as the place
ol the lievt annual convention of tin
I exa- Spiritualist association and
the by-law>, which providevl Septeni-
er as ihe month of the meeting we're
eliaiigetl si, a- to alio**- the session-,
u! 1 1 to he held during August.
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