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THE ALTO HERALD
T. M. McCLURE, Proprietor.
ALTO,
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War
Judge Hardy introduced bills in
('<ingress .Monday I'or the erection of
public building at Mexia and Tea-
gue. Fifty thousand dollars is t'he ap-
propriation provided for ill each case.
Judge Smith introduced a bill Fri-
day in eongrc.-s to appropriate
$(j'o0,000 for the improvement and
enlaruenicnt of Fori Bliss ai
Paso.
State Health Ollicer Hrumbv
tlay telegraphe d orders raising
quarantine ajiiiinsi San Augustine
county, the order going into eifect
at midnight.
Do*' Thomas one of the Texas
Dangers stationed at Amai'illo he-
longing to Company A. is dead from
the result of a bullet through the
jlioud received Tuesday morning
morning about 1 o'clock.
Mrs. Carl Locked, who resides
about one mile \ve«t of Mullin, was
found'in her in Wednesday even-
ing with her clothes burned from her
bodv. She i|ied from the effects of
the burns Friday evening.
In one of the prettiest wrestling
matches ever seen in Pallas Joe Kel-
cey of that tit\ sustained Fridav
night at Turner Hall his claims to
Texas by throwing Frank Merlink of
• «<'i*iiijiity two successive falls.
A .Mineola
Tm'-T* ttw?\chilli t* ociocR. ir
iforined about three miles west of
town, traveling in a northeasterly di-
rection for about four miles when it
]e't the earth. Considerable dam-
age was done to properly.
It has cost the government $17),-
000 already in the employment of
private detective agencies to inves-
tigate the Brownsville affair and
the contracts arc still in force. This
information was received by the
at' Tuesda\ from Secretary of
V right.
That the Missouri Kansas and
Texas management is seriously con-
sidering the proposition of douhle-
jtracking its line between Dallas and
'Waxinhdchie is admitted by a Dallas
railroad official who e
to know bow heavy
over that section of the
At a meeting o the board of di-
rectors of the Juliette Fowler Or-
phans' Home Association held Fri-
day in Dallas arrangements were
practically perfected for the erection
of it $.'>0,000 structure to be used
for a homo for women over TO years
of ago.
Col. John X. Simpson, receiver of
the Tre.s I'niacins Canal Company of
Bay < 'ity, Tuesday sold at public out-
cry the property of the company.
The consideration was $1 (lot) of
which amout $3">,000 was cash and
the balance as the court desires it.
The sale is subject to the approval
of the court.
Another step in
protecting a large
county land from
taken Tuesday w
ers' court ordered
held within said
day, January 20, upon the proposi-
tion to establish the district to issue
IkhuIs and to authorize the neces-
sary tax.
A deal was closed Tuesday in
which a syndicate represented by T.
Coleman, a well known West Texas
stockman purchased the Callaghan
ranch in Webb County, containing
125,000 acres of grazing land. The
price is said to have been $"00,000.
The city council of Kaufman has
passed an ordinance to issue $(1000
of waterworks bonds. It levied the
tax for this year, which was the same
as last year $1.10 on each $100 val-
uation.
Dispatches from points over the
entire Southwest indicate that freez-
ing weather prevails and while the
norther has been n record-breaker in
point of severity, its unexpected and
practically unheralded appearance
caught many sections unprepared.
n a positon
he traffic is
line.
the direction of
body of Ellis
overflow was
e comtnission-
clection to be
on Satur-
A force of eighty worktnken was
put to work in Temple Wednesday
morning laying iron pipe for the
■waterworks between the city reser-
voir and the course of supply at
Leon river.
SUMMARY OF THEWEEK
A RESUME OF THE MOST IMPOR-
TANT NEWS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
ITEMS FOR BUSINESS PEOPLE
A Carefully Digested end Condensed
Compilation cf Current News
Domestic and Foreign.
The coldest weather Dallas has ex-
perienced in three years was Wed-
nesday night. At "> o'clockk the mer-
cury registered IN above zero.
The bank deposit guaranty law
of Oklahoma i- dclended by the ol-
(icers and stockholders of the State
banks and by the great majority of
depositors.
(ieorge Stevens, while insane, shot
W. ('. Colson and Joel Miles, hie
best friends, and then shot himself
to death, at lola. Texas, Sunday.
Colson and Mile- will recover.
President Diaz and cabinet Sun-
day attended a bull fight given for
the benefit of the Italian earth-
quake sufferers. Thirty-five thous-
and dollars (gold) was added to the
Mexican relief fund.
Senator \\. J. •Bryan of Abilene
is preparing a lull to lie presented to
the Texas legislature to provide for
the operation by convict labor of a
plant to manufacture low-grade cot-
ton into bags. Mriis and twine.
A jirett\ good si'.ed land rush has
In-m "i .... in Andrews county
for the last few days. About "00
sections have been declared forfeited
by the land commissioner in that
county for tin non-payment of an-
nual rental.
With a knife stab through the
heart, Dennis Robertson, a negro
man of Houston, lived about four
hours Sunday night. Hud he been
placed in the hands of surgeons be-
fore having lost so much blood his
life would have been paved.
The si\ men sentenced to death at
Cnion City. Tenn., and two others
sentenced to twenty years' impris-
onment, have been placed in jail
here and will be held in confinement
to await the action of the state su-
preme Court, which will meet in
Jackson next April.
A disastrous gas explosion, in
which twenty-five men lost their
lives, occurred at an early hrtur on
Sunday in Joseph Inciter's famous
colliery at Zeigler. III. A spark
from a trolley pole of an electric
motor coming in contact with a
pocket of gas is assigned as the
cause of the explosion.
Hon. W. C. Davis of Brazos will
introduce in the legislature at Austin
a bill to provide for construction by
the slate of a trolley line from the
A. M. College at Bryan. He says
the college cannot now accept all the.
students offering, or house all of
those enrolled. It is asking for
$150,000 for new dormitories.
That the 2,000,00(1 .lows who live
iu America should vigorously engage
in the movement which contemplates
the purchase of Palestine from the
Turks and the colonization of that
land with a million or more Jews,
now desperately oppressed in Russia
and lioumania, and other lands, was
the contention of A. II. Fromenson
of New Vorkk, addressing Sunday
night prominent Jews of Dallas at
.Bush Temple.
T. B. Love, commissioner of in-
surance and banking, has been pre-
paring a bill for guaranteeing de-
posits in state banks of Texas and
same will be introduced in the legis-
lature.
Representative - Jess Baker of
Graniiiirv has drawn a bill relative
to compulsory education. The bill
as lie now has it compels the attend-
ance of all children in Texas be-
tween the ages of 7 to IT until the\
have completed file eighth grae at
school, cither public or private.
The anti-tuberculosis exhibit
which has for several months past
been making stands in Texas towns
is now on exhibition in Georgetown.
The Hamlin Herald, a weekly pub-
lication. was totally destroyed by fire
about 0 o clock 'I uesdav evening.
The building and plant were valued
at $0000.
The Board of Trade has closed a
deal for the building of a starch fac-
tory in Childress. Work will begin
immediately and the plant rushed to
completion.
Three prisoners tunneled their
way out of the city jail of Oklahoma
City Thursday morning and escaped.
Mrs. Summar, wife of J. <i. Sum-
mar, a druggist of Sulci!, was killed
in a runaway Thursday afternoon.
Two were killed and a score or
more others more or less seriously in-
jured when a passenger and freight
train on the Fris o road collided
head-on near Fisher, a small station
twelve miles west of Tulsa, Okla.
Monday morning.
Dr. K. M. C. Nevnian of El Reno.
Okla., died Monday in Saltillo Wash-
ington County, Indiana, aged 101
years lie claimed to be a son of
i Marshal Ney Napoleon Bonaparte's
field marshal, and that he adopted
the name of Nevnian eighty years
ago.
The $20,210,000 fine in the ease
of the Standard Oil Company will
not be reviewed by the Supreme
; Court of the United States. The de-
| cision of the court to this effect was
! announced by Chief Justice Fuller
I soon after the court convened Mon-
day in Washington.
The Railroad Commission Friday
['received a petition from the (Jnlves-
| ton Chamber of Commerce asking
I that it hold a general hearing to con-
sider the matter of ivadjusting rates
! into and out of Galveston on classes
| and commodities, the idea being to
| have the differential abolished, like-
It lie court ordered on the Brownsville
j line.
Dr. W. S. Chaplain, formerly
! chancellor of Wash le imi 1'nivorsity
| of St. Louis has been selected presi-
dent of a company lo construct an
I irrigation canal to cost $1,200,000
through Cameron, Hidalgo and Starr
Counties, Texas. The St. Louis
I!nion Trust Company has agreed to
finance the project on a guarantee of
li per cent net iiiiero.-t. which ha.-
been given.
Captain A. E. Waldron, in charge
of the government work on Texas
rivers, said Monday he would prob-
ably leave Tuesday for the lower
Trinity for the purpose of withdraw-
ing the snagboal now operating
there. Captain Wui Iron says the boat
will be semt over to the Brazos. It
can not be kept longer on the Trin-
ity he says because (lure is no fur-
ther appropriation for its operation.
For his part in the dispatching of
the steamer Goldsboro to Honduras
la.st spring with $80,000 worth of
goods said to have been obtained un-
der false pretense, Albert W. Bailey,
former secretary and treasurer of the
defunct Export Shipping Company,
j of N'ew York, Tuesday was sentenced
to state's prison for not less than
four years and six months or more
than six years and eight months.
Heports of expidatory movements
in Central America have led to a
close watch of the situation by the
Washington government, and. act-
ing under orders front the navy do-
oar i men I the Dubuque will touch at
Key West for supplies. 1'tcv pre-
once in the neighborhood <;f Niear-
ag'.iMi ten ilory will have it ro.issur-
j ing effect in the event that any trou-
ble occurs in that section.
About dooo hotneseekers reached
Fort Worth Thursday over the San-
ta Fe. Katy and Rock Island. Of
these the Santa Fe had four trains,
one of which consisted of thirteen
cars. The Katy came next with three
trains and the Rock Island with two.
.They were for general distribution
to various parts of the State, some
going to West Texas, a large num-
ber to the coast country and some
into Mexico.
Frank A. Hitchcock will be Judge
Taft's postmaster general.
The senate was very much more
incensed at the President Wednesday
than it has been at any time here-
tofore, because in his reply to the
resolution of Senator Culberson, he
set up the doctrine that neither
house of congress has any warrant to
direct a cabinet officer to do any-
thing. This regards the matter of
the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com-
pany and I iiitcd States Steel Corpo-
ration.
The first State bank of Edgewood
opened its doors for business Satur-
day, with capital stock of $10,000.
The jury in the noted Tennessee
night rider case which has been on
trial for several weeks, returned a
verdict Thursday, at Union City,
linding six of the defendants guilty
of murder in the first degree, and
leaving their punishment to he as-
sessed by the court and the rest of
the men being tried on the same
charge' were given twenty years each
in tJi • penitentiary.
OPPOSED TO PROJECT
PCRT ARTHUR AND SABINE PASS
OPPOSE DEEPER CANAL TO
BEAUMONT AND ORANGE
APPEAR BEFORE THE BOARD
A Merry War Between Rival Towns
In the Beaumont District is Car-
ried on to Washington.
Washington, Jan. I! Mayor C.
1'. l'feiffcr of I'ort Arthur and F.
II. Robinson, secretary of the Sa-
bine Pass Chamber of Commerce,
will appear before the board of en-
gineers today to protest against the
proposition to make a twenty-five
foot depth ut the Sabine Lake Canal
from I'ort Arthur te the mouth o!
the Nee lies and Sabine rivers unless
provision is made at ihc same time
for a thirty-foot dept i over the bar
at Sabine Pass.
It is a local quarrel generated by
local jealousies and his been the
subje'ct of political controversy in
the Beaumont district. Thwtv is now
a twenty-five foot channel over the
bar at Sabine Pass and up the canal
as far as Port Arthur. Thence as
far as the mouths of thi Neches and
Sabine rivers the depth of the canal
is only ten feet. \\ etc this depth
increased to twenty-live feet Beau-
mont and Orange would virtually be
on a parity with Port Arthur.
Supply Ship at Catania.
Catania: The American charter-
ed steamer Baycrn wit.i supplies ar-
rived here Monday, iik Americans
on board being greeted in the most
cordial manner by tin authorities
and the people, who expressed their
appreciation and graitulc for Am-
erican generosity Lieirenant Com-
mander Belknap, naval ittache. who
is in charge of the expedition, is ar-
ranging with the authorities as to
the best wav of helping the suffer-
ers.
EASY FOR THE PAINTER.
Worthy Individual Had All the Details
In His Mind.
A Chicago artist relates how a weal-
thy Individual from Kansas City, with
his wife and three sons and four
daughters, once callcd upon him.
"Hero we are!" exclaimed the head
of the family. "Nearly a dozen of us,
Mr. Painter. How much for a paint-
ing of the whole of us, discount for
cash?"
"That will depend," answered the
artist, hiding a smile with his hand,
"upem the dimensions, style, etc."
"Oh, that's all fixed," responded the
other breezily, with the air of a man
who knows exactly what he wants.
"We are to be dashed off in one piece
as large as life, sitting on the lawn of
my place Just outside of little old K.
C.. singing 'llail Columbia!' "—liar
per's Weekly.
DREADFUL DANDRUFF.
Girl's Head Encrusted—Feared Loss
of All Her Hair—Baby Had Milk-
Crust— Missionary's Wife Mada
Two Perfect Cures by Cutlcura.
"For soveral years my husband
was a missionary In the Southwest.
Every one In that high and dry at-
mosphero has more or less trouble
with dandruff and my daughter's scalp
became so encrusted with it that I
was alarmed for fear she would lose
all her hair. After trying various rem-
edies, in desperation I bought a cake
of Cutlcura Soap and a box of Cutl-
cura Ointment. They left the scalp
beautifully clean and free from
dandruff, and 1 am happy to say that
the Cutlcura Remedies were a com-
plete success. 1 havo also used suc-
cessfully the Cutlcura Remedies for
so called 'milk-crust' on baby's head.
Cutlcura Is a blessing. Mrs. J. A.
Darling, 310 Fifth St., Carthage, Ohio,
Jan. 20, 1908."
I'ottor Drug & Chom. Corp., Holo Props., Boston.
To Improve Orphans' Home.
Corsicana: The board of trustees
of the 1. (). O. F. Widows anil Or-
phans' Home lutv doiermined upon
improvements on buildings for the
present year which will necessitate
ad outlay of $10,000. Of this
amount $0000 or more wlil he spent
on tin three-story brick building now
used by the boys. The present laun-
dry will be converted into a hospi-
tal after a story has been add'd, and
a new laundry crectc.
Campbell's Message Finished.
Austin: After being closet.>d in
the executive mansion for days, pre-
paring his message to the legislature,
tr vernor Camnhell .Monday after-
noon called for three stenogrunlu rs
to transcribe the copy, lie announe-.
e l to the newspaper men that the I
document would he supplied Mo the
press on Tuesday. It will not go
to the lcgjslture until the houses are
organized which will be Wednesday.
California Laws Arouce Japs.
Tokio: Followiii" the receipt of
special disnatches front San Fran-
cisco relating to matters now pend-
ing before the California legislature,
Japanese newspapers elaborate upon
the strained relations that may arise
through the passage of laws forbid-
ding the •ownership of land and the
attendance of public schools by the
Japanese.
Stabed In Heart; Lived Four Hours. I
Houston: With a knife stab
through the heart, Dennis Robertson,
a negro man lived about four hours
Sunday night. Had he been placed
in the hands of surgeons before lie
lost so much blood his life would
have been saved.
Fire at Alvarado.
Alavardo: Fire Monday morning
at about "t o'clock destroyed the res-
idence and household effects of
(>. W. Long. Loss about $2000.
First State Trolley Line.
Austin: Hon. W. C. Davis of Bra-j
/.os will introduce in the house a bill !
to provide for constructoin by the I
stiite of a trolley line from the A.
iV M. College to Bryan. An electric
line, says Mr. Davis, can be built I
and equipped for $10,000 and will he]
self-sustaining.
Fire starting at 10 o'clock Sunday
night in Alba, Wood Co., did about'
$1.1,000 damage, having destroyed!
an entire bleick in the business see-1
tiou.
DOMESTIC REPARTEE.
Mr. Knags—Before you met me you
caid you wouldn't marry the best man
in the world.
Mrs. Knagg—And you are the only
one who thinks that I broke my word.
Unique Visiting Card.
Mme Johanna Gadskl has brought
'o Oils country n fad that has become
quite the rage in Germany, where it
was Introduced by no less a personage
than the crown princess herself. It
Is a new form of visiting card, con-
taining not only an elaborately en-
graved border, but a silhouette of the
person it represents. The custom calls
fcr a design appropriate to the hold-
er's station. Thus, In Mme. Gardski's
case the prima donna's head Is framed
la a border of laurel, while a lyre
forms the base of the design. The
card is not only unique but exceed-
ingly pretty and effective.
Too strong for uaaay.
It was raining outside, and little In-
terrogative lrma was in one of her
worst, or at leeest most trying, moods.
Father, busily writing at his desk, had
already reproved her several times for
bothering him with useless tjuections.
"I say, pa, what—"
"Ask your mother."
"Honest, pa, this Isn't a silly one
this time."
"All right, this once. What is It?"
"Well, if the end of the world was
to dime, nnd the earth was destroyed
while a man was up in an airship,
where would he land when he came
down ?"—Everybody's.
ROSY AND PLUMP
Good Health from Right Food.
"It's not p. new food to me," re-
marked a Va. man. in speaking of
Grape-Nuts.
"About twelve months ago my wife
was in very bad health, could not keep
anything on her stomach. The Doctor
recommended milk half water but it
was not sufficiently nourishing.
A friend of mine told me one day
to try Grape-Nuts and cream. The re-
sult was really marvelous. My wife
soon regained her visual strength and
'o day |s UR rosy and p,ump a(j whea
sixteen.
•'These nre plain facts and nothing
could say in praise of Grape-Nuts
would exaggerate In the least the
' "f "iis great food."
Creel!"!,?1!0" by Po8,um Co" na""0
vlli ,. Ich Read '"''he Road to Well-
"There's n Hcason."
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