The State Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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EXTENSION PROPOSED
MINERAL WELLS LINE WILL GO
TO TRINIDAD.
WANTS COLORADO TRAFFIC
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Plans Now Practically Completed to
Extend Mineral Wells Line at
Once,
Chicago, 111., Feb. 28.—Authoritative
announcement has been made that
while the financial depression has
caused delay In the carrying out ot
the Gould plans for building an exten-
sion of the Weatlierford, Mineral Wells
and Northwestern division of tho sys-
tem from Mineral Wells, Texas, north-
west to a connection with the Denver
and Rio Grande at Trinidad, Colo., the
project by no means has been aban-
doned. Preliminary work in connec-
tion with the survey is in progress.
More than 400 miles of the route has
been decided on. The extension is
to be almost an air line, of lower grade
than the Fort Worth and Denver or
tho Colorado aud Bouthern, both of
which it will parallel for a consider-
able portion of the distance. •
The distance from Mineral Wells to
Trinidad is about 700 miles. This at
present is the largest railroad enter-
prise on hand in the Southwest.
Committee May Reconvene.
Dallas: from an authoritative
source comes the announcement that
the indications are that the Democrat-
ic State Executive Committee would
be reconvened within the next two
-week?, The purpose of the meeting,
if held, it was stated, would be to con-
sider the question of ordering a spe-
cial State primary election to select
four delegates-at-large to the National
Democratic Convention at Denver,
Colo. Efforts are being made to hat-e
the members of the State Committee
ask Chairman Carden to call the com-
mittee together, so that he may have
■some tangible reason fbr issuing a
formal call, and it is considered prob-
able that such a call will be issued
within the next few days.
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Broken Flange Causes Wreck.
Xongvlew: A serious freight wreck
-occurred just inside the city limits.
Seven cars were off and five badly
smashed; two cars containing, con-
taining fifty dead cattle and a fifty-
foot bridge are broken up and will
divert traffic for a couple of days. The
train was known 'as the Fast Denver,
composed of fresh meat and livestock
for New Orleans. A broken flange
caused the wreck.
In the Dark and Bloody Ground.
Hopkinsville, Ky.: NInht riders set
fire to the residence of Broussais
■Gregory, one mile west of Hopkins-
ville, and f}red guns into the bedroom
in which Mr. Gregory and his wife and
baby were sleeping. Mrs. Gregory was
shot at as she telephoned into town,
but not wounded. The residence was
burned. A detail of militia under
guard here hastened to the scene, but
the night riders had disappeared.
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Ingenious Bank Swindle.
Paris, France: The Paris police are
Investigating a most ingenious bank
swindle. An individual in New York
obtained a letter of credit from a large
banking house there, and made excel-
lent duplicates by means of photo-
graphs, which he forwarded to accom-
plices in London, Paris, Rome, Vienna,
Marseilles, Genoa, Hamburg and Mu-
nich, who cashed them simultaneously,
netting $100,000.
Verdict for $25,000.
Sherman: The largest amount of
damages ever awarded by a Grayson
County Jury in a personal injury dam-
age suit was rendered by the verdict
of a Jury In the case of Mrs. Ellen Wil-
liams and three minor children against
the Katy for the death of husband and
father. The judgment aggregates $25,-
000, apportioned as follows: Mrs. Wil-
liams, $10,000; eldest daughter, $4000;
second daughter, $5000; Infant son,
$6000.
Sensational Arrests.
Washington:' Ned W. Barton, an as-
sistant examiner of the Patent Office;
Henry E. Everding, a patent attorney
of Philadelphia, and John A. Heany
of York, Pa., an Inventor, were indict-
ed by the Grand Jury and arrested, on
a charge ot destroying public records.
Ball was fixed at $10,000. The Indict-
ment charges that the three carried
away from the Patent Office and de-
stroyed letters, specifications and
amendments.
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Two Orient Divisions Will Open.
Hamlin: E. A. Stilwell, President,
and several other officials of the Ori-
ent, accompanied by about 100 North-
ern and English capitalists, were in
Hamlin looking over tho town and In-
specting the new terminals. Mr. Stil-
well says steel bought for the comple-
tion of the road between Benjamin
and Red River will begin to arrive
in April. The gap now separating tho
Texas division from that of Oklahoma
and Kansas will soon bo closed.
b8a:ipy is elected.
Kentucky Elects a Repu!;!! Sen
ator.
Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 2D. — Amid
scenes of the wildest excitement on
the lloor of the House of Representa-
tives, former Governor William O'Con-
nell Bradley, Republican candidate
was yestorday elected to succeed Sen-
ator James B. McCreary In the United
States Senate for, a term of six years,
beginning March 4, 1909. He received
sixty-four votes, barely enough to win,
and was enablejl to gain victory
through the assistance of four antl-
Beckham Democrats, Senators H. C.
McNutt and Albert and Representa^
tlve Chris Mueller of Louisville and
Representative E. W. Llllard of Boyle
County.
The balloting for Senator began on
January 15, and ballots were taken
each day thereafter when a quorum
was had. Yesterday's deciding ballot
was the twenty-ninth.
The completion of the first roll call
showed Bradley, 64; Beckham, 60;
Blackburn, 1; James, 1. Before the
Speaker could announce the result the
Democrats obtained a recapitulation,
and attempted to break quorum by
leaving the hall, but came back, ac-
companied by Beckham, who author-
ized the withdrawal of his name, and
released the Democrats from the pri-
mary nomination pledge to him in the
hope that some other Democrat would
be named \^ho could defeat Bradley.
The ballot was finally completed
after the Democrats finished changing
the vote, which was as follows:
Bradley, 65; Beckham, 16; James,
15; McCreary, 10; Mayo, 5; Allen, 2;
Smith, 2; Peak, 2; Newman, 1; Hun*
1; Elllston, 1; Stanley, 1; Blackburn,
1; Cantrlll, 1; Ellis, 1; Caminack, 1;
Sullivan, 1; McElroy, 1;
FOUND HANGING TO AN ELM.
House Breaker Has Short Shrift Down
at Conroa.
Houston: "A warning to negroes
found prowling in white folks' houses."
This placard was tied to the feet of
a negro. Charley Scott, whose dead
body was found swinging to a big elm
tree at Conroe Friday morning. The
negro, who was eighteen years of ago,
and regarded by many as feeble-mind-
ed, was quietly lynched Friday night
by unknown parties. No noise was
made, and nothing was known of the
lynching save by those taking part
until the morning sun revealed the
gruesome sight of bis dead body dan-
gling and waving pendulum fashion
in the breeze.
A neighbor named Willett heard
Mrs. Powell Alley, the wife of a lead-
ing white citizen, who was known by
the negro to be away from home,
scream before daylight Thursday
morning. He rushed over in time to
catch Scott emerging from the house.
The negro could give no explanation
of his presence.
Mississippi After Lumber Trust.
Jackson, Miss.: Chancellor Garland
I ..yell has rendered a decree declar-
ing that the Mississippi and Louisi-
ana Retail Lumber Dealers' Associa-
tion is a trust and combine, and or-
ders that the said organization be
ousted from business In Mississippi.
The association has been operating
under what Is known as the "Missis-
sippi plan," which provides for the
boycotting of wholesalers or manufac-
turers who sell direct to consumers.
The Pullman Palace Car Company
has decided to cut out liquors from
the buffet supplies, and already the
new rule is in force on many roads.
Santa Fe Construction Continues.
Phoenix, Ariz.: It is announced by
Santa Fe officials that President Itlp-
iey has rescinded his orders stopping
rtew railroad construction insofar as
the Arizona and California railroad
Is affected. The building of tho bridge
across the Colorado River at Parker
will be resumed as well as the con-
struction of the remainder of the line
across the Mojave Desert to Its con-
nection with the Santa Fe near Bag-
dad, Cal.
Mexican Merger Signed.
City ot Mexico: The papers In the
merger of the Mexican Central and
National Lines have been signed, aft-
er a conference between B. W. Palmer,
representing New York financial Inter-
ests, and Minister Limantour for the
Mexican Government. This culminat-
ed the long-drawn-out negotiations
and causes the greater part of the
railway mileage of the country to pass
into the control of the Federal Gov-
ernment.
Cave-In Kills Judson Thomas.
Sherman: Judson Thomas, twenty-
eight years of age, having a wife and
two small children, met almost Instant
death at Calf Creek bridge, on the
Bonham road, two miles east of here,
Friday afternoon. He was In the em-
ploy of a bridge company, nnd was
at work in a trench when the weight
of the old structure cavod tho dirt
Into the trench. He was smothered
and crushed by tons of material.
PRESIDENT ENDORSED
SENATE COMMITTEE ON BROWNS
VILLE AFFAIR REPORTS.
THE REPUBLICANS ARE SPLIT
Foraker, Buckley, Scott, Hemenway,
and Dupont Would Vindicate the
Negroes In the Affair.
Washington, Feb, 20. — President
Itoosevelt'8 action In dismissing a
battalion of negro soldiers of tho
Twenty-fifth Infantry because of the
Brownsville, Texas, raid was Indorsed
by the Senate Committee on Military
Affairs yesterday by a vote of 8 to 5.
Five of the eight Republican mem-
bers of the Senate Committee on Mil-
itary Affairs voted for Senator For-
aker's resolution declaring that the
Boldlers discharged by the President
were not guilty of having shot up
Brojvnsvllle. That the President es-
caped the implied censure of this res-
olution was due to the fact that the
five Democratic members of the com-
mittee joined Senators Warren, War-
ner and Lodge in opposition.
The Republican Senators who de-
clared for the innocence of the ne-
groes were Foraker, Scott, Buckly,
Hemenway and Dupont.
Senator Foraker offered a sequence
of resolutions each one less positive
than its predecessor, but in every In-
stance the eight held together and
finally, by the same vote of eight to
five, the guilt was fastened upon the
negroes by the adoption of Senator
Lodge's resolution.
This report establishes the verdict
of the committee. The reports to the
Senate are et to be made, and it may
be ten days or two weess before these
are filed. It is thought there will je
at least four of these, as some of tho
Senators desire to soften as much as
they, may their action of yesterday
Senator Scott, for example, wants
to mollify the White House, which he
fears may add him to the list of un-
desirable citizens If his vote of yes-
terday is left to' stand as the naked
criterion.
Senator Foraker is to speak on the
subject and his speech is to extend
through three days. This will be the
longest speech made in several years,
which Is a circumstance indicative of
the feeling that agitates Senator For-
aker.
for deposit guaranty.
Nelson of Minnesota Speaks for HI*
Amendment.
Washington, Feb. 27.—Senator Nel-
son (Republican) of Minnesota spoke
In support of bis amendment to the
Aldrich currency bill providing for the
guarantee t>f deposits In National
banks, an- Je took occasion to sharp-
ly crltlci/.e the present banking meth-
ods.
Declalrlng that the trouble with tho
country during the recent currency
exigency was not caused by a lack
of money, but by the difficulty In keep-
ing it in circulation, Mr. Nelson an-
alyzed the banking conditions last fall,
and drew the Inference that the crisis
originated In the Fast and not in the
West.
He spoke of "loafers" In New York
who live on stock manipulation. Thir-
ty-eight per cent of the money in New
oYrk was, at the time of the panic,
he declared, loaned on call or demand
notes, a kind of loan, he said, that Is
only made on stocks, and is not avail-
able for business men.
Saying that the banks had taken a
great deal of credit for the Importation
of gold during the panic, he undertook
to show that the $100,000,000 of gold
Imported was sent here upon bills of
lading to pay for wheat and cotton
that had been sent abroad and con-
tended that, therefore, the banks de-
served no credit in that connection.
"Great God!" he exclaimed, "The
panic demonstrated that the big bank-
ers are on the lowest level."
In conclusion he said: "Let us meet
the necessities by protecting deposit-
ors, stop the runs on banks and pre
vent the big banks in the reserve cit-
ies from tying up the funds of local
funds."
THE WEEK'S EPITOME
A RFSUMF OF THE MOST IMPOR-
TANT NHWS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
Davidson Is Sustained.
Austin: The Supreme Court has re-
fused the application for a writ or er-
ror of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company
In both the receivership and ouster
suits of the defendant company,' thus
ending the litigation of the State
against this corporation so far as the
State courts are concerned. This is
considered a great victory for Attor-
ney General Davidson and his assist-
ants.
Democrats Open Headquarters.
Denver, Colo: Headquarters have
been opened in Denver at the Albany
hotel ^y Sergeant at Arms John I.
Martin of the Democratic National
Committee and the members of the
subcommittee on arrangements which
have charge of the plans for the
Democratic National Convention to
be held here July 7. Former Governor
John F. Osborne of Wyoming Is in
charge of the headquarters of the sub-
committee on arrangements of the
national committee.
St. Louis, Mo.: Judge H. S. Priest,
attorney in St. Louis for the Waters-
Pierce Oil Company, says that the ac-
tion of the State Supreme Court of
Texas in denying the writ of er. or to
the Waters-Pierce OH Company In the
ouster and receivership suits against
It merely meant that, the case was
ended in Texas and would now go to
the United States Supreme Court. The
company will have fifteen days In
which to file a petition, and, accord-
ing to Judge Priest, this will be done.
Lowden and Steffens Lose.
New Orleans: The United States
court of appeals has affirmed the de-
cision of the lower court In the case
of John O. Lowden and Otto W. Stef-
fins, plaintiffs in error, vs. the Unit-
ed States, from the Northern district
of Texas. The decision carries with
it confirmation of the lower court's
decree sentencing the men to five j
years' Imprisonment for embeazlement '
of a national bank's funds from a
bank at Abilene, Texas.
I. & G. N. in Hands of Receiver.
Dallas: Acting on a bill filed in be-
half of the Mercantile Trust Company
of New York, at Fort Worth, Judge A.
P. McCormlck, United States Circuit
Judge for the Fifth District, has ap-
pointed Judge T, J. Freeman receiver
for the International and Great North-
ern Railroad, the bill as filed alleg-
ing default in payment of interest on
certain bonds, and the railroad's law-
yer, Judge N. A. Stedman, filing ap-
pearance for the company and there
being also filed the consent of the In-
ternational and Great Northern Rail-
road to the appointment of a receiver.
Plot to Kill Victor Emanuel.
Muskogee Ok.: That a plot to kill
King Victor Emanuel of Italy was
planned in this city by a band of
Italians several weeks ago became
known lately. The Italians then left
to carry out their plans. Henry Gro-
manie, a member of the party, weak-
ened and wrote a letter to a represen-
tative of the Italian government. G.
Fasslno, agent of the Italian consul,
of Denver, Is In McAlester trying to
gather Information.
Take Leg Bail from Corsicana.
Corslcana: Seven prisoners escaped
from the county jail Monday night.
According to one of the prisoners who
was recaptured at his home In this
city Tuesday morning, the escape was
made at 9:30 o'clock. The Jailor, how-
ever, says ho was not aware of It
until 12 o'clock, when Policeman
Rlcker and Hedrlck came to tho Jail
and told him that one ot the men had
been reported to have been seen In a
certain part of town.
Became Tired of the Struggle.
El Paso: Tho body of Mrs. Kathcr-
lno Kingsbury of Tuscon, Ariz., was
found here Tuesday stretched across
tho bed of her room In a local hotel,
probably four hours or more after
death. A letter by the side of the
body asked that her husband, who
secured a divorce about two months
ago, bo notified, and that her watch
bo given to her daughter, Margaret,
who Is at school In Los Angeles.
President D. J. Neill of the Farmers'
Union has so far recovered from his
recent Illness that he has decided not
to take his intended vacation, and an-
nounces that in a few days he will
begin a tour of the State which will
last until August.
T. J. Robertson Found Guilty.
Galveston: After Seventeen hours'
deliberation a jury in the Criminal
District Court Wednesday morning
brought in a verdict of guilty in tho
case of T. J. Robertson charged with
killing VV. T. Owln on August IS,
1907, and assessed punishment at fif-
teen years' confinement in the State
penitentiary. Notice of appeal was
immediately given, and it is under-
stood that a motion for a new trial
will be filed Friday. The case went on
trial Monday morning.
A. and M. College Running Smoothly.
College Station: According to the
records of the Commandant's office
there were 378 cadets connected with
the A. and M. College Wednesday. Ten
trunks wero put off after these fig-
ures were made, making the total en-
rollment 288. More students will prob-
ably come in right along. It is now
probable that the re-enrolled students
will number 450, less than 100 below
the number who walked out two weeks
ago.
Only Prayer Falls to Cure.
Brazil, Iowa: The Coroner's Jury
has brought In a verdict blaming Mr.
and Mrs. E. E. Palmer for the death
ot tholr ten-year-old boy. With the
Christian Science prayer, "God Is My
Life," oa his lips, the son ot the couple
died at their home here Sunday with
pneumoAla. This Is the second child
of Mr. and Mrs Palmer to have been
fatally sick, with only the prayoii of,
Christian Scientists to aid it;
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Domestic mid Foreign.
One woman and three children were
burned to death In a fire at Pittsburg,
Pa., early Saturday morning.
The Paris Board of Trade is In cor-
respondence with a party from Colo-
rado, who contemplates establishing
a creamery there.
Local nimrods have shipped over
1200 rabbits from Window, Fannin
County, this season, receiving an aver-
age price of 10 cents.
The program for the Baptist En-
campment at Lampasas, July 14-23,
is nearly completed, and several men
of note are booked for the occasion.
By an explosion in tho La Rosita
mine near San Juan de Sa'binas Wed-
nesday seventy-six men were killed.
Most of the laborers were Japanese.
Col. William G. Sterrett made for-
mal announcement of his candidacy
for Congress from the Fifth District
in last Sunday's papers.
Philadelphia was chosen as the
meeting place of the 1909 annual con-
vention of the United States League
of Local Building and Loan Associa-
tions.
Frances, the fourteen-months old
child of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard, Denl-
son, was drowned by pitching head-
foremost into a lard can filled with
water. —*-! |
Frank A. Munsey, the New York
publisher, has bought the Baltimore
News, which will be conducted in the
future as in the past—an independent
newspaper.
John Vilck, a successful Bohemian
farmer living near Granger, was run
over by a Katy train Sunday -and In-
stantly killed while returning home
from Granger.
A warehouse belonging to the Wax-
ahachie Planing Mill Company was de-
stroyed by fire Sunday morning. About
three car loads of lumber were burned.
Total loss is about $5000, with some
insurance.
C. V. Topping, Secretary of the Mil-
lers' Association of Oklahoma, is in
receipt of reports from various sec-
tions on the condition of the wheat.
The recent rains have placed the crop
in excellent shape.
More than two thousand educators
from all parts of the country, gath-
ered in Washington to attend the
convention of the department of su-
perintendents of the National Educa-
tional Association Tuesday.
The seed corn for the fifty demon-
stration farms to be established in
Denton's trade territory has arrived
and was distributed among the farm-
ers, who will conduct the demonstra-
tions.
Squire Haggard, an aged farmer
who lived near Ardmore, Ok., while
sawing down a burning tree Sunday
afternoon that threatened his barn, re-
ceived Injuries from the tree falllns
on him and died Monday morning.
The total receipts of the Dallas
postofflce from all sources for the
month of February, 1908, were $40,-
367.75, against a total of $39,377.11 for
the corresponding month last year, or
a gain of $990.64 in February this year.
Mrs. J. C. Spires, wife of a farmer
living three mile? west of Basil, Ohio,
Friday killed three of her children,
fatally wounded a fourth and then
committed suicide.
Saturday being "tag day," enough
tags were sold in Greenville at 10
cents each to raise $203.30 for the
benefit ot the public school library.
Lucio Gonzales, a prominent Mex-
ican, was shot and killed on the
streets of Laredo Sunday. Alex Trem-
ble, a custom house Inspector, was ar-
rested.
The Senate Committee has report-
ed favorably Mr. Cooper's bill to make
Port Arthur a port of Immigration de-
livery.
The Wichita Falls and Southern
Railway was completed to Olney Sat-
urday. Olney will now have daily
train service.
M. A. Johnson, a tie and stave mak-
er, was struck and killed by the north-
bound passerger train on the Summer-
vllle branch tot the Santa Fe Satur-
day night at Cleveland, near the Trin-
ity River bridge.
Wu Ting Fang, the new Chinese
minister arrived in San Francisco
Friday.
An attempt was made In the city of
Teheran, Persia, Friday to assassinate
the Shah of Persia by a bomb. His
majesty was not hurt. Three out-
riders who accompanied him at thf
time were killed.
Charles M. Daniels of the New York
Athletic Club has broken the world's
record for an eighty-yard swltn, cov-
ering the distance with throe turns in
forty-three seconds flat.
The Federal Grand Jury will make
Inquiry Into an allecd cotton-coutroll-
Inj; combine of buyers at Little Hook/
Rock Island officials have agreed
with the Oklahoma Railroad Commis-
sion to build a depot at Goodwoll, Tex-
as County.
Mrs. Gotler, an old resident of Red
River County, died last week at Bo-
gota from the effects of burns re-
ceived several weeks ago.
Hon. H. B. Terrell, representative
from McLennan County, will make the
race for the State Senate from the dis-
trict composed of McLennan, Falls
and Milam Counties. •
Frenzied with Jealousy, Andrew
Kallnoskl murdered his wife, Katie,
and Jacob Schmelsor, a boarder, la
his wife's home at Cleveland, Ohio.
The murerderer then fled.
Defending his mother from assaults,
Edward Twist, a twelve-year-old In-
dian boy at Talequah, Ok., shot a man,
almost tearing his head from his body.
Twist was placed in jail.
Fire last Friday morning destroyed
a large warehouse 'belonging to the
Waxahachle Planing Mill Company.
Two or three cars of lumber were
burned. The loss is about $5000.
The Rose bill providing for county
local option throughout the State of
Ohio passed the House Wednesday
afternoon by a vote of 79 to 30. The
bill had already passed the Senate.
James O'Neal, fifty-seven years of
age, was found dead in his room in
Fort Worth Wednesday afternoon. He
had evidently been dead several hours.
He was a veteran railway trackman.
Three frame business houses and
the City Hotel at Barstow were de-
stroyed by fire Thursday morning. The
total loss will foot up something near
$75,000, with not to exceed $1200 in-
surance.
Dr. J. L. Wright of Roxtbn died sud-
denly aboard the gasoline launch at
Arthur City Friday morning. Deceased
and Allen Parham of Roxton were on
a hunting expedition. Heart failure
was the cause.
Valentine Steiglitz, ahout eighty
years of age, who resided on the Weh-
demeyer place, near Grapevine, in
Washington County, was found dead
in a tank about a half mile from-His
home Thursday morning.
The Hudson-Fulton celebration1 com-
mittee has decided to change the date
of their celebration from September
18 to September 25, 1909. The object
of the change is to insure the prob-
ability of good weather. . • •
A dynamite bomb was thrown
against a carriage in which President
Alcorte of Brazil was driving , a few
days since, but failed to explode.
Four people were arrested, charged
with conspiracy in the plot.
The new creamery plant at Gaines-
ville started Monday and began buy-
ing cream. A large number of farm-
ers who had that product to sell visit-
ed the plant. This is the largest
creamery in this part of Texas.
Petitioning Governor Hughes to re-
move District Attorney Jerome, the
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
of New York has filed twenty-two sep-
arate charges against him for failure
to prosecute cases in which it Is
charged he had sufficient evidence to
convict.
The dead body of Albert Reese of
Crosby was found in the San Bernard
mottom near East Bernard. Reese
was to have been married at Crosby,
had secured his license and engaged
the priest, when he suddenly disap-
peared, leaving a note to his mother,
saying, "You will never see me again
alive." - -tl
While swimming in White Rock
Creek, near Dallas, in company with
a number of others of his own age,
John Steirman, a negro, aged seven-
teen years, was drowned Saturday aft-
ernoon. He was some distance from
the rest of the boys when they heard
him call for help.
A seventeen-year-old boy was ar-
rested in Fort Worth last week on
a charge of arson. The boy admits
the charge, but declares that he was
Induced to do the deed by a man who
was seeking revenge.
Fire destroyed the Eclipse Livery
Stable, owned by Everston & King,
including three horses and thirty tons
of hay, seventy-five bushels of corn,
twenty-four sets of harness, five sad-
dles and nine vehicles. The loss Is
estimated at $5500, with $900 Insur-
ance.
An abandoned Infant was found on
a porch of a Dallas residence Tues-
day morning, and was placed in a
home in a few hours afterward. ,-v
Dallas Is having a selge of chicken
thieves. ,
Jessen Melton, a farmer near Can-
ton, accidentally shot and killed him-
self Monday morning. He was crawl-
ing under
came caught
charged.
Tommy Burns, the American heavy,
weight champion, Is In London, antl
has offered to meet two Britishers In
one night It they will put up the nec-
essary money, und, to make pool,
he will mMt any three fighters the
tight little It-i.uid r:au jiut u;>, I!- bouts
to bo six rounds each.
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a fence when his gun be-
;ht on a wire and was dls-
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Houx, N. P. The State Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1908, newspaper, March 5, 1908; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth302299/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.