The State Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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STAR
PLUG
CHEWING
TOBACCO
STAR has for years
been the world's leading
brand of plug chewing
tobacco. Statistics show
that about one-fifth of
all the chewers of plug
tobacco chew STAR.
There's a reason for
this enormous and con-
stantly increasing num-
ber of STAR chewers,
and it's just this—
Star Plug has always
been manufactured with
one sole object in view—
to give chewers the best
chew of tobacco it is pos-
sible to produce, yet to
sell this STAR chew at
a moderate price.
More chewers are
learning every day that
STAR, considered from
the standpoint of true
merit, has no competitor,
and is the one best chew.
For a long time there
was a prejudice (which
probably still exists)
among certain chewers
against the use of what is
generally termed "Navy
Tobacco," because of the
impression that all to-
bacco of that character
is too sweet.
It is true that some
brands of tobacco, similar
in appearance to STAR,
are too sweet to please
chewers accustomed to
the use of tobacco manu-
factured in thin plugs,
but we know that STAR
is right in every way.
You use tobacco for
the pleasure it gives —
increase your
pleasure by chew-
ing STAR!
In All Stores
AN UNPARALLELED FLOOD
MANY LIVES ARE LOST
MILLIONS OE DOLLARS GONE.
All North Texas Suffers, but cities of Dallas and Fort Worth Are
Particularly Hard Hit.
Dallas, May 27.—The highest flood
ever known lias raged down the Trin-
ity since last Sunday morning, follow-
ing heavy rains and waterspouts Sat-
urday and Saturday night. The high-
est point reached by the Trinity at
Dallas was late Monday afternoon,
when tho gauge showed a height of
52.4 feet, which is nearly half a foot
higher than the flood of 1S90. The
river bed having boon cleared of ob-
structions and its margins treed from
overhanging trees and other growth
for many miles, made it possible for
the channel to carry away the floods
more rapidly and prevented a much
higher rise. In a material way the
railroads have suffered most severely.
Hundreds of feet of the Texas and
Pacific, trestle have beeD swept away.
The Rock Island's new dump and much
trestle work are so badiy damaged
that it will be many days before traf-
fic can be resumed. While the bridges
and trestles of the Houston and Texas
Central are still standing, as well as
those of the Katy and the Santa Ke.
they are so badly damaged that it
will require some time and much la-
bor to put them in passable condition.
The only means of reaching Oak Cliff
and West Dallas is by boat, nearly a
mile across the bottoms—West Dallas
being reached via Oak Cliff and thenc?
by wagons. The damage to the Oak
Cliff electric lines, dump, and trestle
work can not now be estimated, $3
much of the double track dump is com-
paratively new and under water. Tho
West Dallas pike and bridges are still
under water, and no estimate of these
losses, which fall upon the county, can
bo given, but will be very heavy.
Standing at the foot of Commerce
Street one faces a sea of muddy and
debris-strewn water, raging and foam-
ing down the bottom, reaching to West
Dallas and Oak Cliff foothills, from one
to two miles wide and, outside of the
river bed, from ten to thirty feet deep.
Early Monday morning the plant of
the Dallas Electric Light and Power
Company was put out of service, and
the city has since remained In dark-
ness, and the thousands depending
upon electric power to drive the ma-
chinery upon which they worked are
Idle. Only the smaller plant of tho
Wakefield corporation was operating,
and every unit of its power was as
judiciously distributed as possible over
the electric car system, and all the
city lines have given an unbroken al-
though limited service. At this time
(8:30 a. m. Wednesday) the electric
current Is turned on for the first time
to power users since Sunday.
About the time the large electric
plant of the light and power company
went out, the city water works pumps
and machinery were submerged, and
not a drop of water has been avail
able since very early Monday. The
prospects are for a resumption of
, pumping today, and It will require at |
| least two or three days to clean out I
all the mains and leads, which have |
been tilled with water from the storm
; sewers to be used in case of a dovvn-
I town conflagration.
Tho telegraph and telephone wires j
between Dallas and Oak Cliff are all
destroyed and tho Zang's Boulevard !
bridge is gone, with tho levee many
i feet under water.
In the bottoms and on the foothillj
in West Dallas and Oak Cliff, on the
skirts of Chestnut Hill and up the
river, in the northern portion of tho
city, and scores of houses have been
washed away, besides dozens and doz-
ens that have been damaged, from the
degree of total wrecks to such as
results from simple inundation. In
the majority of the hundreds of houses,
but little of the contents were saved,
and that little in a badly damaged
condition. It is said to be a conserva-
tive estimate to put the homeless pop-
ulation at 4000 persons. In West Dal-
las. in Oak Cliff and in the city many
churches have been pressed into serv-
ice as temporary homes for shelter-
less unfortunates.
More Than a Million Loss.
The financial loss to Dallas alone
will reach far beyond the million dol-
lar mark, as careful estimates of the
known railway, municipal and private
losses already exceed a million dollars.
The most pltable feature of the story
lies in the fact that tho homes lost
v/ere those of the poorer class of horns
owners, enticed by the lower price of
the lots and by the tempting terms
uron which they were offered to buy
and build on the installment plan.
These have stood helplessly by and
watched the accumulations of years of
labor and sacrifice go down into th3
torrents of maddened waters, or else
fleeing in the darkness, dared not take
time to look back, so suddenly did
the floods come in some localities.
Soul-Harrowing Scene.
On Monday moraing, while the
floods had not yet reached their
height, at least ten thousand people
stood on the banks of the river and
vatched the floods. At 10 o'clock the
long trestle which approaches tho
Texas and Pacific bridge from the
west suddenly gave way and preci-
tated ten persons who were on it into
the middle of the torrent. The acci-
dent was witnessed by fully 15,000
people who lined the eastern bank and
these sent up a mighty groan of hor-
ror at the sight. Six of the struggling
men were finally rescued more dead
than alive, but the multitude was
fojceiJ to stand helpless while it watch-
ed the three others fight gallantly for
r< time and then succumb to blows
from heavy beams* which hurled
through the water, sinking never to
rise again. Their bodies have not been
recovered and not even their names
known with certainty. Scores of other
who were ou the trestle had narrow
escapes, some even falling into the
shallow water, from which they were
rescued only with the greatest dif-
ficulty.
Just before 3 o'clock Monday morn-
ing E. Pemberton, who lives on the
Kagle Ford road, learned that the wa-
ter was rapidly approaching his dwel-
ling, which fronts directly on the
load. He was in the city of Dallas
at the time. He at once started to go
tj his family—his wife and one small
child.
On the way he learned that his fam-
ily was safe but that the water was
in his house.
Turning back In haste Pemberton
now thoroughly wet with perspiration,
but with a strong heart from learning
that his family was safe, ran for
tho greater part of the distance back
into the city and made his way almost
exhausted into the office of the News.
"As I crossed tho Texas and Pacific
trestle coming back," he said, "some
poor man was crying for help as he
passed clinging to some driftwood, un-
der the trestle. I rushed down as close
at possible, but could not aid him. He
passed away and I heard him giving
despairing cries as he seemed to lose
his hold on the log to which he had
been clinging. The poor fellow was
drowned almost In my sight."
The Sheriff impressed all the avail-
able river craft and rescued many
people from trees and housetops
where they had spent many hours.
On Monday a systematic relief cam-
paign was set on foot, and Tuesday
boatloads of food were sent to West
Dallas, the hardest hit locality.
A washout occurred On the Katy
between Fort Worth and Denton. It
will probably be impossible for trains
to be operated on schedule time today.
Tho high water of Village Creek cov-
ered the tracks east of Handley for
more than a mile, and all efforts to
operate cars beyond Handley proved
futile. Hopes are being entertained
that operations may be resumed by
tonight. The full extent of the dam-
age to the tracks is not known.
Hourly trains were operated by the
Frisco from Fort Worth to North Fort
Worth, and through that source em-
ployees of the packing plants will be
cared for today, and until street car
traffic is resumed, which may be sev-
eral days hence.
In Fort Worth alone the damage is
estimated at probably in excess of a
million dollars, and while two men
lire reported to have been drowned,
their bodies have not been recovered.
A cyclone at Newark, Wise County.
Saturday night marked havoc In tho
business part of the town, but no lives
were lost.
Reports received from Fort Worth
last night said that nearly every rail-
JUSTICE DURHAM KILLED.
Bullet Through the Heart Brings In-
stant Death.
Cleburne, Tex., May 23.—Ttil O. Dur-
ham. about 32 years of age, Justice of
the Peace of Precinct No. 1, which
embraces Cleburne, wai) shot and
killed last night on the court house
square.
Mart Black, about 50 years of age
was taken into custody a few minutes
later by Officer James Henderson and
wa3 placed in the Johnson County jail
charged with doing the shooting. Mr.
Black is a railroad trainman, and a
man of family.
Last night Mr. Black and his oldest
daughter, Miss Bessie, were downtown
and walked by the drug store on the
southwest corner of the square. Jus-
tice Durham was standing near the ci-
gar case In the store conversing with
friends when Mr. Black and his daugh-
ter stopped on the walk In front of
the place and Miss Black spoke to
Justice Durham, who then went to the
door, where a few words were ex-
changed.
In an instant a shot was fired, and
Mr. Durham fell to the sidewalk, a
bullet having pierced his heart and
come out under the shoulder, falling
to the pavement. Another shot was
fired, but did not take effect.
Monk Gibson Sentenced.
Cuero: At 4:30 Monday afternoon
j District Judge Wilson In special ses-
I sion of court sentenced Monk Gibson,
a negro, charged with the murder of
the Condltt family near Edna, to hang
Saturday, June 27. When asked from
the bench whether he had anything to
say, the prisoner simply replied: "No,
sir."
The Commercial Club of Stamf.ird
has been taking very active steps to-
ward securing a Carnegie Library for
Stamford, and has received .a great
deal of encouragement In the mat-
ter.
New State Legislature Adjourns.
Guthrie, Ok.: Gov. Haskell has ap-
proved the bill by Representative An-
thony, levying taxes upon the gross
receipts of earnings of public service
corporaUons, upon inheritances and
gifts and upon incomes in excess of
?3,500 per year and the bill imposing
a graduated tax upon land held In ex-
cess of 040 acres, as well as all land
le.ifttd In excess of a like amount. The
l(>0-uay session, as provided by the
constitution, adjourned Tuesday night
sine die.
Horse Killed; Rider Drowned.
Brownwood, Tex.: Otho Elliott, who
runs a livery stable, got on a horso
and started to Bailey addition to see
an employe. While galloping along he
ran Into a place where a bridge had
washed away. The horse had his neck
broken In two places. It is thought
that Elliott was only stunned, but fell
luto a foot of water and was drowned
before help arrived.
road leading Into Fort Worth was crip-
pled. Through passenger trains on the
Hock Island are now running back to
Chlckasha, but expectations aro thai
trains will bo operated as far as Waur-
ika today. Between Fort Worth and
Waurika, tho track was washed out
In many places ranging from 100 to
2000 feet, telegraph wires are down
and trafllc will not bo resumed for at
least a week. The line to Dallas also
has a washout, and a week will bo nec-
essary in which to make repairs.
On tho Frisco a washout and a lost
bridge has been suffered between
Brownwood and Brookesmith, and an-
other washout at North Fort Worth,
But all trains are expected to be run-
ning on schedule time today. A serl-
oun washout occurred on the Cotton
Belt between Carrollton and Grape-
vine, where a portion of the track and
an abutment of a bridge are missing.
Waco, Tex., May 25.—The Brazos
river was thirty-five feet and seven
Inches deep at 9 o'clock last night and
still rising. The present depth la
the highest point on record and is six
Inches above the mark attained ear-
lier this month. Backwater in the two
creeks on tho west side has overflow-
ed many blocks and on the east side
an arefi of fifty blocks in under water.
The loss Is heavy and many families
have been driven out of their homes.
The submerged sections of the city are
being patrolled by policemen aud
deputy sheriffs In boats. The Bosque
16 more than a mile out of Its banks.
Farms In the Bosque and Brazos val-
leys, where cotton and corn were be-
ing cultivated yesterday are deep un-
der water.
The present great flood was caused
by torrential ralna and water spouts
occurring last night.
Parts of wrecked houses and big
trees were seen in the floating masses
going down the Brazos tonight.
As a precaution, travel across the
big new steel bridge and tho suspen-
sion bridge was stopped by the author-
ities. The two railway bridges are al-
so considered in jeopardy.
The flood water has nearly reached
the National cotton press at 9:30
c'cloclc last night. Fire broke out iu
the flooded district, adding to the dis-
may and confusion.
At midnight it was reported from
Guthrie, Okla.,that there had been a
steady downpour of rain fo- more than
twenty-six hours and that the chances
were at that time that the rainfall
would continue throughout the night.
Resulting from the deluge, the Cot-
tonwood river, running through Guth-
rie, threatens to leave its banks, tn
which event much of the lowland whl
be under water.
A message from Chandler states
that trains on the Frisco through there
have been abandoned for the night.
A heavy rainstorm prevailed in tho
region of Lawton for the last thirty-
six hours and reports from there say
railroad service has been abandoned.
A telegram from El Reno states tho
Canadian river near there is beyond
its bank? and many families in tho
bottoms were forced to leave their
homes. The overflow particularly ef-
fects North El Reno. A six foot rise
!n the Canadian there is reported
since 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas in
Oklahoma was forced to quit at noon
Sunday when the bridge on the
main line at Eufaula went down. To
add to the disaster, the main supply-
ing natural gas to the eastern part
if the state was carried away with the
Clarksvllle bridge, and tho supply ot
gas for Muskogee and several other
Southwestern Oklahoma towns was
entirely cut off. Officials of the gaa
company said It will be a week before
repairs can be made so that the gas
supply can again be carried. As natu-
ral gas is used for lighting and heat-
ing purposes, business will be suspend
tJd In a measure.
Practical Application of Split-Log Drag.
Sherman: Bert Clerk, a well know^
blacksmith of this city, has the con-
tract to make seventy-five split log
drags for the county. Sixteen of those
we're completed Saturday afternoon
I and have been sent out as rapidly as
j completed. This Is in connection with
! the offer of the county commission^"*'
court to furnish every neighborhood
in tho county with a drag where It
would be agreed to drag two miles
of road.
Heprctentativs McConnell Killed.
Mineral Wells, Tex.: Hon W. E. Mc-
Connell, Representative from this dis-
trict, was shot and killed in this city
Tuesday afternoon about 5 o'clock.
The killing occurred at the home of
.Teff Pearson, In the eastern part of
town. Mr McConnell had gone there
ii seems, on legal business when lie
was killed. Jeff Pearson, who !;■ a
prominent citizen of Mineral Wells,
came up town and gave himself up
to the officers.
Seven Indictments Against Lamphere.
Laporte, Ind., May 23.—The Grand
Jury has returned seven indictments
against Ray Lamphere, one each charg-
ing the murder of Mrs. Bella Gun-
ness, rhllip Gunness, Lucy Sore«son
| and Myrtle Sorenson, by destroying
,the Gunnoss house, one for arson in
|dentroying the Gunness house by fire,
| one for the murder of Andrew Ilolge-
lf ln on January 14, and one for acces-
sory In assisting Mrs. Gunness In tho
murder of Heigelein.
A gpecial train of eight cars of mules
and grading outfits from Silver City,
N. M„ to bo used' for grading the
Gainesville, Whltesboro and Sherman
Interurban rullway, reached Gralness
j vllle Friday and wore unloaded and dU-
, trlbuted along the new route.
Thlrty-flvo thousand coal miners In
Kansas, Oklohamo and Arkansas, mem-
, tiers of the United Mine Workers of
i America, who have been on a strike
since March 1, last, will return to work
this and next week.
"Helpful Hint*" That Hinder.
Many of the "helpful hints" followed
by uur mothers are now proved utterly
useless, if not more harmful than
helpful. For instance, no one now
uses moist tea leaves to clean a carpet
or rug, because of the Inevitable stain-
ing. And salt used on a carpet col-
lects dampness and rusts the tacks.
Newspapers, dampened and torn, an-
swer the purpose much more satisfac-
torily. Rugs should be shaken from
the sides, for the strain of the weight
on tho end lu very apt to loosen the
weft.
The Entire Family.
Grand Pop used it for Rheumatism.
Dad for Cuts, Sprains and Bruises.
Mammy for Burns, Scalds and Aches.
Sis for Catarrh and Chilblains. I use
it for everything, and it never disap-
points uny of us. It surely yanks any
old pain out by the roots.
Hunt's Lightning Oil Is what I am
telling you about.
Doubting It.
"Sir," said the imperial ruler of all
tho Russlas, "do you realize what a
gulf of inequality yawns between or-
dinary humanity and an autocrat?"
"Dear me!" answered tho doumalte
in mild surprise. "Is this gulf proposi-
tion a czarchasm?"
WARNING FARMERS. Write Dr.
Chas. F. Simmons, of San Antonio,
Toxas, for information about his fino
South Texas farm lands that, he is sell-
ing In lots from 10 to G40 acres for
$210. including two town lots on pay-
ments of |10 per month.
Tho winner is he who gives him
self to his work, body and mind—
Chas. Buxton.
TO DRIVE OUT MA I. ARIA
AM) BIU1.1) HI' TIIE SYSTEM.
Tttko tho Old Stiiiidunl UltOVKti TAHTKlih'SS
m! "VplO. You know what you aru taking.
I no formula Is plainly printed on tivery bottle,
showing ItIh simply Quinln**and Iron In a tautens*
lorm, and the mow effectual forui. For grown
people and children. 6Uo.
He that will lose his friend for a
Just deserves to die a beggar by the
bargain.—Fuller.
Hicks' Capudlne Cures Nervousness,
Whether tired out, worried, sleepless or
what not. It quiets and rofrcshos brain
and nerves. Its liquid and pleusant to
take. Trial bottle 10i egular sizs 25c and
50c at druggists.
It takes a conceited man to make
a continuous hit—with himself.
HELPFUL
You won't tell your family doctor
the whole story about your private
illness—you are too modest. You
need not lx) afraid to tell Mrs. Pink-
ham, at Lynn, Mass., the things you
could not explain to the doctor. Your
letter will be held in the strictest con-
fidence. From her vast correspond-
ence with sick women during the
past thirty years -she may have
Sained the very knowledge that will
elp your case. Such letters as the fol-
lowing, from grateful women, es-
tablish beyond a doubt the power of
LYDIA E.PINKHAM'5
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
to conquer all female diseases.
Mrs. Norman R. Barndt, of Allen-
town, Pa., writes:
"Ever since I was sixteen years of
age I had suffered from an organic de-
rangement and female weakness; in
consequence I had dreadful headachea
and was extremely nervous. My physi-
cian said I must 'go through an opera-
tion to get well. A friend told mo
about Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, and I took it and wrote you
for advice, following your directions
carefully, and thanks to you 1 am to-
day a well woman, and I am telling
all my friends of my experience."
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with,
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
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periodic pains, backache, that l>oar-
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SICK HEADACHE
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