The Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot (Bryan, Tex.), Vol. FOURTEENTH YEAR, No. 151, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 2, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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Don t practice false economy during the summer month to
your sorrow. "Quality reiem upreme lon after price is for-
A fotten." That ii why American Beauty Flour Foljer's Golden
Ovjate wortee Kicnelieu Canned rruiti and egetables National
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umijnj:i v-wm ini cractrn Armour jnieid Laro
Armour'i Banquet Bacon Swift'i Premium Hams and breakfast
Bacon and the courtesy and f rvice we give have such a warm
place in your heart. We want your trade for June on the
quality of our good and our busine methods.
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professional standing to-express their (
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prohibition or regulation of the liquor
traffic
E. J. FOUNTAIN
The Quality Grocer. Phone 111 and 179
Organ Daily fcaglr
By THE EAGLE PRINTINO CO.
stared at tbe PottcS" In Bryan
Texaa ita eecond class matur.
RaUt cf Subscription.
Cue month .40
Three months 1.00
One year 4.00
Advertising rates on application.
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he management by telephoning tbe
office promptly wben carriers fall to
deliver the paper or wben change of
residence occurs.
BRYAN TEXA3. JUNE 2. 1909.
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NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
Advertiser will pleas take notice
that to Insure the appearance of the
ds on the day the copy I brought in
copy for Dally ads both new and
changt must reach the office no;
later than 10 oclock a. m. on the day
the ada are to appear. Copy for ads
In the Weekly must reach the office
by Tuesday afternoon not later than
6:30.
All notice of crimen services and
all other notices must b In the office
by 12 o'clock of the day they ar to
appear.
It la our purpose ts make the Eagle
prompt to the minute and to this It
I necessary to have fixed rules. Our
friend and patron will aid us greatly
by complying with the above.
THE EAGL.E PRINTING CO.
"THIS DATE IN HISTORY."
JUNE 2.
1G41 Richard Dillingham -hoen col
onlal governor of Massachusetts.
17S3 Washington furlougbed the sol
diers of the Revolution.
JS04 Aaron Burr proposed a the
Federalist candidate for governor
of New York.
ISCOFenlana defeated at Itldgeway
Ontario.
18M Republican national convention
at Chicago nominated Jamc (J.
IMftlne for President.
1SI4 Dedication of the Field Colum-
bian Museum In Chicago.
1901 Richard M. McCormlrk cx-C.ov.
ernor of Arizona died at Jamaila
' N. Y. " -
1903 Cruiser Tacoma launched at
Ran Francisco.
I90H iaIIMn Chicago fixing from
iuiury Jll. to Clear Lake N. I)..
broke the aerial speed record av-
eraging "5 miles an hour.
LIGNITE THE BEST FUEL.
While In Dalian last week the writ-
er VlMlted the Texan Portland Celnelit
works rour mile went of the city.
Which ha the largest lignite Ka
plant in the world. Willi thin gas
the company rniiM a Wo horsepower
engine. It ha proven mu ll M success
hat another company the Southwest-
em State I 'or t l.i ml Cement company
Ih putting in a mill larger phmt In
the KHine n.-lghliorhood. It hint .--n
known for Home time that lignite
make the best producer gas ihnt has
yet heen discovered. Iillt We never
realized the ini.il.in f this fact
until we saw it demonstrated at Dal
laa.
' But this U not all that can bo said
for lignite as a fuf. A dlapatcli re
cently sent out from Pittsburg says
llttsburg Pa.. May 18. Texas with
it immense deposits of lignite abort
ly will become the greatest fuel pro
ducing state in the I'nlted States ac
cording to Experts Roberts and Belden
of the Government testing station here
who recently discovered a process by
w hich tbe mineral ran be made applic
able for the same purioses for which
roal la now used and to better advan-
tage. For several months the experts
hare been experimenting with Texas
lignite looking fur some method by
which the 40 jer cent' moisture may
be forced from tbe mineral. It Is aald
a machine baa been procured which
develops 12.000 pound of pressure to
the inch and which takes 30 wr rent
of the moisture from the mineral
leaving the 10 H-r cent which weeps
the bulk together and makes it appli
cable for every use. It Ik also det lar
ed that the process l very cheap and
the ultimate result will be the cheap-
enlng of power on the Pacific roast
to lea than one-half jbe present
coat. The great lignite deposits of
the country are In three States Tex
as. (alifornla and North Kakota.
The lignite fleonlts of Texas ex
tend in a zigzag belt from Texarkana
southwardly to the Rio Grande. This
belt rovers a large ortlon of Brazos
county how large Ih .ret to be deter
mined. -When we come to realize that
lignite briquettes are sticrior to the
best anthracite and that lignite ga
Is the very be t and cteaest fuel on
earth the lmjortanre of these Inex-
haustible deposits will begin to be
At a meeting of the statewide pro-
hibition democratic committee held lu
Dallas Saturday eight numbers beiug
present seven of them favored Hon.
Cone Johnson for governor. The eighth
member. Rev. J. Frank Norrl. editor
of the Baptist Standard declined to
express a preference.
At a meeting of the Methodist con-
ference of the Dallas district last week
the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved. In view of the harmful ef-
fects of tobacco on the youth of our
country and the great Influence of
our ministers we memorialize the
general conference that the law of our
church may require total abstinence
from the use of tobacco In any form
by all who apply for license to preach
In our church."
LAST GENERAL RETIRES.
With th Retirement of General Mac-
Arthur Rank of Lieut. General
In U. S. A. Becomes Extinct
appreciated.
.Meantime the weeds oil the vacant
lota are growing riotously.
Only two weeks more till the June-
teenth and the watermelon.
There has not been too much rain
yet and nobody In kicking except the
baseball contingent.
These be the times when tile farm-
ers are paying the mud tax which Is
the heaviest tax of all.
There are too many schools that
teach boys to live by their wits and
to despise honest labor. Every such
school Is a curse to the country.
opportiuilty "may knock only once
elsewhere but in Texas she keeps
thumping on the door of every wide
awnke person every day in the year.
Spending f I0.nnii.nnn to signal Mars
Would be a foolish waste of money
but It would not le so bad as paying
that much for a DreadnaiiKht to kill
people.
The management of Smith College
is puhllshiim the fait that the kIiN
In that Institution wear I." rent hats.
As an advertising proposition this Is
a wlnmr.
The commission Hisilniei to Iiivcn-
llcate typhoid fever places the blame
for the spread of the disease exclusive-
ly mi the house fly. Fllfth fosters a'ld
fever follow s the flv.
Olive Oil
As a Medicine.
It actum is mildly Laxative
and in being a nutritious food
it should I taken by all who
are of a haSu cointtpaiad to
any decree.
N'o prrcti!H! dovnf i re-
quired. You are simply to take
as much a you care tor on
your fod probably on Salads
hd in Meat or Kish Dressing
Oar Pure Olive Oil
is the kind to use. It is abso-
lutely pure.
Pint 5lC: Gallons $3.50.
Et.!!.!EL & (MONEY
Vure Druj D-peners
It was ljr Milner of Kngland-
tio' President Miln. r of the A. and
M. College who Kl; -k in dimeull
I to interest the people hi more than
.one bis iU.sion at a time."
j This weather calls for extra efforts
o lihl the flie-s ami mosquitoes. If
j something Is not done to check their
Increase die city will sihui be infested
I i'n swarms of ti. p. stlferoiis In-
Set Is.
; ;
KaH- Bernard is nu Oklahoma w-
man who says she doesn't want any-
more rights Iniause she has moro
How than she knows what to do with
or time lo exercise. Com to think of
It that Is the ca e with mot-t of us.
Miss Catherine Wright ulster of
Wilbur and Onllle Is a school teach-
er and ufter sharing in the ovations
to her f nnois brothers will tesumi-
her work In the achnolrom next fall.
IMd. ntly the Wrights are all ilg'it.
The I nltcd Stales Ilrewera' Assm ia-
lion now in national convention In oani'' or August 13 On the
.ttl.in'i. b livltsl n-lrlsters. statls- ' ""'"e .ay he was made major general.
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i... -if bi'i '-ii. i ... u ii ine nicneai ...n-. . iii.uniiiier oi rne irixnu
KpeelaJ to the
Washington D. C June 2. After
nn honorable and eventful mlllf.ry
career of forty-seven years Lieutenant
Ocneral Arthur MnsArthur. the twelfth
and lust American efflcer to reach that
highest rank In the army was retired
toaay. t.corge Washington was the
first on the list. He was npimlnted
lieutenant ;neral ty 1'rerl-lent . Ad
j ams on July 3. IT!'S and held that rack
j at the time of Ms death. I:i accord-
rnco w:tn an crt cf ('ongress passed
a few y-cr!i run the rank of lieutenant
gen-rai tiecotncs alMillthed v.Hh the
re'.lretii 'nt of (Jen. MacAitlur.
Like bis Immediate predecessor in
rr nk. (Jen. Henry C. Corbin. (Jen. Mae-
Arthur began his military cnre r In
th.' volunteer army which was cre.it d
f-r servlc- In the Civil War. Arthur
MacArthur was born In Massachusetts.
June 2. lsr. He was still an infant
when his parents went to Wisconsin
and settled in Milwaukee. Ills fath-
er was the hte Judge Arthur Mac-
Arthur w ho had also serve I as I.b ut-
enat.t Governor of Wlsconidn and for
flv. days as Governor. Young Mac-i
Arthur received his education at th
public schools of Milwaukee and was
not quite sixteen when President Mn
coin Issued hi flrrt call for volun
...io. no meat was ins eagerness to
become a soldier that his fathr hid
great :iniculty In liulm -ine m...
writ until he was strotc r an I bet
'.eii.-a r . I.cnllili ()(
rnniicl;n life.
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..r- 1.. ii M none i r ins eagerness
and spent nearly all his time In th.
recruiting caiuin. wanhim: the drill
ami studying t.icjl.s. In August is.;:'
the t.ovenior. who had kept his ev.
ton the boy comilllsslolied him Mist
lieutenant and adjutant cf the Twenty
loiinn Wisconsin Kpglnient. When
young MacAnhur. nieii a delicate Iw.y
slim and with his voice not jh fV
cnange.i resii1ed to the colonel f
the regiment he received scant we-
come. The colonel appealed to the
(.overnor for a more nianre ndtufant
but the Governor declined the request
.Mac.niiur pnived a model n.IJutant.
However and wkhi .llstl iculshe.l him
self by his coolnes under fire and
bis bravery. Ills first ba'tle was I' r-
ryvllle. and u.. ofllcer ft the command
was cooler braver or more etll. lent
than the boy adjutant. The smne was
true of his conduct In the battle of
Stone River. He was no less- distin-
guished at the Kre.:t l.nttle of Chi. ka-
imttua au.i at .MlsHionaiy Ridge. Nov.
l""..l. During the storming of the
earthworks on the ridge l.iei.t. .n.-.
Arthur io..k the flag .r regit nt
fr-iii th.. o.r b.-.-ner who ha I fallen
and led the command In th- chars.
oellig tlie first to scale the ride and
Planting his flag there. .r 11 act
Me was awarded n tn.lnl of honor bv
t ongr.-ss.
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... (n.iMUMvii major on .lanu.iry
:'". l:i. B4te as lieutenant colonel
during Shermans march to Atlanta
and wr. slightly wounded l:i that
eampaign. He was hrevctted colonel
on March 13. Is.;: promoted to lieur
euant colonel of the Twenty-fourth
Wisconsin Infantry May IS is.;: and
honorably mustered out June 1. Is.;:
Me was not yet entitled to vote when
be brought back his regiment to Wis-
fonsln after the close of the war. Af
ter a few months of rest at home
young Mac-Arthur applied for a coin-
mission in the regular army and was
made second and first lieutenant on
the same day February :'.! is.;.;. i
July of the same year he was ma.h'
captain which rank he retained for
twenty-three years.
On May ls!.!i. Captain MacArthur
was transf.rr.-d to the Adjutant Gen-
eial'B department with the rank of
major and not until iv wn he pro-
moted to be lieutenant colonel. This
rank he he. -r the beg'unlng cf he :
Spanish-America;! war .v. hen he was
made a brigadier general of volunteers !
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Not a Breakfast Food
WATCH THIS PACE
Thursday y Mne
In tbe Philippines and Governor Gen-
eral succeeding General Otic In WO.
He was relieved In July 11 and re-
turned to the I'nlted States.
On January 2. 1!'00 bis rank In the
regular army was changed from lieut
enant colonel to brigadier general.
over the heads of all colonels In the
army and tunny lieutenant colonels
whose comml-ssions antedated bis. On
February . 1101 he was made major
general and placed In command of the
Department of the laikes. At differ
ent times he also commanded the
Department of the Fast the iH-part-mcnt
of California and finally the Di
vision of the Pacific lie became l.leut
General September K litfl. He was
with the Japanese army during the
war with ilussla and Japan and after
ward extensively In the far Fast nnd
In India.
er Mayor l. It. llrown Is suffering
from a stroke of paralysis and It is
thought he ran not recover.
Ma.llsonvllle. Texas June 2. The
summer normal commenced here Mon-
day with fifty attendants under the
charge of Prof. T. J. Palnes.
Hearne. Texas. June 2 The Flee-
trie Light Company has had wires
strung through the business part of
town for a fan circuit and some of
the fans have been Installed. Others
w ill be Installed In the next few days. I
San Antonio. Texas. June 2. The
police clerk has Just submitted his
anntral report for the past fUcal year.
It t.hw that a total of 6.000 arrests
were made and a total of $21"M In
flues lniM)se.. Despite the Sunday
law closing feature there were more
arrests for drunkenness.
Caldwell Texas. June 2. Out of
TEXA8 BRIEFS. the thirty-seven notaries ap.lnted by
Sl Lit t. tlie I'm!... the last legislature for this conntv on-
Yoakum. Texas. June 2. The Sap I ly about half qualified xeMerday. As
shops remi d work this morning on a matter of fact mime of those ap-
full time wiih a full force after a lay pointed have In-eri dead two or three
years while others were apstnted
who did not care to qualify.
off of a week.
Goldt hw alte Texas June 2. Foyn-
Palestine Texas. June 2. Mrs.
Slaughter a lady of advanced age ao
Inmate of the Woman's Kellef Horn
In this city suffered a serious Injiry
by falling fro ma gallery at the ho:i-
whereby her hip was broken. Owing
to her age this Injury may be very
serious as she Is almost SO years of
age.
Ilastrop Texas June 2. Late Satur
day night a Mexl.-an (name could not
be earnd) was roblx-d of fl.10 Pre
vlous to the robbery It s.-cms that b
was beaten on the head with soais
blunt Instrument. Vand.-r Waltes a
n.-aro who liven on Cedar Creek w.ti
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nii.-i.iei nun jiiii.-ij iiiartiefi nn run
mittlng the robbery.
San Antonio Texas. June 2. Mayor
Callaghati and th" othr city officials
have begun their new terms lnarse
. ). .. . . . ! . . a "
mimjii mi- iiih.it i.-nejNiuiirii me mW9
old officers naming Charley Van R.
er as t hl. f of idlce and Phil Wrlbt
as chief of the Are department. F. X.
Glraud was named as city engine.
The other appointments will be m4
later.
t BOYS' CORN CONTEST I
To be Pulled Off in July
w
at
first prize to be
Moon brother'
I he winner of the
awar.'o! a t vie brj'eil
Iluggy worth JM till and a fine set of
hand-maJe f.n! t'ur.mrd Harness
worth JIM ti. -s prize worth $1I.IKI.
TO BE GIVEN BY
X:' i s v . I H . V S .. '. N
BUCHANAN-:
MOORE CO.
Bryan's Big Furniture and Buggy House
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reaching Manila In time to participate
We want everybody to corned
Both are now on display.
5 and examine this First P.rize
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The Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot (Bryan, Tex.), Vol. FOURTEENTH YEAR, No. 151, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 2, 1909, newspaper, June 2, 1909; Bryan, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth323252/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .