The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1897 Page: 4 of 6
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Dallas has decided to enlarge
Jier -fund '"for the encouragement
ofjzawi&cturing.
Chairman Blake states that a
conference of the state democratic
: executive eonmittee will be called
;n a few days.
Congressman John H. Stevens
has written a letter in which he
says: "I think -the amendment
known as the irrigation amend-
ment to the State Constitution to
be voted on in our state on the
first Tuesday in August next
should be adopted by the people."
Congressman Cook of Illinois
was found dead in bed at his hotel
in Washington City on the morn-
ing of June 24th.
The -Spanish government has
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ment of tobacco from the IslancnU marillo in a herd of cattle that
of Cuba.
The State Teachers' Associa-
tion held its annual meeting at
Waco this week.
Of course Coxey is a great man
and could run the affairs of this
government to perfection but it
is now clear that he cannot suc-
cessfully manage a newspaper en-
terprise and has let his paper
."Sound Money" die. It takes
something more than brass and
bray to succeed in the newspaper
business.
Topeka Kansas suffered great
damage from a hail storm on the
24th ult and several people were
killed by the hail.
The News has not been devot-
ing much space to the Windsor
Hotel burning cases. It is al
ready apparent that those cases
are not likely to be prosecuted
much further in the courts. It
was- a terribly bad case on the
face of it and the turn that things
are now taking makes it still
worse. If those interested in
prosecuting those cases cannot af-
ford to do it why should the
News be expected to take stock
against them and jeopardize its
interest? Who will reimburse it
for what it might lose by doing
so!
Rarh wirp. fences alone lanes
and public highways should be
prohibited by law. They are a
nuisance and no one should be
allowed by law to maintain so
dangerous a nuisance. We know
that thi.titiment will be scoffed
at byJpndreds who read it and
yetimttwre the prediction that
ten 3bp ktnce the law will be as
indicated above.
The. News is asked by an El
Paso gentleman to oppose the
ratification of the constitutional
amendment relating to the valida-
tion of bonds- This we can only
do in part. We firmly believe
that every state municipality and
individual should pay their debts
. and the laws should be so framed
a to enforce this. But the prin-
ciple in this thing of "pay me and
let the other fellow go to hades"
im what unsettles us. If the peo
ple want to validate invalid bonds
tittjvimould make no distinction
'aitojipjders. It isn't honest to
do no. m--
The railroad companies have
(i01a:W.geater favor than
tfci know of. The legislators
were offered a free trip to Nash-
Tillent the end of their session
nad no they got a move on them-
nelven and went
It in reported that the president
' ku dnc&ed to appoint T.:V. Pow-
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.Igfci ike fttd twfa in Texas
aregoiagto be inraieftte and we
with to warn the farmers and
tockmen againit letting it go to
watte as we have weti in years
gone by.
The protective tariff is a steal
and you can't figure it out any
other way but if it has come to
stay the best thing forj'the South
to do is to fight for her; share of it.
Texas will have wheat for the
J world this year; she will have corn
to feed to hogs and oats to throw
at the birds. We fall have a
surplus which if Bared will do
us for two or three yesrs to come.
The watermelon crop promises
to be unusually fine tt is year.
It is fast becoming known
abroad that a wave of prosperity
has struck Texas and that it has
come to stay.
It is announced that Elder Go-
lightly will commence a protract-
ed meeting in San Angelo on Fri-
day before the second Sunday in
July.
Ohio democrats arfi getting a
move on themselves rtnd the pre-
diction is freely madtf in almost
all quarters now tlu.t the state
will go democratic at the next
election.
Poor old Sullivan has gone into
training again and it is said that
he really thinks he can whip Fitz-
simmons. One. of the greatest
faculties is to know when you've
got enough of anything but Sulli-
van does not seem to be possessed
of it
If Texas fever has broken out near
Iflaiely came from Big Springs.
The herd has been quarantined
and cattlemen through whose pas
tures it passed are scared up.
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A hot wave swep over the en-
tire country last 'reek which
caused much discomfort. A strip
of country from Georgia to the
northwest seemed to suffer most.
Paris Texas is vex id over the
water supply question and it is
to be hoped that they may be
able to settle it as easily as ours
has been settled.
It has been talked for some
time that the Lytle d&m was to be
stocked with game fish soon. If
they want to raise plenty of game
fish they must keep the German
Carp out of it.
The News had some hard
thingso say about the late legis-
lature but observing that our ex-
changes are giving it to them in
the neck from one end of the state
to the other we forbear to make
further comment. Too much
abuse makes them t.u object of
charity.
An exchange says "the sugar
trust has conceived the scheme of
buying Cuba from Spain and run-
ning it as a huge sugar plantation."
It should have used the words
"bidding in" in place of buying.
They'll make the consumers of
sugar in this country do the foot-
ing of the bill.
The citizens of El Paso should
surely have a kindly feeling for
the Kailroad Company that stands
the expense of building a levee to
protect the city from overflow.
Senator Cannon of Utah advo-
cates a bounty on exports. Other
countries have paid bounties on
exports and given lpremium on
international commerce and why
should not this! If the 60-called
home industries have to be pro-
tected by levying a tariff that
will exclude all importations let
us even the thing up all around.
Arid if we have an industry that
imports cannot affect let us vote a
bounty to it. In the direction
things are tending it's nothing
but right.
Ex-Gov. Peck of Wisconsin is
opposed to capital punishment.
He says: "I wouldn't hang a
lawyerjlhave a sdk growing up
in that profession. Why I
wouldn't even hang an editor."
He is very kind-hearted and con-
siderate. It may be that he thinks
his son may yet have to make his
living at the newspaper business.
There's nothing like considering
a question in all its bearings.
The government !ims about per-
fected the arrangement for im-
provements of the Mississippi
river and for levee work along
its valleys.
JG
Dun's weekly review of busi-
ness is more hopeful and encour-
aging this week than for a long
time past It says: 'There is no
step backward in business al-
though the season of midsummer
quiet is near. Improvement con-
tinues gradual and prudently cau-
tious as before although in many
branches evident where no signs
of it appeared a few weeks ago.
Business men of the highest stand-
ing in all parts of the country
having gradually perceived that
the tide has begun to rise are
regulating tneir contracts ana in-
vestments and their plans for the
future with a confidence quite un-
known to them a short time ago.
Great changes before the adjourn-
ment of Congress are hardly to
be expected but removal of un-
certainty is with reason expected
to bring into operation buying
forces which have been restricted
for months. Meanwhile it is en-
couraging that crop prospects
still grow brighter that the
industries meet a gradually in
creasing demand for products
that labor questions which had a
threatening aspect have been ad-
justed and that the Treasury
maintains its ample strength not-
withstanding some exports of
gold brought about by premiums
paid on behalf of foreign govern-
ments' A gang of counterfeiters was
captured last week near Little
Eock Ark.
A passenger train on the Wa-
bash road broke through a trestle
near Missouri City Mo. on the
20th ult. and several people were
killed.
Jim Williamson was hanged at
Wharton Texas last Friday.
They cut him down too soon and
had to hang him a second time.
Is not that labored effort of the
legislature the new fee bill that
pretends to scale the official fees
so ruthlessly a shrewdly contriv
ed subterfuge?
says it is.
The Dallas News
The business men of Port
Worth are trying to get up
enough of the needful to induce
some one to start a morning daily
paper in that city. They have
found out down there that some-
thing more is necessary than to
simply give some newspaper man
a permit to do business in their
city.
Friday of last week seems to
have been a general hangman's
day. Ten or a dozen executions
by hanging were reported from
different sections of country.
Since Americans have taken
such a deep interest in the obser-
vance of the queen's jubilee En-
glishmen on the .other side of the
water seem to think a great deal
more of Americans.
The United
States senate is
in 'fcnnnkiiMr out
asrain enjraceu
r ---o"o o
trusts." They play at that game
like a school boy plays at bat and
ball for recreation.
T
he irrigation amendment to
he constitution is the fairest and
most just plan yet presented.
Onlv the resident land owners of
the proposed district whose lands
ire irrigable have a right to vote
in the organization and manage-
ment of said district. Everything
is m tne nanus oi me larxnurs
themselves who get the benefit
of the water at its real cost with-
out profit to any corporation.
Whenever you hear any one op
posing the amendment examine
their motives closely and you will
find that they are advocating irri
gation by private capital which
means a private corporation
which wants a great big profit out
of the neoDle.
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It does not follow because the
amendment is adopted that it will
cost you anything. You will not
have to pay one cent unless you
have irrigable land for the benefit
of which irrigation works will be
constructed. Irrigation will add
fifty dollars per acre to every foot
.
of irrigable lan you have upon
. .. . . . .
which the water is piacea. ana
vou as an honorable man will bd
more than willing to pay youri
part of the cost. It is only the
speculator the fellow who wants
other people to improve a country
and make his land valuable who
will object to paying his just part
of the cost of the irrigation worksj
The State Cotton Ginners' As-
sociation was held at Waco this
week.
Great
Colja proTcd by the atafjeatt of ka&-
OttlOo tac dracgtota erarywhere ateow
that tfca people haTe aa aMdlas cooldeace
In Hood's Sanaparllla. Great
. . r Att prored by the voluntary state-
wUlOS nenta ot tbotnands of people
show that Hood's Sarsaparllla has great
QA1lf A. orer disease by partfylac en-
rUwfCl riebing and InTlgoraUni; the
blood upon which health and life depend.
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists f 1.
u j r i are the only pills to take
nOOU S FlllS with Hood's Sarsaparllla.
An Assignment.
The News was both surprised
and pained to learn late last Fri-
day that J. V. Cunningham had
made an assignment for the bene-
fit of his creditors. He named
Henry James as trustee.
A careful inquiry develops the
fact that Mr. Cunningham has
been forced to take this step both
injustice to his creditors and him-
self and that the property is
amply -sufficient to pay everything
if rightly handled.
Several causes have conduced
to bring about this result among
which may be mentioned the fol-
lowing: 1st. The payment in the last
few years of about 15000 securi-
ty for others.
2nd. Failure on the part of the
patrons of his late grocery busi-
ness to pay about $3000 due him.
3rd. The payment of ubout
$2000 already on account of the
late trouble at Wichita Kan.
4th. The disposition on the part
of Mr. Cunningham to pay every-
thing but to prevent one creditor
from getting ahead of another and
sacrificing property needlessly.
This is the best season we have
had for years and even now irri-
gation would be a great thing for
us. If the com field could be
thoroughly saturated with water
from an irrigation ditch they
would produce thirty bushels of
corn per acre more than they now
promise. This trouble comes
every year and notuing wouiu
prove so profitable to the farmers
of this section as irrigation.
From the map on the last page
it can be seen that this country is
traversed by quite a number of
streams and is well watered. And
a large per cent of the lands along
these streams is susceptible of ir-
rigation. Irrigation will be worth
at least $1000000 to the county.
The News in summerizing the
game law last week was guilty of
an error and an oversight. The
error consisted in stating that
deer were classed with antelope
and should not be killed for five
years. This ought to be so but
it isn't. The oversight consisted
in an omission to say that the sale
ofallgameis prohibited outside
of the county where it is killed.
This is one of the best provisions
of the law.
Indiana is to have a census of
its tramps taken soon. This evi-
dently means the tramps within
its borders at a given time for
there is no way of enrolling the
native tramps of that state who
are now spending the summer at
fashionable health resorts of the
country.
rAll that west Texas asks of the
east in this irrigation voting is
pimply a vote "yes" in order that
we may have the privilege of irri-
gating in the various local com-
munities that may afterward de-
sire to do so. There is nothing
compulsory about it even after
the amendment becomes a law.
It simply gives the right for each
irrigable district to do so if they
choose and further it does not in-
f elude any lands that are not sus
ceptible to irrigation. Cisco
LRound-Up.
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AewH service juxteiiaea.
The St. Louis Republic recently made
arrangements with the cable companies
wnerebv direct news from all sections
of the civilized world are received. It
now prints more authentic foreign news
than nnr other paper and continues to
keep up its record for publishing all the
home news. The outlook for the year
is one of big news events fast succeed-
ing each other and they will be highly
interesting to every one. The price of
the Republic daily is $G a pear or $1.50
for three months. The Twice-a-Week
Republic will remain the same one
dollar a year by mail twice-a-week.
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Carriage Licenses.
Tom G Crofton to Miss Ollie Crocker
R C Tnvlor to ilies Bessie Piatt.
Notice.
ThP Curfew law will eo into eiiecc
Jnlv 5 isy7 Tue ire ben wm ring
ninp tlrnps. three taDS. pauBe; tnree
more pause; and then three more i If-
teen minutes after nine all children not
with parents or guardians must leave
the streets of this city. It is not to vex
worry or annoy children going to or
from church socials night schools or
Christian Endeavor nor does it inter-
fr with children stavinir on the lawn
i or on the street In view of their parent;
The Curfew lessens truancy tramping
and petty thievery among youths and
every man of judgment knowa that the
neglected boy makes the bad man. In
the enforcement of this ordinance I ask
the co-operation of every parent in the
citv. J. J. CLINTON
- City Marshal.
Our Honor Boll.
The following named persons have
paid subscriptions during this 'month
as follows:
Hon J T Tucker $1.00.
Col H S Menefee 1.00.
TW Bowman 50.
A Strictly Cash Business.
Commencing July 1st we shall
do a strictly cash business and
discontinue the free delivery busi-
ness. By selling meat for "spot
caBh and saving the expense of
delivery and collection we are
enabled to give much better
prices which will really make it
better for purchasers.
Scott Bros.
"Last summer one of our grand-
children was sick with a severe
bowel trouble" says Mrs. E. G.
Gregory of Frederickstown Mo.
"Our doctor's remedies had failed
then we tried Chamberlain's Colic
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
which gave very speedy relief."
For sale by Word & Alexander.
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A few fellows who have darn-
ed the Concho with brush over in
Tom Green county and partially
gotten the benetits of its waters
on their own farms have become
so utterly greedy and selfish that
they object to others getting ben-
efits of irrigation and are writing
newspaper letters advising the
people of the state to vote against
the amendment. Wichita Ledger.
Without a storage system water
enough to irrigate millions of
acres in West Texas runs to waste
in the spring time. The adoption
of the irrigation amendment will
enable the people of this section
to hoard up the waters for the
summer season when it becomes
of inestimable value. Wichita
Ledger.
Towns and cities have always
had the power to issue bonds and
put in water works; then why
should not the country have the
same riKhtto issue bonds and con
struct irrigation systems Let
the country people have a chance
to put in these plants if they de-
sire. Baird Star.
When such a man as Judge
Reagan unreservedly endorses the
irrigation amendment it is about
time for calamity howlers to give
the people a rest bv their silence.
Ex.
Hon. John II. Reagan "the
grand old man" as many of his
admirers call him has come out
squarely in favor of the adoption
of the irrigation amendment.
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Divine Healer Schrader was
stoned out of St. Louis the other
day. He saved his life by the use
of his own heels about the same
time Divine Healer Schlatter was
fasting to death in Chihuahua
Mexico. Dallas News.
B. S. Davidson has decided to
build a telephone line from Anson j
to Abilene. He asked for a bonus
of 3350 from the business men of
Anson and we understand that
the amouut (lacking perhaps a few
dollars) has been subscribed. Mr.
Davidson informed us yesterday
that the matter was settled. The
line will be built as soon as it is
practicable. It will be a great
convenience to the people of
Anson. Western.
No humane person will expect a hoise
to v:ork against a soro shoulder nor to
rest quietly under galling harness or
saddle. When theee troubles appear
the proper method is to remove the
cause of the eor and apply Dr. i. 11
McLean's Volcanic Oil Liniment. It is
a superior remedy for galls and sores
chafes and burns on animal flesh. Price
2."ic 50c and $1 a bottle. For sale by
Uass Ilros.
Guaranteed free from Verdigris or
other impurities containing the rich
properties of malt Chase's Barley Malt
Whisky builds up the system and
strengthens the lungs. G us Ackermans
sole agent for Abilene.
Dead JLettertt.
Letters lemtlnlnjr uncalled forln tliej.oator-fti-e
at Abilene. Texas.Iay J Ib'jT.
GENTLEMEN'S LIST.
Rrown J W Croure. Wm C
Collins Monroe Ellis Jesse
Barber II W Hines R P
Ingle H 3f Moore J H
Park J L Rutleuge Eli
Roberts. S F Vins C E
LADIES' LIST.
Ragsdale. Miss Maggie
Waters Martha J
Box No. 4
Persons
picas say
verttalng.
calling for the above letter will
"advortleed" and gle dale of d-
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: Groceries. Do we count
YOU among our custom-
: ersJ We are anxious to
J sell you and offer you
I GRQEEBIES AT LOWEST PRICES.
3-
? Call and see us. We also
have FBTJIT JARS which :
we can sell at low figures.
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LEES0N & EBBERS0L
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Abilene Tex. 3
the Way1 we
' BUY
Makes lowest
with; the way
quick turnovers of all stocks
under all conditions. A quick
command of ready cash gives
us buying power and every
advantage we
ly to you. Less to pay here
than anywhere that's a fact 1
make your own comparisons.!
He Toweling at
ing an extra value at Gc per
bargain that will not come again. Special Price
35c Broom for
every respect. This grade has
for less than 3oc. How can we
infrc nf CTift nouli mnr lirwla s?mi
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35c Ax Handles for 15c. 'tliueVhick:
orj handle ft is as good as any made at any price. "J p fj
These handles are sold in Abilene at 3c. Our price --" . 1
Lamp Chimneys.
not the warped .and twisted kind full of blisters etc. J ej
they are perfectly clear and beautiful. All sizes at iC fe5
Linen Towels.
Red Borders fast colors size
is a good size towel they are
iliee Hive for less than 25c.
Box Paper Bargains.
per and two packs of envelopes
The paper alone is worth over
entire lot for only
Grraniteware.
jgraniteware than we handle.
but we distinctly describe them as such at the time of sale.
BUY THE KIND we recommend and if dissatisfied your
money will be cheerfully refunded. Our prices are lower "now
on these high grade goods than
THE BEE HIVE
ONE PRICE SPOT CASH.
BURTON-LOTO C.5
L.U7VIBeR D6HL6RS.
ABILENE TEXAS.
All kinds of Building Material at lower prices than ever befoiv.
fhe top of the market paid in trade or on notes and accounts for
Cotton Cotton seed and oats. Free delivery within city limits
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1 FAMILY AND FANCY GROCERIES.
' North Corner Union Block
-o 5Plne Street. ABILENE TEXAS.?-
prices to begin
we sell insures
get goes direct
3c.
This is a iirstclass
cotton crash towel-
yard. We think this is a
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They are artistic handsome
and durable. Fancy Turkey
lHx'M inches. Kemember this
not sold outside of the 1 4n
Our price is only J-Vt'
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good writing pa-
to match all put up in a box.
20c. We offer the lA
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Skill can not produce or
money can not buy a better
We also handle a lew 'secouds?
ever beiore named.
The Busy Store.
West Side Pine St.
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Our
Specialties :
Fedora Hats
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Neglige Shirts.
OUR STOCK OF NEG-r
LIG-E SHIRTS IS THEl
COMPLETEST OF ANYj
IN ABILENE. WEAL- 5
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Lowry, James A. The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1897, newspaper, July 2, 1897; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth330288/m1/4/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.