The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 3, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 21, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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:. E. C. U. MEETING
80ME 300 DELEGATES ARE AT
THE OPENING. {♦lj
SOME OBJECTS OF MEETING
Questions of Cotton Acreage and Hold-
ing Cotton Are to the
Fore.
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 8.—The annual
convention of the Farmers Educational
and Co-Operative Union met here yes-
terday for a sesion of three days.
About 300 delegates representing
■every Southern State and those of Mis-
souri, Kansas and Washington, are In
attendance. The rapid growth of the
union since Its organization five years
ago has attracted much attention in
all parts of the country, and the con-
vention now in sesion will discuss mat-
ters of vital Interest to the farmers of
all sections. The meeting Is being
held behind closed doors.
C. S. Barrett of Union City, Ga,
president of the Union, arrived early
today and called the convention to or-
der. One of the most Important sub-
jects to be discussed is the advisability
at an organized effort to reduco the
acreage of cotton. The question of
holding cotton for higher prices will
-also be discussed.
Before calling the convention to or-
der, President Barrett said: "We are
here for business and one of the most
Important things we hope to accom-
plish is to get fifteen cents for cotton
and we are going to get It If we have
to hold It from market for years. 1
can not say. how much cotton we are
holding back at the present time."
Many of the largest planters In the
"South and Southwest are in attend-
ance.
FIERCE FIRE IN FORT WORTH.
Texas and Pacific Offices and Freight
Depot Burn.
Fort Worth: Starting from a source
■that remains a matter of conjecture,
Hre destroyed the immense Texas and
'Pacific freight warehouse and office
building Tuesday night, and for an
hour the fiames, encouraged by a
strong win' from the southeast, threat-
ened to create untold havoc through-
out the wholesale district of the city,
■which lies immediately north of the
destroyed buildlnr.
The building was completed in May,
1901. In the warehouse was stored al-
most every conceivable freight con-
signment, including pianos, buggle3,
automobiles, furniture, farming im-
plements and countless smaller arti-
cles of which no record is available.
Along with the south side of the ware-
house on the house track, stood twen-
ty-four cars ready for unloading and
these were barely saved.
Ask Pardon for Caleb Powers.
Georgetown, Ky: The citizens of
Georgetown, irrespective of party,
are preparing an address to the people
of Kentucky, calling upon them to pe-
tition Governor Wlllson to pardon Ca-
leb Powers. This address will be ac-
companied by petitions which will be
sent into every county in Kentucky.
The committee at the vhead of the
movement is composed of four Demo-
crats, two of whom are ex-Confeder-
ates, and three Republicans.
Parties prospecting for oil have dis-
covered such strong indications near
Sulphur Springs that it resulted in a
lease of 7,000 acres of land Just north-
-west of town.
Dramatic Demise of a Tailor.
Fort Worth: ' F. W. Green, aged
forty, a tailor, asked a friend If he
could carry him Into the house, and
-when asked what he meant by such a
question replied: "I am going to pull
off a stunt that will make it necessary
for you to carry me." Green went in-
to a woodshed and drank a bottle full
of carbolic acid an? returned to the
doorway, held the empty bottle up to
the horrified gaze of his friend. He
died almost instantly.
Contract for Lock and Dam No. 6.
Washington: The war department
has advised Representative Beall It
has accepted the Ball-Carden com-
pany's bid on lock No. 6 on the Trinity
river and has let the contract, but is
holding up their bid on lock No. 2
because the judge advocate general
has ruled that pairt of the money rais-
ed by Dallas can not go Into the con-
struction of locks and dams. The mat-
ter is referred to the attorney general,
SCALPERS HIT HARD.
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United 8tstes Court Hands Down a
Hot One.
Austin, Tlx., Jan. 9.—The Supreme
Court dealt ticket scalping a blow to-
day when it ,-emanded two defendants
to the custody of the sheriff of Bexar
County to bj<' punished for contempt
for alleged violation of an injunction
issued by a 11 Mstrlct Court In selling
tickets marked "non-transferable,"
after having been forbidden to do so.
It was contended that the injunction
was wrong because it applied to tick-
ets thereafter1 Issued and those to
points without the State, an interfer-
ence with Interstate commerce. The
Supreme Court says all of these ob-
jections preserit no Justification or ex-
cuse for violating an injunction. The
coi m says that tickets Issued in the
future, under limitations, can be pro-
tected by a previous "Injunction of the
court and that, thetlcketssold were
protected."
Condition of Penitentiaries.
Austin: The state penitentiary board
met here Wednesday. The report of
Superintendent Herring for Decembei
shows 3512 convicts on hand Decem-
ber 1; new received, 11C; returned by
sheriffs, 1; discharged, 66; pardoned,
60; escaped, 3; died, 6; delivered to
sheriffs, B; on h,md December 1, 3500.
Fourteen are -in the insane asylums.
The financial agent's report shows th«
amount on hand December 1, $6509;
receipts during ' the month, $68,049;
disbursements, $01,435; ba'ance on
hand January 1, $13,x23.
Men Go Down at Sea.
Norfolk, Va: A broken message re-
ceived here over the United Statei
Seacoast telegrapll wires from Caps
Hatteras on the Nprth Carolina coast
reports the stranding and loss on the
treacherous Diamond Shoals of an un-
known schooner, ot t of whose crew of
seven fhen, five per shed and two were
saved. The message, which failB to
give the name of thn lost vessel. The
give the nme of tie lost vessel, re-
ports her to have been a schooner
bound for Charleston, S. C.
Blazes at Teagu^ and Barstow.
Barstow: Fire bfoke out in the
re^r of the Barstow Irrigation Com-
pany office at 2:30 Wednesday morn-
ing and destroyed (hat building, the
Barstow Furniture Company, Covey
Meat Market and the Boxley-McCul-
lough dry goods store. The Covey
building and Barstow furniture stock
were the only uninsured property de-
stroyed. Total property destroyed ag-
gregates $7,000, while the insurance
approximates $5,000.
Teague: Fire Tuesday night caus-
ed the total loss of four buildings, the
Avery Hotel, value $5,000,. insurance
$3,000; Hartsfleld Hotel, value $1,500;
Corner Saloon bulldl t;, value $800;
Charles Tuerk, office, |$100; stock of
Corner Saloon, valued|at $2,000, loss
$1,000; Midget Bar, value $3,000, loss
$1,000; Tain Harris, furniture, value"
$600; American Express office, goods
saved. The passenger jlepot narrowly
escaped the fire. !
Boys Bar Booze.
San Antonio: The Spanish War
Veterans, an organization, is on the
water wagon for 1908. trhls is believ-
ed to be one of the few instances ever
known when such organizations has
voted to bar all spirituous liquors from
its functions. This action was taken
at a largely attended meeting this
week. It was voted tnat no intoxicat-
ing liquors should be served at its
smokers or other social gatherings.
Farmers' Union men in Cherokee
County have resolved tq. rfeduce cotton
acreage one-third next yeajr, and to ad-
vance money on the cotton now held
for 15 cents.
Mrs. William White was found dead
in her bed at the home of her son,
Frank White, of Greenville Wednes-
day morning. The deceased, who was
about 75 years old, was the widow of
*japt. William White, who was for
many years a prominent cotton buyer
of Dallas.
Robbers blew open the vault of the
McCurtaln, Ok., State Baqk, forty
miles from Fort Smith, Arki, and se-
cured $3000 In gold and Bllver and es-
caped, leaving no clue. It
Y. C. Randolph, a tinner In the In-
ternational and Great Norther^ shops,
dropped dead at his home In ifalestlne
on account of heart failure.
Charles Smith, an Industrious and
trusted negro worker at the tola Port-
land Cement Works in West\ Dallas,
was caught by a belt Sunday ^nd In
stantly killed. P§!
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The very busy man is generally the
very happy one.
Let no day pass without preaching
the gospel of good cheer.
Make another New Year swear, and
let It. be that you will know what
It going on at the school house.
The busy hen has not yet heard of
the low price of cotton nor of the
financial flurry. Go to the hen and
be wise.
Willie you are not too lazy, get out
and fix up those flower beds for the
girls. You won't have time a little
later on.
The forthcoming census will cost
the people $14,000,000,' and will be
worth—well, mighty little to the aver-
age man.
Life is too short to spend a day
without doing some good deed that
has helped some struggler to make a
better Union man.
Let the watchword for this year be:
"Better packing and more ware-
houses for cotton;, and unto this add
large diversification."
Ask the prosperous farmer how it
was done, and nine times out of ten
he will tell you that It was through
diversification.—Terrell Transcript. *
The late flurry has not hurt any
legitimate and sound business; the
f'rms are making as much stuff as
ever, and it tastes as good as it used
to.
The good Union man who has not
a split-log drag already has a good-
sized sapling picked out to make one
the very first rainy day that comes
along.
Take plenty of the cheap newspa-
pers that are now offered to the pub-
lic. This is a time when "cheap" re-
fers to the price only; be sure -ou get
the quality.
Poultry and prosperity; peanuts and
prosperity; pigs and prosperity; and
so the story goes along through the
whole gamut of the man who Is push-
ing and persevering.
Philosophizing is a very good thing
for one who has nothing else to do,
but we will give a great deal to find
a man who has not a big lot of things
that need doing that have been left
over from last week.
The carloads of turkeys that are go-
ing out of Texas for the Eastern mar-
kets Is another evidence that the good
seed of the Union is taking hold and
bearing fruit that will be the relief
from the cotton fiend.
Of course there are, a lot of poli-
ticians inside of the Union who would
be glad to run the whole thing in
their own Interests. That is a mighty
good sign that the thing is worth run-
ning. Stick to the Union and weed
out this sort of fellows as fast as they
bob up; that's the way to do busi-
ness.
Has your Union ever talked of a
neighborhood cannery? Not one of
those great big things that lit takes
an army to run and a hank to sustain,
but a little quiet wort of a place where
you and a few of your neighbors can
take care of the surplus fruit on your
place for future home use and a little
to sell to the fellows you know over
In town. Talk it up; It is a good
thing.
This is an election year, but It Is
decided by all the prophets that pigs,
poultry, peanuts and prosperity are
keeping step to the march of prog-
ress, and that all Union men are put-
ting lots of stress on the diversifi-
cation Idea.
The reason for the cheapness of
cotton Is found in the unpaid labor of
women and children who put in froxd
twelve to sixteen hours a day raising
the stulf. Figured at the price which
labor ought to bring, the cotton crop
Is a money-losing game from start to
finish at anything like the price It
has brought for the last fifteen years.
Whatever you do, or don't do, b®
sure that you plant only good seed.
This fact should be emphasized all the
time. The reason that the world Is
away behind In many plants Is be-
cause there is little or no care ^exer-
cised in the selection of seeds. Thou-
sands of cotton raisers make no eftort
to save the best seed for planting,
just as if they thought that any sort
of old seed would produce as good
stuff as those that are particularly
noted for productiveness
DON'T GIVE A MORTGAGE.
Don't give a mortgage. Do not go
into debt. Make sacrifleces this year,
says National Co-Operator, that you
may be free and Independent the bal-
ance of your life. You do not. know
how easy it Is to make sacrifices until
you try. And right here listen to a
little story: A good farmer man and
his good wife live In Harrison Coun-
ty, Texas, not far from Hallvllle. It
•vas In the younger days of their mar-
ried .aire, although threes boys and per-
haps a daughter, were growing up
aboift them and would eat. Every
year their little cotton crop had to
go to their merchant for the supplies
they had bought during the year, and
not a cent did they have left over.
After four or five years of this pro-
cedure, the wife said, when they be-
gan to pitch their little crop, "Not a
dollars' worth of anything Is bought
on a credit this year. All we eat we'll
raise hereafter, except those things
we can not raise." The husband looked
askance at her, but he knew when
the little woman put her foot down,
things had to be that way. When
the coffee and the sugar gave out,
she sent some eggs and chickens and
butter to town, and, selling them, ex-
pended the money for these things.
Not a cent's worth of anything was
bought on credit that year, and never
has since. They sell their cotton to
whom they please, raise everything
possible at home, have raised their
three boys and their two girls, giving
them good educations, and there are
not three better young men in Texas,
nor sweeter, better women than the
two daughters, both married. Now,
what that couple did, or rather that
good little wife, every couple can do,
if they will try, and It Is 00 easy
to do when you once commence.—Na-
tional Co-Operator.
LEGISLATION ASKED FOR.
At the recent meeting of the Farm-
ers' Union at Memphis, the following
legislation was asked of the Nation-
al lawmakers:
A law by which all money shall
be Issued by and under the direct
control of the Government.
The passage of a law by Congress
prohibiting the buying and selling of
cotton futures, and all other farm
products, or gambling in agricultural
products in any manner.
The immediate abolition by Con-
gress of the Federal bureau for dis-
tribution of seeds and the speedy en-
actment of laws substantially exclud-
ing the present alien influx by means
of an increased head tax, a money re-
quirement, the illiteracy test and oth-
er measures.
That Congress extend the parcels
post, increasing the number of pounds
to be carried in the malls from four
to eleven, and a reduction in postage
from 16 cents to 12 cents per pound;-
also the establishment of a parcels
post system on the mall delivery
routes, carrying a special rate to be
charged on packages originating on
rural routes, the rate to be 5 cents
for the first pound and 2 cents for
each additional pound up to eleven
pounds.
The establishment of a postal sav-
ings bank system as a means of keep-
ing money at home, aiding circulation
and guaranteeing for the farmers a
safe depository.
It has always looked to this scribe
that It must be a mighty lively bug
which could stand being plowed under
good and deep In the fall and turned
over at least once during the winter,
and still come up in the spring ready
for Its work of destruction. By plow-
ing under all the green stuff that you
can you enrich the land and prepare
it for the next crop, and if you will
break up the bug some time during
the winter, he will be gathered to his
fathers mighty quick.
Have you an open meeting planned
for your local? It Is about the best
time in your life to DO IT NOW.
This life is not calculated to make
angels of any of us, but the mean, low-
down cuss that fails to make his im-
prisoned live stock comfortable is
suffering for a few days out of doors
In the rains and half rations In his
belly. That would help him a great
deal.
Every shipload of Immigrante com-
ing to America raises the price ot
land, thus enriching the land specula-
tor, while increasing the burdens that
the homeless Americans ana their
families must bear before they can
ever obtain homes. Yet those home-
less ones get together in unions and
resolve against the foreign immigrant,
but are silent concerning their real
enemy—the land monopolist at home.
Don't play into the hands ot the
Implement and vehicle trust by letting
your Implements and vehicles go to
ruin for lack of shelter, paint and
repair. The implement and vehicle
men all wear good trousers, but the
blooming Idiot, to whom It Is tpo much
trouble to take care of hlB things,,
can always feel the north wind
mighty plain when he happens to face
the south.
Cor valiancy were
Advices from Canton, China, tell of
a restaurant fire In which 300 people
lost their lives.
E. O. Price, eashl
tlonal Bank of Big
day morning at 5 t
jf the First Na*
rings, died Fri-
It is reported that the
age 4n Denton county is
per cent of the average
wheat acre-
not ove- 30
San Angelo is moving to secure the
general shops of the Kansas City,
Mexico and Orient Railway.
Police Commissioner Mullcey of Fort
Worth states that he will not agala
be a candidate for the place.
Some of the labor unions in Dallas
threaten to fine members who fa*! to
pay poll tax and qualify as votert.
Dallas has made a contract for 25,-
000 barrels of cement at $2 a barrel at
the cement works Just west of that
city.
The postofflce at Lovelace, Hill
County, has been discontinued, rural
routes having covered the territory
around It
Many outhouses were blown down
and signs blown away at Denton Fri-
day; the most blustering day for sev-
eral years.
The Halle Land Company has estab-
lished automobile service from Brady
■to Menardville, Mason, Eden and
other Interior points.
In the old fiddler's contest held at
the court (house at Cleburne a few
nights since, a lady, Mrs. Sanders ot
Koppetf, won the first prize.
Gus S. Schmltt, a well known ama-
teur baseball player, died in San An-
tonio Friday morning. He was known
all over Texas by the name of Barry.
Two Mexican lions, or cougars, are
reported in Cedar Creek bottom, near
Prairievllle, In the southeastern por-
tion of Kaufman County, by. trappers
of that vicinity.
Rev. C. W. Crook, formerly superin-
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League in
Indiana, has been placed at Houston,
from which place he will engage in
the fight against the saloon.
Raymond Lockhart, a negro boy of
14 years, was run over and killed in
Dallas Friday afternoon by a switch
engine of the Houston and Texas Cen-
tral Railroad Company. He had been
riding on the footboard of the engine.
It is estimated that the wheat acre-
age will double that of last year In
Armstrong County. Farmers are pre-
paring to plant quite extensively to
oats this spring. Claude has a new
elevater nearly completed with which
to care for the new crop.
The Grand Jury has found three
bills of indictment against Curtis Ma-
son, charged with assault with Intent
to kill Rev. W. E. Mason, Rev. Ma-
son's wife and his mother. Curtis
Mason was placed In the Johnson
County jail two days after the shoot-
ing. ■
A crew of surveyors will be put in
&ie field within the next few days for
the purpose of locating site for a
reservoir from which to get Rotan's
city water supply. As soon as the lo-
cation is made work on the water-
works system will be commenced.
After the most successful exhibition
in the history of the Southwestern
Poultry association It closed Its nnual
show at the Dallas Fair grounds Fri-
day nigh*.. In every way the show
has been a success. , fj Ay' 1
Two negro farm hands who made a
murderous.assault on Mr. and Mrs.
Martin Livingston at their home in
GoldsboroUgh, Ky., Thursday night
were captured by a posse and shot to
death. Both Mr. and Mrs. Livingston
are dangerously hurt.
Fire broke out In the second story
of the City National Bank building at
Texarkana Thursday night, but was
subdued after about $600 dimages had
resulted to furniture and fixtures. The
loss is fully covered by insurance.
It is announced that the shops of
the Texas Midland Railroad in Terrell
Will be run ateftiy during the present
year. Heretofore the shops have been
operated with a fuN force a portion of
the year and at other periods the force
was cut down.
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Banger, John. The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 3, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 21, 1908, newspaper, January 21, 1908; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth340730/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.