Denton County News. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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TEXT BOOK BILL.
Approved by Governor Culberson.
Letters from Other Governors.
Governor Culberson has signed
the uniform text-book bill passed
bv the reoeht legislature. Before
signing the bill he wrote to gov-
ernors of the states now having
such a law. The following re-
plies should iuterest our readers
who desire to know how such a
system has worked:
Austin, Tex., June 9.—Gov-
ernor Culberson has had the uni-
form text-book bill under consid-
eration, passed in the regular ses-
sion, and has been corresponding
with governors of the states where
the uJifonn text-book system pre-
vails, and has received the follow-
ing letters from the governors of
Louisiana, Indiana and Montana:
Baton Rouge, La., June 7.
Hon. C. A. Culberson, Governor
of Texas, Austin:
Dear Sib.—Replying to your |
telegram of inquiry concerning
tlie merits of a "uniform text-book
University Resolution.
Austin, Texas, June 9.—The
following resolution relating to
the state university, and signed
by Ilensley, Shelburne, Bums,
Barbee, Wall, Rogan, Ewing and
Lillard, was offered in the house
to day, and went over to take reg-
ular course after being read one
time:
Whereas. The University of
Texas is the property of the people
in which all have a common
interest; and
Whereas. It is currently re-
ported that there has been em-
ployed and included in the facul-
ty of said university those who
are out of touch and not in sym-
pathy with the traditions of the
south, but hold our traditions and
our institutions in contempt and
circulate and teach political here-
sies in place of the system of
political economy that is cherish-
ed by our people; therefore be it
Resolved. That the speaker of
the house appoint a committee of
five members, who shall investi-
gate and report the truth or in-
Been
J. P. Blount, President.
A. E. Graham, Vice Pres't.
B. H. Dkavenport, Cashier
W. W. Wright, Ass't. Casniei
law," 1 will say: The consensus ^ ^ _ „
of opinion amongst those qualified | correctut,sa 0f such charges. Said
to judge is that this law is a good j commmee shall have power to |
one. It secures concessions from j sumnl011 witnesses and take testi-1
publisheis that could not other- mouy. and be further
wise be obtained. It is a step Resolved. That we, as repre- j
toward organized school work. | sesntatives of the people, request!
lias the merit of system, and at
the same time it is in the line of
economy to the patrons of the j 8e[ectjng a8 members of the facul
schools, as frequent changes in ouiy those who are known to
textbooks must necessarily be ^ ju sympalhy with southern
expensive. These reasons sug- p0jj^jeai institutions, and further
gest themselves, and seem ample . req„e8t tlienl to cancel, as soon as
to justify an approval of the sjs- praet,cabie, auy existing contract
One Thousand Camps Have
Registered.
New Orleans, June 10.—Gen-
eral Gordon, commanding the
United Confederate Veterans, has
issued the following order:
General Orders No. 190.
Headquarters United Confeder-
ate Veterans, New Orleans, June
9. With pride the general com-
manding announces that 1000
camps have been registered in
the United Confederate Veterans'
association, with applications for
over 100 more.
lie urges those Confederate
soldiers and sailors who have not
joined this benevolent brother-
hood, to at once organize and ap-
j ply by letter, or wire, to these
headquarters for proper papers,
so as to be represented at the
Nashville reunion, and assist in
devising means to help their more
needy comrades, and the widows
and orphans of those of our
comrades who have preceeded us
in eternity.
By order of J. B. Gordon, gen
eral commanding.
Geo. Moorman.
The Denton County National Bank.
DENTON, TEXAS.
Capital, $50,000. - - Surplus, $4,500.00
A general banking business transacted. Your business solicited.
w. 0. wright,
j. a. rhoads,
. c.i.thomas,
DIRECTORS:
a. k. graham,
o. 11. rle witt,
j. 1\ knox
lock forrester
j. t. bottokff
j. p. blount
—^EEEEW. H. miLL SI^EEEE^-
(V ISNTON'S OLDEST BARBER, invites you to call. He has five
0 chairs and five excellent workmen to wait on you, and
razors are always in Irim to do you a nice, clean job.
fl®-SAME .STAND. SOUTH SIDE SQUARE.~®B
Floods in New England.
Boston, Mass., June 10.—The
Northeast rain storm which set
in yesterday morning and which
was apparently the culmination
of a week of dull weather appears
to have blown itself out to-night.
The storm lias been almost unpre- j
cedented for this month, many
*Dr. J'rank 9//u//f'ns,
OF FORT WORTH,
Specialist in diseases of the
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT,
Will be at the
OATMAN HOUSE
years having passed since rain Each Sunday for a year, begin-
i the regents of the university to
! exercise great care hereafter in
has fallen so heavily in June.
The destruction of life and
property by reason of the storm
lias also been surprising, particu-
larly along the various branches
$22.50 to San Francisco, Cal., $22.50 0f the Boston and Maine railroad.
Washouts have multiplied during
ning April 11.
Adjutant General and Chief o
I Staff.
F
B. HOGG, M. D.,
Physician and Snrflcpii.
tem.
Yours truly,
Murphy J. Foster.
with members of the faculty not
so in sympathy.
City Bees.
Waco, Texas, June 11.—The
Indianapolis, Ind., May 29.
My Dear Governoi: ; l)pe 1,unters have made some dis-
1 beg to acknowledge receipt ol coverieg 0f swarm8 in several
your telegram of this date. Permit jowers and garrets 111 Waco. One
me to say in reply that the "school iarge colony settled in the steeple
book law" has proven a success, of the Fifth Street Methodist
It has resulted in the double ad- j ^f0?ney"makfng on a large ! written about this trip, but if you
vantage of cheaper, and at the j 8Caje_ Before getting inside the are interested and will send your
^ Gtn.. 11 ni fn rill llfinkS Prior rt ♦ lwv nnl nmr I'nnnPfl fl. h II Of A ...n ..,<11 f/MinrnnH Q noilinhlpt
From Fort Worth and many other
points in Texas, is the very low
rate the Denver road announces
011 account of meeting of Young
People's Society of Christian En
deavor, July 7 to 12, inclusive.
Tickets will be on sale June 29,
30, July 1, 2 and 3, 1897. Tickets
at rate of 122.50 will be on sale in
San Francisco for return passage
July 12 to 17, inclusive; also Mon-
days and Thursdays thereafter as
follows, viz: July 19, 22, 26, 29,
August 2, 5 and 9, 1897. Very
liberal stop-over privileges are
accorded on going trip in Colo-
rado. In fact a column could be
OFFICE A'l
the day and terrible freight wreck LipSCOmb & Foreman's
at Exeter, N. H., in which three Drug Store.
trainmen were killed, was due di- Residence: -Second dwelling from
. \rrvr*«»joiTni-v S(iiiarGon north Ride of East Hickory
; rectly to the storm. Nearly eve > , /(^epot) street opposite .1. K.Edward's
city and town in Maine, New <.0Uon yard. Phone:—Office, 83; resi-
Ilampshire and Vermont, situated deuce, 5!).
on a stream of considerable size,
UI1 tt OlltWIH Ui
reports much damage by the high p) bIPSCOMB,
water, while the lowlands all 0
M. D.
through this region are flooded
The precipitation has been excep-
tional, 2.00 inches of rain having
Physician and Surgeon.
office at
fallen 'since yesterday morning, I LipSCOmb & Foreman's
while the wind at times reached a
DRUG STORE.
same time, uniform books. Prior
to the passage of this law, the pat-
rons of our public schools were
subjected to frequent changes in
text-books, inaugurated by com-
binations of publishing houses
and school officials. rl his im-
posed a tax for new books, and
the lack of uniformity forced a
change in books lor every change
in locality made by pupils. I do
not hesitate to pronounce our
uniform text-book law a success.
Very truly yours,
James A. Mount,
Governor.
steeple the colony formed a huge
clot on the lightning rod. It was
an unusually large swarm aud the
buzzing could be heard on the
street. Crowds collected and
watched the bees. A shower of
rain caused them to hurriedly en-
ter the steeple at the highest
point, and to day they were ply-
ing in and out, evidently entirely
at home and getting ready for
housekeeping.
Attempt to Assassinate.
name, we will forward a pamphlet,
giving full information with refer-
ence to same. 1). B. Keeler,
General Passenger Agent.
Eli A. Hirshfield,
Ass't General Passenger Agt.
Colorado Cloudburst.
Denver, Col., June 11—Four
railway washouts, a $25,000 tire
and a host of minor losses epito-
mize the evil results of the storm
| velocity of thirty miles an hour. Telephone—Residence, No. .SI;
The reports from northern New office, No. 83. Will answer all
England to-night show even a calls, day or night.
greater rainfall than in this state
which prevailed in Denver and i
Leavenworth, Kan., June 11. j the southeastern section of the
-A diabolical attempt was -made j aliyfrom uear 7 o'clock
upon the life of Andrew J. Smith, ^ ur' ■>
governor of the National Soldier's last evening until a -little alter
Home, and his wife and daughter, midnight. A cloudburst on the
between 4 and 5 o'clock this | 8|0pe 0f pike's pean shut off traffic
Helena, Mont., May 28. morning by some one uaknowu-j OIl the Rio Grande and Midland
T„ III. Excellency, C. A. Cube, ! ".t™« Manitou and Colo
son, Governor of Texas: M ^ demoiished the governor's j rado Springs. Sixteen miles out
Dear Sir.—Responding to your , 1.esj(jence) ar0Used the residents | 0f Denver the Julesburg tracks
telegram of this date, asking my 0f the city and shook houses as if were washed out in spots for miles
opinion of the merits of a uniform an earthquake had occurred.
and predict damage to small crops "Y\r
because of seed rotting in the
sodden ground.
Drowned in the Pecos.
Midland, Tex., June 9.—Win.
Ramsay, about seventy-five years
old. was drowned yesterday while
j crossing the Pbcos at Pontoon
, crossing, and his remains brought
here for burial. Three of the four
(horses hitched to the wagon were
J drowned. The horse he rode
balked in the middle of the river
and turned the leaders* down
stream. He was thrown off his
^Y. J ONI
DENTAL, SURGEON.
Successor to W. H. COOKE, D. D. S.
Office over Jno. A. llann's.
MISS MARY ALEXANDER, who has here-
tofore been with Dr. Cooke, will remain with
me to receive her lady friends and assist at the
chair.
Domestic Export Statement.
Washington, June 10.—The
"i^e™i!0«y"«rL"dowii ■"•"fly statement of tbe prinei-
ana uasueu pal articles of domestic exports,
the river, where his body was re- I'*1
issued by the bureau of statistics,
coveiet . shows exports during May, 1897,
Something to ,^now. as compared with May, 1896, as
It may be worth something to know £0|[0wa: Urea fstuffs $13,087;012,
that the very best medicine tor re- nnttnn IRQ 027 •
storing the tired out nervous system mcrease $2,686,1*8, cotton *J,0-f,
. " . . . • I.^l ..!/> Diffuvu i ■ /k n/in I I
text-book law, I must give to such
a law my unqualified support, for
the following reasons: If due cau-
tion is observed the books selected
under such a law will be the very
best obtainable, because selected
by a competent commission, who
as a rule are better qualified to
Fatal Train Wreck.
Exeter, N. H., June
to a heaVthy vigor is Electric Hitters. l73 jncrease $2,440,860; mineral
I This medicine is purely vegetable, __;1_ fl(1 oc„ ouo ^7 9^7.
i in length. Leaving at 10:30
o'clock, the Union Pacific train
. for Chicago stalled at the union
—. 1U,—A . depot. A washout on the Burling
through night freight on the Bos- ton an(j Missouri road occurred
ton and Maine ran into a wash-! near Barr station, so the 9:50 train
out at Fernald's culvert early this j over that line for the oast was not [ w'STlSSi' Ibe' eleven mouths ended May 31.
T'" and.i"0.0™ °.^ Mea were at work all '^1. » "X'C''K >
seven cars were demolished and | nig|lt repairing damages done by j 5oc or $1.00 per bottle at Lipscomb & lows: Breadstuffs $1<7,8-3,607, in-
I This medicine is purely \e-eiau.c, gi«7 207-
acts by giving tone to the nerve cen- oils i?4,J(i2,282, decrease -
tresin the stomach, gently stimu- catt|e an(i liojrs $3,479,651, in-
, i lates the Liver and Kidneys.and aids visions ilO -
1 these organs in throwing off impun- crease S<480,2o-, piovisions 9iu,
i ties in the blood. Electric Bitters
592,183, increase $844,247. For
changes residence from one dis
trict or county to another, he is
not compelled to buy new books
The Relief for El P«so.
Washington, June 11.—Under
the direction Commissary General
: IllJJIil It-palling uaiuag^o J
as a rule are better qualified to three 11)en killed. The dead are:: t|,e 8torin. Many parts of the city
select than any ordinary teachei Q|jal.je8 Rankin, engineer, Port- were flooded. It is feared that
or school board. Second—^Uni-. iand- A. C Young, brakeman, j ranchmen living in the low lauds
formity of textbooks proves in ; Port'land. Albert Chandler, brake- the 'bSS'J^by'The
the end much cLeaper to the citi- jnan^ portjan(j. Daniel King flre- nir„j)t'8 floods.
zen, by being furnished cheapei mau> wa8 badly burned and other-
in price, and whenever a citizen w-ge injured) but he will recover. |
Little Qirl Crushed to Death
not compelled to duv new uuoks Oakville, Texas, June 7.—A SuUivan,
to supply 1- children before heavy rain fell bere ,a8t night ~^to "Xd t^ El Paso,
entering school. Ihird-Lni- eceeded by a considerable T without delay and with his
formity in b^ks proves advantar wind8torm Qa the ranch of ^
distribute subsistence stores
r.bV«Sl.r™om°°T° m, mind Franci. Manning, ten miles east tor the reltof of the destitute per
the advantages in favor of uni- of here, a Mexican s house bltw ^tVe^ho^randTin tlmt'vicinity.
fornnty of school books are very dowIli jmprisoning a little girl • n ,)uvjg wft# Qne of Uje
great, and m®"5 ' who was not rescued till this m08t active of the officers engaged
lawanCV^ryyrespectfully morning and died very shortly . jn relief work along the Missis
15,•
I crease ^53.073,756; cotton $2
932,816, increase $41,095,651; min-
eral oils $56,077,892, decrease
$108,003; cattle and hogs *30,516,-
034, increase $1,462,238; provis-
ions $115,997,322, decrease $171,-
312.
Scarlet Fever at Orphan home.
Corsicana,Tex., June 9—Scar-
let fever has broken out at the
state orphans' home, three cases
One
Foreman's Drug Store.
Mis Meteor.
Calvert, Tex., June 10.-—W.
C. Yielding, just in from the
Jones prairie neighborhood, re-
j ports that a very large meteor
fell in that section Sunday after-
I noon during the storm. It is said
to have been about twelve inches
i in diameter by those who saw it.
Parties residing 100 yards from ^ developed there.
where it fell say they could feel ^ ^ Uo hule gji.,8 arp
the heat very sensibly, and that it rtfflictedi aud were recently
■ burned the green cotton for some
distance around it.
Hubert B.Smith. afterward.
sippi during the recent floods.
No-To-Bac for Fifty Centi.
Cluari.TiK-eU tobacco bablt cure, makes weak . ,ljuii;iau Hnreadillf?
men strong, blood pure. 60c. tl All druggists. Hie disease spieaunif,.
the afflicted, and were recently
brought to the home from Italy,
Ellis couutv. They have been
i isolated, and there is no fear of
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Denton County News. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 1897, newspaper, June 17, 1897; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth502467/m1/2/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.