Denton County News. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1894 Page: 1 of 9
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Vol. 3.
Earnestly Devoted to the Upbuilding of Denton and Denton County and the ties/ Interests of Their People.
DENTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 14. 1894.
No. 7.
THE + FAIR
FROM AUBREY.
JI as a large shipment of Straw
Matting, and as it is getting late
in the season will make
SPECIAL PRICES.
Want you to come and see our
goods; all new and the best the
market affords, at the
M>\VlvST
PRICES,
Only a short time till the 2-ltli
when we give the three handsome
presents to the thre •
Most Popular Teachers.
See that your teacher gets the
prize.
Denton lee
for
Denton People!
1 have made arrangements
with the Denton Ice Factory,
which is now in full opera-
tion, to buy and deliver all
the ice it makes and will
Handle no Other,
All orders under 100 pounds
at one cent per pound deliv-
ered anywhere in the city.
Give us your orders.
Respectfully,
j. i ioi/r.
Porter Bros'.
Omnibus and Transfer Line,
DENTON, TEXAS.
Headquarters at R. A. Quisen-
berry's Oak street Livery Stable.
Calls made to any part of the
city to meet all trains, day or
night. Give your checks to the
'bus driver and have your bag-
gage delivered at once.
Dalton Was at Longview.
LONGYIEW, Tex., June 10.—Tel-
egrams were received from the
parties who left here yesterday for
Ardmore to identify Hill Dalton
prove that he is one of the men
who robbed the bank May 23. Mr.
Frank Fisher who was fishing and
was with tin- party the greater
part of the day before the robbery
fully identitied Dalton as one who
was with the tishing party.
A Chasco for Everybody.
On June 22nd you can buy
tickets from all stations in Texas
via the "Evaty" at one-half the
regular one way rate plus £1, to
Kansas City, St. Louis, Hannibal
and .Junction City. Apply to any
ticket ag't lor further information.
Cleveland lias withdrawn one of
his cuckoos from Constantinople,
Turkey, and located liiin in Texas
to write letters to boost the anti-
Democratic part of his administra-
tion.—Henrietta Independent. .
Eld. 11. Kerr expounded scrub-
treasuryism in the court house
last night.
Death of an Esteemed Lady -A Splinter
Causes the Loss of an Arm.
Aubrey, Texas, June 12, 1804.
Mrs. J. 13. Statler, after an illness
of three weeks, died of typhoid
fever on the 9th inst. at 7:30 p. m.
The remains were interred in the
Pilot Point cemetery. The fun-
eral services were conducted by
Eld. J. 1). Ballard.
In the death of Mrs. Annie
Statler our community has lost a
a noble woman, the church an
exemplary christian and her fam-
ily a devoted wife and mother.
She leaves a husband and three
grown children, yet feeling their
need of her aid and advice in all
things whatsoever they under-
took to do. May they receive
comfort from the Divine Author
of our joys and sorrows and ever
strive to emulate the worthy ex-
ample of her whom to know was
to love.
Mrs. Pope, sister of Mrs. Stat-
ler, who visited her during her
illness left this morning for her
home at England, Texas.
Eld. S. J. Anderson, of Green-
ville; Tom Anderson, ol Valley
View, and Jason Anderson, of
Clarksville, attended the funeral
obsequies of their sister, Mrs.
Statler.
Our fellow townsman, W. E.
Hawkins, insurance agent, had to
suffer the amputation of his left
arm this morning on account of
blood poison, resulting from a
splinter in his hand. Dr. O. C.
Buster, of Pilot Point, assisted by
l)rs. Burke and Howser, perform-
ed the operation.
Crops are looking fine. Har-
vesting is in full progress.
A Cyclone Predicted for June 22nd
Would not create the sensation
that the exceedingly low rates
offered by the 31. Iv. & T. railway
on this day to Missouri and Kan-
sas have. Ask your ticket agent
about and iie will surprise you.
Coxey Turned Out.
Washington, June 10.—Coxey
Brown and Jones were this
morning released from jail. They
were met at the door by Oklahoma
Sam. The four proceeded to the
hotel,where they shook hands with
the clerk and a few friends. After
spending a quarter of an hour in
the hotel they started for the
Coxey camp in Bladensburg.
White Boys Attacked By Neeroes.
Sweet Home, Tex., June 11.—
Albert McElory and Walker
llayden, two white boys living at
Williamsberg, were attacked by
Lou Hall and Bascom Cook, ne
groes. McElroy's skull is crushed
in and he cannot survive.
It is reported that the negroes
were arrested but taken from the
officers and hanged,
Negro and White Girl Married.
Marshall, 111., June 11.—John
Southall, a negro, aged 21 years
hailing from Indianapolis, End.,
was married in this city to day to
Miss Delia Mclvinney, a good
looking white girl aged 20, who
resided at Terre Haute, End. The
laws of Indiana forbid marriages
beteen whites and negroes, and
this city is a favorite resort for
such people. Justice L.B. Mitchell
performed the ceremony
Back From School.
Misses Willie Smith, Flla Saun-
ders and Annie Hogg have re-
turned from school at Sherman.
FROM OVER THE ROCKIES.
At the Golden Gate.
The General Assembly closed
its work on the 24th and ad journ-
ed at 5 p. in. Some of our dele-
gates and visitors had arranged a
return via the 1j. P. R'y as they
had gone, but a large number of
us started at 12 o'clock at night
for San Francisco. Immediately
to the east of Eugene City and on
tlije left ol our road stand three gi-
gantic mountains called the Three
Sisters. Their tops are covered
with perpetual snow and it is
said that huge, deep snow drifts
lie between them in the canons
and gorges the most of the year.
Two men, it is said, started to
cross a spur of these mountains a
month or more before our arrival
at Eugene, and have; not been
heard from since. His believed
that their bodies may be found in
August after the snows have melt-
ed off them.
At daylight on the 2">th we found
our long train pulling, pulling and
winding up a gorge cut' by tfie
keen edge of a mountain stream
through the rocks and heights of
another range of mountains. Af-
ter we were near the top and had
stopped for a moment that our
"two horses" might get their wind
or take a drink (of wat er, of course)
1 was surprised to see the dirty
forms of two tramps crawl out
from under the car in which 1 was
riding. On inquiry, 1 found that
they had been riuing on the
trucks all the way from Portland,
nearly two hundred miles. When
asked where they were going, one
of them said "we are trying to
find a job of work." I could not
resist the tempation to reply that
it looked to me like they had
already found about as tough a
job of work as any men would
want, swinging on the break-beam
underneath the cars. The train
men beat them off till the cars j
started, then, while the train was
in motion, they would swing
themselves under the train and
climb up among the rods and
bolts and swing on for dear life
till the next station was reached.
By noon we had run into Grant's
Pass, a little city of a thousand
people, at the foot of the Siskiyon
mountains, then begun the ascent
of this range by the most won-
derful feat of engineering we had
yet seen.
By a succession of zigzags we
climbed up, up, crossing deep
gorges, winding among the cliffs,
looking down on the tops of the
big red-wood and fir trees, and
then plunged headlong into a
dark tunnel through which we
glided out into the blessed day-
light, and clinging close to the
mountain's breast we soon
doubled on our track and looking
down on the top of a second train
which is following us, we hurry
into the second story of the same
dark tunnel through which we
had just run, and press on for the
tip-top of this Siskiyou range.
The snow lies all around us and
the air is cold, but we enjoy it.
and as soon as the train slows up
at the station we jump off to pick
up a stone or pluck a flower from
the mountain's crown. "All
aboard!" and we scamper to out-
places and begin the descent of
the mountain.
Soon wo cross the Calfornia
line and leave Oregon beyond the
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Has been made In flic
North Texas Normal College
Of Denton, Texas. It will open its next regular session un-
der a new management,
Tuesday, Sept. 4, 1394.
Our woik shall prove our worth. The ART PRIMARY,
COMMERCIAL, INTERMEDIATE and COLLEGIATE
Departments "ill be filled by skillful, conscientious,energetic teach-
ers. You need not send your daughters away for their musical edu-
cation: our Music School shall be a success. Will not the people of
Denton support this department in their own institution if offered
'he services ol a really flrst-class musician and teacher?
Economy of time and money will be taught your boys and girls.
Terms are moderate. Write for circular giving full information.
M. 15. TKRKILL,
I
rcsmciiit.
mountains. For three hours we
run in plain view of Mt. Shasta,
in many respects the most inter-
esting peak on this continent. He
stands 15,000 feet above the level
of the sea and some two miles
above the plain at his base. The
snow on his head is perpetual,
and always, day an ! night, De-
cember and August, Shasta stands
with snowy locks and clouded
brow a magnificent monunijnt of
the greatness of the ('reator and
the littleness of man, the creature.
On Saturday morning we cross-
ed an arm of Sits mine bay on
what is said to be the largest
ferry-boat in the world. Our
train of sixteen passenger cars
was rolled on its deck in a few
moments and soon landed on the
southern shore. This boat, it is
said, will carry 42 freight cars.
But on we go in view of the ship-
ping on our rignt and through
the fields of alfalfa and vineyards
and orchards, and then Oakland j
and San Francisco bay, and San
Francisco burst upon our view.
Another great steam ferry and a
six-mile run on the bay and we
are in the great city of San Fran-
cisco. We are quickly stowed
away at the Brookly Hotel where
we get a good dinner, find friends
who had preceded us, and then
star* out to see some of tne won- !
ders of this wondrous city. We
take the cable car and go at once
to the (jliff House which, hard by
the Golden Gate, stands on the
bluff and overlooks the great wide j
Pacific ocean. I had fortunately
saved up one adjective which I
made in my boyhood and only use
on state occasions, and when I j
saw this great wide, blue ocean, |
1 let fly my adjective and stoodi
and gazed and wondered. Truly,
at no time does man have the ego-
tism taken out of him so com-
pletely as when he stands down
on the beach, close by the wild
waves, and looks on the face of
God's greatest ocean. How help-
less, how little, is niau! Thank
God for the blessed Christ, the
man-mediator who stood and
spoke with authority to a raging,
roaring sea -Peace, be Still! And
thank God that this same Jesus
can and does still the storm which
sin causes in human hearts and
lives. The great sea lions are
plainly visible on the seal rocks
some four hundred yards out in
the breakers, and as the incoming
tide rolls a high wave up on the
rock, some old patriarch of the
herd would give a roar of discon-
tent and tumble off his perch and
into the depths below. There
were at least fifty of them in view
and the males among them seem
to be as large as an ordinary
hors •.
But we turn away from th;s
grand vision of magnificence and
pause awhile at the Mid-winter
Fair. Of this 1 shall say but lit
tie. I was disappointed in most
of the exhibits. The fruit and
grain departments were good, but
the mountebank, the ordinary
street fakir and the beggar of
every nationality, these were on
hand to the disgust of all decent
and thoughtful people.
At night, having secured a re-
liable guide, a party of eight of us
made an inspection of "China-
town," the ("lines? quarters of
the city. As I hop.' to deliver at
an early date a lecture on "China-
town" 1 shall only say now that
if humanity can settle down any
lower than it is in "China-t nvn" I
do not want to see it.
It your readers do not get too
weary, I shall afflict- them with a
few more articles before 1 close.
D. C. DKWitt.
Sain Houston Scholarships.
All persons in representative
district No. 12, composed of Den-
ton county, who intend to apply
for scholarships in the Sain Hous-
ton .Normal institute for the en-
suing year will please take notice
that in compliance with the law
an examination will be held on
June 23rd. 1 SO-l, in Denton for
the purpose of selecting benefi-
ciaries of this school. Two ap-
pointments will be made from
among those standing the best
examinations in English gram-
mar, composition, spelling, arith-
metic, algebra, geography, phy-
sics, history of the United States
and Texas and physiology.
K. Lee Ragsdale.
Assassinated on the Gallery ol His Home.
Fort Wohtii, Tex., June 11.—
A special from Collinsville, Gray-
son county, gives this account o f
the instant killing of a prominent
citizen named J. J. Reasor by
Craig Herndon.
Reasor's home was four miles
east of the littl ■ town, and yes-
terday afternoon Herndon, who
was partly intoxicated, came there
and sat on the gallery for some
time, talking. Iieasor turned his
head to look at a rabbit, when
Herndon drew his pistol and shot
him through the head. Reasor
jumped from the gallery, ran 30
feet and fell. Herndon fired three
more shots into his prostrate body
and escaped, taking R msoi's pis-
tol with him.
Herndon came to Texas from
Virginia last spring and has since
separate 1 from his wife because
she would not return to Virginia
with him. The wife is related to
Iieasor an 1 Herndon blamed the
latter with the refusal of his wife
to go back wit's him. That was
the cause of the tragedy.
4 —
Aren't Those Dandies?
What? Why, Imperial, Eclipso
and Kenwood wheels.
T. E. Ponder.
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Denton County News. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1894, newspaper, June 14, 1894; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth504252/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.