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VOL X.
O AlNESVILXiB. TEXAS. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1889..
NO 199
GREAT
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WILL COIVTINUE THEIR
REDUCTION
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UNTIL THE LAST PIECE OF SUMMER GOODS HAS BEEN SOLD.
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The remarkably low prices that we have quoted for Dry (iooDS, Clothing and Shoes the past few weeks, will hold good for a
short time longer. In the meantime our stocks are getting broken aud we advise our many patrons in and out of the city to make haste
if they wish a few of the Great Bargains now in store for them. A few prices, picked at random, will give you an idea how cheap we are
selling everything. A well known feature of our establishment is to allow no misrepresentation, under any circumstances, and customers
can have the utmost confidence in whatever our salesmen say.
We Offer The Following Great Attractions This Week:
SHOE DEPARTMENT.
Ladies' handsewed Newport t^es, and Button
Oxfords [Ziegler Bros, make] $2 a pair, reduced
from $3.
Misses' Kid Newport Ties [Ziegler Bros, make]
sizes 11 to 2, |150 a pair, reduced from $2.50.
Childrens' Sandals and Lace Oxfords, 50 cents a
pair, reduced from $1.
A lot of Mens' Low (Quartered Shoes, reduced to
half price.
CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT.
Boys' Single Pants, all sizes, 40 cents a pair.
Boys' Flannel Sailor Suits at $1.90, reduced
from S3.
Mens' Fancy Cassimere Suits, sixes 33, 34, 35, 36
37 and 40, at &7 a suit, reduced from $25- They are
four Button Cutaways and are all wool, and medium
weight. If you find your size, you'll get a big
bargain.
Figured Dress Lawns 10 yards for 25 cents.
Figured Dress Lawns better quality 10 yds for 50c.
Small and Large Check Nainaook 5 cents a yard.
Best quality American Sateens 12$ cents a yard.
Fine Imported Sateens 17i cents a yard.
Beautiful Challies 14 yards for $1.
Nine pieces all wool, High Novelty French Com-
bination Suiting, 50 cents a yard, reduced from $1.25.
"ODDS AND ENDS."
Two cakes Toilet soap for 5 cents.
Twenty-four sheets of writing paper for 5 cents,
Colgates Turkish bath soap for 5 cents.
Four yards good Cotton Jeans for 26 cents.
Three pairs Ladies' Fancy Stripe Cotton Hose
for 25 cents.
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MAIL ORDERS CAREFULLY AND PROMPTLY FILLED.
OKLAHOMA CONTEST CASE.
TIm First Deeisies Hat tbe Right Rmj to
K. Tba Law Esfsrsed to the Latter.
Guthrie, Oklahoma, July 21.—
BigisUr Lillie and Receiver Barns
of the land office ot this place have
rendered a decision in the tirat
claim-conteat case in Oklahoma.
Fremont county. Four yeare ago
two tracts of school land there,
comprising about 300 acre3, were
sold, the county assuming the re-
sponsibility and paying interes t
into the school fund right alo&£
[every year. The lands were near
the Missouri River, and some
years after the sale the river
GHASTLY FIND IN A CAVE.
Six or Eight Human Skeletons Found in a
Cave Near Yankton. Dak.
Yaokton, Dak., July 21. The
the knee. He wae unconscious,'
and a horrible death from the ex-
plosion to toliow was apparently
inevitable, when Overland threw
the rope down again, made it fast \
EARTHQUAKES IN TENNESSEE.
Memphis
Experience
The evidence in the case showed j change J its bed and washed out
that there were three claimants to
a quarter section adjacent to the
Santa Fe railway right of way op-
posite Oklahoma City The first
wee Deputy United States Mar-
the 300 acres, leaving not a ves-
tige of the two farms. One of the
purcnasers became a bankrupt
and can not pay for the land he
bought. The other purchaser can
ery made there yesterday. Par-
ties who were pros, ecting in the
chalk cliffs of the neighborhood
for material for tlie manufacture
ot cement came on a small open-
ing in the Missouri rive; face of
•hal White, he was on the ground | P»y, but will not, demanding that1 the rock. It was found to be a
at noon on the day Oklahoma was
opened in his official capacity.
Hd be staked his claim at 12:01
p. m. 0. J. Blanchard was on
tbe Santa Fe railroad right of way
as an employe of the compauy.
At noon he stepped on to the
quarter and drove his stake. Ves-
tal Cook was in the Chickasaw Na-
tion at noon, but with four confed-
erates, who supplied him with re-
lajs of horses, he reached the
the land must be delivered to him.
Fremont county has applied to the
governor, asking to be releived
| from paying further interest on
the debts. The matter has been
referred to the attorney general
' for an opinion. It is thought a
'special act of the legislature will
be required.
Killed by A Peddlar
Montreal, Quebec, July 21.—A
terrible tragedy occurred Tuesday
and Covington
Slight Shocks.
Memphis, Tenn., July 21. — At
little village of St. Helena, on the, to the windlass; descended there-. 6:30 o, clock last evening a slight
Nebaska side of the Missouri, ten , on, snatched the burning fuse from shoes of earthquake was felt in
miles below Yankton,is in a state ! the loaded holes and Baved his uu- this city. Crockery and glassware
of excitement of a ghastly discov- fortunate fellow workman's life, rattled and in some instances was
Overland's hands were badly thrown from the shelves, l>ut no
burned by going down the rope, other evidence was given besides
otherwise he was unhurt. The ! the rocking motion.
space of time in which he had to Two severe shock s were ielt at
act and the chances taken for j Covington. Tenn., 35 miles north
losing his own life, shows the man 0f Memphis, each shock lasting
to posess true manly courage. The
amputation of Friend's injured
limb above the knee was found
necessary, but he seemed to be
resting well, and is in good hopes
of a speedy recovery.
srted his claim. Messrs. Lillie I
and Barna hold that all of the per-
sons named violated the laws gov-
erning the occupation of lands by
homsstevders, that none of them
are entitled to a quarter in ques-
tion and they have forfeited all
rights to take and hold homesteads
in the Indian Territory
A Wife-Beater PuaTshid.
Bonne Terre, Mo.,' July 21.—
George J. Devine, on complaint of
his wifs, was fined $10 and thirty
days' imprisonment for an assault
and battery. Devine has been on
a spree for a number of weeks past,
and first-assaulted Mrs, Devine
Witt a stone, which missed its
aim, and then began beating her
with a piece of clothes line. Tbe
interference of a neighbor prevent-
ed serious injury, and on hearing
the case the jury assessed his pun-
ishment as above stated. He will
spend about two months in the
ooolef.
quarter section at 1 o'clock and, .
^ 1 night at St. Cuthbert, a village
forty miles down the river. A
peddler from Montreal arrived
there Tuesday night and went to
stay at a friend's house, but found
that all but a daughter, aged 15,
had gone to the city. The ped-
dler told her to go to a neighbor's
houee and get a companion to stay
all night wither, but the neighbor
refused to allow one of the chil-
dren to go. During the night the
girl was awakened by a Knocking
at the door. She went to a win-
dow and saw two masked men,
who demanded her money. She
awoke the peddler and told him
and he handed her his pocket-
book to giye to the robbers. The
latter said that this was not enough
and the girl again returned to the
peddler, who said he would attend
to the matter himself. Taking a
revolver from his valise he went
to the window and shot both men
dead. The girl ran to the neigh-
bor's house and told what had
happened, when the woman ex-
claimed that it was her husband
and son who had been killed.
They had intended robbing the
large apartment carved by nature
in soft chalky substance, but the
startling feature of the incident was
the discovery withiathe cave of
six or eight human skeletons.
These were lying about on the
floor ot the cave in such disorder as
to do away with the story that the
cave might be an ancient burial
place. The age of the bones can-
not be determined, but they have
undoubtedly been there along
time. Several skulls were
brought out of the cave and ex-
hibited by the people of St. Hel-
ena. The find is a profound mys-
tery. The belief prevails that
they are the skeletons of early im-
migrants, who sought the shelter
of the cave when attacked by In-
dians years ago, and they were
either killed in a body or starved
to death.
Out Upon ihe Prairie.
Des Moines, Io., July 21.—Miss
Lizzie Duffield, who has spent the
past six years in South Dakota,
arrived in the city today, en route
to her former home in Bloomfield.
Miss Duffield was amoDg the first
young ladies to brave the hard-
ships of claim life and take up
land in Dakota, and she is now ihe
fortunate owner of 320 acres of ex-
cellent farm land, half of which is
a short distance fiom Harold,
several seconds. For a while the
wildest confusion prevailed.
Houses were abandoned and the
streets filled with frightened peo-
ple. The third but lighter shock
was felt there at 8:25.
Tied 'Em Again.
Bonham, Tex., July 19.—about
ten days ago H.H. Biggonstaffand
Miss McKee Moore, aged 1G and
15 respectively, ran away to the
Indian Territory and were married.
This morning the parents of the
youngsters brought them to town,
secured license and had JusticeLy-
day to perform the maritial rites
according to the laws of the state
of Texas.
Klllas by a Freight Train.
Hartford. Conn., July 21—At
Southington on Saturday night j peddler.
Charles Degnan tried to board a
moving freight train. His feet
caught in the step of the caboose
and be fell backwards, his toot
wedging so as to hold him, and he
was dragged in this way a quarter
of a mils before he was discovered.
His head was mashed to a jelly.
One arm wat> torn to shreds, and
Bkaias and blOod were spattered
along the track for a considerable
isnt.
A Qaesr Las* Cass.
Red Oaa, Io., Jnly
queer land case has
21.—A
come up in
Result of an Elspsi
Memphis, Tenn., July 21.—An-
nie Erhard, a white girl of 20
years, was taken up by the police
to-day while aimlessly wondering
around the ci'y. She says that
her home is in Cairo, 111., wbero
her mother and two brothers now
live. Last Monday she eloped
with a negro named John Cooper
and stared south with him. At
Fulton, Ky.t the difference in
their color attracted attention and
Cooper was . arrested. The girl
then cams on to Memphis.
Wealthy but Foolish.
Hillsdale, Mich., July 21.—
John W. Johnson, a wealthy
farmer, living two miles
south of the village, was swindled
out of $2000 by the old gold brick
swindle yesterday. Two slick
looking chaps pretended to want
to buy the farm, told the old fairy
tale about the brick and after get-
ting $2000 skipped with a horse
and buggy for the Indiana state
line. Johnson waB so mad to think
he had been bitten on the old trick
that he did not say a word about
it until two hours afterward, and
the swindlers had made good their
escape:
A Miner's Herelc Aot.
Aurora, Mo., July 21.—A seri-
ous accident, followed by a genu-
ine act of heroism, occurred in the
mineB last evening. A miner by
the name of William Friend had
prepared and lighted two shots in
a shaft, 40 feet deep, and was be
ing hoisted out by William Over-
land, when, upon reaching the
top of the shaft, the barrel upon
which he was standing became de-
tached from the rope, and Friend
was precipitated to the bottom
upon tbe burning fuse. His right
leg was broken in two places below
Hyde county. The other quarter
section is near the thriving town
of Aulkton, and all of which will
certainly be valuable property in
time. All the adventures of life
far out upon the prairie, with the
neareBet neighbor a mile and a
half distant, the uerils in storm
and flood and the danger of living grade,
alone for weeks at a time have
been undergone. She was one of
those brave Dakota school teach-
ers who, with a few pupils under
her care, encountered the awful
storm of January, 1888. During
the long night which followed the
dreadful blizzard, with scant fuel,
she kept herself and the children
from freezing only by the utmost
exertion until all were reecned
from their fearful situation at 5
First Bale of Cotton. -
Cuero, Tex., July 21.—The first
bale of new cotton went forward
by express this morning, consign-
ed to T. W. House, Houston,
shipped by Mrs. M. Hauseman of
Couse. The bale weighed 500
pounds, and is of fine staple and
'Rah for DeWitt.
the United States. Yet it is not
a great while ago that old Francis
Drexel was a poor painter. Some-
how or other the old man about
fifty years ago got an order to
paint a picture for a Brs'.ilian
grandee, and went down to that
country to do the work. The Bra-
zilian took a fancy to the poor
portrait painter, and not only
paid him a eood price for the
picture, but let him in on some
money-making scheme, out of
which Drexel realized quite a sum.
He returned to Philadelphia and
went into the money lending busi-
ness. By careful investments he
amassed a big fortune, and his
three boys, Fracis, Antony and
Joseph —increased it. When the
old man, died, he left $25,000,000.
Joseph left about eight million
dollars, being less of a money-
maker than the others,and Antony
the only one is left, is estimated
to be worth anywhere from twenty
millions to fifty million dollars.
Nobody really knows how much
he is worth, but the bouse can
raise $50,000,000 in twenty-four
hours if necessary which is some-
thing no other institution in the
ciuntry, outside of tbe United
States treasury can do. When
Frank died he left three daughters.
All are under twenty-five, one
only iB married, and they have
each and income of about $1,C00 a
day. The fellow who married
one of them waB a young lawyer
without a dollar.
A 6ROUN0-HOA CASE.
Caaadiaa
The Hottest Weather Knswn.
LouUville I'oat.
"What is the hottest weather
ever known in the United States?"
The question is answered in the
May bulletin of the Kentucky
statistical weather service. The
highest temperature recorded by
the United States Bignal service
o'clock tbe next morning. MisB , was &t Phoenix and Fort McDo-
Dnffield gained an enviable repu'
tation as a teacher previous to her
departure for Dakota. She will
spend some days with Des Moiues
triends before leaving for Bloom-
field.
Negress ta bo Lynched-
New Orleans,La.,July 21.—The
Picayune's special says a dispatch
received from Clinton, La., states
that three of the negroes who
murdered Pratoiitoro,a few weeks
ago, who were captured at Red
River Junction, brought to Clin-
ton today and will be lynched to-
night at the soene of tbe murder.
Tbevpursuit of Pitts's murderers at
Pantherburn still continues, but
persons arriving from the vicinity
today say no more captures have
been made.
well, Arizona, in June, 1883. The
thermometer marked 119 deg.
However, unofficial observers re-
port temperatures as high as 128
degrees at Mammoth Tailk. The
coldest weather recorded by the
service was 69 degrees below zero
at Poblar River. M. T. But this
is a warm place compared with
Siberia, tbe coldest inhabited spot
on the globe. The thermometer
there has been as low as 90 degrees
below zero. In visw of thsse fig-
ures, let us not complain oi a pal-
try 90 degrees above zero.
Tbe Heed.
Parkersburg, W. Va., July 21.
An estimate can be hardly yet be
formed of the great calamity that
has swept over the little Kanawha
valley, but enough is known to
mark it as the most destructive to
to life and property ever occurring
in West Virginia.
TJie scene of destruction iu Pond
creex, JackBon county, and Tuck-
et creek county show that Pond
creek rose two feet and swept all
before it. Four men took refuge
in the mill. The mill was washed
away sad Edward Ross was
drowned. Thomas Black and bis
newly wedded wife were washed
from their home and perished
Farmers Ssbstetisg an Field
Mice and Sspfters.
Chicago, July 21.—A dispatch
from Grafton, Dak., says: Crops
In the Canadian northwest and
along tbe Dakota line are in a bad
Bhape. The farmers are almost
destitute and some instances are *
reported where they are subsisting
on field mice and gophers. In the
Canadian northwest crops are nil.
A party of emigrants from the
Souris country were met Thurs-
day at the boundary line. They
had traveled 300 miles through a
well settled country on the Cana-
dian side without seeing a fair
crop and say a great many settlers
ars leaving their land io drive
their cattle to the timbered coun-
try on this side. Some families
looked famine stricken and bad
eaten nothing out potatoes and
turnips for months. They were
afllioted with sourvey and were
sacrificing themselves to save
their cattle. At one plaoe north-
west from Turtle mountain a fam-
ily of English emigrants wbo were
traveling back to the mountains,
had killed and were eating a young
oolt. The suffering in that isolat-
ed region will be awful and those
who have means will leave in
such numbers as to depopulate the
seetion.
fertilising IM mML
The chemical compositions of frnjta
ran bo changed by the fertilise** Ap-
plied to tbe tress and vines producing
them. It has been found 'St
quality of fruits can be greatly im-
proved by the judicious application
of fertilizers, ana that the per cent, of
sugar contained in them can be large-
ly increased. The increase obfe^igd
is more marked in^ the case ot Wild
fruits. Professor Ooeasmann performed
some very interesting experiments in
tliis direction. Several Coooord grape
viuee aud several wild jnrnke gwye
vines were set in pots ana fertilised st
the rate per Acre of 410 pounds of die-
solved bone black containing IS par
cent, of soluble phosphono add, and
180 pounds of nitrate of potash, con-
twining 45 pel cCht "bf potassium as-
ide and 13 per cent of nitttogsn, S3
pounds of' soluble jhosphqric oxide
and 22 pounds of nitrogen. One-half
of tho fertilisers were applied hi fee
id tho otl
Three
fall and tho other half ia.thvaptaf.
ed with
kind of
years after the application
the fertilizer an examination' of
fruit was made and
that of fruit fwsn tbe
vines on land which
tiiued. It was f<
in the Concord
utilized was 13.89 per cent
,""1' * *" ; j in grape* wboeovwes hag T
Thomas Huges, his wife and four edI wasls.43 percent The
children fled from their home but I gwpes from
the water overtook them and none! ,i;„4
escaped them but Hughes. On
another creek eeven lives are re-
ported lost but no definite infor-
mation can be obtained. The low
of property is immense and will
run up in the millions.
tuchhad notbeen fer-
that iu _
tho «au*5 ku«rwiaT5.Cp
very remarkable increase. IWtn
the i
notable chums oi
i noticed in
Tse Rise ef Iks Orexsls.
Haying has begun among the
fanners and corn cutting will be on
81 Louis Port Diapatcb; within the next week. The yield
Today Drexel A Co. can raise will be Urge in oorn, and H.
more money in twenty-four home fodder will pay double its cost .to
than any financial institution in 1 have it cut. ,,
assets
crease of
erteaae in
peri men ta indicate theft
field for
provement oF the qtiafity'Of
tho skillful application
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