The Cass County Sun., Vol. 30, No. 47, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 5, 1905 Page: 3 of 6
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Russia Faces Real Crisis.
Confronted With Rebellion on Land and at
Sea Only the Army Can Prevail.
Sevastopol, Nov. 27.—The long ex-
peeled mutiny of sailors who have
been on the verge of revolt for mouths
tame Friday night and Russia's
stronghold on the Black Sea is in dan-
ger of completely failing Into their
hands.
The situation is very critical. All
the shore equipages, numbering 1.000
men, are In open rebellion, having
driven away or taken their officers
prisoners.
The Brest regiment of infantry has
gone over in a body to the mutineers.
Gen. Neptueff, the commander of
the fortress, is a captive.
The Beilostok regiment, the only
other regiment in the city, received
the mutineers with cheers, but thus
far it seems loyal.
Some of the artillerists have also
Joined the men in revolt.
Beuides the Beilostok regiment,
there are two batallions of artillery
and a batallion of the fortress artill-
ery here.
The Euxine fleet is standing in the
offing, and is still obeying the orders
of Vice Admiral Chaunknin, but the
crews are dissatisfied, and there are
grave doubts whether they can be re-
strained from Joining the mutineers
and graver doubt that they will fire
on them.
The Seventh Army Corps and the
commander of the corps has been has-
tily summoned from Simferopol, eight
that intelligent leaders are at the
head of the movement.
It is evident also, that the sailors
at Cronstadt have had underground in*
formation of what was happening at
Sevastopol, because Saturday, before
the news of the mutiny was known In
St. Petersburg, reports of the mutiny
were freely circulated at Cronstadt.
Vice Admiral Birileff, Minister of
Marine, has issued a formal order
threatening with arrest, and the se-
verest punishment under the law all
those who circulated reports of the
mutiny.
In both Cabinet and naval circles j
it is reported as absolutely vital that j
the mutiny be crushed in the severest
fashion at any cost if a disciplined
navy is to be restored and the army
held loyal.
In the event of the sailors of Vice
Admiral Chaunknin's ships remaining
loyal, they will co-operate with the
troops of the Seventh Corps from Sim-
feropol. The problem of hemming in
the mutineers and subduing the re-
volt is stated by naval officers to be
comparatively easy. The marine bar-
racks lies at the extremity of a
tongue of land, jutting out between
the southern roadstead and what is
known as the “ships bay.”
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There is every evidence that the
mutiny was deliberately and perfectly
planned by the social revolutionaries.
who have been pushing their propa-
ganda with great energy since the St.
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Petersburg movement was organized
to save the Cronstadt mutineers.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 27.—At mid-
night the Associated Press was In-
formed by an official of the Admiralty
that the reports received up to that
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hour showed that there had been no
conflict at Sevastopol yesterday. So
far as the official knew, the crews
of the Black Sea fleet were still loyal,
but beyond that no information was
vouchsafed. It is not known wheth-
er the troops which were ordered to
proceed from Simferopol have arrived
at Sevastopol.
The sailors who mutinied number
about 4,000 and belong to various
equipages from the twenty-eighth to
the thirty-sixth. Including the sail-
ors on board the ships there was about
8,000 In Sevastopol when the mu-
tiny occurred. The troops in the gar-
rison consisted of the Brest and Biel-
ostok regiments, with two batallions
of artillery and one batallion of for-
tress artillery. The Bielostok regi-
ment during the outbreak several
weeks ago, fired upon the sailors, and
at the Admiralty no doubt is now en-
tertained that the mutiny was the
result of the carefully prepared work
of the revolutionary agitators to whom
the support given to the mutineers
at Cronstadt by the workmen of St.
Petersburg offered a powerful weapon.
Profiting by the mistakes of the mu-
tineers at Cronstadt, however, those
at Sevastopol took particular care to
adopf measures to prevent their meet-
ing degenerating into a drunken riot,
and so far as known, both the mutin-
eers and workmen in the port have
comported themselves in perfectly or-
derly fashion.
There is a strong impression here
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Jordan’s Enemies Sow Tares.
Atlanta, Ga.: Harvle Jordan, presi-
dent of the Southern Cotton Associa-
tion, in an Interview denied that he
had been concerned with a prominent
speculator in New York and that in
the recent rise of cotton he had been
a winner to the extent of several mil-
lions of dollars. He said:
"The rumors published in some of
the leading papers that I had personal-
ly shared in the recent deal in cotton
futures is absolutely false and with-
out foundation. I have not made one
dollar in speculation in any way, shape
or form. Nor have I been connected
with any speculative deals in cotton.
My work has been devoted entirely
to the spot situation, and the present
effort to identify me or my official po-
sition with speculation is done to in-
jure the Southern Cotton Association
and to discourage spot holders In the
South froth'joining in the present
movement to hold cotton.”
EIGHTEEN ARE DEAD.
Rear End Collision in a Dense Even-
ing Fog.
Lincoln, Mass., Nov. 27.—The most
disastrous railroad wreck in this state
for many years occurred at 8:15
o'clock Sat. night at Bakers Bridge sta-
tion, a mile and a half west of Lin-
coln, on the main line of the Fitch-
burg division of the Boston and Maine
railroad. The regular Sunday night
express, which left Boston at 7:45
okdoek for Montreal via the Rutland
System, crashed into the rear of a lo-
cal train which started from Boston
at 7:15 for points on the main line
and the Marlborough branch.
At least eighteen persons were kill-
ed outright, burned to death or suf-
fered suffocation, and several more
are seriouslV injured. Several” peiAfonj
sustained minor injuries, bruises and
burns.
The wreck was primarily due to
thick weather, .which apparently ob-
scured signals set by the forward
train, which at the time of the disas-
ter was standing in front of Bakers
Bridge station.
The Montreal train, drawn by two
locomotives and consisting of nine
cars, crashed into the rear of the Marl-
boro branch local, demolishing the
two rear cars.
All of the passengers killed and
seriously injured were in these. The
passengers lived In Concord, West Ac-
ton, Maynard, Hudson. Marlboro and
several smaller towns in the Assabet
Valley. None of the passengers on the
Montreal train were seriously hurt,
but the engineer and fireman of the
leading locomotive were killed.
The wreckage caught fire and some
of the passengers were incinerated.
Few persons live In the vicinity of
Bakers Bridge station and no fire de-
partment was available, so that th»
flames practically burned themselves
out. The uninjured pasengers and
train hands, assisted by villagers, went
to the aid of the injured and many
persons were rescued.
A special train was sent from Bos-
ton by the Boston and Maine manage-
ment at 9:30 o’clock and reached here
inside of half an hour. The train
brought a number of doctors, while
many doctors from Waltham and oth-
er places in this section were sent to
the scene in carriages and by other
trains.
The Montreal train does not stop at
the small stations and after passing
Waltham does not stop ordinarily un-
til it reaches Concord, two miles west
of Bakers Bridge Station. Owing to
heavy local traffic the Marlboro branch
was behind time when it reached Bak-
ers Bridge. According to the state-
ment of persons who were at the de-
pot, there a brakeman was sent to
place a fuse of red fire torch soma
distance in the rear. The night was
very dark, owing to a dense mist
which came,up the Sudbury River.
Many a' woman reaches her second
youth without acknowledging that sha
is anywhere in the vicinity of her
second childhood.
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Farmers’ Co-Operative
Union of America.
Did you ever pass all night when
the cover was about half enough, and
keep turning yourself over so as to
get the other side under so it would
get warm? It is a miserable sort of
night that one spends that way. Some-
times we wonder if the poor old cows
that must bear without even a shelter
from the wind's fury the wrath of
winter's cold has any rights that we
should be compelled to respect? We
believe she has, for it is our duty to
“do unto others as we would have
them do unto us.” We are the pris-
onkeepers of the cattle, and the law
of God demands that we should do
unto these poor creatures as we would
have them do unto ns if the tables
were turned and we the property and
they the masters. Get out and feed
and shelter every beast under your
keeping, or else admit that you are
inhuman, and unfit to take care of the
creatures that God has allowed you
to possess. Don’t think for a moment
that you are not to be held responsi-
ble, for there will be a reckoning as
sure as the command has gone forth
‘to be kind to your beasts.
Say, are you intending to have any
garden next spring? Oh, you say,
that is a long ways off. In one sense
that is true, but the time for getting
ready for that garden is right at hand
now. The fertilizer in the way of
barnyard stuff should go on right now,
and it should all be turned under so
that it will get thoroughly mixed with
the soil by springtime. Then the
ground should be gone over thorough-
ly and lain out so that when planting
lime comes you will have nothing to
do but plant it. What are you doing
about a winter garden? Nothing!
Well, you are shiftless indeed. Win-
ter is the prime time for the gardener
to get. in his work. Wake up on this
proposition, and get busy in the gar-
den and in the orchard too. Many are
now sticking trees out in some sort
of a way, and they are expecting them
to ‘‘amount to nothin’ anyway” and
they will make a good guess by help-
ing the trees to carry out a program
of failure. Tell you what, a farmer is
the busiest cuss on thjj earth if he,does
half of the things that”he ought to
have done last week. Get busy.
If the farmer wants to see the dif-
ference between "fowl and fish” he
can have a fine illustration of it in any
town that has saloons. The man
around town can tank up on rotten
tarantula juice till he cant tell bis
head from a hole in the ground, and
he can proceed to play the devil in
great shape, and all the trouble he
gets into is that of being carried
home. The moment that the “yap”
gets to floating in high seas he finds
himseif locked up, and when the next
calm comes on him he will face a
charge and a fine that will make six
month’s earnings look like six bits.
This is only one sample of how the
“yap” fares in the hands of his friends
This is a matter of business, however,
and “business is business.” But all
decent farmers have cut out the liq-
uor drinking business, and tt doesn't
make much difference about the oth-
ers.
It isn’t much of a recommendation
to a farmer to allow the weeds and
other insect harbors to accumulate on
his place, but it is much more a point
of discount to allow them to remain
all winter as a harbor to his worst
enemies. Turn over any old trash
pile and look at the insects collected
there, and you will have an object
lesson in raising enemies to fight the
coming season. Get busy and get rid
of all th? rubbish that you can. Fire
is the best destructive agent, but the
old gully and some top dirt will serve
both to destroy your enemy and help
you stop a wash. At any rate don’t
let the rubbish lie around as a splen-
did rendezvous for your enemies.
There is no sort of doubt that the
present higher price of cotton b'as
been made a fact by the union of cot-
ton raisers. It is not the main bulk
of the crop that sets the price,, but it
is the balance of power, so to speak,
that sets the price. It isn't the ten
millions bales of cotton that makes
the price but it is the one or two mil-
lions more or less than tfie ten mil-
lions of bales that makes all the dif-
ference. This is the amount of cot-
ton that has controlled and regulated
prices all tK48~ySar, and U Is this
minority that is doing the flghtng for
the cotton raisers all over the South.
There is nothing on the place that
begins to show the clear profit that
poultry does, when It is raised in
about the right quantities. This is a
crop that can be overdone for the
facilities at hand, but such an exe-
gency has not been found in this coun-
try up to this time, where there were
any preparations at all, and this is too
often the case. On some of the boli-
weevil, inected farms of Texas this
past season turkeys were turned into
the cotton patch with the result that
Mr. Boll Weevil was vanquished and
no damage whatever resulted from
that pestiferous scoundrel. Turkeys
are selling now for prices that makes
calves feel like “fifteen cents.” You
go and get a start at turkey's, and if
you will keep the wolves and dogs
away from them, there is no doubt
the turkey crop will pan out, direct-
ly and Indirectly, the most profitable
on the place. Of course, when the
birds are young they must have some
care, but that is not for a long time,
and they soon pay for all that as in-
sect exterminators. Get the turkey
habit. ‘
Because some old fogy managed
to rake together a big lot of land
and managed to hold it ‘till it became
valuable is no sign that he did any-
thing toward gettingrich. There are
many accidents in the development of
all new countries. That sort are most-
ly accidents, and if the average land-
rich man of this country were turn-
ed loose today he w'ould starve to
death. This leads up to the point that
this is a day of different methods and
different requirements. The first re-
quirement of these times is education.
Are you doing your duty to your boys
and girls along this line? If fou are
not, you will have to pay the penalty
some time and in some way for your
“sins of omission.”
The man that sits down by a big
blazing fire while his stock is all out
in the cold is not fit to be an Amer-
ican citizen—and he is not a decent
man of any sort. Humanity goes into
the warp and woof of every man.
Truthful men never have much luck
when they go fishing.
Over and over in these columns we
urge the meeting together of the
young people at the neighbors’ houses
and at the school-house and the
church. There are entertainments
that fit all these places, in fact, any
right sort of entertainment is fitted
for the church or for your neighbors’
house. Get together and form better
acquaintance, and get the backward
young fellows out and let them know
that they owe the world something
This is not in advocacy of an aband-
onment of the home circle, not by
any means, for that Is the “bulwark
of civil and religious liberty,” but it
Is for the fostering of the spirit of
gregariousness and fellow-help that is
never at so high a tide as it should
be. Let all your fun be of the whole-
some sort, and be sure that it is not
at the expense of some one else’s Belt-
respect or feelings, and you may rest
assured that i,t cannot be too fast or
furious. .
They who inherit nest eggs usually
break them the first thing.
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Now, that the new year is almost
upon us, let us start to getting ready
to keep books on next year’s crops.
Ir will not require any elaborate set
of books. Any sort of an old blank
hook will do, and all there is to do is
to set down in one place what it costs
to raise and market. Then in some
other place what it fetches, and the
trick is done. By this means you will
soon be in a position to know what
crops on an average yield will pay you
best to raise. Then if you have sense
enough to come in out of the rain,
you can make more money and have
a better time all around raising the
easiest and best crops. Without some
sort of a system, you are going it
blind, and this often leads into a
ditch. Don’t go into the ditches.
If “A man’s a heg that' will let a
hog run," what’s a mar. that will let
a boy rim? You’d be'.ter place your-
self before you die, because you’ll be
deed a long time, there aie no
repairs allowed after you are gone.
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Der busy bee vas a goot idea, but
he keeps it up so long dot somevun
else eats his honey.
The Russians propose to send six
army corps home from Manohuria, but
allow three army corps with 322,000
men and 1300 guns to remain ior the
time being.
Governor Godwin of Idaho, has an-
nounced that he would designate his
daughter, who is fifteen years old, to
christen the battleship Idaho, when the
latter ts launched Dec. 9.
The Acme Cement Company, oper-
ating a plant at Acme, Texas, and
four other plants in Wyoming, Indian
Territory and Michigan, will at once
install a cement plant near Roswell,
N. M., on the Pecos River.
The Fitzsimmons-O’Brien contest
will be held at the Mechanic's pavil-
ion. San Francisco, Tuesday evening.
December 20. This announcement of
date Is authorized by Promoter Crof-
foth who is still in New York.
Increased duties are asked for by
Can adian trad esm en onn flgkqj
Canadian tradesmen on flour, barrel
staves, beet sugar and gasoline en-
gines. An export duty on fish was
urged.
W. W. Keith, ex-tax assessor of
Denton county has bought the Cot-
tage Hotel at Denton from Mrs. K.
D. Fritzlen. Mr. Keith will take
charge of the hotel at once and will
operate it himself.
W. E. Thomas, the business asso-
ciate of the late C. J. Devlin, swal-
lowed a quantity of carbolic acid Tues-
day night, but has a fair chance of re-
covery. He regained consciousness
Wednesday.
A negro named Robert Coleman, in
the employ of the Palestine Ice, Fuel
and Gin Company, had his right arm
torn in the gin so as to necessitate
amputation between the shoulder an 1
elbow.
The President announces the ap-
pointment of Herbert Hagarman ol
Roswell, N. M., as Governor of New
Mexico to take effect at the expira-
tion of Gov. Otero's term, Jan 22,
1905.
No compromise on railroad rate leg-
islation, for compromise, in whatever
form, would be surrender, Is the posi-
tion of the President of the United __’
States, and from it he will not be mov-
ed, all rumors to the contrary notwith-
standing. 1
Four hundred school girls had a
narrow escape from fire which broke
out in the French parochial school at
Lawrence Mass. Twenty-five girls
dropped from the third-story windows
and all were caught without injury.
Not to be outdone by the new Dar-
racq racers of two miles a minute
guarantee, it is learned that a special
Mercedes racer is lu course of con-
struction that is expected to show
even greater speed than two miles in
a minute.
Pearl Sheppard, the ten-year-old
daughter of W. A. Sheppard, who
recently got her leg mashed off in the
switch yards at Denton, has filed suit
in the district court of Denton county
against the M., K and T. Railway for
$50,000 damages.
Remember that the flush of victory
seldom comes from a one-card draw.
An unfortunate Mexican named
Luis Gonzales, while endeavoring to
save a 5c skiff fare by fording the
river at Laredo, got caught in an un-
der tow and was drowned.
Thursday night at the observatory
of the Tacubaya, Mex., University a
new comet was discovered. The as-
tronomers say that the comet, which
can be seen with a small telescope,
is flying swiftly toward the sun.
Four were killed and two fatally
injurpd in a Baltlrmore and Ohio
wreck at Albion, Ind., Thursday.
It is reported that a number of the
new engines which recently arrived
in Panama for use on the railroad
are unfit for service there.
An early morning fire at Dickson,
Tennessee Friday destroyed nearly
the entire business portion of tha
town, entailing a loss of about $150,-
000, which was about C5 per cent in-
sured. •
Ten thousand dollars and a kiss
from a leading society woman Is the
reward given to Doctor Heber Jones,
president of the Memphis board of
health, for. his successful efforts In
keeping that city free from yellow fe-
ver during the recent epidemic.
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Banger, John. The Cass County Sun., Vol. 30, No. 47, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 5, 1905, newspaper, December 5, 1905; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth523245/m1/3/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed June 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.