The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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ICAStER HERALD
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M. HULBERT, Editor and Publisher
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TEXAS
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DEATH CLOSE AT HAND
8at for Hour* In 8klff, Not
>wing Alligator Wee Just
Behind Him.
• the nature student the habits of
alligator hold much interest; to
lera sportsman he presents de-
possibilities; while to the
tourist who will really seek
in his home he*will give an sa-
lt of sensations more thrilling
could be unearthed in a year of
globe-trotting. . \ ,
st up the haunts of the c>e»ture
you find a river that he frequents,
quietly and alone down the
and up the creeks and branches
enter it, till you find on the bank
bed of an alligator with signs of
presence. Hide your skiff, sit
i on the bed, and wait for him to
home. By and by, out In the
of the stream, you may see
fHttle black dots—the nose and
of your absentee landlord—and
the whole head, tail, and - back
appear. He will swim slowly to-
you, and probably sink gradually
ith the surface reaching the bank,
comes on and crawls up on the
beside you, it will be a high trlb-
to your coolness and complete con-
lof your nerves, and the incident
make a pleasant place in your
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It happened once to me, writes a
'trotter, that after long waiting
i of an alligator upon
me bed I was sitting, I discovered
had not left it, but was lying
tall grass just beside me, with
jaws three feet from my face,
I his ten-foot body curved partly
me.
sitting silently in my skiff for
hour, wondering why an alliga-
i. had seen didn’t show up, 1
to look down and saw his head
quietly on the surface of the
12 inches of my hand as
i the gunwale.
res a sensation to be remem-
l to sit thus, motioness, watching
GENERAL FELIX DIAZ,
SENTENCED TOBESHOT
MARTIAL LAW IS PUNNED |!KATY LIMITED HELD
UP NEAR EUFAULA
Frontier Situation Has Taken
Serious Aspect.
More
ALSO THREE OTHERS, SOME
L GIVEN PRISON TERMS.
WILL AWAIT COURT’S ACTION
iking eyes of this free, wild,
brute fixed gravely on your
huge jaws and the little that
f of his long white teeth within
~ you and the one thought evi-
the brute’s mind that you are
prepared breakfast food pm
waiting to be consumed.
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Marriage.
Is so much use to a worn?
out to her so much more of
puts her In the way of so
freedom and usefulness
ska marry ffl or well,
It
. however, that»*ome of the
most genuine of women
i, and that those old
wives who are unhappily
re often most of the true
touch. And this would seem
oven for women, some nar-
influence in comfortable mar-
But the rule is none the
if you wish the pick of
women, take a good bachelor
good wife.-—Robert Louis
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in Will Held Good.
courts have affirmed
first established In the
States, that a typewritten will
at law. In the American case
iting. Probably the strangest
ras that of an old lady
dumb. Her lawyer wrote on
felt; cards the names of her
friends, and servants, and
set of cards the items of
The the old lady shuf-
cards to her own liking, and
by her, they were duly
Tax Overhead Signs,
fall message to the councils,
Blankenburg, the mayor of
points out a plan for
nlclpal revenues by a tax
signs.
Mr. Blenkenburg: "There are
le overhanging signs. While
is a law forbidding them ~ in
I streets, there is no reason why,
they are permitted or tolerated,
should not be made to
the advertisement &f their
The principle might justly be
to all the signs and bill-
i which disfigure our highways
uburban landscapes.”—Printers’
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Judgment Probably Correct,
Hsuskeep—Yes, my new gW
worked tor Mrs. DeStyle. She
she left there of her own so-
1 think she was discharged. ■
, Kaul— What makes Ton think
teep—I judge so from cse-
she let tell since she’s bees
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Kaul—What were they? ■
, Baaskeep—Dishes.—Photo Bite.
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r Net Running,
authorised to say,” announced
ivate secretary, ‘'that the see*-
not run for office again.”
cried the reporters. “It is
conceded he could win!”
t’s why be won’t run. He flgjS
he esn win in a walk.”—Judge, i
Supreme Bench to Decide
Military or Civil Authorities
Should Take Charge.
El Paso, Texas: A condition bor-
dering on martial law exists here and
at other points on the Mexican fron-
tier. #Gen. E. Z. Steever, who, from
Fort Bliss, Texas, directs the Amer-
ican troops along the border, is said
to have orders from Washington more
Whether | strict than ever before in the last two
years of Mexican revolutions.
It was learned on reliable authority
that arrests may now be made by the
military for offenses previously han-
Mexico City: Gen. Felix Diaz, lead-1 died by the Secret Service and tried
er of the revolution recently inaug- In Federal Court. It was declared that
urated in Vera Cruz, and three of any movement to arm rebel filMbus-
his confederates, have been sentenced tering expeditious on American soil
to death by the court martial, before probably will result in a declaration
which they were tried in that city. At of martial law over the strip along
the same time word of‘the verdict the international line between Los An-
agalnst Diaz was received came the | geles and San Antonio,
report that the military oourt had de-
cided to recognize the order of suspen-
sion of sentence upon the revolution-
ary leader granted by the Supreme
Court, pending Investigation as to
whether the trial, of Diaz should be
by military or civil court. Popular
apprehension regarding the fate of
Diaz has not been greatly allayed,
however, by this action of the court
martial.
Friends of Diaz here fear the con-
sequences of The conflict of authority
which has arisen between the judi-
ciary and military courts If the mil
ltary court observes the order of the
8«vss Childs Life; Gets Bad Hurts.
[MASKED BANDITS STOP TRAIN BY
SETTING BRIDGE ON FIRE.
(EXPRESS SAFE IS ROBBED
Holdup Men Escape with Money Esti-
mated at from $7,500 to
$30,000.
Waco, Texas: Walter Bradley, a
young brakemqn, is suffering from
injuries received when he saved a
little boy, Frank Mack, from death.
The child had crawled onto the Cot-
ton Belt bridgie, when Bradley, who
was riding on the rear of a' passen-
ger train v^hlch was being backed!
across the structure first saw. hm.
In stooping down to Belze the child
his head came in contact with an iron
girder and he was dealt a hard blow.
civil authentic the final disposition I £ brulsed f0”1 b0d/’
of th. case mil he long postponed. I but bU lnlurtea not fa.
But it would be no surprise to thou-
sands here to receive a message an-
nouncing the excution of the rebel
General and his associates.
taL The child was not hurt.
FOUR OF AUTO PARTY DROWN.
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BIRTHS EXCEEDS DEATH TOLL.
Ferryboat In Delaware River
Wrecked When Hit by Raft.
Report of Vital 8tatlctlco Show* Gen-
eral Health of Texas Good.
Austin, Texas: R. P. Bapcock,
Muskogee, Okla.: The southbound
Katy Limited was held up and the ex-
press car of the American Express
(Company robbed by three unmasked
'men ait Wirth, four miles south of Eu-
faula, Okla., Tuesday morning. Thd
•bandits made their escape on horse-
back with a sum estimated at $7,500
to $30,000. Neither the passengers
Inor mail cars was molested.
! The% robbers had carefully planned
Ithe robbery and it was pulled off witto
'out a hitch. Oil was poured on the
(woodwork of a trestle thirty feet long
lhalf a mile from the Canadian River
'and at the end of a curve, and when
,the bandits heard the train they set
Ifire to the bridge, stopping the train.
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Lining up the train crew, they un-
coupled the baggage car, mail car and
the negro coach and ordered the train-
men back on the qab, ran the head of
*the train half a mile further south,
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got the drop on the messenger and
then proceeded to blow open the safe
■in the express car. The express mes-
senger and the train crew were held
in line by one of the robbers while the
other two calmly blew open the safe.
They had taken the Jim Crow coach
by mistake. After the robbers had se-
cured an armful of money, done up in
Belvidere, N. J.: Four members of] j packages, they left,
an automomible party bound for Shaw-]
nee, Pa, from their homes in Noble,
State Registrar of Vital Statistics, has Pa-> were drowned when the ferry
given out figures for the mouth of I boat on which they were crossing
September. Births are shown to be *rom Delaware, N. J., was wrecked,
ter ahead of deaths, so the general j There were eight members in th®
health of the State is good. a«. I party in two automobiles. In one ma-
ual, the white plague Is t*1® chief I °blne was Leon E. Gilbert, his wife,
cause of death' j daughter, Miriam Gilbert, and son,
There is a great decrease in deaths, Leon Gilbert Jr. In the other auto-
TURKS LOSE 10,000 IN BATTLE.
Servians Lost Five Hundred Killed and
Two Thousand Wounded.
, Vranya, Servia: At the battle of Ku-
manova the , Servians lost 500 killed
and 2,000 wounded. The Turks lost)
there being only 1,677 deaths reported mobil® wa* Mr- “d Mrs. H. W. Trump- j io,000 killed or wounded.
for September. This is a decrease of Rebecca Ty«on and Nathan Trump. ' j; .............
355 over August and a decrease of The party motored up through New ________ __
426 deaths over the corresponding Jersey and arriging at Delaware drove | ^4 mem Lieut Milich, commanding
month of the year 1911. Added to th* machines onto the flat-bottomed
those facts there is an increase of boat used as a ferry at that point
births over August of 457, and there When the middle of the stream waa
were 3,624 more births In September reached the boat was struck and
than deaths. Thirty-seven sets of knocked from its course by a raft,
twins were reported, a alight decrease L, H Gilbert'and W. H. Trump wete
from the month previous. - thrown Into the water and swam to
“As leading cause of death tuber- the Pennsylvania shore while Miss r_________
'swing. Wherever he passed the sol.
All accounts of the fight pay tribute
to the valor of the Servian officers
an Infantry company, blew out hie
brains rather than obey a command
to retire from an exposed position;
whereupon its men charged the Turks
and all of them were killed.
The cavalry with the King's broth,
er, Prince Arsene, at the hea^t charged
repeatedly. The commander in chief.
109 deaths. This Is a decrease over that way.
August of twenty-four. Typhoid !« The others clung to the machines
third, with eighty-nine deaths, and it and when the ferryman lost control of
will be noted" a decrease of twenty- the windlass, which propelled the boat
nine deaths for the month previous. | were thrown into deep water.
diers, even the wounded cheered.
MR8. CLEVELAND TO MARRY.
HIGH COST OF POLITICS. ;
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Upward of $3,000,000 Has Been Ex-
pended by All Candidates. -
/ Washington: That upward of $3,-
000,000 has been spent thus far in
the present campaign by the preoon
INTERURBAN STOCK 8OLD.
Approximately $250,000 8old for Fort
Worth-Mineral Wells Line.
Authorises Announcement of Engage-
ment to Thorns* Preston.
Princeton, N. J.: Mrs. Grover Clove-
land authorizes the announcement of
her engagement to Thomas Joseph 11
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committee of the three leading parties the fund being raised by Dr. W. E. date of the marriage is not yet de-
de clear by the filing with the Brown and M. C. Hurley, promoters of ,tenoned, but will be announced later,
of the House of Representatives j the Fort Worth aryl Mineral Wells | * Mrs. Cleveland is a graduate of
Is, mad
Clerk o
Of the e
the expense accounts of the Progres- railroad. It Is said that subscriptions Wells College and has been a trus-
■lve National Committee and the Dem-1 at Mineral Wells and intermediate
ocititic National Committee. Chair- towns are booming and that the neo-
man Hllles, of the Republican Commit- essary $560,000 will have been raised
tee, did not file his expense account, ] within another two weeks,
at the time the others did, but did so
later, and la given here only as an
estimate.
The following gives a list of the dif-
ferent expense accounts which show
the high cost of politics: Democratic
National Committtee, $625,188; Pro-
Fire on Farmersville Square.
Farmersvllle, Texas: Fire, believ-
ed to have originated on the second
floor back in the building owned by
Stewart Bros, on the north side of
Nauooa, *>»W; I teZfu %*£
Republican National Committee, $ 0, amounting to more than $7,500, One
100; Roosevelt preconvention expense. \Qtthe heavlest l0Mr8 u W. T. cook. , ,
1836,005; Taft preconvention expense, wl|0be 0f goods on the ground there since the former President died
$378,000; Wilson preconvention ex- floor lg da^ged by Water. The .sec- to 1908. Her tw<> daughters, Esther
>ense, $215,565;^Harmon ^preconven- j Qn^ 0f building was occu-] and Marion, and her son, Richard F,
pled by Stanford’s photograph gait
Very and some roomers.
tee of that institution since 1887.
Her wedding to President Grover
Cleveland, which took place In the
Executive Mansion during his first ad-
ministration, was one of the notable
events in the history of the White
House. Her father, Oscar Folsom,
Was a law partner of Mr. Cleveland,
who, upon Mr. Folsom’s death In 1875,
became Frances Folsom’s guardian.
After his retirement from the Presi-
dency, Mr. Cleveland made his per-
manent home In Princeton and Mrs.
Cleveland has continued to reside
ilon expense, $150,964; Underwood
preconvention expense, $51,951; Clark
preconvcfition expends, $45,948; te-
al expenditures and obligations con-
tracted to date, $2,937^03.-^
are living with her there.
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Big Steer Deal at Fort Worth.
Fort Worth, Texas: More than lr
000 head of teeder steers were in-
Depot Burns at Cooper.
A disastrous fire occurred at Coop-
er, Texas, resulting in the total de-
Negro Kills Two and Self.
Mount Pleasant, Texas: Josh Btan-1 yoivsd in a single deal made at the I etruction of the^Texas Midland Rail
berry shot and killed Ed Traylor’s stock yards here, this being the larg- road Depot, together with . eleven
wife and then shot several times at eat number of steers ever sold in one freight cars. Four of the cars were
Traylor’s children, who, with their string on the Fort Worth market, filled with merchandise, one with
mother, were picking cotton In a field They were purchased at $5.30 by T. B. household goods, one car of lumber,
south of Mount Pleasant. He then met Saunders, s stocker and feeder buyer The loss is placed at not less than
8. J. Wilson, a white man, and killed who Is in daily competition on the $35,000, oovered by Insurance. Noth-
tin. Sheriff Cooper and large poaae local yards. Average* on these steers tog In the building was saved. Foi
went In search of the negro, who shot ranged from 821 to 816 pounds. The more than an hour $500,0(^> worth o|
himself when be saw the efficers com-1 consignment was billed from El Paso cotton was in great danger and only
ng. The same negro killed his step- and Is said to have originated out | escaped being burned by a favorable
ather last spring. | near Marfa.
wind.
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Tact
’s a man says women are
-Well, aren’t they always rob-
men of thetr peace of mind and
hearts f
New York Burglars Get $600. . j Treln Kills Autoist.
New York: Burglars entered a Atlanta, Ga.: R. Vincent Connerat
6ranch office of the Prudential Life In* was instantly killed near Jonesboro,
turance Company in Brooklyn, gagged Oa„ when a .entrel of Georgia pas-,
the cashier, Alice Brenneis, with a senger train struck a racing atttomo-
Loan 8hark Business Twenty Million,
New York: Money lenders In thlt
city do an annual business of $20,*
000,000, more than 100,000 people, in.
eluding 30,000 municipal employers,
handkerchief saturated with chloro-1 bile which he was driving. According I are to their clutches and State court!
form, left her lying bound upon the
floor, and, after looting a safe, escaped
Fith $500, which collectors had brought
in during the day. The robbery took
place about a block from a station
house in the most heavily policed pre-
cinct in Brooklyn and within a few
block of the home of Mayor Gaynor.
to trainmen, the automobile was car- are the unwitting instruments through
ried about a half mile by the engine which usury is collected, according to
and Connerat’s body was picked up a a report made public by investigator
quarter of a mile from the scene of the
collision. Mr. Connerat was 45 years
old and formerly lived in Savannah.
He was one of the best known automo-
bile agents iq the Southeast
for District Attorney Whitman. Oth-
er facts set forth in the report ar«
that “loan sharks” have been respon
Bible for a great many suicides, de
falcatlons and petty thefts.
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Cement W alks
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Bonded Guarantee l
We are pleased to announce that we
have commenced the construction of
Cement Walks in Lancaster.
We have filed guarantee and
bond with Mr. K. L. White,
and we ask you to call on him
and see our contract. We also
invite you to come and see how
we construct Cement Walks— \
our work speaks for itself.
Jarrett & Jldams.
■ Contractors.
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Hulbert, Elbert Monroe & Tufts, Minnie Wetmore. The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1912, newspaper, November 1, 1912; Lancaster, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542809/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lancaster Genealogical Society.